nobody suggested making MIDI files from sheet music. There was only a poster who stated that that Midisoft's program plays the music exactly as he intends
I have the feeling you have some serious reading comprehension problems. The statement above contradicts itself entirely.
You still seem to be missing the point that I was responding to the parent to my original post (the guy talking about scanning sheet music into a program called "Desktop Sheet Music"). I am not arguing in the slightest that the software discussed in TFA will do amazing things. Try reading the entire thread next time. Or learn how to use those threshold pulldown menus...
I understand that a MIDI recording made of someone playing will be a (very near) perfect rendition of what was played. I was referring to the parent's post that software that could scan in the original sheet music would play it exactly as the composer intended, which simply isn't true. I was pointing out that the software probably wouldn't take into account things like accels/decels and other slight timing nuances (playing slightly before or after the beat, slight delays in pickup notes, etc). Not to mention that many scores only give a general tempo marking, sometimes in the form of ranges. This is, as the composer intended, to give the conductor/performer some artistic license with the piece.
If you'll notice, anyone with any training in music will tell you that a perfectly timed note-perfect performance is stiff and robotic. It removes the exact things that differentiates a good performance from an amazing one.
How well does this software you mention deal with the subtle nuances of a performance? Accellerandos and decelerandos (as notated on the original score)? You know, there's a lot more to a performance than playing it note perfect...
Actually, it's true. This is why Microsoft can ship a copy of Arial (a Helvetica ripoff made by Monotype) without paying any royalties to the company that owns the real typeface (Linotype). There's a decent writeup of the Arial/Helvetica issue here.
Did you see the US version of Coupling? Same English writers, actors with better teeth, but really a third-rate production.
Well, considering only an American company would buy the rights to a show that was a ripoff of something they themselves produced in the first place, does it really surprise you that it was bad? As for The Office, the American version is absolutely dreadful. Hey, let's toss out anything that was remotely funny about the original and turn it into complete shit. Then let's sit there scratching our heads wondering why it didn't do well...
PDF was great when web pages were static, but web pages aren't static anymore and PDFs are boring these days.
Please let me know when the printer will let me send in Flash proofs with spot colors for my publication. You, along with so many people, seem to entirely miss the point that Flash and PDF are aimed at two very different markets. Sure, the uses may have a bit of overlap at the extreme fringes, but to say that one will replace the other shows that you just don't get it.
I picked up the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide a few years ago (I read the original books when I was a child). I was surprised at how quickly the stories go. I finished the first book in an afternoon. A highly recommended (and cheap) way to introduce yourself to the series.
Funny. I just hit either the Menu button or the Chapter Forward button. This works on both of my DVD players and I've never come across a disc that one or the other didn't work on. Of course, I could just be lucky in that for some reason my DVD players are less restrictive than others.
Eventually corporations will start working in PDF directly, rather than farming out the PDFication of data to a specialist department.
You're forgetting the minor fact that PDF is a horrible format to edit. PDF was designed as more of a finalizing step, with the ability to perform minor tweaks as needed. It will never work as a work-in-progress format, short of a major rewrite of the spec.
Bonus tracks are offered on the Japanese pressing of CDs to appeal to the domestic market. Often it's cheaper for the Japanese customer to buy a CD imported from the US or UK than it is to buy the domestic version.
Ditch the OS X dock link (if you want to). Just click on the desktop and hit cmd-up arrow to bring up the desktop folder. Cmd-down arrow brings up your home directory.
You seem to be confusing who the AP's customers are. It's the newspapers and broadcasters that then pass that information along to the consumer. It's the middlemen that are being affected, not the end-user (well, not directly at least). I seriously doubt you'll find the BaltimoreSun or NewYorkTimes as a user in bugmenot's database...
How will this affect sites like Google News and Fark?
My guess is not much at all. It's the sites that Google and Fark link to that will need to pay the AP. If the number of AP newswire sites drops, it will most likely be made up for by homebrewed stories citing the AP newsfeed as a source.
If you'll notice, they aren't releasing this specifically because of fears of that type (okay, so they won't actually spend time in jail over it). Dmitry wouldn't have spent any time in jail had he not released and sold his tool (and come into this country)...
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nobody suggested making MIDI files from sheet music. There was only a poster who stated that that Midisoft's program plays the music exactly as he intends
I have the feeling you have some serious reading comprehension problems. The statement above contradicts itself entirely.
You still seem to be missing the point that I was responding to the parent to my original post (the guy talking about scanning sheet music into a program called "Desktop Sheet Music"). I am not arguing in the slightest that the software discussed in TFA will do amazing things. Try reading the entire thread next time. Or learn how to use those threshold pulldown menus...
