I think it's interesting that today I noticed that Valve has started selling a DAW program called "Ohm Studio" through Steam. Wouldn't it be great if there was some connection to SteamOS?
Why would there be?
For the very reason that their own hardware could sell including the DAW working on SteamOS as a complete audio solution package. Think outside the box. Right now the vast majority of people who switch on their smart tv do not even know that they are actually booting up a version of the Linux kernel on an arm based chipset. There is absolutely no reason why linux specific devices like powerful studio DAWs will not sell. It was at one time very trendy to see the Apple logo on the DAW but as the real truth about the iTunes monopoly becomes apparent to more and more studios and artists many are looking for an alternative to the MPAA the MPGLA, APPLE, SONY and MICROSOFT. If Valve gets in on the act there is every possibility that a real alternative to the Apple monopoly on the distribution of music content will happen. At least the possibility of a viable alternative might occur and rather quickly!
There no connection to SteamOS with Ohm Studio. It is, as with most pro audio stuff, Windows and Mac only. It is just on Steam because Valve is now selling regular software, as well as games, on Steam. Cakewalk started selling Music Creator, their home version of their Sonar software, on Steam a couple months ago.
From my understanding Maudio, Creative pro line, Cakewalk and others in industry are finally getting pissed with Apple, Microsoft and Sony (read Ericsson). In much the same way that the independent PC gaming industry is being shafted they have come to realize that controlling the operating system is the key way to stay alive. M-audio had to practically beg Microshaft to relent with Asio support, they have always had a crack bunch of coders for their devices but when Microsoft screwed them over with the palladium bullshit and the lack of kernel support for Asio that users still have to jump through ridiculous numbers of hoops to overcome, they suffered large sales loses of their devices.
Many have started to realize the pro entertainment industry is being herded down the garden path and the semi pro is being shafted in the processes. Small recording studios and independent producers are closing all over the place because of these assholes and everybody knows what is really going on. There are a few that have jumped ship from Microsoft already and struck out in the industry to create something which can address the needs of a new music industry which can be based upon a different business model than the current iTunes store bullshit model.
Small independents can compete provided there is a platform that does not rely upon the whim and good graces of Microsoft, who historically absorbs those who they feel they can take business away from because of their OS monopoly. So SteamOS could realistically become more than just a competitor to Windows XBOX, and Sony PS hegemony. Steam by leaving their linux distro open to modification might also find that more than just gamers become very interested in it. IF SALES of STEAM PCs take off you can bet that there will be Linux versions of some pro audio software available for sale very soon. Pros will pay for product that works and is supported regardless of the OS it is written for, FYI not all software has to be free as in beer on Linux and as such Linux as a pro platform might just take off in one hell of a hurry.
I've been doing it once every couple years for at least the last ten years. Every single time, I end up annoyed and switch back to OS X and Windows. I don't have an infinite amount of time to spend getting my OS to work, and I have no desire to make a hobby out of OS configuration; I'd rather just install it, and have it get the hell out of the way.
Mind you, in the server space Windows Server just pisses me right off and I'm far more comfortable with Linuxes.
To my way of thinking it is entirely possible to create a really great audio server that will respond as well as linux does as an internet server. My particular interest is creating internet coffee houses for performers where at least the audio of their performances could be broadcast in a similar fashion to a pod cast but in real time and at high bit rate. It comes down to the fact that the coffee house type performance venue that once helped musicians to hone their craft desperately need to be revived. After all JS Bach and his second wife actually ran one and in doing so promoted musicianship and musical literacy to a greater extent than we currently do today!
The software to do this in realtime does not exist, sorry Skype and other social networking interfaces do not cut the mustard with audio and there is nothing out there that can do broadcast high quality RT streaming audio on the net as of yet.
This idea could work because the broadcasts could be by subscription for RT and could become locally popular. This could also be used to promote the venue locally. The stream from the venue could be available in lower bit rate at any time and the performance venue could also sell musical instruments, recordings or even coffee and food for that matter. Doing things a little differently by making venue website only locally available for high bit rate real time would reduce bandwidth needs for the server and facilitate the targeted promotion of a local business.
As I stated a linux audio and then eventually full a/v server could create something really interesting in as much as being low in cost to a new form of smaller localized ip broadcast venues.
Somehow I do not think the costs of using any of the commercially available like MediaRoom is a solution. Microsoft ditched MediaRoom because they do not see the real possibilities of internet provided entertainment. All I am saying is that to take real advantage of the possibilities created by the internet and customized Linux servers one needs to think of the net as a local commodity not just the entire WWW concept. Essentially it comes down to the old saw of the developers not seeing the forest for the trees.
SteamOS at the same time could easily become a local game platform for small real time local game servers in the same way. Gamers will always want to play someone that they can frag locally over some unknown from Timbuktu with distance latency issues. The internet is changing and the change will be to a more realistic expectation of what is possible, expensive WWW streaming broadcast solutions are not the answer, local specialized nodes are the wave of the future.
Interesting that Intel's frequency scaling causes audio pops so they disabled the p state drivers at the kernel level. As such this release might work well as a DAW if one were use Ardour or ecasound with jack. I am thinking about setting it up for this purpose and seeing what kind of RT performance it will achieve. Ubuntu Studio is interesting but far to convoluted and difficult to modify to ones liking. Seeing that this system is using sysvinit, coding called functions will be much easier to script and run. It would be really great if it can be tweaked to do high bit rate audio recording and broadcast in realtime streams over networks. Nice to see they are paying close attention to audio problems caused by the system at the kernel level, this release could become much more than just a gaming platform.
They might get in trouble for shipping the proprietary Nvidia drivers if it is shipped together with the Linux kernel which is GPL.
