No. But Kucinich was a decent candidate who could have won (had he actually gotten the nomination from the Democrats).
Only Congressman to vote against the PATRIOT act and all.
I learn towards anarchism so I shouldn't vote at all because it shows support for the system itself which I believe should be abolished entirely. But this isn't the place for a political debate...
The O2 sensor died and caused a bad chain reaction which involved way too much fuel going into the cylinders and my throttle body becoming clogged. Coupled with a clogged catalytic converter (which was only a little clogged and not noticeable because the transmission slips a bit and thus the loss of power due to the increased back pressure was always attributed to the slipping). So, with all sorts of bad thing happening there, the timing decided to go really out of sync (as in one side of my engine became inoperative). It didn't help that my alterator is 13 year old and the belt had never been replaced...
The problem is that my aunt and uncle claim me as a dependant so I don't pay too much in taxes but I also can't deduct myself or my tuition.
OTOH I'm saving about $6k a year by not having to put a roof over my head. I still have to pay for everything else and that can be painful (e.g. my alternator and starter just died, followed by the timing [well, the timing sort of decided to go out of sync a lot and shot the alternator belt backwards and blew that up], and now my catalytic converter has stopped doing its work and smog is backing up into my cylinders so my car doesn't move...). Especially after dumping all of my savings into tuition and books.
Vote Liberatarian or for the Constiutional Party. Probably the latter.
Bush's tax cuts resulted in a huge cut in federal spending on education so I have to pay $500 more for tuition this semester (the state, Maryland, also cut education funding because the governor is throwing a hissy fit about not getting the slot machines no one in the legislature wants). I almost had to drop out because I couldn't afford $4000 for tuition and $1300 for books.
Oh, and my taxes (federal + local) went up a couple of percent this year. And I gross about $10k a year. Tax cuts my ass. My aunt and uncle who filed a combined return of greater than $200k were happy though.
First of all, LORD has replaced Jehovah, Yahweh, or YHVH. This was done by the English church to give more respect to British Lords, in honor of a child molester known as King James. Why was it changed? Why did God allow this? Who knows. But I digress...
YHWH in the Hebrew texts always had adonai mixed in with it because name of YHWH was never to be spoken aloud; instead adonai (lord) was used. Thus the KJV and many modern English translation use LORD in small caps to signify YHWH so that the name is not accidentally spoken out loud. Others, such as the WEB use Yahweh. Yahweh isn't universally agreed upon as an accurate transliteration because no one knows how to pronounce YHWH since it was never allowed to be spoken aloud and anyone who would know has been dead for maybe three thousand years:)
Remeber, you don't have a right to complain if you don't participate in the democratic process.:P
Voting shows support of the system itself. An anarchist, for example, should not vote because this goes against his mission to abolish the heirarchal social structure itself.
I don't support the government itself therefore I have a right to complain even if I don't vote.
I have a lot of data I can't replace (e.g. mail archives before I was able to get hosting where I had enough disk space to leave stuff on the server long term, financial data, chat logs, configuration stuff tweaked over the last four years, etc.) and losing it would suck a lot more than losing my computer. I bet you'd be a lot more bummed to lose all of your backups than to lose your computer although losing your computer would suck (as would losing my computer or portable music player).
A lot of people, however, don't do any backups and losing the computer means losing all of their data forever. At least when you lose a computer you can get a cheap temporary box on eBay until you can afford a new one (unless you were lucky enough to have insurance on your stuff). My machine would be fairly difficult to replace too (Dual AthlonMP 2800+ with a 24" SGI Monitor) and I'd probably have to go back to use a 500Mhz k6-2 for a long time.
Still, that would suck less than my data being gone.
But also think of something like a $400 MP3 player versus a $4000 CD collection...I'd much rather my MP3/Vorbis player be stolen than my CDs because I'd probably never be able to replace my CDs.
Same thing with my computer; I love my Dual Athlon to death but I'd be more bummed if I lost my backups than the machine itself--the data on the machine is a lot more valuable than machine itself. You can always get a cheap used computer on eBay if you need to before you can afford a replacement but one the data on the hard drive is gone...
You ought to have stopped after the first sentence. There is no monetary advantage to opening source or revealing trade secrets: the software industry isn't high school. If Janie (i.e. ATI) is smoking the marijuana (opens the source to its drivers), it doesn't mean it's okay for Bobby (nVidia) to do the same; it just means Janie (ATI) is foolish.
The last graphics card I purchased was a Radeon 9100. It will remain that was as long as there is is no Free Software driver for a more powerful graphics card.
Some of use use Free Software for the Freedom part of it...
I think CoreAudio could very easily be implemented on top of Jack because the APIs are similarish (well, at least as far as being callback based and realtime capable).
