The NeXT UI is far superior to both the traditional Mac UI and Aqua. But that's a matter of opinion. What I really fear is that Cocoa and Objective C won't get the attention they deserve. If they can create a strong and vibrant Cocoa developer base (a good possibility if they can hold the previous Mac OS developer community in tow) then GNUstep can thrive. MOSX success is important!
And I also wonder how on earth they can use this with John Coltrane if the lowest frequencies are "in the hundreds of Hz". Seems kind of useless for music to me.
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The universe is a big place. I guarantee you that there is much left to discover, even with mere thought experiment. For example, there is still a great deal to be done with understanding the application of basic anatomy to playing musical instruments. Dorothy Taubman has done much of this for piano while Claude Gordon has done it for trumpet. What about Violin? Harp? Theremin?
Then, there are basic questions of philosophy. This realm of discovery is almost all thought experiment, and can actually lead to new discovery in the physical realm.
Furthermore, never discount the ability of "untrained" laymen to learn and comprehend.
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Yes, but one of the stated goals is for people in cars to be able to listen to music independently.
Additionally, where do you get the idea that removing 250-400 Hz band wouldn't be noticible? The lowest note on a piano has a fundamental frequency of ~27 Hz!
Actually, we really made our mistake in 1944 (I believe I have that date correct). Ho came to the US and asked for help in negotiating a peaceful settlement with France. The US government pledged their help. However, for some reason (I don't remember what it was), the US Army *liberated* French POWs and gave their weapons back to them. As far as Ho was concerned, he had been betrayed by the US and by democracy in general. *This* is what really turned him against us. If it hadn't been for this, things might have gone much better.
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I think that young children are probably very susceptible to this sort of thing. Children are unbelievably malleable.
Furthermore, there are situations (most notably, the Nazi regime) where millions of educated and intelligent people became entranced by the illogical ravings of one man. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that thoroughly intelligent people were completely oblivious to the truth (even though it was quite obvious).
Of course, I don't think advertisers are quite this skilled; but still, things like this can happen.
Not so sure I believe in them, but that's another matter, I suppose
It does work but I don't know what they're talking about when they say "nodal points."
Here's how it's actually supposed to work: you wear headphones with a realtime DSP built in; the DSP tracks what is going on around you and calculates a sound that is 180 degrees out-of-phase with it.
A very simple example: if you had a sine wave being produced in the room, it would generate another sine wave that is at an amplitude of -1 when the external sine wave is at an amplitude of +1. These two amplitudes cancel each other out, and you get an amplitude of 0.
Just convert them into regular integers. Then, incorporate those integers into a story (9 dogs went to eat 7 bowls of dogfood. Then, they played 20 questions, etc...)
Furthermore, this phrase was mistranslated (or perhaps, the King James english is not understood). The original Greek meaning of the oft-quoted phrase is "all evils," which is to say, "all kinds of evil."
Actually, user IDs have nothing to do with it. I read Rob's Chips and Dips and I've been with/. since it first went live; however, my user ID is 6890. You see, when user accounts first came along, I was too lazy to get one. In addition, I was rather busy with other things at the time and it was several months before I finally started reading/. again. At that point, I finally got a user ID. In FascDot's case, I think he was somebody else first, then got a new account for some reason. Not sure, though.
I refuse to follow ads that simply say "Click Here!" My time is worth more than that. If you give a description of what you're selling, and it's something I'm looking for, I'll give it a look. Why can't advertising people figure this out? Tell me what you're selling!
In which case, they'll be hard pressed to find the law or technology on their side.
Yes, I've been thinking that it might be possible to bring some form of anti-trust action against them (at the behest of independent record labels and musicians). Of course, if the Microsoft thing is any example, the Justice Department would probably: 1) miss the whole point and focus on relatively unimportant aspects of the case; and 2) come up with a completely useless, ineffective, and just downright wrong solution to the problem. Such is life.
That was the most ironic bit, because I took it as a Monty Python reference.
My.sig kind of tends to come across that way when I comment on stories like this one.;-) Although, I have to say that I hadn't thought of that particular scene in the way you described it. I'll have to watch it again
I think it's mostly because Microsoft has enough money to pay professional type houses to produce top of the line typefaces. I mean, old Billy boy spared no expense when it came to getting good fonts. But that kinda describes the whole Microsoft process doesn't it?
