The Amiga music of old was scripted in trackers, which are nearly useless for improvising and making live music. The noise scene, however, is very much into improvisation, and also very much into laptops. Merzbow makes all his music on laptops these days. It's certainly not everyone's cup of tea, many people would even refuse calling it music, but there's no doubt that he uses his laptop as a sound instrument. Check out Ikue Mori for something slightly more pleasant. There are loads of proper laptop musicians out there, but they don't exactly hit the charts. The fact that you haven't heard of them isn't all that surprising.
Oh yeah, and the focus on laptops is there because they are portable, and can therefore be used more easily as live instruments.
You don't seem to realise just how high frequencies >18 kHz are. It's not where you go listening for music. Even the high frequency hiss from a TV is only about 15 kHz, and it's not pleasant. Also, it's perfectly recordable on both CD and vinyl. Your cassette is probably just an exceptional recording.
You were the one who claimed to have picked up on pop listening lately.
The fact is that it's impossible to make a pair of speakers sound good both in the listening room and the room next to it, for fairly simple acoustical reasons. When you're going on about listening from the neighbouring room, you just show that you have no idea about what a set of speakers should be able to do. I'm sure you're happy with your purchase, though.
No, I'm not talking about "loudness". Dynamics. You can't have quality sound without dynamics, just like you can't have quality photos with 4 bit colours. On the other hand, most modern pop is mastered for radio and car stereos, so the recording is already compressed to minimise dynamics. The most obvious effect of this is that the recording is perceived as louder, not quieter, since everything is equally loud. This is also why commercials sound louder than all other radio and TV programming: it's compressed even more.
Here is a nice article which explains why your flimsy speakers sound OK at low volumes playing contemporary pop. It's because they are mastered to sound equally crap on all equipment.
The thing is, you can't emulate moving a lot of air. That takes power, and applying lots of power to light membranes means the membranes have to be extremely stiff if they are to keep their form (which they need to avoid distortion). So you need powerful magnets, a light but very solid coil, and stiff and light materials for the cones (which also needs to be dampened so that it doesn't ring, etc.). In addition, you need stiff, solid boxes that don't vibrate, which tent to be heavy. You don't get to emulate that with cheap equipment. What you do get is a frequency response that emphasises treble. That's distortion.
You're not getting spectacular sound with a $249.95 set of speakers. The loudspeakers are the only part of a audio system that still cost money to make properly.
That only indicates that she claims to have made it for Microsoft, not that she actually did so. I don't understand why Microsoft would want a Microsoft site plastered with the Microsoft logo registered in someone else's name. It also looks amateurish.
The fact that the man is on SCO's payroll and a raving lunatic who tends to compare Linux fans with terrorists also doesn't void him from offering criticism. On the other hand, posting comments from the man here is blatant flamebait/trolling behaviour.
That seems likely, but it should be possible to make an API like OpenGL for more general processing as well, shouldn't it? Then all you need is a driver, and your code won't be obsolete every time a new generation GPU comes out.
Unlimited. Steve Ballmer doesn't even need to write a press release. He can just state something to a journalist, and within a week it has been published in all tech news outlets all over the world. That's the difference between one very important man and a couple of thousands of insignificant nerds. And because of the "communism" of Linux, Microsoft won't have any problems getting support from various free market enthusiasts -- for free.
Being perceived as "tough on terrorism" is far more important than having a workable plan. Politics is mostly about posturing while having your way with an unrelated issue at the same time.
Don't be silly. The whole point of Slashdot is the discussion, so that neither you, the editors, nor the submitter, have to read the story. Or, rather, the third part of the discussion: Just skip to right below the obligatory FP and the early insultingly stupid attempts at humour, and you'll almost always find a correction to the write-up, including facts, grammar and spelling, and a call for the termination of Zonk's employment or life. That's the value of Slashdot, right there, not in the linked overly verbose stories with pages upon pages of advertising.
If skin cancer rates are up because people spend more time outdoors, and cancer rates go down because of the vitamin D produced in the skin from sunlight, then it would appear that the rates go both up and down at the same time. Then again, you seem to be more concerned with protecting the world from dangerous leftist extremists than with being factually or logically correct.
Do you have a good reason for wanting that, or are you just a fan of drag and drop? With app-folders, the.app file needs to contain all of the non-standard libraries (or worse: have you resolve dependencies manually). It's grossly uneconomical, requires manual upgrading of every separate app, and doesn't work in a free software environment.
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The Amiga music of old was scripted in trackers, which are nearly useless for improvising and making live music. The noise scene, however, is very much into improvisation, and also very much into laptops. Merzbow makes all his music on laptops these days. It's certainly not everyone's cup of tea, many people would even refuse calling it music, but there's no doubt that he uses his laptop as a sound instrument. Check out Ikue Mori for something slightly more pleasant. There are loads of proper laptop musicians out there, but they don't exactly hit the charts. The fact that you haven't heard of them isn't all that surprising.
