Side A : Let's give healthcare to all of you so that the tens of millions of you who can't afford one can have one rather than work two jobs while you're dying of a cancer you can barely afford to cure.
Side B : OMG no don't you understand! The world divides in two sides, the capitalist side, and the communist side. Universal healthcare is socialism, and socialism is in our minds some sort of watered-down communism, which is anti-capitalism, therefore universal healthcare = anti-American!
God I'm glad we still get to choose between our Cold war-era ideological remanents of antagonisms vs. black babies dying. God bless our ideological free-for-all that is Capitalism as American conservatives and libertarians see it! The bad guys are commies, and the good guys are capitalists, therefore it's perfectly safe and healthy to be as capitalist as we possibly can!
Dude that's a most retarded point. That's as if you asked Dennis Ritchie to code a Windows program in C# (assuming he's unfamiliar with that) and asked him where are his awesome programming skills now.
OMG, but don't you understand, that means someone somewhere has done something concrete that means something in the real world using FOSS software! That means that these billions of man-hours invested in developing FOSS weren't spent in vain!
Apparently their marketing has no influence over their engineering, which is a good thing. Tells you that 7 won't be a major improvement from Vista regarding the internals. I think in such cases a major version iteration takes a rewrite.
Open standards could play a key role in any preservation effort, he says
The way I see it there are two approaches to the problem. The Quixotic fight consisting in changing the world and forcing in a dictatorship of openness regarding file formats, which doesn't solve the problem for the past 50 years of computer history.
Or let a few hundred people around the world worry about file format parsing or, in the worst case, even emulators to do whatever old computers did. In a hundred years from now, you'll have very complete emulators for our modern PCs. Considered that a 1994 PC is quite comparable to a 2008 PC (and presumably a 2015 PC) from an emulation point of view, you know that's a given, and even then, in case there was no such emulator, you know you could find a good such emulator for machines from the 2040s, which themselves would be well emulated by machines from the 2070s, and so on.. that's what we already do. There's hardly any program you used 20 or 30 years ago that you couldn't use today.
Congratulations, you successfully managed to disprove a mainstream scientific theory admitted by an overwhelmingly large scientific consensus.
To achieve this feat you have :
(x) invoked facts that are just not true without providing any way to back them up
(x) jumped to a one-line conclusion based on these distorted facts
( ) implied there was a conspiracy among the scientific community
(x) implied there was a perverse effect in the way the "system" works that explains the consensus
( ) misinterpreted the theory so that a cherry-picked anectode could disprove it
The memory of water was a famous hoax, at least in France, 15-20 years ago, although I'm not sure it's exactly an hoax. Another famous hoax was when a government-appointed researcher declared in 1986 that the radioactive cloud coming from Chernobyl had stopped at the eastern French borders, and thus the official policy was to not take any of the precautions that other countries took regarding grown food or the prevention of cancer. Isn't spoon bending a hoax as well?
OMG government officials abuse their powers to learn more about a new public figure! We're all gonna die!! Not like anything like this would have ever happened ever in the distant glorious, innocent, worry-free mysterious past.
Because back then they didn't have computers, they had file cabinets, and no one would have opened a file cabinet without a legitimate reason. Translation for the sarcasm impaired : the difference between then and now is that now you know who looks at what. 40 years ago you would have never heard of it, because file cabs don't keep logs.
you might post some supporting documents to fully show you've found a flaw in the report
Well very simply, here is a spectrogram of the two first sounds. It ranges vertically from 200 Hz to 700 Hz, each vertical pixel representing 1 Hz, the horizontal scale is 10 pixels per second and the amplitude is linear with a gamma of 1.5. Each modulated sine is what constitutes a bright horizontal bar, and as you can see each bar is regularly spaced by about 11.3 Hz. It's also clear enough that each "bar" is a sine modulated by what looks like noise, which supports my claim that the original spectrogram this was synthesised from was noisy.
Also I'd like to add, the third sound suffered the same flaws as the two first, but I think it sounds close enough to what it would with a proper synthesis. As for the fourth sound (the Sun), judging by the looks of its spectrogram, this one is genuine, as in, not resynthesised from a spectrogram.
I correctly resynthesised the two first sounds. The resulting sound can be found here or alternatively here.
