It's a shame this development came 40 some years after J. Robert Oppenheimer's death. He pushed to have this controlled by the U.N. and, because the American Government was so open minded, he lost all of his security clearance.
I was seriously just about to post something similar to this. Dying means that there's still a reason to play. It's like when you played Super Mario and couldn't get past that blasted level. You died time and time again, but finally found a way through.
I know when I die in multiplayer games, my face kinda lights up like, "Aw, shit! How'd he get me!?" It's just kinda the nature of the beast, isn't it?
I'm sorry, but you'd have to be to be posting this here. This is the place where people hate the copyright system and what it ends up doing, so why on earth would you bring that up here?
Oh, wait, it's OK for someone to get rich off of a shitty copyright law. It's when a corporation gets rich off of it that it's not cool. I forgot that slashdot imposes a double standard on everything.
I go to school in Charleston Illinois and the town is right next to Mattoon, where FutureGen was going to be located. I had been impressed that it was actually going to happen because our governor here is a bit of a POS. He basically caused the university to not have a Music Building for 6 years and when we could finally build it, we couldn't afford the original blueprints any more so stuff got modified and isn't going to be quite as impressive as it was supposed to be. [personal opinion] He has single handedly caused more problems than any other Illinois politician that isn't named Daley.[/personal opinion]
When I found out that Blagojevich actually got it signed off on, I was amazed. This went on for about half a month until we were informed that the only group to pull funding on it was the Federal Government. The state of Illinois, the town of Mattoon, and a couple of neighboring states had all put their money in. Now the government has pulled out and is going to screw em over. The thing is, not only is this a really good idea, it would give the area a much needed job boost. Sure it's only like 30 or 40 jobs, but the area needs it.
The thing that causes me to have no surprise whatsoever is that, when they had the plant location down to 3 choices, a location in Texas was towards to the top.
I'd say it's going to make 40, especially seeing as we're having such grave difficulties with deploying wireless networks to begin with. I live in an apartment building where everyone has a wireless network and I wish we all didn't. It ends up causing more interference then the campus where there's a WAP every 50 feet! Wireless has to come a long way still and I don't quite see it happening in only 10 years.
Alright all you iPhone users, stop reading now cause this can't help you.
In the states Sprint is a pretty good choice for this. They have an unlimited texting option that costs an extra 5 or 10 a month, so if doing that calculation on Sprint, it'd be a lot different. That's the only reason I can justify texting, that and the fact that it (when used properly) is a nearly silent method of communicating, which is awesome when working a concert and something goes wrong!
In his defense you did not specify that the homegrown terrorism was to be university based. Come to think of it, what did McVeigh have to do with Universities? Your statement about the only home-grown terrorist threw me for a loop as well when I read your comment.
Furthermore, I presume that you and your family are American citizens and as such are subject to far less scrutiny on the way back into the country than anyone else trying to get in. I'm not saying that this is really a bad thing, I'm just pointing out that the grandparent post probably has a profoundly different experience when entering the US than you would.
Personally, I see the whole "preventing terrorism" as a reason to increase control. It's Nixon's "War on [insert supposedly bad thing here]", and look home that one turned out...
Trust me, it's not always digital first, even if the era of Pro Tools. I'm in the recording field and a great 2" tape recorder is one of the most sought after things. Furthermore, vinyl has a higher frequency response than CDs and more dynamic range. And that's not just because of the loudness wars, vinyl literally has a larger range. Making a digitally mastered album Vinyl, doesn't always defeat the purpose. Seeing as the digital can be higher sampling rates than Vinyl and CD both. I don't care what Nyquist said, people with decent ears can hear the difference between 44.1k and 88.2k, maybe not 176.4k, but still.
Anyways, I've got a freshly 21 year old to try and make feel less like vomiting.
I have never met a single individual that, when faced with a good vinyl sound system versus an equal CD system, did not prefer the vinyl. Granted, this is a very hard thing to do double blind, but even so, most people comment that they prefer the vinyl, whether they realize it's vinyl or not.
You say that "audiophiles that think vinyl really is better is on crack" which tells me that you've never heard a good quality audio system, be it vinyl or digital. Digital maybe cold, but perfect every time just might be an overstatement. Vinyl records have a different feel to them, yes, but most people that really want to hear every little thing want vinyl. This may be due to the fact that vinyl is almost always mastered very differently than CDs, but it doesn't change the fact that a CD is just an attempt at improving over cassette tape so that there was something portable that sounded good enough.
I, for one, pray that vinyl makes a good comeback. After all, now that we have MP3 players all over the place, we don't need CDs to be portable, so now people can take a vinyl, rip it to their iPod or whatever they have, and enjoy the music on the road. It'd be even better because there is no feasible way to DRM vinyl so everyone would be better off.
