Uhm, I suppose they use Exposé to show the desktop. That's what I do - normally my desktop is totally covered, but when pushing F10, all windows automagically fly away. And for Windows, the closest equivalent would be hidden under the shortcut Windows+D.
BTW, I do agree that having the apps on the desktop isn't perfect. It's better like it works in OS X with a separate app desktop...
The problems with FTP:ing from Windows is that IE defaults to active mode FTP. Which needs ports opened. You can fix it somewhere in the IE settings, so it uses passive FTP instead. Yes, it would be better if it defaulted to passive mode, but that would require someone at M$ to actually think, right?
I usually try to buy cheap second hand stuff to do the upgrades with. Cheaper (duh) and I don't have to worry about production still going on (unless I'm looking for ancient parts).
Standard marketing litterature at the universities:
Philip Kotler et al: Principles of Marketing.
There is ONE thing you should learn of that 850 pages book: 4P: Product, Price, Promotion, Place.
If you don't have all of them, you aren't going to get your product sold - unless the rest of the market is even worse. When are actually "marketers" trying to get me to buy their products with something else than Promotion (ie commercials)?
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#ifdef Flame_RIAA
The record companies are among the worst here. They only have one right, and three totally wrong. They do get the "promotion" part. But the other three...
Product: we want decent non-DRM digital files, not plastic pieces or DRM shit. Price: Too expensive. Pirating is gratis (except for the unusual catch of **AA). Place: You insensitive record company clods, we want to buy our music online, with instant delivery through download!
#endif
Checked it out, and doesn't look very modern in my eyes. As you said, it's a clone of IT3, and even missing a few features. It for sure might be good enough for the amateurs, as you're suggesting, but I wouldn't want to use it on a semipro level. There's another alternative too, Soundtracker, which is supposed to be a FT2 clone, but it really doesn't seem to progressing very fast that either. Basically, if you're really into tracking, you should use either a PC with Windows, or (debatable) an old Amiga, C64 or similar, or since Renoise 1.5 was released, a Macintosh.
Of course, all Linux-fanboys out there should take this as a challenge to do some tracker development work.:)
Oh, sorry for answering myself, however I forgot to mention that if you want to play with anything more current than FT2 or IT3 (running under DOS, ugh!) or MPT (defunct since a couple of years), the most modern tracker out there seems to be Renoise. The shareware version contains more or less everything except WAV rendering.
I suppose he's meaning using trackers to compose modules, normally related to as "tracking". As most modules are a lot smaller then their mp3 renderings, they were at that time (in my case the end of the last millenia!) normally distributed in zipped source format. A way of distribution that is inherently open source. And even though open source was/is more or less unknown in the tracking community, it still had the same spirit "go ahead remix/alter it, as long as you give me credits for my original work". "sample ripping", reusing some one else's was also very common.
Unfortunately, the tracking community isn't what it used to be...
Oh, btw, a link for all your module download needs: Modarchive.
Of course it doesn't take anything away from it. As a matter of fact, it's still very impressive. I still do think it's an interesting question though...
It would be interesting to know what license is most common. I have a gut feeling that BSDL/LGPL are a lot more popular among "traditional", closed-source software makers...
"The browser statistics below were adjusted in July 2005 to reflect page views instead of visits."
Might that have to do with it, basically FF users staying a shorter while there. (I for one normally just check and enjoy the statistics...)
Actually it's quite easy to get to see it.
1) Get an old 386, 486, P1 or P2 junkputer.
2) Install Linux.
3) Compile the kernel for P3 or higher.
4) !
5) This should be profit, heh?
Noticed myself one installing Gentoo to a P2 a year or so ago. The default setting was to compile for P3 and it wasn't mentioned in the installation manual. The problem has been fixed since...
You're obviously trying the wrong distro. Last christmas I helped a friend install a Debian server. From two floppy disks. The rest was downloaded directly from the net. And also, many distros contain lots of CDs because they contain more or less every FLOSS application out there. Normal users normally don't need more than the first disk - the rest of the apps are too obscure...
I'm not a native speaker of English, still, I notice so many really blaring errors of that kind (their/there etc), that I almost get scared of losing my own firmly rooted knowledge of English...
Well, at least you can still sue them for distributing a dangerous product (at least in Europe you would - my impression of american 'security' has been that it basically mean you more or less wrap the thing you're selling in warning labels...;-) )
I should have quoted, I know, but I was specifically referring to "There's no digital in print books". Which I quite clearly is NOT true - they are very much digital. Just not binary digital.
As for the DRM - there are perfectly good equivalents. Haven't you seen the 60's Bond movies? Where the messages *always* selfdestruct?:)
Not digital? As in not made out of a limited, discrete alphabet? It doesn't have to be binary, you know. It just can't be analogous.
The only except would then be the images - and I don't think there are that many in HP...
Also note the other thread of answers where I admitted that autonomous perhaps wasn't the perfect word (I'm not a native english speaker). "automatic" might be better. The word I'm thinking of is at least "självständig" in swedish. Basically, it doesn't need user control to work. The boobie manipulator does need direct human control, even though it might need to pass the user input through a really complicated system, even one including some kind of partial autonomous control (but now we're on the border (iff it's part of the arm control feedback loop), I agree - if you have a reference, which you don't, yet. I think it's more probable they just put the patients under anastacia before surgery and strap them, so they don't move...).
