I read through the GNU Radio website, and even though I found it informative in terms of the basic idea and examples, I couldn't find anything relating to what extra hardware is needed. (Maybe I just didn't look long enough?)
What extra hardware is needed in addition to a computer? Are we talking DSP chips and boards, or something a little more exotic?
Thank you for a potentially exciting project, though. This makes me want to renew my ham radio license.:o)
Both of the above statements are wrong. The Jury does not have the power to have a law re-examined or repealed by issuing a verdict.
Okay, I did word that wrong. I did indeed mean, that the jury can disregard a law they feel is bad, and return the "Not Guilty" verdict.
But like you said, the judges and attorneys don't like this, and will use all of their power to try to smite you to the lowest pit of hell if you exercise what is essentially a fundamental right.
I got called to pay my "voting tax" next week (Jury Duty), and I would dread being on a case like this. While common sense would have me acquit on the basis that a broad "patent" like this is a mockery of the Office, and that even if eBay were abusing it with intent, I'd still not have much sympathy for this guy -- it's still the law, and I'd still have to vote according to what the law says, not what it means...
I would have to differ with this argument here. In my mind, a juror has the power to overturn a bad law with his/her verdict of "not guilty".
If someone is being sued/prosecuted over a bad law, and you feel they did nothing wrong, you, as a juror, do indeed have the power to have that law re-examined, and possibly repealed. The problem is, you need to get the other jurors to understand agree with you.
A verdict of "not guilty" does mean a lot in these kinds of cases.
Are there many other geek coders/gardeners/cooks out there? I love all 3, but coding definitely comes first =]
Interestingly enough, in the course of searching for a house to buy, one of my top priorities (besides broadband availability) is whether I can have my own garden. I guess once the bug hits, it just won't let go.
Nice to know I'm not the only geek cook who wants to garden.:o)
When you were starting out as a group, did you encounter a lot of friction and resistance from middle and/or upper management about your wanting to work on Open Source projects for IBM? If so, what did you do to overcome the objections and become the team you are now? I think the answer to this would help a lot of other people in other companies get mainstream acceptance of the idea of OSS in corporate environments.
There's an interesting storyline going on over at a comic called Misty the Mouse. Most of this comic is an anthropomorphic madcap romp, but the latest storyline is a (so-far) well done fan comic of Star Wars called "Imperial Guardrails".
You don't really need to go out of your way to find a 9" PC monitor. There's a place called Earth LCD that has loads of surplus and overstock LCDs available, including touch screens. Some surfing around will come up with a good 8.5-9" color LCD with a VGA input.
I would like to point out that I did not write it that way. I just said "datails here." Apparently, Slashdot editors do edit the words sent in to them.
As the submitter of this article, I'm afraid I missed a couple of important things.
First, here's a link to the site for the software itself: DAKOTA
And second, as seen on this page, there are two libraries (DOT and NPSOL) required by DAKOTA that are expensive commercial software products. So, in order to make DAKOTA truly free, these libraries will need to be replaced with GPL/LGPL equivilants. I just wish I had the programming skill to help with something of this scale.
There is a third library needed, called OPT++, that is not GPL or an Artistic license. I'm unable to determine what this library is or its terms of use, as the page that the DAKOTA web site links to is no good.
All of the other libraries needed by DAKOTA are GPL/LGPL, with one using an Artistic license.
It's funny, but I once saw a job listing that required *10* years of Java experience.
Has Java even been around that long?
My personaly favorite was a couple years ago, this company wanted a web developer with 6 years of experience in Javascript. Javascript had been in existence for all of about four at the time.
Except Samplitude and Sequoia are incredibly super-expensive products. I'm personally looking at buying a Mac G4 (or maybe G5 if they come out soon) as OS-X has an extremely low latency (~2ms regardless of system load) and Logic Audio is being rewritten for OS-X as we speak.
I wish Cubase were getting an upgrade to OS-X as well...
Actually, it is all working through an honest-to-God hardware RAID controller (by Promise, to be exact). Once, we were streaming 8 tracks at 24/96 through to the hard drives, and taxing it to about 20% of its total capacity.
