Actually I've seen an undergrad project that tries to do exactly this. It's not perfect but it's a start. He did it by using about 80 bandpass filters, one for each note, and see which filter got activated when a certain note or chord is played. He managed to get around the problem of harmonic frequency (although not all the time) and tried it with multiple instruments. The system got about 80% of the notes and chords correct. Not bad for a one year project.
It's a thrill seeing him play a blues scale and the computer transcribed it correctly.
It's more than that. GH requires you to react to the screen, while generally you don't play guitar by looking at your drummer. This is more difficult for me just because my reaction is so slow visually.
The real instrument is more difficult than GH in a sense that you have to hit each note accurately, cleanly, and without too much force otherwise you'll tire yourself mid-song and it'll sound bad.
GH is actually quite fun to play, but since I really suck at it, it's good for a laugh. I prefer my Jem any day.
On a side note, my drummer tried to play the drum game and gave up halfway through. My little brother can beat him on any song any time on that machine.
Actually I've read somewhere a while ago that Clinton DID warn Bush about the possibility of 9/11. The fact that 9/11 DID happen suggest that at least Bush didn't care. So much for the tougher to terrorist excuse.
Now that the intelligence say that Iraq actually bring more terrorist to the US, this report is dismissed as rubbish (again) by Bush.
Judging from the amount of Republican that gets rich with this war, I would naturally assume that they don't care about terrorism. At least with his snafu, Kerry did have a point, where he said that he HAD served in a war, and Bush and co purposely avoid going to Vietnam. Anybody that served in Vietnam would know that war is hell and wouldn't recommend it out of personal profit.
Not that the democrats are angels, but so far I've seen the republican destroy the US far more effectively than any terrorist can. Give them a couple more elections, and the US should be in the stone age.
and I got modded down for bashing Steve Jobs and Apple. How predictable. Replace "Apple" with "MS" and "Steve Jobs" and "Bill Gates" and surely I'll get +5. Plus some windows joke, of course.
This fanboyism is making me sick. Apple is NOT perfect and Steve Jobs is NOT a god. Some of their stuff are good, some are bad. Hiding the truth won't help anyone, including Apple. You want Apple to grab more market share? Accept some criticism.
I like Apple's product as much as the next geek, but their current mindset of arrogance is unacceptable. iPod is THE perfect mp3 player, but they refuse to acknowledge their quality problem as of late. They should have no excuse for shipping ipods with a virus. Their laptop overheating and shutting down is their problem. But they're maintaining the "we can do no wrong" attitude by refusing to acknowledge that there's a problem until customers start screaming in their ears.
I've been seriously considering to get a Mac for my parents due to its many plus points compared to PC, such as no virus, good design, nice interface, etc etc that I'm sure they'll love. But, the sudden surge of problems with their product combined with their unwillingness to accept that it's their fault that their QA is flawed has led me to believe that that $1,500 is better spent elsewhere.
Karma be damned. Apple, currently, sucks. Until they get this crap sorted out, I won't recommend them to anyone. You fanboys can spend your money on their faulty products all you want, but most sensible people won't. When all this shit is taken care of, I'll gladly recommend Apple again wholeheartedly.
For some people, if Steve Jobs farted into a bottle, they'll pay $10,000 to inhale it. And another $10,000 for the bottle (with Apple logo on it, of course).
Funny thing is, the case of MacBook shutting itself down and losing data in the process doesn't seem to bother these kind of people.
And people wonder why the US is getting left behind.
If a US citizen is treated as such, you can imagine how they treat non citizen. If my personal possession is NOT considered a personal possession in the US, I won't be getting into the US. In fact, I have been avoiding to enter the US at any cost, even for transit.
And this is supposed to help you guys... how? No terrorist attack since 9/11? Hell they don't need to attack anymore since it has achieved the desired effect, that is, the whole world is getting pissed at the US. For sure I won't even consider to attend any academic conference in the US.
Face it. The US is swiftly turning into a despotism.
