Furthermore, it's not as if Google makes me feel more free in terms of the information I have access too.
If anything, I am constantly worried about what information they have about me, who they might allow to see that information, and whether I'm leaving a data trail on their servers that the FBI can issue a subpoena for without my knowledge.
If you truly see no value in googles indexing then why are you concerned about them tracking you? simply do not use any of their services.
Everything you do on the internet that isn't using public key crypto with keys confirmed in person with a person you trust should be considered public. For information to get out you have to give it.
Google's ubiquity and interconnectedness across all of its services poses a risk to internet freedom through its ramifications on user privacy.
Since you find no value in these services, it is of no consequence to you to not use them yes? Privacy is up to the person, people share things with third parties, if they do not trust a third party with that information do not share it with them, that simple.
The Apple II was more open by far than the macintosh, which is where steve jobs took the helm and directed them down the closed path. The only reason os x has anything to do with unix and bsd is the fact that copland (the original successor to the old mac os) was an abysmal failure and taking far too long.
Apple (well more appropriately at the time NeXt) used open source technology when it couldn't be bothered to develop it's own (which is fine) and then placed proprietary things on top of it to lock people out. A perfect example being quartz, you won't find it in darwin.
After Jobs, you could actually download and modify the kernel to OS X. Couldn't do that before Jobs.
The fact that most of that code was already out in the open and bsd licensed and not even written by them had nothing to do with that I'm sure.
Apple, especially with steve jobs has always had the aim of total control of the user experience. Steve jobs himself was a control freak, this is what many of his followers loved and the reason the interfaces wound up as they were. A few examples.
Google: We'll talk your ear off about freedom and pledge to "do no evil," but underneath it all we're really just like everyone else, hellbent on world domination--but for your own good, of course!
You don't really give a reason why google is evil in there.. you just say that they are. Lots of people have found ways to have issues with google, surely you could have given one of yours? (besides.. they want to make profit and are therefore evil! as you say later on)
Considering how long it took apple to copy androids notification system to make the darn thing usable.. calling the apple device easier to use is a bit laughable.
DLNA does suck, this is why you simply use an nfs share on the nas which is running linux on an old core2duo in a large case, will support far more hard disks, will not be tied to any particular hardware as any linux machine could read the raid, etc etc.
One big beefy box with all the hard disks, many small nimble network clients, works a charm.
If the patent has so much prior art, and nothing is original, why weren't the combined efforts of intel, microsoft, and a bunch of hardware vendors lawyers able to get the patent rejected?
Either you think the legal teams of all said large companies are incompetent, or the item in question had unique properties.
Considering not only were they first to patent, but also the first to have working silicon... I think I know which I'd go with.
To use the Raspberry Pi as an HTPC, you'll have to add storage, power supply and probably some sort of an enclosure. That will put the price over $100 for a setup (as I understand) can only play H264 video at 1080p.
Storage is a non-issue, the type of people with htpc's tend to load over the network anyway from either a dedicated raid machine or their typical use machine that has the largest storage.
With a stock kernel? Or did you have to fiddle with the system until you got a working configuration?
Yes a stock kernel, and limits.conf was updated automatically when jack was installed to allow my user access to realtime threads, so when you don't have to do any fiddling yourself I'm not sure that could be counted as difficult.
You assumed I was doing high-quality documents, I never told you that
Well, I know if I were writing a 10k+ page document, I'd want to show a little pride in my work.
in fact, Latex isn't even a "linux technology", as it can be run in virtually any unix operating system and Windows.
This does not deter from the fact that linux can do the job of writing a 10k+ page document, which was the original thing being questioned.
in Windows you have a complete software ecosystem. If some program does have a bug, you can use a similar tool from other provider.
At the expense of learning a completely new system, which while may do what the other program doesn't, itself be unusable for tasks you typically used the other one for. The cost in fixing the bug with the first in time can often be less than the time to find and learn the new program.
Give me a choice of five programs that between them do what I want for a specific task, but are closed and can die at any time, and a single one that does everything but a minor issue which I myself can fix, and I'll invest the time that would have been spent with the five programs fixing the one, and then everyone benefits from your use of time.
If nothing at all exists for oss for a given task of course proprietary software is a more efficient use of time... but I've yet to really find something that fits that description.
