Try Ableton Live. You can get a demo for free, at least on Windows. I've found it's really goos for loop triggering - I write tunes in Reason mainily now, but for playing live we sample them out, cut them up and paste them into Ableton. After that you can map all your songs, one-offs, loops etc on to a keyboard, and Ableton keeps track of all your timing and shit. Works a treat.
I never got on with Acid too well, but I find Ableton really good, at least for playing live. I believe you can use it for writing in too just as well.
It's this kind of analyzing that makes humans human. That makes the world interesting. That turns inventions into everyday items that enrich the human race.
Blogs are the result of the masses realising what the Internet really is and what it can do for them. What use is a technology when it is only used by its creators? When the population at large grabs hold of something, and twist and turns and misuses it, that's when things become interesting.
Imagine how dull writing was until people with things to say got hold of it?
Ok, yeah I was being a bit harsh, but my point was that the examples you gave were neither for OR against Microsoft, which meant they shouldn;t be used as proof either way.
And if anyone bothered to look at the links in this post they wouldn't have modded it up +5 Informative, it would have been modded -5 Bollocks.
I really can't believe that so many people in such a big country can happily listen to, and believe, news as written by your biggest for-profit corporations...
E2 could quite happily be used for this. The main thing to remember (speaking from experience) is that the real work starts once you have got the thing up and running - installation is just the first step.
Once you get used to it though, and if you put the time in, it's amazingly flexible. You also have the bonus that it's a multi-user system out-of-the-box, and with permissions etc this can be very powerful. For example, you could allow friends of yours to use your site in the same way you do, and also allow guests to view some content, or whatever.
Just a note: fiddling woth your E2 site can become very addictive;o)
The best I know of is a cut down version of "The Many Faces of Go" - called igowin, windows only I'm afraid, and you can only play 9x9 games. After that, try GnuGo. You can compile that for anything.
Your best bet is getting a book (I reccomend Teach Yourself Go), and playing 9x9 games until you get the hang of things. Then try one of the online servers: IGS or KGS. Have fun!
Sorry Blind Linux, if my original post came across badly. I didn't mean to sound rude, I simply meant that if you have a go at Go, you will get a much better feeling for the game than just by reading about it.
You are absolutely right. I re-read my post, and realised that it does indeed sound condescending towards the original poster (Blind Linux).
After reading Blind Linux's post, I got the feeling that he had not actually played Go, just read about it, so I thought suggesting he played it would be a good idea. However, things can often come across in the wrong way when typing.
Whilst I'm personally a Go fan, not a chess fan, I don't think I agree with your arguments.
>Go in its pure form is played on a 19x19 board as supposed to an 8x8 board
So? What has the size of a board got to do with it? In chess you can move pieces around, in GO you cannot.
>Chess's famous plays, games and styles have all been archived, whereas Go's strategies are largely abstract and can only be learned by repeated play
Not really true. There are masses of games available as.sgf files that you can study to your hearts content. THere are many clasic moves to make in certain positions, etc.
>The game only begins to take structure after 30 to 50 moves.
Again, not really. THere are masses of standard opening patterns (fuseki), and also many standardised plays (joseki) that can go on during a game. A whole lot goes on in the first 20 - 30 moves to shape the rest of the game.
Go is a great game, it doesn't need imbalanced comparisons with chess to prove it, you just need to play the game a while to realise that. Maybe you should try.
I thought your sig was part of your comment, and was going to agree entirely. 64 kbps tests are pointless because no-ones uses those rates, and at higher rates the differences become negligable.
At the kind of bit rates that real people actually use (160, 192, and up), it takes a real pro/audiophile/picky git to tell the difference. Which makes the whole thing seem a bit pointless really.
Chances are then, it's not going to be audio quality that makes or breaks these standards. Look at betamax...
> The reality is that, "Investigators blamed the > high death toll on locked emergency exits. " This > is all there is to the story.
That's not all there is. The point of the story being on/. is that the Bejing mayor is using the fact that the building was an Internet cafe as an excuse to crack down on *all* Internet cafes. This is obviously something they would like to do, and the argument looks at first like:
1. Cafe crowded and not following safety procedures because of lack of regulation
2. Cafe burns down, terrible loss of life.
3. Regulate Internet cafes so they follow safety prcedures.
Which in theory is great. The worry is that if the city starts regulating the cafes, due to past behaviour it's quite likely the authorities will also try to use the move to curtail Internet use and content.
From the little robotics experience/knowledge I have, I seem to remember this style is advocated, as in the *real world* it's not good to rely on your hardware being 100% accurate (it may be fair to say that in this case, a high-precision, very specific factory setting is not really the *real world*).
This may mean, as said, the difficulty is ramped up a little - but the effect will be that the results will be a lot more robust and rewarding. Otherwise beginners in the field may spend weeks on their cd autochanger, find it becomes uncalibrated after 2 cds and give up. If robotics is going to explode into the field everyone wants it to, it's best that best practises are forced now, not later.
This Register article has some more info on exactly what is in the update.
It mentions are which components are replaceable:
IE,
Outlook Express,
Messenger,
Windows Media Player
JVM.
There will be 4 configuration options: (from the article)"You can have the Microsoft option, the original machine configuration (i.e. what the OEM decided it would ship you, but this is going to be most obviously applicable to new machines shipped by OEMs post-SP1 release), a non-Microsoft option that allows you to substitute non-Microsoft middleware, and custom configuration."
In an article (on Apples' website) linked to from the previous posting of this story, it was stated that such copy-protected cds aren't technically or legally CDs.
Therefore, shouldn't there sales be discounted from the CD charts?
If they announce it now they look like they thought of it first. If they wait 6 months someone else will announce one and they'll lose their marketing lead, which is what impresses most people.
