You've obviously never been to The Air Canada Centre in Toronto. An unlit, shifted, out of focus, annoyingly distorted orchestra would be an improvement.
I had to look it up- but my last post felt incomplete:
There was some controversy a little while back when SPAR/MacDonald Dettwiler's Information Systems and Geospacial Services operations division was to be bought out by to Alliant Techsystems of Edina, Minnesota for $1.325 billion..
However, that move, while approved by the shareholders was blocked by the Canadian Federal Government.Nice to see CSA is on the ball again:)
There was some controversy a little while back when SPAR/MacDonald Dettwiler was to be bought out by foreign interests. Nice to see CSA is on the ball again:)
Well, In this case, they're not looking for some kind of morality charged justice to be handed out, they're looking for tax revenue.
But it remains an Interesting point. You're basically asking "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" When those who are tasked to protect the weak exploit the weak, who will protect us from our protectors?
Have you evaluated Jabber?
We used to use it in our office before they switched for some reason to a microsoft product that's not free (well, we have a corporate thing going on). The jabber client was customizable, and the server was very stable and robust.
Also because the server is GPL it meets your FOSS requirement.
http://jabberd.org/
I create content every week; I'm a musician, I write music for kids, and I perform it regularly. I record it, too, and I give it to people I know. I'll be recording an album soon, and since I want to go into a studio to have better production value, THAT will cost me money, and so I'll certainly be looking to recoup costs by selling the album. Hopefully I'll make a little extra, too.
That's a load of crap. Idealistic hippie commune crap, and you know it. Your recordings now serve as a marketing tool to promote your live work, which I assume you get paid for. (If not, then you're too rich to be commenting on this issue. Some of us musicians are starving).
Music is a business. You do it to make money. I've spoken to many A&R reps, Radio Station Program Directors and so on who indicate the bands that get signed, and the signed bands that succeed, are the ones who treat themselves like a business. Live music markets the recorded material. Recorded material markets the live shows.
I love the song writing- THAT comes at no cost to me. Recording, Producing, Distributing... even playing live... all costs money. There's no way in hell you can do it for free. Nor should people download it for free.
The article fails to mention the models with the defects... and then goes on to glow about the PS3. What happened to "reporting"? I would have liked to see more ACTUAL INFORMATION - or at least a link back to the press release from Sony. This article is no different than "Some guy said that Sony sucked". (Which lots of slashdotters seem to say often).
It's hard to make a recommendation without knowing at a granular level what you want to do. How many inputs? How many outputs? Is latency an issue? What about frequency/bitrate? Digital inputs? Analog? MADI? Lightpipe?
Some light reading...
On the ULTRA high end, you would go with Apogee- http://www.apogeedigital.com/ - these are some of the industry's best da/ad converters; and with something like a big ben+rosetta on firewire, you'd be in good hands.
Another contender could be rme http://www.rme-audio.com/
Then there's motu's line of products - http://www.motu.com/ - I've personally owned several of their interfaces and can tell you right out of the gate they're great. Good bang for the buck...
Then you've got m-audio http://www.m-audio.com/ edirol http://www.edirol.com/ presonus http://www.presonus.com/
YES! That's what I need. Forget hardening the system, forget locking down the administrator! Forget DOD requirements. I'll put a STICKER on my machine and it will be secure!
This one time some guy wrote this article for ZDNET about data loss and it somehow managed to get linked to from Slashdot. After the fire department got the blaze undercontrol, he discovered the web server's disk was totally cooked. However, there was no "real" data lost. Just a lot of articles about crappy computer stories...
This is not 3D- but the possiblities for such a device are absolutely endless. I'm thinking about interactive map-walls for tracking couriers (or a similar military application).
Medical applications could also be found quite easily.
And, I suppose "3d" gaming would be a neat experience with something like that!
But, it won't project an image of a beautiful princess saying "help us obiwan kenobi, you're our only hope". It's not 3d, and its not a hologram projector. It's just a very innovative way to display 2D images.
The author seems to belive that people sue Microsoft to make money from them. But, it looks to me like he's found a better way:
Step 1: Write pro microsoft article.
Step 2: Get google ads
Step 3: shamelessly self submit on Slashdot
Step 4: PROFIT!!!
Notice the absence of the ??? step...
While I'm just d/l the dvd iso right now...
The MSDN description is:
Description
Windows Vista (formerly code-named Windows "Longhorn") is a substantial advance in Windows, with significant innovations in the developer platform. Windows Vista makes it easier than ever before to build applications that are more secure, reliable, and manageable. Windows Vista also enables developers and designers to create user-experience breakthroughs that improve usability and enable greater relevance to the work users do. Finally, Windows Vista makes it easy to connect to information, systems, people, and devices though a number of innovative integration technologies.
