Ah, but you aren't thinking far enough into the future, my friend. You see, the reason that this disc is Country is precisely because the record industries already know that all of us will go out, buy and attempt to break the protection scheme. So our best and brightest will quickly go utterly and irreparably insane listening to country music and will be unable to help us in our fight against the Evil that awaits in the immediate future.
When I was knee-high to a grasshopper (always wanted to say that), my dad and I built a GIANT trainset in our garage -- much to my mother's great dismay. For this monstrosity, there were at least ten separate track lines that all converged in the 'train yard' that lay on the third level, which my father dubbed, Olympus. To get power and control to all of these tracks, he built a giant control pad full of switches and, to me at least, wholly indecipherable labels.
A fairly simple interface via a serial port would probably work well for this. I fail to see how the ethernet protocol benefits a closed circuit system like a train. Why is this, other than a cool factor like IP over carrier pigeons, so terribly neat?
BTW, I liked the underlines for each topic. When/. makes leaps and bounds in usability you can complain.. until then, enough with the trolling.
Mini discs have been around for years and they are a very cool technology. Controlled by sony, they have not flourished as much as they could have although they are a better tech than CDs (read/write 80 minutes stereo, 160 (!) minutes mono) and they have copy protection for digital to digital copies.
I don't really see anything (besides size, but hey, my MD walkman is barely 1 decimeter square by 1.5 cm thick. Tiny!) that is really new and exciting here.
The fact is that the more free and open the media/standard is, the more prelavant it will become. It also helps bunches to have pro quality masters of the media I want (music or data) on these formats.
I'd like to reply to this before the masses latch hold and drag it down. You are so right, it hurts. What the music labels have are huge networked stations on radio, tv, and the web. MTV has an enormous impact on society and those that worship it (MTV). It is a religion for today's youth; what they say goes. There is no thought involved. No conscious choice. They say, "buy!!" and we say, "how many copies?"
Breaking into a market like that is simply not possible, especially with the price of admission. Last I heard, most of those 3-6 minute videos cost between $100K and $1M. I don't care how many PCs you have, that ain't gonna get you a spot on MTVs top ten list.
Also: the web is a big argument when things like this come up. While the web is a great place to store and distribute, it does not (yet, and I believe never will) have a huge and significant impact on the mass purchases done by any given demographic (ok, maybe geeks.. but I digress).
I think the real point though, is that in the not to distant future, home recording with studio quality is going to be a reality.
Perhaps, but my point was that they won't be doing it with sub par equipment. They still need a quiet (preferably sound-proofed) place to record, and good microphones. What the author was, I think, trying to say was that the PC is going to soon be replacing the mixer and studio setup. Since the PC is multi purpose, it is cheaper and takes up less space. I'm amazed he got an entire article out of that.
It just takes some talent and elbow grease.
That's a copout if I ever heard one. The fact is that it takes talent and elbow grease no matter where you are or what setup you are using. I somehow think that it is invariably obvious that when a team of professionals and a studio is replaced with some people (experienced or otherwise) and a PC, there is going to be extra work and lower quality. (Don't quote me on that lower-quality thing. With the advent of pop-smear bands and the crap that pollutes out airwaves, it wouldn't surprise me if my little brother (13) could make a hit on that level.)
I read the article without any great reservations -- I knew it was a fluff piece, but I didn't realise it was cotton candy. When I came to the part when the author stated that people would soon be recording music on a pro level with "little plastic microphones", I dropped my cup of water because I was laughing (well, snorting) so loud.
I used to work for Altec Lansing in their R&D center, here in Israel. We worked some on some directional microphone tech which is very cool. They sell it now in the InteliMic package. Even with this great mic, there is still residual sound, distortion, hollowness, etc.
I'm sorry to break this to you, man, but there is no way in hell that some "little plastic microphone" will ever hit the level of quality microphone. And then there is the studio environment (you know, of course, that your home is not really as quiet as you would think), the professional mixers, etc.
Me thinks that this is just another ad revenue piece that panders to the drooling masses that have (well, sort of thankfully) found a target in the RIAA.
Wait, let me get this straight. On the frontpage of/., there is a story about a bug and its bug. A wasp that can't get its groove on because because of bacteria. Ok. Great.
Where is the frontpage mention of the instant orgasmatron that is being researched for women that can't have an orgasm??
I live in Israel, I work in graphic design and I use both windows on PCs and OS9 on Macs.
