I'd been "loyal" to Apple since the Apple IIe days. Not that I was exclusively an Apple user, ever, but I always felt the love, until the Ipod.
See, I had this experience: I decided to experiment with "manual sync". The instant I selected the option, I got a warning that the Ipod would not be automatically updated, which was exactly what I wanted. Seconds later, 5,877 songs were deleted from the device. Not cool.
At that moment, the long-running love affair between me and Apple ended. They took my lollipop, and stomped it into the sidewalk.
>For the 3rd or 4th election we're using electronic machines that read a paper card.
Most likely manufactured by Diebold or ES&S.
In fact, I can confirm that Harrison's scanners are ES&S Optech 3PE
ES&S was founded by the same guy who is the current president of Diebold.
These are the same machines that counted more votes than the number of ballots cast, in some precincts, and more ballots than the number of votes cast, in other precincts, in San Francisco during the 2000 election. One precinct counted 416 ballots for 362 voters; there were 357 ballots.
These are also the same machines that, in 2002 in Union County Florida, took 2642 split ticket ballots, and made them straight Repuublican tickets. ES&S acknowledged this failure and paid for a hand recount.
Same machine gave a 2002 election for Governor the Democrat, only to take it back when a tape read different totals when plugged into different machines. They blamed a "power surge".
Also in 2002, the same machine gave Republican straight-ticket votes to a Libertarian candidate.
The list goes on and on, documented failures of your county's wonderful ES&S paper-ballot scanning machine.
>>""One-third of Americans will use voting machines next week that have never before served in a >>general election."
>OK. So how many people will NOT vote in their local elections because the above are being used?
I never thought of the idea that the whole "anti-Diebold" thing might be *GOP* propaganda.
The Republican conspiracy machine promotes the notion that the Diebold machines are rigged. The left wing folks investigate. Find some possible flaws, make broad speculations, and further promote the idea that the machines are rigged.
Net effect: Republicans still vote, maybe even with the incorrect notion that their vote counts twice, confident that they are casting their lot for the winning side. Opposition voters don't bother, believing incorrectly that the voting machines are rigged to favor Republicans anyway.
Repbulicans win, which propogates the myth that the election was rigged.
>The idea of a "secret ballot" is that no one but you knows how you voted, so you can vote your >conscience, not to hide whether or not you showed up at the polls (since no one sees your ballot, >there is no way to tell whether you voted for someone or no one at all).
Imagine my shock the first time I voted in a primary, and got my voter registration card stamped, in big red letters "VOTED IN REPUBLICAN PRIMARY"
I was horrified. And I know, Republican. It was 1980 I think.
>The only "correct" result would have been to split the electoral votes for that state 50/50 and the > laws don't allow for that.
Actually, the laws allow for anything up to and including, choosing the state's electors by legislative fiat.
The Constitution doesn't actually require a popular vote for the Presidential races. It only requires that the State Legislatures implement some process to send electors to DC by the deadline.
"And then there's the type where you sit down with an officer and talk about the calibre of gun you have under your shirt."
I don't understand. I could probably liquidate part of my gun collection, but I'd have to do that through a FFL dealer, not at a bank. And the one piece I have that's worth more than a thousand bucks, would never fit in a shirt anyway.
In the past, I was certainly intimidated by my parents into voting straight-ticket Republican.
I imagine there are lots of people whose parents have this kind of influence over them. Mind you, I did not *think* about it. But I certainly was persuaded into voting in GOP primaries, which, in my state, meant I could not vote in Democratic primaries, and which meant that my voter registration card would be stamped "Voted in Repulican Primary" which, in addition to the pressure from my parents (who took the shit *seriously*), I had a cognitive dissonance angle working against me too.
So I ended up voting for Reagan both times, and GHW Bush, both times, but more significantly, LOTS of local politicians who I actually *KNEW*, who I *knew* were complete bastards (thanks again to my influential parents and their friends who happened to be some of these bastards), and I voted for them, because, irrationally, I was afraid not to. I was addicted to their money, and I was painfully aware that if I went into the booth and voted anything but a straight republican ticket, or if I voted for any issue they opposed, they would *know* I was lying.
