I don't _have_ any CDs. Yet. I do have a studio, because I am an audio geek. I have press clippings from the Absolute Sound magazine and many, many years of experience in hardcore high end audio hacking, and it is not a '*cough* studio'. Implying that is a sure way to tick me off, but it's a hollow critique.
For the record, and as you imlied in your post further down (I didn't quote it) I made no references to any of your medical conditions. I was only being a wise-ass about the length of the post and the seemingly un-relatedness of it.
As for your studio.... I guess I'd need to work in it to truly see if it's any good.
He's pointing out an intersting quirk of US tax laws that protects a certain kind of non-profit corporation from being taken over by commercial interests.
I didn't quite follow how that prevents "cease and desist" orders that would insist said corporation stop making such software available, though.
Me either. In fact the whole post seemed kinda wordy and self serving ultimately being an advertisement for his CD's and (cough!) recording studio.
In a court of law, EVERYTHING that was cited in that "article" would be called heresay AT BEST. Very likely being laughed out of court.
Constantly referring to the alleged whistle-blower as a "Microsoftie" doesn't help either.
I mean is a Microsoftie a person or an ice-cream product?
All of the money making properties that they talk about are entities which MS purchased. And for the most part are pretty enormous now, so naturally a transition to another set of tools would be difficult. Any set of tools.
And what does 'MSN using some Apache on Solaris' mean anyway? SOME?? Could we be a little LESS specific?
I dislike MS as much as the next guy, but that article was AWFUL. Who picks these things anyway??
I'm sure my friendly moderator-patron who doesn't like me will mod this down to a zero now.
I want to know who the fucking asshole is who keeps moderating my stuff down?
This ISN'T off topic, it actually addresses the MYTH that competition is good, and it's ISN'T flamebait.
Clearly this is someone with an agenda who isn't moderating fairly.
But whoever you are, congratulations. You've just made one of the Slashdot faithful (who used ot frequent this place when it was GOOD) visit here even LESS frequently.
They were doing a special on the moons of Jupiter, and they mentioned that sometime in the year 2002 (2003?), they will be launching a probe that will attempt to land on Europa, and release a heating vent of sorts that will melt through the ice to the water below, and (hopefully) see what's under all that ice.
That soon? I think the technical challenges are too great to mount such a mission so soon. We might be dealing with an ice layer severel miles thick.
It is my personal belief that there IS life down there. I can't wait until we prove it.
Not only did it suck, but it is sort of filled with ingratiating whitewash.
Thank you. It DID suck.
And I love the fact that some pimply-faced-never-kissed-a-girl-dork moderated it down to ZERO calling it "off topic". I directly addressed the WSJ article. How can THAT be off topic?
I must confess... Some of the moderating and meta-moderating over the last year is really going to turn me off and cause me to never return to this board again. And I know others feel that way, too.
Ultamitely, people will buy what people want; and the corporations will make what the people want
What about what people NEED?
You'll be changing your tune when you get some obscure form of cancer where research was ABANDONED because the number of people to sell healing drugs to, was too small to justify, due to too small profits.
Research needs to be conducted AGGRESSIVELY in ALL area because of one simple word: Serendipity.
Discoveries are always made when we're not looking, that's a basic component of research. If it doesn't have a use right now, who cares, it will someday. And with this wonderful networked world, sooner than later.
But ultimately this is all good. It will just hasten the revolution.
While my politics certainly lean to the left, I would say that many of the poster's claims are assumptions and are not necessarily valid.
I don't feel like getting too deep, politically right now.
But why would you assume that these people would even HAVE an economic system, and that it would somehow reflect our economic ideas?
To Serve Man is a great TZ episode, but it's SCI-FI! The odds that we could accurately model ANY aspects of an alien culture based on guesses seems unlikely to me.
To WHOM? Nothing is that simple or black and white, and certainly not this topic considering that hundreds of millions (if not billions) are being spent on DSP in the audio arena.
Digital cannot sound better than analog....
Where is THAT written?:-)
It's only a matter of time, I'd bet anything that I own. See my other post on this matter.
I'm not so sure that "warmth" we're looking for is necessarily due to sample rate.
I know guys who record at 96Khz all the time, and then record the same thing at 48 Khz and a/b it, and then stick with 48K since it sounds identical to them, and they save storage space.
What is the one thing that analog tape does that digital doesn't? (or two as the case may be).
1) Analog adds some harmonic distoration when you hit it hard enough (with some tape compression), and
2) Analog has wow and flutter... which means there's plenty of phase coherency problems at higher frequencies (the higher the frequencies the more things get out of phase from wow and flutter).