As one could have expected, there's nothing remarkable about these sounds, no eerie music, no mysteriously rhythmic beat, it's just one of the band-limited noise you find everywhere in nature, be it the ambient underwater sound of the oceans, the Earth's "hum", the wind, etc...
From the sound of it and from looking at spectrograms of the sounds it question I can safely claim that a few things are misleading about these sounds. I have every reason to think that these sounds have been generated by spectrogram synthesis, that is they analysed the original astro-seismic signal into a spectrogram (an image which is a plot of the frequency components and their amplitude over time) and resynthesised it into a sound so that we could hear it but also so that it wouldn't be too long and boring or too short.
However here's the thing, they used a very poor spectrogram synthesis technique (disclaimer : I consider myself a specialist in spectrogram analysis and synthesis and have made a spectrogram analyser and synthesiser called the ARSS), which consists in modulating the horizontal bands of the spectrogram with sine waves of different frequency. What's worse, they used a linear frequency scale, which means that all these sine waves are separated from each other by a fixed frequency (in our case about 10 Hz), which creates a huge envelope beat at that frequency. What it means is that this "regular repeating pattern" you hear isn't "the entire star is pulsating" as the journalist claims, but rather an artifact of the synthesis technique.
Fortunately this technique, even if it produces an awful sound, conveys the original image in the sound's time-frequency plan almost intact (just as in this example, note the similarity with the sounds in the article), and therefore I can reconstruct the original images they used and resynthesise them using a better technique to obtain a more natural sound. Which I'll post as a reply to this comment.
Hehe yeah I saw that, after I posted that is. I knew such comments were bound to pop up, considered the comments you see on this 1958 game's YouTube videos.
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Sure, not like it's a problem that could be solved by throwing even trillions of dollars at it. Oh wait a second...
Side A : Let's give healthcare to all of you so that the tens of millions of you who can't afford one can have one rather than work two jobs while you're dying of a cancer you can barely afford to cure.
Side B : OMG no don't you understand! The world divides in two sides, the capitalist side, and the communist side. Universal healthcare is socialism, and socialism is in our minds some sort of watered-down communism, which is anti-capitalism, therefore universal healthcare = anti-American!
God I'm glad we still get to choose between our Cold war-era ideological remanents of antagonisms vs. black babies dying. God bless our ideological free-for-all that is Capitalism as American conservatives and libertarians see it! The bad guys are commies, and the good guys are capitalists, therefore it's perfectly safe and healthy to be as capitalist as we possibly can!
Ha, ironically and as funny as your comment is, it points out what's wrong with some of the nearly systematic modern era game design decisions.
Who in this day and age would content themselves with designing something as simple without power-ups, boss levels and so forth?
crap, a bit too late, but we should tag this fosswankfest. Describes my initial thoughts perfectly.
Dude that's a most retarded point. That's as if you asked Dennis Ritchie to code a Windows program in C# (assuming he's unfamiliar with that) and asked him where are his awesome programming skills now.
OMG, but don't you understand, that means someone somewhere has done something concrete that means something in the real world using FOSS software! That means that these billions of man-hours invested in developing FOSS weren't spent in vain!
Hallelujah and Freesoftwaruh Akbar!
Your point being?
Apparently their marketing has no influence over their engineering, which is a good thing. Tells you that 7 won't be a major improvement from Vista regarding the internals. I think in such cases a major version iteration takes a rewrite.
Open standards could play a key role in any preservation effort, he says
The way I see it there are two approaches to the problem. The Quixotic fight consisting in changing the world and forcing in a dictatorship of openness regarding file formats, which doesn't solve the problem for the past 50 years of computer history.
Or let a few hundred people around the world worry about file format parsing or, in the worst case, even emulators to do whatever old computers did. In a hundred years from now, you'll have very complete emulators for our modern PCs. Considered that a 1994 PC is quite comparable to a 2008 PC (and presumably a 2015 PC) from an emulation point of view, you know that's a given, and even then, in case there was no such emulator, you know you could find a good such emulator for machines from the 2040s, which themselves would be well emulated by machines from the 2070s, and so on.. that's what we already do. There's hardly any program you used 20 or 30 years ago that you couldn't use today.
I clearly misunderestimated the man
Fixed.
The spoon is a lie
Fixed it.
Let me guess, American?
Interesting, because here it's called homoeopathy.
