All the BBC has to do is get the aliens that are watching them right now to turn on their tivos. Of course in another 50 years some might mistake this for a Dalek and come to earth with guns blazing! Or they might think that a Dalek compiler is where they are being manufactured and just blast Mountain View from outer space instead to save the poor enslaved earthlings from them.
It definitely wasn't Ralph Nader. Though the press coverage might make you think it was! Lithium Ion tech has some growing pains however the Tesla has superior safety features to overcome the danger. The growing pains of using Li batteries on the 777 are more scary than a using them on a car. Tesla should not take a hit because of this though no doubt the accident and puncturing of the battery case was a pr God send for the oil companies.
As mass production of safe EV cars becomes a reality there will be technical problems not doubt but with onboard sensor safety systems like the one used in a Tesla the dangers are far less than that of gasoline tanks and the environmental costs of the oil industry.
Tesla does not scare the oil companies but GM, Nissan and other large manufacturers on the verge of selling viable urban commuter cars with advanced EV tech at the same price as gasoline models scares the shit out of them and it is about time!
Tesla goes after the high end which is great and will always be a niche product like having an Apple desktop, however the revolution will occur as new housing construction is mandated to have wiring for EV chargers, something which the oil companies are actively lobbying against no doubt. Currently (pardon the electrical pun) if one buys an EV commuter you also need to put in separate 30 amp breaker system to fast charge unless you want to trickle charge on a 120V 15 amp exterior GFI which most houses have.
There are fast charge stations starting to crop up in many city centers, here in Victoria BC we have them so it is only a question of a few years until small rechargeable commuter cars become a very viable alternative to the gasoline economy. My wife and I have been very seriously considering a Nissan Leaf just for around town and her commute to work for which an electric car is a viable alternative to her current car. And then keep our little 4x4 pickup only for vacations, yard work, and emergencies if the car is stuck with low amps. This make very good sense and will save money in only a few years and only requires that I wire in a 30 amp line rapid charging station to the driveway because we have a 200 amp service that will take it and this would bring down the full charge time to 30-40 minutes and the drive distance to over 100 kilometers. Thus it would be a very viable alternative right now to exclusively supporting the oil industry.
The MPAA and the RIAA must be absolutely scared shitless about the logistics of having to police the galaxy up to 55 light years to make certain that "I love Lucy" is not being pirated. At least the Brits only have to police less than 1875 star systems for pirates. Man those aliens must be really happy out past 50 years that they are finally going to be able to record DR WHO! They must be wonder when they will be able to digitize Gun Smoke and Bonanza but that might not happen in their life times.
So, it seems Voyager is still on the "magnetic highway" after all. I seem to recall during the discussion of the "magnetic highway" that some scientists were waiting for a change in the magnetic field before they claimed to have left the solar system. Somehow that got ignored when the plasma density data came out.
Wouldn't it be magnificent if beyond the gravitational and magnetic bounds of our solar system there existed galactic plasma winds driven on lines of magnetic fields. Perhaps interstellar travel is truly sailing within the confines of the galaxy. It would be wonderfully poetic if our first interstellar explorations were actually somewhat akin to our first intercontinental ones.
There is poetry in science and nature and oft times there is rhyme, as witness the beauty of a Fibonacci sequence in math or the wonders of the double helix, or the marvels of fractals. As long as we do not close our minds the universe will unfold for those who seek it's truths.
Why light would not be diffracted and time shifted in some way by these theoretical currents in galactic interstellar space would need to be investigated. Perhaps it is but only in terms of space time and not vector so everything in the movement of the stars in galactic terms looks static but the time of the light and other emr is shifted by galactic interstellar plasma winds but not the intensity.
Being in ignorance of the actual make up of galactic systems is a beautiful thing because it spurs the mind into wonderment and from that wonderment comes the investigation of science. Those who seek it do hear the music of the stars, never tell a child that you know anything for an absolute only tell them that one can surmise truth from what one observes and never be afraid of being proved wrong about a supposition or belittle others for making one. We are all students of our universe and it is beautiful.
Which highly desirable features are you referring to?
In case you meant network transparency, X11 doesn't have that anymore either. Sure, you can run xterm remotely with decent performance, but as soon as you start using client-rendered fonts (the only way to get anti-aliasing), gradients or lots of images, performance of X11 becomes so slow that the networking can no longer be considered "transparent". Overall you'll probably get better performance from VNC than from X11.
Harumpf WTF? My wife runs a citrix receiver on linux with an old radeon 7500 stock Xorg on an IBM T42 and guess what the rendering is just fine speed wise just as fast as the exact some rendering we get on the Win7 receiver in her study and in the case of network connection stability the Linux receiver client is BETTER HANDS DOWN.
The client is using X to render a remote desktop with anti-aliased fonts just fine. NO broken delayed image rendering either so how can you say that X is slow on the client side? Server rendering might be different but when I have logged into Citrix server running on a Red Hat the server to client worked even smoother and with nice clean fonts and images than running a client on Linux that was being fed from a Windows Server SO I CALL SHILL BASED BULLSHIT on this.
Like Pulse audio it takes a long time to make a WM that does not have some serious issues somewhere. Ubuntu choosing to try to create a WM more suitable to the Unity gui is understandable. But it is no small task. This is the great part about the Linux kernel not a weakness as the nay sayers that peddle the poison crap that Linux distros are too fragmented. Unlike the alternative which is only united by the fact that with a Windows or Apple window manager you have NO CHOICE PERIOD.
Ubuntu is stable and very usable always with the window manager that they choose, so is Slackware, Knoppix, Mint etc etc etc. The detractors and shills do not realize the real significance of this. Which is the fact that different groups can do what they want as witness the Google WM on top of the kernel. Shills that harp that fragmentation there is a problem are starting to be exposed for what they are as witness the fact that Android is kicking but all over the planet.
And yet, for every car I've had for the last 10-15 years, I have never opened the hood for anything other than putting in screen wash or checking oil (and maybe once in 20yrs to access the battery for a jump start) - put those on the outside and I would have no need. Otherwise I just open the hood and think "I don't even know where to start on this", close it again and take it to a garage. It's not that I don't know how an engine works or haven't stripped down and rebuilt one before - it's that modern ones are orders of magnitude more complicated, higher precision, lower tolerance, and shoehorned in so tight that it looks like if you don't have exactly the right tool at exactly the right angle you are going to have no arms left after about three bolts.
And yet we buy these cars (in their millions) ? Why ? Because they are ten times more reliable than the ones we had 20-30yrs ago, and getting under the hood just is not as necessary anymore. "It just works". Are we any less free because of this ?
Same goes for software, I've modified my kernel, back in the 0.99something days. I think it had about 100 KLOC. Today Linux is what, 15 MLOC ? Over 100 times the size. Sure, in theory I can still get under the hood of the kernel, but in practice at 15 MLOC I am not going to touch it - it would never be economic.
Then on the services thing, if it was cheaper to get a taxi everywhere than own a car, would I own one ? Maybe for nostalgia reasons, but then again maybe not.
But would I expect to be able to open the hood of the taxi when it turns up ? Do you ? Are you less free because the taxi driver doesn't let you under the hood of his taxi ?
I am afraid you have obfuscated the reason and meanings of what I posted. And certainly WIndows and Office has been anything but reliable over the years. The vendor lock in and obvious logic bomb planned obsolescence nature of Windows and "Office" is the whole reason why I learned to use and maintain OSS software. My current IBM laptop that I am writing this on will not run Windows 7 or 8 PERIOD, but it will flawlessly run some of the latest non pae capable Linux kernel based distros and all the truly great open source software that is available.
Sir, respectfully your obvious ignorance of the truth about the stability, usability, versatility and indeed longevity through reliability of the core software of Linux based OS distros is jaded by ignorance or perhaps even malice toward those who know what is really going on in the digital age.
If you are ignorant of the true nature and indeed strengths of OSS then indeed you are either a shill or just in complete ignorance of what is truly happening.
The ability to save and recycle great devices like older laptops from the scrap heaps and recycle sweat shops in Asia created by our digitally dysfunctional consumerism is of great economic importance. Linux in the long run is helping to shield the less wealthy from the economic chaos created by corporations like MSFT and their minions like WINTEL and is a God send for those who are not financially well endowed but are still skilled, involved and love to learn! In short MSFT promotes and sells ignorance in the digital age through the very nature of how it functions as a corporation.
