Firstly - they seem to have ignored the fact that a cable this long would snap under its own weight - even made of this carbon nanotube material. Ideally you want to maintain a constanst strain on the material throughout the tower so you need to start with very thick cable at the midpoint then taper it out towards the ends - the midsection would be maybe 10 times thicker.
Now, even if they've accounted for this then the depolyment is in trouble, since they have to spool out the material from a drum, which means that you start spooling from one end or the other which means that you can't follow the ideal thickness profile without exceeding your structural limits during some point in the unroll procedure.
The design for the deployment should instead extend the upper and lower half in both directions simultaneoulsy. The problem here is desiging a mechanism which can deploy this towards the end when the strain becomes highest.
Another minor issue is how quickly you can deploy such a a large sturcture - the more patient the better, but you're dealing with 100,000km of cable - taking at at 10km/hr would take over a year to deploy, acceleration and deceleration of the deployment would induce oscialltions in the cable which would be difficult to damp...
As for the danger of a break - not only would it fall down by wrapping itself around thew world a couple of times, but the tension on the structure would be like a strethed rubber band - the stored energy would be huge - think in terms of a nuclear powered rubber band.
Born Slippy by UNderworld - 12" vinyl, they shipped it to me using UPS in a Padded envelope with a Big sticker saying 'Do Not Fold'
Vinyl may be fragil but it must've taken a fair amount of force to Produce the neatly folded package I recived, I was amazed at how symmetric the fold was as well.
Needless to say amazon have used Boxes ever since.
One thing I'm guessing this won't do is select new tracks and classify them - A large part of being a DJ is shoppping for new records and only picking the ones which will work. I'm guessing that without the audience research this system needs to be primed in advance.
Then there's teh showmanship part of DJ'ing, cutting up tracks live, giving the audience the rewind, scratching..... There will always be art in DJ'ing.
These games had fractally generated universes with starsystems, planets, cities and whatnot. Because they are elite games you could literally fly anywhere you wanted. It's now possible to download the shareware version of First Encounters from the Elite Club, and the game is so popular some clever fellow went and reverse engineered the binary, fixed a load of bugs and made releases of the game engine for Windows and Linux.
He Claims there were no multiplayer games which let several players interact across a network...
Pretty much true - most multiuplayer games were 2 player only since most games were designed to be connected head to head with a Null Modem cable...
But Midi Maze IIRC allowed up to 16 players connected via midi cables to run around a maze and shoot each other, in the days before doom was even a twinkle in John Carmack's Eye.....
I used to have one of these and Iloved it, I started quite a few cool things on mine before I moved to a PIII.... Lemme See -
I had the Jennicam Activty monitor - a site which basically did comparisons between images coming from Jennicam.org and attempted to measure activity on the camera - I got this on a crappy internet TV show - I got a Free trip to Bournemouth of all places.
There's the complete solar system map which still runs at http://szyzyg.arm.ac.uk/~spm/neomap.html - this plots the position of all the planets *and* minor planets (about 100,000 now) every day.
Finally - I did my first live mp3 show from this machine (This predated shoutcast by two years) - Back in those days it took almost 90% of my cpu to encode the stream at 16kbit, it didn't sound particularly good either. Fortunately the broadcast was over a 128kbit connection so I couldn't sustain enough clients to cause any serious load on the server component.
Anyone want to buy the machine which had the world's first live mp3 radio station? Anyone want the DJ to come and play at your party?
The Media industry wants it, they want the OS only to talk to authorised decoder hardware and output devices. They want Soundcards to integrate DRM functionality, they want video cards to send the output to monitors via an encrypted protocol. They Want hard disks with copy control information.
And the last thing they want is for you to be able to look at the OS and reverse engineer their protection. And *insert favourite Free OS* will not run on these systems - it'll be windows only, well unless you want to forego graphics, sound and hard disk access.
So, can anyone tell me whether the US police (california even) can send you a speeding ticket through the post? And when this is legal?
I mean in the UK we have speed/radar cameras which clock you, take a photo of your license plate then you get a ticket in the mail. On the other hand, if you encounter a police car and they don't actually pull you over then you're not going to get a ticket.
I mean, it would seem in these days that the police can just take down you details and mail you a ticket - that's what information society is bringing us.
