Okay, how many of you still listen to old analog recordings out there? Will how about this: Get a nice high end ADC (like 256khz 24 bits (i think MAXIM makes some along those lines)), and patch into the line out (or speaker) jack of the player, and oversample the hell out of it, then you should have a recording with a decently low (but still existant) level of loss, then with your handy dandy copy of cooledit pro produce i nice.WAV, burn it on a CD or.MP3 it and give it to all your friends. I'm not saying you should all go out and pirate everything in the galaxy, i'm only pointing out that even when you add all this jazzy encryption (now the extra processor power to do that all i assume will use batteries and cost money) and all else, in the end it has to become an analog signal at some point, and when it does, we can just use our old methods. Have they not though about this, or is their target market the masses of morons and kiddies who are not determined enough to wield a soldering iron in defense of their technological freedom? Oh well, just my thoughs on the issue...
Sorry to be a nag, but graphics do not make a difference... The UCSD P-SYSTEM was as much of a "virtual machine" as Java. It had virtual hardware devices which were implemented as abstractions of some physical device on some physical computer. It had an instruction set for a mythical processor with registers, a machine state, and the whole 9 yards... The interface of the time was text, so that was the way it worked. The interface of today is the GUI, so that's how Java works... The basic technology is the _same_ . The core of the system is a program running nativly on some arbitrary processor that emulates a some nonexistant but standard machine (for java it's the "java vrtual machine" for the p-system it was the p-machine). Having read all the low level documentation on the implementation and programming of the p-machine, i can fairly confidently say that Java is a recycling of the same idea, with some new "technologies" adding a questionable amout of value. (as far as i can tell, OOP and the GUI have only slowed stuff down, and created unnecesary bloat)
Phew... Sorry to be a nitpick... Maybe the current sprintlink network outage is just making me grumpy =:-)
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Yeah, it does seem that they are shooting themselves in the foot by making this not-quite-compliant clone... I think they are trying to get back into the browser war by making _more_ proprietary stuff that can only be read with exploder... BTW: Doesn't this whole Java whoopteedoo resemble the UCSD P-System of times before (my first pascal compiler ran on that...) WHere you had a bunch of machines emulating one "virtual" machine (the pseudo system as it was called), so you had theoretical portability.... I also remember that the same things that are making java a mess today (slowness, adding of propriaraty features) were the ultimate downfall of P-System... History repeats itself!
I find the idea of requiring certification a really sad idea. I am happy to be in programming, because i enjoy doing so, and i have been doing it as a hobby since i was 9 years old (i started on a franklin ace 1000). I came from a poor working class family, and i couldn't afford to go to college, and without that education, there are many fields that are instantly closed off to me... I would have like to have gone, but i just couldn't. I have been working as a programmer for a local company for the last 3 years. I've done embedded microcontrolled code, i've done windows UI code, i've done database coding. I have always recieved the needed training at work, (usually in the form of a textbook and some time to try stuff out). I cringe at the idea of regulating this field, because it is one of the few remaining fields where a genuine interrest in the work (and possibly an apprenticeship) can get a job that you can support yourself and a family on. It's one of the few fields that you aren't locked out of instantly if your parents can't afford to send you to college. It's one of the few fields left where even though many people look for those with degrees, if you have enough work experience you can still have a chance. Loosing this freedom in a blind rush to regulate would be a very sad thing.
I have owned a pair of iGlasses for a while now, (i bought them orignally for a wearable i was building, but found their transparent mode still had me bumping into walls...), so they have mainly been used for movie watching... I've found that their plain of focus is a little to close for me, and after a couple hours i get some eyestrain (although this may have been corrected in the newer version, i don't know), For instance, watching a normal movie on them is okay, but say, The Godfather, is too much. Also: A question for any more Quake2 savvy readers; Do any of you know how to get Quake2 to display alternating frame stereo? Then i could play it on my glasses, and i'd _never_ leave the house =:-)
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Okay, how many of you still listen to old analog recordings out there? Will how about this: Get a nice high end ADC (like 256khz 24 bits (i think MAXIM makes some along those lines)), and patch into the line out (or speaker) jack of the player, and oversample the hell out of it, then you should have a recording with a decently low (but still existant) level of loss, then with your handy dandy copy of cooledit pro produce i nice .WAV, burn it on a CD or .MP3 it and give it to all your friends.
