Hmm. I think Creative is receiving its just desserts since the release of the first Nomad Jukebox.
They had a special team in their R&D center in Scotts Valley design that product, and then after it was done, they laid off most of the people in that project team and outsourced them to a less-experienced team in Singapore.
Consequently, some of the team was picked up by Apple which went on to develop the second rev iPod.
We have DEFINITELY been down this road before folks. I don't see why it's so hard to do this, unless you're using COTS components. Hence, the point of "engineering" - not cramming a bunch of stuff in boxes/packages into bigger boxes and packages.
I was looking at Mont Blanc pens... and unfortunately I'm a bit stingy. While they ARE a *very* fine writing instrument, I'm currently EXTREMELY happy with the Cross ATX pen. It's only $60, and comes in either a medium or fine nib. It can use both cartridges and inkwells, beacuse it has a built-in inkwell plunger cartridge. Definitely a great pen for the money, but the fine nib is a little hard to keep whetted.
I just don't see the sense in paying more than $150 for a pen, unless I'm signing multi-million dollar contracts every day.;-)
Karplus-Strong, while highly effective, is the bane of a modelling synthesizer developer's life. From what I know, it's patented.
IMHO, unless some really wacky stuff comes out, Physical Modelling is dead because there are two research areas the industry has focused on: Acoustic modelling, and virtual analog modelling. Boring.
How about some physical models of other signal paths, or using stochastic randomness to change wavetable data? That would be a new direction...
I hate to point this out, but physical modelling has been around since the mid-80's in music technology research labs like CCRMA and CNMAT, but only until the early 90's was the technology available to implement the algorithms cheaply.
Many other companies (specifically synthesizer companies) make products based on modelling - Access Music, Waldorf GmbH, Novation, etc. Don't forget the big boys like Yamaha, Roland, and Korg.
If you want more information on new technologies in music, I'd suggest looking at Hartmann's Neuron and related products - they're actually using neural nets and controlled feedback to add musical randomness into the sound.
Finally, there are other people who have been making unique music instruments for quite some time - but not necessarily for child development. Check out Buchla and Associates for some really unique instruments.
This is nothing new - originally, Gibson invested in CNMAT, Zeta, and a couple contractors to develop an extension to MIDI called ZIPI. A horrendous name, but functionally it was much better than MIDI could ever be - and it ran over 10Base-T (late 80's, early 90's). There was a huge legal battle over ZIPI, due to some nasty contracts penned by Gibson and their lawyers, and much screwing of the developers of the technology ensued (this is where Henry Juszkiewicz issued his infamous quote "There is no right, there is no wrong. There's only who has more money for the better lawyers.").
After this bout of legal hell was completed, Gibson had their own internal engineers re-work ZIPI to work over 100Base-TX with an increased channel count and such, and named it GMICS (Gimmicks). This didn't catch on, because of the horrendous licensing agreement that companies had to sign to get access to the technical specification.
Now, this goes to MAGIC - the third re-munging of the ZIPI protocol, and essentially the same thing as GMICS, only with a much better licensing scheme. It's still non-optimal, it still can be done MUCH better, and it still has a LONG way to go in order to seriously compete with not only Yamaha's mLAN and the IEEE 61883.6 audio/MIDI protocol for FireWire.
One thing I did when I checked out Dagon's subset of ASPAlliance, was the fact that he clearly mentioned how Netscape 6 failed to support XSL. Of course, data objects was there - but still, the one point that was clearly fair was that NS6 still didn't support a W3C Candidate Reccommendation by default. Of course, it's in Mozilla - but that's not Netscape 6, now is it? While slightly OT, it still seems that was the gist of his rant. He clearly put in bold INTRANET DEVELOPER. This means that you can control the platform you develop for as well as the server. I can see why people would use IE over netscape in intranet apps, just for business reasons. I wouldn't do this personally, but that doesn't mean other developers would do the same.
Mabye the alphanumeric string isn't encrypted. I'd take a closer look at the frequency bands before making any assumptions - I've seen other systems where the military would transmit a pad using weak encryption or no encryption at all, then transmit the encrypted data over spread-spectrum with the center band of the spectrum on the frequency that the key to the cipher is transmitted. The variances I could see on this is that the cipher key is supposed to be used for a future message, a "code book addendum" per se - or it could be gibberish just so the receiver could lock onto the spread-spectrum signal. Hope these ideas could shed some light on the analysis of those signals.
Well, at least Gore Technology Group didn't get their hands on CRI as well as CCC. It would've been a shame to see all of that technology make it into a vault where no one could use it.
It was a sad day in supercomputers when Seymour Cray died, and to help his legacy prosper, what did they do? They melted down all production CRAY-3's, and locked all the technology up tighter than fort knox. Hopefully Tera won't make the same mistakes as SGI.
At one of my former jobs, our naming convention was horrendous. It was a concatenation of several different parameters, so we have machines like dnsupr19 or slsudv02 , as purely theoretical examples. We hated this scheme, so to keep corporate happy as well as our "artistic sysadmin license" per se, we just added aliases into the DNS tables to make it easier for us techs to handle.
