Of course, this all hinges on whether or not you believe in 'gene theory', an as yet unproven thesis which cannot be fully scientifically validated until certain international restrictions on the subject of genetic experiments are lifted...
Well, with open source software, the playing field is wide open.
If the Brazilian gov't wants customized/tailored software, it can get it now - cheap, because *anyone* can bid on the contract to do the source modification and release things back into the public domain.
It may not be millions of dollar-contracts and beef barrels any more (thank god), more likely it'll be small, fast, light development companies that spring up (new industry forming) to take on the role of 'custom software development' using the OSS methodologies.
This has proven successful many times. I made a living off of customizing/tailoring OSS solutions for businesses - in Los Angeles - for 8 years. Would still be doing it, too, if it weren't for... other opportunities which sprung up.
I can't see how 'proprietary' software will survive in this environment, and I'm glad its happening. Brazil, and other nations (Thailand) like it will lead the way in a new era of computer software industry... smaller, lighter, faster groups able to compete much more aggressively with each other, producing better code.
Then we will never have to check for "NULL" ever again.:)
Also, I want to work on a computing system wherein *every* single data has its own timestamp.
I've been experimenting with 64-bit processors in this regard - using regular 32-bits for data, and the remaining 32-bits as a timestamp - and it has produced some interesting results. Treating *all* data as though it has a 'last modified' timestamp...
If computing systems can be designed to take Time into account with every single operation, it can make for some interesting changes in the programming paradigm... especially in the realtime world.
I have a German copy of the War3 for OSX, and I'm an English speaker. I live in Germany, bought War3 the moment it was released here and was thoroughly disappointed that I couldn't change the language to English...
I don't know why (DVD's?) but I expected to be able to.
If anyone wants to trade a valid German War3 CD for a valid English War3 CD (OSX), please feel free to contact me... I've considered EBay and the like, but its a bit more hassle to go that route...
I've gone off using Qt since I found this out, and will be investigating other cross-platform toolkits, as much as it pains me to do so...
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They're worried about the yellow diamonds that are now capable of being reproduced, in extremely large sizes, in extremely good quality. These are not 'just' industrial diamonds - these are extremely high quality, extremely pure, large diamonds which can be grown by two different independent research groups right now, using extremely high pressure systems that have been in development for years.
The yellows are at the very top end of the scale, and are something DeBeers has been cultivating as a market for years - now they're reproducable, and lab-made yellows are higher quality than anything DeBeers can muster.
DeBeers deserves to go down. There is no better example of corporate evil.
I know about the 'open' ability from OSX Terminal, and all that.
This was just an interesting shell - curiousity more than anything else. It was fully 'media enabled', which means it was able to function as if it were a regular web browser, image viewer, movie player - but the bounding rect for the media was always within the 'Terminal window', if you understand what I mean, and it functions just like a normal shell - with scrollback buffer, etc.
It was pretty cool, actually, to have media interspersed with regular text commands - a 'cat *.jpg' in some dir full of images would give you thumbnails output, etc.
I've really got to chase it down and have another look. It seems to me that in the world of Aqua and Quartz, it would work quite well... and since I spend most of my life in the Terminal windows, it'd be useful to me, also, actually.
I seem to recall - circa 1995'ish, I guess - that there was a shell around which could do embedded media - so you could say 'cat something.jpg' and it would display the jpeg to the screen, in the scroll buffer, just like it were an inline image.
Anyone remember that shell project? I've searched freshmeat but I can't find it... seems to me that a shell like that would be nice to have under OSX...
Just last week I was discussing the potential for a Linux port to DSP architectures with the powers that be here at Access.
This META port will give us some seriously interesting things to look at in the coming weeks, anyway. Too bad we can't get a Moto56k port of the Linux kernel, heh heh...
Still, it remains to be seen how useful the META will be in our market (pro audio/synthesizers)... but I have a feeling this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Linux and DSP work...
My OSX hottie hasn't asked for a card in ages. I just keep buying her sweet knickers(*-) for her to wear, and she just keeps getting sexier and sexier.
I hear next month she's getting some 'augmentation' done, and we'll be able to do a few of the more interesting positions, quicker. Woohoo!
(*- I've replaced the case on my pbook 3 times. Heh heh. So much wear and tear...)
Where *are* all the wonderful 'independent' movies and documentaries and such on the Internet these days? Back in the early 90's, we predicted there'd be simply scads of new and entertaining film content available on the 'net for perusal, but it seems like its either 'movieflix' or sites like silversow.com and demandmedia.net, none of which truly satisfies my urge to surf/download and watch good quality film media I got from the Internet.
