Paper is stupid. It doesn't do anything distracting. It doesn't offer features, facilities or toys to detract from the task at hand. It operates silently. It doesn't offer surprises, do unexpected things, crash or cause interruptions. Hence, it's perfect when one needs to focus one's thoughts.
I also believe in using old, slow computers (680x0 PowerBooks in particular) for similar reasons. And if I wanted to get seriously rich, I'd start a dealership in reconditioned manual typewriters.
It's about time somebody is trying to update digital interfaces for instruments.
You mean line LoneWolf's MediaLAN digital media interface of, oh, I dunno, the best part of a decade ago?
I don't know what happened to that in the end. Of course, it was totally proprietary; however, a quick skim of the GMICS site doesn't say anything about the licensing arrangements of this system either.
Btw, Gibson (owners of Opcode Systems) have a lousy reputation when it comes to managing hi-tech subsidiaries - the tendency is to buy, strip-mine, sell.
Think of it as the Microsoft approach ("good enough" code) vs. the ideal approach (code that is designed for expandability and maintainability, code that has some DESIGN behind it).
I disagree strongly. As a contractor I considered it a matter of personal pride to come up with well-crafted, elegant solutions to problems that needed solving (in one case, problems due to shoddy work by earlier contractors). My professional reputation relies on good referrals, which in turn rely on good work.
Agreed: anyone who's read Show-Stopper knows that Cutler knows his stuff, and that Gates's graphics people forced him to compromise the kernel design, security and robustness.
Sure: it's what we in the Computer Science community refer to as "old news." I wrote a Ph.D. on language-based parallelism of this kind more than 12 years ago, and even then the field was pretty mature.
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Paper is stupid. It doesn't do anything distracting. It doesn't offer features, facilities or toys to detract from the task at hand. It operates silently. It doesn't offer surprises, do unexpected things, crash or cause interruptions. Hence, it's perfect when one needs to focus one's thoughts.
I also believe in using old, slow computers (680x0 PowerBooks in particular) for similar reasons. And if I wanted to get seriously rich, I'd start a dealership in reconditioned manual typewriters.
It's about time somebody is trying to update digital interfaces for instruments.
You mean line LoneWolf's MediaLAN digital media interface of, oh, I dunno, the best part of a decade ago?
I don't know what happened to that in the end. Of course, it was totally proprietary; however, a quick skim of the GMICS site doesn't say anything about the licensing arrangements of this system either.
Btw, Gibson (owners of Opcode Systems) have a lousy reputation when it comes to managing hi-tech subsidiaries - the tendency is to buy, strip-mine, sell.
According to the press release:
Our vision is to embrace and extend the capabilities of the guitar - and all musical instruments ...
Hmm, where have I heard the phrase embrace and extend before?
From the article:
For $25,000, you could hire Visual Forensics to help defend you from charges that you caused a multi-car pile-up [...]
Erm, so, does this mean that this satellite is going to be gathering an archive of video footage of the entire planet, for ever and ever?
Might there not be some mild privacy concerns here?
I disagree strongly. As a contractor I considered it a matter of personal pride to come up with well-crafted, elegant solutions to problems that needed solving (in one case, problems due to shoddy work by earlier contractors). My professional reputation relies on good referrals, which in turn rely on good work.
Agreed: anyone who's read Show-Stopper knows that Cutler knows his stuff, and that Gates's graphics people forced him to compromise the kernel design, security and robustness.
Sure: it's what we in the Computer Science community refer to as "old news." I wrote a Ph.D. on language-based parallelism of this kind more than 12 years ago, and even then the field was pretty mature.
Not available to the rest of the world, in case I cared. I'll stick with building my own e-commerce server with Apache, mod_ssl and jserv, thanks.
I see no problem with a site dedicated to God's
hatred of cigarettes! The problem, clearly,
is partly due to cultural differences in word
meanings...