What other reason can the military ever have for releasing any media at all beyond terse official communiques?
I would think the purpose is obvious.
To recruit.
I've seen TV ads where an FPS turns into the US Army video - albeit a little "Saving Private Ryan" hue to it all - and then a "sarge" shouting about the real challenge.
The people who watch videos on youtube are the target recruiting age demographic.
Yes, overpopulation problems for a start as the death rate soars.
True.
In going to work at Detroit, you'd probably get mugged and killed riding your bike.
In nicer places, you have to memorize all the trouble spots in your bike ride. Every mile has at least 10-20 spots where a car could crush you coming from your blind spot (if you're looking straight at the road).
What's the point of compressing JPEG,MP3,DivX etc since they already do the compression? The streams are close to random (with max information) and all you could compress would be the headers between blocks in movies or the ID3 tag in MP3.
Thank you for the wonderful information. I will certainly look into it.
I have been planning to put up an experimental Linux control center in my studio along with the Windows XP one.
Also been planning to put together a few synth and audio effects plugins together - since there are a lot of wonderful open-source high-quality research level libraries out there and would really love to experiment around with them.
I'm sort of envisoning a programming language style expression of music instead of the flashy GUIs that is in Windows and Macs. That is going to be part of my summer project:) The computer aspects will be little scripts and maybe some quick GUI like TCL gui for live performance.
you can trade racks and racks of expensive purpose-built gear for a single macbook pro, Logic, a firewire interface, and some software instruments (logic comes with quite a few high-calibre ones).
I recently sold all my digital gear but kept all my analog stuff - Oberheim Matrix 1000 and Alesis Andromeda and all my analog effects pedals and guitar tube amps. Digital stuff stuff doesn't cut it when playing high volumes live or just jamming. I don't know why. Works great for a studio and recording though but not fully by itself.
I think this is an excellent time for Linux to come in into the audio production market ( maybe also video production though I don't know anything about video production ).
Windows XP is a pain but a bearable pain to get the studio running around it. Vista probably will be impossible and a bad idea with all the DRM code lurking inside it. I don't want to go to a Mac environment together ( coz everything surrounding Mac is more expensinve, from the little accessories to the major controllers and such )
A nice open-source and very good audio layer for Linux ( for recording and monitoring etc ) will be a huge boon. An open source DAW system and a small blend of open source effects and synth plugins would be a boon. Then, a mixed cocktail of open source and commercial software would really make the Linux based studio wonderful.
Also suggest FoxyProxy and Tor for Google searches.
Though the problem is sometimes you connect to german or chinese google site and your results are skewed in the native language. However, reading Google ads for strange strange things is priceless.
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I'm scared whenever I get a iTunes update notification.
My first reaction always is, what feature did they remove in this update?
There was an ambulance that would go into a subway at a strip mall and when exiting would turn on it's lights so that it wouldn't have to wait in a long wait coming out of the strip mall.
People, including me, flat out started ignoring the lights of an ambulance coming out of that strip mall exit.
Or an alternative method is the Pinyin : it uses latin letters to write the sound. (And thus is interesting for computers on which latin keyboards are widespread).
It's all nice and good until you have to share an office with a Chinese and listen to him beat the spacebar to death trying to write his e-mail in Chinese.
Education has changed. It used to be difficult to find already answered questions. Not so anymore because of Google. The age of solving problem 1-10 from the book are over and the what of what is what is over.
All that needs to be done to address this is for the teachers to create new unique questions. Students will have pleasure of answering questions not solved by anyone before and also need to adapt all the content they have access to towards a term paper.
Education is sorely lacking behind everything. There is so much intertia in changing anything.
God I hate programmers who have switched from other disciplines. They friggin act as if they created a masterpiece when a crap script barely does something.
There should be some sort of limit on people like those in the computer field.
Wow, this sounds like hassling that has worked against TPB.
You host TPB servers. We will just randomly take the servers to the police station and shut down your business for weeks. And, you can't touch us with misconduct charges or anything.
I've found that DMCA removal patterns are through certain keywords. Company X puts in a few keywords and then sends DMCA takedown notices to everything that shows up in the search.
Maybe the video had different keywords than the other triumph of the nerds clips?
I use YouTube and other such video sites for computer seminars, lectures, symposium videos. Google videos is better for that since they don't have the 10 min time limit and don't have to hunt down part x of 8 and such. If you're defending your dissertation or giving a talk on something cool, please record it and post it on Google videos or youtube.
Also, for live performance of artists (not big name label artists but indies and such) but small artists and just musicians playing their instruments.