And no, before you comment, I don't want to know where to go to find pr0n or filez, I want to know where the actual artists and authors and writers who stand to *benefit* from open, broad dissemination of their works are putting it for download by people... like me... who don't have TV but sure have bandwidth.
SeattleWireless TV goes in the bookmarks. I wish there were tons more interesting sites like this to keep my mpeg-player eye focused on, anyway...
Weight of 'traditional' engines (which actually, we can't rebuild- we would have to totall re-engineer from scratch) which took us to the moon: thousands and thousands of pounds.
Both will get you there. Which do you choose, as a rocket scientist?
No need... there are plenty of great quality firewire audio interfaces on the market right now, I just can't afford the one I want yet!:)
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Yeah... I type this on my aging yet solid rev. a pbook g4 which I got *right away* because I loved the Apple laptop design, and boy was I happy with the direction it went with the 17"... but I'm still waiting for the next Big Thing to burp its way out of Stevies reality bubble and onto the Market...
In terms of 'coolness' factor, I think the G5 release was pretty good - timely. Apple needed to make a processor stand, and... well... they did this pretty smoothly.
If they put a laptop out that has two cpu's (dual 1gz G4 would be fine) and 2 gigs of RAM, a 17" with design revisions, I'll sell a body part to upgrade. But... maybe not this year.
I can't wait until we can have portable 64-bit processors around, personally.
I know tons of good uses for an extra 32-bits worth of information for each of my existing 32-bit data structures... or at least one really really good one.
What about the ability to mount.ISO files, can you do that in NT like you can in Linux/OSX? Are there mountable image types in the latest incarnation of the Windows beat?
A few years ago I ported a filesystem 'driver' application I'd written under Linux and BeOS to Windows95/98 using just the SCSI i/o block calls available to me in WinASPI... because I couldn't figure for the life of me how to do it with the tools I had at hand (gcc compiler and Delphi), it wasn't integrated with Explorer and the rest of the WIN32 file i/o ops - you had to copy files back and forth using my apps interface.
It worked well enough, but it always bugged me that WIN32 had such crap public filesystem interfaces, and I haven't done much Windows work since then. In fact, I've stopped developing code for Microsoft, and Microsoft Platforms, entirely, mostly due to that experience. I won't touch Microsft now, not even for.doc files if I can help it...
Join this list for some help, and feel free to ask all the questions you want about what to do with your tiBook and Audio... it is a very welcome topic on music-bar, and you'll get a better response than I can give you with a/. post right now...
-tiBook -19" rack full of synthesizers and a 16 chanel mixer with 2 recording/send busses. -external keyboard (indigo2 synth, not the computer) -external 4x4 USB Audio interface -external USB hub, with MOTU MTP-AV, keys, mouse, etc.
I lay down stereo tracks at a time, typically, or at least I only ever record two tracks at the same time as I'm playing (and digitally mixing on my laptop) typically about 6 to 12 other tracks, no problems. My USB Audio interface keeps up with everything I'm doing, no glitches, and I'm working at 44.1khz/16bit.
I also watch DVD's on this setup, quite comfortably, and never notice any sync/glitch problems with USB.
A Firewire audio interface would be better of course, because then I'd have lots more i/o and routing capabilities with soft control, and so I'm planning on getting one soon... at which point I'll chuck my 16-channel mixer and have an extra 2U's left in the rack for... something... else... fun.
16 inputs in my rack right now would be sweet indeed, particulary considering that 4 items have their own input/routing capabilities as well as multipe output channels, so a Firewire interface is pretty much totally in sight... but yeah, USB works just fine.
(OSX, tiBook, lotsa RAM, smooth as silk USB audio drivers)
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Of course, this all hinges on whether or not you believe in 'gene theory', an as yet unproven thesis which cannot be fully scientifically validated until certain international restrictions on the subject of genetic experiments are lifted ...
/. troll ...
Next up: the gene that makes a
Well, with open source software, the playing field is wide open.
... other opportunities which sprung up.
... smaller, lighter, faster groups able to compete much more aggressively with each other, producing better code.
If the Brazilian gov't wants customized/tailored software, it can get it now - cheap, because *anyone* can bid on the contract to do the source modification and release things back into the public domain.
It may not be millions of dollar-contracts and beef barrels any more (thank god), more likely it'll be small, fast, light development companies that spring up (new industry forming) to take on the role of 'custom software development' using the OSS methodologies.
