I've cleaned keyboards with alcohol plenty of times, works like a charm. It's a true lifesaver when you live in another country than your keyboard was manufactered for. But don't expect the keyboard to work perfectly immediately after a rubdown. Give it a few hours (up to 24).
HP sauce? You're talking about the fluid that leaks from printer ink cartridges, right? Bad idea- it tastes disgusting. Worse even than sucking a ballpoint pen.
say that the is a giant smiley face emoticon where the person's head is Better than blurring! Now let's hope they snap a picture of..... the Pope on a picture somewhere, getting out of a church. I bet he'd look charming with a smiley face:)
Exactly. All clods here suggesting facial blur only make things too complicated.
Long enough exposure times and even the blurs will become invisible- it's a simple matter of signal to noise ratio.
...called hd24tools. I have my reasons for wanting it closed- among other things to stay out of trouble with Alesis.
Go ahead and write closed-source- but be aware of the licenses of the libraries against which you link. FLTK is 100% liberal for any open or closed source use, be it commercial or not; mysql allows you to include it in commercial apps, as long as it is not the *only* database engine that your app supports. Libsndfile does not allow you to statically link to it in closed-source software, but requires you to provide the shared library. In my opinion that's a small price to pay, so that's how I distribute my software. Do check out the terms for each individual package that you use.
I suppose you have no trouble providing the source code of the GPL stuff that you use- but as long as you don't modify the GPL'd stuff you won't have to as the official source already *is* online. If you need to change the GPL'd stuff, put a fork online.
As for the bits that *you* write: Whatever license you put those bits under is your business. Give credit where credit is due- if you use zlib, no harm in thanking the authors. Don't take credit for stuff you didn't build.
Sorry but in this case the state sounds like the RIAA to me. They didn't see the revolution coming and now they're whining for a share.
Someone who is "home-brewing" fuel, whether it be bio-diesel, ethanol, or used cooking oil, ends up essentially using the roads for "free" as they don't pay the fuel tax. So do pedestrians who walk to the supermarket. Just because they don't drive cars, doesn't mean that they don't use the roads to benefit the transport system. As long as the fuel tax is used what it is intended for, this is fair. However, as it turns out, taxing cars is an easy way to finance all kinds of unrelated stuff. As a result, cars, fuel and roads are overtaxed. Why does fuel need to be taxed more than food? Because in its traditional form, it is a non-renewable, fossil resource.
Now the fact is that this mister bought foud and *used* it as fuel. Bad analogy: If he would've fed it to his horses for transport purposes it would have been all right, but if he puts it in his car it's a problem. In both cases the oil is oxidized to release its energy for transport purposes. Does it seem fair to you that one of these is taxed and the other is not?
If this guy would plant his own crop and harvest the oil and be completely self-sufficient, would it be fair that he'd be taxed? Even if the guy that powers his battery-operated vehicle with solar power isn't? Even though in both cases the energy is -in reality- solar based? I think we'll have to face the fact that legislation has some catching up to do to become fair again. The problem here is that 'fair' usually means 'more money for the state'. This guy is saving the planet and being punished for it.
If they were the 2nd biggest coffee shop chain in the world, the scorn would not exist.
I'm from the Netherlands. No starbucks at all to be found here- I guess they felt they couldn't compete with the Fine Products sold in coffee shops here:)
Some studios indeed attempt to make the end result of their recordings louder. Why? For one, because the client wants their recording to sound as loud as the other recordings they own. Another, better reason is because it will lift up some detail from below the noise floor into the audible range. Only thing is, there is such a thing as the 'maximum amplitude' that one can represent on the medium. Let's call it 10, these people want to push the volume up to 11 because it will give them a richer listening experience.
Now there are various way to do that in the studio. Simplest way is just to make it 'one louder'. Something along the lines of
1. select all,
2. amplitude->maximize,
3. amplitude->amplify->110%,
4. file->save
5. Profit!
However this will clip the sound (most likely the bassdrum, in the case of rock bands). This is what the article is complaining about. Example: the Californication album from the Red Hot Chilipeppers. With good (monitoring) speakers you can hear the clipping in the bassdrum. But it's trivial to see this clipping with a wave editor.
