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- In the Chair (exe)
- Imagine if all music students could play together with professional bands and renowned orchestras... Now you can with In the Chair, music practice software which inspires beginners to immerse themselves in the joy of learning an instrument. You can hear and see the band or orchestra from your seat as...
- Tags: Software, Feedback, Orchestra, Instrument, Chair, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2006-05-15
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- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture
- From Chapter Two: The appliance computing cultureOverbroadYou wrote:[The appliance computing culture’s interactive] applications model drives almost everything, from processor and OS evolution to appropriate management structure - and even the conflicts with traditional business systems experts whose internal model of “automatic data processing” is broadly unrelated to the needs and...
- Tags: Mainframes, Operating systems, Processors, business systems expert, appliance computing culture, mainframe, best practice, Windows PC
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Leaving Microsoft
- Leaving MicrosoftGood Luck!I wish you a lot of luck in your new endeavors!Keep us posted!I don't buy itJoining a small startup to do business in Africa?..I thought a small startup is cash strapped and eager to make a quick buck rather than do philantrophic work.I think that is more than...
- Tags: LEAVING Microsoft, small business seminar, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Lessig: Bill to fix orphaned works is 'unfair and unwise'
- Larry Lessig championed the need to fix copyright law with regard to "orphan works" – those works that are covered by copyright but whose owners are unknown. He was a guiding force behind the Internet Archive's 2004 suit to get the courts to address the issue. (See Free the...
- Tags: Larry Lessig, Work, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Is celebrity contradictory with open source?
- Is celebrity contradictory with open source?Celebrity journalism?Hi Dana,Thank you for posting this review of Lacy's celebrity-wishing ways. She's hardly a journalist, if we analyze her writing.And to boot, she's not the hottest. Forbes' Victoria Barrett wins that prize by leaps and bounds.Peace.ReidWegsNot necessarilyBut CS types have been rightly claiming for...
- Tags: Linux, Dana, Lacy, open source, Sarah, F/OSS
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- CounterPoint Pro (exe)
- Counterpoint Pro is the first of its kind Music Management Software Application. It is designed for the management of data important to managing a Music Program in the public or private education system. It can also be used for community music programs such as orchestra, concert band, jazz Band, and...
- Tags: Geminiware, Counterpoint Pro
- Software downloads 2008-02-20
- QuickScore Elite Level II (exe)
- QuickScore Elite Level II is comprehensive, integrated music composition and notation software - incorporating scoring, arranging, MIDI and audio sequencing and recording. Use it to create publication-quality scores, musical content for the desktop and world wide Web, audio CDs, MP3s, and soundtracks for film, video, and games. Start faster right...
- Tags: Audio, MIDI, Editor, QuickScore Elite Level II
- Software downloads 2008-01-17
- Open source values: Consensus
- Open source values: ConsensusGenerally true of volunteer effortsFor many years, I've been an amateur musician and as such, have played in a number of community bands, and most recently a community orchestra I play two instruments. One thing I've noticed is that while the conductor does need to be...
- Tags: Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Web browsers, Participatory Democracy, Google Images, open source, cow, leader
- Discussion threads 2007-11-15
- One-2-Five Music Theory E-tutor (exe)
- The One-2-Five E-Tutor will help prepare you for and help you pass all theory grade examinations in the U.K. and other countries up to Grade 5. It is designed to cover the minimum of requirements and to be reasonably comprehensible to children and adults who have at least started learning...
- Tags: Theory, Teacher, Music
- Software downloads 2007-09-19
- Playing music severely degrades network transfer performance in Vista
- Playing music severely degrades network transfer performance in VistaWorkaround found[i]I guess the moral of the story is, don’t play music while transferring files across a network.[/i]Well, you can get at least a partial workaround by starting a video playback and then pausing it.Adrian is this after the stability and performance...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, NETWORKING, vista, Adrian, Microsoft Windows Vista, QoS, operating system, network, performance
- Discussion threads 2007-08-21
- ZDNet Blogs enterprise news and views roundup
- While we are in the slow week of summer, the tech industry does not take much of a vacation. This week VMware went public, Citrix acquired XenSource and virtualization and hypervisors are in vogue. Several ZDNet bloggers--Dana Gardner, Mary Jo Foley, Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, Ed Burnette and Dan Kusnetzky--...
