I think they were testing BPL in this region....Natural resonances of power systems are a phenomena which is very little known in this sort of region.
Another big hint: they said the'd disconnected the town from the power system. If they still had a connection somewhere to the grid that they didn't know about, that would set them up for more problems. (Mixing grounds from different phases is a NONO... I've experienced really bad RF just trying to use a radio that was running on gen power and a computer on shore at the same time.)
(in response to big bro's sig under parent) You just don't know... untill you've played Doom via ham radio microwave...
One day I'll do this, and feel the freedom...
Yeah.. it's kind of like whole "what's your zip code" thinky with some of the sat TV boxes... If you DON't enter the zip when you set it up, you miracuously get all kinds of "local" channels...
ah... but geophysical fluids isn't as far along in many respects.
We're talking like corn syrup and water here. (What I was dealing with this morning. Inject a drop of water in a tank of cornsyrup. Can you tell wat the water will do? Not really. If it was oil, yes, I can tell you analytically exactly what the drop of injected oil will do. But water's miscible with the cornsyrup, so it's not just momentum transfer, there's mass transfer too...And neither of the two limiting models; Stokes and Hadamand-Rybzynski, work....)
There's a lot of good computational stuff going on. But the crux, "core" equations and such for much of it's archaic. Well, compared to physics and chemistry for example.
I can't wait to see what type of impact all the current numberical work is going to have on the eventual analytical models we're going to get out (I hope) someday.
Just take something as simple as an adsorption problem of a solvent on a charcol filter. There's about 4 methods for dealing with the situation. And those are mostly only accurate in isothermal conditions. There's a linear fit, which requires experimendal data and doesn't work well for some solvents when you try extrapolating. At the other extreme, you have some corrected linear stuff, which DO allow for the fact of a maximum number of "sites" on the charcol where things can adsorb. But, depending on your solvent, it may be completely impracticle, and it isn't analytical....
As a person who works at a research instutite with publicications in JFM, AMS, Nature, etc... And one of the best COMPLETE JFM collections (Journal of Fluid Mechanics) in the country, this is a big deal.
It goes down to the "communication" pillar of the Scientific Method.
Take our 400+ publications, for example. The're searchable online, but are in a database. Which means they don't show up on google.
Most of them are old, but in this field (fluid mechanics) a "recent" article may be in the mid 80's. I worked on one this morning which has sources from 1911 fluid mechanics work. Most of the cutting edge stuff just happened back in the mid 80's, and now, a few other groups are starting up again with this area.
Now, unless you either: 1. have an ip address at a school with a subscription 2. have a subsctiption yourself 3. have a catalouge, or a print out of all the journals AND have lots of time...
You will have a hard time getting at the bulk of the information availble in these types of fields. Take Chemical Engineering for example. Other than major applications and some computer simulations, little has changes since like the 70's. This means that you have to go to old print journals to get comparitively cutting edge stuff in some cases.
This article is right up there with making the descision of "profit or communication, or both."
By the way, we'll have all out publications indices up where google will be able to find them soon. And we have a policy for passing out reprints upon request, if we can.
I read this headline and immedidly knew the'd be about 50 posts in the first 100 prophecizing (sp) this being hacked in like 2 weeks flat. Sure enough.../. met my expectations.
But Jobs has a grasp of the whole DRM thing that Gates doesn't seem to be close to realizing.
If we had some DRM which REALLY freaking worked. I mean, actually was something that actually protected the rights of the digital media AND more importantly didn't annoy the end user/listener, then it wouldn't be hacked.
Jobs went as far as they felt they could go given existing practices and ended up with a good system, that doesn't annoy users, and that does make it non-trivial to pirate. Yes, you can do it, but it takes a few steps, and a little bit of knowledge. People are intrensically lazy, so aren't just going to do it the majority of the time.
(Also, do you have any Idea how many people out there *can't* figure out how to write a cd?)
Any whokoewho.. Just like parent piped, iTunes got it exactly right. It's a level of protection, and it makes you feel good about following it. BIG difference to the M$ approach.
M$: "Where do you want to go today...as long it's where we tell you."
The're trying to play some demigod rear guard by dictating how people live their lives on the computer. I see this Januas getting stompped faster then DeCSS.