Still, direct human control necessary (ie joystick or similar) -> manipular, indirect control possible (ie programming goal position, computer program etc) -> robot.
Hey, I didn't say manual control was EASY. Don't put words in my mouth, please. It might be just as difficult. It's just not automatic. Even if it's incredibly complicated, it's still manually controlled (even if it's over the internet), and thus, it's not a robot, it's a manipulator.
No, it isn't, it's still manually controlled. It won't squeeze boobies unless you use the joystick (pun intended? don't know), and tell it exactly how to move to squeeze boobies...
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Uhm, I suppose they use Exposé to show the desktop. That's what I do - normally my desktop is totally covered, but when pushing F10, all windows automagically fly away. And for Windows, the closest equivalent would be hidden under the shortcut Windows+D. BTW, I do agree that having the apps on the desktop isn't perfect. It's better like it works in OS X with a separate app desktop...
The problems with FTP:ing from Windows is that IE defaults to active mode FTP. Which needs ports opened. You can fix it somewhere in the IE settings, so it uses passive FTP instead. Yes, it would be better if it defaulted to passive mode, but that would require someone at M$ to actually think, right?
I usually try to buy cheap second hand stuff to do the upgrades with. Cheaper (duh) and I don't have to worry about production still going on (unless I'm looking for ancient parts).
Y exactamente cuál es la diferencia entre verbos españoles y verbos mexicanos???
Um, that's not first post? When you're writing a "first post" it actually helps to be first post... ;-)
Actually, it can't. That's not a correct IP. It's correct form is x.x.x.x (as above), where x255 (not as above).
Philip Kotler et al: Principles of Marketing.
There is ONE thing you should learn of that 850 pages book:
4P: Product, Price, Promotion, Place .
If you don't have all of them, you aren't going to get your product sold - unless the rest of the market is even worse. When are actually "marketers" trying to get me to buy their products with something else than Promotion (ie commercials)?
------------
#ifdef Flame_RIAA
The record companies are among the worst here. They only have one right, and three totally wrong. They do get the "promotion" part. But the other three...
Product: we want decent non-DRM digital files, not plastic pieces or DRM shit.
Price: Too expensive. Pirating is gratis (except for the unusual catch of **AA).
Place: You insensitive record company clods, we want to buy our music online, with instant delivery through download!
#endif
Of course, all Linux-fanboys out there should take this as a challenge to do some tracker development work. :)
Oh, sorry for answering myself, however I forgot to mention that if you want to play with anything more current than FT2 or IT3 (running under DOS, ugh!) or MPT (defunct since a couple of years), the most modern tracker out there seems to be Renoise. The shareware version contains more or less everything except WAV rendering.
Unfortunately, the tracking community isn't what it used to be...
Oh, btw, a link for all your module download needs: Modarchive.
Of course it doesn't take anything away from it. As a matter of fact, it's still very impressive. I still do think it's an interesting question though...
It would be interesting to know what license is most common. I have a gut feeling that BSDL/LGPL are a lot more popular among "traditional", closed-source software makers...
"The browser statistics below were adjusted in July 2005 to reflect page views instead of visits." Might that have to do with it, basically FF users staying a shorter while there. (I for one normally just check and enjoy the statistics...)
Consider it pushing him all the way over to the right side? If getting put in prison for what he just did, I doubt he'll like it at all afterwards...
Actually it's quite easy to get to see it. 1) Get an old 386, 486, P1 or P2 junkputer. 2) Install Linux. 3) Compile the kernel for P3 or higher. 4) ! 5) This should be profit, heh? Noticed myself one installing Gentoo to a P2 a year or so ago. The default setting was to compile for P3 and it wasn't mentioned in the installation manual. The problem has been fixed since...
You're obviously trying the wrong distro. Last christmas I helped a friend install a Debian server. From two floppy disks. The rest was downloaded directly from the net. And also, many distros contain lots of CDs because they contain more or less every FLOSS application out there. Normal users normally don't need more than the first disk - the rest of the apps are too obscure...
I'm not a native speaker of English, still, I notice so many really blaring errors of that kind (their/there etc), that I almost get scared of losing my own firmly rooted knowledge of English...
Well, at least you can still sue them for distributing a dangerous product (at least in Europe you would - my impression of american 'security' has been that it basically mean you more or less wrap the thing you're selling in warning labels... ;-) )
As for the DRM - there are perfectly good equivalents. Haven't you seen the 60's Bond movies? Where the messages *always* selfdestruct? :)
Not digital? As in not made out of a limited, discrete alphabet? It doesn't have to be binary, you know. It just can't be analogous. The only except would then be the images - and I don't think there are that many in HP...
Still, direct human control necessary (ie joystick or similar) -> manipular, indirect control possible (ie programming goal position, computer program etc) -> robot.
welcome our new art-producing overlords!
Hey, I didn't say manual control was EASY. Don't put words in my mouth, please. It might be just as difficult. It's just not automatic. Even if it's incredibly complicated, it's still manually controlled (even if it's over the internet), and thus, it's not a robot, it's a manipulator.
No, it isn't, it's still manually controlled. It won't squeeze boobies unless you use the joystick (pun intended? don't know), and tell it exactly how to move to squeeze boobies...