heh, we had delusions allright... 3-5 DnD freaks, all had computers.
It started even before highschool, like sometime in middle school.
Problem is that 3 of the 5 knew basic and 1 of the 5 knew C (I was still learning). So the C guy made a couple dozen games (Starquest? Galaxyquest? it was certainly his best, and had 3-4 different versions, including a 3d prototype during out Junior year).
These days I'm spending time compiling a huge classic ff-based world and refining the idea of using Java reflection & some of my own code validation schemes to have a programmer's RPG. I.E. your sword is a Java class that must follow certain pre & post condition & statistical rules or it's either rejected or breaks.
yes, it's pricey and they make you walk through their mall... but but their network is 3MBps up AND down (unfortunately NAT'd) and here's the best part:
dirty dirty... WINS traffic everywhere
don't bother using the dumb-terminals they give you... just unplug it from the wall and plug yourself in... then connect with YOUR NIC using IE and try to browse... it will send you to their subscription page and you click 'OK' to be charged $10 for a 24 hour period of net usage
I'd like to see/hear what the Defcon crew does to their network;->
I unfortunately have become jaded enough to agree. (heh, your initials aren't JP and you don't work for HP right?)
If you have sufficient weight in the group, then, you need to take over the project, fire the other developers, and start interviewing.
There may be an option...
You do all or most of the thinking, they do all the monkey work. First-year comp-sci stuff... build them up slowly when they show insight or improvement. If they can do some of the assembly parts (IMO also monkey work) then have them do that.
If they understand the project domain then make them write the test cases. Have them write the test divers. It's obvious these people need daily supervision, chat with them about what problems & challenges they're having on a daily basis. Review each other's code. Peer review is a great educational process.
How's this? Fire the one that sucks the most. If you can hire a (one) ringer. If that doesn't work out or you can't find a really good programmer don't hire. If the other team members continue to not work out then let the others go and report that your project will be done by you... then ask for stock (or options) and early completion bonuses.;->
I bought my Olympus camera 2 years back and it came with "QuickStitch". Ever since the publisher stopped releasing patches and no longer sells their Pro version I can't get it to work in Win2k, OSX, and Wine hasn't worked yet.
I'll be glad to be able to take panoramic pictures again.
if you can see the grooves and know where the climaxes and breaks are with relation to the needle. Until you can do that with CDs (with some visualization firmware), and until decent tracks are released on CD, vinyl will remain.
The CDJ1000 has several visual indicators that can give you some of these clues. There is a slow and fast indicator around the central wheel indicating position on the track. There is the "wave data" stuff on top that gives you the relative intensity of each part of the track (you can zoom upto x4, but the interface isn't very good and it scans pretty slow). Finally there is always the time/frame index.
Of course there's a gread deal of room for growth with these features. You've given me a new look at some vinyl features that the CDJ doesn't quite have yet.
the problem is... that the new technology can do the same tricks that 95% of have the skill to master... that and you can do MORE with the new technology
just like it's possible for a master craftsman to make a finer sculpture with a hammer and chizel rather than a chainsaw
vinyl has applications that DTT's can't match, but technology like what's introduced in this article is making that last 5% shrink all the time.
finally I feel justified in calling DJ's luddites because they view anything that makes the tasks they mastered easier to do with disdain... no matter how much is added to the performer's range of options or how many new skills need to be mastered to use the new device, many still view CDJ's as "posers" and "not sexy" and "wouldn't pay to see that"
oh, sorry... i forgot that the rent-a-dj (mobile dj) and radio jock (radio dj) counted;->
you're right... club and scratch DJ's are the luddites there
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I've started mixing with CDJ's... here is my opinion on the current problems with the CDJ1000
* cd buffering to memory is too slow, making it hard to do extremely quick seeks and scratch off of a randomly selected point you seeked to on the disk. Note you can do this using the hot-queues, but that's because each hot queue holds a small buffer of it's own. * the rapid seek function is not as smooth as even the CDJ100 * too few queue points, you need a direct song map or multiple queue points so that you can approach a "needle drop" skill on a digital TT
I should note that very few players offer the true control of the CDJ1000. Even tho the platter doesn't spin pressure on the platter halts and resumes play. I haven't touched the Dannon yet, but none of the other Pioneer DTT's do this.
DJ's generally HATE anything but vinyl. DJing is a community of luddites. Final scratch is a step towards what they like, but the sample rate and resolution of mp3's and even CD's are not rich enough to completely match the performance of analog records passed through effects and slowed down. Perhaps with a next generation DTT with DVD-A support.
