Based on what I see from Lilypond's introduction, it isn't capable of producing print music that doesn't conform to that definition of "music" we're so used to. For example, music without a key or time signature,
cutout scores, feathered beaming, ossia measures, etc.
These are not supported, although feathered beaming would not be difficult to implement. However, I have played in a ensemble that plays 20th and 21st century music exclusively for the past five years, and I have rarely seen the contraptions that you mention in modern music; most of it is notated with traditional notation, with a lot of time-sig changes. In fact, publishers nowadays will not engrave such funky scores, but have them written by hand, or they will reproduce the manuscript (Unless you happen to be called Xenakis or Berio.)
I had a copy job that I originally tried to do in Lilypond via the text interface and copying one part from the score took almot nine hours of typing, rendering it, fixing it, and re-rendering it to ensure that it came out right.
YMMV; I have recently produced parts & score
(4 pages for the 2nd part). It took me approximately 30 minutes. Granted, it was a straightforward piece, but the speed depends much on how well-versed you are with the software. Finally, LilyPond has progressed very much in usability over the last year. If the last time you tried it was more than a year ago, you might want to give it another go.
Lilypond would need to have a nicer MIDI-compatible interface thrown on top of it to compete.
What people don't get about music, is that defining formats is quite trivial. The hard part of music notation is actually generating it.
I've been working on LilyPond for the past eight years, and we're now finally reaching a stage where the output can be taken seriously. I estimate that it took over 4 man-years of work to develop the current source code (60k lines of C++, 10k Scheme, and 10k python). Of all that source, less than 10 % is concerned with the file format, and they form the easy bits. When it comes to notation, file formats are not the problem.
If you want to read more in-depth information on notation vs. music representation , I recommend to read the essay at lilypond.org.
Regarding buzzword compliancy: have a look at
our XML format, but like I said: the format is besides the point.
Han-Wen
(LilyPond author)
You are a troll. He was born in 1973. He designed Dec Alpha when he was 5 ?
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After production solar cells do give you that, however the last time I check the production of solar cells resulted in large amounts of toxic material. They probably end up being better then coal plants but not as clean as nuclear or my personal favorite solar heat plants.
Actually, they're not. Si based solar-cells cost more energy to make than they will ever generate in electrical power.
To me it sounds like they allready have come to the conclusion that there is a climate change.
Supporting scientist that allready are political biased is "dead in the water".
Wake up and smell the coffee. There is climate change, and it is very, very likely to have been caused by human intervention. Check out for yourself what the IPCC has to say on this: 2001 climate change report summary for policy makers.
The question now is: how big will the changes be, and what will the consequences be? Calculating this takes a lot of CPU cycles.
As for credit-cards, you do not have to go in-person to get them. It would be nearly impossible to do that, since the company offering the credit-card may only have one office, and it may be 3,000 miles away from where you live.
Ah, that's a misunderstanding of me. My credit-card (MasterCard) was issued to me by my bank, who have checked my ID when I opened the account.
I wonder, what kind of identification process do they have in Holland to get your Passport?
Normally, the old passport or your ID-card, which will be destroyed when you get the new one. If don't have any of those, you will be in the passport of your parents, and the parent must come along.
Nowadays, the passports have plastic id card sewn in, which contains your scanned and printed photograph and signature. I suppose that they stored the scans, and that a duplicate passport (in case it gets stolen) would have the same picture. Additionally, the picture is also engraved in tiny holes in the card.
One thing you should remember, is that the USA is the richest country in the world, which means we have the richest, most resourceful, and highest numbers of theives.
That's an entirely different subject. FWIW, I think that large variance in richness (as in: lots of poor people next to lots of rich ones) causes crime.
It's very likely that the scams that are running wild here, would work just as well in Holland, but in the USA there is just more money to be made, so it stays here, until security is improved to the point that it is too difficult to do here.
I think that my SSN is not enough to forge a identity. You need a photo-id with the to-be-forged identity. Of course, here you must also be careful with credit cards.
When I want to {open a bank-account,get a credit-card,get a drivers license} over here in Holland, I have to show my passport (which shows my photo and my SSN).
New passports are only given out by the city-hall, and you have to turn over the old one, or show signed police-statements that you lost the previous one. (I suppose that they will corroborate with my home-address which is also known at the city hall for lost passports)
How about this one?
