Have these dexter spudboys learn some humility and I may begin to show some respect for their brilliant wankery. it's the unrestrained braniacs of the world that have given us nukes and filthy mfctring methods. what is needed, here as in everywhere, is some bloody fucking wisdom, some basic human sympathy...
and look what they put out[:] Semi-functional bloatware...
c'mon people, this is obviously flamebait. this comment has no business being up at the top of the stack. it is pure hysteria and incorrect to boot. I am a bit of a linux newbie (started futsing with it last year) and I have to say, if anything is to be considered 'semi-functional' it would have to be X, distro installers, non standard package formats, the dizzying array of symlinks, config files and a bloated, needless/dev/ directory. note the horror stories of the 2.4 kernel, or the redhat 7.0 distro release to back me up here.
But the point here is not the quality of Windows, but rather the philosophies of generating and distributing IP. Open Source is contrary to capitalism, and I don't see much sense in getting in an uproar when a corporation is frank enough to admit it.
IF we could all just calm down a little, maybe productive answers to the pressing issues could be discussed...
ahem, I accidentally hit submit, on my way to the preview button. damn valentine's day! too much wine with the candlelight dinner. oh well.
needless to say, there are a bajillion ways to accomplish what I'm talking about, but the idea i've just had is so good sounding right now, I think I'll actually go begin this project instead of talking about it. I believe I can script a means to auto monitor the popular web sites, watching for this rude behavior. I'll give you a hint: it involves lots and lots of yahoo and hotmail addresses, mysql and a modified slash/nuke front end.
ooh, my tube driven laser has such a richer, warmer coherent light it's not even funny.
okay, so I think your point is in how the laser light is interpreted, right? is it digital sampling of the light scatter patterns? this is okay if your sample rate is high enough. a good read head and a good DAP will capture nearly everything the vinyl has to offer. These curators almost certainly have access to endless amounts of high end gear. and it would be better to have the info digitally, anyway, as you can compress it (losslessly) all to hell for archival purposes. I think the analogue qualities you are referring to are better suited for playback equipment (and for some of the _really_ snobby purists, the media as well).
The US won't be subject to this sort of lobbyist terrorism, as the Supreme Court would eventually strike this sort of thing down as taxation without representation.
The scary thing is, the corporations have such a burning desire to overcome this 'problem' in the marketplace... their best interest (which a public company is legally obliged to pursue at every turn) is diametrically opposed to these basic precepts of the US Constitution. We are all very concerned with freedom of speech issues, but to me, it appears the real war to undermine the constitution will take place over this taxation issue. Once they've curcumvented that part of the constitution, the damage to the dynamic on capitol hill will be the foothold they need to bring about whatever changes they desire.
corporations have become the new nobility. landed in IP, and carrying a Heavenly Mandate by virtue of their mere corporateness. You either go with the flow, as confuscious would have you, or make yourself miserable.
In other words: don't fight this. let it come to pass. once the corporations have assuaged their possesive greed, then we might pursue our cheap entertainment at leisure. IF you make for open opposition, you just make for sport, like a fox or pheasant.
a legal department has nothing better to do than attempt to exert dominance over percieved transgressoins of the consumer.
...for the Microsoft Marketting Machine. This story reads as 'Linux is a Broken Mess, film at 11'.
All you me too! posters better watch what you say. you know Microsoft reads all this. If you complain tooo much about Linux, they'll use it against you, on your superiors, and sell them their product, which forces your using it. If you praise it too much, you'll embarrass yourself in front of us, your peers, and we will mock you as a bigot.
I think it would be best to take the middle path here, if I were youse...
" . . . 10.8 terabytes of data to be stored in an area the size of a credit card, with no conventionally moving parts......Each square centimetre of this memory system is a closed unit containing a metal oxide material on which data are recorded, and a reader made of a fibre optic tip suspended above the material in a lubricant."
notice the language: no conventionally moving parts... plenty of unconventional movement, though.;|
Which brings me to my point: how can this invention be aimed at the mobile/palm markets if the read head is floating in lubricants?! here's to hoping they license some skip/shock technology from the walkman crowd...
