that's actually a great idea...
If some software could analyze your current jukebox and boil it down to say, types of sounds you like, arrangments you like, melodies, keys, and tempos...you could have music delievered to you that you stand a better chance of liking.
Maybe throw in some sort of intelligent randomizer so you could branch out occasionally and not end up with a HD full of knock-off bands)
Now, if this thing could understand that I like Merzbow AND Air, I would be ultra impressed!;)
From the way progressions resolve to the overused arrangement of
"Intro
Verse Chorus Bridge Verse Chorus Bridge Verse Breakdown Verse Chorus Outro", most popular music has the same basic structure. Why is it that 95% of rock songs have the same 4 chord major progression? IT WORKS! Yes, there are exceptions where real song writing ability carries the song on to success (Queen, anyone?) but the general templates are there...and record companies KNOW (and bank) on it.
(considering that most pop buyers can only hear the singing, I'll understand if no one gets this)
Hahaha! When I was working over at LANSCE (TA53) I walked into the beamline area and saw tiny figures down the "tunnel" that were over a mile away on both sides of me and had to stop for a second....
I realized I was IN Half-Life! It was the weirdest feeling....
BTW, This is the real "Black Mesa"
the increased use of "royalty free music". (see "BAD" music or "muzak", videographers know what I'm talking about...)
If you're currently in a band, stop shopping for labels (if you already haven't) and put out an enormous ammount of instrumental ballads and up-beat pop shit.
Charge $10 a song for unlimited/unrestricted use of these throw-away/forgetable "songs to shop to".
the big red eyeballs on the cabinets. As long as we can keep making such strides in Red Eyeball technology, HAL can't be very far off.
No, really...there is a new lead dog... The amazing "Q" (built by CompaQ, go figure)
ASCI Q, named to follow LANL's tradition of alphabeticalnames for computers, will have 11,968 processors, 12terabytes of memory and 600 terabytes of disk storage. It willbe about two and one-half times as powerful as today's mostpowerful supercomputer, ASCI White at Lawrence LivermoreNational Laboratory in Livermore, California. It wouldrequire approximately 20,000 of today's state-of-the-art PCs,which are capable of about 1.5 gigaOPS, working veryclosely together to match the peak performance of ASCI Q.
What if a new wireless local loop technology was deployed by Qwest (or whoever) that just happened to interfere with Wi-Fi? What if XM radio takes off and becomes the norm? According to the FCC the 2.4Ghz band is fair game.
We really need to work on ways to transmit data over a constantly changing sea of background noise.
Adaptibility and fault tolerence are needed. I'm picturing something like the ever-slinky P2P networks. Kill a node and the network lives on.
Intelligent re-routing of data around "trouble spots" on many different carrier types. A pipe dream for now, but with things like UltraWideBand
in the works it may not be for too much longer!
No really, as long as people want to communicate with each other they will have nearly unlimited business.
Also, as long as they have right of way, there can be no REAL competition.
I have a feeling that another monopoly breakup is the only thing that could help at this point.... As for now, I'll just sit back, keeping paying my $170+ monthly qwest bill, and wait for dog to eat dog...then maybe Master (DOJ) will punish....it's inevitable. (sorry, link is PPT)
"T3 is seeking loss and damages of $7,907 (AU$14,000) for replacing blocked or compromised IP numbers, $2,683 (AU$4,750) for labor costs of technicians to establish an alternative e-mail system, $2,824 (AU$5,000) to purchase a new server computer
So because his IP was being blocked he HAD to get a new $2800 server? IP's are NOT hardcoded into the box (MAC addresses in the NIC's are) Does he relly think that little addition is going to go unnoticed?
and $11,296 (AU$20,000) for loss of income it claims to have incurred over a 20-day waiting period for a new Internet connection to be installed"
So this guy makes $564 a day with this shit?! Maybe you really can get rich quick (in court, of course)...
The only thing i can see happening to this thing is the screen catching on the bottom of a table and being perforated / decapitated! If there was a way to protect the "brain" from the body's inherent clumsiness we might have something.