No. Bluetooth needs to die a quick death. They're not kidding when they named it "Bluetooth special interest group", which is all they did, serve their own special interest. The amount of money that you have to spend to license bluetooth is enormous. This is why you see a bluetooth mouse cost 3x a regular wireless mouse, it's due to the licensing cost.
Half of the people in here don't know bluetooth 2.0 has been out since 2004. Talk about confusion. If half of slashdot don't even know about it, forget about the public. Also I have to say that bluetooth as a standard is quite brain dead by itself. It's painfully slow to do anything, the concept of visibility is half-baked at best (most likely an afterthought), pairing is a stupid concept (password for connecting? WTF? it's SHORT RANGE so the device would likely be next to me), security is almost non-existant, too many profiles that needs to be hard-coded into the hardware, eats battery like no tomorrow, I can go on and on. I can pretty much tell that the standard was created by greedy companies that have no clue how people will use it.
Bluetooth is in really bad shape. It's expensive, hard to use, eats batteries and incompatible. Which is the exact opposite of what bluetooth supposed to be. This is due to their own greed, so let it die.
Well you can't really say "switch to a mac" to millions of windows users if they want to use bluetooth, no? It's obvious that it's not mac is better than windows, but it's bluetooth that sucks.
I think in any wireless technology (802.11, bluetooth) we see a fine example of corporate greed, backstabbing & "screw the customer" mentality in its purest form.
Nokia is not a charity organization. It'll do lock ins if it's possible. Considering the amount of backstabbing that happens in wireless standardization, I'm not surprised Nokia is hiding this until the last moment and caught everyone by surprise. If this "proprietary solution" intending to lock "dumb users" actually works better than bluetooth, me and a million other people will buy it.
I think bluetooth sucks. The best technology (like wlan) is there without me noticing it, but if it's not there, it's annoyingly obvious. OTOH, bluetooth is glaringly in the way, it sort of makes sure that I know I'm using bluetooth technology(tm). Add defective security (visible/hidden bullshit that everyone have to deal with), slow connection handshake, really slow discovery (at least in phones) and high power consumption, then bluetooth is ripe for a fall.
What's important to remember is that this is hardware technology. It's not that easy to update like software, people have to BUY new stuff if they want to update their bluetooth. I think even in its 2.0 incarnation, bluetooth is not good enough. If Nokia can get their wibree right the first time (fast discovery, fast handshake, no-hassle security and low power) then I say we'll see bluetooth disappearing within 5 years or so.
The world is full of idiots that is controlled by the rich & powerful that'll exploit each and every single one of them. There is no conspiracy, it's just that the rich & powerful are friends with one another. You can expect them to do what you would do to help your friends, but affecting more people negatively in the process.
It seems that the human race haven't evolved enough yet. Why do people believe we're a straight descendant of God when every day we do what chimps would do to protect its banana. If this is not a proof of evolution I don't know what is.
Knowing MS, it probably won't work or even released in this decade. This is a much better PR for MS than that. It'll be "it's a feature, not a bug" if it doesn't work, or "we never dreamed of releasing a restrictive DRM" if it's vaporware. Who said that marketing people is out of touch with reality?
No, people who will use iTMS has already used them. People that buy from MS's music store are the ones that don't know better. If they can't copy songs to other computers, they'll just say "well, it works like that".
I would tend to think that ALL DRM are bad. No matter how "nice" it seems. The music industry should start to work for a living like the rest of us, for a change. They are the middlemen, and in this day they are very, very afraid that with the internet without a DRM, the middlemen will get cut off. Think about it. You pay to the artist directly, there's no more need for an expensive studios now that home recording has reached a high enough level, internet radios are everywhere, and citywide Wi-Fi is becoming a reality. So far what they did was controlling the distribution. Without DRM, there is no distribution channel to speak of.
I think what you're describing sounds more like a cancer than a virus.