Before I say anything else, let me remind those that want to support Sononwealth's action that it's unquestionably astounding that it has found a way to work the words "piezocrystallization" and "crystallographically" into its commentaries. However, you may find it even more astounding that it maliciously defames and damagingly misrepresents everyone and everything around it. There's a word for that: libel.
Notice the abrupt shamelessness of Sononwealth's legal complaint. The two things I just mentioned -- the way that Sononwealth is chomping at the bit for a chance to trivialize the Intellectual Property issues, and the fact that as conscious, sentient beings aware of our actions and capable of response, we must invite all the other companies who have been or are about to be harmed by Sononwealth to continue to express and assert their concerns in a constructive and productive fashion -- may sound like they're completely unrelated, but they're not.
The common theme here is that we must carve solutions that are neither scary nor headlong. Our industry depends on that. In the end, you probably can't find one good reason why Sononwealth should endeavor in new litigation forcing anyone (who isn't one of their shills) to live in an environment that can, at best, be described as contemptuously tolerant. Thank you.
For what it's worth, I believe Adobe has this patented already, though I can't seem to find the entry at the USP&TO just now, but you can see the application through their 'droplets' technology in Photoshop and other major apps.
This droplets scheme is a way to harness various functionality externally to the app, though the patent sure leaves it open enough in that it didn't specify app or OS at any point, and the language speaks of modules, processes and 'acting on external data sources'. It sounds like piping the modules together to me.
It's a good thing this is originating in Academia, through Unix, or there'd surely be trouble.
I regularly use the Basilisk II Macintosh emulator to capture a bit of nostalgic system 7 flavor. It's truly a great project, with ports to BeOS, Windows, just about any flavor of Unix (including linux) and AmigaOS of all things. There is a networking transport, sounds work, you can mount the drives of the parent OS, just about everyting you could want or need in an emulator.
"...people do listen to music in cars and other not quite accoustically neutral environments"
I'll go you one further and say that I prefer to listen to my favorite discs on a variety of crappy playback devices in a diversity of crappy listening environments. it adds A LOT to the pleasure of an album.
why, just the other day I noticed the crazy kazoo/jaw harp sound over the top of the chorus in that Radiohead song "Optimistic" (Kid A), because the frequncy response of the device I was using was so limited. That alone is worth the price of admission, so to speak, because there had been something present in that song that had been teasing me, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. I was distracted from that voice when listening to it on my needlessly overpriced 5.1 system, for the sake of drums and base.
those are some seriously good points, but I'm afraid you're just towing the party line here, mick. I want to point you to some of the best sounding albums ever put to wax, namely
White Light / White Heat (velvet underground)
Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the Pink Floyd)
Damaged (Black Flag)
Loveless (My Bloody Valentine)
the overarching point being that it isn't the recording space, gear or even engineering that brought those records together, rather it was inspiration, showmanship and a vision of what makes an album a great album.
With the exception of Loveless and to an extent, Piper, no studio is needed or wanted for the true masterpiece. Not a single $90,000 compressor was used on any of these albums. no $2M 'desk' (your parlance) was required to complete WL/WH, it was recorded in an abandoned church with a greasy 2 track. sure, they may have had 220v ribbon mikes, but those weren't ridiculously vauntedly overvalued by a mob of hoodwinked guitar-center junkies. It was all just old crappy gear being used by people who'd transcended the status quo of the music industry.
And now, with my Pod and my Tascam MD 8track, my cluster of smc '57 and a nice stretch of hardwood floors, I can attain better sounds than they got on Rubber Soul. all it takes is a little imagination and a a bit of tweeking in sound forge...
the fundamental symbolism found in the film 'Brazil' is a metaphor for furtive masterbation as an adolescent and the associated guilt that carries with an adult as they live out their years as slaves to their "family", so you may just be on to something here...
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"as is arrogance"
Have these dexter spudboys learn some humility and I may begin to show some respect for their brilliant wankery. it's the unrestrained braniacs of the world that have given us nukes and filthy mfctring methods. what is needed, here as in everywhere, is some bloody fucking wisdom, some basic human sympathy...
suck it. you can read gopher while the rest of us push the envelope for grandma.
and look what they put out[:] Semi-functional bloatware...