1. Sound dampening will be better. 2. Depending on finish, dust accumulation can be worse. 3. Eaisier to maintiain the visual appearance after 10 years. (Pledge anyone?) 4. Slashdotted site, so I didn't get to examine what they did inside the cases.
Um... can we get in trouble for causing a real fire through the/. effect? Looks like we may have at least knocked them out.
I was pointing out that M$ may be behind SCO's current move what seems like a year ago. There's just too many coincidences and illogical moves.
Remember the released doc from M$ "The biggest threat to Microsoft is Linux" (paraphrased.)... SCO's antics seemed a good, logical way of eliminating the teeth of that threat to M$.
Cooling the wildfire of linux through it's Unix underpinnings (elidged) is an elligant and handed way of things, but it has begun to work in some sectors.
I would... And have. And will again. Reading and RTCW (well, I'm on a break from that and playing Morrowing and Jedi Knight Acad. recently) take the cake.
I've just gotten so sick of commercials that I can't really watch TV the way I used to. There are some interesting shows out there. But I've taken to getting the DVD's when they air and watching a whole season at a time. It's a lot more fun and less time consuming.
And you don't feel patronized by those **** commercials.
Sorry to dissagree.. Dos help was nice, but the dos TUI sucked for one reason: NO TAB COMPLETION! I am a Linux/Unix admin, and I can't function in environments without tab completetion without a fair amount of consternation, misstyped commands, web lookups and other crap.
Every user I've ever seen strugging with tab decompletion shells almost instantly became functional when tab competion was introduced.
Most people find that typing two letters and then tab can get them to anything they want to do faster than finding the mouse, finding the app, doubleclicking, etc.
No, I will not make the mistake of stating "I love man".. But I can't work well without it most of the time.
Maybe someone should write one for Linux, just for the heck of it. They can call it "woman".:) Then again, someone probably already has.
Ahhem... Not from any statistical standpoint. The margin in Florida was within the statistical inaccuracy of the polling method. If you gave the numbers to a statistician, or any high school math student who is reasonably competent, the'd say there was no clear victor.
(not real numbers) If you have 2 million votes possible and the margin is within 1000, then you can not say that the larger "number" is the winner. If you're error's +/- 2 %, there is NO difference between 49980 and 50220.
There's a darn good sophocles qoute that I should include here, but I'm too lazy.
Anyway, the system broke and to quote Jon Abbott, "...we just elected a bunch of war mongers!":) Ah well, Bush was appointed, not elected. He gets another chance this year.
1. The first reply shouldn't play if he doesn't enjoy it. There's no point. 2. I don't go to those "playback" pop-art concerts. Most pop music sucks (modern country, briteny spears, m$m, etc.) The whole 3 minute song median with lots of repition and no key changes is not my idea of good music. 3. Yes, I've played in a smattering of musicals, only every trombone part ever needed to be covered by this theatre group since I was first asked.
And a reply to this comment... 4. I agree 100%. I can make sounds on a trombone that no patch can copy. Just try getting a real growl out of any synth for the parts in Gypsy. Or the drunken bone part in Scruge. There's just no way it can be pulled off with current patches and a keyboard.
5. Continuing along the same lines, I must argue that you *can* play with the pitches quite well using a keyboard setup. And it does make things really slick if the singer decided he want something taken up a half step.:) (transposing on the fly is so much fun...!)
I would feel betrayed to pay $$ for a broadway musical production of something and to have the entire pit reduced to something fake. I would be anxious and annoyed for the whole show. I know how tough it is to cover those parts, (or even read some of them, Peter Pan for example! The person who scribed that horn part needs to be shot). And I also will admit that lack of musicianship has been a drawback to several productions. (if the flute player it always behind, the solo singer will probably sound like crap.)
Can you have a parade without a marching band? Yes. Is it right? NO. Can you have a movie without a score? Is it as interesting? (Just think about StarWars with no John Williams! or LOTR w/o Howard Shore, though de Meiji did such a better job)
So then can you have a MUSICAL without real MUSIC. The answer is yes. But what's the point. Many musicians play for nearly free (as in beer) anyway. This is a bad precident.