But I have a 700$ debit card which is fine until I want to buy plane tickets... all my tickets home cost more than this amount:-(
I try to use my UK card which has an adequate limit, but all the US travel webiste don't accept them. And when I go to UK sites I pay more......
Bastards
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Oh Come on.. Lame may add support but Blade sucks, all he did was fix the dist10 source to compile more easily then optomise the code without touching the algorithms. So he ended up with a slightly faster version of the dist10 encoder. All very admirable except that by the time he open sourced it Lame had surpassed it in speed and quality.
STOP USING BLADEENC, IT SUCKS
As a DJ I find myself buying all sorts of cool gizmos all the time, but my hi-fi gear is eclipsed by my record collection which costs me about $1000 a month in new vinyl acquisitions.
(BTW - if anyone in the bay area needs a DJ for their party my rates are reasonable)
This month >80% of the hacked sites are running NT/2K, but only 20% of the web servers in the world run IIS
This implies that Windows based servers are 25 times more likely to be hacked than Unix systems.
A million bedroom DJ's have got these decks and they're the toughest piece of hardware I've ever encountered - in hunderds of years they'll still work.
Aurora have been visible on jupiter for a long time, at least galileo has been imaging them for 5 years. Furthemore ground based te4lescopes have observed the aurora - although not in the same detail as the HST.
What's really interesting is the observation of a flash in the images lasting about 5 minutes and having an estimated energy of ~10^17 - 10^18 joules - 20 -200 megatonnes. This story neglects to mention this observation, but I've seen it elsewhere. Some people think this is an auroral flare, while others think it make be a small meteor impact (it'd have to be really small - impact energies at jupiter are huge)
mp3.com's strategy of building something 'of dubious leaglity' and begging forgiveness later - websites aren't like white labels.
Microsoft Outlook and the plethora of viruses it spreads.
Amazon patenting One-Click shopping and therefore triggering a boycott by the geek contingent.
AOL Buying nullsoft and then watching as Justin Frankel creates Gnutella and tells the world how to hack AIM.
Some guy in ireland creating the first (free and open source too) mp3 radio software then not telling anyone about it.... 18 months later shoutcast launches and within days there are thousands of channels;-)
Meanwhile.... I use myplay.com and I can have all the best tracks from my favourite albums in my locker. Since I'm doing the ripping/uploading I can even stick stuff in there I've recorded off the radio.
Bast of all though - I can put all my stuff in my locker in Vorbis format.
I'm sorry - you sound like you've been brainwashed by mp3.com
They've got less than 20,000 active users for their my.mp3.com service, and the number of *paying* users is a hall of a lot less. Supposedly they had 500,000 sign ups initially, but everyone stopped using it after they encoutnered the licensing problems.
Considering they spent >100 million on the licenses for beam-it that works out at $5,000 per user.
Meanwhile, Musicbank Just closed its Doors today, another company that licensed stuff from the music business. These guys Never got round to Launching a product though.
Which leaves myplay.com as the only music service provider looking healthy, it must be cheaper to buy all that disk storage than it is to pay those label licenses.....
Don't dis real - their server and codec technology rock in comparison to wmp or my open source efforts. Sure - they're expensive, if you want a free server then Icecast + Vorbis/Mp3 is fine for radio. We've not got decent video yet but we're working on it. Real's speed sensing technology is usperioir to MS's, and no Open source porject has worked on this much.
Where real sucks is the client, it just does nasty things and keeps breaking stuff.
I'll have real over MS any day.
I'm so glad I don't care about mainstream artists.
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Although.... I did just pick up a Rachel Auburn hard house 12" which samples Madonna. I wonder if the RIAA can legally name this title in it;s lists for napster - I mean it only samples an RIAA act.
Courtney love complained that napster was full oof techno, well - now it's going to get ever more full as the RIAA doesn't care about these short run vinyl pressings.
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Firstly - they seem to have ignored the fact that a cable this long would snap under its own weight - even made of this carbon nanotube material. Ideally you want to maintain a constanst strain on the material throughout the tower so you need to start with very thick cable at the midpoint then taper it out towards the ends - the midsection would be maybe 10 times thicker.
Now, even if they've accounted for this then the depolyment is in trouble, since they have to spool out the material from a drum, which means that you start spooling from one end or the other which means that you can't follow the ideal thickness profile without exceeding your structural limits during some point in the unroll procedure.