I'm not saying you should all go out and pirate everything in the galaxy, i'm only pointing out that even when you add all this jazzy encryption (now the extra processor power to do that all i assume will use batteries and cost money) and all else, in the end it has to become an analog signal at some point, and when it does, we can just use our old methods. Have they not though about this, or is their target market the masses of morons and kiddies who are not determined enough to wield a soldering iron in defense of their technological freedom?
Oh well, just my thoughs on the issue...
I found the linked article not very satisfying, does anybody know of a more technical article (i'm more interrested in how they did it)?
Sorry to be a nag, but graphics do not make a difference... The UCSD P-SYSTEM was as much of a "virtual machine" as Java. It had virtual hardware devices which were implemented as abstractions of some physical device on some physical computer. It had an instruction set for a mythical processor with registers, a machine state, and the whole 9 yards... The interface of the time was text, so that was the way it worked. The interface of today is the GUI, so that's how Java works... The basic technology is the _same_ . The core of the system is a program running nativly on some arbitrary processor that emulates a some nonexistant but standard machine (for java it's the "java vrtual machine" for the p-system it was the p-machine). Having read all the low level documentation on the implementation and programming of the p-machine, i can fairly confidently say that Java is a recycling of the same idea, with some new "technologies" adding a questionable amout of value. (as far as i can tell, OOP and the GUI have only slowed stuff down, and created unnecesary bloat)
Phew... Sorry to be a nitpick... Maybe the current sprintlink network outage is just making me grumpy =:-)
Yeah, it does seem that they are shooting themselves in the foot by making this not-quite-compliant clone... I think they are trying to get back into the browser war by making _more_ proprietary stuff that can only be read with exploder...
BTW: Doesn't this whole Java whoopteedoo resemble the UCSD P-System of times before (my first pascal compiler ran on that...) WHere you had a bunch of machines emulating one "virtual" machine (the pseudo system as it was called), so you had theoretical portability....
I also remember that the same things that are making java a mess today (slowness, adding of propriaraty features) were the ultimate downfall of P-System... History repeats itself!
Does anybody know of any super 7 smp boards? Is there even a chipset that can do that?
I find the idea of requiring certification a really sad idea. I am happy to be in programming, because i enjoy doing so, and i have been doing it as a hobby since i was 9 years old (i started on a franklin ace 1000).
I came from a poor working class family, and i couldn't afford to go to college, and without that education, there are many fields that are instantly closed off to me... I would have like to have gone, but i just couldn't. I have been working as a programmer for a local company for the last 3 years. I've done embedded microcontrolled code, i've done windows UI code, i've done database coding. I have always recieved the needed training at work, (usually in the form of a textbook and some time to try stuff out).
I cringe at the idea of regulating this field, because it is one of the few remaining fields where a genuine interrest in the work (and possibly an apprenticeship) can get a job that you can support yourself and a family on. It's one of the few fields that you aren't locked out of instantly if your parents can't afford to send you to college. It's one of the few fields left where even though many people look for those with degrees, if you have enough work experience you can still have a chance.
Loosing this freedom in a blind rush to regulate would be a very sad thing.
I have owned a pair of iGlasses for a while now,
(i bought them orignally for a wearable i was building, but found their transparent mode still had me bumping into walls...), so they have mainly been used for movie watching... I've found that their plain of focus is a little to close for me, and after a couple hours i get some eyestrain (although this may have been corrected in the newer version, i don't know), For instance, watching a normal movie on them is okay, but say, The Godfather, is too much.
Also: A question for any more Quake2 savvy readers; Do any of you know how to get Quake2 to display alternating frame stereo? Then i could play it on my glasses, and i'd _never_ leave the house =:-)