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Originally posted by curaga View PostThat'd be great, actually. Getting sheets with the cds would be very nice. Not even sarcasm.
Music + sheets doesn't really translate to open source though, because you can't just take a sheet of music and recreate the exact version of the original song from it.
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Originally posted by dee. View PostSomeone still buys cd's?
Music + sheets doesn't really translate to open source though, because you can't just take a sheet of music and recreate the exact version of the original song from it.
While "reverse engineering" music is easier than sw, it's still not fast or fun :P
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Originally posted by LinuxID10T View PostI really don't understand why they don't release CS:GO now. I mean, chances are it would at least work on the Nvidia driver, and it would probably make the development process faster to have more users testing it. Also, I'm impatient...
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Originally posted by curaga View PostYes, my favorite artists don't offer direct donations. One can also hope that the smaller label (Napalm) takes less of a cut than the big ones.
I'd say it's exactly open source. Just like you won't be able to get an identical binary from C source due to different compilers, settings, and such, but you do get the product if you have the skill to do so.
While "reverse engineering" music is easier than sw, it's still not fast or fun :P
But you can't automatically take a sheet of music and produce something even remotely resemblant of the original musical piece - there's so much more in music that isn't really recorded in notes or sheets: the instruments used and their individual sound qualities, all the effects and amplifiers used for the instruments, the individual quality and timbre of the vocalist (if any), recording conditions and equipment, mixing, mastering... so many variables. In fact, if you take a sheet of music, play and record it, you don't produce a copy or instance of the original musical piece (like you do with software) - you produce a cover, which is your own unique reinterpretation of the original musical piece.
If there's any area where "open source" applies to music it's purely electronic music, made with sequencers, samples and synths which are capable of producing deterministic output. There, you can distribute the original project file of the audio application and expect someone to be able to recreate the exact original track. That's how computer-created music was distributed for a long time, before efficient audio compression was invented - we had things called "modules" which were distributed via BBS's. This was pre-internet time.
But as soon as you add in humans to the mix, it all gets more messy and complicated. Machines are predictable. Humans aren't.
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Originally posted by dee. View PostI thought CD's were just used as coasters now. Really, some people still buy them? Wow.
But you can't automatically take a sheet of music and produce something even remotely resemblant of the original musical piece - there's so much more in music that isn't really recorded in notes or sheets: the instruments used and their individual sound qualities, all the effects and amplifiers used for the instruments, the individual quality and timbre of the vocalist (if any), recording conditions and equipment, mixing, mastering... so many variables. In fact, if you take a sheet of music, play and record it, you don't produce a copy or instance of the original musical piece (like you do with software) - you produce a cover, which is your own unique reinterpretation of the original musical piece.
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But as soon as you add in humans to the mix, it all gets more messy and complicated. Machines are predictable. Humans aren't.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostIt's probably gonna have too much input lag anyway, like the other games released so far. I have all games installed on Linux, but I still boot into Windows to play them. I can't stand the Linux input lag.
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Originally posted by Espionage724 View PostIs the input delay actually a Linux thing (affects everyone)? Or is it specific to your hardware, or the games?
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