Bullcrap. The drivers have to compile a module. THE MODULE is not a part of the kernel, it is called by the kernel. OpenGL is the reason why the driver includes binary blobs in the modules that do not include source code, unfortunately OpenGL is not really open it is controlled by a trumped up consortium much the same as the MPGLA model. You cannot legally disclose the software api source but you can use it under license. The OpenGL is overseen by the hardware companies that design and make the chips, Microsoft has a hand in it and also releases hardware acceleration for chipsets within the Windows system files called DirectX.
DirectX does not so much compete with OpenGL, rather it sleeps in the same bed. Nvidia has lately been given a rather frosty pist from Microsoft because they have had too much of a smooch session going on with Android and have also made inroads into peoples living rooms on other devices with tegra based graphics used in other devices with the Linux kernel.
All the while the PC gaming market has been torpedoed by Microsoft with the release of an etch-a-sketch OS with lousy high end graphic support called Windows8. Because it is absolute shit for PC gaming, much the same as Vista and the early Win7 OS was.
Nvidia and Valve seeing an opening with high end gaming, has started to experiment with the SteamOS project with a networked gaming system which will not be dependent upon Microsoft's software or OSes whatsoever. Whether or not this will fly is very problematic as the market for high end graphics cards is currently in the tank, so it is a shot in the dark. Seeing that the market for custom made gaming computers is limited and the hardware for them will only become more and more scarce and expensive.
It has always been the case that gaming and advanced graphics, though supported under Linux rely upon the whim of the manufactures to actually work with proprietary libraries like the not so OpenGL. Same thing applies to using the advanced features in software like Google Earth, you can run it in emulation without hardware acceleration but it sucks unless you have the proprietary drivers installed in Linux. Here in the world of Linux we suck on the hind teats and are forced to accept the fact that not every piece of hardware is open source friendly or can be made that way. Same thing would happen if Steinberg's Asio audio API were ever to be ported to Linux, it would be a game changer in professional audio and Microsoft and Apple both know this and actively prevent it from happening. So for realtime audio, advanced graphics and other high end features Linux is very much a non starter because it has deliberately been prevented from coming to the table by the big players.
> On youtube it downloads the whole smash including the webM html5 streams and all available vid size pieces of a vid including any mp3 or other audio files.
> Best stream ripper out there IMO.
These two sentences seem in direct contradiction. The best one would only download your preferred media format, not all the poorer-quality, larger file size, or unviewable content.
Have not messed with the default settings, it might be possible to select individual streams. For a java app it seems to not eat up your ram though.
The warez in question is a java app with binaries available to be loaded at time of install from a script. So the setup starts with a set of jars that get extracted. YOU CAN INSTALL IT TO/HOME and view the entire process which downloads more binaries as the install takes place, at least on Linux if you install unpriviledged it will just install in a created directory and do everything from $ directory without requiring logging elsewhere or so you can easily track everything the software does.
I ran Wireshark on it and it does not do the ET phone home crap that most spyware does so it is what the writers say it is.
If you boot it up and do not leave it in the sys tray it does not leave active processes hanging around. HOWEVER you can run it as a background process to snoop your RTMPE and have them automatically download the vids. On youtube it downloads the whole smash including the webM html5 streams and all available vid size pieces of a vid including any mp3 or other audio files.
Best stream ripper out there IMO. EAT MY SHORTS MPAA, RIAA and all your ill begotten drm bullshit nonsense. This video is a great one and as a result I will order her works online she is one hot guitarist! Fantasia la Traviata a little beyond the reach of most musicians, eat your heart out if you like guitar!
Correction, most likely an arm chair redneck wantabee trolling away on slashdot. I am certain if this was the 1950's they would be using terms like "wetbacks". Bigotry and racism is alive and obvious in the US and elsewhere. Certainly these crooks were stupid to ignore the warnings and open the containers IF THE PACKAGE WAS EVEN MARKED.
I suspect that the containers were not even marked and neither was the truck. In Mexico the transport company and shipper most likely avoided some tariff or transport inspection fee by shipping the containers in an insecure and unmarked way. In most countries the shipment of radioactive materials requires some permits and source to destination confirmation of shipment.
Most likely what happened is the US Military bought the software, which may or may not be the best solution but clearly it was the most viable software solution available suited for the specific needs of modern arm forces logistics. Then what happened is the user seat requirements outstripped the original purchase numbers. BECAUSE THE FRIGGIN' SOFTWARE is written on a per seat basis and most likely a timed rental lease. And this is why the distribution became a warez situation.
EVERYBODY wants to pull a Microsoft and create something that becomes a cash cow that feeds them beyond the actual value of the original creation, is timed to expire and cause the users to send more cash.
Now we complicate the situation with the recent cutbacks in military funding for procurement of frills like this software. Someone with a hand on the accounting made the decision that increasing the site license numbers was not financially justified. This in turn caused the military IT person(s) responsible for deployment of this software to but heads with staff that was lower down than the pencil necks that cut their procurement budgets. So most likely some Colonel somewhere reamed out the poor IT staff so bad about not having the rights to deploy more copies without the budget that they just turned a blind eye and handed out copies instead of facing some Colonel Blowhard every time Lieutenant Hothead complained about the IT department not letting them accomplish their mission.
It doesn't matter why he wants to work remotely. He could be Skynet for all people care.
Remote workers are not as productive as "there" workers on a number of levels guaranteed, and also quite possibly on actual measurable work performance too.
This is all about the perception the company has of him, not the other way around. "But he has XYZ" is completely irrelevant.
You must be one of the "everybody gets a trophy" generation. "Give me something (because of self-inflicted hardship)!" "I am an XYZ type person, give me something because of it!" Meh. Nobody wants that type around when the company might fail if the project fails.
I was posting in humor, something which on this website at least seems to be in dire need of a coding language change! The whole problem this fellow might be experiencing is the companies he is trying to work for need to hire on the cheap.
