To me, Tool's Lateralus is the most amazing piece of music ever composed. I think Tool deliberately wanted to give their fans something truly amazing, but wanted them to find it on their own.
"Recognize this as a holy gift..."
At first, I thought that the song Lateralus was about tripping acid - discovering true color by seperating the body from the mind. At first listen, I imagined the bending envelope as an intense visual. After becoming more familiar with the track, however, I had reformed my interpretation to something broader: think deeper.
Lateralus, perhaps because it is the album's "title track", serves as the central clue for a puzzle that a friend of mine had read about somewhere on the internet. "All I know is that there is a different order for the songs - something about two spirals. Oh yeah, and thirteen is in the middle."
After scavenging through endless google search results, I gave up on finding more about this 'alternate order'. Intent to figure the album out, and very curious about the spirals, I put on the proverbial 'thinking cap'. I understood how the spirals could have a lot of significance, in that the album's title track offers the inspiring, "Swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human" and "following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been. We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been."
In my internet scavenging, I had read one review, written by a drummer, who mentioned that Danny Carey's drum beat formed a fibonacci sequence during the song Lateralus. A drummer myself, I decided to get out the graph paper and follow Danny. I can't play like he can, but at least I can hear everything he's doing, and thus was able to construct the drum tabulature. Sure enough, Danny repeats a Fibonacci sequence through the number 13: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13. After 13, he starts again with 1. Bringing in my Algebra 2 knowledge of the Fibonacci sequence, when the equation for the Fibonacci sequence (which
I don't actually know) is graphed, it forms a sprial whose vertex depends on the number at which the sequence begins. Coincidence? I began to think not.
I had already known of Danny's obsession with sacred geometry and am familiar with Bob Frissell's book, Nothing in
This Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are , so the significance of what I had stumbled upon had actually begun to settle in. This is where I just had to play with Lateralus. I had doodled a few spirals in the corners of my graph paper, and in doing so made the first important connection to Lateralus.
I knew that if the tracks were in fact intended to be heard in a different order, "Parabol" and "Parabola" would have to go together. In drawing my spirals, I had begun with a vertex and 'spiraled' outwards. After writing the numbers 1 through 13 linearly, I could immediately see that Parabol and Parabola would have to be the middle of my spiral (in that 13 / 2 = 6.5). I drew a simple arrow between 6 and 7 and then pondered the next pair.
At first, I actually drew a spiral connecting pairs of numbers whose sum equaled 13 (the number of songs on the album). This, however, left the last track in the same position and without anything to connect to. At this time, I had used my copy of Lateralus and Cool Edit Pro to take out the silences between tracks and put the songs in the following order: 6,7,5,8,4,9,3,10,2,11,1,12,13.
The transition from Parabola into Schism blew my mind, as the plucks, probably dismissed by listeners as a drawn out rant of an ending, perfectly transition into the beginning of Schism. When you count out beats as the strings are plucked, Schism resumes with the same time signature and tempo - mirroring the progression of notes. The transition from Schism into
Ticks & Leeches is equally intriguing. Schism ends with strong double-kick bass and tom smacks, and Ticks & Leeches begins with what many would call a 'tribal' drum beat. The beat at the very start of Ticks & Leeches is slightly different every subsequent time it is repeated - the measures are two bea
There does not seem to be any way to gracefully undo such errors.
From the article:
Such losses would have been prevented if the markets had not resumed trading until a decision was made on which trades, if any, should be canceled. But with markets intensely competitive, trading resumed before officials had made their decisions. The losers were traders who were not responsible for the errors or the slow decision making.
Giving away a feature-crippled version and them selling a non-crippled version is a disturbing step
What they're allowing people to download now is beta. I would assume the final release (like what will be on store shelves when it's finished) will work just fine, regardless of where you got it.
All the "bad guys" (Microsoft, MPAA, RIAA, etc...) have more money than all the freedom-minded slashdot users could ever gather together. They pay professional writers to create/. users to post professionally-written FUD and stick around 'till they get mod points. Then they use the mod points to mod up professionally-written (i.e. paid) FUD. THEN they use the older accounts to metamod any negative moderations to their FUD. This is obvious. Wake up. They control. Do not let your opinion be swayed by paid slashdotters. I mean, come on! There are no restrictions on creating new users. They have the resources to hire armies of "people" to flood/., and any other site that has anti-MS, anti-MPAA, or anti-RIAA propaganda. Anyone else notice the slow increase of "WinXP works for me!" posts lately? Or the slow shifting towards "MS sucks, Linux rules" being modded down and "I don't know why you dis MS. It works for me."-type posts becoming the/. norm? They have the money. They can do this! Just like when MS hired all the most experienced anti-trust lawyers and stuck them with bullshit legal issues to keep the gov from bringing those same lawyers to bear against MS! The policy makers in Washington have been bought, paid for, and delivered. The line must be drawn here!
