Be on the lookout for a female, about five foot five, about 120 pounds, generous bust, sapphire blue eyes and long, flowing black hair, square geek glasses. Dresses primarily like a bag lady, long skirt, shabby blouse, shabby light tan overcoat. May be towing a big pilot's briefcase on a dolly.
Usually found in or around bookstores, the rarer, the better.
Answers to "Yomiko" or "The Paper."
Be advised, subject can use paper as weapons. I suggest you leave all your cash and business cards at home, papercuts are one nasty way to die.
I'm on my 2nd Panasonic AE700 lcd projector (1280 x 720) (based on the Epson D-4 LCD chips). 1st unit had 3 clumps of stuck-on greens. Fairly close to even the 1:33 'center of action' (this is a 1:78 projector). Pixels were visible from the couch. Unsatisfactory. Vendor graciously swapped units. Panasonic woulda most likely told me to get bent.
2nd unit has 1 stuck green, out of the way (regardless of aspect ratio being shown). This one's much dimmer, it can rarely, if ever, be seen from the couch, even when you're actively looking for it. I chose to keep this unit. Returning / swapping is a PITA when the object in question is your only HT display.
What irks me is 1) Epson willingly sold defective panels to Panasonic, 2) Panasonic willingly accepted them, and 3) Panasonic has the brass balls to say in the manual "stuck / dead pixels are a by-product of lcd technology and will not affect performance" Such bovine excrement!
Seems to mainly be green pixels, too. I had a Sony Vaio laptop with one lone stuck greenie, but it was as bright as the sun.. sold off on ebay. Then this projector, twice, green panel again..
Is there something inherently evil about green LCD?!
They hide behind excuses, while selling product with visible, known defects. WTF? And then they *tell* you those defects are normal? Double WTF!
No, don't you muggles get it? The Common People's desire to remain willfully ignorant about computers and everything else around them is what has this world in the shape it is.
Natural Selection SHOULD apply to both mental and physical -- we've just developed an industry and culture of kow-towing to the ignorant massess.
You miss the poit of the ads. Linux in many ways is like a child: It knows only what it has been taught by those whom created it. It will learn more from others, and the world, as times rolls on.
Windows, on the other hand, has to be a bitter, 50-something has-been desperately trying to cling on to past glory.;o)
No, being frank is for everyone. It is sickening that people have to pussyfoot and sugarcoat things. If something sucks, I'll say it sucks, not that "It is moderately deficient in numerous ways." Just say the fucking truth. It Sucks.
Political Correctness belongs in the trash, along with any letters from SCO.
The numbers vs. perception issue has been driving the 'audiophile' press and engineers batty since the first triode was born. It has always been recognized that differences in how something sounds can't always be reconciled on the bench with numbers and test gear. Slew (intermod) distortion wasn't recognized till the 50's. I wonder how many more items we haven't discovered yet.
Audio is *NOT* limited to 22.5 khz like some wags right here on/. say. A trumpet *will* go clear past 50 khz on the harmonics, a cymbal crash will clear 100k.
Our measly, pathetic hearing organs cannot 'hear' this, but your body acts as a huge sound collector -- you *feel* it. If it isn't there, or worse, if it is there but distorted, funny things happen.
A well setup system will drop you in the recording room, or whatever the recording engineer created as one. Live recordings, when well done, can suck you right into a smoky bar.
A great stereo goes beyond 'clear', etc. It will give the illusion of not only soundstage width, but depth as well. With two speakers it does what it takes the muggles 5.1 surround to accomplish.
Those that pooh-pooh the audio geeks don't realize numbers don't tell the whole story. They don't even tell part of the story.
Go hear a pipe organ in a top-drawer, 100,000 dollar system. Pretty nice, I bet..
Now go hear the same organ in its natural environ. The bass will grab your chestbone and shake vigorously. Your head will tingle from all the energy past 20khz. Quite wonderful, sound is. Too bad our ears are so crappy. Moral of this one? Even the 100,000 dollar stereo falls way short of the Real Thing.
