I'd like to ask him why the FCC didn't work harder to keep low-power radio alive.
But it's too bad he's gone...
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We had this exact same problem with the Apple Airport. The response to only being able to adminster the device through MacOS was to write a Java Client.
I don't see why this solution won't work for this device to register and use it. Once again, slashdot is being completely reactionary. -sigh-
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When I went to school, we had a number of 'weeder' classes, that would seperate the CS students from the weak that were trying to push their way through the major. Most of us survived, and we became part of the 10% of engineers that actually make the planet work, not one of the parasitic manager types who take from the work that our 10% perform.
Even now when I see a CIS student come in for a job, I'd rather hire an English student before the CIS person. I'll practically throw the CIS person's resume away because I know that person doesn't feel the passion for coding deep down inside.
"ProTools" is a software digital audio editing package. It will work with many digital audio cards (well, at least those that run with DAE; mostly Digidesign cards.)
The realtime effects processing comes in when you use ProTools TDM, a MixFarm card, and a protools interface (something like the 888/16 will do.)
When you're done buying all this stuff, you'll have a good system. If you want an excellent system, then you're looking at purchasing a better D/A / A/D box (Apogee is excellent) and Preamplifiers (Focusrite, etc.)
Nearly $50K later you'll have a system that will be better than most low-end SSL consoles;)
Argh, come to think of it, why bother with a cluster at all? Protools was designed to solve this problem, giving you a cluster of Motorola 56000's accessible via TDM.
The big problem is that Digi has a lock on the hardware and prices and it's too goddammned expensive. ($8000 or so for 16 tracks)
Linux machines would be about $1000+ each, so I guess it evens out after awhile.
I think the best thing to do, if this was fast enough would be to write some sort of VST network plugin; You load the VST plugin into any program that supports VST.
Then that plugin transmits audio and configuration data to the cluster, which in turn can run any VST plugin that exists, returning the computation result back to the VST network client.
You could do it using UDP, or over 1000baseT to get around the network latency issues.
Just a thought...
So What! Technically, this is inktomi's model.
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While I appreciate (no, I take it back, I love) the fact that google continues to be one of the best search engines on the net, with the most relevant results, the business model they describe (no ads, no graphics) is in an off-handed way, Inktomi's business model.
Inktomi sells search, directory, and
Having used their services twice (once when I worked on the search engines for snap.com, and again when I wrote the search system for ifilm, I can't help but think that I've seen what google is doing quite a few times before.
They scored a great win when they took over yahoo; plenty of revenue there, and selling access to the search engine for co-branding (via API or whatever) is a great way to rake in cash; but it's not unique!
Inktomi offers news, shopping, and directory (taxonomy) services, but their results stink. We fixed alot of this on the ifilm engine (take a look) but it's nothing like google.
This is a completely ridiculous argument. Why are we even wasting time posting about this?
If M$ wants to copyright their bulletins, that's completely reasonable; they wrote them. As far as the content of the bugtraq message goes, what stops someone from REWRITING the content of the bug in their own words, commenting on it, and republishing the bug regardless of what microsoft says. This is legal, and completely covered under the first admendment. Stop complaining, and start writing.
This has made me crazy since the palm came out - how about fixing the IR protocol so that a palm can dial an IR-Enabled phone? The palm is too big to stick next to my head, and I feel dumb with it there. If there was a simple way to have the palm tell the phone to dial, there'd be no need for this silly combo phone. Same goes for being able to properly sync the phone and the palm together. PhoneSync does some of this, but not efficently.
Cisco 7xxx series routers have this feature of delaying a connection until the final ACK is recieved, and then passing the connection on to the host behind the router. It's called TCPGuard and it's very similiar to what the author describes. Old News.
Digital Home video equipment has this already; many of the new DV camcorders/recorders don't have Digital IN, and this is because of the MPAA and RIAA lobbying actions.
I can't begin to tell you how difficult this makes my life as an artist. I have to bounce things through my computer (an additional digital copy, so who cares) just to make backups of my work.
Either that, or I shell out thousands for a 'professional deck' that lacks these protections.
