The TPM manages keys and encrypts a chain of checksums from the hardware to bios to the bootloader to the OS to the applications running on it. The Bios checksums the bootloader, which in turn checksums the OS which checksums the applications (this is a very coarse grained example).
You guys still dont get it. The whole idea behind trusted computing is to prevent such duplication. The TPM checksums the hardware and every piece of code from the boot-loader up to the application. The other end uses these checksums to verify that only valid pieces of code are running at each level. This makes it very hard to actually circumvent it by duplicating or modifying any code or running any modified hardware which could steal the keys used to encrypt these checksums.
The major problem with trusted computing is not the possibility of circumvention but attestation. For example each new OS patch will cause your OS checksum to be differ, and for remote attestation to work the entity validating your OS checksum should be aware of this new patch. How do we keep track of so many OS versions? or each new BIOS version? and so on and so forth. This means that Linux users with modified kernels will not be able to run their kernels if they are using an application which uses trusted computing. If you want to watch a movie, you have to watch it on a player which can be attested to. This prevents you from running it on a player which might record the movie while it is being streamed for example.
The other problem as you mentioned is that these fritz chips need to be really fast. Is trusted computing evil? In many ways yes. It has immense potential to be exploited and kill customer choice. But it may do some good too if used right (for example to ensure that you are not running malicious hardware or infected software unknown to you). Given that basic premise behind trusted computing is to come up with a foolproof DRM mechanism, I would place my bets on it being abused to run a virtual dictatorship.
That said, watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgFbqSYdNK4
You clearly seem to have misunderstood my post.
Nowehere in my post have I mentioned that there is any substitute for practice.
I clearly wrote:
"If not, it can take years to develop while learning a real instrument."
However I think its wrong denying the fact that some people inherently progress quicker despite similar practice methods.
Although I am nowhere near as experienced a musician/guitarist as you, however I myself have been playing for around 10 years, and I agree with Al di Meola's observations from personal experience. Despite regular and good practice techniques and methods it took me much more time to get a hang of things than some of my friends. And surprise! I come from a family with no history of musical talent on either side for generations.
but more importantly you cannot ever separate practice and study from excellence in any field regardless of any innate talent. No you cannot. And I never said that you can. All I meant to say was that if you are not born with an innate talent, you have to work that much harder. In either case there is no substitute for practice
Indians aren't Asians. Indians are "South Asians". Asians refer to Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, etc, ie. oriental. Don't try to mix yourself into it. Indians are nothing like Asians genetically.
And don't give me that "India is part of Asia" bullshit. Russia is part of Asia as well, but they aren't "Asians". It's the same thing as differentiating the Indian Ocean from the Pacific Ocean. There's no demarcation, it's the same body of water, but for historical purposes, they have been called 2 different oceans. Same and Asians and South Asians. Have you ever tried doing some research whatsoever before commenting vehemently on an issue about which you apparently have no idea.
The definition of the term "Asian" differs from country to country. Its predominantly colloquial US usage which implies Asian = East/Southeast Asian. The Indian subcontinent is a part of South Asia (and yes, I am giving you that "bullshit", so sue me). and according to most definitions (which you probably don't agree to and hence must be wrong) South Asians are Asians.
Although I dont disagree that she might have become interested in the guitar after playing GH, I think its naive attributing her sense of rhythm to GH. One is either born with that musical sense or not. If not, it can take years to develop while learning a real instrument. She more likely than not was born with that sense of rhythm.
Some notable musicians for example Al di Meola are of the view that Asians typically find it difficult to follow complex jazz time signatures. I tend to agree with him somewhat (and yes Im asian too - Indian actually). The point is that there may well be some genetics involved in these things. The jury is still out on that apart from the fact that perfect pitch is indeed passed on through genes.
It also helps with hand/finger strength. One of the hardest parts of beginning at guitar is only being able to move your fingers quickly and hold chord shapes for the first fifteen minutes before getting tired. If you were good at guitar hero, you should already have a lot of the muscles developed to progress more quickly.
