i don't think having six soundcards will solve anything. if they're reproducing the same signal, then it's an incredible redundancy of hardware. if they're meant to power speakers directly, you'll find yourself rather short of amplifier power - ever notive how inconsequential unamplified computer speakers are?
the number of amplifiers you need depends on your design. for example, if the sound were present in only one room at a time, you could use a single amplifier and a custom relay-activated switch box. if you want many speakers playing at once, you'll need more amplifier channels. there is some room for trickiness: you can jury-rig more speakers in serial on the same output, though this makes individual volume adjustments much more difficult; or you can use many-chanelled amps like those meant for cars or surround sound.
for extremely dynamic soundscaping, you'll want a real, whole amp channel per speaker, and a computerized control of where the signal goes. this could be achieved with a fancy sound board featuring several outputs; so, though relaying the same signal, their amplitudes could be continuously varied.
a couple other things to note: you may not need stereo in some of the environments (hallway, bathroom), thus saving channels; subwoofers can be shared between spaces to a certain extent; and make sure you construct it modularly, so that components of the system can be easily replaced later. affix the wires to the holes in the wall so they don't fall in, too!
i don't know when this "planets" recording came out, but dave allen's 1996 album _the clutter of pop_ features just such a "1:00 of silence". maybe just crediting it to john cage would have done the trick.:)
seems to me that anyone who is comfortable enough setting up a linux box to work well is able to only install appropriate software. my house is masqueraded behind a 486 gateway which runs in 90M of hard disk space. kind of a pain during setup, but efficient usage of vintage hardware is always a pleasure.
precisely by defining the network as high-security and "unhackable", it will be a much more attractive target. the private sector will benefit mightily from reduced attacks, as they are concentrated on delicious government systems.
as an undergraduate at johns hopkins university, i earned a BS in computer science. i was very unsatisfied with the idea of having just an engineering degree, so i took iot upon myself to double-major in latin american studies. this didn't require staying any extra time, just better planning. i also took advantage of the credit i could earn at another institution, and i lived and studied in santiago, chile, for a year. i ended up with a pleasingly cultural college experience, profound in both science and the humanities, all in four years.
having studied several different areas in depth, i achieve not feeling pigeonholed. i actually have more cultural skills than many of the social-science majors i know. my point is that geeks who are apprehensive about developing technical skills to the detriment of the rest should remember to develop their skills in other areas as well; most universities offer double-major programs, for example.
isn't 5150 a british legal document or status pertaining to incapacitation or madness? ergo, van halen's album, as well as a black sabbath instrumental by the name of E5150.
little odd that IBM chose these digits for its PC, eh?
Funny as it may sound, this is where I'm from. I'm not interested in chasing jobs around the country; I am very happy in in my home zone, with my family nearby and so on. There have to be resources for people who actually intend to be present in the community and stay here.
although rents have been declining a bit here, in san francisco the average price for a 2 bedroom place is around $2400 a month. we pay $1800 and have two bathrooms, so it's a sweet deal.
You've hit it. I am a highly skilled and technical generalist who has good professional and personal experience (evidence). I also speak Spanish. However, since I'm only a year out of the university, none of my skills are profound enough to apply for the myriad "Senior" or "Lead" job postings, which constitute most of what I'm seeing. I do respond to all job listings I think I could do (and be considered for), but writing 10 or 20 emails a day, in general I get no replies. The only recruiters who have contacted me found my resume on their own. So in the last three months I've been unemployed, I have only interviewed at two companies, and believe me, I would have taken the jobs had they been offered.
I don't live gratuitously in Silicon Valley. I live in the city of San Francisco, which is in my native region, and wonderful, culturally. I live in an inexpensive 2 bedroom apartment with a friend, and my share of the rent is $1250. So although I had saved up $5000 over the less than half a year of employment I've had since I graduated from college, it is all long gone.
I get the impression that were I a couple of years older (I am 22), I would not be having this trouble finding work. Although _I_ can think of plenty of types of technical jobs I could and would love to do as a generalist (dept. liason, field engineer, alpha geek, internationalization engineer, etc.), apparently employers do not agree.
