I'm afraid you are just wrong on a few of those points.
The ProTools software is FREE.
$0. No money spent.
ProTools offers a severly scaled back version for free (that's "as in beer" folks. no open source, no guarantee that it will be free tommorow). And, did you mention, its for windows 9x kernels? I use Linux, but I'll even work with win 2k or XP if I have to. But not windows ME or 98. I no longer wish to reboot my computer every day.
but the DSP's offerred in addition to the audio interface in the ProTools TDM systems make them so much more powerful then CPU bound rigs for large projects.
If you read some of Paul Davis's documentation, you'll find he mentions this particular issue. PC (x86 and now x86-64) CPUs are rapidly increasing in power, and it turns out that a normal x86 CPU can do anything that any other computer can do with enough power. Stick a decent enough CPU and good D/A,A/D converters on a system (good ones do exist) and you could match if not emulate protools hardware. So don't tell me the hardware is superior. We have more than enough power in our desktops to do excellent audio production. The only advantage of ProTools is that it just has better third party support as of now.
I haven't used GIMP or File Gimp very much, but I have the impression that they aren't production class yet. However, the topic is Ardour, and I think it is doing quite well, and might soon actually be appropriate as software for music production. This is especially the case if we can get third party developers behind it (doing effects and what not). In fact, third party support is probably the only really big obstacle stopping ardour from becoming mature very soon. But that isn't going to happen unless people like you can stop kissing DigiDesign's ass long enough to help out Mr. Davis and those like him.
Re:Quick Summary... and a Why?
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You can't do better than an Xbox for 150 or even 200 dollars. The video card on an Xbox is equivalent to an nVidia Ti 4600, which costs about 200 dollars alone. You do the math; unless the rest of the parts of negative value, the Xbox is already worth it. If the Xbox could be put to good use (esp as a general x86 gaming machine, or as mentioned, do clustering that supports video card computations), then it is entirely worth it. We just need not get stuck in the "I used a crappy install of a distro" phase.
That's a pretty good idea. If each public American library (and perhaps other nations for other languages) was to commit about 5 books to be typed by its volunteers and staff each year (a resonable amount), the project could really take off. Estimate 5000 participants (conservative); 25000 books a year.
Maybe she can answer this.
When she says "physical piracy" (in the press release), is she saying that viking vermin boarded her ship, raped the crew, and plundered their jewlry?
Perhaps people make it clear that they won't tolerate the RIAA portraying file sharers as evil dangerous people.
Choose your words more carefully Hilary, whether you're working for greedy bastards or not. If you verbally abuse your children like you verbally abuse the consumers of the music lables you represent, they will grow to hate you.
I'm not sure Microsoft understands the whole point of releasing specs to the public is so that the information will become undisclosed....
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I entirely agree; Minix was never much for Xfree. Visit Andrew T's FAQ:
"Is MINIX dead?
Oh no. Far from it. It is simply focused on the target area it was always focused on: education. The excursion into hackerland was a detour. A co-author, Al Woodhull, and I have rewritten the MINIX book based on the new, POSIX-compliant, version of MINIX which Kees Bot produced. It is still be aimed at having students be able to learn the principles of operating systems and most of a real system in one semester. "
I'm a dedicated Debian user; does anyone know the usual lag in getting a new version of OpenSSH into the mirrors (I'm guessing it would go into testing or unstable)?
MLP would be cool, although I'd rather it was at higher freqency reponse/bitrate than 44.1/16. As for DVD-Video with PCM, that's pretty ghetto, and at best is no better than a CD. When I say lossless, I mean a compressed lossless codec. Most lossless compression schemes can get about 1:2, so I figure one could put 48kHz 24-bit audio on a 3" DVD and still have a significantly longer playtime than a 5" CD.
I was thinking thinner and perhaps with more storage capacity than a zip disk. Pretty much 3-inch DVDs are my ideal media; if only there was a standard for lossless audio on 3-inch DVDs.....
As cool as quarter size media might be, I'm not entirely sure that is the way the market should go. 3-inch media seem to be a better bet (certainly as far as compatibility goes) and would be far less likely to get lost or get eaten by babies and pets. When I think of the ideal medium, I think of something that can fit into my shirt pocket, but not so small that it get lost in my hair.
