When someone says "artists are the most valuable thing in the world" without quantifying what they consider 'artist' (because it is subjective) what images are invoked in the mind? An engineer, a scientist? or a creative type drawing a female on a piece of paper?
Art can be anything that invokes thought or emotion, none of this speaks anything of action, or for that matter the usefulness of the emotions or thoughts.
No matter how much you make a person think (without even quantifying what topics, or whether they serve a use to a need), without action nothing will be done.
If you do not survive in the short term, you will never even get the opportunity to care for the long term, is more the point.
What use is art or fine literature if the people who make it are dead from failing survival criteria before they procreate?
If you were right - then that makes no sense. Cave paintings shouldn't exist.
Sure they would, just means that the cavemen in question were well to do enough to have spare time on their hands. If you are starving, you are not going to choose doing art over getting food.
Survival takes priority over art, the ability to make art is not an essential survival trait.
We had art BEFORE we had engineers, but we couldn't have had engineers until we had art.
We have evidence of art going back further than 3.4million years then? (estimated first human tool use) I doubt it. Then again, art is simply anything which inspires emotion or thought in the observer, so art could be anything to you.
Art is the means of all teaching.
That only holds if you consider _absolutely everything_ art. Surprisingly enough, people are great pattern matching machines, and out ability to imitate things is pretty darn good.
To survive in a changing world you must change accordingly, artists are the catalyst of that.
Do you actually believe that artists are the catalysts of change? Have you heard of this thing.. called survival of the fittest?... and this little thing called science? (something that most self proclaimed 'artists' hate with a passion)
Every doctor, mechanical engineer etc. learned their craft using books - books filled with writing and images that taught them, those who wrote and drew those are artists too.
Ah, so you do not require 'creativity' in your definition of art then, any form of communication between humans is then art to you, even just plain facts. By your definition, even me writing this post is 'art' and any manner of conveying information from one person to another.
When you mention 'art' that is not what most people think of, since having such a definition very much waters down the word to mean any thing you damn well want, when a word no longer describes something in particular, what is it's use?.
Can you imagine a bunch of american indians setting up tents in the US and demanding legal title to every states capital city, and 1/5th of states by land mass in it's entirety?
That is what their claims were the equivalent of. I fail to see how people can achieve equality if you let affirmative action and reverse discrimination run rampant./p.
Inequality isn't going away just because you're tired of the protesters.
Inequality will never completely go away, because frankly, people do have different qualities, this is a good thing however.
A perfect example is the modern feminist movement. While we are equal in quality in many ways, there are some _inherent_ things that set males and females apart, like genitalia and medical needs, the ability to host a fetus, etc. The feminists do not understand this. (one of the only times I managed to get kicked out of a pub was because I had the gall to try to be polite when meeting a girl and calling her 'miss'...)
If peoples qualities were equal we would not even have words to differentiate one thing from another (since we tend to do this by what qualities things/people have)
Not to say that treating people the same in some circumstances can't be beneficial, but I think each instance of wanting 'equality' has to be handled on a case by cases basis. Just using that justification by itself means little.
While I'd agree that it is a measure of stability, that does not mean they are valuable. They are a measure of stability because comparatively they are the fluff. On a human needs scale the survival things have to be dealt with already before entertainment and less practical pursuits are engaged.
So what happens when one of these campers accidentally messes up and starts a fire somewhere.. and the ensuring fire hazard because of the close proximity of other flammables actually kills people?
What happens when the lack of sanitation causes an increase in illness for those living in the park?
So you don't think these matters should be addressed, at all?
Clearing out the park for a matter of hours in order to _clean_ the place is more than acceptable when those inhabiting it are placing others in danger and inhibiting 99.9% of people from _enjoying_ said public park.
The people who own the public space wholeheartedly support the protestors, but there is a difference between protesting and just plain squatting. Not being able to make fire and health hazards should not impede your right to free speech. If it does you are doing it wrong.
Since you say this is for personal interest, I shall link you to what I use for sliders/knobs.