A better way to up the average volume is to use a dynamic range compressor- smooth out peaks to make them less high, then do amplitude->maximize, and the result is a louder sounding recording without audible artifacts (when properly done). Unless you have a trained studio ear, you'll rarely notice the loss of dynamics, because, that is what a dynamic range compressor is for. However, in extreme cases we *do* notice.
In classical recordings, louder passages may not "jump out" so much anymore). So instead of having a richer listening experience, you end up with a poorer one.
So it's all a tradeoff. The problem depends on the material that is recorded. You can't go and treat all music styles in the same way. Usually classical recordings do not contain as many 'little detail sounds' as current studio recordings, so you want to do as little as possible to the dynamic range and let the listener decide how loud (s)he wants it.
Pop recordings usually do not need as wide a dynamic range, so the sound level is upped artificially.
Either way, the sound engineers and record companies are aiming for the richest possible listening experience, albeit in different and opposite ways. In that sense sound engineers and programmers share one thing: they usually have big egos and like to badmouth their competition. Geoff Emerick doesn't seem to be an exception to the rule.
I am simply astonished at the flat wrongness of this assertion:
I stand corrected. Thank you for the numbers. These are just civil murders, right?
When you count murders with firearms per capita, the US falls to #8.
Then the US can be proud to still be in the top 5/top 10 respectively.
When you count all murders, with and without firearms, the US falls to #24.
Which only goes to show how much firearms contribute to the murder rate.
Only counting firearms, the makes the top 5/top 10.
Counting the rest as well, the US doesn't even make the top 20. Still sounds like a case against the use of firearms to me.
Then try running a Mac Plus *emulator* on modern hardware. I'd like to know how it measures up against the Real Thing, but I'd be surprised if it won't outrun the Real Thing by a factor gazillion.
If you measure productivity by response times, run software that is more responsive. Your hardware gives you that choice. Ever tried running Windows 3.1 on a 200 MHz pentium? It really *flies*.
Oh, and by the way- for fair comparison, also run a dual core emulator on the Mac Plus. I guess we have advanced after all.
Let everyone onboard with any weapon (firearm) they are legally permitted to carry otherwise. From my European perspective this is a Bad Idea. More innocent people are shot in the US than anywhere else in the world. might as well arm the pilots too while we are at it. Not as crazy as you think. Some people need to carry guns for their occupations (cops, for instance). What might happen is demonstrated by the case of an armed pilot of Garuda, Indonesian airways. Things more or less evolved in the following manner: Hijacker (as he enters the cockpit): "This plane is hijacked!" Pilot (shoots the hijacker) : "Not anymore." Not a single passenger got injured.
> Because I plan to retire to somewhere as rural as possible.
That sounds like a good idea. Keep in mind you'll be far away from hospitals, health care, conveniences etc. Better move there before you're too old to enjoy it.
My father was a chemist. He'd show all kinds of cool tricks: for example, he would let ground pepper float on water, then dip a matchstick treated with soap in it-- the pepper would run to the sides of the glass. This taught us something about surface tension. Likewise would the trick of sliding coins into a full glass of water until the water would rise above the level of the glass.
When we had red cabbage for dinner, he always asked my mom to save some of the boiling water- then would show how vinegar would turn it red, while dishwashing powder would turn it blue. At the time I may not have understood that the cabbage water was a acidity indicator, but it was cool to watch. Like was the time that he dropped a chunk of sodium in water.
You may not be able to pass all concepts and knowledge about science to your son yet. But you'll be able to trigger his interest with little science-based tricks such as the above. Find a book that lists a bunch, it can be great fun.
It's not there yet but it's getting there. Last time I still needed to recompile my kernel, but that supposedly won't be needed anymore. Right now I'm waiting for ubuntustudio. Yes, it's late a bit. The team is not making estimates about how much longer it will take but I've overheard them saying 'maybe this week'.
Ubuntustudio will include the Ingo Molnar low latency stuff by default. Most of the last bit of work is being focused on Ardour- the rest of the packages is already available on Feisty.
There are a few tricks on getting audio to work properly on Linux. It helps to get a proper, supported sound card (EMU10k1-based sound cards such as the Audigy that are internally locked to a 48kHz sample rate will cause you a lot of frustration). It helps a LOT to have synaptic and/or apt-get.
That said, I'm still running Dapper, which has been a big step forward since anything before it, but for actual recording work I'd still recommend a stand-alone solution, then mix the recorded audio 'in the box'. My Behringer DDX3216 and Alesis ADAT HD24 do the trick for me for recording purposes- but mixing on Ardour instead of the Behringer gives better sounding results.
