As much as I hate censorship in music (I guess you could say I have a stake in keeping music from being censored), I have to tell you that Walmart edits nothing, and neither does Blockbuster. They may refuse to sell an album or rent a video with content/rating they don't like, but ultimately it's the label or the artist themselves who edit the music and submit it for sale. It depends on the artist's contract.
We all know Walmart sucks, but they sell 25% of the music sold in this country. That gives them (and likewise blockbuster in movies) a huge influence. Unfortunately, artists have to compromise to get their creations to a massive audience
As an artist, given the choice of making millions or standing up for our creativity, I think you know what most of us would do.
The Internet was supposed to turn the tables on this stuff, unfortunately it's merely propagating more of the same practices. If I'm not on iTunes, and not on walmart's catalog, how will a high school student in Bent Fork, Illinois ever get to hear or buy my record?
Maybe it was an odd post after all, but you didn't get what I was saying. I'm not dissapointed that they use standard off the shelf hardware / software, I'm just surprised. In the recesses of my crazy infantile mind I imagined a large organization like SI using stuff so advanced, so expensive, so grear that I'd never even heare of it. Now I know different. I actually *like* the fact that they use relatively inexpensive equipment. It means all I need is a ten thousand dollar digital camera!
I'm surprised Sports Illustrated uses relatively cheap hardware and software to edit their photos. ACDSee (Fire!) is $50, and they use some pretty standard (and not all that impressive) IBM laptops for most of the field action. Even at the studios in New York they're using dual 450 G4's. No dual G5's yet. Anyone know how much that camera costs?
An anecdote, but a good one. My friend is a graphics designer, has been using Macs forever. I was a windows guy who got a powerbook. He didn't like or understand OS X. He worked well in 9 and that was enough. But 9 users live in a connected world. My friend sees my machine with expose, idvd, photoshop, keynote, etc, and decides to install OS X to dual boot his machine. The verdict? He spends his time entirely in OS X except for photoshop, which he runs in classic mode.
Long time Apple users suffered through a lot of FUD about OS X, but the numbers are changing.
As for OS X not running fast on an older G3 - How fast do you think Windows XP or Fedora runs on a pentium 2? Because Apple users are used to the fact that their hardware is worth good cash years after their purchase, they seem to feel entitled to the latest and greatest on their 5 year old hardware. Apple won't bother apeasing them - the money is in the G5 baby.
Is it just me, or does "digital" cable not look as good as regular analog cable? I know this service is different and support HDTV, but my regular digital cable looks horrible, with pixelation all over the place, and a bunch of worthless "features" like card games that take forever to load. I have a nice TV, so it's not that. Is it just Charter in Southern California?
I don't know, the beauty of Linux is that you have so many (free) distribution choices. I don't see the point of making Debian as easy to install as Mandrake or Redhat...when they can just download and install those instead. They serve different types of users. I'm all for making things easier, but not to the point where it removes the relevance of the distribution.
There's a difference between a *relatively* benign cookie stored in the browser and a trojan spyware program as bundled with kazaa, comet cursor, etc.
Having said that, I'm not sure legislation is the best way to take care of this. Can't we use existing laws in court to fight spyware?
Hi Dominic, not trolling, but impressed that you replied. My Mac came with this program, and it's very cool. I believe it's only free if bundled with the mac, it seems to be shareware, and I like it better than Audacity.
By the way, my sister is in college and they're teaching audio recording 101 with....Audacity. Congratulations, I think that's very noteworthy. I didn't mean to put your efforts down in my post.
I'm a huge fan of open source tools, but there's just no software out there to compete with the big boys. Audacity is great as a learning tool, but you'll never find it in a professional recording studio. Steinberg's Cubase and Nuendo, and Digi's Pro Tools, and Apple's Logic division are not worrying about the free competition yet.
And OK I'm not trolling here, but Audacity is just not that great. I tried using it to record a simple demo, and I just didn't find it useful. I'm glad its open source and it'll surely improve, but the simple free program that came with my Mac to record audio is better. Seriously. Ultimately maybe Audacity will kick Pro Tools' ass, but I just don't see it coming yet.
While I wouldn't use an SM58 for anything other than live use, the SM57, its twin brother, will do great. The difference between these two mics is the shape and endpiece (flat VS a pop filter). That's all. Other than that they're identical.
