According to the actual article referred to by the Nature summary (but to which they decided apparently not to include a link), the researchers measured the IPD by dint of users actually pressing keys to control the character. It wasn't calculated by actual distance in pixels, but rather the players' intentions as measurable by keyboard controls.
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For fans of experimental music, this kind of "field recording" isn't that far removed from other practitioners in the field who utilize recordings of atmospheric phenomena as the basis of audio pieces, sometimes processed, sometimes just left in the raw unfiltered recordings. As someone who counts himself a fan of the work of labels like Mego and Antiopic , this recording isn't too far from the kind of stuff I would gladly add to my over-burdened record collection.
For some samples of people working with this kind of source material, check out these two artists:
Joyce Hinterding -- Australian cross media artist working in part with ecordings of magnetic fields and weather satellites.
Steven Mcgreevy -- VLF (Very Low Frequency) recordins of atmospheric phenomena -- very beautiful, with audio samples available from the site.
This Al Hamburg character is pretty intriguing --some choice parts from the Dark Horse 2000 assessment:
Al Hamburg really detests two thing: illegal aliens and "dopers". He's not too crazy about big business and special interests either, but the vast bulk of his campaign statements revolve around ridding the U.S. of undocumented alien and smuggled drugs and these issues form his simple platform: "Stop the illegal alien and dope invasions from Mexico - Pull troops out of Korea, put them on US/Mexico border."
This 68 year old Independent is a 20 year Army veteran who served in both Korea and VietNam before becoming a house painter in Wyoming. Perhaps living in Hell Town, Wy explains some of his very feisty attitude. His 2000 campaign is not Hamburg's first venture into the political area. He has run for office, unsuccessfully, a total of twelve times, including campaigns for Congress, Governor and the U.S. Senate and proudly refers to himself as the "very independent "Unpopular" candidate."
Most of his fire is saved for the illegal immigrant issue and his finger points first and foremost south to Mexico, though he opposes virtually all immigration, foreign aid and affirmative action as discriminating against white workers.
He blasts the importation of illegal drugs and would sterilize all dopers (as well as illegal immigrants.)
Just finished getting 2.6.0 compiled and installed on a Debian sid box with only a few hassles to get everything running smoothly... Here's some notes from the install - old news for those running 2.6 test kernels but figured someone may be interested:
-make xconfig looks really professional now
-make / make modules / make modules_install has all been tidied up by the looks of it -- no more endless printout of GCC syntax. had me worried for a second that nothing was compiling but overall looks pretty slick
-alsa comes installed as default, but the configuration seems a little screwy (on debian at least) --/etc/modules.conf contains only OSS aliases, no alsa config files at all. so no sound at the moment...
-usb mouse doesn't seem to work here when compiled in the kernel, but works fine as a module -- same problem i've had with 2.4.18-23
-the nvidia 2.6.0 patch available at minion.de works great, so i have a functional X11 server with nvidia modules
The only thing I can find to fault is that somehow the X11 server on the backup 2.4.23 kernel crashes on bootup due to some problem parsing the XF86Config-4 file. I'm not sure if this is a side-effect of the 2.6.0 install or something else (maybe some apt-get update X11 changes i missed?), and i've had the occasional problem before with older kernels becoming only partly functional after newer kernels are installed.
All around though, nice job! Compiling the kernel is getting easier and nicer to look at. And it seems the problems with mouse lagging during 100% CPU usage are gone, at least as far as I've tried it this evening.
The whole exaggerated excessiveness of gourmet food advertising sometimes just makes me laugh. Does this description (from the RJ Tarpley site):
We start by selecting 100% arabica beans from the worlds finest coffee growers. The coffee beans are then carefully roasted in small batches by our Master Roaster according to his exacting specifications and delivered to your front door.
...remind anyone else of the Simpsons's Good Morning Burger?
We take eighteen ounces of sizzling ground beef, and soak it in rich, creamery butter, then we top it off with bacon, ham, and a fried egg. We call it the Good Morning Burger.
The RIAA bullshit, the SCO bullshit, the movie industry anti-text messaging bullshit, and now this bullshit? Jesus! Makes me think I should exercise the UK citizenship I got lying and quit the U.S. for Canada..
Oh well - at least I now have a good excuse for my impending drunken stupor this evening..
...they haven't blamed text messaging as the reason for all this anti-SCO sentiment. I know I've been txting all my friends (in hAxOr, of course) that SCO sux dix - time for a lawsuit against Verizon, perhaps?
Didn't see them mentioned yet, but they seem like a perfect example of a proprietary business model drawing from the OSS movement. But I don't think the either/or question really captures what's going on in these situations. Seems to me in Apple's case (which is fairly similar to others discussed in the videos), they're obviously exploiting the OSS movement (albeit in a fairly clever and media-massaged kinda way) -- just look at Safari, which adds value to their operating system and draws extensively from the open source technologies developed in Konqueror -- and makes them more money. But at the same time they're contributing code back to OSS and adding value back to the OSS.
I mean, c'mon, this is America -- aren't exploitation and cooperation the same thing?
I respectfully beg to differ. Being attracted to Linux firstly for ideological reasons, I chose Debian as my distro of choice for a Toshiba laptop I picked up just for the purpose of testing out Linux. Of course I managed to fowl up my system about ten times in the first 3 months -- accidentally denying anyone permission to/bin/sh, fucking around with dselect until I managed to uninstall just about everything (yes, I ignored the "you will do serious damage to your system" prompts), compiling an unusable kernel then accidentally writing it over my backup kernel -- all very stupid newbie mistakes.
