I spent about a week getting it working on my Debian Unstable system, especially learning about how it works. To me, it was totally worth it! I have my motherboard's on board audio and then I have a PCI HT Omega Claro Halo connected via optical to a home theatre receiver and to headphones. I can direct the sound of kaffeine, amarok, youtube, and mupen64 dynamically to any of them without dropping sound at all. For a big while every application "skipped" at the beginning but they don't anymore. It still doesn't detect/configure the digital connections on either the onboard or the Claro Halo but I learned enough that I can fix the problem. Why fix? Well, once or twice it stopped working altogether. Ha ha.
I love Pulse. Technically, it's awesome! My nephew brought his USB Audio card and Pulse detected it right away and I was able to also direct sound to it dynamically. But I also love to learn and I think many people don't have the time or skills to figure it all out right on their own. Oh well, Alsa, and OSS are still there. Pulse is not going away, nor should it. And then there's the issue of the kernel needing to be compiled with certain options, like low latency...
My only problem now is that it won't detect the digital connections and it has no easy way to bypass itself, i.e. from the GUI, for Dolby Digital or DTS. Considering all the issues I had in the past... shoot, just getting it to work, I think that they're going to fix any issues that non-technical people can't figure out and most everyone will forget this debate ever happened.
Or rather, it changed. It's no longer "natural" selection, we found our own selection criteria and moved on with it... Evolution 2.0, if you will.
One really annoying thing about Evo 2.0 is that people that should be having more kids (kind, intelligent, financially responsible) are not but those that should not (lazy, stupid people, with anachronistic religious views) are pumping them out like it's their job to overpopulate the world.
After much thought, I decided that what would be best is to disallow corporations from influencing government policy (no lobbying for corporations!) and elections. Of course that will never happen because they will lobby against that happening. I am soooo sick and tired of corporations dictating policy!!!!
If the facts are not relevant to a person's daily life or that person's career, who cares if they know the quantitative answer to a question? Let that person concentrate on information that can actually improve their lot in life, and stop quizzing them on trivia.
But what if the conditions "that can actually improve their lot in life" change?
I can now see teachers cheating to get their students higher grades so they can get that raise so they can buy a new car. Or suing because they got stuck with all the trouble-making kids so they couldn't buy that new car./sigh Is anything simple nowadays?
I really can't understand why he'd marked them down for the quality.
Maybe he has a crappy sound card or receiver/amp? Or maybe he just can't! I have a friend who can't tell the difference between regular TV and HD (on my 24" Dell LCD monitor for a fact). No kidding. I also showed her some dry, brown, stemmy weed and I go, "Ah, look, such excellent bud!" and she totally agreed until I go, "Dude, this is dry, brown, stemmy weed, yuch!"
My current card is an ATI 3850, which I bought because of promising open-source 3D but I just upgraded to KDE 4.1 and I got tired of waiting for open source 3D drivers (since the fglrx drivers suck, they crash my system) so I just ordered an nvidia 9600GT card since their closed source drivers were pretty good.
My next card will probably be an ATI again, assuming I can get open source hardware acceleration by then.
Since 1995 I have bought:
1 S3
1 Tseng Labs
3 Matrox ~8 Nvidia
1 ATI
people become senile as they get older because the brain, like the rest of your body, deteriorates with age.
I'm a firm believer that meditation can help tremendously to help ward off senility, dementia, and some forms of depression. So, while our brain will undoubtedly age, I think our minds don't necessarily have to.
I think the plan is to keep people stupid by underpaying teachers so that the people most qualified to be teachers do something else because of the low pay.... thus making sure that people cannot follow a logical argument therefore are much easier to be manipulated by appealing to their emotions.... and to discourage another group of people that actually can follow logical arguments, are informed, have good ideas, and actually care about improving the state of things by making marihuana illegal and performing drug tests.
They are now so good at their game that they lie and steal from us right in front of our noses and we do NOTHING about it.
I would really love to go into education but I would have to take something like a $15k a year pay cut from my current IT job. No thanks.
