Lots of stuff, depending on what you want to spend. MOTU, RME, Apogee Duet (cheap but Mac only), and above that are the real big money slurpers (the other Apogee stuff, Prism Sound, Metric Halo, Lucid etc.)
You're not the only one with that idea - see Manna. Ignore the parts of the projected communist wonderland and wide-eyed open source optimism at your own convenience; the greed and callousness displayed seems a pretty realistic, albeit depressing estimate.
Last time I struggled with Blender I gave up trying to get Yafray to work. Are there any plans to include a proper radiosity solution out of the box without making you jump through hoops?
It would be ridiculously easy and you'd get far more useful and readable URLs too - right now you can't even copy + paste links to tracks.
The problem is having a track play continuously while browsing other pages. That can be solved with a small player popup window that shows your queued tracks.
4) People who don't want to drag Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" in all its heavy glory everywhere with them.
Seriously, being able to read at any place at any time without having to bother to figure out where the bookmark went is awesome. Paperbacks snap shut again or you have to ruin the spine. Carrying 100 books in your pocket is awesome. Being able to read with a backlit screen, inverted is awesome. I'm a big fan of Stanza on the iPhone, and I've already spent a lot on Baen (and it'll continue). Compared to them, any other publisher is almost pathetic in terms of offered formats, pricing and DRM.
Ahhh finally the whole meat of the bleeding heart argument. How about I take the opposite position? Let's turn loose every single murderer in prison because one of them might be innocent.
Consider this: you are driving, and summoned to stop. It just so happens to be that the cops are corrupt and have to make their monthly quota. One of 'm plants a baggie in your vehicle, and you go off to the Tent Camp. It doesn't even have to be about corrupt cops if you think this is implausible.
Honestly, I would take my chances with a "less than perfect" justice system that offers greater deterrence
Here's the trick though: death penalty doesn't offer greater deterrence per se.
And, as Terry Pratchett once said, the death penalty combines the maximum deterrence with the minimum chance of recurrence.
Terry Pratchett writes satire. Errors (which are made a-plenty) can never, ever be righted again. But do continue your belief in your own infallibility and the absolute correctnessof thejustice system, because these are all disgusting liberal bleeding hearted links, and I'm obviously very much misguided, being a subject in the People's Republic of Europe.
I'm sure everything would've been right if they just would've manned up.
Frankly my own views are rather extreme, and will never be implemented, and are certainly a violation of human rights.
OK - so assume your rules are implemented. What do you do if you get arrested? Or your children? Or your significant other? What if you get arrested but you're innocent, yet they don't figure that out for a while?
If you want to know how civilized a country is, see how they treat their prisoners.
Most icons are abysmal. IE's icon is a lower case "e" on what appears to be paper; if you had never used IE you would have no clue that it was a web browser.
With few people having a clue what the "web" was back then or what a "browser" was supposed to do with it, what should've been the icon of choice?
A globe? No, already used for trade and designating "international". A highway? No. So, we end up with a red O, a stylized fox around a globe, a blue E and a compass. None of 'm having to do with "web", or with "browsing".
Icons serve no purpose on a computer except to pretty it up.
People can't aim their mouse properly. You can't fit lots of text on a mobile device. Icons provide a big click area, and when you're not wearing glasses you can generally recognize the icon by its color, while text would be a gray blur. Icons have unique silhouettes which increase recognizability. Enough good reasons to use 'm.
In my car I'd far rather have the word "headlights" than a stylized picture of a headlight.
Yet icons can make the difference between dipped beam and main beam immediately obvious, while the text "headlight, main beam" would be too verbose, and abbreviations would be completely lethal. Also, you can't order manufacturers which fonts to use - but icons can be standardized without too much trouble, and that way you can ship your cars to any country you want without having to localize anything.
Anybody can with hard labor mine gold or harvest salt wherever it is found
There's no gold in the ground here in Europe. There's lots of gold in Africa - but you can't harvest it because consortiums have bought up the ground. To see what happens in the worst-case scenario, simply look at African history, and to see the integrity of consortiums, just look at DeBeers (diamonds, but still artificially kept scarce and with dehumanizing conditions for the people performing the hard labor. To make it worse, diamonds aren't even rare.).
