Where can I find a MIDI sequencer for Linux, that:
1. Is powerful, but yet *simple* (cmp Phoenix vs Mozilla) 2. Doesn't use some awful customized interface 3. Doesn't only exist in an unbuildable alpha source version from 1997
I'm currently using an age-old version of Cakewalk Home Studio in Windows under NTVDM emulation, and it amazingly satisfies those points.
I guess it might be possible to run it in emulation under Linux, but it sounds uncomfortable.
I've tried searching for a Linux program with similar qualities for a while, but haven't found anything yet. Ideas, anyone?
Since as soon as you try to make a level with general 3-D features (say, a building that has both windows you can enter and a roof you can walk on top of) you find that the engine makes it impossible.
Actually such features are possible in Duke Nukem 3D. But anyway, in response to your continued argumentation, I disagree. All engines have restrictions. You can't have X billion polygons in one map in Quake 3 whereas you could in "real 3D". This is merely an arbitrary virtual restriction, just like the "2.5D"-ness of Duke Nukem 3D.
Duke Nukem 3D *isn't* really 3D, but a clever 2.5D engine.
Oh, come on, that "2.5D" argument is really, really getting boring. Sure, the engine uses a 2D model for representing the levels internally, but since when does that make the game "2.5D"? If we went by that rule, 99% of today's games would be "2.5D" or "2.96D" or whatever, because all of them generalize the world representation in one way or another in order to make development easier and real-time computation faster.
The only thing that matters is how stuff looks on your screen and how you interact with it. The levels look highly 3D to me. You can move in all directions. Duke Nukem 3D is a 3D game, as plain and simple as that.
So? If you spin a wheel in space, it'll rotate forever. Same concept, perpetual motion, but it isn't a machine because there is no energy conversion - part of the definition of a machine is (afaik) that it converts energy.
I hope that their drivers are better this time around than with the first Audigy. Or at least, that their tech support has gotten better.
Can you believe it, when I asked them for a fix to a bug that prevented me from loading soundfont files with my brand new Audigy, the answer was that there "was no such bug"?
It took weeks before I accidentally stumbled upon a solution in a forum somewhere.
Light-emitting polymers aside, I think one much more interesting field of progress is paper-based dynamic displays. I recently watched a feature about this, and it seems that the technology isn't far off.
But why paper? Because, unlike any kind of polymers that we'll know of in the near future, paper is cheap as heck. Paper also provides excellent contrast and is pleasant to read off. Not to mention the ability to draw stuff on top of it with a regular pen.
I would personally not be surprised if paper-based computer displays rule the earth in ten years.
$10 billion, that's a lot of money, and therefore an argument that George W. Bush might listen to. So, how about lobbying the US government into declaring spam "terrorist activity"? Just imagine the concept of special troops hunting down spammers, then locking them up without without a trial and throwing away the keys. Unless you bombed them off the face of the earth directly... In either case, we could even laugh our asses off while watching it live on TV!
I disagree with the idea that the taskbar, grouped or not, would substitute for tabs in the browser.
Tabs are just much faster, because they're closer to your point of attention. You do most navigational operations around the URL/standard buttons toolbar at the top of your screen. Changing window in the taskbar means moving the cursor or your attention across the whole screen, which is bad design.
Tabs, at least the way they're implemented in Phoenix, also display the sites' belonging icons, which makes it easier to identify a tab/window quickly without thinking.
I don't have Opera installed anymore, but doesn't Opera have an option to continue from where you quit browsing last time (load up the last workspace on startup)? That seems like the most logical solution to me.
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Where can I find a MIDI sequencer for Linux, that:
1. Is powerful, but yet *simple* (cmp Phoenix vs Mozilla)
2. Doesn't use some awful customized interface
3. Doesn't only exist in an unbuildable alpha source version from 1997
I'm currently using an age-old version of Cakewalk Home Studio in Windows under NTVDM emulation, and it amazingly satisfies those points.
I guess it might be possible to run it in emulation under Linux, but it sounds uncomfortable.
I've tried searching for a Linux program with similar qualities for a while, but haven't found anything yet. Ideas, anyone?
Since as soon as you try to make a level with general 3-D features (say, a building that has both windows you can enter and a roof you can walk on top of) you find that the engine makes it impossible.
