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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America / Volume 133 / Issue 2 / SPEECH PRODUCTION [70] / Back to Abstract

Paralinguistic mechanisms of production in human “beatboxing”: A real-time magnetic resonance imaging study

Michael Proctor1,a, Erik Bresch2, Dani Byrd3, Krishna Nayak1, and Shrikanth Narayanan1

1 Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, 3740 McClintock Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90089-2564
2 Philips Research, High Tech Campus 5, 5656 AE, Eindhoven, Netherlands
3 Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California, 3601 Watt Way, Los Angeles, California 90089-1693

a

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Current address: MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith NSW 2751, Australia. Electronic mail: michael.proctor@uws.edu.au

(Received 06 Mar 2012; accepted 17 Dec 2012)

INTRODUCTION

Beatboxing is an artistic form of human sound production in which the vocal organs are used to imitate percussion instruments. The use of vocal percussion in musical performance has a long history in many cultures, including konnakol recitation of solkattu in Karnatic musical traditions of southern India, North American a capella and scat singing, Celtic lilting and diddling, and Chinese kouji performances (Atherton, 20071). Vocal emulation of percussion sounds has also been used pedagogically, and as a means of communicating rhythmic motifs. In north Indian musical traditions bols are used to encode tabla rhythms; changgo drum notation is expressed using vocables in Korean samul nori, and Cuban conga players vocalize drum motifs as guauganco or tumbao patterns (Atherton, 20071; McLean and Wiggins, 200922).

In contemporary western popular music, human beatboxing is an element of hip hop culture, performed either as its own form of artistic expression, or as an accompaniment to rapping or singing. Beatboxing was pioneered in the 1980s by New York artists including Doug E. Fresh and Darren Robinson (Hess, 200710). The name reflects the origins of the practice, in which performers attempted to imitate the sounds of the synthetic drum machines that were popularly used in hip hop production at the time, such as the TR-808 Rhythm Composer (Roland Corporation, 1980) and the LM-1 Drum Computer (Linn Electronics, 1982). Artists such as Biz Markie, Rahzel, and Felix Zenger have advanced the art form by extending the repertoire of percussion sounds that are emulated, the complexity of the performance, and the ability to create impressions of polyphony through the integrated production of percussion with a bass line or sung lyrics.

Because it is a relatively young vocal art form, beatboxing has not been extensively studied in the musical performance or speech science literature. Acoustic properties of some of the sounds used in beatboxing have been described impressionistically and compared to speech sounds (Stowell and Plumbley, 200838). Stowell (201037, 201236) and Tyte (2012)42 have surveyed the range of sounds exploited by beatbox artists and the ways in which they are thought to be commonly produced. Splinter and Tyte (2012)34 have proposed an informal system of notation (Standard Beatbox Notation, SBN), and Stowell (2012)36 has outlined a modified subset of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to describe beatbox performance, based on these assumptions.

Lederer (2005)17 conducted spectral analyses of three common effects produced

In Soviet Union we troll with goatse.cx / http://bayimg.com/dAkAKaAEH

Someone else has already said that, no, the Pauli Exclusion Principle does not apply.

Anna Ardin, the Swedish woman who is accusing Julian Assange for rape by broken condom, have bought new Penis Shoes. Yes, really. Anna Ardin shows off her Penis Shoes after accusing Julian Assange for rape

Poor Assange who got caught in the nets of a penis shoe wielding Swedish woman.

http://image.bayimg.com/8e72f6d5ae4e44b4f2caab39e4e8d16bfff92b65.jpg

Everything is completely under control.

What they did here is integrate a secure terminal like this one directly on the card.

My take on this. Most people have a device that could act like a secure terminal in their pocket, mainly all modern cellphones have all the hardware required. Then your bank issues you a smart card programed with the appropriate keys and the phone simply forwards the transaction details via NFC. Since the thieves don't get to touch your phone, you can be reasonably sure your phone screen hasn't be altered.

What they did here is integrate a secure terminal like this one directly on the card.

These terminals are used for online banking. Every time you log in, you receive a different challenge. You then insert the card into the terminal and enter both the pin and the challenge and get the response back. Then you enter the response in the browser.

