You can get the full ProTools files, with umpteen mics, if you want to. The project made them available as a torrent (quite a long time ago actually - the mixing took time, and apparently wasn't as good as it could have been). It's still superpermissively licensed, so you can fix it up yourself if you want to.
I assure you all non-live classical recordings have similar fix ups.
Aaron Dunn asked the contributors many times during the project how he should go at it - big name orchestra, or solid low-cost eastern european one? He even arranged blind listening tests. It took longer time than expected, in part due to things like orchestras and conductors bowing out at the last moment, but all in all I'm very happy with the project. If you aren't, hey, maybe you should have contributed to it;)
> Drag-and-drop file manipulation, including dropping files onto a trash icon
Yeah, and the user interface brilliance that you had to drag the disk icon to the trashcan to release the disk. There are a whole lot of blind alleys and outright bloopers in Apple's history of "user friendliness" (not least that until OSX, it would crash if you spoke loudly at it).
Some think that overlapping windows was a step backwards from tiling window managers, and it would be better if Microsoft had never followed suit. But, especially today, it seems absurd that anyone should be able to own one of the fundamental window arrangement modes.
No, they're not. This is precisely the issue for people like Lord Lode below: other companies don't follow Apple's lead in delivering high resolution screens.
Why? Because it doesn't make sense for them. Extreme resolutions is a lot more about prestige than utility, and you can't compete with Apple's high prestige image. More importantly, there are tradeoffs - the various iToys could have had much better battery time and better performance had Apple prioritized other things. The load another million pixels puts on your processor/GPU is really not worth the barely perceivable increase in image quality you see - not for reasonable people, and Apple's competitors persist in being reasonable.
Fortunately for Apple, and unfortunately for the competitors, the prestige element is important to people. It's not quite gotten as dumb as people buying gold digital cables for their stereo equipment, but it's rapidly approaching it. It's the same mechanisms at work.
Installing Ubuntu has been a piece of cake on every system I've done it on over the years.
When I was asked by some friends to assist with a Windows installation, I was very surprised at how much manual work it was (getting the wireless drivers to work, for instance - that used to be a problem on Linux around 2003).
It's no surprise Ubuntu is easier to install than Windows, because Microsoft would much rather you have the OEM do it for you.
It wasn't. It was about the color of the silly hats they were supposed to wear in the restaurant at Fuschal (Fiji). Don't get into a Red Dwarf fan war with me, I dare you.
Applications are definitively sandboxed on Android and iOS too. It's probably possible to install non-java ME apps on these phones too, it's just that since the environments aren't standardized, no one bothers.
The distinction between feature phones and smartphones is largely a product of successful marketing. If Java ME hadn't been such a train wreck, we would just have viewed it as another smartphone platform, along with Android (which would probably have used it instead of Dalvik then), iOS and Blackberry's OS.
Very funny, but the avionics industry is based on real specs. As in, non-junk specs from people who actually know what they're talking about. In a perfect world, business software would have that too.
But since it doesn't, doing enterprise systems in formally verified Ada would be equally much of a disaster in practice.
You did notice the article was written by the president of AdaCore - developers of GNAT, The GNU Ada complier?
For situations like this, where there's a fixed day the system has to be ready to (due to the opening of a new market) it may actually not be the dumbest thing you could do... but I don't think that is a common constraint for HFT trader programmers. In general, I think Jane Street Capital is more on the right track with their focus on functional programming. It seems you can get a lot of speed, correctness promise and good development time with Haskell/OCaml, if you can find people who are actually good at it (but that's a problem with Ada too).
High frequency trading programmers can't just talk to the government to try to convince them to give a bigger budget for safety. HFT programmers work under time pressure unlike anything in Avionics, because it doesn't just have to be ready by a certain fixed date, millions in profits may be gained for every day you can shave off development time.
It's interesting, from a programming technical point of view, that functional languages like Haskell and OCaml are used in this domain. They don't offer the correctness guarantees of formal methods-style stuff like Misra C and SPARK Ada, but they have another approach to correctness, and probably much better development times.
From a social point of view, of course, I'm pretty worried about HFT.
it is not called lambda CALCULUS because it sounds fancy
Well, strictly speaking no, but the word calculus in college classes refers to continuous mathematics. Calculus the undergraduate topic isn't what you should take to understand lambda calculus, the topic abstract algebra is (and the places you go from there).
Well, there is one classic use for calculus relevant to programming that we even were taught in college: Using accelerometer data to infer/estimate positions.
