>Could you build a crossbow? How hard would it be for you to even FIND a person that could buid you a crossbow?
You have a valid point, but it's funny that you mention crossbows. You obviously don't hang out in hunting circles, go to gun shows, etc. Crossbows are pretty popular. I know at least half a dozen people who could build a crossbow, but not less expensively than the average Horton or Excalibur.
When some research organization loses a federal grant because their institution forced them to violate disclosure rules, the door will open for a much more powerful voice than the MPAA to enter the debate.
>Rarely do rooms have exactly right angles. That's before you even consider doors, windows, furniture, people, etc affecting how sound travels in a room.
Residential rooms tend to be poor in ways that are exactly wrong for audio.
>this kind of attitude along with 'release early, release often' can potentially lead to issues like this one.
1. The lib was fixed before the article was written. 2. Very few implementations actually use the reference library in the first place.
The reference implementation is supposed to be taken as "the implementation of this spec is left as an exercise for the reader." There's no end of really bad code in programming texts (since bullet-proofing it would detract from the educational value). Are we going there?
>When is the last time you were driving and the road just COLLAPSED?
1979. Half the highway just washed away, and I avoided driving into the resulting gully.
>The bridge fell down?
Happened to my grandfather in 1956. Happened to some people this year in Minnesota.
>Your car spontaneously burst into flames?
Happened twice, once in my Rabbit (Someone helped me put the fire out) and once in my AMC Spirit (car burned to a hulk)
>When's the last time you plugged an electrical appliance into a wall and got shocked?
1986. I've been really sketchy about electrical cords ever since.
>Last time your plasma television went nuts and shot laser beams at your cat?
I've never even seen a plasma television, but if I had one, my cat would probably find a way to mess it up.
>When's the last time the case of your box fan failed and the blades went flying through the air, decapitating you?
I've had a ceiling fan liberate itself from the ceiling, and I've been slapped by the belt breaking loose from a large industrial squirrel-cage fan in a barn I was working in.
Except for your more extreme examples, that stuff *does* happen, albeit infrequently.
I don't think anyone has ever claimed that the compression artifacts from, e.g., MP3 and OGG, are not audible. It's quite obvious, particularly in the high frequency content, when you are listening for it. The distortion is not only in the frequency domain but also in phase. It's well within the threshold of human perception, even for middle-aged guys, except maybe people who shoot guns daily or who work on jet engines.
I've ruined MP3 for many people just by suggesting what to listen for.
On the other hand, there is no loss whatsoever with FLAC. It's good enough for use on the production side (security issues notwithstanding.)
Audio production machines tend to be dedicated hosts and not even plugged into any network anyway...
Property doesn't change hands on the basis of a layperson's interpretation of a judicial ruling on a matter unrelated to property rights. The ideas of "eminent domain" don't enter into this.
It's also the first MS release that's accompanied by a full-scale ad campaign from a direct competitor.
And now that upgrading the OS typically involves a hardware upgrade *anyway*, this particular competitor is seeing significant interest, because it's a more reasonable comparison. And this is somewhat new.
My unscientific observations suggest it is working. I've seen more Macbook Pro's in the last year than the total number of portable computers I've ever seen before.
"I suspect, like the US, it is not closed to tourism. However if your not a US resident, you can't legally just Yacht up to a beach in Boston tie off, and walk into town to do some shopping."
I wonder if New Guinea has a port that needs to be regulated as tightly as Boston. On the other hand, if you enter the country with a legal visa, you can sail your boat, say, anywhere on the Oregon coast and use any public pier you'd like.
You can't do it in Boston, because so much of the oceanfront is either multi-million dollar private property or commercial docks. But that's not really comparable to even the largest cities in New Guinea is it?
Now trading *medicine* might get you in some trouble...
>Are you sure that the licenses you use are allowed to be run in VMs and that you paid for those.
Yes. Our license has specific language allowing it. Of course, some of our research is actually funded by Microsoft, so I doubt we're on their "to sue" list at all.
>Anything: and I mean, absolutely anything, that is marketed toward the "audiophile" market is a sham.
