Not really--- classical music notation only gives you control over basically pitch and duration of discrete notes, with a few exceptions. If you allow, say, timbre to be real-time variable (instead of restricting yourself to a single hardcoded instrument like "a violin"), you need to control that too, on multiple axes. And if you make notes continuous and highly polyphonic (say, up to 30-40 could be playing at once, instead of the max on a piano of about 10-12, and on many instruments a single one), you need still more control.
One reasonable approach is to fix a bunch of things and vary only a limited number, and one way of doing that is to keep everything fixed, except let the performer vary pitch and duration of discrete notes. But there's lots of other kinds of music you can make--- how would you design a controller to control soundscapes in real-time, or to compose IDM in real-time?
For me personally? "Composing in real-time" I instead call "using my creativity and imagination." Then, if I enjoy my creation I write it down. I play multiple instruments, including the piano. Though I myself am limited compared to you (I only have 10 fingers).
Back on topic, the beauty of music is that it can be made with ANYTHING.
I prefer to compose my music with construction paper, Elmer's glue and elbow macaroni. I find the sound of the noodles falling randomly onto childlike streaks of white liquid adhesive to be aesthetically pleasing to the ear.
Back in the bad old Bronze Age, maybe they had merit.
Today with refrigeration? I eat raw sushi all the time. Incest has also been identified as 'not that bad'. The more we learn, the less these simplistic rules apply.
Taboos are just the antiquated ideas that helped an ancient culture get by...they become increasingly irrelevant in our modern science-based society if you ask me.
So what you're really saying is that we should all go have buttsex with faggots because instead of HIV, hepatitis, and herpes; we'll contract rainbows? Rape is now good and instead of flirting, dating, and having consensual sex we should just thump the women we wish to copulate with on the head, and force it upon them like an animal would? Murder is now great and instead of just saying "I wish that brother raping homo would die" we should just to kill them where they stand?
Boy, when you take it to the extremes that everyone knows would be the true end result... I sure am glad society invented taboos because I think rape, incest, murder, and homosexuality are crimes against humanity. Disgusting evil crimes against humanity.
Here in the US "gay" has been a derogatory term for at least 25 years. Saying something is "gay" puts a negative connotation on the subject. For example, in elementary school we would constantly call the nerds and the wimps gays, gayhomos, or gayfags. We reserved "faggot" for negative connotation of actual gays, er homosexuals.
I suggest you teach your children to do the same and make fun of the other little nerds and wimps and faggots. God bless 'merica?
Maybe gay people are invincible? That could explain why people are afraid of them.
I think you confuse fear with despise or disgust. Society has taboos for logical, and rational reasons. I suggest you learn about them and stop spreading lies about non-deviants.
Monopolysoft gets what coming to them. Monopolysoft has done this plenty of times to companies now it's bad when it's done to them? No thanks I hope this patent mill of a company takes them for everything they got!
You sound like an ass. An unoriginal, regurgitating ass.
A wizard for designing a criminal suspect on the fly!
I understand the use of the term genetic in the case of this algorithm, but I can't help but wonder about obligatory Minority Report hypotheticals. In the USA your DNA is been stolen by the Government at birth; apparently they've been doing this since the 1970's. After the Feds work with it, it is then "anonymized" and sold to third parties such as medical research facilities and insurance agencies.
Intertwining these technologies leads this avid conspiracy theorist to fanciful visions of a future where one is not guilty because some mutant fortune tellers can see your future crimes, but instead because the computer simply says so.
exacly. if the job description includes being on call, there is your payment. Maybe the whole point is webmasters don't earn a nice paycheck anymore. Well, oh well, that's a entire new world of discussion.
I've been in the field of IT for almost 20 years, and never met a webmaster. I have, however, built and maintained a few IIS and Apache web servers, ran multiple FTP sites, and programmed a few PHP applications. I'm a sysadmin... what do webmasters do?
I'll probably be modded down as flamebait, but I am sort of curious, does anyone reading this have "Webmaster" on their business card? If so, what are your major responsibilities as so-called masters of the interweb? Do you even need to be on-call?
