It might take the whole quart to do a keyboard, but for cell phones and the like, I go to home depot and get a can of denatured alcohol in the paint thinner section. As long as it doesn't contain methyl ethyl ketone, it dries faster than water and gets more gunk out. I once spilled a full venti caramel macchiato on a laptop keyboard... disassembly and q-tips with denatured alcohol worked faster and better than plain H2O. YMMV
I'm sorry, you seem to be confused about the difference between an anpple and an orange.
People's gas tanks DO blow up, and cars DO crash. Tires do fail, and engines breakdown.
The difference is that when something like that happens to a car, you'll get a localized trail of damage, ranging from a burned out car to maybe the death of 2-3 people. The damage goes away in short order.
Yeah, cars are safer now than they used to bo, and failures for mechanical defects are almost nonexistent.
The trouble with YOUR logic is that when a nuke plant fails, the damage is NOT localized, and NEVER goes away for all intensive purposes. Even if the plant blows and nobody is immediately killed, radiation will affect people for generations.
Greenhouse gases, evil things though they are, are at least uptaken by the bioshpere at some rate. Radioactive wastes, however, are not. What do we do, find a path to the mantle of the earth and inject waste back into the core of the earth so that they decay in there?
With a small sacel car, occasional failures are OK.
With a nuke plant, occasional failures are not an option, and I think that we all can agree that mankind has yet to build a foolproof system 100% of the time.
Apples and oranges, my friend.
I'm a freelance musician who does IT to supplement the income during slow periods, but right now I'm still in school.
Do what you like to do, and find some way to make it a side job. How about teaching kids about computers while they are young enough to really figure them out? I'm doing side work teaching music to a bunch of middle school kids, and it pays about the same as some of my IT jobs.
Find a way to do what you like well, and someone, somewhere will want to pay you for it. In today's world of outsourcing, finding a niche is what its all about. when they physically need your services because you are the only, oh i duno, mac literate musician who is sociable enough to teach kids...
Any interest in selling me any of those batteries if they still hold a charge?
I bought a 5000e for $50 and all i need to make it "portable" is a battery.
Speaking of the battery recall, I tried to get them to recall my batt, because it does fall under the recall, but I don't get any answer... any luck on that with you? is there a # I can call thats NOT hindustani tech support (As all they do is give me the circular runaround)
Booooo.... Yankees suck.
I can't stand a team with management and fans that believe that every player should rightfully be theirs, at whatever cost. Get a farm system and build up like the rest of the teams... Too bad teh Sox are just about dead even with you right now.
Yah, troll.... sorry, but I just got back from the Angels - Yanks game last night and the Yankee fans were drunk and obnoxious to anyone they could see.
Guys, I am a professional musician who occasionaly makes a few hundred bucks setting out of print scores to finale or sibeleus. I also use linux, and like the open source model.
The problem is that programmers arent creative in this department... those coders all work at apple.
This is never going to get off the ground, and is a hindrance to the adoption of linux by musicians, when in reality things like jack, ardour, and alsa make it an excellent platform for creative types, a la Pd, miller puckette's wonderful synthesis program.
The developers seem to be focusing on making things "right" and in a description language. Fine, but i dont see how this is going to help inspire musicians to use this arcane latex garbage to print out a set of exercises. Most of my musician friends cant even use finale well, so how can one expect the same of this program.
On the other hand, if your objective is to create a framework for music notation software, midi in, etc, etc, then you need to work with people in that community so that you can have more attention and people drawn to that project.
As it stands now, this software is like enlightenment 17... by the time it gets ready, all the interested people and developers will have gone elsewhere or vanished in disgust.
Is it just me, or does the second screenshot with the iconbox look exactly like Enlightenment with any of the generic Aqua themes out there?
All in all, I am... well, uninformed:-) Haven't gotten the chance to try 10.3 yet.
Mod parent up. This is exactly what I was thinking when I read the article, and the voices have been getting louder in my head for the past 8 months since I tried the ardour beta.
I work for one of the UC schools. The people i deal with here all know about open source. the CSE guys use it because it is familiar and can do all the basic things.
the creative people DON'T, partly because the gui is not standardized (yeah, yeah) but mostly because the apps just aren't pro quality. GIMP is not photoshop. you can't color match using printing tools. theres no substitute for adobe illustrator. what about after effects, something that is such a hog on memory that it would benefit from being shoved into a beowulf cluster?
I think that a lot of the programmers on this board get caught up in certain types of apps. Just because you don't use something like Finale or cakewalk, or Final Cut Pro yourself does not mean that these apps aren't something people need.