I've worked in analog rooms for the past 5 years, so I'm no digital apologist, but I'm also a computer guy, and it seems to me that BOTH of those things can be emulated in the digital domain with a good enough alogorithm.
George Massenburg has already done a ton of research in these areas and he states emphatically that all it takes to emulate these things is good math, and enough processing power (but we already knew that, didn't we?).
So it's only a matter of time before digital wins on all levels. For convenience it's already tops (until you get some errors on your tapes!) and it's only a matter of time until we can sit in front of a good digital console and there will be emulatiom modes for 20 of the world's most favorite mic-pre's, compressors, EQ's and the ability to emulate different brands of analog tape at different flux references.
It's funny. I didn''t even look at the NYT piece yet, but we're having a discussion with the very same title in an audio engineering forum of which I'm a part.
In the audio world there two camps. The analog camp, and (you guessed it!) the digital camp. I'm sure you can guess how the analog guys feel about digital audio.:-)
Let's not forget all of the things we read several months ago regarding copyright law. Even Linus has to occasionally be a jerk to protect his copyright. As I remember it, the way the law is written, if you don't aggressively defend your copyright(s) you could lose them. So basically the law forces people to become assholes.
I'm not defending Fuji TV, just stating what seems to be a fact.
Now I *LOVE* this show too. Can't get enough of it. And I think Morimoto San is gonna KICK BOBBY FLAY'S ASS.
For the record, in the Irof Chef poll you guys did the other month, you got 2 of their names backwards.
Also, it looks like they have a new Iron Chef Chinese. Chen Kinichi seems to have been replaced by some new guy with a Blue Suit. At least that's the way it looks from the promos I see for the Iron Chef NY City upcoming showdown.
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Tom!!! YOU RULE!!!:-) Thanks for putting it online! A little delay never hurt anyone (cough!)
I'm so excited! That photo was taken with an older digital camera and spiffed up with The Gimp.
For those who want to see it the url is:
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/kaypro-1.htm l
The Obsolete Computer Museum is great. Except they have yet to post the cool foto I took of my Kaypro-I... and I submitted the photo around Xmas of 1998! (for real). Rich...
Iridium satellites are in polar orbits; Mir orbits at an inclination of around 55 degrees or so. And at a different altitude. The change of orbit would be really expensive.
I thought Iridium's orbital inclination was 86.4 degrees. Not quite a polar orbit.
And let's not forget that all of those satellites are in different orbital planes than Mir.
Perhaps when he have massive energy reserves available (like on Start Trek) we would be able to change orbital plane and inclinations and perform such a salvage. But not yet.
I've had the chance to try an Enigma machine; a speaker for EE380 at Stanford brought one by last year. It's the keyboard machine from Hell; key travel is about an inch and takes over a pound of pressure. The pressure on the keys advances the wheels, and since the wheels have 52 wiper contacts each, they're hard to rotate.
I used a 3-rotor machine at the NSA's crypto museum in VA and didn't find it difficult. Perhaps the NSA's machine is better maintained.
My friend called me last night with a review of the film as well. His review was identical to what I read here. Which can only mean you were all listening in on our phone conversation!:-)
Anyway, he said in Washington DC, where he saw it, by half way through the film everyone was LAUGHING at it, and by 2/3 of the way through, he and his friends we doing their best MST3K and people were paying more attention to their jokes, than the film.
EEEESH. it must have REALLY sucked... my friend simply isn't that funny!:-)
It seems Hollywood doesn't know how to make a good sci-fi flick anymore. Star Wars and Trek don't count.... not to me anyway (no flames please). But not counting those films, what was the last GOOD Sci-Fi flick Hollywood did?
Aliens?
What do you think? I haven't thought that much about it, but don't know. I'll have to spend more time thinking about it.
Yeah, Zubrin's Mars Direct calls for either the resurrection of the Saturn V, something rather impossible given the lack of necessity/space race today, or the use of the russian Energia.
I thought I remembered that. I'll have to re-read the book.
I have chatted with the man about lecturing at a local community college. He seems like a nice guy.
A privately funded Mars mission would, with the cost of reviving and using two Energia launches, plus the various other necessities, weigh in at about 4-6 billion dollars -- 35 Billion less than a NASA venture.
The OLD NASA, yes.:-) But I do know that in the back of Director Dan Goldin's mind, he's thinking about building Mars rockets. And he has looked at Zubrin's ideas and even funded some small studies for in-situ propellant manufacturing, among others.
It'll probably not happen for a while, but it's nice to see that he seems to care about exploration, and doing it cheaply.
Beal's booster seems more of a satellite launch vehicle than anything, capable of high capacity launches to LEO and HEO...
Absolutely, since we prove that you don't need heavy lift to launch LEO satellites every time we use a Delta to place a satellite... or launch a small vehicle to Mars.