This is rather useful. 30 knobs, 9 sliders, many buttons and doubles as a fully weighted piano. Whole thing is powered over usb bus and I picked mine up on special for $450. usb midi compliant so no drivers required, works nicely with whatever midi subsystem your os uses.
Trouble these days would be finding one, production stopped some years ago.
Programming wise midi support is probably the best way to go with this, large support for varying hardware much of which has knobs and sliders.
Because too many people are fixated on the stupid license then actually taking a bigger picture on the quality of the system...
On the contrary, they are _only_ thinking of the bigger, long-term picture, sacrificing usability at the present.
Take the most recent incarnations of the ati/amd graphics adaptor drivers that are open source, sure people coul dhave just continued using the proprietary ones and suffered the bugs and complete lack of long-term support for anything (you basically cannot use the proprietary drive with a card two years older than your linux distro).
Aside from the occasional regression every now and then once hardware works on linux, it _stays_ working. Hell mfm hard disks only stopped being supported by default a year or so ago and they stopped being made over 3 decades ago.
I much rather spend a few hundred bucks and get a closed source OS that is smooth and works without the fight.
To those of us who can debug, a closed source system _is_ actively fighting us figuring out what the devil it exactly does./p.
So if we believe that the GP contributed a patch, then he does have standing. If we don't believe him, I'm sure we can find at least a handful of the many thousands of copyright holders who might have an interest in this.
The item in question is the use of header files in other code, thusly the only code that matters is the header files and those that contributed it are the copyright holders.
Say I contribute 10 lines of code to a 100,000 line project. 95,000 of which are from a single developer. The only standing I have is those ten lines. So if the entirety of the project (with my contribution) is abused I have standing, if 5k lines of code are copied and they are not mine, they are the single developers and he has given the ok, I do not have standing.
Um, doesn't Jack require applications to run with RT scheduler
It can run without RT, however for lower latency uses you would very much want to enable allowing it to use RT threads.
and have some peculiar threading to hook Jack into, that is not easily compatible with the bog standard event loop of a typical desktop application?
It uses a callback interface. This is required to have sample level accuracy between as many applications as you would care to link, but then again feeding audio streams from application to application as seamlessly as to different audio outputs is not a feature pulseaudio has.
Do you still use the six year old machine for what you did six years ago?
Run a version of linux from that era and i'm sure it will scream.
I agree throwing things out for no reason is stupid, and that getting devices to do things their inventor never intended is neat, however I'm sure if you attempt running unity on a 386/20 expecting it to function is a little unreasonable.
I find cheaper usb sticks fail with usb boot at times and 'better' ones don't. Subjective to manufacturer and timeframe, I have a known working 4gb one on my keychain I use for boots typically.
If you include all optional drivers for the kernel, when _compressed_ it is typically approximately 35mb on x86 and slightly larger on 64-bit.. this is a significant portion of a cd.
Typical distro's are not for embedded where they can simply remove all drivers for items that shall not be present.
While cd distros do serve a purpose, for the last oh, six years or so, I have not seen a point to installing anything less than an install dvd size of software on linux by default. Granted I tend to use fedora so I actually _have_ a dvd image available with about 98% of the software I need on it by default (rest being codecs and obscure topic-specific items)
Code that does more takes more room and execution time etc, you can still run DOS 6.22 on a modern machine if you wish, I'm sure it will be hell fast.
Qantas have lost 68million on this already. There are approximately 30,000 workers under their employ, with only 3 of the 11 unions striking and demanding a one dollar an hour increase.
Assuming the _entire_ work force wanted the increase, $68m/30,000/40(hours in a week)/52(weeks in a year)=$1.09 increase per worker per hour
If the increases were going to bankrupt the company, qantas should be looking pretty bankrupt about now.
Qantas domestic is doing just fine, qantas international has been bleeding money for years because of the cheap labour overseas.. Australians just can't compete with people that are willing to work for single digit dollars per hour, the workers just wouldn't stand for it.
and their use only need cause alarm in the target to be an offence (Sect 58).
