I think starting with clean water, seeds, vacinations, and education might be a good idea. They can then choose to practise and enjoy capitalism when they're not busy dying of malnutrition or ebola.
Neat, so we all win:-) He gets a cleaner conscience and we get children who aren't dying from polio, rickets, ebola, and all the other dieseases that plague the unfortunate. How could that ever possibly be a bad thing?
That's less than 1% more than nothing. Would you rather he just burnt the money to warm his mansion? Those children benefit, regardless of what people think of Bill and his business practises (me, I'm not a fan of either) but his generous actions are speaking volumes to me about how compassion can come from the most unlikely of sources. Gripe all you want about the percentages, but until you match his donations you aren't on the moral high ground.
Remarkably, if the same high-frequency stimulus is applied repeatedly (three times in our experiments), the synapse becomes strengthened permanently, a state called late LTP. But the stimuli cannot be repeated one after the other. Instead each stimulus burst must be spaced by sufficient intervals of inactivity (10 minutes in our experiments). And adding chemicals that block mRNA or protein synthesis to the salt solution bathing the brain slice will cause the synapse to weaken to its original strength within two to three hours. Just as in whole organisms, the cellular model of short-term memory is not dependent on the nucleus, but the long-term form of memory is.
Finally, a scientific explanation for what wicken and other mystics have know for thousands of years. Say it three times to give it power. The number three and repetition three times is a powerful concept that seems deeply imbedded in mankind.
Up the rack it goes then. My chances of getting an old PC copy of SoundDiver are slim, and buying a Mac just for that is out of the question.
There may be some questions heading your way (thanks for the offer BTW), the Kurweil has amazing depth to it from the look of the manuals, and I really want to see what I can make it do.
Hey there Kurzweilfreak, I don't suppose you could suggest a good librarian / editor for the K2000R can you? I picked one up super cheap but it's midway down my rack and a pain to edit like that and I *really* want to learn to harness the sound power of this machine. I can't afford Logic or the Mac I'd need to run it on, and the patch editors I found online are all pretty crap. MidiQuest doesn't seem to be able to handle it either, or any of my equipment properly. So, any further suggestions would be well received.
Yes, this is really the spirit of GPL. The GPL is about granting you freedoms, not taking them away. Only Stallman and his sympathisers would be upset by this. If they add value to the stack by putting proprietry software on top of the GPL set then that is within the scope of the GPL. How else can we make Linux based firewalls, routers, audio servers, etc? These are all devices which have a Linux base and potentially a closed upper stack.
An instrument like this usually has a sequencer, but it's pants in comparison to CuBase or Logic / etc, so yeh, most of the people who have this gear have both PCs and fast internet connections. Audio nerds need ways to move their data around too.
It does seem the next logical step up. I absolutely love my Triton, even if I don't like the "politeness" it seems to impart to all the sounds it makes. Polite that is in comparison to some Waldorf gear. I'd definitely sell mine Triton and get one of these if they come in under £2000 (GBP), but that's mainly because I'd need to recoup some of the cost of the Triton to get one of these and because I don't have room for two keyboards in my bedroom (it's a hobby for me, a bloody expensive one, but a hobby none the less).
NOTE: the main reason I lvoe the Triton is it's big touch sensitive screen, tweakable controllers, and the immedicay of working with it and playing - even if you only want to play for 2 minutes it's not a bother to start her up. Oh yeh, let's not forget the pads, it does great pads.
Not just games too, since it is also good for DSP based activities. Audio processing is a DSP heavy task, imagine the quality of the audio you could get out of these buggers. If you can hack it and load Linux on, then you could use it as the most powerful DSP based soft synth around. Think Nord Modular style power and you'll get my drift. I'm drooling just thinking about it - cheap consumer hardware that could provide the horse power of a full rack of specialised audio gear.
Doh, I shoulda hit preview since that was meant to have tags all over it (thus being hard enough to read that I didn't even notice the extra PRINT statement. Slashdot has removed all the tags leaving the comment looking meaningless AND incorrect....oh well.
My current project is 300,000 lines of C / C++ / C# / XSLT (2 programmer team, written over 12 months), and although it is now what I would consider unwieldy, it's not hard to debug or maintain. The hardest problem is finding the code we want to work on, since it is made up of 13 projects and maybe 800-1000 source files it's hard for us to navigate the code to where we want to debug / change. Sigh, I dream of 1,000 line projects, we have single files with twice that number of lines in them, and it's complicated derivative valuation code too. Hang in there, it will all become simple to you in time.
Try using a debugger, it makes it an absolute doddle. Not as easy as finding a bug in well written C, but easier than modelling all theat data in my head like I used to do. They have fancy features like the ability to inspect variables without using printf, and the ability to pause the code without a getc ().
Meh, bad code sux arse badly, but C is not as bad as you make out once you learn it.