The design for the deployment should instead extend the upper and lower half in both directions simultaneoulsy. The problem here is desiging a mechanism which can deploy this towards the end when the strain becomes highest.
Another minor issue is how quickly you can deploy such a a large sturcture - the more patient the better, but you're dealing with 100,000km of cable - taking at at 10km/hr would take over a year to deploy, acceleration and deceleration of the deployment would induce oscialltions in the cable which would be difficult to damp...
As for the danger of a break - not only would it fall down by wrapping itself around thew world a couple of times, but the tension on the structure would be like a strethed rubber band - the stored energy would be huge - think in terms of a nuclear powered rubber band.
Born Slippy by UNderworld - 12" vinyl, they shipped it to me using UPS in a Padded envelope with a Big sticker saying 'Do Not Fold'
Vinyl may be fragil but it must've taken a fair amount of force to Produce the neatly folded package I recived, I was amazed at how symmetric the fold was as well.
Needless to say amazon have used Boxes ever since.
One thing I'm guessing this won't do is select new tracks and classify them - A large part of being a DJ is shoppping for new records and only picking the ones which will work. I'm guessing that without the audience research this system needs to be primed in advance.
Then there's teh showmanship part of DJ'ing, cutting up tracks live, giving the audience the rewind, scratching..... There will always be art in DJ'ing.
DJ S&M
But I guess /. doesn't like leading the way any more....
These games had fractally generated universes with starsystems, planets, cities and whatnot. Because they are elite games you could literally fly anywhere you wanted. It's now possible to download the shareware version of First Encounters from the Elite Club, and the game is so popular some clever fellow went and reverse engineered the binary, fixed a load of bugs and made releases of the game engine for Windows and Linux.
Diane Warren best known for writing songs for the likes of Whitney Houston, Michael Bolton, Toni Braxton and Even Mecha-Streisand
This theme tune is more of her usual Schtick... all written by the numbers.
Personally, I'd have liked to see Orbital write the Music, they're trek fans and great writers....
He Claims there were no multiplayer games which let several players interact across a network...
Pretty much true - most multiuplayer games were 2 player only since most games were designed to be connected head to head with a Null Modem cable...
But Midi Maze IIRC allowed up to 16 players connected via midi cables to run around a maze and shoot each other, in the days before doom was even a twinkle in John Carmack's Eye.....
I used to have one of these and Iloved it, I started quite a few cool things on mine before I moved to a PIII.... Lemme See -
I had the Jennicam Activty monitor - a site which basically did comparisons between images coming from Jennicam.org and attempted to measure activity on the camera - I got this on a crappy internet TV show - I got a Free trip to Bournemouth of all places.
There's the complete solar system map which still runs at http://szyzyg.arm.ac.uk/~spm/neomap.html - this plots the position of all the planets *and* minor planets (about 100,000 now) every day.
Finally - I did my first live mp3 show from this machine (This predated shoutcast by two years) - Back in those days it took almost 90% of my cpu to encode the stream at 16kbit, it didn't sound particularly good either. Fortunately the broadcast was over a 128kbit connection so I couldn't sustain enough clients to cause any serious load on the server component.
Anyone want to buy the machine which had the world's first live mp3 radio station? Anyone want the DJ to come and play at your party?
Absolutely - I remember making a similar suggestion on an mp3-hi-fi list using an old palm Pilot - but this is much cooler.
The Media industry wants it, they want the OS only to talk to authorised decoder hardware and output devices. They want Soundcards to integrate DRM functionality, they want video cards to send the output to monitors via an encrypted protocol. They Want hard disks with copy control information.
And the last thing they want is for you to be able to look at the OS and reverse engineer their protection. And *insert favourite Free OS* will not run on these systems - it'll be windows only, well unless you want to forego graphics, sound and hard disk access.
So, can anyone tell me whether the US police (california even) can send you a speeding ticket through the post? And when this is legal?
I mean in the UK we have speed/radar cameras which clock you, take a photo of your license plate then you get a ticket in the mail. On the other hand, if you encounter a police car and they don't actually pull you over then you're not going to get a ticket.
I mean, it would seem in these days that the police can just take down you details and mail you a ticket - that's what information society is bringing us.
