They got on the bandwagon too late to compete in China. They are selling the legit CD's for under $2 now. Unfortunately, they are doing it too late. They have a hard time retailing them, as there are very few retailers left. All that is left is the mom & pop pirate locations which are everywhere. I have limited my CD buying due to the high prices. (2 CD's in 2002, none in 2003) The industry needs to fix the price problem and go to a volume mode or the high priced caviar music will follow China's lead. The same is true in the wine industry. I could buy a bottle of Dom, but I never have. It will never be the daily table wine here. However, there are alternitives. Just look at the local grocery. With the music industry, it's Dom or nothing. (except piracy). If they had decent music at the corner gas station for under $3, I could fill up and pick a new selection to try for the commute. The industry has no intrest in the value market so the void left by them is being filled by someone else.
I hope they make the price adjustment and go to a volume model instead of a niche kids market. My library is starving for new material. I also hope they open up the archives. I want to shop a quality shop instead of Goodwill for good older music. Goodwill has good prices, but they don't always have your favorite collectable music in stock.:-(
I like it.. The next virus does not have to delete your documents. All it has to do is wipe out access to the passport server. Can you say locked out of your own work?
It's simple. They still have the market share. Why take a 50% cut just to regain the 1% desktop space lost to Linux. Now if Linux had 25-35% of desktop market share and growing, then I could see them facing the music and making an adjustment. Linux has a long way to go to make it on Joe Six-pack's desk machine. Lindows and Wal-Mart are the first real threat into the desktop space for the masses. It's the first place Joe-Six-pack can pick up a machine, take it home, and run it without figuring out how to use FDISK and trying to find all the needed drivers.
Maybe they will start shipping Windows CE for X-Box to compete with Linux for X-box and price CE less than the royalty on the Linux for X-box certificate. They may have found a way to compete with Linux on price.;-)
Hmm, I guess I was lucky to never get to it before it went up. I've watched a couple, but never close enough to the bottom before the rise to bite. Oh well, it was a fun idea however.
I like the tax you proposed if you can get rid of all the rest of the taxes and use fees (National parks, State parks, hunting, fishing, parking, trailhead, road use gas, toll road, bridge toll, property, sales, dmv, clean air, refrigerant/CFC, telephone, power, public transportation business, etc, etc. Only 10.5K would be a bargan for me.
Short answer, Me. Let me explain. This could influence the price of a stock. I can predict the directionof the near term stock price. Check the server stats. If it's new, check the history of the stock price. If the price hasn't jumped up yet, jump on board knowing that it's a scam. If the price has already jumped up, you are too late to ride it up. Don't buy to ride it back down. Plan on not holding but bail right after the price goes up. In other words, take advantage of the spammers work.
I wonder if part of the answer will be to split up hotmail into a bunch of smaller domains, each containing no more than 10,000 users just to make dictionary attacks much less productive. I would love to see that and have each domain contain a honeypot. The honeypot would be the spam filter. Anything sent to any users and the honeypot would deleted. Of course stuff in the honeypots would generate the usual abuse follow-ups.
I've found the CD ripping utility CDeX does a wonderful job. I thought I had a really rotton sound card trying MS sound recorder. That made a very cheap-o cassette recorder on substandard tape sound premium. After using CDeX, I found the record ablility of my sound card is pretty good. Switch the source to Line in instead of CD. I've about finished transering my stuff. Don't connect a magnetic pickup turntable directly to the sound card. Use a quality receiver or amp with a phono input to get proper amplification and EQ curve for the magnetic cartridge. A good turntable with a magnetic cartridge with a quality receiver is a must for this process for good recordings.
Unfortunately, I find the cat and mouse game interesting. I follow the news. However to prevent being on the wrong side of the law, I do not have; 1 Cable TV 2 C band disk 3 DSS Even though I was given a C band decoder, I have never put together enough hardware to be accused of theft of service. If I had service, I would be tempted to mess with it. Because of that, I just don't have anything to receive it. I had tinkered with cable long time ago when it was analog. A simple notch filter did wonders. I learned alot about designing filters and filter Q at that time. That was before the price was went over $10/month for basic. But that's all behind me now.
Now instead of paying for basic and being subject to legal action, I pay nothing and am not subject to legal action. I guess they prefer it that way. The other reason I dropped cable was the overload of advertisements on the service I paid for to get rid of all the advertisements. I saw no value in it. Raising the price made it more a a waste of money.