Ponder this, using the Windows old saw "people use it because it just works" doesn't. Treating your customers like sheep to be sheared periodically will eventually catch up to the WINTEL digital Ferengies even if they do not see it coming! Dell, HP, and all the rest are starting to finally catch on somewhat and soon all we will have is locked down closed devices in the market if Microsoft completely has its way this time around. All will be gone, except for those who learn to save things from the digital scrap heap created by iPads and Surface tablets that have their hoods welded shut.
Also ponder this;
all the cloud really is is an excuse to shear the sheep even further. AYDABTU "all your data are belong to us" The ne
but democratic values are less likely to be transmitted if I use Office?
If you are a teacher, yes. If you learn office at a young age, it becomes very unlikely you will switch to anything else. It can be difficult for some people too, as the interface is different. Once the students go home and have to set up their own computer they will likely use office. They will either pay for it or not pay for it. If they don't pay they are committing a crime which can be severely punished if they get caught. If they pay then the school is basically training them to give money to a large corporation. Not only that, a specific corporation, with a partial monopoly in that market. Evidenced by the fact that you write 'Office' with a capital O and take it as a given that everyone knows you mean Microsoft® Office®.
Training kids to give money to support a monopolistic corporation does not seem to be directly in line with the principles of democracy.
This does not limit the abuse by monopoly to just school children! Our very first "home computer" was purchased so that we could become more literate in the coming "digital age". We had a 6 year old daughter and my wife and myself both needed to use fax for the purposes of both getting work and communicating. So we spent 2000 dollars on a decent 486 which could run "Windows" on top of dos. We both had used Vax at work for years and now that it was obviously being dumped and we knew that the "Windows" gui was going to dominate the very future of both our working lives. My wife insisted upon the then brand new Office which set us back another huge chunk of change and took for freaking ever to install from the set of floppies! When we upgraded the unit to the "start me up" roll me over and take it in the rear year 95 version of "Windows" our old version of office would not install PERIOD. So this was my first desperate and financially crippling experience with MSFT. We were almost bankrupted by this at the time because of health issues that occurred concurrently, so I pirated WORD so that we could still fax and my wife could keep her work communications up.
THIS EXPERIENCE SOURED ME so much against MSFT that I investigated what all the fuss was online about Red Hat. After a really good dummies book showed me that our old terminal skills could still make our older 486 work online (good old ifup ip foobar commands) and even do faxes by simply sticking in a different modem than the Win Modem we had things started to look up and the experience brought me into the light. I have never looked back. OR may I add have never "pirated" anything since!
IT WAS a revelation reading Eric Raymond and watching the antics of RMS, Linus and others, the one great rhetorical statement that always sticks in my mind and I am never going to forget is "WOULD YOU BY A CAR WITH THE HOOD WELDED SHUT?"
With companies like Corbis, and others trying to deprive and lock down the world to its very own shared historical great heritage of images online one comes to finally understand the true Ferengi like nature of those who like Milo Minderbinder with a computer have come to dominate digital communications. Do they deserve the laurels and accolades that are heaped upon them. Only history will tell, but if the young are left to believe that they are saints chances are we are headed into a digital dark age.
Thank you RMS and all the others for keeping up the good fight!
...of a kernel that doesn't actually work. Except on Stallman's PC.
Stallman does not possess such devices he runs and developed emacs on a unix VM inside his brain! After realizing that all unix passwords and attempts to hide source code in a binary were useless. The concept of a conceptual computer without passwords and accessed only by obscure command macros written in C exploded from his mind and POOF we had emacs. This was then enhanced by interpreting the commands in binary form but it only worked for those who spoke with a lisp. Then all this went out the Windows when a stiff DOSe of source code was obscured by means of non standard compilers and suddenly word and data processing binaries could easily be obfuscated by hiding the source.
Others tried to change this situation by judiciously applying rubber to source code and the resulting LateXT could be stretched into a usable FLEXable shape, at least until a Bison shat on the source. Stallman HURD about this change in how binaries were now being used and created and GNU for certain that he would have to come out of his brain and actually become the Kernel in charge of parsing things at the source. Because he still insists upon compiling source only in his brain before creating binaries the resulting OS kernel has been extremely slow to take shape because debugging it has given him nightmares whenever he actually sleeps in fact the that the sleep command causes instant dreams that bring him back to the Bill Gates rants he witnessed at computer club meetings in the 1970's.
During the second world war when the Nazis used slave labour from concentration camps they fed the slave on potato peels and vegetable top waste from the soldiers mess kitchens. When the SS doctors suddenly realized that the slaves that were there to be worked to death were actually getting to be healthier than the soldiers the practice was stopped and the slaves were then put on a deliberate starvation diet.
Interesting but [citation needed]
It was many years ago on a series created by the BBC about the history of WW11 called The World at War that I heard of these atrocities committed by the Nazis. This was long before the current bunch of red neck KKK based holocaust deniers started to muddy the waters in the US, you know, largely the same powerful group of individuals who helped for years to deny the fact that some members of the US Government actually helped huge numbers of Nazis to avoid prosecution. And I am not talking just about the rocket scientists I mean the myriad of Nazi medical professionals and others that got away with actively aiding in the genocide.
The first labour slaves were sent to Dachau, which was chosen because of its proximity to Himmler's regional SS buildings and storm trooper barracks. The plan at first was to use political prisoners and the untermenschen Gypsies and Jews for slave labour. Himmler who was a brilliant organizer and skilled chicken farmer realized that feeding the prisoners would literally be as cheap as chicken feed if the scraps created by his huge private army were used. This was long before the Wannsee conference and the implementation of a deliberate final solution to the race war that he was charged to oversee. Long before the conference at Wannsee the SS doctors who were told to monitor the prisoners to make certain that the ones used for slave labour would not actually survive as their numbers would need to be decreased by attrition. This was because the estimated slave labour force available in Germany alone was in excess of 2 million. The doctors were then charged to determine what level of diet would keep the attrition rate high enough to kill off the untermenschen and enemies of Germany. Their studies and work about prisoner diets is well documented in the Nazi archives even though there is no hint of why the prisoner diets were studied and systematically reduced to starvation levels long before the onset of the war. Parts of the SS doctors documentation was used in the trials at Nuremberg.
If we conveniently forget the known history of the Nazi holocaust and how a race of intelligent individuals can become socially conditioned to accept prejudice and mass murder we will be subjected to it again. Look at how at this very moment there are large numbers of Muslims that accept the mass murder of other Muslims in Syria and how only a few years ago the Serbian people by and large accepted the genocide of Muslims and Roman Catholics in the Balkans.
This is why considering the consumption of insects being fit only for nourishing the "poor masses" got my back up because the overtones of prejudice are there but couched in rhetoric of elitism.
"I dunno, you'd say "the amount you'd drink with a big mac"."
So in your universe a pint is about 32 to 42 ounces?**I don't "Supersize" my order, but many do.
That only applies if the Martian soil is made of quartz. However if the Martian soil is actually made of anything else it will yield two American pints per cubic foot. Which is why I prefer the British pint in the first place because is closer to a half of a German liter which is larger than an American 26er which is closer to a paltry ripoff 750ml of French plonk.
Come up to Canada if you really want to get confused, order a full pint of some real beer and then think about how Milwaukee is ripping you Americans off. This is what will most likely cause the first Martian Colonial revolution. Which we wil wind up calling the "Martian Tea Party Revolt" They will be arguing like crazy and shooting each other right from the start about the size Martian pints in the soil instead of building a new cooperative society with health care. I would not even be surprised if the actually take guns along with them contributed by the NRA for the purpose of Martian Colonial security.
Compared to cows, pigs and chickens some insects, especially in larva stage can convert plant cellulose and starches into proteins and fats many times more efficiently. This is the real benefit. In some cases this is more efficient than processing the plants for human consumption. Take corn as a feed, it is very inefficient for humans to ingest it but feed it to some insects and they will convert it at a very high rate.
We are not talking about insects being the equivalent to a Shmoo which reproduces asexually and only consumes air, but it makes sense to add them to agriculture. What I do not like is the premise that it could feed the poor, however they may be on to something with this approach also. During the second world war when the Nazis used slave labour from concentration camps they fed the slave on potato peels and vegetable top waste from the soldiers mess kitchens. When the SS doctors suddenly realized that the slaves that were there to be worked to death were actually getting to be healthier than the soldiers the practice was stopped and the slaves were then put on a deliberate starvation diet.
Just maybe our opulent fat diet of animal proteins and refined starches will make the rich who can afford it less healthy than the insect eating peons and lower class workers in the city slums.
BUT the reality is that Arm SoCs are cutting into both intel and amd. The shine is off the 45-65 watts small space heater chipsets and the race to heat whole rooms with 100 watt plus chips is over.
Power = power. Or less vaguely, electricity = computational power; more = better.