Okay, you have a Samsung phone that can pinpoint your location (should you choose to let it)...
In Portland, OR (I used to live there), they have some of these electronic billboards that can cycle through a set of animated advertisements. Imagine having a number of these everywhere, that could automatically change their ads based upon who happens to be standing around or driving by...
Scary or kinda cool (from a tech standpoint anyway)?
I can't think of very many apps that require a single 80MB/s stream
Neither can I, which is why...[snip]
Well, I can, and it's one I use all of the time. Music studio reocrding and production.
My brother and I both have a complete music studio. We built it with a 1.4G Athlon and an ATA100 RAID0 (I would've preferred SCSI160, but this works fine). When you're streaming sixteen channels at 24/96 from 16 different microphones, trust me, speed matters more than anything.
A quick question for you... Does this mean that if an album is actually well promoted that there's no way the music can be good, then? Is that the new perception?
I, for one, think it will happen that someone will self-promote their music successfully, eventually, whether over the web, or in magazines, or wherever. So it's not a good idea to get locked into the thinking that good promotion automatically equals prefab music.
The Net has shown that it can change all kinds of rules. That's what the RIAA and MPAA are fighting. But, if history has shown anything, it's that even the most powerful of organizations can't fight change.
Eventually, the "tyrants" on the boards of these corps and co-ops are going to retire/die/whatever, and they'll be replaced. It won't be too long before they get replaced by the current generation. Hopefully, that will bring about some positive change in these corps and co-ops. It's happened before, and it can happen again.
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I read through the GNU Radio website, and even though I found it informative in terms of the basic idea and examples, I couldn't find anything relating to what extra hardware is needed. (Maybe I just didn't look long enough?)
:o)
What extra hardware is needed in addition to a computer? Are we talking DSP chips and boards, or something a little more exotic?
Thank you for a potentially exciting project, though. This makes me want to renew my ham radio license.
His earlier albums were some electronic works of art.
Both of the above statements are wrong. The Jury does not have the power to have a law re-examined or repealed by issuing a verdict.
:o)
Okay, I did word that wrong. I did indeed mean, that the jury can disregard a law they feel is bad, and return the "Not Guilty" verdict.
But like you said, the judges and attorneys don't like this, and will use all of their power to try to smite you to the lowest pit of hell if you exercise what is essentially a fundamental right.
I am, of course, not a lawyer.
My first thought was:
:o)
Imagine RFC10023: TCP/IP and IPv6 Over Gravity Waves.
I got called to pay my "voting tax" next week (Jury Duty), and I would dread being on a case like this. While common sense would have me acquit on the basis that a broad "patent" like this is a mockery of the Office, and that even if eBay were abusing it with intent, I'd still not have much sympathy for this guy -- it's still the law, and I'd still have to vote according to what the law says, not what it means...
I would have to differ with this argument here. In my mind, a juror has the power to overturn a bad law with his/her verdict of "not guilty".
If someone is being sued/prosecuted over a bad law, and you feel they did nothing wrong, you, as a juror, do indeed have the power to have that law re-examined, and possibly repealed. The problem is, you need to get the other jurors to understand agree with you.
A verdict of "not guilty" does mean a lot in these kinds of cases.
You know, I think I would rather trust the strangers.
I believe the phrase is, "Better the Devil you know."
This means Microsoft, sorry to say. Of course, I use Mozilla exclusively on a Mac and a Linux machine. No Windows boxes for me at all.
Thanks. I enjoy the series a lot.
For those just tuning in, my sig line is a quote from Cowboy Bebop, from the episode titled "Heavy Metal Queen".
We now return to your regularly scheduled discussion.
is that the new animated Metropolis or the great original?
Either one, I guess. I had both in mind when I mentioned it.
I can't believe I forgot Lord of the Rings. I also can't believe I spelled CowboyNeal's name wrong. Oh well...
Which movie would you like to see in IMAX?
:o)
Are there many other geek coders/gardeners/cooks out there? I love all 3, but coding definitely comes first =]
Interestingly enough, in the course of searching for a house to buy, one of my top priorities (besides broadband availability) is whether I can have my own garden. I guess once the bug hits, it just won't let go.