On another note, when I've set up networks, my naming conventions differ. I've used projects in the space program (gemini, voyager, mercury, etc.), code-names of planes (blackbird, thunderdart), and one kick I'm on lately is characters from mine and other SA's favourite Anime. Its interesting, and most places sounds quite intelligent (Hey, the second ethernet card is down in Shinji! Did the angels take him out finally?). So, hope these help a bit.
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When it's just straight coding, I usually go for KMFDM, acid techno, or hard industrial like Die Krupps/Ministry/NiN/etc. When it's more of a design process, or I'm ending up thinking a lot rather than just dumping code to screen, it will vary more towards ambient and progressive rock (Enigma, Industrial Monk, Dream Theater, Chroma Key)
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Seems to me that it couldn't hurt. It definately would give people a choice on which they preferred. I remember back when xiafs was an option to ext2. Of course, it's not used much anymore, but the code is still out there, and people have the option to use it if they wish.
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There are three companies that make good, cheap line level mixers for bargain-basement recording and Sound reinforcement. There are two basic types of mixers in this arena, tabletop mixers and rack mounted mixers. Either are quite small. Here's a list of mixers from most vendors that will (hopefully) solve your dillema:
Midiman Micro Mixer ($99-299) 6 to 18ch.
Spirit PowerPad ($399)
Rolls RM65 MixMax ($320)
Even though the Spirit PowerPad is $400 list, it includes a 30 watt power amplifier, so you can hook your speakers right into that. Another place to check out is Used Gear By Mail, they ship anyhwere, and have some really good used gear VERY cheap. Hopefully this gave some more answers. If there's still not something out there perfectly suited to this application, I'm sure there are people here that can design a small 6-12ch line mixer in their sleep.:-)
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There's plenty of usage for a pet like this. You're only looking at the novelty of things like that. What about people who live alone and can't have pets in their place, or elderly people whose family have dumped them off at some senseless, rigid nursing home? Robots like this could quite easily be a good, clean replacement for human companionship when there is none to be found.
Of course, it could be an addictive placebo for people who have nothing better to do... it really depends on how you look at it. New technologies like this should equally be treated with respect and the self-control to handle them properly.
If it comes from man, it will fail. If it comes from god, It will succeed.
Hrmm.... Seems another good Microcontroller project would be one using a ColdFire CPU... like the MCF5206E or the MCF5307. They support up to (either) 256MB or 512MB of RAM, and have tons of features that would be perfect not only for a simple Linux project, but maybe even for embedded wearable computers. Any thoughts?
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Here's a good question... if so many people are complaining about Network Solutions' monopoly, why not create an effort to host root level domains like before? I'm sure a lot of ISP's wouldn't mind hosting a DNS on their box, to create some root servers, and voila! Or better yet, a non-profit organization held in the people's trust? Come on, the software is there, the talent is there... so why not? Back to the age of FREE DNS registration.
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First, it started with Win3.1, using proprietary type abstractions to make porting of code harder, HINSTANCE this and LRESULT that. Sure, it was compliant with C and C++, because it all came back to a header that defined them properly. Then came MFC API's, all sorts of kludges like Visual BaSuck (NOT chronologically accurate here..), and then they got their dirty little hands on Java... trying to do the same thing, except "adding functionality" meant "ensuring longevity" if you get my gist. Let's all hope that Microsoft's fear of standardization, especially with this COOL project (maybe ANSI can get in on this one.. probably not) will dig them an even earlier grave. I, for one, am sick of trying to port between standard systems and Windows.
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You can thanke Creative for the Aureal debacle - they sued Aureal into bankruptcy, and then bought them after they filed.
Hmm. I think Creative is receiving its just desserts since the release of the first Nomad Jukebox.
They had a special team in their R&D center in Scotts Valley design that product, and then after it was done, they laid off most of the people in that project team and outsourced them to a less-experienced team in Singapore.
Consequently, some of the team was picked up by Apple which went on to develop the second rev iPod.
Seems to me there was once a guy named Seymour, who could do the fast *and* small thing quite well. Since we're talking in terms of Televisions...
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We have DEFINITELY been down this road before folks. I don't see why it's so hard to do this, unless you're using COTS components. Hence, the point of "engineering" - not cramming a bunch of stuff in boxes/packages into bigger boxes and packages.
I was looking at Mont Blanc pens... and unfortunately I'm a bit stingy. While they ARE a *very* fine writing instrument, I'm currently EXTREMELY happy with the Cross ATX pen. It's only $60, and comes in either a medium or fine nib. It can use both cartridges and inkwells, beacuse it has a built-in inkwell plunger cartridge. Definitely a great pen for the money, but the fine nib is a little hard to keep whetted.
;-)
I just don't see the sense in paying more than $150 for a pen, unless I'm signing multi-million dollar contracts every day.
