I thought the Nigerians were very good at writing email. I am constantly getting email from them asking me to send my bank details so they can deposit large sums of money. They are always very polite.
It's quite similar with RAM too. I bought a 0.5MB RAM upgrade for my Amiga 500 in 1989 for $100 - it was going really cheap. I thought that was such a good bargain.
FreeBSD has only got 7.1 ported. We have to do something:) Actually the only time I have ever used linux compat was to install a few Loki games, which I don't even have time for now anyway:)
I am just waiting patiently for FreeBSD 5.x to become the stable version.
I am also waiting for MIDI to start working properly too. As soon as MIDI works there will be no need for me to use any other OS.
Yes, I know the documentation states how to add MIDI to the kernel, but the code behind it just doesn't seem to be written yet, cos it does nothing.....oh well, also waiting patiently for that.
In Australia it is very common to hoover the floor - I didn't even know it was a brand name until one day my mum asked me to go into the vacuum cleaner store and buy some bags for it. I asked for the Electrolux Hoover bags, only to have the guy ask me whether I want Electrolux ones or Hoover ones - Aren't they all for the Hoover?......:)
Everyone already knows everything, it's just a matter of remembering, and then deciphering whether what we remembered is fact or fiction. The deciphering part is where the science and maths come into play.
Being a computer music composer/researcher, I am just annoyed I didn't think of something like this first!
This really is an excellent idea. One problem you have with electronic installations and concerts are things like sound spatialization. Some ways musicians combat this is to set up 12 channel sound systems with the speakers distributed around the entire hall so you can hear hear music moving around in a real 3D space, or they use projected speakers to pin-point sound into certain areas. But hey why use your own speakers when most the population carries a speaker in their pocket!
The performer would have known the phone number for every mobile in the hall, plus he would know the location of each phone. Just imagine a wave of dial tones moving across from one side of the hall to the other, sweeping up and down, pinpointing to one point in the hall, and then spreading out in a random spread across the hall. This really is cool. I wish I was there. You would probably have to experience something like this live to really appreciate it.
And for anyone who thinks this is weird, you need to get out more often. I have been to concerts where the audience were given bubble wrap, and the piece consisted of the audience popping it - oooh fun!
Cool, FreeBSD 4.7 will hopefully be released on the 1st of October this year:)
The main improvement I want to see on this version is the ability to do a net install on my laptop using a Xircom CEM33 pcmcia ethernet card. Pity the Xircom project has pretty much closed, it was my last best hope, one of these days I should just go buy a better ethernet card, or maybe a CD-ROM.....lol
it is so much easier to work in metric and keep it metric!!
The distance is 4000 KM. The speed limit in Australia is 100KM/H in most parts.
That means it would take 40 hours non stop travelling at the speed limit. You are also required to slow down to 50KM/H when travelling through populated areas. I don't know how many populated areas you would travel through, but there would be a few. especially at the start and finish areas. Of course you will need to stop for eating and toilet breaks, and perhaps even sleeping:)
I hope there is airconditioning in the car - it can get mighty warm:)
It will give me another chance to procrastinate writing my currently due essays just that bit longer. Then I will be able to write them natively on FreeBSD. Unless I can find some other way to procrastinate....hmmm Is there a newer verion of XFree86 out that I could comile onto my BSD box? lol
The thing is that all REALLY HARDCORE computer nerds are inside their boxes, putting together new hardware components, programming drivers for them, doing hardcore kernel hacking etc. They don't have time to waste on slashdot!
Yes, it is really tiring that EVERY BSD article is flamed by the exact same stupid responses. Yes Linux does have a larger support group, and it was more user friendly at an earlier stage, but that doesn't mean it is worth less as an OS. No matter what anyone thinks of any operating system, I am going to use whatever I think works best and most efficiently for ME on my machine. Currently that is FreeBSD. If a major OS release comes out on the x86 platform, I usually give it a go. Ignorance will never help, it might only stop me from finding something I find valuable.
If you really want to talk about electronic music made with itty-bitty quiet sounds, then you should check out this web site designed by a friend of mine:
He creates music made out of itty bitty bits of music - 20ms samples (grains of sound), and just creates textures and sonic landscapes using these bits. It's all based on an old synthesis method called granular synthesis.
It is mostly computer generated, although some composers have been known to use this method on analogue audio tapes with a razor blade and sticky tape!
All we need is one general with a weird obsession about pure water and the unmanned bombers will go out causing mass destruction and risking world war three unless we can guess his recall code.
Then again, if it is unmanned who will be there to manually unstick and release the bomb and ride it down? Maybe this is a good idea for real-life afterall, just not very exciting for a movie end sequence.
Gattaca was a very good movie, with excellent music by Michael Nyman. It was originally just interesting scenery around which they formed a movie - what could not be #2 about that?
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Have they really shipped a billion, or just an american billion?
American billion = one thousand million 1,000,000,000
Rest of the world billion = one million million
1,000,000,000,000
(ie you don't go to a billion until you have completely exhausted the entire million - just like all other lower figures used in counting)
I thought the Nigerians were very good at writing email. I am constantly getting email from them asking me to send my bank details so they can deposit large sums of money. They are always very polite.
I was thinking a red demon would be better on a red planet :)
:p
Go FreeBSD!
I just recently formatted an NTFS partition to Fat32 because I was sick of not being able to write to it.
It's quite similar with RAM too. I bought a 0.5MB RAM upgrade for my Amiga 500 in 1989 for $100 - it was going really cheap. I thought that was such a good bargain.
