I forgot to point out that Disney and Sony are obviously big members in the MPAA, so if that's a concern, those are so far the big two major companies to beware of, and they don't really release much anime here.
I buy my anime at conventions. It's cheaper that way, but sometimes you run into ridiculous prices that are just stupid
Best Buy has legitimate anime DVDs for sale at non-SRP prices. You can also buy them online at DVDplanet.com for decent prices. If the prices at conventions are much cheaper than at Best Buy then I would say that that they are most likely bootlegs.
I don't understand what the MPAA and RIAA has to do with anime, because most anime DVDs and anime based soundtracks _aren't_ owned by an MPAA or RIAA member. Trigun is published in the US by Pioneer Entertainment and last I checked, they are a member of neither cabals, and none of the companies actively releasing licenced anime products in the US are in the RIAA or MPAA.
If you want to make sure that you deal with companies that aren't RIAA/MPAA members look for these brands:
ADV Films Bandai Central Park Media Pioneer Software Sculptors Super Techno Arts Synch-Point TOKYOPOP TRSI (The Right Stuff) Urban Vision U.S. Manga Corps Viz
I might have missed some.
Disney/Beuna Vista has Ghibli movies and Sony's Columbia TriStar have Metropolis and the Cowboy BeBop movie.
Agreed, sinking is definitely better than sourcing due to efficiency and speed issues. Beginner books I've seen start out with sourcing just because it's easier to get beginners started when high (1) turns the LED on. Even the first EE classes I've had start with positive logic for a week or so before moving to inverting logic.
You can use a TV input card with the Bt8x8 chipset and run dscaler (http://www.dscaler.com). At least you can tune to analog broadcasts this way, for the cost of maybe $50.
There are HDTV tuner/decoder cards that you can put in a computer that will scale to most native resolutions. I think one can be had for under $350.
Uh, it's not needed. Most LCD and DLP projectors made in the last five years automatically take 1080i, 720p, 480p in component format, as well as a lot of computer resolutions. Just about all projectors now sold accept it HD scan rates.
The only caveat is that it would be scaled to the display's native resolution. My projector only has the standard 15 pin D-subs but I can input RGB or YUV color spaces.
Um, I think that person is going to encode to DVD, which is MPEG-2. If you are going to reencode to MPEG-2 then MPEG-1 and DivX / MPEG-4 and most lossy codecs aren't acceptable intermediaries if you want minimal degradation.
I really don't see much of a point in a wireless ball if you still need power cords to keep it running.
As for the relay part, I agree. It sounds to me like a person with just enough pertainant knowledge to be dangerous but not enough knowledge to be useful.
What I don't understand is why the person that asked the question thought that relays are needed to control LEDs. They'll work but I don't think they are the best solution, considering the size of even the smallest relays at Radio Shack, and even they give off a little noise. A microcontroller port pin is good enough to handle one or two LEDs, and a PIC 16F628 has about 16 output capable pins.
For several LEDs try something like this: I think the following is NPN transistor, say 2N2222 for a few LEDs, something larger for a lot.
| Collector to + power
|/ ---| Base to uC port
|\>
| Emitter to resistor and LED in series
|
Resistor, scale size using AaronW's equations
|
\|/
--- LED, cathode wired to ground
|
| To ground
This post doesn't cover RS232 or parallel communications.
I got it from people that are knowledgeable in electronics and regulations. I really can't quote specific FCC regs any quicker than you can find an aluminum cased power supply that has the FCC mark on it.
Yeah, I agree with this. Really, 7% unemployment was considered a good number to balance growth and inflation. Many (most?) economists didn't (don't) think that less than that can be had for a sustained time period, would agree that we got lucky and are just settling down from an overheated economy anyway.
The recording industry isn't quite in its last throes that I can tell, despite what I hear from even the lowest minions of the industry. It's hard to argue "dying!" or "killed by napster!" when they had record profits in the height of the napster "crisis". Even if there is financial trouble, it's probably high time for a reworking of the business, which most industries probably has gone through at least every 20 years for the last century!
Well, there are reasonable limits, I'd take it in moderation. I don't think it costs prohibitively more to get nice performing guts _and_ a nice shell. If an ordinary case costs $50 and a nice looking case costs $100, I'd put in an extra $50 to the total cost to have something that's nicer to look at, particularly if I have to see the computer every day for several years.
I certainly wouldn't buy a fully transparent case as it has little appreciable RFI / EMI protection properties. It wouldn't be legal for a company to sell a computer with that sort of case due to FCC restrictions, that's why we generally only see this sort of thing in a DIY form.
