What's wrong with Lightworks? For audio, there's Bitwig Studio (among others) for your DAW needs and Audacity for sound editing.
Vegas and Sound Forge were the crème de la crème like 15–20 years ago.
I recommend Trac also. Have used it for multiple projects for years. Haven't used it with mobile devices though, so can't comment on that. Probably works just fine.
This being modded +5 Insightful? You just single-handedly killed my belief in the Slashdot comment rating system.
You should stop and think what you mean by "self-improvement".
Also, this discourse of minorities free-riding on public services... It's pretty much universal, and it's pretty much universally false. Yes, really!
If you are fine with the shared drives being located on Linux machines, I would go for GlusterFS. The shares can be seen from Windows machines too (via CIFS).
The organizers have obviously never heard of wifi-equipped SD cards. Or smartwatches taking photos. Or... the list goes on. It's pathetic and laughable.
Please stop propagating this myth that slash and burn agriculture equals habitat destruction. In Southeast Asian context, it's the big palm oil and logging companies that destroy the forest. Slash and burn agriculture is a sustainable agricultural technique. Only when there is not enough forest to allow for a long fallow period (because of aforementioned companies, or population growth, or government intervention etc.), the system collapses. But there is a built-in mechanism to prevent destruction of the forest permanently. Generally, the shorter the fallow period, the less successful the cultivation is going to be (less nutrients, more weed growth because of imperfect burn), which makes people avoid making swiddens in forests that haven't rested properly.
I think this is a false comparison. What do you think happens to the cockroach after the experiment? It is set out to freedom?
The real comparison is killing something living vs. torturing something living and then killing it.
Additionally, I think it's arrogant to think that humans have rights to torture animals (needlessly). Of course, it's a whole different debate whether we have the right to torture animals to save humans (drug testing etc.).
Wow, your logic is quite bad. Pay what you want is charity, you say? I respectfully disagree. You think of tipping as charity? That's interesting.
Further, your "penguin power" argument does not hold water since in the World of Goo sale the devs initially did not tell the buyers (yes, buyers, not donors) that they are tracking the sales by operating system. Granted, once they published the distribution the gap became a little bit bigger, but not significantly. My interpretation of this is that after seeing that they pay more on average, the Linux users were even more eager to show that they are a market segment worth looking at.
So, you don't like my stats. Where's yours? Oh yeah, I forgot you're just talking out of your ass...
The Humble Bundle statistics are not the only source that points to the direction that Linux users are more eager to pay for quality software. I seem to recall that the people behind World of Goo released similar statistics. Yes, here they are. One factor might be that Linux users might have more buying power than average Windows users. This has probably been researched somewhere. Actually, it's easy to argue quite the opposite what you're saying: Since the Linux software market is not yet that mature, it's easier to attract new customers for your product.
So, respectfully Sir, I think your argument is full of shit.
This is the first year that I've been completely Windows-free, and that's basically for two (or three) reasons:
1) Pro audio workstation software is finally coming to Linux Tracktion published a Linux beta a while ago, and later this year (hopefully) Bitwig Studio will be published, also on Linux. After this one, the rest of the developers will follow up. While waiting for these, I've been using Reaper, which has an officially supported Wine build.
2) Pro video editing software is finally coming to Linux
In April, a public beta of Lightworks was released for Linux.
3) Gaming
Steam + the Humble Bundles. Suddenly, there's an abundance of Linux ports of great games. Other developers will follow.
So, 2013 is, finally, the year of the Linux desktop, but perhaps not in the way it was expected to happen. The OS field is more fragmented than ever. But perhaps it doesn't matter. It is also easier to port software across OSs than ever. Or at least design your software for portability.
If you're doing annotations on a tablet (which I highly recommend!), try Zotero + Zotfile + Dropbox + an annotation program on your tablet. It works great. Only thing that's missing is Mendeley's handy annotation sharing thing. Well I haven't looked at Mendeley for a couple of years, there's probably more new bells and whistles too.
I considered a couple of years ago moving to Mendeley from Zotero, they had a nice PDF annotation feature for research teams on the desktop software, this was pretty cool before the age of annotating articles on tablets. My prime reason for not moving was that Mendeley's monetarization logic was not clear. Along with it not being open source, it was easy to stay with Zotero: made by a not-for-profit institution, and open source. Now I'm really glad I stuck with Zotero!
Zotero + Zotfile + a tablet is all I need.
