You can get a bank that will let you make throwaway cards. Bank of America does. You specify how long in the future ti is to expire and how much its limit is. It'll create a throwaway number for you. It is charged against your regular card, but is a separate number with a separate limit that you can shut down as needed.

You talking to the wrong crowd.
They figure the final cost of the product should be the same as the cost per unit, without all those other expenses that add up too.
There is a big market for custom designed stuff where you may only make a few of them. Or say in term prognostics, you will be making only one, that has the ideal fit.

That would be true if the algorithm goal is to avoid negatives, vs trying to strive towards positives.

As expensive as other pro solutions, but without all the good tools.

Well it would depend, in theory an AI could learn kindness as a aspect of intelligence, calculating that if you are kind to the end user, you will get a better degree of output reward. Say the goal of the AI is to achieve most desirable output, and the end user provides feed back on how happy he is with the output. The AI could adjust its logic to find that being pleasant, or anticipating future requests, and looking them up before hand, would optimize it end point results.

In the human body hormones are only part of the equation. In terms of sex drive, they do have more of an influence, but other aspects are based on more intellectual processing which then feeds your body to give off hormones, which then reinforce their belief back to the brain.
You know because you are behind schedule on your assignment, your boss will yell at you. Knowing this your brain tell your adrenalin system to start working, as you are expected to be in a battle. You body gets the message, however you don't fight or flight, so you in general feel bad afterwards, as you didn't use the chemicals. This bad feeling you got, reminded your brain that this isn't a good situation.

Affirmative!

Most of the cross platform stuff works better in Windows. You can sniff around online for various tests, DAWBench has some good ones: http://www.dawbench.com/win7-v.... You also don't get away from driver issues if you are talking pro audio, since all the pro cards have their own drivers and many of them are... suboptimal to put it nicely.

If you like using a Mac, that's fine, but don't try and sell it as "better" because objectively, you can get more polyphony, lower latency, etc on a Windows system using the same software. Not really a big deal these days as an i7 + SSD generally means your system has more power than you need for anything, but the data is what it is.

There is just not much in the free software world, particularly for Linux, that is good for music composition. Just the way it is. If you want to do it well, you need commercial tools, generally for Windows or Mac.

For what the original poster is looking for, I'd say have a look at Cakewalk Sonar X3. Sonar is real, real good at MIDI, knows how to deal with SoundFonts, has some built in synths that aren't too bad, and only runs $100 for the basic version. It's notation is not the best, but anything I can think of that is a reasonable step up is also quite a bit more money (like Cubase).

However depending on what the ultimate goal is, the DAW can end up being the cheap part of things. High quality samples cost a lot, and there are few freebies. Reason is to make good samples you need to hire good musicians, a good recording studio/hall, good engineers, and then spend a lot of time on it. Gotta make that money back somehow. So if you want realistic sounds, you can easily spend far more on samples than the DAW/sequencer. I own Sonar X3 Producer, which is $500, but I've spent more than that on a single sample set, and I have multiple sample sets.

Also if he thinks that programming a synthesizer is easy, he's got another thing coming. Making a competent synthesis engine that sounds good, is usable, etc, etc is not an easy task. Particularly since there are all sort of different kinds of synthesis one might wish to use, and each is implemented and controlled differently.

So, like the parent said: religious statement or actual work? If you just wanna play around in Linux with free solutions, then go to it. No need to ask on Slashdot, just try stuff out. Wikipedia has a list of OSS music software, to name just one place. If you are asking because you want something that doesn't suck and can do some real work, then you'll need to stick with Window or Mac and drop some money.

Like I said, I'd go for Sonar. There's a free trial, and the base version isn't that much and has good features and capabilities (it isn't crippled with regards to tracks and so on). You can always upgrade later.

Other reasonably priced options to look at are Reaper and FL Studio Fruity Edition.

Beards were rather popular in Ancient culture. A sign of manhood and variability. It took Alexander the Great to change that trend, pointing out that a beard could be grabbed in battle, so he ordered his troops to shave them off.
However, it is a good way to protect your face, while hiding in bushes, and keeps your face warmer in the winter. It makes sense to assume that Hunters (Males) would have beards.

It does work, it is in general similar to the Atkins diet, or the Conspiracy Diet.

The issue I am trying figure out about the new problems with getting fat. What is new that happened in the past 20 years?
We had a lot of the same bad for us foods 20 years ago, and no food shortages either.

In a Adam and Eve type of story, yes.
Wheat and Corn, allowed for civilizations to grow and prosper.
One of the premises in Jared Diamond "Gun Germ and Steel", is that the ability for a civilization to really grow we needed grain, otherwise the culture will stay in more of a hunter gather type of living. Major Civilizations, Mayans, and Aztecs had Maize/Corn type of grains, Middle East and Europe had Wheat, East Asia had Rice. This is because they were a rather High protein food, that can be easily dried and stored, so average guy didn't need to spend most of his life gathering food, and had time, to think and create and improve.

So if you are living in a society you also get extra baggage, that often makes you think you want to long for the good old hunter gather days, forgetting about things such as illness, starvation, dehydration... So other then worry about if I will survive the next day, you worry about things like, how am I doing compared to the next guy, I am working too hard and I am not getting a fair pay from it.... While I am not trying to make these issues unimportant, they are an improvement over the problems that existed before. But they are some unnatural side effects such as self imposed stress, and a diet that may not be optimal...

Being with plastic is being melted before it puts its layer down, why don't we mix the pigments in at the point that it is melted.

More then just Color.
I would like Color, with multiple materials. Say Plastic, with metal, glass and rubber.

Do we have a 3d printing standard format yet?

PostScript 3D!!!!
Well actually PostScript is still a proprietary format.

So I guess we need PCL 6-3D!!!

If you saying something is in 3 Dimensions you need the explanation marks.