If you want to have an effective currency for everyone, forget gold. Consider energy. At least that's of real, actual value, because it gets something done. The best part is that it encourages people to find new ways to counterfeit it - e.g. produce it at lower cost, lower effort and environmental impact, benefiting all.
Going back to having a medium of exchange that has real value
What real value are you talking about?
You can dig it out of the ground, and the only thing that happens is that it's refined, poured in the shape of bars - only to be put in the ground again. It's soft, so it's useless to make tools out of. Since it's soft, it's also useless to make money out of since you can just carve it to pieces and decrease the weight a little bit; the original salami slicing. It's ridiculously heavy, so forget moving it quickly if you have to bail out. Worst part? There's a good chance you'll find an entire asteroid made out of it, which immediately plunges the value since it's no longer rare. You can't eat it. You can't drink it. It won't warm you. It won't comfort you. You can't do those things with fiat money either, but at least it's not trying to delude you that it has "value".
As someone who works with Illustrator a fair amount, I implicitly know that pdfs can be reopened and worked on just fine without losing any data at all. I call this function save.
Then you should also know that it specifically asks you when saving as PDF if you want to "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities", implying a loss of data. It's probably safe to assume that it expands/flattens the results of filters, but still.
Computers were supposed to get rid of paper and they didn't.
That's because reading a flickering CRT with the Windows 95 Hot Dog Stand color scheme makes you want to claw your eyes out, and people don't have the sense to keep a document on disk until a final version is made. Also, in meetings, staring at a laptop is rather impolite.
E-ink advances and will solve these problems; you only have to wait for the generation that is used to paper to retire.
Remember how CSS was supposed to make web pages shorter and faster to load? NOT.)
What, you think after the first load that CSS file isn't cached in any way? Inline styles slow down every time, CSS just the first. CSS was supposed to make styling elements not completely braindead. You want to change the link colors with inline styles from red to blue? With inline styles - enjoy your grepping. You're bound to forget some of 'm, too.
Bitching about ad loading times and huge JS libraries? Sure, go ahead. CSS? No, that just makes you look silly.
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Lots of stuff, depending on what you want to spend. MOTU, RME, Apogee Duet (cheap but Mac only), and above that are the real big money slurpers (the other Apogee stuff, Prism Sound, Metric Halo, Lucid etc.)
You're not the only one with that idea - see Manna. Ignore the parts of the projected communist wonderland and wide-eyed open source optimism at your own convenience; the greed and callousness displayed seems a pretty realistic, albeit depressing estimate.
Can't comment on the story, so I'll do it here - but that. Was. Awesome. I only hope I can let my kids turn out to be as curious as you.
This is why you should be wary of topologists asking you out on a date.
Compare the results of running everything through Auto-Tune and whatever Vocaloid spews out. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Last time I struggled with Blender I gave up trying to get Yafray to work. Are there any plans to include a proper radiosity solution out of the box without making you jump through hoops?
It would be ridiculously easy and you'd get far more useful and readable URLs too - right now you can't even copy + paste links to tracks. The problem is having a track play continuously while browsing other pages. That can be solved with a small player popup window that shows your queued tracks.
4) People who don't want to drag Neal Stephenson's "Anathem" in all its heavy glory everywhere with them.
Seriously, being able to read at any place at any time without having to bother to figure out where the bookmark went is awesome. Paperbacks snap shut again or you have to ruin the spine. Carrying 100 books in your pocket is awesome. Being able to read with a backlit screen, inverted is awesome. I'm a big fan of Stanza on the iPhone, and I've already spent a lot on Baen (and it'll continue). Compared to them, any other publisher is almost pathetic in terms of offered formats, pricing and DRM.
Consider this: you are driving, and summoned to stop. It just so happens to be that the cops are corrupt and have to make their monthly quota. One of 'm plants a baggie in your vehicle, and you go off to the Tent Camp. It doesn't even have to be about corrupt cops if you think this is implausible.
Here's the trick though: death penalty doesn't offer greater deterrence per se.