Having said that, some people are impressed when a product is *released*, not when the press release comes out.
> As long as you have experience putting linux on a PC
the author picked "newbie" options every time, and everything worked straight away (bar the modem). So it would be fair to say "You don't need experience of putting Linux on a PC"
>as long as you don't need a modem; it's a winmodem
If you look at the comments further down, several people got the modem to work (albiet having to recomile their kernels). So it *is* possible to get the modem to work under Linux. Admittedly, maybe beyong a beginner.
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Try Ableton Live. You can get a demo for free, at least on Windows. I've found it's really goos for loop triggering - I write tunes in Reason mainily now, but for playing live we sample them out, cut them up and paste them into Ableton. After that you can map all your songs, one-offs, loops etc on to a keyboard, and Ableton keeps track of all your timing and shit. Works a treat.
I never got on with Acid too well, but I find Ableton really good, at least for playing live. I believe you can use it for writing in too just as well.
hth, FLip
Blogs are the result of the masses realising what the Internet really is and what it can do for them. What use is a technology when it is only used by its creators? When the population at large grabs hold of something, and twist and turns and misuses it, that's when things become interesting.
Imagine how dull writing was until people with things to say got hold of it?
Ok, yeah I was being a bit harsh, but my point was that the examples you gave were neither for OR against Microsoft, which meant they shouldn;t be used as proof either way.
I really can't believe that so many people in such a big country can happily listen to, and believe, news as written by your biggest for-profit corporations...
Once you get used to it though, and if you put the time in, it's amazingly flexible. You also have the bonus that it's a multi-user system out-of-the-box, and with permissions etc this can be very powerful. For example, you could allow friends of yours to use your site in the same way you do, and also allow guests to view some content, or whatever.
Just a note: fiddling woth your E2 site can become very addictive ;o)
Please don't mod offtopic
Your best bet is getting a book (I reccomend Teach Yourself Go), and playing 9x9 games until you get the hang of things. Then try one of the online servers: IGS or KGS. Have fun!
Sorry Blind Linux, if my original post came across badly. I didn't mean to sound rude, I simply meant that if you have a go at Go, you will get a much better feeling for the game than just by reading about it.
After reading Blind Linux's post, I got the feeling that he had not actually played Go, just read about it, so I thought suggesting he played it would be a good idea. However, things can often come across in the wrong way when typing.
So, sorry Blind Linux.
>Go in its pure form is played on a 19x19 board as supposed to an 8x8 board
So? What has the size of a board got to do with it? In chess you can move pieces around, in GO you cannot.
>Chess's famous plays, games and styles have all been archived, whereas Go's strategies are largely abstract and can only be learned by repeated play .sgf files that you can study to your hearts content. THere are many clasic moves to make in certain positions, etc.
Not really true. There are masses of games available as
>The game only begins to take structure after 30 to 50 moves.
Again, not really. THere are masses of standard opening patterns (fuseki), and also many standardised plays (joseki) that can go on during a game. A whole lot goes on in the first 20 - 30 moves to shape the rest of the game.
Go is a great game, it doesn't need imbalanced comparisons with chess to prove it, you just need to play the game a while to realise that. Maybe you should try.
I'd mod you down for slagging off my favorite game, but I can't cos you have the same damned IP address...
> Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
I thought your sig was part of your comment, and was going to agree entirely. 64 kbps tests are pointless because no-ones uses those rates, and at higher rates the differences become negligable.
At the kind of bit rates that real people actually use (160, 192, and up), it takes a real pro/audiophile/picky git to tell the difference. Which makes the whole thing seem a bit pointless really.
Chances are then, it's not going to be audio quality that makes or breaks these standards. Look at betamax...
I agree entirely. But I just went for the laugh.
Spirit (noun)
The coming together of balls and stupidity.
> high death toll on locked emergency exits. " This > is all there is to the story.
That's not all there is. The point of the story being on /. is that the Bejing mayor is using the fact that the building was an Internet cafe as an excuse to crack down on *all* Internet cafes. This is obviously something they would like to do, and the argument looks at first like:
1. Cafe crowded and not following safety procedures because of lack of regulation
2. Cafe burns down, terrible loss of life.
3. Regulate Internet cafes so they follow safety prcedures.
Which in theory is great. The worry is that if the city starts regulating the cafes, due to past behaviour it's quite likely the authorities will also try to use the move to curtail Internet use and content.
Anyone else misread that as "Stalinism"?
they can aim there mobile at Jim's house.
Explain again how you read from this write-only memory then?
This may mean, as said, the difficulty is ramped up a little - but the effect will be that the results will be a lot more robust and rewarding. Otherwise beginners in the field may spend weeks on their cd autochanger, find it becomes uncalibrated after 2 cds and give up. If robotics is going to explode into the field everyone wants it to, it's best that best practises are forced now, not later.
It mentions are which components are replaceable:
IE,
Outlook Express,
Messenger,
Windows Media Player
JVM.
There will be 4 configuration options: (from the article)"You can have the Microsoft option, the original machine configuration (i.e. what the OEM decided it would ship you, but this is going to be most obviously applicable to new machines shipped by OEMs post-SP1 release), a non-Microsoft option that allows you to substitute non-Microsoft middleware, and custom configuration."
Therefore, shouldn't there sales be discounted from the CD charts?
Having said that, some people are impressed when a product is *released*, not when the press release comes out.
Now it is. Nice.
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> As long as you have experience putting linux on a PC
the author picked "newbie" options every time, and everything worked straight away (bar the modem). So it would be fair to say "You don't need experience of putting Linux on a PC"
>as long as you don't need a modem; it's a winmodem
If you look at the comments further down, several people got the modem to work (albiet having to recomile their kernels). So it *is* possible to get the modem to work under Linux. Admittedly, maybe beyong a beginner.