Couple of tips for working with 'pixels' in inkscape: I usually zoom in quite deep and add a grid (Grids tab in Document Properties); the gridlines mark pixel borders. You can quickly toggle snap-to-grid with % (shift-5). The Icon Preview gives you a 1:1 for work<=64x64, or you can hit '1' to jump to 100% zoom.
O - "Round Corners": Inkscape has a lot of ways to achieve this, but they should be easier and more automatic, so I'll agree with you here. X - There is a Calligraphic Pen tool in the main toolbox. The default behavior is path outline. X - Path offsets are excellent and consistent using the Dynamic Offset tool X - Auto-trace is in Path -> Trace Bitmap X - Pixel Preview mode is in View -> Icon Preview
You aren't expected to be up-to-date on software you don't use, but please get the facts straight before posting:)
I think you would be very, very surprised at the state of Linux pro audio (esp. Ardour.) Graphics apps (Gimp, Inkscape, Maya, etc) have been very mature for several years. Unless you need to stay with your current programs (and play Games For Windows(TM),) Linux is ready for you now.
I use an RME Hammerfall DIGI96/52 almost every day. It's since been replaced by the Hammerfall HDSP, and runs around $500 new. This card provides 24 channels of I/O (3 8-channel ADAT lightpipes in and out) and has worked flawlessly for 5+ years with my windows, mac, and (currently) linux machines.
Along with this card, I have 3 8-channel A/D converters (all different brands, use what you can afford) letting me dump 24 tracks of raw audio at 16/20/24bit, 44.1/48/88.2/96khz into Ardour with almost no CPU load.
If you don't need 24 channels simultaneously, RME makes several other products (such as the one linked above) that do 8 channels of A/D and I/O in one package. I can speak from professional experience and from the comments on virtually every audio board - RME makes good, open, quality products.
This equipment plus a mixing console of your choice (with direct-outs for each channel you are tracking) and some mics will make a very nice demo-disk studio.
OH ITS A DUPE OH MAN WHY CAN'T TACO READ HIS OWN POSTS YOU WOULD THINK THIS IMPORTANT SITE WOULD BE RUN BY PEOPLE WHO KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS/. AND *THINK* FOR A SECOND GOD THIS TOTALLY INVALIDATES SLASHDOT IN MY EYES OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE AMATEURS WHO HAVE NEVER HAD ANY REAL RESPONSIBILITY JEEZE AT LEAST LOOK DOWN 3 OR 4 POSTS BEFORE YOU CLICK SUBMIT AAAAAA BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH I LOVE TO HEAR MYSELF TALK IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT *BONK* OW JESUS WHAT WAS THAT
*sigh*. I was going to leave it at that, but the/. 'lameness filter' wont let it go through. Putting all of this normal text down here at the bottom really takes something away from the knee-jerk idiot image i was trying to portray, but oh well, I guess you all get the idea.
We (Sgt Steve Monday )were the 6th or 7th band ever on mp3.com, years ago. When there got to be around 100 bands, they (mp3.com) sent us all a notice saying something to the effect of: "Well, our lawyers are worried about the legality of us hosting music, especially since they are mp3s. You need to agree to this letter, or we'll pull your music."
The letter gave mp3.com ALL rights for the songs we uploaded; production, performance, broadcast, lyrics, everything.
He says "is still unclear whether the consequences of such maladjustments are only temporary (similarly like seeing the world in green/ red discoloured after taking off red/ green 3D glasses) or if the continuous consumption of neuroacoustically datareduced sounds can lead to long lasting or even permanent damage."
and also "I try here in no way to demonize MP3 in the name of the sound carrier industry"
He's not trying to scare people, he's just theorizing, with a educated point of view.
MP3 and other lossy codecs fool our ears, and unlike our eyes, our ears require constant re-calibration to function properly. If we are calibrating to inaccurate/unnatural sounds, he thinks this could be a concern.
Certainly just listening to a few mp3's a day is nothing to worry about, but what about when all of the media we saturate ourselves with is lossy-encoded?
I don't know, and this is not a scientific article. He's just throwing the idea out there.
