It's a cool idea. I hadn't heard about the guy scanning disks for archival format, so this is new to me. This could mean a lot in terms of preserving recordings.
A lot of people are experienced with laser turntables. In fact, a recent Spin Magazine survey indicates that laser turntables have overtaken conventional turntables by a ratio of 2:1. By comparison, conventional turntables have a much lower treble range, weaker bass, and higher overall cost. It's the CD generation that is holding music back.
>"Nicotine acts on the acetylcholine receptors in the brain, stimulating >and regulating the release of a slew of brain chemicals, including > [sic] seratonin,
No shit. Marijuana, cocaine, mushrooms, acid, ecstacy, tobacco, and caffeine ALL support serotonin production. In fact, serotonin production is a major underpinning of recreational drugs in general.
The exceptions are alcohol and opiates. Ever wondered why cigarettes feel so good when you're drunk? Because cigarettes keep you awake.
FL seems to have discovered that nicotine keeps you awake. Please mod him up, nobody has ever noticed this before.
The authors found that store-brand beverages generally contained less caffeine, and they also suggest that consumers would benefit from having the actual caffeine content labeled on the beverage.'"
Wow. As if dosage ever had anything to do with the effect of a particular drug.
>the proposal perhaps most accepted by cosmologists (chaotic/eternal inflation) isn't intrinsically an M-theory scenario at all.
Well, that makes sense. If you believe that the universe is "everything"," then putting strange forces into a local inflation is a good way to rectify the math.
Hey, our universe just continually inflates. Why? Who knows? It's the "universe," it just inflates.
Nice.
I prefer to believe that the universe is not "everything." A universe itself requires a universe to exist in.
I agree with you in principle, but at $1000-1500 per "individual PC", isn't that practically the same as a dumb terminal?
At that cost, the monitor itself is the major portion.
We've fluctuated back and forth between distributed and centralized models. There's companies that use Microsoft domains. There's companies that use Linux dev boxes and Solaris servers. There's companies with swarms of unbridled Windows PC's. And there's companies with a mix of X, VNC, and varying amounts of Intranet to get the job done.
There have been lessons lost. X, Zephyr, and even email have been under-utilized in favor of AIM and whatever Windows flavor of the week. By the same token, there are companies that rely too much on Unix and have no practical concept of the Windows home user.
Anyway, centralized client/server works; it maxes out the network, which is what the network is for. But you can't blame people for buying $1000 PC's either, it's just too darn cheap.
The last programming job I had (six years ago), I had $6000 worth of monitor on my desk. Monitors have come down in price since then, but, you get my point.
Ultima V had six quests: kill 3 Shadowlords and find uh, 3 ankhs or something.
During one weekend at my grandma's house (yes, my PC was portable...Panasonic Sr. Partner!), I killed 2 shadowlords and found one object. So, half the game beat in a few days.
Still not sure how I did it. It happened pretty quick.
Anyway, I never beat Martian Dreams:( There was some entrance to the final quest that I never found.
My reply was not meant as a rebuttal. I found a similarity between my semantic dislike of LQG (i.e. it doesn't make sense), and your dislikes (on specific grounds).
Anyway, I'm a computer programmer. I've been reading Hawking since high school, plus Disover Magazine (sometimes awful, sometimes revelationary), and this. fwiw.
Discover had an article on "branes." They posited that the Big Bang was a collision of extra-dimensional objects. The brane theory accounts for "acceleration," much like a car crash where the cars are still plowing into each other.
It's somewhat philosophical, but, I looked for a flaw and could not find one. Theories like LQG are more easily flawed imo.
Archon Chess was pretty much the #1 reason to own a Commodore64. Years later they had "Battle Chess," but it wasn't the same. In fact, I don't think you could control the battles in Battle Chess. Archon was, and is, the best chess game.
I posted about Ultima V below. Ultima VI and its spin-offs were really the shit.
Scorched Earth almost got me laid (my bad...but hey, she moved).
System Shock was good. Alpha Centauri=Civ=awesome? Syndicate is a legend, I replayed it this year.
All Mechwarriors from the first one on were pretty damn good. What's the max rocket load on a custom mech? 6x15 LRM iirc. Jump and shoot, after all, it's King of the Hill.
