Isn't this why RMS insists on calling it GNU/Linux: so that the many people who contributed to the GNU part are in some way appreciated, rather than everyone looking solely to Linus "Linux" Torvalds?
It won't work, though. Every successful band, pretty much, has one person fronting it, and it's the same principle. People find it easier to focus their gratitude on just one person.
IAAMP (am a music producer) and I find that if you want to perform really well at a nite club to get the crowd rocking, you give them what they want - its as simple as that. Supply and demand.
Don't people want to actually see the person on stage actually doing something live though? Music performed by computers sounds all well and good, but watching a computer do something isn't very interesting. Bring on the modulars:)
(Shameless plug for my free music in Ogg Vorbis format)
Despite all the MS bashing that occurs here, MS does make some very nice A/V codecs.
Examples? I know that WMA did quite badly in double-blind experiments. I'm pretty sure it was even here on Slashdot that I read about it (that link seems right). I'm not familiar with their video codecs. Are they any better?
"index of mp3 parent directory" may be a bit more accurate, as the phrase "parent directory" appears on FTP sites being rendered as HTML. Of course, the same applies to ROMs and pr0n0r as well:)
Is there anything we can advise these people to do to minimize the damage at this point?
That's a nice thought, but how can you word it so it doesn't sound like you're either threatening them or selling them something? People have been called illegal hackers for trying to help other people out by pointing out blatantly obvious security holes before.
I think that in a decade's time you'll see movies with one or two commercial-filled 'intermissions' under the pretense of letting elderly folks use the potty. Just watch.
Not to mention product placement. I really enjoyed watching I, Robot at the cinema, except before it started, an advert told me to "hate piracy" (no kidding), and right at the beginning, the protagonist got some "vintage 2004 sneakers, a thing of beauty".
Films are set in an alternate universe where everyone drinks Pepsi and uses Apple Macs!
The superior quality of a CD [to vinyl or cassette tapes] is far more important than the ability to make a perfect copy.
They're both important. However, just because a digital, 44.1kHz 16-bit stereo audio stream sounds roughly as good as vinyl, doesn't mean that digital audio inherently sounds better. Amiga.mod files, for example, use 8-bit samples. They definately don't sound as good as records.
If the quality of the audio/video/whatever is about the same, then being able to copy that medium perfectly becomes an important consideration.
Jack Valenti's almost right, yet missing the point entirely. A digital thing will last forever if it can leave the shackles of whatever physical medium it's stored on. If you have two copies, and only one of them is likely to get destroyed at any given time (say, you've copied a CD to a friend with the explicit orders that ey can't listen to it because that would be illegal, just to have an off-site backup), then you'll always have a perfect copy.
But being able to copy and manage the data better is the only advantage digital media have over their analogue counterparts. If you take away the rights to copy them, there is no point in using digital media in the first place.
You are sitting in your home in your easy chair and here comes the commercial and it is right in the middle of a Clint Eastwood film and you don't want to be interrupted. So, what do you do? You pop this beta scan and a 1-minute commercial disappears in 2 seconds... If you are watching a Clint Eastwood film it is the most cheerful thing you can do. However, if you are an advertiser who has paid $280,000 a minute to advertise, he feels a very large pain in his stomach as well as in his checkbook because it destroys the reason for free television, the erasure, the blotting out, the fast forwarding, the visual searching, the variable beta scans. The technology is there and I am one who has a belief that before the next few years the Japanese will have built into their machines an automatic situation that kills the commercial... I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.
...or is it WOMEN who don't like math, science, and engineering?
I think it's more a case that girls aren't encouraged to take an interest in such subjects as much as boys are. I'm lucky in that my parents got me a Commodore computer when I was very young, and I got really into it, but how many perents would do that for a girl? Would they instead be more likely to encourage something that it's more widely believed girls like doing?
Maybe it's a vicious circle. Girls are told they don't like maths or science so don't get a chance to try it properly, so they grow up to not be into it, so people think that women don't like it, so don't try teaching it to girls.
Just try your best to work out what kids are into and encourage it regardless of whether it's something considered appropriate for their gender.
Of course, articles making a big deal out of a woman being into computers (remember the one about that female hacker?) tend to reinforce the notion that this is unique and unusual, reinforcing the stereotype. It doens't help anybody get over such stereotypes, but it helps sell issues of newspapers apparently.
Ooh, I know this one! Is it when Dr. Nancy Olivieri tested a drug on patients only to find out it may actually be hamful? After the doctor decided to tell the patients the risks, a gag order was issued by the company funding the experiment.
In turns out that an alien message designed to last millenia should be 'inside a large number of self-replicating, self-repairing microscopic machines programmed to multiply and adapt to changing conditions', otherwise known as living cells. Are we the message?
