The reason most administrations have hesitated to make such huge power grabs is precisely that: Whatever power and authority you give yourself today, you hand over to your political opponents at the next election. The Bush gang is desperate, and is making short-term decisions.
Okay, so you have a recruiter or a hiring manager, they've received your RTF document, and ask for it in Word Doc format. What do you say? Do you argue, or do you send them a Word doc?
But you're *listening*, not doing live recording, mixing, and other production tasks. The "not the whole story" I was referring to consists of everything EXCEPT the steps to "listening to MP3's"
It's pretty impressive, for a 14 (12?) year old to stay awake in church for that long. To transcribe a work of music -- that he KNOWS he's not supposed to -- is quite a stunt (which he should have been disciplined for:-)
But as far as complexity goes, that piece is not even as complex as piano works Wolfgang himself had already been producing for years, at that point in his life. Allegri's Miserere has some rich harmony, and interesting phrasing, but on the other hand, it has plenty of repeated passages, does nothing outside the rules for conventional church music of the time, and by all accounts, Wolfgang had an opportunity to hear it again while revising his score.
I concede the original point, that there are few who could do such a thing, in Mozart's day or since, and even fewer 12 year olds who would even think to try it!
Both Prince and Zappa were niche artists, albeit hugely successful within their niches. The original poster mentions a few names. The sort of names where losing ONE could make or break a label... Probably the poster is showing his age also. More contemporary examples might make the case better. If RCA lost Aguilera *right now* (not 15 years from now when she's back-catalog!) they might notice. I'm not so sure Atlantic cares one way or another about Phil Collins, at least, not in the sense that losing his support would lead to bankruptcy. Now, maybe in 1985, Phil would have been a good example for this argument. Or perhaps, Celine Dion leaving Sony in 1990 (NOT now!!),
Admittedly, I'm having a hard time myself coming up with a good example of an artist on whose sales any label would be currently dependent. All the ones I can think of are very last-year.
Further, it's routinely held as a graduation requirement in many music programs. You must be able to sight-read a complex piece of music on one reading, and you must be able to transcribe at least a four-part harmony in any key, on one listening. While I agree that Mozart could do this to a miraculous degree, I must point out that it's not some rare skill that only one person in a generation has.
I wonder if you're in the minority in that most of your CDR's are used for storing data. Even people whose entire music collection consists of mp3's of questionable origin seem to rarely get around to saving the files to a more durable format. That actually takes work, and time, and even a bit of thought applied.
"find a company that supports employee privacy on company equipment over covering its own ass. Good luck, because I've never heard of one."
My previous career was as a legal secretary.
One very nice thing about that job was that you could very safely assume that you had privacy while working, using the equipment, phones, faxes, etc. Reason? EVERYTHING you touch has Attorney-Client privilege and is either employee- or company- confidential. Anyone who is not supposed to be privy to your data, communication, files, etc., would be putting the company at risk by snooping, and no-one, not an IT manager, not the president, has authority that supersedes an attorney's requirement for privacy.
So, if you work anywhere in the legal field, you won't have to put up with this kind of thing (routine transcripts of your commo without clear accountability at every step.)
The reason it's easy to "kill off" open source projects is that the author or devteam has an egotistical stake. [I don't mean to suggest this is a bad thing!] If there is an individual associated with a product, then, all you have to do to stop development of that product is attack that individual. A product that develops magically from an anonymous hivemind, and is mysteriously distributed, can hardly be threatened.
Consider the game Nethack (whether you like the game or not, is irrelevant): The developers are totally anonymous, the release dates are *always* a complete surprise, but the project happens. You could not stop something like this, no matter what resources you had. I suspect that all it would have taken to stop the linux movement would be to have offered Linus a good salary in 1991. (So much for foresight on MS's and Sun's part:-)
When I became aware of how many people get free satellite tv, etc., and how commonly it's taken for granted that you can do that, it influenced my decision of whether to get cable, satellite tv, or anything of that nature.
In my opinion, an outward appearance of literacy is a solid requirement if I am to respect one's professionalism. In other words, the use of poor grammar, especially by someone employed in law, politics, education, or journalism, is not something I can easily excuse.
According to www.m-w.com:
discrete 1 : constituting a separate entity : individually distinct 2 a : consisting of distinct or unconnected elements : NONCONTINUOUS b : taking on or having a finite or countably infinite number of values
discreet 1 : having or showing discernment or good judgment in conduct and especially in speech : PRUDENT; especially : capable of preserving prudent silence 2 : UNPRETENTIOUS, MODEST 3 : UNOBTRUSIVE, UNNOTICEABLE
Since most people only want sound hardware for output, this is probably enough.
