The subject says it all. Is MS really talking about having custom hardware embedded on motherboards, much as the Clipper chip was supposed to do for TVs? I hope/expect that Palladiums enjoys just as much success as Clipper: none whatsoever.
You could view the separation of hardware and software like the separation of church and state - it's not healthy for the two to become too intermingled. Yes, I know about Apple - were we all using Macs, there would probably be no Linux today. I can understand how MS tried to set standards for PC hardware, but to date they've been "minimum" standards that don't impose limits on hardware and manufacturers. They've also been quite co-operative about it. For example, the PC97 spec was helpful to Linux programmers as well, by the way it set minimum hardware standards and clarified some things, IMHO (natch).
"I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFO's, about the fact that they cross galaxies or wherever they come from to visit us and always end up in places like Fife, Alabama. " (maybe that should read "Fife, Scotland"?)
"With a five-minute UFO experience I got a taste of holiness I never got in 20 years of religion."
"Would you let the aliens land, please? They might be here to pick me up."
Is there anything that The Great One didn't have an opinion on?
An excellent article appeared in UK Music Magazine Sound On Sound, by musician Paul D Lehrman, who used Disklaviers to produce the first ever performance of George Antheil's Ballet Mécanique. For 75 years after its composition in 1924, it could not be played in full, due to the limited technology available for all that time. Lehrman's SOS article appears in 2 parts: Part 1 and Part 2.
The most relevant part of the articles to this thread is the descriptions of the problems Lehrman had with the Disklaviers, most significantly the time delays between MIDI input and sound production, and how Yamaha's compensation mechanisms got in the way, a bit. Probably not a problem here, since the competition is based on MIDI files, but still quite interesting. The antheil.org site has links to all sorts of related topics, including player piano music.
It's not just that many bloggers are outside the USA; what if a Yank's web hosting is located outside the USA? If you send libellious material across the Net, does that constitute border-crossing, involving the FBI?
I'm in the opposite situation - I'm in Ireland, but my blog is hosted in the USA (Utah), so does that mean that I could be liable for prosecution under American law?
"The whole wide world, an endless universe,
yet we keep looking through the eyeglass in reverse..."
- Rush: Territories (1984)
SCMS is the Serial Copy Management System, which is what put consumers off from buying DAT drives, I agree. It's relevant to any digital audio stream, really, but you hardly ever hear of it any more. The other thing that killed DAT was pressure from the major labels that bumped prices up and restricted drive and media availability at the crucial time.
Now, of course, you can but SCMS strippers, or build your own. The people suggesting this as a serious security mechanism are "asleep at the switch", methinks...
It wouldn't surprise me if Compaq, did that stuff. According to the product roadmaps, Insight Manager is heading for the grave anyway, to be replaced by HP OpenView family products.
The JRE did come straight from Sun - the CIM console sends you straight there...
You think I didn't check this first? Why did I see this behaviour on 2 different systems, starting with the installation of a new Sun JRE?
Yes, I used a search engine, and found the same Trojan data. Yes, it's a Trojan, but who put it on my system? From the evidence, it appears that this is being done on Sun's behalf. I know it might not have come from Sun, but this behaviour started with a new JRE, and we don't go surfing the Net on a working server console.
By "short of a firewall", I should have said "another firewall". I don't have the privileges to modify a corporate firewall (it's a very big company). Thanks for the reminder about modifying the hosts file - last resort, I guess.
You assume that because I am using some Win32 systems here at work, that I am a Windoze Luser, and can thus be dismissed with a few careless swearwords. I'm not interested in getting into a pi$$ing contest with anyone, I'll just say that I know that nothing sucks like M$, yet I can deal with them and their products professionally. And you wonder why we're not all using Linux yet, with such lame attitudes?
None of the above comments go any way towards answering my question. l33t nerds - who needs 'em?
Islay will be producing oxygen as a byproduct of the hydrogen generation;
Islay is also famous for its whisky.
So, will we be seeing oygenated whiskey as Islay's Next Big Thing? It could conceivably slow or prevent the loss of brain cells. It's a pity they're not going to produce Helium (squeak)...
Yep, Mr. Fripp, a.k.a. Raging Heartless Venal Leader, is one of the guys behind DGM. They're having a reorganization at the moment, and their website has been scaled way back, but the essentials of the business strategy look as if they'll remain in place. There may be a new King Crimson album by Christmas, too - they're in pre-production in Nashville at the moment. Krim and Rush in one year? Copacetic... Cheers,
I can't argue with most of what you say - however, you won't get music from all labels on there, perhaps only the majors. Since the most interesting new music coming out, for me, is not released on major labels, I don't see myself being affected too much by such a setup.
