On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:41:18PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote: > I've been re-trained over the last few years by a German > mechanical-engineer friend to think in a very reductionist, > non-magickal, deterministic, cold-hard-reality kind of way. Mechanical engineers, in particular those doing precision mechanics, can be very Zen. I remember one of them, Alex. Twenty years or so ago I was with a company making plotters, me doing the DSP for motor control and Alex doing the mechanics. A tolerance of 0.01 mm he'd call 'coarse'. He would take up a screwdriver, adjust a screw by 5 degrees, then wipe it with a white silk cloth and put it back into its place in his toolbox which was off-limits to everyone except himself. Still makes me feel guilty when looking at the pile of pliers and screwdrivers in my box. > It's all ones and zeroes. Given the same inputs, the same > output should be obtained. Acoustics is physics. And if I > can't measure it, it doesn't exist. Science is not only physics. Today psychology is science as well, a fact largely ignored not only by the unwashed masses but even by many intellectuals who still consider Freud to be the last word on these matters. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte ! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