As the System Administrator for a large commodity futures and options exchange, I am on-call 24/7/365. I have an excellent salary and benefits package. I guess I don't consider it an issue since the only times I will be called is when something goes so catastrophically wrong that it puts literally millions of dollars at risk. Which to me seems great, but I also like challenging situations and would have never agreed to those terms if I didn't. (Seriously though, how many of you have thought to yourself while playing the newest Hot Game[TM]: "I'd rather be working on that big project down at the office"?)
Ah, right. The old "the USA are the only first world country" adage again. The country that couldn't come up with clean diesel until a few years ago (and the junk you call diesel still wouldn't make it to market over here), has so ludicrously bad tap water that it's not neccessarily potable and still thinks that sewers are optional.
Then again, these are the same guys who proclaim themselves the paragon of democracy, yet have a surprisingly absolutist view of international politics (rules apply to everyone but them, cf. the American Service-Members' Protection Act) and recognize other nations' sovereignty only on paper (hello, extraordinary rendition).
Quite seriously, if you guys weren't so well-armed, nobody would give a shit about you. You use your power to force your terms on everyone else while refusing to be held accountable for anything... America is exactly as the British Crown was when there still were thirteen colonies: Those peasants across the pond are only good for giving you money and don't deserve anything but contempt.
Which might explain why the "peasants" currently see more value in trying to make China respect human rights than in trying to make America care about anything but themselves. Given that we have more money than the States and enough nukes to make outright war a bad idea, there's not much the States can do about it.
Except maybe miraculously elect leaders that aren't complete assholes and realize that the States need the rest of the world as their friends if they want to stay relevant. Given that such views would probably get them sued out of the office, I find that unlikely.
First, glad to see that Europe still considers us just a bunch of peasants only good for giving them money. That re-enforces our "we don't give a shit" feelings toward you. Second, which imaginary country are you from that has more money than the the USA? The IMF, World Bank, and CIA all list the USA as having the largest GDP. The only "entity" that surpasses us in this regard is the EU, which isn't a single country and probably the reason why it's listed at the top of these lists as a special case.
With Big Brother in charge, you certainly all have become a whiny, entitled lot. Sucks to be you.
...[Americans] live in a 1st World country and due to job exportation over the last 30 years we have to compete with you in your 2nd and 3rd World European countries.
I don't know whether to feel elated that there are still Americans who grasp the concept of satirical irony, or to feel ashamed and apologize for this guy...
Apologize for what? Speaking the truth bluntly? I'm sorry I didn't coat it in confectioners sugar for our "friends" abroad.
Original pizza is the Italian pizza. Of course the American pizzas, pan-pizzas and so on are just would-be pizzas. For a pizza analogy, it's like a salami pizza without any salami on top of it.
Something I meant to add to the above post, if you want to talk pizza, you should really understand that cities like Chicago and New York City have huge ties to Italy. I think it's disingenuous of you to criticize, as if your food is somehow superior having been cultivated and prepared by socialist totalitarians.
Original pizza is the Italian pizza. Of course the American pizzas, pan-pizzas and so on are just would-be pizzas. For a pizza analogy, it's like a salami pizza without any salami on top of it.
Other than you, who fucking cares where pizza was invented? Leave it to an anti-American to make it a fucking issue where some food item was invented. Also, I don't see why you weren't modded troll yet I was, when we were doing the same exact thing.
God damn you PizzaAnalogyGuy! God... Damn... You!!!
So US tax cheats get caught at the expense of EU privacy? F***ing s**t deal if you live in the EU. My transactions have got cock all to do with you.
And Americans wonder why everybody hates them.
Citation needed. I'm an American (from the USA), and let me clarify things for you: we don't fucking care that you hate us, because we know you're all bass-ackwards. If anything, we hate you more because we live in a 1st World country and due to job exportation over the last 30 years we have to compete with you in your 2nd and 3rd World European countries.
So in summary, we don't wonder why, we know, and we hate you all just as much if not more.
I don't like OS X, and I don't like the neo-hippy styling of Apple products. I also don't like spending an extra $200-$1000 on a computer. So, in fact, I'm not the one crying. Apple can't give me what I want and never has been able to.
