According to the bottom of the page, the site is running something from Universal Networks. Apparently they also designed the site. I can read a lot of stuff about being licensed under the GPL, too. It's not very clear, honestly.
I have an Olympus C2000Z with a panorama feature, which can only be accessed if I insert a Smartmedia card from Olympus with this feature enabled.
I recently purchased a new smartmedia card of 128MB from a white brand, and the feature is unavailable with this card. It *may* have to do with vendor lock-in, but it may also be that those Smartmedia cards have a special (read: more expensive) feature of providing more temporary storage or something.
MIDI is an asynchronous serial interface. The baud rate is 31.25 Kbaud ( 1%). There is 1 start bit, 8 data bits, and 1 stop bit (ie, 10 bits total), for a period of 320 microseconds per serial byte.
> There are a few things that might not be captured, such as the speed at which a damper is replaced on the strings when a note or the pedal is released. I don't know if the system accurately reproduces this. Certainly MIDI wouldn't.
According to this, it will. It can record both the speed at which the note is triggered as well as it is released. From the specs:
Note Off Category: Voice
Purpose
Indicates that a particular note should be released. Essentially, this means that the note stops sounding, but some patches might have a long VCA release time that needs to slowly fade the sound out. Additionally, the device's Hold Pedal controller may be on, in which case the note's release is postponed until the Hold Pedal is released. In any event, this message either causes the VCA to move into the release stage, or if the Hold Pedal is on, indicates that the note should be released (by the device automatically) when the Hold Pedal is turned off. If the device is a MultiTimbral unit, then each one of its Parts may respond to Note Offs on its own channel. The Part that responds to a particular Note Off message is the one assigned to the message's MIDI channel.
Status
0x80 to 0x8F where the low nibble is the MIDI channel.
Data
Two data bytes follow the Status.
The first data is the note number. There are 128 possible notes on a MIDI device, numbered 0 to 127 (where Middle C is note number 60). This indicates which note should be released.
The second data byte is the velocity, a value from 0 to 127. This indicates how quickly the note should be released (where 127 is the fastest). It's up to a MIDI device how it uses velocity information. Often velocity will be used to tailor the VCA release time. MIDI devices that can generate Note Off messages, but don't implement velocity features, will transmit Note Off messages with a preset velocity of 64.
The reviewer claims that the Windows/Outlook combination is inherently inferior in terms of security, because users have too many privileges on the host system.
I don't see what this has to do with Outlook. If I was to run Evolution on Windows I'd have exactly the same problem. People don't need to run Windows with Administrative privileges but they just do. It's the same with Unix/Linux.
They never went after the language, only the platform. Who restricted them from including a VM? Why exactly did they make J++? Why did they 'embrace and extend' the platform with COM specific stuff?
Why are they so keen on providing Java support for.NET?
Well the modems can do it, and the cable network is ready for it, but apparently there's been too much leeching spoiling the fun of all the others.
While it is true that you get 10mbit, you rarely get this speed unless you live in a lowly populated area, and even then..
Dave
Gee, glad I don't live in the US
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Over here in Belgium, broadband is doing just fine. People generally pay $35 a month for a 10Mb cable-service with a 10GB monthly volume limit. ADSL users pay about the same, but they only get a 1Mbit line, which is technically dedicated to only them.
Before that, we had to pay about $1.50 an hour for the phone over 56K. I'd say we're pretty happy. Still, some lusers are still complaining about that 10gig limit though. But that's because all they do is share DivX files all day.
Get your act together. I went to read the article on The Register. It's about having the Digital Rights Management inside the OS to prevent illegal copying and sharing of software and music. It's not about locking down the hardware so you can't run other OS'es on it.
Besides, the article is inacurate itself. It refers to the Product Activation and states that it's already a limitation on how much hardware you can change before the OS gives up. What is really true is that if you switch enough hardware classes you have to activate again. This means for example that you can replace your video card as many times as you want. Since it's only one CLASS that you're replacing. And if you ever do have to re-activate, there's no additional cost.
Thought I'd like to add that in Belgium, we DO have national ID cards. In fact, we'll be starting a pilot project in Leuven using smart cards for ID card.
I don't think it is wise to let one process write in the memory of another process. The whole purpose of process isolation is to keep a system from going down just because one process is doing stuff it isn't supposed to.
Besides, you're very inaccurate. There are many ways for processes to communicate other than FIFO files (which are, I believe, better suited for having a daemon communicate with any process)
- you have sockets
- you have pipes in win32
- you have shared memory on both platforms. This is exactly what you want to have, but it must be heavily protected by semaphores and critical sections, and this SHOULD be done, not for reasons of missing functionality of the OS.