I'm betting on life being good once nanotechnology comes of age.
Either that or the nanomachines shred us apart at the cellular level.
Nope. Fix one problem and people will find something else to complain about. Actually, in some ways, it seems like fixing one problem directly results on two more problems arising in its place.
I really don't think it is much different than it was in the past. If you wanted the latest CPU, you often needed to get a newer board. You could still get the fastest CPU the existing board takes, which is often not nearly as expensive and get a significant boost.
With my P4 MB, I bought the best MB I could get at the time, and the slowest CPU still sold new at the time (1.7GHZ CPU), after the 3.0something P4 was released, a BIOS was released to take advantage of it.
It would be nice if CPUs weren't clock multiplier locked, you youd get a bit more flexibility, i.e. run a higher multiplier to work with a slower bus board.
I think it may improve with the Hammer line of chips, as the memory controller is part of the chip. Upgrade the chip, you might get a faster memory controller, thus you can upgrade the RAM without replacing the main board.
As a rather frivolous example, with neither mplayer+Quicktime dlls, nor the Quicktime player for Windows, my 1.0 GHz Celeron could not play the 1024x464 trailer of the Matrix Reloaded without dropping every 2nd or 3rd frame. A 1.533GHz (1800XP) Athlon chewed through the Quicktime with mplayer without any problems at all.
Well, apparently Celerons aren't all that great. My 500MHz PIII Xeon handled that trailer without a problem, at least that I noticed, but I did have to play it from a hard drive and not a CD-R.
Actually, the system is a dualie, but only about 50% of the total CPU power was used. I really don't know how much heat the CPU makes, but the heat sink barely gets warm.
Somehow I thought The Matrix alread had an SRP of $20, but I looked it up and apparently it has an SRP of $25. Not exactly a big price drop, but the original release time its pricing was actually pretty good.
My impression is that consoles are sold at a loss - but only at first. Over time they manage to push costs down, in part through mass volumes and as I understand, in part though design revisions to be able to take advantage of cheaper commodity parts that might come along.
A problem is that you have to multiply the frequency by ten or twenty to make the throughput equivalent to a 8 bit or 16 bit bus. Wire is wire, but you start getting to weird and unpredictable effects when you get to gigahertz. I don't know if they are using some sort of modulation scheme, I understand gigabit ethernet over copper uses a fraction of a gigahertz but modulates multiple bits over more than one sideband at a time.
At least it's a point-to-point system.
I think I'll note that the latest iteration of Firewire has provisions for a fiber optic link.
I find the energy consumption to be very attractive. Ie, 5 watts and 10 watts for 266Mhz 500 Mhz respectively. Scaling up linearly, that's still just 20 watts of power consumption for a 2Ghz chip.
Huh? A linear scale would put the 2GHz chip at about 40W (5 watts for every 250MHz). Things don't work that way though with CMOS processes and I don't understand how they got the two datapoints, unless they aren't using CMOS or if they halved the input voltage. CMOS power consumption follows the square law on frequeny, i.e., double the frequency means that power consumption is quadrupled.
Interesting. I did assume that the traces were the bottom side of the chip. This really isn't too different from the ball grid array where you don't have leads sticking out of the package like most current CPUs. Right now, ball grid arrays are generally soldered to the board.
It sounds to me like it is one of their efforts to maximize signal integrity, particularly when they go to such high bus speeds.
If I were to do something like that, I would definitely build a custom case or find a case meant for that kind of thing.
It also doesn't look safe as I don't see any data redunancy being done on Linux. With over a dozen drives I'd say the risk of data loss is pretty high.
I'm not sure if that many power supplies are needed either, but I don't know what recent drives take. The hard drives I have in my system draw maybe ten to fifteen watts, so even with a 100% safety margin, a 200W power supply should supply nearly seven drives. The best thing I can think is startup draw, having so many drives start up at once might be bad, but I figure that the safety margin should handle it.
I don't see a backup method in that picture either. No redundancy and no backups. It looks like an interesting proof of concept project but not one that I would entrust hard to replace data to.
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I forgot to point out that Disney and Sony are obviously big members in the MPAA, so if that's a concern, those are so far the big two major companies to beware of, and they don't really release much anime here.