Recently I came across an apple g3 powerbook for a steal (only $600!!).. I couldn't pass that by. It didn't have OS9 or a CD-ROM, so I decided to just ask around and buy them myself.
OS 9 in the US costs $99, in Israel, it costs $299. That is not a typo.
A CD-ROM costs $400 dollars. That is not a typo.
Buying a machine like the new 733Mhz ones (no, they are not even sold here yet) will cost 60% more than in the US. Guarenteed. The 500Mhz machines cost just under $5K.
Buying a PC with windows (which is free for the most part) will cost you 900-1200.
Unless you are some hardcore geek with mad cash, or in design, buying a mac in Israel is not a viable option.
BTW, I use linux and bsd. I know plenty of people that do here in Israel. I wish someone would put together a project that would allow us to send hebrew mails and read the web in hebrew.
Ah yes, but you are forgetting the very important fact that when CMGI sues, and it has been proven in the past that there patents are for a very specific set of ideas (blue A+green B) and not a very broad range (A+B+C..), then they can only sue for overlap in their patent realm. They can't say one thing in one court room, and say something different in another, any semi-competent lawyer would blow their case right out of the water.
Then again, on the flip side, if a courtroom upholds the overly broad patent range, then well, you all know how bad that it for the industry.
Uhm, read the article again (or for the first time):
It was apparent that DirecTV had lost this battle, relegating DirecTV to hunting down websites that discussed their product and using their legal team to sue and intimidate them into submission.
I didn't say a damned thing about the GIMP. I like the GIMP. I use the GIMP.
For making any sort of logo or image that is going to be printed in a wide arrangement of sizes, you **HAVE** to use a vector format or all you'll end up printing is a blurry smudge.
And I'd LOVE to see you try and print some professional level brochures and what not with the GIMP. No CMYK color-space you say? Oh, well, I guess I'll just have to use my BLOATED software on another platform that actually is geared towards designers.
Hmm.. streaming media company. What company would that be? Would you mind posting a link to some of your work perhaps?
And why not? I am a graphic designer by trade and hobby, and I would love to submit something into this contest, but I can't because the tools and the operating system that I love and use (MacOS and adobe products) are not "supported".
The LSB is shooting itself in the foot with this one. I think that some of the most talented people out there are in a similar situation as myself and the LSB is going to end up with a subpar selection of logos to choose a winner from because of it.
Linux may be a great server, a wonderful programming environment and an OK desktop, but the one thing that it is not is a graphics workstation.
And until they have a decent, full featured vector illustration program you won't see me or much of my fellow trades(wo)men working on linux.
I was nodding my head all the way with you, until that last line, "This is so damn typical...".
Uhm, but wasn't the whole point of your post to show that the "coked up" exec in charge of the power infrastructure in CA was Atypical? I mean, it's not like the rest of the US is experiencing rolling blackouts and such.
Perhaps, but a nice solution for this would be to allow multiple entries for subjects. You write one, I write one, RMS writes one, MS writes one. The reader has the opportunity to read them all and parse accordingly.
Think this is crazy? That's how the Internet works *right now*. I know enough to take everything I read with a grain of salt; I research, I compare, I put facts together and compare motives. I make my own, informed opinion.
You can't do something like this with paper books because it is cost-prohibitive and ineffective, but on the internet where expansion is not only easily compensated for, it is expected.
Rami
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Here's a cool link I found today.
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'Thirteen Days'
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see subject.
I was doing research for someone on where I work, and trying to find out exactly how old Castro is now (75). Anyway, I came across this in my epic trek through google.
This may sound way out there, but with the strong trend towards moving Linux Distribution towards computer-illiterate people, where are the AOL clients?
I mean, duh, if you want all of those people to user your easy, tailored interfaces (eazel, eazel, eazel!), shouldn't you consider incorporating some sort of familiar environment like AOL into Linux??
Slashdot Mirror
Ah, but you aren't thinking far enough into the future, my friend. You see, the reason that this disc is Country is precisely because the record industries already know that all of us will go out, buy and attempt to break the protection scheme. So our best and brightest will quickly go utterly and irreparably insane listening to country music and will be unable to help us in our fight against the Evil that awaits in the immediate future.
Fight the power.
Rami
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Ah! Of course, geek amusement: why didn't I think of that??
;-)
Rami
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When I was knee-high to a grasshopper (always wanted to say that), my dad and I built a GIANT trainset in our garage -- much to my mother's great dismay. For this monstrosity, there were at least ten separate track lines that all converged in the 'train yard' that lay on the third level, which my father dubbed, Olympus. To get power and control to all of these tracks, he built a giant control pad full of switches and, to me at least, wholly indecipherable labels.
