Listen here for the first peace here : Emily Howell 1

Or download from here : Emily Howell 1

Listen to the second peace from here: Emily Howell 2

Or download from here : Emily Howell 2

Enjoyed it? Which one felt odd? The first one? The second one?

Now the crux of the matter. Which do you think was written by an AI (Artificial Intelligence) ?

Both pieces above were written by a computer software. Designed by David Cope.

A short wiki search on David Cope :

UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor David Cope is ready to introduce computer software that creates original, modern music. (Catherine Karnow)

David Cope (b. San Francisco, California, United States, May 17, 1941) is an American author, composer, scientist, and professor emeritus of music at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His primary area of research involves artificial intelligence and music; he writes programs and algorithms that can analyze existing music and create new compositions in the style of the original input music. In addition to regular music classes, he teaches a summer Workshop in Algorithmic Computer Music that is open to the public as well as a general education course entitled Artificial Intelligence and Music for enrolled UCSC students.

His software has started angering people who believe music can only written with soul. And the above is nothing more than random notes. However what they don’t realize is that maybe your computer gains its soul with this neat little software.

I do believe that one day computers will gain their full sentience. They will be aware and start asking the serious questions. And I do believe that creating music by using AI software is just brilliant.

Tell me what you think! Is this music real enough for you?

Peace!

Apple made a new product called iPad. Like their iPod and other iPod related items they expect the consumers to consume this product. However it seems iPad has done couple things wrong and is soon going to meet up with a wall. The walls name is Google Chrome OS tablets.

iPad does not have any USB ports hence the only portability you will be getting is from the other connections like Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth and SIM card tray… But you won’t get your USB. Now some will argue why you would need a USB input here are a few examples; 1. USB keyboard 2.USB mouse 3.USB data stick 4.USB external harddrive 5.USB video cam etc etc etc…. As you can see USB would have added many more functionalities to a simple over sized iPhone.

Another point why users won’t (and/or isn’t) dying to get an iPad is it’s marvelous screen. While many iCandy users will enjoy reading their long 365 page pdf’s on, a 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen, Multi-Touch display with IPS technology 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi) Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating 9.7-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi) and its fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating display… while some other people would rather read their pdf’s on a simple Kindle or another generic e-ink display… You see most power users (a big market that bought the iPod and the iPhone) already have a tablet. And a e-reader. Why should they bother to pay more for less?

And of course there is the wall where iPad will soon be colliding. Whether this train of Apple iEmpire will pass through it like a it was a hay stack or stops for good depends on GoogleChromeTablet pc.

Google has be feverishly working on a new operating system called Google Chrome OS they say that the first computers to use the Google Chrome Os will be the net-books. These light portables are ideal for Google Chrome OS since basically it works on this idea; everything will work in the “internet-cloud”.

Google has also has also announced that this OS will also work in PC‘s and there goes a punch to both Microsoft AND Apple. Google is entering the OS market. And it is making big promises which developers and users around the world hope they will keep.

Google has already started posting design examples on their web site. One of them is this short video I stole from them.

I hope you enjoyed this post… Won’t get iPad even if it was free… Sorry…

It seems blogger.com is closing down it’s FTP service. Good thing I already transferred my site to WordPress before hand.

My blogging life has been quite the roamer. It seems I like my individuality. My road started with LiveJournal.com. One day I opened my LiveJournal account to find it blocked by the firewall of our school. Some people used to put their nude pictures on their LiveJournal so it was banned.  I got angry at this. Thus I transferred everything to Blogger.com. But guess what! Turkey blocked Blogger for about four to five months this got me mad. So what I did was make Blogger.com send the info to my FTP host. I even bought a domain for this host. A little coding and voila! My was site was back up and running. However this got me thinking. What if Blogger was totally banned? What would I do than? Hence I started looking for blogging scripts and that is how I met WordPress. I must say I’m very happy with it. I even integrated Zemanta with my browser to bring in even better content. In fact the picture here was found thanks to Zemanta. Anyhow…

So Blogger is closing down it’s FTP service. So what. It seems Blogger is thinking the same way. The mail they sent me states :

FTP remains a significant drain on our ability to improve Blogger: only .5% of active blogs are published via FTP — yet the percentage of our engineering resources devoted to supporting FTP vastly exceeds that.

It seems Blogger started cutting out the rotting flesh. The hoards of zombies that try to live on old tech. And this also shows Google‘s business management. If it doesn’t work, cut it out. Which I believe is one of the best ways to do management. Look at HP Labs present condition. Actually look at any big corporation. The only way you can go big is use this kind of thinking. I know… I know… It probably meant that the current FTP “engineering resources” our out of a job. But still… The show must go on.

Oh and for the people asking, the snow effect will still be here for a while. It is still snowing in Ankara, Turkey.

Two leading scientists, Henry Markram and Dharmendra Modha, are embroiled in a cat fight about cat brain simulation. Markram called into question the legitimacy of Modha’s work and indeed the foundations of most current brain simulation research. But does his argument miss the point? Just listen to the podcast.

Have just upgraded my dual-boot (WindowsVista/Fedora 11) laptop (HP Compaq Presario CQ50). I simply downloaded an upgrade ISO from https://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora . Than burned it to a DVD. Started my Fedora 11 and updated it by calling in the command “yum update”. Restarted the laptop with the DVD in and voilà I had my computer updated. Had some trouble with the household though because I was updating my desktop (WindowsXP/OpenSUSE) and my borrowed other laptop (Fedora 11) at the same time.

It seems there has been some bad press around the internet on how computers create deadly magnetic waves.  It may have been in the old computers (talking of the ones that were as big as a stadium.) or maybe the ones with a CRT screen. But come on! This is even worse than the chinese-eat-babies scare. Laptops and LCD screens barely register on a magnetic spectrum! You get hit by more waves just by watching from your tube-tv.

So on to the business at hand, just how good is Fedora 12? Short answer: It’s great! Long answer: However…

• Users get to play root without knowledge of the root password (big big no no)
• Problem with previously configured nVidia drivers.
• Start up slowed down.

I just couldn’t believe it when I read of it. Fedora 12 suddenly decided to write an operating system like windows by adding a everyone-is-God mode. Pfft! That is why NOT most servers use Linux as their first choice dummy!! They want it secure. They don’t want the internet hill-billies installing any package they could get their hands on!( Note : Anyone who want to disable this “future” just say “pklalockdown –lockdown org.freedesktop.packagekit.package-install “  to the console while in root mode.)

So you should install on your computer? Yeah you should it runs faster thanks to GNOME’s closing a few leaks and it is certainly user friendly.

Peace!