Well, in a way it does look like a cancer. It tags along normal music files and can turn against the user. We haven't seen the worst DRM yet. The day will come when someone tries to play a DRMed file in an unlicensed terminal, the application (or the DRM itself) will phone home with the details of the attempt. As a matter of fact, who knows for sure that this hasn't happen yet. Remember DIVX (NOT DivX the video compression)? THAT is ultimately what they want. You pay for something yet receive nothing, but the illusion of owning something will fool the masses.
No, from what I've read in the article, it came to me like a pissing contest between Perkins and Dunn. Perkins thinks he is the all-powerful King of Silicon Valley, where nothing goes without his say-so. Dunn runs HP like her own private company, and I think she's quite desperate to plug the leaky HP board. What we do know of the leak is the one leak to the media. She was thinking about the unknown leak to the competitor and I can't blame her for that.
Perkins came across as a total dick to me. He was so used to being served that he simply quit HP when Dunn as chairwoman doesn't want to abide by his words. I would bet that at some point, he actually said to her that either she do what he wants or he will destroy her (and he is doing that precisely now). From the story of his yacht, to his grand reception by the Turkish court, and writing novels to boot, Perkins believed he is on top of the world and Dunn can't escape capital punishment from "the KING".
Granted, the method with which Dunn is handling this was not the best. But I think that all the strings are being pulled by Perkins, and most of us duly follow him. WAKE UP. Ignore this stupid bullshit.
Why do you think you've seen so many stories about this in the media? I would bet it's from Perkins' say-so. Corporate spying happens all the time, and yet when noone really knows if "pretexting" is a crime, this is big news and EVERYONE start to pass judgment. I know that the public are stupid, but this is goddamn ridiculous. This stupidity is the reason we can have people like Perkins at the top.
Damn that sucks. Usually Toshiba's stuff is very expensive, but it's obvious that they spend a little time on making that money well spent. Even my old 486s are still in perfect working order after all this time (with hardware volume control, no less). I have to say though, none of the Toshibas look as sexy as Vaios or Apples, but their insides are a delight.
You know what, I totally despise having to use Fn key for anything. I can understand that in a small subnotebook where nothing else will fit there's no other choice, but in a freakin 15 inch laptop they should have space for many keys and do away with that Fn bullshit.
In fact, one of my friend just got a monstrous 17 inch Dell recently, and his keyboard have almost exact functionality as my 13 inch one. And he got that software volume control as well. I mean, how hard is it to put an extra potentiometer on the cabling that goes to the speaker with all that space inside that monster.
Oh well it seems that I'm taking the bait and start ranting, so might as well. Another thing is, why oh why can't I upgrade the video card on any laptop. I believe we're in the 21st century now. I know that some model from some brand have an interchangeable video card, but it's still a far cry from the standard desktop PCI-E/AGP/whatever cards. Some of us don't have the luxury of using a desktop computer all the time since we're constantly on the move, so that laptop should have the upgradeability of a desktop when I want to play some Doom 3.
Give me a laptop that's small enough with a reasonable power, with a hardware volume control, upgradeable video card, and pack it in a reasonable weight and I'll grab it in an instant. I can live with Fn keys when there's a space constraint.
Yeah and when something goes wrong, they immediately say "there's nothing wrong before I learned how to hibernate" and blame you. I've been there.
Oh well, after I got burned enough times trying to help people, I end up to just don't care anymore. Nowadays, if anyone asked me about their computers I just scratch my head and say "hmmm that's weird, I didn't know it can do that".
About the only laptop manufacturer left that still includes an actual potentiometer volume control is Toshiba, AFAIK, for all their models. All the others are using software for volumes, dedicated volume key or not.
I have no idea why no other brands do this, but having an actual volume control is extremely useful. I hardly ever touch windows' horrible software volume control and just leave it at maximum.
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Actually I've seen an undergrad project that tries to do exactly this. It's not perfect but it's a start. He did it by using about 80 bandpass filters, one for each note, and see which filter got activated when a certain note or chord is played. He managed to get around the problem of harmonic frequency (although not all the time) and tried it with multiple instruments. The system got about 80% of the notes and chords correct. Not bad for a one year project.
