There are no legal or ethical issues to wonder about: the stuff was released under an open license. If some developer doesn't like that, he should release as closed shareware, instead of open source/freeware.
A slot 1-only cart will never be able to play GBA games, you need a slot 2 cart as well for that. The GBA emulation stuff inside the DS can only read from the GBA slot, obviously. The only way would be to rewrite a GBA emulator for the DS, which the DS is too slow for, and is ultimately pointless.
Humans share a lot of common points in their interpretations of beautiful. These can be learned, and exploited. Don't kid yourself, beautiful is always better than ugly.
an indicator that he lives in his parents basement.
From TFA:
"And don't tell me about meeting girls -- boy oh boy."
He is now working hard to launch a computer security career and thinking about moving out of his parents' basement to assume a new identity so he can hack again.
He is, in fact, living in his parents' basement. This guy's a slashdotter for sure.
It's an Athlon XP 2400+, which is definitely on the slower side compared to todays monsters. But now when I tried it, it almost works with 100ms, just an occasional chop. Not sure what changed in between here. In any case, a recent song I made used 4 VSTs and 40 effects layered on top without chopping on a 22ms buffer, so there's lots of room for optimisation.
Another thing: is there a way to play around with the instruments/machines without editing a pattern? It's a bit hard to just play some stuff on the keyboard to hear what it sounds like.
A short list of things I immediately noticed/wished for:
The aforementioned playing around thing.
A play button on the sample bank tab, perhaps a custom dialog open dialog with previewing too?
There doesn't seem to be many controls on the synths, other than the code itself?
A more intuitive UI:)
I submitted a couple of bugs at sf.net that came up too.
You mean, 10+ years is easier than at most a week of careful twiddling? I think not!
This brings up the question: how many other frauds are there, with more sophisticated changes in the pace, rythm and phrasing of the music? Wouldn't it be a lucrative business to release such compilations?
It's only easy in an a/b comparison. Realistically, someone would have to go out and buy both CDs at some point, and have listened closely to the right pieces, which probably doesn't happen all that much. Those who have noticed might shrug it off, or perhaps just tell some friends what a strange CD he just bought, since it could just be some kind of mistake in the mastering, or the manufacturing. I.e. you would probably not realise it unless you had several of her albums, and the corresponding real ones. Or as in this case, some technological means to get the hint, instead of just your ears.
It looks like a tracker + programmable sound sources and drag&drop signal paths. An successor to Buzz in other words. It's neat, but pretty crude. It reminds me of the first versions of Protracker for some reason. It's ungodly slow though, the default song only plays with 500ms latency, any lower and it chops up. This on a machine where I'm used to the usual 4-8ms with piles of sounds... is this just on my machine?
Writing code for the sound sources directly is a cool thing, but kind of difficult to deal with. Wouldn't it be better and more efficient to just create a VSTi (or DXi)? It also doesn't lend itself very well to anything other than electronic-style music.
He says he tried FastTracker, then moved on to Buzz. The FastTracker style always seemed more intuitive to me, so for anyone who liked that style instead, try out Renoise.
The USA simply has the power to fuck up the world the most, and seems to be good at it. Ergo, Americans get the most complaints. I'd like a more balanced world situation, but then again that would probably lead to a Cold War II or WWIII.
8 cubic feet gives a cube with sides of 60,96 cm, which fits at least 5*5= 25 stacks of DVDs. With a thickness of 11,2 mm, this gives a total of 1350 DVDs. Turns out it is quite a lot after all, with a slashdotter's ass having a bandwidth of 40,5 TB/load, assuming single-sided, double layer HD DVDs.
Latency is horrible though, for more reasons than I care to imagine.
I can easily construct a photo in which a house appears to be the same dimensions of the squares.
No you can't. There's a sticker that you slap on a surface, which gives an absolute measure of size. On a small, but identical model house, the sticker would be huge.
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There are no legal or ethical issues to wonder about: the stuff was released under an open license. If some developer doesn't like that, he should release as closed shareware, instead of open source/freeware.
A slot 1-only cart will never be able to play GBA games, you need a slot 2 cart as well for that. The GBA emulation stuff inside the DS can only read from the GBA slot, obviously. The only way would be to rewrite a GBA emulator for the DS, which the DS is too slow for, and is ultimately pointless.
Terran eclipse is like a solar eclipse, but you're standing on the moon looking at the earth. I.e, earth is eclipsed.
But please don't flame me with colour theory
Animated demos for 15 different sorts, including radix sort, plus one broken sort: Sorting Algorithms Demo
Robot1: *detaches third limb*
Robot2: "Oy, keep your parts private!"
Humans share a lot of common points in their interpretations of beautiful. These can be learned, and exploited. Don't kid yourself, beautiful is always better than ugly.
You know, it's a lot more difficult for a 50-year old to learn than an 11-year old. And it's not the fault of the user.
means more CA-CHING!
Another thing: is there a way to play around with the instruments/machines without editing a pattern? It's a bit hard to just play some stuff on the keyboard to hear what it sounds like.
A short list of things I immediately noticed/wished for:
- The aforementioned playing around thing.
- A play button on the sample bank tab, perhaps a custom dialog open dialog with previewing too?
- There doesn't seem to be many controls on the synths, other than the code itself?
- A more intuitive UI
:)
I submitted a couple of bugs at sf.net that came up too.Disclaimer: I'm a violinist. </flamebait>
This brings up the question: how many other frauds are there, with more sophisticated changes in the pace, rythm and phrasing of the music? Wouldn't it be a lucrative business to release such compilations?
It's only easy in an a/b comparison. Realistically, someone would have to go out and buy both CDs at some point, and have listened closely to the right pieces, which probably doesn't happen all that much. Those who have noticed might shrug it off, or perhaps just tell some friends what a strange CD he just bought, since it could just be some kind of mistake in the mastering, or the manufacturing. I.e. you would probably not realise it unless you had several of her albums, and the corresponding real ones. Or as in this case, some technological means to get the hint, instead of just your ears.
Your should try Progress Quest then.
Writing code for the sound sources directly is a cool thing, but kind of difficult to deal with. Wouldn't it be better and more efficient to just create a VSTi (or DXi)? It also doesn't lend itself very well to anything other than electronic-style music.
He says he tried FastTracker, then moved on to Buzz. The FastTracker style always seemed more intuitive to me, so for anyone who liked that style instead, try out Renoise.
Ugh. I didn't say that the US has always been the most powerful, nor the only one, nor that "balanced" would imply china.
That's great. Now I can refer to my dead-tree calendar as "grid-enabled". Oo-rah!
He meant to say: "When will you Americans learn you cannot have it both ways, without being vilified and hated left and right."
The USA simply has the power to fuck up the world the most, and seems to be good at it. Ergo, Americans get the most complaints. I'd like a more balanced world situation, but then again that would probably lead to a Cold War II or WWIII.
Hm, wonder why it seems to be popular with brass bands, when it's an orchestral piece.
Latency is horrible though, for more reasons than I care to imagine.