Of course this begs the question that most audio is produced in the studio at 48khz so what would DVD-A do for you that a better interpolation algorithm wouldn't?
We recieve our internet access from TsunamiUSA.com, they put an access point in a central location in our appartment complex. We THOUGHT we were getting a land line. Our signal is running through a couple walls, some metal, and even with an antenna our signal strength is a paltry 28 of 92. (signal -67dbm, noise -98dbm, 2.412 GHz)
First, the Entarasys drivers that we ran with windows sucked. After moving to the Linux 2.4 Orinoco drivers our upload was 5x better and download was 2x better. (antenna in the same location)
Second, we have a 2.4Ghz digital spread spectrum phone. Channels 1 and 2 of this phone knock out our connection completely.
We haven't noticed an AP side outage since switching to the linux drivers.
I have one suggestion: DO NOT OVERSUBSCRIBE YOUR NETWORK! We have sporradic port 80 (while other ports work fine) and DNS failures all over the place as well as storms of very high packetloss during prime time. Tennants will start buying cable modems or DSL... as we're about to do.
Slashdot Mirror
Lesse... oh yeah I heard that before.
http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html
http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html
http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html
http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html
hit shift-reload in your browser. those are cached images
the direct linked ones do have hotlinking protection apparently
http://alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/robocode
heard of it... but haven't played with it much.
the principle is simmilar, but I'm working on a greater range of complex interactions (think final fantasy tactics calculator on crack)
heh, we had delusions allright... 3-5 DnD freaks, all had computers.
It started even before highschool, like sometime in middle school.
Problem is that 3 of the 5 knew basic and 1 of the 5 knew C (I was still learning). So the C guy made a couple dozen games (Starquest? Galaxyquest? it was certainly his best, and had 3-4 different versions, including a 3d prototype during out Junior year).
These days I'm spending time compiling a huge classic ff-based world and refining the idea of using Java reflection & some of my own code validation schemes to have a programmer's RPG. I.E. your sword is a Java class that must follow certain pre & post condition & statistical rules or it's either rejected or breaks.
as long as they credit you
because of this, it is an appropriate action
the license was changed after the fact, it was presented as non-GPL code and represented as authored by someone other than the original author.
the GPL does not permit one to alter copyright statements... that is why complaining to C-NET is appropriate here
moderators... where are you????
this a most appropriate action
Try the Alladin!
;->
yes, it's pricey and they make you walk through their mall... but but their network is 3MBps up AND down (unfortunately NAT'd) and here's the best part:
dirty dirty... WINS traffic everywhere
don't bother using the dumb-terminals they give you... just unplug it from the wall and plug yourself in... then connect with YOUR NIC using IE and try to browse... it will send you to their subscription page and you click 'OK' to be charged $10 for a 24 hour period of net usage
I'd like to see/hear what the Defcon crew does to their network
If you read that book you'd realize the scope of TMMM is that of a 100+ person project (s390 IIRC).
With the scope that THIS article is talking about, getting a replacement may be neccessary
I unfortunately have become jaded enough to agree. (heh, your initials aren't JP and you don't work for HP right?)
;->
If you have sufficient weight in the group, then, you need to take over the project, fire the other developers, and start interviewing.
There may be an option...
You do all or most of the thinking, they do all the monkey work. First-year comp-sci stuff... build them up slowly when they show insight or improvement. If they can do some of the assembly parts (IMO also monkey work) then have them do that.
If they understand the project domain then make them write the test cases. Have them write the test divers. It's obvious these people need daily supervision, chat with them about what problems & challenges they're having on a daily basis. Review each other's code. Peer review is a great educational process.
How's this? Fire the one that sucks the most. If you can hire a (one) ringer. If that doesn't work out or you can't find a really good programmer don't hire. If the other team members continue to not work out then let the others go and report that your project will be done by you... then ask for stock (or options) and early completion bonuses.
I haven't looked... but I'm interested too.
I bought my Olympus camera 2 years back and it came with "QuickStitch". Ever since the publisher stopped releasing patches and no longer sells their Pro version I can't get it to work in Win2k, OSX, and Wine hasn't worked yet.
I'll be glad to be able to take panoramic pictures again.
oh... also for Windows events
EventID.net
better yet... use google to search the damned thing instead of their search
google for site:msdn.microsoft.com
errp... that is "What ever happened to Six/Four?"
man i'm getting lazy
What ever happened to ?