This is nothing new. There are many instances where hiring someone who is on the retirement side of the equation scares the hell out of the executive. He might actually be too good for the positions he is trying to apply for and might be hired on only as a project lead. In which case the choice of working only by remote is not exactly a desirable requirement. Like all situations where intensive communication is necessary for a job, face to face communications trump all other forms. Seeing something done in person face to face can work wonders or it can start wars depending upon the situation. E-mail, Skype, and all forms of remote communications can be positively counter productive if you are supervising a job.
It doesn't matter is you communicate as well as Walter Cronkite did you can just as easily be misunderstood without the marvel that is face to face interpersonal human discourse, which should facilitate positive debate, teaching and learning not just things like e-mail or Skype like or for that matter Slashdot like flame wars.
JUST MAYBE BECAUSE THE fellow lives in the bush out in the Aleutian peninsula and generates his electricity burning whale oil? OR maybe his internet by satellite is not fast enough to respond to the job offers in time? Could be all sorts of legitimate reasons why insisting on working remotely is causing employers to overlook his job inquiries. How many times have you had the dream of turning into a hermit when working on a.NET project. OR moving to Alaska.
Microsoft fud? Here is why that assumption is questionable.
get this trash off slashdot
ON THE CONTRARY IT IS LINUX FUD! There is nothing that Microsoft would love more than to see everybody buy new Surface devices every 2 to three years the way the Apple sheep do with their products. Soldered in ram, batteries, locked down boot loaders make Apple and Microsoft's consumer hardware division leaders have wet dreams in the billions of dollars. As Bill Gates clearly stated "the only thing to fear in computing is Linux" and they are aggressively making sure that the fud keeps going against other devices than the ones that run WINDBLOWS. Try putting Linux or Android on an iPad, or Surface Pro or RT then come back and tell me who is full of fud. As it is my IBM T42 runs like a Russian tank and it still does everything I ask of it and I can still repair it if necessary! AS LONG AS I AM RUNNING LINUX on it.
Apple has realized that making serviceable devices is a dead end when the processor hardware is good enough to be future proof. And their solution is the same solution many sectors of the economy face. Our automobiles are disposable consumer oriented devices, our kitchen appliances are as well, washing machines, you name it all service and repair departments are being down graded to expedite product end life.
Obsolescence is not just planned it has become a manufacturing industry mantra. With essentially slave labour doing the recycling of these goods, either that or illegal at sea dumping operations turning over the used goods we are headed down a technical path to environmental and consumer driven stupidity!
Yahoo is positioned to do something radical. INDIVIDUALIZED services. Boutique interfaces for individuals and groups to use instead of generalist EMAIL clients. For instance a forum like interface for Classical Musicians, teachers and composers that has a web based music notation service that can spit back pdf at the clients.
There are many other fields that could use webspace mail, chat and customized content creation interfaces. THE PROBLEM is how do you pay the piper. WHEN MICROSHAFT, APPLE AND SONY are trying with the "ROCKSTAR" troll consortium to exercise a ridiculous patent on targeted advertising!
The future of the web is social space services through interfaces, this much is obvious the problem is corporations like SONY, APPLE AND MICROSOFT know this and are trying desperately to all gang up and murder the baby in the bathwater! Unfortunately for the web Yahoo cannot see the forest for the trees and by hooking itself up with BING has made a pact with the devil.
NOW IF THIS POST GETS REMOVED SLASHDOT WILL LOOSE FACE IMO
Actually, usually. Most dogs hate their own dog poo.
But they do love cat poo. Which in fact is probably a more apt analogy, anyway, because the new Yahoo Mail interface looks like they ate HotMail, had horrible indigestion, and then crapped out something vaguely resembling it.
31531.5315315... is the number of Bitcoins that must only be held in the wallet of the beast. Why, simple, because there are only 21 million to go around. Naturally if it is decided that a greater number of Bitcoins is necessary then this wallet will increase proportionally. Call this a sin tax but because of this. Here is what happens to those who send money to the beast's public key.
About 11 years ago, I knocked my hand on the corner of a desk. Cut my finger open nice-and-good. Cleaned it up with some nice disinfectants. Seven days later, I was in hospital on a drip, in a cast, for the resultant infection.
After I had cleaned it up.
Not all infections happen at the time of the injury.
Point well taken, the original post as well as my post stated the importance of modern antibiotic science. All we are saying is that using antibiotics in a willy nilly fashion is a real problem. In your case this is why post infection use is the only rational treatment. Giving you a broad spectrum antibiotic as a preventative for infection may or may not have worked. As these bugs evolve giving broad spectrum doses to all those who suffer subcutaneous injuries is not going to prevent bugs that have developed resistance to the essential components of the given antibiotic(s). Unfortunately until the actual genetic strain of the bacterial infection is known the patient is only being treated in a very inexact manor and you very well might have developed the infection regardless of whether or not you were given an initial dose of antibiotics. And this is the key to the problem, until the bug actually infects you, there is no way of treating it without giving you a dose of everything that is available. What is happening is new antibiotics that are effective for the specific bacterial strain need to be included in the broad spectrum treatment and the cocktail of chemicals most likely would be a nightmare to develop and deliver.
Essentially there is no easy answer. Penicillin, all the derivatives, sulfides, and a myriad of other chemical formulas are not the panacea for this problem that everybody once believed.
WHOEVER the hell you are congratulations for spamming Slashdot so effectively. Hint: you are being modded into oblivion so perhaps I will feed you as obviously your disruptive posts are being monitored by the NSA under orders from the Whitehouse
Perhaps in a few decades "Obamacare" can be saved with a health tax on the exchange of currency for Bitcoins. But only if enough eager rich people keep dumping their USDs into them to deliberately devalue the dollar. Either that or invade the Cayman Islands and Belize to get back all the capital going there.
I just wonder how much currency is being exchanged for Bitcoins and what will happen when someone who has horded it does a strategic cash out for goods when it becomes possible to exchange it for gold? Using bitcoins to go up for a short peek at the curvature of the earth seems positively productive, so I doubt that many of today's modern day Goldfinger extortion bandits will make the trip.
