Over-Creativity: Give me...

Five.

Sorry for that ;)

Aviation: A380 Maiden Flight

What a beautiful bird! Congratulations to Airbus.

---snip---

I personally thought: It must be difficult to perform a nice first touchdown without having a any feeling for the aircraft's landing characteristics yet.
And what happend? The pilot obviously missed the touchdown markers for a few hundred meters. Nothing bad, but remarkable, as I predicted it.

Science: Science : Waste = Spacecraft : ?

DART ... a little tiny nice and pleasant autonomous spacecraft. It was aimed to make some automatic rendezvous with some military satellite. Because there was not enough fuel, it shut down automatically a few meters before reaching the target satellite.

That is OK ... failures happen. NASA decided to leave it some 92 meters away from the satellite, because they predicted, that it never comes too close. And what happens now? It crashs into the satellite and lifts it into just a few kilometres higher orbit.

OOPS!
Sorry for that.

Well ... what can I say? How can you not make this working? It's simplest linear algebra ... linear vectors moving around, waiting to come close to each other.
Or didn't they have enough FOB (fuel on board) ... well, I'm too sorry for that, sure, that's a reason. I forgot it's NASA's first mission, they don't have any experience with spaceflight yet.

DAMN ... I am a supporter of NASA and I think they should get the biggest possible budget, but DON'T WASTE THE FU*KING MONEY FOR THAT.

Source

Formula 1: YEHAAAAW!!! [coll.]

Yes ... what a fantastic F1 race.

It was a real pleasure to see MSC turning the situation, great overtaking maneuvres and great fights. Really thrilling.

It seems, that everything is still possible for MSC/Ferrari.

That's how one likes it.

Music: New Song

This is my newest release. Something different this time. Enjoy:

Norseman Flight (Genre: Ambient/House)

If you don't have enough, here is all the other music, which I have produced so far:

Terre de Funk (Genre: House)
To The Moon (Genre: Breaks)
Elevator (Genre: House)
Lost Triband (Genre: Hard House) [Logo]
Motherstone (Genre: Industrial)
Phunk Sensation (Genre: House)
Phunk Sensation (Sans Sax edition: without saxophone) (Genre: House)
Uplifting Hardstyle (Genre: House)
Soulful Sax (Genre: House)
Raw LipperlanDnB (Genre: DnB)
Spirit Of DopeBeat (Genre: Breaks/Big Beat)

My songs are also available on ReasonStation!

House-Review: Stonebridge - Freak On

Label: Testpressing
Mixes: Peter Presta Mix, Vocal Mix
Useable or Best Mix(es): Vocal Mix

Refers to: Vocal Mix

Style: House (Dubby Disco Vocal)

Mix-In: Long beat-only with some shades of taped/compressed disco strings (you'll know what I mean). Painless to mix in.

Drive: As good as vocal house can (=good). For some reason, something is missing ... is the bassline too weak? Is there some pad or reverb missing? I don't know, but it sounds too empty.

Beat: Standard stuff and some percussive back-beat. Attempts of a syncoptation here and there, not very tribalish anyway. Heck, tribal has nothing to do with disco house.

Quality: Quality is OK, good for white label. Mastering is a bit flat.

Break-Down: A real break, vocals only with some upbuilding filtering. Not too long. Then beat again with female scream climax-kinda-stuff, ya' know...

Mix-Out: Main theme, then beat only with some filtered shades of main theme.

Comment/Opinion: I don't know ... this track has potential. The problem is, that there is nothing else to say. It's good, but it's not a remarkable track. And, as said, it sounds a bit empty here and there. You can play it, but you don't have to.

TV: Le Roi Est Mort! Vive Le Roi!

Ahh yes ... Mr. New Pope has been beamed down by Scotty ... what was it? Benedict 1337? ... 69? ... ahh! XVI (of course, it was the godless bringing us the "0" ... shame on me).

I, as an atheist, welcome this "choice".