And yes, I know that you need to do it yourself. Who empowers the musicians to do it when most of them can barely check email? what about video editors who need to spend all their time making sure that the latest coke ad gets in your head?
ahh, I am probably just blowing smoke out my rear, but I like sparking discussion and flamewars:-)
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Although SF literature is great, it'd probably be a good idea to check out some of the things that shape (or screw, depending on your perspective) our lives up. Politics runs the spectrum...
Stupid white men: Written by the director of bowling for columbine. liberal as heck, but at least you can get a different perspective on things..
Hardball: By chris matthews. this is THE book that everyone should read. our government still doesn't make sense, but it seems a little less illogical.
The No-Spin Zone: VERY far to the right. again, perspective is key, even if you don't like O'reilly.
Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but the guy who salvaged the S.S. Central America (You know, the one with multimillion $$ of gold on it, toured the country) did this when he was a kid about 25 years ago. Tommy Thompson is his name, and besides being an engineering genius, as a kid he powered his car on french fry oil, and in fact did just as a lot of people have been saying, went to a fast food joint, and carried 2 barrels of fry oil on a trailer in the back of his car as he drove cross country.
Beware, I'm a jazz musician, so I hold no credibility among people who work for a living...
The claim that 127 bits is enough, or that any digital device 5000 miles away can qualify as a live performance is pure bunk, and Yamaha is notorious for this kind of garbage (Am I the only one who remember's their jazz band full of WX-7 wind synths that they said would be "revolutionary?")
Simply put, the energy one puts forth when playing is not there when a computer is shoving down the hammers. I will admit:
1: 127 bits will get a pretty good velocity vector for the hammers. I'm sure whatever checks they have to determine dampers coming back on,etc are sufficient to not make it sound comical.
2: From a technical standpoint, it's a great achievement to do what Yamaha has done. It is really leaps and bounds ahead of most things out there.
BUT
that being said, where's the energy? where's the breath of life that you put into the instrument every time you play. Where's Vladmir Horowitz playing a sold out concert in moscow looking like he's calmy sitting and waiting for a bus while lambasting an opressive communist regime through the music? Where's keith jarret groaning and Philly Joe Jones responding when he belts out a solo? Allow me to indulge in an Anecdote (Courtesy of Kenny Werner's excellent book, Effortless Mastery)
"I went to Bill Evans' 50th birthday party. So many pianists were in attendance, it looked like a dictators convention. Many people played for Bill, at a piano that will remain nameless. This brand of piano has a tendency to sound bright (pop-ish is the easiest def. i can give... Paul simons electric pianos are bright... most acoustic jazz stuff (herbie hancock...) is not). All the pianists who played said piano sounded that way. Then Bill sat down to play, and he sounded dark, rich and full, on the exact same piano. Looking at his hands, the wrists were like shock absorbers. when he "dropped his fingers" (Dont worry about the def. unless you play), he had a special way of accelerating them so full yet rich force was achieved, so his whole arm / hand weight would keep the hammers where they needed to be."
Now, does the disklavier have that enrgy, that intensity? I don't think so. The point is that it's not a digital thing, playing an instrument. Trying to quantize "Soul" of music is counterproductive, and although being able to reproduce sounds in the way yamaha has been working is a great step, calling it a "live performance," and having a competition where the MIDI (sorry, disklavier...) interface records the velocities (Even if it is not recorded sound, in a way, it is a recording), is not under any definiton a live performance.
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If I am on IndiaTimes, 'A' is on MSN, 'B' is on Yahoo, 'C' is on AOL and 'D' on ICQ, then A, B, C and D can talk with each other.
Pardon me if I misinterpret your comment...
But GAIM does this already and it's GPL'd. Assuming they have accounts and use the GAIM client, they can talk and chat with each other with no problems.
Plus it's not vulnerable to that nice security hole, has a outgoing spellcheck, perl scripting, is written by starving UC students, AND has got to the mat against AOL before.
Yes, you can interpret a buyout as giving Bill a pie in the face... but thats the short term gain.
Long term, from a newbie's standpoint, you lose one of the distros that has a reputation of being the easiest to start up with. On top of that, you start getting the backlash, or rather, the public perception, that Linux is "Like AOL, therefore it can't be as secure as they say" (I'm talking about joe sixpack here, obviously, but Joe Sixpack also runs a lot of businesses)
Oh, and i just thought of something... what if Red Hat CD's come in the mail with my FREE! 10*10^5 hour trial of AOL? I'd love to see linux's reputation after that.