Something tells me parents will not "Boo!" when these games start coming free
in cereal boxes and their kids start collecting military trading cards and wearing camo to school...
I wonder what the rating will be... "Mom? When do you think I can get some trigger time with some real warm bodies? Not 'till you're 18, son!"
There's a big difference between marketers/sales people and inventors.
Look at Edison...The man went on a propaganda campaign to make Tesla's AC look EXTREMELY DANGEROUS by publicly displaying an elephant being electrocuted with AC! This is how he decided to win peoples' hearts (and wallets)... with one of the worlds biggest FUD tactics! (Thankfully, he lost that war.)
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate ALL inventors and "visionaries" but the better technology should win, not the biggest marketing campaign.
Wow. So how many monkeys did that last comment require?
Seriously... Do you enjoy having Alternating Current (AC) power at your house?
Did you ever wonder how they are able to get it from the power plant to your house?
You can thank Mr. Tesla now. (or may a lightning bolt from the Tesla Coil in the sky strike you down)
"The Great Radio Controversy
He (Tesla) invented Wireless radio, but Guglielmo Marconi was given the credit until June 1943, when The U. S. Supreme Court finally settled the matter, after 16 months of investigating patent records and scientific publications, and declared that Nikola Tesla was the true inventor of modern radio technology. This was known as the Great Radio Controversy. Unfortunately, most school children are still taught that it was Marconi, which shows how simple it is for us to regurgitate uncorroborated legends, without checking on the up to date facts."
Also...along the Bell lines...
Bell Labs invented the "cellular concept"...many stations sharing common channels...
Satellite communications were another first. (And yes, Arthur C. Clarke invented the idea of geosynchronous orbits which the first Bell Labs Comm Satellite used.
This orbit is also known as the "Clarke Orbit")
90% of the tech you love and can't live without originated at Bell Labs. You know...computers...unix...voice communication...redundant/fault tolerant data networks...etc...
Oh, and for the patent lovers in tha house...
"Bell Labs averaged one patent per business day from 1925 to 1995, and since March 1996, patents assigned to Lucent have been issued at a rate of more than three per business day."
(Disclaimer - I do realize this is off topic a little, but I want people to think about how much great tech comes out of there!)
Do you guys realize the ammount of Microsoft software that is out there in our collective infrastructure running fairly important jobs and storing sensitive info that COULD be comprimised if too much was made public?
Remember the SNMP vulnerabilities mentioned here a couple months back?
Well, they were kept quiet until most manufacturers of network gear had fixes ready for deployment. Why? Why didn't they tell us about this sooner?
Because somebody, somewhere would have exploited it for some sort of gain. (political, financial, or personal 1337-ness)
Some things are better kept quiet. That is what national security is about.
I had to forcibly drag my friend away from the display....
"Free X-Box or PS2 with a 2-year hitch to MSN @ $23/month" But of coarse it's best buy, so the ad went something like this...
XBox PS2 - FREE Extra controler - $25 Mem Card - $20 DVD Remote $20 Replacement service plan - $20 (bastards)
The system was free but they made it sound like you were getting a deal by buying all of the accessories too....all accessories....including the worthless replacement plan.
(anyone who had the very first release of Playstation will know about the "other" product replacement plan....)
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that's actually a great idea... If some software could analyze your current jukebox and boil it down to say, types of sounds you like, arrangments you like, melodies, keys, and tempos...you could have music delievered to you that you stand a better chance of liking. Maybe throw in some sort of intelligent randomizer so you could branch out occasionally and not end up with a HD full of knock-off bands) Now, if this thing could understand that I like Merzbow AND Air, I would be ultra impressed! ;)
Because they can always copy black music and cut out the middleman.
From the way progressions resolve to the overused arrangement of "Intro Verse Chorus Bridge Verse Chorus Bridge Verse Breakdown Verse Chorus Outro", most popular music has the same basic structure. Why is it that 95% of rock songs have the same 4 chord major progression? IT WORKS! Yes, there are exceptions where real song writing ability carries the song on to success (Queen, anyone?) but the general templates are there...and record companies KNOW (and bank) on it. (considering that most pop buyers can only hear the singing, I'll understand if no one gets this)
Hahaha! When I was working over at LANSCE (TA53) I walked into the beamline area and saw tiny figures down the "tunnel" that were over a mile away on both sides of me and had to stop for a second.... I realized I was IN Half-Life! It was the weirdest feeling.... BTW, This is the real "Black Mesa"
Does it play Ogg? Oh! it does. I'm going back to sleep.
