*sigh* folks you forget we're talking about the impact on the sheep of our society. Anyone competent enough to distinguish a difference between OS's either builds their own or is a Mac user. Sheep don't want choices - this has been established many many times. Sheep would rather go with something that is simple and clear cut./.'rs need to remember that they represent about 5% of the market tops and that ultimately this is a business issue - not a geek issue.
Of *course* they know it's bullshit. That's what assholes do - spread bullshit. Amazes me the speculation on the legality and intent when common sense tells you their just being assholes. Must be pretty dry tinder out there for such a small spark to go up in flames so easy...
Yeah I know what you mean - it's really the soundcrew at live events. I attended a "two-fer" many years back of Ted Nugent and Lynrd Skynrd. Ted Nugent sounded awful. Before Skynrd went up I witnessed their roadies having an almost physical confrontation with the guys in the soundbooth. They won. They spent the next 15 minutes adjusting the sound panel and Skynrd sounded wonderful as a result. They took pains to assure the sound was balanced and of sufficient volume to rock the house but not to be a painful experience. But that does not address the current environment of overcompressed bland wall of sound that permeats the industry today. I hardly ever see the level meters twitch. No nuance whatsoever. I blame this on teh recording engineers.
>> Ah yes. Because they never used compression on vinyl. >> Records were compressed just as badly as CDs in their heyday So which is it? Never or just as bad? Truth is compression has always been a factor as they needed to limit the cutting stylus excursion to fit within the ability of the the stylus to track it. This translates to a reduction in the top end of dynamic range *only*. The lower amplitudes were boosted to combat the other limitation of vinyl which is simply surface noise from the actual finish of the material. Thus most of the comprtession was on the louder passages. I still have my trusty Dbx 3bx dymnamic range expander to put some life back into the music. Now digtal has only one of these reasons to compress the shit out of the recording - the upper end limitation established by the number of bits used to encode and playback, while keeping enough bits to accurately reproduce the lower passages (not that there *are* any of those anymore). The problem is both the listeners of the popular music and our culture. Quite frankly most folks have no idea of the subtleties possible with well recorded music - the pleasant teasing and coaxing of the ear. Everything's fuckin fortissimo - the music needs to overcome car noise, traffic noise, co-worker noise - our ambient threshhold in itself reduces the bottom limit of the dynamic range allowable. People are now conditioned to think in terms of loud=better. I went to a Staind concert recently and it was freaking horrible. The sound was literally too big for the venue to the point where it was all just a barrage of fuckin noise. I got up and went outside and gradually increased my distance until I could once again distinguish the instruments. By my rough figuring the sound level would have been more appropriate for an area 6 times the size of the one we were in. Even my teenage son was disappointed in the sound quality (so there's my reality check). The situation is like people who frequent bars where a drink is always mixed with way too much alcohol. They aren't really interested in the taste of a drink - just getting toasted. My guess is that much of popular music is similar in the respect they don't really give a shit about the sound quality or if their tunes come across at their best - it's merely wallpaper to the event itself.
>> 2) They bend over backwards to be "fair" as an act of sympathy. Whoa, whoa! We talking about the same animal here? After all a judge ain't nothing but a lawywer with political connections. Seems to me a judge bucking the RIAA lawyers in a bit like a family feud...
Exactly - not only that but the comets are singularities meaning they should be considered as independent events - not as a whole. Some of these "scientists" will do anything to get attention and prodding the religious right is getting so yesterday. Poking anything long enough just to hear it squeel gets boring after awhile....
I seriously doubt that the code was really "lost". My gosh - it used to be on *every* Unix system delivered! I'm pretty sure I have on tape somewhere the original Fortran code - I remember trying to compile it on the Apple II - we did compile it on the MicroVAX's both Ultra and VMS. There were also flavors where people had used it as an exercise in converting to RatFOR. Anyway - I think "re-discovered" would be more appropriate - not lost and found. Regards, Jon
Adobe will in fact sit pretty with at least two of it graphics powerhouses; Photoshop and Illustrator. Microsoft may create a few niche tools that will be used in conjunction with but never supercede Photoshop or Illustrator. The reason is that it is not a direct head-on competition in features. Adobe has a HUGE industry backing it up with training, videos, books, courseware, college courses. So - there are a very large contingent of people and businesses that have a very vested interest in keeping Adobe #1.
Not available on eBay anymore for some reason (probably a stupid one). You can buy Enigma machines online - most have a few repro parts. http://w1tp.com/4sale/
>> This is reminding me of what they were saying about rock'n roll and comic books in the 50's...it was the bane of culture, it promoted sexual deviance, it threatened the foundations of society itself!!!!
