as in:
"Our response to WTO has been to spend 300 million yuan on a research and development centre and improve the quality of our brands. In March last year, a research centre in Kentucky found that our tobacco, grown using only natural fertiliser, causes the least harm to consumers. Actually, it is good for health - it calms the mood and stops old people from becoming muddled and getting Alzheimer's disease." -- Hill of the Red Pagoda Group, China's biggest cigarette producer. O'Neill, M. Beijing briefing: tobacco giant in training for WTO, "South China Morning Post" 2000 August 28.
There is approximately 42^42 reports published yearly on any given subject. If you cannot find your truth in one of them you just don't know what you want your truth to be like.
From here:
CSIRAC's first programmer, Geoff Hill, came from a musical family and he programmed the computer to play popular musical melodies which could be heard through a loudspeaker originally installed for a quite different purpose - to indicate with audible "beeps" when particular points of interest in the program had been reached.
Not bad for a living dinosaur. Listen to it yourself:)
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Thanks, I think this is it:) Expect to see something very bizarre to be published in near future...
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As I do not know anything about audio or audio tools available for Linux (or any other operating system), I thought this would be a good chance to ask:
1) What would you use to convert (english) sentences to speech samples (in real time, if possible perfomance-wise).
2) What to use to alter the pitch of the samples in "real-time".
3) merget these samples together with a base beat/rythm (basic jazz, techno, whatever)
4)..and to stream combinations of these samples with a modified pitch per sample to the client.
Talking about a set of command-line tools or a easy to use API.
META Group is reporting that Microsoft will begin selling Linux software in 2004.
I think it is rather obvious. As they must by 2004 have realized, that they cannot kill Linux as an OS - they will just have to start making money with it - by SELLING their products ported and tailored to run on it. It is just so easy to actively forget, that Microsoft is much more than just the operating system - they have multiple products that could actually benefit many - even (and especially) if people want to keep running Linux. I could easily name some Microsoft products, which I would like to see running on Linux - ones that would enable myself to stop running two operating systems at work, for example.
Go back and look at the thread on openbsd-misc. Danese Cooper sent a mail to DeRaadt at least a week ago. That doesn't mean she did anything more than that.
So? A week in terms of changing things and getting in contact with every involved person person in a megasized company is more like a second. In the article the sun representative said it takes "a few weeks", maybe there's a reason why he said so.
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I think the/. article gives too bad image about Sun, if you do not read this also:
But Sun didn't put its open-source community liaison officer, Danese Cooper, in touch with de Raadt until after CNET News.com informed the company of his dissatisfaction. Cooper is "already well-known in the open-source software community," Sun representatives said. But the company acknowledged it needs to improve its work with open-source groups, saying the task would be addressed "within the next few weeks. Cooper has been responsive and is pressing the OpenBSD case within Sun, said de Raadt, but he's reserving judgment until he gets what he needs. "
It seems they are now working very actively to solve the problem.
Now you won't be stuck with the SetTopBox your cable provider forces on you, but with Passage you should be able to go to the store and buy any box you want
Is that really so? Maybe I misunderstood the whitepaper but to me it seemed like the main benefit would be that you can now make multiple set top boxes co-exist. The cable provider may still force you to buy their preffered STB also (by encryption for example) - but now you don't have to buy that only:) Or...
Maybe I misunderstood it completely, if so, could someone explain the concept more clearly than the whitepaper does:)
We strongly encourage Open Source companies to submit proposals, since government officials at the last conference were particularly interested in the Open Source companies, Zope and DevIS, because they provided examples of Open Source solutions that the government could buy
I have been in direct contact with eGovOS too, but mentioning Openchallenge here as well cannot harm. We are trying to make this work for public authorities as well - the more the merrier:). We have already got some positive feedback:
I congratulate you with the practical and inspiring approach taken by Openchallenge. It is interesting that this scheme both stimulates the release of open source software and is also operated by people within the open source community itself. Perhaps such a "challenge posting" scheme is also of interest for public authorities to promote open source development."
