You don't need 32,000 x 32,000 pixels to drive a projector, only an output and cable that the projector will accept. Heck, you could project a 2x2 pixel source as long as your PDA can connect to the projector somehow.
When you use a projector off your laptop, those slides are showing at 1024x768, just as they would on your normal monitor. Increased size != increased resolution.
I'm still thinking that the 32,000 number is either a typo or a marketing goof.
It's quite easy to create a code that no one can crack. I've done it myself, and it was posted here at slashdot a couple of years ago. No one even came close to solving it. However, although very little math was used, it was practically unusable:-)
Here's a cipher contest for mere mortals. It's been going on since mid-december. The prize is a tin of penguin mints and a boost to your self-respect. And anyone with a decent knowledge of basic cryptography should be able to crack it.
Would you care to guess how much Sony's new hi-md portable player will cost?
Don't need to guess:
MZ-NH600D - $200 (no mic or line-in inputs, consequently not very useful as far as I'm concerned)
MZ-NHF800 - $250 (includes mic and line-in jacks, also AM/FM/TV/Weather tuner)
MZ-NH900
- $300 (Nicer looking, charger has USB connection, but no radio tuner AFAIK)
MZ-NH1 - $400 (Magniesium case, nice remote, not sure how you would justify the cost)
These four are slated for April 2004. From what I can see, the NHF800 looks like the best buy, but until reviews of available equipment come in, it will be useless to make final judgments.
"If I was IBM I would much rather make the swich under the radar incase things don't work out and then tell the world what a great success the swich has been if it does. If not then it never happend [sic]."
A company the size and scope of IBM does not switch from Windows to Linux without the rest of the IT world hearing about it somehow. They would never be able to conceal a move of that magnitude.
Ah, but that's the whole POINT of Hi-MD: Sony has fixed all these problems. Until now, there would be a loss of quality every time an analog copy was made. Now copies can be done digitally and at high speed via USB. Furthermore the new PCM format option is not a lossy format, ergo, there is no generational loss of quality between copies.
Then, too, I have to ask: how often do you really need to copy tracks between two players? Hardly ever. I don't know that mp3 players nowadays are much better in this regard.
Again: if all you care about is listening to digitized music, then get an mp3 player. It is in recording, not playback, that Hi-MD really shines.
I am amazed that everyone here is slamming Sony for this announcement. You all just don't get it, do you?
Everyone is comparing MD with iPods and Rios. If all you care about is PLAYING sound that others have created for you, then no, there doesn't seem to be a good reason for Hi-MD to exist.
The difference can be summed up in two words: LIVE RECORDING.
Minidisc is an awesome format for live recording. CD-quality sound in a random-access format that is very small (ergo portable and Unobtrusive, which is more important than you might think), and on a media that is highly durable and editable/re-writable. It's very handy in a lot of situations. Class notes. Family reunions. Audition recordings for musicians (I have done these for three local violinists in my area). I also have some minidisc recordings of major events in recent history via FM radio.
The only major problem (until now) was that uploading sound from MD to computer had to be done in real-time, analog only. With Hi-MD, this last problem has been corrected. I would buy one of these units if ONLY for that reason. The fact that additional features have been added - octuple-length recording times, data transfer, etc - is just a big whopping bonus as far as I'm concerned.
No one interested in live recording would seriously consider any of the mp3 players on the market, including iPod. Removable media, while not necessarily desirable for mp3 deadheads who HAVE to have their WHOLE music collection on them at all times, is a must for those who do live recording.
And about this DRM business: It has already existed in MD and is and will always be easily circumventable. Just record tracks via analog line-in. No noticable sound difference. You can record anything you want from any device that has a headphone jack and there is no DRM technology involved whatsoever. Ditto for mic recordings.
"Yes, things like facts, insight, logic, common sense tend to come across as sacrilegious to those that blindly follow something written 2000 years ago by a bunch of men...[the bible] was written by a bunch of men wanting to control the masses."
