The deafening sound of the seas
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"Instinctually I am listening for the
sound of her breathing or to the
sound
of her swallowing, and if those noises
sound okay then I’m
listening to the
sounds of the house to make sure
monsters don’t come
out of the walls to
hurt her"
"Instinctually I am listening for the
sound of her breathing or to the
sound
of her swallowing, and if those noises
sound okay then I’m
listening to the
sounds of the house to make sure
monsters don’t come
out of the walls to
hurt her"
08/27/2004 03:50 PMDeafening phone - Siemens issues health
warning
Deafening phone - Siemens issues health
warning
08/27/2004 01:43 PM"I'm spent!"
In clapping both hands a sound is heard:
what is the sound of the one hand?
In clapping both hands a sound is heard:
what is the sound of the one hand?
12/03/2003 04:54 PM What is the
sound of one hand clapping? An interesting excerpt from
The Sound of the One Hand: 281 Zen Koans
With Answers that involves a dialogue between the master and
the student that answers this koan.
(I suppose this could
technically be considered a spoiler.) Queens of the seas together
Queens of the seas together
04/16/2005 07:51 AMThe Queen Mary 2 and the QE2 are in sight of each in their home port
of Southampton for one day only.
Underwater Bot Roams the Seas
Underwater Bot Roams the Seas
04/06/2005 04:59 AMOceanographers have high hopes for a new generation of inexpensive,
autonomous underwater vehicles that can undertake long journeys and
capture data on climate shifts and the world's oceans. By Stephen
Leahy.
Sailing the seas of MP3s
Sailing the seas of MP3s
07/19/2004 03:04 PMApple, Virgin hum different tunes when it comes to new digital music
players. Also: Napster enrolls in college (again).
Seas 'screaming' around Harvester
Seas 'screaming' around Harvester
04/13/2005 11:19 AMA skipper who drowned with six crew told his fiancée the sea was
"screaming" an hour before the boat sank, a trial hears.
Help save our seas, divers urged
Help save our seas, divers urged
07/27/2004 09:12 AMAn internet initiative, Earthdive, has been set up to build up a
picture of what is going on under our oceans
Internet plays cupid across seas
Internet plays cupid across seas
09/21/2004 12:52 PMrediff.com Sep 21 2004 5:13PM GMT
Galleon sails into high seas action
Galleon sails into high seas action
06/19/2004 02:41 AMThe long-awaited game by the man behind Lara Croft offers an
innovative game-playing experience.
Connexion by Boeing moves to the high
seas
Connexion by Boeing moves to the high
seas
01/16/2004 10:59 AMVessel operators and passengers will be able to use the Connexion
service to access the Internet and firewall-protected corporate
intranets, send and receive e-mail, and view satellite television
programming.
As the Seas Warm, Algae Help Some Coral
Stand Up to the Heat
As the Seas Warm, Algae Help Some Coral
Stand Up to the Heat
12/22/2004 01:56 AMSome coral reefs are proving surprisingly resilient to global warming
because of heat-tolerant algae that live with them.
Oyster idea in Md. hits rough seas
(USATODAY.com)
Oyster idea in Md. hits rough seas
(USATODAY.com)
01/03/2005 08:12 AMUSATODAY.com - The Chesapeake Bay, the nation's largest estuary, is
looking for a savior. And Maryland's governor hopes he's found it in a
strange mollusk from the other side of the world.
Sandlot Games Unfurls High Seas Trading
Adventure in “Tradewinds 2™”
Sandlot Games Unfurls High Seas Trading
Adventure in “Tradewinds 2™”
04/05/2005 02:17 AMSandlot Games releases swashbuckling sequel to one of the top games of
2004 for worldwide distribution, starting with Shockwave.com. [PRWEB
Apr 5, 2005]
Seven Seas picks up GITEX
infrastructure, support and services
deal for HP, Microsoft
Seven Seas picks up GITEX
infrastructure, support and services
deal for HP, Microsoft
09/23/2004 02:59 AMAME Info Sep 23 2004 6:43AM GMT
Keeping Sound Out to Keep Sound In
Keeping Sound Out to Keep Sound In
06/05/2005 10:45 PMSony's new MDR-NC50 noise-canceling headphones try to block background
sounds like rumbles from jet engines and subway trains that can
overwhelm your chosen soundtrack.
