Stupid enough to buy the exact same piece of music for the same price, twice, the difference being that one version is reduced to 30 seconds of questionable quality?
Seeing what rolls out of Hollywood these days it's not much science (just look at computers) and it's definitely not much of art (except for the CGI, of course).
There are whole buch of good to aparently good apps for Linux. As sound and music isn't my field, I can't really comment though.
There's nothing like Ableton, Logic, Cubase or (and this would win a lot of converts) FL Studio. Port FL Studio, rewrite it in C++ instead of Delphi, find a way to make the plugins work (which is very important; these are the instruments you've paid for and they represent an investment you don't dump for a free alternative), and they will come.
In cases like these, the sequencer becomes your instrument; it's like switching to a completely different model guitar, only worse. The fluency and inspiration (which is generally fragile already) suffers immensely, and to be productive with music on a computer you have to know the environment intimately.
but people love to be Adobe's Whore.
Inkscape and the Gimp (they'll have to fix the name, it's not funny. Pixelscape not taken?) have it very easy: all they have to do is exactly clone the way the Adobe products work, and make sure that formats can be opened and copied (Ctrl+C a vector drawing and I want it to appear as a "smart object" in the Gimp, and vice-versa). A thousand Python scripts for generative effects can not compensate for this. The whooshing sound you'll hear is the flock of people who are going to use it. Photoshop's vector options are very powerful time-savers and compositional tools.
It's not that people like Adobe that much, it's that they don't want to give up their habits and tools that took 'm a lot of time to acquire. You calling them whores means you ignore this phenomenon and it's not going to win any friends.
If your desktop rendering is so CPU intensive you need to offload it to your GPU, you've got problems.
Drag a window around in a Windows using GDI. You might see the hall of mirrors effect; moreso if something's waiting on something else to finish. Part of making a GUI feel "responsive" is moving stuff around without artifacts. The GPU simply does a better job of this. If an interface responds faster, it improves the impression users have of the software.
You may be right in dismissing all kinds of animations as chrome instead of substance, but they can be used as valuable visual cues - and using the GPU, resolution independence is easier to do, too. The problem is of course when every 2-bit hack is going to use it the wrong way.
Then there's the simple matter of not every application displaying its results in a "flat", CPU-friendly way. Think of previews in 3d modeling programs or graphing. 2D is a subset of 3D - so why even keep these two separate when there's a good tool for the job that doesn't bother your CPU?
The thing you have to remember about cultures and values is that they are arbitrary, there is no absolute right or wrong only adopted codes of behavior.
I know relativism is cool and all that, but let me give you a swift kick in the nuts (a Slashdot cultural assumption) and I'm rather certain that you're going to tell me that it is absolutely wrong;)
The idea of population planning isn't that objectionable per se, but leaving the details and implementation to the people themselves isn't such a great idea. Girls get killed after birth instead of earlier where it'd at least be less traumatic for the mother, and the government should realize the problem of a region (mostly rural, I think) ending up with a lot of pampered boys unable to find a wife.
I've only had one Palm - the Tungsten E. I used it to death - first thing to die after 2 years was the connection with the charger (the little pin broke and it's impossible to fix). No problem, just use USB trickle charge.
After that, the power button. The 4 buttons on the front will however switch the machine on and I'd let it go to sleep after 30 seconds. Not exactly efficient, but hey.
After that, the battery. Its charge would last 1.5 days at the very most.
I too wrote lots of useful stuff and quick ideas in my T|E - melodies and ideas for music, musings, phone numbers, directions and all that. I hated the sync software; the only thing I've used it for is uploading eBooks (which is another nice thing to have) using Plucker (which was awesome and would've been even more awesome with a slightly improved font and white text on black background).
Then, before I went on a holiday this year I did a manual backup - I wrote all the stuff in my Google Documents account. I deleted the notes I took. I charged it one last time, and left it powered off.
Apparently, in those 2 weeks something went wrong. I came back home, tried to power it up - the screen flashed once, and then it was dead for good. I panicked; I hadn't backed up my memos, but the last backup wrote the files to the harddisk and using a hex editor I could extract what I typed in there - passwords, ex-girlfriends, some phone numbers and CDs.
I now have a HTC Vox (Orange 650 smartphone with Windows Mobile 6). I dislike the fact that the applications can't close properly, but now I can read my eBooks directly as HTML files (Baen Free Library), the font looks better (240 pixels but the amount of text is the same due to a better font with anti-aliasing), and I can browse properly with it which the T|E lacked completely.
