We put cameras in places where risk is high -- banks, retail stores, convenience stores, ATMs, etc., etc., are all being recorded and we don't complain about them, because the risk of corruption and crime is very high.
Police officers are at high risk for corruption, and they always have been. Their personal opinion of someone can be used to punish that person physically, emotionally, and financially. It's not too much to ask that their actions as employees be more closely monitored.
Yesterday, I watched an old episode of "The Rockford Files" from 1977 -- a serious two-parter about a private consortium committing various crimes while setting up a secret computer system to track consumers. The episode ended with a black screen and a chilling message from NBC:
"Secret information centers, building dossiers on individuals, exist today. You have no legal right to know abut them, prevent them, or sue for damages. Our liberty may well be the price we pay for permitting this to continue unchecked -- Member, U.S. Privacy Protection Commission."
...would just use this as a wedge issue, further "proof" of Obama's "socialism," and Obama has been going out of his way to avoid wedge issues. I think he knows that he can rule, but can't be effective, with a 51% majority.
As much as I love the entire open source movement, I don't think it would ever fly, politically, in our current culture.
The only time I've been subjected to a personality test at the office, it was Myers-Briggs as a "Team-Building" effort. All results would be confidential, they assured us when we questioned the ability of oil industry managers to gauge us with psychological exams... and these results would *not* be used to prejudice.
Out of the hundred or so participants, I was the only person with my personality type. The event coordinator -- an HR manager who had never before met me -- made me stand below a sign bearing my 4-letter code, and explained to everyone there what I was capable and incapable of doing, both in the industry and in my personal life.
Close....
For most of my career, I've written business processes to manage very large industries.
Today's managers aren't satisfied with the status quo, regardless of how successful it may be. They compete with each other to make *changes* -- not necessarily improvements -- to make it look like they're taking an active role in managing their responsibilities.
The latest book, the latest software tool, the latest Zen Management Philosophy seminar, it doesn't matter: It's "the latest."
Can't tell you how many times I heard impassioned questions like, "What? You haven't read 'The Tipping Point' yet?"
Research tests that are supposed to judge sociological phenomena, designed to be issued to mass numbers of people for data, are being sold to employers as tools to judge individuals.
It simply doesn't work that way.
Might as well use Astrology....
Example: I and three others re-wrote and published the "Owner's Manual" (System Information Manual) for the trans-Alaska pipeline in Frame. Four writers, four years, 44 volumes, who-knows-how-many thousands of pages. Frame coordinated all very well, never had a problem. It was the first desktop system we ever tried -- had used IBM's VM publishing (tagged script) up until that point.
I still use it on every project, although I've moved to PC for the publishing nowadays. We all feared Adobe would make big changes when they bought out Frame, but really nothing much has changed since v.5.1. -- just better performance, incorporation of the (formerly optional) web tools, etc.
It's a shame they won't be putting it on Mac anymore, but it works just fine on PC, too....
...is that just a generation ago, it was computer technicians and programmers who put millions of Americans out of work by replacing their positions with machinery....just sayin'....
Which is why it will work. Know your demographic. If you're silly enough to pay too much for bad coffee, you'll more than likely pay too much for bad music....
And for those who will be voting for the first time, or aren't familiar with the terminology, a "Primary Election" is when the taxpayers pay for the equipment and tabulation costs for private organizations (political parties), not associated with the government, to select candidates to represent them.
I understood what he was saying, and I'm saying that yes, you can design the music around the quirks of nightly performances. All it takes is a little clever design, working with actors during development, etc. The audience accepts MIDI and recorded music as part of the play.
The feedback I've received from actors has always been positive -- having the music always the same is one less showtime variable for them to worry about.
My first residency was a three-year stint with a company that produced 4 major productions + workshops each year. Would we (me, director, techs and actors) *rather* have a real orchestra? All of us would say "yes," but if we had to pay that kind of money, there would have been no shows.
The biggest point is, our audiences were satisfied. We can't all have Broadway budgets.
And how about all of the composers who worked hard, but can never get access to an orchestra?
Americans are used to hearing their music generated by amps & speakers. Maybe I can tell the difference and appreciate a real orchestra, but they can't. I'm happy that I can actually write and produce a score for a live production that will run for weeks. That was impossible with the cost of an orchestra.
First, you design the score around mistakes by segmenting the music and creating arrangements that allow for actors flukes: Longer monologue this night, faster pace the next, etc. With a little design you can get around that.
Second, the people who design these computerized scores and arrangements are musicians, too, very capable of making interpretive/expressive music.
People go the theatre to see the story and actors. In a musical, they go to hear the singers. I've been scoring theatre productions for years with MIDI/synths/samplers, and the only complaints have been from performing musicians.
The fact is that theatre companies can't all afford to hire and orchestra and pay for rehearsal space.
Integrating all of this equipment into one keyboard, just to save a few cables? PC specs keep changing, I upgrade controllers all the time. But my sound production equipment doesn't get outdated -- it's purchased for its ability to produce sound. Why integrate a short-term controller into a long-term musical instrument when there are much more elegant solutions..?