Maybe I read his comment wrong, but I think he meant the Slashdot editors' post-article comments. In this article it would be: "The issue at hand is that commercial software has started to force consumers to fall into such schemes to maintain features that they already had. Today it is Quickbooks, but what about tomorrow?" added by Cliff.
In this case, it's not so bad, but I've seen some pretty dumb ones before.
I like the show, I've probably seen 10 or 11 episodes, usually in the company of several friends. Every time, we ponder the oddity of your clothing selections; the shiny-skirt-over-pants thing looks completely bizarre to us, is this a common look in England (wasn't the last time I was there)? did you come up with this on your own? is that a toolbelt-skirt?
I'm really really surprised that noone has asked about this yet, and I really want to know; what's the motivation?
While Adventure is amusing, a Nethack/Angband-style configuration could be far more useful. The same room/object analogy could be used (town-level: different stores as sub-menus), you can check your inventory for current config, choose your race/class (arch/proc), etc etc etc.
When you are suited up and ready to battle, the compilation process could be initiated by entering the dungeon and watching gcc slay the demons of.h and hordes.c ! Return victorious with the Amulet of bzImage!
Well, maybe that's taking it too far.
But if it got popular enough, maybe Blizzard would re-hash it in a fully-graphic real-time game for Windows.....
First, put aside the bickering about the X naming scheme. I am well aware of the standards, and was using variations intentionally...
When you say "windows" many people will assume Microsoft's product, even though we know the term can be slang for any number of windowing systems, most notably X. Additionally, the term is a pre-existing word for a hole in a wall.
Likewise, the word "illustrator" should not be trademark-able, even though people often use it to denote Adobe's product. As a pre-existing word (meaning something or someone who illustrates) it should be safe from attack.
Perhaps a better example would be the word "Cola"
If you say "do you want a cola?" you may be implying Coca-Cola (or any other cola), but that common use cannot prevent Pepsi-cola or RC-cola from using the term Cola in their name.
Adobe Illustrator and KIllustrator should be treated in a similar fashion: as two different brands of illustrators.
While I know where you were coming with this, you're pretty wrong...
The G4 might replace the mixing board and tape/ADATs/HD, but to record you need a few other things. Examples:
* Microphones - A good studio will have many, some costing thousands of dollars.
* Facilities - As a rule, good recordings do not come out of the living room. Building a studio is expensive, and outfitting an existing building is not much cheaper.
* (Most Importantly) Knowledgeable Staff - A great engineer/producer team can make a decent record from a Tascam cassette recorder. Why don't they? Because these people already work for big studios, where they get paid what they're worth.
There are many great engineers in many great small studios out there. Mix did a report on about 10 of them a few months ago, and there are surely hundreds more, if not thousands.
My point is not "G4 Studios can't do it well" it's "Buying a G4 does not buy you a studio".
However, I think you overestimate the "average user" who might not know any of these issues - and who would welcome a suggested upgrade.
Now, forced redirections are a bad idea, and I must not have read that part right. My comment wasn't in defense of this "feature", but instead in support of the "encourage designers to use the new technology and not worry so much about their pages breaking on uncompliant browsers."
As a user of such a browser, you are surely accustomed to dissapointment when visiting certain sites, but this is likely usually due to non-standard HTML. If you knew that those pages were unsuable because of your browser and not the designer, would you be more likely to upgrade?
Slashdot Mirror
I may not share beliefs with them but I can recognise deliberate pissing on beliefs to draw a response when I see it.
LOUD AGREEMENT
but I hope he got a free copy of iAlysis
Good points.
Couple of tips for working with 'pixels' in inkscape:
I usually zoom in quite deep and add a grid (Grids tab in Document Properties); the gridlines mark pixel borders.
You can quickly toggle snap-to-grid with % (shift-5).
The Icon Preview gives you a 1:1 for work<=64x64, or you can hit '1' to jump to 100% zoom.
O - "Round Corners": Inkscape has a lot of ways to achieve this, but they should be easier and more automatic, so I'll agree with you here.
X - There is a Calligraphic Pen tool in the main toolbox. The default behavior is path outline.
