How do you control the player when you have music blasting at full volume? I think that a device that produces sound and is controlled by sound is a stupid idea.
You need to have circuitry similar to that found in noise-cancellation headphones. In real time, take the input from the microphone, subtract the output of the stereo. What's left is the ambient noise (road noise, etc) and your voice. Apply a bandpass filter centered around the frequency of the human voice, et voila.
With loud music, of course, you may have some trouble, depending on the dynamic range of the microphone/input signal.
Ah yes, thank you. I knew that the Dynamic DNS services did not provide DNS hosting or aliasing (i.e. can't use your own domain name), but I hadn't thought about using a combination of the two.
For slashdot readers wondering how, here's the way to do it:
Sign up for Granite Canyon DNS hosting service (if you haven't already).
Sign up for a DynDNS.org hostname, yourhost.dyndns.org.
Set up an alias (via a CNAME record) that maps your domain name to your DynDNS hostname.
Actually I saw one a while back from HP that was rectangular (and exactly business card size). I have never seen another one like it--most of them have the rounded edges. I think it only held 12.5 megs though...
If Jon Katz ever plays brainball, my bets are on him.
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We've all seen these before, but compare them and think, "What is Aqua doing that GNOME is not?" Nothing!
Actually, I can see a few things:
Transparency in the menus and dialogs
Anti-Aliased text
Sharp-looking icons because they are vector- and not pixmap-based, and will scale to any size and still look good.
There are many improvements that you cannot see from a screenshot, such as the cool way the buttons throb, the 3d way the dialogs slide out of their windows, and the way windows iconize by being "sucked" down, bending and distorting like a genie being pulled into a bottle.
This is because of Quartz, a new vector-based graphics layer upon which Aqua is built.
What use, says he, of a leanring langauge that you immediately have to drop using once you understand it?
I disagree. I think that learning more than one programming language helps one distinguish the concepts from the constructs. Rather than rote memorization of keywords and how they work, you start thinking more abstractly about what you want to accomplish, and _then_ how to implement it. A much better understanding of concepts evolves, particularly for those who haven't had a formal CS education.
The code sample looked good in the preview, but didn't display correctly. Let me try again: # example of bad code { print<<END_PRINT; This line prints END_PRINT }
No kidding! I have several Perl developers working for me, and the junior ones are *always* making mistakes like this:
{ print This line prints END_PRINT }
and wondering why it doesn't work correctly. (For those who aren't familiar with Perl, the above is called a "here document" and the END_PRINT is supposed to start in the first column.) It's the only construct in Perl where whitespace makes a difference.
I can't imagine what kind of headaches I'd have if I had them programming in Python!
In the beginning, FireFly was a research project at the MIT media lab. And FireFly was good.
At the time, it existed only as a music recommendation program. (It was called something else at the time, I forget what). You rated artists you like and hate, and based on your ratings and others' ratings, it would give you the "top 5 artists you'd probably like". The more artists you rated, the more accurate the results. And it was always right, at least for me. It introduced me to a LOT of music I would have otherwise probably never heard (or even heard of). Of course in the early days a larger percentage of the users were into non-mainstream music (like I am).
Then, they got some venture capital funding or something and created a company/web site called FireFly. It started to go a little more mainstream, and they started adding virtual community features to the site. All of which distracted from their primary strength, the music recommendation system. And they made changes to it as well, adding more of a random element to its' recommendations. Instead of giving you the calculated top five, it would give you five "recommendations" that would change every time you visited. At this point I started losing interest... the recommendations were not always spot-on.
Later they decided they wanted to sell this collaborative filtering technology to others. They shutdown the FireFly site & they turned over the music recommendation system and its database to Launch.com. Firefly started catering to the marketers with its technology. At this point I completely lost interest in the company. And I didn't like what Launch did to the recommendation system.
So now I hear M$ has bought and squashed FireFly. Yawn.
The site says that it is not a commercial product, but rather a build-one-yourself-from-these-specs type of thing.
You want something way cool that is NOT vapor? The empeg car.
