For the longest time the never arriving "Year of Linux on the Desktop" was to herald the success and legitimization of Open Source Software. Perhaps we were a bit narrow minded. Linux as a desktop OS, however popular and yes I am a user of 20 years myself, is dwarfed in the world of Open Source by so many massively successful and important products. Over the last couple of years we have seen many major companies, traditionally closed source all the way, begin to Open Source massive products. Even Microsoft, as they migrate their business model to a cloud company, is increasingly investing efforts in Open Source. Likely there will always be closed source platforms, but it is looking increasingly likely that they will wholly depend on a larger Open Source ecosystem. The year of Open Source is here and now.
Curiosity got the better of me. At least I think it was HD. This was also some time ago, not sure what iteration it was. Conceptually the interface had a few elements going for it, but as others have commented, it was the overall limited and limiting implementation of the Android OS that was the killer. I never understood the lack of apps in the Amazon App Store. I can see excluding embarrassments like intense 3d games, but the hardware was otherwise quite capable. I was able to side load and run absolutely anything and everything I could not find in their store except the Google Play Store itself. Unfortunately, that resulted in a practically non descriptive ugly blobs of an icon for any such app.
So being Android, and verifying Android apps unavailable from Amazon worked, can anyone explain what kind of licensing might get in the way of offering the full library? If none, that's pretty fucking stupid and lame. Make that double stupid and lame.
I agree with you with a caveat. I have to maintain installations of both LibreOffice and OpenOffice. If LibreOffice won't open, mutilates, or all around fucks something up, I fire up OpenOffice which will generalist handle it just fine. This works vice-versa. I am allowed to be the only one not running MS Office, because I do get it done. But no one else would be willing to work with two office products over the sake of a document or spreadsheet. We will get there though.
Although I do see a post further down stating the same issue in 14.04, I have long since learned the hard way to stick with LTS releases, whether derivatives or Ubuntu proper (derivatives seem the worst in the case). When 15.10 came out, I installed it on a few machines. I am not go to cite specific problems so take this as an anecdotal if you must, but those systems were quickly converted to 14.04. Recently, and against my better judgement, I decided to install the 15.10 release of Ubuntu Studio. I have never, not even close, encountered such instability and such a remarkable number of error messages. Simple programs like Audacity would lock so frequently and badly, it took the system with it. I assume in the case such a drastic crash may be due to the implementation of a low-latency kernel. But it was so bad my only avenue for recovery was alt + F1. I re-installed the 14.04 version and have not experienced a single issue.
Linguistics is not pseudoscience: morphology, syntax, phonetics, semantics, etc. It's no wonder there is so much binary mathematics involved in structural linguistics. There is even a field of linguistics called computational linguistics. This happens to be one of my favorite subjects so I will stop here lest I otherwise surely end up writing a full dissertation. Read a book on it. The first chapter in any structural linguistics book covers the linguistic sign, which is itself fascinating in its simplicity.
In regards to the post I responded to being at a -1, apparent there are some folks here who do not understand the concept of being facetious. Kinda of surprised that got down modded almost all the way to/dev/null. Also confident that this story is young enough that people who know better will come along and mod it up.
I've read both arguments, and since I know everyone posting here has also (right?), I won't bother with too much of a critique.
I have to side with Canonical on this one. Their short and sweet post pretty much puts to bed the legal ramblings of the Software Freedom Conservancy. The SFS article reads like they started out trying to make a point, then has to fallback on an academic lesson on GPL Incompatibility and Combined/Derivative works. I would go so far as to say their verbosity defeats their own argument, while managing to inset the letters "ZFS" wherever they can find room.
Past that, as someone who uses ZFS on FreeBSD, ZFS is pretty fucking useful. Canonical's legal inclusion of ZFS as self-contained file system module is a big step forward for Linux.
You don't need an app for everything. If I was to order a pizza on any platform, I would likely go straight to the website to begin with. If the Surface is unable to identify when to use the mobile version of a website, I suppose that could be an issue. But all the same.