Actually such features are possible in Duke Nukem 3D. But anyway, in response to your continued argumentation, I disagree. All engines have restrictions. You can't have X billion polygons in one map in Quake 3 whereas you could in "real 3D". This is merely an arbitrary virtual restriction, just like the "2.5D"-ness of Duke Nukem 3D.
Duke Nukem 3D *isn't* really 3D, but a clever 2.5D engine.
Oh, come on, that "2.5D" argument is really, really getting boring. Sure, the engine uses a 2D model for representing the levels internally, but since when does that make the game "2.5D"? If we went by that rule, 99% of today's games would be "2.5D" or "2.96D" or whatever, because all of them generalize the world representation in one way or another in order to make development easier and real-time computation faster.
The only thing that matters is how stuff looks on your screen and how you interact with it. The levels look highly 3D to me. You can move in all directions. Duke Nukem 3D is a 3D game, as plain and simple as that.
Excellent! Now that we've made that discovery, all we need to figure out is how to decompress it.
Hmm, thoughts anyone?
The scientific community was shocked today to learn that there exist not two but THREE prime numbers between 4 and 8.
:)
You mean they included this?
No, you're right, I was generalizing :)
So? If you spin a wheel in space, it'll rotate forever. Same concept, perpetual motion, but it isn't a machine because there is no energy conversion - part of the definition of a machine is (afaik) that it converts energy.
'nuff said.
idkroz
:)
There was no idkroz code in Doom. Don't know which one you're thinking of
I wonder, why couldn't they make this an optional plugin? I definitely don't need ActiveX for anything.
Let's hope it'll be left out from Phoenix...
I haven't tested it extensively, but the algorithm seems solid.
But does it survive a BSOD?
If by 'antisocial' you'd mean hardware that detracts you from a social life, then, yes, I have plenty of antisocial hardware.
Sun apparently is trying to create a more VB-like experience for developer.
:)
OK, is this a deliberate attempt to erase any positive feelings that anyone has ever had for Sun or Java?
I hope that their drivers are better this time around than with the first Audigy. Or at least, that their tech support has gotten better.
Can you believe it, when I asked them for a fix to a bug that prevented me from loading soundfont files with my brand new Audigy, the answer was that there "was no such bug"?
It took weeks before I accidentally stumbled upon a solution in a forum somewhere.
Light-emitting polymers aside, I think one much more interesting field of progress is paper-based dynamic displays. I recently watched a feature about this, and it seems that the technology isn't far off.
But why paper? Because, unlike any kind of polymers that we'll know of in the near future, paper is cheap as heck. Paper also provides excellent contrast and is pleasant to read off. Not to mention the ability to draw stuff on top of it with a regular pen.
I would personally not be surprised if paper-based computer displays rule the earth in ten years.
What's this then?
Don't ever use the word "ethics" on slashdot unless ofcourse it is prefixed with "lack of".
;)
Geez. Not all stories are about Microsoft
$10 billion, that's a lot of money, and therefore an argument that George W. Bush might listen to. So, how about lobbying the US government into declaring spam "terrorist activity"? Just imagine the concept of special troops hunting down spammers, then locking them up without without a trial and throwing away the keys. Unless you bombed them off the face of the earth directly... In either case, we could even laugh our asses off while watching it live on TV!
Though I could be wrong, I think the opposite of redshift is blueshift, not greenshift.
No. It's not fun anymore when it's legal.
I'm sorry, but I've already patented the process of patenting a process of making a patent.
Hah! Two weeks ago I patented recursive patents, so it looks like you'll lose now!
I disagree with the idea that the taskbar, grouped or not, would substitute for tabs in the browser.
Tabs are just much faster, because they're closer to your point of attention. You do most navigational operations around the URL/standard buttons toolbar at the top of your screen. Changing window in the taskbar means moving the cursor or your attention across the whole screen, which is bad design.
Tabs, at least the way they're implemented in Phoenix, also display the sites' belonging icons, which makes it easier to identify a tab/window quickly without thinking.
Those are small factors, but they matter.
I don't have Opera installed anymore, but doesn't Opera have an option to continue from where you quit browsing last time (load up the last workspace on startup)? That seems like the most logical solution to me.
The MP3 is at 8 kbps quality. What would you expect, heh.