The most important thing is not to write down your idea, it is to IMPLEMENT IT THERE AND THEN. (Writing it down may catalog your idea for future reference, but implementing it right away provides even more insight and later discoveries while doing so). Today's technology makes prototyping even more simpler and accessible, so is bettering the chances even more of CATCHING THE IDEA.
I have often come up with melodies, chorus lines and the like on the way to work. With a smartphone or other pocket recording device I can whistle or sing them in the car-park or any other convenient point, and work them into something useful when I get home. I've had a couple of really good lines come that way - the first one of which I didn't have a recorder with me and lost it. I was able to remember parts of it a few days later but I never managed to get it as perfect as it had been. Two others would have been similarly lost if I had't been able to record them.
Each creative type has their own quirks and ways of tapping the source.
I think the weirdest one is when I've been playing Doom or Doom 2, and suddenly had harpsichord waltzes appear in my mind. On more than one occasion I've immediately quit the game so I could put the waltz into the sequencer as a bridge in whatever song I've been working on.
I had a win 6 phone with a fingerprint scanner years ago from HTC. My current phone (nexus 4) uses the front camera to recognize my face. Are we talking about new to IOS phones?
They were all the rage ten years ago. HP's PocketPC 3 devices had them. I think they may even have still been Compaq at the time. Using the screen is new, but now I think about it, the scanning devices were probably the same kind of capacitive matrix we're using now.
What most of these systems did was they hashed the fingerprint anyway, since they were IIRC vectorised, measuring the size and shape of the print. If the new devices do that too, it's less of a security problem, but if there's userspace access to the capacitive grid, you might be able to grab the image of the fingerprint with a trojan.
Almost there! We can currently print at an end-product resolution of 600dpi, translating to ~6-bit/11kHz fidelity. Compared to the average professionally produced CD of 16-bit/44.1kHz fidelity.
That is fascinating, and I love the idea. But it's not going to fly unless they can get rid of the wailing sound (apparently caused by the 'voxels' which the record is made up of)
But I've seen on the net two other organizations, UK and Italy, that produce one-off vinyls. There was also a home vinyl carving station from vestax (vrx 2000) but I guess vynil mastering needs a LOT more care than cd mastering. Unless you like to see needles jumping.
The VRX was very expensive, had a frequency response up to about 12KHz and a maximum of about 15 minutes a side. ('Momentary Lapse of Reason' was about 26 min/side). I was curious about the idea of making one-off LPs of my music, but once I saw the specs I realised why it was discontinued.
In the late 60s, my parents saw some of the first performances of 'Hair' in the West End, at blistering volume. This eventually caused the theatre to collapse, around 1973 according to Wikipedia, and it's citation is here: http://www.thisistheatre.com/londontheatre/shaftesburytheatre.html
It sounds like a lot of the kiddies dont remember Loki Games.
Loki pretty much did what steam did but with actual game disks. But they did it the hard way. Linux ONLY and paying dearly to game studios to help port or wine wrap the games.
Every linux guy I know still has several Loki game disks in their collection.
I have Rune. It's a little difficult to get it to run because the infrastructure has changed over the last 10 years, but last I played it a couple of years back, it did still work.
This was actually the reason I didn't buy Deus Ex on first release - I was waiting for the Linux port. Sadly Loki imploded before it could be completed.
So... how is that any different from the way the RIAA / MPAA have traditionally acted?
Traditionally the MPAA member funds the production. They may use fraudulent accounting techniques and behave abominably afterwards, but if they've paid for something to be produced or distributed, they are entitled to a stake in it.
It'd also mean they'd be guilty of receiving the proceeds of crime, a criminal offense in itself.
More to the point, I am sure that books, music and music are also traded on usenet. So they would actually be profiting from the 'theft' of other people's work, not merely the ones which they own.
Are Civ5 and Skyrim running well on Linux? I might make the switch if that's the case.
Skyrim had a few quirks at first, but it worked so well under WINE that I didn't ever bother installing it on Windows. I understand the framerate is a bit lower, though. I have no idea about Civ5.
It embrittles metal, it seeps through everything, if it powered cars garages would have to be built in such a way to allow it to escape, hydrogen power has lots of really fundamental issues.
I, too, hope for minor damage only. After first-hand experience of the bushfire that destroyed Mount Stromlo 18 Jan 2003 (and the ensuing shit fight with insurers) I would not wish a similar loss on the ANU and others again.
The Observatory has survived with some damage and some loss of buildings.
An initial assessment indicates that five buildings have been severely affected or damaged, including the Lodge used to accommodate visiting researchers and a number of cottages and sheds. A fire has been extinguished at the Visitors Centre this morning . We expect the Visitor Centre has been severely damaged.
