> Line 6 uses a technology called modeling to measure the characteristics of a particular vintage amp, from the distortion of its original tubes to the resonance of its speaker cabinet. The company has developed a way to reproduce those measurements in a powerful D.S.P., or digital signal processing, chip that contains models of dozens of classic amps.
Great! Now I can miss a note and make it sound like I missed the note on a classic amp! I want a technology that makes ordinary people sound like classic musicians.
> I found it interesting that commercial mining of asteroids was mentioned in the third article. Sure, raw materials are plentiful in asteroids, but wouldn't the cost of getting there far outweigh the benefits of the plentiful resources?
Surely it would be worthwhile if we could find an asteroid made of Slashdot Karma.
> At least get the name of the school right. That's like calling Harvard University the "University of Harvard". You sound like a moron to anyone who went there.
Dude, everyone sounds like a moron to anyone who went to Harvard!
> So we either (possibly) lose some priceless artifacts, or we lose priceless lives when the next terrorist strike comes.
Or we lose priceless lives in Iraq when the chickenhawks bomb the fuck out of it, and more priceless lives in the USA when lots of Muslims conclude that the USA just wanted to steal their oil and retaliate in the only way they can.
> Probably because they have an annoying tendancy to cover 70's rock music.
One of the most wretched things I've ever heard on the radio is a countrified cover of Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl". It was as exciting as a dead fish.
It takes yarbles to cover Van Morrison to begin with.
> Interesting this station country classics show on Sat/Sun mornings and its hosted by a DJ that's done the big-market rock/classic rock forever during the week and he plays more real country music than the country music DJ's play.
Probably because he's the only one that actually knows the difference.
> An NPR article a few years ago reported how music companies decide which Country Music songs will be played on the radio.
Curiously, most of the "country" music that I hear on the radio these days sounds just like the second rate rock music of the 1970s, except for the addition of a handful of specific vocal mannerisms and an optional violin or steel guitar.
> Pop is probably done the exact same way. I guess that's why when you listen to "Classic hits of the [6-9]0s" you hear the same tripe over and again.
I think the "classic rock" format farted its brain out when they started having those "500 best of all time" weekends, where everyone could send in their votes for best song. They apparently used the results of those votes to prune their play lists to the sure winners. When the format first started they played a lot of interesting B-sides, album tracks, and other stuff that never made the top 40, but after a few years it got to where you could set your watch by which Pink Floyd or Bob Seeger tune they were playing.
About half my CDs are "classic rock", but I haven't listened to one of those stations in years. The damn "oldies" stations play a better selection of 60s music than the "classic rock" stations do.
> If I see another angsty vampire, I swear, I'm going to scream.
I scream for any kind of vampire I see.
But yes, I much preferred the Saberhagen style vampires, handsome debonair fellows all, rather than the bad 80's horror film outtakes that look like they merely need to visit a dentist, a dermatologist, and a rage counsellor.
> Their attitude is to grant patents left right and center, and let the courts sort it out. The have no real incentive to try and find prior art.
More subtly (and also the POV of the US federal government), they have the idea that "everything should have an owner". No patent on record = no owner = gold rush (first come, first served).
The problem is in the underlying political philosophy.
> I'm just wondering if the patent being granted is someone hinged on Interwoven's claim to be the first to do version control for 'web assets' (ie, HTML, images) as opposed to source code.
FWIW, I just browsed our cvsroot and found Web pages in it dating back to 1998. And I'd be shocked if I found out that we were the first to do that.
> It's just a shame that they're remooving support for the legacy operating systems....it seems like they're shooting themselves in the foot by removing older O/Ss from the requirements
I'm sure they'll be happy to make you a deal on a new operating system.
> In science, the people who make the final discovery get more credit than the people who did the work that made this discovery possible.
Yeah, the Nobel Prize propagates a sort of mythological science where heroes make heroic discoveries. In this case, the discovery of the structure clearly depended on knowledge of the molecule's helicity, which in turn depended on knowing which molecule to look at, which in turn depended on lots of other important work in biochemistry. IMO, the thousands of no-names are every bit as important to the progress of science as the Nobel winners are.
> The thing is there has been so much hype recently about 64bit that people will assume that they need 64bit (of course it will twice as good as 32bit;-)
Only your granny would make that mistake. A geek will know that it's 2^32 times as good.
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"As sensitive as a schoolgirl's
The only line I remember from the original show.
> Line 6 uses a technology called modeling to measure the characteristics of a particular vintage amp, from the distortion of its original tubes to the resonance of its speaker cabinet. The company has developed a way to reproduce those measurements in a powerful D.S.P., or digital signal processing, chip that contains models of dozens of classic amps.
Great! Now I can miss a note and make it sound like I missed the note on a classic amp! I want a technology that makes ordinary people sound like classic musicians.
> I found it interesting that commercial mining of asteroids was mentioned in the third article. Sure, raw materials are plentiful in asteroids, but wouldn't the cost of getting there far outweigh the benefits of the plentiful resources?