Low-end stuff is going low-power but if you want a system to do video editing+encoding, CAD, compilation of large software or any of the other common problems then buying a mobile phone glued to the inside of a normal desktop chassis is a really dumb idea. [In short: Workstations are not going anywhere. Professionals will still use them, just home user penetration will drop off.]
Good points, but it all comes down to bang for buck. Most graphic houses use high powered servers and a few high powered work stations. The market for small form factor devices that pack a decent punch at low wattage on the desktop is still there. People using game consoles for net access in the living room proves one thing there is a market for something quiet small and with a fair computational punch. Microsoft and Sony have gone for the closed ecosystem approach to the users living rooms.
There is room for something like a Steambox that can do much more and more importantly if this same device can easily be converted into a desktop full fledged computer it might catch on with more than just gaming. Nvidia is already trying to rev up the market but they do not have the marketing skills to make it work as they are up against a wall of competition and essentially they have no access to retail store space and no way to showcase what they are really capable of doing on devices without Microsoft and Windows getting in the way.
This is why they need to collaborate with someone like AMD and go head to head against the Wintel juggernaut. It can be done. By and large the general public hates Windows and this is not at all because of the companies that manufactured the components and computers. Sure sell Windows on the device for those that insist upon it, but if Microsoft turns around and bullies you for selling a genuine dual boot system, joe public might just be with you this time around. Advertise your steam linux install as a new and revolutionary multipurpose operating system with full fledged pc capabilities as well as being a great gaming console.
After all FFMPEG is already being used just about everywhere on the planet except on a straight install of Windows or Mac! Go after the jugular and do things with OpenGL and FFMPEG on Linux that leaves DirectX and Windows in the dust. Again it can be done! Samsung is already cleaning up with smart TVs and they all use some form of the Linux kernel in combination with FFMPEG. Let Microsoft bang down your door and threaten you with their hoard of little weasel lawyers. If the public thinks they are being prevented from having something by a bully like Microsoft it could really pay off in a hurry! Like I said the Samsung/Apple war did wonders for Samsung to say the least.
NVidia needs to partner with someone soon and a partnership between NVIdia and Amd is not a bad step to avoid a melt down to an all arm and intel duopoly.
By creating a monopoly in the discrete graphics card market, great idea.
Point was that the discrete graphics card market is dead it is a shrinking small sector and there is not even room for one player! The few computer stores that are left out there only have a few in stock for a very limited PC gaming crowd who are essentially running out of game options as PC gaming is also dying, albeit a slower death than the home desktop pc but it is still dying.
What options do AMD and Nvidia have? They still have good manufacturing facilities and they still both have a decent work force. However individually they are not capable of creating anything truly new and exciting. Asus, Lenovo, Acer, HP, Dell are all moving toward onboard Haswells without either NVidia or AMD discrete graphics in all their offerings. Apple is exclusively all Intel integrated graphics.
What market share is there left for them in this equation? The only solution is to blow the works and do something completely radical and totally off the wall essentially screw all of their possible customers and Microsoft by bringing out something huge and different something that will work in either a living room or an office and run whatever the user so chooses except perhaps OS 10.
imagine a low wattage silent pint sized x86-64 computer that blows anything else on the market out of the water with performance and graphics and is smaller than a Mac Mini and at about the same price point. Perfect for gamers or offices or where ever. Nvidia and AMD put together could very easily do it and easily bypass Asus and the like. Steam Linux would instantly be onboard, Microsoft well, you have to pay for their software anyway so what do they matter they are not even in the equation except some will insist on buying their os, Heck the super mini could even be set up to run Windows and a Steam Linux install and the user would not even have to know the difference. Chances are they would not care for that matter as long as they could play games and not hose their Windows machine while doing it. LOL
This might all seem far fetched but is it? Gamers could care less about which OS they run and Windows software home users could care less if the machine is actually tuned to run something other than Windows for games. I look at EA games out west here and guess what the PC games are not exactly flying off the shelves the way they once did. Hell they do not even put PC into their TV adds for NHL Hockey they just advertise it for either playstation or Xbox. Steam Linux on a super mini could turn all this around overnight.
Intel is counting on Haswell to increase chip sales. AMD is hurting like crazy and the gamer market will not hurt them with consoles. BUT the reality is that Arm SoCs are cutting into both intel and amd. The shine is off the 45-65 watts small space heater chipsets and the race to heat whole rooms with 100 watt plus chips is over.
1000 watt water cooled gamer pc power supplies are a footnote in computing history. Low wattage is more than just a trend it is where computing is heading like it or not. Huge NVidia based cards with leaf blowers attached are a dead end and I think NVidia is starting to realize this. NVidia is in trouble and they know it. Essentially what PC sales are left are all heading down the low power road. NVidia needs to partner with someone soon and a partnership between NVIdia and Amd is not a bad step to avoid a melt down to an all arm and intel duopoly.
It would be a good thing to see them create a real alternative to Intel and produce low wattage embedded boards that knock everything else for six and can run whatever the manufacturer or home brew builder desires. A friendly move towards Linux just indicates to me that Microshaft has given them the willies by going all intel on their Surface products and Asus, Acer, Lenovo and all the rest are jumping on the Haswell bandwagon as well because it is the way Microshaft is heading. I have the sneaking suspicion that Microshaft could care less if RT arm based devices actually sell, perhaps they were created to not sell!
As long as Nvidia does not see the writing on the wall and regards AMD as competition they do not see that Intel is actually blind siding them into oblivion. The market for expensive separate gpus is a dead end Nvidia's ventures into arm SoCs is not enough to save them from what is happening but a joint venture effectively creating an OpenSource product that can run anything including Windows just might! Asus tried to pull the wool over users eyes with a bullshit quick boot of a crippled Linux install in a Windows partition..can't remember what they called it but it was complete bullshit. AMD in combination with Nvidia could really shake things up and do things that would get users excited again, challenge the MPEGLA and included the bad set of codecs, then unlike Samsung don't roll over and take it up the butt, instead tell Microshaft to take a flying f&%k and include support for fat devices and don't pay the turds for it. REBELL FOR A CHANGE and create something which Microshaft is afraid of so that the jerks will run to their lawyers to stop you from selling it like Apple did to Samsung! This is how to be innovative and most importantly get sympathy from the public, nothing helped Samsung to sell the hell out of Galaxy phones more than the Apple bullshit law suits! DO THE SAME THING TO Intel, Apple and Microsoft and their MPEGLA and stupid patents, give them a big taste of their own medicine and make them choke on it, users will be lining up to buck the system and by your products!
Many here do not understand what created the US rust belt in the first place. The proportion of asses in chairs as compared to those actually shoveling the shit. Our education system is predicated upon putting the "educated ass" in the chair after graduation. This is because by and large those who are rich are lazy and they spawn lazy offspring who think that sitting in a chair and directing things is actually doing work.
These new titan of business are a bunch of idiots who actually believe that ideas are worth more than the implementation of ideas and to this end have subverted the concepts of patents and copyright. The fools actually believe that the ideas are worth more than the product and therefore have devalued labour and physical work to such an extent that they are crippling the entire economy.
China is following suit and creating a bunch of tiny tyrants. When the Western economy of cheap trinkets collapses because the workers who buy them have to chose between trinkets and food, then the over abundance of asses in chairs will face the very said same devaluation of their work. We have those who have recently horded gold and moved all their movable wealth off shore to tax havens. The asses in chairs created by or current economic system of "intellectual property being more valuable than actual goods" will sink us. And the same thing will happen in China as millions will lose work because of the overvaluation of "intellectual property". There was wisdom in the rhetorical statement "is a worker not worth his salt?" Obviously the truth of this statement eludes those who only see ideas as having value, we are in for a very rough ride this time around because of the latest round of little tyrants devaluing labour. The insanity of what is happening to public schools and how these idiots can manipulate things to the point of injecting falsehoods into education is pathetic and symptomatic of why our economy will not recover this time around. The little tyrants won't let it and they do not even realize the damage they are doing.
A 'hard reset' is just a cold boot- it forces all apps and the OS to shut down immediately, and reboots the device. You do it by holding the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons down.
You seem to be referring to a Restore- that resets the device to factory settings, wiping all content. That's done through iTunes.
And if the problems came back when your backup was restored, then obviously there was something wrong with what was restored.
Or if you are really adventurous just stick a paper clip into your lightning connector and wiggle it around.
