Quite frankly this is still horrribly poor compared to windows. Of course people could do good work with any tools, and I also hope that Linux may accept standart softares and synths (because ZASFX has a nice sound and all, but it CANNOT replace Z3ta, Reaktor4, Albino, Sytrus, Vanguard Vaz etc etc... What about drumboxes ? are Attack or at least tonic available ?
Its possible to limit ones tools in a creative streak, but it isn't possible to say that Synths aren't lacking because there is WOOWOWOW ZynaddsubFX.
This really shows some broken aspect of american society when alledged lyrics and skin color are enough to make a judgement on why it was okay to use para-military police against an (hip hop, sorry) artist. USA 2006 ain't the Italian renaissance that's for sure.
Nerd culture and hip hop culture are really like water and oil. If you scoff at me using the term "hip hop culture", you're proving my point.
I don't deny that like Tetsuo in Akira, Rap'n'bee has become a suffocating enormous genre that is really 98% junk, but the core of HipHop culture is 100% relevant artistically speaking.
"And yes, porn actors in my experience are a pretty happy lot. They are much easier to deal with than "real" actors; fewer tantrums, less drug abuse, punctual, professional, sober, reliable, etc..."
Are you comparing porn actors to the thousands of (theater) actors that work hard everydays, or to your idea of Hollywood's top 3 paid actors and heiress ? because really, I may be wrong but I honnestly can't believe it.
Well the same bias is rampant here and on discussion forums as well. Often, Wikipedia is dismissed because it's Wikipedia, and not becuase it's an encyclopedia. I'm not sure why sometime there a kind of nerd rage against wikipedia.
New LCDs, with overdrive, can burn-in:
http://www.behardware.com/articles/615-1/lcds-with -persistent-images.html
I hope that my beloved Diamontron still has a long life ahead, I don't want no lag (LCD are 20 to 60ms late on a CRT, if you add a radio mouse you'll quickly be at +120ms lag which is very very noticable and make any PC feel slugish), ghosting (yurk, overdrive helps, but then it burns in... great), weak refresh rates (which should hopefully be improved next year with the 100mHZ LCD), greyish blacks, etc...
Anything prohibed by the law should be monitored and censored by the internet providers and governement, like other people/.ers say: YES. The governement is always right to forbid the things it forbids, so it has the right to take every preventive measures to encure that nobody deviates from the norm.
So today I understand that the real message of Orange Mecanic wasn't only about some violent fuckers, but also about the police society we are heading to. Correct that: the thought-policed society we now live in.
USA: patriot act and stuff.
Brazil, Korea: you will have to disclose real identity on any forum etc ??
France: You can't say you're homophobic or racist, even if it doesn't incite to any kind of violence. Historical events have become part of the law and it's forbiden to oppose what law says (like: you can't say that shoah wasn't as bad as it was, you can't say that armenian genocide wasn't as bad as it was, you can't say that colonization was a bad thing). It's also forbiden to speak of forbiden drugs 'in a good light'.
When you put all that together, the big picture is scary for our freedom of expression future, and sadly in line with authors that seemed like fear mongerers. I find it depressing.
"What I find to be self evident is that the real issue is simply to many people, not enough planet."
I find that it is a frightening and I basically don't, and philosphically can't agree. Do someone have a honnest ressource about those issues ? are there such unsolvable problems with fish farming that "the real issue is simply to many people, not enough planet" ?
Thats why there'll be Neteologists. Moe seriously, most important acts of the last century weren't actually written down or stored on disks. I mean, in -3000, not everybody went out to carve a tablet for how the day went, so in the same way internet doesn't have to be super serious all the time. But, also, digital era means that for example all genres of music played since last century may have been recorded to the end of times. In short: archeologists will be needed to dig in the huge amount of data, but the main part of the most interesting data will survive as long as internet exists. I already have recordings form the 30s that arent available anywhere else than on internet, it's kind of thrilling actually.
Don't forget about him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Anslinger
Also, I live in France, which from all neighboring countries (UK, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain) is the one with the stronger anti cannabis laws (basically, same laws as for heroin). Incidentaly, big pharma industry is really big here (for example ambien is from sanofi-aventis).
I am afraid that the Chinese government is especially evil since it is a rising economic power.
I take your point that societies arent equal, but I'm also of the belief that a society should be judged by the everyday life of its constituents, and looking at it this way, economic wealth trumps any so called autoritarism or whatever when it comes to what's real.
The "goodness" of the US doesn't reside in it's government (otherwise, may I say, it would be fucked), but in how everyday life unfolds for the average american. I'm leaded to believe that the primary goal of Chinese government is to improve the daily life of its citizens, even if its ways have to be in line with the country's particular history, which won't make it a US democracy copy-paste. Democracy is a good tool for human progress, but not in a make or break a society's way.
And I think that I just understood why Iraq war is such a phenomenal fiasco.
I live in France, liberalism here means economic liberalism by opposition with socialism and as you say is part of the conservative movement. But, and it is specific to here, part of the conservatives are not economic liberals but more social conservatives (ie Chirac = not that far from a socialist). Arg now it don't remember how does what.
For what it's worth, I find that we aim for a time much more akin to a plutocracy than republic, where the social paradigm shifts from absolutely defending individual rights (liberalism?) to absolutely defending the power aggregators (conservatism?) to the cost of the former.
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Quite frankly this is still horrribly poor compared to windows. Of course people could do good work with any tools, and I also hope that Linux may accept standart softares and synths (because ZASFX has a nice sound and all, but it CANNOT replace Z3ta, Reaktor4, Albino, Sytrus, Vanguard Vaz etc etc... What about drumboxes ? are Attack or at least tonic available ? Its possible to limit ones tools in a creative streak, but it isn't possible to say that Synths aren't lacking because there is WOOWOWOW ZynaddsubFX.