It's a thrill seeing him play a blues scale and the computer transcribed it correctly.
It's more than that. GH requires you to react to the screen, while generally you don't play guitar by looking at your drummer. This is more difficult for me just because my reaction is so slow visually.
The real instrument is more difficult than GH in a sense that you have to hit each note accurately, cleanly, and without too much force otherwise you'll tire yourself mid-song and it'll sound bad.
GH is actually quite fun to play, but since I really suck at it, it's good for a laugh. I prefer my Jem any day.
On a side note, my drummer tried to play the drum game and gave up halfway through. My little brother can beat him on any song any time on that machine.
Actually I've read somewhere a while ago that Clinton DID warn Bush about the possibility of 9/11. The fact that 9/11 DID happen suggest that at least Bush didn't care. So much for the tougher to terrorist excuse.
Now that the intelligence say that Iraq actually bring more terrorist to the US, this report is dismissed as rubbish (again) by Bush.
Judging from the amount of Republican that gets rich with this war, I would naturally assume that they don't care about terrorism. At least with his snafu, Kerry did have a point, where he said that he HAD served in a war, and Bush and co purposely avoid going to Vietnam. Anybody that served in Vietnam would know that war is hell and wouldn't recommend it out of personal profit.
Not that the democrats are angels, but so far I've seen the republican destroy the US far more effectively than any terrorist can. Give them a couple more elections, and the US should be in the stone age.
and I got modded down for bashing Steve Jobs and Apple. How predictable. Replace "Apple" with "MS" and "Steve Jobs" and "Bill Gates" and surely I'll get +5. Plus some windows joke, of course.
This fanboyism is making me sick. Apple is NOT perfect and Steve Jobs is NOT a god. Some of their stuff are good, some are bad. Hiding the truth won't help anyone, including Apple. You want Apple to grab more market share? Accept some criticism.
I like Apple's product as much as the next geek, but their current mindset of arrogance is unacceptable. iPod is THE perfect mp3 player, but they refuse to acknowledge their quality problem as of late. They should have no excuse for shipping ipods with a virus. Their laptop overheating and shutting down is their problem. But they're maintaining the "we can do no wrong" attitude by refusing to acknowledge that there's a problem until customers start screaming in their ears.
I've been seriously considering to get a Mac for my parents due to its many plus points compared to PC, such as no virus, good design, nice interface, etc etc that I'm sure they'll love. But, the sudden surge of problems with their product combined with their unwillingness to accept that it's their fault that their QA is flawed has led me to believe that that $1,500 is better spent elsewhere.
Karma be damned. Apple, currently, sucks. Until they get this crap sorted out, I won't recommend them to anyone. You fanboys can spend your money on their faulty products all you want, but most sensible people won't. When all this shit is taken care of, I'll gladly recommend Apple again wholeheartedly.
For some people, if Steve Jobs farted into a bottle, they'll pay $10,000 to inhale it. And another $10,000 for the bottle (with Apple logo on it, of course).
Funny thing is, the case of MacBook shutting itself down and losing data in the process doesn't seem to bother these kind of people.
They have a shitload of money in their banks that can be yours for just $100.
Also, bashing vegemite in public is not considered free speech.
And people wonder why the US is getting left behind.
If a US citizen is treated as such, you can imagine how they treat non citizen. If my personal possession is NOT considered a personal possession in the US, I won't be getting into the US. In fact, I have been avoiding to enter the US at any cost, even for transit.
And this is supposed to help you guys... how? No terrorist attack since 9/11? Hell they don't need to attack anymore since it has achieved the desired effect, that is, the whole world is getting pissed at the US. For sure I won't even consider to attend any academic conference in the US.
Face it. The US is swiftly turning into a despotism.
Bacon and eggs and spam. Sometimes spam, spam, spam, beacon, spam, spam, egg, spam.
It still looks to me that Nokia is trying to design a new proprietary standard and force it on the market so they can make big bucks from licensing.