Those fishermen? Was that what they were trying to do, control the world? Is that why they all died gruesome deaths?
Here's something really interesting: I know of people who accept novels as historical authority!
You really sound like you know what you're talking about. Tell me more.
Did they in fact achieve immortality by detesting taste, (human nature, I call it) by striking the line through every rule?
Duh.
Go ahead and push and risk, and maybe one or two will make a face and say, no thanks; but you aren't content! You won't just weave your own. You have to burn the old, too.
Or how risky are you, really? Among the right people, Burning can be quite popular. Most of the new stuff looks the same, too just like the old, only now most people just don't 'get it', I guess.
(Someday, though, someone might understand. There's some consolation in that.)
I personally love ambiguity and freeform expression. I feel more comfortable with loose or no structure than with the strict metric and rhyming as in the poem by Frost you quote. Rhyming, particularly, is a real turn-off. A rhyming poem just doesn't breath.
Then I think what you feel would most comfortable with is prose. Seriously, though, there is a difference between ambiguity and airy nothingness; I maintain that modern poetry is characterized by the latter.
It's fine not to like rhyme. Frost obviously wrote those kinds of poems too. But unlike you, most other people do, and rhyme has been proven to connect with more people when done properly. Many poets have cast it off in the name of vanguardism, but the fact is good rhyming requires more effort than they care to expend. I agree that rhyming can help make a poem truly horrible, but this is because of the author's usage, not because of the practice of rhyming itself. Things like rhyme and metre are choices the poet makes; often his or her talent, subject matter and form are not well matched. If you could say this was true of Poe's or Frost's poems, that is one thing; to say that you don't like them because they rhyme is another.
"I would say that it is much harder to write/compose in a new form than just conforming to an existing form."
It is harder to do so and still bring inspiration to the common man. It is not hard to come up with new forms. It is hard to come up with new good forms. By and large the new forms that modern writers/composers have produced have been uninteresting at best, and are commonly aimed at fellow artists, not at normal people. Is it still art? Yes. Does it resonate with human nature? Will it survive the passage of time? No and probably not.
Poe's poems, like any good poems, have meat because they were vested with real thought, effort and genius by their author. As such they have intrinsic merit.
You can't really think that anything on that program's page is just as good as
Ah distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each seperate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor
or Frost, for example:
Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice;
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that, for destruction, ice
Is also great,
And would suffice.
Artists have lost the idea nowadays that real art has intrinsic value proportional to the real talent and effort that goes into it. What is this idea that words are just generic symbols, devoid of any of their own meaning? Words have well-defined meaningsas well as emotional value, and this is why we use them and what makes them powerful in art.
The sad thing is that most modern poetry really isn't any different from the stuff this program produces. Randomness and Hip Vagueness have pretty well killed any popular taste for poetry. After all, why read poetry when most of it appears to have no meaning and have required no talent?
This is where modern art has led us. The end result of trashing common sense is the heat death of the literary world. Everyone is a poet, therefore no one is a poet.
This person said it rather well. I have this only to add: the question is not whether art should change, but whether art should become intrinsically worthless.
Whenever there's a big event like this, practically all forty thousand slashdot users submit the same story four or five times in hopes of getting theirs on the front page. If you had thought a little before complaining, you would realize that the admins can only post one, so they pick a favorite and reject the other sixteen thousand redundant copies.
It may be only borderline legal, but it will never really amount to anything. Why? The trust factor. You have no guarantee the other person will actually vote the way he says he will.
I bet that when participants of this (ahem) risky scheme actually get to the polls, they will end up voting for the same person they originally would have; they cannot be sure the other person will keep his end of the bargain, and don't want to risk wasting their vote.
Come to think of it...theoretically, any Bush supporter could go on there and get a bunch of Algore people to vote for Nader. I'd like to think they wouldn't do that of course:-)
Slashdot Mirror
No.
Before the heavy industry, there were light-colored moths and dark-colored moths.
After the heavy industry, there were still light and dark colored moths.
