Fujitsu TX 200 S7:
two (2) Xeon E5-2420, totalling 12 physical cores, 24 logical threads, 2 x 15 MB cache
48 GB ECC RAM
1 RAID controller, with backup battery ( not present in my mind what brand )
4 x 1 TB Western Digital yellow disks
2 x 1 Gb/s NICs
1 x 10 Gb/s NIC
The nice thing about this machine is 1) how quiet it is ( hums in a corner, while ventilating away in 30+ degrees celsius 2) its low power consumption: 80 to 84 Watts while running a Jenkins build job.
I know I will probably curse myself in a few years for having bought this machine, as the mobo has built-in obsolescence. Fujitsu even cry it out loud in their user manual, when mentioning the aluminum-electrolyte capacitors. Until then, it will have been my absolute workhorse.
Swift is a company language, and people will perceive it that way for a long time. Even if it finally jumps over the fence of Apple's walled garden, it will be only incidentally done. Look at Lua, originally a company language for PetroBras. It never became mainstream.
I once had a colleague who suffered of a mild to moderate form of autism. He was an excellent coder, but could hardly do anything else than that. So.... a combination of autism and schizophrenia ?
Both are ways, for large corporations, to "externalize risks to policitcs, and internalize profits". The wording is not mine. Karl Marx already observed this practice.
...what is going to imagine: some insurance company is the first to come up with cheaper insurance for self-driving cars. The others follow. Murderous competition follows, until prices settle at a new, much lower level. Plus: we lose a couple of insurance companies as road-kill. Minus: the survivors may form a cartel.
We may be talking about different things. You seem to exclusively mention concerts of amplified music, where indeed most of what you say applies. With non-amplified ( "acoustic" ) music, it is quite radically different.
I am trying to say that recorded music is not equivalent to live music. It is music minus something. Just as a talk with your eyes closed is a still a talk, but a talk minus something. Sheet music is music, too - it is music minus any performance. Only music performed live is music to the full extent.
Shall we have an argument about what makes art or not now?
Yes, please - if it can be done without insults, trolling and ad hominem attacks. It is then called "a discussion", and not only are - AFAIK - discussions the very purposing of Slashdot comments, discussions can be fruitful and interesting.
But to suggest that ONLY live music can be music is... just silly in this day and age.
Disagree, strongly so. Let me illustrate this with an example. Could you pretend you had a talk with another person, whenever all you'd had was a telephone conversation with that person ? No, you couldn't. Having an actual talk implies the visibility of hand gestures, facial expressions and body language, as well as the two of you being in the same acoustical environment, something even a very good video & audio recording can not provide. Hence, having an actual talk requires physical presence. I am saying that hearing actual music requires hearing that music live. See the informal Celibidache quote in one of my comments further up.
It is certainly a consequence of technology providing us with the possibility to have cheap copies of recordings of sound and images that uncounted millions of people equal, in their mind, "a recording of music" with actual "music". It is not because of uncounted millions of people doing so that making that equalization is also valid, or a mere tautology. So, I am just doing the best I can in trying to get things right. Even if that involves saying an inconvenient truth.
Ha ! I do have a cite now, a tremendously authoritative one: the OED, or Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, 1989:
Sounds in melodic or harmonic combination, whether produced by voice or instruments.
I scanned the entire article "music" in the OED. It does not even contain the word "record" or "recording". The youngest quote in the article being from 1975, when the possibility to record sound/music had already been extant for many decades, this clearly indicates the OED makes a sharp distinction between music and records thereof. QED.
I do not have a direct cite, although I rely heavily upon what my beloved conductor Sergiu Celibidache thought about recordings:
"the acoustic space in which one hears a concert directly affects the likelihood of the emergence of his sought-after transcendent experience. The acoustic space within which one hears a recording of one of his performances, on the other hand, has no impact on the performance, as it is impossible for the acoustic features of that space to stimulate musicians to play slower or faster."
The above text is from the english-language wikipedia article on Sergiu Celibidache, as it formulates the idea better than I could have.
People talk about recordings, whether digital or on vinyl or tapes, as of "music". They are dead wrong. Music is, per definitionem, live music. A recording is just what it says, and nothing more. It can not capture quite a lot of things inherent to live music.
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What about a 17'' tablet ? ( Don't even know if these exist, btw ).
What you want is a Zenbook with 17'' screen. Not cheap, but the "matrix terminal" you seek.
The nice thing about this machine is 1) how quiet it is ( hums in a corner, while ventilating away in 30+ degrees celsius 2) its low power consumption: 80 to 84 Watts while running a Jenkins build job.
