You also need an infinite number of bits per sample, since the analog waveform is not going to match up exactly to the quantization levels at every sample interval.
For example, if I'm using integers to represent the analog waveform that I've detected as 13.3342 volts for a particular sample, the closest representation I can get is 13 for that sample. There's a lot of rounding error when sampling, resulting in quantization noise.
You can sometimes remove a lot of that noise with filtering, but it's rarely going to be a perfect representation. Think about the case where the analog value is some irrational number. You're going to lose information converting it to digital with a finite number of bits.
I tend to agree. I have a PS3 and a Wii, and I don't think there's anything particularly innovative about the Wii. The new controllers are fun for the sports games, but they're not perfect. Playing these games remind me of playing the old nintendo track and field game with the power pad, or Duck Hunt.
That said, the wii is a lot of fun, and much more intuitive for people who don't play video games regularly. My wife and I can have people over and teach them Wii bowling in two minutes and play it for hours. You can't do that with most systems.
If I'm going to play a shooter with a buddy though, I definitely want the incredible hardware on the PS3, and a big screen. There's no comparison when you have hi def.
You need to check your math. I'd say that every game since pong has the chance to make people ask, "What was the first video game," so the dollars generated are not actually zero, but approach zero.
So by your metric, every game since pong approaches infinitely fun, depending on how little people are reminded to play pong.
Stallman, I have never prayed to you before, I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad, why we fought or how we died. No, all that matters, is that two stood against many. That's what's important. Valour pleases you, Stallman, so grant me one request: grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to hell with you!
It's perfectly possible to store non-powers of 2 using byte-addressable hardware, you just have to mask out the bits you don't want and shift the rest when recovering the data. It's a small tradeoff in extra computation for a significant savings in storage space if you're storing a lot of data.
Consider that with 2560 bits, you can store 64 40-bit integers, or 40 64-bit integers. You can recover all of the 40 bit numbers knowing their bit offset, even if you can address it directly. Many of those 40-bit ints will span two 64-bit numbers, but all you have to do is mask the bits you don't want, shift the most significant bits to the left and the least significant bits to the right, OR them, and you have your result as a 64 bit number.
There's one thing that the record companies provide that you can't typically get on your own, and that's publicity.
Radiohead is only able to cause this much of a stir and make this much money because everyone and his brother heard "Creep" on the radio umpteen times in the late 90's. Otherwise nobody would know who the hell Radiohead is and their name-your-price album would sell no better than the thousands of other bands charging $5 for a CD that hardly anybody has ever heard of.
And I don't think that's a bad thing. I think I'd like nothing more than the complete breakdown of the music industry so that you'd actually have to go out to bars to hear people play. I think with national exposure given to a select few by the media companies, great local and regional bands have a much tougher time finding an audience.
If it no longer paid to spend the millions promoting those few bands, they'd have to compete with the people who didn't win the record contract lottery, and we'd all be better off.
You are entering a dimension not of sight, or sound, but of mind. Who knows what the fuck the base of the numbers we're talking about is? Look! There's a signpost up ahead!
"I don't know of many a band today that has a lead guitarist that really drives the band with riffs and soulful solos like the bands of past. I miss that."
Definitely check out Jet. I think you'd like them.
And the Black Crowes, although not brand new, sound like what you describe.
Nah, it's 60's generation nostalgia that fuels the Beatles and Led Zep hysteria far more than lack of musicianship in today's music.
That and the effect of time -- a lot of Led Zep's music is just awful, but it doesn't get any play today, so you only hear the good stuff, and get the impression that they only made good music.
Try listening to "Houses of the Holy" straight through then compare it to Jet's "Get Born." Or try listening to "Goat's Head Soup" at all.
Not to mention the great bands of the 90's like Nirvana and Alice in Chains...there's no shortage of great rock music today if you're willing to look.
I'm not worried about my karma, I'm sure it's maxed out, or close to. And if it's not funny, mod something else up that is, don't throw a Troll mod on there when it's not.
It is kind of sad that funny doesn't get you points though. There's really not a whole lot of insight flying around on here anymore, but some of the posts are really damn funny. That should be encouraged.
Tongue in cheek, there, bud, this isn't going to make me lose sleep. If I needed acceptance from Slashdot, I'd probably wait and get loaded *after* coming here to post.
Hopefully I'll passing out soon, but not before I hit submit.
Troll? Oh come on now, Nigerian moderators! Have a sense of humor.
