I certainly agree with the parent poster, I've installed Rails many times on Linux and it's never been more complex than a simple "apt-get install rails".
A similar product to Instant Rails, but for OS X is Locomotive, a simple, GUI-based way of getting Rails up and running in that environment... one executable, no hassle. Also for OS X, the definitive tutorial for building and installing from source is certainly the one at HiveLogic. I've used this tutorial as well, as installing it from the packages can be a little tricky on OS X 10.4, because it ships with a broken Ruby installation. Good news though, Leopard (10.5) will come with Rails installed by default.
I'm assuming, as the previous responder did, that you mean "a site using Rails" when you say "a site that's on Rails", as opposed to a site about Rails. The obvious sites here are the 37signals sites, the ones that were the impetus for the development of RoR by David Heinemeier Hansson the first place. Basecamp, a project management tool, was their first and Highrise is their most recent. There are more of their sites listed on the Wikipedia page as well.
Another Rails site that's been in the headlines recently is Twitter
If you're looking for a good place to start, Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and DHH is probably the best book out there.
Actually, by the 15th century, the G clef was becoming more and more popular for the top-most voice of polyphonic compositions. So while I do agree with the general point of your post (namely, that the C clef was certainly more popular than the G clef), that doesn't necessarily rule out its use here.
My understanding (and I know I read this somewhere, but I can't find it now...) of this issue is that Cisco (though the device is Linksys branded) was required to produce a device called the "iPhone" within a certain amount of time in order to defend their trademark. However, they didn't do this and as a result, the trademark lapsed into a sort of gray area, where it's ownership was unclear. There's a little bit about the settlement here.
I have a BlackBerry 7105t with T-Mobile (branded, and not unlocked or patched). I haven't been able to get OperaMini to work (ever), but GMail and GoogleMaps still work fine for me...
The importance of this release is not that Mozart scores are now available online--the grandparent post points out that there were already some available--but that these are critical scholarly editions! This means that not only the music is available, but the complete critical reports (Kritischer Berichte) as well, a huge boon for those doing music research, as this material was previously only available to most people in libraries. These editions also represent the best and latest scholarly versions of the works, most times taking into account all extant sources of a given work, whereas older editions may not necessarily do so. This means that the NMA scores are, arguably, the most authentic versions of Mozart's works; quite a difference from something you might find on Mutopia, in my experience.
Do I think that this should allow anyone to simply perform this music without paying royalties to the publisher that were previously paid? No... who is going to fund the creation of new critical editions and the maintenance of existing ones? If we're talking about a small performance, those sorts of groups probably weren't paying royalties on Mozart to begin with, as has been mentioned, his work (if in older editions) is already in the public domain. I do, however, I think that this material should be available for free to those interested in studying it.
Congratulations to all those parties who've made this possible, and here's hoping that more composers' music will be made available online in this fashion! We've certainly shown that it's popular; more popular than they were expecting...
There are a number of other programs as well, including PhotoScore, part of the Sibelius suite... As well, I've had a great deal with the roll-your-own-OCR suite Gamera. Granted, you have to cobble together your own stuff, but you can mostly rely on pre-existing code. The advantage to Gamera is that you have a huge amount of flexibility, as you write your own processing scripts using Python.
In reference to this particular set of online music, I'm not sure how helpful a music OCR program would be though, as from what I've seen, they're mostly sub-100 dpi images, and most music OCR software recommends upwards of 300 dpi for accurate recognition.
However, if someone's just after Mozart midis, it's a heck of a lot easier to just go to ClassicalArchives.com. They have a huge amount of midi there. Granted, it's not likely based on the NMA, but if you're just after a midi, you probably don't care...