Tape recorders are a nono? How about wax cylinders? Punch cards?
Surely punch cards fall under DRM whereas wax cylinders and tape recorders fall under analogue rights management?
"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." -
Jack Valenti
I hope someone hands out flyers or something at these schools, with a link to archive.org's netlabels page, to show that if a kid is thinking of becoming a musician, ey needn't get sucked into the industry.
Come to think of it, school libraries stocking up on All You Need to Know About the Music Industry wouldn't be too bad either, as that shows exactly how the big companies get away with not paying artists what they're supposed to.
Computing would not be what it is today. Thank god they did not patent any of it.
I like to think that the GNU project (and FreeDOS for that matter) would still have found a way to make free operating systems, even if they had to not base them at all whatsoever on any existing ones.
IIRC the theremin is the only musical instrument that can be played without the musician actually touching it.
The Doepfer A-100 modular synth now has a Theremin style CV source, meaning you can use that aerial to control just about anything (a filter's cutoff point, an LFO's speed, and so on). Two of them used to control a VCO's frequency and a VCA's amplitude can recreate a theremin, too.
Then there's D-Beam technology bought out by Roland a while back, using a different method to achieve a similar effect.
OK, the TB-303 was designed to help musicians practice along to, not to be a fully fledged synthesizer. As such it can only make one sound and it's not altogether that good.
Don't get me wrong, it's a very nice sound, especially when routed through a distortion pedal. Many artists (Norman Cook springs to mind) have done very well using them to add a little something to a mix that is otherwise kind of lacking. But it's just one sound.
It's nice and all, but extremely overrated, as if it can instantly make any song good just by being squeezed into the mix at the last minute.
The TR-909 would probably be a better choice if we're going for one of the holy trinity (the other being the TR-808), as it at least was featured in many different genres in music.
But personally I think sites like this should be about ground-breaking firsts that pioneer new methods of synthesis or at least new interfaces or approaches to a familiar concept, rather than just being popular. I'd have to pick the Yamaha VL-1 for being the first analogue modelling synthesizer, something which will probably take off one day when it's possible to get decent sounds out of it in real time for a few hundred dollars a synth.
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Isn't this why RMS insists on calling it GNU/Linux: so that the many people who contributed to the GNU part are in some way appreciated, rather than everyone looking solely to Linus "Linux" Torvalds?
It won't work, though. Every successful band, pretty much, has one person fronting it, and it's the same principle. People find it easier to focus their gratitude on just one person.
...is at startrek.com.
I can see it now.. computer games, the next designer drug.
Well, they are addictive and fun.
- some web site I can't find right now. Damn.
...and if you want to write regular, non-live electronic music, try the language Csound.
IAAMP (am a music producer) and I find that if you want to perform really well at a nite club to get the crowd rocking, you give them what they want - its as simple as that. Supply and demand.
Don't people want to actually see the person on stage actually doing something live though? Music performed by computers sounds all well and good, but watching a computer do something isn't very interesting. Bring on the modulars :)
(Shameless plug for my free music in Ogg Vorbis format)
Despite all the MS bashing that occurs here, MS does make some very nice A/V codecs.
Examples? I know that WMA did quite badly in double-blind experiments. I'm pretty sure it was even here on Slashdot that I read about it (that link seems right). I'm not familiar with their video codecs. Are they any better?
Ah, perfected :)
"index of mp3" "Parent Directory" -filetype:html -filetype:asp -filetype:php -filetype:htm -filetype:shtml
It works quite well :)
"index of mp3 parent directory" may be a bit more accurate, as the phrase "parent directory" appears on FTP sites being rendered as HTML. Of course, the same applies to ROMs and pr0n0r as well :)
Is there anything we can advise these people to do to minimize the damage at this point?
That's a nice thought, but how can you word it so it doesn't sound like you're either threatening them or selling them something? People have been called illegal hackers for trying to help other people out by pointing out blatantly obvious security holes before.
Try this one, for "Visa 4366000000000000..4366999999999999'
What a great idea, now I can read the cached version of the article while the original gets Slashdotted :)
I think that in a decade's time you'll see movies with one or two commercial-filled 'intermissions' under the pretense of letting elderly folks use the potty. Just watch.
Not to mention product placement. I really enjoyed watching I, Robot at the cinema, except before it started, an advert told me to "hate piracy" (no kidding), and right at the beginning, the protagonist got some "vintage 2004 sneakers, a thing of beauty".
Films are set in an alternate universe where everyone drinks Pepsi and uses Apple Macs!
The superior quality of a CD [to vinyl or cassette tapes] is far more important than the ability to make a perfect copy.
