drkim - Slashdot User

Comment Re:And the music isn't bad . . . (Score 1) 31

by drkim on Sunday March 23, 2014 @03:20PM (#46558543) Attached to: Algorithm Composes Music By Text Analyzing the World's Best Novels

It's fairly easy to make automated music that "doesn't sound bad" by choosing a set of chords and a set of notes, then choosing at random. As long as your chords roughly match your melody, and it ends on a tonic it'll sound alright

Band-in-a-Box does a fairly good job of generating nice sounding music, and a great job of arraigning it too.

Although you can input your own melodies and/or chords, it also can generate melodies and chords from whole cloth.

http://www.pgmusic.com/bbwin.d...
(Try "Exploring Band-in-a-Box 2013")

Comment Re:Here's my idea (Score 1) 229

by drkim on Saturday March 15, 2014 @12:49AM (#46489991) Attached to: Elon Musk Addresses New Jersey's Tesla Store Ban

One solution would be for Tesla to open a bunch of greeting card stores.
Each card costs $69,900. (Free car with purchase!)

Comment Re:Yes! (Score 1) 229

by drkim on Saturday March 15, 2014 @12:12AM (#46489871) Attached to: Elon Musk Addresses New Jersey's Tesla Store Ban

Online can be good like ZenniOptical, but if there's a problem, then it's shipping back and forth (at your own expense).

Since the base Zenni glasses are only around $6.95, it might not be worth shipping

Comment Re:Nonsense (Score 1) 264

by drkim on Friday March 14, 2014 @05:40PM (#46487465) Attached to: Cameras On Cops: Coming To a Town Near You

It's almost like both sides benefit from there being a camera on them.

It's almost like you don't know that Cops has been on the air for 25 years. Whether the person is innocent and being hassled by power tripping cops, or an actual "bad guy" worrying about going to jail for the meth stashed in his trunk, the very last thing on their minds is whether or not they're on video.

As best as I can tell from watching Cops these last 25 years, most of the people on cops are either (a) drunk, or (b) drunk.

or (c) on drugs.

Comment Re:fascist apologist (Score 1) 264

by drkim on Friday March 14, 2014 @05:30PM (#46487337) Attached to: Cameras On Cops: Coming To a Town Near You

...if you give a group of people a huge amount of authority, with next to zero accountability...

Well, that 'accountability' is what this video system is designed to provide. At least it's a step in the right direction.

Comment Re:Won't do any good. (Score 1) 264

by drkim on Friday March 14, 2014 @05:27PM (#46487299) Attached to: Cameras On Cops: Coming To a Town Near You

She even banged her forehead into the cage repeatedly IIRC.

She was building her injury lawsuit...

Comment Jacquard loom punch cards (Score 3) 983

by drkim on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @04:19PM (#46467889) Attached to: How Do You Backup 20TB of Data?

I'm backing up my 40TB music library on Jacquard loom punch cards.

Added bonus: You can use the punched cards to make fabric.
Right now I'm wearing Justin Bieber's "Love Me" ...as a sweater!

https://web.duke.edu/isis/gess...

Comment Cel Company Rights/Rental (Score 1) 89

by drkim on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @05:32AM (#46461803) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: College Club Fundraising On the Fly?

Contact some/all of your local cel telcos.

Tell them you are leasing space for cel nodes and microwave on your tower. Tell them if they get in now, and pre-pay, they will get a guaranteed low rate for the first X years.

Bonus: After this lease period runs out, this turns into a revenue stream. Money for maintenance, perhaps even a little profit..?

Comment Re:Summary of Thread (Score 4, Funny) 83

by drkim on Monday March 10, 2014 @11:26PM (#46452147) Attached to: Stanford Bioengineer Develops a 50-cent Paper Microscope

17. Oblig. XKCD:
http://xkcd.com/860/

Comment Re:Was there any ACARS data? (Score 2) 190

by drkim on Sunday March 09, 2014 @06:16AM (#46438665) Attached to: 20 Freescale Semiconductor Employees On Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight

So far there is no debris at all. Thats pretty amazing considered where it was last seen. It either didn't crash, or didn't crash where the search is.

Latest I've heard was that Vietnamese boats found two large oil slicks - but no debris yet...

Comment Re:Not my cup of tea (Score 1) 769

by drkim on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @01:19AM (#46394129) Attached to: The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM"

Reminds me of when Microsoft attempted to make their own (proprietary, locked in) java.

Congratulations!

This is the first time anyone on /. used a computer code analogy to explain making a cup of coffee.

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 769

by drkim on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @01:15AM (#46394107) Attached to: The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM"

How much "game-changing functionality" can you really work into a fucking coffee machine?

This one has an I.V. drip unit with continuously adjustable caffeine dosage adjustment.

Comment Re:Horrible coffee (Score 1) 769

by drkim on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @01:02AM (#46394055) Attached to: The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM"

Unless you bought the plantation where the coffee beans are grown, it's not proper coffee. 8==D

So far, the really hard part has been explaining to my nosy neighbors why there are a bunch of South American guys with burros wandering around my backyard all day.

Comment Re:close the pod bay door, HAL (Score 1) 769

by drkim on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @12:53AM (#46394015) Attached to: The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM"

Daisy... Daaaiiissyyyy

Weirdly, this analogy rings true of how I feel when I don't get enough caffeine,

Like someone if floating around in my brain unplugging memory circuits...

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 769

by drkim on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @12:49AM (#46394003) Attached to: The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM"

Doesn't that require a separate filter for each cup?...

No.
You can get a permanent gold reusable filter for it for $5 (They make these for almost every other size of coffee makers, too.)

http://www.amazon.com/Gold-Ton...

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