On Dec 10, 2010, at 6:59 PM, John Howell wrote: > > 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!
True, though I haven't seen a hand written theater score in a LONG TIME......we'd have to go back to them late 90s I'd say when I first started doing shows. I rack up about 8 to 10 theater gigs/subbing things a year (we are talking different shows, not actual number of times I go out and play). I haven't seen hand written scores at all. > 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! iPad can talk to each other. And iPhones or iPads. There are plenty of games that take advantage of this. > > 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. That is interesting......by working you mean what? I've never heard of a MacBook not working unless it was dead on arrival (UPS dropping it for example). I mean, you turn it on.....it asks a couple of questions, and you are all ready to go, Hardly requires hours of work by an IT "specialist". > Yup. And all that has nothing to do with copyright law. People are simply > breaking the provisions of the contracts they signed. Well, that is still enforceable by law.......so........ > Well, the point is that I don't know, and don't know how to find out. So instead of asking maybe the company who made it how to do it you'll just assume it can't and sit and throw rocks at it because of it? I mean, a simple email to the company's support would be a start........or consult the manual? Or perhaps an online forum? *Sigh* I mean, come on...... > 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 can make you drink the water, I can just point you towards it. The internet has lots of places where you can find help.....it's there. You just need to ask or google it. NOT Sent from my iSomething _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