Terry Pratchett writes satire. Errors (which are made a-plenty) can never, ever be righted again. But do continue your belief in your own infallibility and the absolute correctness of the justice system, because these are all disgusting liberal bleeding hearted links, and I'm obviously very much misguided, being a subject in the People's Republic of Europe.
I'm sure everything would've been right if they just would've manned up.
OK - so assume your rules are implemented. What do you do if you get arrested? Or your children? Or your significant other? What if you get arrested but you're innocent, yet they don't figure that out for a while?
If you want to know how civilized a country is, see how they treat their prisoners.
With few people having a clue what the "web" was back then or what a "browser" was supposed to do with it, what should've been the icon of choice?
A globe? No, already used for trade and designating "international". A highway? No. So, we end up with a red O, a stylized fox around a globe, a blue E and a compass. None of 'm having to do with "web", or with "browsing".
People can't aim their mouse properly. You can't fit lots of text on a mobile device. Icons provide a big click area, and when you're not wearing glasses you can generally recognize the icon by its color, while text would be a gray blur. Icons have unique silhouettes which increase recognizability. Enough good reasons to use 'm.
Yet icons can make the difference between dipped beam and main beam immediately obvious, while the text "headlight, main beam" would be too verbose, and abbreviations would be completely lethal. Also, you can't order manufacturers which fonts to use - but icons can be standardized without too much trouble, and that way you can ship your cars to any country you want without having to localize anything.
That's not a spectrum. That's a hyperintelligent shade of blue! Quickly, grab a prism!
What if we find aliens who want To Serve Man?
There's no gold in the ground here in Europe. There's lots of gold in Africa - but you can't harvest it because consortiums have bought up the ground. To see what happens in the worst-case scenario, simply look at African history, and to see the integrity of consortiums, just look at DeBeers (diamonds, but still artificially kept scarce and with dehumanizing conditions for the people performing the hard labor. To make it worse, diamonds aren't even rare.).
If you want to have an effective currency for everyone, forget gold. Consider energy. At least that's of real, actual value, because it gets something done. The best part is that it encourages people to find new ways to counterfeit it - e.g. produce it at lower cost, lower effort and environmental impact, benefiting all.
What real value are you talking about?
You can dig it out of the ground, and the only thing that happens is that it's refined, poured in the shape of bars - only to be put in the ground again. It's soft, so it's useless to make tools out of. Since it's soft, it's also useless to make money out of since you can just carve it to pieces and decrease the weight a little bit; the original salami slicing. It's ridiculously heavy, so forget moving it quickly if you have to bail out. Worst part? There's a good chance you'll find an entire asteroid made out of it, which immediately plunges the value since it's no longer rare. You can't eat it. You can't drink it. It won't warm you. It won't comfort you. You can't do those things with fiat money either, but at least it's not trying to delude you that it has "value".
Then you should also know that it specifically asks you when saving as PDF if you want to "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities", implying a loss of data. It's probably safe to assume that it expands/flattens the results of filters, but still.
No. Google's main business is advertising. If you search, you are the product, not the customer.
That's because reading a flickering CRT with the Windows 95 Hot Dog Stand color scheme makes you want to claw your eyes out, and people don't have the sense to keep a document on disk until a final version is made. Also, in meetings, staring at a laptop is rather impolite. E-ink advances and will solve these problems; you only have to wait for the generation that is used to paper to retire.
Well, that's obvious and it was explained all over the internet, several years ago.You have no chance to survive. Make your time.
What, you think after the first load that CSS file isn't cached in any way? Inline styles slow down every time, CSS just the first. CSS was supposed to make styling elements not completely braindead. You want to change the link colors with inline styles from red to blue? With inline styles - enjoy your grepping. You're bound to forget some of 'm, too.
Bitching about ad loading times and huge JS libraries? Sure, go ahead. CSS? No, that just makes you look silly.
That's when you tell customers about MSDE (now SQL Server Express) which does the job a lot better without breaking the bank.
"When I flex, it goes to eleven!"
Nope. The box should be soundproof, otherwise you'd have an observer.
It's more epic. A smartphone means more computing power in your hand than was present in an entire floor of an office building in the 70s.
Flying cars are a stupid idea anyway.