The goal of the system is to provide two-factors authentication. You need both something you have (the card) and something you know (the PIN).

The reason you need a secure terminal is that typing the PIN directly on the computer would allow a keylogger to steal it.

Overall it is a pretty solid system.

The previous plot was based on old data. Here is a revised plot based on actual flight data (start height: 39045m, max speed: 373m/s).

The speed of sound varies with temperature. The formula is 'c = 165.8 + 0.6 * T', with c in m/s and T in K. See this simulation of Baumgartner's jump.

I was curious about what it would take to break the sound barrier and thus wrote some code to simulate his jump. This plot shows what it could look like. It is vastly simplified and thus not quite correct but gives a general feel of the trajectory. It correspond to a jumper with the minimal aerodynamic performance needed to break the sound barrier from an altitude of 120'000 feet. This is achieved at an altitude of about 28 kilometers and an air density of 2% that at sea level. Constructive remarks are appreciated.

you DO know, that Maxtor was bought up by Seagate in 2006, right?
They kept the Maxtor brand alive, but for some years now, I've only seen external harddrives with the name on the box.
Internally, they do have Maxtor-branded drives, and bad (power-sucking) ones at that.

I had a Maxtor III OneTouch 300 GB: the drive consumed 21.7 Watts at max. (I'm not kidding).
I kept a picture of it: http://bayimg.com/baainAaen
I took the Maxtor hdd out and put a 1 TB WDC hdd in the box (consumes ~8 Watts at most).

In 2010, I sold the Maxtor to a guy who, just as he left, said he intended to use it as a system drive in his PC, instead of the old hdd that died.
I felt sorry for the guy, but said nothing.
I am pretty sure he learned the hard way not to use extremely power-intensive drives as a system drive.
Well, either that, or he learned to cool it really well.

Combat, lol... you're comparing the absolute straight line of a laser... something unaffected by almost every single type of atmospheric condition except particulate matter and atmospheric lensing... to a ballistic piece of metal ...Tell that to our dead soldiers.

A green dot attached to a sniper rifle with a honkin ass scopeat a klick, I can guarantee one could solidly paint someone's face.

We're talking about the use of common laser pointers by uneducated idiots with nothing better to do, not people using purpose-built steadying devices. For the purposes of comparing the difficulty of hitting a distant target, hitting an airplane at altitude with a laser pointer is akin to shooting a target at a distance of 4 miles with a pistol... one handed and without bothering to use the sight.

We have F-18's fly by all the time... 3-4x as fast as landing speed. I've videoed them going past... easily keeping the jet in frame.
With a laser scope attached... IT WOULD BE JUST AS EASY SINCE IT'S L/o/S.

Sure. Now, try attaching a theoretical lens capable of zooming-in far enough that the pilot's pupil fills the frame. Still think you can do it?

a) you do not need a "purpose built" steadying device, although they
go for about $15 and are called, TRIPODS. And most people with a
camera and even the slightest interest in photography, usually have
one.

b) you do not need a "purpose built" sighting device. A long straw and
some tape will do just fine.

c) you can do all this without a "theoretical lens" cause all it takes is
1x magnification.

d) I just took off my 'theoretical lens', a 2x-8x sniper scope and free-hand
sighted my mildot on 3 planes' front quad, ie cockpit, with less than 1/4 drift.
Maybe you should lay off the caffeine if you can't steadily track an object
using a scope. Of course, I'm blessed with exceptional stability in that regard,
that's why they hired me.

Why do you need to see someone's pupil? Oh, you don't know about scatter/beam
spread and assume it has to directly go in their eyes!

And I wanted to attack this one directly:

hitting an airplane at altitude with a laser pointer is akin to shooting a target at a distance of 4 miles with a pistol... one handed and without bothering to use the sight.

Except, it isn't and you're an idiot. A laser is not affected by ANYTHING a
bullet is affected by, except dust and atmospheric density. A target at a distance
of 4 miles (assuming on the ground) is invisible due to the curvature of the earth.
Doesn't mean you can't hit it.. but you can't see it. So, since you can see the plane,
you fail on that count. Ballistics have gravity to account for, while a laser is laser
straight and doesn't waver, so, fail on that point. Not sure what one-handed has to do
with anything... obvious fail and when you say without sighting, it's really obvious that
you've run out of steam and are just pulling a string of anal beads out your ass.