I guess what I am most confused about is the whole license vs. legal issue.
I was raised to believe that possession is 9/10 the law. If I own the medium the software is contained on, and disagree with the license, which law is on the books that says it's illegal for me to run the software any which way I choose?
In other words, which law is on the books that allows Apple to dictate how I may use their product in the privacy of my own home? AFAIK the only entity that can do that is the FCC because computers emit EMFs that interfere with mediums they regulate. Oh and obviously IANAL.
"Running a program constitutes an infringement since it transfers the data into memory, thus making an illegal copy."
Except we already have the exception in the law for that, and it's actually specifically stated.
I should re-read the Psystar articles again, but I was pretty sure some of the penalties they are facing are because the Judge counted the contents of RAM as an extra copy.
The people we are fighting are Middle-East Muslims.
So? Up until then almost all the US's domestic terrorists were white US-born males. I didn't see them getting rounded up and given extra screening at the airport while everyone else was waved through.
So? That only means it would add complexity implementing a racial profile on a white man in a country who's majority is white men. That adds no weight to the contrary argument that racial profiling of minorities isn't effective when you know the perpetrators are of a racial minority.
In math, if you reduce the set in which you are searching, you reduce the time spent on the search. Knowing the suspects are muslimy middle-easterners makes it damn near retarded to screen anyone but muslimy people and middle-easterners. In fact, if you weren't brainwashed by the Politically Correct Nazi's you would have the common sense to know this.
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I realize it's not the best comparison, but I think it still illustrates my point.
Why is it legal for Company A to lock down Program B to Computer C, but illegal for Company X to lock out Program Y from Computer Z?
Not really--- classical music notation only gives you control over basically pitch and duration of discrete notes, with a few exceptions. If you allow, say, timbre to be real-time variable (instead of restricting yourself to a single hardcoded instrument like "a violin"), you need to control that too, on multiple axes. And if you make notes continuous and highly polyphonic (say, up to 30-40 could be playing at once, instead of the max on a piano of about 10-12, and on many instruments a single one), you need still more control.
One reasonable approach is to fix a bunch of things and vary only a limited number, and one way of doing that is to keep everything fixed, except let the performer vary pitch and duration of discrete notes. But there's lots of other kinds of music you can make--- how would you design a controller to control soundscapes in real-time, or to compose IDM in real-time?
For me personally? "Composing in real-time" I instead call "using my creativity and imagination." Then, if I enjoy my creation I write it down. I play multiple instruments, including the piano. Though I myself am limited compared to you (I only have 10 fingers).
So my big question is, how is what Nintendo does anything different than Apple with OS X and "Apple Branded" hardware?
I don't speak/read french, maybe someone who does can chime in. In France is it legal for Apple to lock OS X to Apple computers?
Back on topic, the beauty of music is that it can be made with ANYTHING.
I prefer to compose my music with construction paper, Elmer's glue and elbow macaroni. I find the sound of the noodles falling randomly onto childlike streaks of white liquid adhesive to be aesthetically pleasing to the ear.
it's basically an open problem how to control a hugely multi-dimensional space like computer music via controllers people can use
Yeah... wasn't that problem solved with the invention of paper, pens, pencils and the language of music?
Back in the bad old Bronze Age, maybe they had merit.
Today with refrigeration? I eat raw sushi all the time. Incest has also been identified as 'not that bad'. The more we learn, the less these simplistic rules apply.
Taboos are just the antiquated ideas that helped an ancient culture get by...they become increasingly irrelevant in our modern science-based society if you ask me.
So what you're really saying is that we should all go have buttsex with faggots because instead of HIV, hepatitis, and herpes; we'll contract rainbows? Rape is now good and instead of flirting, dating, and having consensual sex we should just thump the women we wish to copulate with on the head, and force it upon them like an animal would? Murder is now great and instead of just saying "I wish that brother raping homo would die" we should just to kill them where they stand?
Boy, when you take it to the extremes that everyone knows would be the true end result... I sure am glad society invented taboos because I think rape, incest, murder, and homosexuality are crimes against humanity. Disgusting evil crimes against humanity.
