Re: [silk] TOO LOUD

2011-02-07 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Udhay Shankar N wrote: [ on 04:51 PM 08-08-03 ] Finally - I have confirmation of what I suspected. The latest Rush album sounds lousy (I mean the sound engineering, not the music). Which is funny, because Rush has always been a band that has great production values in their music. Here's

Re: [silk] Skepticism on Technological Singularity

2011-02-07 Thread Anand Manikutty
Hi Venky : I think there has been some confusion/miscommunication. The List (capital L) I am referring to is this one : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-euro-americo-asian_list/messages Since it appears that you have not read the messages I have posted there (just read the posts from 215 onwards

[silk] Light on Yoga

2011-02-07 Thread Anand Manikutty
Meera Nanda http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2010/how- asks How Hindu is Yoga?, whereas the question to ask, if you ask me, is How Indian is Yoga?. The answer is Very. Indeed, Mysore's royal family had a long-standing interest in hatha yoga: Wodeyar IV's ancestor, Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar

Re: [silk] Light on Yoga

2011-02-07 Thread Thaths
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Anand Manikutty manikuttyan...@yahoo.com wrote: I saw the discussion on Yoga on the Indo-Eurasian Research List, and ... Yoga is an Indian innovation. As simple as that. Anand P.S. More here : 

Re: [silk] Skepticism on Technological Singularity

2011-02-07 Thread Venky TV
On 7 February 2011 22:22, Anand Manikutty manikuttyan...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Venky : I think there has been some confusion/miscommunication. The List (capital L) I am referring to is this one : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-euro-americo-asian_list/messages Since it appears that you have

Re: [silk] Skepticism on Technological Singularity

2011-02-07 Thread Anand Manikutty
Venky : Thank you for your comments. It is fine if you are unable to continue the discussion. I understand. To summarize my position : there is just no reason to believe that a singularity could happen. A Singularity is still very hypothetical (more or less in the realm of science fiction). I

Re: [silk] Light on Yoga

2011-02-07 Thread Anand Manikutty
The topic of Yoga and Hinduism has been a controversial one, and this post makes some points on that issue. As for the references, yes, the Indo-Eurasian Research List has simply been used as a reference. (The Indo-Euro-Americo-Asian List is a sort of spin-off from the Indo-Eurasian List, but has

[silk] The greatest rock song of all time

2011-02-07 Thread Anand Manikutty
And now, what is possibly the greatest rock song of all time : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6B8JayH6NQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6B8JayH6NQ Anand

Re: [silk] TOO LOUD

2011-02-07 Thread Charles Haynes
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: ... Here's the answer - and it's yet another way the music cartel is screwing the fans, the musicians (and ultimately, themselves) by MAKING THE MUSIC TOO LOUD. People saying this drives me nuts. Perhaps I'm being over

Re: [silk] TOO LOUD

2011-02-07 Thread Pranesh Prakash
On Tuesday 08 February 2011 02:28 AM, Charles Haynes wrote: The maximum loudness for a given digital medium is fixed. Nigel Tufnel: This is a top to a, you know, what we use on stage, but it's very...very special because if you can see...The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the

Re: [silk] Skepticism on Technological Singularity

2011-02-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:25:11AM -, Anand Manikutty wrote: Have you gone through the points I made on my List? I admit I looked for them, but unfortunately failed to find any. My claim is : there is just no reason to believe (based on the evidence presented by Yudkowsky, Vinge and

Re: [silk] Skepticism on Technological Singularity

2011-02-07 Thread Anand Manikutty
--- In silk-l...@yahoogroups.com, Eugen Leitl eugen@... wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:25:11AM -, Anand Manikutty wrote: Have you gone through the points I made on my List? I admit I looked for them, but unfortunately failed to find any.So you are saying that this graph by Kurzweil

Re: [silk] Skepticism on Technological Singularity

2011-02-07 Thread Anand Manikutty
Hi Udhay : Thank you for your email. Let me throw in another short summary response : in my opinion, the Singularity has already happened. It was called the Industrial Revolution. Over and out for now.AnandP.S. Of course, that is why I believe that there is no Singularity for us in the future

Re: [silk] Skepticism on Technological Singularity

2011-02-07 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Anand Manikutty manikuttyan...@yahoo.comwrote: the Industrial Revolution The industrial revolution is dying, I give it 150 years... I don't know what the next revolution is, but it's clear that the information age is merely the last stage of the industrial

Re: [silk] TOO LOUD

2011-02-07 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On 08-Feb-11 2:28 AM, Charles Haynes wrote: Here's the answer - and it's yet another way the music cartel is screwing the fans, the musicians (and ultimately, themselves) by MAKING THE MUSIC TOO LOUD. People saying this drives me nuts. Perhaps I'm being over picky but what they're really

Re: [silk] TOO LOUD

2011-02-07 Thread Biju Chacko
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote: People saying this drives me nuts. Perhaps I'm being over picky but what they're really doing is over compressing the dynamic range. The maximum loudness for a given digital medium is fixed. To make music sound

Re: [silk] TOO LOUD

2011-02-07 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On 08-Feb-11 9:07 AM, Biju Chacko wrote: The first time I heard someone talking about this, I thought, More audiophile silliness. But then I noticed that I tended to skip newer music when in shuffle mode. I realised that I found newer music fatiguing to listen to -- because they're often just

Re: [silk] TOO LOUD

2011-02-07 Thread Charles Haynes
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote: THAT is the travesty. They're losing detail and subtlety to people who are too lazy to adjust the volume on their listening device. The