Yeah it does both.
I use Ableton Live for Mac. My friend just got one. In 10 minutes we
set up an adhoc wireless network with AirPort
Used Audio & Midi Settings (part of OS X) to get the Macs to talk to MIDI each other
Had his copy of Live on the Mac start & stop recording on my copy of Live.
Stuff just works. Much less "turn it (comptuer/program/driver) off, then back on" crap.
Also, the Live rarely crashes on the Mac, which was pretty frequent on my XP SP2 machine. Even when you unplug the cheap M-audio Firewire Solo, while recording, Live keeps running - plug the firewire box back in and you're back up. On my Win machine, you had to at least stop & restart Live (and often log out or reboot).
Plus, when a program does crash on the Mac, I've always gotten my data back. It's like they have auto-save built in to the OS.
My friend and I both have extensive sysadmin & programming experience on Win & Linux/FreeBSD.
I'm also considering a career in VC. What is the lifestyle like? How do the hours compare to, say, the 24x7x365 in a start-up, or the 9-to-5 of an accountant?
Just a note - I got the base MB with 512MB, upgraded to 2 GB for $150 (generic RAM from pricewatch.com), and now the machine is bitchin fast. Even with Eclipse, lots of tabs in FireFox, Mail, iTunes, Terminal, and several MS RDC connections open at the same time.
I love this machine.
I don't use it for Photoshop, but Office is emulated and I really don't notice any sluggishness.
Next version of Photoshop is supposed to be native...
Planck Lengths - Any physicists want to chime in?
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I can't put my finger on the problem with
this statement
in the article:
Normally a particle moves by making a quantum jump, i.e., its intrinsic positional property changes from one discrete value to another. The fundamental discrete distance is on the order of the Planck Length (about 10^-35 meters), a very minute distance. However, there is no reason to suppose that the positional property of a particle cannot change by amounts larger than the fundamental value.
What about that?
Why can't particles jump several Planck Lengths? Or is it axiomatic? "They just can't."
Is the stuff about tunnelling true?
We are already seeing evidence of nonspatiality and instant long distance travel in the phenomenon known as quantum tunneling. In certain circumstances, particles are observed going through barriers in a way that defy classical physics. Interestingly, they seem to do so at speeds greater than the speed of light.
I'm in Bangalore on a business trip. Funny you mention "biometrics"; my Indian supervisor demonstrated their actual system to me, referring to it as the same. But I took it as irony...
What they do is take your right index finger, and mark around the fingernail with permanent marker -- so it gets real deep in the crease between skin and nail. Once you're marked, you can't vote again. Simple.
Polls don't need no stinkin computers, not even in the current tech capital of the world.
Circumvention of this scheme is not a huge issue in a place where election candidates routinely hold press conferences and hand the reporters envelopes filled with a watch and a Rs100 bill.
"The keys to this system are the sensors, the signal processing and the pattern recognition, and that's where the scientific meat of what we're doing resides." Jorgensen said
IOW, "The key to this system is the entire system."
Doesnt this assume you can only store information in particles with mass? For instance, light can have wavelengths smaller than the "width" of an electron.
uh-oh, prepare to read umpteen posts pointing out the obvious fact
On the Internet, an incendiary comment meant to evoke obvious, knee-jerk responses is called a troll. Seeing trolls on the font page of *.slashdot is depressing.
That's not important: maybe we're just getting shafted.
even at 1/4 the utilization and 1/4 the price for bandwidth, the ISP is still losing money on these customers
That makes sense, absolutely. If this reasoning is correct, prices will eventually rise as businesses that sell below cost begin to fail. There is nothing we can do to stop it.
But critically, we will observe this fair (to consumers) balancing only if there is ample competition to cut monopolistic price bloat. With megacorporate consolidation (eg AOL/TW) here in the US, we are beginning to run the risk of eliminating competition to point where the balancing force is negligible. However, you can bet that the ISPs will still use economic arguments such as this one to excuse price hikes.
Be understanding of authentic plight, but wary of corporate lies.
Is there body that governs international waters that acts analagously to the FTC? Or are you allowed to go traipsing wherever you want, without liability for damaging things like fibre cables?
