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From: Invisible
Subject: Time sink
Date: 23 Sep 2010 08:04:55
Message: <4c9b4267@news.povray.org>
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/wg.html

Caution: This may severely impact your spare time. ;-)


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From: nemesis
Subject: Re: Time sink
Date: 23 Sep 2010 14:53:06
Message: <4c9ba212$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible escreveu:
> https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/wg.html
> 
> Caution: This may severely impact your spare time. ;-)

ah, yes, oscillators and folks... but we already have so many great soft 
synths out there...

Here's another time sink:
http://www.csounds.com/

or perhaps:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/nyquist/

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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Time sink
Date: 24 Sep 2010 04:16:28
Message: <4c9c5e5c@news.povray.org>
On 23/09/2010 07:53 PM, nemesis wrote:

> ah, yes, oscillators and folks... but we already have so many great soft
> synths out there...
>
> http://www.csounds.com/

...and C-sound is not one of them. :-P

Besides, the link isn't about oscillators and filters, it's specifically 
about how to use DSP to simulate real-world instruments and acoustic 
effects. Kind of a "beyond the Kurplus-Strong algorithm" thing.


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From: Mike Raiford
Subject: Re: Time sink
Date: 24 Sep 2010 08:24:21
Message: <4c9c9875$1@news.povray.org>
On 9/23/2010 7:04 AM, Invisible wrote:
> https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/wg.html
>
> Caution: This may severely impact your spare time. ;-)

You know... I clicked that link... it coincided quite nicely with what I 
was already looking at. Later switched to that tab and promptly wondered 
which page led me to that, for the life of me I couldn't figure it out 
.... Then I came back here this morning and there it is.

Yep. Bookmarked and will be my "light reading" for a while.

-- 
~Mike


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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: Time sink
Date: 24 Sep 2010 13:07:29
Message: <4c9cdad1$1@news.povray.org>
On 24/09/2010 01:20 PM, Mike Raiford wrote:

> Yep. Bookmarked and will be my "light reading" for a while.

Heh. The scary part is, I kinda promised my girlfriend that I'd explain 
this stuff to her over the weekend. ;-) And she seemed *interested* by 
this idea.

On a scale of 1 to 100, that sounds pretty awesome, IMHO. We'll see if 
she's still interested after 3 pages of elementary trigonometric 
identities though! o_O

-- 
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Time sink
Date: 24 Sep 2010 13:10:51
Message: <4c9cdb9b@news.povray.org>
On 24/09/2010 6:07 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I kinda promised my girlfriend

Well get you! :-P

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Best Regards,
	Stephen


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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: Time sink
Date: 24 Sep 2010 14:12:19
Message: <4c9cea03@news.povray.org>
>> I kinda promised my girlfriend
>
> Well get you! :-P

The key question, of course, is whether she'll still be my girlfriend 
*after* the A-level math crash course... ;-)

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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Time sink
Date: 24 Sep 2010 17:48:28
Message: <4c9d1cac@news.povray.org>
On 24/09/2010 7:12 PM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> I kinda promised my girlfriend
>>
>> Well get you! :-P
>
> The key question, of course, is whether she'll still be my girlfriend
> *after* the A-level math crash course... ;-)
>

The key question, of course, is whether you'll still be her boyfriend...


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Best Regards,
	Stephen


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Time sink
Date: 26 Sep 2010 01:55:14
Message: <4c9ee041@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/wg.html

  What I'm wondering is: Why must it be https? It's not like you are sending
any information, and encrypting the info the page is offering is kind of moot
(because it's available to anybody).

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                                                          - Warp


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Time sink
Date: 27 Sep 2010 04:05:03
Message: <4ca0502f$1@news.povray.org>
>> https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/wg.html
>
>    What I'm wondering is: Why must it be https?

Yeah, I was wondering about that too actually...

Maybe only the HTTPS port is open on the firewall or something? 
Although, that would be pretty random...


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Time sink
Date: 28 Sep 2010 07:06:06
Message: <4ca1cc1e@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/wg.html
> >
> >    What I'm wondering is: Why must it be https?

> Yeah, I was wondering about that too actually...

> Maybe only the HTTPS port is open on the firewall or something? 
> Although, that would be pretty random...

  The fact that the URL contains a username (which is what the tilde
signifies in the unix world) would be indicative that it's a regular
web server, rather than someone's personal computer (which might be
behind a ISP-enforced firewall which allows only ssh/https connections).

  In the latter case you can still configure a regular http website,
in which case the address would have to be
http://ccrma.stanford.edu:443/~jos/wg.html (which is, of course, a bit
cumbersome). If the protocol is https: then the server *must* use the
SSL protocol (because that's what the protocol identifier is saying, and
thus the browser expects it), which is a burden to the server.

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                                                          - Warp


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From: andrel
Subject: Re: Time sink
Date: 28 Sep 2010 08:23:46
Message: <4CA1DE56.8020009@gmail.com>
On 28-9-2010 13:06, Warp wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>>>> https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/wg.html
>>>
>>>     What I'm wondering is: Why must it be https?
>
>> Yeah, I was wondering about that too actually...
>
>> Maybe only the HTTPS port is open on the firewall or something?
>> Although, that would be pretty random...
>
>    The fact that the URL contains a username (which is what the tilde
> signifies in the unix world) would be indicative that it's a regular
> web server, rather than someone's personal computer (which might be
> behind a ISP-enforced firewall which allows only ssh/https connections).

The PC's that I use that run linux both have a general account in 
/var/www/... *and* personal ones in the dir ~user/public_html so I would 
think that a PC is very likely. In this case I tried the domain without 
https and that immediately transfers to the https one.
Given who owns the domain I think it is a arbitrary decision by the 
sysop, perhaps because he liked the rhythm or the sound better.


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Time sink
Date: 28 Sep 2010 12:23:58
Message: <4ca2169e@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> which is a burden to the server.

Nowadays, it's actually a pretty tiny burden to the server. Something
like 3% overhead is what some google whitepaper I saw said.

And, arguably, if you encrypt *everything*, you're better off for privacy 
than if you only encrypt the private stuff.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Quoth the raven:
        Need S'Mores!


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Time sink
Date: 29 Sep 2010 05:12:07
Message: <4ca302e7@news.povray.org>
On 24/09/2010 10:48 PM, Stephen wrote:

> The key question, of course, is whether you'll still be her boyfriend...

As it turns out... yes, I *am* still her boyfriend.

Last night, it was like this: http://xkcd.com/69/

Except instead of the Bellman-Ford algorithm, it was the Wave Equation. 
And she seemed genuinely *interested*. O_O

My girlfriend is FRIGGING HARDCORE! XD I think I'm in love...


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Time sink
Date: 29 Sep 2010 09:52:27
Message: <4ca3449b$1@news.povray.org>
On 29/09/2010 10:12 AM, Invisible wrote:
> As it turns out... yes, I *am* still her boyfriend.

Nice one. :-D

-- 

Best Regards,
	Stephen


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