sap
[sap] noun, verb, sapped, sapping.
noun
1.
the juice or vital circulating fluid of a plant, especially of a woody plant.
2.
any vital body fluid.
3.
energy; vitality.
4.
sapwood. 5.
Slang. a fool; dupe.
As in the person who buys this software product
Maybe it's the fault of libertarians that seem to make up a significant percentage of the tech demographic; wanting to kill the Affordable Healthcare Act. Or tea party programmers wanting the same thing who managed to get on the project. Come on man! Think of some more conspiracies!! Lovin' it.
Of course it couldn't be the incompetence of contracting companies that seem to make a living because they have or aim to have some sort of inside track in Washington rather than the chops to do the actual thing that needs doing. Of course that would never happen in Washington or any other political capital. I'm not saying the way the primary contractor, Quebec company CGI, does business in any way follows recentQuebec businesspractices. They are probably a well above board and good honest corporate citizen (although according to the Washington Post article above they did screw up another medical system based project). I'm just saying that if Quebec ever did separate from Canada, as it is now, they'd have to think up some other adjective to describe it. It's too cold to grow bananas there.
Frankly (and personally) though, I wouldn't trust any company to government contracts with stated aims published in their profiles like: "The ultimate aim is to establish relations so intimate with the client that decoupling becomes almost impossible," (see Washington Post article). Especially not from Quebec.
Why are you in the meeting if you aren't going to pay attention to it? If you don't have the ability to focus on something for 30 to 60 minutes at the exclusion of all else, you shouldn't be given responsibility for anything.. Fuck I'm surprise you don't swallow your tongue when you try to eat. You don't have the mental discipline required for responsibility. You know why people go to a separate room for a meeting? You go there to meet because for that time period you are * not * fucking * available * for anyone else. You are available for those in the meeting. If that weren't the intention they wouldn't call the fucking meeting in the first place. And if you are not being asked something or speaking in the meeting, you are listening. Someone invited you there because you might know something that can help. And you can't help anyone in the meeting if you are not paying attention to it. You are just a sack of shit taking up space in the meeting room. Get your fucking head out of your ass. [/endrant]
newspaper comics, which are basically only read by old people at this point
That's because young people don't seem to have the attention span to read through a three panel strip any more. That's why I'm keeping this post short. Dammit... too long. Lost them.
This just makes it even more understandable that George Orwell came from England. You write what you know. It is amazing that from what he knew growing up in England, that he could predict many aspects of the future the way he did.
You're the first audio pro I've had any interaction with who uses Linux. Most use Apple and many use Windows. I used to play in clubs with bands regularly for years and interacted with a lot of people in the business. I'm glad it works for you. I found JACK to not be worth jack. It didn't work for the interface I tried it with which was a Line 6 UX8 using USB 2. It actually works well with non-Linux systems. And has good enough sound for what I need right now. And it didn't work worth a shit with JACK. And now that USB 3 is out, firewire is getting rarer. Yes next interface I will get MOTU. But I still expect it to use USB since I'm not sure if newer workstations will have firewire. Even Macs are switching to thunderbolt and ditching firewire. And of course they still support USB. I'll continue to use Windows until I'm forced to chose between Mac and Windows 8.
Where the fuck does it say it's a good thing? It says that people who don't read the news think it is better. i.e. The misinformed think it is a better place to get news or it's the only place they get their news. Which is fucking atrocious and horrible. And most of the news they do get is entertainment related. The rest is basically people's own opinions on what is going on from unreliable sources. Of people who actually read the news elsewhere less than 40% think it is a good place to get your news from. You probably think the Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Bill Maher are hard core journalists too. I'll give you that they are up front about what they do, more so than Fox news magazine retards, but please don't ever try to tell me that some social media site is a good place to get your news, or even a good thing that people supposedly get their news there.
Since he plays guitar and sings he also needs the DAW to accept drivers for audio digital interface devices like MOTU or even Line 6. Without those, or without a simple way to get the software to work with them, you can't do anything reasonable with guitars or microphones. Just plugging into the computer's input gives shite sound quality which is why you need an interface.
I tried a couple years ago and gave up on Linux for recording. Someone suggested 'JACK' and Ardour but bloody hell, JACK was so convoluted and a pain to understand and never seemed to work or never worked simply, that I just said screw it and use Windows 7 with Cubase. My time is worth something too, and considering I already owned the Windows box, another 500 bucks for Cubase was a real deal compared to endless hours getting it to work on Linux (anything is easy if you know how, and I didn't know how on Linux, nor do I think it is worth the hours and hours of time to learn when I can just use something else that simply works). I want to play music when I record, not fuck around configuring the OS and drivers. On Windows I just installed the ASIO driver for my digital interface and selected it in Cubase and I was done. A couple minutes tops.
Until Linux gets its head out of its ass in terms of driver support (even if they are proprietary) I would stay well and gone away from it for recording. Unless you like spending more time configuring the workstation than actually recording stuff.