Jack itself isn't a Linux technology, as it can be run on other unixes and both Windows and OSX.
Try using it for anything non trivial on either of those platforms, and you will see very nasty limitations. I have a friend who uses OS X and after porting a synth he particularly wanted that was jack only for him, discovered that the os x native midi stuff couldn't be fed to jack midi by any easy method. There goes all real utility for anything midi related.
It was designed for linux, and os x and windows are an afterthought since linux stuff likes to be portable in general anyway.
I actually don't care much for latency problems, but they seem to be a recurring issue with Linux kernel, so I'd be conservative when declaring it "fixed".
My audio subsystem has been running with 6msec latency for the last three years, so I'd pretty much consider it fixed..
if you have specialized hardware, you'll have driver problems.
What specific hardware are you talking about? While I personally have only a limited amount of odd hardware (which worked out of the box) I've helped set up people with more esoteric setups and have yet to find anything that doesn't work. Most people only tend to use the custom hardware for multiple high quality audio inputs and just use an s/pdif interface at 96khz/24bit as a single output source, having all the mixing done on pc and s/pdif going to their receiver etc of choice.
Maybe Latex works fine (I have very little experience with it), but does a Latex WYSWIG editor works well with that many pages? And how about database integration? I don't know if Word dies at 20k pages (never tried past 15k), but I've used some linux-compatible alternatives (such as OO) that won't even get close to that number.
When you are writing with that many pages, you are in general writing something that will become a rather large book or reference material, typesetting matters (it does so even in small documents too). MS word is horrible at typesetting (not as bad as it used to be, but still pretty nasty) and is not used to typeset books for a reason.
Also the use of latex allows people to focus on the content of their writing, as opposed to the formatting, it separates the two in such a way that later on you can adjust it if you so wish without having to go through the entire massive document.
In short, with large document writing you really don't want wysiwyg, it tends to destroy consistency and limit typesetting ability.
Please name one big-budget movie that was edited with Cinelerra. Have you actually ever tried to use it? I had, and it is so far behind the curve that is more of a fancy transcoding tool than a non-linear video editor. You probably would be better trying to do video editing with Windows Movie Maker than with Cinelerra.
In hindsight I was thinking of another linux video related item and not cinelerra, so I'll concede on this one. Last time I used it was in 2005 or so, and while I agree it was pretty nasty back then I had assumed it had progressed in some way. I'd imagine lightworks would fit the bill though regardless.
I'm sorry to inform you, there's no "engineering mindset" in using the wrong tool for the job.
Well why are you using word to try to make large high quality documents? even with any amount of hacking it cannot be made suitable for the purpose. My biggest problem with proprietary software is when you hit a problem it was not originally designed to handle. If software is designed as a set of discrete parts you can mix them in certain ways or add your own to achieve what you wish, and this is how oss stuff is made and evolves. When it is all an integrated untouchable lump this becomes an issue.
Show me a photo editor that runs on Linux on a color-managed environment.
Gimp has done colour management just fine for quite some time
Or a professional-grade video-editing suite that actually works
Cinelerra has been used on professional big budget movies before, however if that doesn't float your boat the lightworks linux port is just about stable.
Or a decent CAD suite (2D and 3D) with full AutoCad compatibility and plotter support.
Google is your friend.Linux is used in professional design environments you know. Can't vouch for autocad support but that is like asking for microsoft word support, not relating to the problem of creating documents or in this case designs.
Or a word processor that won't barf when you are editing a 10,000 page document.
Latex, as a side note, I haven't yet seen a version of microsoft word that doesn't die when you start hitting 20k+ pages.
Or a professional-grade multitrack sound editing software that actually take advantage of expensive hardware.
For mixing? Ardour. Everything is compartmentalized so you can have separate sequencers/synths/mixers etc. Personally I use rosegarden for sequencing, bristol/linuxsampler for synths and ardour for mixing and post processing. Jack is superior in this way to the audio systems that both os x and windows have, audio is just an arbitrary stream to the subsystem. Not to mention with modern kernels you can get far less latency.
Most of the problems you've given are solved problems, if you have an engineering mindset. Linux has always been by technical people for technical people, that might be changing now with more typical end users flocking there however the more you know the more you can do. Nothing will replace domain specific knowledge.