- applications on windows are heavily based on COM for uhmm... let's say more than three years now. The technology exists for longer than that.
Simply stating that process isolation is only meant on the desktop and not on palm-sized devices is entirely incorrect: only when you have a multitasking device in which you write and test all of the software YOURSELF (i.e. embedded or realtime software) you can do whatever you want, but everywhere else isolation is a good thing!
> Like the scandal with IE, Microsoft will charge you for the service whether you want it or not with each Windows purchase.
I was never charged for IE. It was a free download when they started it and they bundle it with newer versions without charging extra.
> Microsoft has tried or are trying different markets like the server end and mobile end to keep expanding. But had no luck.
Check your data. They're expanding on the server side, and on the mobile side. But you're right, luck has nothing to do with it.
> Perhaps winCE devices might take over in the future but for now Microsoft is actually illegally giving them away below cost to hurt palm.
What you been smoking?
> Examples are buying from the net, making copies of photo's taken from your digital camera, and perhaps even booting( which is what Microsoft would make a fortune off of).
If they provide the service of handling the payments, why not charge for it? Every online retailer does that now. If they make prints of your pictures, that's also a service. And that last thing... well you're such a zealot. I wouldn't even have responded if they didn't mod you up like that.
> My guess is that the professional edition of the next version of Windows will only be available by renting via hailstorm.
But I guess that your guessing is what makes you so paranoid. You should open up your eyes and get the facts, and not from www.linuxzealotsRus.org.
I'm not a microsofty. Not anymore. I realize now that I may never have really been one. I just realize that I get reasonably pissed off by the thought that maybe one day zealots like you will rule the world. That's when I'll invent my own biosphere and spend the rest of my life counting fly-by probes on Mars.
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According to the bottom of the page, the site is running something from Universal Networks. Apparently they also designed the site. I can read a lot of stuff about being licensed under the GPL, too. It's not very clear, honestly.
Dave
This is true.
I have an Olympus C2000Z with a panorama feature, which can only be accessed if I insert a Smartmedia card from Olympus with this feature enabled.
I recently purchased a new smartmedia card of 128MB from a white brand, and the feature is unavailable with this card. It *may* have to do with vendor lock-in, but it may also be that those Smartmedia cards have a special (read: more expensive) feature of providing more temporary storage or something.
Mod parent up!
If you can see through everything, what do you see?
Dave
It's a he.
Did you read the article?
From this site:
MIDI is an asynchronous serial interface. The baud rate is 31.25 Kbaud ( 1%). There is 1 start bit, 8 data bits, and 1 stop bit (ie, 10 bits total), for a period of 320 microseconds per serial byte.
Dave
> There are a few things that might not be captured, such as the speed at which a damper is replaced on the strings when a note or the pedal is released. I don't know if the system accurately reproduces this. Certainly MIDI wouldn't.
According to this, it will. It can record both the speed at which the note is triggered as well as it is released. From the specs:
Note Off
Category: Voice
Purpose
Indicates that a particular note should be released. Essentially, this means that the note stops sounding, but some patches might have a long VCA release time that needs to slowly fade the sound out. Additionally, the device's Hold Pedal controller may be on, in which case the note's release is postponed until the Hold Pedal is released. In any event, this message either causes the VCA to move into the release stage, or if the Hold Pedal is on, indicates that the note should be released (by the device automatically) when the Hold Pedal is turned off. If the device is a MultiTimbral unit, then each one of its Parts may respond to Note Offs on its own channel. The Part that responds to a particular Note Off message is the one assigned to the message's MIDI channel.
Status
0x80 to 0x8F where the low nibble is the MIDI channel.
Data
Two data bytes follow the Status.
The first data is the note number. There are 128 possible notes on a MIDI device, numbered 0 to 127 (where Middle C is note number 60). This indicates which note should be released.
The second data byte is the velocity, a value from 0 to 127. This indicates how quickly the note should be released (where 127 is the fastest). It's up to a MIDI device how it uses velocity information. Often velocity will be used to tailor the VCA release time. MIDI devices that can generate Note Off messages, but don't implement velocity features, will transmit Note Off messages with a preset velocity of 64.
Yours truly,
Dave
Define "good", will you?
In my definition, Debian is the best.
Dave
Well, according to this, Candyman is played by Tony Todd, not Lawrence Fishburn.
The reviewer claims that the Windows/Outlook combination is inherently inferior in terms of security, because users have too many privileges on the host system.
I don't see what this has to do with Outlook. If I was to run Evolution on Windows I'd have exactly the same problem. People don't need to run Windows with Administrative privileges but they just do. It's the same with Unix/Linux.
Dave
Nothing that hasn't been written about before.