As someone who has more than 5 musicals in a pit playing trombone, and another one working crew including: 1. La Cage A Follies 2. Gypsy 3. Anyonw Can Whistle 4. Peter Pan 5. Scruge 6. Sunday in the park with George 7. Jekyl and Hyde.
I can say without a doubt that I can and will be able to tell the difference. I can also say with 100% assurance that I am not th only one who can tell te difference.
This is actually a rather interesting development. And I must add a few points.
1. Musicians are underpaid in general. The musicals I've done usually barely paid for gas. But then again, no one gets paid in this group, even though the group is very good. (One of the best in the state.) 2. Poorer groups may not be able to afford musicians. I know this one wouldn't, it there weren't enough musicians in the town willing to do the gig for peanuts, and *able*:) 3. Thus in these cases, there may be an excuse for doing "taped" runs, or better, what this article is suggesting. 4. In Jekyl and Hyde, we used a really good yamaha keyboard to cover all the uncoverable parts (ie, cello and some harpsicord and chimes parts, etc.) This was mostly due to space concerns, but MAN-O MAN; patches have came a Long way in the last 5 years.
Still, this makes me cringe that groups who CAN pay for good musicians aren't willing to anymore. To me, for a group that is in that situation, it is a cop out of sorts. It takes away one of the dangers of things falling apart. It brings the group back from that edge, and locks it into the one keyboard jocky and the computer.
Call me a nut, but some of the best moments I've ever felt in music were when things weren't going 100% the way they were rehersed. The combined human factor of 10 pit musicians relizing that Mr. Hyde was going crazy with his stuff tonight made something come alive.
I would feel bad not allowing moments like that to go to the audience.
Next up: record the whole damn thing and play it on a big screen. Oh, wait.. Ooops. Thats a movie.:)
We all saw this comming when the whole bit shifting thing started.. And we all know how hard it is to shift bits reliabely.
Yes, operton has done well, and intel's lagging behind. I am looking foward to a 64 bit version of the Xeon though. Perhaps the oppertunity cost for Intel's 64 bit set got a bit great with the techniqies they've been using?
I still feel that P IV's aren't that great, and that celeron's haven't scaled well either, but are good for certain specific uses.
Time will tell. And then there's the whole no true 64 bit windows yet.
The day we have reconfigrable hardware will be a good one. (And I don't mean just redoing the control system's code and the operations.) But that day is yet to come. For now, from an industrial engineering standpoint having two birds with the same configuration is the same as multiplying the probabilities of them both failing together: it just makes sense.
Now, if they were different...that would be additive, and thus the overall chance of having a catastrophic failure would be higher.
Okay, I'm sick now, I've just realized it's actually painful to use an OS with the ctrl-a -e -b -f -n -y -v things disabled... THis is like the 10th time I've brought up the darn composer window in mozilla. Darn windows... Back to the ibook for more slashdotting!
This line is one of the most awesome things I've seen in a while... It makes me feel pride in typing this reply on an iBook whilest listening to an iPod...
I second Jon.. the line far exceded those of Kennedy Space Center + Universal Stuios, etc.
Sometimes it is hard to imageing the crazyness of the human race; this reminded me a bit of what real people will do.
With the ability to update code on the fly, most of the changes they had to make to spirit to make it work have been made to oppertunity before go time... Reduncy in the humans is also a part of the program.
Since the've also had more than one path for getting data to and from the machine... it's all good.
Better yet... NO modules Needed... I've been anti modules since the 2.2.18 days... It's actually the reason why I'm an ATI guy... then there's the whole text thing.. I just perfer the look of large spreadsheets with ati cards. (19" 1600x1200 sony trinitron). Not really sure why, but the eye strain issues seem more pronounced on Nvidia's.
Of course game play is a bit better on the cheaper nvidia's I've played with..
Funny thing is, I was trying to explain the situation to someone over dinner last night. This article does an awesome job of nailing the key points.
McBride should note: (emphasis added) "SCO wound up with the rights to certain dated distributions of UNIX, the proprietary software platform that Linux was patterned after..."
That's pretty much as accurate a statement as any about the whole situation.
