What I wonder is why not use a blower? I understand why wipers are a good idea. But since the dust can obviously be cleared by wind, why not just use a fan to create the wind?
Given my complete lack of any engineering knowledge, I may be missing something. But if I can get a solar power fan in my souvenir Six Flag hat, couldn't the next rover have a something similar?
I voted today here and Texas, and had the same strange feeling. There is absolutely no way to verify my vote. I punched some buttons, and hit enter. God only knows if there is any integrity to the system.
OK, maybe Apple is coming out with a preview of a 10.6 next week, but I can't imagine them dropping PowerPC support. Why? They just bought a company that specializes in PPC chips for several hundred million dollars. So why in the world would they put the OS X ecosystem on a course to only support Intel?
I doubt this is the plan.
1. Buy PowerPC design company.
2. Stop making your software compatible with PPC
3. Profit!
Another question is why that song? Although I love the song, what an anti-war song has to do with NASA is eluding me. It strikes me as a very odd choice for a soundtrack.
My dear friend Jim committed suicide two years ago. He was the god father of my son, and a partner in work and fun. He also introduced me to Slashdot, and ushered me through my newbie days.
For some reason this thread just made me want to mention his name, so he is not forgotten.
There's a reason I have a "bad things can't happen to me" attitude. I've been using the Mac for twenty years, and have never had a virus. Or adware. Or malware. Or any of that other stuff everyone else apparently has to worry about. I've been online constantly since the early 90s, I even surfed bareback in Mac OS 9. Nothing.
Recently I converted a friend to the Mac. She was at her brother's house, and wanted to download pictures off his camera. He offered to get the CD for drivers, and she said she didn't need it. His reply was that she had become "one of those smug Mac users." She said she then realized why people like me are always dismissed by people like you. Its like you can't believe that my reality is what it is, and has been for a long time. Do I take security seriously, yes. Strong passwords, SSL connections, and other ways. A good security policy does not have to include AV ware. And until there is some report somewhere of an actual in the wild Mac virus/adware/malware attack, I will continue to run my Macs without any third party "solutions" that often do far more harm than good to your mac.
So don't worry about me too much.
oh, and there is a reason to leave to doors unlocked. to remind yourself to not always live in fear.
I for one welcome our MULE overlords who are building SKYNET, and will PWND the terrorists. But where are the freakin' laser beams?
OK, that should save everyone some time.
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Wow, you sound like one of our power users. Have you been in contact with any of the development team? If not, I think you could be a real resource for us.
To me the most interesting aspect of the announcement was the inclusion of WebKit as the HTML rendering solution. This is a huge boon for the WebKit project, and should make many of the new iPhone web apps compatible with the new system.
I'm not an expert on this, but isn't any one else surprised by the decision? Isn't Google traditionally associated with the Mozilla engine? By going with the WebKit, developers now have a target browser for Windows, Mac, the iPhone, Nokia, and now gPhone. (and there seem to be several linux projects building on it). Not to mention that the KDE group is now working to merge back in with WebKit.
Sounds like a pretty strong platform for me. And an open standard that will benefit a great deal from the powerful groups working with it.
A few years ago I became aware of HFCS, and was amazed at how pervasive it is. With the birth of my son I needed to lose weight, and was starting to really be aware of what I ate. I changed two things about my lifestyle. I eliminated almost all HFCS (mostly sodas), and started exercising more regularly. I lost 60 pounds, and have kept it off.
I don't know about any of the scientific arguments, but my experience tells me HFCS has a big role to play in out society's weight issues. There are other factors, including exercise which I mentioned. But if you want to get creeped out, go to a convenience store and try to find something without corn syrup in some form. Perhaps the weight loss can party be credited to the fact that I eat better foods and drink more water by avoiding HFCS.
But the bottom line is this. For me, getting rid of HFCS either caused me to lose weight directly, or forced me to eat healthier by avoiding it.