If you're happy with the Sornys, Magnetboxes and Farnasonics, fine. If not, may I suggest a trip down the AudioAsylum and get educamated. Those with basic soldering skilz and a healthy respect for triple-digit DC voltages will find that with a grand or three you can cobble together a system which will put a dent on a 10,000 audiophool-approved store-bought solution;o)
And yes, 44 khz PCM *is* the devil incarnate. DSD and good ole analog tape are better. Really.
I've been down the road before. I did the hi-power solid-state (Squalid-state) with cone n' domes, I've done mass-market (Technics), I've done hot glass with horns. Hot glass (tubes, silly) and horn speakers is where its at for me. Makes brass, voices and cymbals just yummy. You can *hear* the rosin on a cello's bow. You can hear Tony Iommi's fingers scrape the strings. You can *hear* that little "click" some singers make when they part their lips.
There *is* a difference.. and as pointed out here, there's also a lot of snake oil.
Experiment. Learn. Build some shit. That way the snake-oil salesmen won't snag you.
Using One or Zero (helpdesk.oneorzero.com) for a company with ~1500 folks in it. It's really a helpdesk, but we've adapted to using it as a request tracker as well.
- to experience the artist -- 16 bit stereo samples @ 44.1kHz captures audio quite well -- but it doesn't capture dance, facial expressions, stage antics, synchronized light/lasers/visual effects, costumes, etc.
44.1khz pcm sounds like garbage. SACD at 2.8224 MHz sampling sounds much better. Like tape, but much crisper. And I mean good 2" tape flyin' at 30 ips.
The closest thing prior to SACD was the good old LP.
CD is the *biggest* scam ever pulled off. Worthless sound at twice the price for twenty years.
Can't he sue SCO for slander? A preemptive move. Yeah, I know: Linus == small beans, SCO == bigger beans. Wouldn't that be where the EFF comes in? Or a community action to make fundage available?
IMO, Linux is taking a beating in the eyes of the PHBs. My own PHB is wondering wtf is up. She knows SCO sucks so bad it bends light, but further up the food chain, the CFO doesn't. And that CFO once had a dictum that `only M$ was to be used in our company.' That dictum has since been ignored, bent and rescinded, but.. ya know. Weak minds and all.
This is exactly the type of person all this FUD is targeted at. The PHBs and above.
Korporat Amerika actually standing up and yelling 'foul' against another Korporation?
Good lord. I thought they *all* learned to be conniving, deceiving, self-serving crooks at the same school? I guess there *may* be a kind streak in them?
Naaaaaaah. It's all about the benjamins, baby. Don't even for a second think these korporations are trying to help the OSS folks. They're just trying to protect their wallets.
While both have dropped off the mainstream's radar in this CD-driven, 500-watt amps-on-a-chip world, the old LP still gives better-than-cd sound, and tube amps for the most part sound better than the avg. crap one finds at Ckt City. And even some big-name solid-state makers cringe at the mention of tubes.
Not bad for LP (1948, Microgroove) and tubes..(Crap.. 1910's? DeForrest.)
``Napster is about facilitating piracy, and trying to build a business on the backs of artists and copyright owners,'' Rosen of the RIAA said.
The above got me thinking -- To me, napster's just a medium to transfer MP3s. In a way, going after Napster is like the RIAA or Metallica going after TDK, for making tape, or ReVox, Technics, Pioneer, etc, for making decks that record music with high quality.
Oh, I forgot. Those are ANALOG, not digital. Well hell...my ancient technics can make stuff that sounds as good as, or better, than mp3...just it's a little tough squeezing a cassette through cat 5 wire... =o)
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You need a better DVD player. Mine remembers the 'last played' location of up to 40 discs.
Like son, like father... Luke was also a whiny little bitch. "But I wanted to go to Tochi station and pick up some power converterrrrrrrs!" *pout*
Be on the lookout for a female, about five foot five, about 120 pounds, generous bust, sapphire blue eyes and long, flowing black hair, square geek glasses. Dresses primarily like a bag lady, long skirt, shabby blouse, shabby light tan overcoat. May be towing a big pilot's briefcase on a dolly.
Usually found in or around bookstores, the rarer, the better.
Answers to "Yomiko" or "The Paper."
Be advised, subject can use paper as weapons. I suggest you leave all your cash and business cards at home, papercuts are one nasty way to die.
