Kdevelop is free, sure but at this stage its support for dynamic languages specifically is very primitive compared to Komodo - i'm thinking specifically of PHP when i say this.
the DBGp debugger protocol is open source, as is the php implementation. the idea is to make Komdodo extensible to any language that can implement a DBGp debuggger... including ruby =)
Re:I stopped using it when it went non-free...
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I work for a software developer that targets various products at a number of different platforms including Linux and Windows. We very much want to provide a single binary package that will work on as many Linux distributions as possible, and are having problems with distributions (Red Hat) breaking compatibility with previous versions of their own distribution, let alone others. As more proprietary vendors such as Oracle and IBM move their apps to Linux, how do you see distributions handling this? Red Hat currently has the market -and- mind share to force their own way, but this is hardly good for open source or Linux. Will vendors (like final scratch) be forced to distribute their own distro tuned to their specific software? Can't we all just get along?
have a laptop, p4 1.9 ghz running win2k, has built-in firewire.
as far as pro gear goes, i have a motu 828 firewire card and a roland 2 port midi interface, plus the m-audio oxygen 8 controller. all of this runs spiffy using cubase sx, reason, or ableton live 2, very low latency (512 k buffer or about 6 msec output latency) running a fair number of software synths.
in terms of DAW software, i prefer cubase SX because although is not quite as flexible as logic for audio routing, the (esp audio) editing is about 100X faster (for me, YMMM)
btw check out synthedit.com, freeware that allows you to roll your own vst synth. there's even an sdk for adding modules.
flash mx/actionscript using it's native xml stuff to talk to web services. for distributed data access type apps especially ones that require visualization, this could well be the future.
ok maybe his worlds aren't clock-work believable like asimov, maybe he was intentionally writing pulp for cheap sale for years, but i can't think of another writer who travelled so far not only in the universe but more importantly into the deoths of the human mind / imagination.
from the elegant historical revisionism of man in the high castle to the whacked out jungian paranoid fantasies of radio free albemuth, dick has it asll, and through ti all there is a deeply disturbed genius working very hard to push boundaries, with complete disregard for his own mental health.
my personal favourite dick book is 'now wait for last year', a mad tale of drug-enabled time travel, divorce, and interstellar war that borrows more from jean beaudrillard's simulation and simulacrum 30 years before the matrix.
science would be a dull, cold place without philip k dick; no matter what people write now the vast influence he had remains string.
you're not missing anything, it's just that by and large design is done very quickly, usually on a white board, and almost always fails in some substantial way to fulfill the requirements.
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erm, the other thing to point out it that, although the film is set in Alaska, it was actually mostly filmed in squamish and port alberni near vancouver, bc, canada. a friend of mine was production assistant up here, and the budget btw was something north of $80 million USD. i think a lot of that was salaries though. so altho Katz' point about CG is partly true, insomnia was certainly not low-budget...
i think the only alaskan footage is the (admittedly spectacular) glacier footage at the beginning...
most of the use i and i think a lot of other techno heads get out of napster is collecting long, bootlegged dj mixes, especially recordings of BBC One's Essential Mix show.
i'm not sure about the copyright status of a radio show, tho - i think it's protected still. anybody know?
I think that's a totally naive wya to look at it. Those people are i power becaue they are rich, white, anglo-saxon protestants whose families have long histories of being involved in government.
if you honestly think that people voted for George or Al because they really thought that they were the best choice, period, then I can't help you.
i think what you're really trying to say is that Americans need to keep it simple because they're too dumb to handle complexity. I don't believe that for a minute.
If you want a model for a good, working, multi-party system, try the metherlands...
I like the fact that you seem to be having something of an epiphany about political freedoms in the supposedly 'free' west, but COME ON - how can the US claim to be a democracy with an entrenched two-party system that now seems to be sliding alramingly towards oligarchy? ( hillary, george jr., etc ). I'm canadian, and I don't think we're all that much better off - we have more political parties, but the elected members of those political parties aren't allowed to vote their own conscience - they have to toe party line.
I think too often we confuse political freedom with personal freedom. In N. America, we enjoy IMMENSE amounts of personal freedoms ( ie 'free as in beer' ) but as far as political freedom goes, it's really quite debatable.
the report doesn't really seem to appreciate the complexities of free software and the unix world - they focused totally on commercial unices and linux, forgetting about freebsd, openbsd, etc...
additionally, there is no account for the effect the open source has on buying decisions. sure, AIX, etc. are virtually free with hardware purchase, but that doesn't mean you can re-compile the kernel for smaller memory footprint, fix bugs in-house, or any of the other options open to users of free or open source software...
ultra boring game that might actually catch on: 3D backgammon. use an existing 3D engine (say the half-life engine because you get some talking movement in the faces), roll the dice, move the chips, there you go. play the computer, or go online and play others on the internet. you'd make a quake map that was just a room, have customizeable models and skins, and even real-time voice communication for LPB's. in fact, don't just stop with backgammon - you could port most of the parker bros. collection that way - yahtzee, monopoly, snakes and ladders, etc. crack-fiends would find ways of manipulating the physics code to 'load the dice'
I've read your comments, and I think that solution is the worst thing possible for good music. The current situation is already a sad state of affairs in terms of corporate influence on music; your solution would have musicians be explicitly endorsing products (not that they don't already implicitly).