What I am seeing more of these days is music staying in the hands of the artists, and not being signed away to a label to dispose of as they wish. DGM is an example of a "label" who act as distributors, helping to release music by its artists and getting it into the stores, yet ensuring that the rights stay with the artists. (No, they're not taking on new artists at the moment - I checked!)
That, in my opinion, is the way forward, but it means we're not likely to see a "one-stop shop" for music downloads. I can live with that, in the same way I can live without buying a Dell PC - I like freedom of choice, even if it means I have to do my homework...
Does that mean you know what the "Angelus" is? Is there a quick answer you can give us?
Thinking about it, you're probably right about the commercials being on TV3, and I'm positive they're on TG4 as well. On a related topic, how come the RTÉ get to charge license fees and show commercials? In the USA and the UK, they do either/or, the BBC carries no commercials except its own promos and party political broadcasts...
Thanks,
This was one of Carl Sagan's last books, which IMHO does a very good job of educating the reader in the ways of "bullshit detection" (not his choice of words!). In response to some previous comments, he also uses some good examples to explain the difference between
a) allowing that something is possible, and
b) believing people who tell you it's actually happening, and who will enlighten you (for a few dollars more).
(I'm not going to post a link to one bookstore and thus give it more hits - your own favorite bookstore should have it.) Alternatively, if your attention span doesn't allow for the absorption of an entire book, at least go and rent "Contact". After all, if there weren't other civilizations out there, it would be an awful waste of space...
For the past 2 years I've lived in Ireland, where the state TV broadcaster (RTÉ)can be seen doing the following:
Every weekday, at 6PM, they have "The Angelus". I have never seen an official explanation of what this is, but it appears to be a Catholicism-inspired "minute of silence", featuring images of crosses and the "virgin mary", interspersed with shots of people oberdiantly stopping whatever they're doing, even crossing the street.
This is followed by the News, after which they show commercials for "psychic" hotlines.
Sometimes, not just on Sundays, they will have programs about some old catholic fart carrying some saint's jawbone around Ireland, or swanning off to Lourdes on a pilgrimage. Last night I saw about 10 seconds of some missionary dragging women out of Bangkok brothels and preaching at them, after which (I presume) they carried on as before - this guy is a hero worthy of endorsement by a state broadcaster!
You want my opinion? Three words: Education, Education, Education! The Irish Constitution, like the US Constitution, mandates freedom of religion, and I take that to mean that people are free to do without religion. So, why are schoolchildren taught to believe in unprovable assertions? From theistic religion to aliens and ESP is but a short step, if you do not have a grounding in scientific principles.
At least not directly. For some unknown reason, JonKatz has the rights to post his articles directly, without any moderation from CmdrTaco et al. In other words, JonKatz is abusing the privileges he's been given, and it's up to the SlashDot Moderators to review those privileges, in my opinion...
(yes, I have a real name, see my website if you think you need it.)
Um... won't the ComCom (the Swiss equivalent of the FCC I think) have something to say about this? I don't think PU Foam makes a good Faraday cage, and so this thing could be spraying electromagnetic interference all over the shop. Might even interfere with the neighbours watching Friends dubbed into Schweizerdeutsch!
Is it only me, or does this also remind you of one of the Roger Dean designs for Yes tours in the 70's? No, I'm not that old, I've just seen the pictures and loved the music...
Believe it or not, Mr. Fripp hasn't historically used the Sustainer much, it's more a combination of heavy fuzz and a bloody loud monitor pointed straight at the strings. He got into japanese knockoffs (starting with Tokai) because he figured that he'd be better off customizing one of them (with synth pickups etc.) rather than hacking up his Gibson Les Paul Customs (v. expensive).
I think Reeves Gabrels has stopped using the Vibrator since he got the Sustainer, but if he gets back into Modern Farming, anything might happen. Weird story about Reeves: he became a friend of David Bowie's since his wife worked for Bowie as a P.A., and only later said "oh, by the way, I play guitar..."
Why are people making sweeping judgements such as "all japanese guitars are knockoffs"? Would you say the same about their cars? Ibanez has already been mentioned, and Yamaha made original instruments such as the SG-series in the 70's, and my current objet-de-lust, the John Myung Signature bass. Yum...