Alternatively, lets say that MS and AOL go to war over OS's like some are predicting. Linux (in the mainstream at least) becomes in the public eye a tool of the corporations (Yes, I know about the GPL... I'm talking again about Joe Sixpack who blindly clicks "accept" on the license agreement.)
Image is everything to a lot of people, and if linux's main selling point (Security, open source, stability, GPL, Free as in speech) is compromised and people see it as a "Sellout" to the 900 lb. Gorilla... I don't know if I'd like to see that.
I work in the Academic Computing Services department of one of the UC Schools...
The majority of our problems come from about 10% of the population on campus who are online 24/7 downloading their pr0n, thus giving most of the other students probably polled in this study a reason to start asking for more bandwidth. I should also add that these are the same 10% who are hogging internal bandwidth playing counterstrike, etc.
I think that the term "Insatiable Demand" is definitely a misnomer. Although the "Prominence of file sharing" does apply to quite a few people in our dorms, 90% of the people are utilizing the network for, at most 10-20 megs a day. In fact, we have a 2Mbit cap on the routers coming out of the dorms, and most users find that they can surf the web and get their 3 or 4 files a day with no problems, and are pleased that, at 4AM, they can get an insanely high throughput. The reason that the students complain about the network being slow is because of the caps (which most don't know about) at peak times, because, again, the 10% that actually do have an unquenchable thirst for data would take full advantage of the situation.
I should add also that we block Morpheus, thereby removing those oh-so-lovely TCP standards hacks it implements, so YMMV
First off, I think this is a project and think it'd be great to hear about a 2 week mars mission in my lifetime... but I must play devils advocate
OK, so assume that NASA gets a containment vessel built, presumably with an electromagnetic field, and they make enough antimatter to conceivably power a test vehicle or something. How do you transport the thing? I can see politicians and reactionaries screaming NIMBY when they attach it to a test vehicle. Even assuming that the test vehicle fails in say, a nice safe place like outer space, how do you convince the intelligent citizens of Florida (Motto: "Where's my Medicare Card?") that the transport of the container into outer space will be safe?
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It might take the whole quart to do a keyboard, but for cell phones and the like, I go to home depot and get a can of denatured alcohol in the paint thinner section. As long as it doesn't contain methyl ethyl ketone, it dries faster than water and gets more gunk out. I once spilled a full venti caramel macchiato on a laptop keyboard... disassembly and q-tips with denatured alcohol worked faster and better than plain H2O. YMMV
Plus you can set it on fire later...
I'm sorry, you seem to be confused about the difference between an anpple and an orange. People's gas tanks DO blow up, and cars DO crash. Tires do fail, and engines breakdown. The difference is that when something like that happens to a car, you'll get a localized trail of damage, ranging from a burned out car to maybe the death of 2-3 people. The damage goes away in short order. Yeah, cars are safer now than they used to bo, and failures for mechanical defects are almost nonexistent. The trouble with YOUR logic is that when a nuke plant fails, the damage is NOT localized, and NEVER goes away for all intensive purposes. Even if the plant blows and nobody is immediately killed, radiation will affect people for generations. Greenhouse gases, evil things though they are, are at least uptaken by the bioshpere at some rate. Radioactive wastes, however, are not. What do we do, find a path to the mantle of the earth and inject waste back into the core of the earth so that they decay in there? With a small sacel car, occasional failures are OK. With a nuke plant, occasional failures are not an option, and I think that we all can agree that mankind has yet to build a foolproof system 100% of the time. Apples and oranges, my friend.
I'm a freelance musician who does IT to supplement the income during slow periods, but right now I'm still in school.
Do what you like to do, and find some way to make it a side job. How about teaching kids about computers while they are young enough to really figure them out? I'm doing side work teaching music to a bunch of middle school kids, and it pays about the same as some of my IT jobs.
Find a way to do what you like well, and someone, somewhere will want to pay you for it. In today's world of outsourcing, finding a niche is what its all about. when they physically need your services because you are the only, oh i duno, mac literate musician who is sociable enough to teach kids...
you are pretty much established as a go-to-guy.
Any interest in selling me any of those batteries if they still hold a charge? I bought a 5000e for $50 and all i need to make it "portable" is a battery. Speaking of the battery recall, I tried to get them to recall my batt, because it does fall under the recall, but I don't get any answer... any luck on that with you? is there a # I can call thats NOT hindustani tech support (As all they do is give me the circular runaround)
Booooo.... Yankees suck. I can't stand a team with management and fans that believe that every player should rightfully be theirs, at whatever cost. Get a farm system and build up like the rest of the teams... Too bad teh Sox are just about dead even with you right now. Yah, troll.... sorry, but I just got back from the Angels - Yanks game last night and the Yankee fans were drunk and obnoxious to anyone they could see.