For determining the viral load of a patent in the US the software necessary to image detect most viruses is patent encumbered. The gold standard test to determine the viral load of HCV is under a ridiculous patent and as such is completely out of reach for easy wide scale use. Using the physical image shape of the HCV virus and others is patented and you are not allowed to develop software to assay it, this is the only reason why in Canada the test is only done once on HepC patients and doctors are told not to order the test because it is out of this world expensive because of the site license costs of software to do the test.
These diagnostic patents are all held and defended by the American drug company cartels who hold the world ransom. Same thing applies to the detection of the breast cancer gene, that is why you only see the wealthy being tested for this indicator gene, then deciding to have their breasts removed if they inherited the gene. Nothing is holding back the rapid advancement of diagnostics more than the drug company cartels and they need to be broken up permanently the same way standard oil was dealt with!
All well and good developing cheap portable diagnostic devices but if ideas like, doing assay by the software counting a specific shape can be individually patented per shape and are then held ransom by crooked corporations with cooked up patents these devices will be far too expensive to do any good at all.
Obviously modded by someone with no cents of humor at all. iam certain that who ever wrote this little ditty must have been smoking something strange though. The language syntax used far too many broken dactyls! Of course if his ground was bass enough and used good fluent dactyls he could have then written variations and called the post a Passacaglia TerraDactyls.
Or variations upon a ground bass in dactyls. I have already written several over the years just to see how long one can avoid using harmonic repetition. If you get to five variations you are doing well, provided you avoid iambs in pentameter in the ground otherwise you will wind up sounding far too much like Thomas Tallis or a bad limerick being recited by a drunken Irishman!
We're not "irresponsible and at times illiterate keyboard players". I have 3 higher degrees in music, and I'm just the one overseeing the project. Furthermore, nobody said we're archiving music in MIDI. The "responsible" organizations that will archive these works include IMSLP, Musopen, Wikimedia Commons, Archive.org, and Freemusicarchive.
PS we're not using MIDI from a keyboard.
Very glad to hear that this effort is more than just another digitally dysfunctional music notation idea. Yes I am using MuseScore already. The input methods in the software are highly logical I have paginated studies to work as pdf that are readable on e-ink devices. I do see a very realistic possibility of using larger e-ink devices on a music stand instead of paper in the near future. This is why a common format such as PDF is so important! What might finally free up the digital distribution of scores is if companies like Kobo come onboard with the idea and produce purpose built e-ink music readers. That way there could be a way to actually sell high quality digital scores edited by reputable professionals again.
Certainly public domain releases of music such as Bach will also help, but as I am sure you will agree those who set the scores need some source of income. As long as there is no real system for the distribution of digital scores we will be stuck in no mans land. Only 15 years ago I could go into any number of music stores and obtain high quality printed music scores, now the industry is completely stuck in limbo. We do need a technological boost to revive it immediately and I believe that e-ink is that boost. Sorry but iPads, laptops and devices will work but have serious drawbacks for the musician and the student just won't cut it on the music stand, we need purpose built devices that excel at the display of musical scores. All the bells and whistles of sounds are not at all necessary or even desirable!
Enough of my rant but the reality is the music publishing industry has problems because they cannot get their heads out of the collective butts!
is that audiences are not interested in an academic reference recording of Bach but in the richly varied interpretations of artists each with their own gifts --- using arrangements of their own choice, instruments of their own choice, in a venue of their own choice.
It is like trying to capture Shakespeare in a bottle.
If you watch Glen Gould going over Peters editions at Columbia Records during recording sessions you would fully understand the importance of scholarly work to preserve musical scores. Without decent editions of sheet music for musicians to interpret in the first place there would be no great recordings. Many great Jazz musicians use Bach's music for melodic and harmonic inspiration, as have many composers over the centuries. Jaco Pastorius whom many consider the greatest improvising bassist of all time, would sit and sight read just the bass cleff of Bachs work to work on his chops. A music teacher looks at a student and says to the parent "yes your child has talent, but does (he or she) have a talent for work?", the same thing applies to musical inspiration which mostly comes from a talent for study and work in the first place. If you pick up a piece of Bach and cannot find a groove or riff somewhere in it then you should seriously consider giving up on music!
Yes - and the score that we're going to make goes to 11 in comparison. Because it's digital, meaning "source code", not just a printed PDF. Check this out - it's important for the understanding of what we're doing:
The real "source" is the printed score in most cases, especially for those who actually read, study and write music. Irresponsible and at times illiterate keyboard players creating MIDI "source code" is not the answer to the preservation of our heritage of printed music. To archive "digital music" in the form of MIDI or editable format is a blind alley quite literally. Originals must be preserved by responsible organizations!
For instance the historic first edition publications that are in collections need to be universally converted to a digital preservation format. Much that is currently "out of print" and being held by publications like Schott needs to be carefully preserved. THIS INCLUDES much great music that was written not very long ago and is not yet in the public domain!
Many of the great publishing houses are going to go under soon because of the digital revolution and the fact that they are resisting it and insisting on sticking with paper print sales. Many like Schott and Peters have in their possession editions of music by composers which are still not considered public domain compositions but are very important music. These music publishing houses cannot afford to digitize their entire libraries, therefore image to PDF is still very important as it can be done much more cheaply and quickly than hiring a pile of people to re-edit to score digitally all the editions they own. Peters is a very important publishing house in terms of the accuracy and scholarly work put into their editions. A great score annotates why an editor deviated from sources and what the original source was. Most that are using midi today to notate from a keyboard device have no clue about what I am alluding to here!
Here's hoping that some enterprising company like Sony does not suddenly decided to buy up the rights to all the sheet music the way they bought out most of the recording industry in the 1970's through the 90's. If a company like them does the future of digital music publishing is bleak indeed!
Werner Icking started an archive years ago for the purpose of making public domain editions available online. The huge selection of Bach's music is already there available for all to use. I use the violin partitas and sonatas, cello sonatas and some of the solo keyboard works of Bach all the time as a reference and for study. Many who contributed used Lilypond and MusiXTeX to set the scores. MIDI files are terrible for the purpose of notating polyphonic music like Bach. It is a digital toy essentially and never truly represents accurate notation.
Companies like Peters that do sell good accurate scores of Bach are so behind the times they literally cannot see the forest because the trees are still being cut down. It is entirely possible for them to distribute decent editions for sale in e-pub and the technology to put scores on e-ink could be made usable with essentially e-reader technology that is score sized instead of pocket book. I would gladly pay for a decent music e-ink reader that would work on my music stand. The information age is slogging along and eventually the real potential of digital music notation will happen. But unfortunately we still have those who have their heads up their assets in the music publishing industry.
Werner was a stickler for accurate notation and much of what is there on the historic digital archive, especially the Bach section, is very accurate. Unfortunately since his death others have corrupted what he started and some of the archive is not good or even accurate notation, however most of the Bach is excellent and done by people who understand the importance of accuracy in music notation. Many of the scores adhere to original source where ever possible. Which can be very difficult as in the time of the great champions of Bach's music during the late classical era much of Bach's sheet music had fallen into oblivion.
For instance a friend of Felix Mendelssohn actually found music scores by Bach being used by a butcher to wrap meats! So the digitizing for all time of all our great heritage of written music is as important as project Gutenberg. Werner understood this as many others do and either the existing music publishing houses will get on board or they will be a footnote in the history of written music.
It seems possible that government funding is as responsive to the private sector and there will be more money available to researchers when they can more easily accept corporate donations. That is just my 2 ruble opinion.
You can bet the private sector funding to science will start to explode in Russia. Especially for scientific analysis to prove that there are no problems with the mega project models of everything currently being planned by the new economic titans of Russia.
These involve corporations set up for wholesale cutting of the forests in the Urals, southern Siberia and the Kamchatka and then selling whole logs on world markets at fire sale prices. Or the upgrades to the Siberian railway to move oil to China and the west cheaper than pipe lines. All the while controlled by the new rulers of Russia, a very small elite who will do the same thing a very small elite is currently doing elsewhere, namely what they specialize in which is take the money and run entire countries economies.
In Canada we have companies that pay for "scientific studies" to prove that fencing in all the woodland Caribou left in Alberta will protect them from the removal of the forest by the massive oil sands projects. Science is being perverted by industry in such a way as to become a false religion. We were taught in school to respect science and now the backbone of our belief in science is being subverted by those who in reality could care less about future generations. Science that is paid for by industry to "prove something" is pseudo science and that goes for all the pseudo sciences especially ones like "political science" and any "environmental science" which is paid for by those with a vested interest in raping the environment as quickly and cheaply as possible.
