Cut them some slack! You can't set up for and clean up after 20000 people without money. Its leave-no-trace ethic is unparalleled in any other festival -- even the Bureau of Land Management, who's been trying to squeeze them out for years, had to admit that the desert was impeccable 2 months after the event. The net profit from ticket sales goes to art endowments and the local school system.
And as any Burner knows, the cost of the ticket is a drop in the bucket.
Oh, how precious! Grub made a Clippy joke! Let's all feed him karma, and then circle-jerk each other until the last nerd blows his wad on his wrist rest!!
Grub: go outside once in a while. You might find you like it there. And I like you not here.
Do you think I'm fucking stupid? Did you honestly think that by pointing out to me that the US operates as a democratic republic and not an Athenian democracy, you would be telling me something I didn't know, or had never thought about?
In this country we are on an electoral vote system. You know this and I know this. It doesn't change the fact that the last election was decided in a courtroom and not at the ballot box.
my dad actually got a Leica M3 and two lenses for $500 from some guy whose sister had owned them and had recently died. he wanted $300 but my dad felt too guilty basically stealing them for that price.
When I want to do something complicated, I can launch Terminal.app and be greeted with tcsh or bash. That, to me, is the coolest thing about OS X compared with OS 9.
Now I can effectively do anything, and have it look nice too.
sure, with enough mixing and tape-splicing, you'd be able to do a lot of this (although digital compression and retuning are out of the question, for instance). but even if all of ProTools' features were magically possible in the analog world, they wouldn't be possible through a few clicks of a mouse. i guess maybe you haven't spent much time in front of a splicing block, but let me give you a hint: you want to be clicking and dragging instead. (Oh, for an Undo key on the razor blade.)
That's the problem here, and it's not a problem with PT. It's a problem with humans. It's just too easy with PT to wring the soul out of music, and people are doing it all the time.
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ProTools, while of course being immensely powerful and featureful, is responsible for many pervasive problems with modern music:
over-compression of everything (ever notice how most modern music is the same volume all the time?)
voice-tuning (as debuted by Cher on "Love After Life"). able to make a crappy singer perfectly on-key, and since it's matured a little it's much harder to notice
lifelessness resulting from using the "best" parts of a recording session (a riff here, a drum fill there, a bassline there) to collage together a song. the resultant music is (surprise!) devoid of the life which comes from musicians interacting with each other
the same effects make it into modern songs at the same time. unoriginal overuse of ProTools plugins
it's depressing how such a featureful tool is used mainly for evil.
C'mon, how long are we going to let IBM drag their feet on this one? The PPC 970 is shrouded in secret because they can't cobble together a working model. They should have started from scratch -- they realize that now -- but didn't, and I'm not optimistic that Apple is doing the right thing by putting all their eggs in this very dubious basket.
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I'd expect that the C family won because of Objective-C; there was a huge amount of iPhone development this year.
Cut them some slack! You can't set up for and clean up after 20000 people without money. Its leave-no-trace ethic is unparalleled in any other festival -- even the Bureau of Land Management, who's been trying to squeeze them out for years, had to admit that the desert was impeccable 2 months after the event. The net profit from ticket sales goes to art endowments and the local school system.
And as any Burner knows, the cost of the ticket is a drop in the bucket.
Oh, how precious! Grub made a Clippy joke! Let's all feed him karma, and then circle-jerk each other until the last nerd blows his wad on his wrist rest!!
Grub: go outside once in a while. You might find you like it there. And I like you not here.
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53^H^H0 comments!!! FP!!!#$#$@
Do you think I'm fucking stupid? Did you honestly think that by pointing out to me that the US operates as a democratic republic and not an Athenian democracy, you would be telling me something I didn't know, or had never thought about?
In this country we are on an electoral vote system. You know this and I know this. It doesn't change the fact that the last election was decided in a courtroom and not at the ballot box.
...which is another way of saying "Maybe Bush will be democratically-elected this time around."
my dad actually got a Leica M3 and two lenses for $500 from some guy whose sister had owned them and had recently died. he wanted $300 but my dad felt too guilty basically stealing them for that price.
All this is true, but this also: if you don't buy a Vietnam-era Nikon F, you might as well be wearing panties.
Plastics are increasingly made from good-old, government-subsidized corn these days... just like "bioethanol" (aka rotgut).
ESR is threatening to use every legal means available to fight SCO. that's legal, justified, implied and expected.
When I want to do something complicated, I can launch Terminal.app and be greeted with tcsh or bash. That, to me, is the coolest thing about OS X compared with OS 9.
Now I can effectively do anything, and have it look nice too.
...but then, if you were worried about speed, you wouldn't be using perl.
come on. get a hold of yourself.
this is why Cowboi Neal has a cantenna business on the side. $250,000 profits this quarter alone!
I thoughrt they were at Ninre last timre I checkred.
i'm so happy to see that someone's archived this!
If it runs under Linux, then you can get it to run under Debian using binary hardware emulation and an ordinary hex-editor.
sure, with enough mixing and tape-splicing, you'd be able to do a lot of this (although digital compression and retuning are out of the question, for instance). but even if all of ProTools' features were magically possible in the analog world, they wouldn't be possible through a few clicks of a mouse. i guess maybe you haven't spent much time in front of a splicing block, but let me give you a hint: you want to be clicking and dragging instead. (Oh, for an Undo key on the razor blade.)
That's the problem here, and it's not a problem with PT. It's a problem with humans. It's just too easy with PT to wring the soul out of music, and people are doing it all the time.
it's depressing how such a featureful tool is used mainly for evil.
The NetBSD Project -- We Use Irix So You Don't Have To!
that the Debian weenies and the BSD weenies will stop bickering already??
C'mon, how long are we going to let IBM drag their feet on this one? The PPC 970 is shrouded in secret because they can't cobble together a working model. They should have started from scratch -- they realize that now -- but didn't, and I'm not optimistic that Apple is doing the right thing by putting all their eggs in this very dubious basket.
ever taken apart a Japanese car?
FP btw
Just imagine the ungodly enormous shits we'll soon start taking
Can't get it up anymore
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...the X-box PC!