The _only_ intuitive interface is the nipple, everything else is learned. What people find to be good ui's is subjective depending on their prior learning and general background.
Even response times, the names and numbers of units, processes and practices are all operational security elements that can be exploited by criminals and these would be revealed by a time-delayed online stream.
By this logic, the public should have no method of determining their local police forces typical response times, how well or under staffed they are, etc. Being able to not reveal a thing to the public might do wonders for the security of the police, but without some oversight how can you tell if the police are doing their job well or not?
I have an entirely different take. I think this science has a problem most sciences don't. We have only one planet that's practical to use for this model.
I think it's a problem of abstraction, the higher the level of abstraction you go to, the more the little details are thrown out, and the devil is always in the details.
Of course, abstraction is necessary, we aren't capable (nor are we likely to ever be) of doing simulations of the whole solar system at a sub atomic level in a time scale that would be useful to us. So we throw out information or not care about the lack of it in coming to whatever conclusions they do, they simply try their best.
Compare a sociologist with a physicist, the physicist can give you fairly definitive results from a known beginning state etc etc. Ask a sociologist exactly what a person will do and they will only be able to give generalities that could be extemely off because of all of the little details that have been left out.
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Furthermore, it's not as if Google makes me feel more free in terms of the information I have access too.
If anything, I am constantly worried about what information they have about me, who they might allow to see that information, and whether I'm leaving a data trail on their servers that the FBI can issue a subpoena for without my knowledge.
If you truly see no value in googles indexing then why are you concerned about them tracking you? simply do not use any of their services.
Everything you do on the internet that isn't using public key crypto with keys confirmed in person with a person you trust should be considered public. For information to get out you have to give it.
Google's ubiquity and interconnectedness across all of its services poses a risk to internet freedom through its ramifications on user privacy.
Since you find no value in these services, it is of no consequence to you to not use them yes? Privacy is up to the person, people share things with third parties, if they do not trust a third party with that information do not share it with them, that simple.
The Apple II was more open by far than the macintosh, which is where steve jobs took the helm and directed them down the closed path. The only reason os x has anything to do with unix and bsd is the fact that copland (the original successor to the old mac os) was an abysmal failure and taking far too long.
Apple (well more appropriately at the time NeXt) used open source technology when it couldn't be bothered to develop it's own (which is fine) and then placed proprietary things on top of it to lock people out. A perfect example being quartz, you won't find it in darwin.
After Jobs, you could actually download and modify the kernel to OS X. Couldn't do that before Jobs.
The fact that most of that code was already out in the open and bsd licensed and not even written by them had nothing to do with that I'm sure.
Apple, especially with steve jobs has always had the aim of total control of the user experience. Steve jobs himself was a control freak, this is what many of his followers loved and the reason the interfaces wound up as they were. A few examples.
Google: We'll talk your ear off about freedom and pledge to "do no evil," but underneath it all we're really just like everyone else, hellbent on world domination--but for your own good, of course!
You don't really give a reason why google is evil in there.. you just say that they are. Lots of people have found ways to have issues with google, surely you could have given one of yours? (besides.. they want to make profit and are therefore evil! as you say later on)
Work for hire, there is no need to get money from every copy.
Considering how long it took apple to copy androids notification system to make the darn thing usable.. calling the apple device easier to use is a bit laughable.
DLNA does suck, this is why you simply use an nfs share on the nas which is running linux on an old core2duo in a large case, will support far more hard disks, will not be tied to any particular hardware as any linux machine could read the raid, etc etc.
One big beefy box with all the hard disks, many small nimble network clients, works a charm.
How about hugh jackman? (best known as wolverine) there are actually a whole heap of aussies in hollywood.
After fighting it tooth and nail for many years.
If the patent has so much prior art, and nothing is original, why weren't the combined efforts of intel, microsoft, and a bunch of hardware vendors lawyers able to get the patent rejected?
Either you think the legal teams of all said large companies are incompetent, or the item in question had unique properties.
Considering not only were they first to patent, but also the first to have working silicon... I think I know which I'd go with.
And neurophysicists conclude that while the higher frequencies might not be consciously percepable that does not stop them having effects upon the perception of the audible ones.
They went to the level of measuring brain waves.