For some reason 950,000 copies of Opera have suddenly been downloaded by an IP block owned by a company in Redmond, Washington.
I understand that a MIDI recording made of someone playing will be a (very near) perfect rendition of what was played. I was referring to the parent's post that software that could scan in the original sheet music would play it exactly as the composer intended, which simply isn't true. I was pointing out that the software probably wouldn't take into account things like accels/decels and other slight timing nuances (playing slightly before or after the beat, slight delays in pickup notes, etc). Not to mention that many scores only give a general tempo marking, sometimes in the form of ranges. This is, as the composer intended, to give the conductor/performer some artistic license with the piece.
If you'll notice, anyone with any training in music will tell you that a perfectly timed note-perfect performance is stiff and robotic. It removes the exact things that differentiates a good performance from an amazing one.
How well does this software you mention deal with the subtle nuances of a performance? Accellerandos and decelerandos (as notated on the original score)? You know, there's a lot more to a performance than playing it note perfect...
Actually, it's true. This is why Microsoft can ship a copy of Arial (a Helvetica ripoff made by Monotype) without paying any royalties to the company that owns the real typeface (Linotype). There's a decent writeup of the Arial/Helvetica issue here.
It'll still feel like you're watching someone getting their teeth pulled with rusty pliers, but it'll be *funny*...It's weird that way...
Did you see the US version of Coupling? Same English writers, actors with better teeth, but really a third-rate production.
Well, considering only an American company would buy the rights to a show that was a ripoff of something they themselves produced in the first place, does it really surprise you that it was bad? As for The Office, the American version is absolutely dreadful. Hey, let's toss out anything that was remotely funny about the original and turn it into complete shit. Then let's sit there scratching our heads wondering why it didn't do well...
That was the old SCO (Santa Cruz Operation), not the new SCO...
Let me know when I can get one that puts out 1.21 gigawatts. And no, I won't tell you what my plans for it are...
PDF was great when web pages were static, but web pages aren't static anymore and PDFs are boring these days.
Please let me know when the printer will let me send in Flash proofs with spot colors for my publication. You, along with so many people, seem to entirely miss the point that Flash and PDF are aimed at two very different markets. Sure, the uses may have a bit of overlap at the extreme fringes, but to say that one will replace the other shows that you just don't get it.
I picked up the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide a few years ago (I read the original books when I was a child). I was surprised at how quickly the stories go. I finished the first book in an afternoon. A highly recommended (and cheap) way to introduce yourself to the series.
Funny. I just hit either the Menu button or the Chapter Forward button. This works on both of my DVD players and I've never come across a disc that one or the other didn't work on. Of course, I could just be lucky in that for some reason my DVD players are less restrictive than others.
Eventually corporations will start working in PDF directly, rather than farming out the PDFication of data to a specialist department.
You're forgetting the minor fact that PDF is a horrible format to edit. PDF was designed as more of a finalizing step, with the ability to perform minor tweaks as needed. It will never work as a work-in-progress format, short of a major rewrite of the spec.
Who knows, we may just end up seeing "AOL for Xbox360" *shudder*
Bonus tracks are offered on the Japanese pressing of CDs to appeal to the domestic market. Often it's cheaper for the Japanese customer to buy a CD imported from the US or UK than it is to buy the domestic version.
Ditch the OS X dock link (if you want to). Just click on the desktop and hit cmd-up arrow to bring up the desktop folder. Cmd-down arrow brings up your home directory.
Why post pics of boobies when you can post a link to some tits?
You seem to be confusing who the AP's customers are. It's the newspapers and broadcasters that then pass that information along to the consumer. It's the middlemen that are being affected, not the end-user (well, not directly at least). I seriously doubt you'll find the BaltimoreSun or NewYorkTimes as a user in bugmenot's database...
How will this affect sites like Google News and Fark?
My guess is not much at all. It's the sites that Google and Fark link to that will need to pay the AP. If the number of AP newswire sites drops, it will most likely be made up for by homebrewed stories citing the AP newsfeed as a source.
If you'll notice, they aren't releasing this specifically because of fears of that type (okay, so they won't actually spend time in jail over it). Dmitry wouldn't have spent any time in jail had he not released and sold his tool (and come into this country)...
Yes, I do know that. I was referring to the original SW movies, which is what the grandparent was talking about...
I thought it's cos it was easier to fit people into the costumes in the 70s and 80s. Shows what I know...
I would counter your argument, but it's too much effort...
Hah! Shows what you know. I spent a small fortune on a Monster Cable power cord for my desklamp, and let me tell you, I can *hear* the difference...