With blogging, you have to imagine the person or company you're badmouthing reading it. If you've disguised your identity, (or the identity of the company if it's small) they can fume away but can't do anything. Ditto personal blogs- the less anonymous you are, the more cautious you should be about what you say, because with tools like Google and "Find a blog in your area" someone will read it.
Here's a link related to the Miller-Rabin for those with better maths than my good self. Whoever finally works out primes will be a famous man or woman.
Oh, and Slashdot is for people whose first response is "Cool!", not "Why?"
Yes, I suspect a majority owners of USB 1.1 Macs would have a spare FireWire cable lying around. I did. If all the device manufacturers stop supplying cables it would get a bit trickier.
I would say that if a piece has no notes, then the silence would be substantially different. A recording of 4'33" performed to an uninitiated audience would included incidental noises from the performer and the audience (and which is why it works better as a live performance than a recording).
Mike Batt's minute of silence was intended specifically for the recording medium. It may be a recording of the performers being silent in the studio, which would include tiny noises they made, or it may be a recording of the empty studio, which would include tape hiss, rumble and background noise.
What is conceptually different again, and which Mike Batt may have done, is to have a minute of digital silence, with every sample at zero. This representation of total silence is unrealisable in the real world (even the best stereo systems add their own non-silence), just as a perfect circle remains a mathematical construct.
At the moment the processor is doing all this stuff to ensure reliable transmission of data over a potentially unreliable medium. With normal internet, there are relatively few packet to be processed, so there would not much of a speed gain. On the other hand, anyone using their network at gigabit speeds would almost certainly benefit a lot.
I read that using tcp at gigabit speeds uses 100% of the processing power of a 2.x gHz Pentium. Without this workload the processor would be available for much more non-networking uses.
I think upload speed should be limited a little. When I'm uploading with my otherwise excellent FTP programme on 256/64 ADSL, it monopolises the upload bandwidth to an extent that almost nothing else gets through on my computer or others, even HTTP requests. This is a pity because there's lots of spare download bandwidth.
I've been a long-time web user, can speak French and German, have done a lot of trawling German sites for information, yet had no idea that anything other than ASCII was available for URLs. I think it's a good solution for most English speakers, especially monolingual English speakers until something better can be worked out.
I accessed their Terms of Service, referred to me from/. , to ponder some suspect clauses. This puts me in the category of "...obtaining... content... through our websites".
My inner artist (I'm a composer) has witnessed first hand some of the finest products of the human mind (such as Bach's music) and is excited at the unrealised potential it has, being the most complex known thing in the universe. The (probably unrealisable) aim of my music is to blow people away like the music of Bach, the art of Michaelangelo and the teachings of Jesus (or Buddah for that matter) have. A number of minds working the same goal (like an orchestra where every player is a magnificent musician) has even more potential.
My inner scientist is sceptical and wonders what the previous paragraph is doing on/. But if a number of respected scientists publish this data and are happy to have the sceptics scrutinise and try to duplicate the results, I'll be a happy artist.
The manipulation of recorded sounds electronically was originally known a musique concrete and was made possible by the invention of the tape recorder (though there was undoubtedly some misunderstood guy getting excited at the idea of chopping up wax cylinders before 1900). Some of this music from the 50s is truly amazing and would have required an incredible amount of tape splicing.
Presumably sound editing was possible with film in the 30s, though it would have been out of reach all but the richest avant garde composers. John Cage, who worked with the Barrons wondered what kind of sound pictures of Beethoven's head would make if placed on an optical film sound track. Probably an annoying buzz- but Cage was avant garde music's ideas man...
I use Finale, the MS Word of music notation. Finale 2004 can't open Finale 2005 files, and Finale 2005 only saves in its own format. I was touching up an arrangement of a friend in an urgent situation, and my only choice was to upgrade to Finale 2005 (as Finale 2004 didn't cut it).
Looking through their "What's New" page, I see two features that I would ever use ("Improved Tuplets" and "Improved Grace Notes"), and don't see the killer application ("Open Finale 2005 Files"). The moral is if you use Finale, and want people to be able to open your files, use as early a version as you can stand.