It's also calling McBride an unsuccessdul salesman. And there's a juicy comment about "Bruce Perens", as "a Linux cheerleader". I'm sure Perens is happy with that sttement.
Overall, it really reasserts the lack of sense behind the whole thing. The only possible justification for SCO group's actions is the persuit of money for the sake of money....
Any chance of them changin their front page? I mean, they should get rid of all that betterment drival and just come clean. The fact that their making money hand over keyboard from selling *linux* licenses right now is absolutly, well... I'm not going to meniton it...
Pengiuns may be flightless, but they have thick skin and kick some serious ass on ski slopes.
As long as he hops the pond and stays... I'll be happy. (not bloody likely)
I have this sick image of Bill Gates storming onto the stage in full armour to show off Windows' new OS.
I also have a rather satisfying image of him tripping over a stuffed pengiun and crashing down.:)
Then maybe there's a really off chance that after he's knighted, the'll sue the fsck out of him an... there are all kinds of things that can be done to a knight of the realm if he's been really bad. (Then again, this is just my hopes.)
Although, in his defense, him and his wife have done a lot of good human betterment stuff. If you look past the whole Microsoft thing, the're actually good people. And no, this isn't a troll!! Just look at their foundation.
Watchout for that CO2 COx, NOX, SOx my friend... You should probably pick up one of those CO2 reading badges... If there's any sort of OSHA like organization there, your boss probably has to do something to make sure you're safe... Get ON Them!! it's your life man...
Not cold here either...
Last job: Basement of a music store. Hot in the summer, chilly in the winter, and a chair that fell apart. Solvent fumes from the chemebath. Lacquer stench, and peanuts and dirt. Oh, and it floodded som'in fierce in the summer. Carpet was fibreglass, so if you nealed on it kiss the jeans goodbye... Oh... And I will *never* untruck another piano again. 3 guys balancing a $70,000 grand piano 5 feet off the ground is scary...
This job. Basement lab. Occasional stench from the grate which runs beneath my feet on my main desk where I've for the laptop setup. Due to the drain, and the fact that it's covered poorly and I'm in a closett of sorts, the chair *never* sits where you need it. It always wants to roll forward into the desk (smashing your forearms.) or back, and causing you to off balance.
If someone was running the Sedemantatino experiment right now, I'd have about 300 gallons per 2 minutes cycled through a 1 ft x 2 ft trough less than 20 ft away through a double particle board wall with no insulation.
And I've gotta walk 20-30 minutes from parking, which disappears entirely at a random time before football games in the fall (they chain the lots for alumni). (I now use a bike for the trek.)
I feal worse for the grad students though.. they have all their computers out in the open near the Sedamentatin exp... and the'r "office" used to be a machineshop so is cold and loud.
INteresting, yes.. I really only need nano, emacs for serious stuff, and a light weight X11 for Lyx, dia, xmgrace and gnumeric. And about 500 MB of storage. I wasn't implying the need for 2 GB of ram, I was implying the need for a non-converntional storage media.
Exactly.. And it's Jon's play scripts that I'm using..:) Just to make this whole thread more odd.
The whole point, was, the statement implied that windows was about choice, and the whole concept of that is obserd. Mac OS X, IS about choice in comparison. I can choose to not use a GUI, I can choose to run my X apps, and they want you to make those choices.
Also making this even more funny. The same person who replied to me, is also the person who got me into exactly what he's talking about.:)
So what's the *choice* in not being able to choose my freakin os? Huh? Lets let this guy answer that. And I CAN use something other than iTunes for iPod's... I use mpg123 and play scripts. (I'm just gui defecient.)
Ah well. And didn't apple just announce that the're going to supprot wma on there iPoden?
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I think they were testing BPL in this region....Natural resonances of power systems are a phenomena which is very little known in this sort of region.
Another big hint: they said the'd disconnected the town from the power system. If they still had a connection somewhere to the grid that they didn't know about, that would set them up for more problems. (Mixing grounds from different phases is a NONO... I've experienced really bad RF just trying to use a radio that was running on gen power and a computer on shore at the same time.)
(in response to big bro's sig under parent) You just don't know... untill you've played Doom via ham radio microwave...
One day I'll do this, and feel the freedom...