CoreAudio would be more worthwhile than DirectSound because OS X apps are more Unixy than Windows apps and the OpenSTEP/Cocoa stuff for the GUI is mostly implemented by GNUStep. OS X is way closer to GNU/Linux than Windows and I'm betting it would be tons easier getting an OS X Cocoa app working on GNU/Linux than a Windows app.
I don't really see the need for proprietary sound packages on GNU/Linux; I'm a card carrying member of the Free Software Foundation though so my opinions are a bit different from most.
You can get really low latency using it if you have good sound hardware (e.g. RME Hammerfall for extremely low latency or even an M-Audio Delta 1010). Something like an SBLive! (what I have) will need a period size of 2048 bytes with two periods to avoid underrunning (I have a Dual AthlonMP 2800+ so I'm pretty sure it's the sound card...). Stuff like QJackCtl and Jack-Rack make controlling Jack easy.
Getting realtime mode working for a normal user can be tricky, but Debian makes it really easy. Just install the realtime-lsm package and build the realtime-lsm-source package for your kernel and all users in the audio group gain the ability to run applications realtime (at least with the default config). It could be made easier (mainly by prebuilding the realtime-lsm modules for the stock kernels) but GNU/Linux pro-audio is still mostly for hackers and adventurous people right now. Stuff like PlanetCCRMA and AGNULA are aiming to make everything work out of the box. I have yet to try either (I use Debian so PlanetCCRMA is useless for me) but it looks like DeMuDi has everything set up for recording out of the box.
A Sound Blaster Audigy is not a pro sound card (and that's a non-issue anyway because ALSA has working drivers for it anyway). A pro sound card is something like an M-Audio Delta 1010[-LT] or an RME Hammerfall which both have working drivers.
It's a lot of the low-end pro sound cards that aren't supported. Bug the manufacturers about releasing specs to the ALSA developers and maybe that problem will go away.
the new beta firmware for the Neuros has a "DJ" menu that lets you speed up or slow down the audio (and set A/B loop points). It doesn't do pitch correction and only works when the headphones are connected (the FM Modulation stuff for MyFi is expensive and decoding high bit rate Vorbis + resample + FM Modulation is probably too much for the thing to handle; or it may just be that they didn't see a need for it over FM Radio and it could be enabled once the firmware makes it out of beta). Still, if you don't mind everyone's voices being a step or two higher, it works well for audio books.
I'd love to use Ogg FLAC for music on my computer but I have a small problem... money. $250 for a 300G hard drive is a lot when you need to replace your transmission and front end suspension and are sort of in between jobs at the moment...
I use abcde to rip my CDs and it lets me encode to more than one format at encode time; when I finally get a new hard drive for music (after the above car work is done...) I am planning to re-rip my entire music collection so that I can retag all of it properly (I used to not care about title casing and stuff so I have about 150 or so albums with improper title casing). I'll be putting the FLAC stuff in/music/ripped/flac/ and the Vorbis stuff in/music/ripped/vorbis/ and setting my Neuros to sync with the Vorbis dir.
I have an 80G portable so I can compress my music however I'd like to...
Some of us use Ogg (note that it is not an acronym) Vorbis for our music collections on our computer and don't want to re-encode everything for our portables (especially when you start getting into the 300+ disc range as I have).
The Support is really great. When I botched a firmware upgrade they replaced my head (there is a head with the processor and a backpack with the battery and HD) for free (I just had to pay send shipping; they covered return shipping). The USB 2 upgrade, although greatly delayed, only cost $6 for shipping as well. When I dropped my Neuros while the HD was spinning they even told me the model numbers of 80G laptop drives they had tested with the unit. Even when they aren't making money they are helpful.
The backpack is simply a standard USB Mass Storage device and the database is very well documented. There are four different sync managers now (NSM, Positron, NeurosDBM, and Sorune) and the source is available to all of them (NSM isn't Free Software though; the license has a few restrictions). The only downside is the size but, honestly, what you lose in size you gain back in flexibility (e.g. when I broke my HD I just got an 80G laptop drive for $150 and swapped it into my backpack). It's the ultimate geek music player.
I saved $2000 by going with a used 24" SGI CRT over an Apple Cinema Display...
Running at 1920x1200@76Hz it is perfectly fine and I stare at it for hours. It's good for my health too because it weighs 90 lbs... (moving it up two flights of stairs was an adventure). It also heats my room in the winter:)
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No. But Kucinich was a decent candidate who could have won (had he actually gotten the nomination from the Democrats).
Only Congressman to vote against the PATRIOT act and all.
I learn towards anarchism so I shouldn't vote at all because it shows support for the system itself which I believe should be abolished entirely. But this isn't the place for a political debate...
