I suspect you mean the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal and the Apollo Flight Journal, and they are semi-official NASA projects. (To tell the truth, I didn't know about the latter until after we built Spacelog.)
Although some of the commentary and analysis interspersed into them is awesome, we're not a huge fan of the ALSJ and the AFJ because:
The weird split between Flight and Lunar Surface is a bit arbitrary
They're a bit ugly (ugh, frames), whereas Spacelog is pretty (photos are inline, for example)
It's difficult to link directly to a quote
The commentary is on the technical side, while we want Spacelog to be fairly accessible
Their transcripts only cover certain Apollo missions (notably not 13). We want to cover Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and more (NASA just released some Shuttle transcripts)
They claim copyright on their corrected version of the transcript. All of Spacelog (both the corrected transcript and the code) is public domain like the original transcripts
Yep. We built Spacelog to make the transcripts in NASA PDFs more accessible and searchable. For some reason everyone thinks we're NASA and this content is new. (We're not related to NASA.)
What is news is that NASA has recently started to release the full mission audio for Apollo/Gemini/Mercury missions on archive.org. Hopefully we'll be able to do something fun with that.
Clustering costs more for the software. Fault-tolerance generally costs more for the hardware, especially if you cluster using commodity equipment. When the software is free, clustering is the obvious option.
I'm seriously interested - we're in the situation LiveJournal was 3 years ago, and I'm interested to know whether there's a better way than going the way they are.
Set up a blatently illegal server system well off shore, enjoy the benefits of satellite based internet access. Sell movies and music an pennies on the dollar at high quality....
AMD64 vs x86:
If you install this on a 64-bit version of GNU/Linux, then you'll get the
64-bit binaries. Otherwise, you'll get the 32-bit ones. You won't get the
64-bit version unless you've got an amd64-compatible chip and are running
a 64-bit OS on that chip. If you don't know, then you're on a 32-bit
platform.
Please note that the amd64 binaries are considered experimental at this
time, as is the entire amd64 Linux system at the time of this writing.
We accept bug reports for them and strive to fix them, but we don't promise
stellar performance or stability. You have been warned.
And indeed:
russ@russ:~/ut2004demo/System$ file./ut2004-bin./ut2004-bin: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
Facts as seen by who? Suspicious according to what criteria? Into which context will our activities be placed?
You could say exactly the same about human witnesses. In the end, if you are wrongly accused due to CCTV footage, that's the fault of the justice system, not of the tools it uses. And if you don't trust the police and the courts, there are deeper problems than just CCTV...
And yes, let's look at the London congestion scheme. Brought in ostensibly to cure central traffic problems, when revenue undershot expectations they decided to extend the scheme to the suburbs against the wishes of 76% of the inhabitants, and today it's announced they're also raising the price. Trffic problems? Revenue raising.
You can't really blame that on Labour, which you seem to be trying to do, since Ken Livingstone was independent until 3 months ago. Anyhow, as a pedestrian in London I've found it much nicer since the congestion charge was introduced. If the tube is overcrowded, what's wrong with taking the bus or, heaven forbid, walking?
It's a vicious circle anyway. The tube has been chronically under-funded (blame the tories if you will), and its capacity and reliability isn't going to increase until there is some serious long-term investment. Which isn't easy to come by these days.
Whoops, I forgot about you;). We basically only chart the number of unique users playing a specific song/artist per week, and then look for the differences in that.
What I want to know is why Radiohead is so popular...
The experimenters found that the listeners' EEGs and their subjective ratings of the sound quality were affected by whether this "ultra-tweeter" was on or off, even though the listeners explicitly denied that the reproduced sound was affected by the ultra-tweeter, and also denied, when presented with the ultrasonics alone, that any sound at all was being played.
So... if it doesn't sound any different, what's the point? The point of audio compression is to remove frequencies that you don't perceive. If you don't perceive it, why encode it?
OK, so this is a bit of a shameless plug, but as far as we know, ours is the only chart which actually represents what users are listening to. We were quite interested to see this news in the papers on Tuesday.
The Audioscrobbler Charts show what people are actually listening to - not what they're illegally downloading, not what they're buying, but what they're actually playing.
So yeah, our demographic is quite skewed, and we're having trouble keeping up with current load, but we're working hard on both of those things this summer.
Err... if a codec *sounds* closer to the original, who cares whether the actual waveform is closer? The whole point of psychoacoustic compression is that it exploits the weaknesses of the human ear to its advantage.
Allofmp3.com is not legal. Although they do claim to pay the Russian rights organisation the correct fee, there are some independent-label artists on there who are not signed to a performing-rights organisation, and are still not getting paid.
So by using allofmp3.com, you could be screwing the smaller artists even more.
Well, since we're arguing semantics, my musical dictionary equates Operetta and Musical. Anyhow, it's somewhat debatable whether Les Mis is an operetta, since it has no spoken dialogue, and it certainly isn't much shorter than most operas.
Yeah, I completely agree. I'm not quite sure how one would operate that system with a pair of keyboards, and it has the potential to go horribly and obviously wrong if it breaks - much more so than one musician missing a note.