Besides, I think that this is beside the point. The only way make money off of music is to: 1. make an album good enough people will want to buy it 2. re-arrange your business model so that you are deriving revenue from something besides raw album sales.
With respect to the first point, consider this: most people I know look for MP3s of singles they like; these same people are pissed off when they buy an entire album because they like one song and the rest of it sucks. If anything, MP3s may encourage the recording industry to cut down on 'one hit wonders' and but more care into making sure the albums they DO release are of decent quality. Case in Point - no matter how many mp3s of tool songs there are out on the net, most (rabid) tool fans will buy the album anyway. Out of _respect_.
Point two: Realistically, the major source of revenue for a given artist is highly variable: radio play, album sales, ticket sales. Album sales usually account for very little for a given artist. This is because most artists don't sell that many albums. Metallica is an exception here because they historically have gotten almost no radio play; most of their moeny has come from touring and albums.
Either way, mp3s cut into two of three of those revenue streams - radio and albums. This is because in the current situation (bandwidth/cost, etc.) downloading small files is far more convenient than listening to the radio, and far cheaper. In the 'Future' media will be streamed, once bandwidth allows for widespread high-quality audio streaming. the equation will be simple: why bother downloading something when you can get it streamed to anywhere, on demand? People will PAY for such a service.
and in the mean time:
"The only way to stop [Gnutella] is to turn off the Internet,"
hey, John iD has always stated that you make games that you like to play. this focus has kept the company small, private, and immensly profitable. have you contemplated using your technology to develop other types of applications (beyond fps) (eg 3D desktop environments, 3D chat clients, etc.)? to that end, when do you think 3D acceleration tech will become ubiquitous so that such apps will be commonly used? --burnitall--
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Kdevelop is free, sure but at this stage its support for dynamic languages specifically is very primitive compared to Komodo - i'm thinking specifically of PHP when i say this.
the DBGp debugger protocol is open source, as is the php implementation. the idea is to make Komdodo extensible to any language that can implement a DBGp debuggger... including ruby =)
because ActiveState is cooler than u =P
erm, well in spots yes it is actually.
my favorite function of all time in php is nl2br, ONCE I FOUND IT.
what an awful name, it's like perl or something. =)
"Hope they're still maintained."
yes they are! for linux and solaris as well =)
"The Niagra Mohawk power grid is overloaded, which feeds electricity throughout the northeast U.S. and into Canada."
don't you mean OUT OF Canada? specifically the James Bay hydro project in Quebec???
I work for a software developer that targets various products at a number of different platforms including Linux and Windows. We very much want to provide a single binary package that will work on as many Linux distributions as possible, and are having problems with distributions (Red Hat) breaking compatibility with previous versions of their own distribution, let alone others. As more proprietary vendors such as Oracle and IBM move their apps to Linux, how do you see distributions handling this? Red Hat currently has the market -and- mind share to force their own way, but this is hardly good for open source or Linux. Will vendors (like final scratch) be forced to distribute their own distro tuned to their specific software? Can't we all just get along?
have a laptop, p4 1.9 ghz running win2k, has built-in firewire.
as far as pro gear goes, i have a motu 828 firewire card and a roland 2 port midi interface, plus the m-audio oxygen 8 controller. all of this runs spiffy using cubase sx, reason, or ableton live 2, very low latency (512 k buffer or about 6 msec output latency) running a fair number of software synths.
in terms of DAW software, i prefer cubase SX because although is not quite as flexible as logic for audio routing, the (esp audio) editing is about 100X faster (for me, YMMM)
btw check out synthedit.com, freeware that allows you to roll your own vst synth. there's even an sdk for adding modules.
less wars, better beer, fresher water =)
flash mx/actionscript using it's native xml stuff to talk to web services. for distributed data access type apps especially ones that require visualization, this could well be the future.
it's just too bad its proprietary
just thought i'd point out Shatner IS canadian and as such might actually have a sense of humour about himself?
ok maybe his worlds aren't clock-work believable like asimov, maybe he was intentionally writing pulp for cheap sale for years, but i can't think of another writer who travelled so far not only in the universe but more importantly into the deoths of the human mind / imagination.
from the elegant historical revisionism of man in the high castle to the whacked out jungian paranoid fantasies of radio free albemuth, dick has it asll, and through ti all there is a deeply disturbed genius working very hard to push boundaries, with complete disregard for his own mental health.
my personal favourite dick book is 'now wait for last year', a mad tale of drug-enabled time travel, divorce, and interstellar war that borrows more from jean beaudrillard's simulation and simulacrum 30 years before the matrix.
science would be a dull, cold place without philip k dick; no matter what people write now the vast influence he had remains string.
you're not missing anything, it's just that by and large design is done very quickly, usually on a white board, and almost always fails in some substantial way to fulfill the requirements.