I'm interested in the Eee as a quick note-taking utility of sorts; I hope it's got a decent screen, then it may become my new eReader:).
Front Left Wheel attacks.
Front Left Wheel does 24 points of damage!
Rabbit perishes.
Front Left Wheel receives 2 XP and gains 3 RPM.
Alternatively: It is dark. You are most likely to be hit by a truck.
or: You are in a maze of twisty little cul-de-sacs, all alike. Your GPS does not work.
What now?
Script doesn't lose color, can be translated/read, filled in with relative ease. You can't tell how someone looked if the head's cut out - but you can make an educated guess about how a letter's lower part should look because there's context and the symbols are repetitive. You can tell details of a story that, in a painting, would get lost because the modern viewer doesn't consider the older framework of the allegories. The completely anal retentiveness concerning history of the Egyptians means that even when a state-wide purge was done of data, some was still left; which now tells us something about a pharaoh they'd rather forget.
Sure, knowledge is lost and maybe then rediscovered - maybe. We were still guessing about the pyramids (nobody wrote down that they casted the blocks). Not that we're going to use that knowledge again, but it'll take something away from the wild guesses about aliens, magic, or giants.
Also you don't need ten thousand receipts.
Redundancy is good if the material's cheap enough.
The number of GFLOPS moves up every 18-24 months. I don't think specialization is that bad of a qualifier; after all, using something that'd be considered a supercomputer a decade (or more) ago just to watch YouTube videos can hardly be called a supercomputer.
Cheese is a sedentary gricultural civilization; mostly harmless. Now, chicken - that's the stuff you have to pinch in the bud - before it invents the wheel and the fire.
and in some cases even pushed out to homes where people with broadband can be paid even less
Sucks if that person's walking with their dog for 3 minutes or so while a robbery is in progress. There's a reason you leave it to at least folks who have trained for it; the chance that they'll slack off in the store is smaller. At least, that's what I hope.
I hope you're aware that you don't need a linebreak every 80 characters. Just separate it in paragraphs using HTML tags, it'll become more readable, too.
There is still nothing similar in the Windows world.
I find it perverse that they're all gung-ho about "Windows logo tests" with trusted, validated drivers while by far the biggest culprit causing instability and a bloody mess is the software the users install, not the drivers.
Accidentally, how would someone go about adding a Bonzi Buddy-esque piece of software to the repository?
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Seeing what rolls out of Hollywood these days it's not much science (just look at computers) and it's definitely not much of art (except for the CGI, of course).
In cases like these, the sequencer becomes your instrument; it's like switching to a completely different model guitar, only worse. The fluency and inspiration (which is generally fragile already) suffers immensely, and to be productive with music on a computer you have to know the environment intimately. Inkscape and the Gimp (they'll have to fix the name, it's not funny. Pixelscape not taken?) have it very easy: all they have to do is exactly clone the way the Adobe products work, and make sure that formats can be opened and copied (Ctrl+C a vector drawing and I want it to appear as a "smart object" in the Gimp, and vice-versa). A thousand Python scripts for generative effects can not compensate for this. The whooshing sound you'll hear is the flock of people who are going to use it. Photoshop's vector options are very powerful time-savers and compositional tools.
It's not that people like Adobe that much, it's that they don't want to give up their habits and tools that took 'm a lot of time to acquire. You calling them whores means you ignore this phenomenon and it's not going to win any friends.
You may be right in dismissing all kinds of animations as chrome instead of substance, but they can be used as valuable visual cues - and using the GPU, resolution independence is easier to do, too. The problem is of course when every 2-bit hack is going to use it the wrong way.
Then there's the simple matter of not every application displaying its results in a "flat", CPU-friendly way. Think of previews in 3d modeling programs or graphing. 2D is a subset of 3D - so why even keep these two separate when there's a good tool for the job that doesn't bother your CPU?
The idea of population planning isn't that objectionable per se, but leaving the details and implementation to the people themselves isn't such a great idea. Girls get killed after birth instead of earlier where it'd at least be less traumatic for the mother, and the government should realize the problem of a region (mostly rural, I think) ending up with a lot of pampered boys unable to find a wife.
Yeah. This research was obviously funded by Skynet.
Damnit.
Oh well, I'll just wait for part 5 of the series.
At least iWaited.