Except for the part where it really happened :(
The O2 sensor died and caused a bad chain reaction which involved way too much fuel going into the cylinders and my throttle body becoming clogged. Coupled with a clogged catalytic converter (which was only a little clogged and not noticeable because the transmission slips a bit and thus the loss of power due to the increased back pressure was always attributed to the slipping). So, with all sorts of bad thing happening there, the timing decided to go really out of sync (as in one side of my engine became inoperative). It didn't help that my alterator is 13 year old and the belt had never been replaced...
The parent poster was a pro-life, pro-gun Republican who expressed mild dislike of Bush.
Thus the suggestion of the party most like the Republican Party (the Constitutional Party) and the Liberatrians.
And Kerry is not better than Bush. The only reasonable person with any chance to win would have been Kucinich.
The problem is that my aunt and uncle claim me as a dependant so I don't pay too much in taxes but I also can't deduct myself or my tuition.
OTOH I'm saving about $6k a year by not having to put a roof over my head. I still have to pay for everything else and that can be painful (e.g. my alternator and starter just died, followed by the timing [well, the timing sort of decided to go out of sync a lot and shot the alternator belt backwards and blew that up], and now my catalytic converter has stopped doing its work and smog is backing up into my cylinders so my car doesn't move...). Especially after dumping all of my savings into tuition and books.
I meant cuts to the spending on HIGHER education, i.e. University funding.
No Child Left Behind but fuck the poor college kids who can't afford to eat.
Vote Liberatarian or for the Constiutional Party. Probably the latter.
Bush's tax cuts resulted in a huge cut in federal spending on education so I have to pay $500 more for tuition this semester (the state, Maryland, also cut education funding because the governor is throwing a hissy fit about not getting the slot machines no one in the legislature wants). I almost had to drop out because I couldn't afford $4000 for tuition and $1300 for books.
Oh, and my taxes (federal + local) went up a couple of percent this year. And I gross about $10k a year. Tax cuts my ass. My aunt and uncle who filed a combined return of greater than $200k were happy though.
YHWH in the Hebrew texts always had adonai mixed in with it because name of YHWH was never to be spoken aloud; instead adonai (lord) was used. Thus the KJV and many modern English translation use LORD in small caps to signify YHWH so that the name is not accidentally spoken out loud. Others, such as the WEB use Yahweh. Yahweh isn't universally agreed upon as an accurate transliteration because no one knows how to pronounce YHWH since it was never allowed to be spoken aloud and anyone who would know has been dead for maybe three thousand years :)
A lot of Christians have given up on believing in Hell. I know I have. The wage of sin is death; salvation is salvation from death.
Thus one faces a choice: to live forever or to die and not exist anymore. Or perhaps be separated eternally from God. I think either choice is valid.
Remeber, you don't have a right to complain if you don't participate in the democratic process. :P
Voting shows support of the system itself. An anarchist, for example, should not vote because this goes against his mission to abolish the heirarchal social structure itself.
I don't support the government itself therefore I have a right to complain even if I don't vote.
I have a lot of data I can't replace (e.g. mail archives before I was able to get hosting where I had enough disk space to leave stuff on the server long term, financial data, chat logs, configuration stuff tweaked over the last four years, etc.) and losing it would suck a lot more than losing my computer. I bet you'd be a lot more bummed to lose all of your backups than to lose your computer although losing your computer would suck (as would losing my computer or portable music player).
A lot of people, however, don't do any backups and losing the computer means losing all of their data forever. At least when you lose a computer you can get a cheap temporary box on eBay until you can afford a new one (unless you were lucky enough to have insurance on your stuff). My machine would be fairly difficult to replace too (Dual AthlonMP 2800+ with a 24" SGI Monitor) and I'd probably have to go back to use a 500Mhz k6-2 for a long time.
Still, that would suck less than my data being gone.
But also think of something like a $400 MP3 player versus a $4000 CD collection...I'd much rather my MP3/Vorbis player be stolen than my CDs because I'd probably never be able to replace my CDs.
Same thing with my computer; I love my Dual Athlon to death but I'd be more bummed if I lost my backups than the machine itself--the data on the machine is a lot more valuable than machine itself. You can always get a cheap used computer on eBay if you need to before you can afford a replacement but one the data on the hard drive is gone...
The last graphics card I purchased was a Radeon 9100. It will remain that was as long as there is is no Free Software driver for a more powerful graphics card.
Some of use use Free Software for the Freedom part of it...
I think CoreAudio could very easily be implemented on top of Jack because the APIs are similarish (well, at least as far as being callback based and realtime capable).
CoreAudio would be more worthwhile than DirectSound because OS X apps are more Unixy than Windows apps and the OpenSTEP/Cocoa stuff for the GUI is mostly implemented by GNUStep. OS X is way closer to GNU/Linux than Windows and I'm betting it would be tons easier getting an OS X Cocoa app working on GNU/Linux than a Windows app.