An initial visual assessment indicated that no telescopes appear to have received major damage, but the impact of the fire on the instruments will not be known until later today.
Challenge: Tell me why my post is wrong, but banning gus is right.
Guns are designed for no other purpose than to kill or maim. Easy availability allows for more and deadlier crimes, so their use should be restricted. However, Apple devices are the targets of crime owing to their desirability.
There were robberies before iPhones and iPods and there will be robberies still when they are long forgotten. But reducing the availability of deadly weapons makes them harder to pull off.
I hate them. They gradually raise the volume in the gaps between sounds (background crickets or whatever get louder and louder and louder) then SLam it back down again on the first syllable of each dialog,
We have lots of perfectly working gear around here older than most of our offspring...
As transistor count goes up and feature size down can we expect more of our gear to start to go haywire over a shorter length of time or is there something baked into process steps to counteract or actually improve reliability?
I'm not sure why this was modded down. Flash in particular has problems with smaller die sizes, and while lower longevity has certain economic benefits, environmentally it's a dead end.
The other thing is the 11-year solar cycle... if we develop some ultra-high density technology during the low ebb, we may find that half our electronics get frazzled during the solar maximum.
I want to be able to run ComicLife without being tied to my ageing mac mini. The win32 port does not work in WINE (which is amusing because Skyrim, Portal, Thief, SONAR etc work fine), and I can find no linux-based alternatives to it since it's very much a niche product.
Sometimes I've pondered writing my own, but there are too many things I don't know how to do properly or lack the artistry for, like smooth image scaling, vector speech bubbles or the text flowing engine.
My personal favorite: A 1973 TEAC 3300 reel-to-reel tape recorder, complete with about 20 tapes of some crazy firebrand preacher's radio show from 30 years ago (my buddies in metal bands are constantly asking for clips they can incorporate into their own tracks).
Heh, nice. I have a Watkins tape delay from about 1967, that's about the oldest piece of electronics I regularly use. I have a mid 70s AKAI that I use occasionally, but most of the studio machines are late 80s or 1990s vintage. I also have a JoeCo BBR which I use to digitize the 24-track tapes for archival purposes, uses a USB2 external disk.
One of my biggest regrets was not buying one of the last TASCAM BR-20 decks in 2003. Sadly I really needed the money...
So you think because the image might have some fraction of relevance to you that you have the right to use it even if you don't know who the person who took the picture is? Entitled much?
The system in this regard isn't broken. You just think you have more claim to something than you really do just because someone in the picture is a family member.
Yet you are arguing that the photographer's descendants should be entitled to a continual cut for something their grandfather did, and that the photograph must not be preserved if there are no descendants.
I might just about buy the descendants-get-a-cut part if it was something like a major film that benefited many, but in the example you're arguing with, the photo is only important to that one family and it's essentially being held hostage by the photographer's descendants. The essential point of being able to record media is to allow a creator's works to survive after they are gone, after all...
I always wonder if people really are so delusional that they actually believe Slashdot has and merits this kind of value and attention (big companies bothering to pay people to post here?? yeah, right..), or if it is just an easy way of dismissing dissenting views.
It's not a question of dissenting views, the fact is that there has been a recent pattern of brand-new users jumping in at the top of the thread and praising Microsoft or some similar entity. The most blatant ones were the Visual Studio spam, but there have been a lot of similar ones. Now I suppose it might just be a particularly dedicated troll, but it has to be said, it looked a hell of a lot like a fairly clever PR drive - I probably wouldn't have noticed had it been done more sparingly, it was the fact that there were so many of them that made them look suspicious.
The other thing is that you're arguing that Slashdot is being singled out. If I were trying to seed opinion I'd cover a range of them. Personally, I only regularly check Slashdot and the Reg to get my tech news fix so I'm not in a position to comment.
I'm not sure his blog is doing him many favours at the moment, either. For most people, "batshit insane paranoia" is not quite as closely connected "innocent" as he seems to think.
"How long can the press maintain the “Drug crazed madman” perspective? I think it will end with Vice Magazine’s story. They have seen, and heard everything."
...I have to admit, reading that blog entry, 'drug-crazed madman' was pretty much the first thing that sprang to mind.
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The most important thing is not to write down your idea, it is to IMPLEMENT IT THERE AND THEN. (Writing it down may catalog your idea for future reference, but implementing it right away provides even more insight and later discoveries while doing so). Today's technology makes prototyping even more simpler and accessible, so is bettering the chances even more of CATCHING THE IDEA.