It seems I posted a comment here within the last few days about Google's dependence on advertising as their main source of revenue. Here is what I don't understand: they seriously didn't have a backup plan? I am speaking strictly of Google here. Yahoo, is well... Yahoo. It is not a dark secret that you adapt or die in technology. The bigger you are, the harder you fall. So Google honestly has an expectation that advertising as a main source of revenue was going to continue indefinitely? Of course it won't. Things change far to fast, far to often, and to great extremes. I am disappointed that Google is whining about this. A major technology company can only project multiple probabilities for the future of their business and stand ready to pounce in whatever direction comes to be before someone else does. The one thing that can be rest assured is that what a technology company that size is rest assuring on at any given moment will not last and will disappear over the course of an unknown amount of time - fast, slow, other. What's next? In two-years is Zuckerburg going to be complaining his business is being hurt because his user base started to wake up, grew a brain cell and developed a partial soul? Google: for fucks sake. I thought better.
Honestly I thought we were kind of over all the Windows bashing these days. There have been a couple of stories over the last few months that resulted in very long comment sections on Windows 10. In those cases the anti-Windows flamers were being shot down left and right by a majority that had positive things to say about the platform. Something similar happened with a long comments section that led to a positive discussion of Windows phone as a solid platform. I was kind of surprised. Perhaps it's just too early in the conversation for the post you cite to be modded into oblivion with posts like mine, and yours for that matter, being modded up. We shall see.
With the broad based yet in depth material you are looking for, you will need several books. I know how you feel though, finding well written and laid out 800 - 1000+ page books that were written for experts is not as simple as it used to be. After first reading your question I went and took a look at a bookshelf I have containing my oldest tech books from fifteen or more years ago. You really can't find stuff like that anymore. I actually left out some Windows 10 books in my list below because 80 out of 800 pages being useful isn't worth it, at least not to me. So as a long time and frequent tech book buyer, here is this best I can come up with:
The first would be: Windows 10 Inside Out http://www.amazon.com/Windows-.... It's about 900 pages of too simple for you through very complex concepts and procedures as they apply to that platform. It sounds like you would skip quite a bit, but there is enough in there to make it worth it.
Then of course there is the Windows 10: The Missing Manual http://www.amazon.com/Windows-... This is another example where you will likely skip over a lot of material but the good stuff is in fact pretty good.
Overwhelmingly above and beyond I want to recommend the Windows Internals series. However, I cannot find anything specific to Windows 10. As far as Windows 8 is concerned, this series is a stop here and buy this now kinda thing. If someone else can point in the right direction for Windows 10 coverage by this series, I myself would be grateful.
Once you've covered broad based expertise which likely won't take you long, you really need to start thinking along the lines of studying a few highly specific topics.
Oh, and then for either broad or focused based learning there is always the official MS Press series. I'm always a bit leery of that series though. I never purchase an MS Press book, especially recently released, unless I can find a substantial number of reviews across multiple sites for any one book. IMHO MS Press is the worst when it comes to publishing materials riddled with factually incorrect information, and reviews are the best way to get a heads up. Otherwise I think they make some of the greatest tech books. Sorry for not having a perfectly straight answer.
"Lexicon Alpha 2-channel interface is a $49 POS USB"
Yes, it is a super cheapy and I am fully aware of it's limitations. Standard kernel and misc. other was no good. Adopted a low latency kernel (has it's own dangers) and made other system mods and no more bullshit. After finding it actually worked, I came here hoping for advice and what to buy and not to buy if I decided to spring for more. Your holier than though reply was hardly, well shit. This is slashdot so I guess it fits in that respect. You sure can spit out some fancy words there guy. Use Google much? This is my first venture into home recording using Linux and all documentation out there on the subject is sketchy at best... home as in outside the needs of a full blown studio. Outside of that you have no idea who I am, what I know, or what I can do. Thanks for the vague input, Pope. You can keep the fish.
Every time I looked outside the box, I was told I was overqualified by hiring managers and unemployable by recruiters.
Okay, so this has happened to me lots. Being told you are overqualified, even when true, is the pits. As far as how I so drastically switched gears, I had the benefit of hooking up with someone in the industry with previous IT experience. I also re-wrote my resume to be as applicable as possible. Further, I pretty much social engineered my way in. It worked out.