Did you even read the paragraph on active/active? And Datacenter requires specific locked-down hardware configurations and costs way beyond this user's budget, so why mention it? Spend any time with Cluster Services and you'll have no problems with the concept of Cluster Groups. You're an anonymous coward who resorts to name-calling. Goodbye.
It's only available with Advanced Server, which means extra cost.
Nearly all applications & services (daemons) will be running on one node at a time. If they are set up correctly under Cluster Administrator, they still run on one node at a time, except that they can fail over.
A Cluster Group is the unit that runs on one node at at time and fails over, so it will contain applications and the resources those applications needs.
During a failover, resources in a cluster group are taken offline by order of dependency (unless the node crashed!), and brought back online also by dependency. So, if an application depends on a disk, the application goes offline before the disk, but the disk comes online before the application (logical).
Multiple groups run on multiple servers at any time, so if you spread them out, machines aren't sitting idle.
You can set up any application or service to cluster & fail over if required, as long as:
It stores all its live working data on shared storage,
You correctly place it in a logical cluster group that includes the resources your app needs, and specify those dependencies (e.g. my app needs to use the disk and IP address in Cluster Group X, so it must be in Cluster Group X), and
You can specify what Registry keys (if any) need to migrate between nodes.
Active/Active mode is more complicated, meaning instances of an application running on different nodes, all accessing the same data on disk. Only certain applications can do this successfully, e.g. Oracle, which does so by using a custom file system and effectively bypassing the Windows Cluster Service. Windows & most apps will normally throw a fit if there are clashing file requests from multiple nodes, since Windows caches file tables in memory and can thus lose track of the real situation on disk (bad news). I've seen it BSOD in such cases.
Hah! OK, I'm not Irish (I'm Scottish), but I live and work in Dublin for a US hi-tech company that's about to assimilated by another (you have 3 guesses). This is how I saw it on the Irish Times site. It appeared to point at the Press Association, and I found the headline there, but the link led back to the Irish Times.
So, I'm not surprised about the Irish hi-tech sector, since I'm in it, I'm just surprised it got noticed here first (as far as I can tell). Immersion are based in San Jose, Silicon Valley, after all...
Whoa - I can only offer an apology for getting that one wrong! I admit to being a little cynical about something that sounds too good to be true, but when you get it out the door, I think you'll find a market waiting..!
One suggestion: in your marketing, please don't forget to include Europe, especially the UK, which is a huge market for AV gear these days. For music, everyone reads "Sound On Sound" and "Future Music", so make sure they know what's coming out.
A coupla comments on your comments to my comments:
You don't need to be a audiophile to hear what's wrong with MP3 at 128 kb/s - I really don't like what it does to metallic sounds e.g. cymbals in particular. In this case, it's not so much about audiophilia as it is about professional quality hardware, I think, considering the headline on the/. article. Balanced mike connections are not a luxury when it comes to the kind of condenser microphone used to record vocal or orchestral performances in any detail (e.g. a soloist or a church choir). With even the Marantz PMD690 I linked to (RRP $1,499), uncompressed PCM format is available if you need it, as well as MPEG I Layer II (MP2) for longer recording times.
However, you can get a DAT machine for much less than that, or even record direct to a pro standalone CD-R for well under $1,000, I think (examples).
Me, I'll just wait until I really need something like this before I spend kilobux..!
Another reason why this is definitely not a professional device: the microphone connection is a stereo 3.5mm jack. I would expect to see at least a 1/4" balanced jack per channl, ideally XLRs with phantom power.
The Milennium Dome is up for sale, so why don't the Mendocinites (?) buy it, spray it with conductive paint, and thus turn it into the world's largest Faraday Cage? Ideally, this would work both ways, so we'd never have to hear from them again...
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... depending on whether you're a net donor or a net recipient of all that society has to offer. By extension, I also mean that people place varying burdens on society and thus have varying needs for society. I think the average/. reader gives more than he/she gets, and, as a consequence, doesn't actively seek wide social contact. The more needy among us (financial / physical / emotional) are the backbone of society, I guess.
Being a Brit, I remember too well how Mrs. Thatcher famously said "there is no such thing as society" in the early 80's - a statement which would be true if people had no need of others for anything, if everyone had money and that was enough. I think we can agree it's not like that overall, but we affluent (effluent?) techie types are probably closer to that "ideal" than nurses or bus drivers. So that's my point here - the inverse relationship between affluence and society. Still, IANAS (I Am Not A Sociologist)..!