We in Canada have the same bullshit going on, the pipeline to Kitimat BC to ship oil and natural gas is silently being done and the pseudo science to prove how efficient and safe the process will be is being ramped up as our scientists who might raise real objections to the insanity are also being muzzled. All over the world there is an assault going on against scientists, we have scientists in the US being paid to disprove things. This started with industries like the tobacco industry then went on the the asbestos industry and is now a firmly established method of the oil industry. All of whom at one time have enlisted government help through political cronyism and paid for pseudo science to disprove things. Why should we expect the Russians to fall behind in the lucrative field of the modern pseudo sciences? "ask not what your country".... BULLSHIT WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME? YOU LIBERAL COMMIE ASSHOLES!
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All the BBC has to do is get the aliens that are watching them right now to turn on their tivos. Of course in another 50 years some might mistake this for a Dalek and come to earth with guns blazing! Or they might think that a Dalek compiler is where they are being manufactured and just blast Mountain View from outer space instead to save the poor enslaved earthlings from them.
...Jerry Bruckheimer?
It definitely wasn't Ralph Nader. Though the press coverage might make you think it was! Lithium Ion tech has some growing pains however the Tesla has superior safety features to overcome the danger. The growing pains of using Li batteries on the 777 are more scary than a using them on a car. Tesla should not take a hit because of this though no doubt the accident and puncturing of the battery case was a pr God send for the oil companies.
As mass production of safe EV cars becomes a reality there will be technical problems not doubt but with onboard sensor safety systems like the one used in a Tesla the dangers are far less than that of gasoline tanks and the environmental costs of the oil industry.
Tesla does not scare the oil companies but GM, Nissan and other large manufacturers on the verge of selling viable urban commuter cars with advanced EV tech at the same price as gasoline models scares the shit out of them and it is about time!
Tesla goes after the high end which is great and will always be a niche product like having an Apple desktop, however the revolution will occur as new housing construction is mandated to have wiring for EV chargers, something which the oil companies are actively lobbying against no doubt. Currently (pardon the electrical pun) if one buys an EV commuter you also need to put in separate 30 amp breaker system to fast charge unless you want to trickle charge on a 120V 15 amp exterior GFI which most houses have.
There are fast charge stations starting to crop up in many city centers, here in Victoria BC we have them so it is only a question of a few years until small rechargeable commuter cars become a very viable alternative to the gasoline economy. My wife and I have been very seriously considering a Nissan Leaf just for around town and her commute to work for which an electric car is a viable alternative to her current car. And then keep our little 4x4 pickup only for vacations, yard work, and emergencies if the car is stuck with low amps. This make very good sense and will save money in only a few years and only requires that I wire in a 30 amp line rapid charging station to the driveway because we have a 200 amp service that will take it and this would bring down the full charge time to 30-40 minutes and the drive distance to over 100 kilometers. Thus it would be a very viable alternative right now to exclusively supporting the oil industry.
The MPAA and the RIAA must be absolutely scared shitless about the logistics of having to police the galaxy up to 55 light years to make certain that "I love Lucy" is not being pirated. At least the Brits only have to police less than 1875 star systems for pirates. Man those aliens must be really happy out past 50 years that they are finally going to be able to record DR WHO! They must be wonder when they will be able to digitize Gun Smoke and Bonanza but that might not happen in their life times.
So, it seems Voyager is still on the "magnetic highway" after all. I seem to recall during the discussion of the "magnetic highway" that some scientists were waiting for a change in the magnetic field before they claimed to have left the solar system. Somehow that got ignored when the plasma density data came out.
Wouldn't it be magnificent if beyond the gravitational and magnetic bounds of our solar system there existed galactic plasma winds driven on lines of magnetic fields. Perhaps interstellar travel is truly sailing within the confines of the galaxy. It would be wonderfully poetic if our first interstellar explorations were actually somewhat akin to our first intercontinental ones.
There is poetry in science and nature and oft times there is rhyme, as witness the beauty of a Fibonacci sequence in math or the wonders of the double helix, or the marvels of fractals. As long as we do not close our minds the universe will unfold for those who seek it's truths.
Why light would not be diffracted and time shifted in some way by these theoretical currents in galactic interstellar space would need to be investigated. Perhaps it is but only in terms of space time and not vector so everything in the movement of the stars in galactic terms looks static but the time of the light and other emr is shifted by galactic interstellar plasma winds but not the intensity.
Being in ignorance of the actual make up of galactic systems is a beautiful thing because it spurs the mind into wonderment and from that wonderment comes the investigation of science. Those who seek it do hear the music of the stars, never tell a child that you know anything for an absolute only tell them that one can surmise truth from what one observes and never be afraid of being proved wrong about a supposition or belittle others for making one. We are all students of our universe and it is beautiful.
Which highly desirable features are you referring to?
In case you meant network transparency, X11 doesn't have that anymore either. Sure, you can run xterm remotely with decent performance, but as soon as you start using client-rendered fonts (the only way to get anti-aliasing), gradients or lots of images, performance of X11 becomes so slow that the networking can no longer be considered "transparent". Overall you'll probably get better performance from VNC than from X11.
Harumpf WTF? My wife runs a citrix receiver on linux with an old radeon 7500 stock Xorg on an IBM T42 and guess what the rendering is just fine speed wise just as fast as the exact some rendering we get on the Win7 receiver in her study and in the case of network connection stability the Linux receiver client is BETTER HANDS DOWN.
The client is using X to render a remote desktop with anti-aliased fonts just fine. NO broken delayed image rendering either so how can you say that X is slow on the client side? Server rendering might be different but when I have logged into Citrix server running on a Red Hat the server to client worked even smoother and with nice clean fonts and images than running a client on Linux that was being fed from a Windows Server SO I CALL SHILL BASED BULLSHIT on this.
Like Pulse audio it takes a long time to make a WM that does not have some serious issues somewhere. Ubuntu choosing to try to create a WM more suitable to the Unity gui is understandable. But it is no small task. This is the great part about the Linux kernel not a weakness as the nay sayers that peddle the poison crap that Linux distros are too fragmented. Unlike the alternative which is only united by the fact that with a Windows or Apple window manager you have NO CHOICE PERIOD.
Ubuntu is stable and very usable always with the window manager that they choose, so is Slackware, Knoppix, Mint etc etc etc. The detractors and shills do not realize the real significance of this. Which is the fact that different groups can do what they want as witness the Google WM on top of the kernel. Shills that harp that fragmentation there is a problem are starting to be exposed for what they are as witness the fact that Android is kicking but all over the planet.
And yet, for every car I've had for the last 10-15 years, I have never opened the hood for anything other than putting in screen wash or checking oil (and maybe once in 20yrs to access the battery for a jump start) - put those on the outside and I would have no need. Otherwise I just open the hood and think "I don't even know where to start on this", close it again and take it to a garage. It's not that I don't know how an engine works or haven't stripped down and rebuilt one before - it's that modern ones are orders of magnitude more complicated, higher precision, lower tolerance, and shoehorned in so tight that it looks like if you don't have exactly the right tool at exactly the right angle you are going to have no arms left after about three bolts.
And yet we buy these cars (in their millions) ? Why ? Because they are ten times more reliable than the ones we had 20-30yrs ago, and getting under the hood just is not as necessary anymore. "It just works". Are we any less free because of this ?
Same goes for software, I've modified my kernel, back in the 0.99something days. I think it had about 100 KLOC. Today Linux is what, 15 MLOC ? Over 100 times the size. Sure, in theory I can still get under the hood of the kernel, but in practice at 15 MLOC I am not going to touch it - it would never be economic.
Then on the services thing, if it was cheaper to get a taxi everywhere than own a car, would I own one ? Maybe for nostalgia reasons, but then again maybe not. But would I expect to be able to open the hood of the taxi when it turns up ? Do you ? Are you less free because the taxi driver doesn't let you under the hood of his taxi ?
I am afraid you have obfuscated the reason and meanings of what I posted. And certainly WIndows and Office has been anything but reliable over the years. The vendor lock in and obvious logic bomb planned obsolescence nature of Windows and "Office" is the whole reason why I learned to use and maintain OSS software. My current IBM laptop that I am writing this on will not run Windows 7 or 8 PERIOD, but it will flawlessly run some of the latest non pae capable Linux kernel based distros and all the truly great open source software that is available.
Sir, respectfully your obvious ignorance of the truth about the stability, usability, versatility and indeed longevity through reliability of the core software of Linux based OS distros is jaded by ignorance or perhaps even malice toward those who know what is really going on in the digital age.
If you are ignorant of the true nature and indeed strengths of OSS then indeed you are either a shill or just in complete ignorance of what is truly happening.