As he is that what one calls conservative hardliner, church goes one or more steps back in modernization. Thus, it becomes unworldly for even more people to remain in church. So there are less people in church, and more people free their mind and become enlightend. And as this world becomes enlightend, this world becomes a better place. And as a by-product, there could be even less AIDS spread around the globe. Thanks to the pope.

Today: Coffee, Melody, Strange World

Just listening to "Melody A.M." by Röyksopp ... great ambient tunes. The album is from 2001, but I think it's never too late to get addicted.

Along with the CD, I ordered coffee pads at amazon. Yes, you heared right ... I ordered coffee via internet ... I ordered coffee via an internet book shop.
Well, it's never too late to get addicted; I am though.

Strange World...

School: Implications...

Todays working life demands specialization and efficiency.

Good jobs demand "Abitur-certificate".

"Abitur-certificate" demands knowing everything, i.e. the opposite of specialization.

Knowing everything demands trading efficient activities (i.e. writing black hole simulators, what is special) against learning everything, what is not special, as the topics are outdated and too general anyway, what demands them to be forgotten ASAP, thus useless, thus inefficient.

This implies, that the "Abitur-certificate" is the opposite of the requirements of todays working life.

If the PISA case study pointed out, that german school system was good, I'd be proved wrong. But as PISA case study points out, that german school system is worse than average, I'd say it proves my theorem.

Why is this no wonder? Because those graduates of university, who become teacher, are obviously not good enough for economy, as working in economy is obviously first choice. They are the deposit of working life.

What happens is, that their strategy, that didn't get them a job in economy, is now taught to the pupils.

Thus, pupils are exactly educated the worst possible way to get a good job in economy.

Implications...

School: That's it...

Given, that I won't fail the "Abitur" exams, this was my last day in school. Now there are only the exams left.

Strange feeling...

House-Review: Sandy Wilhelm - Always On My Mind

Label: Excess Music Limited Testpressing [EL07]
Mixes: Always On My Mind (one sided vinyl)
Useable or Best Mix(es): Always On My Mind

Refers to: Always On My Mind

Style: House (French Deep Club)

Mix-In: Long beat-only with some percussive synth, then break.

Drive: French bassline is pumping, but it's still very decent/deep though, dreaming along kind of stuff. No vocals. Synth brings some action, but nothing fancy.

Beat: Standard stuff.

Quality: Best vinyl quality as expected from Excess Music, even for limited testpressing. Mastering is OK, but it sounds a bit flat near the high frequencies. But it's still OK.

Break-Down: Boring ... like all the other tiny breaks.

Mix-Out: Main theme is flipped in and out, then filtered out until there is only beat and some guitars left.

Comment/Opinion: With a bassline what I call french-pumping, this track should be banging. But it's not. There is too few going on (missing vocals and variation), no real action builds up. You could play it between all the other boring Daft Punk tracks, which are nice, but not spectacular. This track is really nice music, but it's not blowing you off the pants.

Black Hole: Crossing borders...

Just tried to create a cross (or circular) relationship between two classes, which are in two different header files and two different namespaces.

I ended up merging both namespaces through renaming round about a million existing namespaces, because I was not able to establish a forward declaration into the other namespace.

Yeah baby, that's modern OO-programming using namespaces.

House-Review: Steve Mac - Unreleased Projex Vol 4

Label: Testpressing [UNPRO004]
Mixes: Rock and Troll, From Rushing With Love, Da Beats Again
Useable or Best Mix(es): Rock and Troll

Refers to: Rock and Troll

Style: House (Rocking Tech Deep Funky)

Mix-In: Long beat-only, much beat-variation, not very predictable ... bassline gets filtered in, then break after a long intro

Drive: Although this track is not too fast from the BPM-standpoint, the beat is very tech-like. It's really bangin' if you play this track after some normal track. Shades of female voice and pads create some kind of funky-techy vibe. It's really cool. Several breaks present the different themes. Lots of filtering is going on. After break, main theme sets in suddenly, so there is no warning, which is suprising the audience and thus banging a lot. Bassline is great as well.

