It would be very nice if Microsoft does do something to combat the many problems IE has for users and system administrators. What would be ideal if Microsoft includes this program with all versions of Windows because (as you and everybody else knows) wants users to use IE.
Something like this would be nice too: "We apologize for all the problems Internet Explorer has caused you our loyal customers. We now have a free anti-spyware for you to use"
With more and more people migrating to alternate browsers, this might have been a wake up call for Microsoft to do something about it. How they will do it is up to question as well, ie. subscription to get rid of the spyware on an already spyware prone browser.
Another interesting thing to note is Microsoft buys a company that makes anti-spyware. In the tradition of Microsoft, they sure like buying other peoples' software and build on it (Good ol' DOS, heh).
As much as I hope this program will be free, I have my doubts. Microsoft bought out this company and need to make the money back somehow. Bill Gates dies not make his billions for nothing.
Well, let's hope this program will be free for all people who are plagued with IE hijaking programs. With patches so slowly coming, this might be a good PR for Microsoft who is taking some hard hits from critics.
I talked about tube mics because better mics = better sound. I also prefer tube mics over condenser mics because the overall warmth and depth it produces.
You may be right when you say alot of big bands like Shures and may be useful in some appications, but when you are recording voice, nah uh.
"What's funny or interesting about that? Were you expecting him to be or something?"
As vocal as he is regarding his alleged ownership to some of the code, and how hard he (and perhaps others) is working to get companies to pay license fees to run an open source operating system. That's a lot of work, and how he did not make it on the list is interesting.
Seriously, I was not expecting him to be on the list.:) Hope that clarifies things for you.
(You mean that Linus is adored by many people and scorned by everybody else.)
Yes, indeed. Thanks for the spelling correction. As for the groupies, yes, there are plenty. However, I do not know enough about the kernel to be one. The thing is though, it is nice somebody that spends so much time on an open source project as large as Linux deserves some credit.
Might as well made the list. He's adorned by many people and scored by everybody else.
He's worked hard with a score of other people (who did not make the list) to make a nice operating system for anybody to use and modify. Before 2.4, it seemed many companies like Microsoft poo poohed the idea of how an open source operating system was going to work, and now that it has, they feel a little threatened. With the success of his kernel, I give him proper kudos.
Oh, it is kind of funny. I do not see Darl McBride on the list. Just kind of interesting.
"However the best stuff is of course still analogue and remains quite pricey."
That's up for debate. The digital advocates of the day argued it has much better sound quality, bigger headroom, and signal to noise ratio can surpass 90dB. Also, the generation loss was minimal, but depending on your equipment (the old rule crap in, crap out comes to mind and why good cables, consoles, and maintainance). However, digital processing was VERY expensive. I recall a Marantz CD recorder was around $3,000 took up 5u's of rack space and also had an optional computer program which was an additional $10,000. So many opted for DATs and other digital recorders if the higher ends were too pricey. ADATs, DA-88's, DATs come to mind for multi-track and mastering equipment.
Analog on the other hand many advocates said it is "warmer" feel to the sound (which is true... sometimes you just cannot beat the vinyl sound:D), and at higher IPSs, the sound got better, (but man, you could go through the tape.) and sometimes, you could reach near digital quality with the right equipment albeit can be just as expensive once it is all said and done. I remember somebody not clipping at a +9mB when hitting a crash cymbal and it still sounded crisp and not flat. That was nice.
And I bet some can remember the the so-called 4-8 track "multi-track Fostex porta studios that used cassette tapes that went at a higher IPS, but still sounded like crap:D I remember those sold pretty well for budgets.
Now, with the CD/DVD burners are next to nothing AND come with software, it amazes me why more people are not getting serious with recording. The only thing that still needs to be perfected (which I doubt will ever happen) is the simulated high-end console, tube mic and instrument. I have never seen any digitized instrument that sounds as good as somebody with talent playing it.
Again, there is only so much a computer can do and comes a time when people make a piece of music have a quality all in itself.
No I have never owned a mac and have not used a studio in 15 years. A lot has changed since then.
Ping-ponging, SMPTE, "automation" with the really expensive replacement modules, tons of electricity, battling/splicing tape, take after take, hundreds of hours editing, mastering, and trying to meet deadlines. Not only that, the music went nowhere. It came a time I gave it up and did something else while all that stuff collects dust.
Now all that has changed it seems... now all you have to do is turn on a computer, download some software and you are good to go.