I'm on my 2nd Panasonic AE700 lcd projector (1280 x 720) (based on the Epson D-4 LCD chips). 1st unit had 3 clumps of stuck-on greens. Fairly close to even the 1:33 'center of action' (this is a 1:78 projector). Pixels were visible from the couch. Unsatisfactory. Vendor graciously swapped units. Panasonic woulda most likely told me to get bent.
2nd unit has 1 stuck green, out of the way (regardless of aspect ratio being shown). This one's much dimmer, it can rarely, if ever, be seen from the couch, even when you're actively looking for it. I chose to keep this unit. Returning / swapping is a PITA when the object in question is your only HT display.
What irks me is 1) Epson willingly sold defective panels to Panasonic, 2) Panasonic willingly accepted them, and 3) Panasonic has the brass balls to say in the manual "stuck / dead pixels are a by-product of lcd technology and will not affect performance" Such bovine excrement!
Seems to mainly be green pixels, too. I had a Sony Vaio laptop with one lone stuck greenie, but it was as bright as the sun.. sold off on ebay. Then this projector, twice, green panel again..
Is there something inherently evil about green LCD?!
They hide behind excuses, while selling product with visible, known defects. WTF? And then they *tell* you those defects are normal? Double WTF!
Mod this guy up. Most accidents are caused by the same as well. Left-lane campers, GTF out!
No, don't you muggles get it? The Common People's desire to remain willfully ignorant about computers and everything else around them is what has this world in the shape it is.
Natural Selection SHOULD apply to both mental and physical -- we've just developed an industry and culture of kow-towing to the ignorant massess.
Feh.
The article right before this one was about some windbag expounding how Open Source is less secure than closed source.
;o)
There goes that theory..
I just wish people would use their goddamned side and rearview mirrors PROPERLY. If you set 'em up right, there ARE NO blindspots.
American drivers, as a rule, suck. One more reason I want to live in germany.
You miss the poit of the ads. Linux in many ways is like a child: It knows only what it has been taught by those whom created it. It will learn more from others, and the world, as times rolls on.
;o)
Windows, on the other hand, has to be a bitter, 50-something has-been desperately trying to cling on to past glory.
No, being frank is for everyone. It is sickening that people have to pussyfoot and sugarcoat things. If something sucks, I'll say it sucks, not that "It is moderately deficient in numerous ways." Just say the fucking truth. It Sucks.
Political Correctness belongs in the trash, along with any letters from SCO.
Feh.
The numbers vs. perception issue has been driving the 'audiophile' press and engineers batty since the first triode was born. It has always been recognized that differences in how something sounds can't always be reconciled on the bench with numbers and test gear. Slew (intermod) distortion wasn't recognized till the 50's. I wonder how many more items we haven't discovered yet.
/. say. A trumpet *will* go clear past 50 khz on the harmonics, a cymbal crash will clear 100k.
;o)
Audio is *NOT* limited to 22.5 khz like some wags right here on
Our measly, pathetic hearing organs cannot 'hear' this, but your body acts as a huge sound collector -- you *feel* it. If it isn't there, or worse, if it is there but distorted, funny things happen.
A well setup system will drop you in the recording room, or whatever the recording engineer created as one. Live recordings, when well done, can suck you right into a smoky bar.
A great stereo goes beyond 'clear', etc. It will give the illusion of not only soundstage width, but depth as well. With two speakers it does what it takes the muggles 5.1 surround to accomplish.
Those that pooh-pooh the audio geeks don't realize numbers don't tell the whole story. They don't even tell part of the story.
Go hear a pipe organ in a top-drawer, 100,000 dollar system. Pretty nice, I bet..
Now go hear the same organ in its natural environ. The bass will grab your chestbone and shake vigorously. Your head will tingle from all the energy past 20khz. Quite wonderful, sound is. Too bad our ears are so crappy. Moral of this one? Even the 100,000 dollar stereo falls way short of the Real Thing.
If you're happy with the Sornys, Magnetboxes and Farnasonics, fine. If not, may I suggest a trip down the AudioAsylum and get educamated. Those with basic soldering skilz and a healthy respect for triple-digit DC voltages will find that with a grand or three you can cobble together a system which will put a dent on a 10,000 audiophool-approved store-bought solution
And yes, 44 khz PCM *is* the devil incarnate. DSD and good ole analog tape are better. Really.