Shit, I don't know about you, but I spend most of my time writing code in languages, not writing languages. So what if a parser is moderately difficult to write, it's written once and that's that. Why make it easy for the 0.01% of programmers who code parsers, instead of the 99.09% who *use* that language?
Shade, if you don't trust a guy to be working on your codebase, why are you letting them work on it? You can't grey out all the code, your leadership abilities should be enought to stop them from making random changes, your source control enough to recover from insane mistakes. Coding is a professional game, not an amateur one, don't let incompetants work on your codebase, don't even hire them in the first place.
May I have a toke on your crack-pipe? Comments are readibility. Having to dredge your way through the shite that most programmers consider code is like having to taste test syphalis for a living, do-able, but not something to share with your mates. The golden rule is "read the green, resort to the code when the green is missing or inaccurate". A programmer will be 10x more productive if they follow this rule and it's corrolorary, write the green.
If your mate fred is so incompetent that he can't write good code you either need to train him or fire him. Programmers hoarding a code source to themselves is a sure sign that something is wrong, and they also need re-training or firing. If you can't read and maintain your mates code one of you needs to leave. If you don't trust your mate, one of you needs to leave.
Fuck that shit. XML is wordy crap, good for storing and exchanging data, but keep it the hell away from my programming languages. When I write code I want to get it down terse, fast, and complete. I don't need to be writing 10 print "this sux" 20print GOTO 10
It's a basic fact that programmers make x number of errors per line of code. Anything that reduces the number or lenth or lines I write increases my productivity and decreases my error rate. Fuck XML, it doesn't do either of these things.
Haha, anata wa hentai desu ka. nihonjin ka. And in case you have even worse japanese than me, nice score getting hentai as a user name. Are you japanese or a fellow j-phile?
Yep, you're probably in the worst position at present. With big loans already and no industry experience you will find it difficult to get a position while the industry is still attempting to recover from the dotcom boom bust. You can try what I did to break into contracting. Even though I was well overqualified I took a position doing backfill for the helpdesks of several big financials (through an agency, get an agency first thing!). I worked hard, and managed to get coding for the financials - crap stuff first, then onto really decent projects as they saw my potential. Two years later I was getting 100 grand a year (AUS) and was considered a highly valued contractor. I used that experience to leverage new bank positions in the UK where I am working my way through to working with derivatives valuation.
Now, I didn't have nig debts to start with but I did start from a position of zero dollars in the bank, and I had to pay rent on a flat during this time. It's possible, but it takes determination, a positive attitude, a little blagging and effort.
Big town, small town, go wherever you can get that first position and take it from there - once you have momentum it's hard to stop.
It's not narrow minded, it's accounting. Businesses exist to make a profit and they can't make a profit out of the marginal group of Linux users out there. Sure, we now outnumber the Mac-o-philes, but we're still too small a market to care about. When there is more like 25% market penetration, then the games will come.
Let me make this quite clear for those who haven't any networking knowledge, and yet seem to want to post on slashdot like they do: a router does NOTHING to stop you being hacked, in fact, it makes it possible. Without a router you aren't connected to the internet, period, you need to route packets to the net and that takes a router of some kind. A firewall filters the packets incoming and outgoing and helps you stop people doing things like typing \\youripaddress\ and reading your Windows file system straight across the internet, try it, it's funny.
Hackers don't care if your box is on 24/7 or has good bandwidth, they are after zombies armies and these are made up massively of ignorant home users windows/linux PCs that they haven't secured. They don't attack you personnally, they sweep entire IP ranges and perform automated scans/attacks on each device in that range (nmap, nessus). If you connect a box to the internet without a firewall, patches, and a generally well secured setup then you may as well send your PC out with a program like this running on it:
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I think starting with clean water, seeds, vacinations, and education might be a good idea. They can then choose to practise and enjoy capitalism when they're not busy dying of malnutrition or ebola.
Neat, so we all win :-) He gets a cleaner conscience and we get children who aren't dying from polio, rickets, ebola, and all the other dieseases that plague the unfortunate. How could that ever possibly be a bad thing?
That's less than 1% more than nothing. Would you rather he just burnt the money to warm his mansion? Those children benefit, regardless of what people think of Bill and his business practises (me, I'm not a fan of either) but his generous actions are speaking volumes to me about how compassion can come from the most unlikely of sources. Gripe all you want about the percentages, but until you match his donations you aren't on the moral high ground.
Finally, a scientific explanation for what wicken and other mystics have know for thousands of years. Say it three times to give it power. The number three and repetition three times is a powerful concept that seems deeply imbedded in mankind.
There may be some questions heading your way (thanks for the offer BTW), the Kurweil has amazing depth to it from the look of the manuals, and I really want to see what I can make it do.
Hey there Kurzweilfreak, I don't suppose you could suggest a good librarian / editor for the K2000R can you? I picked one up super cheap but it's midway down my rack and a pain to edit like that and I *really* want to learn to harness the sound power of this machine. I can't afford Logic or the Mac I'd need to run it on, and the patch editors I found online are all pretty crap. MidiQuest doesn't seem to be able to handle it either, or any of my equipment properly. So, any further suggestions would be well received.
