I love live music - IMHO, it's what music is supposed to be. It's organic, spontaneous and human. I really enjoy hearing my favourite bands as they translate their material to a live setting, where they have to deal with the fact that whereas their album was recorded to 64 tracks, they are now just 3 or 4 guys with their instruments, trying to recreate the complexity and richness of a modern studio production.
A lot of bands ad-lib, insert fragments of other songs into their own, change their riffs around, banter with the crowd. Un-edited live recordings have a kind of personality.
Boots can be straight from the mixing desk, or they can be recorded from the crowd. But don't dimiss audience recordings until you've heard a really good one - you'd be amazed at what people can capture with highly directional microphones pointed at the PA system speakers. And people have been able to do good audience sound recordings for longer than I'd have guessed. For example, there's a recording of U2 playing on a Mississippi riverboat outside of New Orleans as far back as 1982, and it sounds awesome. It's raw, it's energetic, and the sounds capture is very crisp.
I guess some folks just love the whole live aspect of music. I'm one of them, but YMMV.
It could potentially be faster than a software solution running on a processor, but it would certainly not be as fast as a dedicated chip (ASIC) designed for that purpose. And when you get past the few-thousand unit volume, ASICs are much, much cheaper.
But it would be a neat project, I guess.
Agreed. J.R.R. Tolkien would have been horrified at this outburst.
Then again, it's also generally acknowledged that Tolkien also would have hated the films.
Oh well.
The Z80 based CP/M machines were sort of the Wintel boxes of their day
True, but it's also interesting to note that CP/M was an early an attempt at a portable OS.
but the creater of CP/M was busy the night IBM came a calling and kicked them out
Yeah, the legend goes that the creator, Gary Kildall, was out flying his private plane, somewhat arrogantly assuming they'd wait to speak to him. They didn't and ended up buying DOS from Microsoft (which was actually QDOS - Quick and Dirty Operating System from Seattle Computer Products)
Gary Kildall became bitter over the opportunity he missed, and his life started to fall apart. He began drinking heavily, and was eventually killed in a bar fight.
Gary's company, BTW, was called Intergalatic Digital Research, later renamed to the somewhat more serious Digital Equipment Research.
The Osborne 1 was a such a cool machine. http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/os borne/
It was based on a Zilog Z80A processor (same as that used in the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the Colecovision console, and similar to that used in the original Gameboy), but curiously, used Motorola peripheral chips.
It came bundled with a wide selection of software - Supercalc, Wordstar, an operating system called CP/M (the blueprint for DOS), and a BASIC interpreter by a small software company called Microsoft.
One of the really cool things about the Osborne is that it was sold with a manual about 500 pages thick. There are chapters on each of the software packages, but also a great deal of technical information on the machine itself - memory maps, details on the types of peripherals and that kind of thing.
It was clearly the product of a man and a company who loved computing, released in a spirit of openness and innocence for a hobbyist culture. Sadly, that culture died soon after, and stayed that way for some time.
It was the first computer I ever had, which started me off down a road that eventually led to me earn a degree in Computer Engineering. When I first heard about Linux, it was that same hobbyist culture that immediately appealed to me.
1. I'm under the impression that "these guys" is actually "this guy". Incredible as it sounds, I think this entire app is the work of one brilliant and somewhat eccentric developer, Adam Williams.
2. I don't think he's a Windows developer at all; in the documentation that comes with Cinelerra, he provide an explanation of why he chose to use symlinks rather than use the usual libraries.
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I find that few people - even tech people - really appreciate just how fast 3GHz is.
To put it into perspective, consider that at that clock frequency, light travels about 4 inches in one clock cycle.
Mind boggling.
Personal preference, I guess.
I love live music - IMHO, it's what music is supposed to be. It's organic, spontaneous and human. I really enjoy hearing my favourite bands as they translate their material to a live setting, where they have to deal with the fact that whereas their album was recorded to 64 tracks, they are now just 3 or 4 guys with their instruments, trying to recreate the complexity and richness of a modern studio production.
A lot of bands ad-lib, insert fragments of other songs into their own, change their riffs around, banter with the crowd. Un-edited live recordings have a kind of personality.