If you are looking to migrate away from Cakewalk, Cubase, or Logic to a Linux solution, it's still a pipe dream. Sure there are a million audio projects, but the cubase killer is just not out there, not in the pipeline, and I don't even imagine it's in the cards.
A linux version of Fruityloops would be awesome, and if it were able to host VST applications, it would be of significant value to me.
One other point; I'd like to see a howto that deals specifically with the 2.5 kernel and debian.
The article is clear and concise, and it stops short of telling you how to, say, do multitrack recording, enabling 24/96 recording and mixing, or how to enable hardware synths. It also doesn't give any card specific help (Ice1712 M-Audio cards, anyone?) This is really just a special case of "installing modules" which is documented pretty well, elsewhere.
It's true that other word processors will save.doc format that can be opened by MS Word.
However, even with the best of these, subtle changes in formatting and minor incompatabilities will not permit completely transparent use.
Recruiters and hiring managers want your resume in Office format. The office format saved by, e.g., openoffice is very, very close (and quite compatable), but it is not the same. It's enough of a hassle that I consider the price of MS Word to be a barrier to entry into the job market.
>If it fails to do so, it goes into the red and >if it tries to keep doing that, it ceases to >exist as a company.
YES! Exactly! Those should be the consequences of repeatedly paying, e.g., large environmental and regulatory fines, get it?
If the cost is passed on to the consumer, then there really isn't a severe consequence to the company for willful violations of environmental and safety laws -- the consequences are directly placed on the consumer, and then only incidentally to the company.
I don't have a solution that would mesh with my hands-off-business beliefs, but, I really think there should be a way to actually penalize a company for their crimes and civil foibles. If they can just pass the costs back to society, then the whole system is a joke.
SVGATextMode still works? With Geforce cards?? I thought stm was dead. I also often think I'm the only user left who still wants text consoles. The bottom line is, svga text consoles are the fastest, most stable, simplest, and have the best fonts of any of the options for consoles (my opinion.)
I'd really like to see your TextConfig. Will it work for any NVida card, or just your Geforce?
1. "You" are a principal investor. When you leave, you cash in your preferred stock and/or cease your financial support of the enterprise. Okay, so you are as replaceable as your money...
2. "You" are the individual owner of intellectual property and/or physical assets upon which the enterprise depends for its operation. When you leave, you take your property with you, and the business ceases operation.
In both of these cases, it is in the company's interest to keep this person happy, fulfill the agreements and contracts, not bounce any paychecks, and so on. To be fair, in both of these examples the person I refer to was a founder of the company or a principal investor in a lesser venture, but the point I'm trying to make is that not everybody is "replaceable."
Still, I've seen many instances where "management" did not get the message that, yes, if someone isn't comfortable/happy, they really will quit -- in cases where it did not seem like such a horrible thing until they were gone, because it wasn't clear how much work they did until "somebody else" had to do it (which means, it doesn't get done.)
Also, I think you sort-of missed the point of my original post: You are replaceable, therefore, if your boss wants you to put on a monkey suit and dance for pennies, you should ask if he'd prefer you wear a fez or a beret.
>Especially since the cost is passed onto the >consumer, not the retailer.
I realize there are implementation details that make it an impossibility, but some costs should NOT be passed onto the consumer. For instance, environmental regulatory fines. They need to be paid by the COMPANY, not passed on to the customer, or else what's the point?
Hollings and Berman et al would listen if there were numbers like "77%" and "82%" of citizens voting. Well, they might listen, if they cared -- but they might not care because they'd be working honest jobs instead of being elected officials, get it?
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The reason most administrations have hesitated to make such huge power grabs is precisely that: Whatever power and authority you give yourself today, you hand over to your political opponents at the next election. The Bush gang is desperate, and is making short-term decisions.
Okay, so you have a recruiter or a hiring manager, they've received your RTF document, and ask for it in Word Doc format. What do you say? Do you argue, or do you send them a Word doc?
