I can understand your perception of how difficult and/or expensive it is to get technical assistance with creating your perfect recording, but you are not taking into account the fall in price of the necessary hardware and software.
Setting up a studio is a lot less than you might think - certainly cheap enough for a poor student to get a working rig together. As a gigging bassist in a number of bands, I can assure you that my first recording setup was less total value than my bass, amp and pedals and I have seen many (poor) muso's with substantially more expensive gear than mine.
Our local college runs a contemporary music and recording course - teaching general studio craft as well as Pro-Tools. Nearly all the students buy some form of recording set-up before the end of the course - they may not all become "genius producers", but in my experience there is some real talent there. Some of these guys have more of an interest in recording and production than in being in a band. It's just another form of expression.
This sort of thing is happening all over the country (here in the UK) - look in Sound on Sound mag and you see hundreds of adverts for courses. This months backpiece editorial was all about how there is an absolute glut of new recording engineers and producers desperate for work. You could look on this as the beginning of a new era - just like in the 70's everyone picked up a guitar and thought they could play, many now are entering sound recording as a pastime - out of this vast pool very few will enter large studios, most will end up doing it for themselves.
The main point is, *your* main thing is writing/producing the music, these guys main thing is recording - look around, maybe you'll find a local guy with a few decent mics, a macbook and logic.
The technical guys are out there - they are growing in number and have no industry to work in, so they are all working independently. Stick an advert up in your local music store and see how many responses you get!
I've just got it all installed on a MBP. First impressions are pretty favourable - the installation was pretty painless.
The biggest problem I've got at the moment is the lack of right mouse button support on the touchpad - alt+LMB isn't doing it so I'm going to have to dig out a USB mouse. Also, just touching the pad seems to make the pointer drift...
Anyone know if this is gonna expire on me anytime soon? I know you're not supposed to use a beta seriously, but I fancy using this at work instead of my Tosh laptop.
Oh freddled gruntbuggly thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee my foonting turlingdromes.
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
see if I don't!
There is a truth here that points to the fundamental long-term problem for many free software projects.
Whilst I know nothing of grsecurity (but heck this is/. since when do I need to know anything to have an opinion!), and I feel sorry for the guy whos brainchild this is, we can all learn from this tale of woe.
Very few of us have the privilege of sponsorship, or the luxury of independant funding (stand up Mr Stallman), and lets face it, most of our projects aren't as essential as the GNU system, the Kernel, XFree or Apache all of whom have some fairly serious backing in one form or another.
So what does this tell us?
It tells me that if you want free software to succeed, then you can't rely on your free software to provide you with an income. You CAN rely on your knowledge and skills as a consultant, or you can get another job, but if you go out there expecting patronage then you are bound to fail - in the same way that expecting to make it big in your garage band is a fairly uncertain way of earning a living... everyone I knew who was in a band has gone on to get a 'proper' job - that doesn't mean they have all given up music, just that those who really believed in it are doing other things as well. Those who were only playing at being a rock star gave up years ago.
Giving up your pet project because it hasn't paid your way shows the same lack of principle - or maybe it shows that the project didn't have that much importance to the author.
Imagine where we would be if Linus had got bored, and got a proper job at Burger King 'cos his kernel idea was not going anywhere and he needed to eat. I can't imagine he would have given up on it. Why haven't the Hurd team given up yet?
6 out of 7 IT professionals in my experience fall into the category of PHB, or clueless 'Delivery Manager'.
The other 1 out of 7 actually know how to do something, so technically could be said to be doing a 'hands on' job as opposed to a pointless paper-pushing type job...
That Free (as in freedom) is just the evolution of the industry. The cost of software will eventually approach zero because of the availability of cheap, powerful hardware and the widescale long-term dissemination of enough information that anyone with an interest can learn to program.
Eventually making money out of software is not going to be a matter of selling 'bolt on' proprietary parts because eventualy even those are going to be re-created by some enthusiastic hacker with a few free evenings and enough of an itch.
Selling pre-packaged boxed product can only generate small profit for those companies with a distribution channel that can entice people to actually buy (and I don't see too many GNU products in PC-World).
IBM realises this, and has made the strategic decision to support and utilise open software development precisely because most of their cashflow comes from service. This is the future, and one where income comes from service, not the value of the IP contained in some artificially constrained 'product' is one that we developers should embrace, as it presents a future of opportunity for those of us with talent.
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I totally agree. My neighbours are welcome to tap any bandwidth they might care to use. It's only common decency. Christ, one of these days they might even by a computer.