erm, the other thing to point out it that, although the film is set in Alaska, it was actually mostly filmed in squamish and port alberni near vancouver, bc, canada. a friend of mine was production assistant up here, and the budget btw was something north of $80 million USD. i think a lot of that was salaries though. so altho Katz' point about CG is partly true, insomnia was certainly not low-budget...
i think the only alaskan footage is the (admittedly spectacular) glacier footage at the beginning...
for the 'Best use of a Crystal Method Song in an Action Sequence' for next year's oscar's =D...
seriously though, kids - the movie shouldn't be taken tootoo seriously after all it's based on a COMIC BOOK.
i have a MOTU 828 firewire card (motu.com), running on two different machines - 1200 athlon desktop and 800 duron vaio laptop.
this thing rocks, but it's expensive. if you're looking for semi-pro stuff, check out emagic's 2|6
(emagic.de) - it's USB though
most of the use i and i think a lot of other techno heads get out of napster is collecting long, bootlegged dj mixes, especially recordings of BBC One's Essential Mix show.
i'm not sure about the copyright status of a radio show, tho - i think it's protected still. anybody know?
I think that's a totally naive wya to look at it. Those people are i power becaue they are rich, white, anglo-saxon protestants whose families have long histories of being involved in government.
if you honestly think that people voted for George or Al because they really thought that they were the best choice, period, then I can't help you.
i think what you're really trying to say is that Americans need to keep it simple because they're too dumb to handle complexity. I don't believe that for a minute.
If you want a model for a good, working, multi-party system, try the metherlands...
I like the fact that you seem to be having something of an epiphany about political freedoms in the supposedly 'free' west, but COME ON - how can the US claim to be a democracy with an entrenched two-party system that now seems to be sliding alramingly towards oligarchy? ( hillary, george jr., etc ). I'm canadian, and I don't think we're all that much better off - we have more political parties, but the elected members of those political parties aren't allowed to vote their own conscience - they have to toe party line.
I think too often we confuse political freedom with personal freedom. In N. America, we enjoy IMMENSE amounts of personal freedoms ( ie 'free as in beer' ) but as far as political freedom goes, it's really quite debatable.
What do you think?
the report doesn't really seem to appreciate the complexities of free software and the unix world - they focused totally on commercial unices and linux, forgetting about freebsd, openbsd, etc... additionally, there is no account for the effect the open source has on buying decisions. sure, AIX, etc. are virtually free with hardware purchase, but that doesn't mean you can re-compile the kernel for smaller memory footprint, fix bugs in-house, or any of the other options open to users of free or open source software...
ultra boring game that might actually catch on: 3D backgammon. use an existing 3D engine (say the half-life engine because you get some talking movement in the faces), roll the dice, move the chips, there you go. play the computer, or go online and play others on the internet. you'd make a quake map that was just a room, have customizeable models and skins, and even real-time voice communication for LPB's. in fact, don't just stop with backgammon - you could port most of the parker bros. collection that way - yahtzee, monopoly, snakes and ladders, etc. crack-fiends would find ways of manipulating the physics code to 'load the dice'
I've read your comments, and I think that solution is the worst thing possible for good music. The current situation is already a sad state of affairs in terms of corporate influence on music; your solution would have musicians be explicitly endorsing products (not that they don't already implicitly).
Besides, I think that this is beside the point. The only way make money off of music is to:
1. make an album good enough people will want to buy it
2. re-arrange your business model so that you are deriving revenue from something besides raw album sales.
With respect to the first point, consider this: most people I know look for MP3s of singles they like; these same people are pissed off when they buy an entire album because they like one song and the rest of it sucks. If anything, MP3s may encourage the recording industry to cut down on 'one hit wonders' and but more care into making sure the albums they DO release are of decent quality. Case in Point - no matter how many mp3s of tool songs there are out on the net, most (rabid) tool fans will buy the album anyway. Out of _respect_.
Point two: Realistically, the major source of revenue for a given artist is highly variable: radio play, album sales, ticket sales. Album sales usually account for very little for a given artist. This is because most artists don't sell that many albums. Metallica is an exception here because they historically have gotten almost no radio play; most of their moeny has come from touring and albums.
Either way, mp3s cut into two of three of those revenue streams - radio and albums. This is because in the current situation (bandwidth/cost, etc.) downloading small files is far more convenient than listening to the radio, and far cheaper. In the 'Future' media will be streamed, once bandwidth allows for widespread high-quality audio streaming. the equation will be simple: why bother downloading something when you can get it streamed to anywhere, on demand? People will PAY for such a service.
and in the mean time:
"The only way to stop [Gnutella] is to turn off the Internet,"
hey, has anybody out there gotten this thing running using tnt2 and the glx drivers? if so let me know - aparently it isn't officially tested...
hey, John iD has always stated that you make games that you like to play. this focus has kept the company small, private, and immensly profitable. have you contemplated using your technology to develop other types of applications (beyond fps) (eg 3D desktop environments, 3D chat clients, etc.)? to that end, when do you think 3D acceleration tech will become ubiquitous so that such apps will be commonly used? --burnitall--