Finale is one of the few apps that I know very well. I was shocked once to find that some archane method I came up with of changing the note value/time signature relationship was the offical method listed in the manual. I guess I think like Finale is programmed.
Finale works fine. It gets the job done. I can work very quickly with it.
It's a little weird getting started, but the important thing is that there isn't anything Finale can't do, that you can't think of. You can do all sorts of weird modern notation, and it's all pretty quick and easy. By easy I mean - once you start to think like the program, you'll be fine.
You don't hear people bitching that After Effects is too complicated... so why all this Finale nonsense? Learn how to use the software, it works fine.
Apple is LOSING MY MONEY because of content resolution.
I would have been happy to support LOST by buying episodes through the iTMS - even though they're more expensive than the DVD and have no special features - but if and only if the they come in the same widescreen format and resolution that I can get from..:cough: other sources.
I'm standing here waving my money in the air and - no one's selling what I want to buy.
The same situation goes for the music store - the new album by The Bad Plus is available, however it's only available in compressed AAC. I want the best quality - I actually want it in DVD-Audio. My other option is a copy protected "CD" that I refuse to purchase. Blah.
I actually wish all government expenses were openly documented for the scrutiny of tax paying citizens.
The next step (or maybe the first) would be organizing the average joe and jane into lobbying congress for their benefits. I'm not interested in mob rule, but I also have a hunch that special interests are currently ruling, and unfairly so.
Check out the Nokia 1221 from tracfone (site generally only loads well in ie, imho - don't let your pride get in the way of cheap cellular telephone service)
Combine an old school phone that does ONLY phone stuff (I suppose it techincally has games - I've never played them. the interface is clean and phone centric) with modern batteries and you have one very useful piece of tech.
The display is nice easy to read text.
It's great! Tracfone uses the cingular network so you should have good coverage.
This costs me far less than any other cell phone "plan."
--Just a User - I am not reembursed for this blatant promo - just trying to help out a/. poster
I do not have tons of computer expertise, but I am also dumbfounded as to why there is no competition for Exchange Server and it's client, Outlook.
To me, it seems as though open source developers with the expertise to create such a thing would be interested in a scheduling environment that they can share with their family and friends.
I guess life just isn't that complicated for most people.
Really, when a specific implimentation of a technology is being used overwelmingly for illegal activity, we, as a society, have a responsibility to look into the causes, and try to resolve the issue.
Have you considered the possibility that the law here is false?
Memorization is stupid. Factual knowledge is a commodity. I can look anything up in seconds.
Anything worth knowing will be "naturally" memorized through use. Anything not worth knowing will be forgotten. Anything worth knowing that has accidently been forgotten can be looked up.
Focus stealing should quite literally be an illegal operation, in the true sense of the language!
Also, try this for annoying: in Firefox, open a link in a new tab that doesn't work.
A dialog box will pop up IN YOUR CURRENT TAB alerting you that, HELLO, some tab 26 tabs over from the one you're currently looking at has some problem. Guess what, I do not, even slightly, care!! Go fuck yourself, Firefox!
This problem comes up most of the time because most links on the internet don't work anymore.
Anything involving internet connection for "verification" engenders some very strong language which quite frankly I don't want to put into slashdot, but even the average consumer will be saying "what the hell, NO!"
I'm a professional educator. I give classes in public schools for a living.
But, I would never let someone I care about attend public schools in their current state.
Why, you ask?
Because in public school, children do not get to make meaningful decisions. Sure, they can decide if they will follow the rules or not - but that is not really a meaningful decision. A meaningful decision is chosing how to spend your time. The world is so full of knowledge that it is impossible to know everything. So, some amount of specialization is important.
Allowing children to make meaningful choices (not just which test to take, the hard one or the easy one? or to do homework, or not?) takes some guts. You have to step back and let children make mistakes. This is hard. We want to "save them." But the power to choose leads to this self confidence, self reliance, self TRUST - that is impossible to gain any other way. It's not something you can make up for later in life.
People throw around the word "learning" like they throw around the word "technology." Technology is ANY TOOL - not just microchips. And learning is any experience, not just memorization. Factual knowledge is a commodity. Being happy with and trusting yourself, and helping other people are truely valuable skills.
Learning happens all the time in everything you do. People are naturally curious!
The problem with allowing children to choose how to spend their time is that they are growing up into a highly scheduled rat race of a society. This is a tough transition. But the challenge is worth it for happier, smarter people.