/dev/ directory. note the horror stories of the 2.4 kernel, or the redhat 7.0 distro release to back me up here.
c'mon people, this is obviously flamebait. this comment has no business being up at the top of the stack. it is pure hysteria and incorrect to boot. I am a bit of a linux newbie (started futsing with it last year) and I have to say, if anything is to be considered 'semi-functional' it would have to be X, distro installers, non standard package formats, the dizzying array of symlinks, config files and a bloated, needless
But the point here is not the quality of Windows, but rather the philosophies of generating and distributing IP. Open Source is contrary to capitalism, and I don't see much sense in getting in an uproar when a corporation is frank enough to admit it.
IF we could all just calm down a little, maybe productive answers to the pressing issues could be discussed...
ahem, I accidentally hit submit, on my way to the preview button. damn valentine's day! too much wine with the candlelight dinner. oh well.
needless to say, there are a bajillion ways to accomplish what I'm talking about, but the idea i've just had is so good sounding right now, I think I'll actually go begin this project instead of talking about it. I believe I can script a means to auto monitor the popular web sites, watching for this rude behavior. I'll give you a hint: it involves lots and lots of yahoo and hotmail addresses, mysql and a modified slash/nuke front end.
Yes, indeed, I've seen this problem before. And I have thought of a partial solution to the problem: a watchdog group.
ooh, my tube driven laser has such a richer, warmer coherent light it's not even funny.
okay, so I think your point is in how the laser light is interpreted, right? is it digital sampling of the light scatter patterns? this is okay if your sample rate is high enough. a good read head and a good DAP will capture nearly everything the vinyl has to offer. These curators almost certainly have access to endless amounts of high end gear. and it would be better to have the info digitally, anyway, as you can compress it (losslessly) all to hell for archival purposes. I think the analogue qualities you are referring to are better suited for playback equipment (and for some of the _really_ snobby purists, the media as well).
I would be asking for a refund!
The US won't be subject to this sort of lobbyist terrorism, as the Supreme Court would eventually strike this sort of thing down as taxation without representation.
The scary thing is, the corporations have such a burning desire to overcome this 'problem' in the marketplace... their best interest (which a public company is legally obliged to pursue at every turn) is diametrically opposed to these basic precepts of the US Constitution. We are all very concerned with freedom of speech issues, but to me, it appears the real war to undermine the constitution will take place over this taxation issue. Once they've curcumvented that part of the constitution, the damage to the dynamic on capitol hill will be the foothold they need to bring about whatever changes they desire.
corporations have become the new nobility. landed in IP, and carrying a Heavenly Mandate by virtue of their mere corporateness. You either go with the flow, as confuscious would have you, or make yourself miserable.
In other words: don't fight this. let it come to pass. once the corporations have assuaged their possesive greed, then we might pursue our cheap entertainment at leisure. IF you make for open opposition, you just make for sport, like a fox or pheasant.
a legal department has nothing better to do than attempt to exert dominance over percieved transgressoins of the consumer.
All you me too! posters better watch what you say. you know Microsoft reads all this. If you complain tooo much about Linux, they'll use it against you, on your superiors, and sell them their product, which forces your using it. If you praise it too much, you'll embarrass yourself in front of us, your peers, and we will mock you as a bigot.
I think it would be best to take the middle path here, if I were youse...
the OpenSSH people should change their name to Fatmantis.
you know, moore's 'law' has nothing to do with magnetic or optical storage densities, right? just transistors. thank you.
" . . . 10.8 terabytes of data to be stored in an area the size of a credit card, with no conventionally moving parts... ...Each square centimetre of this memory system is a closed unit containing a metal oxide material on which data are recorded, and a reader made of a fibre optic tip suspended above the material in a lubricant."
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notice the language: no conventionally moving parts... plenty of unconventional movement, though.
Which brings me to my point: how can this invention be aimed at the mobile/palm markets if the read head is floating in lubricants?! here's to hoping they license some skip/shock technology from the walkman crowd...
Before I say anything else, let me remind those that want to support Sononwealth's action that it's unquestionably astounding that it has found a way to work the words "piezocrystallization" and "crystallographically" into its commentaries. However, you may find it even more astounding that it maliciously defames and damagingly misrepresents everyone and everything around it. There's a word for that: libel.