This really shows some broken aspect of american society when alledged lyrics and skin color are enough to make a judgement on why it was okay to use para-military police against an (hip hop, sorry) artist. USA 2006 ain't the Italian renaissance that's for sure.
Thanks Slashdot I owe you 4 years.
Nerd culture and hip hop culture are really like water and oil. If you scoff at me using the term "hip hop culture", you're proving my point. I don't deny that like Tetsuo in Akira, Rap'n'bee has become a suffocating enormous genre that is really 98% junk, but the core of HipHop culture is 100% relevant artistically speaking.
"And yes, porn actors in my experience are a pretty happy lot. They are much easier to deal with than "real" actors; fewer tantrums, less drug abuse, punctual, professional, sober, reliable, etc..." Are you comparing porn actors to the thousands of (theater) actors that work hard everydays, or to your idea of Hollywood's top 3 paid actors and heiress ? because really, I may be wrong but I honnestly can't believe it.
Well the same bias is rampant here and on discussion forums as well. Often, Wikipedia is dismissed because it's Wikipedia, and not becuase it's an encyclopedia. I'm not sure why sometime there a kind of nerd rage against wikipedia.
New LCDs, with overdrive, can burn-in: http://www.behardware.com/articles/615-1/lcds-with -persistent-images.html
I hope that my beloved Diamontron still has a long life ahead, I don't want no lag (LCD are 20 to 60ms late on a CRT, if you add a radio mouse you'll quickly be at +120ms lag which is very very noticable and make any PC feel slugish), ghosting (yurk, overdrive helps, but then it burns in... great), weak refresh rates (which should hopefully be improved next year with the 100mHZ LCD), greyish blacks, etc...
Finally someone thought of the stoners. No more yukky milk !
"people who like porn" I thought that it was an oxymoron, but after a quick check this is a pleonasm.
Not saying that it can't have any effect but I hardly beleive that it would make people vote for a party they deeply disagree with.
I cannot imagine the sensation of regenerating a limb, over maybe years. Strange thought.
Or are american congressmen.
What would be interesting is the amount of data transfered.
Anything prohibed by the law should be monitored and censored by the internet providers and governement, like other people /.ers say: YES. The governement is always right to forbid the things it forbids, so it has the right to take every preventive measures to encure that nobody deviates from the norm.
So today I understand that the real message of Orange Mecanic wasn't only about some violent fuckers, but also about the police society we are heading to. Correct that: the thought-policed society we now live in.
USA: patriot act and stuff.
Brazil, Korea: you will have to disclose real identity on any forum etc ??
France: You can't say you're homophobic or racist, even if it doesn't incite to any kind of violence. Historical events have become part of the law and it's forbiden to oppose what law says (like: you can't say that shoah wasn't as bad as it was, you can't say that armenian genocide wasn't as bad as it was, you can't say that colonization was a bad thing). It's also forbiden to speak of forbiden drugs 'in a good light'.
When you put all that together, the big picture is scary for our freedom of expression future, and sadly in line with authors that seemed like fear mongerers. I find it depressing.
I think it's called North Africa.
"What I find to be self evident is that the real issue is simply to many people, not enough planet." I find that it is a frightening and I basically don't, and philosphically can't agree. Do someone have a honnest ressource about those issues ? are there such unsolvable problems with fish farming that "the real issue is simply to many people, not enough planet" ?
Thats why there'll be Neteologists. Moe seriously, most important acts of the last century weren't actually written down or stored on disks. I mean, in -3000, not everybody went out to carve a tablet for how the day went, so in the same way internet doesn't have to be super serious all the time. But, also, digital era means that for example all genres of music played since last century may have been recorded to the end of times. In short: archeologists will be needed to dig in the huge amount of data, but the main part of the most interesting data will survive as long as internet exists. I already have recordings form the 30s that arent available anywhere else than on internet, it's kind of thrilling actually.
No licensing fees were paid at any moment.
I felt that it was more a protection against theft than against authorities who will ask the password if it's obviously locked.
Why going after ecstasy ?
Don't forget about him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Anslinger Also, I live in France, which from all neighboring countries (UK, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain) is the one with the stronger anti cannabis laws (basically, same laws as for heroin). Incidentaly, big pharma industry is really big here (for example ambien is from sanofi-aventis).
I am afraid that the Chinese government is especially evil since it is a rising economic power. I take your point that societies arent equal, but I'm also of the belief that a society should be judged by the everyday life of its constituents, and looking at it this way, economic wealth trumps any so called autoritarism or whatever when it comes to what's real. The "goodness" of the US doesn't reside in it's government (otherwise, may I say, it would be fucked), but in how everyday life unfolds for the average american. I'm leaded to believe that the primary goal of Chinese government is to improve the daily life of its citizens, even if its ways have to be in line with the country's particular history, which won't make it a US democracy copy-paste. Democracy is a good tool for human progress, but not in a make or break a society's way. And I think that I just understood why Iraq war is such a phenomenal fiasco.
Sounds like economic pragmatism. Without being perfect, wiki is a major knowledge (and therefore wealth) database.
I live in France, liberalism here means economic liberalism by opposition with socialism and as you say is part of the conservative movement. But, and it is specific to here, part of the conservatives are not economic liberals but more social conservatives (ie Chirac = not that far from a socialist). Arg now it don't remember how does what.
For what it's worth, I find that we aim for a time much more akin to a plutocracy than republic, where the social paradigm shifts from absolutely defending individual rights (liberalism?) to absolutely defending the power aggregators (conservatism?) to the cost of the former.