Slashdot Mirror
Not so much. It prevents the surreptitious recording, but anything in public is still fair game.
The US Supreme Court ruled just last June that a warrant is necessary to search a cell phone or other personal data storage device.
We put cameras in places where risk is high -- banks, retail stores, convenience stores, ATMs, etc., etc., are all being recorded and we don't complain about them, because the risk of corruption and crime is very high.
Police officers are at high risk for corruption, and they always have been. Their personal opinion of someone can be used to punish that person physically, emotionally, and financially. It's not too much to ask that their actions as employees be more closely monitored.
Your data is their ASSET. Business exploit assets in whatever possible way.
Not only business: Political campaigns use the same marketing tactics and sociological research business does.
Yesterday, I watched an old episode of "The Rockford Files" from 1977 -- a serious two-parter about a private consortium committing various crimes while setting up a secret computer system to track consumers. The episode ended with a black screen and a chilling message from NBC:
"Secret information centers, building dossiers on individuals, exist today. You have no legal right to know abut them, prevent them, or sue for damages. Our liberty may well be the price we pay for permitting this to continue unchecked -- Member, U.S. Privacy Protection Commission."
The competition angle has been pretty successful for DARPA, too....
...would just use this as a wedge issue, further "proof" of Obama's "socialism," and Obama has been going out of his way to avoid wedge issues. I think he knows that he can rule, but can't be effective, with a 51% majority.
As much as I love the entire open source movement, I don't think it would ever fly, politically, in our current culture.
3 outta 4 ain't bad....
Out of the hundred or so participants, I was the only person with my personality type. The event coordinator -- an HR manager who had never before met me -- made me stand below a sign bearing my 4-letter code, and explained to everyone there what I was capable and incapable of doing, both in the industry and in my personal life.
It's pop psychology at its worst.
It used to be that these things called "Resumes" and "Interviews" would give you an idea of the applicants' specific abilities....
Today's managers aren't satisfied with the status quo, regardless of how successful it may be. They compete with each other to make *changes* -- not necessarily improvements -- to make it look like they're taking an active role in managing their responsibilities.
The latest book, the latest software tool, the latest Zen Management Philosophy seminar, it doesn't matter: It's "the latest."
Can't tell you how many times I heard impassioned questions like, "What? You haven't read 'The Tipping Point' yet?"
Research tests that are supposed to judge sociological phenomena, designed to be issued to mass numbers of people for data, are being sold to employers as tools to judge individuals. It simply doesn't work that way. Might as well use Astrology....
Example: I and three others re-wrote and published the "Owner's Manual" (System Information Manual) for the trans-Alaska pipeline in Frame. Four writers, four years, 44 volumes, who-knows-how-many thousands of pages. Frame coordinated all very well, never had a problem. It was the first desktop system we ever tried -- had used IBM's VM publishing (tagged script) up until that point.
I still use it on every project, although I've moved to PC for the publishing nowadays. We all feared Adobe would make big changes when they bought out Frame, but really nothing much has changed since v.5.1. -- just better performance, incorporation of the (formerly optional) web tools, etc.
It's a shame they won't be putting it on Mac anymore, but it works just fine on PC, too....
Best. Technical. Document. Tool. Ever.
...is that just a generation ago, it was computer technicians and programmers who put millions of Americans out of work by replacing their positions with machinery. ...just sayin'....
Which is why it will work. Know your demographic. If you're silly enough to pay too much for bad coffee, you'll more than likely pay too much for bad music....
And for those who will be voting for the first time, or aren't familiar with the terminology, a "Primary Election" is when the taxpayers pay for the equipment and tabulation costs for private organizations (political parties), not associated with the government, to select candidates to represent them.
The feedback I've received from actors has always been positive -- having the music always the same is one less showtime variable for them to worry about.
My first residency was a three-year stint with a company that produced 4 major productions + workshops each year. Would we (me, director, techs and actors) *rather* have a real orchestra? All of us would say "yes," but if we had to pay that kind of money, there would have been no shows.
The biggest point is, our audiences were satisfied. We can't all have Broadway budgets.
Americans are used to hearing their music generated by amps & speakers. Maybe I can tell the difference and appreciate a real orchestra, but they can't. I'm happy that I can actually write and produce a score for a live production that will run for weeks. That was impossible with the cost of an orchestra.
Second, the people who design these computerized scores and arrangements are musicians, too, very capable of making interpretive/expressive music.
The fact is that theatre companies can't all afford to hire and orchestra and pay for rehearsal space.
Integrating all of this equipment into one keyboard, just to save a few cables? PC specs keep changing, I upgrade controllers all the time. But my sound production equipment doesn't get outdated -- it's purchased for its ability to produce sound. Why integrate a short-term controller into a long-term musical instrument when there are much more elegant solutions..?
Worse yet, they keep spamming, Someone keeps buying from spam.
Heh. One piece for music comp. school was written in basic for three-voice PC speaker on my 8088...
With a typewriter printer the size of Montana.... Many wasted hours with Basic & Hitchhiker's Guide....
I mean, they're nuts, attacking lawyers like that....