Yeah.. it's kind of like whole "what's your zip code" thinky with some of the sat TV boxes... If you DON't enter the zip when you set it up, you miracuously get all kinds of "local" channels...
ah... but geophysical fluids isn't as far along in many respects.
We're talking like corn syrup and water here. (What I was dealing with this morning. Inject a drop of water in a tank of cornsyrup. Can you tell wat the water will do? Not really. If it was oil, yes, I can tell you analytically exactly what the drop of injected oil will do. But water's miscible with the cornsyrup, so it's not just momentum transfer, there's mass transfer too...And neither of the two limiting models; Stokes and Hadamand-Rybzynski, work....)
There's a lot of good computational stuff going on. But the crux, "core" equations and such for much of it's archaic. Well, compared to physics and chemistry for example.
I can't wait to see what type of impact all the current numberical work is going to have on the eventual analytical models we're going to get out (I hope) someday.
Just take something as simple as an adsorption problem of a solvent on a charcol filter. There's about 4 methods for dealing with the situation. And those are mostly only accurate in isothermal conditions. There's a linear fit, which requires experimendal data and doesn't work well for some solvents when you try extrapolating. At the other extreme, you have some corrected linear stuff, which DO allow for the fact of a maximum number of "sites" on the charcol where things can adsorb. But, depending on your solvent, it may be completely impracticle, and it isn't analytical....
The story goes on....
As a person who works at a research instutite with publicications in JFM, AMS, Nature, etc... And one of the best COMPLETE JFM collections (Journal of Fluid Mechanics) in the country, this is a big deal.
It goes down to the "communication" pillar of the Scientific Method.
Take our 400+ publications, for example. The're searchable online, but are in a database. Which means they don't show up on google.
Most of them are old, but in this field (fluid mechanics) a "recent" article may be in the mid 80's. I worked on one this morning which has sources from 1911 fluid mechanics work. Most of the cutting edge stuff just happened back in the mid 80's, and now, a few other groups are starting up again with this area.
Now, unless you either:
1. have an ip address at a school with a subscription
2. have a subsctiption yourself
3. have a catalouge, or a print out of all the journals AND have lots of time...
You will have a hard time getting at the bulk of the information availble in these types of fields. Take Chemical Engineering for example. Other than major applications and some computer simulations, little has changes since like the 70's. This means that you have to go to old print journals to get comparitively cutting edge stuff in some cases.
This article is right up there with making the descision of "profit or communication, or both."
By the way, we'll have all out publications indices up where google will be able to find them soon. And we have a policy for passing out reprints upon request, if we can.
I read this headline and immedidly knew the'd be about 50 posts in the first 100 prophecizing (sp) this being hacked in like 2 weeks flat. Sure enough... /. met my expectations.
But Jobs has a grasp of the whole DRM thing that Gates doesn't seem to be close to realizing.
If we had some DRM which REALLY freaking worked. I mean, actually was something that actually protected the rights of the digital media AND more importantly didn't annoy the end user/listener, then it wouldn't be hacked.
Jobs went as far as they felt they could go given existing practices and ended up with a good system, that doesn't annoy users, and that does make it non-trivial to pirate. Yes, you can do it, but it takes a few steps, and a little bit of knowledge. People are intrensically lazy, so aren't just going to do it the majority of the time.
(Also, do you have any Idea how many people out there *can't* figure out how to write a cd?)
Any whokoewho.. Just like parent piped, iTunes got it exactly right. It's a level of protection, and it makes you feel good about following it. BIG difference to the M$ approach.
M$: "Where do you want to go today...as long it's where we tell you."
The're trying to play some demigod rear guard by dictating how people live their lives on the computer. I see this Januas getting stompped faster then DeCSS.
Just imagine all the RF... RIGHT NOW. :)
/. effect? Looks like we may have at least knocked them out.
1. Sound dampening will be better.
2. Depending on finish, dust accumulation can be worse.
3. Eaisier to maintiain the visual appearance after 10 years. (Pledge anyone?)
4. Slashdotted site, so I didn't get to examine what they did inside the cases.
Um... can we get in trouble for causing a real fire through the
I was pointing out that M$ may be behind SCO's current move what seems like a year ago. There's just too many coincidences and illogical moves.