How about, Ultima V (an Apple II port to IBM, but it took months to beat), and Ultima VI (one of the very first IBM VGA games).
I still can't believe I beat Ultima V. Meanwhile, Ultima VI, Savage Empire, and Martian Dreams were just a rush. Savage Empire had the first weapon recipes, iirc (combining ingredients to make gunpowder).
Mario64 is my perennial favorite. I don't think we've seen 3D like that before, or since.
>So? I can only interpret your comment meaning Linares is 'against' us
Well, there was an article last week claiming that RIAA is guilty of RICO (aka Mafia) fraud. As far as I could tell, the article made a good case for secrecy, collusion, and extortion.
So, any analysis of RIAA's documents potentially gives RICO defendants a heads-up on technical matters. Whom you choose to defend is up to you.
Sounds an awful lot like Hawking's prediction that black holes "evaporate" back into regular space. Or his prediction that black holes are not "true" singularities, but rather tightly-looped quantum constructs.
But the word "singularity" itself means, a place where the rules of physics break down.
So, if we had a unified view of physics, wouldn't all singularities disappear?
I'd agree with that assessment more or less, but what gets me every time is what created/caused the original universe? If it's derived from a purely quantum state, then doesn't that have to had been caused by something as well?
It was caused by GOD.
Just ask Stephen Hawking, he portends to read the mind of God.
Oh, as an armchair physicist, you thought you weren't a religious freak?
*suble irony*:)
If you can wrest physics from God's grasp, then you win +5 in my book.
In my head, I likened it to a star collapsing on itself and exploding as a supernova, but on a far larger scale. If something like that can happen to a star, surely an entire universe could collapse on itself as well.
Sure, good job.
But a star, collapsing in on itself, requires a universe to exist.
What does a universe, collapsing in on itself, require to exist?
Something, I'm pretty sure of that. In short, I tend to believe the word "universe" is obsolete and awfully confusing.
However, it's worth not losing sight of the fact that the LQG theory upon which it is based has serious issues with consistency. It is based on a non-standard quantization technique with no experimentally supported basis, its Hamiltonian constraint has never been solved (which renders any approximation based on that constraint suspect), and it suffers from potentially infinitely many quantization ambiguities
I'm not surprised. I was going to reply to the article directly, but as a lay-physicist, both articles seemed like piles of semantics.
Something in the second article about how "time was invented" at the big bang, and then LQG allows us to see "before" the big bang...whatever.
For purely semantic articles, they can't even get two references to "time" consistent with each other.
Perhaps, a prior universe had a different set of dimensions.
Ah....thinking outside the box, is that allowed?
My thought is, that the smallest 'things' that we can figure exist (bosons, mesons, photons...) are what they are depending upon which combination of those 7 dimensions they are looped around. Perhaps if a particle has Mass, it's looped around dimension 5, if it has Magnetism dimension 6, Strong force 7, Weak force 8...
Ok, good. In fact, Michio Kaku once told me that, "Light is a shadow (?) of the fifth dimension." He said, "I've seen it."
So, he agrees with you, that there are extra-dimensional forces at work. Now ask yourself, who decided that there were only 10-11 dimensions (as per string theory)?
God?
Next step: Take physics beyond religion. Current physics, whether it be string theory or "loop quantum gravity," loves the idea that God invented X dimensions and Y physics.
I'm not sure that a small form-factor wire like HDMI or DVI would have better quality than three big, fat Component wires, but I have to say...HDMI has gotten a lot cheaper. Monoprice.com...HDMI 15' $6.50!
I would have a hard time beating that price even if I made my own component cables.
Slashdot Mirror
...the mythical man-month?
>why should companies favor hiring fewer more senior developers rather than many junior ones?
*swish*
Hey most "average joes" think thx = surround.
So, go teach.
I cared about them 7 years ago. Update: TiVo fast-forwards when you rewind.
Bug or goof or what?
It's a cool idea. I hadn't heard about the guy scanning disks for archival format, so this is new to me. This could mean a lot in terms of preserving recordings.
A lot of people are experienced with laser turntables. In fact, a recent Spin Magazine survey indicates that laser turntables have overtaken conventional turntables by a ratio of 2:1. By comparison, conventional turntables have a much lower treble range, weaker bass, and higher overall cost. It's the CD generation that is holding music back.