I buy my anime at conventions. It's cheaper that way, but sometimes you run into ridiculous prices that are just stupid
Best Buy has legitimate anime DVDs for sale at non-SRP prices. You can also buy them online at DVDplanet.com for decent prices. If the prices at conventions are much cheaper than at Best Buy then I would say that that they are most likely bootlegs.
I don't understand what the MPAA and RIAA has to do with anime, because most anime DVDs and anime based soundtracks _aren't_ owned by an MPAA or RIAA member. Trigun is published in the US by Pioneer Entertainment and last I checked, they are a member of neither cabals, and none of the companies actively releasing licenced anime products in the US are in the RIAA or MPAA.
If you want to make sure that you deal with companies that aren't RIAA/MPAA members look for these brands:
ADV Films
Bandai
Central Park Media
Pioneer
Software Sculptors
Super Techno Arts
Synch-Point
TOKYOPOP
TRSI (The Right Stuff)
Urban Vision
U.S. Manga Corps
Viz
I might have missed some.
Disney/Beuna Vista has Ghibli movies and Sony's Columbia TriStar have Metropolis and the Cowboy BeBop movie.
Agreed, sinking is definitely better than sourcing due to efficiency and speed issues. Beginner books I've seen start out with sourcing just because it's easier to get beginners started when high (1) turns the LED on. Even the first EE classes I've had start with positive logic for a week or so before moving to inverting logic.
You can use a TV input card with the Bt8x8 chipset and run dscaler (http://www.dscaler.com). At least you can tune to analog broadcasts this way, for the cost of maybe $50.
There are HDTV tuner/decoder cards that you can put in a computer that will scale to most native resolutions. I think one can be had for under $350.
Uh, it's not needed. Most LCD and DLP projectors made in the last five years automatically take 1080i, 720p, 480p in component format, as well as a lot of computer resolutions. Just about all projectors now sold accept it HD scan rates.
The only caveat is that it would be scaled to the display's native resolution. My projector only has the standard 15 pin D-subs but I can input RGB or YUV color spaces.
Um, I think that person is going to encode to DVD, which is MPEG-2. If you are going to reencode to MPEG-2 then MPEG-1 and DivX / MPEG-4 and most lossy codecs aren't acceptable intermediaries if you want minimal degradation.
I really don't see much of a point in a wireless ball if you still need power cords to keep it running.
As for the relay part, I agree. It sounds to me like a person with just enough pertainant knowledge to be dangerous but not enough knowledge to be useful.
What I don't understand is why the person that asked the question thought that relays are needed to control LEDs. They'll work but I don't think they are the best solution, considering the size of even the smallest relays at Radio Shack, and even they give off a little noise. A microcontroller port pin is good enough to handle one or two LEDs, and a PIC 16F628 has about 16 output capable pins.
For several LEDs try something like this:
I think the following is NPN transistor, say 2N2222 for a few LEDs, something larger for a lot.
| Collector to + power
|/
---| Base to uC port
|\>
| Emitter to resistor and LED in series
|
Resistor, scale size using AaronW's equations
|
\|/
--- LED, cathode wired to ground
|
| To ground
This post doesn't cover RS232 or parallel communications.
Apparently you made that up?
Come on. Back it up with a link please.
I got it from people that are knowledgeable in electronics and regulations. I really can't quote specific FCC regs any quicker than you can find an aluminum cased power supply that has the FCC mark on it.
Yeah, I agree with this. Really, 7% unemployment was considered a good number to balance growth and inflation. Many (most?) economists didn't (don't) think that less than that can be had for a sustained time period, would agree that we got lucky and are just settling down from an overheated economy anyway.
The recording industry isn't quite in its last throes that I can tell, despite what I hear from even the lowest minions of the industry. It's hard to argue "dying!" or "killed by napster!" when they had record profits in the height of the napster "crisis". Even if there is financial trouble, it's probably high time for a reworking of the business, which most industries probably has gone through at least every 20 years for the last century!
Well, there are reasonable limits, I'd take it in moderation. I don't think it costs prohibitively more to get nice performing guts _and_ a nice shell. If an ordinary case costs $50 and a nice looking case costs $100, I'd put in an extra $50 to the total cost to have something that's nicer to look at, particularly if I have to see the computer every day for several years.
I certainly wouldn't buy a fully transparent case as it has little appreciable RFI / EMI protection properties. It wouldn't be legal for a company to sell a computer with that sort of case due to FCC restrictions, that's why we generally only see this sort of thing in a DIY form.
Another thing, apparently aluminum doesn't qualify as adequate shielding either. It must be steel or some other magnetic material.