Which is what Ericsson did with Bluetooth, way back then. They even went to the trouble of passing it through IEEE as 802.15.1
No. Bluetooth needs to die a quick death. They're not kidding when they named it "Bluetooth special interest group", which is all they did, serve their own special interest. The amount of money that you have to spend to license bluetooth is enormous. This is why you see a bluetooth mouse cost 3x a regular wireless mouse, it's due to the licensing cost.
Half of the people in here don't know bluetooth 2.0 has been out since 2004. Talk about confusion. If half of slashdot don't even know about it, forget about the public. Also I have to say that bluetooth as a standard is quite brain dead by itself. It's painfully slow to do anything, the concept of visibility is half-baked at best (most likely an afterthought), pairing is a stupid concept (password for connecting? WTF? it's SHORT RANGE so the device would likely be next to me), security is almost non-existant, too many profiles that needs to be hard-coded into the hardware, eats battery like no tomorrow, I can go on and on. I can pretty much tell that the standard was created by greedy companies that have no clue how people will use it.
Bluetooth is in really bad shape. It's expensive, hard to use, eats batteries and incompatible. Which is the exact opposite of what bluetooth supposed to be. This is due to their own greed, so let it die.
Well you can't really say "switch to a mac" to millions of windows users if they want to use bluetooth, no? It's obvious that it's not mac is better than windows, but it's bluetooth that sucks.
I think in any wireless technology (802.11, bluetooth) we see a fine example of corporate greed, backstabbing & "screw the customer" mentality in its purest form.
Nokia is not a charity organization. It'll do lock ins if it's possible. Considering the amount of backstabbing that happens in wireless standardization, I'm not surprised Nokia is hiding this until the last moment and caught everyone by surprise. If this "proprietary solution" intending to lock "dumb users" actually works better than bluetooth, me and a million other people will buy it.
I think bluetooth sucks. The best technology (like wlan) is there without me noticing it, but if it's not there, it's annoyingly obvious. OTOH, bluetooth is glaringly in the way, it sort of makes sure that I know I'm using bluetooth technology(tm). Add defective security (visible/hidden bullshit that everyone have to deal with), slow connection handshake, really slow discovery (at least in phones) and high power consumption, then bluetooth is ripe for a fall.
What's important to remember is that this is hardware technology. It's not that easy to update like software, people have to BUY new stuff if they want to update their bluetooth. I think even in its 2.0 incarnation, bluetooth is not good enough. If Nokia can get their wibree right the first time (fast discovery, fast handshake, no-hassle security and low power) then I say we'll see bluetooth disappearing within 5 years or so.
The world is full of idiots that is controlled by the rich & powerful that'll exploit each and every single one of them. There is no conspiracy, it's just that the rich & powerful are friends with one another. You can expect them to do what you would do to help your friends, but affecting more people negatively in the process.
It seems that the human race haven't evolved enough yet. Why do people believe we're a straight descendant of God when every day we do what chimps would do to protect its banana. If this is not a proof of evolution I don't know what is.
This proves that having a mafia backing is infinitely more secure than complicated password will ever be.
Knowing MS, it probably won't work or even released in this decade. This is a much better PR for MS than that. It'll be "it's a feature, not a bug" if it doesn't work, or "we never dreamed of releasing a restrictive DRM" if it's vaporware. Who said that marketing people is out of touch with reality?
No, people who will use iTMS has already used them. People that buy from MS's music store are the ones that don't know better. If they can't copy songs to other computers, they'll just say "well, it works like that".
I would tend to think that ALL DRM are bad. No matter how "nice" it seems. The music industry should start to work for a living like the rest of us, for a change. They are the middlemen, and in this day they are very, very afraid that with the internet without a DRM, the middlemen will get cut off. Think about it. You pay to the artist directly, there's no more need for an expensive studios now that home recording has reached a high enough level, internet radios are everywhere, and citywide Wi-Fi is becoming a reality. So far what they did was controlling the distribution. Without DRM, there is no distribution channel to speak of.
There really is a need for a Nobel prize for destruction. MS should be the first recipient. With honors.