-- Erkki Liikanen European Commissioner for Enterprise and Information Society
...just contact us to discuss more and get things going:)
But as I see it, having it work with QT is important because it makes things possible for sub-projects of mozilla (some of which are more aimed into pda/embedded market) and also because having support for it further developed (and not removed from the source tree) might provide many important pieces of code which can be utilized in other open source projects as well... I think QT is very interesting concept from the embedded devices point of view, especially... I don't know but I think this might be rather important from a wider view also:)
...for displaying the samples of the graphics apparently created by/for Bonzi software...I think that's a more clear case eventhough the moral behind doing so might be good.:)
The attacking lawyers provide some samples of the ads they say are misleading.
The real question is, how do we get people like you talking with people who run projects like protein folding?
...I think the key is to build a framework that feeds friendly but ruthless competition for the effort organizers as well. That's what seems to be missing today.:)
Travelling around the world sure sounds interesting. But... if you stop for a moment, like right now, look at all the items in the room where you are right now. Pick a random item. I see a plastic coffee cup. Then travel in that cup. This one came from italy. It has been designed to provide some extra grip (there's some stripes in it) - there's plenty of tiny little neat things in it that have been developed to produce that very simple item. Then, think how that item reached your desk, how many steps and people have been involved in making that item transport from the manufacturing place to this desk...kids toys are good items as well, they have lots of design in it, many of them read "produced in taiwan" atleast in our case.:)
Well, I guess this is the poormans version:) and maybe it's time to catch some sleep:)
as we run the cyberian rc5-56 effort some years ago (the good guys of distributed.net beat us that time:)) - it was very fun and interesting. Ever since that we have been every now and then looking for something similar to do. However, I personally and the rest of us either did not see much point in putting a competing effort on rc5-64 or rc5-72 either. Distributed.net does a great effort in there:)
Anyway, I think all of these efforts would benefit from some real competition. You can't believe how rewarding it was to race with distributed.net and the other efforts and to see who can develop best optimized code - for example.
But to build that spirit of competition (without doing duplicate work) between the efforts, we would need some fresh and new (reasonable, interesting) idea for: what to crunch? Any ideas there? I am sure the guys at distributed.net and the multiple other efforts would love to see the same "fighting spirit" again as well:) And as result, I believe everyones code will be optimized much faster and new ideas will be created faster, more people will be interested to join...but: what to crunch, what would be really really interesting?:)
At some point the buyers dry up completely because they figure it's easier to wait for the time limit than to pay.
True - I don't believe the ransom model or any model is the magic solution for everything:) But, I think it might work very well for examples in cases in where for a group of companies in the same business have made pre-agreement to utilize this model. Assume, that one company has initially invested $42 million dollars in research required to create software. They invite new members to a coalition to speed up or to make the development possible. Each new member pays $4 million. The first 10 companies to joing the coalition get early access to the technology, then 1 month after the 11th company has joined, the technology is released under open source. Increasing market, and bringing new players. The implementors of the technology have acruired significant benefit from paying extra.
Not magic, but works in some cases.
ps. (That "coalition price" model was simplified, in reality it might be so that the price per joining company would go down for example per each new member or per time)
I think I saw this article about the ransom model on/. as well: "Ransom is a software publishing model where the rights to the source code remain restricted until a set amount of money is collected or a set date passes, at which point the code is freed"
Anyway - I believe this model makes open source the good solution for cases in which it has previously been thought not to be suitable. Such as cases where companies need to invest huge amounts of money just to get the "seed done" - I believe that the ransom model really for example enables co-operation between research companies to produce something that requires huge resources and capital - and get paid for doing it - and still eventually have the solution released under open source - developing it even further.
I just read the local newspaper about a guy who breaks into peoples house when they are away - lives there for a couple of days (watching videos, sleeping in your bed, using your toiler and shower) without stealing anything concrete. Then, when done - he moves to next house. He has done this to dozens of times already, and has not been caught....now that's true open open source housing.)