This thing makes me salivate. A removable in-dash MP3 player. Connect it to your PC to download music, create playlists, etc. Put it back in your car and use the remote to select your song/playlist. Store 476 hours of music on it (that's three weeks straight without a repeat). It has an awesome LED GUI including real-time visuals. And, it runs Linux. If you know a little Python, you can create your own custom GUI for it!
The one-letter domain names were gone a long time ago.
I remember someone who was tracking the registered two-letter domain names with a 26x26 matrix... it filled up sometime last year.
On to the threes...
-- B.P.
P.S. They oughta allow ALL the 7-bit ascii characters in domain names. Even "/" and "." if they are properly escaped. Then we could all go to http://www.\/\..com
Currently, the power line solutions are relatively slow (about 350Kbps). But they are cheap, $109 for 2 computers _and_ 1 stand-alone printer (after current $50 rebate). So if you can stand slower networking when your significant other turns on the hair dryer, they might work for you.
This Intelogis news release indicates that power-line networking may be getting faster (10Mbps) and more reliable. I wonder how they're doing that, spread spectrum perhaps? Also noteworthy: Intelogis software is open source.
In addition to the phone-line networking products previously mentioned, Intelogis makes a power-line networking product, PassPort, which is promising because they've open-sourced their code and are working on Linux drivers. And, they're cheap! $109 for two PCs and a printer isn't shabby. Of course we're only talking about 350Kbps, but when you're sharing 56K or ISDN (128K) who cares. Plus, I don't know why, it appeals to me to be able to have only one thing to plug in. The brick IS the jack. cooool.
It is an arrangement of the alphabet, known as a Vigenere Square, in which each successive row is shifted one place to the left (In this case, some of the letters are shifted in position to spell the word KRYPTOS), with reference alphabets along the top, bottom, and side. Though used in many ways, this table is very often used for one-time-pad encryption. For example, if someone wanted to encrypt the letter "G", and the key they were using was the letter "F", he would just look down column "G" to row "F" and would see that "G" becomes an,'E'. Since there are 26 rows and column on the Vigenere square, any letter can be encrypted as any other letter depending on the key used.
This came from the info d ocument other posters have mentioned.
I didn't know about bookpool... yep they even have slightly lower prices than buybooks.com.
I still like Amazon with its user reviews, etc, but I use fatbrain.com too. Prefer to give my business to the sites that are the most useful to me. But then, I don't buy that many books. Except O'Reillys of course.
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You need to have circuitry similar to that found in noise-cancellation headphones. In real time, take the input from the microphone, subtract the output of the stereo. What's left is the ambient noise (road noise, etc) and your voice. Apply a bandpass filter centered around the frequency of the human voice, et voila.
With loud music, of course, you may have some trouble, depending on the dynamic range of the microphone/input signal.
-bp
For slashdot readers wondering how, here's the way to do it:
A kit with bizcard CD-Rs, labels and software is here. 12 disks, 16 glossy labels, and software for $99. They offer everything separately, though.
Actually I saw one a while back from HP that was rectangular (and exactly business card size). I have never seen another one like it--most of them have the rounded edges. I think it only held 12.5 megs though...
I suppose that propagation to the root servers takes a fixed amount of time no matter what the service, but would love to be shown otherwise.
If Jon Katz ever plays brainball, my bets are on him.
Actually, I can see a few things:
- Transparency in the menus and dialogs
- Anti-Aliased text
- Sharp-looking icons because they are vector- and not pixmap-based, and will scale to any size and still look good.
There are many improvements that you cannot see from a screenshot, such as the cool way the buttons throb, the 3d way the dialogs slide out of their windows, and the way windows iconize by being "sucked" down, bending and distorting like a genie being pulled into a bottle.This is because of Quartz, a new vector-based graphics layer upon which Aqua is built.
Read the Ars Technica article for more info.
What use, says he, of a leanring langauge that you immediately have to drop using once you understand it?
I disagree. I think that learning more than one programming language helps one distinguish the concepts from the constructs. Rather than rote memorization of keywords and how they work, you start thinking more abstractly about what you want to accomplish, and _then_ how to implement it. A much better understanding of concepts evolves, particularly for those who haven't had a formal CS education.
