Topic: [DVC]DevCoin - Official Thread - Moderated - page 283. (Read 1058949 times)

Work for me they take a few seconds to load..
These are dynamic pages that will update so its better than simply posting csv files as stats are not done and thats what I wanted to see.

This way you wont have a descrepancy between official round info vs site info because someone didnt bother
updating the website for a few months.

I proposed a bounty for qt images and icons.  (e.g. new icons for the overview, address book, etc. and an image of the Devcoin logo inside the qt as well as the "about" sidebar)  There were a few objections so I am laying out the suggestions:

1. 8 shares for the best set of images and icons, 4 shares for the second-best set; If sidhujag can add an image to inside the qt he gets 1 share as well
2. Only 8 shares for the best set, no second place
3. 4 shares then 2 shares
4. only 4 shares
5. Cancel the bounty, nothing happens

Also, what is the "real" logo?  Is it the one on the old or new client?

Neither of those links work. The charity link is where the receiver files generated from the python script go. At least I think so. Someone can correct me of I am wrong.

Same thing really, but yeah there are quite a few things that could be added or linked:
That
DVC/USD charts
Block explorers
FAQ - some of us working on that.

No after many googlw searches found it:

http://dvccountdown.blisteringdevelopers.com/

I suggest we add this info to the new devcoin website under earnings and payouts.

Also we should try to integrate the dvc usd ticker intothe website somewhere too..

http://dvcusdchart.blisteringdevelopers.com/

http://d.evco.in/charity/

Where is that site that shows payout information like how much a share is worth this round etc? Shouldnt this info be on our website under "Earnings and Payouts"

Thanks.

You dont need to it should be compatible with old clients.

That is a very good idea.

The database we will create for music and sound must be highly accessible to visitors who are simply looking for free open source stuff (FOSS).

Tags will help the user find what he is looking for, but also categorizations in a folder structure like the open directory project is OK with me.

Why not have both....

we must start somewhere... and then let a sophisticated tag system evolve. Maybe something like a mood tag sequencer, where people paste mood specifications on the timeline of a song.

Well here is another suggestion then:

When something is that excruciatingly non-open-source, how about we have a policy of surrounding it with scaffolding that kind of makes it somewhat more source-ish?

For example instead of just a bunch of soundtracks that someone played on proprietary instruments or with physical instruments that we do not have how to build plans and instructions for let alone 3D-printer files or computerised-woodworking instructions for and such, lets try to turn it into some kind of useful source as much as possible.

A really simple start toward that, a really simple idea toward it, would be to accompany it with a bunch of keywords hints or somesuch, so that when for example a screenplay says "Outdoors, English topiary garden, behind a manor house; the sky is overcast, the background music is sombre" one could at least look up "sombre" among the soundtracks to get a list of soundtracks that might fit that scene?

It would at least be a start. Right now Battle For Wesnoth for example still defaults, I think, to just rotating through its available soundtracks. Campaign and scenario developers can specify specific tracks to rotate among, or set one specific track for a scenario, but there is no general mood kind of indication you can give instead and that most probably is because there is not yet any library of free open source soundtracks categorised by mood so right now having in the code an instruction as to what mood of mood-music should be used wouldn't do anything.

Actually that could even go beyond one's library of free open source music, as music player software nowadays tends to have the ability to keep lists of people's music collections for them. If we had free open source mood music with usable categories/moods that software could invoke, maybe eventually that would lead to proprietary collections also adding the hooks to make their music also be available to such software in the event the user is a subscriber to their collection, and on like that.

Similarly for images: do we have an English topiary garden image? How about at least either an English garden or a topiary garden? How about a manor house? Can we put garden and manor house together? Or maybe we have an image that already has them put together? Etc.

Carrying it further there could be notes characterising it in more ways, not just mood but even down to details of performer / performance. So screenplays could have instructions such as "a terribly bad violinist is heard from the other room; Watson closes the door and continues writing his case-notes", or "a brilliant virtuoso is playing an intricate melody across the river" or "a trio is..." or whatever.

-MarkM-

Not knowing is not the problem, but rather that similar libraries just don't exist at all.
Also, in the recent years I have seen a big price dump in proprietery music software. For example many virtual instruments are in the 50-100 $ range now... that doesn't make them free, but very competitive.
I remember the times 10 years ago, when music software was really expensive.