They were right. I would use the word deviance in the sense of a directional change - but -it's all true. Whether it was *beneficial* to society, history will judge - by *their* standards of course. And the karmic wheel turns... Regards, Jon
>>So with how much the US has spent on the software, you can see why giving it away for free would bug them. I can see why they would not provide the software, but your premise is faulty. More accurate would be the statement that it is part of the end product and simply not available as it is a proprietary component. Many examples exist - we buy things everyday that contain software that we don't have access to. Your automobile would be the first large expense item that I can think of. Let me see - a few other items that come to mind: Microwaves, Televisions, iPods, cell phones, home security systems, etc etc etc. Not one of these would you have a prayer of obtaining the source code from the manufacturer on the pretext that you *need* access. regards, Jon
Lambda, Lambda half? We call that wavelength - as in fullwave, halfwave. Screw the wood - just get a pencil lead for a drafting pencil, cut to size, make a support from a couple of pieces of teflon, bathe in the glow... better have a hefty microwave tho...
Maybe this has been covered, maybe I don't "get it"... but - what about all the copyrighted songs people sing in church and in public? School plays? Choral Singers at Christmas? We live in an insane world where bards, storytellers and travelling minstrels have been legislated out of existence....
Big assumption that the same bastards who are raping and pillaging the Social Security System would act responsibly with funds intended for alternative energy. Halliburton would decide to get in that business for sure with even more no-bid contractual awards... regards, Jon
Actually there is a good blurb on EFF about how some TOR servers have been identified for carrying torrents of DCMA protected material. The rights of the ISP and individual computers are covered and if I read correctly, not liable for packets being routed through. After all - think of the dozens of hops a packet must make - how could they all be liable for carrying the material? http://tor.eff.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html http://tor.eff.org/eff/tor-dmca-response.html
Shit - they'll figure out a way to wrap it up with DCMA making it akin to breaking copy protection. It's the insurance companies at work trying to get any little technicality to prevent them from paying. What should be a risk-based business structure is slowly and surely becoming a sure thing. With mandatory coverage required they can basically rape the unfortunate driver that has some minor incident. I can see it now where you'll be required to have a 6 month "checkup" where they do a dump of your little on-board narc and find reasons to jack up your coverage. Hey they do it with health coverage now...
Glad to see someone else shares my opinions. I always wondered why Borland swapped for a VS type interface when I loved the old SDI IDE. I also use multiple monitors and screen real estate rules when coding. And don't even get me started on the travesty known as CHM. Borland used to lead the way and somewhere along the management changes they converted from leaders to copy-cats. What a friggin shame. As an experienced C++, C#, and Pascal guy I always considered Delphi to be the supreme development environment and the VCL a true work of art. Damned shame the only ones with enough sense to realize what a great development environment Delphi was is our Euro brethren. American companies have traded "Buy IBM" for "Buy Microsoft". Bunch of friggin sheep... Regards, Jon
There was a researcher in N.C. that had a patent for using bacteria to build integrated circuits and transistors. He used a bacteria that was known to absorb metals and would align themselves with electrical fields. He "drew" the circuit patterns (like an IC layer mask) using a scanning electrom beam on the substrate. A soup with the metal laden bacteria was poured in and fixed somehow. The circuit could then be built in layers. I believe he actually demonstrated transistors and small circuits using this technique. Oh - and this was in the early 80's...
When I was an engineering student at Weber State University in the mid 80's we designed, developed, and built NUSAT for the FAA to monitor radar coverage patterns. The project was successful and we went on to do a couple more. It involved our Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Mechanical Engineering departments in a multidisciplinary development team. Been there - done it. I guess their claim to fame is they built it with scraps and donations...
Everyone that I know playing WoW is barely cognizant of the outside world anymore - so this survey is biased to say the least because WoW players are simply unavailable at the moment for such mundane things as reading/.
C'mon - if the content was in there do you guys really think that it was never meant to be unleashed? After hearing how EA and other game developers wield figurative whips over the game developers and incessant crunch time - when exactly did the bored coders and multimedia people (who would have had to collude incidentally) find the time to put this hack in? Ab-so-friggin-lutely brilliant marketing. No way in hell they could ever flaunt this on purpose so they make it an "accident".
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*sigh* folks you forget we're talking about the impact on the sheep of our society. Anyone competent enough to distinguish a difference between OS's either builds their own or is a Mac user. Sheep don't want choices - this has been established many many times. Sheep would rather go with something that is simple and clear cut. /.'rs need to remember that they represent about 5% of the market tops and that ultimately this is a business issue - not a geek issue.
