Oh, and before anybody screams "THAT'S WHAT THE ARTICLE SAID$!$!#" at my face, I'd like to point out that the article says that the ads provide free cell phone *Internet* usage, and not airtime (i.e. time you can talk to a human being using).
My school's current computer programming course is based on an outdated version of TC++ for Win16. One of the most irritating problems with it is that it's a Win16 development environment which multitasks co-operatively. i.e. Whenever you get stuck in an infinite loop of any kind, you press the big reset button and hope that the Novell server knows you logged off. Otherwise you turn it off, wait five minutes, turn it back on, and hope it works. Repeat until it does. I was trying to convince them to migrate to djgpp a couple of days ago and this happens...:)
How about real time recording? The Nomad does that, but again, solid state media is expensive.
Apart from listening to music, I also record videos and lessons from school. Great for reviewing. I'd like to see you juggle around several hour long lectures with a Nomad.
Uhm, there are many consumer sound cards with digital output. Aureal Vortex SuperQuad ($47 on pricewatch) has optical output for portable units, as well as the Xitel Storm Platinum, Turtle Beach Montego II+, VideoLogic Sonic Vortex 2, to name a few. The plain vanilla SBLive! Value revision 2 has coaxial digital output, and optical can be added with an inexpensive bracket.
A 64MB CF card costs from $150 to $200. And it stores around 60-62 minutes of 128kilobit MP3 data.
Now, I only record my favourite tracks to minidisc. It just so happens that I listen to a lot of music. I carry around 12 MiniDiscs (In a pair of TDK MusicJack cases), and every single track in there is golden. The "so-so" tracks may be recorded onto other discs, which I have around 20 of which I don't listen to too much. If I don't use the cases it actually doesn't take up much space.
Okay, all 12 of the discs are filled to the brink. There's usually around 73 minutes on them (there's usually around one or two minutes left at the end which I can't fit a complete track in).
821.25 megabytes / 64 megabytes/card ~= 12.83 cards. Since you can't have fractional cards, we'll round it up to 13.
13 cards * 165 dollars/card = 2145 dollars. Note that $165 per 64MB card is a relatively optimistic price already.
Two boxes of TDK Colour MusicJacks cost me HK$69 each. According to the current exchange rate of US$0.1285 per Hong Kong dollar at 8:30pm today, that's ~$17.73. Okay, discs in the US and Canada are around $1.50 to $2 if you know where to look. (Note that $165 per 64MB CF card is also a price quoted for "if you know where to look"). Let's make it $2.50.
2.5 dollars/disc * 12 discs = 31.25 dollars
Let's look at the ratio, shall we?
2145 : 31.25 = 68.64 : 1
So CompactFlash media costs 68.64 times more than MiniDisc media.
Then again, if you listen to the same songs over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, suit yourself. Get MP3.
Minidisc was and is a big hit in Asia. It is widely available and priced very competitively.
Units and other equipment are available from... Sony, Sharp, Kenwood, JVC, Aiwa, Sanyo, Panasonic, Goldstar, Casio, Onkyo, Yamaha, Teac, and Pioneer, to name a few.
Discs are available from... Sony, Aiwa, TDK, Axia, Maxell, Hi-Space, JVC/Victor, Memorex, BASF, 3M, Panasonic, Denon, JVC, Mitsubishi, Konica, KAO, Fuji, and Sharp, to name a few. Recognise these companies fron anywhere?
Sorry. MiniDisc is available from a wide variety of vendors in every department. There is more competition in the MiniDisc market than there is in the MP3 player market.
And I, being a person with a large number of CDs, am not going to lug around a laptop to change tracks on my MP3 player.
If you position it into a position where the disc is not flopping around as much (i.e. attaching it your belt, which you would usually do anyway. Who puts something in their pocket for a jog?), then even 10 seconds would probably not make it skip. Especially if you attach it to the side of your belt/shorts.
