First, consulting businesses are really the only viable business model for Free Software. I don't think anyone has tried to deny that. Second, you mostly seem to be obsessed with being "greatly profitable" rather than making enough to live on. Is success defined as "making enough money to buy a small country"? Not in my book.
Actually, I'm just bored out of my fucking mind and decided to write up some stupid "pull it out of my ass" philosophy, but I didn't feel like doing it in a serious way.
Actually, it's a pretty well written assessment of the common viewpoints on technology. So why didn't you post it on Everything where it would not only be ontopic, but actually useful?
Personally, as someone who is opposed to gun control, I find this argument reprehensible and useless. I couldn't care less in this day and age about having guns to fight off a fascist government that doesn't exist in this country. I care about defending myself against criminals and THAT is the correct argument to make.
As others have stated, it depends on where you are. My @Home service is excellent: I'm in a rural area, so I get good bandwidth and I've only had a couple of outages in the past year. I have heard some bad stories from RoadRunner customers, however.
Ah me too! My dad had one from work (he wrote DB software for waste treatment plant maintenance) and often brought it home and let me play with it. It's where I began my long journey....
Well, they'd probably be much more likely to release under some license limiting appropriation by other software companies--if this is truly for the purpose of allowing consumers to continue self-supporting old versions.
Of course, this whole entire discussion is completely irrelevent as this will never happen.
Well, it isn't that modern really-really-bad-mass-produced-pop-music-but-with -a-twang kind of country music. It's the old kind. In other words, folk songs heavily influenced by Scottish and Irish musical traditions. But with American aspects as well.
Well, I hate the loss of sovereignty that comes with internationalism and I also detest the DMCA. Perhaps it's one of the things that can wake up the populace of Europe. Most Europeans seem to think international law is the cat's meow.
What MP3 (and probably others) depend on losing tends to be what will be lost in analog anyway.
Not really. It's mostly dynamic masking (during and after a loud spike, data is removed) and some stereo reduction stuff. What this means, is that complex music with lots of reverb effects (and especially stereo reverbs) or large dynamic variations (Western art music, Jazz) will sound like crap. I can verify this first hand. Of course, your average compressed-all-to-hell pop music doesn't sound all that different--it's already flat as a pancake anyway.
Remember, since you're going to be compressing the result to OGG or MP3 anyway, the small loss in sound quality that you have by going through the CD player's D/A and the outboard A/D converter is essentially irrelevant.
Well, you're pretty much right. Although, the effects of the D-A/A-D process would be *heightened* by the compression. Of course, most people probably wouldn't notice because they don't seem to notice all the aliasing and screwed up reverb effects in their current collection of MP3s.
In one of the screens from the original Commander Keen, the guys at iD were talking about how the game they were working on, Quake, would be a combination of a action game and an adventure/puzzle-solving game. It was supposed to have conversational interaction with artificial beings. Instead, it became a mindless--though technically superior--first person shooter. Why couldn't Carmack see the light? Why can't he see the light now? We're all sick of FPSs and it's time for something new.
I want to see a FPS combined with air combat simulation, tank simulation, strategy, and adventure--a complete battlefield.
Frankly, I think the liberal/conservative dichotomies is a false and tired one....I think if the politically active segments of our society stopped masturbating with semiotic games like "liberal"/"right-wing" namecalling, we just might find some unexpected common ground.
In my nearly four years of reading Slashdot, this is without a doubt the most insightful, wise, and significant statement ever made. And I'm not exaggerating.
but doesn't ALSA emulate OSS - so that calls to OSS would go through ALSA anyhow?
Yes but there's also all kinds of cool stuff in ALSA like the sequencer network. At any rate, hopefully we can finally get it into the kernel during this development cycle. Now, if only we could port it to *BSD and Solaris we'd be cookin!