It's not only that. If my customers send me photoshopfiles to work with, then I need photoshop. Photoshop has a billion market cap with a lot of highly developped filters you are simply not going to find in open source tools anytime soon.
Also with graphics programs I see a big price dump, changing the way they charge people. Adobe now has this monthly subcription in place, where you get access to ALL it's software for a mere 50 $ a month.

You pay as long as you want to use the software.

I am just saying: the big proprietary firms understand that something is changing and that they have to adapt.

How can I tell which blocks will be paid out to me?  (e.g. Will block 121000 have may payout?)

I looked in the receiver file on Github but don't know what it means.

The tracks is good though. Also the scores, midi files etc, so people can change which instruments are used, use which tracks they want, run some tracks through sound effect filters if they want and so on.

Also apparently some music is put together from notes samples, so having the source to know which notes of which instruments are used would allow using a different library of notes, especially if the original used proprietary samples of notes.

Free open source such libraries are needed too though as apparently some musicians use proprietary/restricted libraries of notes partly because they do not know of any similar libraries that have less-restrictive licenses.

With graphics some artists claim they are forced to use photoshop because none of the free open source graphics programs have the function(s) they need; getting the functions added to free open source paint/draw/etc programs ought to be something DeVCoin could aspire to eventually get done.

And so on.

Also, coders build programs in their minds too, and hacking blindly at their code similarly might not always result in better programs. But the point is you can see exactly what they did and you can change it, even if that has bad results you can learn from that maybe some of why they did it the way they did, or learn yet another thing not do do etc. Coding is an art too.

-MarkM-

How is this poem at devtome open source?

http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=epic_love_poem

Please explain this. Is such a poem open source, because I can go ahead and change words etc?
Don't I destroy the work of this poet if I just switch words around as it pleases me?
I mean, if I am really good, I can make this poem better, and add value. If I am illiterate I will destroy this poem if I try to change and remix it.

I can create "poems" thru music, and post them so people can listen to them. I can also give people access to the MIDI-Files and all the tracks (if for example my music has 8 tracks, people can download all tracks separately)... So people can remix and mashup my music and potentially (if they know what they are doing) create something new.

The poem on devtome is free too, won't you agree?

I think we can all agree that everything that is posted as open source is also always free.

But not everything that is free is open source. But artists can make their art more or less open source by giving access to all work material. But this is difficult if part of their work material is in their brain.


For example: I can't open source the groove feeling I have in my left hand when I play that funky bassline.
Oh I can give you notes and MIDI-Files... but try and use those to create similar funky basslines and you will fail.

What I mean is, open source is partly possible with art, but not all the way thru, like it is with math and code.

They sent a reply email saying, "We have made note of your suggestion. You can reach me on [telephone number] for more clarification." I can PM the number to anyone that would like to make the call.

- Nova

Once this has been tested, and there are no objections, you will receive your bounty (24 shares)

I suggest a bounty of 3 shares then 2 shares for a testing report on this bot, any objections?


You get 9 shares for your chart!


You will receive 12 shares for your plan.   (it is the second investment plan)


Bittzy will get 12 shares for the Peer-to-Peer Lending idea, which is the third investment plan


You receive 12 shares for your plan.  There is one investment plan bounty remaining for 12 shares, and then the next five will be six shares.


Athanasios gets 1/5 of a share for his button.  Congrats on your first bounty, Thanos!

Ok so I've discovered something a bit...weird.

If you delete all open orders on the website, then don't refresh it again, you can put as many orders as you like with the bot. It seems to only activate the 100 order limit thing when you refresh the orders page...

I've just put through 1000 orders, then another 100 without refreshing...waited 10 minutes and put another 350 i0c orders in, still haven't refreshed and it's still letting me put orders.

EDIT: argh no at some random point it stopped letting me add more. I wonder if someone is manually doing it...or a timed script. I'm writing to their customer support to see if we can get around it somehow.

Do we all need to upgrade to this new client?

I see Round 30 has begun but no payouts yet.

Probably he raised the limit higher than 100 but forgot to change the error message saying more than 100.

I have many hundreds, he might have raised the limit to 500 or 1000 and I'd still already be over it...

-MarkM-