If you are Sending Midi over a single cable... (Like when I send all 16 channels to my synth) You can run into a problem with bandwidth. Yamaha has come up with a specification for sending both MIDI and audio (and video and other stuff) over IEEE-1394 called MLAN This will aleivate both bandwith (as it can grow as firewire grows) and wireing up complex situations, as it will allow software patchbays..
I think that you are confusing recognizing with understanding. So this type of net can hear words spoken.. it can figure out that you said something, and what that something was. This set up comes nowhere close to understanding what the meaning behind what you said is.
Of course it will probably be a matter of time, you just put the results of this net behind one that can figure out what each word means in the particular context that it was said in.. and then you can have a machine explain what you meant. But, even in this example the machine would have no fundamental understanding of what it meant. It could look up words, and re phrase, but it wouldn't know. That is a long long way off.
Although I would like to have seen some more technical specs of how they did it.. I myself am working on stuff that these types of developments could be useful in.
I remeber reading that they have ported their compiler to linux already. (Wish I had the link..)
If I remeber correctly it was quite fast too.. (They did a demo of it compiling XGalaga in half the time of the other compiler they were using. Of course my figures may be off.. but I do remeber it was faster.)
Re:BeOS is much better in this then Win and Linux
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The original question never mentioned anything about the software having to be free...
But having played with BeOS lately.. I would have to agree it is much better for this type of application than Windows or Linux.
Acctually the brief states that their supposed profit is coming not from the money that would have paid the people they are laying off (Acctually having recently gone thru a layoff, I know that they acctually end up giving a lot of money to those who are let go), but instead it is coming from selling off parts of SGI:
the sale of certain non-core businesses in the restructuring would begin to make the company profitable in the second quarter ending December 31
Well... Actually I was saying that why isn't Intel looking at producing chips in space.. perhaps the zero-g environment makes this easy.. or more specifically what about GaAs (I think that's Galium-arsinide) wafers? I remember that they were extremely hard to produce in a lab, but were a snap in space...
The point that I was making is companies are not even looking at utilizing space, in any extent other than communications and military.
But why would a company put up Hubble? Who is going to pay them to do that?
Sure it would be nice, but it isn't going to happen any time soon.
If companies can make money off space, then why don't you see the 'Intel Zero-G Chip Production R&D facility' for example? If there was enough immediate money to be made in space, you would see more companies there. R&D is expensive. R&D is necessary. To keep this country leading edge as it is, the government needs to provide a place to do R&D. Whether that is in a national lab, or in space. The government wouldn't be sending people into space for just the coolness factor. And companies can't afford to put people into space with no large short term return.
Just my 2 cents.
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Acctually a good place for information about IEEE-1394 is the 1394 Trade Association page In this Press Release the licensing fee is discussed. Interesting to note that they say Intel is a new member, and Intel has a page on 1394
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If you are Sending Midi over a single cable... (Like when I send all 16 channels to my synth)
You can run into a problem with bandwidth. Yamaha has come up with a specification for sending both MIDI and audio (and video and other stuff) over IEEE-1394 called MLAN
This will aleivate both bandwith (as it can grow as firewire grows) and wireing up complex situations, as it will allow software patchbays..
-Steve
But what if one of your songs had a line that was the request to switch songs!!! =)
I think that you are confusing recognizing with understanding. So this type of net can hear words spoken.. it can figure out that you said something, and what that something was. This set up comes nowhere close to understanding what the meaning behind what you said is.
Of course it will probably be a matter of time, you just put the results of this net behind one that can figure out what each word means in the particular context that it was said in.. and then you can have a machine explain what you meant. But, even in this example the machine would have no fundamental understanding of what it meant. It could look up words, and re phrase, but it wouldn't know. That is a long long way off.
Although I would like to have seen some more technical specs of how they did it.. I myself am working on stuff that these types of developments could be useful in.
Hmm.. I used CB3 for a computer controls class,
and it worked great. (of course I had to get to vfw and use a dll for the I/O board.)
But we were running multiple threads and had a nice interface too..
I dunno about non-GUI programing with it though.
I remeber reading that they have ported their compiler to linux already. (Wish I had the link..)
If I remeber correctly it was quite fast too..
(They did a demo of it compiling XGalaga in half the time of the other compiler they were using. Of course my figures may be off.. but I do remeber it was faster.)
The original question never mentioned anything about the software having to be free...
But having played with BeOS lately.. I would have to agree it is much better for this type of application than Windows or Linux.
Acctually the brief states that their supposed profit is coming not from the money that would have paid the people they are laying off (Acctually having recently gone thru a layoff, I know that they acctually end up giving a lot of money to those who are let go), but instead it is coming from selling off parts of SGI:
the sale of certain non-core businesses in the restructuring would begin to make the company profitable in the second quarter ending December 31
Well... Actually I was saying that why isn't Intel looking at producing chips in space.. perhaps the zero-g environment makes this easy.. or more specifically what about GaAs (I think that's Galium-arsinide) wafers? I remember that they were extremely hard to produce in a lab, but were a snap in space...
The point that I was making is companies are not even looking at utilizing space, in any extent other than communications and military.
But why would a company put up Hubble?
Who is going to pay them to do that?
Sure it would be nice, but it isn't going to happen any time soon.
If companies can make money off space, then why don't you see the 'Intel Zero-G Chip Production R&D facility' for example? If there was enough immediate money to be made in space, you would see more companies there. R&D is expensive. R&D is necessary. To keep this country leading edge as it is, the government needs to provide a place to do R&D. Whether that is in a national lab, or in space. The government wouldn't be sending people into space for just the coolness factor. And companies can't afford to put people into space with no large short term return.
Just my 2 cents.
Acctually a good place for information about IEEE-1394 is the 1394 Trade Association page
In this Press Release the licensing fee is discussed. Interesting to note that they say Intel is a new member, and Intel has a page on 1394
-Steve