This was completely irrational mind you. I didn't live with them most of the time, or anything like that. I was just *afraid*, because that's the kind of influence my parents had on me.
I think I'm cured, sort-of. I say sort-of, because in some ways I have become my parents. I have personal connections with several of the candidates in local races here, and I actually go around trying to persuade others to vote for them, and to vote for certain propositions on the ballot. I would like to think it makes a difference that these candidates (almost) all happen to be liberal democrats, that all these proposition issues happen to be in support of my personal, moderately liberal ethos, but then, I wonder if I'm really any different from my parents, or if I might be unconsciously voting the way they would be if they were here today?
Seriously, I believe that at some point since the Reagan years, my parents would have turned into moderate liberals themselves, and would be voting for certain flavors of Democrats:-)
My god, am I still voting based on what my parents would kill me for if I didn't???? Scarey.
"I went to the office and voted by paper ballot that looked like it was meant to be optically scanned. Whether it will be or not I do not know. Regardless, it has to be better than voting on a Diebold machine."
Most optical scanning ballot readers in service are also Diebold products. Many people do not realize that Diebold has not recently entered the voting machine business.
That said, I do maintain a distinction between the flaws in the Diebold electronic machines, and the integrity of the elections in which they are used.
As a computer scientist, I regard the flaws in a certain way, based on my security and cryptography background.
But I also realize that the accountability problems, and the fact that there *could* be undetected manipulation of election results, does not necessarily mean there *is* tampering.
On the other hand, I live in a district where liberal democrats prevail anyway. Not only that, but I actually know personally several of the candidates. I think it's quite cool to know (or at this point, to hope on a reasonable guess) that a good friend and neighbor is going to the State Legislature, and that a neighbor who I know in passing, is going to the US House.
I know where some of these people stand on certain issues, not because of their campaign statements, but because of actual personal discussions we've had over the years. So from where I sit, government does not seem like this faceless machine which is deaf to my voice - at all. Far from it. My local government has quite the responsive backchannel.
So yeah, I feel like my vote counts. Especially on local propositions. Those are usually decided by, oh, a few thousand votes or so. When I see numbers like that, I actually believe I have a voice.
Tuesday's going to be fun. The candidate I mentioned who is (hopefully) going to the state legislature is planning the victory party at the Doubletree. The governor of the state is expected to be there. I'm invited. It should be fun. Partying with a *governor* on the night that the Democrats took over Congress.:-)
All these people have made it abundantly clear that Diebold electronic machines are not welcome in our state, and will not be approved on their watch.
"What do you suppose happens to your identity when a dotcom with DBs full of identities are crashing and burning?"
I expect I still have my identity no matter what.
But, in all seriousness, I'm not worried about ID theft.
You see, I have already destroyed my creditworthiness completely. It's hardly a risk that someone will take my info and get any kind of loan or credit card based on them.
>The Bush administration is claiming it's war on terror is saving lives.
The claim has been made.
>If he was truly interested in saving lives then he would put less money into fighting in a country >that had nothing to do with 9/11
The Iraq war has nothing at all to do with 9/11, and everything to do with the terms of a cease fire that ended a battle that I assume you are too young to remember: The Kuwait business.
If you want to make a case that Iraq had not violated UN resolutions that protected that ceasefire in 16 separate ways, you may do that. But stop presenting the fiction that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. The only connection between 9/11 and Iraq was that 9/11 made the US Congress more amenable to the idea of military action than they had been before.
>Hell, even homicides that don't involve airplanes claim more lives in the United States than died >on 9/11.
There you go again! You don't seem to realize that you are selecting some proposition from some random universe of discourse and applying that proposition to something to which it is not comparable!
Don't bother telling me "I've missed the point." Come with a sound argument and I may agree that you had a point worth missing.
>Where is the "war on homicide"?
Homicide is illegal, and nearly all murderers are caught and prosecuted.
>Where is the "war on obesity"?
