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So in a way, philosophy is what religion aims to be in its purest & truest form.

I disagree. Philosophy may provide you with the intellectual structure, but for most people religion is about more than that: they want a community of spiritual practice, or at least spiritual practices. The Philosopher's Song is undeniably fun, but it's very far from a hymn. And maybe your philosophy classes were more lively than mine, but I just don't see most philosophy books giving how-to info on meditative techniques, or ecstatic dance, or peyote rituals.

I know plenty of people who are functional atheists (some of them actual; some of them deists; some of them "are, like, totally into the universe, man") that even though they aren't religious still seek out some of the things we commonly associate with religion. I think that's because they fill real human needs for some people in a way that philosophy never will.

For more info on this, Huston Smith is a great author to check out. I'd recommend The World's Religions and Cleansing the Doors of Perception.

This WPI student made a spreadsheet that lets you tweak params to see how good of a solar vehicle you can design. It'll tell you weight, cost, etc. solar vehicle spreadsheet

What this means is that the ramifications will never be known. We cannot measure the weather precisely enough to make meaningful long term predictions nor can we control our actions precisely enough such that their effects can be known.

See this or this for more information on chaos.

Myself and others have requested Vorbis support on the Turtlebeach fourm site, and the response has been that support is presently impractical because they do not have an ARM optimized decoder.

I am not familiar enough with the specific types of optimization they may be refering to but since their ARM implementation lacks a FPU, I'd assume that this fixed point implementation is at least a step in the right direction.

Information my presumptions are based on was found here: Prefect's Pages

Sorry, I tried a song (at the mirror!) but the result comes nowhere near The Mighty Stephen Hawking.

here's the official list of mirrors

http://dictionaraoke.mirrors.gweep.net/

If the main processor is a Motorola, perhaps the DSP is Motorola also. If the DSP is a 56K derivative, well, that would be most excellent, as this is somewhat of an industry standard in the audio industry (Motorola 56K-compatible processors are used by Eventide, Digidesign, TC Electronics, the XBOX, etc.).

http://www.gweep.net/~shifty/ is the homepage of a project to hook a Palm Pilot up to an ADI DSP dev kit for music DSP. Maybe the new Sony would allow you to do the same thing without the external DSP.

in fact, does less sometimes (no midi support).

FWIW The Live does MIDI under Linux. If you use ALSA it does SoundFonts(which is what you most likely mean).
I'll be pedantic and say MIDI has absolutely nothing to do with sound. It's a way to capture and replay performance data and communicate between devices from different manufacturers "."

MIDI Spec

This page has a good summary list of news snippets from various sources, and it's updated fairly regularly:

http://www.gweep.net/~leaf/wtc.txt

Good summary/snippets on this page (updated irregularly):

http://www.gweep.net/~leaf/wtc.txt

The shops work on contract, with the product changing every few months. Overall, the clothing shops stick with clothing, and the electronics assemblers sticking w/ their area, but when orders fall off, or some semblance of human-rights monitoring gets started up, the shop will fold, and the owner will look for greener pastures. A new industry will open up under the old roof pretty quickly.

Worse still, I read recently about someone having developed a manufacturing facility that fits in a cargo container. Now the whole factory can pick up and head for where the wages are cheapest.

At current component price levels, it should be easy to pick out the ones that didn't come from sweatshops. They are the ones that'll cost almost an order of magnitude more than other similar components. Like it or not, large parts of our western affluence is built on their backs. It is only getting more difficult to find products that don't include that kind of exploitation in their production channel.

I'm willing to pay for good information.

The term "gweep" has staged a recovery around WPI in the 90's (as opposed to the original set of the 70's). For more information, go here. Though I don't believe my name is listed there, I am still an "official" WPI gweep. While we feel we "own" the name (more of an academic birthright than anything else), anyone who is truly a hacker should feel free to call themselves a gweep.

Fortunately, gweeps and gweeping have never taken on the meanings of crackers and cracking. And an even better feature: it's a syllable shorter than "hacker".

Well, I JUST bought a Portege 3015CT. It's a sweet machine, but I intend to send a note to Toshiba letting them know that I don't appreciate this.

I even wrote a web page to support the P3010/3015 under Debian.

Oh, well, no more Toshibas for me!

Stephen