yes exactly. And what's worse than forgetting your complicated password at work and looking like a complete knob and having to get the IT guy and then your boss finds out you're useless. Best of sticking with your dog's name. Or your name.
Speaking as someone that has produced records (a few little dance hits in the UK) what he's doing is what's going on in just about every studio in the world. Namely, using samples to make a beat. It's nothing special, what's interesting is tying that with the video. Having said that, software to do that has been available for nearly 10 years (called Steinberg X-Pose) and it's quite good fun to use - just set video and sound samples to keys on a keyboard and bash away.
Steinberg did once think it was going to be the 'next step' in AV production - maybe they were just early? If he'd used that software he probably could have done it in a tenth of the time.
I agree but don't forget at the time it was incredible. No, really. Most PC people were on DOS when Macs had 24-bit color. I know looking backing it looks like a crock but that's hindsight.
"Building on feedback from the 29 million downloads of VLC media player 0.8.5, we bring you version 0.8.6 with many bugfixes, as well as a couple of new features we think you will truly enjoy. Most prominent are probably Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video. Other important changes are improved H.264 decoding, better Windows Unicode support, a Fullscreen controller, and Apple Remote support for Mac OS X."
And most importantly it will play all your pr0n torrents if you are running OSX. (Comes with free cloth).
I agree with you that OSX has lost a little of the elegance - there seems to be some quite deep confusion about how the apps look now. I don't much like the new darker metal windows like iPhoto but thank god the pinstripes are fading away. If you look at 10.0 it was ludicrous how heavy they were. However, I do think it's to do with Aero, there's no point standing still waiting for Windows to catch up again. This way just as Windows is looking 21stC Apple will move it on again showing the market they're still ahead. It has to be this way when you think about it.
Apple has rarely been one to simply sit on a good product and not try to continue to make it better/newer.
You weren't around in the 89-95 period then. Apple rested on it's System7 laurels as it was so far ahead for years. By about 98 even Widows had caught up. Just sayin'.
It all depends what you call a real news source. They're all at it! The BBC reads off AP and Reuters all day long. Some 'news' items start as press releases. Governments feed media agencies stories. It's a really complex web which often just comes down to 'trusting' or 'belief'. This is what the internet has shown me anyway.
That's exactly how I was thinking reading that Google gobblygook. There was a time 20 years ago when I would have understood it. But, nowadays, because I still know my multiplication tables and can add up in my head, I'm still a 'maths genius' as the bar been moved quite a bit lower down. Who said 'global dumbification' was a bad thing!
Just got some time to read that. V. interesting and accounts for the rumours that the shuffle is the best sounding pod. I mainly was refering to DACs in my post but it's obvious that the problems lie in the analogue amps and sustained power delivery.
yeh it's called bit and nybble encoding. Very popular in Russia.
zune software doesn't run in Vista. . .
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Why Vista Took So Long
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· Score: 3, Informative
You can tell something is very wrong when the lamentable Zune software doesn't work properly (or at all) in Vista beta. I mean what the hell is going on? How could they be this far wrong?
Yes apart from if you work with flash London media types as I do who are increasingly calling it my 'cell'. Seems to affect people that deal with the States a lot. I recently said it myself and I couldn't believe that I had done so.
Totally right. I keep OSes and installers on my pod too and it's a great feature - always have the solution to hand with no hassle. Over time people begin to realise that about 4Gb is enough for all the music you're listening to and the rest can be used for computer tasks. It means I don't have to pack one of those Porsche/LaCie drives with me just to be prepared.
Podworks is a little program that completely bypasses Apple's trivial protection scheme and is well worth buying.
this is pretty much a non-issue nowadays. I'm a recording engineer with nearly 20 years of experience behind me and have lived and worked through the whole digital audio transition in tedious detail. At the end of the eighties most 16-bit DACs sounded like garbage - even on machines worth (at the time) several thousand dollars. Domestic CD player DACs were, to my ears, horrific at this time with a few exceptions but during the passing years things improved quite quickly. For instance, around 92-95, cheapish semi-pro devices started sounding pretty good (like portable DATs and stereo samplers) and quite quickly this became the case in domestic machines too. I became used to this fact (digital audio now sounds good!) so that when I bought a 3rd gen iPod about 3 years ago I didn't even bother check what the quality was like - I knew it was going to be good because of the general advance in chipsets available to the designers. The only thing I'd worry about is interference from electronics onto the analogue amps producing artefacts that are very quiet but annoying like hearing the HD controller work or things like that. One of the reasons I love the pod is that I've never heard that at all. So I think the review reflects this mindset - digital audio is basically good now with few exceptions.
(Having said all this, my new Samsung phone with built-in MP3 player sounds like crap but this is I suspect because of custom chips being designed to fit a tiny form factor and too much emphasis on features rather than quality).
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yes exactly. And what's worse than forgetting your complicated password at work and looking like a complete knob and having to get the IT guy and then your boss finds out you're useless. Best of sticking with your dog's name. Or your name.