Mod this up to 11!!
Goths just got scarier. "Black as night, faster than a shadow" -Judas Priest- "Hell Bent For Leather"
Circuits/Sensors/Antennae on PAPER
+
Missing Children "Have you seen me" postcards
=
Total Information Awareness
or...
In Bush's America, your mail reads YOU!
the increased use of "royalty free music".
(see "BAD" music or "muzak", videographers know what I'm talking about...)
If you're currently in a band, stop shopping for labels (if you already haven't)
and put out an enormous ammount of instrumental ballads and up-beat pop shit.
Charge $10 a song for unlimited/unrestricted use of these throw-away/forgetable "songs to shop to".
the big red eyeballs on the cabinets.
As long as we can keep making such strides in Red Eyeball technology, HAL can't be very far off.
No, really...there is a new lead dog...
The amazing "Q" (built by CompaQ, go figure)
ASCI Q, named to follow LANL's tradition of alphabeticalnames for computers, will have 11,968 processors, 12terabytes of memory and 600 terabytes of disk storage. It willbe about two and one-half times as powerful as today's mostpowerful supercomputer, ASCI White at Lawrence LivermoreNational Laboratory in Livermore, California. It wouldrequire approximately 20,000 of today's state-of-the-art PCs,which are capable of about 1.5 gigaOPS, working veryclosely together to match the peak performance of ASCI Q.
or read more here/a?
When you're hosting someone elses hardware and they make a change to their means of access (New IP) you do not confiscate their hardware!
What reason would cause them to do this?!
Maybe there's a law that complicates this...
on second thought, there most likely is...
What if a new wireless local loop technology was deployed by Qwest (or whoever) that just happened to interfere with Wi-Fi? What if XM radio takes off and becomes the norm? According to the FCC the 2.4Ghz band is fair game.
We really need to work on ways to transmit data over
a constantly changing sea of background noise.
Adaptibility and fault tolerence are needed.
I'm picturing something like the ever-slinky P2P networks.
Kill a node and the network lives on.
Intelligent re-routing of data around "trouble spots" on many different carrier types.
A pipe dream for now, but with things like UltraWideBand
in the works it may not be for too much longer!
Ok, now wake up.... ;-)
No really, as long as people want to communicate with each other they will have nearly unlimited business.
Also, as long as they have right of way, there can be no REAL competition.
I have a feeling that another monopoly breakup is the only thing that could help at this point....
As for now, I'll just sit back, keeping paying my $170+ monthly qwest bill, and wait for dog to eat dog...then maybe Master (DOJ) will punish....it's inevitable. (sorry, link is PPT)
"T3 is seeking loss and damages of $7,907 (AU$14,000) for replacing blocked or compromised IP numbers, $2,683 (AU$4,750) for labor costs of technicians to establish an alternative e-mail system, $2,824 (AU$5,000) to purchase a new server computer
So because his IP was being blocked he HAD to get a new $2800 server? IP's are NOT hardcoded into the box (MAC addresses in the NIC's are) Does he relly think that little addition is going to go unnoticed?
and $11,296 (AU$20,000) for loss of income it claims to have incurred over a 20-day waiting period for a new Internet connection to be installed"
So this guy makes $564 a day with this shit?!
Maybe you really can get rich quick (in court, of course)...
...and that won't win him friends among old-time Star Wars fandom...
But he's already made his money off those people. New markets, new customers...
Aren't kids are the primary target here?
(and what timing! Their attention spans are shorter than ever!)
Their "right to profit" is interfering with my "right to rock".
For those about to be sued...we salute you...
The only thing i can see happening to this thing is the screen catching
on the bottom of a table and being perforated / decapitated!