But you're *listening*, not doing live recording,
mixing, and other production tasks. The "not the whole story" I was referring to consists of everything EXCEPT the steps to "listening to MP3's"
[Allegri's Miserere and Mozart]
:-)
It's pretty impressive, for a 14 (12?) year old to stay awake in church for that long. To transcribe a work of music -- that he KNOWS he's not supposed to -- is quite a stunt (which he should have been disciplined for
But as far as complexity goes, that piece is not even as complex as piano works Wolfgang himself had already been producing for years, at that point in his life. Allegri's Miserere has some rich harmony, and interesting phrasing, but on the other hand, it has plenty of repeated passages, does nothing outside the rules for conventional church music of the time, and by all accounts, Wolfgang had an opportunity to hear it again while revising his score.
I concede the original point, that there are few who could do such a thing, in Mozart's day or since, and even fewer 12 year olds who would even think to try it!
Both Prince and Zappa were niche artists, albeit hugely successful within their niches. The original poster mentions a few names. The sort of names where losing ONE could make or break a label... Probably the poster is showing his age also. More contemporary examples might make the case better. If RCA lost Aguilera *right now* (not 15 years from now when she's back-catalog!) they might notice. I'm not so sure Atlantic cares one way or another about Phil Collins, at least, not in the sense that losing his support would lead to bankruptcy. Now, maybe in 1985, Phil would have been a good example for this argument. Or perhaps, Celine Dion leaving Sony in 1990 (NOT now!!),
Admittedly, I'm having a hard time myself coming up with a good example of an artist on whose sales any label would be currently dependent. All the ones I can think of are very last-year.
I always wondered what would be more suspicious,
a game like rogue, or a dos prompt?
There was one such game that had a boss mode which looked exactly like lotus 1-2-3 r2.2
> I've seen it done.
Further, it's routinely held as a graduation requirement in many music programs. You must be able to sight-read a complex piece of music on one reading, and you must be able to transcribe at least a four-part harmony in any key, on one listening. While I agree that Mozart could do this to a miraculous degree, I must point out that it's not some rare skill that only one person in a generation has.
HEY! Don't blame mathemeticians! If the people responsible for this have hired one single person with a maths degree, I will eat my hat.
I wonder if you're in the minority in that most of your CDR's are used for storing data. Even people whose entire music collection consists of mp3's of questionable origin seem to rarely get around to saving the files to a more durable format. That actually takes work, and time, and even a bit of thought applied.
Agreed, fully.
At that time, there was some debate as to whether a FAX machine was appropriate for some commo.
"find a company that supports employee privacy on company equipment over covering its own ass. Good luck, because I've never heard of one."
My previous career was as a legal secretary.
One very nice thing about that job was that you could very safely assume that you had privacy while working, using the equipment, phones, faxes, etc. Reason? EVERYTHING you touch has Attorney-Client privilege and is either employee- or company- confidential. Anyone who is not supposed to be privy to your data, communication, files, etc., would be putting the company at risk by snooping, and no-one, not an IT manager, not the president, has authority that supersedes an attorney's requirement for privacy.
So, if you work anywhere in the legal field, you won't have to put up with this kind of thing (routine transcripts of your commo without clear accountability at every step.)
The reason it's easy to "kill off" open source projects is that the author or devteam has an egotistical stake. [I don't mean to suggest this is a bad thing!] If there is an individual associated with a product, then, all you have to do to stop development of that product is attack that individual. A product that develops magically from an anonymous hivemind, and is mysteriously distributed, can hardly be threatened.
:-)
Consider the game Nethack (whether you like the game or not, is irrelevant): The developers are totally anonymous, the release dates are *always* a complete surprise, but the project happens. You could not stop something like this, no matter what resources you had. I suspect that all it would have taken to stop the linux movement would be to have offered Linus a good salary in 1991. (So much for foresight on MS's and Sun's part
When I became aware of how many people get free satellite tv, etc., and how commonly it's taken for granted that you can do that, it influenced my decision of whether to get cable, satellite tv, or anything of that nature.
In my opinion, an outward appearance of literacy is a solid requirement if I am to respect one's professionalism. In other words, the use of poor grammar, especially by someone employed in law, politics, education, or journalism, is not something I can easily excuse.
According to www.m-w.com:
discrete
1 : constituting a separate entity : individually distinct
2 a : consisting of distinct or unconnected elements : NONCONTINUOUS b : taking on or having a finite or countably infinite number of values
discreet
1 : having or showing discernment or good judgment in conduct and especially in speech : PRUDENT; especially : capable of preserving prudent silence
2 : UNPRETENTIOUS, MODEST
3 : UNOBTRUSIVE, UNNOTICEABLE
Since most people only want sound hardware for output, this is probably enough.