Better yet, Gates, Torvalds, Jobs, and Woz all rooming together. Gates would be the asshole control, Jobs would be the creative manipulator, Torvalds would be the one finding ways around all the agreed house rules, and Woz would sit there and play segway polo.
I realize I'm probably way off topic here, but I absolutely love to see the followup on a good ask slashdot. Thank you for keeping us informed on your ultimate decision.
I love the prospect, but I really doubt the likelihood of it. The only places that actually sold machines for sub $500 with Linux preinstalled as the only option was that Walmart PC and the OLPC. Most people are not going to go out of their way to use an operating system that neither they nor any of their friends have heard of, muchless used.
I taught my friend how to use Ubutnu on this old thinkpad that I helped him get. It took me 2 hours to answer his questions, but that's because I was right there and could just show him flat out and he had never owned a computer in his life, so he never got used to a Mac or Windows. I know for a fact that he's to afraid to actually post on forums because he's never used them before in his life.
fool me once, shame on you... fool me twice, shame on me !
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."
First off, the argument about a Mac being over priced is extremely flawed on the high end (which is usually where I'm paying attention). Second, I really can't think of anytime that there's been an app that's $100 that normally is a "given" in Windows. Linux, you can find anything as a given, and because of this, you can usually find a good counterpart for OS X. Apple has some of the best support for older systems. Last I checked, through a little hacking, the latest revision of the operating system can be installed on over 7 year old hardware and legitimately with 5 year old hardware.
Now, the supporting Linux is a slightly fair argument. They use a BSD variant and give it some support (merely by following the license they made). I am not a fan of their neglecting Linux on the iTunes front, but that being said, the only thing I'd like to see Linux have is easy access to the iTMS. You can use FAAD and FAAC (yes, FAAC sucks kinda).
Now here's the key point that has come up time and time and time and time again. APPLE IS A HARDWARE COMPANY!!! Software is an afterthought to them. They do a damned good job with software, but still, it's not their primary concern. Their primary concern is selling Macs. So keeping that in mind, the fact that they still support half a decade old hardware is saying something. Claim they're evil, say they need to support Linux, they need to sell cheaper computers, etc.
I'd be glad to take the lesser of two evils here, and in the battle between Winbloz and Mac, Mac is the lesser evil.
If this makes me an "Apple" fanboy and modded down, so be it. I just think that people blow this way out of proportion. Besides, for the topic at hand, yeah, it sucks that the hardware won't really work anymore, but then again, it is kinda a shame that people leach off of the kindness of others, like beta testers that use it after the final product is out.
Unfortunately for me, the college stations around me have no new artists. The one at my home is mostly jazz, granted slightly obscure jazz where I commonly have difficulty naming the artist, it still isn't usually someone up and coming. The one where I go to school is even worse, it's called "Hit Mix" and I wish I were joking, but it plays nothing but music that's been in the top charts. Worst of all it plays it in no sensible order, like a teenager's iPod on constant shuffle! I'm glad to see that it's not like that everywhere though.
The only company that should even consider buying Adobe is MS - they are the ones with the track record of buying crap and making it better
Interesting because, according to a source of mine, Emagic (previous owner of Logic) was bought by Apple and they improved upon Logic. Hmm, come to think of it, Final Cut was bought by Apple (before it was released) and made better as well. Interesting that they haven't really had much internal creation of their pro end multimedia products.
Don't get me wrong, I"m not saying either product was really "crap" to begin with, it just seems to me that the term crap was used to mean stuff.
Just because he said they're looking into purchasing OSS oriented companies doesn't mean that he doesn't think Linux is a cancer. Something that has been posted here all too often, OSS != Linux. Sure, Linux is OSS, but OSS is not Linux.[/rant]
Correct me if I'm wrong (cause I know you will), but I was always taught that copyright exists the moment you put pen to paper. You will have a harder time proving it if you haven't registered it, but legally speaking you own the right to allow copies to made and or distributed it the moment it's written.
...I think that this is a wonderful tool for those who really do not have the ear to tune. I have been to too many (albeit local) shows where the bands just could not tune themselves. It annoyed the hell out of me.
That being said, I think this device has very little place in the professional world. Tuning is not merely a ritual that we go through, it trains one's ears to listen. As someone who wants to create music, one has to be able to hear the difference between being in tune or being some 15 cents off. People who can't tune usually create the worst music out there these days. I would go so far as to say, people who write music that cannot tune things themselves usually cannot hear why their music sounds so poor.
The sad thing is that this seems to fly for popular music these days. People don't actually have to sound go, they just have to look good and be able to sing on stage...Oh wait, I forgot that Ashlee Simpson was popular!
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It's a shame this development came 40 some years after J. Robert Oppenheimer's death. He pushed to have this controlled by the U.N. and, because the American Government was so open minded, he lost all of his security clearance.