If there was a way to protect the "brain" from the
body's inherent clumsiness we might have something.
Not when it's OUR brand of violence!
(which is now considered ART, BTW)
I wonder how many parents will complain about these games...
I mean killing drug dealers is ok by parents,
and killing terrorists is even better.
But if you were to say, kill a cop,
or fly a plane near a building...that's a whole different story!
Something tells me parents will not "Boo!" when these games start coming free
in cereal boxes and their kids start collecting military trading cards and wearing camo to school...
I wonder what the rating will be...
"Mom? When do you think I can get some trigger time with some real warm bodies?
Not 'till you're 18, son!"
There's a big difference between marketers/sales people and inventors.
Look at Edison...The man went on a propaganda campaign to make
Tesla's AC look EXTREMELY DANGEROUS
by publicly displaying an elephant being electrocuted with AC!
This is how he decided to win peoples' hearts (and wallets)...
with one of the worlds biggest FUD tactics!
(Thankfully, he lost that war.)
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate ALL inventors and "visionaries"
but the better technology should win, not the biggest marketing campaign.
Wow.
So how many monkeys did that last comment require?
Seriously...
Do you enjoy having Alternating Current (AC) power at your house?
Did you ever wonder how they are able to get it from the power plant to your house?
You can thank Mr. Tesla now.
(or may a lightning bolt from the Tesla Coil in the sky strike you down)
No, Nicola Tesla did.
"The Great Radio Controversy
He (Tesla) invented Wireless radio, but Guglielmo Marconi was given the credit until June 1943,
when The U. S. Supreme Court finally settled the matter, after 16 months of investigating patent records and scientific publications,
and declared that Nikola Tesla was the true inventor of modern radio technology.
This was known as the Great Radio Controversy.
Unfortunately, most school children are still taught that it was Marconi, which shows
how simple it is for us to regurgitate uncorroborated legends, without checking on the up to date facts."
Also...along the Bell lines...
Bell Labs invented the "cellular concept"...many stations sharing common channels...
Satellite communications were another first.
(And yes, Arthur C. Clarke invented the idea of
geosynchronous orbits which the first Bell Labs Comm Satellite used.
This orbit is also known as the "Clarke Orbit")
Just think where we would be without Lucent (well, Bell Labs in particular)....
They have invented, among MANY other things...
"the transistor, the laser and wireless technologies."
90% of the tech you love and can't live without originated at Bell Labs.
You know...computers...unix...voice communication...redundant/fault tolerant data networks...etc...
Oh, and for the patent lovers in tha house...
"Bell Labs averaged one patent per business day from 1925 to 1995,
and since March 1996, patents assigned to Lucent have been issued at a rate of more than three per business day."
(Disclaimer - I do realize this is off topic a little, but I want people to think about how much great tech comes out of there!)
Do you guys realize the ammount of Microsoft software that is out there in our collective infrastructure running fairly important jobs and storing sensitive info that COULD be comprimised if too much was made public?
Remember the SNMP vulnerabilities mentioned here a couple months back?
Well, they were kept quiet until most manufacturers of network gear had fixes ready for deployment.
Why? Why didn't they tell us about this sooner?
Because somebody, somewhere would have exploited it for some sort of gain. (political, financial, or personal 1337-ness)
Some things are better kept quiet.
That is what national security is about.
Oh yeah, MS is lame...there...now i fit in...
They are already doing this at Best Buy!
I had to forcibly drag my friend away from the display....
"Free X-Box or PS2 with a 2-year hitch to MSN @ $23/month"
But of coarse it's best buy, so the ad went something like this...
XBox PS2 - FREE
Extra controler - $25
Mem Card - $20
DVD Remote $20
Replacement service plan - $20 (bastards)
The system was free but they made it sound like you were getting a deal by buying all of the accessories too....all accessories....including the worthless replacement plan.
(anyone who had the very first release of Playstation will know about the "other" product replacement plan....)
Will places like Software Etc. refund the
difference if you've purchased a
Gamecube/PS2/XBX in the last 30 days?
If not, which stores do this?
(007 agent under fire...the best thing since goldeneye)