Wow, and a 128 meg card is $45 at costco. The small cards are over twice the price per meg. I've been watching the diffrence in price of less than 10 dollars between the 64 Meg card (largest my camera takes) and the 128 Meg card. I've been trying to get a better deal per meg for my camera. My next camera will not be limited by the size of the media it will accept. Hopefully I can find a good one where I can use any size of CF card.
The sound can't be a great sample rate at any resolution. They are trying to get 5 hours of audio (notice they ddin't say music) in 24 megs of a 32 meg memory card. (note the loss of space to the DRM stuff.) Somehow, I expect my old compact cassette player to have much bette sound. I can't imagine anything that anyone would pay good money for in that low-fi format. The last time I tried to buy one of those cards for my camers, I could only find 64 meg and 128 meg sizes on the shelf. What gives spec'ing this to an obsolete 32 meg card?
I think it uses the liquid gas phase change to carry the heat. This allows the heat to be carried the distance to the radiator without the high temprature diffrence needed to create a convection flow. The unit uses a set of heat pipes, not a loop with a warm side and a cold return side typical of a convection loop.
A stirling engine has no moving parts? That's news to me. I followed your link to the sterling engine page and cliped the specs.
Specifications:
Height: 9.7" (24.6 cm.) Diameter: 6.5" (16.5 cm.) Weight: 1 lb. 3.3 oz. (547 g.) Temperature differential required: 18 degrees F (10 degrees C). Precision Ball Bearings: 4. Piston Material: Graphite. Power Cylinder Material: Borosilicate Glass. Flywheel Material: Acrylic. Metal Parts: Anodized Aluminum and Steel.
Rotational Speed: Approximately 150 rpm (speed depends on temperature differential, barometric pressure, and other factors) When running on your warm hand, the engine will run faster in cold rooms, slower in warm room, and not at all in very hot rooms.
I just don't get the 150 RPM and ball bearing portions of the specification if there are no moving parts.;-)
On a serious note, the sterling engine requires a larger temprature diffrential than most people want to have with their cooling solution.
Just my humble opinion, but in an X-Ray tube, the X-Rays are produced when high speed electrons strike a hard target (tungston in the tube). I wonder if the X-rays do not originate from the lightning strike itself, but from the high current striking the metal (the wire) that has been added to the mix in their test. Any data on a strike minus the added metal? My guess if a strike hits a radio tower, the only portion of the bolt generating X-rays is at the point of the electrons striking the metal tower (assuming cloud negative strike). Just a hunch. I could be completely off base on this one.
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use compressed air and hairspray or starter fluid combined I have no idea how the valve would work on that one. Combustion cannons have no valve and compressed anything would expell the spud. I wouldn't want a closed valve on a compressed combustion cannon. Can you say gernade?
From testing I found an air cannon with a piston quick exhaust valve has about the same performance as a propane/air cannon of the same size when the air is operated at about 40-50 PSI. At 100 PSI it is no longer a contest. For some reason the propane cannon is much noiser, but the air cannon is much more powerful. A friend and I did a comparison about 2 years ago. Both cannons had 2 inch barrels with an overall length of about 8 feet. The air cannon used a piston valve 2-1/2 inches in diamater that directly seated on the 2 inch breech of the barrel inside the air chamber. This provided an air orfice the diamater of the barrel. Look up quick exhaust valves for details of the valve operation. The 8 foot length in both cannons is a safety feature. It's almost impossible to get any body part over the end of the barrel while operating the trigger mechanism.
I prefer the air cannons for safety reasons. They can be hydrostat tested so you know they are not likely to blow up when used at about half the test pressure. You just never know with a combustion cannon. As always, follow some safety guides including pressure testing and ensuring the downrange is clear. My current pnumatic is tested at 150 PSI and operated in the 60-80 PSI range. Holes in 3/4 plywood are no problem to make. A roll of adding machine tape shot into the sky is a sight to behold. It unrolls on the way up and tears into dollar bill size pieces until it looses enough speed to unroll the remainder without tearing. It's a confetti storm of dollar size pieces with a 60 foot streamer at the very top. It's also realtively safe if used in an area with lots of spectators. There are no heavy high speed objects falling out of the sky to injure a spectator. The 8 foot length pointed up keeps onlookers from trying to look down the barrel while charging. It's best to eliminate the plastic core from the roll of paper before use.
