May 29, 2008
Pro Tools is a Digital Audio Workstation platform for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows operating systems, developed and manufactured by Digidesign, a division of Avid Technology. It is widely used by professionals throughout the audio industries for recording and editing in music production, film scoring, television and post production. Pro Tools has three levels of software; HD, LE, and M-powered. HD is the premier package and is an integration of hardware and software. The hardware includes an external A/D converter and internal PCI or PCIe audio cards with onboard DSP.
Pro Tools LE 7.3 screenshot on Mac OS X
(screenshot)
Ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Tools
Official website:
http://www.digidesign.com/
Sony ACID Pro is a professional Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) software program, originally published by Sonic Foundry, now owned and run by Sony. When it was first launched in 1998 as a loop-based music sequencer, Acid Pro was the first-ever automatic audio loop-based music software of its kind, where someone could simply drag-and-drop an Acid loop file (for example a Drum or Bass loop) onto a track in Acid, and that loop would automatically adjust itself to the tempo and key of the song, with virtually no sonic degradation.
ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID_Pro
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/acidfamily.asp
Cubase is a computer program for music production. The program offers recording, producing and mixing of sounds in order to make music production for distribution on CD`s or the internet. Most of the facilities in recording studios are now available for computer owners using Cubase or other similar products.
In order to illustrate this: If you have say guitar, piano, bass and vocal all played by the same person, Cubase can record a track with each instrument and mix the different instruments and sounds into a coherent production. This technique is known as overdubbing. The sound quality is pretty close to what a professional recording studio can offer.
Cubase is a series of MIDI, music sequencer and digital audio editing computer applications (commonly known as a DAW – Digital Audio Workstation), created by the German firm Steinberg. Its first version, which ran on the Atari ST computer, was released in 1989.
Ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubase
Official website:
http://www.steinberg.net/27_1.html
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Posted by energon
May 22, 2008
- Tech’s ten worst entry-level jobs
- Online sales and operations account manager, Google
- Support engineer, Washington-Seattle, Amazon.com
- Content Acquisition Intern, IODA
- Customer support specialist, Fox Interactive, MySpace division
- Database administrator (temporary), Google, contracted through WorkforceLogic
- Support professional, product: Windows, Microsoft
- Executive admin to Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore
- Analyst, user operations, Facebook
- Operations finance, analyst intern, Yahoo
- Part-time guide, Mahalo
Soon America’s most bright-eyed graduates will enter the workforce and make their workaday homes in cubes at Google, MySpace, or Amazon.com. And they will suffer not just the indignity of having to work for a living, but also the dispiriting realization that a job at a cool company isn’t always that hot. These employers, and the others hiring for tech’s 10 worst entry-level jobs, listed below, will look spiffy on a resume someday, but for now the only good these jobs promise the world is the pleasant feeling you and I can share knowing we’re not the ones stuck in them.In the spirit of full disclosure, I should note that I wouldn’t have been able to get any of these jobs out of college. I didn’t finish with a 3.8, do a year of service in Nicaragua or file any patents during my sophomore year. But the worst part of this list is the fact that the people taking these jobs did. To paraphrase Dan Lyons, there’s something distinctly evil about the way Google and the other companies listed below hoard the world’s best and brightest and put them to work on creating more efficient text ads or, worse, tasking them with taking phone calls from angry customers.
Follow the link for each job to see a picture of their locations, a list of key responsibilities, first hand accounts of why each job is so bad and how much they pay.
ref:
http://valleywag.com/389746/techs-10-worst-entry+level-jobs
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Posted by energon
April 9, 2008
From Data Miner to Offshoring Manager, These Jobs Have a Future
Cutting-edge careers are often exciting, and they offer a strong job market. Alas, the cutting edge too often turns out to be the bleeding edge, so U.S. News has identified careers that, while relatively new, are already viable and promise further growth. They emerge from six megatrends:
Growing healthcare demand.
The increasingly digitized world.
Globalization, especially Asia’s ascendancy.
The dawn of clinical genomics.
Environmentalism.
antiterrorism
Behavioral geneticist
Computational biologist
Data miner
Emergency planning manager
Green-collar consultant
Health informatics specialist/manager
Offshoring manager
Simulation developer
ref
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/career-articles-ahead_of_the_curve_careers-347
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Posted by energon
August 12, 2007
One of the first electric sports cars to hit the U.S. market is the Tesla Roadster. No gas and no emissions, plug in this gorgeous sports car for seven hours and you’re set for 200 miles of non-polluting fun! As CBS’s Manuel Gallegus reports, some Hollywood stars have already put down deposits.
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/content/view/2353/31/
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Posted by energon
November 27, 2006
our pldt dsl was installed but after a few weeks this stupid promo letter arrive about its stupid ZERO interest PC Promo.
the CONS!
*you cant avail this promo if you have already installed a pldt dsl plan…
*you can only avail their promo upon installation of dsl plan with your new pc
*you should terminate your current dsl plan and the termination fee is 3x the monthly fee because of 1 year lockdown
this is absurd! we applied pldt dsl since june and after few months it was installed!
i will lockdown them myself! for this non consideration promo!
the management and the marketing sucks!!!
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