For all you HD24 users out there, go grab a copy of hd24tools.
Audigy 2 and other EMU10k1 chipsets are locked to 48khz internally, which has caused me a lot of grief when wanting to play back stuff at other rates. If you're playing back 48k exclusively this is fine, otherwise better get a soundcard that supports the different sample rates of your choice natively.
...so installing a new box to my liking is mostly following the log of last time. Also, some of the parts of the install log end up in a script. Still, it takes me around a full day to get started on a fully new install. I work with 2 disks, if I do a new install, I always do this on a fresh disk- should I need something from the previous install, it'll be available. After some time, the 'old' disk stops being actively used, at which point I'm ready for a new install.
Which will be any moment now. Ubuntu Studio is coming!
"radium, polonium, radiocobalt, and other strong alpha emitters will emit a Czerinkon glow of blue when in the presence of hydrogen or water,".... or orcs.
The Britney Spears of the world didn't get big due to their solitary musical genius
As a musician, may I ask *what* musical genius? The music industry are the MacDonalds of music, pretending junk music is the only music there is. People are growing tired and suspicious of junk music, and now want to preview music before paying for it, from the convenience of their homes.
If a supermarket can have people sample free cubes of cheese and make a profit out of it, why can't the music industry? Because they're always selling the same tasteless plastic factory-crap.
As for Gucci, it's nothing more but the same mass-marketing concept for the would-be wealthy. Open your eyes. Decide on your *own* taste rather than always following around others.
this BS doesn't deserve to be here. Assuming you mean Britney Spears, I couldn't agree more. The future isn't in mass marketed junk music - it's in quality. THAT I'll gladly pay for.
"bees are disappearing -- not returning while searching for nectar and pollen. [...] Theories include viruses, some type of fungus, poor bee nutrition, and pesticides." What REALLY happened though, was that the bees got abducted by aliens. Complete with anal probes and everything.
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I've cleaned keyboards with alcohol plenty of times, works like a charm. It's a true lifesaver when you live in another country than your keyboard was manufactered for. But don't expect the keyboard to work perfectly immediately after a rubdown. Give it a few hours (up to 24).
HP sauce? You're talking about the fluid that leaks from printer ink cartridges, right? Bad idea- it tastes disgusting. Worse even than sucking a ballpoint pen.
say that the is a giant smiley face emoticon where the person's head is Better than blurring! Now let's hope they snap a picture of ..... the Pope on a picture somewhere, getting out of a church. I bet he'd look charming with a smiley face :)
Exactly. All clods here suggesting facial blur only make things too complicated. Long enough exposure times and even the blurs will become invisible- it's a simple matter of signal to noise ratio.
I wonder what will we blame next Google says Big Oil.
...called hd24tools. I have my reasons for wanting it closed- among other things to stay out of trouble with Alesis.
Go ahead and write closed-source- but be aware of the licenses of the libraries against which you link. FLTK is 100% liberal for any open or closed source use, be it commercial or not; mysql allows you to include it in commercial apps, as long as it is not the *only* database engine that your app supports. Libsndfile does not allow you to statically link to it in closed-source software, but requires you to provide the shared library. In my opinion that's a small price to pay, so that's how I distribute my software. Do check out the terms for each individual package that you use.
I suppose you have no trouble providing the source code of the GPL stuff that you use- but as long as you don't modify the GPL'd stuff you won't have to as the official source already *is* online. If you need to change the GPL'd stuff, put a fork online.
As for the bits that *you* write: Whatever license you put those bits under is your business. Give credit where credit is due- if you use zlib, no harm in thanking the authors. Don't take credit for stuff you didn't build.
Sorry but in this case the state sounds like the RIAA to me. They didn't see the revolution coming and now they're whining for a share.
Someone who is "home-brewing" fuel, whether it be bio-diesel, ethanol, or used cooking oil, ends up essentially using the roads for "free" as they don't pay the fuel tax. So do pedestrians who walk to the supermarket. Just because they don't drive cars, doesn't mean that they don't use the roads to benefit the transport system. As long as the fuel tax is used what it is intended for, this is fair. However, as it turns out, taxing cars is an easy way to finance all kinds of unrelated stuff. As a result, cars, fuel and roads are overtaxed. Why does fuel need to be taxed more than food? Because in its traditional form, it is a non-renewable, fossil resource.