Anyhow, it's definitely not a positive thing, nor was I trying to portray it as such.
Depends, it'd need to be quite intelligent to know how to repeat a phrase of music seamlessly, but it's certainly not impossible. You'd probably need to program it with hints as to which phrases could be repeated, and how to carry things on.
As the article says, it wasn't directly to cut costs, it was because they're moving to a smaller theatre where the pit can only accommodate twelve or so musicians. I'm guessing they're moving to a smaller venue because of falling audience numbers, so that is probably a factor. But if it's a case of using a computerised orchestra or the show going bankrupt, which would you choose?
The Sinfonia site mentions that the operator can alter how it plays the music, presumably by skipping back by a few bars. Anyhow, as I mention in my comment further down, such slipups are very rare in a long-running professional production.
Having said that, last time I went to see Les Mis, with full orchestra, it was actually fairly poor musically. So maybe that'll improve, who knows.
Mackintosh says he's been forced to do this by moving to the smaller theatre because the pit can only accommodate 11 musicians. Where exactly does the Musicians' Union want to put the rest of the orchestra? Suspend them from the ceiling?
Reading the rather limited blurb about the Sinfonia on the manufacturer's site, it's not like the orchestra or conductor is playing to a click-track or anything, the Sinfonia is operated by someone, presumably playing along to a piano part or some other lead part under the control of the conductor, then the synths on it follow that. Which means the conductor still has overall control of the orchestra, and it seems that the Sinfonia operator can even repeat bars or whatever, in response to what's happening on stage (although in a professional musical, an actor forgetting their line is somewhat unlikely, those things run like clockwork).
Yes, there's no substitute for live musicians, but if it's a case between the show going ahead or not (such as this case on RMS's site), then the answer is obvious to me. It's rather amusing that the musicians' unions are worried, they should be comforted in the knowledge that they can do better than a synth. Indeed, RMS claim that the Sinfonia can free up room for more live musicians by reducing the need for seperate synth players.
Still, I'd like to have a play with it before I'm fully convinced:).
Erm, as the KB article itself says, it patches a few system DLLs. They may be part of Explorer, but they're certainly not part of the kernel. I'm not a knee-jerk fanboy, just someone with just an ounce of common sense. Unlike your good self.
It doesn't. Nothing on the MS page says it's anything to do with the kernel - it's just the usual Slashdot Microsoft-bashing-without-even-reading-the-article sentiment.
"This issue affects Internet Explorer, a component of Windows. You should apply this update if you have Internet Explorer 5.01 or later."
It has 32 megs of cache, and it's intelligent enough to cache up the next few songs in the playlist you're listening to. If you manually change, well then it has to spin up again.
Winamp 5 Lite is essentially just Winamp 2 with bugfixes. No video, media library or freeform skinning. Or just get the full version and deselect components on install.
Slashdot Mirror
I suspect you mean the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal and the Apollo Flight Journal, and they are semi-official NASA projects. (To tell the truth, I didn't know about the latter until after we built Spacelog.)
Although some of the commentary and analysis interspersed into them is awesome, we're not a huge fan of the ALSJ and the AFJ because:
Yep. We built Spacelog to make the transcripts in NASA PDFs more accessible and searchable. For some reason everyone thinks we're NASA and this content is new. (We're not related to NASA.)
What is news is that NASA has recently started to release the full mission audio for Apollo/Gemini/Mercury missions on archive.org. Hopefully we'll be able to do something fun with that.
Clustering costs more for the software. Fault-tolerance generally costs more for the hardware, especially if you cluster using commodity equipment. When the software is free, clustering is the obvious option.
Care to justify this? How would you do it then?
I'm seriously interested - we're in the situation LiveJournal was 3 years ago, and I'm interested to know whether there's a better way than going the way they are.
Memcached. I think you'll find that is actually the way it should be.
Set up a blatently illegal server system well off shore, enjoy the benefits of satellite based internet access. Sell movies and music an pennies on the dollar at high quality....
Piracy on the high seas?
It's an integrated installer - from the readme:
./ut2004-bin ./ut2004-bin: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
AMD64 vs x86:
If you install this on a 64-bit version of GNU/Linux, then you'll get the
64-bit binaries. Otherwise, you'll get the 32-bit ones. You won't get the
64-bit version unless you've got an amd64-compatible chip and are running
a 64-bit OS on that chip. If you don't know, then you're on a 32-bit
platform.
Please note that the amd64 binaries are considered experimental at this
time, as is the entire amd64 Linux system at the time of this writing.
We accept bug reports for them and strive to fix them, but we don't promise
stellar performance or stability. You have been warned.
And indeed:
russ@russ:~/ut2004demo/System$ file
Facts as seen by who? Suspicious according to what criteria? Into which context will our activities be placed?
You could say exactly the same about human witnesses. In the end, if you are wrongly accused due to CCTV footage, that's the fault of the justice system, not of the tools it uses. And if you don't trust the police and the courts, there are deeper problems than just CCTV...
And yes, let's look at the London congestion scheme. Brought in ostensibly to cure central traffic problems, when revenue undershot expectations they decided to extend the scheme to the suburbs against the wishes of 76% of the inhabitants, and today it's announced they're also raising the price. Trffic problems? Revenue raising.