I have often come up with melodies, chorus lines and the like on the way to work. With a smartphone or other pocket recording device I can whistle or sing them in the car-park or any other convenient point, and work them into something useful when I get home. I've had a couple of really good lines come that way - the first one of which I didn't have a recorder with me and lost it. I was able to remember parts of it a few days later but I never managed to get it as perfect as it had been. Two others would have been similarly lost if I had't been able to record them.
Each creative type has their own quirks and ways of tapping the source.
I think the weirdest one is when I've been playing Doom or Doom 2, and suddenly had harpsichord waltzes appear in my mind. On more than one occasion I've immediately quit the game so I could put the waltz into the sequencer as a bridge in whatever song I've been working on.
I had a win 6 phone with a fingerprint scanner years ago from HTC. My current phone (nexus 4) uses the front camera to recognize my face. Are we talking about new to IOS phones?
They were all the rage ten years ago. HP's PocketPC 3 devices had them. I think they may even have still been Compaq at the time. Using the screen is new, but now I think about it, the scanning devices were probably the same kind of capacitive matrix we're using now.
What most of these systems did was they hashed the fingerprint anyway, since they were IIRC vectorised, measuring the size and shape of the print. If the new devices do that too, it's less of a security problem, but if there's userspace access to the capacitive grid, you might be able to grab the image of the fingerprint with a trojan.
Almost there! We can currently print at an end-product resolution of 600dpi, translating to ~6-bit/11kHz fidelity. Compared to the average professionally produced CD of 16-bit/44.1kHz fidelity.
http://www.amandaghassaei.com/3D_printed_record.html
That is fascinating, and I love the idea. But it's not going to fly unless they can get rid of the wailing sound (apparently caused by the 'voxels' which the record is made up of)
But I've seen on the net two other organizations, UK and Italy, that produce one-off vinyls. There was also a home vinyl carving station from vestax (vrx 2000) but I guess vynil mastering needs a LOT more care than cd mastering. Unless you like to see needles jumping.
The VRX was very expensive, had a frequency response up to about 12KHz and a maximum of about 15 minutes a side. ('Momentary Lapse of Reason' was about 26 min/side). I was curious about the idea of making one-off LPs of my music, but once I saw the specs I realised why it was discontinued.
In the late 60s, my parents saw some of the first performances of 'Hair' in the West End, at blistering volume. This eventually caused the theatre to collapse, around 1973 according to Wikipedia, and it's citation is here: http://www.thisistheatre.com/londontheatre/shaftesburytheatre.html
It sounds like a lot of the kiddies dont remember Loki Games.
Loki pretty much did what steam did but with actual game disks. But they did it the hard way. Linux ONLY and paying dearly to game studios to help port or wine wrap the games.
Every linux guy I know still has several Loki game disks in their collection.
I have Rune. It's a little difficult to get it to run because the infrastructure has changed over the last 10 years, but last I played it a couple of years back, it did still work.
This was actually the reason I didn't buy Deus Ex on first release - I was waiting for the Linux port. Sadly Loki imploded before it could be completed.
So... how is that any different from the way the RIAA / MPAA have traditionally acted?
Traditionally the MPAA member funds the production. They may use fraudulent accounting techniques and behave abominably afterwards, but if they've paid for something to be produced or distributed, they are entitled to a stake in it.
Sigh... "books, music and software"...
It'd also mean they'd be guilty of receiving the proceeds of crime, a criminal offense in itself.
More to the point, I am sure that books, music and music are also traded on usenet. So they would actually be profiting from the 'theft' of other people's work, not merely the ones which they own.
Oh, note that this was with an nVidia 550Ti. I can't vouch for it on an AMD card.
Are Civ5 and Skyrim running well on Linux? I might make the switch if that's the case.
Skyrim had a few quirks at first, but it worked so well under WINE that I didn't ever bother installing it on Windows. I understand the framerate is a bit lower, though. I have no idea about Civ5.
It embrittles metal, it seeps through everything, if it powered cars garages would have to be built in such a way to allow it to escape, hydrogen power has lots of really fundamental issues.
That's why you want on-demand production.
I, too, hope for minor damage only. After first-hand experience of the bushfire that destroyed Mount Stromlo 18 Jan 2003 (and the ensuing shit fight with insurers) I would not wish a similar loss on the ANU and others again.
The Register had a link to this:
http://news.anu.edu.au/2013/01/08/fire-risk-information-for-anu-staff-and-students/
The Observatory has survived with some damage and some loss of buildings.
An initial assessment indicates that five buildings have been severely affected or damaged, including the Lodge used to accommodate visiting researchers and a number of cottages and sheds. A fire has been extinguished at the Visitors Centre this morning . We expect the Visitor Centre has been severely damaged.
An initial visual assessment indicated that no telescopes appear to have received major damage, but the impact of the fire on the instruments will not be known until later today.