X - Path offsets are excellent and consistent using the Dynamic Offset tool
X - Auto-trace is in Path -> Trace Bitmap
X - Pixel Preview mode is in View -> Icon Preview
You aren't expected to be up-to-date on software you don't use, but please get the facts straight before posting :)
I think you would be very, very surprised at the state of Linux pro audio (esp. Ardour.) Graphics apps (Gimp, Inkscape, Maya, etc) have been very mature for several years. Unless you need to stay with your current programs (and play Games For Windows(TM),) Linux is ready for you now.
I use an RME Hammerfall DIGI96/52 almost every day. It's since been replaced by the Hammerfall HDSP, and runs around $500 new. This card provides 24 channels of I/O (3 8-channel ADAT lightpipes in and out) and has worked flawlessly for 5+ years with my windows, mac, and (currently) linux machines.
Along with this card, I have 3 8-channel A/D converters (all different brands, use what you can afford) letting me dump 24 tracks of raw audio at 16/20/24bit, 44.1/48/88.2/96khz into Ardour with almost no CPU load.
If you don't need 24 channels simultaneously, RME makes several other products (such as the one linked above) that do 8 channels of A/D and I/O in one package. I can speak from professional experience and from the comments on virtually every audio board - RME makes good, open, quality products.
This equipment plus a mixing console of your choice (with direct-outs for each channel you are tracking) and some mics will make a very nice demo-disk studio.
Fond, fond memories of many a long evening with Vikings, Warlords II, EPIC Pinball, Angband, and Commander Keen IV... mmmm.
Recorded music without cracks and pops is like Email without spam.
Am I to old to snicker at "let them pitch tents"?
'cause I did.
OH ITS A DUPE OH MAN WHY CAN'T TACO READ HIS OWN POSTS YOU WOULD THINK THIS IMPORTANT SITE WOULD BE RUN BY PEOPLE WHO KNEW WHAT THEY WERE DOING PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS /. AND *THINK* FOR A SECOND GOD THIS TOTALLY INVALIDATES SLASHDOT IN MY EYES OBVIOUSLY THEY ARE AMATEURS WHO HAVE NEVER HAD ANY REAL RESPONSIBILITY JEEZE AT LEAST LOOK DOWN 3 OR 4 POSTS BEFORE YOU CLICK SUBMIT AAAAAA BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH I LOVE TO HEAR MYSELF TALK IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT *BONK* OW JESUS WHAT WAS THAT
/. 'lameness filter' wont let it go through. Putting all of this normal text down here at the bottom really takes something away from the knee-jerk idiot image i was trying to portray, but oh well, I guess you all get the idea.
*sigh*. I was going to leave it at that, but the
We (Sgt Steve Monday )were the 6th or 7th band ever on mp3.com, years ago. When there got to be around 100 bands, they (mp3.com) sent us all a notice saying something to the effect of: "Well, our lawyers are worried about the legality of us hosting music, especially since they are mp3s. You need to agree to this letter, or we'll pull your music."
The letter gave mp3.com ALL rights for the songs we uploaded; production, performance, broadcast, lyrics, everything.
We got the hell out, and have never looked back.
Garageband.com has been really great for my band, and for my own library.
You must review music to be allowed to upload music; Then you get reviews of your own work.
Non-musicians can review music to earn credits, to buy music.
It's been really great to get 100% anonymous reviews from people around the world.
Hmm, did you READ the article?
He says "is still unclear whether the consequences of such maladjustments are only temporary (similarly like seeing the world in green/ red discoloured after taking off red/ green 3D glasses) or if the continuous consumption of neuroacoustically datareduced sounds can lead to long lasting or even permanent damage."
and also "I try here in no way to demonize MP3 in the name of the sound carrier industry"
He's not trying to scare people, he's just theorizing, with a educated point of view.
MP3 and other lossy codecs fool our ears, and unlike our eyes, our ears require constant re-calibration to function properly. If we are calibrating to inaccurate/unnatural sounds, he thinks this could be a concern.
Certainly just listening to a few mp3's a day is nothing to worry about, but what about when all of the media we saturate ourselves with is lossy-encoded?
I don't know, and this is not a scientific article. He's just throwing the idea out there.