Why can't people learn to look at their own issues before pointing fingers and pushing blame to everyone else so quickly?
Once I dropped Christianity I looked at the following Genesis incident in a completely new light. No, I don't think it really happened but I don't think it really matters. I haven't decided whether it just shows "human nature" or whether it "makes" people take less responsibility for their own actions:
God, walking through the Garden of Eden: Yo, Adam, where are you?
Adam: I am hiding.
God: Why are you hiding?
Adam: Because I am naked.
God: Who told you you are naked???
Adam: It was the woman, she made me take of the apple!
... even sent his campaign a few bucks. Then I saw how he voted/felt about this and I changed my mind. As The Who sang, "Look at the new boss, same as the old boss."
I say it's time for a revolution (no I don't mean using weapons and stuff), I mean:
LET'S CLEAN HOUSE AND GET ALL THOSE FUCKERS OUT OF THERE!
Yeah, I fell for it, too. Even contributed to his campaign. Then I read about he compromised on giving the telcos retroactive immunity. No, sir, they don't deserve any.
It actually isn't that simple. When their sales go down more because everyone wants to not buy from them they are going to claim even more infringement and... Aaaargh, those fuckers!!!
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I spent about a week getting it working on my Debian Unstable system, especially learning about how it works. To me, it was totally worth it! I have my motherboard's on board audio and then I have a PCI HT Omega Claro Halo connected via optical to a home theatre receiver and to headphones. I can direct the sound of kaffeine, amarok, youtube, and mupen64 dynamically to any of them without dropping sound at all. For a big while every application "skipped" at the beginning but they don't anymore. It still doesn't detect/configure the digital connections on either the onboard or the Claro Halo but I learned enough that I can fix the problem. Why fix? Well, once or twice it stopped working altogether. Ha ha.
I love Pulse. Technically, it's awesome! My nephew brought his USB Audio card and Pulse detected it right away and I was able to also direct sound to it dynamically. But I also love to learn and I think many people don't have the time or skills to figure it all out right on their own. Oh well, Alsa, and OSS are still there. Pulse is not going away, nor should it. And then there's the issue of the kernel needing to be compiled with certain options, like low latency...
My only problem now is that it won't detect the digital connections and it has no easy way to bypass itself, i.e. from the GUI, for Dolby Digital or DTS. Considering all the issues I had in the past... shoot, just getting it to work, I think that they're going to fix any issues that non-technical people can't figure out and most everyone will forget this debate ever happened.
Come on, dude, you're making us look bad. You ended your sentence with TWO prepositions. /sigh
Or rather, it changed. It's no longer "natural" selection, we found our own selection criteria and moved on with it... Evolution 2.0, if you will.
One really annoying thing about Evo 2.0 is that people that should be having more kids (kind, intelligent, financially responsible) are not but those that should not (lazy, stupid people, with anachronistic religious views) are pumping them out like it's their job to overpopulate the world.
Let's make lobbying illegal.
After much thought, I decided that what would be best is to disallow corporations from influencing government policy (no lobbying for corporations!) and elections. Of course that will never happen because they will lobby against that happening. I am soooo sick and tired of corporations dictating policy!!!!
You'd get more efficiency by cutting out weight.
yeah, good luck banning picking up fat chicks.
If the facts are not relevant to a person's daily life or that person's career, who cares if they know the quantitative answer to a question? Let that person concentrate on information that can actually improve their lot in life, and stop quizzing them on trivia.
But what if the conditions "that can actually improve their lot in life" change?
I can now see teachers cheating to get their students higher grades so they can get that raise so they can buy a new car. Or suing because they got stuck with all the trouble-making kids so they couldn't buy that new car. /sigh Is anything simple nowadays?
I work in IT (the dreaded Helpdesk job) and I have made a lot of money supporting Windows systems since Windows 95.
Dude, I think you're purposefully missing a VERY important point: All versions of Linux cost the same.
I dare say that they represent a fairly large percentage of todays population.