You don't see the labels on food? You honestly don't know what constitutes a healthy diet and don't know how to learn it? You can find no way to exercise? Really?
>Where is the "war on HIV"?
It was on the decline, but now a younger generation is reverting back to high-risk behaviors because they did not see a large swath of their generation die.
>How about a "war on hunger"
I would be interested in seeing your plan.
>I'm sorry, but the much bigger risk to life and limb comes from that behemoth you are driving, not > a fictional chemical attack.
Certainly true, but still a ridiculous comparison to draw. I'm more likely to die from a lethal dose of chocolate by eating tonight's leftover halloween candy than a chemical attack too. Relevant? A premise of an argument of some sort? I don't really think so.
Okay then... How many people who have served in Iraq have had heart disease? And how does this compare to an equivalent sample from the general population?
"I think they were using Ardour / Jack with RME Hammerfall cards. Obviously this won't work with SoundBlaster toys."
Obviously? For some purposes Jack works better on Linux than ASIO on Windows. And Soundblaster devices certainly are well supported by ALSA.
"I don't know if Jack is enough for "real" work, or if other real time patches are needed."
The realtime patches are useful to reduce audio latency, which means monitoring is improved and it means the computer can be used for live effects or synthesis.
I understand the point of your article. I would never represent to anyone that Linux is useful for them, unless maybe they came to me with the machine they wanted to install linux on.
But if they come in here and need to use a computer, they have Linux and Linux to choose from. As for *tasks*, there's all the usual stuff, plus there's music synthesis and recording. I have a whole studio, and while I do have a Windows machine for running FLStudio and EnergyXT, I also have a linux box with, among other things Pd (the best thing ever http://puredata.info/). Somebody who wants point-and-drool simplicity is going to *hate* Pd (and will *really* hate Max), but that does not stop it from being the best thing ever.
Likewise, one look at ECASound http://eca.cx/ecasound/ might make a Cubase user cringe, but it's better, in something of the same sense that LaTeX is better for typesetting than Word. For instance, I know people that *hate* LaTeX, but mainly because they haven't actually needed a tool that does for them what TeX can do.
The idea that a multitrack recorder/mixer/signal processor needs to *look like* a vintage mixing board or tape deck is completely ridiculous, and speaks more to a marketing domain than an audio production one!
Think about it!
There is a *LOT* of audio software for Linux. Not really very many turnkey solutions, and none of them on the order of Nuendo, Sequoia, Pyramid, Digital Performer, etc. But that's not where the demand is. http://linux-sound.org/
For another instance, setting up a machine with a multitrack sound card (Delta 1010 in my studio), is a hardware job, and if you want to run Linux, you have to be careful to get hardware where the manufacturer isn't hostile to linux and forbids the driver support from being developed (there are a lot of those, and this is the biggest problem.)
Then there's an OS-level software job, installing the linux kernel, and tuning it for audio. This may or may not go beyond simply setting up the new Ubuntu or whatever with the realtime priority stuff.
Then there's the application-level software job, selecting and installing, say, Ardour and learning how to operate it.
Then there's the domain-specific job -- just because you have a DAW, monitors, mics and preamps, does not instantly mean you're a producer! (Although people do frequently have this expectation!)
Speaking of Ardour -- on audio forums, I've seen people dismiss it without ever trying it. For recording, it does work extremely well, although I personally prefer ECASound because it fits with the whole "Unix Philosophy" of doing one thing, well. It does do that one thing extremely well, and like a good unix app, its usefulness is amplified by combining it with other tools.
Sorry I rant too much, but I get tired of people who judge linux as an audio platform based on a minute or two of evaluation, don't see something they can use without putting some effort into it and educating themselves, and then get on forums to badmouth it. (You didn't do that, but it's a daily thing in audio forums.)
It is almost as though they are actually *angry* that we (the linux community) haven't given them something they can recognize as a free alternative to Cubase. The irony is some of the stuff we have is *better*, but coming from a different philosophy.
I said I ranted too much already good night!
PS Using Pd on MacOSX now also, building a Cocoa UI as part of a MacOS programming course.