Letting the existing insurance companies control the individual policies was somewhat akin to locking the fox in the hen house and those foxes are not exactly going to work for chicken feed. It is blatantly obvious that public health care in the United States is doomed. Everyone sing along with me:
Here here. Well spoken. Historically the treatment of even major cuts and avulsions in many cultures was very efficient before the advent of modern antibiotics. Certainly these treatments rely upon the individual having a robust immune system. In Canada the Northern Native populations had very effective treatments using the cambium layer and pitch of Picea mariana after washing the wounds with clean water and wrapping with complicated pressure dressings made from clean root fibers and certain mosses. In fact most North American Natives found the Europeans to be disgustingly dirty as did the Japanese. Though Lewis and Clark had the humorous experience of sharing a feast of Columbian Lily bulbs then having to excuse themselves as the flatulence of both them and their hosts became overwhelming to some members of their expedition. It is known that many of the party were treated by natives for their small incidents but little was actually documented.:-)
There is much that we can learn from historical accounts and our medical science needs to heed this for a change. A huge part of the equation is that many new parents are challenged by small issues that our parents and ancestors knew how to handle. Instead most just head for the clinic if Johnny gets a cough, cut scrap or bruise then ask the doctor if they could get antibiotics to prevent an infection. Not that more intervention with higher levels of care is not necessary at times, it is just that the knee jerk use of medical emergency services for things which should not require it a huge problem. And will make public health care insurance in the United States a financial impossibility. In Canada the misuse of services and the over prescription of drugs has already caused financial stress on the economy.
You're gonna have to answer to the Coca Cola company.
Since they changed the formula my long standing debt of one dime is nullified!
PS. Here is where you can find what you are looking for. I hope you can now go ahead with the reno.
So stating the obvious is now the act of a "psychopath"? Is "psychopath" the new word for heretic?
No a psychopath can be capable of compassion, however they can also selectively chose where to apply compassionate decisions and this is how they learn to manipulate others. It is the smirk of contempt upon their face when delving out their manipulations that usually gives them away. Hitler was a master at disguising the human tendency to smirk in contempt, he like Charles Manson used the "glaring eyes of truth technique". A technique perfected by some manipulative religious zealots like Gregory Rasputin. Hell Hitler was known to practice the technique in a mirror for hours at a time.
As any experienced and trained criminal investigator will tell you, sociopaths and psychopaths always use rational dispassion and most consider themselves to be of greater intelligence than others. Investigators are trained to observe and watch for the dispassionate smirk as it is an indication of a lack of real compassion for their victims.
I was not the anon coward who said they actually saw into the eyes of a psychopath, on the contrary "loufoque" might just be an individual who rationalizes dispassion without taking actions. If he or she is just a seeker and does not jump to conclusions then like many skeptics might just be living in the purgatorial hell of nihilism. Which can be distorted into a rational justification for sociopathic behaviors.
Compassion is not a rational activity, since it's an emotion..
You're implying laws should try to prevent sociopathic behaviour, but that would be problematic in a society that relies on capitalism and individualism like ours.
Fair enough, far better to say that the human intellect can make a rational choice to act with compassion. And yes capitalism can and does create many of our sociopathic responses but there is the compassionate enterprise alternative as espoused by Charles Dickens and others. And in keeping with tomorrows 50th anniversary there is also the thought "ask not what your country can do for you" to consider. Perhaps it is time for all of us to consider "ask not what humanity can do for you, ask what you can do for humanity" and all that concept entails which is certainly not a communist concept as sociopathic Lee Harvey Oswald assumed! If you have not read the books that I suggested then do so as they are very entertaining but need desperately to be read with great care to not look past the humour, angst and indeed social parody that they were written with. THEY ARE NOT RIGHT WING DWADDLE MANIFESTOS they are DIRE warnings against it! As Animal Farm was a dire warning against the follies of Communism!
Back to the topic:
"New genome sequences from two extinct human relatives suggest that these 'archaic' groups bred with humans and with each other more extensively than was previously known. The ancient genomes, one from a Neanderthal and one from a different archaic human group, the Denisovans, were presented at a meeting at the Royal Society in London. They suggest that interbreeding went on between the members of several ancient human-like groups living in Europe and Asia more than 30,000 years ago, including an as-yet unknown human ancestor from Asia."
Perhaps the findings of presented to the Royal Society are possibly an indication that this guy is right about our origins as a species perhaps they were aliens in China that interbred with early humans and it was genes from them that gave us the ability to rationally avoid clubbing each other to death over women and food!
A lot of text to say nothing. All you did was say that compassion and intellect are linked, which makes no sense since rational thought requires not being biased by emotions, and that compassion is morally good, an obvious religious belief. There is no universal truth, morals are entirely arbitrary.
Moral decisions are an arbitrary function of the intellect, which is dependent upon a rational knowledge of the possible consequences. The argument you expound would suppose that the human intellect is not sufficient to influence actions. Yes humans can also act based upon instinctual stimuli. HOWEVER the human intellect is capable of overcoming instinctual responses and reasoning otherwise we would not have the capacity to advance socially.
The human capacity to overcome instinctual behavior with reasoning is a relatively new human trait and as such is evolving. It was human reasoning that came to the conclusion that one should not follow a crowd to do evil and the intellect that gave humans the ability to communicate the thought not belief. Compassionate behavior can be a rational decision as well as an instinctual response.
There are individuals who are sociopaths and we have to deal with them with laws which are also made through rational decisions. Though historically laws can become perverted by groups or individuals who have sociopathic goals like the Nazis or the American Jim Crow laws and even religious edicts that are considered laws. Our capacity for a just laws that overcome sociopathic behavior is evolving and in human evolutionary terms this is a very recent development.
What is scary is the fact that many humans are born without the capacity for rational compassion. Their intellect and therefore actions, can be ruled by rationalized dispassionate decisions. The Hitlers and Ted Bundys of this world are not the majority, if they were we would have already gone through global thermal nuclear war and it would be legal to kill and own your spouse, like it is in some cultures.
