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13-Year-Old Trades iPod For a Walkman For a Week
BBC Magazine convinced 13-year-old Scott Campbell to trade in his iPod for a Walkman for a week and see what he thought. Scott thinks the iPod wins when it comes to sound quality, color, weight, and the shuffle feature. The Walkman, however, offers two headphone sockets, making it much easier to listen to music with a friend. My favorite part of the review is, "It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equalizer, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette."
Sony's audio cassette devices didn't manage to contain any rootkits...
Always fun convincing people they needed to rewind an 8 track.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
The sound of, say, Metallica's Garage Inc on tape is way better than on mp3. Cassettes are beautiful. They are durable, unlike CD/DVDs, and I have 25 year old cassettes that still work. They are hardware, tangible mechanical form of music. And there's just something about it that no CD/DVD/MP3s can match. And then there's the cover art sitting on an actual cover. Man I miss those days.
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..was there to make my C64 games load faster...
I had a friend with an 8 track player in his Gremlin in High School. In 1994. It was not a chick magnet.
It comes with a handy belt clip screwed on to the back, yet the weight of the unit is enough to haul down a low-slung pair of combats.
Pull your pants up and wear a belt! You damn kids
I hated the cut in the middle of songs, although I don't remember any "good" songs being cut, usually it was mid-album lamers that got cut.
The upside to 8 track was the infinite play capability; critical for those 1970s pot smoking sessions when everyone got too mellow to get up and change the music. Of course this was also the downside, waking up at 4 AM to switch off the Nth playthrough of "Led Zeppelin IV".
As I listen to Dëthklok, I marvel at a radio that would have a Metal/normal equalizer preset.
That would be pretty metal.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
Not only were you listening to "Money" on Track 2 but you could probably also faintly here "Speak to Me" on track 1 at the same time through the bleed through.
Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly.
and for next week's assignment have him carry around a ghettoblaster ;-)
you could probably also faintly here "Speak to Me" on track 1 at the same time
That was just 'the lunatic in your head' that you were hearing.
Nevermind rewinding tapes, how about DVDs?
... figure out a rotary-dial phone?
.. pa-ra-bo-la, pa-ra-bo-la, 2 pi R, 2 pi R, where's your latus rectum, where's your latus rectum, 2 pi R
Except for the /inexcusable/ use of the en dash when the sentence calls for an em dash.
I'd like to introduce to my friend, h|tler:
<h|tler> HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU TELL THAT I'M 13 BY LOOKING AT WHAT I'M WRITEING????????????????
(From http://bash.org/?14207)
The slashdot filter had me remove a bunch of question marks. Yes, there are even more in the original.
Be careful, we are the Asgards. We have been around for much longer than you can humanly imagine and we have already experienced all of what you are experiencing now ;-))
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
Yeah, the guy who mutilated the gremlins in the movie got chicks too.
Not to mention the missing apostrophe! What an illiterate little fuck.
Are you kidding? I still own a 1979 Monte Carlo with an 8-track that WORKS. I have only two left... one of them being The Eagles Hotel California.... the other being something I'm not proud of saying... :)
It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
I don't have an 8-track player - but I do leave several 8-track tapes strewn around my car interior.
Best. Anti-Theft System. Ever. (YMMV)
"Michael, I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing - and it was everything that I thought it could be."
When I was a teenager, 8 years ago (2001-2002), instead of putting a CD deck in my car, I wanted to put my dad's old 8 track deck into my car. That way it would have been ironic, hip, and would have limited me to playing only his old 60s-80s 8 track tapes. Also, I had no money for a CD deck. Almost got it done, but lazy kicked in, and the 8 track deck needed to be repaired a bit, so I abandoned it.
I went around trying to find somewhere which might have one for real cheap, like a pawn shop or similar. This was a pretty interesting thing to go around asking.
I went into this kind of music pawn shop, which had heaps of old things, including old record players, however it was more focused on that sort of indie niche. I walked in and asked the person running the store if they have an 8 track player, especially for a car. There was this old druggie raver looking guy standing behind him looking at records. When I asked about the 8 track player, he turned around and said "Hey man, that was funny, I thought I heard you asking for an 8 track player", at which point I looked at him and said "I am", he looked back with a freaked out yet blank face and said "Whoah". He then proceeded to stare at me after that last thought. All I can think was that I caused him to have some sort of an acid flash back, which he experienced for the next 30 seconds.
Either way, I still got a pile of 8 track tapes and no 8 track player. Probably for the best, I now have a good car, with a good deck, and I like things which aren't shit, now. Though the old bomb (1981 Ford Falcon XD) was awesome for jumping over train tracks, going 200kph, drifting around dirt corners, shredding my tyres and similar.
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Obviously you are clueless as to the nature of the 8-track. Everyone knows that in any random assemblage of 8-track tapes, there is a 90% chance of finding Meat Loaf's Bat out of Hell.
Right, it was a chick magnet in 1972 although ;-)
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equalizer, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette."
Wait wait wait. They had actual METAL cassettes? Like, made out of metal?
The scary part is that I'm being completely serious. I'm only 21 but I had a Walkman for a few years before I got my first CD player, I always wondered about that switch but since I never saw a cassette made out of metal I assumed the same thing he did, that it was being genre-specific.
Now one of the great mysteries of my life is solved.
You could even apply filters to make brand new CDs sound just like an old cassette.
A webcam microphone recording of the track being played through $5 Walmart speakers under a pillow, then downsampled to a 32kbps wma file should do the job.
/~Rockwolf
February 9th, 2009 8:55pm: Slashdot becomes self-aware.
Listening to a walkman with a friend constitutes a public performance. You have not acquired the proper license for for said performance. You now owe the RIAA $80,000 for infringement.
This only works within the confines of the M25. Unfortunately, metaphysically, the M25 encompasses all of humanity.
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