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The Fix Is In: Ardour Set For Summer Release

Posted by timothy on from the young-man's-thoughts-turn-to dept.

uprightcitizen writes "Good news for the open source audio recording world! Ardour creator Paul Davis has announced a feature-freeze and has set a binary release date for the now-famous GPL multitrack audio recording application. Ardour has recently been featured in Sound on Sound and has been mentioned on Slashdot many times (here(1), here(2), etc..). The feature freeze is effective as of May 4 and the binary release date is set for sometime in July or August. Good Job Paul!"

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  1. Revenge. It's what's for dinner! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I was laid-off about a month ago. The office I worked for used a lot of pirated software, so I decided to report them to the BSA.
    As hypocritical as it was for me to do it, they're in deep shit now.
    Revenge is *sweet*, I am so proud of myself!
    Maybe I could get a job with the BSA and hunt all you pirating and '"free" software' shit heads down!

    1. Re:Revenge. It's what's for dinner! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      I got laid about a month ago. The girl I humped drank a lot of alcohol, so I decided to teach her why it isn't a good idea.

      As hypocritical as it was for me to do it, she's pregnant now.

      Pussy is *warm*, I am so proud of myself!

      Maybe I could get a job with the birth control pill factory!

  2. "Binary Release Date" by Scoria · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. Gullable! Help! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My gullable friend was duped into ordering a subscrition from "mp3 grand central", which you'll find by searching google/overture for mp3 and looking under the
    "sponsored links." So, to get revenge, CLICK HERE to download a large file (kazaa light) from their server. In addition, using no bandwidth, you can click on their ad here to make them pay $1.40 to Overture. It's the 2nd "sponsored match" at the left saying "Napster's Replacement Only $0.99 a Month."

  4. uhhh.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    could you possibly tell me where you acquired that cocaine?

  5. Just some thoughts on OSS. by the+uNF+cola · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've heard the argument that OSS doesn't inovate like MS and IBM closed source projects do. But software like this is the counter argument. With Linux and BSD, on the desktop, it's relatively close to a fresh start. From scratch. You get the idea.

    Before, we had to get sound up reliably, window managers etc.. all that chewy good stuff. Windows was ahead of "us" on that since the boom of unix on the desktop didn't happen 'till a little later.

    MS can only inovate so fast. Problem is, duplicating what is already out there... good desktop interfaces, some kick ass softare .. all as OSS is "easy".

    And btw, inovations are easy once you think how to solve a problem. mp3's and ogg aren't hard problems that required tons of scientists. Just a few good eggs working on something. Same with softupdates for FreeBSD and a lot of junk.

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  6. What the hell are you going to church for? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Tell me you're more intelligent than that!

    1. Re:What the hell are you going to church for? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      What the hell are you going to church for?

      Tell me you're more intelligent than that!

      Science has NOT been able to explain everything. Evolution remains unproved and has mounting evidence against it. Read this article on evidence against Evolution for more on that.

      In addition, there are many open problems to evolution. You can read about some of them here.

      For a short summary of what Christians (who do not ignore science) believe, see this link.

    2. Re:What the hell are you going to church for? by shaitand · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Personally, I do believe in the concept of evolution, it has mounting RECENT evidence FOR it. As for the current man from ape garbage being spouted in some schools, nope, not buying it.

      And I most definately do not buy into the invisible man who will send plagues, famine, flood, sexual urges you can't act upon, and cast you into a pit of raging molten torture for all eternity if you piss him off... but loves you.

    3. Re:What the hell are you going to church for? by shaitand · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Perhaps, but you get into a paradox that is unsolvable. You see if the creator could simply "always have been" and come from nowhere, then we could and all the other species could have as well. As I said, I don't buy into current evolution theory either. My own ideas include it but differ... our origins I don't have enough data to come to any real conclusions about, only speculation. I myself tend to think it's perfectly ok to accept NONE of the commonly accepted beliefs of human origin rather than settling for the one that comes closest. I believe in human evolution (not ape to human evolution) because I've seen evidence of it in my own lifetime. Humans are evolving more and more rapidly, the average IQ level of each generation is higher than the last. The number of perfect SAT scores grows despite a slacking interest in acedemics. This is in large part due to more readily available information. But readily available information can only go so far when your trying to explain away literally 3yr old computer programmers and 8yr old stock market gurus. (yes these really exist, google for yourself). That is why I believe in HUMAN evolution, if it exists in humans then it must exist in the other species as well. After all we are made of the same stuff and even share a great deal of DNA. Do I believe in one animal transitioning into another in terms of evolution? I've no hard evidence to support or dispute this and reserve judgement. Do I believe my own eyewitness testimony of evolution (or at the least adaptation) disproves a creator based beginning? Absolutely not, I believe we now adapt and evolve, whether we do so because of some invisible man in the sky's grand design, or perhaps we are the creation of yet another species via floating particles in that lingering odor left after he passed gas. Who can tell? At this point, I find the two conventional theories and that last equally likely. There is simply not enough data for me to believe otherwise.

  7. What did he say? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Let me quote his page:

    "I am now a tireless advocate for Linux in the audio world, and work essentially full time writing free (as in beer and talk) software for electronic music composition and recording."

    He said Linux. Not *BSD.

    Deal with it.

  8. My FAQ-fu is stronger than yours by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Science has NOT been able to explain everything.

    It's not science's job to "explain everything." Science, unlike religion, is a process rather than a product. No scientist will ever claim that his or her work is complete. (Similarly, no scientist will ever insist that you take his or her work on faith, lest your soul burn for all eternity in some 13th-century Italian dude's idea of a bad Quake level.)

    In addition, there are many open problems to evolution.

    Again, we're not the ones trying to sell you all the answers to your questions. (They're free, and many of them can be found here.

  9. Free proxy for you to use by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A spammer was trying to use my web server as a SPAM gateway. luckily nmap helped me find out that there box is an open proxy, lets saturate this fsckers bandwidth.

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    port 8080