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At school, we're using Deck and Peak on a Power PC. (We've had a lot of problems with it. Although, not as many as with our DAT deck that nobody will CLEAN!) Elsewhere, I've used everything from Win 3.1 to Win 95. Haven't tried 2k yet, though. At any rate, Ardour + RME Hammerfall works quite nicely.;-)
Well, commies like me will tell you giving huge chunks of change to incredibly wealthy people even while their overall share of the tax burden is decreasing is unfair. Wrong even.
Remind me again who appointed you to dictate a moral code to 260 million people. I don't recall this happening.
Windows tools crush linux, period. Anybody who disagrees hasn't used Visual C++.
And don't forget that NeXTSTEP tools blow the shit out of M$ tools, period. Anybody who disagrees hasn't even *heard* of the Interface Builder or Objective C.
Oh, and I think you should *definitely* stick with Windows. We don't need your kind of mercenary attitude here. This is a *community*, not a *market*.
I know that this is not going to be answered, but will be marked a +1 or -1 on/., but when I think of needing a Realtime or Hard Realtime system I have always used QNX. Why would someone want to use Linux, and patch everything in sight and work so hard to make Linux a pseudo-"real-time" system for use with your system?
I think it's for several reasons.
First, QNX has a reputation as being for embedded systems. Consequently, most of the developers in Free Software music circles think of it as being for those "weird" marketing types who want to make internet washing machines available--not for serious musicians. Also, most of us aren't interested even in "embedded" music applications. We're more interested in a regular general purpose computer that hosts a lot of useful but separate applications. It's just kind of a mindset that prevails.
Second, there's probably even less sound card support for QNX than there is for Linux. Especially in the high end (which is all that really matters in this case). Plus, we've already almost got ALSA ready.;-) And quite a few apps already in common use and more on the way.
Third, the latencies with Linux are so good now (with Andrew Morton's patch) that hard real time doesn't even seem worth the trouble for something like this.
Finally, QNX just doesn't have the mindshare that Linux has and this probably counts for more than anything else. I think NeXTSTEP should be ruling the desktop right now and we should all be using BetaMax instead of VHS. Kinda sucks, but that seems to be the way things usually work out.
Check out the MusicKit (from the good 'ole days of NeXT) here. It's a OO framework that combines the flexibility of Music 'N' systems (like CSound) with realtime control of MIDI. Plus, a Linux/GNUstep port is being worked on.
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The main thing here is the low latency patch. Linus refuses to admit it to the kernel because it's kind of a kludge (but not really all *that* bad). Many musicians might not know how to patch a kernel or even install a binary kernel safely. If you *can* do it yourself, it's probably a better solution.
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But, to quote the ad, I'm "sick of crashing." Especially while I'm recording something.;-)
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First, consulting businesses are really the only viable business model for Free Software. I don't think anyone has tried to deny that. Second, you mostly seem to be obsessed with being "greatly profitable" rather than making enough to live on. Is success defined as "making enough money to buy a small country"? Not in my book.
I think he would define "culture" as any group of people with common beliefs and viewpoints.
Actually, it's a pretty well written assessment of the common viewpoints on technology. So why didn't you post it on Everything where it would not only be ontopic, but actually useful?
Personally, as someone who is opposed to gun control, I find this argument reprehensible and useless. I couldn't care less in this day and age about having guns to fight off a fascist government that doesn't exist in this country. I care about defending myself against criminals and THAT is the correct argument to make.
As others have stated, it depends on where you are. My @Home service is excellent: I'm in a rural area, so I get good bandwidth and I've only had a couple of outages in the past year. I have heard some bad stories from RoadRunner customers, however.
Ah me too! My dad had one from work (he wrote DB software for waste treatment plant maintenance) and often brought it home and let me play with it. It's where I began my long journey....
Of course, this whole entire discussion is completely irrelevent as this will never happen.
Well, it isn't that modern really-really-bad-mass-produced-pop-music-but-with -a-twang kind of country music. It's the old kind. In other words, folk songs heavily influenced by Scottish and Irish musical traditions. But with American aspects as well.