Laws like this really annoy me. If I act scared around lead pencils because they can be used as a stabbing weapon can I put someone in jail? How about sporting equipment that is bat-like?
While the likelihood of a friend running scared to the police after saying I have an "insert high number here" mW laser are minimal, it still does not excuse the fact that it can be done.
My logic is ban/punish being an ass with them appropriately, and leave tools (I consider firearms tools also) the hell alone.
If we take away the very _ability_ for people to be responsible, and pad the walls to the point where "nobody can screw up" how can we expect people to learn how to be responsible?
What is to stop people from simply purchasing a $50 DVD burner, removing the laser mechanism, providing a power source and appropriate optics for the required application?
I was tempted to purchase a high power laser before the import ban was put into place, but never got around to it. Fail to see how it can be enforced, at best it will bump up the costs so that only those who have the resources to manufacture their own will have them.
Any well designed engine abstracts the 3d api anyway inside of it, there is no reason not to support both. 'tossing' opengl support would cause a myriad of compatibility problems outside of anything but windows and xbox.
Quality code is easy to port, because all the layers of abstraction are in the right places.
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Makes a bit of sense from a profit perspective though.
New games in Australia cost about $110 AUD (112USD) whereas games in the US tend to be about $50... I know which I'd sell to for more profit per item.
sure discs might be cheap as chips to manufacture, but storage/distribution etc still cost.
Try camping in a public park where the rules are 'no camping' for two months and see if the law agrees with you. That is what has happened here.
Protected speech does not mean I can set up a camp site any damn place I like in public.
When someone says "artists are the most valuable thing in the world" without quantifying what they consider 'artist' (because it is subjective) what images are invoked in the mind? An engineer, a scientist? or a creative type drawing a female on a piece of paper?
Art can be anything that invokes thought or emotion, none of this speaks anything of action, or for that matter the usefulness of the emotions or thoughts.
No matter how much you make a person think (without even quantifying what topics, or whether they serve a use to a need), without action nothing will be done.
You're guilty of a fallacy.
Please name it.
If you do not survive in the short term, you will never even get the opportunity to care for the long term, is more the point.
What use is art or fine literature if the people who make it are dead from failing survival criteria before they procreate?
If you were right - then that makes no sense. Cave paintings shouldn't exist.
Sure they would, just means that the cavemen in question were well to do enough to have spare time on their hands. If you are starving, you are not going to choose doing art over getting food.
Survival takes priority over art, the ability to make art is not an essential survival trait.
We had art BEFORE we had engineers, but we couldn't have had engineers until we had art.
We have evidence of art going back further than 3.4million years then? (estimated first human tool use) I doubt it. Then again, art is simply anything which inspires emotion or thought in the observer, so art could be anything to you.
Art is the means of all teaching.
That only holds if you consider _absolutely everything_ art. Surprisingly enough, people are great pattern matching machines, and out ability to imitate things is pretty darn good.
To survive in a changing world you must change accordingly, artists are the catalyst of that.
Do you actually believe that artists are the catalysts of change? Have you heard of this thing.. called survival of the fittest?... and this little thing called science? (something that most self proclaimed 'artists' hate with a passion)
Every doctor, mechanical engineer etc. learned their craft using books - books filled with writing and images that taught them, those who wrote and drew those are artists too.
Ah, so you do not require 'creativity' in your definition of art then, any form of communication between humans is then art to you, even just plain facts. By your definition, even me writing this post is 'art' and any manner of conveying information from one person to another.
When you mention 'art' that is not what most people think of, since having such a definition very much waters down the word to mean any thing you damn well want, when a word no longer describes something in particular, what is it's use?.
Can you imagine a bunch of american indians setting up tents in the US and demanding legal title to every states capital city, and 1/5th of states by land mass in it's entirety?
That is what their claims were the equivalent of. I fail to see how people can achieve equality if you let affirmative action and reverse discrimination run rampant./p.