>It seems to me that years ago, slashdot authors did more than dump articles into summaries
Your memory is faulty.
>"Nicotine acts on the acetylcholine receptors in the brain, stimulating
>and regulating the release of a slew of brain chemicals, including
> [sic] seratonin,
No shit. Marijuana, cocaine, mushrooms, acid, ecstacy, tobacco, and caffeine ALL support serotonin production. In fact, serotonin production is a major underpinning of recreational drugs in general.
The exceptions are alcohol and opiates. Ever wondered why cigarettes feel so good when you're drunk? Because cigarettes keep you awake.
FL seems to have discovered that nicotine keeps you awake. Please mod him up, nobody has ever noticed this before.
The authors found that store-brand beverages generally contained less caffeine, and they also suggest that consumers would benefit from having the actual caffeine content labeled on the beverage.'"
Wow. As if dosage ever had anything to do with the effect of a particular drug.
Who are these people?
Well, this story looks like b.s., but here's a tip.
If you don't like the Beatles, then you don't have to worry about copyright infringement, because you aren't listening to them.
Get it?
Get some taste.
You are living in the RIAA's world, because you like crap.
>the proposal perhaps most accepted by cosmologists (chaotic/eternal inflation) isn't intrinsically an M-theory scenario at all.
Well, that makes sense. If you believe that the universe is "everything"," then putting strange forces into a local inflation is a good way to rectify the math.
Hey, our universe just continually inflates. Why? Who knows? It's the "universe," it just inflates.
Nice.
I prefer to believe that the universe is not "everything." A universe itself requires a universe to exist in.
>I still, for example, haven't seen a "virtualization" solution that is as elegant as VM on IBM hardware.
From what I understand, the whole point of a mainframe is to run several different OS'es at once.
Personally, I find that intriguing. I'm not sure how I would use it. But I don't own a Formula-1 racecar either.
It would be nice.
I agree with you in principle, but at $1000-1500 per "individual PC", isn't that practically the same as a dumb terminal?
At that cost, the monitor itself is the major portion.
We've fluctuated back and forth between distributed and centralized models. There's companies that use Microsoft domains. There's companies that use Linux dev boxes and Solaris servers. There's companies with swarms of unbridled Windows PC's. And there's companies with a mix of X, VNC, and varying amounts of Intranet to get the job done.
There have been lessons lost. X, Zephyr, and even email have been under-utilized in favor of AIM and whatever Windows flavor of the week. By the same token, there are companies that rely too much on Unix and have no practical concept of the Windows home user.
Anyway, centralized client/server works; it maxes out the network, which is what the network is for. But you can't blame people for buying $1000 PC's either, it's just too darn cheap.
The last programming job I had (six years ago), I had $6000 worth of monitor on my desk. Monitors have come down in price since then, but, you get my point.
Ultima V had six quests: kill 3 Shadowlords and find uh, 3 ankhs or something.
:( There was some entrance to the final quest that I never found.
During one weekend at my grandma's house (yes, my PC was portable...Panasonic Sr. Partner!), I killed 2 shadowlords and found one object. So, half the game beat in a few days.
Still not sure how I did it. It happened pretty quick.
Anyway, I never beat Martian Dreams
My reply was not meant as a rebuttal. I found a similarity between my semantic dislike of LQG (i.e. it doesn't make sense), and your dislikes (on specific grounds).
Anyway, I'm a computer programmer. I've been reading Hawking since high school, plus Disover Magazine (sometimes awful, sometimes revelationary), and this. fwiw.
Discover had an article on "branes." They posited that the Big Bang was a collision of extra-dimensional objects. The brane theory accounts for "acceleration," much like a car crash where the cars are still plowing into each other.
It's somewhat philosophical, but, I looked for a flaw and could not find one. Theories like LQG are more easily flawed imo.
Ocarina of Time blows balls. I remember our first encounter and it was like, ok, decent graphics, where's the game?
Then I roomed with a guy who beat Ocarina and its sequel. And I was like, "Get a job," and he did.
Then he dated some girl, went into a mathematics PhD program...anyway, Ocarina gives "underwhelming" a new meaning.
Archon Chess was pretty much the #1 reason to own a Commodore64. Years later they had "Battle Chess," but it wasn't the same. In fact, I don't think you could control the battles in Battle Chess. Archon was, and is, the best chess game.