I suppose if it really is a 'substantial' advance will remain to be seen until it goes gold, seeing as how a lot of the 'substantial' new technologies were 'dropped' from it's feature list.
This wouldn't bother me so much if it was the recording artists that reaped the benefits- but I'll disappointedly bet that it's actually the record company that keeps the dough.
This is a cashgrab, plain and simple.
Surely, you're not suggesting Peter Jackson travel through Middle Earth (Hollywood)
batteling untold evils (The Olson Twins, The Hilton Sisters and possibly Courtney Love)
to throw the one ring, forged by Sauron (Robert K Shawe and/or Michael Lynne)
into the firey pit of mount doom?
The 'bot's clearly gone bad, and is probably even as we speak cruising the city's Tenderloin district pushing purloined prescription pain killers, paying off dirty cops and menacing lost tourists.
That part about a robotic pusher menacing San Fran doesn't actually appear in the original SFC article. But I did laugh out loud (waking up my Wife).
I copy the original article for those who can't click through:
Where's Waldo?: Waldo the pill-dispensing robot apparently went berserk this past week at UCSF Medical Center, sending a doctor and patient running for cover.
Whacked-out Waldo is one of three battery-operated, rolling robots that dispense pills at the hospital. The other two are named Elvis and Lisa Marie.
All three are about the size of a large TV and are programmed to roam from floor to floor, distributing medications to nursing stations.
At the end of their rounds, the robots are supposed to roll into the basement pharmacy for refills.
But Tuesday, Waldo shot past the pharmacy and barged uninvited into the examination room in the radiation oncology department, where -- according to an anonymous caller -- a doctor was examining a cancer patient.
According to the caller, Waldo wouldn't leave, and the startled doctor and patient felt obliged to flee the room.
UCSF spokeswoman Carol Hyman said she didn't know anything about any doctor and patient having to beat feet -- but confirmed that the wandering Waldo did wind up in an examination room.
"This is the first time anything like this has happened," Hyman said. "Our technology folks are going to have to take a look."
The article is misleading; there is no actual confirmation that apple will use this technology. It's a possible alternative, and nothing more.
For more information on this technology:
I bought a digital cameral for my brother in law- a birthday present. My brother in law didn't try to use the camera until three weeks later on a vacation- the damn thing didnt work, and all of his photos were becoming corrupted. Best Buy has a 2 week return policy on these things up here in the Great White North. When he tried to return it, they wouldnt let him, so I stepped in and argued with them for well over an hour. They insisted that they send it off to their repair depot, and they helf firm on this point. So, after two months at their repair depot, the camera came back "unrepairable". "There's NOTHING we can do for you, sir" said the store manager.
I went off the deep end at that point.
I had not purchaised their "extended warranty plan" and asked them what would have happend had I taken their rip off extended warrantee. She calmly said "We would have replaced the camera for you". When I asked her who runs the extended warrantee program, she said that "Best Buy" did.
At this point I found another entirely different deep end to go off of.
I pointed out as calmly as my blood pressure would allow that if Best Buy ran the program, and if my business, and my money (I'm gadgetaddicted) meant anything to them, she would treat it as though I had bought their little warrantee plan and start working out how to replace the camera. I refused to sign any of their 'papers' accepting the camera back and told them "If that camera cannot be replaced, and it cannot be fixed, I am not leaving the store with it. I wanted to speak to the district manager, and was promised a call back. I left the store.
After a week, the call failed to come, so I started calling around again. I finally got in touch with this guy and while he was looking up my file, he asked me if I was sure that the camera had come back- as it was for some reason not in the store. THEY LOST IT . He apologised and said that under the circumstances he would replace the camera.
The new camera works fine, but everytime I drive by the Best Buy, I shiver.
In Canada, at least in Ontario, Best Buy's biggest competetor is Future Shop...owned by Best Buy. I guess this is why they think they can treat customers like crap and get away with it...
email = voicemail.
DNS = the phone book/Canada 411.
search engine = yellow pages.
My voicemail is provided by Bell, and if for whatever reason they widthheld a message, it would mean that they had parsed that message. This is a violation of my privacy and simply not permitted.
This is no different than email.
Slashdot Mirror
You've obviously never been to The Air Canada Centre in Toronto.
An unlit, shifted, out of focus, annoyingly distorted orchestra would be an improvement.
Worst. Venue. Ever.
