yeah shipboard environments are rough on connectors for a lot of reasons... which is why the use special connectors.... and why marine grade gear costs easily 10x that of consumer gear for similar function. Sounds like your dev team didn't do their homework.
Earthquakes don't have a lot of energy in the range that HDs are tested...
Most CONSUMER grade drives are tested with a half-sine shock in the 5ms range; thats like a smack with a hammer for 50G to 100G.. or a drop to a concrete floor from three to six feet. That dents cans, bearings and deforms aluminum drive frames.
Earthquake energy is a slow gentle push, by comparison, even taking into account distortion of larger structures in the rack. If you use your laptop while riding on a bus, car, or sometimes a plane, your exposing it to more acceleration than an earthquake can usually dish out.
summary: expecting a consumer grade drive to survive a 6.7 or even a 10 point earthquake is not really much of a stretch unless the rest of the building around the drives is collapsing....
An installer can do far more damage to a drive just by over tightening the mounting screws.
Yeah it was. I can see why. The faculty has the right to opt out on a paper by paper basis... From a writer's PoV thats quite potent.
If one looks at it from the writer's PoV it makes perfect sense. Moar citations moar exposure. Moar opportunity to have your writing and ideas seen far and wide.
How could any academic refuse an opportunity like that?
OpenCourseware is one of the most amazing projects to come out of a major university in a long time, IMO. Now, open articles..... fan-freakin-tastic!!!! WTG MIT!
Neural networking was originally based on a gross over-simplification of flat worm neurons. (I'd like 'What is a Limax?' for $50...)
So I guess we can expect very, very, fast, grossly over simplified, virtual, flat worm simulations. Or simulations involving hundreds of grossly over simplified, virtual, flat worms in real time.
This reminds me of a story I heard told about Henry Ford. Story goes that many years after the success of the model T and it's immediate successors, Ford sent a team of engineers to dig in the auto graveyards of the US and examine failure modes for the cars to determine why they were there and what components failed... and most interestingly, what components didn't fail. The study was completed, the report delivered and Ford was presented the results... The study supposedly showed that only one component in the entire vehicle never seemed to fail... Ford allegedly told his engineering staff that the part was over engineered and to redesign the part so it had the same likelihood of failure as the rest of the components examined.
I wonder... if Fords team could pull that off.... why couldn't M$ design for an abnormally high fail rate just to boost sales figures?
Oh but thats silly.... only a Monopoly could afford do something like that....
Interestingly there is a picture of the guts of the ear bud/interface....
Looks to me that the ear bud cable has NO logic components on it at all. It appears that it simply shorts the lines that aren't used for audio, to ground and power on the USB portion of the connector to signal the user input maybe through resistors.
Big deal. It is certainly NOT DRM.... barely qualifies as LOCK-IN.
Looks like Apple just chose a slightly clever way to provide a UI, that just happens to make using standard cans less useful than the custom jobbies that ship with it. I expect we'll 3rd party solutions to this issue in a few weeks.
"Humanize" with the wrong settings gets the wrong effect. The Parent is correct. Quantize then "humanize" will sound like an accurate drummer with a little human jitter in their timing. "Humanize" will not create dynamics that match the thematic matter in a song. There are lots of songs that have gradual changes in tempo to make a point.
OTOH: DJs get away with murder by gradually shifting the tempo of the current song to make it 'beat-match' the next song. The dancing audience will not notice the tempo shift over 3:33 min. unless they were listening to a metronome.
To address an earlier post:
Click/whoosh track, or not, is dependent on a lot of factors. An experienced engineer knows when to use it. It has little to do with style. It has a lot to do with the experience and skill level of the musicians AND the skills (or lack) of the producer of the session. Having engineered recordings for a lot of garage bands forced me to be very flexible with the process.
When I was studying Aikido years ago there was an exercise used to teach/explore so-called 'Action-at-a-distance' I learned that much of the result is becoming body-sensitized to your environment without using visual stimulus. The human brain does seem to adapt to this very quickly if some basic meditation to clear the mind is done first.
I noted:
â Heightened sensitivity to near by heat sources (esp. people) from any direction.
â Using ambient sound to map the position, size and character of near by objects and interior spaces using auditory and temperature/air current cues
â Apparent awareness of other people's intent... (not really mapped on the remaining four senses)
Consequently, I find it relatively easy to walk through unfamiliar areas in near total darkness. I can demonstrably catch things thrown in my direction without having see the object thrown: even in cases where someone was trying to surprise me.