Your argument is well stated but if true there is little hope for the future of the human race and we are due to be replaced with a more advanced species or undergo another dark age with few survivors. Read the Harlen Ellison short story "A Boy and his Dog" if you want to undergo a religious experience or better still read "Farnum's Freehold"! Both these stories are written under the supposition that we cannot overcome our sociopathic nature as a species. We are not very far from the tribe or the trees hopefully we will not wind up back in them. Cheers:-)
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I think it's interesting that today I noticed that Valve has started selling a DAW program called "Ohm Studio" through Steam. Wouldn't it be great if there was some connection to SteamOS?
Why would there be?
For the very reason that their own hardware could sell including the DAW working on SteamOS as a complete audio solution package. Think outside the box. Right now the vast majority of people who switch on their smart tv do not even know that they are actually booting up a version of the Linux kernel on an arm based chipset. There is absolutely no reason why linux specific devices like powerful studio DAWs will not sell. It was at one time very trendy to see the Apple logo on the DAW but as the real truth about the iTunes monopoly becomes apparent to more and more studios and artists many are looking for an alternative to the MPAA the MPGLA, APPLE, SONY and MICROSOFT. If Valve gets in on the act there is every possibility that a real alternative to the Apple monopoly on the distribution of music content will happen. At least the possibility of a viable alternative might occur and rather quickly!
There no connection to SteamOS with Ohm Studio. It is, as with most pro audio stuff, Windows and Mac only. It is just on Steam because Valve is now selling regular software, as well as games, on Steam. Cakewalk started selling Music Creator, their home version of their Sonar software, on Steam a couple months ago.
From my understanding Maudio, Creative pro line, Cakewalk and others in industry are finally getting pissed with Apple, Microsoft and Sony (read Ericsson). In much the same way that the independent PC gaming industry is being shafted they have come to realize that controlling the operating system is the key way to stay alive. M-audio had to practically beg Microshaft to relent with Asio support, they have always had a crack bunch of coders for their devices but when Microsoft screwed them over with the palladium bullshit and the lack of kernel support for Asio that users still have to jump through ridiculous numbers of hoops to overcome, they suffered large sales loses of their devices.
Many have started to realize the pro entertainment industry is being herded down the garden path and the semi pro is being shafted in the processes. Small recording studios and independent producers are closing all over the place because of these assholes and everybody knows what is really going on. There are a few that have jumped ship from Microsoft already and struck out in the industry to create something which can address the needs of a new music industry which can be based upon a different business model than the current iTunes store bullshit model.
Small independents can compete provided there is a platform that does not rely upon the whim and good graces of Microsoft, who historically absorbs those who they feel they can take business away from because of their OS monopoly. So SteamOS could realistically become more than just a competitor to Windows XBOX, and Sony PS hegemony. Steam by leaving their linux distro open to modification might also find that more than just gamers become very interested in it. IF SALES of STEAM PCs take off you can bet that there will be Linux versions of some pro audio software available for sale very soon. Pros will pay for product that works and is supported regardless of the OS it is written for, FYI not all software has to be free as in beer on Linux and as such Linux as a pro platform might just take off in one hell of a hurry.
I've been doing it once every couple years for at least the last ten years. Every single time, I end up annoyed and switch back to OS X and Windows. I don't have an infinite amount of time to spend getting my OS to work, and I have no desire to make a hobby out of OS configuration; I'd rather just install it, and have it get the hell out of the way.
Mind you, in the server space Windows Server just pisses me right off and I'm far more comfortable with Linuxes.
To my way of thinking it is entirely possible to create a really great audio server that will respond as well as linux does as an internet server. My particular interest is creating internet coffee houses for performers where at least the audio of their performances could be broadcast in a similar fashion to a pod cast but in real time and at high bit rate. It comes down to the fact that the coffee house type performance venue that once helped musicians to hone their craft desperately need to be revived. After all JS Bach and his second wife actually ran one and in doing so promoted musicianship and musical literacy to a greater extent than we currently do today!
The software to do this in realtime does not exist, sorry Skype and other social networking interfaces do not cut the mustard with audio and there is nothing out there that can do broadcast high quality RT streaming audio on the net as of yet.
This idea could work because the broadcasts could be by subscription for RT and could become locally popular. This could also be used to promote the venue locally. The stream from the venue could be available in lower bit rate at any time and the performance venue could also sell musical instruments, recordings or even coffee and food for that matter. Doing things a little differently by making venue website only locally available for high bit rate real time would reduce bandwidth needs for the server and facilitate the targeted promotion of a local business.
As I stated a linux audio and then eventually full a/v server could create something really interesting in as much as being low in cost to a new form of smaller localized ip broadcast venues.
Somehow I do not think the costs of using any of the commercially available like MediaRoom is a solution. Microsoft ditched MediaRoom because they do not see the real possibilities of internet provided entertainment. All I am saying is that to take real advantage of the possibilities created by the internet and customized Linux servers one needs to think of the net as a local commodity not just the entire WWW concept. Essentially it comes down to the old saw of the developers not seeing the forest for the trees.
SteamOS at the same time could easily become a local game platform for small real time local game servers in the same way. Gamers will always want to play someone that they can frag locally over some unknown from Timbuktu with distance latency issues. The internet is changing and the change will be to a more realistic expectation of what is possible, expensive WWW streaming broadcast solutions are not the answer, local specialized nodes are the wave of the future.
Interesting that Intel's frequency scaling causes audio pops so they disabled the p state drivers at the kernel level. As such this release might work well as a DAW if one were use Ardour or ecasound with jack. I am thinking about setting it up for this purpose and seeing what kind of RT performance it will achieve. Ubuntu Studio is interesting but far to convoluted and difficult to modify to ones liking. Seeing that this system is using sysvinit, coding called functions will be much easier to script and run. It would be really great if it can be tweaked to do high bit rate audio recording and broadcast in realtime streams over networks. Nice to see they are paying close attention to audio problems caused by the system at the kernel level, this release could become much more than just a gaming platform.