I've never listened to a speech with MIDI before. It sounds kinda fun as long as I don't have to use one of the cheap yamaha synth chips. Gotta go XG or better.
you are stealing $6,480 dollars I guess that kills any arguement that copying = lost sales of the same amount. There is no way I could spend $6,480 in 180 days without maxing out my Visa, Master Card, and Discover card. I don't have any where near that much disposable income. If the record companies could entice me with larger portions for less money, I might be interested in buying a few CD's. Right now, I just don't see the value in them. I get several VHS movies instead for the same price.
They also got a chunk of change for my blank Music CDR's. I did buy some Music CDR's for use for copyrighted music. I pre-paid for the content. So why are complaining? They shouldn't collect royalties on blank Music CDR's if you are not allowed to use it for Music.
It's not slander if it's true (be ready to prove it). The facts are never slander, it's reporting. Saying your mother wears army boots when she doesn't is slander. Saying your mother wears army boots when she does is not slander, it's fact.
If you have to be paranoid, look at the spec for RFID. Get at detector for the radio signal. Maybe they will be added to the latest and greatest radar detectors.
On the other hand, you could read the ID's in your own driveway. Only your car would enable the door opener. EG a stolen or spoofed door opener signal would not work.
If it does auto spread, I'll be looking for a listing on F-Secure or McAffee's website. It's the quickest way I find if something is a hoax. If it is real, I would expect it to have been discovered and included in the signature files. If it is real and not included, it would be bad publicity for the anti-virus guys. I don't think they would like to face the publicity of having a real worm ignored and permitted to propogate. The competition that did not hide a real worm would get my business in a hurry.
It won't take very long. The antenna great at capturing RF power to overpower to the tag. The device due to it's size is unable to dissapate much heat. Throw it in with an old AOL CD. They should both be done at about the same time. It should be just a sec or so after the filament warms up in the magnatron.
Doesn't anybody lock down critical program files by checksum checking anymore? At that infection rate, it should have tripped someone's altered file monitor. Then they would have been in the major A/V signature files long ago. That infection rate could not have been a secret very long. I have a bunch of program files that are always checksum'ed at startup. If they change, and I didn't change it, bootup is halted for system repair. Signature files are no longer enough. Virus like activity needs to be watched.
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They got on the bandwagon too late to compete in China. They are selling the legit CD's for under $2 now. Unfortunately, they are doing it too late. They have a hard time retailing them, as there are very few retailers left. All that is left is the mom & pop pirate locations which are everywhere.
:-(
I have limited my CD buying due to the high prices. (2 CD's in 2002, none in 2003)
The industry needs to fix the price problem and go to a volume mode or the high priced caviar music will follow China's lead.
The same is true in the wine industry. I could buy a bottle of Dom, but I never have. It will never be the daily table wine here. However, there are alternitives. Just look at the local grocery. With the music industry, it's Dom or nothing. (except piracy). If they had decent music at the corner gas station for under $3, I could fill up and pick a new selection to try for the commute. The industry has no intrest in the value market so the void left by them is being filled by someone else.
I hope they make the price adjustment and go to a volume model instead of a niche kids market. My library is starving for new material. I also hope they open up the archives. I want to shop a quality shop instead of Goodwill for good older music. Goodwill has good prices, but they don't always have your favorite collectable music in stock.
I like it.. The next virus does not have to delete your documents. All it has to do is wipe out access to the passport server. Can you say locked out of your own work?
It's simple. They still have the market share. Why take a 50% cut just to regain the 1% desktop space lost to Linux. Now if Linux had 25-35% of desktop market share and growing, then I could see them facing the music and making an adjustment. Linux has a long way to go to make it on Joe Six-pack's desk machine. Lindows and Wal-Mart are the first real threat into the desktop space for the masses. It's the first place Joe-Six-pack can pick up a machine, take it home, and run it without figuring out how to use FDISK and trying to find all the needed drivers.
Maybe they will start shipping Windows CE for X-Box to compete with Linux for X-box and price CE less than the royalty on the Linux for X-box certificate. They may have found a way to compete with Linux on price. ;-)
Hmm, I guess I was lucky to never get to it before it went up. I've watched a couple, but never close enough to the bottom before the rise to bite.
Oh well, it was a fun idea however.
I like the tax you proposed if you can get rid of all the rest of the taxes and use fees (National parks, State parks, hunting, fishing, parking, trailhead, road use gas, toll road, bridge toll, property, sales, dmv, clean air, refrigerant/CFC, telephone, power, public transportation business, etc, etc. Only 10.5K would be a bargan for me.