No change of species took place. All that happened was that the populations of two different colors of the same moths had changed.
You don't need 32,000 x 32,000 pixels to drive a projector, only an output and cable that the projector will accept. Heck, you could project a 2x2 pixel source as long as your PDA can connect to the projector somehow.
When you use a projector off your laptop, those slides are showing at 1024x768, just as they would on your normal monitor. Increased size != increased resolution.
I'm still thinking that the 32,000 number is either a typo or a marketing goof.
The roman empire did not collapse under the weight of its own arrogrance. It decayed in the quagmire of its own apathy.
-JD
...Where was I?
It's quite easy to create a code that no one can crack. I've done it myself, and it was posted here at slashdot a couple of years ago. No one even came close to solving it. However, although very little math was used, it was practically unusable :-)
Here's a cipher contest for mere mortals. It's been going on since mid-december. The prize is a tin of penguin mints and a boost to your self-respect. And anyone with a decent knowledge of basic cryptography should be able to crack it.
Don't need to guess:
These four are slated for April 2004. From what I can see, the NHF800 looks like the best buy, but until reviews of available equipment come in, it will be useless to make final judgments.
More info at minidisc.org.
A company the size and scope of IBM does not switch from Windows to Linux without the rest of the IT world hearing about it somehow. They would never be able to conceal a move of that magnitude.
-JD
The both the slashdot sum-up and the linked article fail to explain why, exactly, I should be excited about this.
Ah, but that's the whole POINT of Hi-MD: Sony has fixed all these problems. Until now, there would be a loss of quality every time an analog copy was made. Now copies can be done digitally and at high speed via USB. Furthermore the new PCM format option is not a lossy format, ergo, there is no generational loss of quality between copies.
Then, too, I have to ask: how often do you really need to copy tracks between two players? Hardly ever. I don't know that mp3 players nowadays are much better in this regard.
Again: if all you care about is listening to digitized music, then get an mp3 player. It is in recording, not playback, that Hi-MD really shines.
I am amazed that everyone here is slamming Sony for this announcement. You all just don't get it, do you?
Everyone is comparing MD with iPods and Rios. If all you care about is PLAYING sound that others have created for you, then no, there doesn't seem to be a good reason for Hi-MD to exist.
The difference can be summed up in two words: LIVE RECORDING.
Minidisc is an awesome format for live recording. CD-quality sound in a random-access format that is very small (ergo portable and Unobtrusive, which is more important than you might think), and on a media that is highly durable and editable/re-writable. It's very handy in a lot of situations. Class notes. Family reunions. Audition recordings for musicians (I have done these for three local violinists in my area). I also have some minidisc recordings of major events in recent history via FM radio.
The only major problem (until now) was that uploading sound from MD to computer had to be done in real-time, analog only. With Hi-MD, this last problem has been corrected. I would buy one of these units if ONLY for that reason. The fact that additional features have been added - octuple-length recording times, data transfer, etc - is just a big whopping bonus as far as I'm concerned.
No one interested in live recording would seriously consider any of the mp3 players on the market, including iPod. Removable media, while not necessarily desirable for mp3 deadheads who HAVE to have their WHOLE music collection on them at all times, is a must for those who do live recording.
And about this DRM business: It has already existed in MD and is and will always be easily circumventable. Just record tracks via analog line-in. No noticable sound difference. You can record anything you want from any device that has a headphone jack and there is no DRM technology involved whatsoever. Ditto for mic recordings.
-JD
"Yes, things like facts, insight, logic, common sense tend to come across as sacrilegious to those that blindly follow something written 2000 years ago by a bunch of men...[the bible] was written by a bunch of men wanting to control the masses."
Those fishermen? Was that what they were trying to do, control the world? Is that why they all died gruesome deaths?
Here's something really interesting: I know of people who accept novels as historical authority!
You really sound like you know what you're talking about. Tell me more.
Who shouted at Beethoven?
Everyone?
Hardly.
Did they in fact
achieve immortality
by detesting taste,
(human nature, I call it)
by striking the line through every rule?