"Um, tell me exactly how much money is being spent each year to stop highway accidents or to stop drunk driving compared to what is being spent on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and homeland security?"
There are good reasons to have virtual memory even when there is sufficient physical memory. Some applications need a lot of RAM, but not all at once. So if they don't do a lot of page-outs, they are actually put a much less significant load on the overall system than the same applications would if they had to store their entire state in physical RAM.
>I could honestly care less about what people have sex with what people.
It's the corner cases that pop up as problems, though.
Do you care in these cases?
1. The sex is with *you* while you are unconscious. 2. The sex is with your 8 year old child. 3. The sex is between your 14 year old daughter and her 35 year old English teacher. 4. The sex is between your spouse and his or her yoga instructor and goes on while you are working two jobs?... etc...
I would mention sex between a member of the US House of Represnatives and a younger-than-18-year-old participant in the Congressional Page program -- but there seems to be no evidence of any such thing happening, at least not since the Nixon administration when a House Democrat did it.
Where's the hack that lets us reprogram the things? To install arbitrary codecs? To make the Ipod play media without the requirement that it be put on there via Itunes? Direct injection/extraction? That sort of thing.
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I'd been "loyal" to Apple since the Apple IIe days. Not that I was exclusively an Apple user, ever, but I always felt the love, until the Ipod.
See, I had this experience: I decided to experiment with "manual sync". The instant I selected the option, I got a warning that the Ipod would not be automatically updated, which was exactly what I wanted. Seconds later, 5,877 songs were deleted from the device. Not cool.
At that moment, the long-running love affair between me and Apple ended. They took my lollipop, and stomped it into the sidewalk.
>For the 3rd or 4th election we're using electronic machines that read a paper card.
Most likely manufactured by Diebold or ES&S.
In fact, I can confirm that Harrison's scanners are ES&S Optech 3PE
ES&S was founded by the same guy who is the current president of Diebold.
These are the same machines that counted more votes than the number of ballots cast, in some precincts, and more ballots than the number of votes cast, in other precincts, in San Francisco during the 2000 election. One precinct counted 416 ballots for 362 voters; there were 357 ballots.
These are also the same machines that, in 2002 in Union County Florida, took 2642 split ticket ballots, and made them straight Repuublican tickets. ES&S acknowledged this failure and paid for a hand recount.
Same machine gave a 2002 election for Governor the Democrat, only to take it back when a tape read different totals when plugged into different machines. They blamed a "power surge".
Also in 2002, the same machine gave Republican straight-ticket votes to a Libertarian candidate.
The list goes on and on, documented failures of your county's wonderful ES&S paper-ballot scanning machine.
>>""One-third of Americans will use voting machines next week that have never before served in a
>>general election."
>OK. So how many people will NOT vote in their local elections because the above are being used?
I never thought of the idea that the whole "anti-Diebold" thing might be *GOP* propaganda.
The Republican conspiracy machine promotes the notion that the Diebold machines are rigged. The left wing folks investigate. Find some possible flaws, make broad speculations, and further promote the idea that the machines are rigged.
Net effect: Republicans still vote, maybe even with the incorrect notion that their vote counts twice, confident that they are casting their lot for the winning side. Opposition voters don't bother, believing incorrectly that the voting machines are rigged to favor Republicans anyway.
Repbulicans win, which propogates the myth that the election was rigged.
>The idea of a "secret ballot" is that no one but you knows how you voted, so you can vote your
>conscience, not to hide whether or not you showed up at the polls (since no one sees your ballot,
>there is no way to tell whether you voted for someone or no one at all).
Imagine my shock the first time I voted in a primary, and got my voter registration card stamped, in big red letters "VOTED IN REPUBLICAN PRIMARY"
I was horrified. And I know, Republican. It was 1980 I think.
>but weirdly enough there have been reports of visible "vote-flipping" on touch screen machines
Hard evidence of that ocurring in a live election, would be fantastic.
>The only "correct" result would have been to split the electoral votes for that state 50/50 and the
> laws don't allow for that.
