I'm just wondering, what's the use case of Ableton for multiple users?
I actually got Live 8 working surprisingly well under wine but far from really usable.
I replace my old macbook pro with a macbook air + live 8 suite (upped to 9 yesterday) because it simply the better experience for ableton and sound apps in general. For example KXStudio is awesome and I use it, but many of the best Linux sound apps get ported to OS X anyway.
But, "just working" is relative, imho. GNOME hasn't just worked... ever.
It was good policework, and prior to that good reportage by one LA Weekly reporter that caught this guy. The high tech nature was used properly I believe. I'd rather see this sort of thing exonerate people than convict them, but given that in 1988 an 18 year old was found dead 10 blocks south of where I live... 99.99% chance killed by this guy... I'm glad he's off the streets.
By virtue of the de facto status, it seems like anything that the majority of people use will never be superceded by anything that barely matches or only slightly improves on the de facto standard. From what I've read Theora is quite bare-bones compared to H.264 and hasn't been designed with hardware decoding in mind.
"This is a clear case of a large company making what they want and totally ignoring consumer demand."
Let me clarify that this applies to big-ticket consumers as well.
I work for a large multinational corporation in the Emerging Technology group. We're on the same floor as the IT team that has to deploy Vista across 50,000 computers or so. The company as a whole employs more people than Microsoft. (according to the all-knowing Wikipedia)
None of the IT squad are happy about the prospect of company wide Vista default install. Their XP deployment is quite honestly one of the tightest managed environments I've seen. I don't know if they've even set a date for it. They'll just install XP on new machines from HD images as always.
So the individual consumer becomes beta tester for the big company consumer... wacky.
Now, I get IMs from a friend saying "Vista just keeps rebooting, at random." And I see that all consumers, whether Giant Co. or joe schmoe have the same issue with Vista.
Cool new features are cool, but... stability is all anyone has ever wanted from a PC.
All of which makes me wonder the following Q, when is Microsoft rolling out Vista in house?
I'm sure 50 people have already commented on this, but come on. It appears in the tag and the headline as investiage. What? Investia-wha? huh?
In other Federal trade commissioning news the FTC is going to investiagitate its relevance to Funeral Homes: FTC Tests Funeral Homes for Compliance With Funeral Rule;
New Brochure Explains Consumer Rights Under Federal Law note, new brochure has been published. As a person who, in my years of experience has put together something on the order of a brochure, I know that it is a non-trivial amount of work, so if you or someone you love is planning on a funeral, I suggest you pick up this informative booklet.
On the note of viral marketing the following stream of consciousness riff; I'm a Pepper, less filling, where's the beef, <psp graff>, ok go!, my street team (currently putting stickers on your local gray metal municipal boxes), this video (marketing my current 'hood as a nice place for a monday drive), suburban blend, {yahoo cool site of the day, justin's links from the underground, memepool, metafilter, fark, digg, del.icio.us, reddit} oh it's six o'clock a decade later... I guess it's time to go home again.
In the meantime jGnash has reached a level where I can have a.jar of it on my usb stick and balance my checkbook on any machine under any OS. Darn useful. It still isn't quite as nice as Quicken, but it is completely transparent in the way that it does work.
Whatever computer you run it on stores enough info in your home directory so it automatically opens your account file from the stick too of course. Good news is that it can import GNUCash files.
Projects like gaim have taken gtk2 based apps and ported them to here and everywhere, but that's only due to rampant popularity (and some Google support). Even then, I would need to actually store 3 binaries on the usb stick, and at that point I am wasting more space and time trying to find the right icon to click on.
I would say that overall GnuCash still has the most features, so if you're an aspiring accountant then... go for it.
I'm definitely not a fan of the Chinese government, but I see trade deals that the U.S. gov't makes with China as far more harmful in terms social damage. Having google.cn only increases the chance that the growing number of urban Chinese will get a chance to see how crappy the web is. It also increases the chance that those inclined will explore things like tor, i2p, freenet, and more that I don't know about and implement them to circumvent the censorship.
Finally, getting back to the subject of the post, I would call it hypocritical of those of us represented by the U.S. and the DMCA to go on about how bad censorship is. Same with Germany. Google and everyone else in the search business conforms to those weird laws. Those governments don't specifically censor things that would lead to change in government, but they certainly censor things that would lead to a revolutionary change in government.
I do not want a revolution/civil war breaking out where I live (or anywhere, 'can't we all just get along'), but restricting access to information makes those who want to find such info feel persecuted and starts a cycle of self fulfillment.