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The subject says it all. Is MS really talking about having custom hardware embedded on motherboards, much as the Clipper chip was supposed to do for TVs? I hope/expect that Palladiums enjoys just as much success as Clipper: none whatsoever.
You could view the separation of hardware and software like the separation of church and state - it's not healthy for the two to become too intermingled. Yes, I know about Apple - were we all using Macs, there would probably be no Linux today. I can understand how MS tried to set standards for PC hardware, but to date they've been "minimum" standards that don't impose limits on hardware and manufacturers. They've also been quite co-operative about it. For example, the PC97 spec was helpful to Linux programmers as well, by the way it set minimum hardware standards and clarified some things, IMHO (natch).
Still, haven't we all been here before?
- "I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFO's, about the fact that they cross galaxies or wherever they come from to visit us and always end up in places like Fife, Alabama. " (maybe that should read "Fife, Scotland"?)
- "With a five-minute UFO experience I got a taste of holiness I never got in 20 years of religion."
- "Would you let the aliens land, please? They might be here to pick me up."
Is there anything that The Great One didn't have an opinion on?The most relevant part of the articles to this thread is the descriptions of the problems Lehrman had with the Disklaviers, most significantly the time delays between MIDI input and sound production, and how Yamaha's compensation mechanisms got in the way, a bit. Probably not a problem here, since the competition is based on MIDI files, but still quite interesting. The antheil.org site has links to all sorts of related topics, including player piano music.
- It's not just that many bloggers are outside the USA; what if a Yank's web hosting is located outside the USA? If you send libellious material across the Net, does that constitute border-crossing, involving the FBI?
- I'm in the opposite situation - I'm in Ireland, but my blog is hosted in the USA (Utah), so does that mean that I could be liable for prosecution under American law?
"The whole wide world, an endless universe,yet we keep looking through the eyeglass in reverse..."
- Rush: Territories (1984)
Now, of course, you can but SCMS strippers, or build your own. The people suggesting this as a serious security mechanism are "asleep at the switch", methinks...
It wouldn't surprise me if Compaq, did that stuff. According to the product roadmaps, Insight Manager is heading for the grave anyway, to be replaced by HP OpenView family products.
The JRE did come straight from Sun - the CIM console sends you straight there...
Thanks for a civil response..!
None of the above comments go any way towards answering my question. l33t nerds - who needs 'em?
So, will we be seeing oygenated whiskey as Islay's Next Big Thing? It could conceivably slow or prevent the loss of brain cells. It's a pity they're not going to produce Helium (squeak)...
Yep, Mr. Fripp, a.k.a. Raging Heartless Venal Leader, is one of the guys behind DGM. They're having a reorganization at the moment, and their website has been scaled way back, but the essentials of the business strategy look as if they'll remain in place. There may be a new King Crimson album by Christmas, too - they're in pre-production in Nashville at the moment. Krim and Rush in one year? Copacetic...
Cheers,
What I am seeing more of these days is music staying in the hands of the artists, and not being signed away to a label to dispose of as they wish. DGM is an example of a "label" who act as distributors, helping to release music by its artists and getting it into the stores, yet ensuring that the rights stay with the artists. (No, they're not taking on new artists at the moment - I checked!)
That, in my opinion, is the way forward, but it means we're not likely to see a "one-stop shop" for music downloads. I can live with that, in the same way I can live without buying a Dell PC - I like freedom of choice, even if it means I have to do my homework...
Does that mean you know what the "Angelus" is? Is there a quick answer you can give us?
Thinking about it, you're probably right about the commercials being on TV3, and I'm positive they're on TG4 as well. On a related topic, how come the RTÉ get to charge license fees and show commercials? In the USA and the UK, they do either/or, the BBC carries no commercials except its own promos and party political broadcasts... Thanks,
(I'm not going to post a link to one bookstore and thus give it more hits - your own favorite bookstore should have it.) Alternatively, if your attention span doesn't allow for the absorption of an entire book, at least go and rent "Contact". After all, if there weren't other civilizations out there, it would be an awful waste of space...
You want my opinion? Three words: Education, Education, Education! The Irish Constitution, like the US Constitution, mandates freedom of religion, and I take that to mean that people are free to do without religion. So, why are schoolchildren taught to believe in unprovable assertions? From theistic religion to aliens and ESP is but a short step, if you do not have a grounding in scientific principles.
