Native Instrument's Reaktor may be a musicians tool, but it includes most of the building blocks for making oscillatory tools, too. It's like LEGO, but for making DSP thingies. Since most soundcards record at least 44.1 khz (and you need 40khz) it may be a solution. Of course, if you're trying to analyze signals stronger than signals within "line signal" range (+/- a few volts) your soundcard may not be appropiate - though you should be able to normalize the signal with some rudimentary electronics:-). Also, if you need a log of the recorded signal, Reaktor can't help you. Otherwise, it probably shouldn't take long to write an ALSA application for your needs.
That's what a hacker do - take some existing tech and use it in new ways. If you can live within the frequency range of sound (up to 96khz, for most cards) a sound card is an excellent tool for signal analysis. Plus: there's already many tools and libraries out there for audio manipulation - Heck! you could probably even write the software for you needs in Python!
Hmm. Would you use Java for scripting a game? I've never seen it before, but it's not that Java ideally isn't suited for it. If it was free I guess somebody would craft a solution suited for game scripting.
And maybe vaccines are "10 to 20 years" more advanced by then? To make a really devastating disease you'd have to engineer something ingenious -- like an airborne AIDS. That's not your standard high-school science project, even 20 years from now. Also, most viruses have the disadvantage of having a low incubation time, which means that epidemics can be spotted early and quarrentine meassures can be done fast. Technology can cause death, but it can bring protection as well.
Anyone wanna join me in a group called "Army of the 12 monkeys" in order to divert the attention of the time travellers and preserve a future of virtual instinction?
No really, I've always been tempted to program games for these little fellas, so I'm curious whether dev-tools will be widely available or not. Wasn't the PS2 dev-tools linux based?
Looks like two wholly different technologies to me. This article looks like StarWars-style holographic projection, while the article you link to is about LCD displays that has two different pictures depending on your viewing angle (that is, two different pictures for each eye, when it works).
current theories suggest that the universe seems to be screwed either way.
Reminds me of a Futurama episode.. the universe has just been destroyed by a time paradox, but oddly enough the main characters find themselves alive, floating around in white nothingness.
Some guy: Where are we?! Al Gore (playing as himself): Well, I can tell you where we are not; THE UNIVERSE!!
My dad always thought that the best security meassure for these iris scans would be some sort of icepick-like tip that pokes you hard in the eye if the scan fails.
But this is only encouraging piracy! Let me explain. This seal will have to be visible right? So now we have not only "Explicit Lyrics" stickers, but also "FBI Anti-Piracy" stickers. Soon to follow is "PEPSI, you can also download this music for free!" stickers, and "SCO - this crap was digitally mastered on a linux platform so you owe us $699" stickers. And EULA stickers, and "Stickers against stickers association" stickers..
So here's the situation: you enter the record store and you can't find your CD because they're all covered with stickers. So you begin to peel some of them off, and the clerk comes to you and asks what the hell you're doing with their property. Then you reply something like "Oh sorry.. i was just about to go home and start up kazaa, anyway."
Funny you should mention it. I thought of Stephenson right after having posted it.
Well, they're very different kinds of authors. I'll try some metaphores.. I'll probably get it wrong: You give a bunch of nuts and bolts to two people and ask them to make "whatever" out of it. The first one comes up with an invention.. a machine of some kind; he's the inventor. The other makes a metallic man-like statue; he's the artist. Both creations are work of creativity, and though the base is the same, the results are very different. The inventor may point out that nuts and bolts can be used as they were intented, but to create something new, while the artist may try to point out some relationship between humanity and technology, using the nuts and bolts as symbols rather than their intended use.
Using these metaphores, I guess I'd say Stephenson is more of an inventor while Gibson is more of an artist. (And well, they both have a bit of both). Oh, and Stephenson is an excellent lecturer.
Anyway, I've read Neuromancer, Pattern Recogtion, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon - and I very much enjoyed all of them.
IMHO, one of the great things about Gibson is that he really isn't into a lot of the technology he describes. I guess it allows him not to get too distracted by knowledge. I mean, for a hacker, it would probably be tough to write something interesting involving computers, without putting them in a boring context (too techy for ordinary people, and too ordinary for techy people). But if you have the ability to look upon technology as something unknown and new, you can let your imagination fill that black hole of ignorance and come up with something truly creative.
So that's Gibson for me. A n00b script kiddie with a beautiful imagination:)
Now, if it could crawl the net, and find stuff matching your preferences... hell, think of the oceans of time I would stop wasting looking for quality pr0n and "+5 funny" posts.
Really, the only thing that keeps me working with Windows is that I'm fond of making computer music and that the software is still better on Windows (on the PC platform, that is). Also, it was a pain to get Linux to be a nice audio platform with 2.4 kernels. Pre-emptiveness and low-latency had to be patched into the kernel.
Now that it's available out-of-the-box, I hope to see a real increase in interest regarding audio software on linux. Linux is really a solid audio platform once it's up and running. Now we just need some solid software:-)
Ardour is one of the most exciting and promising projects.
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That's what a hacker do - take some existing tech and use it in new ways. If you can live within the frequency range of sound (up to 96khz, for most cards) a sound card is an excellent tool for signal analysis. Plus: there's already many tools and libraries out there for audio manipulation - Heck! you could probably even write the software for you needs in Python!
Hmm. Would you use Java for scripting a game? I've never seen it before, but it's not that Java ideally isn't suited for it. If it was free I guess somebody would craft a solution suited for game scripting.