I know I will probably curse myself in a few years for having bought this machine, as the mobo has built-in obsolescence. Fujitsu even cry it out loud in their user manual, when mentioning the aluminum-electrolyte capacitors. Until then, it will have been my absolute workhorse.
Swift is a company language, and people will perceive it that way for a long time. Even if it finally jumps over the fence of Apple's walled garden, it will be only incidentally done. Look at Lua, originally a company language for PetroBras. It never became mainstream.
The real value of Swift will be whether it can realistically be used anywhere but Apple's walled garden.
This could by answered with an emphatic "no".
I once had a colleague who suffered of a mild to moderate form of autism. He was an excellent coder, but could hardly do anything else than that. So.... a combination of autism and schizophrenia ?
of how ill this guy actually is. Poor bugger.
In: redneck, US-type religious nutcase. Out: redneck religious nutcase OS.
No.
Time for a revolution. A quiet one, of ever-better-informed and educated citizens.
as a result of NSA spying and Snowden's whistleblowing
Could anyone give us a sensible and argumented answer as to how a mere whistleblower's can cost the US economy that kind of money ?
Both are ways, for large corporations, to "externalize risks to policitcs, and internalize profits". The wording is not mine. Karl Marx already observed this practice.
... a flying saucer problem plagues your parachute.
Accepted. I bet one prostitute against your bet. Reason: too much loss of prestige involved in doing such a thing.
Apple Pay: All four major credit card companies and over 1 million locations supporting Apple Pay as of next month.
And we are supposed to get a hard-on here ? C'mon. This is disgusting.
...what is going to imagine: some insurance company is the first to come up with cheaper insurance for self-driving cars. The others follow. Murderous competition follows, until prices settle at a new, much lower level. Plus: we lose a couple of insurance companies as road-kill. Minus: the survivors may form a cartel.
Interesting. That had to happen, somehow. Good for the few Americans who dare to make the jump, good for the various European countries hosting them.
...instead of guaranteeing loans, the government would have to guarantee a college education.
that is what we do. Works fine, here in Europe.
We may be talking about different things. You seem to exclusively mention concerts of amplified music, where indeed most of what you say applies. With non-amplified ( "acoustic" ) music, it is quite radically different.
I am trying to say that recorded music is not equivalent to live music. It is music minus something. Just as a talk with your eyes closed is a still a talk, but a talk minus something. Sheet music is music, too - it is music minus any performance. Only music performed live is music to the full extent.
Shall we have an argument about what makes art or not now?
Yes, please - if it can be done without insults, trolling and ad hominem attacks. It is then called "a discussion", and not only are - AFAIK - discussions the very purposing of Slashdot comments, discussions can be fruitful and interesting.
But to suggest that ONLY live music can be music is... just silly in this day and age.
Disagree, strongly so. Let me illustrate this with an example. Could you pretend you had a talk with another person, whenever all you'd had was a telephone conversation with that person ? No, you couldn't. Having an actual talk implies the visibility of hand gestures, facial expressions and body language, as well as the two of you being in the same acoustical environment, something even a very good video & audio recording can not provide. Hence, having an actual talk requires physical presence. I am saying that hearing actual music requires hearing that music live. See the informal Celibidache quote in one of my comments further up.
It is certainly a consequence of technology providing us with the possibility to have cheap copies of recordings of sound and images that uncounted millions of people equal, in their mind, "a recording of music" with actual "music". It is not because of uncounted millions of people doing so that making that equalization is also valid, or a mere tautology. So, I am just doing the best I can in trying to get things right. Even if that involves saying an inconvenient truth.
Sounds in melodic or harmonic combination, whether produced by voice or instruments.
I scanned the entire article "music" in the OED. It does not even contain the word "record" or "recording". The youngest quote in the article being from 1975, when the possibility to record sound/music had already been extant for many decades, this clearly indicates the OED makes a sharp distinction between music and records thereof. QED.
"the acoustic space in which one hears a concert directly affects the likelihood of the emergence of his sought-after transcendent experience. The acoustic space within which one hears a recording of one of his performances, on the other hand, has no impact on the performance, as it is impossible for the acoustic features of that space to stimulate musicians to play slower or faster."
The above text is from the english-language wikipedia article on Sergiu Celibidache, as it formulates the idea better than I could have.
People talk about recordings, whether digital or on vinyl or tapes, as of "music". They are dead wrong. Music is, per definitionem, live music. A recording is just what it says, and nothing more. It can not capture quite a lot of things inherent to live music.
In many African countries, a cellphone network connection comes without internet access.