Congratulations, you successfully managed to disprove a mainstream scientific theory admitted by an overwhelmingly large scientific consensus.
To achieve this feat you have :
(x) invoked facts that are just not true without providing any way to back them up
(x) jumped to a one-line conclusion based on these distorted facts
( ) implied there was a conspiracy among the scientific community
(x) implied there was a perverse effect in the way the "system" works that explains the consensus
( ) misinterpreted the theory so that a cherry-picked anectode could disprove it
The memory of water was a famous hoax, at least in France, 15-20 years ago, although I'm not sure it's exactly an hoax. Another famous hoax was when a government-appointed researcher declared in 1986 that the radioactive cloud coming from Chernobyl had stopped at the eastern French borders, and thus the official policy was to not take any of the precautions that other countries took regarding grown food or the prevention of cancer. Isn't spoon bending a hoax as well?
OMG government officials abuse their powers to learn more about a new public figure! We're all gonna die!! Not like anything like this would have ever happened ever in the distant glorious, innocent, worry-free mysterious past.
Because back then they didn't have computers, they had file cabinets, and no one would have opened a file cabinet without a legitimate reason. Translation for the sarcasm impaired : the difference between then and now is that now you know who looks at what. 40 years ago you would have never heard of it, because file cabs don't keep logs.
you might post some supporting documents to fully show you've found a flaw in the report
Well very simply, here is a spectrogram of the two first sounds. It ranges vertically from 200 Hz to 700 Hz, each vertical pixel representing 1 Hz, the horizontal scale is 10 pixels per second and the amplitude is linear with a gamma of 1.5. Each modulated sine is what constitutes a bright horizontal bar, and as you can see each bar is regularly spaced by about 11.3 Hz. It's also clear enough that each "bar" is a sine modulated by what looks like noise, which supports my claim that the original spectrogram this was synthesised from was noisy.
Also I'd like to add, the third sound suffered the same flaws as the two first, but I think it sounds close enough to what it would with a proper synthesis. As for the fourth sound (the Sun), judging by the looks of its spectrogram, this one is genuine, as in, not resynthesised from a spectrogram.
I correctly resynthesised the two first sounds. The resulting sound can be found here or alternatively here.
As one could have expected, there's nothing remarkable about these sounds, no eerie music, no mysteriously rhythmic beat, it's just one of the band-limited noise you find everywhere in nature, be it the ambient underwater sound of the oceans, the Earth's "hum", the wind, etc...
From the sound of it and from looking at spectrograms of the sounds it question I can safely claim that a few things are misleading about these sounds. I have every reason to think that these sounds have been generated by spectrogram synthesis, that is they analysed the original astro-seismic signal into a spectrogram (an image which is a plot of the frequency components and their amplitude over time) and resynthesised it into a sound so that we could hear it but also so that it wouldn't be too long and boring or too short.
However here's the thing, they used a very poor spectrogram synthesis technique (disclaimer : I consider myself a specialist in spectrogram analysis and synthesis and have made a spectrogram analyser and synthesiser called the ARSS), which consists in modulating the horizontal bands of the spectrogram with sine waves of different frequency. What's worse, they used a linear frequency scale, which means that all these sine waves are separated from each other by a fixed frequency (in our case about 10 Hz), which creates a huge envelope beat at that frequency. What it means is that this "regular repeating pattern" you hear isn't "the entire star is pulsating" as the journalist claims, but rather an artifact of the synthesis technique.
Fortunately this technique, even if it produces an awful sound, conveys the original image in the sound's time-frequency plan almost intact (just as in this example, note the similarity with the sounds in the article), and therefore I can reconstruct the original images they used and resynthesise them using a better technique to obtain a more natural sound. Which I'll post as a reply to this comment.
So basically what you're saying is that even when there's no pattern there's a pattern?
Hehe yeah I saw that, after I posted that is. I knew such comments were bound to pop up, considered the comments you see on this 1958 game's YouTube videos.
Beats assassinating the persons in question to "erase" their memory ;-).
Computers NEED shielding to keep their em garbage from causing massive interference to everything else in the room.
Or else what? Been keeping my case open for 5 years and I have yet to notice any side effect or interference.
"It wasn't the first video game" post in 3.. 2.. 1..
Funny what's the first thing that springs to the mind of a Slashdotter. The first thing I thought about was PTSD.