- Tags: Social Networking, Facebook, Firewall, Network, Blog, ERP, SOA, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- Another view: Don't expect SOA to fix ERP quagmire
- Abandon all hope, all ye who run ERP or enterprise software....That's the dour message from Cynthia Rettig, writing in MIT Sloan Management Review. Rettig says that ERP, or enterprise software systems, have ultimately provided little gain for companies, because they have become too complex and overbearing. SOA, seen as a...
- Tags: Software, Enterprise Software, ERP, SOA, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- The ERP mess we're in
- Cynthia Rettig's the Trouble with Enterprise Software, published in MIT Sloan Management Review should come as no surprise to those used to commenting on ERP implementations. Ms Rettig draws a gloomy picture asserting that: Whole systems march in lock step, providing synchronized, fully coordinated supply chains, production lines and services,...
- Tags: Performance, Information Technology, ERP, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-08-15
- Idiot frustrations
- Sometimes the things non technical people do just amaze me - and I'm never entirely sure whether I should laugh or cry. Just now, for example, I heard a commercial on CBC-FM for their internet broadcast service which went something like this: "Just boot-up"...
- Tags: What users care about, Enterprise Policy
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- SOA is not above ROI scrutiny, but...
- My latest post on SOA and ROI stirred up some interesting discussion. Should SOA -- which is not a specific technology or project, but an enterprise infrastructure -- be subject to the rigors of ROI? ZDNet colleague Dana Gardner says yes, ROI must be applied to SOA activities, and is...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), ROI/TCO, Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, ROI
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- iConcertCal: for the concert going iTunes user
- iConcertCal: for the concert going iTunes userArtists onlyIf it only scans 'artists' it will only locate when 'The Boston Symphony Orchestra' is playing nearby, but not when there's a Beethoven concert. Let's hope it's smarter than that !!
- Tags: Digital music, iConcertCal, Apple iTunes
- Discussion threads 2007-02-05
- Panel of IT analysts look to the movie business to explain SOA's relevance and ROI
- Read a full transcript of the podcast.The latest BriefingsDirect SOA Insights Edition podcast begins with the panel of analysts -- Steve Garone, Joe McKendrick, Tony Baer, and Jim Kobielus -- examining the metrics of business success for services oriented architecture SOA. But the discussion takes on a soul-searching kind of...
- Tags: Software Infrastructure, Podcasts, Interarbor Solutions, SOA, SOA Governance, Software Development, IBM, SaaS, HP, Intellectual Property
- Blog posts 2007-01-21
- Who's afraid of parallelism?
- Who's afraid of parallelism?Good theoretical modelIf by "theory" you mean "modern mainstream programming languages" then I agree that there is no "theoretical" model for parallel computing. Except for SQL, which can be automatically parallelized.However, anything designed around a nondeterministic finite automata would be inherently parallel for most problems, and...
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, Programming languages, Development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Cray Inc., parallelism, SDK, chip
- Discussion threads 2006-11-30
- Who's afraid of parallelism?
- A key reason the enormous performance potential offered by IBMs cell processor has yet to be realized with any substantive application is that programmers are currently caught between rocks and hard places when working with Cell. On the rocks side, IBMs compilers are good and getting better fast, but lots...
- Tags: parallelism, Linux, Hardware, General
- Blog posts 2006-11-30
- Music ed goes Web 2.0
- Although many public schools are gutting their music programs, music teachers and homeschoolers can take advantage of new software that utilizes Web 2.0 to assist with music lessons and collaboration online, reports eSchool News. Software companies are developing programs such as eJamming, WorkshopLive, and In the Chair that...
- Tags: Distance Learning, Education Technology, WorkshopLive, eJamming, music
- Blog posts 2006-11-27
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