I'm curious, what would you use to record high quality audio with?
I'm looking for a good solution and maybe you've found one.
It really depends what and where you're recording, now doesn't it? If you're making a cheap home studio, a laptop with a decent interface and a couple condenser mics will do it. If you're recording concert bootlegs, you probably want a DAT recorder and a couple high-end dynamic mics if you can't get a feed from the mixing board.
That's very interesting. Do you have specific examples? Stutters and mispronunciations get cut out of transcripts all the time; that's not really a conspiracy. But actually adding/removing words is a big deal, especially if it's deliberate.
Actually, that doesn't require "most" Americans. It requires "a majority of the population in 38 states".
It's probably worth pointing out the obvious fact that the people do not directly control their Congresscritters, and you still need 2/3 of both houses.
They don't directly control their state legislators either, so "a majority of the population" is really irrelevant. The only time the population at large matters is when the issue is important enough to outweigh other concerns when voting, which is pretty damn rare.
I want Linux to work. Desperately want it to get out there and do good. But it isn't going to, especially if every response to criticism is not "okay, let me see if I can work on that"
No no no. You want something done, you file a bug report in the appropriate place. Speaking as someone who does work on an open-source project, our time is not infinite. We'll work on what we have to, and what we want to. Anything else, you'd better put it on our to-do list. Want something done faster? Pay us! We're not your slaves.
anti-Microsoft rhetoric
When have you ever seen this from open-source developers (ie, the people who are actually working on it)? I see it from users all the time, but very rarely from the devs.
Describing yourself as a "consumer" makes the rest of your post entirely redundant.
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This is a problem, I will not replace my DVD/Divx player every ear or something.
I've upgraded the firmware on my DVD player before (just a cheap Apex one, too). Of course, you have to hope that the companies are willing to release upgrades...
Gentoo really has the right idea here. They don't do "porting" or even selective patching. They write one ebuild per package and make it work for all architectures. No need to maintain multiple trees, no huge mess.
If Gentoo had the resources to make and distribute binary packages with every combination of architecture and USE flags, it would be perfect.
Check out Gentoo. It uses/etc/init.d, but without the rc levels and numbering and all that crap. It works by having scripts depend on other scripts being started first. The only time you have to symlink is for multiple network devices.
I don't know what leg Nintendo has to stand on in this case. It's like Fan Films for Star Wars. Lucas really can't do anything since they are not profiting from the films
This is completely wrong. Unauthorized derivative works (including fan fiction, remakes, etc) are a very clear case of copyright infringement. Profit is irrelevant.
You will learn way more stuff than being a professor's slave-monkey.
Oh, and speak for yourself. There's nothing wrong with internships if you want practical experience, but good professors will actually work with you, talk to you about your goals, and advise you on your own projects. And yes, this is as an undergrad. Sometimes you just have to ask...
Yeah but that doesn't work for high-school and below. Those were the worst years for me.
Again, I call bullshit. A friend of mine had a paper on using neural nets for x-ray crystallography published while he was still in high school. If you don't have the motivation, fine, but quit whining that you're too fucking brilliant for school (not directed at you, necessarily).
If you're talented, smart and actually enjoy hardwork, the world is your oyster. Persuing a degree may even be a distraction from you obtaining your purpose and potential.
Try doing real, novel science without a Ph.D. Sure, you can go into IT or even software engineering without a degree, but there's tons of interesting stuff that you simply won't be able to comprehend without years of school.
I mean, have you seen the cool toys physicists get to play with these days?!;-)
Bullshit. Go to a research university, find a professor you like, and start doing interesting stuff. I'm just at a public university, but the classes are pretty good, and the work I do on the side helps me learn huge amounts of stuff about my field.
You'll get out as much as you put in. If all you ever do is take engineering classes and do the required minimum work, you'll have wasted a great opportunity.
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And some of us study what we're actually interested in. It's foolish to assume that at 18, you know what all jobs are like and what you want to do.
Amazon has song previews too, ya know.
I'm looking for a good solution and maybe you've found one.
It really depends what and where you're recording, now doesn't it? If you're making a cheap home studio, a laptop with a decent interface and a couple condenser mics will do it. If you're recording concert bootlegs, you probably want a DAT recorder and a couple high-end dynamic mics if you can't get a feed from the mixing board.
That's very interesting. Do you have specific examples? Stutters and mispronunciations get cut out of transcripts all the time; that's not really a conspiracy. But actually adding/removing words is a big deal, especially if it's deliberate.
It's probably worth pointing out the obvious fact that the people do not directly control their Congresscritters, and you still need 2/3 of both houses.
They don't directly control their state legislators either, so "a majority of the population" is really irrelevant. The only time the population at large matters is when the issue is important enough to outweigh other concerns when voting, which is pretty damn rare.
No no no. You want something done, you file a bug report in the appropriate place. Speaking as someone who does work on an open-source project, our time is not infinite. We'll work on what we have to, and what we want to. Anything else, you'd better put it on our to-do list. Want something done faster? Pay us! We're not your slaves.
anti-Microsoft rhetoric
When have you ever seen this from open-source developers (ie, the people who are actually working on it)? I see it from users all the time, but very rarely from the devs.
Sure sure, but the point is that a relatively small operation like this is less likely to do serious off-site backups.
Ew. And some of us use lpr-ng for remote printing, which blocks cups...
Yeah, and what happens when [natural disaster] takes out their server + backups? It's a legal mess.
Describing yourself as a "consumer" makes the rest of your post entirely redundant.
I've upgraded the firmware on my DVD player before (just a cheap Apex one, too). Of course, you have to hope that the companies are willing to release upgrades...
Or Googleplex. Duh.
If Gentoo had the resources to make and distribute binary packages with every combination of architecture and USE flags, it would be perfect.
Some of us are behind insanely restrictive firewalls, so the only way to use BitTorrent at all is Tor.
Bear in mind, hard drive I/O is quite a bottleneck.
Seriously, why use OpenSolaris rather than an existing open-source OS? I'm sure there are some ideas that can be borrowed...
Check out Gentoo. It uses /etc/init.d, but without the rc levels and numbering and all that crap. It works by having scripts depend on other scripts being started first. The only time you have to symlink is for multiple network devices.
They don't need a special chip or anything. All they need to do is support a very narrow range of hardware, so OS X won't run on 99% of non-Apple PCs.
This is completely wrong. Unauthorized derivative works (including fan fiction, remakes, etc) are a very clear case of copyright infringement. Profit is irrelevant.
Please see 10 Big Myths about copyright explained
Oh, and speak for yourself. There's nothing wrong with internships if you want practical experience, but good professors will actually work with you, talk to you about your goals, and advise you on your own projects. And yes, this is as an undergrad. Sometimes you just have to ask...
Again, I call bullshit. A friend of mine had a paper on using neural nets for x-ray crystallography published while he was still in high school. If you don't have the motivation, fine, but quit whining that you're too fucking brilliant for school (not directed at you, necessarily).
I'm not a grad student. I started doing research with a couple of professors in my sophomore year. All it takes is a little initiative.
Try doing real, novel science without a Ph.D. Sure, you can go into IT or even software engineering without a degree, but there's tons of interesting stuff that you simply won't be able to comprehend without years of school.
I mean, have you seen the cool toys physicists get to play with these days?! ;-)
You'll get out as much as you put in. If all you ever do is take engineering classes and do the required minimum work, you'll have wasted a great opportunity.
drobbins hasn't been involved in Gentoo development, much less the lead developer, for quite a while.