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this sort of peer-to-peer microcaching is just the sort of thing zodiac networks (a mountain view-based outfit founded by ex-netscapers mike homer + wade hennessey) is trying to accomplish. i'm pretty interested in the details and statistics of such an approach, and more so now that there is an open-source competitor.
as a side note, i just underwent seven interviews with them only to be turned away because my "lack of windows experience would be too much of a hindrance". heh.
what do any of you think about the differences between the two suites of software? zodiac's infrastructure and money will certainly encourage people to use its software, but going GPL arguably has the same effect.
it seems to me that apple and eazel are taking opposite approaches to the same problem - combining a nice GUI with a stable OS. they have retrofitted their system with new innards, and we are building on top of (the frequently accused of being sketchy) GNOME and the linux kernel.
each approach has its pitfalls. nautilus is rather unproven, and while it continues to improve, it is not the equal of the mac interface; however, its freeness should ensure that it doesn't stagnate, and while 1.0 will be, in my professional opinion, "OK", by the time we hit, say, 3.0, it should really kick ass.
the other consideration for me is integration. those screenshots of sugar-sweet friendly mac applications alongside green-on-black terminals are rather jarring, along with the directories with capitalized names (horrors!) that apple used. whether that is any more than an aesthetic boundary is not for me to analyze. nautilus, however, is pretty impressively consistent with its UNIX heritage - the UI team has done a good job making UNIX concepts jive with beginner-friendly UI ones.
may the best interface win! (but given my open-source leanings, we know which that'll be.)
PS - my use of "we" stems from the fact that i am an eazel employee. (form an orderly line, please... chizor will not sign body parts...)
nautilus has made great strides towards a cool and easy-to-use desktop, and eazel strikes me as a good example of an open-source company which could be recommended along with the others mentioned.
as an eazel employee (though not a nautilus developer), i felt the need to point out a thing or two.
file managers are indeed old technology. nautilus, while not yet perfect, is by far the best i have used. it includes networking enhancements, groovy document handling via component programs, and impressive customization. we try to make it useful for both beginners and experts, and do not intend to replace the command line.
the company includes top-flight graphic designers, UI experts, and GNOME hackers. my admittedly biased view is that the ratio is appropriate and the synthesis useful.
playing with nautilus is a much better evaluation than looking at screenshots.:-)
what does the availability of this machine say about the search for / pioneer's choice of a DVD audio system? i saw little detail with respect to that facet on the page, and as that's my primary interest in DVD, i'm quite curious.
does anyone know where to find information on prospective salaries with BS, MS, or doctorate? i have also heard that companies frequently pay for grad school for their employees; any verification or word on that?
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i don't think having six soundcards will solve anything. if they're reproducing the same signal, then it's an incredible redundancy of hardware. if they're meant to power speakers directly, you'll find yourself rather short of amplifier power - ever notive how inconsequential unamplified computer speakers are?
the number of amplifiers you need depends on your design. for example, if the sound were present in only one room at a time, you could use a single amplifier and a custom relay-activated switch box. if you want many speakers playing at once, you'll need more amplifier channels. there is some room for trickiness: you can jury-rig more speakers in serial on the same output, though this makes individual volume adjustments much more difficult; or you can use many-chanelled amps like those meant for cars or surround sound.
for extremely dynamic soundscaping, you'll want a real, whole amp channel per speaker, and a computerized control of where the signal goes. this could be achieved with a fancy sound board featuring several outputs; so, though relaying the same signal, their amplitudes could be continuously varied.
a couple other things to note: you may not need stereo in some of the environments (hallway, bathroom), thus saving channels; subwoofers can be shared between spaces to a certain extent; and make sure you construct it modularly, so that components of the system can be easily replaced later. affix the wires to the holes in the wall so they don't fall in, too!
i don't know when this "planets" recording came out, but dave allen's 1996 album _the clutter of pop_ features just such a "1:00 of silence". maybe just crediting it to john cage would have done the trick. :)
at 3 billion base pairs in the human genome, two bits per base pair (AT/TA/CG/GC), that means that without compression it takes 750 megs to store.
anyway, the more interesting question for me pertains to information that is of general interest, not like "my password".
seems to me that anyone who is comfortable enough setting up a linux box to work well is able to only install appropriate software. my house is masqueraded behind a 486 gateway which runs in 90M of hard disk space. kind of a pain during setup, but efficient usage of vintage hardware is always a pleasure.
i am a quibbler, and i am astounded you claim to work so intimately with hierarchical systems, all without knowing how to spell the word.