I'm new to the US so I don't have any credit....
:-(
But I have a 700$ debit card which is fine until I want to buy plane tickets... all my tickets home cost more than this amount
I try to use my UK card which has an adequate limit, but all the US travel webiste don't accept them. And when I go to UK sites I pay more......
Bastards
Oh Come on.. Lame may add support but Blade sucks, all he did was fix the dist10 source to compile more easily then optomise the code without touching the algorithms. So he ended up with a slightly faster version of the dist10 encoder. All very admirable except that by the time he open sourced it Lame had surpassed it in speed and quality. STOP USING BLADEENC, IT SUCKS
You have no idea how much money I spend on Needles......
As a DJ I find myself buying all sorts of cool gizmos all the time, but my hi-fi gear is eclipsed by my record collection which costs me about $1000 a month in new vinyl acquisitions. (BTW - if anyone in the bay area needs a DJ for their party my rates are reasonable)
This month >80% of the hacked sites are running NT/2K, but only 20% of the web servers in the world run IIS This implies that Windows based servers are 25 times more likely to be hacked than Unix systems.
A million bedroom DJ's have got these decks and they're the toughest piece of hardware I've ever encountered - in hunderds of years they'll still work.
;-)
Aurora have been visible on jupiter for a long time, at least galileo has been imaging them for 5 years. Furthemore ground based te4lescopes have observed the aurora - although not in the same detail as the HST.
What's really interesting is the observation of a flash in the images lasting about 5 minutes and having an estimated energy of ~10^17 - 10^18 joules - 20 -200 megatonnes. This story neglects to mention this observation, but I've seen it elsewhere. Some people think this is an auroral flare, while others think it make be a small meteor impact (it'd have to be really small - impact energies at jupiter are huge)
mp3.com's strategy of building something 'of dubious leaglity' and begging forgiveness later - websites aren't like white labels.
;-)
Microsoft Outlook and the plethora of viruses it spreads.
Amazon patenting One-Click shopping and therefore triggering a boycott by the geek contingent.
AOL Buying nullsoft and then watching as Justin Frankel creates Gnutella and tells the world how to hack AIM.
Some guy in ireland creating the first (free and open source too) mp3 radio software then not telling anyone about it.... 18 months later shoutcast launches and within days there are thousands of channels
Meanwhile.... I use myplay.com and I can have all the best tracks from my favourite albums in my locker. Since I'm doing the ripping/uploading I can even stick stuff in there I've recorded off the radio.
Bast of all though - I can put all my stuff in my locker in Vorbis format.
I'm sorry - you sound like you've been brainwashed by mp3.com
They've got less than 20,000 active users for their my.mp3.com service, and the number of *paying* users is a hall of a lot less. Supposedly they had 500,000 sign ups initially, but everyone stopped using it after they encoutnered the licensing problems.
Considering they spent >100 million on the licenses for beam-it that works out at $5,000 per user.
Meanwhile, Musicbank Just closed its Doors today, another company that licensed stuff from the music business. These guys Never got round to Launching a product though.
Which leaves myplay.com as the only music service provider looking healthy, it must be cheaper to buy all that disk storage than it is to pay those label licenses.....
At least I was doing this back in 1997.....
/. never likes to give companies like myplay any credit for innovation.
Myplay.com , mp3.com and a load of other sites use apache clusters to serve streaming audio, it's not exactly difficult..
Then again...
Don't dis real - their server and codec technology rock in comparison to wmp or my open source efforts. Sure - they're expensive, if you want a free server then Icecast + Vorbis/Mp3 is fine for radio. We've not got decent video yet but we're working on it. Real's speed sensing technology is usperioir to MS's, and no Open source porject has worked on this much.
Where real sucks is the client, it just does nasty things and keeps breaking stuff.
I'll have real over MS any day.
Although.... I did just pick up a Rachel Auburn hard house 12" which samples Madonna. I wonder if the RIAA can legally name this title in it;s lists for napster - I mean it only samples an RIAA act.
Courtney love complained that napster was full oof techno, well - now it's going to get ever more full as the RIAA doesn't care about these short run vinyl pressings.
People can get back to worrying about Mir ;-)
After that maybe killer asteroids will get the attention they deserve.