Signal processing of all sorts is heavy on calculus. Sure, you use numeric libraries, but you need to understand what you are doing. At least if you're writing the libraries. There's always a market for programmers who just use said libraries, but how fun is that?
This is probably a result of an occupational hazard, but I know very well that I pay more attention to text typeset in Computer Modern. Even though it is the default font in LaTeX, to that what Times New Roman is to Word.
Apple devices are so easy to use that anyone who has trouble with them must be utterly stupid - or at least, people think so. Therefore, people who have trouble with them wisely stay quiet and try harder.
You prefer a Microsoft hardware monopoly to what we have today?
Sure, ASUS, Acer, Dell and HP keep doing the same thing, no "innovation" of the sort ad agency designer types like. But they pressure prices downward and specs up. The things you can buy for $200 today is incredible - don't take it for granted. I assure you, if a proprietary hardware platform (like the Mac, or the Amiga for that matter) had become dominant, you would get a lot less.
That book made me feel unpleasantly like a drug addict. But the end isn't all that sad - it's the afterword which is the worst, I think. Good that they included it in the film, but they cut out most of the harsher stuff - probably because it would come off as too anti-drug for cinema audiences.
Yes, in 1984, the ever-reducing rations and pointless war is a product of competence - it's not that way because they've failed to make it better, but because ultimately the inner party wants it that way. That is kind of unbelivable, when you think about it. Not that they should want it, which Orwell makes a sort of case for, but that they should succeed at it, always keeping the balance between the three superpowers, and never letting scarcity drop to levels which would actually interfere with their ability to control.
A used games market allows effective price discrimination, because some people couldn't justify buying a new game unless they knew they could recoup some of the costs after using it.
In this market, price discrimination is a good thing. It allows publishers to still sell copies (and thus get something) to those who can't afford to buy a game at full price. They could have cut Gamestop out of the loop by doing this themselves, but that would demand realistic discounts on older/less popular games, something the publishers appear unwilling to do.
For a large enough company, it's probably worth it. And there's no reason why Android handset makers, or specialised companies, shouldn't offer this service.
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I'd like to see that. Maybe you could play a few bars of the most famous part.
You can get the full ProTools files, with umpteen mics, if you want to. The project made them available as a torrent (quite a long time ago actually - the mixing took time, and apparently wasn't as good as it could have been). It's still superpermissively licensed, so you can fix it up yourself if you want to.
I assure you all non-live classical recordings have similar fix ups.
Aaron Dunn asked the contributors many times during the project how he should go at it - big name orchestra, or solid low-cost eastern european one? He even arranged blind listening tests. It took longer time than expected, in part due to things like orchestras and conductors bowing out at the last moment, but all in all I'm very happy with the project. If you aren't, hey, maybe you should have contributed to it ;)
> Drag-and-drop file manipulation, including dropping files onto a trash icon
Yeah, and the user interface brilliance that you had to drag the disk icon to the trashcan to release the disk. There are a whole lot of blind alleys and outright bloopers in Apple's history of "user friendliness" (not least that until OSX, it would crash if you spoke loudly at it).
Some think that overlapping windows was a step backwards from tiling window managers, and it would be better if Microsoft had never followed suit. But, especially today, it seems absurd that anyone should be able to own one of the fundamental window arrangement modes.
No, they're not. This is precisely the issue for people like Lord Lode below: other companies don't follow Apple's lead in delivering high resolution screens.
Why? Because it doesn't make sense for them. Extreme resolutions is a lot more about prestige than utility, and you can't compete with Apple's high prestige image. More importantly, there are tradeoffs - the various iToys could have had much better battery time and better performance had Apple prioritized other things. The load another million pixels puts on your processor/GPU is really not worth the barely perceivable increase in image quality you see - not for reasonable people, and Apple's competitors persist in being reasonable.
Fortunately for Apple, and unfortunately for the competitors, the prestige element is important to people. It's not quite gotten as dumb as people buying gold digital cables for their stereo equipment, but it's rapidly approaching it. It's the same mechanisms at work.
Installing Ubuntu has been a piece of cake on every system I've done it on over the years.
When I was asked by some friends to assist with a Windows installation, I was very surprised at how much manual work it was (getting the wireless drivers to work, for instance - that used to be a problem on Linux around 2003).
It's no surprise Ubuntu is easier to install than Windows, because Microsoft would much rather you have the OEM do it for you.
It wasn't. It was about the color of the silly hats they were supposed to wear in the restaurant at Fuschal (Fiji). Don't get into a Red Dwarf fan war with me, I dare you.
Educated atheist gets lectured by uneducated atheist about religion. News at 11.