The whole concept of a Master is somewhat confusing. Let's clear up what 'mastered' really means, and why your statement is somewhat wrong. First lets make sure everyone is clear on what a Master is.
Since the transition in studios to recording to multiple tracks, there has been the need to 'mix down' the various tracks to what is generally referred to as the 2 Track Master. In plain english this simply means some sort of final mix that has a left and a right channel. There have been many formats over the years, but generally before the 80s you mixed down to a 1" or 2" reel to reel master. In the 80s people started transitioning to DAT players as the de facto format. In the 90's this was supplanted by simply 'bouncing to disk', meaning letting your application mix all the tracks internally, creating a final two track file on the computer. Now remember, this is what is happening at the Recording Studio, not the Mastering Studio.
So here's where most people get confused. Once you have created your 2 Track Master in the studio (tape, DAT, whatever), you typically send it to what's called a mastering studio. Now why do that if you just went to all the trouble to mix it yourself? Two reasons. First every studio has built in acoustical characteristics (flaws, even with great treatments). That means that no matter how good an engineer you are, there are going to be things just slightly off most of the time. A mastering room is built and equipped for that one task only, and typically has veeeerrry good acoustics and specialized gear. (and way back when they even pressed the "master" vinyl that the factories would then duplicate. get it?) The second reason is that the mix from the studio will need to be tweaked for different formats. Back in the 80s for example, you might have one master for the LPs, one for cassettes, and one for CDs. This was necessary because each format would have different acoustic problems. For example, if you put too much bass on a LP, it will skip. This is one reason the modern hip hop/rap, heavy bass sound wasn't even possible until the cassette and CD. As a side note, many of the original CD releases in the 80s were simply digitized versions of the LP masters, which had a lot of the bottom muted. When you see a 'remastered' CD, what that typically means is that they went back to original studio 2 Track Master, and redid it with the CD format in mind.
So to be clear. The Partridge Family goes to a recording studio, and each member is recorded onto a separate track. In the end after all the parts are done, they are mixed down to a 2 Track Master. That 2 Track Master is then taken by the mastering studio and processed. The mastering studio then delivers the Final Master(s) (or Gold Master) to whatever duplication plant was applicable. For practical purposes, lets just say that the Final Masters were analog pre 80's, and digital since.
Now lets clarify how higher bit rates for a consumer audio format could help or not in these different scenarios.
First is the days of analog, prior to the 80s. Ironically, these are the recordings that will benefit the most from re-mastering at a high bit rate. Because you can go back to either the original 2 Track master (or Final Master) in an analog format, capturing at those higher rates will capture more of the original performance. The whole point of higher bit rates is to more accurately recreate an actual analog wave sound, so this is where you we see the biggest benefits to the music.
Now once you get into the 80s, things get very complicated. Some of you might remember when CDs first came out, there was a code on the back the read something like AAD, or DDD. What that is referring to is the three stages of delivery, analog or digital.. The first letter is the multi track format from the recording studio itself, which was usually an A until the 90's. Remember, when digital first hit most studios were still using analog reel to reel tapes. It wasn't until ProTools, ADAT
Absolutely you could be running QTSS Streaming Server on a Linux box. Apple open sourced the code several years ago under the name Darwin Streaming Server. It is licensed under the Apple Open Source License, and is available from the Apple Developer Connection.
Wow, I guess if one musician from one band can do it, so can everyone else.
And this whole 'sing for dinner' thing gets me. So what you're saying is the only way I should be able to make money off my music is to somehow travel your town, perform for you, and hopefully sell you a T-Shirt? So my method of making income as a musician should be limited to what 19th century musicians did? And what if I would like to be able to sell my recordings so I don't have to travel? Maybe so I could raise my son, or have a family or social life in general. Or maybe I have a job I can't take major time off of. I could go on.
The arrogance in some of these comments is amazing. People take their contempt for the music labels and heap it on musicians, thinking that only rock stars are affected by this. When in fact, its the rock stars you know who are affected the least.