I was seriously just about to post something similar to this. Dying means that there's still a reason to play. It's like when you played Super Mario and couldn't get past that blasted level. You died time and time again, but finally found a way through.
I know when I die in multiplayer games, my face kinda lights up like, "Aw, shit! How'd he get me!?" It's just kinda the nature of the beast, isn't it?
I'm sorry, but you'd have to be to be posting this here. This is the place where people hate the copyright system and what it ends up doing, so why on earth would you bring that up here?
Oh, wait, it's OK for someone to get rich off of a shitty copyright law. It's when a corporation gets rich off of it that it's not cool. I forgot that slashdot imposes a double standard on everything.
Therefore, why isn't it a GPL'd image!
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Too bad Doubletwist was founded in California in the "USofA" and, as such, is subject to DMCA, regardless of where its programmer's reside.
I go to school in Charleston Illinois and the town is right next to Mattoon, where FutureGen was going to be located. I had been impressed that it was actually going to happen because our governor here is a bit of a POS. He basically caused the university to not have a Music Building for 6 years and when we could finally build it, we couldn't afford the original blueprints any more so stuff got modified and isn't going to be quite as impressive as it was supposed to be. [personal opinion] He has single handedly caused more problems than any other Illinois politician that isn't named Daley.[/personal opinion]
When I found out that Blagojevich actually got it signed off on, I was amazed. This went on for about half a month until we were informed that the only group to pull funding on it was the Federal Government. The state of Illinois, the town of Mattoon, and a couple of neighboring states had all put their money in. Now the government has pulled out and is going to screw em over. The thing is, not only is this a really good idea, it would give the area a much needed job boost. Sure it's only like 30 or 40 jobs, but the area needs it.
The thing that causes me to have no surprise whatsoever is that, when they had the plant location down to 3 choices, a location in Texas was towards to the top.
I'd say it's going to make 40, especially seeing as we're having such grave difficulties with deploying wireless networks to begin with. I live in an apartment building where everyone has a wireless network and I wish we all didn't. It ends up causing more interference then the campus where there's a WAP every 50 feet! Wireless has to come a long way still and I don't quite see it happening in only 10 years.
Alright all you iPhone users, stop reading now cause this can't help you.
In the states Sprint is a pretty good choice for this. They have an unlimited texting option that costs an extra 5 or 10 a month, so if doing that calculation on Sprint, it'd be a lot different. That's the only reason I can justify texting, that and the fact that it (when used properly) is a nearly silent method of communicating, which is awesome when working a concert and something goes wrong!
This is an amazing point that had never even occurred to me before. Thanks for the insight into my childhood.
Ironic, you've been modded insightful...
In his defense you did not specify that the homegrown terrorism was to be university based. Come to think of it, what did McVeigh have to do with Universities? Your statement about the only home-grown terrorist threw me for a loop as well when I read your comment.
Furthermore, I presume that you and your family are American citizens and as such are subject to far less scrutiny on the way back into the country than anyone else trying to get in. I'm not saying that this is really a bad thing, I'm just pointing out that the grandparent post probably has a profoundly different experience when entering the US than you would.
Personally, I see the whole "preventing terrorism" as a reason to increase control. It's Nixon's "War on [insert supposedly bad thing here]", and look home that one turned out...
Trust me, it's not always digital first, even if the era of Pro Tools. I'm in the recording field and a great 2" tape recorder is one of the most sought after things. Furthermore, vinyl has a higher frequency response than CDs and more dynamic range. And that's not just because of the loudness wars, vinyl literally has a larger range. Making a digitally mastered album Vinyl, doesn't always defeat the purpose. Seeing as the digital can be higher sampling rates than Vinyl and CD both. I don't care what Nyquist said, people with decent ears can hear the difference between 44.1k and 88.2k, maybe not 176.4k, but still.
Anyways, I've got a freshly 21 year old to try and make feel less like vomiting.
I have never met a single individual that, when faced with a good vinyl sound system versus an equal CD system, did not prefer the vinyl. Granted, this is a very hard thing to do double blind, but even so, most people comment that they prefer the vinyl, whether they realize it's vinyl or not.
You say that "audiophiles that think vinyl really is better is on crack" which tells me that you've never heard a good quality audio system, be it vinyl or digital. Digital maybe cold, but perfect every time just might be an overstatement. Vinyl records have a different feel to them, yes, but most people that really want to hear every little thing want vinyl. This may be due to the fact that vinyl is almost always mastered very differently than CDs, but it doesn't change the fact that a CD is just an attempt at improving over cassette tape so that there was something portable that sounded good enough.
I, for one, pray that vinyl makes a good comeback. After all, now that we have MP3 players all over the place, we don't need CDs to be portable, so now people can take a vinyl, rip it to their iPod or whatever they have, and enjoy the music on the road. It'd be even better because there is no feasible way to DRM vinyl so everyone would be better off.