You know, I try to only post funny stuff now, and every negative mod I get brings the ol' karma down, since the funny mods, like goggles in acid, do nothing.
Once that karma hits zero, I'm taking my ball and leaving, and you all will be left with nothing but Monty Python quotes and Soviet Russia and Overlord jokes.
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Gotta disagree with this one. And you can never, ever, ever program a robot to act like a woman. There's a simple reason -- women do not operate according to any logical thought process, nor have they been given the gift of free will.
If you've been married more than five years, you've had this conversation, especially if you've had a child:
Wife: "Booohooohooohooo!" Husband: "What's wrong?" Wife: "Nothing. *sniff*" Husbad: "Really?" Wife: "*sniff* Yeah, I'm fine." Husband: "Then why are you crying?" Wife: "I don't know!"
There's just no way you can anticipate or train things like this. I think the closest you can get with a robot is to train it, then take a baseball bat to some of the circuitry.
But this is a good thing. You seriously don't want your robot to go out to a "party" with other robots and come home having spent $160 on five boutique candles because they came with a free gift in a pink bag.
Amen. Not to mention, the "trillion dollar surplus" was spent even before Bush got into office, since they extrapolated a few good years of tax revenue decades into the future and spent on that basis. It's akin to saying that everyone will be an Elvis impersonator if the current rate of increase in Elvis impersonators continues.
There was never an overall surplus, the yearly surplus should have gone to paying off the national debt.
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You also need an infinite number of bits per sample, since the analog waveform is not going to match up exactly to the quantization levels at every sample interval.
For example, if I'm using integers to represent the analog waveform that I've detected as 13.3342 volts for a particular sample, the closest representation I can get is 13 for that sample. There's a lot of rounding error when sampling, resulting in quantization noise.
You can sometimes remove a lot of that noise with filtering, but it's rarely going to be a perfect representation. Think about the case where the analog value is some irrational number. You're going to lose information converting it to digital with a finite number of bits.
"Even if your vinyl lasts forever each playing of it destroys part of the original recording."
If only this were true...I'd buy every Styx LP in existence and play them non-stop.
I tend to agree. I have a PS3 and a Wii, and I don't think there's anything particularly innovative about the Wii. The new controllers are fun for the sports games, but they're not perfect. Playing these games remind me of playing the old nintendo track and field game with the power pad, or Duck Hunt.
That said, the wii is a lot of fun, and much more intuitive for people who don't play video games regularly. My wife and I can have people over and teach them Wii bowling in two minutes and play it for hours. You can't do that with most systems.
If I'm going to play a shooter with a buddy though, I definitely want the incredible hardware on the PS3, and a big screen. There's no comparison when you have hi def.
Maybe he just can't walk. Let's have a little class, and not make fun of people for their disability or odd sexual proclivities.
You need to check your math. I'd say that every game since pong has the chance to make people ask, "What was the first video game," so the dollars generated are not actually zero, but approach zero.
So by your metric, every game since pong approaches infinitely fun, depending on how little people are reminded to play pong.
Stallman, I have never prayed to you before, I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad, why we fought or how we died. No, all that matters, is that two stood against many. That's what's important. Valour pleases you, Stallman, so grant me one request: grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to hell with you!
It's perfectly possible to store non-powers of 2 using byte-addressable hardware, you just have to mask out the bits you don't want and shift the rest when recovering the data. It's a small tradeoff in extra computation for a significant savings in storage space if you're storing a lot of data.
Consider that with 2560 bits, you can store 64 40-bit integers, or 40 64-bit integers. You can recover all of the 40 bit numbers knowing their bit offset, even if you can address it directly. Many of those 40-bit ints will span two 64-bit numbers, but all you have to do is mask the bits you don't want, shift the most significant bits to the left and the least significant bits to the right, OR them, and you have your result as a 64 bit number.
There's one thing that the record companies provide that you can't typically get on your own, and that's publicity.
Radiohead is only able to cause this much of a stir and make this much money because everyone and his brother heard "Creep" on the radio umpteen times in the late 90's. Otherwise nobody would know who the hell Radiohead is and their name-your-price album would sell no better than the thousands of other bands charging $5 for a CD that hardly anybody has ever heard of.
And I don't think that's a bad thing. I think I'd like nothing more than the complete breakdown of the music industry so that you'd actually have to go out to bars to hear people play. I think with national exposure given to a select few by the media companies, great local and regional bands have a much tougher time finding an audience.
