MIDI is notorious for its poor time resolution True. with a clock of only 1khz False. MIDI interfaces run at 31250 bit per second, which gives (including start- and stopbit) for 3125 bytes. Although it is true that a note-on or note-off generally takes 3 bytes (which I suspect is why you say the clock is 3000/3=1 khz), MIDI distinguishes between data bytes (msb unset) and command bytes (msb set).
Thus, (hex) 80 6c 3c would mean 'note on, channel 0' 'key 6c' 'velocity 3c'. When the command is not repeated for the next MIDI message, the same channel and command are assumed. Additionally a note on with zero velocity is considered a note off. Thus, when playing a piece on channel 0, most of the time 2 bytes per note suffice, allowing for over 1500 notes to be played per second:
80 6c 3c 6c 00 6c 3c 6c 00 6c 3c 6c 3c
would strike and release note 6c several times. Of course a periodic 'note on, channel 0' every now and then would help other devices to sync with the MIDI stream, in case they missed the first command byte 80.
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The "perfect container" is a tarball. Anything else you want to do (install wizard, compile script, install script, what have you) belongs outside of the package container. Need a one-click installation procedure? Include the script in the tarball, and provide a GUI that reads the contents of the tarball and lets you run a program from within the tarball (KDE has apps that can do this, for example).
Sounds like a plan. If I assume users don't want to know about anything but clicking something and seeing it work, what about a distro associating tarballs with an app that checks if the tarball contains an autorun script? By clicking the tarball it could then ask "This tarball contains an installer. Do you want to install this application?"
For compatibility reasons, if an autorun script wouldnt be there, the installer app could also check if the tarball would contain./configure and run./configure; make; sudo make install. It would also be nice if any config flags could be presented to me so that I could set them interactively, instead of having to go through a lot of reading. For rpm packages inside the tarball an installer app could either run rpm or alien depending on the distro. This doesn't seem so hard, so far. What might be a bit trickier would be to have the configure script ask "this application depends on such-and-such libraries which you don't have. Do you want to install them too?"
The point that I'm trying to make is not that installing apps on linux is difficult (in many cases it isn't) but that it isn't being made as easy as it could. I run Linux exclusively, but must say that when it comes to ease of installing software, MS did do something right (sometimes you don't even need to run an installer;D )
For installing purposes, apt is nice, synaptic nicer, and if I wouldn't have to worry about messing up my system by mixing tarballs and apt, it would be even nicer.
I tried a 5% alcohol solution once. Didn't work too well, big trouble. Rinsing it with water, opening it up and blowdrying it got it back to life though.
HA! Just watch me! I'll pour any damn liquid on there I want! There, doone! Anmd itttttttttttttttt sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssstuiuiuil ll wwwwrrks perrdfgdfgctttttttttttttttttttttttlllyy!@@@#@@@
That's nothing! I have Windows XP SP2 running Windows XP SP2 running Windows XP SP2 running Windows XP SP2 running Windows XP SP2 running Windows XP SP2 running in Virtual PC right now!
> Highly recommend it if you want to laugh your ass off.
Come on in that case, *someone* give it the one missing mod point to move it up to +5 then? Thank-you.
I go to google maps, I scroll to the east from the U.S..... nothing but water there... further to the east of course its the U.S. again. My Europe must've been hit by a tsunami too now...:O:O I'm really too lazy to look out of the window now, anyone heard it on the news yet? Meanwhile here on the 6th floor my feet are still dry, but go ahead and start transferring money to my account already;)
I thought they were still in the process of finding out *if* there is any life on Mars -- and so far the evidence points in the direction that there might be. So, before we're sure that anything alive exists over there, let's send nanobots there (did anyone mention self-reproducing?) and possibly mess up any possibly existing life before we've had a chance to study it. Sounds like a solid plan to me (not). Not to mention the democracy of the process. Does anyone here on earth get to have a vote on this, or do they simply decide?
Anyone care to clue me in with a link on how to play the theora stream with mplayer? (The AVI plays fine, just interested in keeping my mplayer play *everything* and ogg video isn't there yet)
I hadn't ever heard about this two-factor authentication thingy yet. According to this paper, an example of two-factor identification is an atm machine card and a PIN code. One identifies who you are, the other is matched to the first and only if you have both, you're in. Theft of either of the two doesn't compromise security.
So if I got this straight, first MS had two-factor identification (username and password), then allowed the users to click on a username(icon) so that they would only need to enter a password. Now they go back to what they did before and market it as better security. Of course I must be missing something- another poster pointed out two-factor authentication of being a combination of 'something you have and something you know', meaning a tangible object and something that goes along with it. Biometrics come to mind, fingerprint-recognizing keyboards have been around for ages at low price but never seemed to catch on because fingerprint scanners are too easy to fool. With this two-factor authentication thing, finally we would be able to use our fingerprint to for logging in, but without the promise of never needing passwords anymore... instead it is added to the password as an extra layer of security. But in any case the 'something you know' probably keeps coming down to either (still) a password, or answering secret questions about your early childhood that you really wouldn't want anyone to know about. Great opportunity for people to start blackmailing you;)
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MIDI is notorious for its poor time resolution True. with a clock of only 1khz False. MIDI interfaces run at 31250 bit per second, which gives (including start- and stopbit) for 3125 bytes. Although it is true that a note-on or note-off generally takes 3 bytes (which I suspect is why you say the clock is 3000/3=1 khz), MIDI distinguishes between data bytes (msb unset) and command bytes (msb set).