And last... but certainly not least... http://bayimg.com/dakHGaADl
Taken with an EXTREMELY unremarkable 10x lens, by hand, no tripod,
from my balcony as they flew past. And I can CLEARLY see VISOR.

-AI

*Disclaimer for the spooks. Hi spooks, it's me again... just wanted to
let you and echelon know, I have no interest in effin with you guys in
any way... esp since u got things to go boom n stuff. So, no suits plz.

Lol, you're joking right?

Try not to just skip over the fact that you're trying to track an object moving at 150MPH+ next time when explaining your simplistic straight-line theory...moving vs. stationary targets is all the difference in the world, as anyone who's ever been involved in combat can attest.

Combat, lol... you're comparing the absolute straight line
of a laser... something unaffected by almost every single
type of atmospheric condition except particulate matter
and atmospheric lensing... to a ballistic piece of metal
that a little gust can blow off course and is continuously
subject to gravity.

Also, you are comparing "one particle" (a bullet) to millions
of particles, (photons).

Lastly, scuse me while I have to laugh again, LOL... combat.

Open invitation to anyone that wants to "test combat"
ability of lasers vs lead. Email me, my nickname @ gmail
put gunrange (one word) in the title.

We'll go shoot on some open desert land. And I'll use my
non-ballistic laser to stack some ballistic lead on top of each
other way downrange.

http://bayimg.com/kaKcdAadl
That thing is FUN to shoot. Yup, it's an AKM, that I kit converted
to a bullpup, ala Steyr Aug. Added Chech optics and (one of the
better) Chinese green dot lasers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steyr_AUG

FWIW... to all those people that are saying... "You can't
lock on a moving target... too fast, blahzay blah"...

Tell that to our dead soldiers.

A green dot attached to a sniper rifle with a honkin ass scope
at a klick, I can guarantee one could solidly paint someone's face.

We have F-18's fly by all the time... 3-4x as fast as landing speed.
I've videoed them going past... easily keeping the jet in frame.
With a laser scope attached... IT WOULD BE JUST AS EASY
SINCE IT'S L/o/S.

Furthermore, let's say "we were in combat". At a klick,
with a good, heavy assault rifle, maybe some tracers to help...
I'm 98% certain, a plane traveling at only 150mph would
be a sitting duck.

Mostly helo's get the lead treatment due to flight envelope,
"in combat". But the fact that they go down... is evidence
that a jet in the same predicament would fair just as poorly.

Lastly... if you want to apply the law of cosines or Pythagoras,
the angular momentum and all that stuff, at a kilometer, the
apparent angle of movement is really tiny for a landing aircraft.

It's not like you are trying to point at a car going 150mph right
past you. It takes a good solid 20-30 seconds for a standard
heavy to pass overhead from first sound thru last sound envelope.

Roughly a 45 viewing angle. So, you're saying you can't track
a "slow" object that takes 20 seconds to cross your visual path?

For comparison, imagine being at a NASCAR race, which we
also have here. Trackside, the cars are blasting past you. On
the opposite side of the track, you could outstretch your arm
and follow any car, easily. Now they are just shy of 150mph
on our short track, however, they are MUCH closer.

My only concerns with writing any of this... I really don't want
anyone to test this stuff. Just please, accept that it's all true.
It is VERY easy to hit a plane with a laser. No need to try, that
is what the article was about, it obviously succeeds enough that
it is a problem.

Also, for Echelon and any spooks reading... I'm a pacifist and
Buddhist and would never consider harming anyone or anything.
In fact, I just relocated some black widows that were 'getting too
large to share my tiny property'. Worried my darn terriers are
going to get curious. Brrrr... spiders, ick. lol.

Nor do I have the childlike instinct to test what I know to be true.
So, please... no suits at the door!

-AI

The Internet always delivers.

I am just saying they look quite similar..

http://bayimg.com/dABEnaAde

If they could simulate breaking the transwarp barrier, then they should be able to simulate the replicator -

Man, I never thought I'd be able to use this image in a thread. It's just way too farking specific. But here you go. :3

Hand + egg = Handegg
Dive + grass = Divegrass

Wow seriously Microsoft fails again. As always lots of flashy advertisement and the product doesn't work.