It's true. The genuine pro-audio market scarcely makes itself available to consumers, and even most of the "pro" stuff that is sold to musicians is really consumer stuff labelled "pro". And then you get into the gray area where things that make sense in certain pro audio situations, are totally ridiculous when applied to a consumer/home situation.
I can make the case that all the Square-D electrical equipment in our physical plant is absolutely essential to our operation. Does that mean you need industrial power supply at your house? Fortunately or unfortunately, even if you were persuaded to pay for it, residential codes would probably not allow it.
Now watch some slashdotter reply and tell us about the machine shop they have in their house, and their two separate 480v circuits:-)
With all the confidence game stuff already happening, you could easily have the patient sign an NDA, and also, put DMCA-protected cryptographic controls hiding the product's inner workings. Then, you can turn the Microsoft guy's denouncement into yet another jackpot. (Or you could if you aren't living in exile as a fugitive from justice yourself.)
I'm with you on Hi-Fi cables, but I do have a couple of "devil's advocate" observations.
1. One of my tech jobs involved wiring a TV station. I have never before or since seen any wiring scheme so complicated, or with so many genuinely mission-critical components. They long ago realized that it was more cost-effective in the long run to buy versus build for the wiring. So they paid top dollar for really well QC'd, precisely fitted wiring, with a very sophisticated numbering scheme. We are talking thousands of kilometers of cables here, hundreds of thousands of connections, millions of dollars of liability for downtime.
2. Some "hi-fi" wiring actually makes sense in the originally intended application. Take for instance, "directional" cables. I have a theory on this. Once, somebody saw patch cables that were intended for use in a production environment where the signal path was labeled. That is, in a situation where you have so many cables that are "To Reverb" or "From Preamp" that you actually benefit from having arrows visibly stamped on the wire. Folks who own big modular synths will back me up here. So somebody saw these cables and decided they could sell them to people who don't understand that the *wire itself* is not directional. Since pro studios use them they must be good, eh?
3. I love to see audiophile setups where the owner doesn't even bother to do a minimal amount of room treatment. No matter how good your sound system is, in a square room with a low flat ceiling and walls at 90 degrees to each other, you're going to have all kinds of reflections, phase interference, and standing waves. In a really good *room*, a clock radio can sound good.
4. Spend hundreds of dollars per foot on a cable that you need to be ruggedized, say, for the permanent install of the line array that you've built into a concert hall. Just because there are people who need this product (FOH engineers doing sound design for a concert hall, for example), doesn't mean you will benefit from the same tech in the home theatre setup in your house. And here's a hint: FOH line arrays aren't wired with any product from "Monster".
>People didn't want to leave 2000 to upgrade to XP, and as we all know that happened.
The only applications I run that require Windows are audio processing and music synthesis programs. I have several fully dedicated hosts for these applications. I tried upgrading to XP, and found that performance was better, and hardware drivers were more stable, under 2000. Granted, these machines don't connect to the network, don't have *anything* running on them that is not required for the application, and are underclocked in order to run cooler (which means, "quieter").
I experimented with Vista long enough to learn that audio drivers, even for pro-audio devices, are implemented in userspace. There is simply no way I'm even setting foot on that road.
I've tried to get onto the local Freecycle group a few times. My add request never gets approved. (I don't respond well to situations where people invite me to do a good deed for the community, but then make it difficult for me to do so.)
>Totally offtopic, but my freshman roommate and I were both military history buffs and slightly nutter. We had an imagination game called "Go back in >time with a machine gun"
MRE's. Freeze-dried food would arguably have been possible in the pre-industrial world, and might have had an enormous impact on military strategy.
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>Could you build a crossbow? How hard would it be for you to even FIND a person that could buid you a crossbow?
You have a valid point, but it's funny that you mention crossbows. You obviously don't hang out in hunting circles,
go to gun shows, etc. Crossbows are pretty popular. I know at least half a dozen people who could build a crossbow,
but not less expensively than the average Horton or Excalibur.
When some research organization loses a federal grant because their institution forced them to violate disclosure rules, the door will open for a much more powerful voice than the MPAA to enter the debate.
>Rarely do rooms have exactly right angles. That's before you even consider doors, windows, furniture, people, etc affecting how sound travels in a room.