The ability to save and recycle great devices like older laptops from the scrap heaps and recycle sweat shops in Asia created by our digitally dysfunctional consumerism is of great economic importance. Linux in the long run is helping to shield the less wealthy from the economic chaos created by corporations like MSFT and their minions like WINTEL and is a God send for those who are not financially well endowed but are still skilled, involved and love to learn! In short MSFT promotes and sells ignorance in the digital age through the very nature of how it functions as a corporation.
Ponder this, using the Windows old saw "people use it because it just works" doesn't. Treating your customers like sheep to be sheared periodically will eventually catch up to the WINTEL digital Ferengies even if they do not see it coming! Dell, HP, and all the rest are starting to finally catch on somewhat and soon all we will have is locked down closed devices in the market if Microsoft completely has its way this time around. All will be gone, except for those who learn to save things from the digital scrap heap created by iPads and Surface tablets that have their hoods welded shut.
Also ponder this;
all the cloud really is is an excuse to shear the sheep even further. AYDABTU "all your data are belong to us" The ne
but democratic values are less likely to be transmitted if I use Office?
If you are a teacher, yes. If you learn office at a young age, it becomes very unlikely you will switch to anything else. It can be difficult for some people too, as the interface is different. Once the students go home and have to set up their own computer they will likely use office. They will either pay for it or not pay for it. If they don't pay they are committing a crime which can be severely punished if they get caught. If they pay then the school is basically training them to give money to a large corporation. Not only that, a specific corporation, with a partial monopoly in that market. Evidenced by the fact that you write 'Office' with a capital O and take it as a given that everyone knows you mean Microsoft® Office®. Training kids to give money to support a monopolistic corporation does not seem to be directly in line with the principles of democracy.
This does not limit the abuse by monopoly to just school children! Our very first "home computer" was purchased so that we could become more literate in the coming "digital age". We had a 6 year old daughter and my wife and myself both needed to use fax for the purposes of both getting work and communicating. So we spent 2000 dollars on a decent 486 which could run "Windows" on top of dos. We both had used Vax at work for years and now that it was obviously being dumped and we knew that the "Windows" gui was going to dominate the very future of both our working lives. My wife insisted upon the then brand new Office which set us back another huge chunk of change and took for freaking ever to install from the set of floppies! When we upgraded the unit to the "start me up" roll me over and take it in the rear year 95 version of "Windows" our old version of office would not install PERIOD. So this was my first desperate and financially crippling experience with MSFT. We were almost bankrupted by this at the time because of health issues that occurred concurrently, so I pirated WORD so that we could still fax and my wife could keep her work communications up.
THIS EXPERIENCE SOURED ME so much against MSFT that I investigated what all the fuss was online about Red Hat. After a really good dummies book showed me that our old terminal skills could still make our older 486 work online (good old ifup ip foobar commands) and even do faxes by simply sticking in a different modem than the Win Modem we had things started to look up and the experience brought me into the light. I have never looked back. OR may I add have never "pirated" anything since!
IT WAS a revelation reading Eric Raymond and watching the antics of RMS, Linus and others, the one great rhetorical statement that always sticks in my mind and I am never going to forget is "WOULD YOU BY A CAR WITH THE HOOD WELDED SHUT?"
With companies like Corbis, and others trying to deprive and lock down the world to its very own shared historical great heritage of images online one comes to finally understand the true Ferengi like nature of those who like Milo Minderbinder with a computer have come to dominate digital communications. Do they deserve the laurels and accolades that are heaped upon them. Only history will tell, but if the young are left to believe that they are saints chances are we are headed into a digital dark age.
Thank you RMS and all the others for keeping up the good fight!
Yes MBA's are great in the sack.
MBA's make great pimps as they can only get their rocks off on making money off those who actually are great in bed!
...of a kernel that doesn't actually work. Except on Stallman's PC.
Stallman does not possess such devices he runs and developed emacs on a unix VM inside his brain! After realizing that all unix passwords and attempts to hide source code in a binary were useless. The concept of a conceptual computer without passwords and accessed only by obscure command macros written in C exploded from his mind and POOF we had emacs. This was then enhanced by interpreting the commands in binary form but it only worked for those who spoke with a lisp. Then all this went out the Windows when a stiff DOSe of source code was obscured by means of non standard compilers and suddenly word and data processing binaries could easily be obfuscated by hiding the source.
Others tried to change this situation by judiciously applying rubber to source code and the resulting LateXT could be stretched into a usable FLEXable shape, at least until a Bison shat on the source. Stallman HURD about this change in how binaries were now being used and created and GNU for certain that he would have to come out of his brain and actually become the Kernel in charge of parsing things at the source. Because he still insists upon compiling source only in his brain before creating binaries the resulting OS kernel has been extremely slow to take shape because debugging it has given him nightmares whenever he actually sleeps in fact the that the sleep command causes instant dreams that bring him back to the Bill Gates rants he witnessed at computer club meetings in the 1970's.
During the second world war when the Nazis used slave labour from concentration camps they fed the slave on potato peels and vegetable top waste from the soldiers mess kitchens. When the SS doctors suddenly realized that the slaves that were there to be worked to death were actually getting to be healthier than the soldiers the practice was stopped and the slaves were then put on a deliberate starvation diet.
Interesting but [citation needed]
It was many years ago on a series created by the BBC about the history of WW11 called The World at War that I heard of these atrocities committed by the Nazis. This was long before the current bunch of red neck KKK based holocaust deniers started to muddy the waters in the US, you know, largely the same powerful group of individuals who helped for years to deny the fact that some members of the US Government actually helped huge numbers of Nazis to avoid prosecution. And I am not talking just about the rocket scientists I mean the myriad of Nazi medical professionals and others that got away with actively aiding in the genocide.
The first labour slaves were sent to Dachau, which was chosen because of its proximity to Himmler's regional SS buildings and storm trooper barracks. The plan at first was to use political prisoners and the untermenschen Gypsies and Jews for slave labour. Himmler who was a brilliant organizer and skilled chicken farmer realized that feeding the prisoners would literally be as cheap as chicken feed if the scraps created by his huge private army were used. This was long before the Wannsee conference and the implementation of a deliberate final solution to the race war that he was charged to oversee. Long before the conference at Wannsee the SS doctors who were told to monitor the prisoners to make certain that the ones used for slave labour would not actually survive as their numbers would need to be decreased by attrition. This was because the estimated slave labour force available in Germany alone was in excess of 2 million. The doctors were then charged to determine what level of diet would keep the attrition rate high enough to kill off the untermenschen and enemies of Germany. Their studies and work about prisoner diets is well documented in the Nazi archives even though there is no hint of why the prisoner diets were studied and systematically reduced to starvation levels long before the onset of the war. Parts of the SS doctors documentation was used in the trials at Nuremberg.
If we conveniently forget the known history of the Nazi holocaust and how a race of intelligent individuals can become socially conditioned to accept prejudice and mass murder we will be subjected to it again. Look at how at this very moment there are large numbers of Muslims that accept the mass murder of other Muslims in Syria and how only a few years ago the Serbian people by and large accepted the genocide of Muslims and Roman Catholics in the Balkans.
This is why considering the consumption of insects being fit only for nourishing the "poor masses" got my back up because the overtones of prejudice are there but couched in rhetoric of elitism.
So in your universe a pint is about 32 to 42 ounces?* * I don't "Supersize" my order, but many do.
That only applies if the Martian soil is made of quartz. However if the Martian soil is actually made of anything else it will yield two American pints per cubic foot. Which is why I prefer the British pint in the first place because is closer to a half of a German liter which is larger than an American 26er which is closer to a paltry ripoff 750ml of French plonk.
Come up to Canada if you really want to get confused, order a full pint of some real beer and then think about how Milwaukee is ripping you Americans off. This is what will most likely cause the first Martian Colonial revolution. Which we wil wind up calling the "Martian Tea Party Revolt" They will be arguing like crazy and shooting each other right from the start about the size Martian pints in the soil instead of building a new cooperative society with health care. I would not even be surprised if the actually take guns along with them contributed by the NRA for the purpose of Martian Colonial security.
Compared to cows, pigs and chickens some insects, especially in larva stage can convert plant cellulose and starches into proteins and fats many times more efficiently. This is the real benefit. In some cases this is more efficient than processing the plants for human consumption. Take corn as a feed, it is very inefficient for humans to ingest it but feed it to some insects and they will convert it at a very high rate.
We are not talking about insects being the equivalent to a Shmoo which reproduces asexually and only consumes air, but it makes sense to add them to agriculture. What I do not like is the premise that it could feed the poor, however they may be on to something with this approach also. During the second world war when the Nazis used slave labour from concentration camps they fed the slave on potato peels and vegetable top waste from the soldiers mess kitchens. When the SS doctors suddenly realized that the slaves that were there to be worked to death were actually getting to be healthier than the soldiers the practice was stopped and the slaves were then put on a deliberate starvation diet.