That was a touching story :).
:).
I've only had one Palm - the Tungsten E. I used it to death - first thing to die after 2 years was the connection with the charger (the little pin broke and it's impossible to fix). No problem, just use USB trickle charge.
After that, the power button. The 4 buttons on the front will however switch the machine on and I'd let it go to sleep after 30 seconds. Not exactly efficient, but hey.
After that, the battery. Its charge would last 1.5 days at the very most.
I too wrote lots of useful stuff and quick ideas in my T|E - melodies and ideas for music, musings, phone numbers, directions and all that. I hated the sync software; the only thing I've used it for is uploading eBooks (which is another nice thing to have) using Plucker (which was awesome and would've been even more awesome with a slightly improved font and white text on black background).
Then, before I went on a holiday this year I did a manual backup - I wrote all the stuff in my Google Documents account. I deleted the notes I took. I charged it one last time, and left it powered off.
Apparently, in those 2 weeks something went wrong. I came back home, tried to power it up - the screen flashed once, and then it was dead for good. I panicked; I hadn't backed up my memos, but the last backup wrote the files to the harddisk and using a hex editor I could extract what I typed in there - passwords, ex-girlfriends, some phone numbers and CDs.
I now have a HTC Vox (Orange 650 smartphone with Windows Mobile 6). I dislike the fact that the applications can't close properly, but now I can read my eBooks directly as HTML files (Baen Free Library), the font looks better (240 pixels but the amount of text is the same due to a better font with anti-aliasing), and I can browse properly with it which the T|E lacked completely.
I'm interested in the Eee as a quick note-taking utility of sorts; I hope it's got a decent screen, then it may become my new eReader
I can imagine this - Road Adventures.
A rabbit appears!
Front Left Wheel attacks.
Front Left Wheel does 24 points of damage!
Rabbit perishes.
Front Left Wheel receives 2 XP and gains 3 RPM.
Alternatively:
It is dark. You are most likely to be hit by a truck.
or:
You are in a maze of twisty little cul-de-sacs, all alike. Your GPS does not work.
What now?
Script doesn't lose color, can be translated/read, filled in with relative ease. You can't tell how someone looked if the head's cut out - but you can make an educated guess about how a letter's lower part should look because there's context and the symbols are repetitive. You can tell details of a story that, in a painting, would get lost because the modern viewer doesn't consider the older framework of the allegories. The completely anal retentiveness concerning history of the Egyptians means that even when a state-wide purge was done of data, some was still left; which now tells us something about a pharaoh they'd rather forget.
As an example, please see this painting - "The Netherlandish Proverbs" by Pieter Brueghel the Younger. Now, this was solely done to illustrate proverbs, but if you didn't know this, and you had to find out from scratch, you'd be utterly puzzled.
Sure, knowledge is lost and maybe then rediscovered - maybe. We were still guessing about the pyramids (nobody wrote down that they casted the blocks). Not that we're going to use that knowledge again, but it'll take something away from the wild guesses about aliens, magic, or giants.
Redundancy is good if the material's cheap enough.You're entirely right and I hereby apologize for forgetting it; that's what not using the preview button does to you.
"Remember kids, "data" is not the plural form of "anecdote".
Yeah, uh... about that horse's ass.
The number of GFLOPS moves up every 18-24 months. I don't think specialization is that bad of a qualifier; after all, using something that'd be considered a supercomputer a decade (or more) ago just to watch YouTube videos can hardly be called a supercomputer.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer#Overvi
Cheese is a sedentary gricultural civilization; mostly harmless. Now, chicken - that's the stuff you have to pinch in the bud - before it invents the wheel and the fire.
I hope you're aware that you don't need a linebreak every 80 characters. Just separate it in paragraphs using HTML tags, it'll become more readable, too.
I'm sorry Dave, but I'm afraid I can't let you play Bioshock.
Accidentally, how would someone go about adding a Bonzi Buddy-esque piece of software to the repository?
You mean a Beowulf flock ;).
Youtube has a very significant dip in the frequency spectrum at 11khz, and videos include taped-from-VHS-re-encoded versions.
Hm.. Java.. Reminds me of Starbucks. Starbucks is doing well. Coffee tastes good. Oh what the hell, I'll take 50.
Maybe they're going for that kind of reasoning.
I'm reasonably certain that the Commodore 64 used it for both their tape- and disk-drives.
Thank goodness for loader music.