You can't really blame that on Labour, which you seem to be trying to do, since Ken Livingstone was independent until 3 months ago. Anyhow, as a pedestrian in London I've found it much nicer since the congestion charge was introduced. If the tube is overcrowded, what's wrong with taking the bus or, heaven forbid, walking?
It's a vicious circle anyway. The tube has been chronically under-funded (blame the tories if you will), and its capacity and reliability isn't going to increase until there is some serious long-term investment. Which isn't easy to come by these days.
Whoops, I forgot about you ;). We basically only chart the number of unique users playing a specific song/artist per week, and then look for the differences in that.
What I want to know is why Radiohead is so popular...
So... if it doesn't sound any different, what's the point? The point of audio compression is to remove frequencies that you don't perceive. If you don't perceive it, why encode it?
OK, so this is a bit of a shameless plug, but as far as we know, ours is the only chart which actually represents what users are listening to. We were quite interested to see this news in the papers on Tuesday.
The Audioscrobbler Charts show what people are actually listening to - not what they're illegally downloading, not what they're buying, but what they're actually playing.
So yeah, our demographic is quite skewed, and we're having trouble keeping up with current load, but we're working hard on both of those things this summer.
Err... if a codec *sounds* closer to the original, who cares whether the actual waveform is closer? The whole point of psychoacoustic compression is that it exploits the weaknesses of the human ear to its advantage.
Allofmp3.com is not legal. Although they do claim to pay the Russian rights organisation the correct fee, there are some independent-label artists on there who are not signed to a performing-rights organisation, and are still not getting paid.
So by using allofmp3.com, you could be screwing the smaller artists even more.
Well, since we're arguing semantics, my musical dictionary equates Operetta and Musical. Anyhow, it's somewhat debatable whether Les Mis is an operetta, since it has no spoken dialogue, and it certainly isn't much shorter than most operas.
Yeah, I completely agree. I'm not quite sure how one would operate that system with a pair of keyboards, and it has the potential to go horribly and obviously wrong if it breaks - much more so than one musician missing a note.
Anyhow, it's definitely not a positive thing, nor was I trying to portray it as such.
Depends, it'd need to be quite intelligent to know how to repeat a phrase of music seamlessly, but it's certainly not impossible. You'd probably need to program it with hints as to which phrases could be repeated, and how to carry things on.
As the article says, it wasn't directly to cut costs, it was because they're moving to a smaller theatre where the pit can only accommodate twelve or so musicians. I'm guessing they're moving to a smaller venue because of falling audience numbers, so that is probably a factor. But if it's a case of using a computerised orchestra or the show going bankrupt, which would you choose?
The Sinfonia site mentions that the operator can alter how it plays the music, presumably by skipping back by a few bars. Anyhow, as I mention in my comment further down, such slipups are very rare in a long-running professional production.
Having said that, last time I went to see Les Mis, with full orchestra, it was actually fairly poor musically. So maybe that'll improve, who knows.
Mackintosh says he's been forced to do this by moving to the smaller theatre because the pit can only accommodate 11 musicians. Where exactly does the Musicians' Union want to put the rest of the orchestra? Suspend them from the ceiling?
Reading the rather limited blurb about the Sinfonia on the manufacturer's site, it's not like the orchestra or conductor is playing to a click-track or anything, the Sinfonia is operated by someone, presumably playing along to a piano part or some other lead part under the control of the conductor, then the synths on it follow that. Which means the conductor still has overall control of the orchestra, and it seems that the Sinfonia operator can even repeat bars or whatever, in response to what's happening on stage (although in a professional musical, an actor forgetting their line is somewhat unlikely, those things run like clockwork).
Yes, there's no substitute for live musicians, but if it's a case between the show going ahead or not (such as this case on RMS's site), then the answer is obvious to me. It's rather amusing that the musicians' unions are worried, they should be comforted in the knowledge that they can do better than a synth. Indeed, RMS claim that the Sinfonia can free up room for more live musicians by reducing the need for seperate synth players.
Still, I'd like to have a play with it before I'm fully convinced :).
Erm, as the KB article itself says, it patches a few system DLLs. They may be part of Explorer, but they're certainly not part of the kernel. I'm not a knee-jerk fanboy, just someone with just an ounce of common sense. Unlike your good self.
It doesn't. Nothing on the MS page says it's anything to do with the kernel - it's just the usual Slashdot Microsoft-bashing-without-even-reading-the-article sentiment.
"This issue affects Internet Explorer, a component of Windows. You should apply this update if you have Internet Explorer 5.01 or later."
So mod me down, you know it's the truth.
It has 32 megs of cache, and it's intelligent enough to cache up the next few songs in the playlist you're listening to. If you manually change, well then it has to spin up again.
Winamp 5 Lite is essentially just Winamp 2 with bugfixes. No video, media library or freeform skinning. Or just get the full version and deselect components on install.
There is a lite version available here, which doesn't include freeform skinning, or video, and is basically "old school" winamp2. And it's only 650kB.
http://www.winamp.com/disclaimer.php.