... SCO's antics seemed a good, logical way of eliminating the teeth of that threat to M$.
Remember the released doc from M$ "The biggest threat to Microsoft is Linux" (paraphrased.)
Cooling the wildfire of linux through it's Unix underpinnings (elidged) is an elligant and handed way of things, but it has begun to work in some sectors.
My 2 centavos... This isn't a supprise at all.
So, a sub 999 user consipracy? :)
I would... And have. And will again. Reading and RTCW (well, I'm on a break from that and playing Morrowing and Jedi Knight Acad. recently) take the cake.
I've just gotten so sick of commercials that I can't really watch TV the way I used to. There are some interesting shows out there. But I've taken to getting the DVD's when they air and watching a whole season at a time. It's a lot more fun and less time consuming.
And you don't feel patronized by those **** commercials.
Life is then simplier.
"I'm a medic!"
Sorry to dissagree.. Dos help was nice, but the dos TUI sucked for one reason: NO TAB COMPLETION! I am a Linux/Unix admin, and I can't function in environments without tab completetion without a fair amount of consternation, misstyped commands, web lookups and other crap.
:) Then again, someone probably already has.
Every user I've ever seen strugging with tab decompletion shells almost instantly became functional when tab competion was introduced.
Most people find that typing two letters and then tab can get them to anything they want to do faster than finding the mouse, finding the app, doubleclicking, etc.
No, I will not make the mistake of stating "I love man".. But I can't work well without it most of the time.
Maybe someone should write one for Linux, just for the heck of it. They can call it "woman".
Ahhem... Not from any statistical standpoint. The margin in Florida was within the statistical inaccuracy of the polling method. If you gave the numbers to a statistician, or any high school math student who is reasonably competent, the'd say there was no clear victor.
:) Ah well, Bush was appointed, not elected. He gets another chance this year.
(not real numbers)
If you have 2 million votes possible and the margin is within 1000, then you can not say that the larger "number" is the winner. If you're error's +/- 2 %, there is NO difference between 49980 and 50220.
There's a darn good sophocles qoute that I should include here, but I'm too lazy.
Anyway, the system broke and to quote Jon Abbott, "...we just elected a bunch of war mongers!"
What the heck does this have to do with Nasa?
I hate lumping replies, but fear I will anyway.
:) (transposing on the fly is so much fun...!)
1. The first reply shouldn't play if he doesn't enjoy it. There's no point.
2. I don't go to those "playback" pop-art concerts. Most pop music sucks (modern country, briteny spears, m$m, etc.) The whole 3 minute song median with lots of repition and no key changes is not my idea of good music.
3. Yes, I've played in a smattering of musicals, only every trombone part ever needed to be covered by this theatre group since I was first asked.
And a reply to this comment...
4. I agree 100%. I can make sounds on a trombone that no patch can copy. Just try getting a real growl out of any synth for the parts in Gypsy. Or the drunken bone part in Scruge. There's just no way it can be pulled off with current patches and a keyboard.
5. Continuing along the same lines, I must argue that you *can* play with the pitches quite well using a keyboard setup. And it does make things really slick if the singer decided he want something taken up a half step.
I would feel betrayed to pay $$ for a broadway musical production of something and to have the entire pit reduced to something fake. I would be anxious and annoyed for the whole show. I know how tough it is to cover those parts, (or even read some of them, Peter Pan for example! The person who scribed that horn part needs to be shot). And I also will admit that lack of musicianship has been a drawback to several productions. (if the flute player it always behind, the solo singer will probably sound like crap.)
Can you have a parade without a marching band? Yes. Is it right? NO. Can you have a movie without a score? Is it as interesting? (Just think about StarWars with no John Williams! or LOTR w/o Howard Shore, though de Meiji did such a better job)
So then can you have a MUSICAL without real MUSIC. The answer is yes. But what's the point. Many musicians play for nearly free (as in beer) anyway. This is a bad precident.
My 30 microcents.
