the prototype system uses MIDI data output from the gloves via USB to reproduce the full range of notes from instruments such as the trumpet and trombone."
The trumpet has three buttons you press. The rest is done using the mouthpiece. The trombone, you just use a slide to set the pitch.
I am fairly certain this thing doesn't do at good job at the g-sharp trill key on a clarinet.
You just ran down the regular list of consumer-level computer usage.
One of the problems with most of the non-Windows computer systems is that the ramp up from consumer-level to anything beyond it is very steep and expensive.
Whereas, I can go to WalMart or look on eBay and find video capture hardware, go to Guitar Center and buy a studio-grade sound recording card, etc. It always works out of the box on Windows. Similar 'solutions' for Linux and most other OS choices involve expensive hardware and/or expertise beyond what the people who need video capture or sound recording should need.
But yeah. For consumer-grade computer proles, Google's stuff is great. I used their Chrome browser for awhile, but the absence of a menu-bar was frustrating at first but made the thing just impossible after awhile. What the fuck were they thinking? Yeah, I know. Modern design, and the fact that Google is just the tool of the advertising industry combine to mean something.
"8086 takes hours to render a basic 3D scene. Was the 8086 just an isolated incident of a slow cpu, and will we reach real-time 3D in this modern computing age?"
There is an old game that I used to play called '3-Demon.'
It's basically a wireframe 3-D pacman game. It's loads of fun. But to run it you need a really old 8088 based machine (a PC-XT clone) or an emulator that can be set to run really slow. I've actually run it on an PC Junior, which was interesting, because it actually WOULD run a little slow to be playable on that system*. But it runs great on a 4.77 MHz 8088-based pc-clone system.
(*it actually runs playably on the PC Junior, but if you turn a corner to where the viewing distance is six or seven spaces ahead, it slows down)
Unless you want us all to simply disconnect from the grid and cease using electricity, the cost/benefit comparison of coal to nuclear electricity generation is a major point of the discussion.
So have you turned off your computer, lights, and lit your candle yet?
"Maybe the solution is to let the engineers control the nuclear industry, soup-to-nuts, and send the MBA's packing?"
This could solve problems in a number of Industries, however I think it particularly applies to the Nuclear industry.
If you think the Politicians and the Lawyers who run the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are going to give up control willingly, you've got another thing coming.
But in the foggy world of online forums where not just metaphors get mixed, but whole lines of argument get jumbled around, I guess they're kinda the same thing.
The real problem is that energy companies don't allocate enough money to that matter.
Also, though, that the regulatory overhead for anything at all done around a nuclear power plant drives costs up immensely.
The contractors are happy to supply that stuff at the inflated prices. It pays the grocery bills. The regulators are happy, because they have student loans they are still paying off from Law School. The NIMBY brigade is okay with it, because it's an obscured hidden cost.
The NRC is in the business, along with the tort law industry, liability insurance companies, etc. of making sure that any move that is made anywhere near an old nuclear power plant that is due for decommissioning is as expensive as possible.
What do people think drives up decommissioning cost? The actual safety measures needed are a factor, but the Chicken Little Brigade is always involved, too.
OpenOffice was open-source. As such it still exists elsewhere and (I don't think it's harsh to say) the original OO, from the community, to download numbers to feature support, is dead.
Actually, OpenOffice was StarOffice, a closed-source office suite that originated from a German company called Star Division. It was one of the earliest available commercial Office Suite products for Linux. ApplixWare was one of the others at the time.
Star Division was purchased by Sun and Star Office was re-branded and turned into an Open Source project. Similar in a sense to how the Mozilla Project got opened.
I still own boxed set copies of Star Office and ApplixWare. I believe at the point I bought ApplixWare it was bundled by Red Hat and my copy has a Red Hat log on the box.
But fucking really people? You're ready to go storming the Redmond campus with pitchforks because Microsoft was caught 10 years ago doing stupid monopolistic shit.
a company (MS) that has been convicted of using their monopoly (Windows) to prop up a product (Internet Explorer) in the past to kill a competitor (Netscape)
Just a footnote, but Netscape was nobody's friend in the web browser market. They were introducing proprietary tags in their server products to extend the functionality of their 'free' browser and lock up and own the Web Client/Server market in the businessplace. They wanted to own the web-based business intranet. They wanted to be the new Microsoft in that sphere of computing.
We're kinda lucky that Microsoft squashed them. The free Mozilla code base was the result.
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the prototype system uses MIDI data output from the gloves via USB to reproduce the full range of notes from instruments such as the trumpet and trombone."
The trumpet has three buttons you press. The rest is done using the mouthpiece. The trombone, you just use a slide to set the pitch.
I am fairly certain this thing doesn't do at good job at the g-sharp trill key on a clarinet.
They soliticted the survey participants with an ad on Facebook.
The Zuck probably even gave them the free ad space.
I'd rather use the doorbell as a filter. If it's important enough to matter, you'll do more than text message me.
Battery powered? Don't forget the steampunk contingent. Just put a bit of fuel in the little coke furnace and let it build up some steam for a moment.
You just ran down the regular list of consumer-level computer usage.
One of the problems with most of the non-Windows computer systems is that the ramp up from consumer-level to anything beyond it is very steep and expensive.