Guys, I am a professional musician who occasionaly makes a few hundred bucks setting out of print scores to finale or sibeleus. I also use linux, and like the open source model.
The problem is that programmers arent creative in this department... those coders all work at apple.
This is never going to get off the ground, and is a hindrance to the adoption of linux by musicians, when in reality things like jack, ardour, and alsa make it an excellent platform for creative types, a la Pd, miller puckette's wonderful synthesis program.
The developers seem to be focusing on making things "right" and in a description language. Fine, but i dont see how this is going to help inspire musicians to use this arcane latex garbage to print out a set of exercises. Most of my musician friends cant even use finale well, so how can one expect the same of this program.
On the other hand, if your objective is to create a framework for music notation software, midi in, etc, etc, then you need to work with people in that community so that you can have more attention and people drawn to that project.
As it stands now, this software is like enlightenment 17... by the time it gets ready, all the interested people and developers will have gone elsewhere or vanished in disgust.
Is it just me, or does the second screenshot with the iconbox look exactly like Enlightenment with any of the generic Aqua themes out there? All in all, I am... well, uninformed :-) Haven't gotten the chance to try 10.3 yet.
Mod parent up. This is exactly what I was thinking when I read the article, and the voices have been getting louder in my head for the past 8 months since I tried the ardour beta.
:-)
I work for one of the UC schools. The people i deal with here all know about open source. the CSE guys use it because it is familiar and can do all the basic things.
the creative people DON'T, partly because the gui is not standardized (yeah, yeah) but mostly because the apps just aren't pro quality. GIMP is not photoshop. you can't color match using printing tools. theres no substitute for adobe illustrator. what about after effects, something that is such a hog on memory that it would benefit from being shoved into a beowulf cluster?
I think that a lot of the programmers on this board get caught up in certain types of apps. Just because you don't use something like Finale or cakewalk, or Final Cut Pro yourself does not mean that these apps aren't something people need.
And yes, I know that you need to do it yourself. Who empowers the musicians to do it when most of them can barely check email? what about video editors who need to spend all their time making sure that the latest coke ad gets in your head?
ahh, I am probably just blowing smoke out my rear, but I like sparking discussion and flamewars
Although SF literature is great, it'd probably be a good idea to check out some of the things that shape (or screw, depending on your perspective) our lives up. Politics runs the spectrum...
Stupid white men: Written by the director of bowling for columbine. liberal as heck, but at least you can get a different perspective on things..
Hardball: By chris matthews. this is THE book that everyone should read. our government still doesn't make sense, but it seems a little less illogical.
The No-Spin Zone: VERY far to the right. again, perspective is key, even if you don't like O'reilly.
I remember reading about this in Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder. Summary Here
Great book, and a good account of a tinkering nerd when he was a kid, before he became an industry leader and innovator.
Beware, I'm a jazz musician, so I hold no credibility among people who work for a living...
The claim that 127 bits is enough, or that any digital device 5000 miles away can qualify as a live performance is pure bunk, and Yamaha is notorious for this kind of garbage (Am I the only one who remember's their jazz band full of WX-7 wind synths that they said would be "revolutionary?")
Simply put, the energy one puts forth when playing is not there when a computer is shoving down the hammers. I will admit:
1: 127 bits will get a pretty good velocity vector for the hammers. I'm sure whatever checks they have to determine dampers coming back on,etc are sufficient to not make it sound comical.
2: From a technical standpoint, it's a great achievement to do what Yamaha has done. It is really leaps and bounds ahead of most things out there.
BUT
that being said, where's the energy? where's the breath of life that you put into the instrument every time you play. Where's Vladmir Horowitz playing a sold out concert in moscow looking like he's calmy sitting and waiting for a bus while lambasting an opressive communist regime through the music? Where's keith jarret groaning and Philly Joe Jones responding when he belts out a solo? Allow me to indulge in an Anecdote (Courtesy of Kenny Werner's excellent book, Effortless Mastery)
"I went to Bill Evans' 50th birthday party. So many pianists were in attendance, it looked like a dictators convention. Many people played for Bill, at a piano that will remain nameless. This brand of piano has a tendency to sound bright (pop-ish is the easiest def. i can give... Paul simons electric pianos are bright... most acoustic jazz stuff (herbie hancock...) is not). All the pianists who played said piano sounded that way. Then Bill sat down to play, and he sounded dark, rich and full, on the exact same piano. Looking at his hands, the wrists were like shock absorbers. when he "dropped his fingers" (Dont worry about the def. unless you play), he had a special way of accelerating them so full yet rich force was achieved, so his whole arm / hand weight would keep the hammers where they needed to be."