Oh yeah, and the focus on laptops is there because they are portable, and can therefore be used more easily as live instruments.
Plugging Apple gets you an automatic +5, insightful (lol), so why not?
You can't buy a Big Linux hamburger.
You don't seem to realise just how high frequencies >18 kHz are. It's not where you go listening for music. Even the high frequency hiss from a TV is only about 15 kHz, and it's not pleasant. Also, it's perfectly recordable on both CD and vinyl. Your cassette is probably just an exceptional recording.
You were the one who claimed to have picked up on pop listening lately.
The fact is that it's impossible to make a pair of speakers sound good both in the listening room and the room next to it, for fairly simple acoustical reasons. When you're going on about listening from the neighbouring room, you just show that you have no idea about what a set of speakers should be able to do. I'm sure you're happy with your purchase, though.
No, I'm not talking about "loudness". Dynamics. You can't have quality sound without dynamics, just like you can't have quality photos with 4 bit colours. On the other hand, most modern pop is mastered for radio and car stereos, so the recording is already compressed to minimise dynamics. The most obvious effect of this is that the recording is perceived as louder, not quieter, since everything is equally loud. This is also why commercials sound louder than all other radio and TV programming: it's compressed even more.
Here is a nice article which explains why your flimsy speakers sound OK at low volumes playing contemporary pop. It's because they are mastered to sound equally crap on all equipment.
The thing is, you can't emulate moving a lot of air. That takes power, and applying lots of power to light membranes means the membranes have to be extremely stiff if they are to keep their form (which they need to avoid distortion). So you need powerful magnets, a light but very solid coil, and stiff and light materials for the cones (which also needs to be dampened so that it doesn't ring, etc.). In addition, you need stiff, solid boxes that don't vibrate, which tent to be heavy. You don't get to emulate that with cheap equipment. What you do get is a frequency response that emphasises treble. That's distortion.
You're not getting spectacular sound with a $249.95 set of speakers. The loudspeakers are the only part of a audio system that still cost money to make properly.
M-Audio is well supported by ALSA. Sauce.
One should never expect him to see the other side of an issue.
I read that as 'Imagine a Beowulf cluster of cheese'. Now, that would have been news for nerds.
That only indicates that she claims to have made it for Microsoft, not that she actually did so. I don't understand why Microsoft would want a Microsoft site plastered with the Microsoft logo registered in someone else's name. It also looks amateurish.
Since it uses a different (5 GHz) frequency spectrum it won't be affected by the congested 11b/g spectrum.
You'd imagine that Dell would take care of that problem when selling pre-installed Linux boxes. It's not like it's a difficult problem to solve.
The fact that the man is on SCO's payroll and a raving lunatic who tends to compare Linux fans with terrorists also doesn't void him from offering criticism. On the other hand, posting comments from the man here is blatant flamebait/trolling behaviour.
That seems likely, but it should be possible to make an API like OpenGL for more general processing as well, shouldn't it? Then all you need is a driver, and your code won't be obsolete every time a new generation GPU comes out.
Unlimited. Steve Ballmer doesn't even need to write a press release. He can just state something to a journalist, and within a week it has been published in all tech news outlets all over the world. That's the difference between one very important man and a couple of thousands of insignificant nerds. And because of the "communism" of Linux, Microsoft won't have any problems getting support from various free market enthusiasts -- for free.
Being perceived as "tough on terrorism" is far more important than having a workable plan. Politics is mostly about posturing while having your way with an unrelated issue at the same time.
Don't be silly. The whole point of Slashdot is the discussion, so that neither you, the editors, nor the submitter, have to read the story. Or, rather, the third part of the discussion: Just skip to right below the obligatory FP and the early insultingly stupid attempts at humour, and you'll almost always find a correction to the write-up, including facts, grammar and spelling, and a call for the termination of Zonk's employment or life. That's the value of Slashdot, right there, not in the linked overly verbose stories with pages upon pages of advertising.
If skin cancer rates are up because people spend more time outdoors, and cancer rates go down because of the vitamin D produced in the skin from sunlight, then it would appear that the rates go both up and down at the same time. Then again, you seem to be more concerned with protecting the world from dangerous leftist extremists than with being factually or logically correct.
Do you have a good reason for wanting that, or are you just a fan of drag and drop? With app-folders, the .app file needs to contain all of the non-standard libraries (or worse: have you resolve dependencies manually). It's grossly uneconomical, requires manual upgrading of every separate app, and doesn't work in a free software environment.
Ah, tradition. I didn't know about Müslix.
Yes, but as long as he's defending Apple, he'll be modded +gazillions insightful.
Moderation +5
60% Insightful
20% Troll
10% Interesting
Yep, you can't avoid the "troll" mod when speaking out against anything Apple, even its fanboys.
That schlurp-schlurp-schlurp sound? I thought that was the delayed sound of their lobotomies.