Just wanted to point out - The Beal engine they were discussing was for the *second* stage... The first stage engine is supposed to be 5 times as powerful. That would be ~4 million lbs of thrust. Very large indeed, and that would probably allow a first stage with 3-5 engines with some pretty hellish lifting capacity.
I must have missed that.
Man, 4 million pounds of thrust would be an amazing.... AMAZING accomplishment, but it sounds impossible to me!:-)
Man! I don't know if we have materials that are up to those levels of performance. It would certainly be an amazing engineering accomplishment. I've been waiting for a new heavy lift vehicle to incorporate the latest materials and technology, maybe this will be it.
I remember in the late 1960's some crazed NASA engineer drew up simple sketches and ideas for a super-heavy-lifting vehicle that essentially clustered together 5 (!) Saturn V 1st stages (S-1C) to make up one first stage!
I remember that they initially planned to keep the launch pad 20 or 25 miles away over the horizon so that shock waves wouldn't destroy EVERYTHING. A vehicle with 5, 4-million pound thrust engines might require something similar.
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For the record, and as you imlied in your post further down (I didn't quote it) I made no references to any of your medical conditions. I was only being a wise-ass about the length of the post and the seemingly un-relatedness of it.
As for your studio.... I guess I'd need to work in it to truly see if it's any good.
Rich...
Me either. In fact the whole post seemed kinda wordy and self serving ultimately being an advertisement for his CD's and (cough!) recording studio.
Rich...
Rich...
Constantly referring to the alleged whistle-blower as a "Microsoftie" doesn't help either.
I mean is a Microsoftie a person or an ice-cream product?
All of the money making properties that they talk about are entities which MS purchased. And for the most part are pretty enormous now, so naturally a transition to another set of tools would be difficult. Any set of tools.
And what does 'MSN using some Apache on Solaris' mean anyway? SOME?? Could we be a little LESS specific?
I dislike MS as much as the next guy, but that article was AWFUL. Who picks these things anyway??
I'm sure my friendly moderator-patron who doesn't like me will mod this down to a zero now.
Rich...
This ISN'T off topic, it actually addresses the MYTH that competition is good, and it's ISN'T flamebait.
Clearly this is someone with an agenda who isn't moderating fairly.
But whoever you are, congratulations. You've just made one of the Slashdot faithful (who used ot frequent this place when it was GOOD) visit here even LESS frequently.
Good job. :-)
Rich...
It has to be true, some daytime radio talk-show host (really just a shock-jock) said so, and things like this prove it.
Rich...
That soon? I think the technical challenges are too great to mount such a mission so soon. We might be dealing with an ice layer severel miles thick.
It is my personal belief that there IS life down there. I can't wait until we prove it.
Rich...
Actually, they were Soviets. :-)
Rich...
Thank you. It DID suck.
And I love the fact that some pimply-faced-never-kissed-a-girl-dork moderated it down to ZERO calling it "off topic". I directly addressed the WSJ article. How can THAT be off topic?
I must confess... Some of the moderating and meta-moderating over the last year is really going to turn me off and cause me to never return to this board again. And I know others feel that way, too.
I know, you don't care, and you don't have to.
Rich...
What about what people NEED?
You'll be changing your tune when you get some obscure form of cancer where research was ABANDONED because the number of people to sell healing drugs to, was too small to justify, due to too small profits.
Research needs to be conducted AGGRESSIVELY in ALL area because of one simple word: Serendipity.
Discoveries are always made when we're not looking, that's a basic component of research. If it doesn't have a use right now, who cares, it will someday. And with this wonderful networked world, sooner than later.
But ultimately this is all good. It will just hasten the revolution.
Rich...
The resemblance is uncanny, and you both do PBS.
Rich...
Ummm, no.
While my politics certainly lean to the left, I would say that many of the poster's claims are assumptions and are not necessarily valid.
I don't feel like getting too deep, politically right now.
But why would you assume that these people would even HAVE an economic system, and that it would somehow reflect our economic ideas?
To Serve Man is a great TZ episode, but it's SCI-FI! The odds that we could accurately model ANY aspects of an alien culture based on guesses seems unlikely to me.
Rich...
To WHOM? Nothing is that simple or black and white, and certainly not this topic considering that hundreds of millions (if not billions) are being spent on DSP in the audio arena.
Where is THAT written? :-)
It's only a matter of time, I'd bet anything that I own. See my other post on this matter.
I know guys who record at 96Khz all the time, and then record the same thing at 48 Khz and a/b it, and then stick with 48K since it sounds identical to them, and they save storage space.
What is the one thing that analog tape does that digital doesn't? (or two as the case may be).