Beat: As said, very tech-like. That's cool and really something special together with the funky vibe.

Quality: Unfortunately, it sounds like what it is ... white label. Mastering doesn't sound perfect as well.

Break-Down: It's really difficult to localize the main break down between all the other tiny breaks. Well, it's nothing special, but all breaks are good to build up tension, so the main break is good as well.

Mix-Out: Main theme gets filtered out until there is only a medium-long beat-only passage left. If you are not totally awake, the outro may supprise you, because there is no warning, when the track comes to an end.

Comment/Opinion: This track is very well done. The mix of hard tech beat and funky vibe represents a never-seen-before genre with a unique atmosphere. It's a must have. Though the quality could be better and the arrangement is unusual at some points.

Computer: Ancient Scanner...

Just tried to setup my hundred year old scanner (AS6E) on my WinXP system.

I knew that I got 'em working on XP a year or so ago. But this time, it was simply impossible to get it working. Maybe this has something to do with SP2 or so.

Anyway, my scanner is in the basement now.

Black Hole: Nevertheless...

Although there is no time for my black hole simulator due to a learning issue, I installed Express Beta 2 on a clean WinXp laptop yesterday and it worked - other than on my desktop computer.

If you read the previous posts, then you know why this is a good thing.

School: This week...

The exams for my "Abitur"-certificate are one week ahead. So it's really time now to expand the amount of learning to the maximum.

That's why there won't be much time left for anything else this and next week.

Music: New Release

This is my newest release. My first song in Reason 3.0. It's quite funky. Enjoy:

Terre de Funk (Genre: House)

If you don't have enough, here is all the other music, which I have produced so far:

To The Moon (Genre: Breaks)
Elevator (Genre: House)
Lost Triband (Genre: Hard House) [Logo]
Motherstone (Genre: Industrial)
Phunk Sensation (Genre: House)
Phunk Sensation (Sans Sax edition: without saxophone) (Genre: House)
Uplifting Hardstyle (Genre: House)
Soulful Sax (Genre: House)
Raw LipperlanDnB (Genre: DnB)
Spirit Of DopeBeat (Genre: Breaks/Big Beat)

My songs are also available on ReasonStation!

Weather: Snow?

Yes ... for some reason it's snowing throughout the day.

Strange.

School: Soccer ... err Sucker ... err Soccer :/

It is widely known that I think that soccer entirely sucks. That's why you normally don't play it during school sport.

Today I had to play soccer. I must say that this form of sport is really wonderful: even my most optimistic prognostication didn't assume, that I incure only one bloody toenail and a couple of bruises.

Lovely.

Music: Total Ransom?

Math-geek
f(x) = e^x
f'(x) = e^x
f''(x) = e^x
f'''(x) = e^x (total ransom)

Hindu-...
Hindu
Maybe jellyfish
Cow
Nirvana (total ransom)

Music-geek
Three tones -> Funky House
Two tones -> Chicago House
One tone -> Dub House
Zero tones -> Minimal Techno (Arghh!!! :/ )


Well, I'm just toying around with Reason 3.0 and I noticed that my preferences changed to Dub House. It's pretty sick playing only one or two tones. This makes me questioning myself, what this all leads to. Minimal Techno? *suffer*

TV: Stern TV...

Yesterday, Udo Vetter from Law Blog (Ger) was at a german television magazine called Stern TV.
The topic was legal concerns of on-demand mobile ring tones.
The guests were the the director of Jamba (german ring tone provider), Udo Vetter as lawyer and law expert, and a teenager, who trapped into a ring tone subscription.
On the one hand, Udo Vetter impressed with clear legal statements. The Jamba direction was not really convincing or likeable.
On the other hand, Udo Vetter was only allowed to have two contributions to the discussion, so he was not able to apply the final deathblow to the Jamba director.

Under the bottom line, it's the easiest to keep away from ring tone providers.

TV: Thank god...

...that I don't like football at all (relates to Chelsea : Bayern München).