/. makes leaps and bounds in usability you can complain.. until then, enough with the trolling.
A fairly simple interface via a serial port would probably work well for this. I fail to see how the ethernet protocol benefits a closed circuit system like a train. Why is this, other than a cool factor like IP over carrier pigeons, so terribly neat?
BTW, I liked the underlines for each topic. When
Rami
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Mini discs have been around for years and they are a very cool technology. Controlled by sony, they have not flourished as much as they could have although they are a better tech than CDs (read/write 80 minutes stereo, 160 (!) minutes mono) and they have copy protection for digital to digital copies.
I don't really see anything (besides size, but hey, my MD walkman is barely 1 decimeter square by 1.5 cm thick. Tiny!) that is really new and exciting here.
The fact is that the more free and open the media/standard is, the more prelavant it will become. It also helps bunches to have pro quality masters of the media I want (music or data) on these formats.
Rami
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Ya, I did that as a teenager, too. What a small world.
I was considering putting some of that extra fluid up there.
Rami
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Think Brittany Spears and nSync.
Ick. I'd love to smear their brains all over the pavement.
Rami
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I'd like to reply to this before the masses latch hold and drag it down. You are so right, it hurts. What the music labels have are huge networked stations on radio, tv, and the web. MTV has an enormous impact on society and those that worship it (MTV). It is a religion for today's youth; what they say goes. There is no thought involved. No conscious choice. They say, "buy!!" and we say, "how many copies?"
Breaking into a market like that is simply not possible, especially with the price of admission. Last I heard, most of those 3-6 minute videos cost between $100K and $1M. I don't care how many PCs you have, that ain't gonna get you a spot on MTVs top ten list.
Also: the web is a big argument when things like this come up. While the web is a great place to store and distribute, it does not (yet, and I believe never will) have a huge and significant impact on the mass purchases done by any given demographic (ok, maybe geeks.. but I digress).
Rami
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Perhaps, but my point was that they won't be doing it with sub par equipment. They still need a quiet (preferably sound-proofed) place to record, and good microphones. What the author was, I think, trying to say was that the PC is going to soon be replacing the mixer and studio setup. Since the PC is multi purpose, it is cheaper and takes up less space. I'm amazed he got an entire article out of that.
That's a copout if I ever heard one. The fact is that it takes talent and elbow grease no matter where you are or what setup you are using. I somehow think that it is invariably obvious that when a team of professionals and a studio is replaced with some people (experienced or otherwise) and a PC, there is going to be extra work and lower quality. (Don't quote me on that lower-quality thing. With the advent of pop-smear bands and the crap that pollutes out airwaves, it wouldn't surprise me if my little brother (13) could make a hit on that level.)
Rami
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I read the article without any great reservations -- I knew it was a fluff piece, but I didn't realise it was cotton candy. When I came to the part when the author stated that people would soon be recording music on a pro level with "little plastic microphones", I dropped my cup of water because I was laughing (well, snorting) so loud.
I used to work for Altec Lansing in their R&D center, here in Israel. We worked some on some directional microphone tech which is very cool. They sell it now in the InteliMic package. Even with this great mic, there is still residual sound, distortion, hollowness, etc.
I'm sorry to break this to you, man, but there is no way in hell that some "little plastic microphone" will ever hit the level of quality microphone. And then there is the studio environment (you know, of course, that your home is not really as quiet as you would think), the professional mixers, etc.
Me thinks that this is just another ad revenue piece that panders to the drooling masses that have (well, sort of thankfully) found a target in the RIAA.
Rami
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Wait, let me get this straight. On the frontpage of /., there is a story about a bug and its bug. A wasp that can't get its groove on because because of bacteria. Ok. Great.
Where is the frontpage mention of the instant orgasmatron that is being researched for women that can't have an orgasm??
...
BZZZZZTT!
Rami
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I went looking for some screenshots of TWM as I had never used it (went from CLI to Enlightenment.. :). I found this page with lots of screenshots.
Of particular interest was this. Is it just me, or does this stike you as vaguely reminiscent of BeOS?
Rami
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Ya, bonehead that I am, I didn't do much research, as most of what I do/read/write is in english or hebrew with english letters (ba'atzlecha!).
I'll give those links a thorough reading before I comment again.
Thanks.