They're both important. However, just because a digital, 44.1kHz 16-bit stereo audio stream sounds roughly as good as vinyl, doesn't mean that digital audio inherently sounds better. Amiga .mod files, for example, use 8-bit samples. They definately don't sound as good as records.
If the quality of the audio/video/whatever is about the same, then being able to copy that medium perfectly becomes an important consideration.
A digital thing lasts forever.
Jack Valenti's almost right, yet missing the point entirely. A digital thing will last forever if it can leave the shackles of whatever physical medium it's stored on. If you have two copies, and only one of them is likely to get destroyed at any given time (say, you've copied a CD to a friend with the explicit orders that ey can't listen to it because that would be illegal, just to have an off-site backup), then you'll always have a perfect copy.
But being able to copy and manage the data better is the only advantage digital media have over their analogue counterparts. If you take away the rights to copy them, there is no point in using digital media in the first place.
From the interview:
Seems to have changed eir tune since the 1982 Betamax testimony:
How about a video wall?
I think it's more a case that girls aren't encouraged to take an interest in such subjects as much as boys are. I'm lucky in that my parents got me a Commodore computer when I was very young, and I got really into it, but how many perents would do that for a girl? Would they instead be more likely to encourage something that it's more widely believed girls like doing?
Maybe it's a vicious circle. Girls are told they don't like maths or science so don't get a chance to try it properly, so they grow up to not be into it, so people think that women don't like it, so don't try teaching it to girls.
Just try your best to work out what kids are into and encourage it regardless of whether it's something considered appropriate for their gender.
Of course, articles making a big deal out of a woman being into computers (remember the one about that female hacker?) tend to reinforce the notion that this is unique and unusual, reinforcing the stereotype. It doens't help anybody get over such stereotypes, but it helps sell issues of newspapers apparently.
Sorry, I'm rambling now.
Start pressing HD discs of some sort already!
Will HD tapes do?
When did you stop trusting sponsored 'research'?
Ooh, I know this one! Is it when Dr. Nancy Olivieri tested a drug on patients only to find out it may actually be hamful? After the doctor decided to tell the patients the risks, a gag order was issued by the company funding the experiment.
In turns out that an alien message designed to last millenia should be 'inside a large number of self-replicating, self-repairing microscopic machines programmed to multiply and adapt to changing conditions', otherwise known as living cells. Are we the message?
What, like in the Star Trek episode The Chase?
Tape recorders are a nono? How about wax cylinders? Punch cards?
Surely punch cards fall under DRM whereas wax cylinders and tape recorders fall under analogue rights management?
I hope someone hands out flyers or something at these schools, with a link to archive.org's netlabels page, to show that if a kid is thinking of becoming a musician, ey needn't get sucked into the industry.
Come to think of it, school libraries stocking up on All You Need to Know About the Music Industry wouldn't be too bad either, as that shows exactly how the big companies get away with not paying artists what they're supposed to.
Shameless plug: my free music.
Computing would not be what it is today. Thank god they did not patent any of it.
I like to think that the GNU project (and FreeDOS for that matter) would still have found a way to make free operating systems, even if they had to not base them at all whatsoever on any existing ones.
IIRC the theremin is the only musical instrument that can be played without the musician actually touching it.
The Doepfer A-100 modular synth now has a Theremin style CV source, meaning you can use that aerial to control just about anything (a filter's cutoff point, an LFO's speed, and so on). Two of them used to control a VCO's frequency and a VCA's amplitude can recreate a theremin, too.
Then there's D-Beam technology bought out by Roland a while back, using a different method to achieve a similar effect.
OK, the TB-303 was designed to help musicians practice along to, not to be a fully fledged synthesizer. As such it can only make one sound and it's not altogether that good.
Don't get me wrong, it's a very nice sound, especially when routed through a distortion pedal. Many artists (Norman Cook springs to mind) have done very well using them to add a little something to a mix that is otherwise kind of lacking. But it's just one sound.
It's nice and all, but extremely overrated, as if it can instantly make any song good just by being squeezed into the mix at the last minute.
The TR-909 would probably be a better choice if we're going for one of the holy trinity (the other being the TR-808), as it at least was featured in many different genres in music.
But personally I think sites like this should be about ground-breaking firsts that pioneer new methods of synthesis or at least new interfaces or approaches to a familiar concept, rather than just being popular. I'd have to pick the Yamaha VL-1 for being the first analogue modelling synthesizer, something which will probably take off one day when it's possible to get decent sounds out of it in real time for a few hundred dollars a synth.
Hmm... could it be because Rock & Roll with a guy on a CASIO is just awkward?
Casios can be awkward in rock'n'roll, yeah. I'd stick with Moogs and Mellotrons. :)