Copies and copies of demo CDs for my band. Cheap, DIY CD replication is a godsend for small indie musicians with no money. Instead of spending $100-$500 for a few hundred demo discs, we can pull it off for about $100. Plus, we can make exactly as many as we need; no extras piling up, no shortages, and we can change the content any time we want.
The convenience + low $$$ lets us give them away to fans who can't afford a dollar to cover our costs.
crap posts (like this offtopic rant) to be modded down
You are absolutely right, my post is offtopic.
You are absolutely wrong, it's not a crap rant that needs to be modded down.
Where on Slashdot is meta-discussion supposed to take place? In the three years I've frequented this site, I've never once seen an open-ended "Let's talk about Slashdot" article. And that's fine: Slashdot is about news, not introspection.
But I truly believe that the over-moderation phenoemenon of the last few days is a treacherous step in the wrong direction for Slashdot. And I think that it deserves enough attention to warrant breaking the rules and starting an off-topic thread.
If you review my posting history, you'll see that I haven't posted very much recently. That's because when I don't have anything to say, I keep my fool mouth shut. But when something comes up about which I am knowledgeable or feel particularly stronly, I will certainly post.
Please do not accuse me of being a troll. I'm not.
Anyone else notice that in the last two days the number of posts moderated to +5 in each story has (approximately) tripled? What's up?
Like many people (I suspect), I read Slashdot mainly for the posts. Some of the most informative pieces are those in which one of Slashdot's editors have made a factual error, and the community summarily slams him/her (are there any "hers"?) for lack of journalistic integrity. We get 3-6 +5 posts that seem to be written by experts in the field and are very informative to neophytes like me.
But if we suddenly have like 25 +5 posts per thread, the signal/noise ratio goes WAY down. Come on, 59 +5 posts in the SDMI story? WTF!?!?! They really weren't all that good.
Did Slashdot get cracked? Did they change the moderation system? SOMEBODY CHANGE IT BACK!!!
Anyone else notice that in the last two days the number of posts moderated to +5 in each story has (approximately) tripled? What's up?
Like many people (I suspect), I read Slashdot mainly for the posts. Some of the most informative pieces are those in which one of Slashdot's editors have made a factual error, and the community summarily slams him/her (are there any "hers"?) for lack of journalistic integrity. We get 3-6 +5 posts that seem to be written by experts in the field and are very informative to neophytes like me.
But if we suddenly have like 25 +5 posts per thread, the signal/noise ratio goes WAY down. Come on, 59 +5 posts in the SDMI story? WTF!?!?! They really weren't all that good.
Did Slashdot get cracked? Did they change the moderation system? SOMEBODY CHANGE IT BACK!!!
But seriously, this man's work had an incalculable effect on my personality. Though we have a new generation of masters (think Craig McCracken), we must pay homage to the orignal greats.
In a moment of drunken weakness, my ex-girlfriend and I allowed a burning, premature "re-entry". In retrospect, it has triggered quite a bit of anxiety in both of us.
No one's ever heard of senior citizens who are hackers or programmers, right?
Hmmm, let's say your typical senior citizen it about 70, and started her professional life at about 20... that'd be in 1950. IIRC the CS job market wasn't quite as big in 1950 as it is today;).
Seriously, though, it remains to be seen whether the current generation of programmers (that's uh, me too) is coding itself into an early grave. Too bad we can't decouple our big brains from our scrawny bodies. I know that in another few years of sitting my (increasingly fat) ass in front of a CRT all day and all night and things are gonna start getting pretty ugly round here...
Some of the energy in this light causes the fiber to flouresce
The light produced by this flourescence is channeled to and focused on the ends of the fiber.
You're not violating Thermo, because the input energy is not amplified by 30x, it is being transduced, with considerable inefficency, and sharply focused.
Not surprisingly, the article is pretty thin on details, and since my extensive 3-minute Google search yeilded only inaccesible servers, I'm still wondering: how much surface area do these things need to collect light? From the article:
When ambient light hits a fibre, the dye molecules fluoresce, producing light of a particular colour, which is reflected towards the ends of the fibre.