Nice to know I'm not the only geek cook who wants to garden. :o)
When you were starting out as a group, did you encounter a lot of friction and resistance from middle and/or upper management about your wanting to work on Open Source projects for IBM? If so, what did you do to overcome the objections and become the team you are now? I think the answer to this would help a lot of other people in other companies get mainstream acceptance of the idea of OSS in corporate environments.
There's an interesting storyline going on over at a comic called Misty the Mouse. Most of this comic is an anthropomorphic madcap romp, but the latest storyline is a (so-far) well done fan comic of Star Wars called "Imperial Guardrails".
Enjoy. :o)
Could these be the long-awaited explanation for spontaneous human combustion? ;o)
You don't really need to go out of your way to find a 9" PC monitor. There's a place called Earth LCD that has loads of surplus and overstock LCDs available, including touch screens. Some surfing around will come up with a good 8.5-9" color LCD with a VGA input.
Actually, I don't think that's a bad idea. Maybe I'll write something up and post it somewhere. :o)
Free as in "Free of Insane Corporate Licensing". But free as in speech works, too.
I would like to point out that I did not write it that way. I just said "datails here." Apparently, Slashdot editors do edit the words sent in to them.
First, here's a link to the site for the software itself: DAKOTA
And second, as seen on this page, there are two libraries (DOT and NPSOL) required by DAKOTA that are expensive commercial software products. So, in order to make DAKOTA truly free, these libraries will need to be replaced with GPL/LGPL equivilants. I just wish I had the programming skill to help with something of this scale.
There is a third library needed, called OPT++, that is not GPL or an Artistic license. I'm unable to determine what this library is or its terms of use, as the page that the DAKOTA web site links to is no good.
All of the other libraries needed by DAKOTA are GPL/LGPL, with one using an Artistic license.
But I liked Michael Moriarty much better. :o)
Not much to say about that hacker, though. So we'll just let stupidity speack for itself.
It's funny, but I once saw a job listing that required *10* years of Java experience.
Has Java even been around that long?
My personaly favorite was a couple years ago, this company wanted a web developer with 6 years of experience in Javascript. Javascript had been in existence for all of about four at the time.
Go figure, right?
I wish Cubase were getting an upgrade to OS-X as well...
Actually, it is all working through an honest-to-God hardware RAID controller (by Promise, to be exact). Once, we were streaming 8 tracks at 24/96 through to the hard drives, and taxing it to about 20% of its total capacity.
That's a lot of bandwidth.
Okay, you have a Samsung phone that can pinpoint your location (should you choose to let it)...
In Portland, OR (I used to live there), they have some of these electronic billboards that can cycle through a set of animated advertisements. Imagine having a number of these everywhere, that could automatically change their ads based upon who happens to be standing around or driving by...
Scary or kinda cool (from a tech standpoint anyway)?
Neither can I, which is why...[snip]
Well, I can, and it's one I use all of the time. Music studio reocrding and production.
My brother and I both have a complete music studio. We built it with a 1.4G Athlon and an ATA100 RAID0 (I would've preferred SCSI160, but this works fine). When you're streaming sixteen channels at 24/96 from 16 different microphones, trust me, speed matters more than anything.
So far, it's been keeping up quite well.
A quick question for you... Does this mean that if an album is actually well promoted that there's no way the music can be good, then? Is that the new perception?
I, for one, think it will happen that someone will self-promote their music successfully, eventually, whether over the web, or in magazines, or wherever. So it's not a good idea to get locked into the thinking that good promotion automatically equals prefab music.
The Net has shown that it can change all kinds of rules. That's what the RIAA and MPAA are fighting. But, if history has shown anything, it's that even the most powerful of organizations can't fight change.
Eventually, the "tyrants" on the boards of these corps and co-ops are going to retire/die/whatever, and they'll be replaced. It won't be too long before they get replaced by the current generation. Hopefully, that will bring about some positive change in these corps and co-ops. It's happened before, and it can happen again.
Okay, rant mode off. Thank you for reading.