Of *course* they know it's bullshit. That's what assholes do - spread bullshit.
Amazes me the speculation on the legality and intent when common sense tells you their just being assholes. Must be pretty dry tinder out there for such a small spark to go up in flames so easy...
another reason to mine the arctic and plant the national flag(s). Why can't this shit show up in a desert somewhere?
Yeah I know what you mean - it's really the soundcrew at live events. I attended a "two-fer" many years back of Ted Nugent and Lynrd Skynrd. Ted Nugent sounded awful. Before Skynrd went up I witnessed their roadies having an almost physical confrontation with the guys in the soundbooth. They won. They spent the next 15 minutes adjusting the sound panel and Skynrd sounded wonderful as a result. They took pains to assure the sound was balanced and of sufficient volume to rock the house but not to be a painful experience.
But that does not address the current environment of overcompressed bland wall of sound that permeats the industry today. I hardly ever see the level meters twitch. No nuance whatsoever. I blame this on teh recording engineers.
>> Ah yes. Because they never used compression on vinyl.
>> Records were compressed just as badly as CDs in their heyday
So which is it? Never or just as bad?
Truth is compression has always been a factor as they needed to limit the cutting stylus excursion to fit within the ability of the the stylus to track it. This translates to a reduction in the top end of dynamic range *only*. The lower amplitudes were boosted to combat the other limitation of vinyl which is simply surface noise from the actual finish of the material. Thus most of the comprtession was on the louder passages. I still have my trusty Dbx 3bx dymnamic range expander to put some life back into the music.
Now digtal has only one of these reasons to compress the shit out of the recording - the upper end limitation established by the number of bits used to encode and playback, while keeping enough bits to accurately reproduce the lower passages (not that there *are* any of those anymore).
The problem is both the listeners of the popular music and our culture. Quite frankly most folks have no idea of the subtleties possible with well recorded music - the pleasant teasing and coaxing of the ear. Everything's fuckin fortissimo - the music needs to overcome car noise, traffic noise, co-worker noise - our ambient threshhold in itself reduces the bottom limit of the dynamic range allowable. People are now conditioned to think in terms of loud=better. I went to a Staind concert recently and it was freaking horrible. The sound was literally too big for the venue to the point where it was all just a barrage of fuckin noise. I got up and went outside and gradually increased my distance until I could once again distinguish the instruments. By my rough figuring the sound level would have been more appropriate for an area 6 times the size of the one we were in. Even my teenage son was disappointed in the sound quality (so there's my reality check).
The situation is like people who frequent bars where a drink is always mixed with way too much alcohol. They aren't really interested in the taste of a drink - just getting toasted. My guess is that much of popular music is similar in the respect they don't really give a shit about the sound quality or if their tunes come across at their best - it's merely wallpaper to the event itself.
>> 2) They bend over backwards to be "fair" as an act of sympathy.
Whoa, whoa! We talking about the same animal here? After all a judge ain't nothing but a lawywer with political connections. Seems to me a judge bucking the RIAA lawyers in a bit like a family feud...
Exactly - not only that but the comets are singularities meaning they should be considered as independent events - not as a whole. Some of these "scientists" will do anything to get attention and prodding the religious right is getting so yesterday. Poking anything long enough just to hear it squeel gets boring after awhile....
I seriously doubt that the code was really "lost". My gosh - it used to be on *every* Unix system delivered!
I'm pretty sure I have on tape somewhere the original Fortran code - I remember trying to compile it on the Apple II - we did compile it on the MicroVAX's both Ultra and VMS. There were also flavors where people had used it as an exercise in converting to RatFOR. Anyway - I think "re-discovered" would be more appropriate - not lost and found.
Regards,
Jon
Adobe will in fact sit pretty with at least two of it graphics powerhouses; Photoshop and Illustrator. Microsoft may create a few niche tools that will be used in conjunction with but never supercede Photoshop or Illustrator. The reason is that it is not a direct head-on competition in features. Adobe has a HUGE industry backing it up with training, videos, books, courseware, college courses. So - there are a very large contingent of people and businesses that have a very vested interest in keeping Adobe #1.
Not available on eBay anymore for some reason (probably a stupid one).
You can buy Enigma machines online - most have a few repro parts.
http://w1tp.com/4sale/
>> This is reminding me of what they were saying about rock'n roll and comic books in the 50's...it was the bane of culture, it promoted sexual deviance, it threatened the foundations of society itself!!!!