This has proven successful many times. I made a living off of customizing/tailoring OSS solutions for businesses - in Los Angeles - for 8 years. Would still be doing it, too, if it weren't for
I can't see how 'proprietary' software will survive in this environment, and I'm glad its happening. Brazil, and other nations (Thailand) like it will lead the way in a new era of computer software industry
Then we will never have to check for "NULL" ever again. :)
... especially in the realtime world.
Also, I want to work on a computing system wherein *every* single data has its own timestamp.
I've been experimenting with 64-bit processors in this regard - using regular 32-bits for data, and the remaining 32-bits as a timestamp - and it has produced some interesting results. Treating *all* data as though it has a 'last modified' timestamp...
If computing systems can be designed to take Time into account with every single operation, it can make for some interesting changes in the programming paradigm
I have a German copy of the War3 for OSX, and I'm an English speaker. I live in Germany, bought War3 the moment it was released here and was thoroughly disappointed that I couldn't change the language to English...
...
I don't know why (DVD's?) but I expected to be able to.
If anyone wants to trade a valid German War3 CD for a valid English War3 CD (OSX), please feel free to contact me... I've considered EBay and the like, but its a bit more hassle to go that route
Fuck you bastard, its not a troll!
This is *serious*. Qt is at the core of KDE, and Trolltech is a Canopy puppet.
... that Trolltech are part of the SCO empire/Canopy group:
...
The Canopy Group.
I've gone off using Qt since I found this out, and will be investigating other cross-platform toolkits, as much as it pains me to do so
They're worried about the yellow diamonds that are now capable of being reproduced, in extremely large sizes, in extremely good quality. These are not 'just' industrial diamonds - these are extremely high quality, extremely pure, large diamonds which can be grown by two different independent research groups right now, using extremely high pressure systems that have been in development for years.
The yellows are at the very top end of the scale, and are something DeBeers has been cultivating as a market for years - now they're reproducable, and lab-made yellows are higher quality than anything DeBeers can muster.
DeBeers deserves to go down. There is no better example of corporate evil.
I know about the 'open' ability from OSX Terminal, and all that.
... and since I spend most of my life in the Terminal windows, it'd be useful to me, also, actually.
This was just an interesting shell - curiousity more than anything else. It was fully 'media enabled', which means it was able to function as if it were a regular web browser, image viewer, movie player - but the bounding rect for the media was always within the 'Terminal window', if you understand what I mean, and it functions just like a normal shell - with scrollback buffer, etc.
It was pretty cool, actually, to have media interspersed with regular text commands - a 'cat *.jpg' in some dir full of images would give you thumbnails output, etc.
I've really got to chase it down and have another look. It seems to me that in the world of Aqua and Quartz, it would work quite well
... that shell that had media properties?
... seems to me that a shell like that would be nice to have under OSX ...
I seem to recall - circa 1995'ish, I guess - that there was a shell around which could do embedded media - so you could say 'cat something.jpg' and it would display the jpeg to the screen, in the scroll buffer, just like it were an inline image.
Anyone remember that shell project? I've searched freshmeat but I can't find it
... isn't Microsoft on SCO's side? Aren't they the ones really 'pulling the strings' of the SCO puppets?
Its okay for 'us' to say "Microsoft is the machiavellian lord behind the scenes of the SCO front", but not for SCO to say it about IBM...
I dunno. I think its about time Herd was released.
Just last week I was discussing the potential for a Linux port to DSP architectures with the powers that be here at Access.
...
... but I have a feeling this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Linux and DSP work ...
This META port will give us some seriously interesting things to look at in the coming weeks, anyway. Too bad we can't get a Moto56k port of the Linux kernel, heh heh
Still, it remains to be seen how useful the META will be in our market (pro audio/synthesizers)
My OSX hottie hasn't asked for a card in ages. I just keep buying her sweet knickers(*-) for her to wear, and she just keeps getting sexier and sexier.
I hear next month she's getting some 'augmentation' done, and we'll be able to do a few of the more interesting positions, quicker. Woohoo!
(*- I've replaced the case on my pbook 3 times. Heh heh. So much wear and tear...)
Those would be developers, then, since they are 'developing' the interface.
You fartknuckle.
... on the Internet.
... like me ... who don't have TV but sure have bandwidth.
...
Where *are* all the wonderful 'independent' movies and documentaries and such on the Internet these days? Back in the early 90's, we predicted there'd be simply scads of new and entertaining film content available on the 'net for perusal, but it seems like its either 'movieflix' or sites like silversow.com and demandmedia.net, none of which truly satisfies my urge to surf/download and watch good quality film media I got from the Internet.