"What's so difficult about:
% sh./ati-driver-installer-8.33.6-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/6.10
% dpkg -i *deb"
Wow, and you people wonder why Linux hasn't taken hold for the average consumer. Sure it isn't difficult to type that line, but it looks confusing and intimidating to the average person. And that answer is always slightly condescending too, implying someone is an idiot for not knowing the obvious solution. Linux will not succeed anytime soon on the desktop market, because the geeks who make it don't respect the non-geeks who would use it.
"Go fill your iPod with movies?" Couldn't be done until recently, because of the way the iPod handled DRM. Funny how Jobs mentioned you will now be able to transfer your purchased iTunes music from one authorized machine to another. This seems to mean to me that now I could fill up with movies at the local Target or Apple store, and then transfer them to my home computer upon return. There could literally be kiosks to hook your iPod to, with most major new titles on the local server. You could transfer several new titles at a kiosk in the time it would take to download one.
I am kinda disappointed in the design actually. It may sound dumb, but after all these years of sci-fi movie and artist renditions of the "next-gen" spacecraft I was hoping for something a little cooler than a slightly bigger Apollo capsule.
I disagree, no one will be a threat to MS until they challenge Office and Exchange. In my experience, those are absolutely the two reasons businesses small and large stick with Windows. And if you look at revenue streams, those two are near the top of the list next to Windows. No company uses Windows, they use the apps that run on top of it. And MS can not just bundle those apps. First off they would be killing a major revenue stream, and secondly they would have the Justice department crawling all over them again (as soon as Bush is out of office).
My first thought reading this is that it reminded me of MS products that constantly try to anticipate what you are doing (shudder). This seems like it would drive me insane. If you thought Clippy was annoying...
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What I wonder is why not use a blower? I understand why wipers are a good idea. But since the dust can obviously be cleared by wind, why not just use a fan to create the wind?
Given my complete lack of any engineering knowledge, I may be missing something. But if I can get a solar power fan in my souvenir Six Flag hat, couldn't the next rover have a something similar?
I voted today here and Texas, and had the same strange feeling. There is absolutely no way to verify my vote. I punched some buttons, and hit enter. God only knows if there is any integrity to the system.
I don't know, I really liked the little stick figures walking around the green and black screen of my Apple II. How can you improve on that?
OK, maybe Apple is coming out with a preview of a 10.6 next week, but I can't imagine them dropping PowerPC support. Why? They just bought a company that specializes in PPC chips for several hundred million dollars. So why in the world would they put the OS X ecosystem on a course to only support Intel? I doubt this is the plan. 1. Buy PowerPC design company. 2. Stop making your software compatible with PPC 3. Profit!
Apple announces new iPhone agreement with remote Amazonian tribe.
Another question is why that song? Although I love the song, what an anti-war song has to do with NASA is eluding me. It strikes me as a very odd choice for a soundtrack.
My dear friend Jim committed suicide two years ago. He was the god father of my son, and a partner in work and fun. He also introduced me to Slashdot, and ushered me through my newbie days.
For some reason this thread just made me want to mention his name, so he is not forgotten.
There's a reason I have a "bad things can't happen to me" attitude. I've been using the Mac for twenty years, and have never had a virus. Or adware. Or malware. Or any of that other stuff everyone else apparently has to worry about. I've been online constantly since the early 90s, I even surfed bareback in Mac OS 9. Nothing.
Recently I converted a friend to the Mac. She was at her brother's house, and wanted to download pictures off his camera. He offered to get the CD for drivers, and she said she didn't need it. His reply was that she had become "one of those smug Mac users." She said she then realized why people like me are always dismissed by people like you. Its like you can't believe that my reality is what it is, and has been for a long time. Do I take security seriously, yes. Strong passwords, SSL connections, and other ways. A good security policy does not have to include AV ware. And until there is some report somewhere of an actual in the wild Mac virus/adware/malware attack, I will continue to run my Macs without any third party "solutions" that often do far more harm than good to your mac.