And the most useful.... I cannot be snuck up on or followed without being aware of it... In fact the only person who has successfully snuck up behind me in many years was a fellow Aikido student, who stated that he had to clear his mind of intent before attempting it.... You see we had been playing this game for some time....
YMMV
I might point out that what Wozniak accomplished in his design of the first Apple was pretty impressive for the time period. Not only did he design, and breadboard the first couple of working systems, but he and a few assistants proceeded to layout the PCB by hand the old fashioned way: black tape on clear plastic film....
I do this now on fairly advanced software, and it's still a big pain in the butt.
even 5 years ago people said it would be nearly impossible for a home-hobbyist to layout, populate a SMD/SMT board and reflow it without ~$200KUSD equipment. Not so now... Home-brewers are regularly making high-quality, low cost SMD boards and are working with BGA packages using $100 USD home made reflow ovens.
While it takes education and experience to innovate these hacks, there are a lot of underemployed MBs out there I am sure who will come up with methods for building infrastructure on the cheap.
What seems impossible for a home-brewer today will be trivial tomorrow.
I was not only a clone user back in the Mid-90's I was an independent repair tech and consultant, specializing in Mac/Mac Compatibles. I saw a lot more problems with the clones than real Apple branded systems. Over-heating, power-supply failures, HD failures as well as general flakiness. The various clones were often faster and cheaper than a comparable Apple branded system, but in my experience they were NOT as reliable, or as stable.
Back then it was pretty obvious that Apple was engineering very conservatively to keep build quality and reliability a central focus. The problem is that a graphic artist on a tight schedule would rather have a 'candle' that burns twice as bright for half as long.
By the time Apple pulled the plug on the Clone-Wars campaign, most of the clone manufacturers were building total crap, and everyone's margins were in the toilet. Job's mercifully put a cap in the clone collective's head, and the Apple branded platforms gradually recovered.
Slashdot Mirror
linky was never broken on Safari. Just took a while for it to silently cache the video.
But it did break the site navigation :/
YMMV
yeah shipboard environments are rough on connectors for a lot of reasons... which is why the use special connectors.... and why marine grade gear costs easily 10x that of consumer gear for similar function. Sounds like your dev team didn't do their homework.
I'm not surprised....
Earthquakes don't have a lot of energy in the range that HDs are tested...
Most CONSUMER grade drives are tested with a half-sine shock in the 5ms range; thats like a smack with a hammer for 50G to 100G.. or a drop to a concrete floor from three to six feet. That dents cans, bearings and deforms aluminum drive frames.
Earthquake energy is a slow gentle push, by comparison, even taking into account distortion of larger structures in the rack. If you use your laptop while riding on a bus, car, or sometimes a plane, your exposing it to more acceleration than an earthquake can usually dish out.
summary: expecting a consumer grade drive to survive a 6.7 or even a 10 point earthquake is not really much of a stretch unless the rest of the building around the drives is collapsing....
An installer can do far more damage to a drive just by over tightening the mounting screws.
Yeah it was. I can see why. The faculty has the right to opt out on a paper by paper basis... From a writer's PoV thats quite potent.
If one looks at it from the writer's PoV it makes perfect sense. Moar citations moar exposure. Moar opportunity to have your writing and ideas seen far and wide.
How could any academic refuse an opportunity like that?
OpenCourseware is one of the most amazing projects to come out of a major university in a long time, IMO. Now, open articles..... fan-freakin-tastic!!!! WTG MIT!
yeah most bars on the west coat seem to use 12oz "pint" glasses.
Except the Irish ones where you tend to get a choice...
Neural networking was originally based on a gross over-simplification of flat worm neurons. (I'd like 'What is a Limax?' for $50...)
So I guess we can expect very, very, fast, grossly over simplified, virtual, flat worm simulations. Or simulations involving hundreds of grossly over simplified, virtual, flat worms in real time.
Good luck on that...
Dick Stallman (before he Dicks you....)
Hurm....
This reminds me of a story I heard told about Henry Ford. Story goes that many years after the success of the model T and it's immediate successors, Ford sent a team of engineers to dig in the auto graveyards of the US and examine failure modes for the cars to determine why they were there and what components failed... and most interestingly, what components didn't fail. The study was completed, the report delivered and Ford was presented the results... The study supposedly showed that only one component in the entire vehicle never seemed to fail... Ford allegedly told his engineering staff that the part was over engineered and to redesign the part so it had the same likelihood of failure as the rest of the components examined.