Connecting an input device, say a mic or bass guitar, directly into a hardware interface device which then connects to a computer running the software you need provides quality leaps and bounds beyond doing it that way. Incidentally, you will always find a mic jack on an interface device so the singer/player can hear themselves just as though they are amped. Do you even realize such subtitles as say changing the tone on a guitar effects what gets recorded through the interface? You must watch a lot of TV, It always appears that they are just plain playing amped through a mic, but note the headphones. This is why we have studio monitor speakers. If you want to invest the time and energy into setting up an environment with super-substantial acoustic dynamics to facilitate your decades old approach, go for it. I can even draw up some plans for you. Otherwise welcome to the 21st century. Or a good chunk of the 20th century for that matter. So yes, I do understand how to properly mic an amp.
Also, as far as sticking with Linux, it's kinda sorta the title and point of my submission. I am in fact familiar with what is available on other platforms and their capabilities.
Already have a Mac, although it does not get much action these days. When I was in the industry it was all I used, but I also did a fantastic amount of graphic design and print advertising. Fast forward to today, and I much prefer the Open Source offerings I can get with Linux for home studio recording. The trick is to use a low latency kernel.
Note: When it came to graphic design and print design, I actually got by using Gimp in X Windows on OS X and no one was the wiser. But wait.... print you say? But that is CMYK? How so with the Gimp? Google is your friend but if you want I can cover it.
Linux does in fact meet my needs, granted with a low latency version of the Linux kernel. Reading these comments, people seem to be overlooking the "Home Recording" part of the title.
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For the longest time the never arriving "Year of Linux on the Desktop" was to herald the success and legitimization of Open Source Software. Perhaps we were a bit narrow minded. Linux as a desktop OS, however popular and yes I am a user of 20 years myself, is dwarfed in the world of Open Source by so many massively successful and important products. Over the last couple of years we have seen many major companies, traditionally closed source all the way, begin to Open Source massive products. Even Microsoft, as they migrate their business model to a cloud company, is increasingly investing efforts in Open Source. Likely there will always be closed source platforms, but it is looking increasingly likely that they will wholly depend on a larger Open Source ecosystem. The year of Open Source is here and now.
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Curiosity got the better of me. At least I think it was HD. This was also some time ago, not sure what iteration it was. Conceptually the interface had a few elements going for it, but as others have commented, it was the overall limited and limiting implementation of the Android OS that was the killer. I never understood the lack of apps in the Amazon App Store. I can see excluding embarrassments like intense 3d games, but the hardware was otherwise quite capable. I was able to side load and run absolutely anything and everything I could not find in their store except the Google Play Store itself. Unfortunately, that resulted in a practically non descriptive ugly blobs of an icon for any such app.
So being Android, and verifying Android apps unavailable from Amazon worked, can anyone explain what kind of licensing might get in the way of offering the full library? If none, that's pretty fucking stupid and lame. Make that double stupid and lame.
Anyway, I gave it to my ex.
I used to love Prodigy Classic in all of its 320x240 pastel glory. Thanks for ruining those memories, IBM.
I agree with you with a caveat. I have to maintain installations of both LibreOffice and OpenOffice. If LibreOffice won't open, mutilates, or all around fucks something up, I fire up OpenOffice which will generalist handle it just fine. This works vice-versa. I am allowed to be the only one not running MS Office, because I do get it done. But no one else would be willing to work with two office products over the sake of a document or spreadsheet. We will get there though.
Although I do see a post further down stating the same issue in 14.04, I have long since learned the hard way to stick with LTS releases, whether derivatives or Ubuntu proper (derivatives seem the worst in the case). When 15.10 came out, I installed it on a few machines. I am not go to cite specific problems so take this as an anecdotal if you must, but those systems were quickly converted to 14.04. Recently, and against my better judgement, I decided to install the 15.10 release of Ubuntu Studio. I have never, not even close, encountered such instability and such a remarkable number of error messages. Simple programs like Audacity would lock so frequently and badly, it took the system with it. I assume in the case such a drastic crash may be due to the implementation of a low-latency kernel. But it was so bad my only avenue for recovery was alt + F1. I re-installed the 14.04 version and have not experienced a single issue.
