It doen't even compair to SoundForge 4.5 (which is what I have on my Windows box). But it doesn't cost as much as SoundForge, either. With a little effort and some good VST files you can do quite a lot with it.
Programmers like you are why I dicthed Linud and bought a Mac. If yiou write programs just for you and never distribute them, fine. Make them as inscrutable and user-hostile as you want. If you do release them you do yourself and Linux a huge disservice by making them hard for users to use.
I use a 500Mhz Via Mini-ITX system as a file server on my home network. It's quiet, doesn't eat much electricity and it can easily handle the (small) number of client machines it serves.
Look at Quartz Extreme on any AGP equippen G4 or G5 Mac. It is heavily 3D accelerated and looks 2D. The built in scaling and other acceleration tools that the 3D hardware brings to bare makes the OS extremeley snappy and responsive.
And it's not wastefull at all. It is simply taking advantage of commonly existing hardware that didn't exist when the original 2D API was created.
The reality is that unless you buy a Matrox card, the 2D acceleration that your video card brings to the tape hasn't improved that much at all in the last five years. The 2D core is more than good enough to do what's required of it so most video card companies don't bother expending much energy improviing things. 3D acceleration, on the other hand, has improved at rates that throttle the imagination.
I'm not trying to flame, but what if online freedom includes child porn? Or people being murdered while being taped and then the movies played out online?
Very valid concerns. The counter to this is that the sexual exploitation of a child is illegal, as is the murder of a human being. Thus, the commission of such acts is illegal.
If a site has stories, drawings, staged fakes or manipulated images that simulate such acts no real crime has been committed (there is some argument in the courts and government's as to whether drawing of child porn is legal or not), and therefore isn't illegal as such.
I find both topics abhorant and disgusting. But should it be illegal for people to write stories, draw pictures, manipulate images or stage fakes? I don't think so. It's not anything I want to look at, but that's a personal issue and none of the governments business.
Every one of your accepted "interests" is someone elses' most abhorant perversions. The unfortunate side effect of freedom of speech (which not all countries have, unfortunately) is that you have to put up with a lot of things you don't like. I'd rather put up with Country and Western music, Rap and Disco that be told I can't listen to my favoriite musical genre. I'd rather have to block certain (IMHO) disgusting pages in my HOSTS file than be told that I can't oogle this year's SI Swimsuit issue on my PC.
I can't stand that man's work. Pretentious, mysoginistic and self absorbed drek! The only work of his I actually enjoyed was "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". While he was good at thinking up intersting technoilogies, his actuall stories were painful to read.
Have you looked at the prices for used Macs? Macs do NOT depreciate at all (unless they've been IIxv'd). When I started looking at Macs I originally looked at used G4 systems and saw that most of them were selling at almost new prices and I decided that the savings wasn't enough to warrant nor getting the brand new dual 1.8Ghz G5 I did get.
And these machines come with a bit of cachet. They were part of a super computer cluster. While that might not means squat to you or I, some people would be willing to pay MORE for having a piece of that. Hell, a Quakecon winner (forget who, now) was happy as hell to get an autographed blown piston from one of John Carmack's uber-cars as a grand prize.
As to why VT went for the cluster so soon is simple: money and PR. They make money selling time on that monster and they get grants for having that beast. Waiting for the (as yet unnancounced) G5 Xserves wiould heve meant lost income in a climate that is starving educational institutions to death.
What part of "thumbnail" do they not understand? Even if many of us have broadband/fat pipe connections doesn't mean everybody does and it doesn't mean we all want to look at all of the pictures.
Take the movie "Wargames" as a classic example of the differences between a geek and a nerd.
David, Mathew Broderick's charatcter, is a geek.
Malvin, Eddie Deezen's characterm is a nerd.
Malvin: I can't believe it, Jim. That girl's standing over there listening and you're telling him about our back doors?
Jim Sting: [yelling] Mister Potato Head! Mister Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets!
Malvin: Yeah, but Jim, you're giving away all our best tricks!
Jim Sting: They're not tricks.
I have teh exact same situation with my wife, and she has a higher IQ than I do.