Now the fact is that this mister bought foud and *used* it as fuel. Bad analogy: If he would've fed it to his horses for transport purposes it would have been all right, but if he puts it in his car it's a problem. In both cases the oil is oxidized to release its energy for transport purposes. Does it seem fair to you that one of these is taxed and the other is not?
If this guy would plant his own crop and harvest the oil and be completely self-sufficient, would it be fair that he'd be taxed? Even if the guy that powers his battery-operated vehicle with solar power isn't? Even though in both cases the energy is -in reality- solar based? I think we'll have to face the fact that legislation has some catching up to do to become fair again. The problem here is that 'fair' usually means 'more money for the state'. This guy is saving the planet and being punished for it.
You have a point. But then what if open source gets too big?
If they were the 2nd biggest coffee shop chain in the world, the scorn would not exist. I'm from the Netherlands. No starbucks at all to be found here- I guess they felt they couldn't compete with the Fine Products sold in coffee shops here :)
Some studios indeed attempt to make the end result of their recordings louder. Why? For one, because the client wants their recording to sound as loud as the other recordings they own. Another, better reason is because it will lift up some detail from below the noise floor into the audible range. Only thing is, there is such a thing as the 'maximum amplitude' that one can represent on the medium. Let's call it 10, these people want to push the volume up to 11 because it will give them a richer listening experience. Now there are various way to do that in the studio. Simplest way is just to make it 'one louder'. Something along the lines of 1. select all, 2. amplitude->maximize, 3. amplitude->amplify->110%, 4. file->save 5. Profit! However this will clip the sound (most likely the bassdrum, in the case of rock bands). This is what the article is complaining about. Example: the Californication album from the Red Hot Chilipeppers. With good (monitoring) speakers you can hear the clipping in the bassdrum. But it's trivial to see this clipping with a wave editor. A better way to up the average volume is to use a dynamic range compressor- smooth out peaks to make them less high, then do amplitude->maximize, and the result is a louder sounding recording without audible artifacts (when properly done). Unless you have a trained studio ear, you'll rarely notice the loss of dynamics, because, that is what a dynamic range compressor is for. However, in extreme cases we *do* notice. In classical recordings, louder passages may not "jump out" so much anymore). So instead of having a richer listening experience, you end up with a poorer one. So it's all a tradeoff. The problem depends on the material that is recorded. You can't go and treat all music styles in the same way. Usually classical recordings do not contain as many 'little detail sounds' as current studio recordings, so you want to do as little as possible to the dynamic range and let the listener decide how loud (s)he wants it. Pop recordings usually do not need as wide a dynamic range, so the sound level is upped artificially. Either way, the sound engineers and record companies are aiming for the richest possible listening experience, albeit in different and opposite ways. In that sense sound engineers and programmers share one thing: they usually have big egos and like to badmouth their competition. Geoff Emerick doesn't seem to be an exception to the rule.
You must be new here.
I am simply astonished at the flat wrongness of this assertion:
I stand corrected. Thank you for the numbers. These are just civil murders, right?
When you count murders with firearms per capita, the US falls to #8.
Then the US can be proud to still be in the top 5/top 10 respectively.
When you count all murders, with and without firearms, the US falls to #24.
Which only goes to show how much firearms contribute to the murder rate. Only counting firearms, the makes the top 5/top 10. Counting the rest as well, the US doesn't even make the top 20. Still sounds like a case against the use of firearms to me.
Then try running a Mac Plus *emulator* on modern hardware. I'd like to know how it measures up against the Real Thing, but I'd be surprised if it won't outrun the Real Thing by a factor gazillion.
If you measure productivity by response times, run software that is more responsive. Your hardware gives you that choice. Ever tried running Windows 3.1 on a 200 MHz pentium? It really *flies*.
Oh, and by the way- for fair comparison, also run a dual core emulator on the Mac Plus. I guess we have advanced after all.
Let everyone onboard with any weapon (firearm) they are legally permitted to carry otherwise.
From my European perspective this is a Bad Idea. More innocent people are shot in the US than anywhere else in the world.
might as well arm the pilots too while we are at it.