Linguistics is not pseudoscience: morphology, syntax, phonetics, semantics, etc. It's no wonder there is so much binary mathematics involved in structural linguistics. There is even a field of linguistics called computational linguistics. This happens to be one of my favorite subjects so I will stop here lest I otherwise surely end up writing a full dissertation. Read a book on it. The first chapter in any structural linguistics book covers the linguistic sign, which is itself fascinating in its simplicity.
Because: $$$
In regards to the post I responded to being at a -1, apparent there are some folks here who do not understand the concept of being facetious. Kinda of surprised that got down modded almost all the way to /dev/null. Also confident that this story is young enough that people who know better will come along and mod it up.
I know that was tongue in cheek, but still:
Thought independent outside of obsessing over "likes" and "friends".
No more walking off cliffs because your posting to Facebook. (this of course excludes general texting)
Living socially normal lives.
No more armies of people baffled that I among others are not on Facebook.
A vast reduction in narcissistic selfies.
(maybe) an increase in general civility as people would be forced to have face-to-face conversations within close physical proximity.
A steady increase in gray matter across a few billion people.
The avoidance of entire generations of kids that are socially inept and who knows what else developmental oddities because, well, facebook.
I could go on but that's a lot of typing. Maybe someone else take over?
I've read both arguments, and since I know everyone posting here has also (right?), I won't bother with too much of a critique.
I have to side with Canonical on this one. Their short and sweet post pretty much puts to bed the legal ramblings of the Software Freedom Conservancy. The SFS article reads like they started out trying to make a point, then has to fallback on an academic lesson on GPL Incompatibility and Combined/Derivative works. I would go so far as to say their verbosity defeats their own argument, while managing to inset the letters "ZFS" wherever they can find room.
Past that, as someone who uses ZFS on FreeBSD, ZFS is pretty fucking useful. Canonical's legal inclusion of ZFS as self-contained file system module is a big step forward for Linux.
Wow! Most useful and on topic post under this submission. I will be converting this into and adding it to my personal documentation. Thanks a bunch!
You don't need an app for everything. If I was to order a pizza on any platform, I would likely go straight to the website to begin with. If the Surface is unable to identify when to use the mobile version of a website, I suppose that could be an issue. But all the same.
Pardon me. I often forget that technology is not used in advertising and therefore Google is not a tech company. Silly me.
It seems I posted a comment here within the last few days about Google's dependence on advertising as their main source of revenue. Here is what I don't understand: they seriously didn't have a backup plan? I am speaking strictly of Google here. Yahoo, is well... Yahoo. It is not a dark secret that you adapt or die in technology. The bigger you are, the harder you fall. So Google honestly has an expectation that advertising as a main source of revenue was going to continue indefinitely? Of course it won't. Things change far to fast, far to often, and to great extremes. I am disappointed that Google is whining about this. A major technology company can only project multiple probabilities for the future of their business and stand ready to pounce in whatever direction comes to be before someone else does. The one thing that can be rest assured is that what a technology company that size is rest assuring on at any given moment will not last and will disappear over the course of an unknown amount of time - fast, slow, other. What's next? In two-years is Zuckerburg going to be complaining his business is being hurt because his user base started to wake up, grew a brain cell and developed a partial soul? Google: for fucks sake. I thought better.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little. I was working for a dial-up ISP at the time.
That's actually an excellent point. In fact it pretty much sums up the whole Slashdot Windows 10 flip flop.
Honestly I thought we were kind of over all the Windows bashing these days. There have been a couple of stories over the last few months that resulted in very long comment sections on Windows 10. In those cases the anti-Windows flamers were being shot down left and right by a majority that had positive things to say about the platform. Something similar happened with a long comments section that led to a positive discussion of Windows phone as a solid platform. I was kind of surprised. Perhaps it's just too early in the conversation for the post you cite to be modded into oblivion with posts like mine, and yours for that matter, being modded up. We shall see.