I use Window Maker (which I would probably put in league with fluxbox) on my desktop, and I much prefer it to Gnome or KDE, even aside from the speed issues. One of the reasons that I switched to linux (from an MS platform) was to try out new interfaces and see which one I found most functional. And it turns out that I'm more productive with Window Maker than I am with many full desktop environments (KDE, Gnome, Windows). Having the choice of different and sometimes simpler desktop interfaces will always be welcome in my opinion.
Even still, 200-300 is not bad considering its just information. If I had access to a server where I could clone database entries and make $200-300, then I would be very happy indeed. Plus, from the normal gamers standpoint, $200-300 (assuming he dedicates a lot of time into making a decent character) will recover the cost of the game plus many months worth of Sony dues by selling his character.
When I talk of a price drop in the future, I'm talking about crappy-baseball-card cheap, like 2-3 dollars.
But certainly, the prices have already dropped, most likely a trend for the future. Once again, thanks for the info.
Thanks for the info! I guess Everquest is the first situation in which virtual commodities within a video game have become truely valuable. I wonder if, like domain names, they will sharply drop off in value in the future.
Sorry, but the Linux Community here on Slashdot has no right to complain about that comment.
Much of community here on Slashdot that engages in what Martin would call "MS Bashing" are actually MS OS users, so I would probably not use the term "Linux Community" to generalize them. In fact, these are often people who have been victimized by MS related viruses/worms, and so they actually do have the right to complain.
I'm sure that I can find for you plenty of trojaned win32 software that never made it to Slashdot. So your argument that one particular worm ("or something" as you so specifically point out) not being mentioned indicates the single-mindedness Slashdot is void.
Finally note that although sendmail is a program that was often used in GNU/Linux systems, this was not a "Linux hack" per say. In fact, I believe the ftp server that was compromised was actually running freeBSD.
More than that, MS flaws usually come about as a result of careless programming, whereas this problem was probably the fault of the web admin at Sendmail (a company with decidedly few resources). As long as MS has $40 billion sitting in the bank and their products are still insecure, I believe the computing community at large as the right to bash them just as much as they please.
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I'm afraid you are just wrong on a few of those points.
The ProTools software is FREE. $0. No money spent.
ProTools offers a severly scaled back version for free (that's "as in beer" folks. no open source, no guarantee that it will be free tommorow). And, did you mention, its for windows 9x kernels? I use Linux, but I'll even work with win 2k or XP if I have to. But not windows ME or 98. I no longer wish to reboot my computer every day.
but the DSP's offerred in addition to the audio interface in the ProTools TDM systems make them so much more powerful then CPU bound rigs for large projects.
If you read some of Paul Davis's documentation, you'll find he mentions this particular issue. PC (x86 and now x86-64) CPUs are rapidly increasing in power, and it turns out that a normal x86 CPU can do anything that any other computer can do with enough power. Stick a decent enough CPU and good D/A,A/D converters on a system (good ones do exist) and you could match if not emulate protools hardware. So don't tell me the hardware is superior. We have more than enough power in our desktops to do excellent audio production. The only advantage of ProTools is that it just has better third party support as of now.
I haven't used GIMP or File Gimp very much, but I have the impression that they aren't production class yet. However, the topic is Ardour, and I think it is doing quite well, and might soon actually be appropriate as software for music production. This is especially the case if we can get third party developers behind it (doing effects and what not). In fact, third party support is probably the only really big obstacle stopping ardour from becoming mature very soon. But that isn't going to happen unless people like you can stop kissing DigiDesign's ass long enough to help out Mr. Davis and those like him.
You can't do better than an Xbox for 150 or even 200 dollars. The video card on an Xbox is equivalent to an nVidia Ti 4600, which costs about 200 dollars alone. You do the math; unless the rest of the parts of negative value, the Xbox is already worth it. If the Xbox could be put to good use (esp as a general x86 gaming machine, or as mentioned, do clustering that supports video card computations), then it is entirely worth it. We just need not get stuck in the "I used a crappy install of a distro" phase.
That's a pretty good idea. If each public American library (and perhaps other nations for other languages) was to commit about 5 books to be typed by its volunteers and staff each year (a resonable amount), the project could really take off. Estimate 5000 participants (conservative); 25000 books a year.