Maybe I read his comment wrong, but I think he meant the Slashdot editors' post-article comments. In this article it would be:
"The issue at hand is that commercial software has started to force consumers to fall into such schemes to maintain features that they already had. Today it is Quickbooks, but what about tomorrow?"
added by Cliff.
In this case, it's not so bad, but I've seen some pretty dumb ones before.
I like the show, I've probably seen 10 or 11 episodes, usually in the company of several friends. Every time, we ponder the oddity of your clothing selections; the shiny-skirt-over-pants thing looks completely bizarre to us, is this a common look in England (wasn't the last time I was there)? did you come up with this on your own? is that a toolbelt-skirt?
.sig :)
I'm really really surprised that noone has asked about this yet, and I really want to know; what's the motivation?
--theLime
(here comes the inappropriate
TrueCombat.
A Q3 mod.
Beats the pants off of Urban Terror in the 'realism' department.
Yes and no....
2.4.11 had BIG bad problems, but there was no "2.4.11 fixed"
They just marked the file something like "2.4.11-DO-NOT-USE" and put out 2.4.12
While Adventure is amusing, a Nethack/Angband-style configuration could be far more useful. The same room/object analogy could be used (town-level: different stores as sub-menus), you can check your inventory for current config, choose your race/class (arch/proc), etc etc etc.
.h and hordes .c ! Return victorious with the Amulet of bzImage!
When you are suited up and ready to battle, the compilation process could be initiated by entering the dungeon and watching gcc slay the demons of
Well, maybe that's taking it too far.
But if it got popular enough, maybe Blizzard would re-hash it in a fully-graphic real-time game for Windows.....
Well,
First, put aside the bickering about the X naming scheme. I am well aware of the standards, and was using variations intentionally...
When you say "windows" many people will assume Microsoft's product, even though we know the term can be slang for any number of windowing systems, most notably X. Additionally, the term is a pre-existing word for a hole in a wall.
Likewise, the word "illustrator" should not be trademark-able, even though people often use it to denote Adobe's product. As a pre-existing word (meaning something or someone who illustrates) it should be safe from attack.
Perhaps a better example would be the word "Cola"
If you say "do you want a cola?" you may be implying Coca-Cola (or any other cola), but that common use cannot prevent Pepsi-cola or RC-cola from using the term Cola in their name.
Adobe Illustrator and KIllustrator should be treated in a similar fashion: as two different brands of illustrators.
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Is "XWindows" good enough? Similar issue -
"Windows" is not trademark-able.
"MS Windows" or "X Windowing System" is.
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Reasons:
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While I know where you were coming with this, you're pretty wrong...
The G4 might replace the mixing board and tape/ADATs/HD, but to record you need a few other things. Examples:
* Microphones - A good studio will have many, some costing thousands of dollars.
* Facilities - As a rule, good recordings do not come out of the living room. Building a studio is expensive, and outfitting an existing building is not much cheaper.
* (Most Importantly) Knowledgeable Staff - A great engineer/producer team can make a decent record from a Tascam cassette recorder. Why don't they? Because these people already work for big studios, where they get paid what they're worth.
There are many great engineers in many great small studios out there. Mix did a report on about 10 of them a few months ago, and there are surely hundreds more, if not thousands.
My point is not "G4 Studios can't do it well" it's "Buying a G4 does not buy you a studio".
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You are absolutely right - that choice is yours.
However, I think you overestimate the "average user" who might not know any of these issues - and who would welcome a suggested upgrade.
Now, forced redirections are a bad idea, and I must not have read that part right. My comment wasn't in defense of this "feature", but instead in support of the "encourage designers to use the new technology and not worry so much about their pages breaking on uncompliant browsers."
As a user of such a browser, you are surely accustomed to dissapointment when visiting certain sites, but this is likely usually due to non-standard HTML. If you knew that those pages were unsuable because of your browser and not the designer, would you be more likely to upgrade?
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(Insert generic "I Agree Completely" statement here)
Thanks for providing the voice of reason.
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no no no no no
Current HTML and CSS includes the ability to code *directly* for things like text-to-speech, or LCD Projector or... etc.
And the WHOLE IDEA of this is to eliminate the need for browser detection! That's what standards are about!
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