"Except most soundboard recordings sound like crap. They are mixed for the room, not mixed for a CD."
The Front Of House mix may not make for a good recording, but a good, versatile soundboard lets you do one mix for FOH and another for recording. (For instance in my current situation the 6 drum mics go through an old TEAC or TASCAM mixer and then on to our Allen & Heath board just to go into the recording mix, the only drums the audience ever hears are just the drums themselves, the signal from the drum mics never shows up in the house speakers or in any of the on-stage monitors--and the drums are still too loud for the room most of the time.) The recording mix most likely won't sound like actually being in the audience (unless you mike the audience and mix that in as well), but many will find it preferable to an AUD because the band isn't drowned out by the audience.
Of course if someone is taping by a "not necessarily officially authorized" tap off of the FOH feed instead of a dedicated record mix, well, they get what they get.
Whoever causes the expense should be financially liable for it. If you're running a large mailing list and the recipients agree to accept stuff "postage due" from you, since it's their desire to receive it, then the expense is born by those who really cause it.
Actually, I think that this is exactly what will be necessary. Something like e-mail that isn't e-mail, that is based on "sender pays whoever they're getting internet service from" needs to come along and everybody needs to change over. You get to send up to x number of emails or y number of bits during each billing period if you're on a "$19.95 a month for all the dial-up you can eat" type plan and if you exceed that limit you pay extra (rolling over unused allocation to the next billing period would be something ISPs could offer as incentive to use them), or you could negotiate some kind of business account but the key is that it costs you 1,000,000 times as much to send 1,000,000 messages as it does to send one and it cost your ISP at that ratio as well on up the line until the money reaches some sort of electronic clearing house where Earthlink pays AOL for all the from Earthlink to AOL traffic that uses up AOL bandwidth and the other way around when AOL is using up Earthlink bandwidth and the same for all other possible ISP combinations, kinda like banks let debits and credits meet and cancel each other out electronically instead of having armored cars full of cash pass each other like ships in the night.
In other words, if you want to send an e-mail, you have to "buy a stamp" and if you want to send out millions of e-mails you have to buy millions of stamps. If in the "real" world physical mail could be sent postage due and you had to pay, imagine how much junk mail you'd get then as opposed to what you get now when it actually costs the sender to send it. That's what's going on with e-mail at present, the costs are being absorbed by the recipients and the senders have no incentive to do anything except send more and more. This is insane and it's only going to get worse, the current system is broken and cannot really be fixed. It needs to be taken out and shot and replaced by "sender pays".
Let's see, you placed The Honeymooners in the '60s (2004 - 40 = 1964) and Lost In Space in the '50s. This has not enhanced your credibility on the overall subject of television as seen in the U.S. over the previous approximately 56 years.
The permanent magnet and the coil *are* an electric motor, (or generator, depending upon whether they drive or are driven, that is, in audio, whether they are part of a speaker or part of a microphone), and are commonly known as a voice coil due to most early development being done as part of the development of the telephone.
Voice coil motors are not limited to audio work, however. One notable example is the replacement of stepper motors in hard drive head positioning systems.
Not all voice coil operated loudspeakers rely on a permanent magnet. Way back when in the days of vacuum tube radios many sets used a second coil to provide the fixed magnetic field against which the voice coil's changing magnetic field worked. This other coil was energized by using it as the series inductor in the power supply filter, thus saving money and weight by using one part for two functions.
If, during the pre-hire phase, there seems to be a lot of emphasis on stuff that has to do with protecting themselves from dishonesty on your part, i.e., if they seem very close to paranoid about employees stealing from them, or, once you're working there, they expect you to help them cheat customers and/or suppliers, or they seem obsessed with the fear of being cheated by customers and/or suppliers, you can be pretty sure that it's only a matter of time before they try to screw you royally, and since you certainly aren't the first, they probably know how to get away with it.
From the Electronic Technicians Association website
"Since 1978 the Electronics Technicians Association International (ETA-I) Certified Electronics Technicians program has accredited electronics technicians worldwide who excel in areas of electronics equipment service and support. An electronics technician who successfully passes an ETA-I certification exam is professionally recognized as having the necessary knowledge and technical skills to meet international de facto electronics service industry standards."
"The Sentinel" is basically what became the part of 2001:A Space Oddessy where they dig up the monolith on the moon and it blasted everybody with that signal to the aliens who buried it in the first place advising them that humans had gotten advanced enough to get to the moon and find the thing. It was this story that lead to the collaboration of Clarke and Kubrick on the screenplay and movie and then Clarke wrote the book afterwards. Clarke was, if not the first, among the first to have the idea of an advanced alien civilization setting up a "tripwire" to alert them when we reached a certain level of scientific development.
It was a cover of TV Guide and they used the entire body, not just the legs, but she was sitting in the picture so it wasn't shockingly apparent that it wasn't Oprah on a day when she had been dieting and working out.
You aren't so much wrong as defining regulation too narrowly. This is about shifting the power to regulate away from the federal level to the municipal level.
Not that I expect to have any more power to get local authorities to do as I wish than to get the federal government to do so. It'll still be about which rich guys are buddies with which other rich guys.
"Viola? What does a musical instrument have to do with this?"
they come over, and viola
He was using it as a verb. One of them distracts you by playing a musical instrument very badly while the others disappear your food, beer, and perhaps other things as well.
"They are trying everything they can to prevent cheating from happening."
Are they trying to prevent cheating, or trying to prevent winning by cheating and as much other winning as they can prevent as well, consistent with the need for an occasional big attention grabbing win to keep the suckers encouraged? Would they really go to much trouble to prevent cheating that didn't produce wins?
