The Langoliers

Uma das mais facinantes criações de Stephen King, que explóra a fascinação do espaço e tempo dentre a vida e a morte e o que se mistifica em nossas fraquezas psicológicas, em uma aventura mais indágada ao romance da grande escapada, do que própriamente a questão ciêntifica que aflinge, mas neste titulo que consome. https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Langoliers - Não procure pelas imagens, procure pelo título.

How the CD was developed

The first compact disc was produced exactly 25 years ago in a factory in Germany after years of development by Philips and Sony. We take a look at the humble disc's history and how it shaped the music landscape.

·  The compact disc project was launched following Philips' failure with its video disc technology in 1978.

• The CD is unveiled to the world in March 1979

·  The video disc was one of the first commercial products to take advantage of laser technology that could read information from a disc without any physical contact.

·  Research into the video disc began as far back as 1969, and itself was inspired by Italian Antonio Rubbiani, who had demonstrated a rudimentary video disc system 12 years earlier.

·  In 1970 Philips began work on what was called the ALP (audio long play) - an audio disc system to rival vinyl records, but using laser technology.

·  Lou Ottens, technical director of the audio division at Philips, was the first to suggest that the ALP be made smaller than the dominant vinyl format and should aim for one hour of music.

·  The project initially flirted with the idea of quadraphonic sound but a disc with one hour of music had to be 20cm in diameter and so the plan was abandoned.

• Sony and Philips announce their joint taskforce

·  In 1977 Philips began to take the development of a new audio format much more seriously. A new name for the product was discussed and names considered included Mini Rack, MiniDisc, and Compact Rack.

·  The team settled on Compact Disc because it was felt it would remind people of the success of the Compact Cassette.

·  In March 1979 Philips conducted a press conference to show off the audio quality of its CD system in production and also to impress upon rivals how well it was progressing.

·  A week later Philips travelled to Japan after the Japanese Ministry of Industry and Technology (MITI) had decided to convene a conference to discuss how the industry could create a standard for the audio disc. The company left Japan having agreed a deal with Sony.

• Philips first CD player cost more than £1,000 in today's money

·  Philips' plan for a CD with a 11.5cm diameter had to be changed when Sony insisted that a disc must hold all of Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

The longest recording of the symphony in record label Polygram's archive was 74 minutes and so the CD size was increased to 12cm diameter to accommodate the extra data.

·  In 1980 Philips and Sony produced their Red Book, which laid down all the standards for compact discs. From that time on the companies worked separately on their own CD equipment but in the early days agreed to share components.

·  In April 1982 Philips showed off a production CD player for the first time. "From now on, the conventional record player is obsolete," said Lou Ottens.

·  The first commercial CDs pressed were The Visitors by Abba and a recording of Herbert von Karajan conducting the Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauss.

·  US record labels were initially very sceptical about the CD. A year after launch there were 1,000 different titles available.

·  In 1985 Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms became the first CD to sell more than one million copies. It is still the world's most successful CD album.

·  In 2000 global sales of CD albums peaked at 2.455 billion. In 2006 that figure was down to 1.755 billion.

Source: BBC UK

RCA EMS

Instead of calling the EG and ADSR generator, they called it a
"GD&D control." Growth, decay and duration control. The synth
has filters but they are manually adjusted and something called
a resonator chain which isn't explained.

The whole thing is made from Vacuum tube and mechanical
technology of the day. It fills a sizable room and consumes a
hell of a lot of power. Exactly how big and how much isn't
stated. It's not like they produced a spec sheet and colour
glossy brochure for prospective buyers. :) It's input device is
a pair of piano rolls. Literally piano rolls. They took apart
two pianola mechanisms and put them to service as input devices.
The parts are played in on a pianola recorder and further
encoded with data to control the synth as it plays. These are in
turn synchronized to it's output device. A single disk cutting
lathe. Since the synth is only two channels I can only assume
that the disks where then taken elsewhere and synchronized
together like a multitrack recorder to produce finished works.
Indeed the recorder points to this as being the way it's done as
they explain how a song (Blue Skys by Irving Berlin. Uploaded to
hyperreal as an MPEG) is put together.

Circa 1958 there was a Mark II version of the RCA electronic
music synthesizer. It was modified from the original. It then
contained 2 built in paper piano-roll punchers to record the
settings and control of the synth as well as 2 cutting lathes.
In addition a tape recorder was added.

It was originally located at Collumbia-Princeton university's
Electronic music centre. However in 1996 I believe it is being
pulled down and it's fate is unknown at the time of writing. It
would be nice to think that it would be given a good home in the
future and kept in working order. This synth produced some
unique sounds. even though the relatively modern voltage
controlled, transistorized Moog synthesizers also produced
unique tones, there is no comparison to the sound of the RCA
beast. Listening to it is like listening to a radio broadcast
that has been travelling in space for 40 years. Twisted and
warped by time like a message in a bottle. The terminology used
on the recording is the rudiments of the synthesis language we
use today. Like listening to ancient English. You can understand
what they're on about but the language has evolved since.
Interestingly they refer to the player of a synthesizer as being
a "synthesist". Even though they make a distinction between the
engineer programming the machine and the musician playing it.
The hopes and aspirations mentioned in Brig. General David
Sarnoff's speech above, seem to have been fulfilled in modern
synth technology but I'm sure he would have never expected
things to have progressed in the manner they have today.

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Windows XP Anti-trust Time machine

Pensando no trust de manter o caminho livre aos servidores da Microsoft e o Nist official ITS (Internet Time Service) dos Estados Unidos que globalmente em visão atômica comunica o horário mundial me aventurei em instalar o NTP que além de ser um serviço similar projeta categorias de programa, mas ao instala-lo me deparei com o erro na Atualização e na Instalação do Windows XP, o que corrobora mais aquele assunto que corrompe o sistema da finalização do suporte ao sistema operacional do ano 2000.

Entrei em contato com o suporte denominado do NTP e a resposta foi a seguinte:

Your request to the security mailing list

 Posting of your message titled "NTP Test"

 has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the
 following reason for rejecting your request:

 "The purpose of this list is for people to contact the ntp.org team
 regarding security holes that they believe they have found in the
 reference implementation of the NTP server and client software from
 ntp.org.

 This is not a “help” or discussion list, and it’s membership is
 private and tightly controlled."

 Any questions or comments should be directed to the list administrator
 at:

 security-owner@lists.ntp.org
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Response:
Indeed, what I have with this? I was only curious as it are freely presented as option serving to enter publicity. Anyway, I found that some windows updates from Microsoft can cause this security breach also to the core.

NTP or Microsoft, I have to solve this issue.
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I have to post this message to the people which do not deserves this and for my self which found this for the second or third time in that curiosity.

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