I just wanted to comment on this.
I live in Israel, I work in graphic design and I use both windows on PCs and OS9 on Macs.
Recently I came across an apple g3 powerbook for a steal (only $600!!).. I couldn't pass that by. It didn't have OS9 or a CD-ROM, so I decided to just ask around and buy them myself.
OS 9 in the US costs $99, in Israel, it costs $299. That is not a typo.
A CD-ROM costs $400 dollars. That is not a typo.
Buying a machine like the new 733Mhz ones (no, they are not even sold here yet) will cost 60% more than in the US. Guarenteed. The 500Mhz machines cost just under $5K.
Buying a PC with windows (which is free for the most part) will cost you 900-1200.
Unless you are some hardcore geek with mad cash, or in design, buying a mac in Israel is not a viable option.
BTW, I use linux and bsd. I know plenty of people that do here in Israel. I wish someone would put together a project that would allow us to send hebrew mails and read the web in hebrew.
-rami
Ah yes, but you are forgetting the very important fact that when CMGI sues, and it has been proven in the past that there patents are for a very specific set of ideas (blue A+green B) and not a very broad range (A+B+C..), then they can only sue for overlap in their patent realm. They can't say one thing in one court room, and say something different in another, any semi-competent lawyer would blow their case right out of the water.
Then again, on the flip side, if a courtroom upholds the overly broad patent range, then well, you all know how bad that it for the industry.
Rami
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Rami
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How about this: you are an obvious imbecile.
I didn't say a damned thing about the GIMP. I like the GIMP. I use the GIMP.
For making any sort of logo or image that is going to be printed in a wide arrangement of sizes, you **HAVE** to use a vector format or all you'll end up printing is a blurry smudge.
And I'd LOVE to see you try and print some professional level brochures and what not with the GIMP. No CMYK color-space you say? Oh, well, I guess I'll just have to use my BLOATED software on another platform that actually is geared towards designers.
Hmm.. streaming media company. What company would that be? Would you mind posting a link to some of your work perhaps?
Rami
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This is not a troll.
And why not? I am a graphic designer by trade and hobby, and I would love to submit something into this contest, but I can't because the tools and the operating system that I love and use (MacOS and adobe products) are not "supported".
The LSB is shooting itself in the foot with this one. I think that some of the most talented people out there are in a similar situation as myself and the LSB is going to end up with a subpar selection of logos to choose a winner from because of it.
Linux may be a great server, a wonderful programming environment and an OK desktop, but the one thing that it is not is a graphics workstation.
And until they have a decent, full featured vector illustration program you won't see me or much of my fellow trades(wo)men working on linux.
Rami
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I was nodding my head all the way with you, until that last line, "This is so damn typical...".
Uhm, but wasn't the whole point of your post to show that the "coked up" exec in charge of the power infrastructure in CA was Atypical? I mean, it's not like the rest of the US is experiencing rolling blackouts and such.
So this is typical compared to what?
Rami
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Perhaps, but a nice solution for this would be to allow multiple entries for subjects. You write one, I write one, RMS writes one, MS writes one. The reader has the opportunity to read them all and parse accordingly.
Think this is crazy? That's how the Internet works *right now*. I know enough to take everything I read with a grain of salt; I research, I compare, I put facts together and compare motives. I make my own, informed opinion.
You can't do something like this with paper books because it is cost-prohibitive and ineffective, but on the internet where expansion is not only easily compensated for, it is expected.
Rami
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see subject.
I was doing research for someone on where I work, and trying to find out exactly how old Castro is now (75). Anyway, I came across this in my epic trek through google.
Enjoy.
Rami
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Off topic? Man, that couldn't have been more ON topic.
You crazy moderators crack me up.
Rami
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TurboCare? Come on people, be creative!
As any Market Guru (tm,patentpending) would tell you, you have to Sell The Product to The Masses.
Call it LinuxLinux and call it a day.
Don't you hear the stampeding feet of the masses rushing to your doorstep? I do.
Rami
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Do you have a screenshot of that that you could point us towards to back up your argument?
Rami
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Or perhaps the first 88530 accounts. That would not suck. ;-)
Rami
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This may sound way out there, but with the strong trend towards moving Linux Distribution towards computer-illiterate people, where are the AOL clients?
I mean, duh, if you want all of those people to user your easy, tailored interfaces (eazel, eazel, eazel!), shouldn't you consider incorporating some sort of familiar environment like AOL into Linux??
Rami
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