One thing that makes me wonder, professionals still use good ol' analog equipment and I still see the monster consoles I used way back then. Then again, I havenot kept up with the industry in a very long time. I guess it is time to do some research on advancements in recording/audio engineering.
...how my $900 PC can replace tens of thousands of dollars in effects processing. I remember seeing a reverb/delay for $3000 with many presets and you can program some yourself.
Okay, now that my PC can do effects processing, it can also be used as a multi-track to replace the Alesis ADAT that's has thousands of dollars in add-ons, and can replace a mastering studio and save me thousands there becasuse of my DVD/CD burner. What is still expensive are the instruments, consoles (yay AMEK), and the $14,000 tube mic.
I do not know. Somehow I just cannot let those old things go.
Some people take certain publications to be bona fide facts because the contributors and editors are supposed to be screened and professional and give all the facts and only the facts.
Then the bona fide publications get polluted by people living in a fantasy world like Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass. Wikipedia is no different, but just on a wider scale because anybody can write for it.
Unreliability/bias seems to be pretty popular these days, but hey, at least now anybody can contribute to that.
Why did we go to the moon? It was a political "mine is bigger than yours" game. Also, we want to send miners up there to compensate for dwindling natural resources. How is that going to cost effective?
...it is another marketing ploy that is more likely to backfire, but we all know Microsoft is king on coming out better than they came in.
They are in the process of making another operating system, and of course all of the "innovative" features will be included in the next release and will make users want to buy that operating system with the features they want to see in a browser.
That kind of marketing might have worked yesteryear, but with the likes of FireFox and other alternatives actually LISTENING to customers and doing something about it as soon as possible instead of waiting months and months for patches, it is bound to make others just dump what they are used to and move to something else.
It does not matter how mauch we rant about Microsoft, they still have 95%+ of the market as far as desktops are concerned, but with losing market share with large companies moving to open source or other (less free/open source) alternatives, it should make them worry and not use scare tactics to make people stay...
...it is Viagra or something to make your sexual performance better. All these pills, potions, and aides to make your sex life better.
Now it seems sex is not selling as much as it used to. I guess it is time for the pills, potions and aides to make your knees, back or joints to hurt less.
With all this spam filling my inbox, it is so frustrating it makes me give up, delete whatever is in my inbox and mastrubate to relieve the pressure of all this stuff.
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His theories have been the cornerstone of modern Physics, but he is not the only one that has contributed greatly in this field.
Some notables that come to mind are James Clerk Maxwell for his eletromegnetism and electricity, Tullio Levi Civita for his Absolute Differential Calculus, Wolfgang Pauli, Max Born, and many others.
The universe is a very interesting place that still holds many secrets that we try to unlock with invariants, tensor fields on manifolds, experiments with atom smashers, detecting gravity waves, metrics, Jacobians, etc.... but the bottom line is, no matter what we discover or think is out there, there will always be more questions than answers.
Thank you Albert, you have helped open the door to the long question you had with a unified field theory. As with Pauli say himself the solution to a unified field theory is akin to a Titian painting that is still a blank canvas.
Fair enough, there is nothing I can do about the statutes or whatever. To put somebody in the can for distributing movies/games/whatever is a bit harsh, and IMO would be better off in the civil courts rather than the criminal. However, I do not know many who distribute software/etc. do not have the money to pay back to the copyright holders so I guess the only solution is to sit in the same cell with a murderer...
hehe, what's interesting is, most do not ask for spam. A lot of people want warez. I guess where there is demand, somebody will supply despite the risk.
The thing is, then why place a sentence maximum or minimum on something like this? And yes, murder is worse than some person distributing software/movies/etc.
What is interesting to me is people who commit manslaughter spend the same amount in time prison. While I have never seen somebody convicted for the maximum penality, it goes to show me where the priorities are....
Yeah, copyright infringment is a felony offense, and is under United States Code Title 17 sections 501 and 506. I have seen enough of these FBI Warnings when playing movies on DVD/VHS...
Penalty: 5 years in prison and $250,000 fine per work infringed. Harsh? yes. Fair? Debatable? Yep. But it is the law...
Wasn't PWA's founder Robin Rothburg a conviction as well, and was he from the US? How can this be the first conviction?
http://www.cybercrime.gov/pwa_verdict.htm
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It would be very nice if Microsoft does do something to combat the many problems IE has for users and system administrators. What would be ideal if Microsoft includes this program with all versions of Windows because (as you and everybody else knows) wants users to use IE.