They might get in trouble for shipping the proprietary Nvidia drivers if it is shipped together with the Linux kernel which is GPL.
Bullcrap. The drivers have to compile a module. THE MODULE is not a part of the kernel, it is called by the kernel. OpenGL is the reason why the driver includes binary blobs in the modules that do not include source code, unfortunately OpenGL is not really open it is controlled by a trumped up consortium much the same as the MPGLA model. You cannot legally disclose the software api source but you can use it under license. The OpenGL is overseen by the hardware companies that design and make the chips, Microsoft has a hand in it and also releases hardware acceleration for chipsets within the Windows system files called DirectX.
DirectX does not so much compete with OpenGL, rather it sleeps in the same bed. Nvidia has lately been given a rather frosty pist from Microsoft because they have had too much of a smooch session going on with Android and have also made inroads into peoples living rooms on other devices with tegra based graphics used in other devices with the Linux kernel.
All the while the PC gaming market has been torpedoed by Microsoft with the release of an etch-a-sketch OS with lousy high end graphic support called Windows8. Because it is absolute shit for PC gaming, much the same as Vista and the early Win7 OS was.
Nvidia and Valve seeing an opening with high end gaming, has started to experiment with the SteamOS project with a networked gaming system which will not be dependent upon Microsoft's software or OSes whatsoever. Whether or not this will fly is very problematic as the market for high end graphics cards is currently in the tank, so it is a shot in the dark. Seeing that the market for custom made gaming computers is limited and the hardware for them will only become more and more scarce and expensive.
It has always been the case that gaming and advanced graphics, though supported under Linux rely upon the whim of the manufactures to actually work with proprietary libraries like the not so OpenGL. Same thing applies to using the advanced features in software like Google Earth, you can run it in emulation without hardware acceleration but it sucks unless you have the proprietary drivers installed in Linux. Here in the world of Linux we suck on the hind teats and are forced to accept the fact that not every piece of hardware is open source friendly or can be made that way. Same thing would happen if Steinberg's Asio audio API were ever to be ported to Linux, it would be a game changer in professional audio and Microsoft and Apple both know this and actively prevent it from happening. So for realtime audio, advanced graphics and other high end features Linux is very much a non starter because it has deliberately been prevented from coming to the table by the big players.
> On youtube it downloads the whole smash including the webM html5 streams and all available vid size pieces of a vid including any mp3 or other audio files. > Best stream ripper out there IMO. These two sentences seem in direct contradiction. The best one would only download your preferred media format, not all the poorer-quality, larger file size, or unviewable content.
Have not messed with the default settings, it might be possible to select individual streams. For a java app it seems to not eat up your ram though.
ok, I've read this post, nothing makes sense, can we have that in English please?
Hmm must be a windows user, you have my sympathy.
I ran Wireshark on it and it does not do the ET phone home crap that most spyware does so it is what the writers say it is.
If you boot it up and do not leave it in the sys tray it does not leave active processes hanging around. HOWEVER you can run it as a background process to snoop your RTMPE and have them automatically download the vids. On youtube it downloads the whole smash including the webM html5 streams and all available vid size pieces of a vid including any mp3 or other audio files.
Best stream ripper out there IMO. EAT MY SHORTS MPAA, RIAA and all your ill begotten drm bullshit nonsense. This video is a great one and as a result I will order her works online she is one hot guitarist! Fantasia la Traviata a little beyond the reach of most musicians, eat your heart out if you like guitar!
You're a heartless, stupid asshole.
Correction, most likely an arm chair redneck wantabee trolling away on slashdot. I am certain if this was the 1950's they would be using terms like "wetbacks". Bigotry and racism is alive and obvious in the US and elsewhere. Certainly these crooks were stupid to ignore the warnings and open the containers IF THE PACKAGE WAS EVEN MARKED.
I suspect that the containers were not even marked and neither was the truck. In Mexico the transport company and shipper most likely avoided some tariff or transport inspection fee by shipping the containers in an insecure and unmarked way. In most countries the shipment of radioactive materials requires some permits and source to destination confirmation of shipment.
Most likely what happened is the US Military bought the software, which may or may not be the best solution but clearly it was the most viable software solution available suited for the specific needs of modern arm forces logistics. Then what happened is the user seat requirements outstripped the original purchase numbers. BECAUSE THE FRIGGIN' SOFTWARE is written on a per seat basis and most likely a timed rental lease. And this is why the distribution became a warez situation.
EVERYBODY wants to pull a Microsoft and create something that becomes a cash cow that feeds them beyond the actual value of the original creation, is timed to expire and cause the users to send more cash.
Now we complicate the situation with the recent cutbacks in military funding for procurement of frills like this software. Someone with a hand on the accounting made the decision that increasing the site license numbers was not financially justified. This in turn caused the military IT person(s) responsible for deployment of this software to but heads with staff that was lower down than the pencil necks that cut their procurement budgets. So most likely some Colonel somewhere reamed out the poor IT staff so bad about not having the rights to deploy more copies without the budget that they just turned a blind eye and handed out copies instead of facing some Colonel Blowhard every time Lieutenant Hothead complained about the IT department not letting them accomplish their mission.
It doesn't matter why he wants to work remotely. He could be Skynet for all people care.
Remote workers are not as productive as "there" workers on a number of levels guaranteed, and also quite possibly on actual measurable work performance too.
This is all about the perception the company has of him, not the other way around. "But he has XYZ" is completely irrelevant.
You must be one of the "everybody gets a trophy" generation. "Give me something (because of self-inflicted hardship)!" "I am an XYZ type person, give me something because of it!" Meh. Nobody wants that type around when the company might fail if the project fails.