Part of it is the differences in the way men and women think about technology. Men love buttons and switches and lights and dails and lots of things to configure with and adjust. Look at any home entertainment center for proof of this. Women just want the damned thing to work. They do not care about the details. All they care about is it doing what they think it is supposed to do.
It's not that women are stupid. It is that they care about *BUM BUM BUMBUM!* different things that men do. Do most men give a damn what something smells like (assuming that the smell is not activily offensive)? Do men, outsode the graphic design crowd, really care about the differences between two almost identical shades of light green? For the most part, no. But most women do.
Most home computers SHOULD be glorified applainces. The average user doesn't need all of the complexity of the current generation of computers and really shouldn't have to deal with it. It is not the fault of the user that they know so little about systems so easily broken. Not everyone has the time, energy or desire to learn about all of the ways in which Windows can self-immolate.
The problem is that computers are designed by geeks for geeks. They need to be designed by skilled industrial designers for complete morons.
And for us gearheads there should be the option to buy complex and tempramental computers/OSes, just like people can still buy cars with manual transmissions.
The age of "you must be a computer nerd" are over and it's time that software designers recognized that fact.
And then you have to deal with constant upgrades to get the new games to work. And then there are the constant driver installes to get that shiny new game to work. But, let us not forget that half of your old games stop working because of said hardware a driver updates and you spend more time than it's worth to try to get them to work.
I have had PC games die becuase I upgraded the following:
- Video card
- Video card drivers
- Soundcard
- Motherboard
- Added RAM to system (I'm not kidding)
- Win 98, Win 2K
And let us not forget the games that work, but are unplayable because the computer is just too damned fast and you die before you realize that the game has started.
All of my old PSX games still work just like the day I bought them. All of my DreamCast games also still work. All of my XBox games still work. They will all keep working until either the discs or the consioles fail. Almost none of my PC games I bought when the PSX was new still works.
Sorry, but I'm tired of playing that game.
As for the price of the unit, how much was your last video card upgrade? How about the one before that? And the one before that? My PSX and my DC will never need to be upgraded. They will always play any game released for them. Since I bought my Xbox I have not upgraded my PCs video card. Hell, if it wasn't for the motherboard failure, I wouldn't have upgraded anything on my PC since I bought my XBox.
Yes, but then you have to set it. With an analog watch you simply wait until the second hand gets to one of the quarter minute points and watch it go round.
The nursing school I worked for stipulated analog watches because of their simplicity and the fact that they just work.
We don't need to move towards Big Brother. We need to stop the political infighting between the Intellegence agencies and we need to ask GW Bush why he ignored all of the threat assessment that Bill Clinton's administration had compiled.
9/11 was not a failure or our American way of life. It was a failure to take seriously the work of a previous administration combined with the blind hatred of that administration (and the need for a "Pearl Harbor" as some people would argue).
Even so, you should probably apply the patch. A lot of programs use IE for their "internal" browser component. WinAmp being the one that springs to mind at the moment.
My mother lived in Puerto Rico the year that Coca Cola moved in. She tells of the immidiate rise in tooth decay and obiecity that ran through the local populace.
Corporations only care about theiir bottom lines. They don't care what they do to their customers.
My ISP doesn't say "unlimited", save for the fact that there are no limits to how long you can be connected, which may be where the term comes from.
Anyway, my ISP sets up its acounts with X down/Y up and Z GB a month plus $$ for every Gig over your limit. And they make the "how much have I used this month" page very easy to find on their page.
It's called a "McGuffin". Every movie and movie genre has them. Fantasy movies have the Magical Artifact, science fiction movies have the Doomsday Weapon or the Reactor or the Big Secret, romance movies have the Unspoken Love, etc....
It's not what McGiuffin a genre uses, it's how well the author/director uses that McGuffin that is important.
The problem with moden fantasy is not that they all have the Magic Artifact, is that they are all piss-poor dirivatives of TLoTR. They all shamelessly steal from Tolkein's work without understanding what makes it good.
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It doen't even compair to SoundForge 4.5 (which is what I have on my Windows box). But it doesn't cost as much as SoundForge, either. With a little effort and some good VST files you can do quite a lot with it.
Programmers like you are why I dicthed Linud and bought a Mac. If yiou write programs just for you and never distribute them, fine. Make them as inscrutable and user-hostile as you want. If you do release them you do yourself and Linux a huge disservice by making them hard for users to use.