Something like this would be nice too: "We apologize for all the problems Internet Explorer has caused you our loyal customers. We now have a free anti-spyware for you to use"
With more and more people migrating to alternate browsers, this might have been a wake up call for Microsoft to do something about it. How they will do it is up to question as well, ie. subscription to get rid of the spyware on an already spyware prone browser.
Another interesting thing to note is Microsoft buys a company that makes anti-spyware. In the tradition of Microsoft, they sure like buying other peoples' software and build on it (Good ol' DOS, heh).
As much as I hope this program will be free, I have my doubts. Microsoft bought out this company and need to make the money back somehow. Bill Gates dies not make his billions for nothing.
Well, let's hope this program will be free for all people who are plagued with IE hijaking programs. With patches so slowly coming, this might be a good PR for Microsoft who is taking some hard hits from critics.
They can give restaining orders all day long, but the spyware, adware and other crap is still on many boxes still generating ads for him.
I talked about tube mics because better mics = better sound. I also prefer tube mics over condenser mics because the overall warmth and depth it produces.
You may be right when you say alot of big bands like Shures and may be useful in some appications, but when you are recording voice, nah uh.
"What's funny or interesting about that? Were you expecting him to be or something?"
:) Hope that clarifies things for you.
As vocal as he is regarding his alleged ownership to some of the code, and how hard he (and perhaps others) is working to get companies to pay license fees to run an open source operating system. That's a lot of work, and how he did not make it on the list is interesting.
Seriously, I was not expecting him to be on the list.
(You mean that Linus is adored by many people and scorned by everybody else.)
Yes, indeed. Thanks for the spelling correction. As for the groupies, yes, there are plenty. However, I do not know enough about the kernel to be one. The thing is though, it is nice somebody that spends so much time on an open source project as large as Linux deserves some credit.
Might as well made the list. He's adorned by many people and scored by everybody else.
He's worked hard with a score of other people (who did not make the list) to make a nice operating system for anybody to use and modify. Before 2.4, it seemed many companies like Microsoft poo poohed the idea of how an open source operating system was going to work, and now that it has, they feel a little threatened. With the success of his kernel, I give him proper kudos.
Oh, it is kind of funny. I do not see Darl McBride on the list. Just kind of interesting.
"However the best stuff is of course still analogue and remains quite pricey."
:D), and at higher IPSs, the sound got better, (but man, you could go through the tape.) and sometimes, you could reach near digital quality with the right equipment albeit can be just as expensive once it is all said and done. I remember somebody not clipping at a +9mB when hitting a crash cymbal and it still sounded crisp and not flat. That was nice.
:D I remember those sold pretty well for budgets.
That's up for debate. The digital advocates of the day argued it has much better sound quality, bigger headroom, and signal to noise ratio can surpass 90dB. Also, the generation loss was minimal, but depending on your equipment (the old rule crap in, crap out comes to mind and why good cables, consoles, and maintainance). However, digital processing was VERY expensive. I recall a Marantz CD recorder was around $3,000 took up 5u's of rack space and also had an optional computer program which was an additional $10,000. So many opted for DATs and other digital recorders if the higher ends were too pricey. ADATs, DA-88's, DATs come to mind for multi-track and mastering equipment.
Analog on the other hand many advocates said it is "warmer" feel to the sound (which is true... sometimes you just cannot beat the vinyl sound
And I bet some can remember the the so-called 4-8 track "multi-track Fostex porta studios that used cassette tapes that went at a higher IPS, but still sounded like crap
Now, with the CD/DVD burners are next to nothing AND come with software, it amazes me why more people are not getting serious with recording. The only thing that still needs to be perfected (which I doubt will ever happen) is the simulated high-end console, tube mic and instrument. I have never seen any digitized instrument that sounds as good as somebody with talent playing it.
Again, there is only so much a computer can do and comes a time when people make a piece of music have a quality all in itself.
No I have never owned a mac and have not used a studio in 15 years. A lot has changed since then.
Ping-ponging, SMPTE, "automation" with the really expensive replacement modules, tons of electricity, battling/splicing tape, take after take, hundreds of hours editing, mastering, and trying to meet deadlines. Not only that, the music went nowhere. It came a time I gave it up and did something else while all that stuff collects dust.
Now all that has changed it seems... now all you have to do is turn on a computer, download some software and you are good to go.
One thing that makes me wonder, professionals still use good ol' analog equipment and I still see the monster consoles I used way back then. Then again, I havenot kept up with the industry in a very long time. I guess it is time to do some research on advancements in recording/audio engineering.