So don't worry about me too much.
oh, and there is a reason to leave to doors unlocked. to remind yourself to not always live in fear.
I for one welcome our MULE overlords who are building SKYNET, and will PWND the terrorists. But where are the freakin' laser beams? OK, that should save everyone some time.
Yup, its the best year in a long time...
Wow, you sound like one of our power users. Have you been in contact with any of the development team? If not, I think you could be a real resource for us.
To me the most interesting aspect of the announcement was the inclusion of WebKit as the HTML rendering solution. This is a huge boon for the WebKit project, and should make many of the new iPhone web apps compatible with the new system. I'm not an expert on this, but isn't any one else surprised by the decision? Isn't Google traditionally associated with the Mozilla engine? By going with the WebKit, developers now have a target browser for Windows, Mac, the iPhone, Nokia, and now gPhone. (and there seem to be several linux projects building on it). Not to mention that the KDE group is now working to merge back in with WebKit. Sounds like a pretty strong platform for me. And an open standard that will benefit a great deal from the powerful groups working with it.
A few years ago I became aware of HFCS, and was amazed at how pervasive it is. With the birth of my son I needed to lose weight, and was starting to really be aware of what I ate. I changed two things about my lifestyle. I eliminated almost all HFCS (mostly sodas), and started exercising more regularly. I lost 60 pounds, and have kept it off. I don't know about any of the scientific arguments, but my experience tells me HFCS has a big role to play in out society's weight issues. There are other factors, including exercise which I mentioned. But if you want to get creeped out, go to a convenience store and try to find something without corn syrup in some form. Perhaps the weight loss can party be credited to the fact that I eat better foods and drink more water by avoiding HFCS. But the bottom line is this. For me, getting rid of HFCS either caused me to lose weight directly, or forced me to eat healthier by avoiding it.
I wonder if that enough disk space for all my most sensitive documents.
Because if there is one company I trust not to abuse their power...
That's funny, because the radio station owners are sitting around making money because of how great she was...
The whole concept of a Master is somewhat confusing. Let's clear up what 'mastered' really means, and why your statement is somewhat wrong. First lets make sure everyone is clear on what a Master is.
Since the transition in studios to recording to multiple tracks, there has been the need to 'mix down' the various tracks to what is generally referred to as the 2 Track Master. In plain english this simply means some sort of final mix that has a left and a right channel. There have been many formats over the years, but generally before the 80s you mixed down to a 1" or 2" reel to reel master. In the 80s people started transitioning to DAT players as the de facto format. In the 90's this was supplanted by simply 'bouncing to disk', meaning letting your application mix all the tracks internally, creating a final two track file on the computer. Now remember, this is what is happening at the Recording Studio, not the Mastering Studio.
So here's where most people get confused. Once you have created your 2 Track Master in the studio (tape, DAT, whatever), you typically send it to what's called a mastering studio. Now why do that if you just went to all the trouble to mix it yourself? Two reasons. First every studio has built in acoustical characteristics (flaws, even with great treatments). That means that no matter how good an engineer you are, there are going to be things just slightly off most of the time. A mastering room is built and equipped for that one task only, and typically has veeeerrry good acoustics and specialized gear. (and way back when they even pressed the "master" vinyl that the factories would then duplicate. get it?) The second reason is that the mix from the studio will need to be tweaked for different formats. Back in the 80s for example, you might have one master for the LPs, one for cassettes, and one for CDs. This was necessary because each format would have different acoustic problems. For example, if you put too much bass on a LP, it will skip. This is one reason the modern hip hop/rap, heavy bass sound wasn't even possible until the cassette and CD. As a side note, many of the original CD releases in the 80s were simply digitized versions of the LP masters, which had a lot of the bottom muted. When you see a 'remastered' CD, what that typically means is that they went back to original studio 2 Track Master, and redid it with the CD format in mind.