Also, as an interesting side note, google.com.tw and google.com.hk are still up in classical chinese hardly a total kowtow. In fact one could just look at this as a default domain for simplified chinese, with extra censory perception.
Considering it was a PhD thesis in Comp. Sci. one would assume he tried that.:) Word just doesn't handle large documents well (even broken out into chapters). We actually didn't install OOo on his machine, he just USBsticked it over to my linux box 4 steps away.
It's true that while OOo doesn't have perfect file compatibility I will offer a few anecdotes to what it can do. Chapter x of a friends doctoral thesis simply would no longer open in Word (word just crashed). We imported it into OOo and exported it back out. (I can't remember if we made any fixes to the doc structure in OOo) and bang it worked in Word again.
Just today, I made a 50 slide presentation, pretty simple, and I exported it to powerpoint. Looks fine on a mac. As a bonus, it also exports perfect PDFs as well.
I really think OOo has come along way from when Wordperfect for linux was the best anyone thought it would get... what was that like... kde 2.0? something... anyhow. There are still a lot of things that it needs, but it is a testament to good open source coding and also to the folks at Sun who in spite of all of the criticism have done a lot for the future of open source computing.
In all fairness, though, there are still glaring errors that can bite you in OOo. The upside is that they are usually predictable... I suppose Office errors are predictable too, they happen when you least want them to. (Note, I'm typing this on a windows machine, so take my M$ (I really just typed MS M$ reflexively... that's a problem I should talk to my shrink about) bashing with a grain of malaria research funding money)
Coming from Upstate and then downstate NY I've seen eminent domain in many many forms. From people not wanting their houses taken for the thruway, to the Empire State Plaza in Albany, Kinzua Dam (aka where is Onoville, NY on a map Right about here), the UN Bldg, the WTC (RIP), central park, the proposed Brooklyn Nets arena Map. It seems like manifest destiny with different players. I'm afraid I don't have anything logical to say, since the whole issue puts me into a sort of stupified "need my right to bear arms" type of mode. At the same time I like the great lawn in Central Park and many people in Brooklyn wouldn't mind not having to trek to NJ to go to Ikea.
How much say do individuals have in defining "public good"? It's important to have your representatives' offices from local up to federal on speed dial on your phone.
Most of the "research" that goes on the i2 backbone (and all of the lines leading into and out of a.edu) in terms of bandwith has and probably will continue to be p2p. That is for schools that link their dorms up to i2. The only thing admins can do is use traffic shaping, etc to deprioritize the prohibited activities.
It's much like the drug war in that you can go after the users (who in this case are generally also producers (pirates? arr)) with all you've got, but it just creates a vacuum that will be refilled until people find interest in something else.
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Not to freakin' dis, but anyone who put's a bloody "i" and a dash in TurboGrafx clearly didn't grow up with it. TurboGrafx-16 man! not to mention the other systems and the cd add on. noting that NEC made some of the first external cdrom drives for ATs at the time.
I'll challenge you to some Bonk's Revenge or Alien Crush any day.
Ok, I'll admit, I'm still trying to justify why I asked my parents for that instead of Genesis... given the price of about 2x an NES with 1.5x the performance...
I must stop before I start weeping openly in public.
It did have the best pinball games, though. Time cruise anyone? any one?
While I would say that Hendrix Cosby is the best track on that CD, I really am not sure about that track being pure silence. As in a mic may have been on... I'll check when I have time.
This is just the obvious choice. I commute in LA daily and I talk on my cell phone (usually while putting on sunscreen and eating an in and out burger, occasionally sipping on a chocolate milkshake, etc.) I have had situations when some person did something untoward during my time out on the racetrack (as I like to refer to the freeway system) and I just threw my cellphone like a bandit and floored it (or slammed on the brakes or whatever appropriate maneuver).
I found my car stereo randomly playing a cd in FF for no apparent reason when I was trying to change a few lanes the other day more jarring.
Also, if you are drunk already what does a cell phone do? More research is clearly needed.
I searched your replies, but the answer seems simple to me. There is no profit motive in pushing paper ballots on people. I voted on paper in Pasadena, CA. It was simple, but still they had some weird proprietary ink stamp thing. Hence someone with a business sold that to the government. I have nothing against entrepeneurship per se, but when it comes in contact with the government in terms of private security forces in Iraq and elsewhere (mercs), private food service and logistics in war, voting, etc. I can get a bit on edge.