Actually, the laws allow for anything up to and including, choosing the state's electors by legislative fiat.
The Constitution doesn't actually require a popular vote for the Presidential races. It only requires that the State Legislatures implement some process to send electors to DC by the deadline.
>I moved to Oregon recently and voting is great. It's by mail. For everyone.
Disemfranchises the homeless, though. If you are a citizen, but have no mailing address, how do you get your ballot?
That's the same fallacy as taking a bomb on an airplane because the odds are more strongly against there being *two* bombs.
If Abe Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address today, you'd find a way to take a sound bite from it, and use it to condemn him as a traitor.
"And then there's the type where you sit down with an officer and talk about the calibre of gun you have under your shirt."
I don't understand. I could probably liquidate part of my gun collection, but I'd have to do that through a FFL dealer, not at a bank. And the one piece I have that's worth more than a thousand bucks, would never fit in a shirt anyway.
>What happens if you ever want to actually get a loan, though?
:-)
Well, last time I got laughed out of the bank
Ok, I exaggerate a bit. But I am enormously in debt and I don't think I have ever paid a bill on time in my entire life.
In the past, I was certainly intimidated by my parents into voting straight-ticket Republican.
:-)
I imagine there are lots of people whose parents have this kind of influence over them. Mind you, I did not *think* about it. But I certainly was persuaded into voting in GOP primaries, which, in my state, meant I could not vote in Democratic primaries, and which meant that my voter registration card would be stamped "Voted in Repulican Primary" which, in addition to the pressure from my parents (who took the shit *seriously*), I had a cognitive dissonance angle working against me too.
So I ended up voting for Reagan both times, and GHW Bush, both times, but more significantly, LOTS of local politicians who I actually *KNEW*, who I *knew* were complete bastards (thanks again to my influential parents and their friends who happened to be some of these bastards), and I voted for them, because, irrationally, I was afraid not to. I was addicted to their money, and I was painfully aware that if I went into the booth and voted anything but a straight republican ticket, or if I voted for any issue they opposed, they would *know* I was lying.
This was completely irrational mind you. I didn't live with them most of the time, or anything like that. I was just *afraid*, because that's the kind of influence my parents had on me.
I think I'm cured, sort-of. I say sort-of, because in some ways I have become my parents. I have personal connections with several of the candidates in local races here, and I actually go around trying to persuade others to vote for them, and to vote for certain propositions on the ballot. I would like to think it makes a difference that these candidates (almost) all happen to be liberal democrats, that all these proposition issues happen to be in support of my personal, moderately liberal ethos, but then, I wonder if I'm really any different from my parents, or if I might be unconsciously voting the way they would be if they were here today?
Seriously, I believe that at some point since the Reagan years, my parents would have turned into moderate liberals themselves, and would be voting for certain flavors of Democrats
My god, am I still voting based on what my parents would kill me for if I didn't????
Scarey.
"I went to the office and voted by paper ballot that looked like it was meant to be optically scanned. Whether it will be or not I do not know. Regardless, it has to be better than voting on a Diebold machine."
Most optical scanning ballot readers in service are also Diebold products. Many people do not realize that Diebold has not recently entered the voting machine business.
That said, I do maintain a distinction between the flaws in the Diebold electronic machines, and the integrity of the elections in which they are used.
As a computer scientist, I regard the flaws in a certain way, based on my security and cryptography background.
But I also realize that the accountability problems, and the fact that there *could* be undetected manipulation of election results, does not necessarily mean there *is* tampering.
On the other hand, I live in a district where liberal democrats prevail anyway. Not only that, but I actually know personally several of the candidates. I think it's quite cool to know (or at this point, to hope on a reasonable guess) that a good friend and neighbor is going to the State Legislature, and that a neighbor who I know in passing, is going to the US House.
I know where some of these people stand on certain issues, not because of their campaign statements, but because of actual personal discussions we've had over the years. So from where I sit, government does not seem like this faceless machine which is deaf to my voice - at all. Far from it. My local government has quite the responsive backchannel.