They were right. I would use the word deviance in the sense of a directional change - but -it's all true. Whether it was *beneficial* to society, history will judge - by *their* standards of course. And the karmic wheel turns...
Regards,
Jon
In microwaves there is a similar phenomenon known as apparent velocity.
So - they're just making waves.
Regards,
BubbaJon
>>So with how much the US has spent on the software, you can see why giving it away for free would bug them.
I can see why they would not provide the software, but your premise is faulty. More accurate would be the statement that it is part of the end product and simply not available as it is a proprietary component. Many examples exist - we buy things everyday that contain software that we don't have access to. Your automobile would be the first large expense item that I can think of. Let me see - a few other items that come to mind: Microwaves, Televisions, iPods, cell phones, home security systems, etc etc etc. Not one of these would you have a prayer of obtaining the source code from the manufacturer on the pretext that you *need* access.
regards,
Jon
Lambda, Lambda half? We call that wavelength - as in fullwave, halfwave.
Screw the wood - just get a pencil lead for a drafting pencil, cut to size, make a support from a couple of pieces of teflon, bathe in the glow... better have a hefty microwave tho...
Maybe this has been covered, maybe I don't "get it"... but - what about all the copyrighted songs people sing in church and in public? School plays? Choral Singers at Christmas?
We live in an insane world where bards, storytellers and travelling minstrels have been legislated out of existence....
Big assumption that the same bastards who are raping and pillaging the Social Security System would act responsibly with funds intended for alternative energy. Halliburton would decide to get in that business for sure with even more no-bid contractual awards...
regards,
Jon
It's a big deal because most MB and OS's won't recognize more than 4 at a whack.
Actually there is a good blurb on EFF about how some TOR servers have been identified for carrying torrents of DCMA protected material. The rights of the ISP and individual computers are covered and if I read correctly, not liable for packets being routed through. After all - think of the dozens of hops a packet must make - how could they all be liable for carrying the material?
http://tor.eff.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html
http://tor.eff.org/eff/tor-dmca-response.html
regards,
Jon
Shit - they'll figure out a way to wrap it up with DCMA making it akin to breaking copy protection. It's the insurance companies at work trying to get any little technicality to prevent them from paying. What should be a risk-based business structure is slowly and surely becoming a sure thing. With mandatory coverage required they can basically rape the unfortunate driver that has some minor incident. I can see it now where you'll be required to have a 6 month "checkup" where they do a dump of your little on-board narc and find reasons to jack up your coverage. Hey they do it with health coverage now...
Glad to see someone else shares my opinions. I always wondered why Borland swapped for a VS type interface when I loved the old SDI IDE. I also use multiple monitors and screen real estate rules when coding. And don't even get me started on the travesty known as CHM.
Borland used to lead the way and somewhere along the management changes they converted from leaders to copy-cats. What a friggin shame. As an experienced C++, C#, and Pascal guy I always considered Delphi to be the supreme development environment and the VCL a true work of art. Damned shame the only ones with enough sense to realize what a great development environment Delphi was is our Euro brethren. American companies have traded "Buy IBM" for "Buy Microsoft". Bunch of friggin sheep...
Regards,
Jon
There was a researcher in N.C. that had a patent for using bacteria to build integrated circuits and transistors. He used a bacteria that was known to absorb metals and would align themselves with electrical fields. He "drew" the circuit patterns (like an IC layer mask) using a scanning electrom beam on the substrate. A soup with the metal laden bacteria was poured in and fixed somehow. The circuit could then be built in layers. I believe he actually demonstrated transistors and small circuits using this technique.
Oh - and this was in the early 80's...
When I was an engineering student at Weber State University in the mid 80's we designed, developed, and built NUSAT for the FAA to monitor radar coverage patterns. The project was successful and we went on to do a couple more.
It involved our Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Mechanical Engineering departments in a multidisciplinary development team.
Been there - done it. I guess their claim to fame is they built it with scraps and donations...
Everyone that I know playing WoW is barely cognizant of the outside world anymore - so this survey is biased to say the least because WoW players are simply unavailable at the moment for such mundane things as reading /.
C'mon - if the content was in there do you guys really think that it was never meant to be unleashed? After hearing how EA and other game developers wield figurative whips over the game developers and incessant crunch time - when exactly did the bored coders and multimedia people (who would have had to collude incidentally) find the time to put this hack in?
Ab-so-friggin-lutely brilliant marketing. No way in hell they could ever flaunt this on purpose so they make it an "accident".
Good golly - this has been on Pravda over a month now. I guess I need to lower my /. bar...