Here is the rendering of worldwidetelescope.org I was just presented with http://bayimg.com/gakccaAcH

It's in the TSA's best interest to let the occasional crazy nigger through.

Israel [...] has very few allies in that region of the world

One wonders why. Until one remembers.

How many beers is this worth? I have not seen Windows 7 and don't think I will. Some people like "more beer". I prefer "less beer".

You might be OK with the concept and execution of Google Street View. However, a lot of people most certainly are not happy. We don't want our houses plastered up on an easily indexed, location linked, photography database.

And it's going to happen anyway, with or without Google. I've posted hundreds of geolocated photos in Earthscape and Picasa. More will come. In 5 or 10 years, perhaps every photographable thing on earth will have at least one geolocated, maps-searchable photo pointing at it.

You're worried about photos of your house. Have you bothered to check Picasa, Flickr, Imageshack, Photobucket, Bayimg? TerraServer? Real estate comparison sites? What of the hundreds of other image and geographic services I have not named?

If not, can you claim with a straight face that this issue is important enough to warrant government involvement in private photography? It is unclear to me that there should be an a priori restraint on publication simply because "a lot of people are not happy". If that's a problem, toddle on down your Congressman's office and see if you can get enough people interested to pass a law. If you don't care enough to bother, fine, but don't tell me it's important to you.

I'm a veteran of these wars. I fought Lotus Marketplace, I wrote letters to my legislators and to Lotus and to Mitch Kapor. That success was utterly irrelevant. What I have learned is that you need to pick your battles, and pick them only when there is real harm being done. Otherwise you risk creating an unwieldly, overbearing enforcement environment that hurts everybody.

Hahahaha, I just checked your link to nationmaster! Perfect. Here, let me make a screenshot, so you can see what I'm laughing about.

http://bayimg.com/image/iacggaacp.jpg

(no, it's not goatse, it really is a screenshot of the page in question)

"Factoid #13". Really strengthens your point, guy.

On the topic of strange Slashdot behaviour. Can anyone explain why Slashdot comments often look like this? This is with Firefox 3.0.11 in Ubuntu.

Could be worse, I guess. (Firefox 3.0.11, been like that for months)

As for developer tools - the visual studio tools doesn't help much, sometimes you need to analyze the end result in the web browser, and Firefox with Firebug will help a lot. And the source view in Firefox is a lot better since it's color-coded.

The developer tools are integrated right into the browser, you don't need Visual Studio. Screenshot http://bayimg.com/OabePaaCD

Am I the only one getting this :)

http://bayimg.com/FAaoiAAcC

http://bayimg.com/image/bapjkaabc.jpg

RMS is not the same as Peak voltage. RMS is a notational convenience used to talk about the equivalent power dissipation in Ohmic devices compared to DC.

See the original poster's diagram at http://bayimg.com/image/eanfjaabn.jpg for what happens from rectifying AC.

AC is a fascinating (albeit somewhat confusing) subject. For many circuits, you can use phasor analysis to make reactive and resistive loads easier to work with, but solid state devices have I-V characteristics that make the whole thing more complicated...

I would suggest finding an old tube oscilloscope (one that does X-Y) at a hamfest, getting a low-voltage regulated AC/DC bench supply and a signal generator off of eBay, and playing with a handful of various PN junctions (Si diodes, Ge diodes, LEDs) and non-polarized electrolytic caps (like the ones used in audio applications) and various inductors (and don't forget some current-limiting resistors for those semiconductors)!

AC is tricky, but it becomes more intuitive when you start experimenting with it a lot :)

http://bayimg.com/image/ianfdaabn.jpg Hey look, exactly what I said! This is approaching my tolerance of trolls so I'm done. But feel free to post some bs critique/excuse for me to ignore.

170VDC on the capacitor, it'll give you about 120VDC!

FALSE.

what does that have to do with saying x VAC is somehow y VDC?

I have no idea what you're talking about. I said a rectifier turns 120VAC into 170VDC. Which is true.

How can you not see the big ass drop are you blind?!

