AltSci Cell

by Javantea
June 30, 2010

3 weeks ago I promised a screencast and though I totally missed my self-imposed deadline, I feel that the outcome is passable. That's right, it isn't good enough for me to say that it's decent. That's okay though, sometimes you have a lofty plan and it just sucks. The funny thing is that editing the video and audio was not worthwhile because it was easier to re-record than to edit. In fact, I could have easily re-recorded yet another video easier than I re-recorded just the audio. What that says is that editing on Linux is at a point where certain people can get it to work and many people cannot. As a programmer, I see that as an opportunity. Especially with these type of programs that many people pay good money for, programmers can make a quick killing just by spending a weekend writing some code.

Rockband 2 Drum Instrument for Linux

Coding is not that difficult these days. In fact I was telling a client of my father's that he was wasting his money paying my father to write an e-mail client. Why would I say something so stupid like that? Because Open Source is about saving money, reusing code, and sharing your code so that your competitors become your contributors. If a programmer was so inclined, he could compete with my father's client by writing 8 hours of Open Source code. Oops, part of a million dollars wasted on a closed source programmer when all he needed to do was hire someone to modify an existing open source program.

Rofl, youtube mangled my video. Well that's how it goes, isn't it?

Javantea 0ut.