So yeah, I feel like my vote counts. Especially on local propositions. Those are usually decided by, oh, a few thousand votes or so. When I see numbers like that, I actually believe I have a voice.
Tuesday's going to be fun. The candidate I mentioned who is (hopefully) going to the state legislature is planning the victory party at the Doubletree. The governor of the state is expected to be there. I'm invited. It should be fun. Partying with a *governor* on the night that the Democrats took over Congress.
All these people have made it abundantly clear that Diebold electronic machines are not welcome in our state, and will not be approved on their watch.
"What do you suppose happens to your identity when a dotcom with DBs full of identities are crashing and burning?"
I expect I still have my identity no matter what.
But, in all seriousness, I'm not worried about ID theft.
You see, I have already destroyed my creditworthiness completely. It's hardly a risk that someone will take my info and get any kind of loan or credit card based on them.
>The Bush administration is claiming it's war on terror is saving lives.
The claim has been made.
>If he was truly interested in saving lives then he would put less money into fighting in a country
>that had nothing to do with 9/11
The Iraq war has nothing at all to do with 9/11, and everything to do with the terms of a cease fire that ended a battle that I assume you are too young to remember: The Kuwait business.
If you want to make a case that Iraq had not violated UN resolutions that protected that ceasefire in 16 separate ways, you may do that. But stop presenting the fiction that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. The only connection between 9/11 and Iraq was that 9/11 made the US Congress more amenable to the idea of military action than they had been before.
>Hell, even homicides that don't involve airplanes claim more lives in the United States than died
>on 9/11.
There you go again! You don't seem to realize that you are selecting some proposition from some random universe of discourse and applying that proposition to something to which it is not comparable!
Don't bother telling me "I've missed the point." Come with a sound argument and I may agree that you had a point worth missing.
>Where is the "war on homicide"?
Homicide is illegal, and nearly all murderers are caught and prosecuted.
>Where is the "war on obesity"?
You don't see the labels on food? You honestly don't know what constitutes a healthy diet and don't know how to learn it? You can find no way to exercise? Really?
>Where is the "war on HIV"?
It was on the decline, but now a younger generation is reverting back to high-risk behaviors because they did not see a large swath of their generation die.
>How about a "war on hunger"
I would be interested in seeing your plan.
>I'm sorry, but the much bigger risk to life and limb comes from that behemoth you are driving, not
> a fictional chemical attack.
Certainly true, but still a ridiculous comparison to draw. I'm more likely to die from a lethal dose of chocolate by eating tonight's leftover halloween candy than a chemical attack too. Relevant? A premise of an argument of some sort? I don't really think so.
>Actually biggest one is Heart Disease.
Okay then... How many people who have served in Iraq have had heart disease? And how does this compare to an equivalent sample from the general population?
"I think they were using Ardour / Jack with RME Hammerfall cards. Obviously this won't work with SoundBlaster toys."
Obviously? For some purposes Jack works better on Linux than ASIO on Windows. And Soundblaster devices certainly are well supported by ALSA.
"I don't know if Jack is enough for "real" work, or if other real time patches are needed."
The realtime patches are useful to reduce audio latency, which means monitoring is improved and it means the computer can be used for live effects or synthesis.
I understand the point of your article. I would never represent to anyone that Linux is useful for them, unless maybe they came to me with the machine they wanted to install linux on.
But if they come in here and need to use a computer, they have Linux and Linux to choose from. As for *tasks*, there's all the usual stuff, plus there's music synthesis and recording. I have a whole studio, and while I do have a Windows machine for running FLStudio and EnergyXT, I also have a linux box with, among other things Pd (the best thing ever http://puredata.info/). Somebody who wants point-and-drool simplicity is going to *hate* Pd (and will *really* hate Max), but that does not stop it from being the best thing ever.
Likewise, one look at ECASound http://eca.cx/ecasound/ might make a Cubase user cringe, but it's better, in something of the same sense that LaTeX is better for typesetting than Word. For instance, I know people that *hate* LaTeX, but mainly because they haven't actually needed a tool that does for them what TeX can do.