These are a bunch of German students that made
a very well-done knockoff of the Matrix, complete with CGI and bullet-time shots.
Check it out at Matrix XP.
You don't need their coding standards to GPL something, but if they are to take "responsibility" for it and maintain it, then they want you to follow their coding guidelines.
The GNU project does not maintain any contributed software. The FSF does take responsibility for suing GPL offenders, but that requires you to sign over your code to the FSF (nothing scary, they grant you a no-strings attached license back.)
As for the coding standards: they are quite strict in enforcing those, in particular the clause that a GNU program cannot link or refer to non-free software. For example, Ghostscript was recently taken out of GNU, due to disagreements over the linking to the non-free Aladdin ghostscript.
The second way is to try to submit your packages to the FSF, so not just GPL it, but really get in bed with the FSF. FSF stuff more readily gets into distro's than third party projects. Of course again, they will only be really interested if your work is phenomenal.
That is not true. The GNU project (the FSF doesn't do this directly, the FSF is the foundation that sponsors GNU) will take on any software, as long as it is free, conforms to the GNU coding standards, and is not yet covered by other GNU packages.
Savannah (the GNU equivalent of Sourceforge) also carries a lot of near-dead projects.
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If you read the old history stuff, you'd notice that Linus used Maurice J. Bach's "The Design of the UNIX Operating System." Perhaps the comments and functions were taken from that book?
I wasn't very clear in my original statement. Get a testing box, install 7.2. Now download, patch, configure, build, and install a new kernel. Now put a 7.3 CD in the drive, reboot, select "Upgrade" from the installer and see how far you get.
What are you whining about? I always run nonstandard kernels, and I've upgraded both my home machine and work machine a dozen of times without any problems, using the procedure that you describe.
the sort of kit you can fork out a shed load of cash for at your local hifi dealer
Actually, I would not go to a local HiFi store for nice sound quality.
HiFi speakers are designed to sound "nice" to your ears, by introducing various colorations that are not present in the original signal. If you want to have accurate sound reproduction, you should consider buying studio monitors. For example,
genelecs,
Tannoys
or Spirits (which is what I have).
They are designed to reproduce sound neutrally. The advantage: your good CDs will sound nice and crisp. The disadvantage: you will notice that a lot of your previously good-sounding CDs are not recorded and/or mixed well, and sound like crap.
For that matter how do I know my hearing is good enough to distinguish the difference ?
Unless you regularly visit loud dancings or concerts, your ears will be good enough.
He proposes that we leave close orbit science to the robots (why endanger lives for data collection?) and get astronauts involved in actual space exploration again (Moon, Mars, etc.).
Actually, I don't get the concept of manned space flight at all. Humans breathe, eat, shit, drop skin particles all over. They have to sleep, can't withstand major G-forces, make errors and have to be returned safely to earth. Why bother with putting people in space at all? Rationally speaking they only complicate space missions.
You didn't read either article did you?
The link to Intel refers to the move from 8inch wafers to 12inch wafers. By proportion, larger disks have more surface, so less material is wasted at the edge of the discs. It does not state that they moved to a smaller lithography process, let alone that this is responsible for increased yields.
The paper from the main article talks about 32 MB chips to show that they have analyzed a mature production process. Less mature processes (smaller transistor sizes), typically give lower yields initially. At some point, hopefully, the processes are improved to be as efficient as a mature technology. This is also a reason why the authors state that their results are conservative (i.e. the amount of waste generated by more advanced chips is higher).
There must be a reason they put that 32MB number in there, because chips with the same physical size but a higher storage density require the same materials or less if the process becomes smaller.
bzzt, wrong. Chips with higher densities are more fragile, and therefore will give lower yields. I would expect that -per working chip- higher density components use more raw materials.
Secondly, for security reasons, Windows ensures that no app will ever find remnants of another app's data in its memory space (all allocated memory is erased before is't given to the requester), which significantly reduces the risk that sensitive data would be transmitted.
please keep feeling safe because *n*x is so damn secure by defi^H^H^H^H religion.
Here is a clue for you.
This is about drivers, leaking kernel memory, not drivers leaking application memory.