I never played Nethack, but I heard about it.
I posted about Ultima V below. Ultima VI and its spin-offs were really the shit.
Scorched Earth almost got me laid (my bad...but hey, she moved).
System Shock was good. Alpha Centauri=Civ=awesome? Syndicate is a legend, I replayed it this year.
All Mechwarriors from the first one on were pretty damn good. What's the max rocket load on a custom mech? 6x15 LRM iirc. Jump and shoot, after all, it's King of the Hill.
Star Control II could bring tears.
How about, Ultima V (an Apple II port to IBM, but it took months to beat), and Ultima VI (one of the very first IBM VGA games).
I still can't believe I beat Ultima V. Meanwhile, Ultima VI, Savage Empire, and Martian Dreams were just a rush. Savage Empire had the first weapon recipes, iirc (combining ingredients to make gunpowder).
Mario64 is my perennial favorite. I don't think we've seen 3D like that before, or since.
>So? I can only interpret your comment meaning Linares is 'against' us
Well, there was an article last week claiming that RIAA is guilty of RICO (aka Mafia) fraud. As far as I could tell, the article made a good case for secrecy, collusion, and extortion.
So, any analysis of RIAA's documents potentially gives RICO defendants a heads-up on technical matters. Whom you choose to defend is up to you.
Sounds an awful lot like Hawking's prediction that black holes "evaporate" back into regular space. Or his prediction that black holes are not "true" singularities, but rather tightly-looped quantum constructs.
But the word "singularity" itself means, a place where the rules of physics break down.
So, if we had a unified view of physics, wouldn't all singularities disappear?
It seems like the chicken is chasing the egg.
I'd agree with that assessment more or less, but what gets me every time is what created/caused the original universe? If it's derived from a purely quantum state, then doesn't that have to had been caused by something as well?
:)
It was caused by GOD.
Just ask Stephen Hawking, he portends to read the mind of God.
Oh, as an armchair physicist, you thought you weren't a religious freak?
*suble irony*
If you can wrest physics from God's grasp, then you win +5 in my book.
In my head, I likened it to a star collapsing on itself and exploding as a supernova, but on a far larger scale. If something like that can happen to a star, surely an entire universe could collapse on itself as well.
Sure, good job.
But a star, collapsing in on itself, requires a universe to exist.
What does a universe, collapsing in on itself, require to exist?
Something, I'm pretty sure of that. In short, I tend to believe the word "universe" is obsolete and awfully confusing.
However, it's worth not losing sight of the fact that the LQG theory upon which it is based has serious issues with consistency. It is based on a non-standard quantization technique with no experimentally supported basis, its Hamiltonian constraint has never been solved (which renders any approximation based on that constraint suspect), and it suffers from potentially infinitely many quantization ambiguities
I'm not surprised. I was going to reply to the article directly, but as a lay-physicist, both articles seemed like piles of semantics.
Something in the second article about how "time was invented" at the big bang, and then LQG allows us to see "before" the big bang...whatever.
For purely semantic articles, they can't even get two references to "time" consistent with each other.
Perhaps, a prior universe had a different set of dimensions.
Ah....thinking outside the box, is that allowed?
My thought is, that the smallest 'things' that we can figure exist (bosons, mesons, photons...) are what they are depending upon which combination of those 7 dimensions they are looped around. Perhaps if a particle has Mass, it's looped around dimension 5, if it has Magnetism dimension 6, Strong force 7, Weak force 8...
Ok, good. In fact, Michio Kaku once told me that, "Light is a shadow (?) of the fifth dimension." He said, "I've seen it."
So, he agrees with you, that there are extra-dimensional forces at work. Now ask yourself, who decided that there were only 10-11 dimensions (as per string theory)?
God?
Next step: Take physics beyond religion. Current physics, whether it be string theory or "loop quantum gravity," loves the idea that God invented X dimensions and Y physics.
Just keep in mind this could have been posted by Linares himself.
>HDMI > DVI > Component > Svideo > Composite
I'm not sure that a small form-factor wire like HDMI or DVI would have better quality than three big, fat Component wires, but I have to say...HDMI has gotten a lot cheaper. Monoprice.com...HDMI 15' $6.50!
I would have a hard time beating that price even if I made my own component cables.