The Thai government is similar to the British government.

The prime minister Taksin, flees the country and is currently hiding in England while his brother in-law is the current prime minister which corrupt part of that at all is similar to the British government. (Please spare your lame gag about the British government being corrupt, it's not the same at all)

The scum Thai government is the worse of the worse.

Just for those who aren't keeping count we're currently on our third prime minister from the same party, the other two were kicked out for corruption and I doubt this brother in-law of the criminal is going to be around much longer either. The brother in-laws sister is also hiding in England on criminal charges of not paying millions of USD in tax to the government for share sales.

The royal family is awesome, you can say what you want about them, but you're all ignorant freedom loving American idiots.

You all have had it all too good, in the US you have your two party government which you complain about all the time. In Thailand it's a one party government with vote buying.

If you protest the government in America you don't get your leg blown off by the police. That's the kind of stuff that's happening in Thailand right now. Don't believe me? Look at the images.

Also no one seems to have pointed out that most of Thailand is poor. Most Thai people don't even own a Microwave, forget a computer and internet.

Even then it doesn't matter because this isn't censorship, this is self censorship. If you complain about this then you should also be complaining about moderators on slashdot modding down shit eating, frosty piss, etc. posts.

Ironically this post will be modded down (well.. maybe not now I mentioned it) because it's not popular with the slashdot groupthink of censorship is bad, however it best represents the Thai people.

They don't want to read your ignorant view on their king just as you don't want to read "frosty piss" and "BSD is dead netcraft confirms it", "Obama Osama is a terrorist".

Maybe because the racist ccp charges Europeans more money (excluding tax) then the US?

Then they pretend it would be impossible for them to charge a similar price, excluding the fact that many MMOs do account for the currency difference.

"My life is a lie!" - you at 26.

"My life is a cake!" - you, confused, at 26.

"Holy fucking shit i'm a cake" - this post, Score: 5, Funny

who is this total babe?

A regretted and badly edited tatoo seen on bayimg's zune tag.

A regretted and badly edited tatoo seen on bayimg's zune tag.

Didn't think of that. Of course in general the above still applies to colour images that are R/B.

My photoshop skills aren't that great so the two sides ended up not having the same luminosity for some reason, whatever it works.

You'll notice the red channel (right for the left eye) looks quite full of artifacts when compared to the cyan (left for the right eye) image.

http://bayimg.com/HAJjPAABp

Your job is mostly what you wish it to be. That's a good thing because it can also be like you fear.

Your job is mostly what you wish it to be. That's a good thing because it can also be like you fear.

There are many signs that M$ is in trouble and that Vista is a failure. This is going to be a list of those signs. This is what Vista looks like to me. It is such a flop it can take M$ down, which would put an end to their attacks on free software, free software advocates and reasonable standards. Vista's failure is the predicted, practical result of a business model that tries to keep customers helpless and divided.

The six year development was troubled and expensive. There were signs that nothing important had changed. Promissed features evaporated and those that came through were downright creepy.

• January 1, 2004 - Jim Allichin sees the future and does not like it.
• July 9, 2004 - Vista troubles go public, rebuild is promissed but never delivered as is clear from legacy bugs.
• March 26, 2006 - M$ Employees Revolt over delays.
• A buggy launch was insured and hardware doomed because XP driver compatibility was intentionally broken just before RTM.
• January 30, 2007 - Vista is officially released. Jim Allchin retires.

Then came real use and real problems for users: security problems, devices not working, features dropped, competitors run off and high costs.

• An objective study of the Vista UI shows the changes have made things worse, not better for users who make it past install, broken software and hardware.
• Basic operations are broken. File copy, for example, takes forever and may fail because it can consume all of your memory. Memory used this way is not released until reboot. IPv6 does not work.
• M$ considers network degradation for media protection normal, so network performance is about 10% of what you get from XP or anything else.
• Insane anti-piracy harms the innocent. An anti-piracy server accidently disabled the nicer parts and required all XP and Vista users to "reauthenticate". Just a few weeks later, M$ made things even worse with a new BSoD for "pirates". They backpedaled a little and now Vista is nagware instead of deadware. The system remains a booby trap. So much as changing a video card will disable your system without warning. People with cracked coppies laugh but M$ can pull the plug for anyone else anytime for any reason.
• Business as usual has not improved security. New problems have been added to the seemingly endless supply of legacy bugs. There are reports of double extensio

There are many signs that M$ is in trouble and that Vista is a failure. This is going to be a list of those signs. This is what Vista looks like to me. It is such a flop it can take M$ down, which would put an end to their attacks on free software, free software advocates and reasonable standards. Vista's failure is the predicted, practical result of a business model that tries to keep customers helpless and divided.

