I don't see how MIDI is the headline grabber. I see the fact that it is possible to reproduce performances faithfully from audio recordings is very significant. There are already piano roll recordings of Gershwin, Grainger, Rachmaninof etc. and these have been around since the artists made them.
It is entirely different to be able to capture and reproduce the data from a scratchy old recordings. These reproductions are clearer than the original performer could ever have dreamed possible.
Well of course the proper infrastructure needs to be put in place. Not like the current system of having a credit card mailed to you so you can sign it (as it is in Australia). A signature / voice / anything needs to be secure when the card is made/signed/etc. A photo could be stored on record and built into the card, unlike signatures etc.
I don't understand Credit Card companies' reluctance to put photos on their cards. They only need one photo of each person, then anyone can immediately identify if the card is in the hands of the rightful owner. Not good for internet/phone transactions, but far better than a simple signature that is rarely checked these days.
A truly blue rose has been the Holy Grail of rose breeders since 1840, when the horticultural societies of Britain and Belgium offered a prize of 500,000 francs to the first person to produce a blue rose.
I guess the horticultural societies of Britain and Belgium owe the CSIRO 500,000 francs.
I don't see the difference between a piano and a player piano. The latter only had the ability to "record" the pianists work to be played back identically to the original performance. I am not looking at the keyboard aspect of the piano, only the sound production. Once you do a conventional recording of that player piano you have to factor in a whole lot of other factors to make the playback as close to the original as possible.
In any case, I am not trying to suggest that pianos suck because of what they can't do. I am only saying that it is easier to automate an already very mechanical action. It is a lot harder to get an automated guitar because of vibrato and bends, and even harder to automate wind instruments with different tone, embouchure, breathing, tonguing, etc.
Oh, and FWIW, I am a performer and would also rather see you going to live performances, too!
Yes, but the piano's action is entirely mechanical, and has therefore been much easier to automate. Some of the great pianists of the day were "recorded" on player-pianos (Rachmaninov, Grainger etc) and consequently modern hi-fi CD recordings are available of them today.
It really is amazing how an expressive a piano can be when you think of the things that it can't do (crescendo on a note, vibrato, pitch bend, 1/4 tones etc).
The Power5 systems can virualise the IO as well. It is possible to share ethernet and SAN stuff. Power4 could only split down to each CPU and each PCI slot.
I've thought about this for our Power5 servers here. Ultimate redundancy. I don't know how much overhead there is, but there would be lots of gains in having two two half-processor systems. Don't know about licensing, as the OS would show up as two processors, and licensing would be double:(
I am from Australia, and the last page says that the average IT salary here is $36640 AUD, or $49,220 USD. This implies that the $AU is more valuable than the $US. Either they are predicting the future collapse of the $US, or they should have the reciprocal. Replacing their maths with my dubious maths, this means that the average salary here is $66119 AU if the $US is to be believed, or a measly $27275 US if the $AU is to be believed.
Surely if it's behind closed doors then governments can safely ignore it.
Only by getting these loopholes out in the open and widely exploited will anyone be bothered to change the system.
That is, unless the government wants this sort of behaviour and that is what the law is designed for. In which case, it isn't a loophole.
And we could put a third of our population onto the B ark and rid ourselves of useless management consultants, telephone sanitizers, hairdressers and tri-d tv producers.
Just tell them we're being eaten by a mutant star goat.
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I don't see how MIDI is the headline grabber. I see the fact that it is possible to reproduce performances faithfully from audio recordings is very significant. There are already piano roll recordings of Gershwin, Grainger, Rachmaninof etc. and these have been around since the artists made them.
It is entirely different to be able to capture and reproduce the data from a scratchy old recordings. These reproductions are clearer than the original performer could ever have dreamed possible.
Well of course the proper infrastructure needs to be put in place. Not like the current system of having a credit card mailed to you so you can sign it (as it is in Australia). A signature / voice / anything needs to be secure when the card is made/signed/etc. A photo could be stored on record and built into the card, unlike signatures etc.
I don't understand Credit Card companies' reluctance to put photos on their cards. They only need one photo of each person, then anyone can immediately identify if the card is in the hands of the rightful owner. Not good for internet/phone transactions, but far better than a simple signature that is rarely checked these days.
A truly blue rose has been the Holy Grail of rose breeders since 1840, when the horticultural societies of Britain and Belgium offered a prize of 500,000 francs to the first person to produce a blue rose.
I guess the horticultural societies of Britain and Belgium owe the CSIRO 500,000 francs.
I don't see the difference between a piano and a player piano. The latter only had the ability to "record" the pianists work to be played back identically to the original performance. I am not looking at the keyboard aspect of the piano, only the sound production. Once you do a conventional recording of that player piano you have to factor in a whole lot of other factors to make the playback as close to the original as possible.
In any case, I am not trying to suggest that pianos suck because of what they can't do. I am only saying that it is easier to automate an already very mechanical action. It is a lot harder to get an automated guitar because of vibrato and bends, and even harder to automate wind instruments with different tone, embouchure, breathing, tonguing, etc.
Oh, and FWIW, I am a performer and would also rather see you going to live performances, too!
Yes, but the piano's action is entirely mechanical, and has therefore been much easier to automate. Some of the great pianists of the day were "recorded" on player-pianos (Rachmaninov, Grainger etc) and consequently modern hi-fi CD recordings are available of them today. It really is amazing how an expressive a piano can be when you think of the things that it can't do (crescendo on a note, vibrato, pitch bend, 1/4 tones etc).
The Power5 systems can virualise the IO as well. It is possible to share ethernet and SAN stuff. Power4 could only split down to each CPU and each PCI slot.
I've thought about this for our Power5 servers here. Ultimate redundancy. I don't know how much overhead there is, but there would be lots of gains in having two two half-processor systems. Don't know about licensing, as the OS would show up as two processors, and licensing would be double :(
I am from Australia, and the last page says that the average IT salary here is $36640 AUD, or $49,220 USD. This implies that the $AU is more valuable than the $US. Either they are predicting the future collapse of the $US, or they should have the reciprocal. Replacing their maths with my dubious maths, this means that the average salary here is $66119 AU if the $US is to be believed, or a measly $27275 US if the $AU is to be believed.
Surely if it's behind closed doors then governments can safely ignore it. Only by getting these loopholes out in the open and widely exploited will anyone be bothered to change the system. That is, unless the government wants this sort of behaviour and that is what the law is designed for. In which case, it isn't a loophole.
You could do that, but if they found you, what would make you different in the eyes of the law from someone who did alter more sensitive information?
And we could put a third of our population onto the B ark and rid ourselves of useless management consultants, telephone sanitizers, hairdressers and tri-d tv producers. Just tell them we're being eaten by a mutant star goat.