Now, does the disklavier have that enrgy, that intensity? I don't think so. The point is that it's not a digital thing, playing an instrument. Trying to quantize "Soul" of music is counterproductive, and although being able to reproduce sounds in the way yamaha has been working is a great step, calling it a "live performance," and having a competition where the MIDI (sorry, disklavier...) interface records the velocities (Even if it is not recorded sound, in a way, it is a recording), is not under any definiton a live performance.
If I am on IndiaTimes, 'A' is on MSN, 'B' is on Yahoo, 'C' is on AOL and 'D' on ICQ, then A, B, C and D can talk with each other.
Pardon me if I misinterpret your comment...
But GAIM does this already and it's GPL'd. Assuming they have accounts and use the GAIM client, they can talk and chat with each other with no problems.
Plus it's not vulnerable to that nice security hole, has a outgoing spellcheck, perl scripting, is written by starving UC students, AND has got to the mat against AOL before.
I don't know about that...
Yes, you can interpret a buyout as giving Bill a pie in the face... but thats the short term gain.
Long term, from a newbie's standpoint, you lose one of the distros that has a reputation of being the easiest to start up with. On top of that, you start getting the backlash, or rather, the public perception, that Linux is "Like AOL, therefore it can't be as secure as they say" (I'm talking about joe sixpack here, obviously, but Joe Sixpack also runs a lot of businesses)
Oh, and i just thought of something... what if Red Hat CD's come in the mail with my FREE! 10*10^5 hour trial of AOL? I'd love to see linux's reputation after that.
Alternatively, lets say that MS and AOL go to war over OS's like some are predicting. Linux (in the mainstream at least) becomes in the public eye a tool of the corporations (Yes, I know about the GPL... I'm talking again about Joe Sixpack who blindly clicks "accept" on the license agreement.)
Image is everything to a lot of people, and if linux's main selling point (Security, open source, stability, GPL, Free as in speech) is compromised and people see it as a "Sellout" to the 900 lb. Gorilla... I don't know if I'd like to see that.
I work in the Academic Computing Services department of one of the UC Schools...
The majority of our problems come from about 10% of the population on campus who are online 24/7 downloading their pr0n, thus giving most of the other students probably polled in this study a reason to start asking for more bandwidth. I should also add that these are the same 10% who are hogging internal bandwidth playing counterstrike, etc.
I think that the term "Insatiable Demand" is definitely a misnomer. Although the "Prominence of file sharing" does apply to quite a few people in our dorms, 90% of the people are utilizing the network for, at most 10-20 megs a day. In fact, we have a 2Mbit cap on the routers coming out of the dorms, and most users find that they can surf the web and get their 3 or 4 files a day with no problems, and are pleased that, at 4AM, they can get an insanely high throughput. The reason that the students complain about the network being slow is because of the caps (which most don't know about) at peak times, because, again, the 10% that actually do have an unquenchable thirst for data would take full advantage of the situation.
I should add also that we block Morpheus, thereby removing those oh-so-lovely TCP standards hacks it implements, so YMMV
First off, I think this is a project and think it'd be great to hear about a 2 week mars mission in my lifetime... but I must play devils advocate
OK, so assume that NASA gets a containment vessel built, presumably with an electromagnetic field, and they make enough antimatter to conceivably power a test vehicle or something. How do you transport the thing? I can see politicians and reactionaries screaming NIMBY when they attach it to a test vehicle. Even assuming that the test vehicle fails in say, a nice safe place like outer space, how do you convince the intelligent citizens of Florida (Motto: "Where's my Medicare Card?") that the transport of the container into outer space will be safe?
Cheney: So let me get this straight... it would devastate an area about the size of South Africa?
Smart Guy: Well, yeah, but with the trajectory and mass of the earth kicked up from the crater, which we can figure out with simple ballistics-
Cheney: Aha! Ballistics, a good buzzword to attach to this new terrorist threat. Ooh, and it works nicely with the ABM program...
Smart Guy: Actually the missiles would have to point AWAY from the earth for that to--
Cheney: Guards!