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why bother witha 8mb video card, the resolution of a in-car monitor is at best awful, never mind trying to read 9px fonts

Windows and a 8mb card is a good choice because think of all the yummy plugins for Winamp that can be used !, i can have a great looking stereo and visual extravaganzer with all the visulisation plugins and dsp extras, be silly to choose anything else with winamps kind of support/community

GM has a long history of making really sweet concept cars, but by the time they are actually produced, somehow they get turned into "your father's Oldsmobile." For example, compare the Olds Alero concept with the production model. See what I mean? All these nice ideas that GM engineers are teasing us with will not come to pass. They're going to make an ugly SUV out of it by the time it gets to us. Leave it to another company to turn the concept into the actual production car without pandering to the lowest common denominator.

I'd also suggest trying Andy O'Meara's WhiteCap and G-Force. GForce is similar to Geiss but definatly not the same and Whitecap is more like the oldschool specrtum visualisations but with some 3D goodness and mindblowing transitions.

I'd also suggest trying Andy O'Meara's WhiteCap and G-Force. GForce is similar to Geiss but definatly not the same and Whitecap is more like the oldschool specrtum visualisations but with some 3D goodness and mindblowing transitions.

For those of you who might not know...

Perhaps the best plugins would have to be:
GForce
and
White Cap

Both by the talented Andy O'Meara


---Lane

For those of you who might not know...

Perhaps the best plugins would have to be:
GForce
and
White Cap

Both by the talented Andy O'Meara


---Lane

For those of you who might not know...

Perhaps the best plugins would have to be:
GForce
and
White Cap

Both by the talented Andy O'Meara


---Lane

• 1.) Code uses linguistic devices.

  The syntax of a computer language is expressive in the same manner as the syntax of a natural language. In Section 1.2 of Programming Perl, Larry Wall describes the base structures of the Perl language using linguistic examples.

  • The nouns of Perl are variables. A variable is just a handy place to keep something, a place with a name, so you know where to find your special something when you come back looking for it later.[italics and bold added] Nouns can be singular or plural: We call a singular variable a scalar, and a plural variable an array
  • The verbs of Perl are the operators and sub-routines.
    Verbs are also sometimes called subroutines (when user-defined) or operators (when built-in). They are often imperative: As is typical of your typical imperative computer language, many of the verbs in Perl are commands: they tell the Perl interpreter to do something. Verbs can also be interrogative: Some verbs are for asking questions, and are useful in conditional statements.

  I want to get this post up soon, but I'm sure I could find a code example for every language structure expressed in English 101.

  (Code also has the ability to express metaphor in a powerful way. Music visualization plugins like G-Force translate sound into visuals, etc.)

• 2.) Code is most commonly used to express real-world concepts in a structured manner.

  Nearly all business programming consists of expressing real-world Things and their Capabilities in an ordered manner. For example, a short piece of Java code: public interface ShoppingCart { public void addProduct( Product p ); // add a product to the Shopping Cart public boolean checkOut(); // return true if successful checkout }

  This is an expression of a real-world Thing ( a grocery cart ) and what can be done with that Thing( add products to the cart, check out ).

The only difference is that computer languages have rules, natural languages have parameters. Every statement in a computer language is ordered, while statements in natural languages may or may not be ordered. The ordered nature of computer languages does not mean that all programs are a set of instructions. In object oriented programming attention is given to the relationships between the Objects (Design Patterns).

Code can express a wide range of properties of real world things, processes, and relationships. This expression of real world properties is not merely an enumeration (like a phone book), but a metaphor used to make certain tasks understandable to those who read the code. Let me repeat... the only difference between computer and natural languages is that computer languages are structured. Last time I checked, I don't think that being structured makes speech less expressive or ineligible for First Amendment protections.

P.S.: I realize that instructions in the form of programs can be performed by a computer; but this is analagous to saying that bomb instructions in the form of a book can be performed by an individual. The law protects the Anarchist Cookbook, and it should protect any form of code as well. A complementary legal tactic could be to dredge up case history where instructions to perform illegal actions were protected as speech.

Here's a link to andy's home page check it out. Keep up the good work Andy!

-vm