No other events today. I had a long day and nearly no spare time.

Round Up: Today...

No remarkable events today.

I could sleep a little bit longer, because my day started at 9:30.
I played Scrabble at school.
I learned things (grade 13), which I have already learned in grade 9 (exactly the same material).
I helped my mum to get some Excell-program up and running in order to conduct some statistical research. I - being even capable of programming things that other people don't even understand to use (raytracers) - was not able to understand this Excell-thing for the first ten minutes, so I wonder how my mum should. That's sad, because it's me who has to fix this in my spare time :(.
I played around in Reason 3.0.
I rated a song at ReasonStation.
I continued to implement the camera system of my black hole simulator.
I did lots of homework.
I wrote this blog entry.
I am going to sleep. ;)

TV: Important news...

Did you hear the breaking news? THE POPE IS STILL DEAD, HE DID NOT RISE FROM THE DEAD, I repeat: The pope is still dead, he did not rise from the dead.

Of course, I will keep you updated with the newest information and developments concerning the death of the pope.

I have to thank the news-media for their excellent service, which makes this possible. I don't want to know anyway, what else happens in the world.

Music: Reason 3.0 is here

Just received my copy of Reason 3.0. It was a good decision, it's brilliant and worth the money.

By the way: UPS tracking is pure fun.

TV: Don't do Car Floor Mats at home ... it can seriously damage your health

Just watched some semi-popular car television show:

I couldn't stop the car, because the throttle control was stuck under the car floor mat. I nearly died.

Help me!
How can this be a problem!?
I can figure out a number of ways to resolve the situation:

• Cut-off ignition
• Use clutch
• Use breake
• If ignition, breake and clutch are stuck as well under the car floor mat: change gear with brute force
• If situation not resolved: INSERT BRAIN INTO SKULL and try again!!!

Please let me never encouter this kind of person in wilderness!

Black Hole: Let's hope the Black Hole didn't notice it...

After an awful night, I decided to go on with my black hole using OpenGL.

I found a .NET implementation, which more or less fulfills my needs: CsGL. I wouldn't probably use it in a comercial project, but it's OK.

At least the initialization is very painless: Just create your output-control trough deriving from "OpenGLControl", add it to your form, override the "glDraw" method, call "glClear" and you are done. Now I can just start off visualizing the universe.

Blach Hole: .NET Betas are so lame, really!

Just setup the basic framework of the universe of my black hole simulator. Of course, this is done in .NET/Express Beta 2. I coded two tiny forms by hand without the forms designer, which is broken. No real problem so far.

Then I thought of implementing the renderer. I thought: Hey, that's perfect - I am using the newest .NET stuff, so I can use Managed DirectX then. It should perfectly work hand in hand.

Did you know that I hate C2535? Well, I didn't.
It tells me 'Microsoft::DirectX::Direct3D::Device::~Device(void)' : member function already defined or declared. I see you understand. It tells me, that there is some sort of compiler-error, which has absolutely nothing to do with my code, as it is totally unrelated.

When I look at the official readme, it says:

Visual Studio 2005 Support

The samples do not compile immediately with the Visual Studio 2005 Beta. For Beta 1, add the library "libcp.lib" to the ignore library project setting (Project Settings / Linker / Input / Ignore Specific Library). For Beta 2, you must set "Generate Manifest" (under Linker/Manifest File) to No and "Embed Manifest" (under Manifest Tool/Input & Output) to No.

The DirectX SDK Setup will not add the include or library directories. These must be added manually.

These issues will be resolved when Visual Studio 2005 is officially supported.

This tells me, that if I did these changes, then it should compile.
Well, it doesn't.

When I search the newsgroup, I get only one simple result:

I dont believe the SDK readme indicates Whidbey is supported yet.

This is because all native DX-programmers run still native C++, and managed DX-programmers are VB- and C#-dudes (sorry ;) ). There is hardly any human on earth, who is programming managed DX in C++ or even C++/CLI. So no one seems to care. Damn.