Not only is the $90 SM57 the world standard for recording guitar cabinets, Michael Jackson used it for lead vocals on Thriller (spare the jokes its a kickass record). Of course a nice mic pre can be very pricey, but in a pinch use your mixer's pre and be done with it.
I'll take great musicians through crappy equipment over the inverse any day.
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This has been modded funny, but this is an actual studio trick that's been used for many years. Bathrooms have pretty good acoustic qualities and built-in reverb. For a budget home musician, I'd sing in the shower instead of pay studio time for vocals. Run your mic cable from the shower/bathroom to your pre, into your mac in the other room. You might be surprised by good results.
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If you're getting the microdrive included with the $249 mini, I fail to see how this is card can be considered to have a value of $480.
Shouldn't it be the drive that used to cost $480? Indeed, I checked ebay and the price of those drives have magically fallen to around $250. What a surprise!
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OK lets write a script that bans this guy and redirects him to travelandleisure.com when he hits slashdot. That'll teach him to mock us!
OK I guess I've been schooled. There's no moderation option for -1 Dumbass.
But then why the long wait for a G5 laptop? It seems that with the g5 Powermac available people would wait to buy a powerbook until they could get a G5.
I guess my question is, if it's not a heat issue, where's the G5 powerbook?
You're not thinking. Voice over IP is the future. In a couple of years your cell phone might be just a node on wireless internet rather than on a cell-tower based system. Wouldn't it be nice to call around the world, effectively for free, from your VOIP gadget? Now, wouldn't you want to call 911 when you're in trouble? Any cell phone sold today must connect to 911, regardless of whether it's currently subscribed. This needs to happen to any new communications systems, for all our safety. They're our airwaves, and our taxpayer dollars, and they're putting them to good use.
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As much as I hate censorship in music (I guess you could say I have a stake in keeping music from being censored), I have to tell you that Walmart edits nothing, and neither does Blockbuster. They may refuse to sell an album or rent a video with content/rating they don't like, but ultimately it's the label or the artist themselves who edit the music and submit it for sale. It depends on the artist's contract.
We all know Walmart sucks, but they sell 25% of the music sold in this country. That gives them (and likewise blockbuster in movies) a huge influence. Unfortunately, artists have to compromise to get their creations to a massive audience
As an artist, given the choice of making millions or standing up for our creativity, I think you know what most of us would do.
The Internet was supposed to turn the tables on this stuff, unfortunately it's merely propagating more of the same practices. If I'm not on iTunes, and not on walmart's catalog, how will a high school student in Bent Fork, Illinois ever get to hear or buy my record?
Maybe it was an odd post after all, but you didn't get what I was saying. I'm not dissapointed that they use standard off the shelf hardware / software, I'm just surprised. In the recesses of my crazy infantile mind I imagined a large organization like SI using stuff so advanced, so expensive, so grear that I'd never even heare of it. Now I know different. I actually *like* the fact that they use relatively inexpensive equipment. It means all I need is a ten thousand dollar digital camera!
I'm surprised Sports Illustrated uses relatively cheap hardware and software to edit their photos. ACDSee (Fire!) is $50, and they use some pretty standard (and not all that impressive) IBM laptops for most of the field action. Even at the studios in New York they're using dual 450 G4's. No dual G5's yet. Anyone know how much that camera costs?
"Every time another virus runs amok, she adds another Mac person"
Please tell her that my Windows 2000 machine just got nimda, and I will send her my shipping address soon.
You're giving me carp-al tunnel syndrome hitting page down on my keelboard.
An anecdote, but a good one. My friend is a graphics designer, has been using Macs forever. I was a windows guy who got a powerbook. He didn't like or understand OS X. He worked well in 9 and that was enough. But 9 users live in a connected world. My friend sees my machine with expose, idvd, photoshop, keynote, etc, and decides to install OS X to dual boot his machine. The verdict? He spends his time entirely in OS X except for photoshop, which he runs in classic mode.
Long time Apple users suffered through a lot of FUD about OS X, but the numbers are changing.
As for OS X not running fast on an older G3 - How fast do you think Windows XP or Fedora runs on a pentium 2? Because Apple users are used to the fact that their hardware is worth good cash years after their purchase, they seem to feel entitled to the latest and greatest on their 5 year old hardware. Apple won't bother apeasing them - the money is in the G5 baby.
Is it just me, or does "digital" cable not look as good as regular analog cable? I know this service is different and support HDTV, but my regular digital cable looks horrible, with pixelation all over the place, and a bunch of worthless "features" like card games that take forever to load. I have a nice TV, so it's not that. Is it just Charter in Southern California?