Well, I hate the loss of sovereignty that comes with internationalism and I also detest the DMCA. Perhaps it's one of the things that can wake up the populace of Europe. Most Europeans seem to think international law is the cat's meow.
That's what I thought too. And then I thought, "Wuh hell, running is one of the best things he could have done.
Not really. It's mostly dynamic masking (during and after a loud spike, data is removed) and some stereo reduction stuff. What this means, is that complex music with lots of reverb effects (and especially stereo reverbs) or large dynamic variations (Western art music, Jazz) will sound like crap. I can verify this first hand. Of course, your average compressed-all-to-hell pop music doesn't sound all that different--it's already flat as a pancake anyway.
Charlie Pride is an *extremely* famous black country singer who has been around forever. He has some nice songs.
Well, you're pretty much right. Although, the effects of the D-A/A-D process would be *heightened* by the compression. Of course, most people probably wouldn't notice because they don't seem to notice all the aliasing and screwed up reverb effects in their current collection of MP3s.
I want to see a FPS combined with air combat simulation, tank simulation, strategy, and adventure--a complete battlefield.
I say we find this guy and kick his ass.
In my nearly four years of reading Slashdot, this is without a doubt the most insightful, wise, and significant statement ever made. And I'm not exaggerating.
Yes but there's also all kinds of cool stuff in ALSA like the sequencer network. At any rate, hopefully we can finally get it into the kernel during this development cycle. Now, if only we could port it to *BSD and Solaris we'd be cookin!
At school, we're using Deck and Peak on a Power PC. (We've had a lot of problems with it. Although, not as many as with our DAT deck that nobody will CLEAN!) Elsewhere, I've used everything from Win 3.1 to Win 95. Haven't tried 2k yet, though. At any rate, Ardour + RME Hammerfall works quite nicely. ;-)
Remind me again who appointed you to dictate a moral code to 260 million people. I don't recall this happening.
And don't forget that NeXTSTEP tools blow the shit out of M$ tools, period. Anybody who disagrees hasn't even *heard* of the Interface Builder or Objective C.
Oh, and I think you should *definitely* stick with Windows. We don't need your kind of mercenary attitude here. This is a *community*, not a *market*.
What about ALSA support? OSS must die a quick death ASAP for the good of us all....
I think it's for several reasons.
First, QNX has a reputation as being for embedded systems. Consequently, most of the developers in Free Software music circles think of it as being for those "weird" marketing types who want to make internet washing machines available--not for serious musicians. Also, most of us aren't interested even in "embedded" music applications. We're more interested in a regular general purpose computer that hosts a lot of useful but separate applications. It's just kind of a mindset that prevails.
Second, there's probably even less sound card support for QNX than there is for Linux. Especially in the high end (which is all that really matters in this case). Plus, we've already almost got ALSA ready. ;-) And quite a few apps already in common use and more on the way.
Third, the latencies with Linux are so good now (with Andrew Morton's patch) that hard real time doesn't even seem worth the trouble for something like this.
Finally, QNX just doesn't have the mindshare that Linux has and this probably counts for more than anything else. I think NeXTSTEP should be ruling the desktop right now and we should all be using BetaMax instead of VHS. Kinda sucks, but that seems to be the way things usually work out.
Check out the MusicKit (from the good 'ole days of NeXT) here. It's a OO framework that combines the flexibility of Music 'N' systems (like CSound) with realtime control of MIDI. Plus, a Linux/GNUstep port is being worked on.
The main thing here is the low latency patch. Linus refuses to admit it to the kernel because it's kind of a kludge (but not really all *that* bad). Many musicians might not know how to patch a kernel or even install a binary kernel safely. If you *can* do it yourself, it's probably a better solution.
But, to quote the ad, I'm "sick of crashing." Especially while I'm recording something. ;-)