If it no longer paid to spend the millions promoting those few bands, they'd have to compete with the people who didn't win the record contract lottery, and we'd all be better off.
You mean without a car? first.
Ummm, 2^8 is 256...
You are entering a dimension not of sight, or sound, but of mind.
Who knows what the fuck the base of the numbers we're talking about is?
Look! There's a signpost up ahead!
Welcome to, the Slashdot zone...
That's mostly just on subs, where 100 men go down, and 50 couples come up.
You can downshift going downhill to slow you down without using the brakes.
Most cars with an automatic transmission even have a special button to disable the overdrive gear specifically for this purpose.
"I don't know of many a band today that has a lead guitarist that really drives the band with riffs and soulful solos like the bands of past. I miss that."
Definitely check out Jet. I think you'd like them.
And the Black Crowes, although not brand new, sound like what you describe.
Unplug the internet? Who are you, UUNET?
Nah, it's 60's generation nostalgia that fuels the Beatles and Led Zep hysteria far more than lack of musicianship in today's music.
That and the effect of time -- a lot of Led Zep's music is just awful, but it doesn't get any play today, so you only hear the good stuff, and get the impression that they only made good music.
Try listening to "Houses of the Holy" straight through then compare it to Jet's "Get Born." Or try listening to "Goat's Head Soup" at all.
Not to mention the great bands of the 90's like Nirvana and Alice in Chains...there's no shortage of great rock music today if you're willing to look.
I'm not worried about my karma, I'm sure it's maxed out, or close to. And if it's not funny, mod something else up that is, don't throw a Troll mod on there when it's not.
It is kind of sad that funny doesn't get you points though. There's really not a whole lot of insight flying around on here anymore, but some of the posts are really damn funny. That should be encouraged.
But I digress. Mod this offtopic and overrated.
I was thinking that his puppies might be followed by a cartoon human that constantly asks them annoying questions:
It looks like you want a bacon treat. Would you like to:
1) Sit?
2) Roll over?
3) Not have a treat?
4) Help
Tongue in cheek, there, bud, this isn't going to make me lose sleep. If I needed acceptance from Slashdot, I'd probably wait and get loaded *after* coming here to post.
Hopefully I'll passing out soon, but not before I hit submit.
How do you know he doesn't torture puppies?
Seems like something he might do.
Dunno. Mexicans?
Troll? Oh come on now, Nigerian moderators! Have a sense of humor.
You know, I try to only post funny stuff now, and every negative mod I get brings the ol' karma down, since the funny mods, like goggles in acid, do nothing.
Once that karma hits zero, I'm taking my ball and leaving, and you all will be left with nothing but Monty Python quotes and Soviet Russia and Overlord jokes.
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2) we believe for you want to reside in Nigeria indefinitely, causing a strain on social services and a general nuisance for immigration. If this is not your meaningful wish, offer to us a letter in explanation.
3) You aren't really want to come to Nigeria, no? Tell us who you, in reality, are in person.
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* Turing Sex Robot *
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> Greetings, Professor Falcon. Would you like to play a game?
> Let's play "have sex" again.
> Wouldn't you like to play a nice game of chess?
> No. Let's play "have sex."
> Very well. Male or Female?
> Male.
> I'm tired, can't we just go to sleep?
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Gotta disagree with this one. And you can never, ever, ever program a robot to act like a woman. There's a simple reason -- women do not operate according to any logical thought process, nor have they been given the gift of free will.
If you've been married more than five years, you've had this conversation, especially if you've had a child:
Wife: "Booohooohooohooo!"
Husband: "What's wrong?"
Wife: "Nothing. *sniff*"
Husbad: "Really?"
Wife: "*sniff* Yeah, I'm fine."
Husband: "Then why are you crying?"
Wife: "I don't know!"
There's just no way you can anticipate or train things like this. I think the closest you can get with a robot is to train it, then take a baseball bat to some of the circuitry.
But this is a good thing. You seriously don't want your robot to go out to a "party" with other robots and come home having spent $160 on five boutique candles because they came with a free gift in a pink bag.
Amen. Not to mention, the "trillion dollar surplus" was spent even before Bush got into office, since they extrapolated a few good years of tax revenue decades into the future and spent on that basis. It's akin to saying that everyone will be an Elvis impersonator if the current rate of increase in Elvis impersonators continues.
There was never an overall surplus, the yearly surplus should have gone to paying off the national debt.