I must catch the dragon...Heroin Hero is my game!
Better yet, Gates, Torvalds, Jobs, and Woz all rooming together. Gates would be the asshole control, Jobs would be the creative manipulator, Torvalds would be the one finding ways around all the agreed house rules, and Woz would sit there and play segway polo.
I am eagerly awaiting the CC++ license. /me ducks.
I realize I'm probably way off topic here, but I absolutely love to see the followup on a good ask slashdot. Thank you for keeping us informed on your ultimate decision.
I love the prospect, but I really doubt the likelihood of it. The only places that actually sold machines for sub $500 with Linux preinstalled as the only option was that Walmart PC and the OLPC. Most people are not going to go out of their way to use an operating system that neither they nor any of their friends have heard of, muchless used.
I taught my friend how to use Ubutnu on this old thinkpad that I helped him get. It took me 2 hours to answer his questions, but that's because I was right there and could just show him flat out and he had never owned a computer in his life, so he never got used to a Mac or Windows. I know for a fact that he's to afraid to actually post on forums because he's never used them before in his life.
~George W. Bush
First off, the argument about a Mac being over priced is extremely flawed on the high end (which is usually where I'm paying attention). Second, I really can't think of anytime that there's been an app that's $100 that normally is a "given" in Windows. Linux, you can find anything as a given, and because of this, you can usually find a good counterpart for OS X. Apple has some of the best support for older systems. Last I checked, through a little hacking, the latest revision of the operating system can be installed on over 7 year old hardware and legitimately with 5 year old hardware.
Now, the supporting Linux is a slightly fair argument. They use a BSD variant and give it some support (merely by following the license they made). I am not a fan of their neglecting Linux on the iTunes front, but that being said, the only thing I'd like to see Linux have is easy access to the iTMS. You can use FAAD and FAAC (yes, FAAC sucks kinda).
Now here's the key point that has come up time and time and time and time again. APPLE IS A HARDWARE COMPANY!!! Software is an afterthought to them. They do a damned good job with software, but still, it's not their primary concern. Their primary concern is selling Macs. So keeping that in mind, the fact that they still support half a decade old hardware is saying something. Claim they're evil, say they need to support Linux, they need to sell cheaper computers, etc.
I'd be glad to take the lesser of two evils here, and in the battle between Winbloz and Mac, Mac is the lesser evil.
If this makes me an "Apple" fanboy and modded down, so be it. I just think that people blow this way out of proportion. Besides, for the topic at hand, yeah, it sucks that the hardware won't really work anymore, but then again, it is kinda a shame that people leach off of the kindness of others, like beta testers that use it after the final product is out.
Unfortunately for me, the college stations around me have no new artists. The one at my home is mostly jazz, granted slightly obscure jazz where I commonly have difficulty naming the artist, it still isn't usually someone up and coming. The one where I go to school is even worse, it's called "Hit Mix" and I wish I were joking, but it plays nothing but music that's been in the top charts. Worst of all it plays it in no sensible order, like a teenager's iPod on constant shuffle! I'm glad to see that it's not like that everywhere though.
Interesting because, according to a source of mine, Emagic (previous owner of Logic) was bought by Apple and they improved upon Logic. Hmm, come to think of it, Final Cut was bought by Apple (before it was released) and made better as well. Interesting that they haven't really had much internal creation of their pro end multimedia products.
Don't get me wrong, I"m not saying either product was really "crap" to begin with, it just seems to me that the term crap was used to mean stuff.
Just because he said they're looking into purchasing OSS oriented companies doesn't mean that he doesn't think Linux is a cancer. Something that has been posted here all too often, OSS != Linux. Sure, Linux is OSS, but OSS is not Linux.[/rant]
Well put. Thanks for the full explanation and the posting of your source. Probably going to be rather useful for me.
Correct me if I'm wrong (cause I know you will), but I was always taught that copyright exists the moment you put pen to paper. You will have a harder time proving it if you haven't registered it, but legally speaking you own the right to allow copies to made and or distributed it the moment it's written.
...I think that this is a wonderful tool for those who really do not have the ear to tune. I have been to too many (albeit local) shows where the bands just could not tune themselves. It annoyed the hell out of me.
That being said, I think this device has very little place in the professional world. Tuning is not merely a ritual that we go through, it trains one's ears to listen. As someone who wants to create music, one has to be able to hear the difference between being in tune or being some 15 cents off. People who can't tune usually create the worst music out there these days. I would go so far as to say, people who write music that cannot tune things themselves usually cannot hear why their music sounds so poor.
The sad thing is that this seems to fly for popular music these days. People don't actually have to sound go, they just have to look good and be able to sing on stage...Oh wait, I forgot that Ashlee Simpson was popular!