. Trust me I am not saying I won't be one of the first people to run out and get one, but there really is no need for the general public to have 64 bit processors
Now, when you are a rich and famous IT star, you will regret saying that like this guy does:)
Microsoft has not changed any of its plans for Windows. It is obvious that we will not include things like threads and preemptive multitasking in Windows. By the time we added that, you would have OS/2. -- Bill Gates, from "OS/2 Notebook", Microsoft Press, (c) 1990
...this story reminds me of one the dark-hour ideas. Would not be sometimes handy if you could "rent the eyes" of people around the world, for say 5 minutes. Just like in the GPS'ing Amsterdarm scenario, there would be people in multiple cities with world - carrying GPS and a digital (video) camera.
Then, when you spot someone in a interesting place, you could get control of his camera for some time. Maybe there could be the option donate the guy $5 and ask him to move 100 feet left.... now that's a real big brother scenario:) Anyway, it could be fun too, to be "in the place" when something interesting happens...talking about Amsterdam...(red) lights, camera, action:)
an article about the stock-market and newspaper articles. The author argued that the best sign of a incoming boost on stock-market is increase in the amount of articles about incoming recession. Meaning, when everyone already believes it must go down, in case of effective stock-market - it must be already down if people think it must, and therefore the market can only go up:).
I guess ComScore makes use of some similar philosophy...:)
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I think Peter may be experiencing a denial of service attack, too :)
it seems there already is a bunch of specialists working on it - well experienced in knocking the 80th one. Wish they open the door one day, though.
There is approximately 42^42 reports published yearly on any given subject. If you cannot find your truth in one of them you just don't know what you want your truth to be like.
Poor Sam.
Not bad for a living dinosaur. Listen to it yourself :)
Thanks, I think this is it :) Expect to see something very bizarre to be published in near future...
1) What would you use to convert (english) sentences to speech samples (in real time, if possible perfomance-wise). ..and to stream combinations of these samples with a modified pitch per sample to the client.
2) What to use to alter the pitch of the samples in "real-time".
3) merget these samples together with a base beat/rythm (basic jazz, techno, whatever)
4)
Talking about a set of command-line tools or a easy to use API.
I think it is rather obvious. As they must by 2004 have realized, that they cannot kill Linux as an OS - they will just have to start making money with it - by SELLING their products ported and tailored to run on it. It is just so easy to actively forget, that Microsoft is much more than just the operating system - they have multiple products that could actually benefit many - even (and especially) if people want to keep running Linux. I could easily name some Microsoft products, which I would like to see running on Linux - ones that would enable myself to stop running two operating systems at work, for example.
So? A week in terms of changing things and getting in contact with every involved person person in a megasized company is more like a second. In the article the sun representative said it takes "a few weeks", maybe there's a reason why he said so.
But Sun didn't put its open-source community liaison officer, Danese Cooper, in touch with de Raadt until after CNET News.com informed the company of his dissatisfaction. Cooper is "already well-known in the open-source software community," Sun representatives said. But the company acknowledged it needs to improve its work with open-source groups, saying the task would be addressed "within the next few weeks. Cooper has been responsive and is pressing the OpenBSD case within Sun, said de Raadt, but he's reserving judgment until he gets what he needs. "
It seems they are now working very actively to solve the problem.
Is that really so? Maybe I misunderstood the whitepaper but to me it seemed like the main benefit would be that you can now make multiple set top boxes co-exist. The cable provider may still force you to buy their preffered STB also (by encryption for example) - but now you don't have to buy that only :) Or...