Drivers are not applications, since drivers run in kernel space. Since memory is generally allocated in Linux by mmapping files, applications can not get "garbage data" from the operating system.
memset is part of the ISO/IEC 9899 standard for the C programming language. If your Windows library doesn't have it, complain to your vendor. This has nothing to do with Unix vs. Windows.
A colleague of mine has been running a photo-blog (Phlog?) for a couple of years now, driving everyone in the department crazy with his photo obsession.
I don't see what cell-phones have to do with this. He has a fuji FinePix camera that he takes everywhere. Once a day, the entire camera is synced onto his image-server, which serves them to the internet. The photos are viewable over here. Every viewer can add comments to any image.
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You recall incorrectly: you can distribute and modify the program freely, but you cannot call it TeX anymore.
Here is some gregorian chant, or polymetric stuff.
nonstandard key signatures,
See this example
cutout scores, feathered beaming, ossia measures, etc.
These are not supported, although feathered beaming would not be difficult to implement. However, I have played in a ensemble that plays 20th and 21st century music exclusively for the past five years, and I have rarely seen the contraptions that you mention in modern music; most of it is notated with traditional notation, with a lot of time-sig changes. In fact, publishers nowadays will not engrave such funky scores, but have them written by hand, or they will reproduce the manuscript (Unless you happen to be called Xenakis or Berio.)
I had a copy job that I originally tried to do in Lilypond via the text interface and copying one part from the score took almot nine hours of typing, rendering it, fixing it, and re-rendering it to ensure that it came out right.
YMMV; I have recently produced parts & score (4 pages for the 2nd part). It took me approximately 30 minutes. Granted, it was a straightforward piece, but the speed depends much on how well-versed you are with the software. Finally, LilyPond has progressed very much in usability over the last year. If the last time you tried it was more than a year ago, you might want to give it another go.
Lilypond would need to have a nicer MIDI-compatible interface thrown on top of it to compete.
Have you seen RoseGarden and NoteEdit.
I've been working on LilyPond for the past eight years, and we're now finally reaching a stage where the output can be taken seriously. I estimate that it took over 4 man-years of work to develop the current source code (60k lines of C++, 10k Scheme, and 10k python). Of all that source, less than 10 % is concerned with the file format, and they form the easy bits. When it comes to notation, file formats are not the problem.
If you want to read more in-depth information on notation vs. music representation , I recommend to read the essay at lilypond.org.
Regarding buzzword compliancy: have a look at our XML format, but like I said: the format is besides the point. Han-Wen (LilyPond author)
bollocks, it's all those bloody tourists getting high.
that's not even true. The first Linux filesystem was the Minix file system, but Linus wrote that code by himself.
You are a troll. He was born in 1973. He designed Dec Alpha when he was 5 ?
Actually, they're not. Si based solar-cells cost more energy to make than they will ever generate in electrical power.
Elucidate please? I can't find any pointers to serious peer-reviewed scientific work in your google link.
Wake up and smell the coffee. There is climate change, and it is very, very likely to have been caused by human intervention. Check out for yourself what the IPCC has to say on this: 2001 climate change report summary for policy makers. The question now is: how big will the changes be, and what will the consequences be? Calculating this takes a lot of CPU cycles.
Ah, that's a misunderstanding of me. My credit-card (MasterCard) was issued to me by my bank, who have checked my ID when I opened the account.
I wonder, what kind of identification process do they have in Holland to get your Passport?
Normally, the old passport or your ID-card, which will be destroyed when you get the new one. If don't have any of those, you will be in the passport of your parents, and the parent must come along.
Nowadays, the passports have plastic id card sewn in, which contains your scanned and printed photograph and signature. I suppose that they stored the scans, and that a duplicate passport (in case it gets stolen) would have the same picture. Additionally, the picture is also engraved in tiny holes in the card.
One thing you should remember, is that the USA is the richest country in the world, which means we have the richest, most resourceful, and highest numbers of theives.
That's an entirely different subject. FWIW, I think that large variance in richness (as in: lots of poor people next to lots of rich ones) causes crime.
It's very likely that the scams that are running wild here, would work just as well in Holland, but in the USA there is just more money to be made, so it stays here, until security is improved to the point that it is too difficult to do here.
I think that my SSN is not enough to forge a identity. You need a photo-id with the to-be-forged identity. Of course, here you must also be careful with credit cards.
