For the record, there is plenty of room in society for people who want to write research papers and these are very valuable people, but those who have the intelligence and wisdom to apply knowledge gleaned from those papers into actual product or methodologies are rare, in my experience.
There are a lot of people who read a research paper and say 'ok, sure' not 'hey, I could use that'.
Carmack has an uncanny ability to apply what he learns to what he wants to do, as well as being able to find what he wants to know.
Even better would be to have a not-for-profit organize the code collection and signing process and be a licensee itself.
That would put code review on the heads of the volunteers running said NFP organization. The issue would then be whether Sony would make it affordable to run such an organization.
Of course, those doing the review of submitted programs would need to make some effort to validate that there were no intentional back doors in said programs to allow the piracy of other software so as to protect Sony's interests in continuing such a relationship.
I'm also making the assumption that many who want to run homebrew apps would be willing to shell out for a monthly/yearly membership to an organization representing their interests.
Ok, how's this, its perfectly reasonable to put out publically his E-mail address at work, but I expect nobody to post photos or personal addresses or wife's name, or anything like that.
*Personal* attacks should never be used, even against someone who might deserve it; it misrepresents our ideology.
However, a personal complaint about corporate policy is perfectly reasonable.
"Why is it that you, representing Cisco said that... "
I'd like to add that the reason Biodiesel is mixed the way it is is because of costs. Biodiesel is presently very expensive to produce -- the costs can be passed on to customers easier if they purchase mixed product.
Ah yes, the paradox of trying to know enough about everything going on at a spontaneous moment in time so as to predict its history.
Or better, the paradox of trying to simulate something as complex as yourself simulating yourself (recursive).
Its fun to take a random amount of dark matter and pretend we know what happened during the first 1/10^12 seconds of the universe of course, assuming our modern understandings of physics apply at those densities, temperatures and speeds.
I notice that every day as I work with Windows workers. They buy a new product to do better FTP transfers, another to do SSH with tunnels, another to view files in HEX (hexdump + less comes to mind), etc.
Every now and then I consider the killing you could make selling Unix software on Windows with pretty front-ends... if Unix people knew how to make pretty things besides maybe this guy.
Responding to this is practically feeding a troll. You've obviously never read anything on sound engineering or psychoaccoustics.
You *can* prove which direction a sound is coming from, its called shielded directional microphones; they only detect sound on a near straight-line path (picture a camera with a tube over the lens so you can only see in tunnel-vision except at infinity).
If you take such a microphone and a decibel meter and aim it in various directions in a room with sound of any form, you can measure how much of the sound is coming from each direction.
I feel almost silly pointing this out, but you can directionalize sound very easily if your hearing isn't damaged -- just ask someone to pop a balloon behind and to the left slightly you while your eyes are closed and you'll know that's where it was (have them pick random spots around you in a wide open space with little reflective sound).
Sound reflections are what make concert halls sound good and theatres sound bad, its why Bose spent so much time trying to make funny looking speakers that make sound go in lots of directions at once to simulate a live experience (I'm not pro-Bose). Its why ampitheatres are designed the way they are, to create constructive interference with the audio reflections from voices or instruments.
There are exceptions of course -- at lower frequencies (*very low* compared to normal day-to-day events), it is difficult or impossible to directionalize sounds. That's why placement of subwoofers is based on maximum volume, not direction.
Please go read something by someone more educated than yourself on the subject before talking about it like you know anything, or at least admit that you're deaf -- nothing like blind people telling you there's no such thing as colours.
May I take this moment to go completely unnoticed in my request for a meta-moderation of editors forum?
I'd like to be allowed to post meta comments about the actual story posting instead of about the story somewhere the editors will see and take notice of.
To be honest, I don't care how big your penis is either.
The poster has a point -- all articles announcing product should describe the product or give a link to what the product does or is.
To be honest, I've been coding for Linux since 1995 and didn't hear about Eclipse until a few months ago because of Fedora including it.
I'm a vi/make/gcc person, why would I care?
I've tried a few GUIs I haven't liked, a few I have, I'll try Eclipse one of these days too. Giving people a hard time for not knowing what it is is just rude though, no matter how many digits your user id has.