But it doesn't say how long each fibre needs to be to produce its two dots of light. I assume that (up to a point) as you increase the lenght of the fibre, the ends get brighter. So for 30x ambient do you need a 1 meter fibre? 5 meters? 100 meters?
The way it works is by collecting light, not creating it. Each fiber takes the ambient light hitting it and channels it to its ends. Kind of like how a telescope takes the small amount of light entering it and focuses it to a point.
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I use Ableton Live for Mac. My friend just got one. In 10 minutes we
- set up an adhoc wireless network with AirPort
- Used Audio & Midi Settings (part of OS X) to get the Macs to talk to MIDI each other
- Had his copy of Live on the Mac start & stop recording on my copy of Live.
Stuff just works. Much less "turn it (comptuer/program/driver) off, then back on" crap.Also, the Live rarely crashes on the Mac, which was pretty frequent on my XP SP2 machine. Even when you unplug the cheap M-audio Firewire Solo, while recording, Live keeps running - plug the firewire box back in and you're back up. On my Win machine, you had to at least stop & restart Live (and often log out or reboot).
Plus, when a program does crash on the Mac, I've always gotten my data back. It's like they have auto-save built in to the OS.
My friend and I both have extensive sysadmin & programming experience on Win & Linux/FreeBSD.
The Mac is just easier to create with. Guy
I'm also considering a career in VC. What is the lifestyle like? How do the hours compare to, say, the 24x7x365 in a start-up, or the 9-to-5 of an accountant?
Yeah right!
Don't say anything to a perfect stranger that you wouldn't say in front of your mom.
Just a note - I got the base MB with 512MB, upgraded to 2 GB for $150 (generic RAM from pricewatch.com), and now the machine is bitchin fast. Even with Eclipse, lots of tabs in FireFox, Mail, iTunes, Terminal, and several MS RDC connections open at the same time.
I love this machine.
I don't use it for Photoshop, but Office is emulated and I really don't notice any sluggishness. Next version of Photoshop is supposed to be native...
Why can't particles jump several Planck Lengths? Or is it axiomatic? "They just can't."
Is the stuff about tunnelling true?
Thank you, Real Physicists!! GuyI'm in Bangalore on a business trip. Funny you mention "biometrics"; my Indian supervisor demonstrated their actual system to me, referring to it as the same. But I took it as irony...
What they do is take your right index finger, and mark around the fingernail with permanent marker -- so it gets real deep in the crease between skin and nail. Once you're marked, you can't vote again. Simple.
Polls don't need no stinkin computers, not even in the current tech capital of the world.
Circumvention of this scheme is not a huge issue in a place where election candidates routinely hold press conferences and hand the reporters envelopes filled with a watch and a Rs100 bill.
IOW, "The key to this system is the entire system."
Doesnt this assume you can only store information in particles with mass? For instance, light can have wavelengths smaller than the "width" of an electron.
On the Internet, an incendiary comment meant to evoke obvious, knee-jerk responses is called a troll. Seeing trolls on the font page of *.slashdot is depressing.
That's not important: maybe we're just getting shafted.
That makes sense, absolutely. If this reasoning is correct, prices will eventually rise as businesses that sell below cost begin to fail. There is nothing we can do to stop it.
But critically, we will observe this fair (to consumers) balancing only if there is ample competition to cut monopolistic price bloat. With megacorporate consolidation (eg AOL/TW) here in the US, we are beginning to run the risk of eliminating competition to point where the balancing force is negligible. However, you can bet that the ISPs will still use economic arguments such as this one to excuse price hikes.
Be understanding of authentic plight, but wary of corporate lies.
Is there body that governs international waters that acts analagously to the FTC? Or are you allowed to go traipsing wherever you want, without liability for damaging things like fibre cables?
If you're not wasted, the day is.
Copies and copies of demo CDs for my band. Cheap, DIY CD replication is a godsend for small indie musicians with no money. Instead of spending $100-$500 for a few hundred demo discs, we can pull it off for about $100. Plus, we can make exactly as many as we need; no extras piling up, no shortages, and we can change the content any time we want.
The convenience + low $$$ lets us give them away to fans who can't afford a dollar to cover our costs.
CDRs RULE!
Plugging your band on Slashdot RULES!
If you're not wasted, the day is.