precisely by defining the network as high-security and "unhackable", it will be a much more attractive target. the private sector will benefit mightily from reduced attacks, as they are concentrated on delicious government systems.
as an undergraduate at johns hopkins university, i earned a BS in computer science. i was very unsatisfied with the idea of having just an engineering degree, so i took iot upon myself to double-major in latin american studies. this didn't require staying any extra time, just better planning. i also took advantage of the credit i could earn at another institution, and i lived and studied in santiago, chile, for a year. i ended up with a pleasingly cultural college experience, profound in both science and the humanities, all in four years.
having studied several different areas in depth, i achieve not feeling pigeonholed. i actually have more cultural skills than many of the social-science majors i know. my point is that geeks who are apprehensive about developing technical skills to the detriment of the rest should remember to develop their skills in other areas as well; most universities offer double-major programs, for example.
aaron.
isn't 5150 a british legal document or status pertaining to incapacitation or madness? ergo, van halen's album, as well as a black sabbath instrumental by the name of E5150.
little odd that IBM chose these digits for its PC, eh?
Funny as it may sound, this is where I'm from. I'm not interested in chasing jobs around the country; I am very happy in in my home zone, with my family nearby and so on. There have to be resources for people who actually intend to be present in the community and stay here.
although rents have been declining a bit here, in san francisco the average price for a 2 bedroom place is around $2400 a month. we pay $1800 and have two bathrooms, so it's a sweet deal.
sure, but this is a catch-22. how can i get the experience you're touting if no-one will hire me?
I don't live gratuitously in Silicon Valley. I live in the city of San Francisco, which is in my native region, and wonderful, culturally. I live in an inexpensive 2 bedroom apartment with a friend, and my share of the rent is $1250. So although I had saved up $5000 over the less than half a year of employment I've had since I graduated from college, it is all long gone.
I get the impression that were I a couple of years older (I am 22), I would not be having this trouble finding work. Although _I_ can think of plenty of types of technical jobs I could and would love to do as a generalist (dept. liason, field engineer, alpha geek, internationalization engineer, etc.), apparently employers do not agree.
as a side note, i just underwent seven interviews with them only to be turned away because my "lack of windows experience would be too much of a hindrance". heh.
what do any of you think about the differences between the two suites of software? zodiac's infrastructure and money will certainly encourage people to use its software, but going GPL arguably has the same effect.
each approach has its pitfalls. nautilus is rather unproven, and while it continues to improve, it is not the equal of the mac interface; however, its freeness should ensure that it doesn't stagnate, and while 1.0 will be, in my professional opinion, "OK", by the time we hit, say, 3.0, it should really kick ass.
the other consideration for me is integration. those screenshots of sugar-sweet friendly mac applications alongside green-on-black terminals are rather jarring, along with the directories with capitalized names (horrors!) that apple used. whether that is any more than an aesthetic boundary is not for me to analyze. nautilus, however, is pretty impressively consistent with its UNIX heritage - the UI team has done a good job making UNIX concepts jive with beginner-friendly UI ones.
may the best interface win! (but given my open-source leanings, we know which that'll be.) PS - my use of "we" stems from the fact that i am an eazel employee. (form an orderly line, please... chizor will not sign body parts...)
nautilus has made great strides towards a cool and easy-to-use desktop, and eazel strikes me as a good example of an open-source company which could be recommended along with the others mentioned.
file managers are indeed old technology. nautilus, while not yet perfect, is by far the best i have used. it includes networking enhancements, groovy document handling via component programs, and impressive customization. we try to make it useful for both beginners and experts, and do not intend to replace the command line.
the company includes top-flight graphic designers, UI experts, and GNOME hackers. my admittedly biased view is that the ratio is appropriate and the synthesis useful.
playing with nautilus is a much better evaluation than looking at screenshots. :-)
aaron.
what does the availability of this machine say about the search for / pioneer's choice of a DVD audio system? i saw little detail with respect to that facet on the page, and as that's my primary interest in DVD, i'm quite curious.
heh, heh.
a) "vendetta" may be a great flick. b) we cannot find out. c) why was this posted??
any news on the long-awaited (or -supposed) graphical interface to apt? anything else in the works on the package-managing front?
i'm wrestling with the same question.
does anyone know where to find information on prospective salaries with BS, MS, or doctorate? i have also heard that companies frequently pay for grad school for their employees; any verification or word on that?
thanks.
aaron.