Home schooling isn't about sitting at home being lectured by parents. It's about experiencing the world around you, and taking advantage of all of life's opportunites. It's about letting children choose how to spend their time, and letting them make mistakes, and learn from them. Keyword: let.
WHY are we still taking classes that are based around memorizing facts? (Music History - huge culprit!)
Factual knowledge is a commodity. The magic is in comprehension. Why did I pay some old guy over $100/hour to write things on the board which I then memorize, and write back to him on a test from memory?
Class needs to be about comprehension, about compromise, about learning how to solve problems and live with other people, and about living with unanswered problems.
Classes should be mostly project and discussion based, and sometimes lecture based. In all events, the class should be scripted for me (for $100/hour/student, it shouldn't be a big hardship) so that we all have a searchable record to refer to of our meetings.
I am very disappointed by what I found in what I thought was a good university. I have a feeling most universities aren't terribly different.
Powerpoint is just on a the surface of a much deeper problem.
Slashdot Mirror
How'd you afford the led light? I know, you got the money from an atm machine!
/budum ching!
This public service announcement has been brought to you by the department of redundancy department.
Finale is one of the few apps that I know very well. I was shocked once to find that some archane method I came up with of changing the note value/time signature relationship was the offical method listed in the manual. I guess I think like Finale is programmed.
Finale works fine. It gets the job done. I can work very quickly with it.
It's a little weird getting started, but the important thing is that there isn't anything Finale can't do, that you can't think of. You can do all sorts of weird modern notation, and it's all pretty quick and easy. By easy I mean - once you start to think like the program, you'll be fine.
You don't hear people bitching that After Effects is too complicated... so why all this Finale nonsense? Learn how to use the software, it works fine.
Petals AROUND the rose meant nothing to me. I looked at them for about 20 minutes and had no clue.
Only until I read this "bears in holes" thing did it suddenly make sense.
I guess I am really weird.
Apple is LOSING MY MONEY because of content resolution.
:cough: other sources.
I would have been happy to support LOST by buying episodes through the iTMS - even though they're more expensive than the DVD and have no special features - but if and only if the they come in the same widescreen format and resolution that I can get from..
I'm standing here waving my money in the air and - no one's selling what I want to buy.
The same situation goes for the music store - the new album by The Bad Plus is available, however it's only available in compressed AAC. I want the best quality - I actually want it in DVD-Audio. My other option is a copy protected "CD" that I refuse to purchase. Blah.
I actually wish all government expenses were openly documented for the scrutiny of tax paying citizens.
The next step (or maybe the first) would be organizing the average joe and jane into lobbying congress for their benefits. I'm not interested in mob rule, but I also have a hunch that special interests are currently ruling, and unfairly so.
Check out the Nokia 1221 from tracfone (site generally only loads well in ie, imho - don't let your pride get in the way of cheap cellular telephone service)
/. poster
Combine an old school phone that does ONLY phone stuff (I suppose it techincally has games - I've never played them. the interface is clean and phone centric) with modern batteries and you have one very useful piece of tech.
The display is nice easy to read text.
It's great! Tracfone uses the cingular network so you should have good coverage.
This costs me far less than any other cell phone "plan."
--Just a User - I am not reembursed for this blatant promo - just trying to help out a
If "oops" is harmonically interesting.. geez.
Try Debussy or Chopin.. it'll blow your mind!
firefox preloader from sourceforge
I'm surprised no one has mentioned The Business Experiment.
Their new business will be selling "crowd wisdom!"
I do not have tons of computer expertise, but I am also dumbfounded as to why there is no competition for Exchange Server and it's client, Outlook.
To me, it seems as though open source developers with the expertise to create such a thing would be interested in a scheduling environment that they can share with their family and friends.
I guess life just isn't that complicated for most people.
Buffalo TeraStation
Supports RAID 5.
I emailed if external USB hard drives could be added and swapped to a raid 5 array, and if it can be done "on the fly"...
but all I got was this lousy message:
"Please call (800) 456-9799 x. 2013 between 8:30 and 5:30 CT and our presales guys will be able to assist you."
I'm one of those weird people that would rather communicate in writing. Oh well - no sale.
Really, when a specific implimentation of a technology is being used overwelmingly for illegal activity, we, as a society, have a responsibility to look into the causes, and try to resolve the issue.
Have you considered the possibility that the law here is false?