It always seems to me that these protections are designed to limit copying and the quality of a small artist's work. When a small artist cannot have access to 'major label recording studios' and 'professional major label audio quality', people turn away from their work.
Seeing as it makes a PPP connection, has anyone taken a moment to analyze the protocol and the way it communicates with TiVo Central?
It's probably quite simple, and seeing as the box runs linux (and, you can get a root prompt via the serial port) I bet we could modify the existing system to use a DSL line if one was available.
This is a lie; TiVo has stated time and time again in their privacy policy that NO DATA EVER LEAVES YOUR DEVICE. All personalizaion is done inside the box. I have no idea what replay does, but TiVo doesn't do it. Perhaps it's time for me to pull out the data analyzer and check out what it's sending to the "man."
The BBE doesn't replace harmonics. What the bbe sonic maximizer does is to time-align the bass component of the audio. Bass waves take longer to generate because they're so huge (think about it, length = 1/f, so for that 20Hz bass wave to kick in, you need a half meter or so.)
The BBE delays the upper half of the audio, so the Bass hits your ears at the same time the mid/high frequencies do. Not so much replacing of harmonics, but a correction for the reproduction of audio.
On Friday, according to the article at: http://www.austin360.com/technology/stories/2000/0 3/23netpliance.html Netpliance had a $144M IPO. We all know that Netpliace probably used this quarter's numbers in their prospectus which also included the sales from all of the Linux hackers buying their machine to tinker with. This probably boosted their stock price, and they have the hackers to thank for it. How do they repay us? Bait and switch. None of their terms of service agreement lock you into a purchase of their service, but now, they say that you have to pay. (Oh, and my guess is that the way the machine has been modified is to remove the IDE controller from the motherboard. That's the easiest way.)
did anyone bother mirroring the site? I ordered one of these weeks ago, when the first slashdot post was up, and now they are refusing shipment (presumably until they can send me a modified one) Yesterday I recieved a fedex tag for a shipment from Austin,TX and their site says that they've only shipped me a Mouse. Lame. Also, where did the site go? Did they file an injunction against it or was it removed voluntarily? (anyone have a mirror?) Netpliance had to do this, but having me agree to something, then delaying shipment until the product has been modified and reshipping it is bait-and-switch, which is completely illegial. If I'm charged for 2 years of service or whatever it is, I'll cancel the credit card it's billed to and complain to netpliance.
I think what the majority of the RIAA's problem is is limitation of choice. By forcing people into pigeonholed genres and top-40 bands (and against free choice) they don't have to produce as many CD's per year, work with as many artists, and be able to market targeted slop to the masses. Control is everything in the industry! / You'd think that they would realize that they could sign many more bands and distribute more music (read as : more chances for profit and no manufacturing costs.) with mp3. Instead, they trudge on with a digital music format that offers encryption. Encrypt all you want, guys; we're still going to have CD's, and we can still create mp3s long after the RIAA is done with us. Same goes for CD-Burners, and even still more for me recording the output of my machine digitally and burning that. No scheme will stop that sort of copying. (end digression) / If turning people against mp3's is their true MO, then why all the support and production of commercial mp3 players? The consumers are in control, this time.
I used to spend alot of time at the FSF, I've done work on many open-source projects, and I can't agree with this statement. Why should I stop watching movies online just because the community et.al hasn't gotten around to coming up with a standard yet? Why not just work on one. I don't feel a boycott is the necessary solution. CODECs are hard to write. They take a fairly large amount of research and development, and once that's done few people want to release it into the world. Fraunhofer has chosen to release some source code for their mp3 codec so people can have a starting point to develop from. There is a large amount of source code available out there from SGI and others to do video compression and it's probably not too hard to come up with an open standard. Of course, once it's finished, The main problem is penetration. It's going to be hard to get the open standard out to all of the browsers that exist and convince the 'common' (i.e. non-geek) audience to use them. I'll use them, but people like REALNetworks has a greater market penetration. (but they suck, and I'll be damned if I'm going to use Windows media player. Some of the linux.mpg tools are cool as well, but the compression rates just aren't good enough) Even quicktime has gone completely, disgustingly commercial with it's idiotic drop-down tray. Is there any escape from noise? Let's work together to make a better standard instead of boycotting. That takes up valuable resources.