Short answer, Me. Let me explain. This could influence the price of a stock. I can predict the directionof the near term stock price. Check the server stats. If it's new, check the history of the stock price. If the price hasn't jumped up yet, jump on board knowing that it's a scam. If the price has already jumped up, you are too late to ride it up. Don't buy to ride it back down. Plan on not holding but bail right after the price goes up. In other words, take advantage of the spammers work.
I wonder if part of the answer will be to split up hotmail into a bunch of smaller domains, each containing no more than 10,000 users just to make dictionary attacks much less productive. I would love to see that and have each domain contain a honeypot. The honeypot would be the spam filter. Anything sent to any users and the honeypot would deleted. Of course stuff in the honeypots would generate the usual abuse follow-ups.
I've found the CD ripping utility CDeX does a wonderful job. I thought I had a really rotton sound card trying MS sound recorder. That made a very cheap-o cassette recorder on substandard tape sound premium. After using CDeX, I found the record ablility of my sound card is pretty good. Switch the source to Line in instead of CD. I've about finished transering my stuff. Don't connect a magnetic pickup turntable directly to the sound card. Use a quality receiver or amp with a phono input to get proper amplification and EQ curve for the magnetic cartridge. A good turntable with a magnetic cartridge with a quality receiver is a must for this process for good recordings.
Unfortunately, I find the cat and mouse game interesting. I follow the news. However to prevent being on the wrong side of the law, I do not have;
1 Cable TV
2 C band disk
3 DSS
Even though I was given a C band decoder, I have never put together enough hardware to be accused of theft of service. If I had service, I would be tempted to mess with it. Because of that, I just don't have anything to receive it. I had tinkered with cable long time ago when it was analog. A simple notch filter did wonders. I learned alot about designing filters and filter Q at that time. That was before the price was went over $10/month for basic. But that's all behind me now.
Now instead of paying for basic and being subject to legal action, I pay nothing and am not subject to legal action. I guess they prefer it that way.
The other reason I dropped cable was the overload of advertisements on the service I paid for to get rid of all the advertisements. I saw no value in it. Raising the price made it more a a waste of money.
Wow, and a 128 meg card is $45 at costco. The small cards are over twice the price per meg. I've been watching the diffrence in price of less than 10 dollars between the 64 Meg card (largest my camera takes) and the 128 Meg card. I've been trying to get a better deal per meg for my camera. My next camera will not be limited by the size of the media it will accept. Hopefully I can find a good one where I can use any size of CF card.
The sound can't be a great sample rate at any resolution. They are trying to get 5 hours of audio (notice they ddin't say music) in 24 megs of a 32 meg memory card. (note the loss of space to the DRM stuff.) Somehow, I expect my old compact cassette player to have much bette sound.
I can't imagine anything that anyone would pay good money for in that low-fi format.
The last time I tried to buy one of those cards for my camers, I could only find 64 meg and 128 meg sizes on the shelf. What gives spec'ing this to an obsolete 32 meg card?
I think it uses the liquid gas phase change to carry the heat. This allows the heat to be carried the distance to the radiator without the high temprature diffrence needed to create a convection flow. The unit uses a set of heat pipes, not a loop with a warm side and a cold return side typical of a convection loop.
A stirling engine has no moving parts? That's news to me. I followed your link to the sterling engine page and cliped the specs.
;-)
Specifications:
Height: 9.7" (24.6 cm.)
Diameter: 6.5" (16.5 cm.)
Weight: 1 lb. 3.3 oz. (547 g.)
Temperature differential required: 18 degrees F (10 degrees C).
Precision Ball Bearings: 4.
Piston Material: Graphite.
Power Cylinder Material: Borosilicate Glass.
Flywheel Material: Acrylic.
Metal Parts: Anodized Aluminum and Steel.
Rotational Speed: Approximately 150 rpm (speed depends on temperature differential, barometric pressure, and other factors) When running on your warm hand, the engine will run faster in cold rooms, slower in warm room, and not at all in very hot rooms.
I just don't get the 150 RPM and ball bearing portions of the specification if there are no moving parts.
On a serious note, the sterling engine requires a larger temprature diffrential than most people want to have with their cooling solution.
Just my humble opinion, but in an X-Ray tube, the X-Rays are produced when high speed electrons strike a hard target (tungston in the tube). I wonder if the X-rays do not originate from the lightning strike itself, but from the high current striking the metal (the wire) that has been added to the mix in their test. Any data on a strike minus the added metal?