I was posting in humor, something which on this website at least seems to be in dire need of a coding language change! The whole problem this fellow might be experiencing is the companies he is trying to work for need to hire on the cheap.
This is nothing new. There are many instances where hiring someone who is on the retirement side of the equation scares the hell out of the executive. He might actually be too good for the positions he is trying to apply for and might be hired on only as a project lead. In which case the choice of working only by remote is not exactly a desirable requirement. Like all situations where intensive communication is necessary for a job, face to face communications trump all other forms. Seeing something done in person face to face can work wonders or it can start wars depending upon the situation. E-mail, Skype, and all forms of remote communications can be positively counter productive if you are supervising a job.
It doesn't matter is you communicate as well as Walter Cronkite did you can just as easily be misunderstood without the marvel that is face to face interpersonal human discourse, which should facilitate positive debate, teaching and learning not just things like e-mail or Skype like or for that matter Slashdot like flame wars.
JUST MAYBE BECAUSE THE fellow lives in the bush out in the Aleutian peninsula and generates his electricity burning whale oil? OR maybe his internet by satellite is not fast enough to respond to the job offers in time? Could be all sorts of legitimate reasons why insisting on working remotely is causing employers to overlook his job inquiries. How many times have you had the dream of turning into a hermit when working on a .NET project. OR moving to Alaska.
get this trash off slashdot
ON THE CONTRARY IT IS LINUX FUD! There is nothing that Microsoft would love more than to see everybody buy new Surface devices every 2 to three years the way the Apple sheep do with their products. Soldered in ram, batteries, locked down boot loaders make Apple and Microsoft's consumer hardware division leaders have wet dreams in the billions of dollars. As Bill Gates clearly stated "the only thing to fear in computing is Linux" and they are aggressively making sure that the fud keeps going against other devices than the ones that run WINDBLOWS. Try putting Linux or Android on an iPad, or Surface Pro or RT then come back and tell me who is full of fud. As it is my IBM T42 runs like a Russian tank and it still does everything I ask of it and I can still repair it if necessary! AS LONG AS I AM RUNNING LINUX on it.
Apple has realized that making serviceable devices is a dead end when the processor hardware is good enough to be future proof. And their solution is the same solution many sectors of the economy face. Our automobiles are disposable consumer oriented devices, our kitchen appliances are as well, washing machines, you name it all service and repair departments are being down graded to expedite product end life.
Obsolescence is not just planned it has become a manufacturing industry mantra. With essentially slave labour doing the recycling of these goods, either that or illegal at sea dumping operations turning over the used goods we are headed down a technical path to environmental and consumer driven stupidity!
Yahoo is positioned to do something radical. INDIVIDUALIZED services. Boutique interfaces for individuals and groups to use instead of generalist EMAIL clients. For instance a forum like interface for Classical Musicians, teachers and composers that has a web based music notation service that can spit back pdf at the clients.
There are many other fields that could use webspace mail, chat and customized content creation interfaces. THE PROBLEM is how do you pay the piper. WHEN MICROSHAFT, APPLE AND SONY are trying with the "ROCKSTAR" troll consortium to exercise a ridiculous patent on targeted advertising!
The future of the web is social space services through interfaces, this much is obvious the problem is corporations like SONY, APPLE AND MICROSOFT know this and are trying desperately to all gang up and murder the baby in the bathwater! Unfortunately for the web Yahoo cannot see the forest for the trees and by hooking itself up with BING has made a pact with the devil. NOW IF THIS POST GETS REMOVED SLASHDOT WILL LOOSE FACE IMO
Actually, usually. Most dogs hate their own dog poo.
But they do love cat poo. Which in fact is probably a more apt analogy, anyway, because the new Yahoo Mail interface looks like they ate HotMail, had horrible indigestion, and then crapped out something vaguely resembling it.
There fixed that for you.
Why my network crashed when I farted!
31531.5315315... is the number of Bitcoins that must only be held in the wallet of the beast. Why, simple, because there are only 21 million to go around. Naturally if it is decided that a greater number of Bitcoins is necessary then this wallet will increase proportionally. Call this a sin tax but because of this. Here is what happens to those who send money to the beast's public key.
About 11 years ago, I knocked my hand on the corner of a desk. Cut my finger open nice-and-good. Cleaned it up with some nice disinfectants. Seven days later, I was in hospital on a drip, in a cast, for the resultant infection.
After I had cleaned it up.
Not all infections happen at the time of the injury.
Point well taken, the original post as well as my post stated the importance of modern antibiotic science. All we are saying is that using antibiotics in a willy nilly fashion is a real problem. In your case this is why post infection use is the only rational treatment. Giving you a broad spectrum antibiotic as a preventative for infection may or may not have worked. As these bugs evolve giving broad spectrum doses to all those who suffer subcutaneous injuries is not going to prevent bugs that have developed resistance to the essential components of the given antibiotic(s). Unfortunately until the actual genetic strain of the bacterial infection is known the patient is only being treated in a very inexact manor and you very well might have developed the infection regardless of whether or not you were given an initial dose of antibiotics. And this is the key to the problem, until the bug actually infects you, there is no way of treating it without giving you a dose of everything that is available. What is happening is new antibiotics that are effective for the specific bacterial strain need to be included in the broad spectrum treatment and the cocktail of chemicals most likely would be a nightmare to develop and deliver .
Essentially there is no easy answer. Penicillin, all the derivatives, sulfides, and a myriad of other chemical formulas are not the panacea for this problem that everybody once believed.
Perhaps in a few decades "Obamacare" can be saved with a health tax on the exchange of currency for Bitcoins. But only if enough eager rich people keep dumping their USDs into them to deliberately devalue the dollar. Either that or invade the Cayman Islands and Belize to get back all the capital going there.
I just wonder how much currency is being exchanged for Bitcoins and what will happen when someone who has horded it does a strategic cash out for goods when it becomes possible to exchange it for gold? Using bitcoins to go up for a short peek at the curvature of the earth seems positively productive, so I doubt that many of today's modern day Goldfinger extortion bandits will make the trip.