Even if not consciously audible, the higher frequencies have effects upon the perception of audible ones.
This has been scientifically tested, even going to the level of measuring brain waves.
Even if not consciously audible, the higher frequencies have effects upon the perception of audible ones.
This has been scientifically tested, even going to the level of measuring brain waves.
Even if not consciously audible, the higher frequencies have effects upon the perception of audible ones.
This has been scientifically tested, even going to the level of measuring brain waves.
It's the machine I posted the post from... running kde 4.6 at present, haven't updated in a bit
jackd is not an issue really, see my response to your other post, I pasted a .asoundrc which handles typical stereo setups.
As a fellow jack user for a few years, it's really not that difficult.
[walshy007@zeta ~]$ cat .asoundrc
pcm.rawjack {
type jack
playback_ports {
0 system:playback_1
1 system:playback_2
}
capture_ports {
0 system:capture_1
1 system:capture_2
}
}
pcm.jack {
type plug
slave { pcm "rawjack" }
hint {
description "JACK Audio Connection Kit"
}
}
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave { pcm "rawjack" }
}
sorry about the formatting, it ate a lot of the white space etc
Mod parent up, 1/4 of the rant might just be rant but the other 3/4 is actually rather informative on details and well put.
Been using it on my eeepc 1000H since I got it, not a problem, I run fedora.
But anything that is likely to put up some kind of fight or difficulty (foxes etc) has been outlawed (depending on where you are of course).
To use the Raspberry Pi as an HTPC, you'll have to add storage, power supply and probably some sort of an enclosure. That will put the price over $100 for a setup (as I understand) can only play H264 video at 1080p.
Storage is a non-issue, the type of people with htpc's tend to load over the network anyway from either a dedicated raid machine or their typical use machine that has the largest storage.
With a stock kernel? Or did you have to fiddle with the system until you got a working configuration?
Yes a stock kernel, and limits.conf was updated automatically when jack was installed to allow my user access to realtime threads, so when you don't have to do any fiddling yourself I'm not sure that could be counted as difficult.
You assumed I was doing high-quality documents, I never told you that
Well, I know if I were writing a 10k+ page document, I'd want to show a little pride in my work.
in fact, Latex isn't even a "linux technology", as it can be run in virtually any unix operating system and Windows.
This does not deter from the fact that linux can do the job of writing a 10k+ page document, which was the original thing being questioned.
in Windows you have a complete software ecosystem. If some program does have a bug, you can use a similar tool from other provider.
At the expense of learning a completely new system, which while may do what the other program doesn't, itself be unusable for tasks you typically used the other one for. The cost in fixing the bug with the first in time can often be less than the time to find and learn the new program.
Give me a choice of five programs that between them do what I want for a specific task, but are closed and can die at any time, and a single one that does everything but a minor issue which I myself can fix, and I'll invest the time that would have been spent with the five programs fixing the one, and then everyone benefits from your use of time.
If nothing at all exists for oss for a given task of course proprietary software is a more efficient use of time... but I've yet to really find something that fits that description.
Jack itself isn't a Linux technology, as it can be run on other unixes and both Windows and OSX.
Try using it for anything non trivial on either of those platforms, and you will see very nasty limitations. I have a friend who uses OS X and after porting a synth he particularly wanted that was jack only for him, discovered that the os x native midi stuff couldn't be fed to jack midi by any easy method. There goes all real utility for anything midi related.
It was designed for linux, and os x and windows are an afterthought since linux stuff likes to be portable in general anyway.
I actually don't care much for latency problems, but they seem to be a recurring issue with Linux kernel, so I'd be conservative when declaring it "fixed".
My audio subsystem has been running with 6msec latency for the last three years, so I'd pretty much consider it fixed..
if you have specialized hardware, you'll have driver problems.
What specific hardware are you talking about? While I personally have only a limited amount of odd hardware (which worked out of the box) I've helped set up people with more esoteric setups and have yet to find anything that doesn't work. Most people only tend to use the custom hardware for multiple high quality audio inputs and just use an s/pdif interface at 96khz/24bit as a single output source, having all the mixing done on pc and s/pdif going to their receiver etc of choice.