Not as crazy as you think. Some people need to carry guns for their occupations (cops, for instance). What might happen is demonstrated by the case of an armed pilot of Garuda, Indonesian airways. Things more or less evolved in the following manner:
Hijacker (as he enters the cockpit): "This plane is hijacked!"
Pilot (shoots the hijacker) : "Not anymore."
Not a single passenger got injured.
> Did you ever see Terminator 3? Assuming it's as bad as they say- thankfully I didn't.
> Because I plan to retire to somewhere as rural as possible.
That sounds like a good idea. Keep in mind you'll be far away from hospitals, health care, conveniences etc.
Better move there before you're too old to enjoy it.
Prepaid phone.
My father was a chemist. He'd show all kinds of cool tricks: for example, he would let ground pepper float on water, then dip a matchstick treated with soap in it-- the pepper would run to the sides of the glass. This taught us something about surface tension. Likewise would the trick of sliding coins into a full glass of water until the water would rise above the level of the glass.
When we had red cabbage for dinner, he always asked my mom to save some of the boiling water- then would show how vinegar would turn it red, while dishwashing powder would turn it blue. At the time I may not have understood that the cabbage water was a acidity indicator, but it was cool to watch. Like was the time that he dropped a chunk of sodium in water.
You may not be able to pass all concepts and knowledge about science to your son yet. But you'll be able to trigger his interest with little science-based tricks such as the above. Find a book that lists a bunch, it can be great fun.
The lastest news is that "maybe this week" it will be released.
It's not there yet but it's getting there. Last time I still needed to recompile my kernel, but that supposedly won't be needed anymore. Right now I'm waiting for ubuntustudio. Yes, it's late a bit. The team is not making estimates about how much longer it will take but I've overheard them saying 'maybe this week'. Ubuntustudio will include the Ingo Molnar low latency stuff by default. Most of the last bit of work is being focused on Ardour- the rest of the packages is already available on Feisty. There are a few tricks on getting audio to work properly on Linux. It helps to get a proper, supported sound card (EMU10k1-based sound cards such as the Audigy that are internally locked to a 48kHz sample rate will cause you a lot of frustration). It helps a LOT to have synaptic and/or apt-get. That said, I'm still running Dapper, which has been a big step forward since anything before it, but for actual recording work I'd still recommend a stand-alone solution, then mix the recorded audio 'in the box'. My Behringer DDX3216 and Alesis ADAT HD24 do the trick for me for recording purposes- but mixing on Ardour instead of the Behringer gives better sounding results. For all you HD24 users out there, go grab a copy of hd24tools.
Audigy 2 and other EMU10k1 chipsets are locked to 48khz internally, which has caused me a lot of grief when wanting to play back stuff at other rates. If you're playing back 48k exclusively this is fine, otherwise better get a soundcard that supports the different sample rates of your choice natively.
...so installing a new box to my liking is mostly following the log of last time. Also, some of the parts of the install log end up in a script. Still, it takes me around a full day to get started on a fully new install. I work with 2 disks, if I do a new install, I always do this on a fresh disk- should I need something from the previous install, it'll be available. After some time, the 'old' disk stops being actively used, at which point I'm ready for a new install.
Which will be any moment now. Ubuntu Studio is coming!
"radium, polonium, radiocobalt, and other strong alpha emitters will emit a Czerinkon glow of blue when in the presence of hydrogen or water," .... or orcs.
The Britney Spears of the world didn't get big due to their solitary musical genius
As a musician, may I ask *what* musical genius? The music industry are the MacDonalds of music, pretending junk music is the only music there is. People are growing tired and suspicious of junk music, and now want to preview music before paying for it, from the convenience of their homes.
If a supermarket can have people sample free cubes of cheese and make a profit out of it, why can't the music industry? Because they're always selling the same tasteless plastic factory-crap.
As for Gucci, it's nothing more but the same mass-marketing concept for the would-be wealthy. Open your eyes. Decide on your *own* taste rather than always following around others.
this BS doesn't deserve to be here. Assuming you mean Britney Spears, I couldn't agree more. The future isn't in mass marketed junk music - it's in quality. THAT I'll gladly pay for.
"bees are disappearing -- not returning while searching for nectar and pollen. [...] Theories include viruses, some type of fungus, poor bee nutrition, and pesticides." What REALLY happened though, was that the bees got abducted by aliens. Complete with anal probes and everything.