Whereas, I can go to WalMart or look on eBay and find video capture hardware, go to Guitar Center and buy a studio-grade sound recording card, etc. It always works out of the box on Windows. Similar 'solutions' for Linux and most other OS choices involve expensive hardware and/or expertise beyond what the people who need video capture or sound recording should need.
But yeah. For consumer-grade computer proles, Google's stuff is great. I used their Chrome browser for awhile, but the absence of a menu-bar was frustrating at first but made the thing just impossible after awhile. What the fuck were they thinking? Yeah, I know. Modern design, and the fact that Google is just the tool of the advertising industry combine to mean something.
1. Video Capture with my USB Video Capture device.
2. Printing on an envelope.
3. Recording and editing sound.
Windows 95 isn't ahead of anything. That's just stupid Lemming trolling.
What a content-free comment. I know that you have the whole slashdot meme to back you up, but the paucity of your comment is still disappointing.
There is an old game that I used to play called '3-Demon.'
It's basically a wireframe 3-D pacman game. It's loads of fun. But to run it you need a really old 8088 based machine (a PC-XT clone) or an emulator that can be set to run really slow. I've actually run it on an PC Junior, which was interesting, because it actually WOULD run a little slow to be playable on that system*. But it runs great on a 4.77 MHz 8088-based pc-clone system.
(*it actually runs playably on the PC Junior, but if you turn a corner to where the viewing distance is six or seven spaces ahead, it slows down)
Unless you want us all to simply disconnect from the grid and cease using electricity, the cost/benefit comparison of coal to nuclear electricity generation is a major point of the discussion.
So have you turned off your computer, lights, and lit your candle yet?
I suggest we stay away from it.
Those are easy words to say. Will you go without Electricity for a week to prove they're more than you being a gasbag on a blogh?
"Maybe the solution is to let the engineers control the nuclear industry, soup-to-nuts, and send the MBA's packing?"
This could solve problems in a number of Industries, however I think it particularly applies to the Nuclear industry.
If you think the Politicians and the Lawyers who run the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are going to give up control willingly, you've got another thing coming.
Well, uh, the two are completely different.
In the real world they are, anyway.
But in the foggy world of online forums where not just metaphors get mixed, but whole lines of argument get jumbled around, I guess they're kinda the same thing.
1. Up-to-date designs don't matter shit if operators decide to skip regular maintenance and fake the protocols.
We're going to have to ask you for a good body of citations of said 'skipping regular maintenance and faked protocols.'
No, the Jane Fonda thing doesn't count.
The real problem is that energy companies don't allocate enough money to that matter.
Also, though, that the regulatory overhead for anything at all done around a nuclear power plant drives costs up immensely.
The contractors are happy to supply that stuff at the inflated prices. It pays the grocery bills. The regulators are happy, because they have student loans they are still paying off from Law School. The NIMBY brigade is okay with it, because it's an obscured hidden cost.
The NRC is in the business, along with the tort law industry, liability insurance companies, etc. of making sure that any move that is made anywhere near an old nuclear power plant that is due for decommissioning is as expensive as possible.
What do people think drives up decommissioning cost? The actual safety measures needed are a factor, but the Chicken Little Brigade is always involved, too.
For that you don't even need a video feed. A 50 ohm terminator on the end of the coax will suffice.
Actually, 'wired' means 'pulling the romex cables through the 2x4 frame. Or 'used wire-wrap gun to implement circuit.
But apparently you're really into that bling poseur magazine.
That's fine, but what will you do with all your spare time without an income?
I would be, too.
He's worse than an incubus.
He's a fucking suit.
And he doesn't have nearly enough facial scars. Someone needs to get working on that.
OpenOffice was open-source. As such it still exists elsewhere and (I don't think it's harsh to say) the original OO, from the community, to download numbers to feature support, is dead.
Actually, OpenOffice was StarOffice, a closed-source office suite that originated from a German company called Star Division. It was one of the earliest available commercial Office Suite products for Linux. ApplixWare was one of the others at the time.
Star Division was purchased by Sun and Star Office was re-branded and turned into an Open Source project. Similar in a sense to how the Mozilla Project got opened.
I still own boxed set copies of Star Office and ApplixWare. I believe at the point I bought ApplixWare it was bundled by Red Hat and my copy has a Red Hat log on the box.
Don't forget, it was a Macintosh program first.
I think you meant that it was a Mac product first. MS Office isn't really a program, it's a cluster of programs all integrated together.
And I was using Microsoft Word for DOS long before there was a version for Windows OR the Mac.
But fucking really people? You're ready to go storming the Redmond campus with pitchforks because Microsoft was caught 10 years ago doing stupid monopolistic shit.
Welcome to Slashdot.
Only because it is an example that most people will be familiar with. There are many more that would satisfy your desire for contemporaneity.
Rather than dance around the issue, why not name a few.
a company (MS) that has been convicted of using their monopoly (Windows) to prop up a product (Internet Explorer) in the past to kill a competitor (Netscape)
Just a footnote, but Netscape was nobody's friend in the web browser market. They were introducing proprietary tags in their server products to extend the functionality of their 'free' browser and lock up and own the Web Client/Server market in the businessplace. They wanted to own the web-based business intranet. They wanted to be the new Microsoft in that sphere of computing.
We're kinda lucky that Microsoft squashed them. The free Mozilla code base was the result.