I guess it always pays off to be always suspicious of shiny new applications, when it is not immediately clear why is it free (as in beer)? I argue that this is even more important than whether it is open source or not. This, of course, means that 90% of web apps should not be used for mission-critical stuff.
They have prepared for this by coding a clone of Google Reader, even implementing the API (for others to use as well). This should be great news for other apps depending on Google Reader. http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/
I've been a Feedly user for many years, give it a shot, it's great!
Sourdough bread stays mold-free, when baked in small loaves. The traditional Finnish style was to bake loads of sourdough rye bread at a time, and store them hanging from rods suspended close to the ceiling. It just gets slowly harder when it dries, but very rarely gets moldy. So this "technology" is pretty ancient...
I've used ezPDF reader with my Transformer Prime tablet for half a year now. It does the same tricks as iAnnotate for iPads. I use Zotero for document management (with the ZotFlie add-on), and Dropbox to sync the annotated PDFs between the tablet and my other computers. Works great. No going back to paper!
Also, it should be noted that you can disable most features in Moodle, making it just a grade calculator. For example just disable the blogs, tags, and all the activities except the assignment. Now you can use the "offline activity assignment" for grading students, and publish the grades to the students, and/or exporting the grades to the student information system. The moodle.org forums are very helpful, I recommend you ask for help there. Somebody has probably come up with something quite like this before.
Try to adopt Yammer or some other micro-blogging platform, and encourage people write often, preferably once a day what they are up to. For techier types, IRC works better, of course.
Your criticism of the methodology of the survey makes sense, but you draw the wrong conclusions.
Finland, which is ranked third in the survey, has a population density of 15 persons per square kilometer, and USA has a density of 31. So, if your logic would be correct, USA would be higher on the list than Finland.
Of course, you are right in saying that population density should be a factor in the rankings, but that would not make the post-industrial countries equal in the comparison.
The Finnish Newspaper Helsingin Sanomat published yesterday a letter from the Russian film director Andrei Nekrasov. (Coincidentally, mr. Putin was also visiting Finland yesterday as part of the Russia-EU summit.) The letter is a scathing analysis of the present-day Russian society.
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What's wrong with Lightworks? For audio, there's Bitwig Studio (among others) for your DAW needs and Audacity for sound editing. Vegas and Sound Forge were the crème de la crème like 15–20 years ago.
I recommend Trac also. Have used it for multiple projects for years. Haven't used it with mobile devices though, so can't comment on that. Probably works just fine.
This being modded +5 Insightful? You just single-handedly killed my belief in the Slashdot comment rating system. You should stop and think what you mean by "self-improvement". Also, this discourse of minorities free-riding on public services... It's pretty much universal, and it's pretty much universally false. Yes, really!
http://gluster.org/community/d...
But what's the origin of that word? One of the Mayan languages?
The organizers have obviously never heard of wifi-equipped SD cards. Or smartwatches taking photos. Or... the list goes on. It's pathetic and laughable.
Please stop propagating this myth that slash and burn agriculture equals habitat destruction. In Southeast Asian context, it's the big palm oil and logging companies that destroy the forest. Slash and burn agriculture is a sustainable agricultural technique. Only when there is not enough forest to allow for a long fallow period (because of aforementioned companies, or population growth, or government intervention etc.), the system collapses. But there is a built-in mechanism to prevent destruction of the forest permanently. Generally, the shorter the fallow period, the less successful the cultivation is going to be (less nutrients, more weed growth because of imperfect burn), which makes people avoid making swiddens in forests that haven't rested properly.
I think this is a false comparison. What do you think happens to the cockroach after the experiment? It is set out to freedom?
The real comparison is killing something living vs. torturing something living and then killing it.
Additionally, I think it's arrogant to think that humans have rights to torture animals (needlessly). Of course, it's a whole different debate whether we have the right to torture animals to save humans (drug testing etc.).
One thing's for sure, if the bitcoins are lost. We'll be getting a whole new genre of Nigerian scam letters.
No we don't. That was Macromedia. Sorry for my lack of humour.
Wow, your logic is quite bad. Pay what you want is charity, you say? I respectfully disagree. You think of tipping as charity? That's interesting.
Further, your "penguin power" argument does not hold water since in the World of Goo sale the devs initially did not tell the buyers (yes, buyers, not donors) that they are tracking the sales by operating system. Granted, once they published the distribution the gap became a little bit bigger, but not significantly. My interpretation of this is that after seeing that they pay more on average, the Linux users were even more eager to show that they are a market segment worth looking at.