Maybe I misunderstood it completely, if so, could someone explain the concept more clearly than the whitepaper does :)
I have been in direct contact with eGovOS too, but mentioning Openchallenge here as well cannot harm. We are trying to make this work for public authorities as well - the more the merrier :). We have already got some positive feedback:
I congratulate you with the practical and inspiring approach taken by Openchallenge. It is interesting that this scheme both stimulates the release of open source software and is also operated by people within the open source community itself. Perhaps such a "challenge posting" scheme is also of interest for public authorities to promote open source development." -- Erkki Liikanen European Commissioner for Enterprise and Information Society
But as I see it, having it work with QT is important because it makes things possible for sub-projects of mozilla (some of which are more aimed into pda/embedded market) and also because having support for it further developed (and not removed from the source tree) might provide many important pieces of code which can be utilized in other open source projects as well... I think QT is very interesting concept from the embedded devices point of view, especially... I don't know but I think this might be rather important from a wider view also :)
The attacking lawyers provide some samples of the ads they say are misleading.
Travelling around the world sure sounds interesting. But... if you stop for a moment, like right now, look at all the items in the room where you are right now. Pick a random item. I see a plastic coffee cup. Then travel in that cup. This one came from italy. It has been designed to provide some extra grip (there's some stripes in it) - there's plenty of tiny little neat things in it that have been developed to produce that very simple item. Then, think how that item reached your desk, how many steps and people have been involved in making that item transport from the manufacturing place to this desk...kids toys are good items as well, they have lots of design in it, many of them read "produced in taiwan" atleast in our case. :)
Well, I guess this is the poormans version :) and maybe it's time to catch some sleep :)
Anyway, I think all of these efforts would benefit from some real competition. You can't believe how rewarding it was to race with distributed.net and the other efforts and to see who can develop best optimized code - for example.
But to build that spirit of competition (without doing duplicate work) between the efforts, we would need some fresh and new (reasonable, interesting) idea for: what to crunch? Any ideas there? I am sure the guys at distributed.net and the multiple other efforts would love to see the same "fighting spirit" again as well :) And as result, I believe everyones code will be optimized much faster and new ideas will be created faster, more people will be interested to join...but: what to crunch, what would be really really interesting? :)
True - I don't believe the ransom model or any model is the magic solution for everything :) But, I think it might work very well for examples in cases in where for a group of companies in the same business have made pre-agreement to utilize this model. Assume, that one company has initially invested $42 million dollars in research required to create software. They invite new members to a coalition to speed up or to make the development possible. Each new member pays $4 million. The first 10 companies to joing the coalition get early access to the technology, then 1 month after the 11th company has joined, the technology is released under open source. Increasing market, and bringing new players. The implementors of the technology have acruired significant benefit from paying extra.
Not magic, but works in some cases.
ps. (That "coalition price" model was simplified, in reality it might be so that the price per joining company would go down for example per each new member or per time)
Anyway - I believe this model makes open source the good solution for cases in which it has previously been thought not to be suitable. Such as cases where companies need to invest huge amounts of money just to get the "seed done" - I believe that the ransom model really for example enables co-operation between research companies to produce something that requires huge resources and capital - and get paid for doing it - and still eventually have the solution released under open source - developing it even further.
I just read the local newspaper about a guy who breaks into peoples house when they are away - lives there for a couple of days (watching videos, sleeping in your bed, using your toiler and shower) without stealing anything concrete. Then, when done - he moves to next house. He has done this to dozens of times already, and has not been caught....now that's true open open source housing .)
Now, when you are a rich and famous IT star, you will regret saying that like this guy does :)
Microsoft has not changed any of its plans for Windows. It is obvious that we will not include things like threads and preemptive multitasking in Windows. By the time we added that, you would have OS/2.
-- Bill Gates, from "OS/2 Notebook", Microsoft Press, (c) 1990
Here's a free insider tip, here's another.. do something to get noticed. A CV with something concrete in it looks much better than one without.
Then, when you spot someone in a interesting place, you could get control of his camera for some time. Maybe there could be the option donate the guy $5 and ask him to move 100 feet left.... now that's a real big brother scenario :) Anyway, it could be fun too, to be "in the place" when something interesting happens...talking about Amsterdam...(red) lights, camera, action :)
I guess ComScore makes use of some similar philosophy... :)