By the way, the second sentence of the newsgroup-answer is:

So if thats correct, you must use an older VC, which is supported.

It's a hard step two switch back from .NET 2 to .NET 1, as .NET 1 is really stoneage (means: __identifier-syntax and no generics). But even if I did: I simply tried to open the managed DX-samples with my VS 2002. Of course, all the samples VS 2003, so I can't open them. :/

What can we learn? Although I forced myself to get addicted to .NET, which was pretty hard, I am not able to use any managed DX, which was one of the pro-arguments for .NET. I can't believe it. And no one seems to care.

Now I have three options:
a) Make it work, altough I don't even know if it's possible. (sucks)
b) Wait for MDX/Whidbey to be officially supported by each other, what can take half a year or more. (sucks)
c) Switch to OpenGL. But when I search for OpenGL .NET ports, I see things such as OpenSource+Linux+Alpha-Version+Private-Developer - for me, that is like Dark-Forst+At-Night+Ghosts+Full-Moon. (sucks)

It's really like ARGHHH!!! these days.

Science: Simulating a Blach Hole?

George Chapline on Nature.com:

Black holes 'do not exist'

Well, that is a problem for the theorems and cognitions about Black Holes which exist so far, like Hawking Radiation etc..

Also, Chapline's idea would explain the unknown mass in universe, that is known as Dark Energy which is thought to be responsible for the expension of the universe.

This is a contradiction to newest theorems that suggest, that there is no Dark Energy. Instead, we are riding on giant gravity waves, which are caused by some kind of small quantum blubber in the early universe, whose early gravity waves might have been stretched as the result of the rapid expansion of the universe.

This looks like a giant gap in todays state of knowlegde of the universe. It doesn't seem to be an accident, that the relative space and the quantum universe are not yet consistent.

Now it's me entering the play. I am going to simulate a black hole. Reasons for me to do so:

• Reality doesn't know any branching - reality doesn't pop the call-stack if( r < SchwarzschildRadius ) { return; } (but this is, what most black hole simulators and thought experiments do today)
• Maybe black holes are just the surface of a sphere and not a volume ... I do not believe, that the laws of physics stop to work in black holes - though it operates at it's limits
• Because we can't see it and it doesn't give away information; and because we are unable to send a probe into a black hole during our lifetime doesn't mean it's not there

So, we cannot see it, and we cannot enter it in the lifetime of the universe. This doesn't forbid to visualize it's properties anyway, as they exist (though we cannot see it). It would be wrong to branch away this attempt. As said, the universe doesn't know any if-keyword.

So, I don't know how true my statements are, since my understanding of physics is very limited.

Anyway, I'm going to try to simulate a black hole using simply relativistic kinematics. And I won't branch-out, even if I encounter a System::Single::NaN or System::Single::PositiveInfinite.

I even plan to implement a simple relativistic raytracer. I will simply iterate the rays step by step and apply gravity to the photons at each step (photons are particles, not waves, OK? ;) ).

This is necessary, because polygonal graphics is not capable of bent light rays, as it doesn't use rays. But these are necessary to render a realistic view in extreme situations, as the situation near (or in?) a black hole is extreme. Of course, I will include a realtime polygonal DirectGraphics preview window.

Hopefully, this fits into my personal time-frame. This is the greates problem. But I think this is a nice project, until I can continue to work on my orginial raytracer, which is currently stuck due to the Express Beta 2 forms designer bug.

Aviation: April Force 1

Well, it's not aviation, but I had no better category for this post.

There are three things today, which prevent me of doing useful things:

• Weather, which makes it suck pretty much sitting at the computer
• Express Beta 2 recently started to suck
• Stupid people running around in order to conduct as stupid April-1 jokes, which ... well ... sucks pretty much ... give me a gun

Wow, that's an enumeration and (anti-) climax at the same time.

Formula 1: Gentlemen, start your TVs

Yes! It's Formula 1 time once again. And as I am a Formula 1 fan, this is supposed to be a good news.

Let's see, if the F-2005 is kicking ass...