But each and every time I had a problem, I found plenty of people to help fix it on the debian-laptop list, and none of the usual RTFM I found while googling other listserves. I even found someone to walk me through the steps for compiling modules for my winmodem.
To make a long story short, I'm now running Debian on an Athlon box and two G3 powerbooks, each as up to date as I'd ever want, with fully functional KDE 3 and Gnome 2 all through the ease of apt-get. While I'm not sure I'd recommend Debian to someone who just wants a cool-looking Linux install with minimum hassle, I've found Debian an invaluable learning tool and an inspiration to continue learning about Linux... and participating in the Linux community at large too.
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According to the actual article referred to by the Nature summary (but to which they decided apparently not to include a link), the researchers measured the IPD by dint of users actually pressing keys to control the character. It wasn't calculated by actual distance in pixels, but rather the players' intentions as measurable by keyboard controls.
For some samples of people working with this kind of source material, check out these two artists:
Joyce Hinterding -- Australian cross media artist working in part with ecordings of magnetic fields and weather satellites.
Steven Mcgreevy -- VLF (Very Low Frequency) recordins of atmospheric phenomena -- very beautiful, with audio samples available from the site.
Al Hamburg really detests two thing: illegal aliens and "dopers". He's not too crazy about big business and special interests either, but the vast bulk of his campaign statements revolve around ridding the U.S. of undocumented alien and smuggled drugs and these issues form his simple platform: "Stop the illegal alien and dope invasions from Mexico - Pull troops out of Korea, put them on US/Mexico border."
This 68 year old Independent is a 20 year Army veteran who served in both Korea and VietNam before becoming a house painter in Wyoming. Perhaps living in Hell Town, Wy explains some of his very feisty attitude. His 2000 campaign is not Hamburg's first venture into the political area. He has run for office, unsuccessfully, a total of twelve times, including campaigns for Congress, Governor and the U.S. Senate and proudly refers to himself as the "very independent "Unpopular" candidate."
Most of his fire is saved for the illegal immigrant issue and his finger points first and foremost south to Mexico, though he opposes virtually all immigration, foreign aid and affirmative action as discriminating against white workers.
He blasts the importation of illegal drugs and would sterilize all dopers (as well as illegal immigrants.)
-make xconfig looks really professional now /etc/modules.conf contains only OSS aliases, no alsa config files at all. so no sound at the moment...
-make / make modules / make modules_install has all been tidied up by the looks of it -- no more endless printout of GCC syntax. had me worried for a second that nothing was compiling but overall looks pretty slick
-alsa comes installed as default, but the configuration seems a little screwy (on debian at least) --
-usb mouse doesn't seem to work here when compiled in the kernel, but works fine as a module -- same problem i've had with 2.4.18-23
-the nvidia 2.6.0 patch available at minion.de works great, so i have a functional X11 server with nvidia modules
The only thing I can find to fault is that somehow the X11 server on the backup 2.4.23 kernel crashes on bootup due to some problem parsing the XF86Config-4 file. I'm not sure if this is a side-effect of the 2.6.0 install or something else (maybe some apt-get update X11 changes i missed?), and i've had the occasional problem before with older kernels becoming only partly functional after newer kernels are installed.
All around though, nice job! Compiling the kernel is getting easier and nicer to look at. And it seems the problems with mouse lagging during 100% CPU usage are gone, at least as far as I've tried it this evening.
Thanks to Linus and all that contributed..
You're right - my apologies for contributing to the SCO overload. May I suggest instead:
Buy nothing at all - use the FSF!
We start by selecting 100% arabica beans from the worlds finest coffee growers. The coffee beans are then carefully roasted in small batches by our Master Roaster according to his exacting specifications and delivered to your front door.
We take eighteen ounces of sizzling ground beef, and soak it in rich, creamery butter, then we top it off with bacon, ham, and a fried egg. We call it the Good Morning Burger.
Is it just me, or does this floopies/beeb thing sound distinctly pornographic?
Smoke crack, Buy a SCO licence!
Oh well - at least I now have a good excuse for my impending drunken stupor this evening..
doesn't vi come installed by default?
i mean, everyone knows tivo rocks, right? so if tivo = OSS + proprietary, then OSS + proprietary must also rock. right?
(DISCLAIMER - i have no idea if tivo actually rocks or not - still trying to catch a blurry version of gilmore girls on my 1960s uhf box...)
I mean, c'mon, this is America -- aren't exploitation and cooperation the same thing?
But each and every time I had a problem, I found plenty of people to help fix it on the debian-laptop list, and none of the usual RTFM I found while googling other listserves. I even found someone to walk me through the steps for compiling modules for my winmodem.
To make a long story short, I'm now running Debian on an Athlon box and two G3 powerbooks, each as up to date as I'd ever want, with fully functional KDE 3 and Gnome 2 all through the ease of apt-get. While I'm not sure I'd recommend Debian to someone who just wants a cool-looking Linux install with minimum hassle, I've found Debian an invaluable learning tool and an inspiration to continue learning about Linux... and participating in the Linux community at large too.
Debian -- muchas gracias!