Maybe she can answer this. When she says "physical piracy" (in the press release), is she saying that viking vermin boarded her ship, raped the crew, and plundered their jewlry? Perhaps people make it clear that they won't tolerate the RIAA portraying file sharers as evil dangerous people. Choose your words more carefully Hilary, whether you're working for greedy bastards or not. If you verbally abuse your children like you verbally abuse the consumers of the music lables you represent, they will grow to hate you.
That was nicely put, and I entirely agree. If I had mod points available to me, I'd mod that post up up.
I'm not sure Microsoft understands the whole point of releasing specs to the public is so that the information will become undisclosed....
I entirely agree; Minix was never much for Xfree. Visit Andrew T's FAQ:
"Is MINIX dead?
Oh no. Far from it. It is simply focused on the target area it was always focused on: education. The excursion into hackerland was a detour. A co-author, Al Woodhull, and I have rewritten the MINIX book based on the new, POSIX-compliant, version of MINIX which Kees Bot produced. It is still be aimed at having students be able to learn the principles of operating systems and most of a real system in one semester. "
I'm a dedicated Debian user; does anyone know the usual lag in getting a new version of OpenSSH into the mirrors (I'm guessing it would go into testing or unstable)?
MLP would be cool, although I'd rather it was at higher freqency reponse/bitrate than 44.1/16. As for DVD-Video with PCM, that's pretty ghetto, and at best is no better than a CD. When I say lossless, I mean a compressed lossless codec. Most lossless compression schemes can get about 1:2, so I figure one could put 48kHz 24-bit audio on a 3" DVD and still have a significantly longer playtime than a 5" CD.
I was thinking thinner and perhaps with more storage capacity than a zip disk. Pretty much 3-inch DVDs are my ideal media; if only there was a standard for lossless audio on 3-inch DVDs.....
As cool as quarter size media might be, I'm not entirely sure that is the way the market should go. 3-inch media seem to be a better bet (certainly as far as compatibility goes) and would be far less likely to get lost or get eaten by babies and pets. When I think of the ideal medium, I think of something that can fit into my shirt pocket, but not so small that it get lost in my hair.
I use Window Maker (which I would probably put in league with fluxbox) on my desktop, and I much prefer it to Gnome or KDE, even aside from the speed issues. One of the reasons that I switched to linux (from an MS platform) was to try out new interfaces and see which one I found most functional. And it turns out that I'm more productive with Window Maker than I am with many full desktop environments (KDE, Gnome, Windows). Having the choice of different and sometimes simpler desktop interfaces will always be welcome in my opinion.
Even still, 200-300 is not bad considering its just information. If I had access to a server where I could clone database entries and make $200-300, then I would be very happy indeed. Plus, from the normal gamers standpoint, $200-300 (assuming he dedicates a lot of time into making a decent character) will recover the cost of the game plus many months worth of Sony dues by selling his character. When I talk of a price drop in the future, I'm talking about crappy-baseball-card cheap, like 2-3 dollars. But certainly, the prices have already dropped, most likely a trend for the future. Once again, thanks for the info.
Thanks for the info! I guess Everquest is the first situation in which virtual commodities within a video game have become truely valuable. I wonder if, like domain names, they will sharply drop off in value in the future.
I suppose that, if you were a corrupt server admin, you could make a handsome profit on the side by creating these auctions.... I smell scandle.
Sorry, but the Linux Community here on Slashdot has no right to complain about that comment.
Much of community here on Slashdot that engages in what Martin would call "MS Bashing" are actually MS OS users, so I would probably not use the term "Linux Community" to generalize them. In fact, these are often people who have been victimized by MS related viruses/worms, and so they actually do have the right to complain.
I'm sure that I can find for you plenty of trojaned win32 software that never made it to Slashdot. So your argument that one particular worm ("or something" as you so specifically point out) not being mentioned indicates the single-mindedness Slashdot is void.
Finally note that although sendmail is a program that was often used in GNU/Linux systems, this was not a "Linux hack" per say. In fact, I believe the ftp server that was compromised was actually running freeBSD.
More than that, MS flaws usually come about as a result of careless programming, whereas this problem was probably the fault of the web admin at Sendmail (a company with decidedly few resources). As long as MS has $40 billion sitting in the bank and their products are still insecure, I believe the computing community at large as the right to bash them just as much as they please.