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I can understand your perception of how difficult and/or expensive it is to get technical assistance with creating your perfect recording, but you are not taking into account the fall in price of the necessary hardware and software.
Setting up a studio is a lot less than you might think - certainly cheap enough for a poor student to get a working rig together. As a gigging bassist in a number of bands, I can assure you that my first recording setup was less total value than my bass, amp and pedals and I have seen many (poor) muso's with substantially more expensive gear than mine.
Our local college runs a contemporary music and recording course - teaching general studio craft as well as Pro-Tools. Nearly all the students buy some form of recording set-up before the end of the course - they may not all become "genius producers", but in my experience there is some real talent there. Some of these guys have more of an interest in recording and production than in being in a band. It's just another form of expression.
This sort of thing is happening all over the country (here in the UK) - look in Sound on Sound mag and you see hundreds of adverts for courses. This months backpiece editorial was all about how there is an absolute glut of new recording engineers and producers desperate for work. You could look on this as the beginning of a new era - just like in the 70's everyone picked up a guitar and thought they could play, many now are entering sound recording as a pastime - out of this vast pool very few will enter large studios, most will end up doing it for themselves.
The main point is, *your* main thing is writing/producing the music, these guys main thing is recording - look around, maybe you'll find a local guy with a few decent mics, a macbook and logic.
The technical guys are out there - they are growing in number and have no industry to work in, so they are all working independently. Stick an advert up in your local music store and see how many responses you get!
I've just got it all installed on a MBP. First impressions are pretty favourable - the installation was pretty painless.
The biggest problem I've got at the moment is the lack of right mouse button support on the touchpad - alt+LMB isn't doing it so I'm going to have to dig out a USB mouse. Also, just touching the pad seems to make the pointer drift...
Anyone know if this is gonna expire on me anytime soon? I know you're not supposed to use a beta seriously, but I fancy using this at work instead of my Tosh laptop.
Compare your salary.
that reminds me of Vogon Poetry strangely...
Oh freddled gruntbuggly thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee my foonting turlingdromes.
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
see if I don't!
There is a truth here that points to the fundamental long-term problem for many free software projects.
/. since when do I need to know anything to have an opinion!), and I feel sorry for the guy whos brainchild this is, we can all learn from this tale of woe.
... everyone I knew who was in a band has gone on to get a 'proper' job - that doesn't mean they have all given up music, just that those who really believed in it are doing other things as well. Those who were only playing at being a rock star gave up years ago.
Whilst I know nothing of grsecurity (but heck this is
Very few of us have the privilege of sponsorship, or the luxury of independant funding (stand up Mr Stallman), and lets face it, most of our projects aren't as essential as the GNU system, the Kernel, XFree or Apache all of whom have some fairly serious backing in one form or another.
So what does this tell us?
It tells me that if you want free software to succeed, then you can't rely on your free software to provide you with an income. You CAN rely on your knowledge and skills as a consultant, or you can get another job, but if you go out there expecting patronage then you are bound to fail - in the same way that expecting to make it big in your garage band is a fairly uncertain way of earning a living
Giving up your pet project because it hasn't paid your way shows the same lack of principle - or maybe it shows that the project didn't have that much importance to the author.
Imagine where we would be if Linus had got bored, and got a proper job at Burger King 'cos his kernel idea was not going anywhere and he needed to eat. I can't imagine he would have given up on it. Why haven't the Hurd team given up yet?
Principle.
But let's remember, principles aren't about cash.
6 out of 7 IT professionals in my experience fall into the category of PHB, or clueless 'Delivery Manager'.
...
The other 1 out of 7 actually know how to do something, so technically could be said to be doing a 'hands on' job as opposed to a pointless paper-pushing type job
That Free (as in freedom) is just the evolution of the industry. The cost of software will eventually approach zero because of the availability of cheap, powerful hardware and the widescale long-term dissemination of enough information that anyone with an interest can learn to program.
Eventually making money out of software is not going to be a matter of selling 'bolt on' proprietary parts because eventualy even those are going to be re-created by some enthusiastic hacker with a few free evenings and enough of an itch.
Selling pre-packaged boxed product can only generate small profit for those companies with a distribution channel that can entice people to actually buy (and I don't see too many GNU products in PC-World).
IBM realises this, and has made the strategic decision to support and utilise open software development precisely because most of their cashflow comes from service. This is the future, and one where income comes from service, not the value of the IP contained in some artificially constrained 'product' is one that we developers should embrace, as it presents a future of opportunity for those of us with talent.
I totally agree. My neighbours are welcome to tap any bandwidth they might care to use. It's only common decency. Christ, one of these days they might even by a computer.