Bite the bullet and do it by hand... The problem with damn near everything proposed so far is its far more work then actually *doing* the work.
Get yourself 3 things:
Fastest computer you can get your hands on,
Fastest Plextor CD-ROM/CDR you can afford,
and a skipdoctor (skipdoctor.com) to repair thrashed discs...
Do them in your spare time, if your watching tv, just get up every commercial break and insert a new cd... its gonna take you a few days to do them all... but all your doing is inserting discs and clicking -- it ain't that hard.
I can't explain 3 bad units, but I can tell you the unit acts *very* flaky when its batteries are completley dead/bad... won't power on, won't charge (this is the kicker!)... it seemed to me the cpu draws its power from the batteries regardless of wether its plugged into the wall... The batts went bad on mine one day, and it wouldn't charge, wouldn't play, gave HD errors when it *would* turn on... I changed out the batteries -- it ran like new again...
ummm, I own the arhcos jukebox 6000, and I can tell you that the "6 hour battery life" they claim is more like 2 or 3... the device also seems to have a mind of its own -- some days I get 5 hours, some days I get 2, on the same charge time.
keep that in mind when you think about "10 hours"...
I actually worked "for" dave philips for awhile trying to develop an audio-specific linux distro... it was a crushing ammount of work and everyone eventually gave up:)
"Handicapped" is a pretty large term here... First of all, if you assume genereously that there are 300m people int he US, your saying that one out of every 6 people is handicaped... excuse my frankness, that statistic is bullshit.
Second of all, only 2 kinds of handicappedness effect your ability to use the computer -- blindness or no arms to move a mouse (and no, deaf dosen't count,.. no sound is meerely an annoyance, none of the computers at my work have speakers, and we all get along:).
All the other kinds of handicapped don't count... I have a herniated disc, that dosen't affect my ability to use a computer:)
My cousin can't eat strawberies, he still gets in 6 hours of the sims a day:)
there are *so* many factors that affect performance its scary... theres no clear answers in this field... its so complicated, as part of the coursework for my BS in CS, I had to take a course on performance evaluation!
Case in point: My Celeron 500 boots win2k about 30 seconds faster then my Athlon 1700... Of course, after they're booted the athlon rocks the socks off the celeron... The answer is: The celeron has a faster hd then the athlon, but can you buy a computer based on HD speed? Could a Best Buy salesman even *tell* you the speed of a machines hd?:)
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Yeah, but a razor scooter costs 100$, moves 2 to 3 times faster then walking, and *it* has breaks. It dosen't use any electricity, and little kids think your cool when you use it:)
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We have something like that at my university... The program is basically a black-hole for bikes. I think we made it a quarter before all the bikes were gone... the last one I saw was a few weeks ago and the rims were pretty much bent in half:)
There really isn't much out there... There is a decent hard disk recording package (x86 only?) -- but it has no midi functionality... how many channels of audio do you think a *powerbook* can record simultaneously?:) Im gonna guess its a small integer under 5:)
For years, suffering with win98 and cubase 3.5... the hourly crashes, unstable midi I wished cubase ran under linux... But, cubase runs like a *dream* under Win2k. *rarely* crashes (won't say never), midi accuracy/percision is dead on...
This being said, even if there was a cubase clone *today* it still wouldn't be that usefull... Cubase is your bread and butter, but DX/VST plugins make the cake (to use a bad pun). Im going to speculate wildly that there are probably less then 1000 people in the world with the knowledge to write *professional quality* effects... And they're pulling 6 figure salaries from Steinberg, TC, Antares, Roland, Novation, KORG, GEM, etc:) They're not writing free plugins for a plugin architecture that dosen't exist on an OS that dosen't have a decent sequencer.
Anyways, thats the state of things as they are...
For a second oponion, pose your question to the linux audio developers mailing list:
http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/
they may tell you differently, but remember, they're advocates...
I am completing a degree at UCR which does the same damn thing... Im alergic to pepsi (but not coke), I've often wondered if I could sue under the Americans with Disabilities Act or something:)
I had an accident where I was legally dead for 5 minutes... since I saw ST3 when people say "your gonna get yourself killed doing that!" I always reply "I've been dead before."
Once someone catches magic lantern, we're just gonna have to pay 20$ for a magic lantern detector I already run Norton and Ad-Aware scanners, why not Lantern-Away?... Hopefully Lavasoft (makers of ad-aware) will catch the thing and put it in their ad-aware scanner...
I have a better conspiracy theroy though... The thing thats missing in all this is the delivery vector. *What if* norton/mcaffee *are* the delivery vectors? Think about it -- they're perfect. It would prolly only add a few hundred kbytes to the program... Virus programs automatically call home for updates (nav 2002 calls home almost every day), in one of those updates why coulnd't it say "here's the newest copy of magic lantern, please install":) And once its in, either ML itself *or* norton anti-virus can update ML with the newest evasion techniques etc etc...