Well, it could be because Darwin draws on the FreeBSD community for some of the tools. We've actually had a smallish discussion about this on the GNUstep discussion list, and the project leader for Darwin said that the decision to use BSD tools rather than GNU tools was related to the requirements of the GPL.
No, the BeOS kernel is not UNIXy at all. If you read the FAQ at be.com (if it's still there--I haven't checked in a long time) they say something like the following: Although we admire some aspects of UNIX, we feel that an altogether new built-from-the-ground-up approach is necessary. To this end the BeOS kernel draws the best from other operating systems and incorporates completely new approaches to problems where necessary.
But it isn't posession. It's a reference to something. This is kind of like the difference between running a prostitution ring (illegal) and telling someone what street corner the prostitutes work on (legal, until now apparently).
No, their real goal is to make it difficult or illegal for independent record companies to compete. This is very similar to the Microsoft case. Electronic distribution and promotion can level the playing field between large media conglomerates and small, musician-oriented, independent labels.
I know I keep rehashing this over and over but the piracy thing is really overdone; and piracy is not what they're worried about.
Has this stuff been tested under relatively high loads?
Yes. Benno Senoner's latencytest finds that even with 80% CPU usage, we get no drop-outs. I just realized that Benno has put up a page at www.linuxdj.com with an Audio-Quality FAQ. Just look under the Dropouts section.
Of course, maybe someone could come up with a Linux-DA distribution or something with all background services, etc turned off.That would be nice. Once ALSA and the latency patch are solidified and make it into the official kernel, perhaps this will happen. There is also the news of Cubase seriously considering porting VST over. Being able to run VST plugins under Linux would be nice!
No, I meant input-to-output latencies. In other words, you take audio input, mess with it, then output it again. This is what is required for realtime software synthesis and processing. (For a human to be able to discern a delay between pressing a key on a keyboard and getting the sound, you have to get > 5-7 ms or so). Neither Mac OS (at least, the old one--I don't have values for MOSX) nor Windows can compete with this. Seer Systems' wrote a software synth that pulls some kind of nasty tricks, thus enabling it to get very low latencies; I don't know how low, though.
Check out this page for details. This page is a little out of date and doesn't have the latest on Andrew Morton's new patch. But it will tell you a little about the project.
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The NeXT UI is far superior to both the traditional Mac UI and Aqua. But that's a matter of opinion. What I really fear is that Cocoa and Objective C won't get the attention they deserve. If they can create a strong and vibrant Cocoa developer base (a good possibility if they can hold the previous Mac OS developer community in tow) then GNUstep can thrive. MOSX success is important!
...because you could get a lucrative job as a speech writer for Al Gore.
And I also wonder how on earth they can use this with John Coltrane if the lowest frequencies are "in the hundreds of Hz". Seems kind of useless for music to me.
Then, there are basic questions of philosophy. This realm of discovery is almost all thought experiment, and can actually lead to new discovery in the physical realm.
Furthermore, never discount the ability of "untrained" laymen to learn and comprehend.
Additionally, where do you get the idea that removing 250-400 Hz band wouldn't be noticible? The lowest note on a piano has a fundamental frequency of ~27 Hz!
Actually, we really made our mistake in 1944 (I believe I have that date correct). Ho came to the US and asked for help in negotiating a peaceful settlement with France. The US government pledged their help. However, for some reason (I don't remember what it was), the US Army *liberated* French POWs and gave their weapons back to them. As far as Ho was concerned, he had been betrayed by the US and by democracy in general. *This* is what really turned him against us. If it hadn't been for this, things might have gone much better.
Furthermore, there are situations (most notably, the Nazi regime) where millions of educated and intelligent people became entranced by the illogical ravings of one man. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that thoroughly intelligent people were completely oblivious to the truth (even though it was quite obvious).
Of course, I don't think advertisers are quite this skilled; but still, things like this can happen.
It does work but I don't know what they're talking about when they say "nodal points."