Karplus-Strong, while highly effective, is the bane of a modelling synthesizer developer's life. From what I know, it's patented.
IMHO, unless some really wacky stuff comes out, Physical Modelling is dead because there are two research areas the industry has focused on: Acoustic modelling, and virtual analog modelling. Boring.
How about some physical models of other signal paths, or using stochastic randomness to change wavetable data? That would be a new direction...
I hate to point this out, but physical modelling has been around since the mid-80's in music technology research labs like CCRMA and CNMAT, but only until the early 90's was the technology available to implement the algorithms cheaply.
Many other companies (specifically synthesizer companies) make products based on modelling - Access Music, Waldorf GmbH, Novation, etc. Don't forget the big boys like Yamaha, Roland, and Korg.
If you want more information on new technologies in music, I'd suggest looking at Hartmann's Neuron and related products - they're actually using neural nets and controlled feedback to add musical randomness into the sound.
Finally, there are other people who have been making unique music instruments for quite some time - but not necessarily for child development. Check out Buchla and Associates for some really unique instruments.
I bet you've got a 12AX7 on there, considering they said it had a 'dual triode' tube in there. They're also some of the cheapest valves out there.
This is nothing new - originally, Gibson invested in CNMAT, Zeta, and a couple contractors to develop an extension to MIDI called ZIPI. A horrendous name, but functionally it was much better than MIDI could ever be - and it ran over 10Base-T (late 80's, early 90's). There was a huge legal battle over ZIPI, due to some nasty contracts penned by Gibson and their lawyers, and much screwing of the developers of the technology ensued (this is where Henry Juszkiewicz issued his infamous quote "There is no right, there is no wrong. There's only who has more money for the better lawyers.").
After this bout of legal hell was completed, Gibson had their own internal engineers re-work ZIPI to work over 100Base-TX with an increased channel count and such, and named it GMICS (Gimmicks). This didn't catch on, because of the horrendous licensing agreement that companies had to sign to get access to the technical specification.
Now, this goes to MAGIC - the third re-munging of the ZIPI protocol, and essentially the same thing as GMICS, only with a much better licensing scheme. It's still non-optimal, it still can be done MUCH better, and it still has a LONG way to go in order to seriously compete with not only Yamaha's mLAN and the IEEE 61883.6 audio/MIDI protocol for FireWire.
For more info, check this link out:
Details of the accounts between Lynx Crowe (one of the developers of ZIPI) and Gibson.
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T h e U n d e r g r o u n d W a r e h o u s e
It was a sad day in supercomputers when Seymour Cray died, and to help his legacy prosper, what did they do? They melted down all production CRAY-3's, and locked all the technology up tighter than fort knox. Hopefully Tera won't make the same mistakes as SGI.
T h e U n d e r g r o u n d W a r e h o u s e
On another note, when I've set up networks, my naming conventions differ. I've used projects in the space program (gemini, voyager, mercury, etc.), code-names of planes (blackbird, thunderdart), and one kick I'm on lately is characters from mine and other SA's favourite Anime. Its interesting, and most places sounds quite intelligent (Hey, the second ethernet card is down in Shinji! Did the angels take him out finally?). So, hope these help a bit.
If it comes from man, it will fail.
If it comes from god, It will succeed.
If it comes from man, it will fail.
If it comes from god, It will succeed.
If it comes from man, it will fail.
If it comes from god, It will succeed.
If it comes from man, it will fail.
If it comes from god, It will succeed.
- Midiman Micro Mixer ($99-299) 6 to 18ch.
- Spirit PowerPad ($399)
- Rolls RM65 MixMax ($320)
Even though the Spirit PowerPad is $400 list, it includes a 30 watt power amplifier, so you can hook your speakers right into that. Another place to check out is Used Gear By Mail, they ship anyhwere, and have some really good used gear VERY cheap. Hopefully this gave some more answers. If there's still not something out there perfectly suited to this application, I'm sure there are people here that can design a small 6-12ch line mixer in their sleep.If it comes from man, it will fail.
If it comes from god, It will succeed.
There's plenty of usage for a pet like this. You're only looking at the novelty of things like that. What about people who live alone and can't have pets in their place, or elderly people whose family have dumped them off at some senseless, rigid nursing home? Robots like this could quite easily be a good, clean replacement for human companionship when there is none to be found.
Of course, it could be an addictive placebo for people who have nothing better to do... it really depends on how you look at it. New technologies like this should equally be treated with respect and the self-control to handle them properly.
If it comes from man, it will fail.
If it comes from god, It will succeed.
If it comes from man, it will fail.
If it comes from god, It will succeed.
Good or bad? We shall see.
If it comes from man, it will fail.
If it comes from god, It will succeed.
If it comes from man, it will fail.
If it comes from god, It will succeed.
If it comes from man, it will fail.
If it comes from god, It will succeed.
If it comes from man, it will fail.
If it comes from god, It will succeed.
If it comes from man, it will fail.
If it comes from god, It will succeed.