I'm too tired to provide links right now. Go googling on your own. I'm leaving civilization for a few days, and I'll be back near the beginning of the week. Think for yourself. Question authority.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
This article sucks, and the/. write-up sucks more. It has virtually nothing to do with id, Doom, or games in general. They're visualizing data sets, not shooting rockets at each other at 60 FPS (or 8 fps in the Doom3 demo;). Rendering static, previously collected data Vs. On-the-fly rendering of a rapidly changing dynamic environment.What should one expect from an anon submission, though?:P
And how bout these amazing captions? They read like a typical/. dupe. (similarities highlighted)
IMAGE CAPTION 1: This image of a human cranium was created with a new kind of computer-imaging software that uses the ancient technique of stippling to convert complex medical data into 3-D images that can be quickly viewed by medical professionals. Data from CT scans were converted into dots to create the stippled image. Cave dwellers and artisans used stippling thousands of years ago to create figures by painting or carving a series of tiny dots. More recently, 19th century Parisian artist Georges Seurat used the method, also called pointillism, to draw colorful, intricately detailed works. Because dots are the most simple visual element in a picture, they also are ideal for computer visualizations.
IMAGE CAPTION 2: This picture of a human foot was created with a new kind of computer-imaging software that uses the ancient technique of stippling to convert complex medical data into 3-D images that can be quickly viewed by medical professionals. In this image, data from CT scans were converted into dots to create the stippled image. Stippling uses tiny dots to create an image. Because dots are the most simple visual element in a picture, they also are ideal for computer visualizations.
Oh well, at least their subjects and verbs agreed in number. (...data......were...)
...and easy to disable without breaking the antenna. Might take a couple of tries, but I doubt it would take long for you to find a suitable cover for the antenna that blocked/disrupted the signal.
I know it's not the same thing, but simply covering the antenna of a GPS unit with your hand almost always renders it useless. (I'm not suggesting you ride down the road with your hand on top of the car. My point is it should be relative simple to "break".)
"Geeze. I dunno, boss. I didn't notice it was malfunctioning when I was out on the road."
Of course bossman would probably get suspicious if it was ALWAYS not working when a particular employee was using said vehicle.
(Please be kind with your modding. I tried to submit this an hour ago but submissions were broken.)
I sure could use a vacation from this bull shit three ring circus side show...
Thanks for chiming in, Maynard. It makes me feel good to know the members of Tool read/. Makes me feel even closer to the band. How's the tour going? Yall are on you 2nd day of break, right? Well, ya rocked ass in Richmond, VA. Keep up the good work.
In the BOOK Jurasic Park, they were Crays. I distinctly recall some character asking about the data-crunching needs of the island (since they were sequencing DNA) and dude replies, matter-of-factly, "Three Cray." To which the inquiring character nearly shits pants. OFFTOPIC: JPark book was much better that movie. Higher body count, numerous other things.
I don't know the model, but they were Crays in JPark. Crays are supposed to be kinda nice.;) I wouldn't know. I did get to play on 12 SGI Onyxes once at Disneyworld.
I forgot...
So, there are "games" you can play, where you accomplish nothing, learn nothing and do nothing... and now you don't even have to play?!? You can just BUY your way into a powerful character without having to go through the annoying trouble of GAINING EXPERIENCE? Why not just masturbate? Sounds too much like real life. The people who engage in such practices need not share our oxygen.