This is nothing new. I've been watching Prem Rawat's "Peace is Possible" on iTunes for a while.
The Dawn and Drew show even had a little video as part of their iTunes rss feed.
Apple already has a specialized "ipod videocasting" application - it's called iMovie.
The "news" will be an iPod designed to support video playback right out of the box.
I was on my google start page. I thought google could never fail!
That bugs page looked kinda complicated so I didn't bother trying to use it.
I guess I can be modded into oblivion now...
Sorry to be off topic - mods please spare me -
but Slashdot's RSS feed hasn't been working since about 2pm yesterday.
So if someone wants to fix this.. that'd be great.
Memorization is stupid. Factual knowledge is a commodity. I can look anything up in seconds.
Anything worth knowing will be "naturally" memorized through use. Anything not worth knowing will be forgotten. Anything worth knowing that has accidently been forgotten can be looked up.
It's a beautiful system, and it's all natural!
c) Tim Berners-Less is interviewed, and if you want more information, then click here!
Yeah I like option c! "Click here" link text makes the internet easier to navigate. It's like "No" "Ok" dialog box buttons.
I had this silly notion that to be American meant you live on continental Central, North, or South America.
But I forgot; only citizens of the United States are real "Americans," because they can't see past their own two shoes.
Focus stealing should quite literally be an illegal operation, in the true sense of the language!
Also, try this for annoying: in Firefox, open a link in a new tab that doesn't work.
A dialog box will pop up IN YOUR CURRENT TAB alerting you that, HELLO, some tab 26 tabs over from the one you're currently looking at has some problem. Guess what, I do not, even slightly, care!! Go fuck yourself, Firefox!
This problem comes up most of the time because most links on the internet don't work anymore.
Anything involving internet connection for "verification" engenders some very strong language which quite frankly I don't want to put into slashdot, but even the average consumer will be saying "what the hell, NO!"
Umm... Windows XP, anyone?
... comrade!
School also teaches you ... that people ought to be segregated by age and ability level. Is this the kind of world you want to live in?
Is this what you really want (cliche ahead) for the children?
People need to be working together, not apart!
I'm a professional educator. I give classes in public schools for a living.
But, I would never let someone I care about attend public schools in their current state.
Why, you ask?
Because in public school, children do not get to make meaningful decisions. Sure, they can decide if they will follow the rules or not - but that is not really a meaningful decision. A meaningful decision is chosing how to spend your time. The world is so full of knowledge that it is impossible to know everything. So, some amount of specialization is important.
Allowing children to make meaningful choices (not just which test to take, the hard one or the easy one? or to do homework, or not?) takes some guts. You have to step back and let children make mistakes. This is hard. We want to "save them." But the power to choose leads to this self confidence, self reliance, self TRUST - that is impossible to gain any other way. It's not something you can make up for later in life.
People throw around the word "learning" like they throw around the word "technology." Technology is ANY TOOL - not just microchips. And learning is any experience, not just memorization. Factual knowledge is a commodity. Being happy with and trusting yourself, and helping other people are truely valuable skills.
Learning happens all the time in everything you do. People are naturally curious!
The problem with allowing children to choose how to spend their time is that they are growing up into a highly scheduled rat race of a society. This is a tough transition. But the challenge is worth it for happier, smarter people.
Home schooling isn't about sitting at home being lectured by parents. It's about experiencing the world around you, and taking advantage of all of life's opportunites. It's about letting children choose how to spend their time, and letting them make mistakes, and learn from them. Keyword: let.
Just some of my thoughts...
WHY are we still taking classes that are based around memorizing facts? (Music History - huge culprit!)
Factual knowledge is a commodity. The magic is in comprehension. Why did I pay some old guy over $100/hour to write things on the board which I then memorize, and write back to him on a test from memory?
Class needs to be about comprehension, about compromise, about learning how to solve problems and live with other people, and about living with unanswered problems.
Classes should be mostly project and discussion based, and sometimes lecture based. In all events, the class should be scripted for me (for $100/hour/student, it shouldn't be a big hardship) so that we all have a searchable record to refer to of our meetings.
I am very disappointed by what I found in what I thought was a good university. I have a feeling most universities aren't terribly different.
Powerpoint is just on a the surface of a much deeper problem.
We need a good freely accessible ratings service for podcasts in different categories. help people sort the chaff from the soap.
Umm... Podcast Awards?
Try out the winners.