Just maybe our opulent fat diet of animal proteins and refined starches will make the rich who can afford it less healthy than the insect eating peons and lower class workers in the city slums.
BUT the reality is that Arm SoCs are cutting into both intel and amd. The shine is off the 45-65 watts small space heater chipsets and the race to heat whole rooms with 100 watt plus chips is over.
Power = power. Or less vaguely, electricity = computational power; more = better.
Low-end stuff is going low-power but if you want a system to do video editing+encoding, CAD, compilation of large software or any of the other common problems then buying a mobile phone glued to the inside of a normal desktop chassis is a really dumb idea. [In short: Workstations are not going anywhere. Professionals will still use them, just home user penetration will drop off.]
Good points, but it all comes down to bang for buck. Most graphic houses use high powered servers and a few high powered work stations. The market for small form factor devices that pack a decent punch at low wattage on the desktop is still there. People using game consoles for net access in the living room proves one thing there is a market for something quiet small and with a fair computational punch. Microsoft and Sony have gone for the closed ecosystem approach to the users living rooms.
There is room for something like a Steambox that can do much more and more importantly if this same device can easily be converted into a desktop full fledged computer it might catch on with more than just gaming. Nvidia is already trying to rev up the market but they do not have the marketing skills to make it work as they are up against a wall of competition and essentially they have no access to retail store space and no way to showcase what they are really capable of doing on devices without Microsoft and Windows getting in the way.
This is why they need to collaborate with someone like AMD and go head to head against the Wintel juggernaut. It can be done. By and large the general public hates Windows and this is not at all because of the companies that manufactured the components and computers. Sure sell Windows on the device for those that insist upon it, but if Microsoft turns around and bullies you for selling a genuine dual boot system, joe public might just be with you this time around. Advertise your steam linux install as a new and revolutionary multipurpose operating system with full fledged pc capabilities as well as being a great gaming console.
After all FFMPEG is already being used just about everywhere on the planet except on a straight install of Windows or Mac! Go after the jugular and do things with OpenGL and FFMPEG on Linux that leaves DirectX and Windows in the dust. Again it can be done! Samsung is already cleaning up with smart TVs and they all use some form of the Linux kernel in combination with FFMPEG. Let Microsoft bang down your door and threaten you with their hoard of little weasel lawyers. If the public thinks they are being prevented from having something by a bully like Microsoft it could really pay off in a hurry! Like I said the Samsung/Apple war did wonders for Samsung to say the least.
NVidia needs to partner with someone soon and a partnership between NVIdia and Amd is not a bad step to avoid a melt down to an all arm and intel duopoly.
By creating a monopoly in the discrete graphics card market, great idea.
Point was that the discrete graphics card market is dead it is a shrinking small sector and there is not even room for one player! The few computer stores that are left out there only have a few in stock for a very limited PC gaming crowd who are essentially running out of game options as PC gaming is also dying, albeit a slower death than the home desktop pc but it is still dying.
What options do AMD and Nvidia have? They still have good manufacturing facilities and they still both have a decent work force. However individually they are not capable of creating anything truly new and exciting. Asus, Lenovo, Acer, HP, Dell are all moving toward onboard Haswells without either NVidia or AMD discrete graphics in all their offerings. Apple is exclusively all Intel integrated graphics. What market share is there left for them in this equation? The only solution is to blow the works and do something completely radical and totally off the wall essentially screw all of their possible customers and Microsoft by bringing out something huge and different something that will work in either a living room or an office and run whatever the user so chooses except perhaps OS 10.
imagine a low wattage silent pint sized x86-64 computer that blows anything else on the market out of the water with performance and graphics and is smaller than a Mac Mini and at about the same price point. Perfect for gamers or offices or where ever. Nvidia and AMD put together could very easily do it and easily bypass Asus and the like. Steam Linux would instantly be onboard, Microsoft well, you have to pay for their software anyway so what do they matter they are not even in the equation except some will insist on buying their os, Heck the super mini could even be set up to run Windows and a Steam Linux install and the user would not even have to know the difference. Chances are they would not care for that matter as long as they could play games and not hose their Windows machine while doing it. LOL
This might all seem far fetched but is it? Gamers could care less about which OS they run and Windows software home users could care less if the machine is actually tuned to run something other than Windows for games. I look at EA games out west here and guess what the PC games are not exactly flying off the shelves the way they once did. Hell they do not even put PC into their TV adds for NHL Hockey they just advertise it for either playstation or Xbox. Steam Linux on a super mini could turn all this around overnight.
Intel is counting on Haswell to increase chip sales. AMD is hurting like crazy and the gamer market will not hurt them with consoles. BUT the reality is that Arm SoCs are cutting into both intel and amd. The shine is off the 45-65 watts small space heater chipsets and the race to heat whole rooms with 100 watt plus chips is over.
1000 watt water cooled gamer pc power supplies are a footnote in computing history. Low wattage is more than just a trend it is where computing is heading like it or not. Huge NVidia based cards with leaf blowers attached are a dead end and I think NVidia is starting to realize this. NVidia is in trouble and they know it. Essentially what PC sales are left are all heading down the low power road. NVidia needs to partner with someone soon and a partnership between NVIdia and Amd is not a bad step to avoid a melt down to an all arm and intel duopoly.
It would be a good thing to see them create a real alternative to Intel and produce low wattage embedded boards that knock everything else for six and can run whatever the manufacturer or home brew builder desires. A friendly move towards Linux just indicates to me that Microshaft has given them the willies by going all intel on their Surface products and Asus, Acer, Lenovo and all the rest are jumping on the Haswell bandwagon as well because it is the way Microshaft is heading. I have the sneaking suspicion that Microshaft could care less if RT arm based devices actually sell, perhaps they were created to not sell!
As long as Nvidia does not see the writing on the wall and regards AMD as competition they do not see that Intel is actually blind siding them into oblivion. The market for expensive separate gpus is a dead end Nvidia's ventures into arm SoCs is not enough to save them from what is happening but a joint venture effectively creating an OpenSource product that can run anything including Windows just might! Asus tried to pull the wool over users eyes with a bullshit quick boot of a crippled Linux install in a Windows partition..can't remember what they called it but it was complete bullshit. AMD in combination with Nvidia could really shake things up and do things that would get users excited again, challenge the MPEGLA and included the bad set of codecs, then unlike Samsung don't roll over and take it up the butt, instead tell Microshaft to take a flying f&%k and include support for fat devices and don't pay the turds for it. REBELL FOR A CHANGE and create something which Microshaft is afraid of so that the jerks will run to their lawyers to stop you from selling it like Apple did to Samsung! This is how to be innovative and most importantly get sympathy from the public, nothing helped Samsung to sell the hell out of Galaxy phones more than the Apple bullshit law suits! DO THE SAME THING TO Intel, Apple and Microsoft and their MPEGLA and stupid patents, give them a big taste of their own medicine and make them choke on it, users will be lining up to buck the system and by your products!
Many here do not understand what created the US rust belt in the first place. The proportion of asses in chairs as compared to those actually shoveling the shit. Our education system is predicated upon putting the "educated ass" in the chair after graduation. This is because by and large those who are rich are lazy and they spawn lazy offspring who think that sitting in a chair and directing things is actually doing work.
These new titan of business are a bunch of idiots who actually believe that ideas are worth more than the implementation of ideas and to this end have subverted the concepts of patents and copyright. The fools actually believe that the ideas are worth more than the product and therefore have devalued labour and physical work to such an extent that they are crippling the entire economy.
China is following suit and creating a bunch of tiny tyrants. When the Western economy of cheap trinkets collapses because the workers who buy them have to chose between trinkets and food, then the over abundance of asses in chairs will face the very said same devaluation of their work. We have those who have recently horded gold and moved all their movable wealth off shore to tax havens. The asses in chairs created by or current economic system of "intellectual property being more valuable than actual goods" will sink us. And the same thing will happen in China as millions will lose work because of the overvaluation of "intellectual property". There was wisdom in the rhetorical statement "is a worker not worth his salt?" Obviously the truth of this statement eludes those who only see ideas as having value, we are in for a very rough ride this time around because of the latest round of little tyrants devaluing labour. The insanity of what is happening to public schools and how these idiots can manipulate things to the point of injecting falsehoods into education is pathetic and symptomatic of why our economy will not recover this time around. The little tyrants won't let it and they do not even realize the damage they are doing.