I had to look it up- but my last post felt incomplete:
:)
There was some controversy a little while back when SPAR/MacDonald Dettwiler's Information Systems and Geospacial Services operations division was to be bought out by to Alliant Techsystems of Edina, Minnesota for $1.325 billion..
However, that move, while approved by the shareholders was blocked by the Canadian Federal Government.Nice to see CSA is on the ball again
(There, that's better)
There was some controversy a little while back when SPAR/MacDonald Dettwiler was to be bought out by foreign interests. Nice to see CSA is on the ball again :)
Well, In this case, they're not looking for some kind of morality charged justice to be handed out, they're looking for tax revenue.
But it remains an Interesting point. You're basically asking "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" When those who are tasked to protect the weak exploit the weak, who will protect us from our protectors?
...do these people land these porn watching jobs?
Mind you, I'd probably look a little disheveled too if I had to watch porn for a living.
Have you evaluated Jabber? We used to use it in our office before they switched for some reason to a microsoft product that's not free (well, we have a corporate thing going on). The jabber client was customizable, and the server was very stable and robust. Also because the server is GPL it meets your FOSS requirement. http://jabberd.org/
Wait.. This is a quantum computer, right? Would that be Beowolf in 3D?
That's a load of crap. Idealistic hippie commune crap, and you know it. Your recordings now serve as a marketing tool to promote your live work, which I assume you get paid for. (If not, then you're too rich to be commenting on this issue. Some of us musicians are starving).
Music is a business. You do it to make money. I've spoken to many A&R reps, Radio Station Program Directors and so on who indicate the bands that get signed, and the signed bands that succeed, are the ones who treat themselves like a business. Live music markets the recorded material. Recorded material markets the live shows.
I love the song writing- THAT comes at no cost to me. Recording, Producing, Distributing... even playing live... all costs money. There's no way in hell you can do it for free. Nor should people download it for free.
The article fails to mention the models with the defects... and then goes on to glow about the PS3. What happened to "reporting"? I would have liked to see more ACTUAL INFORMATION - or at least a link back to the press release from Sony. This article is no different than "Some guy said that Sony sucked". (Which lots of slashdotters seem to say often).
Hmmph.
D
It's hard to make a recommendation without knowing at a granular level what you want to do. How many inputs? How many outputs? Is latency an issue? What about frequency/bitrate? Digital inputs? Analog? MADI? Lightpipe? Some light reading... On the ULTRA high end, you would go with Apogee- http://www.apogeedigital.com/ - these are some of the industry's best da/ad converters; and with something like a big ben+rosetta on firewire, you'd be in good hands. Another contender could be rme http://www.rme-audio.com/ Then there's motu's line of products - http://www.motu.com/ - I've personally owned several of their interfaces and can tell you right out of the gate they're great. Good bang for the buck... Then you've got m-audio http://www.m-audio.com/ edirol http://www.edirol.com/ presonus http://www.presonus.com/
YES! That's what I need. Forget hardening the system, forget locking down the administrator! Forget DOD requirements. I'll put a STICKER on my machine and it will be secure!
This one time some guy wrote this article for ZDNET about data loss and it somehow managed to get linked to from Slashdot. After the fire department got the blaze undercontrol, he discovered the web server's disk was totally cooked. However, there was no "real" data lost. Just a lot of articles about crappy computer stories...
This is not 3D- but the possiblities for such a device are absolutely endless. I'm thinking about interactive map-walls for tracking couriers (or a similar military application).
Medical applications could also be found quite easily.
And, I suppose "3d" gaming would be a neat experience with something like that!
But, it won't project an image of a beautiful princess saying "help us obiwan kenobi, you're our only hope". It's not 3d, and its not a hologram projector. It's just a very innovative way to display 2D images.
The author seems to belive that people sue Microsoft to make money from them. But, it looks to me like he's found a better way: Step 1: Write pro microsoft article. Step 2: Get google ads Step 3: shamelessly self submit on Slashdot Step 4: PROFIT!!! Notice the absence of the ??? step...
This wouldn't bother me so much if it was the recording artists that reaped the benefits- but I'll disappointedly bet that it's actually the record company that keeps the dough. This is a cashgrab, plain and simple.
Surely, you're not suggesting Peter Jackson travel through Middle Earth (Hollywood) batteling untold evils (The Olson Twins, The Hilton Sisters and possibly Courtney Love) to throw the one ring, forged by Sauron (Robert K Shawe and/or Michael Lynne) into the firey pit of mount doom?