My guess if a strike hits a radio tower, the only portion of the bolt generating X-rays is at the point of the electrons striking the metal tower (assuming cloud negative strike). Just a hunch. I could be completely off base on this one.
use compressed air and hairspray or starter fluid combined I have no idea how the valve would work on that one. Combustion cannons have no valve and compressed anything would expell the spud. I wouldn't want a closed valve on a compressed combustion cannon. Can you say gernade?
From testing I found an air cannon with a piston quick exhaust valve has about the same performance as a propane/air cannon of the same size when the air is operated at about 40-50 PSI. At 100 PSI it is no longer a contest. For some reason the propane cannon is much noiser, but the air cannon is much more powerful.
A friend and I did a comparison about 2 years ago. Both cannons had 2 inch barrels with an overall length of about 8 feet. The air cannon used a piston valve 2-1/2 inches in diamater that directly seated on the 2 inch breech of the barrel inside the air chamber. This provided an air orfice the diamater of the barrel. Look up quick exhaust valves for details of the valve operation. The 8 foot length in both cannons is a safety feature. It's almost impossible to get any body part over the end of the barrel while operating the trigger mechanism.
I prefer the air cannons for safety reasons. They can be hydrostat tested so you know they are not likely to blow up when used at about half the test pressure. You just never know with a combustion cannon. As always, follow some safety guides including pressure testing and ensuring the downrange is clear. My current pnumatic is tested at 150 PSI and operated in the 60-80 PSI range. Holes in 3/4 plywood are no problem to make.
A roll of adding machine tape shot into the sky is a sight to behold. It unrolls on the way up and tears into dollar bill size pieces until it looses enough speed to unroll the remainder without tearing. It's a confetti storm of dollar size pieces with a 60 foot streamer at the very top. It's also realtively safe if used in an area with lots of spectators. There are no heavy high speed objects falling out of the sky to injure a spectator. The 8 foot length pointed up keeps onlookers from trying to look down the barrel while charging. It's best to eliminate the plastic core from the roll of paper before use.
I've never listened to a speech with MIDI before. It sounds kinda fun as long as I don't have to use one of the cheap yamaha synth chips. Gotta go XG or better.
you are stealing $6,480 dollars
I guess that kills any arguement that copying = lost sales of the same amount. There is no way I could spend $6,480 in 180 days without maxing out my Visa, Master Card, and Discover card. I don't have any where near that much disposable income. If the record companies could entice me with larger portions for less money, I might be interested in buying a few CD's. Right now, I just don't see the value in them. I get several VHS movies instead for the same price.
They also got a chunk of change for my blank Music CDR's. I did buy some Music CDR's for use for copyrighted music. I pre-paid for the content. So why are complaining? They shouldn't collect royalties on blank Music CDR's if you are not allowed to use it for Music.
It's not slander if it's true (be ready to prove it). The facts are never slander, it's reporting.
Saying your mother wears army boots when she doesn't is slander.
Saying your mother wears army boots when she does is not slander, it's fact.
Only problem is you get to be in the microwave with the popcorn. I wonder which overheats first?
If you have to be paranoid, look at the spec for RFID. Get at detector for the radio signal. Maybe they will be added to the latest and greatest radar detectors.
On the other hand, you could read the ID's in your own driveway. Only your car would enable the door opener. EG a stolen or spoofed door opener signal would not work.
If it does auto spread, I'll be looking for a listing on F-Secure or McAffee's website. It's the quickest way I find if something is a hoax. If it is real, I would expect it to have been discovered and included in the signature files. If it is real and not included, it would be bad publicity for the anti-virus guys. I don't think they would like to face the publicity of having a real worm ignored and permitted to propogate. The competition that did not hide a real worm would get my business in a hurry.
It won't take very long. The antenna great at capturing RF power to overpower to the tag. The device due to it's size is unable to dissapate much heat. Throw it in with an old AOL CD. They should both be done at about the same time. It should be just a sec or so after the filament warms up in the magnatron.
Doesn't anybody lock down critical program files by checksum checking anymore? At that infection rate, it should have tripped someone's altered file monitor. Then they would have been in the major A/V signature files long ago. That infection rate could not have been a secret very long. I have a bunch of program files that are always checksum'ed at startup. If they change, and I didn't change it, bootup is halted for system repair. Signature files are no longer enough. Virus like activity needs to be watched.