Surely it would be worthwhile if we could find an asteroid made of Slashdot Karma.
We could harvest Karma with our hoes!
> At least get the name of the school right. That's like calling Harvard University the "University of Harvard". You sound like a moron to anyone who went there.
Dude, everyone sounds like a moron to anyone who went to Harvard!
> Daily Oklahoman
As an ignorant Venezuelan I have to ask... where the hell is Oklahoma?
> What's even cooler is that I get to do my part and add my obsoleted hardware to our local dump.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to digital TV too!
> So we either (possibly) lose some priceless artifacts, or we lose priceless lives when the next terrorist strike comes.
Or we lose priceless lives in Iraq when the chickenhawks bomb the fuck out of it, and more priceless lives in the USA when lots of Muslims conclude that the USA just wanted to steal their oil and retaliate in the only way they can.
You takes yer pick and you pays yer price.
What? Merely a "federal crime", and not an act of terrorism yet?
> Probably because they have an annoying tendancy to cover 70's rock music.
One of the most wretched things I've ever heard on the radio is a countrified cover of Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl". It was as exciting as a dead fish.
It takes yarbles to cover Van Morrison to begin with.
> Interesting this station country classics show on Sat/Sun mornings and its hosted by a DJ that's done the big-market rock/classic rock forever during the week and he plays more real country music than the country music DJ's play.
Probably because he's the only one that actually knows the difference.
> An NPR article a few years ago reported how music companies decide which Country Music songs will be played on the radio.
Curiously, most of the "country" music that I hear on the radio these days sounds just like the second rate rock music of the 1970s, except for the addition of a handful of specific vocal mannerisms and an optional violin or steel guitar.
> Pop is probably done the exact same way. I guess that's why when you listen to "Classic hits of the [6-9]0s" you hear the same tripe over and again.
I think the "classic rock" format farted its brain out when they started having those "500 best of all time" weekends, where everyone could send in their votes for best song. They apparently used the results of those votes to prune their play lists to the sure winners. When the format first started they played a lot of interesting B-sides, album tracks, and other stuff that never made the top 40, but after a few years it got to where you could set your watch by which Pink Floyd or Bob Seeger tune they were playing.
About half my CDs are "classic rock", but I haven't listened to one of those stations in years. The damn "oldies" stations play a better selection of 60s music than the "classic rock" stations do.
> and how is this gonna change what's on the radio right now? They just play stuff until they find something that people like, which usually sucks
Actually, they just play whatever's written on the payola $$$, and people "like" it because they think everyone else does.
> If I see another angsty vampire, I swear, I'm going to scream.
I scream for any kind of vampire I see.
But yes, I much preferred the Saberhagen style vampires, handsome debonair fellows all, rather than the bad 80's horror film outtakes that look like they merely need to visit a dentist, a dermatologist, and a rage counsellor.
> An interesting compare/conrast to see is what MS license agreement says about this and what their public statements have been.
Well, last time they got caught snooping on their customers they said it was a bug that made your data get sent back to Microsoft.
> "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise."
Also, "Go to the Ant" is the name of a famous paper on swarm computing from several years back, which can be found if you google for the phrase.
So it turns out that "go to" isn't always considered harmful.
> we use a cron script to do a cvs update on the web sources every night, or we can ssh in and do it manually for quick updates.
We have CVS run an update script whenever anyone commits anything.
> Their attitude is to grant patents left right and center, and let the courts sort it out. The have no real incentive to try and find prior art.
More subtly (and also the POV of the US federal government), they have the idea that "everything should have an owner". No patent on record = no owner = gold rush (first come, first served).
The problem is in the underlying political philosophy.
> I'm just wondering if the patent being granted is someone hinged on Interwoven's claim to be the first to do version control for 'web assets' (ie, HTML, images) as opposed to source code.
FWIW, I just browsed our cvsroot and found Web pages in it dating back to 1998. And I'd be shocked if I found out that we were the first to do that.
> It's just a shame that they're remooving support for the legacy operating systems.
I'm sure they'll be happy to make you a deal on a new operating system.
> In science, the people who make the final discovery get more credit than the people who did the work that made this discovery possible.
Yeah, the Nobel Prize propagates a sort of mythological science where heroes make heroic discoveries. In this case, the discovery of the structure clearly depended on knowledge of the molecule's helicity, which in turn depended on knowing which molecule to look at, which in turn depended on lots of other important work in biochemistry. IMO, the thousands of no-names are every bit as important to the progress of science as the Nobel winners are.
50 years since the discovery of its structure.
> The thing is there has been so much hype recently about 64bit that people will assume that they need 64bit (of course it will twice as good as 32bit
Only your granny would make that mistake. A geek will know that it's 2^32 times as good.
> Bush only has a year left in office. The world will end before then!
Surely he can count on the 5 votes he needs for a second term?
> There will always be people willing and able to pay $500 for a garden spade.
Here comes another barrage of spam....