I've never desired another mouse button except when gaming... and then not enough to pay for a multi-button mouse that can track at well as the Apple optical mouse, so I just press command and think of all the $$$ I'm saving.
In 1999 I decided to write a piece for disklavier. Not being a pianist, I found the human limitations of pianists frustrating sometimes. Having set up a midi file, and borrowing an laptop with a midi interface, I went to a piano shop that generously let me record their disklavier. The piece sounded fine until the crashing climax when its fuse blew and I had to sheepishly go down the road to a handy electronics store.
That said, an acoustic instrument like a disklavier or midi-controlled pipe organ is a far better sound experience than the fully electronic equivalent.
I don't know much about hosting thousands of clients on a game server at once, except that I imagine it would be pretty difficult. Do problems increase exponentially as the number of users rises? Are the problems well-known or do Blizzard and the other MMORPG operators keep their issues to themselves?
Isn't an SMS a short ( <1second) call to a messaging centre? When I took my GSM phone from Australia to Europe in 1997, the charge for sending an SMS was A$0.11, which represented the cost of a short international call to the Australian message centre. An SMS sent from Australia was charged at A$0.25 at the time (and remains above A$0.20 still). When SMS became wildly popular in Australia, the phone companies must have been rubbing their hands together with glee. Since 1997 the companies have begun charging extra (A$0.75) for "International TXT" (though during my search I found that Orange doesn't, to their credit).
I'm sure an SMS wouldn't cost the phone companies more than $0.02 to deliver. Otherwise, how could Telstra afford to offer 200 messages per night? Admittedly to other Telstra customers, but still...
Slashdot Mirror
With blogging, you have to imagine the person or company you're badmouthing reading it. If you've disguised your identity, (or the identity of the company if it's small) they can fume away but can't do anything. Ditto personal blogs- the less anonymous you are, the more cautious you should be about what you say, because with tools like Google and "Find a blog in your area" someone will read it.
Yes, my inner time-efficiency expert resents Blizzard making all their PC games playable on MacOS.
Yes, if the unit of measurement becomes slightly larger, your mass (as measured in kilograms) will decrease.
Here's a link related to the Miller-Rabin for those with better maths than my good self. Whoever finally works out primes will be a famous man or woman.
Oh, and Slashdot is for people whose first response is "Cool!", not "Why?"
Yes, I suspect a majority owners of USB 1.1 Macs would have a spare FireWire cable lying around. I did. If all the device manufacturers stop supplying cables it would get a bit trickier.
I would say that if a piece has no notes, then the silence would be substantially different. A recording of 4'33" performed to an uninitiated audience would included incidental noises from the performer and the audience (and which is why it works better as a live performance than a recording).
Mike Batt's minute of silence was intended specifically for the recording medium. It may be a recording of the performers being silent in the studio, which would include tiny noises they made, or it may be a recording of the empty studio, which would include tape hiss, rumble and background noise.
What is conceptually different again, and which Mike Batt may have done, is to have a minute of digital silence, with every sample at zero. This representation of total silence is unrealisable in the real world (even the best stereo systems add their own non-silence), just as a perfect circle remains a mathematical construct.
At the moment the processor is doing all this stuff to ensure reliable transmission of data over a potentially unreliable medium. With normal internet, there are relatively few packet to be processed, so there would not much of a speed gain. On the other hand, anyone using their network at gigabit speeds would almost certainly benefit a lot.
I read that using tcp at gigabit speeds uses 100% of the processing power of a 2.x gHz Pentium. Without this workload the processor would be available for much more non-networking uses.
You can however, keep the upload bandwidth open.
I think upload speed should be limited a little. When I'm uploading with my otherwise excellent FTP programme on 256/64 ADSL, it monopolises the upload bandwidth to an extent that almost nothing else gets through on my computer or others, even HTTP requests. This is a pity because there's lots of spare download bandwidth.
None of the sites listed as having a means to get past popup blockers have managed to get one up on me with Privoxy.
Ditto here. I have Safari's pop-up blocking turned off, but Privoxy takes care of pop-ups and all kinds of other stuff.
I've been a long-time web user, can speak French and German, have done a lot of trawling German sites for information, yet had no idea that anything other than ASCII was available for URLs. I think it's a good solution for most English speakers, especially monolingual English speakers until something better can be worked out.