Residential rooms tend to be poor in ways that are exactly wrong for audio.
>this kind of attitude along with 'release early, release often' can potentially lead to issues like this one.
1. The lib was fixed before the article was written.
2. Very few implementations actually use the reference library in the first place.
The reference implementation is supposed to be taken as "the implementation of this spec is left as an exercise for the reader."
There's no end of really bad code in programming texts (since bullet-proofing it would detract from the educational value). Are we going there?
>When is the last time you were driving and the road just COLLAPSED?
1979. Half the highway just washed away, and I avoided driving into the resulting gully.
>The bridge fell down?
Happened to my grandfather in 1956. Happened to some people this year in Minnesota.
>Your car spontaneously burst into flames?
Happened twice, once in my Rabbit (Someone helped me put the fire out) and once in my AMC Spirit (car burned to a hulk)
>When's the last time you plugged an electrical appliance into a wall and got shocked?
1986. I've been really sketchy about electrical cords ever since.
>Last time your plasma television went nuts and shot laser beams at your cat?
I've never even seen a plasma television, but if I had one, my cat would probably find a way to mess it up.
>When's the last time the case of your box fan failed and the blades went flying through the air, decapitating you?
I've had a ceiling fan liberate itself from the ceiling, and I've been slapped by the belt breaking loose from a large
industrial squirrel-cage fan in a barn I was working in.
Except for your more extreme examples, that stuff *does* happen, albeit infrequently.
I don't think anyone has ever claimed that the compression artifacts from, e.g., MP3 and OGG, are not audible.
It's quite obvious, particularly in the high frequency content, when you are listening for it. The distortion
is not only in the frequency domain but also in phase. It's well within the threshold of human perception, even
for middle-aged guys, except maybe people who shoot guns daily or who work on jet engines.
I've ruined MP3 for many people just by suggesting what to listen for.
On the other hand, there is no loss whatsoever with FLAC. It's good enough for use on the production side (security
issues notwithstanding.)
Audio production machines tend to be dedicated hosts and not even plugged into any network anyway...
>You can't have stack overflows in a file format, that doesn't even make sense.
:-)
You could have a file format that describes a Pushdown Automaton that ignores its boundary
Property doesn't change hands on the basis of a layperson's interpretation of a judicial ruling on a matter unrelated to property rights. The ideas of "eminent domain" don't enter into this.
It's also the first MS release that's accompanied by a full-scale ad campaign from a direct competitor.
And now that upgrading the OS typically involves a hardware upgrade *anyway*, this particular competitor
is seeing significant interest, because it's a more reasonable comparison. And this is somewhat new.
My unscientific observations suggest it is working. I've seen more Macbook Pro's in the last year than
the total number of portable computers I've ever seen before.
I didn't think THG did anything since the early 90s.
Show me an eminent domain case where property is transferred without a court order specifying the property?
Let's see the registrar accept this court transcript and allow the poster transfer the name. Oh, and let's see it survive the first challenge.
The idea in the article is preposterous.
"I suspect, like the US, it is not closed to tourism. However if your not a US resident, you can't legally just Yacht up to a beach in Boston tie off, and walk into town to do some shopping."
I wonder if New Guinea has a port that needs to be regulated as tightly as Boston. On the other hand, if you enter the country with a legal visa, you can sail your boat, say, anywhere on the Oregon coast and use any public pier you'd like.
You can't do it in Boston, because so much of the oceanfront is either multi-million dollar private property or commercial docks. But that's not really comparable to even the largest cities in New Guinea is it?
Now trading *medicine* might get you in some trouble...
>Are you sure that the licenses you use are allowed to be run in VMs and that you paid for those.
Yes. Our license has specific language allowing it. Of course, some of our research is actually funded by Microsoft, so I doubt we're on their "to sue" list at all.
>An alternative reading of said ruling could imply that he (Bennet) owns slashdot.
Fortunately for everyone, property rights do not stand or fall on what a ruling is construed to have implied.
>Anything: and I mean, absolutely anything, that is marketed toward the "audiophile" market is a sham.