I wonder what this guy thinks about that.
anyone wanna comment on this?
I've read reports of the women in our local zoo here who have their periods synchronized with those of the female apes they nurse.
Dave
Yeah, you try that, you Geek!
Depending on the number of women of course, but if you did try it, I wonder if those kids will ever meet their father alive, or in a wheelchair.
Dave
Excuse me.
.NET?
They never went after the language, only the platform. Who restricted them from including a VM? Why exactly did they make J++? Why did they 'embrace and extend' the platform with COM specific stuff?
Why are they so keen on providing Java support for
And how's YOUR compatibility with 1.4 now??
Somebody should come up with a system that allows you to host your opensource projects on your own server.
Like a combination of CVS/PHP with a saucy bug-reporting and discussion thingie..
I'm sure one already exists.
Dave
Maybe when they try to patent the method this may come up as "prior art".
Dave
What do you prefer then?
Intel CPU v1.0?
AMD v2.2r5-stable?
Dave
Well the modems can do it, and the cable network is ready for it, but apparently there's been too much leeching spoiling the fun of all the others.
While it is true that you get 10mbit, you rarely get this speed unless you live in a lowly populated area, and even then..
Dave
Over here in Belgium, broadband is doing just fine. People generally pay $35 a month for a 10Mb cable-service with a 10GB monthly volume limit. ADSL users pay about the same, but they only get a 1Mbit line, which is technically dedicated to only them.
Before that, we had to pay about $1.50 an hour for the phone over 56K. I'd say we're pretty happy. Still, some lusers are still complaining about that 10gig limit though. But that's because all they do is share DivX files all day.
Dave
Oh please
Get your act together. I went to read the article on The Register. It's about having the Digital Rights Management inside the OS to prevent illegal copying and sharing of software and music. It's not about locking down the hardware so you can't run other OS'es on it.
Besides, the article is inacurate itself. It refers to the Product Activation and states that it's already a limitation on how much hardware you can change before the OS gives up. What is really true is that if you switch enough hardware classes you have to activate again. This means for example that you can replace your video card as many times as you want. Since it's only one CLASS that you're replacing. And if you ever do have to re-activate, there's no additional cost.
Get your facts straight, mister!
Dave
Funny :)
Thought I'd like to add that in Belgium, we DO have national ID cards. In fact, we'll be starting a pilot project in Leuven using smart cards for ID card.
Dave
I don't think it is wise to let one process write in the memory of another process. The whole purpose of process isolation is to keep a system from going down just because one process is doing stuff it isn't supposed to.
Besides, you're very inaccurate. There are many ways for processes to communicate other than FIFO files (which are, I believe, better suited for having a daemon communicate with any process)
- you have sockets
- you have pipes in win32
- you have shared memory on both platforms. This is exactly what you want to have, but it must be heavily protected by semaphores and critical sections, and this SHOULD be done, not for reasons of missing functionality of the OS.
- applications on windows are heavily based on COM for uhmm... let's say more than three years now. The technology exists for longer than that.
Simply stating that process isolation is only meant on the desktop and not on palm-sized devices is entirely incorrect: only when you have a multitasking device in which you write and test all of the software YOURSELF (i.e. embedded or realtime software) you can do whatever you want, but everywhere else isolation is a good thing!
Dave
Okay I take the bait.
... well you're such a zealot. I wouldn't even have responded if they didn't mod you up like that.
> Like the scandal with IE, Microsoft will charge you for the service whether you want it or not with each Windows purchase.
I was never charged for IE. It was a free download when they started it and they bundle it with newer versions without charging extra.
> Microsoft has tried or are trying different markets like the server end and mobile end to keep expanding. But had no luck.
Check your data. They're expanding on the server side, and on the mobile side. But you're right, luck has nothing to do with it.
> Perhaps winCE devices might take over in the future but for now Microsoft is actually illegally giving them away below cost to hurt palm.
What you been smoking?
> Examples are buying from the net, making copies of photo's taken from your digital camera, and perhaps even booting( which is what Microsoft would make a fortune off of).
If they provide the service of handling the payments, why not charge for it? Every online retailer does that now. If they make prints of your pictures, that's also a service. And that last thing
> My guess is that the professional edition of the next version of Windows will only be available by renting via hailstorm.
But I guess that your guessing is what makes you so paranoid. You should open up your eyes and get the facts, and not from www.linuxzealotsRus.org.
I'm not a microsofty. Not anymore. I realize now that I may never have really been one. I just realize that I get reasonably pissed off by the thought that maybe one day zealots like you will rule the world. That's when I'll invent my own biosphere and spend the rest of my life counting fly-by probes on Mars.