Here's how it's actually supposed to work: you wear headphones with a realtime DSP built in; the DSP tracks what is going on around you and calculates a sound that is 180 degrees out-of-phase with it.
A very simple example: if you had a sine wave being produced in the room, it would generate another sine wave that is at an amplitude of -1 when the external sine wave is at an amplitude of +1. These two amplitudes cancel each other out, and you get an amplitude of 0.
Heh. Now, aliens at ISO meetings--that I can understand.
To make the analogy more appropriate it would have to be something like, "But Gorillas can't fly a Me 262!"
Just convert them into regular integers. Then, incorporate those integers into a story (9 dogs went to eat 7 bowls of dogfood. Then, they played 20 questions, etc...)
There's a West Virgina senator named Green Bank?
Furthermore, this phrase was mistranslated (or perhaps, the King James english is not understood). The original Greek meaning of the oft-quoted phrase is "all evils," which is to say, "all kinds of evil."
I miss MEEPT. I remember thinking, "what the fu...?!?" And the responses from Bill Gates were usually pretty funny.
Actually, user IDs have nothing to do with it. I read Rob's Chips and Dips and I've been with /. since it first went live; however, my user ID is 6890. You see, when user accounts first came along, I was too lazy to get one. In addition, I was rather busy with other things at the time and it was several months before I finally started reading /. again. At that point, I finally got a user ID. In FascDot's case, I think he was somebody else first, then got a new account for some reason. Not sure, though.
I refuse to follow ads that simply say "Click Here!" My time is worth more than that. If you give a description of what you're selling, and it's something I'm looking for, I'll give it a look. Why can't advertising people figure this out? Tell me what you're selling!
Yes, I've been thinking that it might be possible to bring some form of anti-trust action against them (at the behest of independent record labels and musicians). Of course, if the Microsoft thing is any example, the Justice Department would probably: 1) miss the whole point and focus on relatively unimportant aspects of the case; and 2) come up with a completely useless, ineffective, and just downright wrong solution to the problem. Such is life.
That was the most ironic bit, because I took it as a Monty Python reference.
My .sig kind of tends to come across that way when I comment on stories like this one. ;-) Although, I have to say that I hadn't thought of that particular scene in the way you described it. I'll have to watch it again
I think it's mostly because Microsoft has enough money to pay professional type houses to produce top of the line typefaces. I mean, old Billy boy spared no expense when it came to getting good fonts. But that kinda describes the whole Microsoft process doesn't it?
Well, it could be because Darwin draws on the FreeBSD community for some of the tools. We've actually had a smallish discussion about this on the GNUstep discussion list, and the project leader for Darwin said that the decision to use BSD tools rather than GNU tools was related to the requirements of the GPL.
No, the BeOS kernel is not UNIXy at all. If you read the FAQ at be.com (if it's still there--I haven't checked in a long time) they say something like the following: Although we admire some aspects of UNIX, we feel that an altogether new built-from-the-ground-up approach is necessary. To this end the BeOS kernel draws the best from other operating systems and incorporates completely new approaches to problems where necessary.
But it isn't posession. It's a reference to something. This is kind of like the difference between running a prostitution ring (illegal) and telling someone what street corner the prostitutes work on (legal, until now apparently).
Yes, moderators, this is OT; so sue me.
No, their real goal is to make it difficult or illegal for independent record companies to compete. This is very similar to the Microsoft case. Electronic distribution and promotion can level the playing field between large media conglomerates and small, musician-oriented, independent labels.
I know I keep rehashing this over and over but the piracy thing is really overdone; and piracy is not what they're worried about.
Yes. Benno Senoner's latencytest finds that even with 80% CPU usage, we get no drop-outs. I just realized that Benno has put up a page at www.linuxdj.com with an Audio-Quality FAQ. Just look under the Dropouts section.
Of course, maybe someone could come up with a Linux-DA distribution or something with all background services, etc turned off.That would be nice. Once ALSA and the latency patch are solidified and make it into the official kernel, perhaps this will happen. There is also the news of Cubase seriously considering porting VST over. Being able to run VST plugins under Linux would be nice!
Check out this page for details. This page is a little out of date and doesn't have the latest on Andrew Morton's new patch. But it will tell you a little about the project.