I totally disagree to that. Its a different thing pressing buttons and a different thing learning to hold chord shapes and bends. If done right, they require different muscles (read where your fulcrum is if you are doing a bend right as against doing it wrong).
Now before people mod me down for dissing guitar hero, I am NOT dissing it. I am just dissing the parent argument.
Not everyone aspires to be a classically-trained, sight-reading musician, y'know. I believe Richard Wright, keyboardist of Pink Floyd, to this day cannot read music. Theres a difference between sight-reading, being able to sight read, understanding music theory without being able to read sheet music, and learning by your ear. Your "argument" is a gross simplification of everything.
Firstly, my comment was about people who aspire to learn the instrument and then get distracted, not about people who dont aspire to learn it.
Secondly sight reading is the ability to read a piece of transcribed music without ever having read it before. This differs from the ability to be able to read a piece of written music. Having an understanding of scale, chord, modal theory is different from the ability to read music. I may not be able to read sheet music, but if I understand scale, chord and mode theory well, I can get by quite well, because these give you an understanding of what sounds good when and give you the equipment you need to be able to compose your own music WITHOUT having the ability to read sheet music (of course you would need some tabs and a really good sense of timing to get when trying to understand the scale patterns during your lessons). The ability to learn/compose music or recognize scales or chords by ear is also not dependent upon your ability to read sheet music. It is the ability to reproduce a piece of music by listening to it many times over. It requires you to spend countless hours doing ear training exercises if you are not born with a good one - and you dont need to be able to read sheet music for this.
Learning songs from tablature gives you no understanding of any music theory whatsoever (which is of paramount importance if you want to get anywhere even more than being able to read sheet music). There are just too many aspiring guitarists who waste their time learning others songs from tabs and not spending time trying to understand what they are playing, or what chord they are fingering, or what scale they are playing and why a particular note fits there. They blindly play what note is written on the tab, and more often than not the quality of tabs is pretty appalling.
On your argument about Richard Wright, he may not be able to read sheet music, but if you ask him, he will tell you that he has an understanding of music theory and has an sense of rhythm and a good ear. I can bet my right arm that he will tell you to stay away from tabs because they hamper development.
you probably just got lucky, no matter how good a tab is, all it can tell you is how many beats there are per measure. and it gets trickier with tricky time signatures. It can never tell you the duration of an individual note the way sheet music does.
Thats a different issue. If you reread my post i never mentioned whether its good or bad for people who have no interest in learning the instrument whatsoever.
It hurts your ability in the same way as using tablature to learn to play songs. At least tablature is better in a sense that you actually have to listen to the song to understand the timing. For someone who doesnt know the instrument / is a beginner, this is is a distraction from the real thing.
You also forget that the Indians taught you how to count with a zero.
All the comments above that mock India simply reek of jealousy, fear and denial. Sure we have our own (large) set of hard to solve problems and unsolved problems but this is a country which is only into its 61st year of independence. They just cannot digest the fact that a developing nation can outdo them.
Imagine a long line of airport passengers waiting for the ticket agent to check them in, Azhari said. The IBM speed trick would have that ticket agent working faster and faster - with maybe a blower overhead to cool the agent down. But multithreading would be like putting two or more ticket agents on duty, which is another less-heat-intensive approach to processing, he said. Finally, I understand what multithreading is all about. I wonder why they never taught it so succintly to me in school.
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The TPM manages keys and encrypts a chain of checksums from the hardware to bios to the bootloader to the OS to the applications running on it. The Bios checksums the bootloader, which in turn checksums the OS which checksums the applications (this is a very coarse grained example).
Sorry, I meant from the Bios up to the application.