Is there any info on this?
Hacktivismo is down and I didn't see anything on cDc
if you can see the grooves and know where the climaxes and breaks are with relation to the needle. Until you can do that with CDs (with some visualization firmware), and until decent tracks are released on CD, vinyl will remain.
The CDJ1000 has several visual indicators that can give you some of these clues. There is a slow and fast indicator around the central wheel indicating position on the track. There is the "wave data" stuff on top that gives you the relative intensity of each part of the track (you can zoom upto x4, but the interface isn't very good and it scans pretty slow). Finally there is always the time/frame index.
Of course there's a gread deal of room for growth with these features. You've given me a new look at some vinyl features that the CDJ doesn't quite have yet.
some of the visual cues in your "patent" are allready present in prior art (check http://www.atomixmp3.com )
the problem is... that the new technology can do the same tricks that 95% of have the skill to master... that and you can do MORE with the new technology
just like it's possible for a master craftsman to make a finer sculpture with a hammer and chizel rather than a chainsaw
vinyl has applications that DTT's can't match, but technology like what's introduced in this article is making that last 5% shrink all the time.
finally I feel justified in calling DJ's luddites because they view anything that makes the tasks they mastered easier to do with disdain... no matter how much is added to the performer's range of options or how many new skills need to be mastered to use the new device, many still view CDJ's as "posers" and "not sexy" and "wouldn't pay to see that"
IMO
;->
Technics -> Slackware
Stanton -> RedHat
Numark -> SuSe
not sure what would match up with Debian... turn tables aren't that advanced
oh, sorry... i forgot that the rent-a-dj (mobile dj) and radio jock (radio dj) counted ;->
you're right... club and scratch DJ's are the luddites there
I've started mixing with CDJ's... here is my opinion on the current problems with the CDJ1000
* cd buffering to memory is too slow, making it hard to do extremely quick seeks and scratch off of a randomly selected point you seeked to on the disk. Note you can do this using the hot-queues, but that's because each hot queue holds a small buffer of it's own.
* the rapid seek function is not as smooth as even the CDJ100
* too few queue points, you need a direct song map or multiple queue points so that you can approach a "needle drop" skill on a digital TT
I should note that very few players offer the true control of the CDJ1000. Even tho the platter doesn't spin pressure on the platter halts and resumes play. I haven't touched the Dannon yet, but none of the other Pioneer DTT's do this.
DJ's generally HATE anything but vinyl. DJing is a community of luddites. Final scratch is a step towards what they like, but the sample rate and resolution of mp3's and even CD's are not rich enough to completely match the performance of analog records passed through effects and slowed down. Perhaps with a next generation DTT with DVD-A support.
Of course this begs the question that most audio is produced in the studio at 48khz so what would DVD-A do for you that a better interpolation algorithm wouldn't?
We recieve our internet access from TsunamiUSA.com, they put an access point in a central location in our appartment complex. We THOUGHT we were getting a land line. Our signal is running through a couple walls, some metal, and even with an antenna our signal strength is a paltry 28 of 92. (signal -67dbm, noise -98dbm, 2.412 GHz)
First, the Entarasys drivers that we ran with windows sucked. After moving to the Linux 2.4 Orinoco drivers our upload was 5x better and download was 2x better. (antenna in the same location)
Second, we have a 2.4Ghz digital spread spectrum phone. Channels 1 and 2 of this phone knock out our connection completely.
We haven't noticed an AP side outage since switching to the linux drivers.
I have one suggestion: DO NOT OVERSUBSCRIBE YOUR NETWORK! We have sporradic port 80 (while other ports work fine) and DNS failures all over the place as well as storms of very high packetloss during prime time. Tennants will start buying cable modems or DSL... as we're about to do.
as if I didn't have to warn anyone: even the katz review has spoilers and reading this thread will take away from your experience
I'm glad that it took Katz a week to write this, we just saw it last night.
Another reason they didn't leave right away was to get the security tapes (they check for them before attacking the safe).
The mainline phone wiring isn't so unbelievable, but it being within arms reach of the room is.
logs to this irc meeting are where?
posts in the dri-devel archive contradict that...
(by that I mean Radeon 8500 specs)
dri.sourceforge.net, then browse to lists and read the dri-devel archives. That's the best you can do.
Right now ATI has yet to release adequate technical specs to a DRI-project developer.