Inequality isn't going away just because you're tired of the protesters.
Inequality will never completely go away, because frankly, people do have different qualities, this is a good thing however.
A perfect example is the modern feminist movement. While we are equal in quality in many ways, there are some _inherent_ things that set males and females apart, like genitalia and medical needs, the ability to host a fetus, etc. The feminists do not understand this. (one of the only times I managed to get kicked out of a pub was because I had the gall to try to be polite when meeting a girl and calling her 'miss'...)
If peoples qualities were equal we would not even have words to differentiate one thing from another (since we tend to do this by what qualities things/people have)
Not to say that treating people the same in some circumstances can't be beneficial, but I think each instance of wanting 'equality' has to be handled on a case by cases basis. Just using that justification by itself means little.
Artists, philosophers, lit majors and historians are by far the most valuable members of society.
So, you are in a shipwreck and stuck on a desert island, during the shipwreck, you have the time to save four people.
Your choices are
Artist, philosopher, historian, literature buff.
Mechanical engineer, chemist, electrical engineer, paramedic.
Which do you consider more valuable?
While I'd agree that it is a measure of stability, that does not mean they are valuable. They are a measure of stability because comparatively they are the fluff. On a human needs scale the survival things have to be dealt with already before entertainment and less practical pursuits are engaged.
So what happens when one of these campers accidentally messes up and starts a fire somewhere.. and the ensuring fire hazard because of the close proximity of other flammables actually kills people?
What happens when the lack of sanitation causes an increase in illness for those living in the park?
So you don't think these matters should be addressed, at all?
Clearing out the park for a matter of hours in order to _clean_ the place is more than acceptable when those inhabiting it are placing others in danger and inhibiting 99.9% of people from _enjoying_ said public park.
The people who own the public space wholeheartedly support the protestors, but there is a difference between protesting and just plain squatting. Not being able to make fire and health hazards should not impede your right to free speech. If it does you are doing it wrong.
Since you say this is for personal interest, I shall link you to what I use for sliders/knobs.
This is rather useful. 30 knobs, 9 sliders, many buttons and doubles as a fully weighted piano. Whole thing is powered over usb bus and I picked mine up on special for $450. usb midi compliant so no drivers required, works nicely with whatever midi subsystem your os uses.
Trouble these days would be finding one, production stopped some years ago.
Programming wise midi support is probably the best way to go with this, large support for varying hardware much of which has knobs and sliders.
Because too many people are fixated on the stupid license then actually taking a bigger picture on the quality of the system...
On the contrary, they are _only_ thinking of the bigger, long-term picture, sacrificing usability at the present.
Take the most recent incarnations of the ati/amd graphics adaptor drivers that are open source, sure people coul dhave just continued using the proprietary ones and suffered the bugs and complete lack of long-term support for anything (you basically cannot use the proprietary drive with a card two years older than your linux distro).
Aside from the occasional regression every now and then once hardware works on linux, it _stays_ working. Hell mfm hard disks only stopped being supported by default a year or so ago and they stopped being made over 3 decades ago.
I much rather spend a few hundred bucks and get a closed source OS that is smooth and works without the fight.
To those of us who can debug, a closed source system _is_ actively fighting us figuring out what the devil it exactly does./p.
Legality of shrink-wrap licensing varies by what country you are in.
So if we believe that the GP contributed a patch, then he does have standing. If we don't believe him, I'm sure we can find at least a handful of the many thousands of copyright holders who might have an interest in this.
The item in question is the use of header files in other code, thusly the only code that matters is the header files and those that contributed it are the copyright holders.
Say I contribute 10 lines of code to a 100,000 line project. 95,000 of which are from a single developer. The only standing I have is those ten lines. So if the entirety of the project (with my contribution) is abused I have standing, if 5k lines of code are copied and they are not mine, they are the single developers and he has given the ok, I do not have standing.