If you are looking to migrate away from Cakewalk, Cubase, or Logic to a Linux solution, it's still a pipe dream. Sure there are a million audio projects, but the cubase killer is just not out there, not in the pipeline, and I don't even imagine it's in the cards.
A linux version of Fruityloops would be awesome, and if it were able to host VST applications, it would be of significant value to me.
One other point; I'd like to see a howto that deals specifically with the 2.5 kernel and debian.
The article is clear and concise, and it stops short of telling you how to, say, do multitrack recording, enabling 24/96 recording and mixing, or how to enable hardware synths. It also doesn't give any card specific help (Ice1712 M-Audio cards, anyone?) This is really just a special case of "installing modules" which is documented pretty well, elsewhere.
It's true that other word processors will save .doc format that can be opened by MS Word.
However, even with the best of these, subtle changes in formatting and minor incompatabilities will not permit completely transparent use.
Recruiters and hiring managers want your resume in Office format. The office format saved by, e.g., openoffice is very, very close (and quite compatable), but it is not the same. It's enough of a hassle that I consider the price of MS Word to be a barrier to entry into the job market.
You give up that right when you agree to the EULA.
I tend to draw a more definite distinction between "can it be done?" and "can it legally be done?".
I'm with you on your sentiment, but I still think source code vs. not ought to be irrelevant by now.
>If it fails to do so, it goes into the red and
>if it tries to keep doing that, it ceases to
>exist as a company.
YES! Exactly! Those should be the consequences of repeatedly paying, e.g., large environmental and regulatory fines, get it?
If the cost is passed on to the consumer, then there really isn't a severe consequence to the company for willful violations of environmental and safety laws -- the consequences are directly placed on the consumer, and then only incidentally to the company.
I don't have a solution that would mesh with my hands-off-business beliefs, but, I really think there should be a way to actually penalize a company for their crimes and civil foibles. If they can just pass the costs back to society, then the whole system is a joke.
Thanks for the info.
TextConfig, huh?
SVGATextMode still works? With Geforce cards??
I thought stm was dead. I also often think I'm the only user left who still wants text consoles.
The bottom line is, svga text consoles are the fastest, most stable, simplest, and have the best fonts of any of the options for consoles (my opinion.)
I'd really like to see your TextConfig. Will it work for any NVida card, or just your Geforce?
>Quick lesson in life:
>Everybody is replaceable.
Counterexamples from my own career:
1. "You" are a principal investor. When you leave, you cash in your preferred stock and/or cease your financial support of the enterprise. Okay, so you are as replaceable as your money...
2. "You" are the individual owner of intellectual property and/or physical assets upon which the enterprise depends for its operation. When you leave, you take your property with you, and the business ceases operation.
In both of these cases, it is in the company's interest to keep this person happy, fulfill the agreements and contracts, not bounce any paychecks, and so on. To be fair, in both of these examples the person I refer to was a founder of the company or a principal investor in a lesser venture, but the point I'm trying to make is that not everybody is "replaceable."
Still, I've seen many instances where "management" did not get the message that, yes, if someone isn't comfortable/happy, they really will quit -- in cases where it did not seem like such a horrible thing until they were gone, because it wasn't clear how much work they did until "somebody else" had to do it (which means, it doesn't get done.)
Also, I think you sort-of missed the point of my original post: You are replaceable, therefore, if your boss wants you to put on a monkey suit and dance for pennies, you should ask if he'd prefer you wear a fez or a beret.
I have never managed to get the full combination of GPM, XFree86, and USB Mouse working together.
Come to think of it, I'm not even sure I've ever gotten gpm to work with a USB mouse, much less repeating to (or merely shared by?) X.
I really like 160x64 consoles; there really isn't anything else that's exactly like it -- not in Windows full screen mode, not in X, not anywhere.
> You souldn't need a USB-howto. It should be
>that you plug in a USB device, point at some
>drivers, and it works.
I'm with you, provided you strike that "point at some drivers" clause.
>Especially since the cost is passed onto the
>consumer, not the retailer.
I realize there are implementation details that make it an impossibility, but some costs should NOT be passed onto the consumer. For instance, environmental regulatory fines. They need to be paid by the COMPANY, not passed on to the customer, or else what's the point?
Hollings and Berman et al would listen if there were numbers like "77%" and "82%" of citizens voting. Well, they might listen, if they cared -- but they might not care because they'd be working honest jobs instead of being elected officials, get it?