Some other fun thermionic links:
Ominous Valve (Funny!)
Why Hot Glass Rulez (Geeky!)
I've been down the road before. I did the hi-power solid-state (Squalid-state) with cone n' domes, I've done mass-market (Technics), I've done hot glass with horns. Hot glass (tubes, silly) and horn speakers is where its at for me. Makes brass, voices and cymbals just yummy. You can *hear* the rosin on a cello's bow. You can hear Tony Iommi's fingers scrape the strings. You can *hear* that little "click" some singers make when they part their lips.
There *is* a difference.. and as pointed out here, there's also a lot of snake oil.
Experiment. Learn. Build some shit. That way the snake-oil salesmen won't snag you.
It's fun.
Using One or Zero (helpdesk.oneorzero.com) for a company with ~1500 folks in it. It's really a helpdesk, but we've adapted to using it as a request tracker as well.
php front end, mysql back end.
44.1khz pcm sounds like garbage. SACD at 2.8224 MHz sampling sounds much better. Like tape, but much crisper. And I mean good 2" tape flyin' at 30 ips.
The closest thing prior to SACD was the good old LP.
CD is the *biggest* scam ever pulled off. Worthless sound at twice the price for twenty years.
Can't he sue SCO for slander? A preemptive move. Yeah, I know: Linus == small beans, SCO == bigger beans. Wouldn't that be where the EFF comes in? Or a community action to make fundage available?
IMO, Linux is taking a beating in the eyes of the PHBs. My own PHB is wondering wtf is up. She knows SCO sucks so bad it bends light, but further up the food chain, the CFO doesn't. And that CFO once had a dictum that `only M$ was to be used in our company.' That dictum has since been ignored, bent and rescinded, but.. ya know. Weak minds and all.
This is exactly the type of person all this FUD is targeted at. The PHBs and above.
Korporat Amerika actually standing up and yelling 'foul' against another Korporation?
Good lord. I thought they *all* learned to be conniving, deceiving, self-serving crooks at the same school? I guess there *may* be a kind streak in them?
Naaaaaaah. It's all about the benjamins, baby. Don't even for a second think these korporations are trying to help the OSS folks. They're just trying to protect their wallets.
Dell had to recall mondo batteries due to fire risk. It happens to any maker, at least once, sometime.
Not bad for LP (1948, Microgroove) and tubes..(Crap.. 1910's? DeForrest.)
That would be Jango, Boba's dad.
;o)
And yes, that is Slave I. Looks like Junior inherits Daddy's ride.
To those that cry 'milking the original tril': get a grip. You make flicks to make cash and get famous. Not for art, not anymore
Besides.. Fett? LIghtsabers everywhere? The first vestiges of the Empire? C'mon, man! SOme of us have been waiting 20 years for this! =o)
uh, didn't the trash-80 mod 16 run xenix?
hm...it did. wonder if linux could be clobbered to fit into that 10mb drum (optional) or 2 360k 8" floppies (std.)
;o)
And F*ck Hillary Rosen.
;o)
I listen to most of my music on LP -- yes, records.
Some schlock, years ago, payed the RIAA for that record. But not I. I pick mine up on pennies on the dollar. RIAA doesn't get one bit.
The last brand-new CD I bought was six months ago.
The CD's I do buy (Mostly of the pop/rock/whatever else variety) are also purchased at used record stores.
This, friends, is one way to f*ck RIAA and Hillary Rosen.
Hell, I had Telarc's *new* 1812 Overture TWO WEEKS before the stores had it. Never know what will turn up at used record shops
The above got me thinking -- To me, napster's just a medium to transfer MP3s. In a way, going after Napster is like the RIAA or Metallica going after TDK, for making tape, or ReVox, Technics, Pioneer, etc, for making decks that record music with high quality.
Oh, I forgot. Those are ANALOG, not digital. Well hell...my ancient technics can make stuff that sounds as good as, or better, than mp3...just it's a little tough squeezing a cassette through cat 5 wire... =o)