*off to gain some REAL LIFE levels*
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To me, Tool's Lateralus is the most amazing piece of music ever composed. I think Tool deliberately wanted to give their fans something truly amazing, but wanted them to find it on their own. "Recognize this as a holy gift..." At first, I thought that the song Lateralus was about tripping acid - discovering true color by seperating the body from the mind. At first listen, I imagined the bending envelope as an intense visual. After becoming more familiar with the track, however, I had reformed my interpretation to something broader: think deeper. Lateralus, perhaps because it is the album's "title track", serves as the central clue for a puzzle that a friend of mine had read about somewhere on the internet. "All I know is that there is a different order for the songs - something about two spirals. Oh yeah, and thirteen is in the middle." After scavenging through endless google search results, I gave up on finding more about this 'alternate order'. Intent to figure the album out, and very curious about the spirals, I put on the proverbial 'thinking cap'. I understood how the spirals could have a lot of significance, in that the album's title track offers the inspiring, "Swing on the spiral of our divinity and still be a human" and "following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been. We'll ride the spiral to the end and may just go where no one's been." In my internet scavenging, I had read one review, written by a drummer, who mentioned that Danny Carey's drum beat formed a fibonacci sequence during the song Lateralus. A drummer myself, I decided to get out the graph paper and follow Danny. I can't play like he can, but at least I can hear everything he's doing, and thus was able to construct the drum tabulature. Sure enough, Danny repeats a Fibonacci sequence through the number 13: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13. After 13, he starts again with 1. Bringing in my Algebra 2 knowledge of the Fibonacci sequence, when the equation for the Fibonacci sequence (which I don't actually know) is graphed, it forms a sprial whose vertex depends on the number at which the sequence begins. Coincidence? I began to think not. I had already known of Danny's obsession with sacred geometry and am familiar with Bob Frissell's book, Nothing in This Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are , so the significance of what I had stumbled upon had actually begun to settle in. This is where I just had to play with Lateralus. I had doodled a few spirals in the corners of my graph paper, and in doing so made the first important connection to Lateralus. I knew that if the tracks were in fact intended to be heard in a different order, "Parabol" and "Parabola" would have to go together. In drawing my spirals, I had begun with a vertex and 'spiraled' outwards. After writing the numbers 1 through 13 linearly, I could immediately see that Parabol and Parabola would have to be the middle of my spiral (in that 13 / 2 = 6.5). I drew a simple arrow between 6 and 7 and then pondered the next pair. At first, I actually drew a spiral connecting pairs of numbers whose sum equaled 13 (the number of songs on the album). This, however, left the last track in the same position and without anything to connect to. At this time, I had used my copy of Lateralus and Cool Edit Pro to take out the silences between tracks and put the songs in the following order: 6,7,5,8,4,9,3,10,2,11,1,12,13. The transition from Parabola into Schism blew my mind, as the plucks, probably dismissed by listeners as a drawn out rant of an ending, perfectly transition into the beginning of Schism. When you count out beats as the strings are plucked, Schism resumes with the same time signature and tempo - mirroring the progression of notes. The transition from Schism into Ticks & Leeches is equally intriguing. Schism ends with strong double-kick bass and tom smacks, and Ticks & Leeches begins with what many would call a 'tribal' drum beat. The beat at the very start of Ticks & Leeches is slightly different every subsequent time it is repeated - the measures are two bea
It's the only way to be sure.
We went through all these questions last month. You can use your own key, or none at all. Jeezus.
I agree. I would have modded grandparent -1 RTFM.
...THE PRESENT
think Another 900 seconds has passed. time()
Who got the goods?
/. write up:
There does not seem to be any way to gracefully undo such errors.
From the article:
Such losses would have been prevented if the markets had not resumed trading until a decision was made on which trades, if any, should be canceled. But with markets intensely competitive, trading resumed before officials had made their decisions. The losers were traders who were not responsible for the errors or the slow decision making.
But I guess hindsight is 20-20, right?
...please have your credit card and/or other billing methods handy.
Hell, I hope they don't retroactively charge that... Soooo many floppies I've formatted.
Giving away a feature-crippled version and them selling a non-crippled version is a disturbing step
What they're allowing people to download now is beta. I would assume the final release (like what will be on store shelves when it's finished) will work just fine, regardless of where you got it.
What?Yyou are all guys filled with turkey birds?
Every time someone vocalizes thier opinion, they have to finish with a Karma score joke or something.
/.er 1: "Yeah, I'm running Mandrake 9.1. Here are the cds if you want it. What're you running? Karma: bitchin, mostly due to your Camaro."
/.er 2: "Slackware, man. Keep yer frenchie distro. Dot sig. Insert funny sig here."
/.er 3: "Well, I build my own linux system myself. Those give away thier freedom to achieve a sense of security get nothing in return. Thomas Adams."
I don't get it. What department of /. is this story supposed to be filed under?