Sound
Sound
07/18/2004 05:42 AMSound 1)Canada
Science and Technology Museum: Information on Sound http://snipurl.com/7t3w 2)Art Ludwig's Sound Page http://www.silcom.com/Ealudwig/
3)Fox Mill Elementary School: Sound Tasks
http://www.fcps.
k12.va.us/FoxMillES/sound.html 4)Science Museum of
Minnesota: The Sound Site http://www.smm.org/sound/ 5)American Institute of Physics: Physics as a Sound
Investment http://www
.aip.org/success/soundinvestment/index.htm 6)Acoustics Research Institute http://www.kfs.oeaw.ac.at/ 7)Exploratorium: The Science of Music http://www.explor
atorium.edu/music/index.html The science of sound is
relevant to the music we hear and produce, the ways ships communicate
underwater, and much more. The interactive aspect of the World Wide
Web provides a fun platform for learning about sound. The websites
covered in this Topic in Depth provide an overview of the science of
sound, the applications of acoustics, and fun ways to learn about all
of it. The Canada Science and Technology Museum provides a nice
overview of the science of sound (1). The second website (2) also
discusses some of the basics and also provides video and sound files
to demonstrate the concepts. The third link takes you to a website
that guides the visitor to various websites to get answers to some
interesting questions about sound, such as What is the difference
between noise and music? and how do dolphins use sound to communicate?
(3). The Science Museum of Minnesota offers the Sound Site (4). For
more on acoustics research areas, see some of the projects at the
Acoustics Research Institute In Austria (6) such as omputational
Acoustics and Digital Signal Processing. Last but not least, this
website from the Exploratorium (7) takes you through some of the
connections between science and music. [ From The NSDL Scout
Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout
Project 1994-2003.
http://scout.wisc.edu/]
How Does A 0% Lease Sound?
How Does A 0% Lease Sound?
04/22/2004 06:41 PMIf you need a new Apple hardware, now might be the time to grab it. 0%
is pretty good. By Sean Bonner, Unofficial Apple Weblog (via
MyAppleMenu)
sound familiar?
sound familiar?
06/05/2004 11:53 AM
I have been in torture photos, too. Gerry Adams speaks out.
"News of the ill-treatment of prisoners in Iraq created no great
surprise in republican Ireland. We have seen and heard it all before.
Some of us have even survived that type of treatment. Suggestions that
the brutality in Iraq was meted out by a few miscreants aren't even
seriously entertained here. We have seen and heard all that before as
well. But our experience is that, while individuals may bring a
particular impact to their work, they do so within interrogative
practices authorised by their superiors."
sound visualizer
sound visualizer
09/02/2004 10:15 AMOverview
The Sound of Cells
The Sound of Cells
04/16/2004 01:08 PMSearching For Sound
Searching For Sound
05/27/2004 11:04 AMMany people have pointed out that search engines (yes, mainly Google)
are now the "front end to the internet." However, how does that work
when the internet is increasingly not just about text? Especially as
broadband catches on around the world, more and more content is audio
and visual content. Both new and old search engines are now
working on better ways to sort through
that content - using metadata and speech recognition to understand
what's being said. The article uses NPR as the main example,
describing how they use voice recognition technology to create
immediate transcripts of their audio, which are completely searchable.
They admit that these transcripts are later replaced by "more
accurate" human written transcripts, but that the automated ones work
well enough. The article also focuses on StreamSage, which seems to
be one of the more advanced tools. It uses voice recognition to
transcribe audio - but also tries to add in some contextual analysis
to create an automated "table of contents" for the file, so searching
through it is much easier.