When in the last 5 year has gay meant homosexual?
Here in the US "gay" has been a derogatory term for at least 25 years. Saying something is "gay" puts a negative connotation on the subject. For example, in elementary school we would constantly call the nerds and the wimps gays, gayhomos, or gayfags. We reserved "faggot" for negative connotation of actual gays, er homosexuals.
I suggest you teach your children to do the same and make fun of the other little nerds and wimps and faggots. God bless 'merica?
Maybe gay people are invincible? That could explain why people are afraid of them.
I think you confuse fear with despise or disgust. Society has taboos for logical, and rational reasons. I suggest you learn about them and stop spreading lies about non-deviants.
Monopolysoft gets what coming to them. Monopolysoft has done this plenty of times to companies now it's bad when it's done to them? No thanks I hope this patent mill of a company takes them for everything they got!
You sound like an ass. An unoriginal, regurgitating ass.
Why is everything called cloud these days? Yet another du jour buzzword. Is this really justified here?
Cloudgate?
A wizard for designing a criminal suspect on the fly!
I understand the use of the term genetic in the case of this algorithm, but I can't help but wonder about obligatory Minority Report hypotheticals. In the USA your DNA is been stolen by the Government at birth; apparently they've been doing this since the 1970's. After the Feds work with it, it is then "anonymized" and sold to third parties such as medical research facilities and insurance agencies.
Intertwining these technologies leads this avid conspiracy theorist to fanciful visions of a future where one is not guilty because some mutant fortune tellers can see your future crimes, but instead because the computer simply says so.
exacly. if the job description includes being on call, there is your payment. Maybe the whole point is webmasters don't earn a nice paycheck anymore. Well, oh well, that's a entire new world of discussion.
I've been in the field of IT for almost 20 years, and never met a webmaster. I have, however, built and maintained a few IIS and Apache web servers, ran multiple FTP sites, and programmed a few PHP applications. I'm a sysadmin... what do webmasters do?
I'll probably be modded down as flamebait, but I am sort of curious, does anyone reading this have "Webmaster" on their business card? If so, what are your major responsibilities as so-called masters of the interweb? Do you even need to be on-call?
As the System Administrator for a large commodity futures and options exchange, I am on-call 24/7/365. I have an excellent salary and benefits package. I guess I don't consider it an issue since the only times I will be called is when something goes so catastrophically wrong that it puts literally millions of dollars at risk. Which to me seems great, but I also like challenging situations and would have never agreed to those terms if I didn't. (Seriously though, how many of you have thought to yourself while playing the newest Hot Game[TM]: "I'd rather be working on that big project down at the office"?)
Woosh!
Ah, right. The old "the USA are the only first world country" adage again. The country that couldn't come up with clean diesel until a few years ago (and the junk you call diesel still wouldn't make it to market over here), has so ludicrously bad tap water that it's not neccessarily potable and still thinks that sewers are optional. Then again, these are the same guys who proclaim themselves the paragon of democracy, yet have a surprisingly absolutist view of international politics (rules apply to everyone but them, cf. the American Service-Members' Protection Act) and recognize other nations' sovereignty only on paper (hello, extraordinary rendition). Quite seriously, if you guys weren't so well-armed, nobody would give a shit about you. You use your power to force your terms on everyone else while refusing to be held accountable for anything... America is exactly as the British Crown was when there still were thirteen colonies: Those peasants across the pond are only good for giving you money and don't deserve anything but contempt. Which might explain why the "peasants" currently see more value in trying to make China respect human rights than in trying to make America care about anything but themselves. Given that we have more money than the States and enough nukes to make outright war a bad idea, there's not much the States can do about it. Except maybe miraculously elect leaders that aren't complete assholes and realize that the States need the rest of the world as their friends if they want to stay relevant. Given that such views would probably get them sued out of the office, I find that unlikely.
First, glad to see that Europe still considers us just a bunch of peasants only good for giving them money. That re-enforces our "we don't give a shit" feelings toward you. Second, which imaginary country are you from that has more money than the the USA? The IMF, World Bank, and CIA all list the USA as having the largest GDP. The only "entity" that surpasses us in this regard is the EU, which isn't a single country and probably the reason why it's listed at the top of these lists as a special case.