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Then again, we're all a bunch of zealot free software hippies, and I'm sure RMS would complain.
But it's too bad he's gone...
I don't see why this solution won't work for this device to register and use it. Once again, slashdot is being completely reactionary. -sigh-
When I went to school, we had a number of 'weeder' classes, that would seperate the CS students from the weak that were trying to push their way through the major. Most of us survived, and we became part of the 10% of engineers that actually make the planet work, not one of the parasitic manager types who take from the work that our 10% perform. Even now when I see a CIS student come in for a job, I'd rather hire an English student before the CIS person. I'll practically throw the CIS person's resume away because I know that person doesn't feel the passion for coding deep down inside.
"ProTools" is a software digital audio editing package. It will work with many digital audio cards (well, at least those that run with DAE; mostly Digidesign cards.)
The realtime effects processing comes in when you use ProTools TDM, a MixFarm card, and a protools interface (something like the 888/16 will do.)
When you're done buying all this stuff, you'll have a good system. If you want an excellent system, then you're looking at purchasing a better D/A / A/D box (Apogee is excellent) and Preamplifiers (Focusrite, etc.)
Nearly $50K later you'll have a system that will be better than most low-end SSL consoles ;)
a TOURING machine? Is that like a travel agency? I think you mean turing ;)
The big problem is that Digi has a lock on the hardware and prices and it's too goddammned expensive. ($8000 or so for 16 tracks)
Linux machines would be about $1000+ each, so I guess it evens out after awhile.
Then that plugin transmits audio and configuration data to the cluster, which in turn can run any VST plugin that exists, returning the computation result back to the VST network client.
You could do it using UDP, or over 1000baseT to get around the network latency issues.
Just a thought...
Inktomi sells search, directory, and Having used their services twice (once when I worked on the search engines for snap.com, and again when I wrote the search system for ifilm, I can't help but think that I've seen what google is doing quite a few times before.
They scored a great win when they took over yahoo; plenty of revenue there, and selling access to the search engine for co-branding (via API or whatever) is a great way to rake in cash; but it's not unique!
Inktomi offers news, shopping, and directory (taxonomy) services, but their results stink. We fixed alot of this on the ifilm engine (take a look) but it's nothing like google.
If M$ wants to copyright their bulletins, that's completely reasonable; they wrote them. As far as the content of the bugtraq message goes, what stops someone from REWRITING the content of the bug in their own words, commenting on it, and republishing the bug regardless of what microsoft says. This is legal, and completely covered under the first admendment. Stop complaining, and start writing.
This has made me crazy since the palm came out - how about fixing the IR protocol so that a palm can dial an IR-Enabled phone? The palm is too big to stick next to my head, and I feel dumb with it there. If there was a simple way to have the palm tell the phone to dial, there'd be no need for this silly combo phone. Same goes for being able to properly sync the phone and the palm together. PhoneSync does some of this, but not efficently.
Cisco 7xxx series routers have this feature of delaying a connection until the final ACK is recieved, and then passing the connection on to the host behind the router. It's called TCPGuard and it's very similiar to what the author describes. Old News.
I can't begin to tell you how difficult this makes my life as an artist. I have to bounce things through my computer (an additional digital copy, so who cares) just to make backups of my work.
Either that, or I shell out thousands for a 'professional deck' that lacks these protections.
It always seems to me that these protections are designed to limit copying and the quality of a small artist's work. When a small artist cannot have access to 'major label recording studios' and 'professional major label audio quality', people turn away from their work.
It's probably quite simple, and seeing as the box runs linux (and, you can get a root prompt via the serial port) I bet we could modify the existing system to use a DSL line if one was available.
This is a lie; TiVo has stated time and time again in their privacy policy that NO DATA EVER LEAVES YOUR DEVICE. All personalizaion is done inside the box. I have no idea what replay does, but TiVo doesn't do it. Perhaps it's time for me to pull out the data analyzer and check out what it's sending to the "man."