I bet they also voted for Bush because they're too stupid or lazy to learn anything on their own, aren't they?
I really can't understand why he'd marked them down for the quality.
Maybe he has a crappy sound card or receiver/amp? Or maybe he just can't! I have a friend who can't tell the difference between regular TV and HD (on my 24" Dell LCD monitor for a fact). No kidding. I also showed her some dry, brown, stemmy weed and I go, "Ah, look, such excellent bud!" and she totally agreed until I go, "Dude, this is dry, brown, stemmy weed, yuch!"
... and provide ample instructions that will not confuse users...
I think you're asking a bit too much, buddy.
He gets to vote.
My current card is an ATI 3850, which I bought because of promising open-source 3D but I just upgraded to KDE 4.1 and I got tired of waiting for open source 3D drivers (since the fglrx drivers suck, they crash my system) so I just ordered an nvidia 9600GT card since their closed source drivers were pretty good.
My next card will probably be an ATI again, assuming I can get open source hardware acceleration by then.
Since 1995 I have bought:
1 S3
1 Tseng Labs
3 Matrox
~8 Nvidia
1 ATI
Another way to put it is that it *emulates* the behavior of those APIs.
You use that word a lot. I don't think it means what you think it means.
people become senile as they get older because the brain, like the rest of your body, deteriorates with age.
I'm a firm believer that meditation can help tremendously to help ward off senility, dementia, and some forms of depression. So, while our brain will undoubtedly age, I think our minds don't necessarily have to.
I specifically buy Sony optical drives because
1. I've generally not had problems with them and
2. I get a real good chuckle when I make illegal copies of audio discs recorded on their label.
I think the plan is to keep people stupid by underpaying teachers so that the people most qualified to be teachers do something else because of the low pay. ... thus making sure that people cannot follow a logical argument therefore are much easier to be manipulated by appealing to their emotions. ... and to discourage another group of people that actually can follow logical arguments, are informed, have good ideas, and actually care about improving the state of things by making marihuana illegal and performing drug tests.
They are now so good at their game that they lie and steal from us right in front of our noses and we do NOTHING about it.
I would really love to go into education but I would have to take something like a $15k a year pay cut from my current IT job. No thanks.
Why can't people learn to look at their own issues before pointing fingers and pushing blame to everyone else so quickly?
Once I dropped Christianity I looked at the following Genesis incident in a completely new light. No, I don't think it really happened but I don't think it really matters. I haven't decided whether it just shows "human nature" or whether it "makes" people take less responsibility for their own actions:
God, walking through the Garden of Eden: Yo, Adam, where are you?
Adam: I am hiding.
God: Why are you hiding?
Adam: Because I am naked.
God: Who told you you are naked???
Adam: It was the woman, she made me take of the apple!
God: Eve...
Eve: It was the snake...!
So, yeah, pointing fingers isn't new.
This shows they're a little kinder than MS, or at least have better PR.
Yous guys remember MS and SenderID? If it doesn't benefit them directly, they'd rather it not benefit anyone else. Brats. /sigh
... even sent his campaign a few bucks. Then I saw how he voted/felt about this and I changed my mind. As The Who sang, "Look at the new boss, same as the old boss."
I say it's time for a revolution (no I don't mean using weapons and stuff), I mean:
LET'S CLEAN HOUSE AND GET ALL THOSE FUCKERS OUT OF THERE!
Yeah, I fell for it, too. Even contributed to his campaign. Then I read about he compromised on giving the telcos retroactive immunity. No, sir, they don't deserve any.
Back to third party politicians for me.
It's pretty simple.
It actually isn't that simple. When their sales go down more because everyone wants to not buy from them they are going to claim even more infringement and... Aaaargh, those fuckers!!!
In DC, hey?
They played from 7:30 PM to 11:00 PM. Hell yea! Too bad they didn't play anything from Fly By Night, my favorite!
Offtopic, too, hee hee.
But then Fedora or any other "commercial" distro can't distribute those changes? That's bunk.