All the "bad guys" (Microsoft, MPAA, RIAA, etc...) have more money than all the freedom-minded slashdot users could ever gather together. They pay professional writers to create /. users to post professionally-written FUD and stick around 'till they get mod points. Then they use the mod points to mod up professionally-written (i.e. paid) FUD. THEN they use the older accounts to metamod any negative moderations to their FUD. This is obvious. Wake up. They control. Do not let your opinion be swayed by paid slashdotters. I mean, come on! There are no restrictions on creating new users. They have the resources to hire armies of "people" to flood /., and any other site that has anti-MS, anti-MPAA, or anti-RIAA propaganda. Anyone else notice the slow increase of "WinXP works for me!" posts lately? Or the slow shifting towards "MS sucks, Linux rules" being modded down and "I don't know why you dis MS. It works for me."-type posts becoming the /. norm? They have the money. They can do this! Just like when MS hired all the most experienced anti-trust lawyers and stuck them with bullshit legal issues to keep the gov from bringing those same lawyers to bear against MS! The policy makers in Washington have been bought, paid for, and delivered. The line must be drawn here!
I'm too tired to provide links right now. Go googling on your own. I'm leaving civilization for a few days, and I'll be back near the beginning of the week. Think for yourself. Question authority.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
In the future EVERYONE is in a band.
...TROLL moderates YOU!
Could you elucidate on that? Sounds intriguing.
This article sucks, and the /. write-up sucks more. It has virtually nothing to do with id, Doom, or games in general. They're visualizing data sets, not shooting rockets at each other at 60 FPS (or 8 fps in the Doom3 demo ;). Rendering static, previously collected data Vs. On-the-fly rendering of a rapidly changing dynamic environment.What should one expect from an anon submission, though? :P
/. dupe. (similarities highlighted)
...were...)
And how bout these amazing captions? They read like a typical
IMAGE CAPTION 1: This image of a human cranium was created with a new kind of computer-imaging software that uses the ancient technique of stippling to convert complex medical data into 3-D images that can be quickly viewed by medical professionals. Data from CT scans were converted into dots to create the stippled image. Cave dwellers and artisans used stippling thousands of years ago to create figures by painting or carving a series of tiny dots. More recently, 19th century Parisian artist Georges Seurat used the method, also called pointillism, to draw colorful, intricately detailed works. Because dots are the most simple visual element in a picture, they also are ideal for computer visualizations.
IMAGE CAPTION 2: This picture of a human foot was created with a new kind of computer-imaging software that uses the ancient technique of stippling to convert complex medical data into 3-D images that can be quickly viewed by medical professionals. In this image, data from CT scans were converted into dots to create the stippled image. Stippling uses tiny dots to create an image. Because dots are the most simple visual element in a picture, they also are ideal for computer visualizations.
Oh well, at least their subjects and verbs agreed in number. (...data...
...and easy to disable without breaking the antenna. Might take a couple of tries, but I doubt it would take long for you to find a suitable cover for the antenna that blocked/disrupted the signal.
I know it's not the same thing, but simply covering the antenna of a GPS unit with your hand almost always renders it useless. (I'm not suggesting you ride down the road with your hand on top of the car. My point is it should be relative simple to "break".)
"Geeze. I dunno, boss. I didn't notice it was malfunctioning when I was out on the road."
Of course bossman would probably get suspicious if it was ALWAYS not working when a particular employee was using said vehicle.
(Please be kind with your modding. I tried to submit this an hour ago but submissions were broken.)
Screw-top wine! So, so fine! *hic* Don't need no corkscrew to make th' world shine!
In the BOOK Jurasic Park, they were Crays. I distinctly recall some character asking about the data-crunching needs of the island (since they were sequencing DNA) and dude replies, matter-of-factly, "Three Cray." To which the inquiring character nearly shits pants. OFFTOPIC: JPark book was much better that movie. Higher body count, numerous other things.
I don't know the model, but they were Crays in JPark. Crays are supposed to be kinda nice. ;) I wouldn't know. I did get to play on 12 SGI Onyxes once at Disneyworld.
I forgot... So, there are "games" you can play, where you accomplish nothing, learn nothing and do nothing... and now you don't even have to play?!? You can just BUY your way into a powerful character without having to go through the annoying trouble of GAINING EXPERIENCE? Why not just masturbate? Sounds too much like real life. The people who engage in such practices need not share our oxygen. *off to gain some REAL LIFE levels*
I am unfamiliar with Alice. What platform? Also of note is the GameCube game Eternal Darkness, with its sanity meter and wild hallucinations.