Duh.
Go ahead and push
and risk,
and maybe one or two will make a face
and say, no thanks;
but you aren't content!
You won't just weave your own.
You have to burn the old, too.
Or how risky are you, really?
Among the right people,
Burning can be quite popular.
Most of the new stuff looks the same, too
just like the old,
only now most people just don't 'get it',
I guess.
(Someday, though,
someone might understand.
There's some consolation in that.)
(I bet it will be a college professor.)
Then I think what you feel would most comfortable with is prose. Seriously, though, there is a difference between ambiguity and airy nothingness; I maintain that modern poetry is characterized by the latter.
It's fine not to like rhyme. Frost obviously wrote those kinds of poems too. But unlike you, most other people do, and rhyme has been proven to connect with more people when done properly. Many poets have cast it off in the name of vanguardism, but the fact is good rhyming requires more effort than they care to expend. I agree that rhyming can help make a poem truly horrible, but this is because of the author's usage, not because of the practice of rhyming itself. Things like rhyme and metre are choices the poet makes; often his or her talent, subject matter and form are not well matched. If you could say this was true of Poe's or Frost's poems, that is one thing; to say that you don't like them because they rhyme is another.
It is harder to do so and still bring inspiration to the common man. It is not hard to come up with new forms. It is hard to come up with new good forms. By and large the new forms that modern writers/composers have produced have been uninteresting at best, and are commonly aimed at fellow artists, not at normal people. Is it still art? Yes. Does it resonate with human nature? Will it survive the passage of time? No and probably not.
Poe's poems, like any good poems, have meat because they were vested with real thought, effort and genius by their author. As such they have intrinsic merit.
You can't really think that anything on that program's page is just as good as
or Frost, for example:
Artists have lost the idea nowadays that real art has intrinsic value proportional to the real talent and effort that goes into it. What is this idea that words are just generic symbols, devoid of any of their own meaning? Words have well-defined meanings as well as emotional value, and this is why we use them and what makes them powerful in art.
The sad thing is that most modern poetry really isn't any different from the stuff this program produces. Randomness and Hip Vagueness have pretty well killed any popular taste for poetry. After all, why read poetry when most of it appears to have no meaning and have required no talent?
This is where modern art has led us. The end result of trashing common sense is the heat death of the literary world. Everyone is a poet, therefore no one is a poet.
This person said it rather well. I have this only to add: the question is not whether art should change, but whether art should become intrinsically worthless.
-JD
Maybe it needs its server cleaned.
Whenever there's a big event like this, practically all forty thousand
slashdot users submit the same story four or five times in hopes of getting
theirs on the front page. If you had thought a little before
complaining, you would realize that the admins can only post one, so
they pick a favorite and reject the other sixteen thousand redundant copies.
-JD
My queen has an uzi in her purse and slays all your pieces!
-JD
It may be only borderline legal, but it will never really amount to anything. Why? The trust factor. You have no guarantee the other person will actually vote the way he says he will.
:-)
I bet that when participants of this (ahem) risky scheme actually get to the polls, they will end up voting for the same person they originally would have; they cannot be sure the other person will keep his end of the bargain, and don't want to risk wasting their vote.
Come to think of it...theoretically, any Bush supporter could go on there and get a bunch of Algore people to vote for Nader. I'd like to think they wouldn't do that of course
-JD
As many previous elections have shown, you don't need money if you have ABC, CNN, CBS, PBS, UPI and the New York Times on your side.
-JD
Yeah, I had trouble in getting to Solla Sollew too.
-JD
Something for Kenny Baker to do with all that free time he has on his hands now!
-JD
The guy on the Kursk was trying to defect! He was shot down by Tupolev before he could get to Thor's Twins!
-JD
"...yet they grind exceeding fine."
-JD
So. They have "evidence" that there might be salt water on Europa.
Sounds pretty shaky to me.
See Darwin's Black Box for more on why the whole idea is bunk...
-JD