Well, when they pull the kind of crap they have been pulling, insisting on fear mongering and intruding on everyone via the NSA, going counter to their own constitution with what should be illegal wire taps, groping men, women, and children at airports in the name of security... well then they really are behaving like a bunch of cunts.
If they let you use it for free, demand no royalties for anything built or linked by/with it, then it is more free than GPL. It doesn't ask you to do anything and more importantly, doesn't force you to give your code away. If you don't think that isn't more free than GPL you are retarded.
The cloud is good if you have to spin up servers to horizontally scale if you have a user load spike on (frequent) occasion. Rather than have a bunch of servers really doing nothing most of the time you can have a one or a small number most of the time which is relatively cheap, and then spin up 100 or whatever when needed then shut them down again. You only pay for them when they are running.
However you do need to look at it critically, like all things. If for example, you only ever spin up at most say five servers, and the cost of the one or two you always have running eventually exceeds the cost of owning and operating five boxes, then you might as well just run them yourself. However if the price of renting them (errrrrrr running them) on the cloud is cheaper or more convenient (which can be worth something monetarily), then run them there.
There are also some other reasons you might want to use the cloud instead of your servers. For example, in the case of Amazon S3, or Azure Blob Storage, etc. sometimes it is the delivery time of static content (like images or other files) that might be what you are gaining. Running things on your own server you might not have the response times you want, creating too much latency for your customers. By response time I mean the length of time your servers can locate the image on disk, marshal it into whatever stream/protocol it needs to be in, and serve over the internet to some client on the other side of the world. Services like S3 are highly optimized for serving static content like that (from my understanding from when they were first building it, often storing it optimized to go directly on the wire... kind of like pre-marshalling the files), and additionally you can associate the static content (stored on S3 or blob storage) with a content deliver network that will cache your content on servers around the globe to further improve performance.
There are a lot of good reasons for using the cloud. And there are a lot of bad reasons. If you use the cloud, make sure you are using the good ones.:)
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sap
[sap] noun, verb, sapped, sapping.
noun
1. the juice or vital circulating fluid of a plant, especially of a woody plant.
2. any vital body fluid.
3. energy; vitality.
4. sapwood.
5. Slang. a fool; dupe.
As in the person who buys this software product
I know... we should adopt German style socialism! Wait a minute. No, never mind, scratch that.
I know my touchpad stopped working with the latest Kubuntu release.
I agree. I did well in organic chemistry after I decided to stop talking myself out of understanding it.
No, libertarians each have their own time zone, and tea party members get the time directly from god.
Maybe it's the fault of libertarians that seem to make up a significant percentage of the tech demographic; wanting to kill the Affordable Healthcare Act. Or tea party programmers wanting the same thing who managed to get on the project. Come on man! Think of some more conspiracies!! Lovin' it.
Of course it couldn't be the incompetence of contracting companies that seem to make a living because they have or aim to have some sort of inside track in Washington rather than the chops to do the actual thing that needs doing. Of course that would never happen in Washington or any other political capital. I'm not saying the way the primary contractor, Quebec company CGI, does business in any way follows recent Quebec business practices. They are probably a well above board and good honest corporate citizen (although according to the Washington Post article above they did screw up another medical system based project). I'm just saying that if Quebec ever did separate from Canada, as it is now, they'd have to think up some other adjective to describe it. It's too cold to grow bananas there.
Frankly (and personally) though, I wouldn't trust any company to government contracts with stated aims published in their profiles like: "The ultimate aim is to establish relations so intimate with the client that decoupling becomes almost impossible," (see Washington Post article). Especially not from Quebec.
Why are you in the meeting if you aren't going to pay attention to it? If you don't have the ability to focus on something for 30 to 60 minutes at the exclusion of all else, you shouldn't be given responsibility for anything.. Fuck I'm surprise you don't swallow your tongue when you try to eat. You don't have the mental discipline required for responsibility. You know why people go to a separate room for a meeting? You go there to meet because for that time period you are * not * fucking * available * for anyone else. You are available for those in the meeting. If that weren't the intention they wouldn't call the fucking meeting in the first place. And if you are not being asked something or speaking in the meeting, you are listening. Someone invited you there because you might know something that can help. And you can't help anyone in the meeting if you are not paying attention to it. You are just a sack of shit taking up space in the meeting room. Get your fucking head out of your ass. [/endrant]
That's because young people don't seem to have the attention span to read through a three panel strip any more. That's why I'm keeping this post short. Dammit... too long. Lost them.
Your sarcasm warms my heart. And I wasn't being sarcastic.
What if it's the architecture that is completely fucked?
I like the 'almost' part of your answer. Do you think it applies here?
Just putting it in context with the photo in the Wikipedia entry linked to by the parent.
Soon you won't be able to get a job unless you are Firefox Web Certified. HR managers are going to love this. It will make their job a lot easier.