I don't know, the beauty of Linux is that you have so many (free) distribution choices. I don't see the point of making Debian as easy to install as Mandrake or Redhat...when they can just download and install those instead. They serve different types of users. I'm all for making things easier, but not to the point where it removes the relevance of the distribution.
There's a difference between a *relatively* benign cookie stored in the browser and a trojan spyware program as bundled with kazaa, comet cursor, etc.
Having said that, I'm not sure legislation is the best way to take care of this. Can't we use existing laws in court to fight spyware?
RTFA - He's got a 15 inch Aluminum Powerbook in there.
Hey, look! Anonymous coward Karma Whoring! How long before he gets to moderate? Soon, I hope, because I see him posting all the time.
... The pathfinding strategy is indeed borrowed from video game technology.
You see, good things came from the Half-Life 2 source code leak.
After 2 years of tryin,
I' think I must be dyin,
Today sure hits the spot
cuz I got my first article posted on slashdot!
Can I get a hell yeah?
Hi Dominic, not trolling, but impressed that you replied. My Mac came with this program, and it's very cool. I believe it's only free if bundled with the mac, it seems to be shareware, and I like it better than Audacity.
By the way, my sister is in college and they're teaching audio recording 101 with....Audacity. Congratulations, I think that's very noteworthy. I didn't mean to put your efforts down in my post.
Here's the excellent NPR piece, with pics of the gadget they flipped the coins with: NPR.
If you're running windows, check out this software. Closed source but free. 16 tracks, and supports VST. Looks nice.
I'm a huge fan of open source tools, but there's just no software out there to compete with the big boys. Audacity is great as a learning tool, but you'll never find it in a professional recording studio. Steinberg's Cubase and Nuendo, and Digi's Pro Tools, and Apple's Logic division are not worrying about the free competition yet.
And OK I'm not trolling here, but Audacity is just not that great. I tried using it to record a simple demo, and I just didn't find it useful. I'm glad its open source and it'll surely improve, but the simple free program that came with my Mac to record audio is better. Seriously. Ultimately maybe Audacity will kick Pro Tools' ass, but I just don't see it coming yet.
While I wouldn't use an SM58 for anything other than live use, the SM57, its twin brother, will do great. The difference between these two mics is the shape and endpiece (flat VS a pop filter). That's all. Other than that they're identical.
Not only is the $90 SM57 the world standard for recording guitar cabinets, Michael Jackson used it for lead vocals on Thriller (spare the jokes its a kickass record). Of course a nice mic pre can be very pricey, but in a pinch use your mixer's pre and be done with it.
I'll take great musicians through crappy equipment over the inverse any day.
This has been modded funny, but this is an actual studio trick that's been used for many years. Bathrooms have pretty good acoustic qualities and built-in reverb. For a budget home musician, I'd sing in the shower instead of pay studio time for vocals. Run your mic cable from the shower/bathroom to your pre, into your mac in the other room. You might be surprised by good results.
If you're getting the microdrive included with the $249 mini, I fail to see how this is card can be considered to have a value of $480.
Shouldn't it be the drive that used to cost $480? Indeed, I checked ebay and the price of those drives have magically fallen to around $250. What a surprise!
OK lets write a script that bans this guy and redirects him to travelandleisure.com when he hits slashdot. That'll teach him to mock us!
I have one word for you: Dreamcast.
Lead time alone does not a succesful console make.
OK I guess I've been schooled. There's no moderation option for -1 Dumbass.
But then why the long wait for a G5 laptop? It seems that with the g5 Powermac available people would wait to buy a powerbook until they could get a G5.
I guess my question is, if it's not a heat issue, where's the G5 powerbook?
The heat dissipation issues need to be resolved before the G5 comes out. The next powerbook (and maybe powermac!) will almost surely be water cooled.
You're not thinking. Voice over IP is the future. In a couple of years your cell phone might be just a node on wireless internet rather than on a cell-tower based system. Wouldn't it be nice to call around the world, effectively for free, from your VOIP gadget? Now, wouldn't you want to call 911 when you're in trouble? Any cell phone sold today must connect to 911, regardless of whether it's currently subscribed. This needs to happen to any new communications systems, for all our safety. They're our airwaves, and our taxpayer dollars, and they're putting them to good use.