Seems like all the email adresses are for Swedes. Wonder what they've got against Swedes.
Applications are definitively sandboxed on Android and iOS too. It's probably possible to install non-java ME apps on these phones too, it's just that since the environments aren't standardized, no one bothers.
The distinction between feature phones and smartphones is largely a product of successful marketing. If Java ME hadn't been such a train wreck, we would just have viewed it as another smartphone platform, along with Android (which would probably have used it instead of Dalvik then), iOS and Blackberry's OS.
Very funny, but the avionics industry is based on real specs. As in, non-junk specs from people who actually know what they're talking about. In a perfect world, business software would have that too.
But since it doesn't, doing enterprise systems in formally verified Ada would be equally much of a disaster in practice.
You did notice the article was written by the president of AdaCore - developers of GNAT, The GNU Ada complier?
For situations like this, where there's a fixed day the system has to be ready to (due to the opening of a new market) it may actually not be the dumbest thing you could do... but I don't think that is a common constraint for HFT trader programmers. In general, I think Jane Street Capital is more on the right track with their focus on functional programming. It seems you can get a lot of speed, correctness promise and good development time with Haskell/OCaml, if you can find people who are actually good at it (but that's a problem with Ada too).
High frequency trading programmers can't just talk to the government to try to convince them to give a bigger budget for safety. HFT programmers work under time pressure unlike anything in Avionics, because it doesn't just have to be ready by a certain fixed date, millions in profits may be gained for every day you can shave off development time.
It's interesting, from a programming technical point of view, that functional languages like Haskell and OCaml are used in this domain. They don't offer the correctness guarantees of formal methods-style stuff like Misra C and SPARK Ada, but they have another approach to correctness, and probably much better development times.
From a social point of view, of course, I'm pretty worried about HFT.
Well, strictly speaking no, but the word calculus in college classes refers to continuous mathematics. Calculus the undergraduate topic isn't what you should take to understand lambda calculus, the topic abstract algebra is (and the places you go from there).
Well, there is one classic use for calculus relevant to programming that we even were taught in college: Using accelerometer data to infer/estimate positions.
Signal processing of all sorts is heavy on calculus. Sure, you use numeric libraries, but you need to understand what you are doing. At least if you're writing the libraries. There's always a market for programmers who just use said libraries, but how fun is that?
This is probably a result of an occupational hazard, but I know very well that I pay more attention to text typeset in Computer Modern. Even though it is the default font in LaTeX, to that what Times New Roman is to Word.
Apple devices are so easy to use that anyone who has trouble with them must be utterly stupid - or at least, people think so. Therefore, people who have trouble with them wisely stay quiet and try harder.
It actually is. Because
1. Steam
and
2. Microsoft appears to be abandoning/neglecting the desktop in favor of more glamorous stuff.
You prefer a Microsoft hardware monopoly to what we have today?
Sure, ASUS, Acer, Dell and HP keep doing the same thing, no "innovation" of the sort ad agency designer types like. But they pressure prices downward and specs up. The things you can buy for $200 today is incredible - don't take it for granted. I assure you, if a proprietary hardware platform (like the Mac, or the Amiga for that matter) had become dominant, you would get a lot less.
That book made me feel unpleasantly like a drug addict. But the end isn't all that sad - it's the afterword which is the worst, I think. Good that they included it in the film, but they cut out most of the harsher stuff - probably because it would come off as too anti-drug for cinema audiences.
Yes, in 1984, the ever-reducing rations and pointless war is a product of competence - it's not that way because they've failed to make it better, but because ultimately the inner party wants it that way. That is kind of unbelivable, when you think about it. Not that they should want it, which Orwell makes a sort of case for, but that they should succeed at it, always keeping the balance between the three superpowers, and never letting scarcity drop to levels which would actually interfere with their ability to control.
Not coincidentally, this is exactly the "wet statist dream" proposed by James Hansen (who voted for Reagan, by the way).
A used games market allows effective price discrimination, because some people couldn't justify buying a new game unless they knew they could recoup some of the costs after using it.
In this market, price discrimination is a good thing. It allows publishers to still sell copies (and thus get something) to those who can't afford to buy a game at full price. They could have cut Gamestop out of the loop by doing this themselves, but that would demand realistic discounts on older/less popular games, something the publishers appear unwilling to do.
It could be worse. At least Carmack hasn't married Yoko Ono.
Maybe not on the end-user end. I think there's some risk of getting fired if you insist that your servers and embedded devices run Apple software.
For a large enough company, it's probably worth it. And there's no reason why Android handset makers, or specialised companies, shouldn't offer this service.