I accessed their Terms of Service, referred to me from /. , to ponder some suspect clauses. This puts me in the category of "...obtaining ... content ... through our websites".
Just to tempt you: Don't follow this link, or you'll be a very naughty boy or girl!
My old train set probably had about two or three bytes worth of states on it. I'm guessing that would require one of the earlier Linux kernals...
My inner artist (I'm a composer) has witnessed first hand some of the finest products of the human mind (such as Bach's music) and is excited at the unrealised potential it has, being the most complex known thing in the universe. The (probably unrealisable) aim of my music is to blow people away like the music of Bach, the art of Michaelangelo and the teachings of Jesus (or Buddah for that matter) have. A number of minds working the same goal (like an orchestra where every player is a magnificent musician) has even more potential.
/. But if a number of respected scientists publish this data and are happy to have the sceptics scrutinise and try to duplicate the results, I'll be a happy artist.
My inner scientist is sceptical and wonders what the previous paragraph is doing on
Someone wants to put on his hat and play with a really big train set.
Oh, yes. Every couple of weeks, if a page doesn't work in Safari, I try it in Firefox.
The manipulation of recorded sounds electronically was originally known a musique concrete and was made possible by the invention of the tape recorder (though there was undoubtedly some misunderstood guy getting excited at the idea of chopping up wax cylinders before 1900). Some of this music from the 50s is truly amazing and would have required an incredible amount of tape splicing.
Presumably sound editing was possible with film in the 30s, though it would have been out of reach all but the richest avant garde composers. John Cage, who worked with the Barrons wondered what kind of sound pictures of Beethoven's head would make if placed on an optical film sound track. Probably an annoying buzz- but Cage was avant garde music's ideas man...
That's nothing... Maxwell Smart used a rotary-dialled portable phone... in his shoe in 1968.
I use Finale, the MS Word of music notation. Finale 2004 can't open Finale 2005 files, and Finale 2005 only saves in its own format. I was touching up an arrangement of a friend in an urgent situation, and my only choice was to upgrade to Finale 2005 (as Finale 2004 didn't cut it).
Looking through their "What's New" page, I see two features that I would ever use ("Improved Tuplets" and "Improved Grace Notes"), and don't see the killer application ("Open Finale 2005 Files"). The moral is if you use Finale, and want people to be able to open your files, use as early a version as you can stand.
I've never desired another mouse button except when gaming... and then not enough to pay for a multi-button mouse that can track at well as the Apple optical mouse, so I just press command and think of all the $$$ I'm saving.
Indeed, the original poster worked with Photoshop for years before he realised there other options if you clicked longer>
In 1999 I decided to write a piece for disklavier. Not being a pianist, I found the human limitations of pianists frustrating sometimes. Having set up a midi file, and borrowing an laptop with a midi interface, I went to a piano shop that generously let me record their disklavier. The piece sounded fine until the crashing climax when its fuse blew and I had to sheepishly go down the road to a handy electronics store.
That said, an acoustic instrument like a disklavier or midi-controlled pipe organ is a far better sound experience than the fully electronic equivalent.
They'll only have half the colours available in the Australian zone?
I don't know much about hosting thousands of clients on a game server at once, except that I imagine it would be pretty difficult. Do problems increase exponentially as the number of users rises? Are the problems well-known or do Blizzard and the other MMORPG operators keep their issues to themselves?
Isn't an SMS a short ( <1second) call to a messaging centre? When I took my GSM phone from Australia to Europe in 1997, the charge for sending an SMS was A$0.11, which represented the cost of a short international call to the Australian message centre. An SMS sent from Australia was charged at A$0.25 at the time (and remains above A$0.20 still). When SMS became wildly popular in Australia, the phone companies must have been rubbing their hands together with glee. Since 1997 the companies have begun charging extra (A$0.75) for "International TXT" (though during my search I found that Orange doesn't, to their credit).
I'm sure an SMS wouldn't cost the phone companies more than $0.02 to deliver. Otherwise, how could Telstra afford to offer 200 messages per night? Admittedly to other Telstra customers, but still...
Heh heh, you should distribute your own 'underground' mix of it for sound engineers and audiophiles...