The best way to reduce sound for home recordings is use an old mattress as a barrier between you and the noise source (or just effectively wrap it around you). I used to have two old mattresses and I'd put one against the wall, set up my mike stand next to it, then stand the other mattress up next to the first one using some convenient bookshelves to help hold the ends together like a large sandwitch. Record. The mattress should be flexible enough you can push the outside one away from the bookshelf to let yourself out when you are done:-)
I don't know anything about VT, but how many computer labs could benefit from new G5's?
That's my guess. As a state school, I'd imagine a requisition for new computers to be used by faculty and staff would be a hard sell given budget issues in the state. But reusing "surplus" computers would be considered wise frugality.
I used to work at a university... games like this were played all the time, even at private schools. At public schools the politics and funding issues are much worse since you don't really even have control of your own budget, and everything has to be approved by the state government.
First, you are assuming only communications can have breakthroughs (and there are many possible breakthroughs other than internet 2, e.g., Einstein Rosen (sp?) quantum pairs would give you instantaneous unobservable communication between any two points in the universe). Consider the gesture interfaces presented in the movie "Minority Report". Consider immersive reality interfaces. Consider the moral equivalent of quantum computing that collapses P and NP (making search O(1) and everyone has an oracle on the desktop). Consider computers that are grown in vats instead of manufactured (Israel just reported using DNA and carbon nanotubes to create self-forming transistors).
The new "new new" thing will probably not be one of these, but something nobody has thought of yet and quite possibly considerably simpler. The internet is more of a socio-economic invention than a technical one in some sense, just as the refrigerator and automobile's real impact was the transformation of society rather than the innovation that came specifically from the technology itself.
Consider at the close of the 19th century it was widely belived that the mechanical paradigm could do anything, and that anything worth inventing already had been. I assume you found something worthwhile amoung the innovations of the 20th?
he might have received a G5 with defective thermal sensors or something. Has anyone out there experienced their dual-CPU G5 with a ATI 9800 sound like a hairdryer???
My own dual 2gig is extraordinarliy quiet. Usually quieter even than my Lombard (the Lombard's fan comes on much more often). I've actually also been worried about a defective thermal sensor since the fans almost never come on!:-) (Thermographix never shows any temperature changes except in the main heat sink and drive bay, unless I reboot). I've got an upgraded disk (250G) but the stock 9600 vid board.
Actually, I suspect the M$ innovation in task based interface will be very similar to something I used to see a lot of. But we called it "batch processing." No wonder M$ promises that DOS will still work. And after Longhorn? Why TimeSharing (TM) of course;-)
Well, I'm running Jag on a 333 lombard, and consider it "worth it," but then I used to run Tenon's unix on mac in ages past. If Panther is more efficient than Jag, then why not?
If 13TB can be compressed into 3GB then the system/code responsible for generating the original 13TB datastream should be reassesed as it is absolutely shit.
Typically, real-time systems trade space for time. The 13TB is probably unprocessed raw data written pretty much as fast as the disks can keep up with it. Then a separate process can read and process the data ending up with a significant reduction. For instance, look at the size of the inputs to seti@home vs. the results sent back. Capice?
Actually, the Dells are free. The $38 million is for the 1,000 graduate students to stroll up and down the aisles of machines replacing parts for five years.:-)
Yep. OTOH, if you are travelling to CA and it's going to take you 5 days, but waiting a day you can buy an airplane instead and make it in one, why not wait?
I agree you shouldn't base it on price alone, it's benefit/cost. There is a cost to waiting, but there is also a possible benefit. Having a roadmap lets you at least know (approximately) what that tradeoff is. And of course, the lack of that information is good for the OEMs because you are more likely to buy what's available now... who would buy a car today if you knew that in less than a year you could get the same car with twice the gas milage for only 10% more money? It would at least influence the price you were willing to pay for the current vehicle, no?
You can build a consumer vehicle prototype for around $100K.
Actually according to this article, prototypes routinely cost $250K or more, and you need to build 100-200 of them for a product line (to try out the various styles and combinations). This information is direct from Ford.
But I agree with you; they don't want to show these too widely partly because they don't want their competitors to know what they are doing, and partly because they don't want to show off any possible flaws.
As a married reader who has no problem getting a little tail every now and again (most likely unlike this guy) -- I propose he offer timeshares to us. I mean at best sex can last 20-25 minutes...But a good game of Donkey Kong can go on for hours. I mean how does that compare?
So what are you suggesting? Swapping time with your wife for a game of Donkey Kong?
Seems to me the motherboard IS the machine. If you replace that, you have a new machine, with hand-me-down peripherals, not an old machine you managed to keep alive.
All computers have built-in obsolescence, but that's due to the pace of upgrades in CPUs, memory, etc. not something designed in by the OEMs! I'm still happily running on a 7600 (bought new in 96). Until the new G5 came out, I had no compelling reason to upgrade.