Spend more than 1200 dollars.
Write software.
Devise an Algorithm to do personalization.
Invent a new GUI for it.
Buy and interface an IR remote control.
Do a bunch of other crap you really don't want to do! I'll spend my $399 and $129 for lifetime service, thanks.
It's amazing that this happened during an industry conference, when there was such a wonderful chance to embarass M$.
You can see it here on my web site: http://www.retina.net/~jna/g allery/16/r113-mssucks.jpgThe BBE delays the upper half of the audio, so the Bass hits your ears at the same time the mid/high frequencies do. Not so much replacing of harmonics, but a correction for the reproduction of audio.
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Chances are I have a modifiable version sitting at my house right now. we'll see!
I'll post as soon as I crack the case open. -johnOn Friday, according to the article at: http://www.austin360.com/technology/stories/2000/0 3/23netpliance.html Netpliance had a $144M IPO. We all know that Netpliace probably used this quarter's numbers in their prospectus which also included the sales from all of the Linux hackers buying their machine to tinker with. This probably boosted their stock price, and they have the hackers to thank for it. How do they repay us? Bait and switch. None of their terms of service agreement lock you into a purchase of their service, but now, they say that you have to pay. (Oh, and my guess is that the way the machine has been modified is to remove the IDE controller from the motherboard. That's the easiest way.)
did anyone bother mirroring the site? I ordered one of these weeks ago, when the first slashdot post was up, and now they are refusing shipment (presumably until they can send me a modified one) Yesterday I recieved a fedex tag for a shipment from Austin,TX and their site says that they've only shipped me a Mouse. Lame. Also, where did the site go? Did they file an injunction against it or was it removed voluntarily? (anyone have a mirror?) Netpliance had to do this, but having me agree to something, then delaying shipment until the product has been modified and reshipping it is bait-and-switch, which is completely illegial. If I'm charged for 2 years of service or whatever it is, I'll cancel the credit card it's billed to and complain to netpliance.
I guess he can't use a car either; cars have computers in them (fuel injectors, door controls, etc)
I think what the majority of the RIAA's problem is is limitation of choice. By forcing people into pigeonholed genres and top-40 bands (and against free choice) they don't have to produce as many CD's per year, work with as many artists, and be able to market targeted slop to the masses. Control is everything in the industry! / You'd think that they would realize that they could sign many more bands and distribute more music (read as : more chances for profit and no manufacturing costs.) with mp3. Instead, they trudge on with a digital music format that offers encryption. Encrypt all you want, guys; we're still going to have CD's, and we can still create mp3s long after the RIAA is done with us. Same goes for CD-Burners, and even still more for me recording the output of my machine digitally and burning that. No scheme will stop that sort of copying. (end digression) / If turning people against mp3's is their true MO, then why all the support and production of commercial mp3 players? The consumers are in control, this time.
I used to spend alot of time at the FSF, I've done work on many open-source projects, and I can't agree with this statement. Why should I stop watching movies online just because the community et.al hasn't gotten around to coming up with a standard yet? Why not just work on one. I don't feel a boycott is the necessary solution. CODECs are hard to write. They take a fairly large amount of research and development, and once that's done few people want to release it into the world. Fraunhofer has chosen to release some source code for their mp3 codec so people can have a starting point to develop from. There is a large amount of source code available out there from SGI and others to do video compression and it's probably not too hard to come up with an open standard. Of course, once it's finished, The main problem is penetration. It's going to be hard to get the open standard out to all of the browsers that exist and convince the 'common' (i.e. non-geek) audience to use them. I'll use them, but people like REALNetworks has a greater market penetration. (but they suck, and I'll be damned if I'm going to use Windows media player. Some of the linux .mpg tools are cool as well, but the compression rates just aren't good enough) Even quicktime has gone completely, disgustingly commercial with it's idiotic drop-down tray. Is there any escape from noise? Let's work together to make a better standard instead of boycotting. That takes up valuable resources.