I'm not an audio engineer -- I just know several and happen to read their internal bulletins on proper recording technique for my use as an amateur.
I have a $1000 home stereo system, and no, I don't use Monster Cable for the extra 2% I might get out of them. I use Belkin, fwiw, because I can get them from computer parts distributors at a discount.
If you turn it up loud, you hear reflections from the walls behind you.
There's a simpler experiment, go to your family doctor and get your hearing checked.
They'll probably snap their fingers beside and behind and in front of you and ask you to directionalize the sound.
You should be able to.
In fact, modern psychoaccoustics is precisely what I was referencing -- experiments that avoid reflections and use sound-proofed rooms so that only the audio sources are in fact a factor.
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So much for letting kids use wireless hotspots ... I don't want them being tracked or hunted.
For that matter, I don't want to be tracked either.
That would be good.
... " would make a great first line too when I say no, but they should still ask.
The press shouldn't need my approval, but I believe they'd be outside their purview to do a story on me without at least asking me first.
"Michael prefered we not report on
For the record, there is plenty of room in society for people who want to write research papers and these are very valuable people, but those who have the intelligence and wisdom to apply knowledge gleaned from those papers into actual product or methodologies are rare, in my experience.
There are a lot of people who read a research paper and say 'ok, sure' not 'hey, I could use that'.
Carmack has an uncanny ability to apply what he learns to what he wants to do, as well as being able to find what he wants to know.
Hats off to him.
I think that's a very promising proposition.
Even better would be to have a not-for-profit organize the code collection and signing process and be a licensee itself.
That would put code review on the heads of the volunteers running said NFP organization. The issue would then be whether Sony would make it affordable to run such an organization.
Of course, those doing the review of submitted programs would need to make some effort to validate that there were no intentional back doors in said programs to allow the piracy of other software so as to protect Sony's interests in continuing such a relationship.
I'm also making the assumption that many who want to run homebrew apps would be willing to shell out for a monthly/yearly membership to an organization representing their interests.
Windows shortcuts are not all consistent, especially across non-Microsoft applications.
The Mac has more keyboard shortcuts than Windows, but you'd have to talk to a power user to realize that.
Ok, how's this, its perfectly reasonable to put out publically his E-mail address at work, but I expect nobody to post photos or personal addresses or wife's name, or anything like that.
... "
*Personal* attacks should never be used, even against someone who might deserve it; it misrepresents our ideology.
However, a personal complaint about corporate policy is perfectly reasonable.
"Why is it that you, representing Cisco said that
What are you a moron?
Nintendo is more Japanese in their target market than Sony (their video game empire at least).
Nintendo at one point barely cared if they sold a unit in north america.
I can see Sony's PoV. And I see yours too.
I'd love to have a PSP with Sony's blessing that could run homebrew.
But here's the hard part -- lets all think of a way to make it possible, for Sony's sake.
I'm sure Sony would like more customers -- don't you? Running homebrew is good, as long as it doesn't make them lose game publishers.
So how can we help Sony design a way to authenticate that homebrew apps aren't in fact pirated games?
You have a different definition of coolness than I do.
I don't think the product is cool at all.
Why?
I don't know what it is at all.
They don't actually say, in technical terms, what the box offers me, as the sysadmin.
I already know how to run a site on Linux. I'd love to know there's something out there to make it easier, but make it easier *how*?
I'm not putting out $10k for a box that doesn't have software and functional specifications.
An actual "maximum memory per PCI card" value for SRAM vs. DRAM would be interesting too, along with a price comparison of course.
Although your point has some teeth, please realize that there is still a big performance disconnect between static and dynamic RAM.
Also, flash RAM tends to have limited write cycles.
What does the field outside have to do with higher education? Why not just use the 14-16th floors of a skyscraper?
If Apple could get its act together and cooperate with other companies, they'd be a force to be reckoned with in more areas of technology.
I'd like to see iVideo downloads by Wifi onto my PSP, personally. Do you think Sony and Apple will pull that off though?
I'd like to add that the reason Biodiesel is mixed the way it is is because of costs. Biodiesel is presently very expensive to produce -- the costs can be passed on to customers easier if they purchase mixed product.