Consider, also, that OS 9 was updated several times before it removed 7100 support (it runs up to 9.1), some time in 2000-2001.
Don't forget that there is third party software that will let your older 7100 (or 7600, which I have!) run 9.2.2...
In fact, I spent the money and got a 700Mhz G4 upgrade for this old 604e machine. It's happily running OS X, and while the system bus (at 50Mhz) is a bottleneck, it's less of one than some might expect.
Well, as someone who has worked in NLP, let me be the first to tell you that formal natural language is already in use as a communication language between intelligent agents. Speech Act theory, along with a logical form representation can be used to help interpret human language, or to encode actions between software agents.
For much more on this subject, start with some of Phil Cohen's work (he's currently at OGI), a computational linguist who also works on intelligent agents.
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The best way to reduce sound for home recordings is use an old mattress as a barrier between you and the noise source (or just effectively wrap it around you). I used to have two old mattresses and I'd put one against the wall, set up my mike stand next to it, then stand the other mattress up next to the first one using some convenient bookshelves to help hold the ends together like a large sandwitch. Record. The mattress should be flexible enough you can push the outside one away from the bookshelf to let yourself out when you are done :-)
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I used to work at a university... games like this were played all the time, even at private schools. At public schools the politics and funding issues are much worse since you don't really even have control of your own budget, and everything has to be approved by the state government.
Saw this story on Headline News this AM...
Of course "There" is no article. "The" is an article. (As is "a", "an"
First, you are assuming only communications can have breakthroughs (and there are many possible breakthroughs other than internet 2, e.g., Einstein Rosen (sp?) quantum pairs would give you instantaneous unobservable communication between any two points in the universe). Consider the gesture interfaces presented in the movie "Minority Report". Consider immersive reality interfaces. Consider the moral equivalent of quantum computing that collapses P and NP (making search O(1) and everyone has an oracle on the desktop). Consider computers that are grown in vats instead of manufactured (Israel just reported using DNA and carbon nanotubes to create self-forming transistors).
The new "new new" thing will probably not be one of these, but something nobody has thought of yet and quite possibly considerably simpler. The internet is more of a socio-economic invention than a technical one in some sense, just as the refrigerator and automobile's real impact was the transformation of society rather than the innovation that came specifically from the technology itself.
Consider at the close of the 19th century it was widely belived that the mechanical paradigm could do anything, and that anything worth inventing already had been. I assume you found something worthwhile amoung the innovations of the 20th?
Actually, I suspect the M$ innovation in task based interface will be very similar to something I used to see a lot of. But we called it "batch processing." No wonder M$ promises that DOS will still work. And after Longhorn? Why TimeSharing (TM) of course ;-)
Well, I'm running Jag on a 333 lombard, and consider it "worth it," but then I used to run Tenon's unix on mac in ages past. If Panther is more efficient than Jag, then why not?
I'm an insensitive clod, you insensitive clod!
Actually, the Dells are free. The $38 million is for the 1,000 graduate students to stroll up and down the aisles of machines replacing parts for five years. :-)
I think he meant "flash" in the normal english sense, i.e., showmanship, and did not intend to refer to any software.
Yep. OTOH, if you are travelling to CA and it's going to take you 5 days, but waiting a day you can buy an airplane instead and make it in one, why not wait?
I agree you shouldn't base it on price alone, it's benefit/cost. There is a cost to waiting, but there is also a possible benefit. Having a roadmap lets you at least know (approximately) what that tradeoff is. And of course, the lack of that information is good for the OEMs because you are more likely to buy what's available now... who would buy a car today if you knew that in less than a year you could get the same car with twice the gas milage for only 10% more money? It would at least influence the price you were willing to pay for the current vehicle, no?
But I agree with you; they don't want to show these too widely partly because they don't want their competitors to know what they are doing, and partly because they don't want to show off any possible flaws.
Been using UNIX since 1978.
Been using BSD since 1982.
Been using Genera since 1985.
Been using Mac OS since 1988.
Been using Solaris since 1990.
Been using Linux since 1998.
Been using Mac OS X since the public beta.
What Mac stereotypes are you referring to?
Not Eskimo by any chance are you?
Seems to me the motherboard IS the machine. If you replace that, you have a new machine, with hand-me-down peripherals, not an old machine you managed to keep alive.
All computers have built-in obsolescence, but that's due to the pace of upgrades in CPUs, memory, etc. not something designed in by the OEMs! I'm still happily running on a 7600 (bought new in 96). Until the new G5 came out, I had no compelling reason to upgrade.
"It's always better to wait"
In fact, I spent the money and got a 700Mhz G4 upgrade for this old 604e machine. It's happily running OS X, and while the system bus (at 50Mhz) is a bottleneck, it's less of one than some might expect.
For much more on this subject, start with some of Phil Cohen's work (he's currently at OGI), a computational linguist who also works on intelligent agents.