*BSD is dying to announce that it has once again improved that which was already considered perfect.
Way to go!
So you can't buy the micro-copter, don't worry - my dad has plenty of similar chicks for sale every year, and cheap!
have you tried a doormat?
Another one's gone, and another one's gone.
Another one bites the dust!
If you are going to advertise your stuff, at least try to conceal it as a signature so it isn't so blatant.....especially when it is off topic.
8.0 - they are getting ahead!
:) Actually the only time I have ever used linux compat was to install a few Loki games, which I don't even have time for now anyway :)
FreeBSD has only got 7.1 ported. We have to do something
It is always good to see applications progress on FreeBSD, but despite this I am quite happy to keep running Blackbox indefinately :)
I am just waiting patiently for FreeBSD 5.x to become the stable version.
I am also waiting for MIDI to start working properly too. As soon as MIDI works there will be no need for me to use any other OS.
Yes, I know the documentation states how to add MIDI to the kernel, but the code behind it just doesn't seem to be written yet, cos it does nothing.....oh well, also waiting patiently for that.
In Australia it is very common to hoover the floor - I didn't even know it was a brand name until one day my mum asked me to go into the vacuum cleaner store and buy some bags for it. I asked for the Electrolux Hoover bags, only to have the guy ask me whether I want Electrolux ones or Hoover ones - Aren't they all for the Hoover?...... :)
Everyone already knows everything, it's just a matter of remembering, and then deciphering whether what we remembered is fact or fiction. The deciphering part is where the science and maths come into play.
Being a computer music composer/researcher, I am just annoyed I didn't think of something like this first!
This really is an excellent idea. One problem you have with electronic installations and concerts are things like sound spatialization. Some ways musicians combat this is to set up 12 channel sound systems with the speakers distributed around the entire hall so you can hear hear music moving around in a real 3D space, or they use projected speakers to pin-point sound into certain areas. But hey why use your own speakers when most the population carries a speaker in their pocket!
The performer would have known the phone number for every mobile in the hall, plus he would know the location of each phone. Just imagine a wave of dial tones moving across from one side of the hall to the other, sweeping up and down, pinpointing to one point in the hall, and then spreading out in a random spread across the hall. This really is cool. I wish I was there. You would probably have to experience something like this live to really appreciate it.
And for anyone who thinks this is weird, you need to get out more often. I have been to concerts where the audience were given bubble wrap, and the piece consisted of the audience popping it - oooh fun!
Yes this is most likely the final release before 5.0 comes out.
:)
The 5.0 current code is planned to be frozen on the 20th of October 2002, with an expected release on the 20th of November 2002.
That will give us plenty of time to go and buy FreeBSD 5.0 and give it to our relatives for christmas
Cool, FreeBSD 4.7 will hopefully be released on the 1st of October this year :)
The main improvement I want to see on this version is the ability to do a net install on my laptop using a Xircom CEM33 pcmcia ethernet card.
Pity the Xircom project has pretty much closed, it was my last best hope, one of these days I should just go buy a better ethernet card, or maybe a CD-ROM.....lol
it is so much easier to work in metric and keep it metric!!
:)
:)
The distance is 4000 KM. The speed limit in Australia is 100KM/H in most parts.
That means it would take 40 hours non stop travelling at the speed limit. You are also required to slow down to 50KM/H when travelling through populated areas. I don't know how many populated areas you would travel through, but there would be a few. especially at the start and finish areas.
Of course you will need to stop for eating and toilet breaks, and perhaps even sleeping
I hope there is airconditioning in the car - it can get mighty warm
"something fishy is going on"
:p
:)
Something fishy you say? That would mean a penguin had something to do with it! Unless of course demons eat fish too
Well now I just have to wait for FreeBSD.org to give the official word then adownloadin' I will go
OpenOffice 1.0!!
I look forward to compiling this on my machine.
It will give me another chance to procrastinate writing my currently due essays just that bit longer. Then I will be able to write them natively on FreeBSD. Unless I can find some other way to procrastinate....hmmm Is there a newer verion of XFree86 out that I could comile onto my BSD box? lol
Yes, it is really tiring that EVERY BSD article is flamed by the exact same stupid responses. Yes Linux does have a larger support group, and it was more user friendly at an earlier stage, but that doesn't mean it is worth less as an OS. No matter what anyone thinks of any operating system, I am going to use whatever I think works best and most efficiently for ME on my machine. Currently that is FreeBSD. If a major OS release comes out on the x86 platform, I usually give it a go. Ignorance will never help, it might only stop me from finding something I find valuable.
http://zor.org/synthesis
or
http://www.granularsynthesis.live.com.au
He creates music made out of itty bitty bits of music - 20ms samples (grains of sound), and just creates textures and sonic landscapes using these bits. It's all based on an old synthesis method called granular synthesis.
It is mostly computer generated, although some composers have been known to use this method on analogue audio tapes with a razor blade and sticky tape!
All we need is one general with a weird obsession about pure water and the unmanned bombers will go out causing mass destruction and risking world war three unless we can guess his recall code.
Then again, if it is unmanned who will be there to manually unstick and release the bomb and ride it down? Maybe this is a good idea for real-life afterall, just not very exciting for a movie end sequence.
Gattaca was a very good movie, with excellent music by Michael Nyman. It was originally just interesting scenery around which they formed a movie - what could not be #2 about that?