You guys still dont get it. The whole idea behind trusted computing is to prevent such duplication. The TPM checksums the hardware and every piece of code from the boot-loader up to the application. The other end uses these checksums to verify that only valid pieces of code are running at each level. This makes it very hard to actually circumvent it by duplicating or modifying any code or running any modified hardware which could steal the keys used to encrypt these checksums. The major problem with trusted computing is not the possibility of circumvention but attestation. For example each new OS patch will cause your OS checksum to be differ, and for remote attestation to work the entity validating your OS checksum should be aware of this new patch. How do we keep track of so many OS versions? or each new BIOS version? and so on and so forth. This means that Linux users with modified kernels will not be able to run their kernels if they are using an application which uses trusted computing. If you want to watch a movie, you have to watch it on a player which can be attested to. This prevents you from running it on a player which might record the movie while it is being streamed for example. The other problem as you mentioned is that these fritz chips need to be really fast. Is trusted computing evil? In many ways yes. It has immense potential to be exploited and kill customer choice. But it may do some good too if used right (for example to ensure that you are not running malicious hardware or infected software unknown to you). Given that basic premise behind trusted computing is to come up with a foolproof DRM mechanism, I would place my bets on it being abused to run a virtual dictatorship. That said, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgFbqSYdNK4
The matrix had one semi-decent sequel Rocky had 2 somewhat decent sequels. Rocky 3 and 6 were decent. Rambo had none.
And though I am not justifying what was done to the man, I am trying to highlight the fact that there is a reason as to why his act caused tension.
Neither George Bush, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or John McCain has done anything for the U.S.
I am allowed to make fun of you, your instrument's name sounds funny. P.S.: I think the viola is a kickass instrument btw :-)
Although I dont disagree that she might have become interested in the guitar after playing GH, I think its naive attributing her sense of rhythm to GH. One is either born with that musical sense or not. If not, it can take years to develop while learning a real instrument. She more likely than not was born with that sense of rhythm. Some notable musicians for example Al di Meola are of the view that Asians typically find it difficult to follow complex jazz time signatures. I tend to agree with him somewhat (and yes Im asian too - Indian actually). The point is that there may well be some genetics involved in these things. The jury is still out on that apart from the fact that perfect pitch is indeed passed on through genes.
It also helps with hand/finger strength. One of the hardest parts of beginning at guitar is only being able to move your fingers quickly and hold chord shapes for the first fifteen minutes before getting tired. If you were good at guitar hero, you should already have a lot of the muscles developed to progress more quickly.
I totally disagree to that. Its a different thing pressing buttons and a different thing learning to hold chord shapes and bends. If done right, they require different muscles (read where your fulcrum is if you are doing a bend right as against doing it wrong). Now before people mod me down for dissing guitar hero, I am NOT dissing it. I am just dissing the parent argument.waiting for someone to bring microsoft into this discussion... its not a matter of if, but how and when
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I meant theres a difference between sight reading and being able to read sheet music.
you probably just got lucky, no matter how good a tab is, all it can tell you is how many beats there are per measure. and it gets trickier with tricky time signatures. It can never tell you the duration of an individual note the way sheet music does.
no issues.
Thats a different issue. If you reread my post i never mentioned whether its good or bad for people who have no interest in learning the instrument whatsoever.
It hurts your ability in the same way as using tablature to learn to play songs. At least tablature is better in a sense that you actually have to listen to the song to understand the timing. For someone who doesnt know the instrument / is a beginner, this is is a distraction from the real thing.
You also forget that the Indians taught you how to count with a zero. All the comments above that mock India simply reek of jealousy, fear and denial. Sure we have our own (large) set of hard to solve problems and unsolved problems but this is a country which is only into its 61st year of independence. They just cannot digest the fact that a developing nation can outdo them.
and while we are at it, why not make the Internet a fully connected mesh eh?
Ummm no. TCP would reduce its window size and slow down.
but we just learned a few days back that beer kills research abaility. Sigh, slashdot is so confusing these days...
and COBOL too..