The six year development was troubled and expensive. There were signs that nothing important had changed. Promissed features evaporated and those that came through were downright creepy.

• January 1, 2004 - Jim Allichin sees the future and does not like it.
• July 9, 2004 - Vista troubles go public, rebuild is promissed but never delivered as is clear from legacy bugs.
• March 26, 2006 - M$ Employees Revolt over delays.
• A buggy launch was insured and hardware doomed because XP driver compatibility was intentionally broken just before RTM.
• January 30, 2007 - Vista is officially released. Jim Allchin retires.

Then came real use and real problems for users: security problems, devices not working, features dropped, competitors run off and high costs.

• An objective study of the Vista UI shows the changes have made things worse, not better for users who make it past install, broken software and hardware.
• Basic operations are broken. File copy, for example, takes forever and may fail because it can consume all of your memory. Memory used this way is not released until reboot. IPv6 does not work.
• M$ considers network degradation for media protection normal, so network performance is about 10% of what you get from XP or anything else.
• Insane anti-piracy harms the innocent. An anti-piracy server accidently disabled the nicer parts and required all XP and Vista users to "reauthenticate". Just a few weeks later, M$ made things even worse with a new BSoD for "pirates". They backpedaled a little and now Vista is nagware instead of deadware. The system remains a booby trap. So much as changing a video card will disable your system without warning. People with cracked coppies laugh but M$ can pull the plug for anyone else anytime for any reason.
• Business as usual has not improved security. New problems have been added to the seemingly endless supply of legacy bugs. There are reports of double extensio

There are a lot of naysayers about the video quality of a blueray compressed to 4gb in h264 format by "amateurs" as one comment called them..

Here is a screenshot from Spiderman 2 Blueray rip (You have to click the image to see full resolution), compressed to 4.37 gb (normal dvd size). As you see, the quality is quite good. And this is, as said, 4gb for the whole movie. Dual layer DVD can store 8 gb.

I was a video nerd earlier, and I have developed a good eye for compression artifacts, but I really really rarely see them on HD rips (when done well). The colors are sharp, no blocks even with lots of movement, the only thing I sometimes notice is that smooth color transitions sometimes are broken up (think the sky going from dark blue to black for example). To be honest, I see more comression artifacts on normal DVD's than I do on HD rips.

And now, when you have something to compare, please continue the discussion :)

http://image.bayimg.com/najgoaabi.jpg

I like this one better. The old one is not so shocking anymore.

http://bayimg.com/JAjmFAabe

Safe for work.

We can run round the market share game for the next couple of years, but you would missed the news. Vista, if you believe optimistic web stats, clocks in at 8%. There are plenty of sites that will also show you 8% or better GNU/Linux. Slight heaves in the landscape sometimes demand a broader perspective to understand. Because M$ is all marketing and perception, the slightest change can be their downfall. The hype wave about "strong Vista demand" is all about you missing Vista's market failure. M$ will follow, because their development and business model is wrong.

What's important is that M$ has lost it's ability to push, and the M$ game is over. Vista was pushed like the company's life depended on it. They advertised like crazy, got bogus reviews written up, demanded every vendor sell nothing but Vista it blew up in their faces. Everywhere you go, you hear the same thing about Vista performance. Sales fell through the floor, equipment makers and vendors lost real money and pushed back. Fanboy purchases and channel stuffing are over. If M$ could not sell to the back to school crowd, they can't sell to anyone so sales are going to go nowhere but down. Vista is not the future and M$ might go down with it. M$ can't threaten to whack anyone when they are not making money for anyone but themselves. This was all so easy to predict, now here we are.