...how my $900 PC can replace tens of thousands of dollars in effects processing. I remember seeing a reverb/delay for $3000 with many presets and you can program some yourself.
Okay, now that my PC can do effects processing, it can also be used as a multi-track to replace the Alesis ADAT that's has thousands of dollars in add-ons, and can replace a mastering studio and save me thousands there becasuse of my DVD/CD burner. What is still expensive are the instruments, consoles (yay AMEK), and the $14,000 tube mic.
I do not know. Somehow I just cannot let those old things go.
Some people take certain publications to be bona fide facts because the contributors and editors are supposed to be screened and professional and give all the facts and only the facts.
Then the bona fide publications get polluted by people living in a fantasy world like Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass. Wikipedia is no different, but just on a wider scale because anybody can write for it.
Unreliability/bias seems to be pretty popular these days, but hey, at least now anybody can contribute to that.
Why did we go to the moon? It was a political "mine is bigger than yours" game. Also, we want to send miners up there to compensate for dwindling natural resources. How is that going to cost effective?
IMO, why waste money to see the content of a comet? There are so many better things to learn and explore in this great cosmos of ours.
I really think they will be sorely disappointed when they discover the comet is really some rock covered with ice.
...it is another marketing ploy that is more likely to backfire, but we all know Microsoft is king on coming out better than they came in.
They are in the process of making another operating system, and of course all of the "innovative" features will be included in the next release and will make users want to buy that operating system with the features they want to see in a browser.
That kind of marketing might have worked yesteryear, but with the likes of FireFox and other alternatives actually LISTENING to customers and doing something about it as soon as possible instead of waiting months and months for patches, it is bound to make others just dump what they are used to and move to something else.
It does not matter how mauch we rant about Microsoft, they still have 95%+ of the market as far as desktops are concerned, but with losing market share with large companies moving to open source or other (less free/open source) alternatives, it should make them worry and not use scare tactics to make people stay...
...it is Viagra or something to make your sexual performance better. All these pills, potions, and aides to make your sex life better.
Now it seems sex is not selling as much as it used to. I guess it is time for the pills, potions and aides to make your knees, back or joints to hurt less.
With all this spam filling my inbox, it is so frustrating it makes me give up, delete whatever is in my inbox and mastrubate to relieve the pressure of all this stuff.
China's implimentation of IPV6 was pretty cool...
His theories have been the cornerstone of modern Physics, but he is not the only one that has contributed greatly in this field.
Some notables that come to mind are James Clerk Maxwell for his eletromegnetism and electricity, Tullio Levi Civita for his Absolute Differential Calculus, Wolfgang Pauli, Max Born, and many others.
The universe is a very interesting place that still holds many secrets that we try to unlock with invariants, tensor fields on manifolds, experiments with atom smashers, detecting gravity waves, metrics, Jacobians, etc.... but the bottom line is, no matter what we discover or think is out there, there will always be more questions than answers.
Thank you Albert, you have helped open the door to the long question you had with a unified field theory. As with Pauli say himself the solution to a unified field theory is akin to a Titian painting that is still a blank canvas.
Maybe EA and Oracle should get together and swap takeover recipes.
Fair enough, there is nothing I can do about the statutes or whatever. To put somebody in the can for distributing movies/games/whatever is a bit harsh, and IMO would be better off in the civil courts rather than the criminal. However, I do not know many who distribute software/etc. do not have the money to pay back to the copyright holders so I guess the only solution is to sit in the same cell with a murderer...
hehe, what's interesting is, most do not ask for spam. A lot of people want warez. I guess where there is demand, somebody will supply despite the risk.
The thing is, then why place a sentence maximum or minimum on something like this? And yes, murder is worse than some person distributing software/movies/etc.
What is interesting to me is people who commit manslaughter spend the same amount in time prison. While I have never seen somebody convicted for the maximum penality, it goes to show me where the priorities are....
Yeah, copyright infringment is a felony offense, and is under United States Code Title 17 sections 501 and 506. I have seen enough of these FBI Warnings when playing movies on DVD/VHS... Penalty: 5 years in prison and $250,000 fine per work infringed. Harsh? yes. Fair? Debatable? Yep. But it is the law...
Wasn't PWA's founder Robin Rothburg a conviction as well, and was he from the US? How can this be the first conviction? http://www.cybercrime.gov/pwa_verdict.htm