Thus, (hex) 80 6c 3c would mean 'note on, channel 0' 'key 6c' 'velocity 3c'. When the command is not repeated for the next MIDI message, the same channel and command are assumed. Additionally a note on with zero velocity is considered a note off. Thus, when playing a piece on channel 0, most of the time 2 bytes per note suffice, allowing for over 1500 notes to be played per second:
80 6c 3c 6c 00 6c 3c 6c 00 6c 3c 6c 3c
would strike and release note 6c several times.
Of course a periodic 'note on, channel 0' every now and then would help other devices to sync with the MIDI stream, in case they missed the first command byte 80.
-- If I missed something here please kindly hit me with the cluebat.
They prolly cleaned it first with gwc :)
if you can't fight 'em, then join 'em or in other words... "Borg, you will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."
The "perfect container" is a tarball. Anything else you want to do (install wizard, compile script, install script, what have you) belongs outside of the package container. Need a one-click installation procedure? Include the script in the tarball, and provide a GUI that reads the contents of the tarball and lets you run a program from within the tarball (KDE has apps that can do this, for example).
./configure and run ./configure; make; sudo make install. It would also be nice if any config flags could be presented to me so that I could set them interactively, instead of having to go through a lot of reading. For rpm packages inside the tarball an installer app could either run rpm or alien depending on the distro. This doesn't seem so hard, so far. What might be a bit trickier would be to have the configure script ask "this application depends on such-and-such libraries which you don't have. Do you want to install them too?"
;D )
Sounds like a plan. If I assume users don't want to know about anything but clicking something and seeing it work, what about a distro associating tarballs with an app that checks if the tarball contains an autorun script? By clicking the tarball it could then ask "This tarball contains an installer. Do you want to install this application?"
For compatibility reasons, if an autorun script wouldnt be there, the installer app could also check if the tarball would contain
The point that I'm trying to make is not that installing apps on linux is difficult (in many cases it isn't) but that it isn't being made as easy as it could. I run Linux exclusively, but must say that when it comes to ease of installing software, MS did do something right (sometimes you don't even need to run an installer
For installing purposes, apt is nice, synaptic nicer, and if I wouldn't have to worry about messing up my system by mixing tarballs and apt, it would be even nicer.
... to limit this to commercial works. I'd hate to go to jail for sharing GPL'd software. Oh wait a minute, I'm in Europe.
This story is a fib, but it's short. The names are made up but the problems are real. --- Dum dee dum dum! Dum dee dum dum doooooooooooooo!
Simple. Use 2 hashes, for example 1 SHA and 1 MD5. Now try to generate a junk file of the correct length that matches *both* hashes.
Yeah but it was seven lines of *perl* code. In justa about any other language it would have taken 700.
For the last time - - I.... am.... NOT .... ANGRY!
I tried a 5% alcohol solution once. Didn't work too well, big trouble. Rinsing it with water, opening it up and blowdrying it got it back to life though.
HA! Just watch me! I'll pour any damn liquid on there I want! There, doone! Anmd itttttttttttttttt sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssstuiuiuil ll wwwwrrks perrdfgdfgctttttttttttttttttttttttlllyy!@@@#@@@
Yeah, same collar but they'll electrocute you if you say something they don't like.
That's nothing! I have Windows XP SP2 running Windows XP SP2 running Windows XP SP2 running Windows XP SP2 running Windows XP SP2 running Windows XP SP2 running in Virtual PC right now!
> Highly recommend it if you want to laugh your ass off. Come on in that case, *someone* give it the one missing mod point to move it up to +5 then? Thank-you.
I'm all for it. As long as Zimmer does the music again.
I go to google maps, I scroll to the east from the U.S. .... nothing but water there... further to the east of course its the U.S. again. My Europe must've been hit by a tsunami too now... :O :O I'm really too lazy to look out of the window now, anyone heard it on the news yet? Meanwhile here on the 6th floor my feet are still dry, but go ahead and start transferring money to my account already ;)
me too
People want toys. Imagine how many teenagers would think themselves t3H c00l357 with fluorescent body parts.
I thought they were still in the process of finding out *if* there is any life on Mars -- and so far the evidence points in the direction that there might be. So, before we're sure that anything alive exists over there, let's send nanobots there (did anyone mention self-reproducing?) and possibly mess up any possibly existing life before we've had a chance to study it. Sounds like a solid plan to me (not). Not to mention the democracy of the process. Does anyone here on earth get to have a vote on this, or do they simply decide?
was 'pencil'. That week. Written down on a piece of paper carefully kept in the drawer.
They could make an awsome TV show out of this. And it will be called... "The Running Man"
Anyone care to clue me in with a link on how to play the theora stream with mplayer? (The AVI plays fine, just interested in keeping my mplayer play *everything* and ogg video isn't there yet)
"Scrabble" does belong to Hasbro.
We used to have this game home, "boardscript".
I hadn't ever heard about this two-factor authentication thingy yet. According to this paper, an example of two-factor identification is an atm machine card and a PIN code. One identifies who you are, the other is matched to the first and only if you have both, you're in. Theft of either of the two doesn't compromise security.
;)
So if I got this straight, first MS had two-factor identification (username and password), then allowed the users to click on a username(icon) so that they would only need to enter a password. Now they go back to what they did before and market it as better security. Of course I must be missing something- another poster pointed out two-factor authentication of being a combination of 'something you have and something you know', meaning a tangible object and something that goes along with it. Biometrics come to mind, fingerprint-recognizing keyboards have been around for ages at low price but never seemed to catch on because fingerprint scanners are too easy to fool. With this two-factor authentication thing, finally we would be able to use our fingerprint to for logging in, but without the promise of never needing passwords anymore... instead it is added to the password as an extra layer of security. But in any case the 'something you know' probably keeps coming down to either (still) a password, or answering secret questions about your early childhood that you really wouldn't want anyone to know about. Great opportunity for people to start blackmailing you
Did I get that about right?