I use a 500Mhz Via Mini-ITX system as a file server on my home network. It's quiet, doesn't eat much electricity and it can easily handle the (small) number of client machines it serves.
Look at Quartz Extreme on any AGP equippen G4 or G5 Mac. It is heavily 3D accelerated and looks 2D. The built in scaling and other acceleration tools that the 3D hardware brings to bare makes the OS extremeley snappy and responsive.
And it's not wastefull at all. It is simply taking advantage of commonly existing hardware that didn't exist when the original 2D API was created.
The reality is that unless you buy a Matrox card, the 2D acceleration that your video card brings to the tape hasn't improved that much at all in the last five years. The 2D core is more than good enough to do what's required of it so most video card companies don't bother expending much energy improviing things. 3D acceleration, on the other hand, has improved at rates that throttle the imagination.
HAHAHAHA! That's great!
Very valid concerns. The counter to this is that the sexual exploitation of a child is illegal, as is the murder of a human being. Thus, the commission of such acts is illegal.
If a site has stories, drawings, staged fakes or manipulated images that simulate such acts no real crime has been committed (there is some argument in the courts and government's as to whether drawing of child porn is legal or not), and therefore isn't illegal as such.
I find both topics abhorant and disgusting. But should it be illegal for people to write stories, draw pictures, manipulate images or stage fakes? I don't think so. It's not anything I want to look at, but that's a personal issue and none of the governments business.
Every one of your accepted "interests" is someone elses' most abhorant perversions. The unfortunate side effect of freedom of speech (which not all countries have, unfortunately) is that you have to put up with a lot of things you don't like. I'd rather put up with Country and Western music, Rap and Disco that be told I can't listen to my favoriite musical genre. I'd rather have to block certain (IMHO) disgusting pages in my HOSTS file than be told that I can't oogle this year's SI Swimsuit issue on my PC.
He wrote it, did he not? That makes it his work, doesn't it?
You ever wonder why no one sings "Happy Birthday To You" on TV? That's right. It's a copyrighted work they would have to pay money to perform.
I can't stand that man's work. Pretentious, mysoginistic and self absorbed drek! The only work of his I actually enjoyed was "The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress". While he was good at thinking up intersting technoilogies, his actuall stories were painful to read.
Because it was "Mac(intosh) OS9", not just "OS9". And maybe Microware didn't care.
More people were confused between OS/2 and OS-9 than were confused between Mac OS9 and OS-9.
Really. His point was made with the subtlety of a brick tossed through a window, but he's basically right. Flamebait? No. Overley dramatic? Maybe.
Why not? I mean, robots run on it. Why can't everything else?
Darl McBride? Yeah, that's the ticket!
I'd have more fun on my Dual 1.8 if I didn't suck so bad. But that's neither Apple's nor Epic's fault.
Have you looked at the prices for used Macs? Macs do NOT depreciate at all (unless they've been IIxv'd). When I started looking at Macs I originally looked at used G4 systems and saw that most of them were selling at almost new prices and I decided that the savings wasn't enough to warrant nor getting the brand new dual 1.8Ghz G5 I did get.
And these machines come with a bit of cachet. They were part of a super computer cluster. While that might not means squat to you or I, some people would be willing to pay MORE for having a piece of that. Hell, a Quakecon winner (forget who, now) was happy as hell to get an autographed blown piston from one of John Carmack's uber-cars as a grand prize.
As to why VT went for the cluster so soon is simple: money and PR. They make money selling time on that monster and they get grants for having that beast. Waiting for the (as yet unnancounced) G5 Xserves wiould heve meant lost income in a climate that is starving educational institutions to death.
What part of "thumbnail" do they not understand? Even if many of us have broadband/fat pipe connections doesn't mean everybody does and it doesn't mean we all want to look at all of the pictures.
Take the movie "Wargames" as a classic example of the differences between a geek and a nerd.
David, Mathew Broderick's charatcter, is a geek.
Malvin, Eddie Deezen's characterm is a nerd.
Malvin: I can't believe it, Jim. That girl's standing over there listening and you're telling him about our back doors?
Jim Sting: [yelling] Mister Potato Head! Mister Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets!
