Seriously though, I can only speak from my experience with consumer level stuff -- not having any significant experience with professional audio software. Firstly, what's good for developers is ultimately good for end users. As far as I know (and I could easily be wrong), ProTools has (had?) it's own audio system. They had to write the equivilant of CoreAudio specifically for their app. Plugins, midi handling and audio device drivers had to be written specifically for ProTools. Without that overhead the developers could have put the time towards polishing the program itself or adding new features.
Having one audio engine also means you can download one effects plugin and have it work in any of your audio apps. In theory it means you could easily and efficiently pipe audio around from app to app through plugins and external interfaces and what not... but I don't know how easy that is in practise. New features can also be added to the OS and all applications get the benefit.
It isn't as significant for cross platform developers, but if you used a mac I'm sure you would still see benefits. There's a wide range of CoreAudio plugins and utilities available -- which can be used no matter what piece of software you choose.
I also gather that CoreAudio uses pretty a clean and efficient design in comparison to the alternatives (ALSA, ASIO etc. i guess?). That probably means lower latency and more flexibility.
using xul is a slightly nicer exploit because it grabs (or could grab) the OS's skin etc instead of having to know what skin they're using and emulate that.
There may be a way to do this using IE, I don't know.
he's say if you try to run an lcd at something that's not it's native resolution, it looks like crap. also, if you use DVI or other digital connection, you won't have to "tune" your shiny new LCD display.
This is because XP uses 'hinting' which is disabled in the xfree hack. try doing a side by side comparison of normal xfree antialiased text against XP, it should appear closer. freetype hinting is not yet as good as windows.
jabber has some nice server-side features for blocking messages you dont want to see
you can run your own jabber server if you want
jabber supports an irc gatway
jabber has its own "groupchat" protocol section
regarding the scripting issue, theres at least 2 solutions to that. the first is obvious: make a scriptable IM client. the second is to make an irc module to jserver. there is already a very basic one, but its old and im not sure if it works with the latest server version.
that means you could use jabber from your irc client (join #jabber, your contact list are shown as users in the channel, online people have ops etc.) and you can join groupchat channels on any server. eg myroom@myjserver.org, jdev@jabber.org, ircchan%irc.light.se@irc.myjserver.org.
you could even add server side channel bookmarks and nickserv identifys.
from be's website: "The underlying infrastructure for supporting multiple logins and multiple users' preferences is there, and the facility will likely appear in a future release."
"Junkyard Wars" is the US version of "Scrapheap Challenge". Scrapheap Challenge was made for Channel Four in the UK, which is not a state funded channel (i believe).
however c4 is a relatively liberal station, maybe thats what you need in the US.. not neccisarily nationalisation?
if the program dirs were some kind of special dirs, so you could run "XEmacs" and it would execute the binary in the XEmacs dir. Or "help XEmacs" and i get a menu with a list of the files in/prog/XEmacs/doc, and select one... "config XEmacs" would give a similar list of config files.
The config files could be XML, so instead of having a config file like this:
# this is the url to use as a default start page
DefStartUrl=http://www.slashdot.org
it would look like this:
<Default_Start_Page detail="This is the default start page blah blah">http://www.slashdot.org<Default_Start_Page>
so the command line config tool would by default just let you change the value not the variable name. and a gui tool would be much the same but look nicer.
ahh im rambling and i havent even thought this through...
It doesent work on everyone yet. Its very crude (at this point). It was controlled by a joystick, which the operator moved to coincide with the movements of a rollercoaster on a video. This would be very easy to computerise, but it just shows that they're still at an early stage.
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Oh, sorry. :P.
Seriously though, I can only speak from my experience with consumer level stuff -- not having any significant experience with professional audio software. Firstly, what's good for developers is ultimately good for end users. As far as I know (and I could easily be wrong), ProTools has (had?) it's own audio system. They had to write the equivilant of CoreAudio specifically for their app. Plugins, midi handling and audio device drivers had to be written specifically for ProTools. Without that overhead the developers could have put the time towards polishing the program itself or adding new features.
Having one audio engine also means you can download one effects plugin and have it work in any of your audio apps. In theory it means you could easily and efficiently pipe audio around from app to app through plugins and external interfaces and what not... but I don't know how easy that is in practise. New features can also be added to the OS and all applications get the benefit.
It isn't as significant for cross platform developers, but if you used a mac I'm sure you would still see benefits. There's a wide range of CoreAudio plugins and utilities available -- which can be used no matter what piece of software you choose.
I also gather that CoreAudio uses pretty a clean and efficient design in comparison to the alternatives (ALSA, ASIO etc. i guess?). That probably means lower latency and more flexibility.
http://developer.apple.com/audio/coreaudio.html
using xul is a slightly nicer exploit because it grabs (or could grab) the OS's skin etc instead of having to know what skin they're using and emulate that.
There may be a way to do this using IE, I don't know.
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you don't understand what he's saying.
he's say if you try to run an lcd at something that's not it's native resolution, it looks like crap. also, if you use DVI or other digital connection, you won't have to "tune" your shiny new LCD display.
the graphics chip is the most expensive. its somewhere between a geforce 3ti and a geforce 4ti, make sure you add that into your calculations.
This is because XP uses 'hinting' which is disabled in the xfree hack. try doing a side by side comparison of normal xfree antialiased text against XP, it should appear closer. freetype hinting is not yet as good as windows.
for gods sake man this isnt an attack on the victims of the WTC tragedy or anything, its an innocent joke. you dont need to get so worked up about it.
- jabber has some nice server-side features for blocking messages you dont want to see
- you can run your own jabber server if you want
- jabber supports an irc gatway
- jabber has its own "groupchat" protocol section
regarding the scripting issue, theres at least 2 solutions to that. the first is obvious: make a scriptable IM client. the second is to make an irc module to jserver. there is already a very basic one, but its old and im not sure if it works with the latest server version.that means you could use jabber from your irc client (join #jabber, your contact list are shown as users in the channel, online people have ops etc.) and you can join groupchat channels on any server. eg myroom@myjserver.org, jdev@jabber.org, ircchan%irc.light.se@irc.myjserver.org.
you could even add server side channel bookmarks and nickserv identifys.
from be's website:
"The underlying infrastructure for supporting multiple logins and multiple users' preferences is there, and the facility will likely appear in a future release."
"Junkyard Wars" is the US version of "Scrapheap Challenge". Scrapheap Challenge was made for Channel Four in the UK, which is not a state funded channel (i believe).
however c4 is a relatively liberal station, maybe thats what you need in the US.. not neccisarily nationalisation?
if the program dirs were some kind of special dirs, so you could run "XEmacs" and it would execute the binary in the XEmacs dir. Or "help XEmacs" and i get a menu with a list of the files in /prog/XEmacs/doc, and select one... "config XEmacs" would give a similar list of config files.
The config files could be XML, so instead of having a config file like this:
# this is the url to use as a default start page
DefStartUrl=http://www.slashdot.org
it would look like this:
<Default_Start_Page detail="This is the default start page blah blah">http://www.slashdot.org<Default_Start_Page>
so the command line config tool would by default just let you change the value not the variable name. and a gui tool would be much the same but look nicer.
ahh im rambling and i havent even thought this through...
uhmm.. drag and drop :)
few points..
It doesent work on everyone yet.
Its very crude (at this point).
It was controlled by a joystick, which the operator moved to coincide with the movements of a rollercoaster on a video. This would be very easy to computerise, but it just shows that they're still at an early stage.
Acous