I know rhetoric like this is probably getting old but... responses like yours are one of the problems with Linux on the desktop. Why does a response to a user's issue have to start by putting down said user? Right away you start with the assumption that the grand-parent poster must simply be too dumb to be able to figure out how to use Linux properly. Secondly, your comment referring to a distro as "sane" (meaning that there must be some insane distros out there) doesn't help much either. Lastly, referring to people who want some additional control over their systems as dishards is judgmental as well. Seems to me, different methods work better for different people, leading them to choose different distros, and yes, even different operating systems. Why is this a problem for you?
gbulmash said: I've got a licensed, genuine version of Windows, but F them for making me jump through hoops to receive continued support. I paid for this and I shouldn't have to keep wasting my time to soothe their paranoid brows.
RetroGeek said: So why should you get free continued support? Now, if you had paid a maintenance fee (quarterly, yearly,..), then you would of course get updates for the life of the maintenance contract. But free?
QMO said: If I buy a Television (OR motherboard, hard drive, child's car seat, shingles for the roof, combine for the wheat harvest, CNC press brake for the machine shop, etc.) that doesn't work I can get my money back. [snip] I think that we are just used to software being an exception.
mcrbids said: Which is, of course, silly. When's the last time you turned in a stolen car for a recall/repair? When you do, they'll look up the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) and make sure that you're legally entitled to the free repair.
I do believe that QMO was responding to RetroGeek's post raising the point of whether or not one should get free continued support with a legitimate copy of Windows. I doubt that it was QMO's intention to advance the position that pirated copies of Windows should be entitled to free support on the same basis as legitimate copies.
You forget though, Microsoft is using their applications to prop up their dominance in the operating system market. They don't want to be the industry standard a la Adobe, they want to be the entire industry.
Think about Acrobat for a moment. It's available for all sorts of operating systems. Do you see Microsoft releasing Word for Linux any time soon?
Or at least, Xiph's gift... Yes, we know already how much ogg rules! One of the things that I haven't seen mentioned is the fact that ogg encodes the entire file, whereas mp3 tends to loose about half a frame on either side, due to the fact that adjacent frames depend on one another. While this may be just fine for your Britney Spears cd, when you're listening to opera, it's just awful..
This makes ogg the ideal lossy compression method for classical music.. just one problem! There's no support for portable players!
Thousands of souls cry out, but are suddenly silenced when I commit the sacrilege of transcoding ogg to mp3, so that I can listen on-the-go. So I have to give up all the wonderful benefits of ogg (quality, gapless, great tagging, free, etc) for all the limitations of MP3, so I can actually listen to the music!
The moment I see a cdplayer that will play OGG and MP3, I'll put all my new music in ogg from then on!
This is so very true. The problem, as I see it, is that elementary/high schools are turning into career colleges. Business has started pressuring politicians to implement the courses that they feel will prepare children for the world of work.
However, I believe it's having an adverse affect on people. Instead of learning creative, critical thinking, students are learning how to memorize what will be on the final exam, and to learn formulaic approaches to solving problems, instead of creative ones.
As a high school student myself, I see this every day around me. My peers have become apathetic towards learning new ideas just for the sake of expanding their knowledge base, and instead look at everything from the point of view of "how will this help me get a job?" As a result, they are missing out on a vast body knowledge that is out there.
The school mentioned in the article is certainly on the right track by focusing on real education instead of career preparation, and I hope that they go all the way.
It's not exactly a music composition program, but it's an amazing typesetter. I have yet to see better output from a computer program, Finale can't even compare. More information is available here.
I believe that the reason for the myths about Java speed are created by poorly coded applications (Dynix WebPac, anyone?). Applications with a start time around 5 minutes on a machine any slower than a gigahertz. It would be amazing if something were ever to be done about this, and it would improve the reputation of Java immensely.
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I'm sorry, but comparing video games to mind altering substances is a terrible analogy.
It can not yet go the other way and pull in a midi to produce the typeset output.
For as long as I've used Lilypond, there has been a utility called "midi2ly" which converts midi's into the lilypond format.
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I certainly agree with the parent poster, I've installed Rails many times on Linux and it's never been more complex than a simple "apt-get install rails".