Believe me, I've done a lot of experimentation. You can jog as hard as you want as long as you have it positioned properly.
It looks like StrongARM. Linux has been available on the StrongARM for quite a while. Look at the Netwinder. Corel quoted that ARM support was available when they were evaluating operating systems for the Netwinder. So it would have to have been around for a while.
Sony just released such a beast. Check out their newest portable player... MZ-E75. 45 hours with the Li-Ion battery, 31 hours with the AA battery holder, for a whopping 76 hours of battery life combined. - Ed.
OS supported: Win9x. Win9x. and Win9x. Not even NT/Win2K.
No T&L, and no fancy VSA-100 effects. You're gonna be suffering on slower CPUs. While it doesn't suck, it doesn't offer anything over the GeForce cards. And it costs too much in that respect, too.
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The YMF715 is covered by the OPL3/SA2 driver, which is present in both the kernel and exists for ALSA.
It should work fine.
Now, if only I can GET one of these in Canada...
(yes, I know I'm replying to my own message.)
Oh, and before anybody screams "THAT'S WHAT THE ARTICLE SAID$!$!#" at my face, I'd like to point out that the article says that the ads provide free cell phone *Internet* usage, and not airtime (i.e. time you can talk to a human being using).
Just a safety precaution.
Is to have "Free Cell Phone" service, where they pump ads at you all day in exchange for free airtime.
It's only a matter of time...
I'm sure it was all intended to be a silly joke which somehow slipped through.
;)
Don't know what the executives are going to say about this, though...
A file:// URL will still have 'localhost' in it but will not require a web server.
My school's current computer programming course is based on an outdated version of TC++ for Win16. One of the most irritating problems with it is that it's a Win16 development environment which multitasks co-operatively. i.e. Whenever you get stuck in an infinite loop of any kind, you press the big reset button and hope that the Novell server knows you logged off. Otherwise you turn it off, wait five minutes, turn it back on, and hope it works. Repeat until it does. I was trying to convince them to migrate to djgpp a couple of days ago and this happens... :)
kaaaa...meeee...
haaa...meee...
HA$#!$!$!$#!$!$
(Cell being blasted into little bits)
Watch DBZ in its original Japanese incarnation and you'll see.
kamayahamaya... what a joke.
The specs say a 4GB hard drive.
Played Doom 1.0 (with the 0.9 operating system?)
It can convert into OpenMG MP3 format. Still not pretty, but you are incorrect in that matter.
How about real time recording? The Nomad does that, but again, solid state media is expensive.
Apart from listening to music, I also record videos and lessons from school. Great for reviewing. I'd like to see you juggle around several hour long lectures with a Nomad.
Uhm, there are many consumer sound cards with digital output. Aureal Vortex SuperQuad ($47 on pricewatch) has optical output for portable units, as well as the Xitel Storm Platinum, Turtle Beach Montego II+, VideoLogic Sonic Vortex 2, to name a few. The plain vanilla SBLive! Value revision 2 has coaxial digital output, and optical can be added with an inexpensive bracket.
The manual states that VBR encoding MP3s are not supported.
Let's compare prices here.
A 64MB CF card costs from $150 to $200. And it stores around 60-62 minutes of 128kilobit MP3 data.
Now, I only record my favourite tracks to minidisc. It just so happens that I listen to a lot of music. I carry around 12 MiniDiscs (In a pair of TDK MusicJack cases), and every single track in there is golden. The "so-so" tracks may be recorded onto other discs, which I have around 20 of which I don't listen to too much. If I don't use the cases it actually doesn't take up much space.
Okay, all 12 of the discs are filled to the brink. There's usually around 73 minutes on them (there's usually around one or two minutes left at the end which I can't fit a complete track in).
