Subject: What are the changes? =)

From: amadeus
Date: Thu May 12 16:07:24 2005

To: UADE-User-discussion
Today I was passing by a frontdoor in the building where I live, when I couldn't help but notice  the Paradox intro Future Composer tune relativily loud.

So I knocked on the door, and to make a short story even shorter, it turns out he was using UADE  :D  :D  :D 

What are the changes of meeting somebody using UADE where you live? :D 

 :scared:

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From: shd
Date: Thu May 12 16:50:59 2005

To: UADE-User-discussion
[quote:808c295ecf="amadeus"]What are the changes of meeting somebody using UADE where you live? :D 
[/quote:808c295ecf]

Very slim.. I know something like 7 people here in Tampere that use the player. Some of those people were at my MSc graduation party, where we played stuff from VT300 text terminal / embedded PPC board / External HD / UADE. Best DJ equipment we could come up with ;) I believe that night quite a few people might have heard Future Composer songs here in Herwanta / Tampere..

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From: amadeus
Date: Thu May 12 17:34:53 2005

To: UADE-User-discussion
[quote:0e29929cda="shd"]Very slim.. I know something like 7 people here in Tampere that use the player. Some of those people were at my MSc graduation party, where we played stuff from VT300 text terminal / embedded PPC board / External HD / UADE. Best DJ equipment we could come up with ;) I believe that night quite a few people might have heard Future Composer songs here in Herwanta / Tampere..[/quote:0e29929cda]

I would have liked to be there! :)

Do you know how many downloads there are made? 1000? 5000? ???

Hmm.. If you implanted a sound buffer in UADE, it would be possible to make a DJ scratch feature by playing the buffer backwards  :D 

But it would probably be pretty hard to make, as the song would have to continue from there the buffer started...?

Wait a minut. What if you buffered the entire song, and .... I better stop here  :)

 :scared:

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From: Guest
Date: Thu May 12 18:11:43 2005

To: UADE-User-discussion
[quote:c8aba84c86="amadeus"]Do you know how many downloads there are made? 1000? 5000? ???
[/quote:c8aba84c86]

no.. very hard to tell from apache logs. I can only spot 2 of my friends from the student network. Also, some distros provide UADE which decreases downloads from me.

signed, shd

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From: amadeus
Date: Thu May 12 20:28:33 2005

To: UADE-User-discussion
[quote:9f36a6de14="Anonymous"]no.. very hard to tell from apache logs. I can only spot 2 of my friends from the student network. Also, some distros provide UADE which decreases downloads from me.
[/quote:9f36a6de14]

So it is 2 or more downloads.  :) 

This reminds me of a joke:

A mathematician, a psychologist and an economist were on a train travelling from Glasgow to Edinburgh when they saw a sheep.

The psychologist said, "Look: Scottish sheep are black!"

The economist replied, "Well, we can at least say that some Scottish sheep are black."

At this the mathematician spoke up: "There exists at least one sheep in Scotland with at least one side of which is black."

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From: mld/uade team
Date: Fri May 13 07:08:34 2005

To: UADE-User-discussion
hehe... good one.  :D

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From: shd
Date: Fri May 13 08:02:25 2005

To: UADE-User-discussion
[quote:ee17b2bc5c="amadeus"]This reminds me of a joke:
[/quote:ee17b2bc5c]

I never heard that one before. Good =)

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From: shd
Date: Fri May 13 08:08:49 2005

To: UADE-User-discussion
[quote:f424cdb826="amadeus"]This reminds me of a joke:
[/quote:f424cdb826]

It reminds me of another:

Three men are in a hot-air balloon. Soon, they find themselves lost in a canyon somewhere. One of the three men says, "I've got an idea. We can call for help in this canyon and the echo will carry our voices far."
So he leans over the basket and yells out, "Helllloooooo! Where are we?" (They hear the echo several times).
15 minutes later, they hear this echoing voice: "Helllloooooo! You're lost!!"
One of the men says, "That must have been a mathematician."
Puzzled, one of the other men asks, "Why do you say that?"
The reply: "For three reasons. (1) he took a long time to answer, (2) he was absolutely correct, and (3) his answer was absolutely useless."

Look at [url]http://golum.riv.csu.edu.au/~sbuckley/maths/funpage/jokes1.htm[/url].

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From: amadeus
Date: Fri May 13 10:14:09 2005

To: UADE-User-discussion
[quote:261300a15e="shd"]It reminds me of another:[/quote:261300a15e]

hehe  :) 

Try this one:

A constant function and e^x are walking on Broadway.
Then suddenly the constant function sees a differential operator approaching and runs away.
So e^x follows him and asks why the hurry.
"Well, you see, there's this differential operator coming this way, and when we meet, he'll differentiate me and nothing will be left of me...!"
"Ah," says e^x, "he won't bother ME, I'm e to the x!" and he walks on.
Of course he meets the differential operator after a short distance.
e^x:      "Hi, I'm e^x"
diff.op.: "Hi, I'm d/dy"

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From: shd
Date: Fri May 13 11:30:36 2005

To: UADE-User-discussion
[quote:5ed0451212="amadeus"]e^x:      "Hi, I'm e^x"
diff.op.: "Hi, I'm d/dy"[/quote:5ed0451212]

If I recall correctly, I heard this joke the first time in senior secondary school when our teacher told it..

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From: amadeus
Date: Fri May 13 14:02:37 2005

To: UADE-User-discussion
[quote:2b0a7ebe55="shd"]If I recall correctly, I heard this joke the first time in senior secondary school when our teacher told it..[/quote:2b0a7ebe55]

I must say it is my favorite :)

This sounds like a joke, but it actually is an old Slashdot story, so it got to be true :D :D

"A mathematician, a psychologist and an economist commissioned by British Gas have finally put into mathematical terms what
we all knew: that things don't just go wrong, they do so at the most annoying moment.The formula, ((U+C+I) x (10-S))/20 x A
x 1/(1-sin(F/10)), indicates that to beat Murphy's Law (a.k.a. Sod's Law) you need to change one of the parameter: U for urgency, C for complexity, I for importance, S for skill, F for frequency and A for aggravation. Or in the researchers' own words: "If you haven't got the skill to do something important, leave it alone. If something is urgent or complex, find a simple way to do it. If something going wrong will particularly aggravate you, make certain you know how to do it." Don't you like it when maths back up common sense ?"