Re: [LAD] Wireless Electricity vs audio quality

2008-08-26 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Dan Mills wrote: Wireless power transmission by low frequency resonant coupling **IS** a useful trick in some circumstances (I have seen it used to charge hand lamps for use in explosive atmospheres for example (Well over ten years back)), and in intels case could be used to for example power

Re: [LAD] joining the fun...

2008-08-26 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Robin Gareus wrote: As a member, contributor and advocate for Linux Audio for the past 10 years I am also interested in discussing the above issues with other members of the list as I think there is a lot to be learned and possibly advanced. you're right: there's no stupid questions.

Re: [LAD] joining the fun...

2008-08-26 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 13:28 +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Personally I don't really care for Fons's comments of this subject. He is clearly just trying to bait me. Yes, Fons was clearly just trying to make you look like a fool, which was totally uncalled for, since you are doing quite well

Re: [LAD] joining the fun...

2008-08-26 Thread Patrick Shirkey
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 09:39 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 13:28 +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Personally I don't really care for Fons's comments of this subject. He is clearly just trying to bait me. Yes, Fons was clearly just trying to make you look like a fool,

[LAD] microbots for speakers

2008-08-26 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Hmm, Building on the Intel announcement what's the plausibility of using their little transformer robots for building a speaker that can adjust it's shape for the location? -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list

Re: [LAD] joining the fun...

2008-08-26 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 14:42 +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Well there are 10 mil people here so if you are unlucky enough to bump into me then I guess it's fate... OK then! I suppose that, as long as we stay clear of: Boost Hardware Ltd ... we'll be safe? :-D

Re: [LAD] joining the fun...

2008-08-26 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 15:00 +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Damn if only I was working in a large multinational that had offices in every city in the world. Then you would really have to be careful... I believe CIA is hiring, no? Mossad then? ... Boost Hardware Ltd

Re: [LAD] joining the fun...

2008-08-26 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Pete Black wrote: I live in Wellington, New Zealand, and i'd like to reassure others on this list that not all those who inhabit this place behave like this. Nah, most people in Wellington are complete wankers. Patrick, if you'd please just concentrate on subjects that had some

Re: [LAD] joining the fun...

2008-08-26 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Arnold Krille wrote: Am Dienstag, 26. August 2008 schrieb Patrick Shirkey: Personally I don't really care for Fons's comments of this subject. He is clearly just trying to bait me. If others find that entertaining then they better watch out if they ever have to meet me in person. I can

Re: [LAD] joining the fun...

2008-08-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Patrick Shirkey wrote: Robin Gareus wrote: As a member, contributor and advocate for Linux Audio for the past 10 years I am also interested in discussing the above issues with other members of the list as I think there is a lot to be learned and possibly advanced.

Re: [LAD] [somewhat OT] semaphores in python

2008-08-26 Thread Arnold Krille
Am Dienstag, 26. August 2008 schrieb Fons Adriaensen: Does anyone know of a counting semaphare class/module in Python ? Given the lock provided by the built-in thread module it seems impossible to implement this (it does support multiple waiters which I don't need, but definitely is not

Re: [LAD] [somewhat OT] semaphores in python

2008-08-26 Thread Tim Goetze
[Fons Adriaensen] Does anyone know of a counting semaphare class/module in Python ? Given the lock provided by the built-in thread module it seems impossible to implement this (it does support multiple waiters which I don't need, but definitely is not counting). This also means that whatever is

Re: [LAD] [somewhat OT] semaphores in python

2008-08-26 Thread Dominic Sacré
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 22:01:18 Fons Adriaensen wrote: AFAICS, for this reason, whatever happens in threading can't be correct, or at least not pre-emption and SMP safe. Is this really an issue in Python? The Python interpreter is not thread safe anyway, there's a global interpreter lock

Re: [LAD] [somewhat OT] semaphores in python

2008-08-26 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:02:37PM +0200, Dominic Sacré wrote: Is this really an issue in Python? The Python interpreter is not thread safe anyway, there's a global interpreter lock that must be held by any thread accessing Python objects. Depending on what you're trying to do, this might

Re: [LAD] [somewhat OT] semaphores in python

2008-08-26 Thread Robin Gareus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:02:37PM +0200, Dominic Sacr� wrote: Is this really an issue in Python? The Python interpreter is not thread safe anyway, there's a global interpreter lock that must be held by any thread

Re: [LAD] Wireless Electricity vs audio quality

2008-08-26 Thread Patrick Shirkey
Dan Mills wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 13:07 +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote: They demo'd a 60w light bulb which they said could get 80% efficiency upto 3 feet. They are expecting to increase the distance as the RnD progresses. You can expect the transfer efficiency and power rating to