So to be clear. The Partridge Family goes to a recording studio, and each member is recorded onto a separate track. In the end after all the parts are done, they are mixed down to a 2 Track Master. That 2 Track Master is then taken by the mastering studio and processed. The mastering studio then delivers the Final Master(s) (or Gold Master) to whatever duplication plant was applicable. For practical purposes, lets just say that the Final Masters were analog pre 80's, and digital since.
Now lets clarify how higher bit rates for a consumer audio format could help or not in these different scenarios.
First is the days of analog, prior to the 80s. Ironically, these are the recordings that will benefit the most from re-mastering at a high bit rate. Because you can go back to either the original 2 Track master (or Final Master) in an analog format, capturing at those higher rates will capture more of the original performance. The whole point of higher bit rates is to more accurately recreate an actual analog wave sound, so this is where you we see the biggest benefits to the music.
Now once you get into the 80s, things get very complicated. Some of you might remember when CDs first came out, there was a code on the back the read something like AAD, or DDD. What that is referring to is the three stages of delivery, analog or digital.. The first letter is the multi track format from the recording studio itself, which was usually an A until the 90's. Remember, when digital first hit most studios were still using analog reel to reel tapes. It wasn't until ProTools, ADAT
Absolutely you could be running QTSS Streaming Server on a Linux box. Apple open sourced the code several years ago under the name Darwin Streaming Server. It is licensed under the Apple Open Source License, and is available from the Apple Developer Connection.
Wow, I guess if one musician from one band can do it, so can everyone else. And this whole 'sing for dinner' thing gets me. So what you're saying is the only way I should be able to make money off my music is to somehow travel your town, perform for you, and hopefully sell you a T-Shirt? So my method of making income as a musician should be limited to what 19th century musicians did? And what if I would like to be able to sell my recordings so I don't have to travel? Maybe so I could raise my son, or have a family or social life in general. Or maybe I have a job I can't take major time off of. I could go on. The arrogance in some of these comments is amazing. People take their contempt for the music labels and heap it on musicians, thinking that only rock stars are affected by this. When in fact, its the rock stars you know who are affected the least.
"What's so difficult about: % sh ./ati-driver-installer-8.33.6-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg Ubuntu/6.10
% dpkg -i *deb"
Wow, and you people wonder why Linux hasn't taken hold for the average consumer. Sure it isn't difficult to type that line, but it looks confusing and intimidating to the average person. And that answer is always slightly condescending too, implying someone is an idiot for not knowing the obvious solution. Linux will not succeed anytime soon on the desktop market, because the geeks who make it don't respect the non-geeks who would use it.
I know how you feel. I live in Texas. Talk about having to apologize all of the time...
What about the 'Truthiness' of a photo and what it represents? Don't you want to patent that too?
"Go fill your iPod with movies?" Couldn't be done until recently, because of the way the iPod handled DRM. Funny how Jobs mentioned you will now be able to transfer your purchased iTunes music from one authorized machine to another. This seems to mean to me that now I could fill up with movies at the local Target or Apple store, and then transfer them to my home computer upon return. There could literally be kiosks to hook your iPod to, with most major new titles on the local server. You could transfer several new titles at a kiosk in the time it would take to download one.
I am kinda disappointed in the design actually. It may sound dumb, but after all these years of sci-fi movie and artist renditions of the "next-gen" spacecraft I was hoping for something a little cooler than a slightly bigger Apollo capsule.
I disagree, no one will be a threat to MS until they challenge Office and Exchange. In my experience, those are absolutely the two reasons businesses small and large stick with Windows. And if you look at revenue streams, those two are near the top of the list next to Windows. No company uses Windows, they use the apps that run on top of it. And MS can not just bundle those apps. First off they would be killing a major revenue stream, and secondly they would have the Justice department crawling all over them again (as soon as Bush is out of office).
My first thought reading this is that it reminded me of MS products that constantly try to anticipate what you are doing (shudder). This seems like it would drive me insane. If you thought Clippy was annoying...