With the broad based yet in depth material you are looking for, you will need several books. I know how you feel though, finding well written and laid out 800 - 1000+ page books that were written for experts is not as simple as it used to be. After first reading your question I went and took a look at a bookshelf I have containing my oldest tech books from fifteen or more years ago. You really can't find stuff like that anymore. I actually left out some Windows 10 books in my list below because 80 out of 800 pages being useful isn't worth it, at least not to me. So as a long time and frequent tech book buyer, here is this best I can come up with:
The first would be: Windows 10 Inside Out http://www.amazon.com/Windows-.... It's about 900 pages of too simple for you through very complex concepts and procedures as they apply to that platform. It sounds like you would skip quite a bit, but there is enough in there to make it worth it.
Then of course there is the Windows 10: The Missing Manual http://www.amazon.com/Windows-... This is another example where you will likely skip over a lot of material but the good stuff is in fact pretty good.
Overwhelmingly above and beyond I want to recommend the Windows Internals series. However, I cannot find anything specific to Windows 10. As far as Windows 8 is concerned, this series is a stop here and buy this now kinda thing. If someone else can point in the right direction for Windows 10 coverage by this series, I myself would be grateful.
Once you've covered broad based expertise which likely won't take you long, you really need to start thinking along the lines of studying a few highly specific topics.
Oh, and then for either broad or focused based learning there is always the official MS Press series. I'm always a bit leery of that series though. I never purchase an MS Press book, especially recently released, unless I can find a substantial number of reviews across multiple sites for any one book. IMHO MS Press is the worst when it comes to publishing materials riddled with factually incorrect information, and reviews are the best way to get a heads up. Otherwise I think they make some of the greatest tech books. Sorry for not having a perfectly straight answer.
And that was local music, not explicitly recording. So take that dick you are waving around and eat it.
"Lexicon Alpha 2-channel interface is a $49 POS USB"
Yes, it is a super cheapy and I am fully aware of it's limitations. Standard kernel and misc. other was no good. Adopted a low latency kernel (has it's own dangers) and made other system mods and no more bullshit. After finding it actually worked, I came here hoping for advice and what to buy and not to buy if I decided to spring for more. Your holier than though reply was hardly, well shit. This is slashdot so I guess it fits in that respect. You sure can spit out some fancy words there guy. Use Google much? This is my first venture into home recording using Linux and all documentation out there on the subject is sketchy at best... home as in outside the needs of a full blown studio. Outside of that you have no idea who I am, what I know, or what I can do. Thanks for the vague input, Pope. You can keep the fish.
Okay, so this has happened to me lots. Being told you are overqualified, even when true, is the pits. As far as how I so drastically switched gears, I had the benefit of hooking up with someone in the industry with previous IT experience. I also re-wrote my resume to be as applicable as possible. Further, I pretty much social engineered my way in. It worked out.
Connecting an input device, say a mic or bass guitar, directly into a hardware interface device which then connects to a computer running the software you need provides quality leaps and bounds beyond doing it that way. Incidentally, you will always find a mic jack on an interface device so the singer/player can hear themselves just as though they are amped. Do you even realize such subtitles as say changing the tone on a guitar effects what gets recorded through the interface? You must watch a lot of TV, It always appears that they are just plain playing amped through a mic, but note the headphones. This is why we have studio monitor speakers. If you want to invest the time and energy into setting up an environment with super-substantial acoustic dynamics to facilitate your decades old approach, go for it. I can even draw up some plans for you. Otherwise welcome to the 21st century. Or a good chunk of the 20th century for that matter. So yes, I do understand how to properly mic an amp.
Also, as far as sticking with Linux, it's kinda sorta the title and point of my submission. I am in fact familiar with what is available on other platforms and their capabilities.
Already have a Mac, although it does not get much action these days. When I was in the industry it was all I used, but I also did a fantastic amount of graphic design and print advertising. Fast forward to today, and I much prefer the Open Source offerings I can get with Linux for home studio recording. The trick is to use a low latency kernel.
Note: When it came to graphic design and print design, I actually got by using Gimp in X Windows on OS X and no one was the wiser. But wait.... print you say? But that is CMYK? How so with the Gimp? Google is your friend but if you want I can cover it.
Linux does in fact meet my needs, granted with a low latency version of the Linux kernel. Reading these comments, people seem to be overlooking the "Home Recording" part of the title.