And no, before you comment, I don't want to know where to go to find pr0n or filez, I want to know where the actual artists and authors and writers who stand to *benefit* from open, broad dissemination of their works are putting it for download by people
SeattleWireless TV goes in the bookmarks. I wish there were tons more interesting sites like this to keep my mpeg-player eye focused on, anyway
Weight of ion engine: a few pounds.
Weight of 'traditional' engines (which actually, we can't rebuild- we would have to totall re-engineer from scratch) which took us to the moon: thousands and thousands of pounds.
Both will get you there. Which do you choose, as a rocket scientist?
Who? There should be a "totally switched to linux" web page around with a list of all these companies and their good deeds ...
No need ... there are plenty of great quality firewire audio interfaces on the market right now, I just can't afford the one I want yet! :)
Yeah ... I type this on my aging yet solid rev. a pbook g4 which I got *right away* because I loved the Apple laptop design, and boy was I happy with the direction it went with the 17" ... but I'm still waiting for the next Big Thing to burp its way out of Stevies reality bubble and onto the Market ...
... well ... they did this pretty smoothly.
... maybe not this year.
In terms of 'coolness' factor, I think the G5 release was pretty good - timely. Apple needed to make a processor stand, and
If they put a laptop out that has two cpu's (dual 1gz G4 would be fine) and 2 gigs of RAM, a 17" with design revisions, I'll sell a body part to upgrade. But
I can't wait until we can have portable 64-bit processors around, personally.
... or at least one really really good one.
I know tons of good uses for an extra 32-bits worth of information for each of my existing 32-bit data structures
I'd buy Bikini Buttkick Babes (or whatever its called) in an instant, if it were available right now.
... not so sure that their implementation would work, as a 'game' ... yet.
:)
Those screenshots look pretty fun! The concept works on me!
Just
Either way though it looks like this thing is just a Linux box in nice packaging - albeit, expensive and therefore doomed.
Hope the game makes it to Linux though - that'd be a *GREAT* game for the Linux Game Front!
Well that sucks ass.
What about the ability to mount
A few years ago I ported a filesystem 'driver' application I'd written under Linux and BeOS to Windows95/98 using just the SCSI i/o block calls available to me in WinASPI... because I couldn't figure for the life of me how to do it with the tools I had at hand (gcc compiler and Delphi), it wasn't integrated with Explorer and the rest of the WIN32 file i/o ops - you had to copy files back and forth using my apps interface.
It worked well enough, but it always bugged me that WIN32 had such crap public filesystem interfaces, and I haven't done much Windows work since then. In fact, I've stopped developing code for Microsoft, and Microsoft Platforms, entirely, mostly due to that experience. I won't touch Microsft now, not even for
I would be happy to expand on my setup, on the music-bar:
r /
... it is a very welcome topic on music-bar, and you'll get a better response than I can give you with a /. post right now ...
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Join this list for some help, and feel free to ask all the questions you want about what to do with your tiBook and Audio
... and I find it works just fine for my needs.
... at which point I'll chuck my 16-channel mixer and have an extra 2U's left in the rack for ... something ... else ... fun.
... but yeah, USB works just fine.
-tiBook
-19" rack full of synthesizers and a 16 chanel mixer with 2 recording/send busses.
-external keyboard (indigo2 synth, not the computer)
-external 4x4 USB Audio interface
-external USB hub, with MOTU MTP-AV, keys, mouse, etc.
I lay down stereo tracks at a time, typically, or at least I only ever record two tracks at the same time as I'm playing (and digitally mixing on my laptop) typically about 6 to 12 other tracks, no problems. My USB Audio interface keeps up with everything I'm doing, no glitches, and I'm working at 44.1khz/16bit.
I also watch DVD's on this setup, quite comfortably, and never notice any sync/glitch problems with USB.
A Firewire audio interface would be better of course, because then I'd have lots more i/o and routing capabilities with soft control, and so I'm planning on getting one soon
16 inputs in my rack right now would be sweet indeed, particulary considering that 4 items have their own input/routing capabilities as well as multipe output channels, so a Firewire interface is pretty much totally in sight
(OSX, tiBook, lotsa RAM, smooth as silk USB audio drivers)
... unless its got living fish in it.
Yeah, one for transportation (the 8meg install), and one for actual use. Cool trick, nice integrated-backup!