A similar product to Instant Rails, but for OS X is Locomotive, a simple, GUI-based way of getting Rails up and running in that environment... one executable, no hassle. Also for OS X, the definitive tutorial for building and installing from source is certainly the one at HiveLogic. I've used this tutorial as well, as installing it from the packages can be a little tricky on OS X 10.4, because it ships with a broken Ruby installation. Good news though, Leopard (10.5) will come with Rails installed by default.
I'm assuming, as the previous responder did, that you mean "a site using Rails" when you say "a site that's on Rails", as opposed to a site about Rails. The obvious sites here are the 37signals sites, the ones that were the impetus for the development of RoR by David Heinemeier Hansson the first place. Basecamp, a project management tool, was their first and Highrise is their most recent. There are more of their sites listed on the Wikipedia page as well.
Another Rails site that's been in the headlines recently is Twitter
If you're looking for a good place to start, Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and DHH is probably the best book out there.
Actually, by the 15th century, the G clef was becoming more and more popular for the top-most voice of polyphonic compositions. So while I do agree with the general point of your post (namely, that the C clef was certainly more popular than the G clef), that doesn't necessarily rule out its use here.
My understanding (and I know I read this somewhere, but I can't find it now...) of this issue is that Cisco (though the device is Linksys branded) was required to produce a device called the "iPhone" within a certain amount of time in order to defend their trademark. However, they didn't do this and as a result, the trademark lapsed into a sort of gray area, where it's ownership was unclear. There's a little bit about the settlement here.
I have a BlackBerry 7105t with T-Mobile (branded, and not unlocked or patched). I haven't been able to get OperaMini to work (ever), but GMail and GoogleMaps still work fine for me...
Seconded!
The importance of this release is not that Mozart scores are now available online--the grandparent post points out that there were already some available--but that these are critical scholarly editions! This means that not only the music is available, but the complete critical reports (Kritischer Berichte) as well, a huge boon for those doing music research, as this material was previously only available to most people in libraries. These editions also represent the best and latest scholarly versions of the works, most times taking into account all extant sources of a given work, whereas older editions may not necessarily do so. This means that the NMA scores are, arguably, the most authentic versions of Mozart's works; quite a difference from something you might find on Mutopia, in my experience.
Do I think that this should allow anyone to simply perform this music without paying royalties to the publisher that were previously paid? No... who is going to fund the creation of new critical editions and the maintenance of existing ones? If we're talking about a small performance, those sorts of groups probably weren't paying royalties on Mozart to begin with, as has been mentioned, his work (if in older editions) is already in the public domain. I do, however, I think that this material should be available for free to those interested in studying it.
Congratulations to all those parties who've made this possible, and here's hoping that more composers' music will be made available online in this fashion! We've certainly shown that it's popular; more popular than they were expecting...
There are a number of other programs as well, including PhotoScore, part of the Sibelius suite... As well, I've had a great deal with the roll-your-own-OCR suite Gamera. Granted, you have to cobble together your own stuff, but you can mostly rely on pre-existing code. The advantage to Gamera is that you have a huge amount of flexibility, as you write your own processing scripts using Python.
In reference to this particular set of online music, I'm not sure how helpful a music OCR program would be though, as from what I've seen, they're mostly sub-100 dpi images, and most music OCR software recommends upwards of 300 dpi for accurate recognition.
However, if someone's just after Mozart midis, it's a heck of a lot easier to just go to ClassicalArchives.com. They have a huge amount of midi there. Granted, it's not likely based on the NMA, but if you're just after a midi, you probably don't care...
I know rhetoric like this is probably getting old but... responses like yours are one of the problems with Linux on the desktop. Why does a response to a user's issue have to start by putting down said user? Right away you start with the assumption that the grand-parent poster must simply be too dumb to be able to figure out how to use Linux properly. Secondly, your comment referring to a distro as "sane" (meaning that there must be some insane distros out there) doesn't help much either. Lastly, referring to people who want some additional control over their systems as dishards is judgmental as well. Seems to me, different methods work better for different people, leading them to choose different distros, and yes, even different operating systems. Why is this a problem for you?
gbulmash said:
..), then you would of course get updates for the life of the maintenance contract. But free?