At least not directly. For some unknown reason, JonKatz has the rights to post his articles directly, without any moderation from CmdrTaco et al. In other words, JonKatz is abusing the privileges he's been given, and it's up to the SlashDot Moderators to review those privileges, in my opinion... (yes, I have a real name, see my website if you think you need it.)
Is it only me, or does this also remind you of one of the Roger Dean designs for Yes tours in the 70's? No, I'm not that old, I've just seen the pictures and loved the music...
I think Reeves Gabrels has stopped using the Vibrator since he got the Sustainer, but if he gets back into Modern Farming, anything might happen. Weird story about Reeves: he became a friend of David Bowie's since his wife worked for Bowie as a P.A., and only later said "oh, by the way, I play guitar..."
Why are people making sweeping judgements such as "all japanese guitars are knockoffs"? Would you say the same about their cars? Ibanez has already been mentioned, and Yamaha made original instruments such as the SG-series in the 70's, and my current objet-de-lust, the John Myung Signature bass. Yum...
Did you even read the paragraph on active/active? And Datacenter requires specific locked-down hardware configurations and costs way beyond this user's budget, so why mention it? Spend any time with Cluster Services and you'll have no problems with the concept of Cluster Groups. You're an anonymous coward who resorts to name-calling. Goodbye.
A few points:
You can set up any application or service to cluster & fail over if required, as long as:
Active/Active mode is more complicated, meaning instances of an application running on different nodes, all accessing the same data on disk. Only certain applications can do this successfully, e.g. Oracle, which does so by using a custom file system and effectively bypassing the Windows Cluster Service. Windows & most apps will normally throw a fit if there are clashing file requests from multiple nodes, since Windows caches file tables in memory and can thus lose track of the real situation on disk (bad news). I've seen it BSOD in such cases.
Please see my above reply - I did follow the PA connection to PA site ananova.com, and it led back to the Irish Times! It can happen..!
So, I'm not surprised about the Irish hi-tech sector, since I'm in it, I'm just surprised it got noticed here first (as far as I can tell). Immersion are based in San Jose, Silicon Valley, after all...
Whoa - I can only offer an apology for getting that one wrong! I admit to being a little cynical about something that sounds too good to be true, but when you get it out the door, I think you'll find a market waiting..!
One suggestion: in your marketing, please don't forget to include Europe, especially the UK, which is a huge market for AV gear these days. For music, everyone reads "Sound On Sound" and "Future Music", so make sure they know what's coming out.
Good luck...
A coupla comments on your comments to my comments:
You don't need to be a audiophile to hear what's wrong with MP3 at 128 kb/s - I really don't like what it does to metallic sounds e.g. cymbals in particular. In this case, it's not so much about audiophilia as it is about professional quality hardware, I think, considering the headline on the /. article. Balanced mike connections are not a luxury when it comes to the kind of condenser microphone used to record vocal or orchestral performances in any detail (e.g. a soloist or a church choir). With even the Marantz PMD690 I linked to (RRP $1,499), uncompressed PCM format is available if you need it, as well as MPEG I Layer II (MP2) for longer recording times.
However, you can get a DAT machine for much less than that, or even record direct to a pro standalone CD-R for well under $1,000, I think (examples).
Me, I'll just wait until I really need something like this before I spend kilobux..!
Another reason why this is definitely not a professional device: the microphone connection is a stereo 3.5mm jack. I would expect to see at least a 1/4" balanced jack per channl, ideally XLRs with phantom power.
There are better alternatives out there:
And, in the Vaporware corner, the Shine MP3 Recorder for Handspring Visor!
The Milennium Dome is up for sale, so why don't the Mendocinites (?) buy it, spray it with conductive paint, and thus turn it into the world's largest Faraday Cage? Ideally, this would work both ways, so we'd never have to hear from them again...
... depending on whether you're a net donor or a net recipient of all that society has to offer. By extension, I also mean that people place varying burdens on society and thus have varying needs for society. I think the average /. reader gives more than he/she gets, and, as a consequence, doesn't actively seek wide social contact. The more needy among us (financial / physical / emotional) are the backbone of society, I guess.
Being a Brit, I remember too well how Mrs. Thatcher famously said "there is no such thing as society" in the early 80's - a statement which would be true if people had no need of others for anything, if everyone had money and that was enough. I think we can agree it's not like that overall, but we affluent (effluent?) techie types are probably closer to that "ideal" than nurses or bus drivers. So that's my point here - the inverse relationship between affluence and society. Still, IANAS (I Am Not A Sociologist)..!