So, you don't like my stats. Where's yours? Oh yeah, I forgot you're just talking out of your ass...
The Humble Bundle statistics are not the only source that points to the direction that Linux users are more eager to pay for quality software. I seem to recall that the people behind World of Goo released similar statistics. Yes, here they are. One factor might be that Linux users might have more buying power than average Windows users. This has probably been researched somewhere. Actually, it's easy to argue quite the opposite what you're saying: Since the Linux software market is not yet that mature, it's easier to attract new customers for your product.
So, respectfully Sir, I think your argument is full of shit.
This is the first year that I've been completely Windows-free, and that's basically for two (or three) reasons:
1) Pro audio workstation software is finally coming to Linux
Tracktion published a Linux beta a while ago, and later this year (hopefully) Bitwig Studio will be published, also on Linux. After this one, the rest of the developers will follow up. While waiting for these, I've been using Reaper, which has an officially supported Wine build.
2) Pro video editing software is finally coming to Linux
In April, a public beta of Lightworks was released for Linux.
3) Gaming
Steam + the Humble Bundles. Suddenly, there's an abundance of Linux ports of great games. Other developers will follow.
So, 2013 is, finally, the year of the Linux desktop, but perhaps not in the way it was expected to happen. The OS field is more fragmented than ever. But perhaps it doesn't matter. It is also easier to port software across OSs than ever. Or at least design your software for portability.
If you're doing annotations on a tablet (which I highly recommend!), try Zotero + Zotfile + Dropbox + an annotation program on your tablet. It works great. Only thing that's missing is Mendeley's handy annotation sharing thing. Well I haven't looked at Mendeley for a couple of years, there's probably more new bells and whistles too.
I considered a couple of years ago moving to Mendeley from Zotero, they had a nice PDF annotation feature for research teams on the desktop software, this was pretty cool before the age of annotating articles on tablets. My prime reason for not moving was that Mendeley's monetarization logic was not clear. Along with it not being open source, it was easy to stay with Zotero: made by a not-for-profit institution, and open source. Now I'm really glad I stuck with Zotero!
Zotero + Zotfile + a tablet is all I need.
I guess it always pays off to be always suspicious of shiny new applications, when it is not immediately clear why is it free (as in beer)? I argue that this is even more important than whether it is open source or not. This, of course, means that 90% of web apps should not be used for mission-critical stuff.
They have prepared for this by coding a clone of Google Reader, even implementing the API (for others to use as well). This should be great news for other apps depending on Google Reader. http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/ I've been a Feedly user for many years, give it a shot, it's great!
Sourdough bread stays mold-free, when baked in small loaves. The traditional Finnish style was to bake loads of sourdough rye bread at a time, and store them hanging from rods suspended close to the ceiling. It just gets slowly harder when it dries, but very rarely gets moldy. So this "technology" is pretty ancient...
I've used ezPDF reader with my Transformer Prime tablet for half a year now. It does the same tricks as iAnnotate for iPads. I use Zotero for document management (with the ZotFlie add-on), and Dropbox to sync the annotated PDFs between the tablet and my other computers. Works great. No going back to paper!
Like in Minecraft? Puh-leeze.
Also, it should be noted that you can disable most features in Moodle, making it just a grade calculator. For example just disable the blogs, tags, and all the activities except the assignment. Now you can use the "offline activity assignment" for grading students, and publish the grades to the students, and/or exporting the grades to the student information system. The moodle.org forums are very helpful, I recommend you ask for help there. Somebody has probably come up with something quite like this before.
Why is the parent modded insightful? Please mod it down. The commenter obviously didn't read the original article.
Try to adopt Yammer or some other micro-blogging platform, and encourage people write often, preferably once a day what they are up to. For techier types, IRC works better, of course.
Mod parent up. Weave is great.
Your criticism of the methodology of the survey makes sense, but you draw the wrong conclusions.
Finland, which is ranked third in the survey, has a population density of 15 persons per square kilometer, and USA has a density of 31. So, if your logic would be correct, USA would be higher on the list than Finland.
Of course, you are right in saying that population density should be a factor in the rankings, but that would not make the post-industrial countries equal in the comparison.
The Finnish Newspaper Helsingin Sanomat published yesterday a letter from the Russian film director Andrei Nekrasov. (Coincidentally, mr. Putin was also visiting Finland yesterday as part of the Russia-EU summit.) The letter is a scathing analysis of the present-day Russian society.