Searching without a sound
Searching without a sound
05/27/2004 08:00 AMZDNet May 27 2004 12:46PM GMT
The Sound of Despair
The Sound of Despair
05/25/2004 11:37 PMthe sad sound of a kylie reject
The New Sound Blaster: EAX 5.0
The New Sound Blaster: EAX 5.0
08/15/2004 06:16 AMSoX - Sound eXchange
SoX - Sound eXchange
08/15/2004 03:26 PMSoX 12.17.5 released
You know ERP, that sound ALF makes......
You know ERP, that sound ALF makes......
09/03/2004 06:20 PMFrom the Edges of IT Hell, ERP
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_resource_planning)
implement...
Sound Byte 2.2.0
Sound Byte 2.2.0
05/12/2004 11:04 PMComputerized cart machine for playing sound files.
The Sound Of The Future
The Sound Of The Future
12/24/2003 10:26 PMFar from being pessimistic about the state of music in the digital
era, the major labels in Japan are excited about the prospects in
front of them. By Paul Jackson (Daily Yomiuri via MyAppleMenu)
" How grammatically sound are you? "
" How grammatically sound are you? "
04/17/2004 03:09 PMDirected Sound
Directed Sound
05/04/2004 08:03 AMA Sound of Thunder
A Sound of Thunder
09/04/2004 08:24 AMMP3 sound bites
MP3 sound bites
09/06/2004 11:54 PM
In the inaugural column of this series on hypermedia, I mentioned an
MP3 clipping service I wrote to enable quotation of sound bites.
Before I explain how it works, let's review why it exists. Audio
content -- and of particular interest to me, spoken-word audio content
-- is flourishing. In the tech world, Doug Kaye's ITConversations web site is a
great example. It features audio interviews with IT personalities, as
well as recorded speeches from conferences -- including the recent O'Reilly Open
Source Convention. Kaye's audio engineering credentials are
impeccable, but nowadays anyone can pick up a microphone and speak
into an MP3 file. Today, for example, I listened to Dave Winer's thoughts on the business model for Wi-Fi and blogs, recorded
while he was driving northward in Wisconsin. In my own journalistic
work, I increasingly record and post audio interviews.
Although the amount of audio content keeps growing, the time available
for listening remains constant. Until and unless we achieve a radical
breakthrough in speech-to-text translation -- and I'm not holding my
breath -- we'll need to find another way to make audio content more
granular, and easier to consume selectively. [Full story at O'Reilly Network]
I've been using the service described here for a while now. For this
column, the second in a planned series on hypermedia, I rewrote and
published the code in hopes that others will be inspired to help move
the project forward.
...What's that hissing sound?
What's that hissing sound?
08/10/2004 08:41 AMWorried about oil running out? Don't look now, but natural gas is next
on the endangered hydrocarbons list.
The Sound of Your Firewall
The Sound of Your Firewall
06/17/2004 09:52 AMMiniscule of Sound
Miniscule of Sound
07/14/2004 10:00 AMThis sounds pretty funny
en pixel, and I'm sure it'd be even
more if you stumbled on it at a humongoid ravefest with e'd out
dancing bodies as far as they eye can see. It's a parody of techno
music industry media gigantor
Ministry of Sound.
Following on from the
ice-cream van dub sound system and the
piano bar on wheels, i'd like to draw your attention to the
Miniscule of Sound.
i've been going to summertime festivals in the uk for years, and these
guys have been on the circuit for almost a decade. It's basically a
converted horsebox kitted out on the inside with disco ball, coloured
lights, day-glo fluffy roof, light-panelled dancefloor, and a dj
(usually) dressed as one of the vilage people playing something
cheesey on a tiny pair of decks. The door staff on the outside advise
us they are "'avin it tiny!" on the way in. Club capacity is about 8,
maybe 9 at a squeeze. As clubbing experiences go, it's one of the best
and it's free. If you see them at a festie this year, pay them a
visit.
Link (
thanks
sim0nkey!)
Stop. What's That Sound?
Stop. What's That Sound?