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The Front Of House mix may not make for a good recording, but a good, versatile soundboard lets you do one mix for FOH and another for recording. (For instance in my current situation the 6 drum mics go through an old TEAC or TASCAM mixer and then on to our Allen & Heath board just to go into the recording mix, the only drums the audience ever hears are just the drums themselves, the signal from the drum mics never shows up in the house speakers or in any of the on-stage monitors--and the drums are still too loud for the room most of the time.) The recording mix most likely won't sound like actually being in the audience (unless you mike the audience and mix that in as well), but many will find it preferable to an AUD because the band isn't drowned out by the audience.
Of course if someone is taping by a "not necessarily officially authorized" tap off of the FOH feed instead of a dedicated record mix, well, they get what they get.
Whoever causes the expense should be financially liable for it. If you're running a large mailing list and the recipients agree to accept stuff "postage due" from you, since it's their desire to receive it, then the expense is born by those who really cause it.
I wonder which SF show was supposed to go where She Spies was mistyped.
I classify it as "worst audio ever".
Tyr's been hanging out on "The Young and the Restless" (well, the actor anyway).
Actually, I think that this is exactly what will be necessary. Something like e-mail that isn't e-mail, that is based on "sender pays whoever they're getting internet service from" needs to come along and everybody needs to change over. You get to send up to x number of emails or y number of bits during each billing period if you're on a "$19.95 a month for all the dial-up you can eat" type plan and if you exceed that limit you pay extra (rolling over unused allocation to the next billing period would be something ISPs could offer as incentive to use them), or you could negotiate some kind of business account but the key is that it costs you 1,000,000 times as much to send 1,000,000 messages as it does to send one and it cost your ISP at that ratio as well on up the line until the money reaches some sort of electronic clearing house where Earthlink pays AOL for all the from Earthlink to AOL traffic that uses up AOL bandwidth and the other way around when AOL is using up Earthlink bandwidth and the same for all other possible ISP combinations, kinda like banks let debits and credits meet and cancel each other out electronically instead of having armored cars full of cash pass each other like ships in the night.
In other words, if you want to send an e-mail, you have to "buy a stamp" and if you want to send out millions of e-mails you have to buy millions of stamps. If in the "real" world physical mail could be sent postage due and you had to pay, imagine how much junk mail you'd get then as opposed to what you get now when it actually costs the sender to send it. That's what's going on with e-mail at present, the costs are being absorbed by the recipients and the senders have no incentive to do anything except send more and more. This is insane and it's only going to get worse, the current system is broken and cannot really be fixed. It needs to be taken out and shot and replaced by "sender pays".
Let's see, you placed The Honeymooners in the '60s (2004 - 40 = 1964) and Lost In Space in the '50s. This has not enhanced your credibility on the overall subject of television as seen in the U.S. over the previous approximately 56 years.
Voice coil motors are not limited to audio work, however. One notable example is the replacement of stepper motors in hard drive head positioning systems.
Not all voice coil operated loudspeakers rely on a permanent magnet. Way back when in the days of vacuum tube radios many sets used a second coil to provide the fixed magnetic field against which the voice coil's changing magnetic field worked. This other coil was energized by using it as the series inductor in the power supply filter, thus saving money and weight by using one part for two functions.
If, during the pre-hire phase, there seems to be a lot of emphasis on stuff that has to do with protecting themselves from dishonesty on your part, i.e., if they seem very close to paranoid about employees stealing from them, or, once you're working there, they expect you to help them cheat customers and/or suppliers, or they seem obsessed with the fear of being cheated by customers and/or suppliers, you can be pretty sure that it's only a matter of time before they try to screw you royally, and since you certainly aren't the first, they probably know how to get away with it.
From the Electronic Technicians Association website
"Since 1978 the Electronics Technicians Association International (ETA-I) Certified Electronics Technicians program has accredited electronics technicians worldwide who excel in areas of electronics equipment service and support. An electronics technician who successfully passes an ETA-I certification exam is professionally recognized as having the necessary knowledge and technical skills to meet international de facto electronics service industry standards."
It's about a lot more than just computers.
I thought that reading /. was considered exercising with dumbbells. :-)
Yeah, the technology of marketingspeak.
(in other words, it makes hard drives sound bigger)
As I recall it all blew over in a few days.
"The Sentinel" is basically what became the part of 2001:A Space Oddessy where they dig up the monolith on the moon and it blasted everybody with that signal to the aliens who buried it in the first place advising them that humans had gotten advanced enough to get to the moon and find the thing. It was this story that lead to the collaboration of Clarke and Kubrick on the screenplay and movie and then Clarke wrote the book afterwards. Clarke was, if not the first, among the first to have the idea of an advanced alien civilization setting up a "tripwire" to alert them when we reached a certain level of scientific development.
It was a cover of TV Guide and they used the entire body, not just the legs, but she was sitting in the picture so it wasn't shockingly apparent that it wasn't Oprah on a day when she had been dieting and working out.
You may wish to consult the Arthur C. Clarke short story "The Sentinel" for prior art on that concept.
Film score writer Danny Elfman perhaps?
Not that I expect to have any more power to get local authorities to do as I wish than to get the federal government to do so. It'll still be about which rich guys are buddies with which other rich guys.
they come over, and viola
He was using it as a verb. One of them distracts you by playing a musical instrument very badly while the others disappear your food, beer, and perhaps other things as well.
Think Nazi food critics.
Are they trying to prevent cheating, or trying to prevent winning by cheating and as much other winning as they can prevent as well, consistent with the need for an occasional big attention grabbing win to keep the suckers encouraged? Would they really go to much trouble to prevent cheating that didn't produce wins?
Well, that might be one way to end outsourcing and keep the jobs inside the U.S. :-)
Here's a hint: Rev. Moon
"What a long, strange trip it's been."
Yeah, that'll happen.