Letting the existing insurance companies control the individual policies was somewhat akin to locking the fox in the hen house and those foxes are not exactly going to work for chicken feed. It is blatantly obvious that public health care in the United States is doomed. Everyone sing along with me:
Buy buy karma
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There is much that we can learn from historical accounts and our medical science needs to heed this for a change. A huge part of the equation is that many new parents are challenged by small issues that our parents and ancestors knew how to handle. Instead most just head for the clinic if Johnny gets a cough, cut scrap or bruise then ask the doctor if they could get antibiotics to prevent an infection. Not that more intervention with higher levels of care is not necessary at times, it is just that the knee jerk use of medical emergency services for things which should not require it a huge problem. And will make public health care insurance in the United States a financial impossibility. In Canada the misuse of services and the over prescription of drugs has already caused financial stress on the economy.
You're gonna have to answer to the Coca Cola company.
Since they changed the formula my long standing debt of one dime is nullified! PS. Here is where you can find what you are looking for. I hope you can now go ahead with the reno.
So stating the obvious is now the act of a "psychopath"? Is "psychopath" the new word for heretic?
No a psychopath can be capable of compassion, however they can also selectively chose where to apply compassionate decisions and this is how they learn to manipulate others. It is the smirk of contempt upon their face when delving out their manipulations that usually gives them away. Hitler was a master at disguising the human tendency to smirk in contempt, he like Charles Manson used the "glaring eyes of truth technique". A technique perfected by some manipulative religious zealots like Gregory Rasputin. Hell Hitler was known to practice the technique in a mirror for hours at a time.
As any experienced and trained criminal investigator will tell you, sociopaths and psychopaths always use rational dispassion and most consider themselves to be of greater intelligence than others. Investigators are trained to observe and watch for the dispassionate smirk as it is an indication of a lack of real compassion for their victims.
I was not the anon coward who said they actually saw into the eyes of a psychopath, on the contrary "loufoque" might just be an individual who rationalizes dispassion without taking actions. If he or she is just a seeker and does not jump to conclusions then like many skeptics might just be living in the purgatorial hell of nihilism. Which can be distorted into a rational justification for sociopathic behaviors.
Compassion is not a rational activity, since it's an emotion.. You're implying laws should try to prevent sociopathic behaviour, but that would be problematic in a society that relies on capitalism and individualism like ours.
Fair enough, far better to say that the human intellect can make a rational choice to act with compassion. And yes capitalism can and does create many of our sociopathic responses but there is the compassionate enterprise alternative as espoused by Charles Dickens and others. And in keeping with tomorrows 50th anniversary there is also the thought "ask not what your country can do for you" to consider. Perhaps it is time for all of us to consider "ask not what humanity can do for you, ask what you can do for humanity" and all that concept entails which is certainly not a communist concept as sociopathic Lee Harvey Oswald assumed! If you have not read the books that I suggested then do so as they are very entertaining but need desperately to be read with great care to not look past the humour, angst and indeed social parody that they were written with. THEY ARE NOT RIGHT WING DWADDLE MANIFESTOS they are DIRE warnings against it! As Animal Farm was a dire warning against the follies of Communism!
Back to the topic:
"New genome sequences from two extinct human relatives suggest that these 'archaic' groups bred with humans and with each other more extensively than was previously known. The ancient genomes, one from a Neanderthal and one from a different archaic human group, the Denisovans, were presented at a meeting at the Royal Society in London. They suggest that interbreeding went on between the members of several ancient human-like groups living in Europe and Asia more than 30,000 years ago, including an as-yet unknown human ancestor from Asia."
Perhaps the findings of presented to the Royal Society are possibly an indication that this guy is right about our origins as a species perhaps they were aliens in China that interbred with early humans and it was genes from them that gave us the ability to rationally avoid clubbing each other to death over women and food!
A lot of text to say nothing. All you did was say that compassion and intellect are linked, which makes no sense since rational thought requires not being biased by emotions, and that compassion is morally good, an obvious religious belief. There is no universal truth, morals are entirely arbitrary.
Moral decisions are an arbitrary function of the intellect, which is dependent upon a rational knowledge of the possible consequences. The argument you expound would suppose that the human intellect is not sufficient to influence actions. Yes humans can also act based upon instinctual stimuli. HOWEVER the human intellect is capable of overcoming instinctual responses and reasoning otherwise we would not have the capacity to advance socially.
The human capacity to overcome instinctual behavior with reasoning is a relatively new human trait and as such is evolving. It was human reasoning that came to the conclusion that one should not follow a crowd to do evil and the intellect that gave humans the ability to communicate the thought not belief. Compassionate behavior can be a rational decision as well as an instinctual response.
There are individuals who are sociopaths and we have to deal with them with laws which are also made through rational decisions. Though historically laws can become perverted by groups or individuals who have sociopathic goals like the Nazis or the American Jim Crow laws and even religious edicts that are considered laws. Our capacity for a just laws that overcome sociopathic behavior is evolving and in human evolutionary terms this is a very recent development.
What is scary is the fact that many humans are born without the capacity for rational compassion. Their intellect and therefore actions, can be ruled by rationalized dispassionate decisions. The Hitlers and Ted Bundys of this world are not the majority, if they were we would have already gone through global thermal nuclear war and it would be legal to kill and own your spouse, like it is in some cultures.
Your argument is well stated but if true there is little hope for the future of the human race and we are due to be replaced with a more advanced species or undergo another dark age with few survivors. Read the Harlen Ellison short story "A Boy and his Dog" if you want to undergo a religious experience or better still read "Farnum's Freehold"! Both these stories are written under the supposition that we cannot overcome our sociopathic nature as a species. We are not very far from the tribe or the trees hopefully we will not wind up back in them. Cheers :-)