Notice the abrupt shamelessness of Sononwealth's legal complaint. The two things I just mentioned -- the way that Sononwealth is chomping at the bit for a chance to trivialize the Intellectual Property issues, and the fact that as conscious, sentient beings aware of our actions and capable of response, we must invite all the other companies who have been or are about to be harmed by Sononwealth to continue to express and assert their concerns in a constructive and productive fashion -- may sound like they're completely unrelated, but they're not.
The common theme here is that we must carve solutions that are neither scary nor headlong. Our industry depends on that. In the end, you probably can't find one good reason why Sononwealth should endeavor in new litigation forcing anyone (who isn't one of their shills) to live in an environment that can, at best, be described as contemptuously tolerant. Thank you.
For what it's worth, I believe Adobe has this patented already, though I can't seem to find the entry at the USP&TO just now, but you can see the application through their 'droplets' technology in Photoshop and other major apps.
This droplets scheme is a way to harness various functionality externally to the app, though the patent sure leaves it open enough in that it didn't specify app or OS at any point, and the language speaks of modules, processes and 'acting on external data sources'. It sounds like piping the modules together to me.
It's a good thing this is originating in Academia, through Unix, or there'd surely be trouble.
I regularly use the Basilisk II Macintosh emulator to capture a bit of nostalgic system 7 flavor. It's truly a great project, with ports to BeOS, Windows, just about any flavor of Unix (including linux) and AmigaOS of all things. There is a networking transport, sounds work, you can mount the drives of the parent OS, just about everyting you could want or need in an emulator.
hey great idea! take a famously flaky system and bloat it with excessive verbosity! you're fired.
- The Architecture of Privacy
- Cyberspace's Architectural Constitution.
- Architecting for Control
and my favorite,I am beggining to sense a trend here...
this is the sort of story momocrome would post to geekizoid. good job, michael.
" ...people do listen to music in cars and other not quite accoustically neutral environments"
I'll go you one further and say that I prefer to listen to my favorite discs on a variety of crappy playback devices in a diversity of crappy listening environments. it adds A LOT to the pleasure of an album.
why, just the other day I noticed the crazy kazoo/jaw harp sound over the top of the chorus in that Radiohead song "Optimistic" (Kid A), because the frequncy response of the device I was using was so limited. That alone is worth the price of admission, so to speak, because there had been something present in that song that had been teasing me, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. I was distracted from that voice when listening to it on my needlessly overpriced 5.1 system, for the sake of drums and base.
startx. crash... startx. crash... startx. if you can't handle that, try typing win /p.
those are some seriously good points, but I'm afraid you're just towing the party line here, mick. I want to point you to some of the best sounding albums ever put to wax, namely
White Light / White Heat (velvet underground)
Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the Pink Floyd)
Damaged (Black Flag)
Loveless (My Bloody Valentine)
the overarching point being that it isn't the recording space, gear or even engineering that brought those records together, rather it was inspiration, showmanship and a vision of what makes an album a great album.
With the exception of Loveless and to an extent, Piper, no studio is needed or wanted for the true masterpiece. Not a single $90,000 compressor was used on any of these albums. no $2M 'desk' (your parlance) was required to complete WL/WH, it was recorded in an abandoned church with a greasy 2 track. sure, they may have had 220v ribbon mikes, but those weren't ridiculously vauntedly overvalued by a mob of hoodwinked guitar-center junkies. It was all just old crappy gear being used by people who'd transcended the status quo of the music industry.
And now, with my Pod and my Tascam MD 8track, my cluster of smc '57 and a nice stretch of hardwood floors, I can attain better sounds than they got on Rubber Soul. all it takes is a little imagination and a a bit of tweeking in sound forge...
I think I saw/heard it from the horses mouth in the director's commentary, on DVD...
the fundamental symbolism found in the film 'Brazil' is a metaphor for furtive masterbation as an adolescent and the associated guilt that carries with an adult as they live out their years as slaves to their "family", so you may just be on to something here...
nobody else is so pretentious as to sully High Literature in the service of tech advocacy issues...