08/03/2004 02:21 PM"When the strongest nation in the world can be tied down for four
years in a war ... with no end in sight, when the richest nation in
the world cannot manage its economy ... when the President of the
United States cannot travel abroad, or to any major city at home, then
it's time for new leadership for the United States." The ellipses
are to keep you from guessing too soon. Give up? That was Dick Nixon
in 1968. Nowadays Kennedy and Johnson are heroes who made a "mistake"
in Vietnam while Nixon twirls a handlebar mustache in Hell. But to
look back at what we thought at the time is to see parallels to today.
Stop, hey, what's that sound?
Stop, hey, what's that sound?
07/07/2004 07:23 PMPeople are just beginning, it seems, to wake up to the fact that most
digital music today doesn't sound as good as it could. That's because
the most popular compression formats -- including both the lingua
franca MP3 standard and the standard Apple uses for its ITunes store
-- are "lossy": To make the file size smaller, they trade off some
loss of information (and therefore sound quality).
This latest round in the discussion seems to have kicked off with a
Randall Stross column
in the Sunday New York Times, but it dates back at least as far
as Andrew Leonard's early, groundbreaking coverage of the MP3 phenomenon in Salon. Stross points out that
Apple's choice of a good but still "lossy" compression standard for
its music store means that -- surprise! -- you're really not
getting CD quality audio when you pay for your $9.99 album.
Continuing the thread, Tim Bray
writes: "I used to think that if you were listening to music on
headphones on a bus or train or plane or in a crowd, the MP3 lossage
really didn’t matter much. But recently I’ve been listening
to the Shure 3C phones, and it’s obvious that we really
shouldn’t be ignoring these compression issues; in particular
since lossless compression is available right here, right now."
Well, yes. We have the technology! The problem here is not
technical, it's political, legal, financial.
The odd thing to me is that Stross's column -- which appeared in
the Business section, after all -- failed to mention the
obvious: that the record labels are selling lossy versions of songs
online because they still distrust the new medium, even when it is
being used legally and when people are paying for their product.
They're more interested in propping up their sagging CD business than
in quickly exploiting a new marketplace. So after years of dithering
they figure, OK, we'll sell our wares on the Net -- but let's only
provide crippled versions. The crippling applies not only to Apple's
DRM schemes (lord knows whether you'll still have access to that
music, 10 years and three computers from now) but to the 128 kbps bit
rate of the songs you buy. It was one thing to accept that tradeoff in
1998 when MP3s were underground, hard disks were smaller and most of
the world was on dialup connections. Today, it makes no sense.
I don't doubt that the DRM and bit-rate compromises were part of
the horsetrading Steve Jobs had to engage in to get the record labels
in the door in the first place. But it doesn't make me want to sink my
cash into purchases on iTunes. (At EMusic, by contrast -- which I still
subscribe to despite my hissy fit when they stopped offering unlimited
downloads -- I pay for music and receive it uncrippled by DRM and in a
higher quality, though still not perfect, format.)
The prevalence of cruddy 128 kbps music in the online marketplace
demonstrates that the music industry still don't believe in online
distribution: It still don't trust us, even when we're paying for
the music.
The real issue for the recording industry has never been loss of
profits due to piracy, because no one has ever proven that there is a
direct connection between piracy and declining CD sales (in fact, quite
the contrary). What the industry fears is loss of control.
Individual consumers -- like Andrew, who wrote a
column about this last week -- want to buy their music and then do
whatever they want with it: Put it on an iPod, put it in the car, burn
new CD mixes, share with friends. It's what we've always done with our
music, after all; we just have better tools today.
There are audiophiles out there, of course, who turn up their noses
at "CD quality" -- which is itself "lossy" compared with
higher-quality audio formats. But meanwhile, the vast majority of
music lovers who are reasonably content with their CDs aren't getting
their money's worth when they buy online.
So remember: when you rip your own CDs to MP3, use at least a 160
kbps rate, or higher if you've got a big disk, or a "Variable Bit
Rate" if your ripper supports that. The added file size is negligible
given how cheap storage is today, but your ears will thank you. And
the next time you think of buying music from an online store, tell
them you won't settle for anything less.
Desire, Thy Name Is Sound
Desire, Thy Name Is Sound
11/11/2003 11:21 PM Lust
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