Clearly regulation is the only hope. Not to say that regulation itself can't get overcomplicated, but it is better than virtually nothing. Not everyone in government and business is dispicable.
The verified voting action center is a good place to start the struggle for this oversight. Call or write your congressman's office, it gets you a much bigger karma bonus than anything you do online. There are also local 'action alerts' as well. Check them all out.
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I'm just wondering, what's the use case of Ableton for multiple users?
I actually got Live 8 working surprisingly well under wine but far from really usable.
I replace my old macbook pro with a macbook air + live 8 suite (upped to 9 yesterday) because it simply the better experience for ableton and sound apps in general. For example KXStudio is awesome and I use it, but many of the best Linux sound apps get ported to OS X anyway.
But, "just working" is relative, imho. GNOME hasn't just worked... ever.
Most major websites owe a lot to the techniques developed at Slashdot. Great work. Happy trails and here's to future success.
He is mentioned in this article. He is awesome and deserves all of the adoration he will receive for his work at Makerbot.
Truly.
It was good policework, and prior to that good reportage by one LA Weekly reporter that caught this guy. The high tech nature was used properly I believe. I'd rather see this sort of thing exonerate people than convict them, but given that in 1988 an 18 year old was found dead 10 blocks south of where I live... 99.99% chance killed by this guy... I'm glad he's off the streets.
By virtue of the de facto status, it seems like anything that the majority of people use will never be superceded by anything that barely matches or only slightly improves on the de facto standard. From what I've read Theora is quite bare-bones compared to H.264 and hasn't been designed with hardware decoding in mind.
I have a plug tattoo. Three pronged American style. I was in a band called plug. I like my tattoo.
That is all.
"This is a clear case of a large company making what they want and totally ignoring consumer demand."
Let me clarify that this applies to big-ticket consumers as well.
I work for a large multinational corporation in the Emerging Technology group. We're on the same floor as the IT team that has to deploy Vista across 50,000 computers or so. The company as a whole employs more people than Microsoft. (according to the all-knowing Wikipedia)
None of the IT squad are happy about the prospect of company wide Vista default install. Their XP deployment is quite honestly one of the tightest managed environments I've seen. I don't know if they've even set a date for it. They'll just install XP on new machines from HD images as always.
So the individual consumer becomes beta tester for the big company consumer... wacky.
Now, I get IMs from a friend saying "Vista just keeps rebooting, at random." And I see that all consumers, whether Giant Co. or joe schmoe have the same issue with Vista.
Cool new features are cool, but... stability is all anyone has ever wanted from a PC.
All of which makes me wonder the following Q, when is Microsoft rolling out Vista in house?
-Rich
In other Federal trade commissioning news the FTC is going to investiagitate its relevance to Funeral Homes: FTC Tests Funeral Homes for Compliance With Funeral Rule; New Brochure Explains Consumer Rights Under Federal Law note, new brochure has been published. As a person who, in my years of experience has put together something on the order of a brochure, I know that it is a non-trivial amount of work, so if you or someone you love is planning on a funeral, I suggest you pick up this informative booklet.
On the note of viral marketing the following stream of consciousness riff; I'm a Pepper, less filling, where's the beef, <psp graff>, ok go!, my street team (currently putting stickers on your local gray metal municipal boxes), this video (marketing my current 'hood as a nice place for a monday drive), suburban blend, {yahoo cool site of the day, justin's links from the underground, memepool, metafilter, fark, digg, del.icio.us, reddit} oh it's six o'clock a decade later... I guess it's time to go home again.
beedoop.
The technical term (jargon) is embarrassingly parallel.
Whatever computer you run it on stores enough info in your home directory so it automatically opens your account file from the stick too of course. Good news is that it can import GNUCash files.
Projects like gaim have taken gtk2 based apps and ported them to here and everywhere, but that's only due to rampant popularity (and some Google support). Even then, I would need to actually store 3 binaries on the usb stick, and at that point I am wasting more space and time trying to find the right icon to click on.
I would say that overall GnuCash still has the most features, so if you're an aspiring accountant then... go for it.
I'm definitely not a fan of the Chinese government, but I see trade deals that the U.S. gov't makes with China as far more harmful in terms social damage. Having google.cn only increases the chance that the growing number of urban Chinese will get a chance to see how crappy the web is. It also increases the chance that those inclined will explore things like tor, i2p, freenet, and more that I don't know about and implement them to circumvent the censorship.