Speaking as someone that has produced records (a few little dance hits in the UK) what he's doing is what's going on in just about every studio in the world. Namely, using samples to make a beat. It's nothing special, what's interesting is tying that with the video. Having said that, software to do that has been available for nearly 10 years (called Steinberg X-Pose) and it's quite good fun to use - just set video and sound samples to keys on a keyboard and bash away.
http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/multimedia/xpose-it/
Steinberg did once think it was going to be the 'next step' in AV production - maybe they were just early? If he'd used that software he probably could have done it in a tenth of the time.
I agree but don't forget at the time it was incredible. No, really. Most PC people were on DOS when Macs had 24-bit color. I know looking backing it looks like a crock but that's hindsight.
And most importantly it will play all your pr0n torrents if you are running OSX. (Comes with free cloth).
I agree with you that OSX has lost a little of the elegance - there seems to be some quite deep confusion about how the apps look now. I don't much like the new darker metal windows like iPhoto but thank god the pinstripes are fading away. If you look at 10.0 it was ludicrous how heavy they were. However, I do think it's to do with Aero, there's no point standing still waiting for Windows to catch up again. This way just as Windows is looking 21stC Apple will move it on again showing the market they're still ahead. It has to be this way when you think about it.
Apple has rarely been one to simply sit on a good product and not try to continue to make it better/newer.
You weren't around in the 89-95 period then. Apple rested on it's System7 laurels as it was so far ahead for years. By about 98 even Widows had caught up. Just sayin'.
Yep, Blue Steel is just one look. Where's Magnum?
It all depends what you call a real news source. They're all at it! The BBC reads off AP and Reuters all day long. Some 'news' items start as press releases. Governments feed media agencies stories. It's a really complex web which often just comes down to 'trusting' or 'belief'. This is what the internet has shown me anyway.
heh heh, I laughed!
That's exactly how I was thinking reading that Google gobblygook. There was a time 20 years ago when I would have understood it. But, nowadays, because I still know my multiplication tables and can add up in my head, I'm still a 'maths genius' as the bar been moved quite a bit lower down. Who said 'global dumbification' was a bad thing!
All your doors are belong to us!!!
(Who called? Who wants their joke back?)
Microsoft isn't ready for Vista, let alone corporate America.
Try telling that to my Casio. I'm still waiting for 88:88ampm to come round.
old player that takes big black CDs
If you check the OP I was making a (weak) joke. Funny for me who's been ITing for a printshop today though.
"the LEGO Group has calculated that just six eight-stud bricks can be arranged in 915,103,765 different ways."
How's that?
I'm all set up now and can do more copies whenever you want.
You owe me a new scarcasm meter.
What you never heard of Microsoft?
Just got some time to read that. V. interesting and accounts for the rumours that the shuffle is the best sounding pod. I mainly was refering to DACs in my post but it's obvious that the problems lie in the analogue amps and sustained power delivery.
yeh it's called bit and nybble encoding. Very popular in Russia.
You can tell something is very wrong when the lamentable Zune software doesn't work properly (or at all) in Vista beta. I mean what the hell is going on? How could they be this far wrong?
yep - as a comedian once said "I got a new PC the other day, it came with a free screensaver - just a piece of polythene but it seems to work ok!"
Yes apart from if you work with flash London media types as I do who are increasingly calling it my 'cell'. Seems to affect people that deal with the States a lot. I recently said it myself and I couldn't believe that I had done so.
LoL!
(You beat me to it)
Totally right. I keep OSes and installers on my pod too and it's a great feature - always have the solution to hand with no hassle. Over time people begin to realise that about 4Gb is enough for all the music you're listening to and the rest can be used for computer tasks. It means I don't have to pack one of those Porsche/LaCie drives with me just to be prepared.
Podworks is a little program that completely bypasses Apple's trivial protection scheme and is well worth buying.
About the sound quality -
this is pretty much a non-issue nowadays. I'm a recording engineer with nearly 20 years of experience behind me and have lived and worked through the whole digital audio transition in tedious detail. At the end of the eighties most 16-bit DACs sounded like garbage - even on machines worth (at the time) several thousand dollars. Domestic CD player DACs were, to my ears, horrific at this time with a few exceptions but during the passing years things improved quite quickly. For instance, around 92-95, cheapish semi-pro devices started sounding pretty good (like portable DATs and stereo samplers) and quite quickly this became the case in domestic machines too. I became used to this fact (digital audio now sounds good!) so that when I bought a 3rd gen iPod about 3 years ago I didn't even bother check what the quality was like - I knew it was going to be good because of the general advance in chipsets available to the designers. The only thing I'd worry about is interference from electronics onto the analogue amps producing artefacts that are very quiet but annoying like hearing the HD controller work or things like that. One of the reasons I love the pod is that I've never heard that at all. So I think the review reflects this mindset - digital audio is basically good now with few exceptions.
(Having said all this, my new Samsung phone with built-in MP3 player sounds like crap but this is I suspect because of custom chips being designed to fit a tiny form factor and too much emphasis on features rather than quality).