It's true. The genuine pro-audio market scarcely makes itself available to consumers, and even most of the "pro" stuff that is sold to musicians is really consumer stuff labelled "pro". And then you get into the gray area where things that make sense in certain pro audio situations, are totally ridiculous when applied to a consumer/home situation.
I can make the case that all the Square-D electrical equipment in our physical plant is absolutely essential to our operation. Does that mean you need industrial power supply at your house? Fortunately or unfortunately, even if you were persuaded to pay for it, residential codes would probably not allow it.
Now watch some slashdotter reply and tell us about the machine shop they have in their house, and their two separate 480v circuits
With all the confidence game stuff already happening, you could easily have the patient sign an NDA, and also, put DMCA-protected cryptographic controls hiding the product's inner workings. Then, you can turn the Microsoft guy's denouncement into yet another jackpot. (Or you could if you aren't living in exile as a fugitive from justice yourself.)
I'm with you on Hi-Fi cables, but I do have a couple of "devil's advocate" observations.
1. One of my tech jobs involved wiring a TV station. I have never before or since seen any wiring scheme so complicated, or with so many genuinely mission-critical components. They long ago realized that it was more cost-effective in the long run to buy versus build for the wiring. So they paid top dollar for really well QC'd, precisely fitted wiring, with a very sophisticated numbering scheme. We are talking thousands of kilometers of cables here, hundreds of thousands of connections, millions of dollars of liability for downtime.
2. Some "hi-fi" wiring actually makes sense in the originally intended application. Take for instance, "directional" cables. I have a theory on this. Once, somebody saw patch cables that were intended for use in a production environment where the signal path was labeled. That is, in a situation where you have so many cables that are "To Reverb" or "From Preamp" that you actually benefit from having arrows visibly stamped on the wire. Folks who own big modular synths will back me up here. So somebody saw these cables and decided they could sell them to people who don't understand that the *wire itself* is not directional. Since pro studios use them they must be good, eh?
3. I love to see audiophile setups where the owner doesn't even bother to do a minimal amount of room treatment. No matter how good your sound system is, in a square room with a low flat ceiling and walls at 90 degrees to each other, you're going to have all kinds of reflections, phase interference, and standing waves. In a really good *room*, a clock radio can sound good.
4. Spend hundreds of dollars per foot on a cable that you need to be ruggedized, say, for the permanent install of the line array that you've built into a concert hall. Just because there are people who need this product (FOH engineers doing sound design for a concert hall, for example), doesn't mean you will benefit from the same tech in the home theatre setup in your house. And here's a hint: FOH line arrays aren't wired with any product from "Monster".
>People didn't want to leave 2000 to upgrade to XP, and as we all know that happened.
The only applications I run that require Windows are audio processing and music synthesis programs. I have several fully dedicated hosts for these applications. I tried upgrading to XP, and found that performance was better, and hardware drivers were more stable, under 2000. Granted, these machines don't connect to the network, don't have *anything* running on them that is not required for the application, and are underclocked in order to run cooler (which means, "quieter").
I experimented with Vista long enough to learn that audio drivers, even for pro-audio devices, are implemented in userspace. There is simply no way I'm even setting foot on that road.
>That's ridiculous.
What's ridiculous here is the notion that Unix advocates never make CIO.
>However, how legal are those VMs?
What's with the FUD? We do something similar in my shop, perfectly legally.
>Is the system going to survive a visit by the BSA?
It will be interesting to see how they get the level of clearance required to enter this facility.
>with the homeless people.
In Canada? Yeah, right...
"She had been given permission to visit in return for transferring donations like clothes, and medicines on her boat to the islands."
I never knew that New Guinea was in any way closed to tourism. What's all this about needing permission to visit?
I've tried to get onto the local Freecycle group a few times. My add request never gets approved.
(I don't respond well to situations where people invite me to do a good deed for the community, but then make it difficult for me to do so.)
>Totally offtopic, but my freshman roommate and I were both military history buffs and slightly nutter. We had an imagination game called "Go back in
>time with a machine gun"
MRE's. Freeze-dried food would arguably have been possible in the pre-industrial world, and might have had an enormous impact on military strategy.
>Look, don't try to sound cool by calling the sun "Sol". It just sounds pompous.
I like to call it "Ra", without a trace of irony.