Doesn't help. Spent a day last week reinstalling windoze on my Wife's laptop after a virus got it. The very first thing the virus did was disable the up-to-date Norton antivirus while Norton was running. Then it disabled IE6 etc etc. So much for that defence.
Before you'll get a ton of games, you need reliable 3d drivers for lotsa cards, and then you need a stable 3d library to match. Does OpenGL compete well with DirectX?
I spent far too long fighting with Nvidia drivers,(crash 4 times a day) then ATI drivers last week (Ah, no support for Xfree86 4.4 yet).
Perhaps a game distro would help bring these issues into more focus...
I gave up on the PC side, and got a Yamaha AW16G. It works much better, and is engineered for the job. Since the sound cards for PC's are aimed at the gamer, they don't give a rats arse about studio quality sound. You can buy a premium sound card, but.. it costs a premium. You're still stuck with a non real time OS with both Windows and Linux (and Mac I guess) so its the wrong OS for the job. Several companies make dedicated audio recording stations that work, and don't bluescreen, or get viruses on em. check out homerecording.com aw16.com for discussions on various recording gear.. ---
Yes! - scripting, and as a learning aid create a logging history in the same script language for both. Oh, and use an available language - why reinvent the wheel?
One size does not fit all either. It really annoys me that people are asking for a standard UI now. I think we could use another 20 years in experimentation, and I still think one size won't fit all.
Here's my rant which I emailed to TOG years ago in a similar debate - why on earth do you put the floppy disk icon in the Trash to eject on a Mac? And why those numeric error messages that Mac's (used to?) give out when things went bad?
Whilst I'm at it, yes a GUI is great for a lot of tasks like word processing, or painting, but not for other tasks. I run electronics engineering software as part of my work (schematic tools etc). The gui is fine for drawing, but when it comes time to process the design, I have to mouse click thru a bunch of menus, and memorize the steps I use to make sure I don't forget the steps every time. If there was a history script window running, I could save the steps and call the script later.
Also, a command line interface is more what we'll need for voice command. If we go too far down the gui path, you end up using voice commands to manipulate a mouse on screen. Which is more like you want for voice command?
Move mouse up Pull down edit menu Select search enter text in search box "chapter 3" execute search
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Doesn't help. Spent a day last week reinstalling windoze on my Wife's laptop after a virus got it. The very first thing the virus did was disable the up-to-date Norton antivirus while Norton was running.
Then it disabled IE6 etc etc.
So much for that defence.
I wonder how much I would have to be paid to .NET to the Linux community?
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Before you'll get a ton of games, you need reliable 3d drivers for lotsa cards, and then you need a stable 3d library to match. Does OpenGL compete well with DirectX?
I spent far too long fighting with Nvidia drivers,(crash 4 times a day) then ATI drivers last week (Ah, no support for Xfree86 4.4 yet).
Perhaps a game distro would help bring these issues into more focus...
Aren't fido going to flood the airwaves?
Fido droppings everywhere!!
Arggg..
I gave up on the PC side, and got a Yamaha AW16G. It works much better, and is engineered for the job.
Since the sound cards for PC's are aimed at the gamer, they don't give a rats arse about studio quality sound.
You can buy a premium sound card, but.. it costs a premium. You're still stuck with a non real time OS with both Windows and Linux (and Mac I guess) so
its the wrong OS for the job. Several companies make dedicated audio recording stations that work, and don't bluescreen, or get viruses on em.
check out
homerecording.com
aw16.com
for discussions on various recording gear..
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Yes! - scripting, and as a learning aid create a logging history in the same script language for both. Oh, and use an available language - why reinvent the wheel?
One size does not fit all either. It really annoys me that people are asking for a standard UI now. I think we could use another 20 years in experimentation, and I still think one size won't fit all.
Here's my rant which I emailed to TOG years ago in a similar debate - why on earth do you put the floppy disk icon in the Trash to eject on a Mac? And why those numeric error messages that Mac's (used to?) give out when things went bad?
Whilst I'm at it, yes a GUI is great for a lot of tasks like word processing, or painting, but not for other tasks. I run electronics engineering software as part of my work (schematic tools etc). The gui is fine for drawing, but when it comes time to process the design, I have to mouse click thru a bunch of menus, and memorize the steps I use to make sure I don't forget the steps every time. If there was a history script window running, I could save the steps and call the script later.
Also, a command line interface is more what we'll need for voice command. If we go too far down the gui path, you end up using voice commands to manipulate a mouse on screen. Which is more like you want for voice command?
Move mouse up Pull down edit menu Select search enter text in search box "chapter 3" execute search
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Jump ahead to chapter 3 please
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