I think youtube and such is really pushing the video production aspects of amateur producers and soon people will make really decent videos.
Yeah, if you don't care about your student, staff and faculty privacy's, then using gmail (or microsoft mail) is fine.
Not only does Google get to store your e-mails, all the slashdot ads (by Google) are mapped with the gmail account, all your searches are mapped with the gmail account etc etc. Essentially, google gets to store which sites you go to, what searches you do and so on.
If you publish to a journal, the journal takes over the copyright. Your university's library has to pay the journal to get access to the article you wrote. And, of course, the price of journals have been skyrocketing lately...
Maybe my experience is different but I've worked with some of the older programmers. I've worked with someone with PhD in mechanical engineering and had turned into coder in the last 10 years. He's only older in age and not even with a good college background on computer science because I suspect it's started with learn java in 21 days. Sorry but knowing mechanical engineering does in help in writing web applications.
What is killing computer science in the university level in the US is the penis stench. There is absolutely no joy in a computer science class. It's full of boring ugly people. As a CS student, I was amazed how easily everyone found girlfriends and dates and I had to go to such lengths to even have some interaction with girls. CS as a subject is utterly fucked.
You have no idea of what arranged marriages are. In India, the men hardly interact with women to the scale that happens in the US - kinda like a big computer science department:)
But, ultimately, it has to be realized that if you don't let software developers in the US, the companies will outsource jobs to them. If you won't let companies outsource jobs as well, then the foreign developers will themselves form companies and make software to sell. What's the best out of the three?
Even though they were colonized the British, the Indians never learned the English charm. I doubt American actors are mad that a lot of acting jobs are taken over by British actors. But, however, local software engineers absolutely hate, and I mean HATE HATE, their Indian counterparts.
I'd say Vista is like a fat ugly lady dressed in very nice clothes. And, I'd say Vista users are like those people looking for a sugar mama going after glitz.
Network equipment maker Alcatel filed two lawsuits on Friday alleging infringement of seven of its patents. The patents cover a range of techniques aiding user authentication, network address translation, setting up data communications and transporting video.
Alcatel refused to say how Microsoft had infringed its patents, and wouldn't say which products caused the infringement. Lucent, which is due to merge with Alcatel by November 30, was already involved in a patent dispute with Microsoft over video-decoding technology in its Xbox 360.
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To recruit.
I've seen TV ads where an FPS turns into the US Army video - albeit a little "Saving Private Ryan" hue to it all - and then a "sarge" shouting about the real challenge.
The people who watch videos on youtube are the target recruiting age demographic.
True.
In going to work at Detroit, you'd probably get mugged and killed riding your bike.
In nicer places, you have to memorize all the trouble spots in your bike ride. Every mile has at least 10-20 spots where a car could crush you coming from your blind spot (if you're looking straight at the road).
Get with the times. ZPM is the energy source of choice now. Naquadah is backup.
What's the point of compressing JPEG,MP3,DivX etc since they already do the compression? The streams are close to random (with max information) and all you could compress would be the headers between blocks in movies or the ID3 tag in MP3.
Thank you for the wonderful information. I will certainly look into it.
I have been planning to put up an experimental Linux control center in my studio along with the Windows XP one.
Also been planning to put together a few synth and audio effects plugins together - since there are a lot of wonderful open-source high-quality research level libraries out there and would really love to experiment around with them.
I'm sort of envisoning a programming language style expression of music instead of the flashy GUIs that is in Windows and Macs. That is going to be part of my summer project :) The computer aspects will be little scripts and maybe some quick GUI like TCL gui for live performance.
I recently sold all my digital gear but kept all my analog stuff - Oberheim Matrix 1000 and Alesis Andromeda and all my analog effects pedals and guitar tube amps. Digital stuff stuff doesn't cut it when playing high volumes live or just jamming. I don't know why. Works great for a studio and recording though but not fully by itself.
I think this is an excellent time for Linux to come in into the audio production market ( maybe also video production though I don't know anything about video production ).
Windows XP is a pain but a bearable pain to get the studio running around it. Vista probably will be impossible and a bad idea with all the DRM code lurking inside it. I don't want to go to a Mac environment together ( coz everything surrounding Mac is more expensinve, from the little accessories to the major controllers and such )
A nice open-source and very good audio layer for Linux ( for recording and monitoring etc ) will be a huge boon. An open source DAW system and a small blend of open source effects and synth plugins would be a boon. Then, a mixed cocktail of open source and commercial software would really make the Linux based studio wonderful.
It's called getting old.
Also suggest FoxyProxy and Tor for Google searches.