I don't really see the need for proprietary sound packages on GNU/Linux; I'm a card carrying member of the Free Software Foundation though so my opinions are a bit different from most.
JACK uses a callback based API much like Core Audio.
Basically every high-end (e.g. ardour, JAMin, Rosegarden, Hydrogen, etc.) uses it.
You can get really low latency using it if you have good sound hardware (e.g. RME Hammerfall for extremely low latency or even an M-Audio Delta 1010). Something like an SBLive! (what I have) will need a period size of 2048 bytes with two periods to avoid underrunning (I have a Dual AthlonMP 2800+ so I'm pretty sure it's the sound card...). Stuff like QJackCtl and Jack-Rack make controlling Jack easy.
Getting realtime mode working for a normal user can be tricky, but Debian makes it really easy. Just install the realtime-lsm package and build the realtime-lsm-source package for your kernel and all users in the audio group gain the ability to run applications realtime (at least with the default config). It could be made easier (mainly by prebuilding the realtime-lsm modules for the stock kernels) but GNU/Linux pro-audio is still mostly for hackers and adventurous people right now. Stuff like PlanetCCRMA and AGNULA are aiming to make everything work out of the box. I have yet to try either (I use Debian so PlanetCCRMA is useless for me) but it looks like DeMuDi has everything set up for recording out of the box.
You could also load Warcraft 2 data and play it with the Freecraft engine.
It only worked with the original WC2 and not the Battle.Net edition (which I have, grr).
You can always run the output of a MuSE track into Ardour via JACK ;)
A Sound Blaster Audigy is not a pro sound card (and that's a non-issue anyway because ALSA has working drivers for it anyway). A pro sound card is something like an M-Audio Delta 1010[-LT] or an RME Hammerfall which both have working drivers.
It's a lot of the low-end pro sound cards that aren't supported. Bug the manufacturers about releasing specs to the ALSA developers and maybe that problem will go away.
Ardour
It certainly looks (and works since I use it) like a DAW to me.
My friend Mike has a phone with that style keypad and it really does work well when you are using it one handed.
I still prefer my standard keypad layout ... but I hate my phone (evil Motorola T730; why the hell should my phone CRASH all the time!).
the new beta firmware for the Neuros has a "DJ" menu that lets you speed up or slow down the audio (and set A/B loop points). It doesn't do pitch correction and only works when the headphones are connected (the FM Modulation stuff for MyFi is expensive and decoding high bit rate Vorbis + resample + FM Modulation is probably too much for the thing to handle; or it may just be that they didn't see a need for it over FM Radio and it could be enabled once the firmware makes it out of beta). Still, if you don't mind everyone's voices being a step or two higher, it works well for audio books.
I'd love to use Ogg FLAC for music on my computer but I have a small problem ... money. $250 for a 300G hard drive is a lot when you need to replace your transmission and front end suspension and are sort of in between jobs at the moment...
I use abcde to rip my CDs and it lets me encode to more than one format at encode time; when I finally get a new hard drive for music (after the above car work is done...) I am planning to re-rip my entire music collection so that I can retag all of it properly (I used to not care about title casing and stuff so I have about 150 or so albums with improper title casing). I'll be putting the FLAC stuff in /music/ripped/flac/ and the Vorbis stuff in /music/ripped/vorbis/ and setting my Neuros to sync with the Vorbis dir.
I have an 80G portable so I can compress my music however I'd like to...
Some of us use Ogg (note that it is not an acronym) Vorbis for our music collections on our computer and don't want to re-encode everything for our portables (especially when you start getting into the 300+ disc range as I have).
The Support is really great. When I botched a firmware upgrade they replaced my head (there is a head with the processor and a backpack with the battery and HD) for free (I just had to pay send shipping; they covered return shipping). The USB 2 upgrade, although greatly delayed, only cost $6 for shipping as well. When I dropped my Neuros while the HD was spinning they even told me the model numbers of 80G laptop drives they had tested with the unit. Even when they aren't making money they are helpful.
The backpack is simply a standard USB Mass Storage device and the database is very well documented. There are four different sync managers now (NSM, Positron, NeurosDBM, and Sorune) and the source is available to all of them (NSM isn't Free Software though; the license has a few restrictions). The only downside is the size but, honestly, what you lose in size you gain back in flexibility (e.g. when I broke my HD I just got an 80G laptop drive for $150 and swapped it into my backpack). It's the ultimate geek music player.
I have a fan and AC to keep my room cool. It only raises the room temp one or two degrees above the rest of the house.
I saved $2000 by going with a used 24" SGI CRT over an Apple Cinema Display...
Running at 1920x1200@76Hz it is perfectly fine and I stare at it for hours. It's good for my health too because it weighs 90 lbs ... (moving it up two flights of stairs was an adventure). It also heats my room in the winter :)