I wonder... if Fords team could pull that off.... why couldn't M$ design for an abnormally high fail rate just to boost sales figures?
Oh but thats silly.... only a Monopoly could afford do something like that....
YES IT DOES!
Let me get this straight.... You bought a LAPTOP and you are saying, "... I never wanted an all in one computer..."
Am I missing something here? WTF?!
Reading the parent's link --> [ifixit.com]
Interestingly there is a picture of the guts of the ear bud/interface....
Looks to me that the ear bud cable has NO logic components on it at all. It appears that it simply shorts the lines that aren't used for audio, to ground and power on the USB portion of the connector to signal the user input maybe through resistors.
Big deal. It is certainly NOT DRM.... barely qualifies as LOCK-IN.
Looks like Apple just chose a slightly clever way to provide a UI, that just happens to make using standard cans less useful than the custom jobbies that ship with it. I expect we'll 3rd party solutions to this issue in a few weeks.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
"Humanize" with the wrong settings gets the wrong effect. The Parent is correct. Quantize then "humanize" will sound like an accurate drummer with a little human jitter in their timing. "Humanize" will not create dynamics that match the thematic matter in a song. There are lots of songs that have gradual changes in tempo to make a point.
OTOH: DJs get away with murder by gradually shifting the tempo of the current song to make it 'beat-match' the next song. The dancing audience will not notice the tempo shift over 3:33 min. unless they were listening to a metronome.
To address an earlier post:
Click/whoosh track, or not, is dependent on a lot of factors. An experienced engineer knows when to use it. It has little to do with style. It has a lot to do with the experience and skill level of the musicians AND the skills (or lack) of the producer of the session. Having engineered recordings for a lot of garage bands forced me to be very flexible with the process.
YMMV
When I was studying Aikido years ago there was an exercise used to teach/explore so-called 'Action-at-a-distance' I learned that much of the result is becoming body-sensitized to your environment without using visual stimulus. The human brain does seem to adapt to this very quickly if some basic meditation to clear the mind is done first. I noted: â Heightened sensitivity to near by heat sources (esp. people) from any direction. â Using ambient sound to map the position, size and character of near by objects and interior spaces using auditory and temperature/air current cues â Apparent awareness of other people's intent... (not really mapped on the remaining four senses) Consequently, I find it relatively easy to walk through unfamiliar areas in near total darkness. I can demonstrably catch things thrown in my direction without having see the object thrown: even in cases where someone was trying to surprise me. And the most useful.... I cannot be snuck up on or followed without being aware of it... In fact the only person who has successfully snuck up behind me in many years was a fellow Aikido student, who stated that he had to clear his mind of intent before attempting it.... You see we had been playing this game for some time.... YMMV
I might point out that what Wozniak accomplished in his design of the first Apple was pretty impressive for the time period. Not only did he design, and breadboard the first couple of working systems, but he and a few assistants proceeded to layout the PCB by hand the old fashioned way: black tape on clear plastic film.... I do this now on fairly advanced software, and it's still a big pain in the butt. even 5 years ago people said it would be nearly impossible for a home-hobbyist to layout, populate a SMD/SMT board and reflow it without ~$200KUSD equipment. Not so now... Home-brewers are regularly making high-quality, low cost SMD boards and are working with BGA packages using $100 USD home made reflow ovens. While it takes education and experience to innovate these hacks, there are a lot of underemployed MBs out there I am sure who will come up with methods for building infrastructure on the cheap. What seems impossible for a home-brewer today will be trivial tomorrow.
I was not only a clone user back in the Mid-90's I was an independent repair tech and consultant, specializing in Mac/Mac Compatibles. I saw a lot more problems with the clones than real Apple branded systems. Over-heating, power-supply failures, HD failures as well as general flakiness. The various clones were often faster and cheaper than a comparable Apple branded system, but in my experience they were NOT as reliable, or as stable. Back then it was pretty obvious that Apple was engineering very conservatively to keep build quality and reliability a central focus. The problem is that a graphic artist on a tight schedule would rather have a 'candle' that burns twice as bright for half as long. By the time Apple pulled the plug on the Clone-Wars campaign, most of the clone manufacturers were building total crap, and everyone's margins were in the toilet. Job's mercifully put a cap in the clone collective's head, and the Apple branded platforms gradually recovered.
Hmmm
Would this be Baby v3.0 Have Bill and Lisa been busy? Acquiring Minds want to know....
=B-)