The code sample looked good in the preview, but didn't display correctly. Let me try again:
# example of bad code
{
print<<END_PRINT;
This line prints
END_PRINT
}
{
print This line prints
END_PRINT
}
and wondering why it doesn't work correctly. (For those who aren't familiar with Perl, the above is called a "here document" and the END_PRINT is supposed to start in the first column.) It's the only construct in Perl where whitespace makes a difference.
I can't imagine what kind of headaches I'd have if I had them programming in Python!
Looks like it didn't work, since you had to be moderated down to a 0.
Yes, why not at least link some of the articles to the new hardware? That'll give you incremental load for testing.
Actually it's "Reeve".
MS' Server has been down so many times that it's almost sad. Ok, well it's not even close to sad. It's hilarious. I'd say they've already lost.
Not to mention that their pages were broken to about half the browsers from the time they started. Doesn't make them look good.
In the beginning, FireFly was a research project at the MIT media lab. And FireFly was good.
At the time, it existed only as a music recommendation program. (It was called something else at the time, I forget what). You rated artists you like and hate, and based on your ratings and others' ratings, it would give you the "top 5 artists you'd probably like". The more artists you rated, the more accurate the results. And it was always right, at least for me. It introduced me to a LOT of music I would have otherwise probably never heard (or even heard of). Of course in the early days a larger percentage of the users were into non-mainstream music (like I am).
Then, they got some venture capital funding or something and created a company/web site called FireFly. It started to go a little more mainstream, and they started adding virtual community features to the site. All of which distracted from their primary strength, the music recommendation system. And they made changes to it as well, adding more of a random element to its' recommendations. Instead of giving you the calculated top five, it would give you five "recommendations" that would change every time you visited. At this point I started losing interest... the recommendations were not always spot-on.
Later they decided they wanted to sell this collaborative filtering technology to others. They shutdown the FireFly site & they turned over the music recommendation system and its database to Launch.com. Firefly started catering to the marketers with its technology. At this point I completely lost interest in the company. And I didn't like what Launch did to the recommendation system.
So now I hear M$ has bought and squashed FireFly. Yawn.
You want something way cool that is NOT vapor? The empeg car.
This thing makes me salivate. A removable in-dash MP3 player. Connect it to your PC to download music, create playlists, etc. Put it back in your car and use the remote to select your song/playlist. Store 476 hours of music on it (that's three weeks straight without a repeat). It has an awesome LED GUI including real-time visuals. And, it runs Linux. If you know a little Python, you can create your own custom GUI for it!
Unless they start over again from scratch and make a lean, fast engine that's built for standards compliance from the very beginning.
Oh, that's what Mozilla is.
You'll see a close race again once iPlanet Communicator 5.0 (or whatever they call it) is released.
--
B.P.
The one-letter domain names were gone a long time ago.
I remember someone who was tracking the registered two-letter domain names with a 26x26 matrix... it filled up sometime last year.
On to the threes...
--
B.P.
P.S. They oughta allow ALL the 7-bit ascii characters in domain names. Even "/" and "." if they are properly escaped. Then we could all go to http://www.\/\..com
The sentence doesn't even finish either. Paying what?
This Intelogis news release indicates that power-line networking may be getting faster (10Mbps) and more reliable. I wonder how they're doing that, spread spectrum perhaps? Also noteworthy: Intelogis software is open source.
In addition to the phone-line networking products previously mentioned, Intelogis makes a power-line networking product, PassPort, which is promising because they've open-sourced their code and are working on Linux drivers. And, they're cheap! $109 for two PCs and a printer isn't shabby. Of course we're only talking about 350Kbps, but when you're sharing 56K or ISDN (128K) who cares. Plus, I don't know why, it appeals to me to be able to have only one thing to plug in. The brick IS the jack. cooool.
Looks sorta like just the alphabet over and over.
-bp
Looks like they're only 25% done or so... no mention of when even a beta will be available.
I didn't know about bookpool... yep they even have slightly lower prices than buybooks.com.
I still like Amazon with its user reviews, etc, but I use fatbrain.com too. Prefer to give my business to the sites that are the most useful to me. But then, I don't buy that many books. Except O'Reillys of course.