I've got a licensed, genuine version of Windows, but F them for making me jump through hoops to receive continued support. I paid for this and I shouldn't have to keep wasting my time to soothe their paranoid brows.
RetroGeek said:
So why should you get free continued support? Now, if you had paid a maintenance fee (quarterly, yearly,
QMO said:
If I buy a Television (OR motherboard, hard drive, child's car seat, shingles for the roof, combine for the wheat harvest, CNC press brake for the machine shop, etc.) that doesn't work I can get my money back. [snip] I think that we are just used to software being an exception.
mcrbids said:
Which is, of course, silly. When's the last time you turned in a stolen car for a recall/repair? When you do, they'll look up the VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) and make sure that you're legally entitled to the free repair.
I do believe that QMO was responding to RetroGeek's post raising the point of whether or not one should get free continued support with a legitimate copy of Windows. I doubt that it was QMO's intention to advance the position that pirated copies of Windows should be entitled to free support on the same basis as legitimate copies.
Correct me if I'm wrong...
I agree... it sounds like you've done something pretty interesting here.. it'd be great to see a picture or two.
No lie, I have a friend named "Pascal" and his brother is named "Cobol".
When you see "He" and you think "helium"...
You forget though, Microsoft is using their applications to prop up their dominance in the operating system market. They don't want to be the industry standard a la Adobe, they want to be the entire industry.
Think about Acrobat for a moment. It's available for all sorts of operating systems. Do you see Microsoft releasing Word for Linux any time soon?
I get a kick out of your continued used of the term "government money."
It's not government money, it's _my_ money.
This makes ogg the ideal lossy compression method for classical music.. just one problem! There's no support for portable players!
Thousands of souls cry out, but are suddenly silenced when I commit the sacrilege of transcoding ogg to mp3, so that I can listen on-the-go. So I have to give up all the wonderful benefits of ogg (quality, gapless, great tagging, free, etc) for all the limitations of MP3, so I can actually listen to the music!
The moment I see a cdplayer that will play OGG and MP3, I'll put all my new music in ogg from then on!
I've spent 4 years, and mine still doesn't work!
WindowManager.AddProgram("Acrobat", INSTALL_DIR, "acrobrat");
Hm, acrobrat? a Freudian slip perhaps? *chuckle*
LeakTracer
http://www.andreasen.org/LeakTracer/
MemWatch
http://www.linkdata.se/sourcecode.html
These are two free memory debuggers that I've used, and had much success with.
This is so very true. The problem, as I see it, is that elementary/high schools are turning into career colleges. Business has started pressuring politicians to implement the courses that they feel will prepare children for the world of work.
However, I believe it's having an adverse affect on people. Instead of learning creative, critical thinking, students are learning how to memorize what will be on the final exam, and to learn formulaic approaches to solving problems, instead of creative ones.
As a high school student myself, I see this every day around me. My peers have become apathetic towards learning new ideas just for the sake of expanding their knowledge base, and instead look at everything from the point of view of "how will this help me get a job?" As a result, they are missing out on a vast body knowledge that is out there.
The school mentioned in the article is certainly on the right track by focusing on real education instead of career preparation, and I hope that they go all the way.
It's not exactly a music composition program, but it's an amazing typesetter. I have yet to see better output from a computer program, Finale can't even compare. More information is available here.
I believe that the reason for the myths about Java speed are created by poorly coded applications (Dynix WebPac, anyone?). Applications with a start time around 5 minutes on a machine any slower than a gigahertz. It would be amazing if something were ever to be done about this, and it would improve the reputation of Java immensely.
I'm sorry, but comparing video games to mind altering substances is a terrible analogy.
It can not yet go the other way and pull in a midi to produce the typeset output. For as long as I've used Lilypond, there has been a utility called "midi2ly" which converts midi's into the lilypond format.
A free field can't be dominated? By domination, it is meant that most of the contributors to the open source movement are male