Boots can be straight from the mixing desk, or they can be recorded from the crowd. But don't dimiss audience recordings until you've heard a really good one - you'd be amazed at what people can capture with highly directional microphones pointed at the PA system speakers. And people have been able to do good audience sound recordings for longer than I'd have guessed. For example, there's a recording of U2 playing on a Mississippi riverboat outside of New Orleans as far back as 1982, and it sounds awesome. It's raw, it's energetic, and the sounds capture is very crisp.
I guess some folks just love the whole live aspect of music. I'm one of them, but YMMV.
Oddly, searching for "xfree86 porn" doesn't ummm... classify as porn either.
Not that xfree86 porn is that exciting.
I know, it's a typo...
Actually, it isn't. 300mm is the diamaeter of a complete wafer, from which multiple die are cut.
Looks like the red ad for ESPN I was served on that page has a typo in one of the frames...
Ironic, on a site dedicated to advertising.
HINT: isn't that an odd age range?
Oh, okay... I think get it.
It's okay to strike first if and only if you're the less likely to strike first.
Thanks for clearing that up for me. I've never been adept at double-think.
Personally, I've nothing against the idea of pre-emptive self defense...
Haven't you just justified Iraq launching a nuclear strike against America the day before the tanks rolled in?
That's the problem with opening up that particular can of worms.
It could potentially be faster than a software solution running on a processor, but it would certainly not be as fast as a dedicated chip (ASIC) designed for that purpose. And when you get past the few-thousand unit volume, ASICs are much, much cheaper. But it would be a neat project, I guess.
Actually, that would be Field-Programmable Gate Array.
Nortel Networks has an entire class A block, too...
...Split between the 17 people they haven't laid off yet...
Agreed. J.R.R. Tolkien would have been horrified at this outburst. Then again, it's also generally acknowledged that Tolkien also would have hated the films. Oh well.
MS loses money with each Xbox
I have it on good, reliable word that this is not true anymore.
The Z80 based CP/M machines were sort of the Wintel boxes of their day
True, but it's also interesting to note that CP/M was an early an attempt at a portable OS.
but the creater of CP/M was busy the night IBM came a calling and kicked them out
Yeah, the legend goes that the creator, Gary Kildall, was out flying his private plane, somewhat arrogantly assuming they'd wait to speak to him. They didn't and ended up buying DOS from Microsoft (which was actually QDOS - Quick and Dirty Operating System from Seattle Computer Products)
Gary Kildall became bitter over the opportunity he missed, and his life started to fall apart. He began drinking heavily, and was eventually killed in a bar fight.
Gary's company, BTW, was called Intergalatic Digital Research, later renamed to the somewhat more serious Digital Equipment Research.
The Osborne 1 was a such a cool machine.s borne/
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/o
It was based on a Zilog Z80A processor (same as that used in the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the Colecovision console, and similar to that used in the original Gameboy), but curiously, used Motorola peripheral chips.
It came bundled with a wide selection of software - Supercalc, Wordstar, an operating system called CP/M (the blueprint for DOS), and a BASIC interpreter by a small software company called Microsoft.
One of the really cool things about the Osborne is that it was sold with a manual about 500 pages thick. There are chapters on each of the software packages, but also a great deal of technical information on the machine itself - memory maps, details on the types of peripherals and that kind of thing.
It was clearly the product of a man and a company who loved computing, released in a spirit of openness and innocence for a hobbyist culture. Sadly, that culture died soon after, and stayed that way for some time.
It was the first computer I ever had, which started me off down a road that eventually led to me earn a degree in Computer Engineering. When I first heard about Linux, it was that same hobbyist culture that immediately appealed to me.
I think I'll boot mine up tonight. Thanks, Adam.
Actually, Bill received an honorary degree from Waterloo several years ago.
A couple of points:
1. I'm under the impression that "these guys" is actually "this guy". Incredible as it sounds, I think this entire app is the work of one brilliant and somewhat eccentric developer, Adam Williams.
2. I don't think he's a Windows developer at all; in the documentation that comes with Cinelerra, he provide an explanation of why he chose to use symlinks rather than use the usual libraries.