Maybe Latex works fine (I have very little experience with it), but does a Latex WYSWIG editor works well with that many pages? And how about database integration? I don't know if Word dies at 20k pages (never tried past 15k), but I've used some linux-compatible alternatives (such as OO) that won't even get close to that number.
When you are writing with that many pages, you are in general writing something that will become a rather large book or reference material, typesetting matters (it does so even in small documents too). MS word is horrible at typesetting (not as bad as it used to be, but still pretty nasty) and is not used to typeset books for a reason.
Also the use of latex allows people to focus on the content of their writing, as opposed to the formatting, it separates the two in such a way that later on you can adjust it if you so wish without having to go through the entire massive document.
An overview of a few of the advantages of latex.
In short, with large document writing you really don't want wysiwyg, it tends to destroy consistency and limit typesetting ability.
Please name one big-budget movie that was edited with Cinelerra. Have you actually ever tried to use it? I had, and it is so far behind the curve that is more of a fancy transcoding tool than a non-linear video editor. You probably would be better trying to do video editing with Windows Movie Maker than with Cinelerra.
In hindsight I was thinking of another linux video related item and not cinelerra, so I'll concede on this one. Last time I used it was in 2005 or so, and while I agree it was pretty nasty back then I had assumed it had progressed in some way. I'd imagine lightworks would fit the bill though regardless.
I'm sorry to inform you, there's no "engineering mindset" in using the wrong tool for the job.
Well why are you using word to try to make large high quality documents? even with any amount of hacking it cannot be made suitable for the purpose. My biggest problem with proprietary software is when you hit a problem it was not originally designed to handle. If software is designed as a set of discrete parts you can mix them in certain ways or add your own to achieve what you wish, and this is how oss stuff is made and evolves. When it is all an integrated untouchable lump this becomes an issue.
Show me a photo editor that runs on Linux on a color-managed environment.
Gimp has done colour management just fine for quite some time
Or a professional-grade video-editing suite that actually works
Cinelerra has been used on professional big budget movies before, however if that doesn't float your boat the lightworks linux port is just about stable.
Or a decent CAD suite (2D and 3D) with full AutoCad compatibility and plotter support.
Google is your friend.Linux is used in professional design environments you know. Can't vouch for autocad support but that is like asking for microsoft word support, not relating to the problem of creating documents or in this case designs.
Or a word processor that won't barf when you are editing a 10,000 page document.
Latex, as a side note, I haven't yet seen a version of microsoft word that doesn't die when you start hitting 20k+ pages.
Or a professional-grade multitrack sound editing software that actually take advantage of expensive hardware.
For mixing? Ardour. Everything is compartmentalized so you can have separate sequencers/synths/mixers etc. Personally I use rosegarden for sequencing, bristol/linuxsampler for synths and ardour for mixing and post processing. Jack is superior in this way to the audio systems that both os x and windows have, audio is just an arbitrary stream to the subsystem. Not to mention with modern kernels you can get far less latency.
Most of the problems you've given are solved problems, if you have an engineering mindset. Linux has always been by technical people for technical people, that might be changing now with more typical end users flocking there however the more you know the more you can do. Nothing will replace domain specific knowledge.
having a GOOD UI
The _only_ intuitive interface is the nipple, everything else is learned. What people find to be good ui's is subjective depending on their prior learning and general background.
Even response times, the names and numbers of units, processes and practices are all operational security elements that can be exploited by criminals and these would be revealed by a time-delayed online stream.
By this logic, the public should have no method of determining their local police forces typical response times, how well or under staffed they are, etc. Being able to not reveal a thing to the public might do wonders for the security of the police, but without some oversight how can you tell if the police are doing their job well or not?
I have an entirely different take. I think this science has a problem most sciences don't. We have only one planet that's practical to use for this model.
I think it's a problem of abstraction, the higher the level of abstraction you go to, the more the little details are thrown out, and the devil is always in the details.
Of course, abstraction is necessary, we aren't capable (nor are we likely to ever be) of doing simulations of the whole solar system at a sub atomic level in a time scale that would be useful to us. So we throw out information or not care about the lack of it in coming to whatever conclusions they do, they simply try their best.
Compare a sociologist with a physicist, the physicist can give you fairly definitive results from a known beginning state etc etc. Ask a sociologist exactly what a person will do and they will only be able to give generalities that could be extemely off because of all of the little details that have been left out.