At 5:34 PM -0800 12/10/10, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Not necessarily, If we are talking about just theater shows. Lets
take that. Ok, so, you want to do say Aladdin. Ok. And you have some
sort of device that all the orchestra members are going to use. Ok.
Simply download their Application. Log
Right, IF the rental Agencies decide to provide digital orchestra
books. The same Agencies, of course, that are still sending out
books copied 60 years ago by the contractor's brother-in-law!
The second is the need for networking rather than for individual,
standalone units, with which I completely agree since the concept
won't really work to its potential without it, but which inevitably
will present the problems of compatibility, setup, and operation
that you do not feel are worth worrying about. .
Hence which is why you get all the same units, say....oh I dunno,
iPads, and they all work fine together. I just don't see why there
is this fear of networking.....like you need to be some sort of
Voodoo priest to get everything to work. And I focus in on Apple
because they have a history of having its software work across all
its devices.
Are you saying that iPods can talk to one another with no
intermediary, like a computer or a bunch of cables (with proprietary
plugs, of course) or a program to feed information that's
automatically formatted for use? Wow! If so, I wouldn't be
surprised to see the Second Coming on Christmas!
Like Applications made for the iPod from 2 years ago work on the
iPod from today. There are no radical hardware differences in the
devices that run the software......everything just works.
Yeah, and I couldn't get my new MacBook working without a few hours
of work by my son-in-law, who IS an IT specialist.
All THAT takes is a copy machine, of course. And I'm not sure
what kind of detective work the three major rental agencies
actually do to track down non-paying performances, but our own
community organization simply will NOT try to dodge the legal
requirements to save a few bucks on rentals and royalties.
Well, you also aren't supposed to make videos or record audio of
performances but YouTube is littered with them...
Yup. And all that has nothing to do with copyright law. People are
simply breaking the provisions of the contracts they signed.
Is that really a technical support issue or just that the program
doesn't allow it?
Well, the point is that I don't know, and don't know how to find out.
I mean, before you start using something should you know what it can
and can not do?
In a perfect world! I didn't choose the program in the first place.
It's what Norton uses for the Test Banks they provide. And I've had
both a personal visit with one of their Tech people and at least 2 or
3 webinars to go over specific questions, but NONE of that makes me a
computer expert. I'm learning the program, slowly, with a lot of
trial and error, which is how I learn new programs. Fortunately my
daughter is a math specialist and taught a course in Excel for
Business Majors, so she's my Tech support for all things Excel. But
no, to answer your question, normal users do NOT know what something
can do before they start using it.
I mean, if I go out and get ProTools say......and then I come to
find out that it won't use this really cool Audio Units plugin that
I have. Is that something I should have been aware of from the start
or is it something I should have known about before getting the
program........
Only time I have seen network problems is when the IT staff had
something jacked up because they had no clue how to run
anything......of course this was a State College so........could
explain something......
So is this, and one of the first to require computers for ALL
students, back in the '80s. There are an awful lot of very smart
people on staff, including the IT staff. And I teach here, but that
doesn't make me an IT expert. Hey, man, I'm in the BAND!!!
John
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John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music
Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034
(mailto:[email protected])
http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
"We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition
of jazz musicians.
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