I'm betting on life being good once nanotechnology comes of age.
Either that or the nanomachines shred us apart at the cellular level.
Nope. Fix one problem and people will find something else to complain about. Actually, in some ways, it seems like fixing one problem directly results on two more problems arising in its place.
I really don't think it is much different than it was in the past. If you wanted the latest CPU, you often needed to get a newer board. You could still get the fastest CPU the existing board takes, which is often not nearly as expensive and get a significant boost.
With my P4 MB, I bought the best MB I could get at the time, and the slowest CPU still sold new at the time (1.7GHZ CPU), after the 3.0something P4 was released, a BIOS was released to take advantage of it.
It would be nice if CPUs weren't clock multiplier locked, you youd get a bit more flexibility, i.e. run a higher multiplier to work with a slower bus board.
I think it may improve with the Hammer line of chips, as the memory controller is part of the chip. Upgrade the chip, you might get a faster memory controller, thus you can upgrade the RAM without replacing the main board.
As a rather frivolous example, with neither mplayer+Quicktime dlls, nor the Quicktime player for Windows, my 1.0 GHz Celeron could not play the 1024x464 trailer of the Matrix Reloaded without dropping every 2nd or 3rd frame. A 1.533GHz (1800XP) Athlon chewed through the Quicktime with mplayer without any problems at all.
Well, apparently Celerons aren't all that great. My 500MHz PIII Xeon handled that trailer without a problem, at least that I noticed, but I did have to play it from a hard drive and not a CD-R.
Actually, the system is a dualie, but only about 50% of the total CPU power was used. I really don't know how much heat the CPU makes, but the heat sink barely gets warm.
I'd think that he'd at least smite that person's computer for distributing NDA code.
Somehow I thought The Matrix alread had an SRP of $20, but I looked it up and apparently it has an SRP of $25. Not exactly a big price drop, but the original release time its pricing was actually pretty good.
My impression is that consoles are sold at a loss - but only at first. Over time they manage to push costs down, in part through mass volumes and as I understand, in part though design revisions to be able to take advantage of cheaper commodity parts that might come along.
A problem is that you have to multiply the frequency by ten or twenty to make the throughput equivalent to a 8 bit or 16 bit bus. Wire is wire, but you start getting to weird and unpredictable effects when you get to gigahertz. I don't know if they are using some sort of modulation scheme, I understand gigabit ethernet over copper uses a fraction of a gigahertz but modulates multiple bits over more than one sideband at a time.
At least it's a point-to-point system.
I think I'll note that the latest iteration of Firewire has provisions for a fiber optic link.
Maybe a tie between the user and the floppy drive.
But seriously, ATA hard drives have still been increasing in speed even when "stuck" at 7200 RPM because the data density skyrocketed.
I find the energy consumption to be very attractive. Ie, 5 watts and 10 watts for 266Mhz 500 Mhz respectively. Scaling up linearly, that's still just 20 watts of power consumption for a 2Ghz chip.
Huh? A linear scale would put the 2GHz chip at about 40W (5 watts for every 250MHz). Things don't work that way though with CMOS processes and I don't understand how they got the two datapoints, unless they aren't using CMOS or if they halved the input voltage. CMOS power consumption follows the square law on frequeny, i.e., double the frequency means that power consumption is quadrupled.
Interesting. I did assume that the traces were the bottom side of the chip. This really isn't too different from the ball grid array where you don't have leads sticking out of the package like most current CPUs. Right now, ball grid arrays are generally soldered to the board.
It sounds to me like it is one of their efforts to maximize signal integrity, particularly when they go to such high bus speeds.
If I were to do something like that, I would definitely build a custom case or find a case meant for that kind of thing.
It also doesn't look safe as I don't see any data redunancy being done on Linux. With over a dozen drives I'd say the risk of data loss is pretty high.
I'm not sure if that many power supplies are needed either, but I don't know what recent drives take. The hard drives I have in my system draw maybe ten to fifteen watts, so even with a 100% safety margin, a 200W power supply should supply nearly seven drives. The best thing I can think is startup draw, having so many drives start up at once might be bad, but I figure that the safety margin should handle it.
I don't see a backup method in that picture either. No redundancy and no backups. It looks like an interesting proof of concept project but not one that I would entrust hard to replace data to.
I know. I am trying to figure out how one can get a matching display. Usually they are pretty specific to the laptop design.
I would RTFA but it's been slashdotted.
Interesting. Were they soldered to the board or was there some sort of removability in mind?