The threat has passed. Some minor out buildings were damaged, but otherwise the majority of the main equipment was unharmed.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/13/siding_spring_survives_firestorm/
Challenge: Tell me why my post is wrong, but banning gus is right.
Guns are designed for no other purpose than to kill or maim. Easy availability allows for more and deadlier crimes, so their use should be restricted. However, Apple devices are the targets of crime owing to their desirability.
There were robberies before iPhones and iPods and there will be robberies still when they are long forgotten. But reducing the availability of deadly weapons makes them harder to pull off.
I hate them. They gradually raise the volume in the gaps between sounds (background crickets or whatever get louder and louder and louder) then SLam it back down again on the first syllable of each dialog,
Can you alter the attack and release settings?
Political correctness. Think about it for a second, you'll get it.
Having pored over it for quite some time, I can only assume it's some peculiarity of US English which I will need help to see.
I'm a bit scared of all this die shrinkage.
We have lots of perfectly working gear around here older than most of our offspring...
As transistor count goes up and feature size down can we expect more of our gear to start to go haywire over a shorter length of time or is there something baked into process steps to counteract or actually improve reliability?
I'm not sure why this was modded down. Flash in particular has problems with smaller die sizes, and while lower longevity has certain economic benefits, environmentally it's a dead end.
The other thing is the 11-year solar cycle... if we develop some ultra-high density technology during the low ebb, we may find that half our electronics get frazzled during the solar maximum.
When digital control was added to them...
Maybe you're being sarcastic, but CNC stands for Computer Numerically Controlled...
He also played the xylophone.
For those turned off by the first link (which is a spoof flash animation), the other two are actually true.
I want to be able to run ComicLife without being tied to my ageing mac mini. The win32 port does not work in WINE (which is amusing because Skyrim, Portal, Thief, SONAR etc work fine), and I can find no linux-based alternatives to it since it's very much a niche product.
Sometimes I've pondered writing my own, but there are too many things I don't know how to do properly or lack the artistry for, like smooth image scaling, vector speech bubbles or the text flowing engine.
My personal favorite: A 1973 TEAC 3300 reel-to-reel tape recorder, complete with about 20 tapes of some crazy firebrand preacher's radio show from 30 years ago (my buddies in metal bands are constantly asking for clips they can incorporate into their own tracks).
Heh, nice. I have a Watkins tape delay from about 1967, that's about the oldest piece of electronics I regularly use. I have a mid 70s AKAI that I use occasionally, but most of the studio machines are late 80s or 1990s vintage. I also have a JoeCo BBR which I use to digitize the 24-track tapes for archival purposes, uses a USB2 external disk.
One of my biggest regrets was not buying one of the last TASCAM BR-20 decks in 2003. Sadly I really needed the money...
So you think because the image might have some fraction of relevance to you that you have the right to use it even if you don't know who the person who took the picture is? Entitled much?
The system in this regard isn't broken. You just think you have more claim to something than you really do just because someone in the picture is a family member.
Yet you are arguing that the photographer's descendants should be entitled to a continual cut for something their grandfather did, and that the photograph must not be preserved if there are no descendants.
I might just about buy the descendants-get-a-cut part if it was something like a major film that benefited many, but in the example you're arguing with, the photo is only important to that one family and it's essentially being held hostage by the photographer's descendants. The essential point of being able to record media is to allow a creator's works to survive after they are gone, after all...
I always wonder if people really are so delusional that they actually believe Slashdot has and merits this kind of value and attention (big companies bothering to pay people to post here?? yeah, right..), or if it is just an easy way of dismissing dissenting views.
It's not a question of dissenting views, the fact is that there has been a recent pattern of brand-new users jumping in at the top of the thread and praising Microsoft or some similar entity. The most blatant ones were the Visual Studio spam, but there have been a lot of similar ones. Now I suppose it might just be a particularly dedicated troll, but it has to be said, it looked a hell of a lot like a fairly clever PR drive - I probably wouldn't have noticed had it been done more sparingly, it was the fact that there were so many of them that made them look suspicious.
The other thing is that you're arguing that Slashdot is being singled out. If I were trying to seed opinion I'd cover a range of them. Personally, I only regularly check Slashdot and the Reg to get my tech news fix so I'm not in a position to comment.
I'm not sure his blog is doing him many favours at the moment, either. For most people, "batshit insane paranoia" is not quite as closely connected "innocent" as he seems to think.
"How long can the press maintain the “Drug crazed madman” perspective? I think it will end with Vice Magazine’s story. They have seen, and heard everything."
...I have to admit, reading that blog entry, 'drug-crazed madman' was pretty much the first thing that sprang to mind.
http://www.whoismcafee.com/i-am-safe/