As someone who has more than 5 musicals in a pit playing trombone, and another one working crew including:
:)
:)
1. La Cage A Follies
2. Gypsy
3. Anyonw Can Whistle
4. Peter Pan
5. Scruge
6. Sunday in the park with George
7. Jekyl and Hyde.
I can say without a doubt that I can and will be able to tell the difference. I can also say with 100% assurance that I am not th only one who can tell te difference.
This is actually a rather interesting development. And I must add a few points.
1. Musicians are underpaid in general. The musicals I've done usually barely paid for gas. But then again, no one gets paid in this group, even though the group is very good. (One of the best in the state.)
2. Poorer groups may not be able to afford musicians. I know this one wouldn't, it there weren't enough musicians in the town willing to do the gig for peanuts, and *able*
3. Thus in these cases, there may be an excuse for doing "taped" runs, or better, what this article is suggesting.
4. In Jekyl and Hyde, we used a really good yamaha keyboard to cover all the uncoverable parts (ie, cello and some harpsicord and chimes parts, etc.) This was mostly due to space concerns, but MAN-O MAN; patches have came a Long way in the last 5 years.
Still, this makes me cringe that groups who CAN pay for good musicians aren't willing to anymore. To me, for a group that is in that situation, it is a cop out of sorts. It takes away one of the dangers of things falling apart. It brings the group back from that edge, and locks it into the one keyboard jocky and the computer.
Call me a nut, but some of the best moments I've ever felt in music were when things weren't going 100% the way they were rehersed. The combined human factor of 10 pit musicians relizing that Mr. Hyde was going crazy with his stuff tonight made something come alive.
I would feel bad not allowing moments like that to go to the audience.
Next up: record the whole damn thing and play it on a big screen. Oh, wait.. Ooops. Thats a movie.
We all saw this comming when the whole bit shifting thing started.. And we all know how hard it is to shift bits reliabely.
Yes, operton has done well, and intel's lagging behind. I am looking foward to a 64 bit version of the Xeon though. Perhaps the oppertunity cost for Intel's 64 bit set got a bit great with the techniqies they've been using?
I still feel that P IV's aren't that great, and that celeron's haven't scaled well either, but are good for certain specific uses.
Time will tell. And then there's the whole no true 64 bit windows yet.
The day we have reconfigrable hardware will be a good one. (And I don't mean just redoing the control system's code and the operations.) But that day is yet to come. For now, from an industrial engineering standpoint having two birds with the same configuration is the same as multiplying the probabilities of them both failing together: it just makes sense.
Now, if they were different...that would be additive, and thus the overall chance of having a catastrophic failure would be higher.
Okay, I'm sick now, I've just realized it's actually painful to use an OS with the ctrl-a -e -b -f -n -y -v things disabled... THis is like the 10th time I've brought up the darn composer window in mozilla. Darn windows... Back to the ibook for more slashdotting!
This line is one of the most awesome things I've seen in a while... It makes me feel pride in typing this reply on an iBook whilest listening to an iPod...
I second Jon.. the line far exceded those of Kennedy Space Center + Universal Stuios, etc.
Sometimes it is hard to imageing the crazyness of the human race; this reminded me a bit of what real people will do.
Then again, it was a sunday.
With the ability to update code on the fly, most of the changes they had to make to spirit to make it work have been made to oppertunity before go time... Reduncy in the humans is also a part of the program.
Since the've also had more than one path for getting data to and from the machine... it's all good.
Better yet... NO modules Needed... I've been anti modules since the 2.2.18 days... It's actually the reason why I'm an ATI guy... then there's the whole text thing.. I just perfer the look of large spreadsheets with ati cards. (19" 1600x1200 sony trinitron). Not really sure why, but the eye strain issues seem more pronounced on Nvidia's.
Of course game play is a bit better on the cheaper nvidia's I've played with..
From Me 2, Friend 3: iBook (12"). Chemical Engineer.
:)
Professor 1: Powerbook G4 (15"). PhD, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.
Professor 2: Powerbook G4 (15"). PhD, Magentics Reasarch on MARS project. (two others connected to him with g5's and g4 servers/towers.)
Professor 3: eMac G3 900. PhD Meterology.
Professor 4: G4 Tower. PhD Oceanography.
Lab 1: $5000 g5 graphics workstation. On the way.