The evolution debacle is just a hash mark on the thermometer of ignorance...
The real truth is, theres an uneducated underclass in the US. Its the *underclass* thats getting larger and dragging down test scores.
Ignorance breeds ignorace, and ignorance breeds quickly. There is alot of things wrong with our educational system -- but one thing people don't want to admit is the old addage is true for education *garbage in, garbage out.* In america we have the freedom to be ignorant, and people are excercising that option en masse (sp?). Teachers are not miracle workers, they can't make up for bad parents, and a bad socio-economic condition. Plus, we've handicaped teachers in every way, they're not allowed to discipline students, teach science like evolution, or in some cases in a langauge that students understand! In california it is now *illegal* to teach classes in anything but english...
One of my family members (we have 5 teachers in my immediate family) assigned a report to his class, a particular black girl drew the subject "apples." When it was due the girl had nothing to turn in, he called her mother, and she came down to the school and screamed her head off about the assignment being racist because "black people don't eat apples." she also said, "she'd be happy to do a report on sweet potatos because black people eat those." *TRUE STORY*
Teachers have to deal with the *shit* of society, and someones is going to reply to me and ask why private schools can give consistent good educations -- its because private schools can *kick students out*, they don't have to take the crack babies, the ADD kids, the kid who my mother taught who had a habit of sitting under the lunch benches asking girls to touch his penis (in the second grade!).
Im going to reply to your message with the idea that bill gates isn't a great man, but was merely the right person at the right time:) I don't see anything extrodinary in *anything* hes done.
I have 10 domains with dotster and am pleased with them as well:) I think my only complaint is there should be able to ake all your domain renewals land on the same date. I registered many of my domains at different times, so I have to pay doster 5 times a year:)...
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Bite the bullet and do it by hand ... The problem with damn near everything proposed so far is its far more work then actually *doing* the work.
...
... its gonna take you a few days to do them all ... but all your doing is inserting discs and clicking -- it ain't that hard.
Get yourself 3 things:
Fastest computer you can get your hands on,
Fastest Plextor CD-ROM/CDR you can afford,
and a skipdoctor (skipdoctor.com) to repair thrashed discs
Do them in your spare time, if your watching tv, just get up every commercial break and insert a new cd
How do you do go about doing this?
I can't explain 3 bad units, but I can tell you the unit acts *very* flaky when its batteries are completley dead/bad ... won't power on, won't charge (this is the kicker!) ... it seemed to me the cpu draws its power from the batteries regardless of wether its plugged into the wall ... The batts went bad on mine one day, and it wouldn't charge, wouldn't play, gave HD errors when it *would* turn on ... I changed out the batteries -- it ran like new again ...
ummm, I own the arhcos jukebox 6000, and I can tell you that the "6 hour battery life" they claim is more like 2 or 3... the device also seems to have a mind of its own -- some days I get 5 hours, some days I get 2, on the same charge time.
keep that in mind when you think about "10 hours"...
Whats the difference?
I actually worked "for" dave philips for awhile trying to develop an audio-specific linux distro ... it was a crushing ammount of work and everyone eventually gave up :)
50 million handicapped
... First of all, if you assume genereously that there are 300m people int he US, your saying that one out of every 6 people is handicaped... excuse my frankness, that statistic is bullshit.
:).
... I have a herniated disc, that dosen't affect my ability to use a computer :)
:)
"Handicapped" is a pretty large term here
Second of all, only 2 kinds of handicappedness effect your ability to use the computer -- blindness or no arms to move a mouse (and no, deaf dosen't count,.. no sound is meerely an annoyance, none of the computers at my work have speakers, and we all get along
All the other kinds of handicapped don't count
My cousin can't eat strawberies, he still gets in 6 hours of the sims a day
there are *so* many factors that affect performance its scary ... theres no clear answers in this field ... its so complicated, as part of the coursework for my BS in CS, I had to take a course on performance evaluation!
... Of course, after they're booted the athlon rocks the socks off the celeron ... The answer is: The celeron has a faster hd then the athlon, but can you buy a computer based on HD speed? Could a Best Buy salesman even *tell* you the speed of a machines hd? :)
Case in point: My Celeron 500 boots win2k about 30 seconds faster then my Athlon 1700
Yeah, but a razor scooter costs 100$, moves 2 to 3 times faster then walking, and *it* has breaks. It dosen't use any electricity, and little kids think your cool when you use it :)
We have something like that at my university ... The program is basically a black-hole for bikes. I think we made it a quarter before all the bikes were gone ... the last one I saw was a few weeks ago and the rims were pretty much bent in half :)
There really isn't much out there ... There is a decent hard disk recording package (x86 only?) -- but it has no midi functionality ... how many channels of audio do you think a *powerbook* can record simultaneously? :) Im gonna guess its a small integer under 5 :)
... the hourly crashes, unstable midi I wished cubase ran under linux ... But, cubase runs like a *dream* under Win2k. *rarely* crashes (won't say never), midi accuracy/percision is dead on...
