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  1. spaces on Mozart and Bach Handel Subway Station Crime · · Score: 1

    Would be more intelligent to invest some money to give the kids some places and opportunities, instead of chasing them around. A club, workshop or hackerspace for instance.

  2. boned on Sperm Made From Female Bone Marrow, Men Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    so thats the meaning behind 'getting boned'

  3. Bundestrojaner on China Crafts Cyberweapons · · Score: 1

    Whats the deal? In Germany its recently discussed that gouvernment intends to develop a virus to spy on their OWN citizens, google for Bundestrojaner...

  4. Re:OK, who's the Second Life Publicity Whore? on Radical Transparency at NASA Via Second Life · · Score: 1

    Second life is certainly not the first of its kind nor doing something new. Others systems like Blaxxun have done it in the 90s which was big fun but way ahead of its time. The second Life marketing machine trys to rewrite history but its plain wrong.

  5. 64 Studio on Music Sequencing Software for Unix? · · Score: 2, Informative

    A nice distro is http://64studio.com/ for 64 bit cpus but also available for 32 bit. I get at least as low as 2ms latency which I never got either on Windows nor OS 9/ OSX, maybe less is possible but I didnt dare so far.
    Further sequencing: Muse
    http://www.muse-sequencer.org/

    wired looks promising but seems a bit hard to get it running
    http://wired.epitech.net/

    Linux can do professional grade audio and is often used by academic musicians. The Jack audiosystem adds an flexibility which is missing on other platforms (except its now available for OSX and soon Windows).

    For mastering Jamin do incredible things:
    http://jamin.sourceforge.net/en/about.html

    Cheers, Malte

  6. Re:No S/PDIF? on Vista Security The 'Longest Suicide Note in History'? · · Score: 1

    I am a musican who switched from Windows via OSX to Linux because Linux got some advanced audio features way beyond, its the Jack audiosystem http://jackaudio.org/ which is recently ported to OSX too and soon on Windows, or maybe not because of the Vista protection scheme. It let me easily connect audiosoftware on the same computer like a modular synthesizer/ studio, easier then ReWire or Soundflower ever could do. With http://64studio.com/ I run now a lowlatency 64bit system which is incredible for live performance and recording, feeling like my hardwaresynthesizers regarding timing and snappyness. In the last years a lot of advances happend in the Linux media scene and a whole parallel universum is alive there, which is suppressed by the gatekeepers but alive and growing anyway.

  7. snake? on Grad-School Thesis Becomes PS3 Game · · Score: 1

    reminds me of Nokias Snake or Intellivisions Snafu so what is the deal?

  8. overemotional on Doctor Who Makes Guinness Book of World Records · · Score: 1

    I wonder if I am the only one who finds the new series a little bit over-emotional? There are many scenes which touches a bit to much like in Fathers Day or Roses departure, are kids these day so raw that they need to use such dramatic hammer? Maybe I should try Prozac but the older, classic episodes werent that pathetic. Anyway I am happy BBC continued Dr.Who...

  9. proce55ing on David Brin Laments Absence of Programming For Kids · · Score: 1

    its meant for artists so it must be good for kids too, its javabased Multimedia IDE with simplified Java and instant gratification:
    http://www.proce55ing.org/

  10. 3D on Goldfish Smarter Than Dolphins · · Score: 1

    so we have to see badly made 3D goldfishs in videos and on covers for Techno/Ambient music for the next 10 years?

  11. application: media arts on HowTo Build a Quality DDR Deck · · Score: 1

    A reason could be interactive mediainstallation. I did something like that with alarm pads and a hacked gamecontroller for much less but only 5 points of interaction in this project: http://block4.com/fps Another project from Canada with a higher resolution than mine: http://tapiton.drone.ws/en/index.html

  12. Re:Don't forget the TRON soundtrack! on The Story of Tron · · Score: 1

    Yeah, she did also the breathtaking soundtrack to Clockwork Orange. And of course the Switch On Bach from 1968 which was groundbreaking, so much that everyone has to get a Moog Modular and spit out another redundant and goofy electronic rendition of classic pieces which usally results in total kitsch and artistic desaster.
    And she had one piece on Kubricks Shining, a very dark short drone.

  13. some more experimental music based on golden mean on Music Based on Fibonacci Sequence and Stock Market · · Score: 1
  14. drm ignorance on MacBook Pro Benchmarks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The ignorance of the drm really scares me. It makes clear that the silent tactic of introducing socalled trusted computing step by step actually works. I really would like to love Apple and get one of the MacBookPros but no way I spend money on this. People, take care, but maybe its to late already. What do you need to wake up? How about 'trusted' harddisk? https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/groups/stora ge/Storage_Use_Case_Whitepaper_v07.pdf

  15. Digi-Comp on Exposing Children to Technology? · · Score: 1

    how about a Digi-Comp

    http://www.mindsontoys.com/kits.htm?dc1_main.htm

    teaching the basics.

  16. Re:Java Bytecodes on What is the Intel Switch Costing Apple? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is doing something simular with their managed code stuff in the .NET Framework. Although there might be some benefits in certain cases I don't want to be forced to another layer from hardware while coding just because they dont get their OS right. As a coder I want to exploit all ressources to write speedy applications and not software which runs at 70%-80%. When I want to write VM applications I choose Java, when I need to do the real thing, I use C/C++ and maybe some Assembler thrown in. But picture a nanny trusted computing safe brave new world where you not allowed to peek and poke into registers as you wish, a nightmare.

  17. Re:Security or Something Like It? on Ars Technica Reviews Intel iMacs · · Score: 1

    As I wrote in another Apple thread before, there is a Infenion TPM chip onboard and its activated. And it seems it can't be switched off...

  18. Re:Trusted Platform Module on New iMac disassembled · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere else its activated and can't be switched off. Thank you Apple!
    Sources: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/68398 (in German, sorry)

  19. catchy names on Linux's Difficulty with Names · · Score: 1

    catchy names bears the risk of getting sued. Sometimes by people who stole the name and register it or by ones who holdes simular names but you didn't had the time to find out beforehand.

  20. Re:then there was Jean Michel Jarre on Air Guitar That Actually Plays! · · Score: 1
  21. Re:70k new blogs a day with no content on Blog Software Smackdown · · Score: 1
  22. hits and cult cant be manufactured on Software Predicts Music Success · · Score: 1

    When do they learn that? Hits can't be predicted, its more a question of the right song in the right moment reaching the right people in the right mood (you see, lots of parameters, easy to miss the sweet spot). Ignorrance of that fact and that huge CD sales in 80s and 90s come from us people replacing/ double our record collection by rebuying stuff on digital media explains why the sales numbers are going down, if they went down really, who knows.

    Cheers...

  23. Re:Sing with me on Crocodile's Immune System Kills HIV · · Score: 1

    more interesting is, that this child song became #1 charts hit AFTER everybody downloaded it via p2p.

  24. some more people done it with via itx boards on Linux Based CarPC · · Score: 1

    some more guys done that with via Epia boards, here is a german community: http://www.car-pc.info/ and here is a special version of Gentoo for Epia: http://www.epios.net/

  25. Re:I have a headmouse: Here's the lowdown. on Gaming With a Headmouse? · · Score: 1

    I had simular problems with a mousearm, I couldn't use it that rodent anymore without pain too and doctors not have been very helpful. My solution was using graphic tablet with pen input which seems more natural.

    Cheers,

    Kombinat