Malvin: Yeah, but Jim, you're giving away all our best tricks!
Jim Sting: They're not tricks.
I have teh exact same situation with my wife, and she has a higher IQ than I do.
Part of it is the differences in the way men and women think about technology. Men love buttons and switches and lights and dails and lots of things to configure with and adjust. Look at any home entertainment center for proof of this. Women just want the damned thing to work. They do not care about the details. All they care about is it doing what they think it is supposed to do.
It's not that women are stupid. It is that they care about *BUM BUM BUMBUM!* different things that men do. Do most men give a damn what something smells like (assuming that the smell is not activily offensive)? Do men, outsode the graphic design crowd, really care about the differences between two almost identical shades of light green? For the most part, no. But most women do.
Most home computers SHOULD be glorified applainces. The average user doesn't need all of the complexity of the current generation of computers and really shouldn't have to deal with it. It is not the fault of the user that they know so little about systems so easily broken. Not everyone has the time, energy or desire to learn about all of the ways in which Windows can self-immolate.
The problem is that computers are designed by geeks for geeks. They need to be designed by skilled industrial designers for complete morons.
And for us gearheads there should be the option to buy complex and tempramental computers/OSes, just like people can still buy cars with manual transmissions.
The age of "you must be a computer nerd" are over and it's time that software designers recognized that fact.
And then you have to deal with constant upgrades to get the new games to work. And then there are the constant driver installes to get that shiny new game to work. But, let us not forget that half of your old games stop working because of said hardware a driver updates and you spend more time than it's worth to try to get them to work.
I have had PC games die becuase I upgraded the following:
- Video card
- Video card drivers
- Soundcard
- Motherboard
- Added RAM to system (I'm not kidding)
- Win 98, Win 2K
And let us not forget the games that work, but are unplayable because the computer is just too damned fast and you die before you realize that the game has started.
All of my old PSX games still work just like the day I bought them. All of my DreamCast games also still work. All of my XBox games still work. They will all keep working until either the discs or the consioles fail. Almost none of my PC games I bought when the PSX was new still works.
Sorry, but I'm tired of playing that game.
As for the price of the unit, how much was your last video card upgrade? How about the one before that? And the one before that? My PSX and my DC will never need to be upgraded. They will always play any game released for them. Since I bought my Xbox I have not upgraded my PCs video card. Hell, if it wasn't for the motherboard failure, I wouldn't have upgraded anything on my PC since I bought my XBox.
Yes, but then you have to set it. With an analog watch you simply wait until the second hand gets to one of the quarter minute points and watch it go round.
The nursing school I worked for stipulated analog watches because of their simplicity and the fact that they just work.
We don't need to move towards Big Brother. We need to stop the political infighting between the Intellegence agencies and we need to ask GW Bush why he ignored all of the threat assessment that Bill Clinton's administration had compiled.
9/11 was not a failure or our American way of life. It was a failure to take seriously the work of a previous administration combined with the blind hatred of that administration (and the need for a "Pearl Harbor" as some people would argue).
Even so, you should probably apply the patch. A lot of programs use IE for their "internal" browser component. WinAmp being the one that springs to mind at the moment.
My mother lived in Puerto Rico the year that Coca Cola moved in. She tells of the immidiate rise in tooth decay and obiecity that ran through the local populace.
Corporations only care about theiir bottom lines. They don't care what they do to their customers.
My ISP doesn't say "unlimited", save for the fact that there are no limits to how long you can be connected, which may be where the term comes from.
Anyway, my ISP sets up its acounts with X down/Y up and Z GB a month plus $$ for every Gig over your limit. And they make the "how much have I used this month" page very easy to find on their page.
This is the way all ISPs should run.
It's called a "McGuffin". Every movie and movie genre has them. Fantasy movies have the Magical Artifact, science fiction movies have the Doomsday Weapon or the Reactor or the Big Secret, romance movies have the Unspoken Love, etc....
It's not what McGiuffin a genre uses, it's how well the author/director uses that McGuffin that is important.
The problem with moden fantasy is not that they all have the Magic Artifact, is that they are all piss-poor dirivatives of TLoTR. They all shamelessly steal from Tolkein's work without understanding what makes it good.