Yes, this is really the spirit of GPL. The GPL is about granting you freedoms, not taking them away. Only Stallman and his sympathisers would be upset by this. If they add value to the stack by putting proprietry software on top of the GPL set then that is within the scope of the GPL. How else can we make Linux based firewalls, routers, audio servers, etc? These are all devices which have a Linux base and potentially a closed upper stack.
An instrument like this usually has a sequencer, but it's pants in comparison to CuBase or Logic / etc, so yeh, most of the people who have this gear have both PCs and fast internet connections. Audio nerds need ways to move their data around too.
NOTE: the main reason I lvoe the Triton is it's big touch sensitive screen, tweakable controllers, and the immedicay of working with it and playing - even if you only want to play for 2 minutes it's not a bother to start her up. Oh yeh, let's not forget the pads, it does great pads.
Gave up trying? ;->
Not just games too, since it is also good for DSP based activities. Audio processing is a DSP heavy task, imagine the quality of the audio you could get out of these buggers. If you can hack it and load Linux on, then you could use it as the most powerful DSP based soft synth around. Think Nord Modular style power and you'll get my drift. I'm drooling just thinking about it - cheap consumer hardware that could provide the horse power of a full rack of specialised audio gear.
Doh, I shoulda hit preview since that was meant to have tags all over it (thus being hard enough to read that I didn't even notice the extra PRINT statement. Slashdot has removed all the tags leaving the comment looking meaningless AND incorrect....oh well.
I use DevPartner for wild pointers. It's just another debugger to me, an expensive debugger, but that's essentially what it does - find bugs.
My current project is 300,000 lines of C / C++ / C# / XSLT (2 programmer team, written over 12 months), and although it is now what I would consider unwieldy, it's not hard to debug or maintain. The hardest problem is finding the code we want to work on, since it is made up of 13 projects and maybe 800-1000 source files it's hard for us to navigate the code to where we want to debug / change. Sigh, I dream of 1,000 line projects, we have single files with twice that number of lines in them, and it's complicated derivative valuation code too. Hang in there, it will all become simple to you in time.
Try using a debugger, it makes it an absolute doddle. Not as easy as finding a bug in well written C, but easier than modelling all theat data in my head like I used to do. They have fancy features like the ability to inspect variables without using printf, and the ability to pause the code without a getc ().
Meh, bad code sux arse badly, but C is not as bad as you make out once you learn it.
Heh, nice sig. Great city too, for any who haven't made the trek, do so.
Shit, I don't know about you, but I spend most of my time writing code in languages, not writing languages. So what if a parser is moderately difficult to write, it's written once and that's that. Why make it easy for the 0.01% of programmers who code parsers, instead of the 99.09% who *use* that language?
Shade, if you don't trust a guy to be working on your codebase, why are you letting them work on it? You can't grey out all the code, your leadership abilities should be enought to stop them from making random changes, your source control enough to recover from insane mistakes. Coding is a professional game, not an amateur one, don't let incompetants work on your codebase, don't even hire them in the first place.
If your mate fred is so incompetent that he can't write good code you either need to train him or fire him. Programmers hoarding a code source to themselves is a sure sign that something is wrong, and they also need re-training or firing. If you can't read and maintain your mates code one of you needs to leave. If you don't trust your mate, one of you needs to leave.
10 print "this sux"
20print GOTO 10
It's a basic fact that programmers make x number of errors per line of code. Anything that reduces the number or lenth or lines I write increases my productivity and decreases my error rate. Fuck XML, it doesn't do either of these things.
Haha, anata wa hentai desu ka. nihonjin ka. And in case you have even worse japanese than me, nice score getting hentai as a user name. Are you japanese or a fellow j-phile?
Now, I didn't have nig debts to start with but I did start from a position of zero dollars in the bank, and I had to pay rent on a flat during this time. It's possible, but it takes determination, a positive attitude, a little blagging and effort.
Big town, small town, go wherever you can get that first position and take it from there - once you have momentum it's hard to stop.
It's not narrow minded, it's accounting. Businesses exist to make a profit and they can't make a profit out of the marginal group of Linux users out there. Sure, we now outnumber the Mac-o-philes, but we're still too small a market to care about. When there is more like 25% market penetration, then the games will come.
Please stop posting until you have a clue. You are misleading other clueless readers here judging by your moderation.
Hackers don't care if your box is on 24/7 or has good bandwidth, they are after zombies armies and these are made up massively of ignorant home users windows/linux PCs that they haven't secured. They don't attack you personnally, they sweep entire IP ranges and perform automated scans/attacks on each device in that range (nmap, nessus). If you connect a box to the internet without a firewall, patches, and a generally well secured setup then you may as well send your PC out with a program like this running on it:
10 PRINT "Brains"
20 GOTO 10