New passports are only given out by the city-hall, and you have to turn over the old one, or show signed police-statements that you lost the previous one. (I suppose that they will corroborate with my home-address which is also known at the city hall for lost passports)
How come photo-ids aren't required in the US?
How about this one? These are a bunch of German students that made a very well-done knockoff of the Matrix, complete with CGI and bullet-time shots. Check it out at Matrix XP.
Lawyers, at the Massechussets (sp) institute of Technology?.
The GNU project does not maintain any contributed software. The FSF does take responsibility for suing GPL offenders, but that requires you to sign over your code to the FSF (nothing scary, they grant you a no-strings attached license back.)
As for the coding standards: they are quite strict in enforcing those, in particular the clause that a GNU program cannot link or refer to non-free software. For example, Ghostscript was recently taken out of GNU, due to disagreements over the linking to the non-free Aladdin ghostscript.
The second way is to try to submit your packages to the FSF, so not just GPL it, but really get in bed with the FSF. FSF stuff more readily gets into distro's than third party projects. Of course again, they will only be really interested if your work is phenomenal.
That is not true. The GNU project (the FSF doesn't do this directly, the FSF is the foundation that sponsors GNU) will take on any software, as long as it is free, conforms to the GNU coding standards, and is not yet covered by other GNU packages.
Savannah (the GNU equivalent of Sourceforge) also carries a lot of near-dead projects.
If you read the old history stuff, you'd notice that
Linus used Maurice J. Bach's "The Design of the UNIX Operating System." Perhaps the comments and functions were taken from that book?
What are you whining about? I always run nonstandard kernels, and I've upgraded both my home machine and work machine a dozen of times without any problems, using the procedure that you describe.
They're suing for NDA violations. I guess noone at RedHat was under NDA for SCO's intellectual property.
Actually, I would not go to a local HiFi store for nice sound quality. HiFi speakers are designed to sound "nice" to your ears, by introducing various colorations that are not present in the original signal. If you want to have accurate sound reproduction, you should consider buying studio monitors. For example, genelecs, Tannoys or Spirits (which is what I have). They are designed to reproduce sound neutrally. The advantage: your good CDs will sound nice and crisp. The disadvantage: you will notice that a lot of your previously good-sounding CDs are not recorded and/or mixed well, and sound like crap.
For that matter how do I know my hearing is good enough to distinguish the difference ?
Unless you regularly visit loud dancings or concerts, your ears will be good enough.
Actually, I don't get the concept of manned space flight at all. Humans breathe, eat, shit, drop skin particles all over. They have to sleep, can't withstand major G-forces, make errors and have to be returned safely to earth. Why bother with putting people in space at all? Rationally speaking they only complicate space missions.
The paper from the main article talks about 32 MB chips to show that they have analyzed a mature production process. Less mature processes (smaller transistor sizes), typically give lower yields initially. At some point, hopefully, the processes are improved to be as efficient as a mature technology. This is also a reason why the authors state that their results are conservative (i.e. the amount of waste generated by more advanced chips is higher).
bzzt, wrong. Chips with higher densities are more fragile, and therefore will give lower yields. I would expect that -per working chip- higher density components use more raw materials.
Secondly, for security reasons, Windows ensures that no app will ever find remnants of another app's data in its memory space (all allocated memory is erased before is't given to the requester), which significantly reduces the risk that sensitive data would be transmitted.
please keep feeling safe because *n*x is so damn secure by defi^H^H^H^H religion.
Here is a clue for you.
This is about drivers, leaking kernel memory, not drivers leaking application memory.
Drivers are not applications, since drivers run in kernel space. Since memory is generally allocated in Linux by mmapping files, applications can not get "garbage data" from the operating system.
memset is part of the ISO/IEC 9899 standard for the C programming language. If your Windows library doesn't have it, complain to your vendor. This has nothing to do with Unix vs. Windows.
A colleague of mine has been running a photo-blog (Phlog?) for a couple of years now, driving everyone in the department crazy with his photo obsession.
I don't see what cell-phones have to do with this. He has a fuji FinePix camera that he takes everywhere. Once a day, the entire camera is synced onto his image-server, which serves them to the internet. The photos are viewable over here. Every viewer can add comments to any image.