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Hi Tommie: True enough but it won't be me. (Last time they let me out of the cage, it confounded strategies for exploiting my anonymity.) A midi control is an interesting thing though. It has lots of possible event types and therefore, many more things can be controlled simultaneously than can be done with a mouse. They don't have to be musical as this case proves. A midi keyboard is just a complex mouse. IOW, it is closer to Englebart's original notion of a chordal control. In the drive to innovate the windowing GUI, maybe this is a means. Music is chordal (structured simultaneous events) and polyphonic (independent semi structured events). I wonder if one could play an Enterprise Service Bus like a rack of synthesizers hooked to a midi patch bay. :-) Silly things spark innovations sometimes. Imaginations catch fire. len From: B Tommie Usdin [mailto:btusdin@m...] At 12:40 PM -0600 2/22/05, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > >This is what I love about open source. They do the >stuff no one has yet thought about making a buck >off of, so it really is virgin, like 50's rock. > >Gad. We must get some of this to XML 2005. Or perhaps to Extreme, which is more geared to edge cases. See: http://www.extrememarkup.com (Papers are due April 15th - there's still time to write one!)
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