A 'hard reset' is just a cold boot- it forces all apps and the OS to shut down immediately, and reboots the device. You do it by holding the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons down.
You seem to be referring to a Restore- that resets the device to factory settings, wiping all content. That's done through iTunes.
And if the problems came back when your backup was restored, then obviously there was something wrong with what was restored.
Or if you are really adventurous just stick a paper clip into your lightning connector and wiggle it around.
These diagnostic patents are all held and defended by the American drug company cartels who hold the world ransom. Same thing applies to the detection of the breast cancer gene, that is why you only see the wealthy being tested for this indicator gene, then deciding to have their breasts removed if they inherited the gene. Nothing is holding back the rapid advancement of diagnostics more than the drug company cartels and they need to be broken up permanently the same way standard oil was dealt with!
All well and good developing cheap portable diagnostic devices but if ideas like, doing assay by the software counting a specific shape can be individually patented per shape and are then held ransom by crooked corporations with cooked up patents these devices will be far too expensive to do any good at all.
Or variations upon a ground bass in dactyls. I have already written several over the years just to see how long one can avoid using harmonic repetition. If you get to five variations you are doing well, provided you avoid iambs in pentameter in the ground otherwise you will wind up sounding far too much like Thomas Tallis or a bad limerick being recited by a drunken Irishman!
We're not "irresponsible and at times illiterate keyboard players". I have 3 higher degrees in music, and I'm just the one overseeing the project. Furthermore, nobody said we're archiving music in MIDI. The "responsible" organizations that will archive these works include IMSLP, Musopen, Wikimedia Commons, Archive.org, and Freemusicarchive. PS we're not using MIDI from a keyboard.
Very glad to hear that this effort is more than just another digitally dysfunctional music notation idea. Yes I am using MuseScore already. The input methods in the software are highly logical I have paginated studies to work as pdf that are readable on e-ink devices. I do see a very realistic possibility of using larger e-ink devices on a music stand instead of paper in the near future. This is why a common format such as PDF is so important! What might finally free up the digital distribution of scores is if companies like Kobo come onboard with the idea and produce purpose built e-ink music readers. That way there could be a way to actually sell high quality digital scores edited by reputable professionals again.
Certainly public domain releases of music such as Bach will also help, but as I am sure you will agree those who set the scores need some source of income. As long as there is no real system for the distribution of digital scores we will be stuck in no mans land. Only 15 years ago I could go into any number of music stores and obtain high quality printed music scores, now the industry is completely stuck in limbo. We do need a technological boost to revive it immediately and I believe that e-ink is that boost. Sorry but iPads, laptops and devices will work but have serious drawbacks for the musician and the student just won't cut it on the music stand, we need purpose built devices that excel at the display of musical scores. All the bells and whistles of sounds are not at all necessary or even desirable!
Enough of my rant but the reality is the music publishing industry has problems because they cannot get their heads out of the collective butts!
is that audiences are not interested in an academic reference recording of Bach but in the richly varied interpretations of artists each with their own gifts --- using arrangements of their own choice, instruments of their own choice, in a venue of their own choice.
It is like trying to capture Shakespeare in a bottle.
If you watch Glen Gould going over Peters editions at Columbia Records during recording sessions you would fully understand the importance of scholarly work to preserve musical scores. Without decent editions of sheet music for musicians to interpret in the first place there would be no great recordings. Many great Jazz musicians use Bach's music for melodic and harmonic inspiration, as have many composers over the centuries. Jaco Pastorius whom many consider the greatest improvising bassist of all time, would sit and sight read just the bass cleff of Bachs work to work on his chops. A music teacher looks at a student and says to the parent "yes your child has talent, but does (he or she) have a talent for work?", the same thing applies to musical inspiration which mostly comes from a talent for study and work in the first place. If you pick up a piece of Bach and cannot find a groove or riff somewhere in it then you should seriously consider giving up on music!
Yes - and the score that we're going to make goes to 11 in comparison. Because it's digital, meaning "source code", not just a printed PDF. Check this out - it's important for the understanding of what we're doing:
The real "source" is the printed score in most cases, especially for those who actually read, study and write music. Irresponsible and at times illiterate keyboard players creating MIDI "source code" is not the answer to the preservation of our heritage of printed music. To archive "digital music" in the form of MIDI or editable format is a blind alley quite literally. Originals must be preserved by responsible organizations!
For instance the historic first edition publications that are in collections need to be universally converted to a digital preservation format. Much that is currently "out of print" and being held by publications like Schott needs to be carefully preserved. THIS INCLUDES much great music that was written not very long ago and is not yet in the public domain!
Many of the great publishing houses are going to go under soon because of the digital revolution and the fact that they are resisting it and insisting on sticking with paper print sales. Many like Schott and Peters have in their possession editions of music by composers which are still not considered public domain compositions but are very important music. These music publishing houses cannot afford to digitize their entire libraries, therefore image to PDF is still very important as it can be done much more cheaply and quickly than hiring a pile of people to re-edit to score digitally all the editions they own. Peters is a very important publishing house in terms of the accuracy and scholarly work put into their editions. A great score annotates why an editor deviated from sources and what the original source was. Most that are using midi today to notate from a keyboard device have no clue about what I am alluding to here!
Here's hoping that some enterprising company like Sony does not suddenly decided to buy up the rights to all the sheet music the way they bought out most of the recording industry in the 1970's through the 90's. If a company like them does the future of digital music publishing is bleak indeed!
Companies like Peters that do sell good accurate scores of Bach are so behind the times they literally cannot see the forest because the trees are still being cut down. It is entirely possible for them to distribute decent editions for sale in e-pub and the technology to put scores on e-ink could be made usable with essentially e-reader technology that is score sized instead of pocket book. I would gladly pay for a decent music e-ink reader that would work on my music stand. The information age is slogging along and eventually the real potential of digital music notation will happen. But unfortunately we still have those who have their heads up their assets in the music publishing industry.
Werner was a stickler for accurate notation and much of what is there on the historic digital archive, especially the Bach section, is very accurate. Unfortunately since his death others have corrupted what he started and some of the archive is not good or even accurate notation, however most of the Bach is excellent and done by people who understand the importance of accuracy in music notation. Many of the scores adhere to original source where ever possible. Which can be very difficult as in the time of the great champions of Bach's music during the late classical era much of Bach's sheet music had fallen into oblivion.
For instance a friend of Felix Mendelssohn actually found music scores by Bach being used by a butcher to wrap meats! So the digitizing for all time of all our great heritage of written music is as important as project Gutenberg. Werner understood this as many others do and either the existing music publishing houses will get on board or they will be a footnote in the history of written music.
It seems possible that government funding is as responsive to the private sector and there will be more money available to researchers when they can more easily accept corporate donations. That is just my 2 ruble opinion.
You can bet the private sector funding to science will start to explode in Russia. Especially for scientific analysis to prove that there are no problems with the mega project models of everything currently being planned by the new economic titans of Russia.
These involve corporations set up for wholesale cutting of the forests in the Urals, southern Siberia and the Kamchatka and then selling whole logs on world markets at fire sale prices. Or the upgrades to the Siberian railway to move oil to China and the west cheaper than pipe lines. All the while controlled by the new rulers of Russia, a very small elite who will do the same thing a very small elite is currently doing elsewhere, namely what they specialize in which is take the money and run entire countries economies.
In Canada we have companies that pay for "scientific studies" to prove that fencing in all the woodland Caribou left in Alberta will protect them from the removal of the forest by the massive oil sands projects. Science is being perverted by industry in such a way as to become a false religion. We were taught in school to respect science and now the backbone of our belief in science is being subverted by those who in reality could care less about future generations. Science that is paid for by industry to "prove something" is pseudo science and that goes for all the pseudo sciences especially ones like "political science" and any "environmental science" which is paid for by those with a vested interest in raping the environment as quickly and cheaply as possible.
We in Canada have the same bullshit going on, the pipeline to Kitimat BC to ship oil and natural gas is silently being done and the pseudo science to prove how efficient and safe the process will be is being ramped up as our scientists who might raise real objections to the insanity are also being muzzled. All over the world there is an assault going on against scientists, we have scientists in the US being paid to disprove things. This started with industries like the tobacco industry then went on the the asbestos industry and is now a firmly established method of the oil industry. All of whom at one time have enlisted government help through political cronyism and paid for pseudo science to disprove things. Why should we expect the Russians to fall behind in the lucrative field of the modern pseudo sciences? "ask not what your country".... BULLSHIT WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME? YOU LIBERAL COMMIE ASSHOLES!