Um, oh. Then take my reply as another example of when I should "keep my fool mouth shut". rotfl -guy
If you're not wasted, the day is.
You are absolutely right, my post is offtopic.
You are absolutely wrong, it's not a crap rant that needs to be modded down.
Where on Slashdot is meta-discussion supposed to take place? In the three years I've frequented this site, I've never once seen an open-ended "Let's talk about Slashdot" article. And that's fine: Slashdot is about news, not introspection.
But I truly believe that the over-moderation phenoemenon of the last few days is a treacherous step in the wrong direction for Slashdot. And I think that it deserves enough attention to warrant breaking the rules and starting an off-topic thread.
If you review my posting history, you'll see that I haven't posted very much recently. That's because when I don't have anything to say, I keep my fool mouth shut. But when something comes up about which I am knowledgeable or feel particularly stronly, I will certainly post.
Please do not accuse me of being a troll. I'm not.
If you're not wasted, the day is.
Like many people (I suspect), I read Slashdot mainly for the posts. Some of the most informative pieces are those in which one of Slashdot's editors have made a factual error, and the community summarily slams him/her (are there any "hers"?) for lack of journalistic integrity. We get 3-6 +5 posts that seem to be written by experts in the field and are very informative to neophytes like me.
But if we suddenly have like 25 +5 posts per thread, the signal/noise ratio goes WAY down. Come on, 59 +5 posts in the SDMI story? WTF!?!?! They really weren't all that good.
Did Slashdot get cracked? Did they change the moderation system? SOMEBODY CHANGE IT BACK!!!
Thanks for listening.
If you're not wasted, the day is.
Like many people (I suspect), I read Slashdot mainly for the posts. Some of the most informative pieces are those in which one of Slashdot's editors have made a factual error, and the community summarily slams him/her (are there any "hers"?) for lack of journalistic integrity. We get 3-6 +5 posts that seem to be written by experts in the field and are very informative to neophytes like me.
But if we suddenly have like 25 +5 posts per thread, the signal/noise ratio goes WAY down. Come on, 59 +5 posts in the SDMI story? WTF!?!?! They really weren't all that good.
Did Slashdot get cracked? Did they change the moderation system? SOMEBODY CHANGE IT BACK!!!
Thanks for listening.
If you're not wasted, the day is.
Clearly a man of many perversities...
If you're not wasted, the day is.
But seriously, this man's work had an incalculable effect on my personality. Though we have a new generation of masters (think Craig McCracken), we must pay homage to the orignal greats.
If you're not wasted, the day is.
The Red Hats are coming! The Red Hats are coming!
If you're not wasted, the day is.
In a moment of drunken weakness, my ex-girlfriend and I allowed a burning, premature "re-entry". In retrospect, it has triggered quite a bit of anxiety in both of us.
If you're not wasted, the day is.
Hmmm, let's say your typical senior citizen it about 70, and started her professional life at about 20... that'd be in 1950. IIRC the CS job market wasn't quite as big in 1950 as it is today ;).
Seriously, though, it remains to be seen whether the current generation of programmers (that's uh, me too) is coding itself into an early grave. Too bad we can't decouple our big brains from our scrawny bodies. I know that in another few years of sitting my (increasingly fat) ass in front of a CRT all day and all night and things are gonna start getting pretty ugly round here...
If you're not wasted, the day is.
- Lots of free, ambient light hits the fiber
- Some of the energy in this light causes the fiber to flouresce
- The light produced by this flourescence is channeled to and focused on the ends of the fiber.
You're not violating Thermo, because the input energy is not amplified by 30x, it is being transduced, with considerable inefficency, and sharply focused.If you're not wasted, the day is.
But it doesn't say how long each fibre needs to be to produce its two dots of light. I assume that (up to a point) as you increase the lenght of the fibre, the ends get brighter. So for 30x ambient do you need a 1 meter fibre? 5 meters? 100 meters?
Let's see if we can find some real linkage...
If you're not wasted, the day is.
The way it works is by collecting light, not creating it. Each fiber takes the ambient light hitting it and channels it to its ends. Kind of like how a telescope takes the small amount of light entering it and focuses it to a point.
If you're not wasted, the day is.