How nice. Old news. This was reported by macrumors back on June 15th
5 533.shtml when they dropped the single 1.8 from their store.M ac/2100-1042_3-5754622.html
http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2005/06/2005061510
Here's the link to the news.com story http://news.com.com/Bye-bye%2C+single-chip+Power+
This is the funniest thing I've read all day:
The 'bot's clearly gone bad, and is probably even as we speak cruising the city's Tenderloin district pushing purloined prescription pain killers, paying off dirty cops and menacing lost tourists.
That part about a robotic pusher menacing San Fran doesn't actually appear in the original SFC article. But I did laugh out loud (waking up my Wife).
I copy the original article for those who can't click through:
Where's Waldo?: Waldo the pill-dispensing robot apparently went berserk this past week at UCSF Medical Center, sending a doctor and patient running for cover.
Whacked-out Waldo is one of three battery-operated, rolling robots that dispense pills at the hospital. The other two are named Elvis and Lisa Marie.
All three are about the size of a large TV and are programmed to roam from floor to floor, distributing medications to nursing stations.
At the end of their rounds, the robots are supposed to roll into the basement pharmacy for refills.
But Tuesday, Waldo shot past the pharmacy and barged uninvited into the examination room in the radiation oncology department, where -- according to an anonymous caller -- a doctor was examining a cancer patient.
According to the caller, Waldo wouldn't leave, and the startled doctor and patient felt obliged to flee the room.
UCSF spokeswoman Carol Hyman said she didn't know anything about any doctor and patient having to beat feet -- but confirmed that the wandering Waldo did wind up in an examination room.
"This is the first time anything like this has happened," Hyman said. "Our technology folks are going to have to take a look."
That is, if Waldo will stand still for it.
The article is misleading; there is no actual confirmation that apple will use this technology. It's a possible alternative, and nothing more.
o ads/Trusted_Platform_Module_White_Paper.pdf
r ust-me-im-your-computer/page7.html
For more information on this technology:
Trusted Computing Group's website:
https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/about/faq/
An Intel whitepaper on the TPM mentioned in the article:
http://www.intel.com/design/mobile/platform/downl
And an interesting article from macuser (older, but still relevant):
http://www.macuser.co.uk/macuser/features/61277/t
Tux is very eagerly awaiting this "blow" that people keep mentioning...
I started to d/l this, and then I realized that I don't care.
I'm already tired of all this starwars crap.
Hmm. A pattern?
I bought a digital cameral for my brother in law- a birthday present. My brother in law didn't try to use the camera until three weeks later on a vacation- the damn thing didnt work, and all of his photos were becoming corrupted. Best Buy has a 2 week return policy on these things up here in the Great White North. When he tried to return it, they wouldnt let him, so I stepped in and argued with them for well over an hour. They insisted that they send it off to their repair depot, and they helf firm on this point. So, after two months at their repair depot, the camera came back "unrepairable". "There's NOTHING we can do for you, sir" said the store manager.
I went off the deep end at that point.
I had not purchaised their "extended warranty plan" and asked them what would have happend had I taken their rip off extended warrantee. She calmly said "We would have replaced the camera for you". When I asked her who runs the extended warrantee program, she said that "Best Buy" did.
At this point I found another entirely different deep end to go off of.
I pointed out as calmly as my blood pressure would allow that if Best Buy ran the program, and if my business, and my money (I'm gadgetaddicted) meant anything to them, she would treat it as though I had bought their little warrantee plan and start working out how to replace the camera. I refused to sign any of their 'papers' accepting the camera back and told them "If that camera cannot be replaced, and it cannot be fixed, I am not leaving the store with it. I wanted to speak to the district manager, and was promised a call back. I left the store.
After a week, the call failed to come, so I started calling around again. I finally got in touch with this guy and while he was looking up my file, he asked me if I was sure that the camera had come back- as it was for some reason not in the store. THEY LOST IT . He apologised and said that under the circumstances he would replace the camera.
The new camera works fine, but everytime I drive by the Best Buy, I shiver.
In Canada, at least in Ontario, Best Buy's biggest competetor is Future Shop...owned by Best Buy. I guess this is why they think they can treat customers like crap and get away with it...
You do realize that a Soundblasters are not considered "Professional"? They're not even "Prosumer".
Until my MOTU interfaces are SUPPORTED (by MOTU, I need a throat to choke) my DAW will remain Windows.
Sorry, we're not yet ready for Primetime.
D
email = voicemail. DNS = the phone book/Canada 411. search engine = yellow pages. My voicemail is provided by Bell, and if for whatever reason they widthheld a message, it would mean that they had parsed that message. This is a violation of my privacy and simply not permitted. This is no different than email.