73 minutes/disc * 12 discs = 876 minutes
876 minutes * 60 seconds/minute = 52560 seconds
52560 seconds * 131072 bits/sec = 6889144320 bits
6889144320 bits / 8 bits/byte = 861143040 bytes
861143040 bytes / 1048576 bytes/megabyte = 821.25 megabytes
821.25 megabytes / 64 megabytes/card ~= 12.83 cards.
Since you can't have fractional cards, we'll round it up to 13.
13 cards * 165 dollars/card = 2145 dollars.
Note that $165 per 64MB card is a relatively optimistic price already.
Two boxes of TDK Colour MusicJacks cost me HK$69 each. According to the current exchange rate of US$0.1285 per Hong Kong dollar at 8:30pm today, that's ~$17.73. Okay, discs in the US and Canada are around $1.50 to $2 if you know where to look. (Note that $165 per 64MB CF card is also a price quoted for "if you know where to look"). Let's make it $2.50.
2.5 dollars/disc * 12 discs = 31.25 dollars
Let's look at the ratio, shall we?
2145 : 31.25 = 68.64 : 1
So CompactFlash media costs 68.64 times more than MiniDisc media.
Then again, if you listen to the same songs over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, suit yourself. Get MP3.
Minidisc was and is a big hit in Asia. It is widely available and priced very competitively.
Units and other equipment are available from... Sony, Sharp, Kenwood, JVC, Aiwa, Sanyo, Panasonic, Goldstar, Casio, Onkyo, Yamaha, Teac, and Pioneer, to name a few.
Discs are available from... Sony, Aiwa, TDK, Axia, Maxell, Hi-Space, JVC/Victor, Memorex, BASF, 3M, Panasonic, Denon, JVC, Mitsubishi, Konica, KAO, Fuji, and Sharp, to name a few. Recognise these companies fron anywhere?
Sorry. MiniDisc is available from a wide variety of vendors in every department. There is more competition in the MiniDisc market than there is in the MP3 player market.
And I, being a person with a large number of CDs, am not going to lug around a laptop to change tracks on my MP3 player.
If you position it into a position where the disc is not flopping around as much (i.e. attaching it your belt, which you would usually do anyway. Who puts something in their pocket for a jog?), then even 10 seconds would probably not make it skip. Especially if you attach it to the side of your belt/shorts.
Believe me, I've done a lot of experimentation. You can jog as hard as you want as long as you have it positioned properly.
Sony stopped using those proprietory connectors in new MD devices a while ago. And it's also being used for discmans.
It looks like StrongARM. Linux has been available on the StrongARM for quite a while. Look at the Netwinder. Corel quoted that ARM support was available when they were evaluating operating systems for the Netwinder. So it would have to have been around for a while.
Ever heard of the IBM PC110? Alan Cox uses a pair of them for kernel development on the road.
:)
:)
It's been done before.
Try http://www.basterfield.com/pc110/pc11 0idx.htm for more information. It's a 486sx33, but hey, IT'S BEEN DONE BEFORE!
Analogue recording and duplication always results a loss of quality.
Their excuse for holding such things back is that suddenly you can make infinite perfect copies of the material.
(Of course, MP3 is far from perfect itself. Then again, the RIAA doesn't care, doesn't it?)
Remember how they tried to hold back DAT?
- Ed.
Bill has less management work to do.
Sony just released such a beast. Check out their newest portable player... MZ-E75. 45 hours with the Li-Ion battery, 31 hours with the AA battery holder, for a whopping 76 hours of battery life combined. - Ed.
Oh, and I have it all zipped up too.
.zip
http://members.xoom.com/arealms0/cr0bar
Hope this helps
- ed.
the entire thing should be on
http://members.xoom.com/arealms0/ in a few minutes.
- ed.
Let's see here:
OS supported: Win9x. Win9x. and Win9x. Not even NT/Win2K.
No T&L, and no fancy VSA-100 effects. You're gonna be suffering on slower CPUs. While it doesn't suck, it doesn't offer anything over the GeForce cards. And it costs too much in that respect, too.