I think what you're describing sounds more like a cancer than a virus.
Well, in a way it does look like a cancer. It tags along normal music files and can turn against the user. We haven't seen the worst DRM yet. The day will come when someone tries to play a DRMed file in an unlicensed terminal, the application (or the DRM itself) will phone home with the details of the attempt. As a matter of fact, who knows for sure that this hasn't happen yet. Remember DIVX (NOT DivX the video compression)? THAT is ultimately what they want. You pay for something yet receive nothing, but the illusion of owning something will fool the masses.
No, from what I've read in the article, it came to me like a pissing contest between Perkins and Dunn. Perkins thinks he is the all-powerful King of Silicon Valley, where nothing goes without his say-so. Dunn runs HP like her own private company, and I think she's quite desperate to plug the leaky HP board. What we do know of the leak is the one leak to the media. She was thinking about the unknown leak to the competitor and I can't blame her for that.
Perkins came across as a total dick to me. He was so used to being served that he simply quit HP when Dunn as chairwoman doesn't want to abide by his words. I would bet that at some point, he actually said to her that either she do what he wants or he will destroy her (and he is doing that precisely now). From the story of his yacht, to his grand reception by the Turkish court, and writing novels to boot, Perkins believed he is on top of the world and Dunn can't escape capital punishment from "the KING".
Granted, the method with which Dunn is handling this was not the best. But I think that all the strings are being pulled by Perkins, and most of us duly follow him. WAKE UP. Ignore this stupid bullshit.
Why do you think you've seen so many stories about this in the media? I would bet it's from Perkins' say-so. Corporate spying happens all the time, and yet when noone really knows if "pretexting" is a crime, this is big news and EVERYONE start to pass judgment. I know that the public are stupid, but this is goddamn ridiculous. This stupidity is the reason we can have people like Perkins at the top.
Damn that sucks. Usually Toshiba's stuff is very expensive, but it's obvious that they spend a little time on making that money well spent. Even my old 486s are still in perfect working order after all this time (with hardware volume control, no less). I have to say though, none of the Toshibas look as sexy as Vaios or Apples, but their insides are a delight.
You know what, I totally despise having to use Fn key for anything. I can understand that in a small subnotebook where nothing else will fit there's no other choice, but in a freakin 15 inch laptop they should have space for many keys and do away with that Fn bullshit.
In fact, one of my friend just got a monstrous 17 inch Dell recently, and his keyboard have almost exact functionality as my 13 inch one. And he got that software volume control as well. I mean, how hard is it to put an extra potentiometer on the cabling that goes to the speaker with all that space inside that monster.
Oh well it seems that I'm taking the bait and start ranting, so might as well. Another thing is, why oh why can't I upgrade the video card on any laptop. I believe we're in the 21st century now. I know that some model from some brand have an interchangeable video card, but it's still a far cry from the standard desktop PCI-E/AGP/whatever cards. Some of us don't have the luxury of using a desktop computer all the time since we're constantly on the move, so that laptop should have the upgradeability of a desktop when I want to play some Doom 3.
Give me a laptop that's small enough with a reasonable power, with a hardware volume control, upgradeable video card, and pack it in a reasonable weight and I'll grab it in an instant. I can live with Fn keys when there's a space constraint.
Yeah and when something goes wrong, they immediately say "there's nothing wrong before I learned how to hibernate" and blame you. I've been there.
Oh well, after I got burned enough times trying to help people, I end up to just don't care anymore. Nowadays, if anyone asked me about their computers I just scratch my head and say "hmmm that's weird, I didn't know it can do that".
The smart ones would hibernate their laptop instead, so there's no startup sound when it turns on.
About the only laptop manufacturer left that still includes an actual potentiometer volume control is Toshiba, AFAIK, for all their models. All the others are using software for volumes, dedicated volume key or not.
I have no idea why no other brands do this, but having an actual volume control is extremely useful. I hardly ever touch windows' horrible software volume control and just leave it at maximum.
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