Friend 1: Dual G4 Tower: SCAD art design school.
Friend 2: iBook (14"). Mechanical Engineer.
And change some more...
Funny thing is, I was trying to explain the situation to someone over dinner last night. This article does an awesome job of nailing the key points.
McBride should note: (emphasis added)
"SCO wound up with the rights to certain dated distributions of UNIX, the proprietary software platform that Linux was patterned after..."
That's pretty much as accurate a statement as any about the whole situation.
It's also calling McBride an unsuccessdul salesman. And there's a juicy comment about "Bruce Perens", as "a Linux cheerleader". I'm sure Perens is happy with that sttement.
Overall, it really reasserts the lack of sense behind the whole thing. The only possible justification for SCO group's actions is the persuit of money for the sake of money....
Any chance of them changin their front page? I mean, they should get rid of all that betterment drival and just come clean. The fact that their making money hand over keyboard from selling *linux* licenses right now is absolutly, well... I'm not going to meniton it...
Pengiuns may be flightless, but they have thick skin and kick some serious ass on ski slopes.
As long as he hops the pond and stays... I'll be happy. (not bloody likely)
:)
I have this sick image of Bill Gates storming onto the stage in full armour to show off Windows' new OS.
I also have a rather satisfying image of him tripping over a stuffed pengiun and crashing down.
Then maybe there's a really off chance that after he's knighted, the'll sue the fsck out of him an... there are all kinds of things that can be done to a knight of the realm if he's been really bad. (Then again, this is just my hopes.)
Although, in his defense, him and his wife have done a lot of good human betterment stuff. If you look past the whole Microsoft thing, the're actually good people. And no, this isn't a troll!! Just look at their foundation.
Watchout for that CO2 COx, NOX, SOx my friend... You should probably pick up one of those CO2 reading badges... If there's any sort of OSHA like organization there, your boss probably has to do something to make sure you're safe... Get ON Them!! it's your life man...
Not cold here either...
Last job: Basement of a music store. Hot in the summer, chilly in the winter, and a chair that fell apart. Solvent fumes from the chemebath. Lacquer stench, and peanuts and dirt. Oh, and it floodded som'in fierce in the summer. Carpet was fibreglass, so if you nealed on it kiss the jeans goodbye... Oh... And I will *never* untruck another piano again. 3 guys balancing a $70,000 grand piano 5 feet off the ground is scary...
This job. Basement lab. Occasional stench from the grate which runs beneath my feet on my main desk where I've for the laptop setup. Due to the drain, and the fact that it's covered poorly and I'm in a closett of sorts, the chair *never* sits where you need it. It always wants to roll forward into the desk (smashing your forearms.) or back, and causing you to off balance.
If someone was running the Sedemantatino experiment right now, I'd have about 300 gallons per 2 minutes cycled through a 1 ft x 2 ft trough less than 20 ft away through a double particle board wall with no insulation.
And I've gotta walk 20-30 minutes from parking, which disappears entirely at a random time before football games in the fall (they chain the lots for alumni). (I now use a bike for the trek.)
I feal worse for the grad students though.. they have all their computers out in the open near the Sedamentatin exp... and the'r "office" used to be a machineshop so is cold and loud.
Other than that, it's nice..
INteresting, yes.. I really only need nano, emacs for serious stuff, and a light weight X11 for Lyx, dia, xmgrace and gnumeric. And about 500 MB of storage. I wasn't implying the need for 2 GB of ram, I was implying the need for a non-converntional storage media.
Exactly.. And it's Jon's play scripts that I'm using.. :) Just to make this whole thread more odd.
:)
The whole point, was, the statement implied that windows was about choice, and the whole concept of that is obserd. Mac OS X, IS about choice in comparison. I can choose to not use a GUI, I can choose to run my X apps, and they want you to make those choices.
Also making this even more funny. The same person who replied to me, is also the person who got me into exactly what he's talking about.
So what's the *choice* in not being able to choose my freakin os? Huh? Lets let this guy answer that. And I CAN use something other than iTunes for iPod's... I use mpg123 and play scripts. (I'm just gui defecient.)
Ah well. And didn't apple just announce that the're going to supprot wma on there iPoden?