This just makes it even more understandable that George Orwell came from England. You write what you know. It is amazing that from what he knew growing up in England, that he could predict many aspects of the future the way he did.
You're the first audio pro I've had any interaction with who uses Linux. Most use Apple and many use Windows. I used to play in clubs with bands regularly for years and interacted with a lot of people in the business. I'm glad it works for you. I found JACK to not be worth jack. It didn't work for the interface I tried it with which was a Line 6 UX8 using USB 2. It actually works well with non-Linux systems. And has good enough sound for what I need right now. And it didn't work worth a shit with JACK. And now that USB 3 is out, firewire is getting rarer. Yes next interface I will get MOTU. But I still expect it to use USB since I'm not sure if newer workstations will have firewire. Even Macs are switching to thunderbolt and ditching firewire. And of course they still support USB. I'll continue to use Windows until I'm forced to chose between Mac and Windows 8.
Too many ideas by "idea guys" are just retarded and shouldn't see the light of day.
Don't bother modding this unless you actually record music using a Digital Audio Workstation. You aren't qualified.
Where the fuck does it say it's a good thing? It says that people who don't read the news think it is better. i.e. The misinformed think it is a better place to get news or it's the only place they get their news. Which is fucking atrocious and horrible. And most of the news they do get is entertainment related. The rest is basically people's own opinions on what is going on from unreliable sources. Of people who actually read the news elsewhere less than 40% think it is a good place to get your news from. You probably think the Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Bill Maher are hard core journalists too. I'll give you that they are up front about what they do, more so than Fox news magazine retards, but please don't ever try to tell me that some social media site is a good place to get your news, or even a good thing that people supposedly get their news there.
Since he plays guitar and sings he also needs the DAW to accept drivers for audio digital interface devices like MOTU or even Line 6. Without those, or without a simple way to get the software to work with them, you can't do anything reasonable with guitars or microphones. Just plugging into the computer's input gives shite sound quality which is why you need an interface.
I tried a couple years ago and gave up on Linux for recording. Someone suggested 'JACK' and Ardour but bloody hell, JACK was so convoluted and a pain to understand and never seemed to work or never worked simply, that I just said screw it and use Windows 7 with Cubase. My time is worth something too, and considering I already owned the Windows box, another 500 bucks for Cubase was a real deal compared to endless hours getting it to work on Linux (anything is easy if you know how, and I didn't know how on Linux, nor do I think it is worth the hours and hours of time to learn when I can just use something else that simply works). I want to play music when I record, not fuck around configuring the OS and drivers. On Windows I just installed the ASIO driver for my digital interface and selected it in Cubase and I was done. A couple minutes tops.
Until Linux gets its head out of its ass in terms of driver support (even if they are proprietary) I would stay well and gone away from it for recording. Unless you like spending more time configuring the workstation than actually recording stuff.
Well, when they pull the kind of crap they have been pulling, insisting on fear mongering and intruding on everyone via the NSA, going counter to their own constitution with what should be illegal wire taps, groping men, women, and children at airports in the name of security... well then they really are behaving like a bunch of cunts.
argh! s/you don't think that/you think that/
If they let you use it for free, demand no royalties for anything built or linked by/with it, then it is more free than GPL. It doesn't ask you to do anything and more importantly, doesn't force you to give your code away. If you don't think that isn't more free than GPL you are retarded.
Yeah, I thought the big thing about clang aside from being newer is that it isn't GPL.
OK smart guy, instead of sounding like a douche bag, try explaining why.
The cloud is good if you have to spin up servers to horizontally scale if you have a user load spike on (frequent) occasion. Rather than have a bunch of servers really doing nothing most of the time you can have a one or a small number most of the time which is relatively cheap, and then spin up 100 or whatever when needed then shut them down again. You only pay for them when they are running.
However you do need to look at it critically, like all things. If for example, you only ever spin up at most say five servers, and the cost of the one or two you always have running eventually exceeds the cost of owning and operating five boxes, then you might as well just run them yourself. However if the price of renting them (errrrrrr running them) on the cloud is cheaper or more convenient (which can be worth something monetarily), then run them there.
There are also some other reasons you might want to use the cloud instead of your servers. For example, in the case of Amazon S3, or Azure Blob Storage, etc. sometimes it is the delivery time of static content (like images or other files) that might be what you are gaining. Running things on your own server you might not have the response times you want, creating too much latency for your customers. By response time I mean the length of time your servers can locate the image on disk, marshal it into whatever stream/protocol it needs to be in, and serve over the internet to some client on the other side of the world. Services like S3 are highly optimized for serving static content like that (from my understanding from when they were first building it, often storing it optimized to go directly on the wire... kind of like pre-marshalling the files), and additionally you can associate the static content (stored on S3 or blob storage) with a content deliver network that will cache your content on servers around the globe to further improve performance.
There are a lot of good reasons for using the cloud. And there are a lot of bad reasons. If you use the cloud, make sure you are using the good ones. :)