Finally, getting back to the subject of the post, I would call it hypocritical of those of us represented by the U.S. and the DMCA to go on about how bad censorship is. Same with Germany. Google and everyone else in the search business conforms to those weird laws. Those governments don't specifically censor things that would lead to change in government, but they certainly censor things that would lead to a revolutionary change in government.
I do not want a revolution/civil war breaking out where I live (or anywhere, 'can't we all just get along'), but restricting access to information makes those who want to find such info feel persecuted and starts a cycle of self fulfillment.
Also, as an interesting side note, google.com.tw and google.com.hk are still up in classical chinese hardly a total kowtow. In fact one could just look at this as a default domain for simplified chinese, with extra censory perception.
Back with the Signal 11 fiasco in earlier times on /. I sure would've enjoyed seeing federal law enacted. :)
Considering it was a PhD thesis in Comp. Sci. one would assume he tried that. :) Word just doesn't handle large documents well (even broken out into chapters). We actually didn't install OOo on his machine, he just USBsticked it over to my linux box 4 steps away.
It's true that while OOo doesn't have perfect file compatibility I will offer a few anecdotes to what it can do. Chapter x of a friends doctoral thesis simply would no longer open in Word (word just crashed). We imported it into OOo and exported it back out. (I can't remember if we made any fixes to the doc structure in OOo) and bang it worked in Word again.
Just today, I made a 50 slide presentation, pretty simple, and I exported it to powerpoint. Looks fine on a mac. As a bonus, it also exports perfect PDFs as well.
I really think OOo has come along way from when Wordperfect for linux was the best anyone thought it would get... what was that like... kde 2.0? something... anyhow. There are still a lot of things that it needs, but it is a testament to good open source coding and also to the folks at Sun who in spite of all of the criticism have done a lot for the future of open source computing.
In all fairness, though, there are still glaring errors that can bite you in OOo. The upside is that they are usually predictable... I suppose Office errors are predictable too, they happen when you least want them to. (Note, I'm typing this on a windows machine, so take my M$ (I really just typed MS M$ reflexively... that's a problem I should talk to my shrink about) bashing with a grain of malaria research funding money)
How much say do individuals have in defining "public good"? It's important to have your representatives' offices from local up to federal on speed dial on your phone.
It's much like the drug war in that you can go after the users (who in this case are generally also producers (pirates? arr)) with all you've got, but it just creates a vacuum that will be refilled until people find interest in something else.
Not to freakin' dis, but anyone who put's a bloody "i" and a dash in TurboGrafx clearly didn't grow up with it. TurboGrafx-16 man! not to mention the other systems and the cd add on. noting that NEC made some of the first external cdrom drives for ATs at the time.
I'll challenge you to some Bonk's Revenge or Alien Crush any day.
Ok, I'll admit, I'm still trying to justify why I asked my parents for that instead of Genesis... given the price of about 2x an NES with 1.5x the performance...
I must stop before I start weeping openly in public.
It did have the best pinball games, though. Time cruise anyone? any one?
I remember back when I first started using ebay '97 or so, that I read through all that in detail. eBay makes the rules, so there it is.
While I would say that Hendrix Cosby is the best track on that CD, I really am not sure about that track being pure silence. As in a mic may have been on... I'll check when I have time.
This is just the obvious choice. I commute in LA daily and I talk on my cell phone (usually while putting on sunscreen and eating an in and out burger, occasionally sipping on a chocolate milkshake, etc.) I have had situations when some person did something untoward during my time out on the racetrack (as I like to refer to the freeway system) and I just threw my cellphone like a bandit and floored it (or slammed on the brakes or whatever appropriate maneuver).
I found my car stereo randomly playing a cd in FF for no apparent reason when I was trying to change a few lanes the other day more jarring.
Also, if you are drunk already what does a cell phone do? More research is clearly needed.
See you on the roads.
heh, my mom does know linguistics. i don't. but really, it would've been way funnier if on the original link if he had spelled it ask, though, right?
Clearly regulation is the only hope. Not to say that regulation itself can't get overcomplicated, but it is better than virtually nothing. Not everyone in government and business is dispicable.
The verified voting action center is a good place to start the struggle for this oversight. Call or write your congressman's office, it gets you a much bigger karma bonus than anything you do online. There are also local 'action alerts' as well. Check them all out.
yeah, it's no jive, the word is metathesis, the most shining example being the word wednesday. google it.
As of today October 28th 2004, the above statement is false. The catalina's now have ethernet. There was much rejoicing.
Graduate housing (the Catalina's) has ethernet ports... but they aren't connected to the internets.
Ugh.
So the undergrads have their internets. But not the lowly grad students.