And maybe vaccines are "10 to 20 years" more advanced by then? To make a really devastating disease you'd have to engineer something ingenious -- like an airborne AIDS. That's not your standard high-school science project, even 20 years from now. Also, most viruses have the disadvantage of having a low incubation time, which means that epidemics can be spotted early and quarrentine meassures can be done fast. Technology can cause death, but it can bring protection as well.
Don't be a Prophet of Doom. It sucks:)
Anyone wanna join me in a group called "Army of the 12 monkeys" in order to divert the attention of the time travellers and preserve a future of virtual instinction?
Just a suggestion..
..does it run linux?
No really, I've always been tempted to program games for these little fellas, so I'm curious whether dev-tools will be widely available or not. Wasn't the PS2 dev-tools linux based?
Looks like two wholly different technologies to me. This article looks like StarWars-style holographic projection, while the article you link to is about LCD displays that has two different pictures depending on your viewing angle (that is, two different pictures for each eye, when it works).
Unless, of course, the male brain is bigger than the female.
He-he.
current theories suggest that the universe seems to be screwed either way.
Reminds me of a Futurama episode.. the universe has just been destroyed by a time paradox, but oddly enough the main characters find themselves alive, floating around in white nothingness.
My dad always thought that the best security meassure for these iris scans would be some sort of icepick-like tip that pokes you hard in the eye if the scan fails.
ironic. maybe copyguard means guard that makes sure you copy it.
But this is only encouraging piracy! Let me explain. This seal will have to be visible right? So now we have not only "Explicit Lyrics" stickers, but also "FBI Anti-Piracy" stickers. Soon to follow is "PEPSI, you can also download this music for free!" stickers, and "SCO - this crap was digitally mastered on a linux platform so you owe us $699" stickers. And EULA stickers, and "Stickers against stickers association" stickers..
So here's the situation: you enter the record store and you can't find your CD because they're all covered with stickers. So you begin to peel some of them off, and the clerk comes to you and asks what the hell you're doing with their property. Then you reply something like "Oh sorry.. i was just about to go home and start up kazaa, anyway."
So you see! It leads to piracy!
Funny you should mention it. I thought of Stephenson right after having posted it.
Well, they're very different kinds of authors. I'll try some metaphores.. I'll probably get it wrong: You give a bunch of nuts and bolts to two people and ask them to make "whatever" out of it. The first one comes up with an invention.. a machine of some kind; he's the inventor. The other makes a metallic man-like statue; he's the artist. Both creations are work of creativity, and though the base is the same, the results are very different. The inventor may point out that nuts and bolts can be used as they were intented, but to create something new, while the artist may try to point out some relationship between humanity and technology, using the nuts and bolts as symbols rather than their intended use.
Using these metaphores, I guess I'd say Stephenson is more of an inventor while Gibson is more of an artist. (And well, they both have a bit of both). Oh, and Stephenson is an excellent lecturer.
Anyway, I've read Neuromancer, Pattern Recogtion, Snow Crash, The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon - and I very much enjoyed all of them.
IMHO, one of the great things about Gibson is that he really isn't into a lot of the technology he describes. I guess it allows him not to get too distracted by knowledge. I mean, for a hacker, it would probably be tough to write something interesting involving computers, without putting them in a boring context (too techy for ordinary people, and too ordinary for techy people). But if you have the ability to look upon technology as something unknown and new, you can let your imagination fill that black hole of ignorance and come up with something truly creative. So that's Gibson for me. A n00b script kiddie with a beautiful imagination:)
dleob043... is that's how keys are arranged on a dvorak?
I think I like "Mandows" better, then...
DISAPPOINTMENT IS TREASONOUS! d20 MAKES YOU HAPPY! HAVE A NICE DAYCYCLE!a e ae ae ae
Bah. Fish! How do you sell crap like that?
Now, if it could crawl the net, and find stuff matching your preferences... hell, think of the oceans of time I would stop wasting looking for quality pr0n and "+5 funny" posts.
What's next?!?! A virtual Jimi Hendrix?
But perhaps that's just what he WANTS you to think... now where did I put that tinfoil hat?
And I thought KDE tried to provide (among other things) familiarity for people with previous expirience with windoze.
Really, the only thing that keeps me working with Windows is that I'm fond of making computer music and that the software is still better on Windows (on the PC platform, that is). Also, it was a pain to get Linux to be a nice audio platform with 2.4 kernels. Pre-emptiveness and low-latency had to be patched into the kernel.
Now that it's available out-of-the-box, I hope to see a real increase in interest regarding audio software on linux. Linux is really a solid audio platform once it's up and running. Now we just need some solid software:-)
Ardour is one of the most exciting and promising projects.
so they use a text-to-voice module?
Muzher: hey d00de, ping that server to see if it's still up
Shadde: ok, bro.. *clickety*
Voice: pinging.. one hundred... twenty.. seven.. dot.. zero!.. dot.. zero!.. dot.. one with.. thirty.. two... bytes.. of.. data.. colon..
newline.... newline...
reply from.. one hundred... twenty.. seven.. dot.. zero!.. dot.. zero!.. dot.. one.. colon.. bytes equals.. thirty two.. time... one.. M..S.. TEE-TEE-L equals.. one hundred.. twenty.. eight...
Ramy: wait a minute.. hey! you're pinging yourself you stupid blind fuck!
i get all my textbooks on emule :-)
seriously though, i'm not sure we can make old textbooks available for free, but there might be some future in GPL style publishing
has this anything to do with it?