Even though I happen to agree that Python is a better language (for the most part), I would always stick to Java. I chose Python on a project I did. I would much rather have that experience on my resume as Java instead. Python is nice, but employers just aren't looking for it.
Sad, but true.
Python is nice, but employers just aren't looking for it? That's a bad reason, if any...JUST LIE!!!! Does it really matter? What _really_ matters is doing it right and doing so efficiently. If python gives you an advantage in being able to rapidly prototype and develop, then that is every reason to choose it.
And there could be serious copy protections, but I get the feeling that many software companies WANT their software to be pirated (by home users) so the same people want to use say MS Office or Photoshop at their workplace. ---------------
of course they want them to pirate it!! you've not read leisure town?
mod parent up! there's been a lot of talk amongst audio software companies about putting together a unified api spec to unify the web of incompatibilities and system-dependentness of audio app + plugin programming. Guess who's NOT talking/cooperating? DIGIDESIGN (nice slashvertisement, btw). music doesn't need protools to be good.
especially for someone looking to do something cheaply but with good quality, look into some of the lower end m-audio cards, audacity, and a couple decent mics--it'll run on your current decent PC and cost less. digidesign pretty much 0wns commercial audio/visual through avid + protools, and it doesn't have to be this way in the future.
what people consider "professional" is really less about the sound and more about the presentation. think about it--mainstream music is always meat+potatoes w/ lots of promotion/advertising. That's what makes it 'professional'. Creating the same music with alternative methods IS np-complete, btw, and your experimentation might come up with some interesting and new sounds in the meantime...
riaa abhors new sound unless they own, package, and control it. go nashville!!!!
One of the main ideas behind behavior based robotics is that though intelligent thinking produces intelligent behavior, the thinking part is not necessary to create such behaviors.
A good example of this is what is referred to as emergent behavior: multiple simple behavior modules can produce complex actions when combined to work as a single unit.
A behavior based system, though, do not fall under the traditional philosophical behaviorist world views. Modern robotics BBS's define the use of an internal representation of the external world as a defining aspect of the system--something which does not exist in pure reactive robotic systems (which braitenberg's vehicles were).
They already did. 2 years ago when napster was more prevalent, they (usc) completely disabled access to the service. About a week later everyone had downloaded napigator to get around the problem. Eventually, that was also shutoff and everyone moved on to audiogalaxy.
Not too surprising. On a side note, the movie trailers at their student-run (i.e. film school) movie theatre (dka) are often *gasp* downloaded quicktime movies.
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Even though I happen to agree that Python is a better language (for the most part), I would always stick to Java. I chose Python on a project I did. I would much rather have that experience on my resume as Java instead. Python is nice, but employers just aren't looking for it.
Sad, but true.
Python is nice, but employers just aren't looking for it? That's a bad reason, if any...JUST LIE!!!! Does it really matter? What _really_ matters is doing it right and doing so efficiently. If python gives you an advantage in being able to rapidly prototype and develop, then that is every reason to choose it.
yes... your friend. do you call him johnny wrinkles or little peter?
And there could be serious copy protections, but I get the feeling that many software companies WANT their software to be pirated (by home users) so the same people want to use say MS Office or Photoshop at their workplace.
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of course they want them to pirate it!! you've not read leisure town?
Too late: Everyone else's boss is a WSJ reader.
void nosig();
mod parent up! there's been a lot of talk amongst audio software companies about putting together a unified api spec to unify the web of incompatibilities and system-dependentness of audio app + plugin programming. Guess who's NOT talking/cooperating? DIGIDESIGN (nice slashvertisement, btw). music doesn't need protools to be good.
especially for someone looking to do something cheaply but with good quality, look into some of the lower end m-audio cards, audacity, and a couple decent mics--it'll run on your current decent PC and cost less. digidesign pretty much 0wns commercial audio/visual through avid + protools, and it doesn't have to be this way in the future.
what people consider "professional" is really less about the sound and more about the presentation. think about it--mainstream music is always meat+potatoes w/ lots of promotion/advertising. That's what makes it 'professional'. Creating the same music with alternative methods IS np-complete, btw, and your experimentation might come up with some interesting and new sounds in the meantime...
riaa abhors new sound unless they own, package, and control it. go nashville!!!!
mod me down, i don't care
QA can be really difficult
aww.. whatever. you get the point.
or did that soldering job look super shady? You might be better off buying that game genie afterall...
We would all benefit from knowing which are the most popular searches. This, though, is all google offers if I remember correctly.
actually.. there already was a 4th law.
4) A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
it should be no surprise who wanted that one in there.
True, but I would hardly call XP a local maximum as far as good UI design or aesthetics is concerned.
One of the main ideas behind behavior based robotics is that though intelligent thinking produces intelligent behavior, the thinking part is not necessary to create such behaviors. A good example of this is what is referred to as emergent behavior: multiple simple behavior modules can produce complex actions when combined to work as a single unit. A behavior based system, though, do not fall under the traditional philosophical behaviorist world views. Modern robotics BBS's define the use of an internal representation of the external world as a defining aspect of the system--something which does not exist in pure reactive robotic systems (which braitenberg's vehicles were).
They already did. 2 years ago when napster was more prevalent, they (usc) completely disabled access to the service. About a week later everyone had downloaded napigator to get around the problem. Eventually, that was also shutoff and everyone moved on to audiogalaxy. Not too surprising. On a side note, the movie trailers at their student-run (i.e. film school) movie theatre (dka) are often *gasp* downloaded quicktime movies.