Um, doesn't Jack require applications to run with RT scheduler
It can run without RT, however for lower latency uses you would very much want to enable allowing it to use RT threads.
and have some peculiar threading to hook Jack into, that is not easily compatible with the bog standard event loop of a typical desktop application?
It uses a callback interface. This is required to have sample level accuracy between as many applications as you would care to link, but then again feeding audio streams from application to application as seamlessly as to different audio outputs is not a feature pulseaudio has.
Petition to get your university to mirror linux distributions, the one I attended does.
Used to take my netbook there to get a lovely 11mbyte/sec download rates for the dvd isos.
Do you still use the six year old machine for what you did six years ago?
Run a version of linux from that era and i'm sure it will scream.
I agree throwing things out for no reason is stupid, and that getting devices to do things their inventor never intended is neat, however I'm sure if you attempt running unity on a 386/20 expecting it to function is a little unreasonable.
I find cheaper usb sticks fail with usb boot at times and 'better' ones don't. Subjective to manufacturer and timeframe, I have a known working 4gb one on my keychain I use for boots typically.
provides features that nobody else does
There is this thing, called JACK, that both predates pulseaudio, is more stable, and provides more features.
Good luck using pulseaudio in an audio production environment.
The Linux kernel is only a few megabytes.
If you include all optional drivers for the kernel, when _compressed_ it is typically approximately 35mb on x86 and slightly larger on 64-bit.. this is a significant portion of a cd.
Typical distro's are not for embedded where they can simply remove all drivers for items that shall not be present.
While cd distros do serve a purpose, for the last oh, six years or so, I have not seen a point to installing anything less than an install dvd size of software on linux by default. Granted I tend to use fedora so I actually _have_ a dvd image available with about 98% of the software I need on it by default (rest being codecs and obscure topic-specific items)
Code that does more takes more room and execution time etc, you can still run DOS 6.22 on a modern machine if you wish, I'm sure it will be hell fast.
During his command the share price went from $6/share to $1.50, if that isn't reason enough for the investors to ditch him I don't know what is.
Hell any joe off the street can successfully run a company into the ground like he is, why should he be compensated so much for it?
Everywhere I have seen has listed the increases at a mere 5%, where are you getting these numbers from?
Qantas have lost 68million on this already. There are approximately 30,000 workers under their employ, with only 3 of the 11 unions striking and demanding a one dollar an hour increase.
Assuming the _entire_ work force wanted the increase, $68m/30,000/40(hours in a week)/52(weeks in a year)=$1.09 increase per worker per hour
If the increases were going to bankrupt the company, qantas should be looking pretty bankrupt about now.
Qantas domestic is doing just fine, qantas international has been bleeding money for years because of the cheap labour overseas.. Australians just can't compete with people that are willing to work for single digit dollars per hour, the workers just wouldn't stand for it.
What is to stop the australians from using similar things to this?
and their use only need cause alarm in the target to be an offence (Sect 58).
Laws like this really annoy me. If I act scared around lead pencils because they can be used as a stabbing weapon can I put someone in jail? How about sporting equipment that is bat-like?
While the likelihood of a friend running scared to the police after saying I have an "insert high number here" mW laser are minimal, it still does not excuse the fact that it can be done.
My logic is ban/punish being an ass with them appropriately, and leave tools (I consider firearms tools also) the hell alone.
If we take away the very _ability_ for people to be responsible, and pad the walls to the point where "nobody can screw up" how can we expect people to learn how to be responsible?
What is to stop people from simply purchasing a $50 DVD burner, removing the laser mechanism, providing a power source and appropriate optics for the required application?
I was tempted to purchase a high power laser before the import ban was put into place, but never got around to it. Fail to see how it can be enforced, at best it will bump up the costs so that only those who have the resources to manufacture their own will have them.
Any well designed engine abstracts the 3d api anyway inside of it, there is no reason not to support both. 'tossing' opengl support would cause a myriad of compatibility problems outside of anything but windows and xbox.
Quality code is easy to port, because all the layers of abstraction are in the right places.