With Big Brother in charge, you certainly all have become a whiny, entitled lot. Sucks to be you.
...[Americans] live in a 1st World country and due to job exportation over the last 30 years we have to compete with you in your 2nd and 3rd World European countries.
I don't know whether to feel elated that there are still Americans who grasp the concept of satirical irony, or to feel ashamed and apologize for this guy...
Apologize for what? Speaking the truth bluntly? I'm sorry I didn't coat it in confectioners sugar for our "friends" abroad.
Original pizza is the Italian pizza. Of course the American pizzas, pan-pizzas and so on are just would-be pizzas. For a pizza analogy, it's like a salami pizza without any salami on top of it.
Something I meant to add to the above post, if you want to talk pizza, you should really understand that cities like Chicago and New York City have huge ties to Italy. I think it's disingenuous of you to criticize, as if your food is somehow superior having been cultivated and prepared by socialist totalitarians.
Original pizza is the Italian pizza. Of course the American pizzas, pan-pizzas and so on are just would-be pizzas. For a pizza analogy, it's like a salami pizza without any salami on top of it.
Other than you, who fucking cares where pizza was invented? Leave it to an anti-American to make it a fucking issue where some food item was invented. Also, I don't see why you weren't modded troll yet I was, when we were doing the same exact thing.
God damn you PizzaAnalogyGuy! God... Damn... You!!!
So US tax cheats get caught at the expense of EU privacy? F***ing s**t deal if you live in the EU. My transactions have got cock all to do with you.
And Americans wonder why everybody hates them.
Citation needed. I'm an American (from the USA), and let me clarify things for you: we don't fucking care that you hate us, because we know you're all bass-ackwards. If anything, we hate you more because we live in a 1st World country and due to job exportation over the last 30 years we have to compete with you in your 2nd and 3rd World European countries.
So in summary, we don't wonder why, we know, and we hate you all just as much if not more.
Pizza is Italian.
There's no such thing as american pizza. Only american would-be pizza.
That's bullshit. That's like saying the Euro isn't money, just a would-be US Dollar.
Contrary to the elitist European attitudes, the US is way better so neener-neener-neener!
Agreed, and that's why I support racial profiling.
Wah wah wah Apple won't give me what I want.
Falcon
I don't like OS X, and I don't like the neo-hippy styling of Apple products. I also don't like spending an extra $200-$1000 on a computer. So, in fact, I'm not the one crying. Apple can't give me what I want and never has been able to.
Sucks to be you, fanboi.
I was going to put Win7 on my HP dv7, but now this!
I guess what I am most confused about is the whole license vs. legal issue.
I was raised to believe that possession is 9/10 the law. If I own the medium the software is contained on, and disagree with the license, which law is on the books that says it's illegal for me to run the software any which way I choose?
In other words, which law is on the books that allows Apple to dictate how I may use their product in the privacy of my own home? AFAIK the only entity that can do that is the FCC because computers emit EMFs that interfere with mediums they regulate. Oh and obviously IANAL.
"Running a program constitutes an infringement since it transfers the data into memory, thus making an illegal copy."
Except we already have the exception in the law for that, and it's actually specifically stated.
I should re-read the Psystar articles again, but I was pretty sure some of the penalties they are facing are because the Judge counted the contents of RAM as an extra copy.
The people we are fighting are Middle-East Muslims.
So? Up until then almost all the US's domestic terrorists were white US-born males. I didn't see them getting rounded up and given extra screening at the airport while everyone else was waved through.
So? That only means it would add complexity implementing a racial profile on a white man in a country who's majority is white men. That adds no weight to the contrary argument that racial profiling of minorities isn't effective when you know the perpetrators are of a racial minority.
In math, if you reduce the set in which you are searching, you reduce the time spent on the search. Knowing the suspects are muslimy middle-easterners makes it damn near retarded to screen anyone but muslimy people and middle-easterners. In fact, if you weren't brainwashed by the Politically Correct Nazi's you would have the common sense to know this.