Kazaa is a pretty bad thing to have on your network though, one running instance with no active "traffic" regularly swarms our home network and makes it *very* difficult for any real traffic. Now in this case I just tend to go downstairs and kill the offending kazaam, or just unplug him from the switch if I'm feeling lazy (you can tell who it is by the LED which is blinking like a strobe...), but if people are payingt then there's going to be trouble...
True, but you did compare a P4 with its cache to a GeForce and its entire memory. All I'm saying is you have to remember that a gfx card isn't just the GPU when you do price comparisons. Granted memory is hardly expensive nowadays, but the interface is still *fast* by FSB standards.
I'm not suggesting a P4 with 256MB cache, I'm suggesting a P4 with a FSB as fast as the GeForce memory bus...
And on top of all of that I can buy 3 2.4Ghz P4s for the price of a Geforce FX5950
But you forget the 256MB (at least) RAM on a steaming fast interface that you get with the GeForce... It makes the P4s' cache look pretty paltry in size by comparison.
Anyone who ever recommended gentoo for a newbie would be badly mistaken IMO. It's a hands on distro for people with considerable experience, at least in *nix in general if not with linux specifically.
I've had very few problems with breakages, but from what I've seen, if you do get in a mess it can be spectacular.:/ I'm sticking with it because I've been using it since before it was big and it has served me very well so far.
If you get chance to play around with the gentoo init system you might find it rather more elegant than you assume.
So everyone who has a problem with gentoo is a troll.
No, see below.
btw... my friend doesn't even write to./
Then I apologise for the confusion. Your allusion to your friend seemed to refer to the (grand)parent who was whining because none of his modules were recognised under 2.6 when he refused to follow the instructions and upgrade his module handling packages. He is a troll because he refuses to follow the instructions and then whines when it doesn't work as expected.
I'm sorry if you're friend is having problems with ALSA, I too don't have a functioning alsa system under Gentoo ATM, but the way I read the thread you were defending the OP who I think most people would accept as a troll.
well, you might use gentoo with 2.6, and you may be lucky, but what prevents my friend here of updating is the fact that gentoo _has_ problems with it
No, what prevents him upgrading is that he has completely discarded the instructions about upgrading the module handling tools. So having refused to follow the simple instructions he now whines that it doesn't work. Sounds like a troll to me too.
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And credit to her. Using technology to process the signal from physical instruments (within reason) preserves the nuances that make them sound real and interesting, if we were limited to basic instruments and simple microphones then life would not be nearly as varied.
My objection to the OP is that they were promoting the replacement of an instrument (the human voice here) from the ground up with synthetic technology, and I stand by my previous assertation that this is not a good idea because it produces very sterile music.
The drum machines could play beats so fast and hit more instruments simulateously than a single person has limbs for.
Yes, and without exception they sound absolutely shit.
The use of systhesis in music is fine as long as it is done exceptionally well and does not attempt to recreate what we already have. As soon as you try to mimic real instruments everything that is important about their timbre is gone, leaving the sound dead and uninteresting.
In addition, the availability of such synthetic instruments opens doors to people for whom the doors were closed for a very good reason!
In the present, there are pitch machines which put singers' voices at a desirable pitch when singing.
And you wonder why so many pop artists have such similar voices nowadays?
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Or the Stone Roses' "Driving South"
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Darl begins a campaign to have kernel renamed SCO/Linux, after all it is a combination of SCO and Linux contributer IP, no? ;)
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Kazaa is a pretty bad thing to have on your network though, one running instance with no active "traffic" regularly swarms our home network and makes it *very* difficult for any real traffic. Now in this case I just tend to go downstairs and kill the offending kazaam, or just unplug him from the switch if I'm feeling lazy (you can tell who it is by the LED which is blinking like a strobe...), but if people are payingt then there's going to be trouble...
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True, but you did compare a P4 with its cache to a GeForce and its entire memory. All I'm saying is you have to remember that a gfx card isn't just the GPU when you do price comparisons. Granted memory is hardly expensive nowadays, but the interface is still *fast* by FSB standards.
I'm not suggesting a P4 with 256MB cache, I'm suggesting a P4 with a FSB as fast as the GeForce memory bus...
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But you forget the 256MB (at least) RAM on a steaming fast interface that you get with the GeForce... It makes the P4s' cache look pretty paltry in size by comparison.
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Anyone who ever recommended gentoo for a newbie would be badly mistaken IMO. It's a hands on distro for people with considerable experience, at least in *nix in general if not with linux specifically.
:/ I'm sticking with it because I've been using it since before it was big and it has served me very well so far.
I've had very few problems with breakages, but from what I've seen, if you do get in a mess it can be spectacular.
If you get chance to play around with the gentoo init system you might find it rather more elegant than you assume.
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He is a troll because he refuses to follow the instructions and then whines when it doesn't work as expected.
I'm sorry if you're friend is having problems with ALSA, I too don't have a functioning alsa system under Gentoo ATM, but the way I read the thread you were defending the OP who I think most people would accept as a troll.
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And credit to her. Using technology to process the signal from physical instruments (within reason) preserves the nuances that make them sound real and interesting, if we were limited to basic instruments and simple microphones then life would not be nearly as varied.
My objection to the OP is that they were promoting the replacement of an instrument (the human voice here) from the ground up with synthetic technology, and I stand by my previous assertation that this is not a good idea because it produces very sterile music.
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Yes, and without exception they sound absolutely shit.
The use of systhesis in music is fine as long as it is done exceptionally well and does not attempt to recreate what we already have. As soon as you try to mimic real instruments everything that is important about their timbre is gone, leaving the sound dead and uninteresting.
In addition, the availability of such synthetic instruments opens doors to people for whom the doors were closed for a very good reason!
And you wonder why so many pop artists have such similar voices nowadays?
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