Though the problem is sometimes you connect to german or chinese google site and your results are skewed in the native language. However, reading Google ads for strange strange things is priceless.
I'm scared whenever I get a iTunes update notification.
My first reaction always is, what feature did they remove in this update?
There was an ambulance that would go into a subway at a strip mall and when exiting would turn on it's lights so that it wouldn't have to wait in a long wait coming out of the strip mall.
People, including me, flat out started ignoring the lights of an ambulance coming out of that strip mall exit.
It's all nice and good until you have to share an office with a Chinese and listen to him beat the spacebar to death trying to write his e-mail in Chinese.
Education has changed. It used to be difficult to find already answered questions. Not so anymore because of Google. The age of solving problem 1-10 from the book are over and the what of what is what is over.
All that needs to be done to address this is for the teachers to create new unique questions. Students will have pleasure of answering questions not solved by anyone before and also need to adapt all the content they have access to towards a term paper.
Education is sorely lacking behind everything. There is so much intertia in changing anything.
God I hate programmers who have switched from other disciplines. They friggin act as if they created a masterpiece when a crap script barely does something.
There should be some sort of limit on people like those in the computer field.
Wow, this sounds like hassling that has worked against TPB.
You host TPB servers. We will just randomly take the servers to the police station and shut down your business for weeks. And, you can't touch us with misconduct charges or anything.
I've found that DMCA removal patterns are through certain keywords. Company X puts in a few keywords and then sends DMCA takedown notices to everything that shows up in the search.
Maybe the video had different keywords than the other triumph of the nerds clips?
I use YouTube and other such video sites for computer seminars, lectures, symposium videos. Google videos is better for that since they don't have the 10 min time limit and don't have to hunt down part x of 8 and such. If you're defending your dissertation or giving a talk on something cool, please record it and post it on Google videos or youtube.
Also, for live performance of artists (not big name label artists but indies and such) but small artists and just musicians playing their instruments.
I think youtube and such is really pushing the video production aspects of amateur producers and soon people will make really decent videos.
I'm a local musician and would like some of the free air time.
Anyone know how this can be done?
Yeah, if you don't care about your student, staff and faculty privacy's, then using gmail (or microsoft mail) is fine.
Not only does Google get to store your e-mails, all the slashdot ads (by Google) are mapped with the gmail account, all your searches are mapped with the gmail account etc etc. Essentially, google gets to store which sites you go to, what searches you do and so on.
I don't believe so.
If you publish to a journal, the journal takes over the copyright. Your university's library has to pay the journal to get access to the article you wrote. And, of course, the price of journals have been skyrocketing lately ...
Maybe my experience is different but I've worked with some of the older programmers. I've worked with someone with PhD in mechanical engineering and had turned into coder in the last 10 years. He's only older in age and not even with a good college background on computer science because I suspect it's started with learn java in 21 days. Sorry but knowing mechanical engineering does in help in writing web applications.
:)
What is killing computer science in the university level in the US is the penis stench. There is absolutely no joy in a computer science class. It's full of boring ugly people. As a CS student, I was amazed how easily everyone found girlfriends and dates and I had to go to such lengths to even have some interaction with girls. CS as a subject is utterly fucked.
You have no idea of what arranged marriages are. In India, the men hardly interact with women to the scale that happens in the US - kinda like a big computer science department
But, ultimately, it has to be realized that if you don't let software developers in the US, the companies will outsource jobs to them. If you won't let companies outsource jobs as well, then the foreign developers will themselves form companies and make software to sell. What's the best out of the three?
Even though they were colonized the British, the Indians never learned the English charm. I doubt American actors are mad that a lot of acting jobs are taken over by British actors. But, however, local software engineers absolutely hate, and I mean HATE HATE, their Indian counterparts.
Wouldn't all of this (Iran's nuclear and missile capabilities) stabilize the region?
US and USSR never in war because of MAD. Same with India and Pakistan.
Of course, people say the Iranians are crazy and not rational and so on. Yeah, right.
Since we are anthropomorphizing and all ..
I'd say Vista is like a fat ugly lady dressed in very nice clothes. And, I'd say Vista users are like those people looking for a sugar mama going after glitz.
Has begun, the patent wars.
Network equipment maker Alcatel filed two lawsuits on Friday alleging infringement of seven of its patents. The patents cover a range of techniques aiding user authentication, network address translation, setting up data communications and transporting video.
Alcatel refused to say how Microsoft had infringed its patents, and wouldn't say which products caused the infringement. Lucent, which is due to merge with Alcatel by November 30, was already involved in a patent dispute with Microsoft over video-decoding technology in its Xbox 360.