The idea that a multitrack recorder/mixer/signal processor needs to *look like* a vintage mixing board or tape deck is completely ridiculous, and speaks more to a marketing domain than an audio production one!
Think about it!
There is a *LOT* of audio software for Linux. Not really very many turnkey solutions, and none of them on the order of Nuendo, Sequoia, Pyramid, Digital Performer, etc. But that's not where the demand is.
http://linux-sound.org/
For another instance, setting up a machine with a multitrack sound card (Delta 1010 in my studio), is a hardware job, and if you want to run Linux, you have to be careful to get hardware where the manufacturer isn't hostile to linux and forbids the driver support from being developed (there are a lot of those, and this is the biggest problem.)
Then there's an OS-level software job, installing the linux kernel, and tuning it for audio. This may or may not go beyond simply setting up the new Ubuntu or whatever with the realtime priority stuff.
Then there's the application-level software job, selecting and installing, say, Ardour and learning how to operate it.
Then there's the domain-specific job -- just because you have a DAW, monitors, mics and preamps, does not instantly mean you're a producer! (Although people do frequently have this expectation!)
Speaking of Ardour -- on audio forums, I've seen people dismiss it without ever trying it. For recording, it does work extremely well, although I personally prefer ECASound because it fits with the whole "Unix Philosophy" of doing one thing, well. It does do that one thing extremely well, and like a good unix app, its usefulness is amplified by combining it with other tools.
Sorry I rant too much, but I get tired of people who judge linux as an audio platform based on a minute or two of evaluation, don't see something they can use without putting some effort into it and educating themselves, and then get on forums to badmouth it. (You didn't do that, but it's a daily thing in audio forums.)
It is almost as though they are actually *angry* that we (the linux community) haven't given them something they can recognize as a free alternative to Cubase. The irony is some of the stuff we have is *better*, but coming from a different philosophy.
I said I ranted too much already good night!
PS Using Pd on MacOSX now also, building a Cocoa UI as part of a MacOS programming course.
"Um, tell me exactly how much money is being spent each year to stop highway accidents or to stop drunk driving compared to what is being spent on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and homeland security?"
Why? In what way are these things comparable?
>To put it into perspective, since 9/11, about 30x as many people died because of drunk drivers than died in the
> attacks
Okay, so how many people who worked in either the Pentagon or the WTC have been killed in drunk driving accidents?
Don't just draw arbitrary comparisons from among nonequivalent universes of discourse!
While you're at it, how many active military personnel have been killed in highway accidents?
There are good reasons to have virtual memory even when there is sufficient physical memory.
Some applications need a lot of RAM, but not all at once. So if they don't do a lot of page-outs, they are actually put a much less significant load on the overall system than the same applications would if they had to store their entire state in physical RAM.
>Copyright laws protect the little guys as well as the big guys.
Do let us know when one of the little guys gets to shut down a business just by writing a letter.
>Huh? What in the hell does gay marriage have to do with anything you listed there?
oops my bad. The way the articles were sorted, this looked like a thread about Congressman Foley, not about gay marriage.
>I could honestly care less about what people have sex with what people.
... etc...
It's the corner cases that pop up as problems, though.
Do you care in these cases?
1. The sex is with *you* while you are unconscious.
2. The sex is with your 8 year old child.
3. The sex is between your 14 year old daughter and her 35 year old English teacher.
4. The sex is between your spouse and his or her yoga instructor and goes on while you are working two jobs?
I would mention sex between a member of the US House of Represnatives and a younger-than-18-year-old participant in the Congressional Page program -- but there seems to be no evidence of any such thing happening, at least not since the Nixon administration when a House Democrat did it.
If the media companies are confident of the value of their losses to piracy, why do they not report these losses to the IRS?
Is it not fraudulent to incur such huge losses and *not* report them?
Where's the hack that lets us reprogram the things? To install arbitrary codecs? To make the Ipod play
media without the requirement that it be put on there via Itunes? Direct injection/extraction? That sort of thing.