I'm confused that some posters here think I've got an axe to grind or that I have a political agenda. I don't. Be that as it may, some of you have made statements which I find to be in some way illogical. Take this one from Redwood: "People who do not understand any English would probably...

I'll be off then. The decision to enforce English here (and it will be enforced, right Jude?) is tantamount to excluding those members of the global community who, probably through no fault of their own, do not speak English. I will not support any community that actively seeks to prevent some...

Quote: Originally posted by Redwoood How about a Welsh audio site TerriblySorry ? Well, I can't speak Welsh anymore - it was beaten out of us at school. Anyone who spoke Welsh ended up with lots of maths homework.

Quote: Originally posted by Redwoood This web site is a place where people from all over the world can exchange their opinions. The whole point of posting here is that everybody else >>>>who understands English<<<< can read it. Redwoood Sorry, couldn't resist.

Quote: Originally posted by jude Klingon = English Problem solved. Well, the idea is that everybody has to learn a second language. Shows willing, I think.

Quote: Originally posted by cajunchrist Oh puh-leeze! Same thing happened to the Cajun culture when Huey Long tried to modernize Louisiana, and hardly anyone speaks Cajun French anymore. We have retained our cultural identity brilliantly with the English language, and now we can more...

When my kinsfolk - the Welsh - were struggling under the yoke of the English, the kids were all forced to learn English (as a foreign language) at school. These days, the kids mostly speak English as a first language, and getting them to learn Welsh again after all this time is proving to be...

Wendy Stark - Child Of Transference

I'm not so bothered about CD inserts, but I do wear cotton gloves when assembling jigsaw puzzles. Really, I do.

My SRM-007t still has the stock tubes fitted. I couldn't tell you what they are, but I can say they don't hiss.

My ears get like that sometimes when there's water in them.

The Omega II cable is detachable, but I know of no upgrade it could be replaced with.

A lot of people say that the differences between the Sennheiser Orpheus and the Stax Omega II come down to a matter of personal preference, and that the main reason why the Orpheus costs as much as it does is because Sennheiser are trying to recover their development costs (or so I heard). I've...

Ma Vie En Rose My Life As A Dog

What difference, if any, a power cable would make I cannot say. I do know, though, that the power I'm getting from my PS Audio P300 Power Plant allows my rig to sound significantly better than any night-time listening experience I've ever had. If you're one of those listeners for whom late-night...

I prefer to have the music inside, rather than outside, my head.

Maybe we should stop here, cos we're approaching the point of diminishing returns...

"diminishing returns" is one that's often spoken as if diminishing returns is a bad thing. Sad fact is, sooner or later our rigs are going to shunt their last electron, then give up the ghost. What do we have for our money then? Scrap metal, maybe? It's the insinuation that irks me, as if by...

Who was it said: writing about music is like dancing about architecture?!? Wasn't Prince Charles was it?

I spend all my money on my kit. I really ought to buy some carpets or rugs or something (I've got bare floorboards), but I find I can live without that kind of thing. Plus I don't have a car to run, or a family to support. Not even a dog. Just me and the floorboards.

You'd just need to send the seed. The prng should already be a constant in both systems. For different messages, you'd need to send a different seed.

Consider that most pseudo-random number generators are in fact sequence generators which perform 1 or more mathematical and/or logical operations on a seed. Here's a simple example: extern u16 seed; u16 prng( void ) { return( seed++ ); } If - and it's a big if - you have the sequence...

Quote: Originally posted by Braver the Marillion remasters are great too, specially the 2CD versions. I got those versions of 'Fugazi' and 'Misplaced Childhood' (wish I got the 2CD remaster of 'Script for a Jester's Tear' as well tho..). they probably improve the sound some, but more...

Quote: Originally posted by Redwoood That's pretty cool, TerriblySorry. have you ever worked on a game we might know ? Personally, I'm working on uC++ (micro C++), so chances are very slim that anybody here has even heard about it Bye Redwoood Commander Keen...

I'm a games programmer, if that helps. Compression is a way of taking data and making it use less storage space. But there's another way of achieving the same thing: What you do is store, say, a 32-bit seed and use that to pseudo-generate a longer data sequence. The trick is in finding the...