See the National Biodiesel Board's homepage; with whom I have no affiliation.
Disclaimer: I do however do computer support for the Oil Inudstry.
Being creepy, even being stupid, is not illegal.
"Move along please sir" works just fine.
Its the same thing you say to the kids with skateboards hanging out on the sidewalk in front of the pizza place.
Ah yes, the paradox of trying to know enough about everything going on at a spontaneous moment in time so as to predict its history.
Or better, the paradox of trying to simulate something as complex as yourself simulating yourself (recursive).
Its fun to take a random amount of dark matter and pretend we know what happened during the first 1/10^12 seconds of the universe of course, assuming our modern understandings of physics apply at those densities, temperatures and speeds.
You actually believe the translucency in Win2k *isn't* software based?
I notice that every day as I work with Windows workers. They buy a new product to do better FTP transfers, another to do SSH with tunnels, another to view files in HEX (hexdump + less comes to mind), etc.
... if Unix people knew how to make pretty things besides maybe this guy.
Every now and then I consider the killing you could make selling Unix software on Windows with pretty front-ends
Responding to this is practically feeding a troll. You've obviously never read anything on sound engineering or psychoaccoustics.
You *can* prove which direction a sound is coming from, its called shielded directional microphones; they only detect sound on a near straight-line path (picture a camera with a tube over the lens so you can only see in tunnel-vision except at infinity).
If you take such a microphone and a decibel meter and aim it in various directions in a room with sound of any form, you can measure how much of the sound is coming from each direction.
I feel almost silly pointing this out, but you can directionalize sound very easily if your hearing isn't damaged -- just ask someone to pop a balloon behind and to the left slightly you while your eyes are closed and you'll know that's where it was (have them pick random spots around you in a wide open space with little reflective sound).
Sound reflections are what make concert halls sound good and theatres sound bad, its why Bose spent so much time trying to make funny looking speakers that make sound go in lots of directions at once to simulate a live experience (I'm not pro-Bose). Its why ampitheatres are designed the way they are, to create constructive interference with the audio reflections from voices or instruments.
There are exceptions of course -- at lower frequencies (*very low* compared to normal day-to-day events), it is difficult or impossible to directionalize sounds. That's why placement of subwoofers is based on maximum volume, not direction.
Please go read something by someone more educated than yourself on the subject before talking about it like you know anything, or at least admit that you're deaf -- nothing like blind people telling you there's no such thing as colours.
May I take this moment to go completely unnoticed in my request for a meta-moderation of editors forum?
I'd like to be allowed to post meta comments about the actual story posting instead of about the story somewhere the editors will see and take notice of.
To be honest, I don't care how big your penis is either.
The poster has a point -- all articles announcing product should describe the product or give a link to what the product does or is.
To be honest, I've been coding for Linux since 1995 and didn't hear about Eclipse until a few months ago because of Fedora including it.
I'm a vi/make/gcc person, why would I care?
I've tried a few GUIs I haven't liked, a few I have, I'll try Eclipse one of these days too. Giving people a hard time for not knowing what it is is just rude though, no matter how many digits your user id has.
Just for your (and others') reference, check out Design considerations for recording and production facilities or the more ambitious Abiophonics concepts.
Nice of you to assume.
I'm not an audio engineer -- I just know several and happen to read their internal bulletins on proper recording technique for my use as an amateur.
I have a $1000 home stereo system, and no, I don't use Monster Cable for the extra 2% I might get out of them. I use Belkin, fwiw, because I can get them from computer parts distributors at a discount.
My father, for example, cannot stand the rear speakers in his car being turned on.
He psychologically doesn't like sound coming from behind him.
If that's your preference, that's fine.
Turn it down instead.
If you turn it up loud, you hear reflections from the walls behind you.
There's a simpler experiment, go to your family doctor and get your hearing checked.
They'll probably snap their fingers beside and behind and in front of you and ask you to directionalize the sound.
You should be able to.
In fact, modern psychoaccoustics is precisely what I was referencing -- experiments that avoid reflections and use sound-proofed rooms so that only the audio sources are in fact a factor.