Vendors are looking for something to fill the massive gap left by Vista, and free software fits perfectly. It's got eye candy, stability, security and it's free and have competitive service. What more can vendors ask for?

I've got one final image for you. I GNU you would have Vista. See you later M$.

We can run round the market share game for the next couple of years, but you would missed the news. Vista, if you believe optimistic web stats, clocks in at 8%. There are plenty of sites that will also show you 8% or better GNU/Linux. Slight heaves in the landscape sometimes demand a broader perspective to understand. Because M$ is all marketing and perception, the slightest change can be their downfall. The hype wave about "strong Vista demand" is all about you missing Vista's market failure. M$ will follow, because their development and business model is wrong.

What's important is that M$ has lost it's ability to push, and the M$ game is over. Vista was pushed like the company's life depended on it. They advertised like crazy, got bogus reviews written up, demanded every vendor sell nothing but Vista it blew up in their faces. Everywhere you go, you hear the same thing about Vista performance. Sales fell through the floor, equipment makers and vendors lost real money and pushed back. Fanboy purchases and channel stuffing are over. If M$ could not sell to the back to school crowd, they can't sell to anyone so sales are going to go nowhere but down. Vista is not the future and M$ might go down with it. M$ can't threaten to whack anyone when they are not making money for anyone but themselves. This was all so easy to predict, now here we are.

Vendors are looking for something to fill the massive gap left by Vista, and free software fits perfectly. It's got eye candy, stability, security and it's free and have competitive service. What more can vendors ask for?

I've got one final image for you. I GNU you would have Vista. See you later M$.

We can run round the market share game for the next couple of years, but you would missed the news. Vista, if you believe optimistic web stats, clocks in at 8%. There are plenty of sites that will also show you 8% or better GNU/Linux. Slight heaves in the landscape sometimes demand a broader perspective to understand. Because M$ is all marketing and perception, the slightest change can be their downfall. The hype wave about "strong Vista demand" is all about you missing Vista's market failure. M$ will follow, because their development and business model is wrong.

What's important is that M$ has lost it's ability to push, and the M$ game is over. Vista was pushed like the company's life depended on it. They advertised like crazy, got bogus reviews written up, demanded every vendor sell nothing but Vista it blew up in their faces. Everywhere you go, you hear the same thing about Vista performance. Sales fell through the floor, equipment makers and vendors lost real money and pushed back. Fanboy purchases and channel stuffing are over. If M$ could not sell to the back to school crowd, they can't sell to anyone so sales are going to go nowhere but down. Vista is not the future and M$ might go down with it. M$ can't threaten to whack anyone when they are not making money for anyone but themselves. This was all so easy to predict, now here we are.

Vendors are looking for something to fill the massive gap left by Vista, and free software fits perfectly. It's got eye candy, stability, security and it's free and have competitive service. What more can vendors ask for?

I've got one final image for you. I GNU you would have Vista. See you later M$.

We can run round the market share game for the next couple of years, but you would missed the news. Vista, if you believe optimistic web stats, clocks in at 8%. There are plenty of sites that will also show you 8% or better GNU/Linux. Slight heaves in the landscape sometimes demand a broader perspective to understand. Because M$ is all marketing and perception, the slightest change can be their downfall. The hype wave about "strong Vista demand" is all about you missing Vista's market failure. M$ will follow, because their development and business model is wrong.

What's important is that M$ has lost it's ability to push, and the M$ game is over. Vista was pushed like the company's life depended on it. They advertised like crazy, got bogus reviews written up, demanded every vendor sell nothing but Vista it blew up in their faces. Everywhere you go, you hear the same thing about Vista performance. Sales fell through the floor, equipment makers and vendors lost real money and pushed back. Fanboy purchases and channel stuffing are over. If M$ could not sell to the back to school crowd, they can't sell to anyone so sales are going to go nowhere but down. Vista is not the future and M$ might go down with it. M$ can't threaten to whack anyone when they are not making money for anyone but themselves. This was all so easy to predict, now here we are.

Vendors are looking for something to fill the massive gap left by Vista, and free software fits perfectly. It's got eye candy, stability, security and it's free and have competitive service. What more can vendors ask for?

I've got one final image for you. I GNU you would have Vista. See you later M$.