1) Analog adds some harmonic distoration when you hit it hard enough (with some tape compression), and
2) Analog has wow and flutter... which means there's plenty of phase coherency problems at higher frequencies (the higher the frequencies the more things get out of phase from wow and flutter).
I've worked in analog rooms for the past 5 years, so I'm no digital apologist, but I'm also a computer guy, and it seems to me that BOTH of those things can be emulated in the digital domain with a good enough alogorithm.
George Massenburg has already done a ton of research in these areas and he states emphatically that all it takes to emulate these things is good math, and enough processing power (but we already knew that, didn't we?).
So it's only a matter of time before digital wins on all levels. For convenience it's already tops (until you get some errors on your tapes!) and it's only a matter of time until we can sit in front of a good digital console and there will be emulatiom modes for 20 of the world's most favorite mic-pre's, compressors, EQ's and the ability to emulate different brands of analog tape at different flux references.
Kasparov lost, so will analog... it's inevitable.
Rich...
In the audio world there two camps. The analog camp, and (you guessed it!) the digital camp. I'm sure you can guess how the analog guys feel about digital audio. :-)
Rich...
I'm not defending Fuji TV, just stating what seems to be a fact.
Now I *LOVE* this show too. Can't get enough of it. And I think Morimoto San is gonna KICK BOBBY FLAY'S ASS.
For the record, in the Irof Chef poll you guys did the other month, you got 2 of their names backwards.
Also, it looks like they have a new Iron Chef Chinese. Chen Kinichi seems to have been replaced by some new guy with a Blue Suit. At least that's the way it looks from the promos I see for the Iron Chef NY City upcoming showdown.
I'm so excited! That photo was taken with an older digital camera and spiffed up with The Gimp.
For those who want to see it the url is:
http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/kaypro-1.htm l
The Obsolete Computer Museum is great. Except they have yet to post the cool foto I took of my Kaypro-I... and I submitted the photo around Xmas of 1998! (for real). Rich...
I thought Iridium's orbital inclination was 86.4 degrees. Not quite a polar orbit.
And let's not forget that all of those satellites are in different orbital planes than Mir.
Perhaps when he have massive energy reserves available (like on Start Trek) we would be able to change orbital plane and inclinations and perform such a salvage. But not yet.
I used a 3-rotor machine at the NSA's crypto museum in VA and didn't find it difficult. Perhaps the NSA's machine is better maintained.
The standard Enigma machine used 3 rotors, but came with a selection of 5 to choose from.
Naval enigma used 4 rotors with 8 (IIRC) to choose from.
Anyway, he said in Washington DC, where he saw it, by half way through the film everyone was LAUGHING at it, and by 2/3 of the way through, he and his friends we doing their best MST3K and people were paying more attention to their jokes, than the film.
EEEESH. it must have REALLY sucked... my friend simply isn't that funny! :-)
It seems Hollywood doesn't know how to make a good sci-fi flick anymore. Star Wars and Trek don't count.... not to me anyway (no flames please). But not counting those films, what was the last GOOD Sci-Fi flick Hollywood did?
Aliens?
What do you think? I haven't thought that much about it, but don't know. I'll have to spend more time thinking about it.
Right... with five engines. These guys were talking about putting out 4 million pounds of thrust with one engine. To me that sounds unlikely.
I thought I remembered that. I'll have to re-read the book.
I have chatted with the man about lecturing at a local community college. He seems like a nice guy.
The OLD NASA, yes. :-) But I do know that in the back of Director Dan Goldin's mind, he's thinking about building Mars rockets. And he has looked at Zubrin's ideas and even funded some small studies for in-situ propellant manufacturing, among others.
It'll probably not happen for a while, but it's nice to see that he seems to care about exploration, and doing it cheaply.
Absolutely, since we prove that you don't need heavy lift to launch LEO satellites every time we use a Delta to place a satellite... or launch a small vehicle to Mars.
I must have missed that.
Man, 4 million pounds of thrust would be an amazing.... AMAZING accomplishment, but it sounds impossible to me! :-)
Man! I don't know if we have materials that are up to those levels of performance. It would certainly be an amazing engineering accomplishment. I've been waiting for a new heavy lift vehicle to incorporate the latest materials and technology, maybe this will be it.
I remember in the late 1960's some crazed NASA engineer drew up simple sketches and ideas for a super-heavy-lifting vehicle that essentially clustered together 5 (!) Saturn V 1st stages (S-1C) to make up one first stage!
I remember that they initially planned to keep the launch pad 20 or 25 miles away over the horizon so that shock waves wouldn't destroy EVERYTHING. A vehicle with 5, 4-million pound thrust engines might require something similar.
I would be something to behold, wouldn't it? :-)