Most people here are talking out of their asses, and have probably never left their home country - judging from the posts.
The dollar has dropped like a rock in recent years and EVERYTHING is cheaper in the US now. Cars, software, electronics, food, etc. If the dollar stays this weak there will obviously be a price correction, but price corrections take time.
Yeah, a USD has lost half its purchasing power in Europe during the last 6 years. Anyone that thinks that prices are going to reflect this immediately is severely retarded.
If the dollar remains weak against the euro, prices will start reflecting this, sooner or later. This enormous price discrepancy is temporary.
I think you are wrong. If roughly 2% of the 500M or so cell phones sold next year have built in filofaxes, they have sold more PDA-phones than PDAs that year. Sounds likely to me, regardless of price.
This does not mean that the PDA is dead though. Lots of people want a tiny phone and a separate PDA with large screen and built in keyboard. I will keep my IPAQ.
Phones are oldschool anyway and less geeky than a remote control. I use Xten's IP phone on my WiFi powered IPAQ 5455 to dial for free through open access points.
I want a PDA that can transfer data using WiFi for high speed, BlueTooth for short range and GPRS (or similar) for great coverage. For voice, I will continue to use tiny phones that are carry-friendly. I will never buy a PDA/phone that requires me to a) bring it in a bag or b) hang it in my belt.
Why doesn't Slashdot mirror articles? The slashdot effect, while being somewhat charming, is frustrating. As long as slashdot would respect the "Disallow:/archives" robots.txt tag this should be ok, no?
I assume I am not the first person suggesting this, but anyway...
The Terminator Mouse Turntable's sensor measures movement of the damn platter.
Any fool knows that you don't scratch by moving the platter, it's way to heavy! The record rests on a "slipmat". Which is the reason that you can stop it by just using your finger-tip (and possibly the reason that you 11 years old fucked up the motor of your own 100$ turntable when trying to scratch on it).
I believe that the only way to create the feeling of a REAL turntable would be measure the rotation of a record resting on a slipmat. Wether it would sound right or not (which I STRONGLY doubt) I don't know.
There are more reasons than purly historical for that people who know how to scratch (like ISP) use tables like vestax pdxa2s instead of stuff like this.
Another note, you obviously need a crossfader, transformers and all the other ports to get ANY real feal. But, picking a pmc07pro (the standard dj battle mixer) or some other nice mixer apart and modding it should be pretty easy.
In any case, I doubt that you'll get the sound right and I'll keep my analog equipment for the time beeing.
I think that a device that automagically sets up everything, in general is far more secure than a system set up by a novice sysadm.
Which seems to be the target market segment for it.
16bit 44khz is insane in the first place
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As long as the original format is 16bit 44.1khz, debating what will give us the best sound quality isn't very interesting, since even the original sounds terrible.
I long for the days when SACD or DVDAudio will give us the joy of listening to music back. The fuckers who stole that from us, simply to reduce manufacturing and shipping costs, should in my opinion be @#$%@$%#6
Actually, Hakan Lans invented the mouse
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Doug Engelbart invented the first _mouse_ in 1964 (at stanford research institute).
However, this mouse could only move in Either x or y.
The first person to develop a mouse that used both axis was a dude called Håkan Lans.
Houston Instruments started manufacturing it
and then apple bought the rights.
He is also the man behind STDMA/ADS-B.
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Most people here are talking out of their asses, and have probably never left their home country - judging from the posts.
The dollar has dropped like a rock in recent years and EVERYTHING is cheaper in the US now. Cars, software, electronics, food, etc. If the dollar stays this weak there will obviously be a price correction, but price corrections take time.
Yeah, a USD has lost half its purchasing power in Europe during the last 6 years. Anyone that thinks that prices are going to reflect this immediately is severely retarded.
If the dollar remains weak against the euro, prices will start reflecting this, sooner or later. This enormous price discrepancy is temporary.
Microsoft will own the search market and yahoo and google will merge and form Yahoogle.
I think you are wrong. If roughly 2% of the 500M or so cell phones sold next year have built in filofaxes, they have sold more PDA-phones than PDAs that year. Sounds likely to me, regardless of price.
This does not mean that the PDA is dead though. Lots of people want a tiny phone and a separate PDA with large screen and built in keyboard. I will keep my IPAQ.
Phones are oldschool anyway and less geeky than a remote control. I use Xten's IP phone on my WiFi powered IPAQ 5455 to dial for free through open access points.
I want a PDA that can transfer data using WiFi for high speed, BlueTooth for short range and GPRS (or similar) for great coverage. For voice, I will continue to use tiny phones that are carry-friendly. I will never buy a PDA/phone that requires me to a) bring it in a bag or b) hang it in my belt.
Why doesn't Slashdot mirror articles? The slashdot effect, while being somewhat charming, is frustrating. As long as slashdot would respect the "Disallow: /archives" robots.txt tag this should be ok, no?
I assume I am not the first person suggesting this, but anyway...
The GeForce 4 costed $100M to design and verify. I wonder what the bitboys where thinking.
Or, if you happen to live in silicon valley, hire a laid of software engineer to do it for you.
Elvis, which is the predecessor of Priscilla and the first and most famous robot from the lab was built by two friends of mine.
Marcus and Manne
The Terminator Mouse Turntable's sensor measures movement of the damn platter.
Any fool knows that you don't scratch by moving the platter, it's way to heavy! The record rests on a "slipmat". Which is the reason that you can stop it by just using your finger-tip (and possibly the reason that you 11 years old fucked up the motor of your own 100$ turntable when trying to scratch on it).
I believe that the only way to create the feeling of a REAL turntable would be measure the rotation of a record resting on a slipmat. Wether it would sound right or not (which I STRONGLY doubt) I don't know.
There are more reasons than purly historical for that people who know how to scratch (like ISP) use tables like vestax pdxa2s instead of stuff like this.
Another note, you obviously need a crossfader, transformers and all the other ports to get ANY real feal. But, picking a pmc07pro (the standard dj battle mixer) or some other nice mixer apart and modding it should be pretty easy.
In any case, I doubt that you'll get the sound right and I'll keep my analog equipment for the time beeing.
You can also try the Codewarrior IDE.
It supports a larger subset of c++ than gcc. *Ouch*
I think that a device that automagically sets up everything, in general is far more secure than a system set up by a novice sysadm.
Which seems to be the target market segment for it.
As long as the original format is 16bit 44.1khz, debating what will give us the best sound quality isn't very interesting, since even the original sounds terrible.
I long for the days when SACD or DVDAudio will give us the joy of listening to music back. The fuckers who stole that from us, simply to reduce manufacturing and shipping costs, should in my opinion be @#$%@$%#6
Doug Engelbart invented the first _mouse_ in 1964 (at stanford research institute). However, this mouse could only move in Either x or y. The first person to develop a mouse that used both axis was a dude called Håkan Lans. Houston Instruments started manufacturing it and then apple bought the rights. He is also the man behind STDMA/ADS-B.