... Cubase is your bread and butter, but DX/VST plugins make the cake (to use a bad pun). Im going to speculate wildly that there are probably less then 1000 people in the world with the knowledge to write *professional quality* effects ... And they're pulling 6 figure salaries from Steinberg, TC, Antares, Roland, Novation, KORG, GEM, etc :) They're not writing free plugins for a plugin architecture that dosen't exist on an OS that dosen't have a decent sequencer.
...
...
For years, suffering with win98 and cubase 3.5
This being said, even if there was a cubase clone *today* it still wouldn't be that usefull
Anyways, thats the state of things as they are
For a second oponion, pose your question to the linux audio developers mailing list:
http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/
they may tell you differently, but remember, they're advocates
dan
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Seriously cool? its *responsible* programming :)
I am completing a degree at UCR which does the same damn thing ... Im alergic to pepsi (but not coke), I've often wondered if I could sue under the Americans with Disabilities Act or something :)
hahah mod this man up!
... since I saw ST3 when people say "your gonna get yourself killed doing that!" I always reply "I've been dead before."
:)
I had an accident where I was legally dead for 5 minutes
but nobody gets it
Nintedo declares their new product the best thing ever?
My father declares himself to be "The emperor of california" but it dosen't make that either.
A better analogy might have been, "Remember NeoGeo?" or, "Remember 3D0?"
:)
Once someone catches magic lantern, we're just gonna have to pay 20$ for a magic lantern detector I already run Norton and Ad-Aware scanners, why not Lantern-Away? ... Hopefully Lavasoft (makers of ad-aware) will catch the thing and put it in their ad-aware scanner ...
... The thing thats missing in all this is the delivery vector. *What if* norton/mcaffee *are* the delivery vectors? Think about it -- they're perfect. It would prolly only add a few hundred kbytes to the program ... Virus programs automatically call home for updates (nav 2002 calls home almost every day), in one of those updates why coulnd't it say "here's the newest copy of magic lantern, please install" :) And once its in, either ML itself *or* norton anti-virus can update ML with the newest evasion techniques etc etc ...
I have a better conspiracy theroy though
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Please do my research for me,
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lazy student
The evolution debacle is just a hash mark on the thermometer of ignorance ...
...
The real truth is, theres an uneducated underclass in the US. Its the *underclass* thats getting larger and dragging down test scores.
Ignorance breeds ignorace, and ignorance breeds quickly. There is alot of things wrong with our educational system -- but one thing people don't want to admit is the old addage is true for education *garbage in, garbage out.* In america we have the freedom to be ignorant, and people are excercising that option en masse (sp?). Teachers are not miracle workers, they can't make up for bad parents, and a bad socio-economic condition. Plus, we've handicaped teachers in every way, they're not allowed to discipline students, teach science like evolution, or in some cases in a langauge that students understand! In california it is now *illegal* to teach classes in anything but english
One of my family members (we have 5 teachers in my immediate family) assigned a report to his class, a particular black girl drew the subject "apples." When it was due the girl had nothing to turn in, he called her mother, and she came down to the school and screamed her head off about the assignment being racist because "black people don't eat apples." she also said, "she'd be happy to do a report on sweet potatos because black people eat those." *TRUE STORY*
Teachers have to deal with the *shit* of society, and someones is going to reply to me and ask why private schools can give consistent good educations -- its because private schools can *kick students out*, they don't have to take the crack babies, the ADD kids, the kid who my mother taught who had a habit of sitting under the lunch benches asking girls to touch his penis (in the second grade!).
good man :) first rule of art,
:)
create art for yourself
you want me to believe hes a great man because he *may* have stolen code from MIT and adapted it ?
gonna have to try harder
Luckily congress still has to approve the treaty and we're lucky they're not stupid enuf--oh *shit*.
Im going to reply to your message with the idea that bill gates isn't a great man, but was merely the right person at the right time :) I don't see anything extrodinary in *anything* hes done.
I have 10 domains with dotster and am pleased with them as well :) I think my only complaint is there should be able to ake all your domain renewals land on the same date. I registered many of my domains at different times, so I have to pay doster 5 times a year :)...
he's definatley a cod-piece kinda guy. (to use the english word, Im not sure what the american word is :)