Stand alone players read the header on a blank CD to get information such as what size it is, who made it, what type of die is used, etc. This format information is written and pressed in from the master. It is not alterable as it is pressed not written from the master. Consumer computer CDR's may ignore the Music CD bits. A hardware deveice may have have coding to not ignore these bits and refuse to write to a non-music CD.
I stand corrected again.. It says in the fine print on the second page (PDF won't allow cut and paste.. Darn..) Burn custom music and MP3 CD's.. I guess you can get MP3's out of the box. Now it is starting to look interesting..;-)
It does come with a 10/100 ethernet port. But it looks like it is only used with it's web browser for broadband access thru your supplied router. They are tight lipped about what format you can post your music online. We need a good review of this in action on getting and putting MP3's to and from this device. We also need a positive answer. Will it burn MP3's on a CDR as MP3's and not a music CD? In other words.. Can it export the MP3's?
Hmmm, In that case, I'll hold out for one with an ethernet port instead of a modem. I want the ability to upload/download with my high speed connection and FTP to this device. That way I can also burn the MP3's into a CDR. The website says you can burn your favorite music to CD's. Reading between the lines means a music CD, NOT A MP3 CD!. You won't be getting MP3's off this to share with friends.
Yes I geocache. Just for fun, I have hidden a cache in a Hide A Key box. I have had more than 20 people find it so far. The location given is close enough they can identify what structure in the park it's hidden in, on, or under. Comments about wanting to tear it apart to find the cache are common. Use keyword "Tiny" if you want to look it up on the website. It is not uncommon for a cache to be found 50 or more feet from the posted location, but many finders post the error seen and other cachers get the same results. Caches on mountain ridges with a good WAAS signal typicaly are found with 10 feet. There is no question which tree, brush, or rock outcropping it's hidden under. Signals in heavy forest on the side of a hill or ravine are more of a job to find.
I think the above poster does not have e-mail or is a newbie. The post does not mention anything regarding actually trying to fight spam. Anybody who has recieved it in large quanities knows otherwise. Maybe the above post is just a troll. Sure you can contact them. Call the Tarrot card reader phone number given in the spam and complain. That'll be $10.95 + $3 per minute billed to your phone number. thanks..
Some high end pro audio gear also uses heat pipes to large heat sinks. Getting the geometry right to sit on a socketed CPU is probably why they are not used. Big 3 lead transistors can simply be bolted to a copper block on the heat pipe. I've also seen convection oil cooled equipment.
Anybody that uses a meter should be aware of that. To make it simple, on most TV's the yoke unplugs. Anyone not knowing where the yoke is, or what it is should not attempt this. Most of the HV stuff is on the second anode. It is supposed to bleed off (by a resistor) but don't trust it. It does fail once in a while. The regular B+ usualy disapates quite quickly unless the set is broken.
Warning! A set that does not come on is the set most likely to have stored power as the set is not drawing it from the power supply. Do not assume a dead set has no power. Check it with a meter and discharge the capacitors.
For those who care, I am ISCET certified. (International Society of Certified Electronics Technicians)
I first saw them ad figured this is a mistake. I contacted Radio Shack and Symbol regarding the limited usefullness of the product. I let Digital Convergance know I already had a bar code scanner. What would be wrong with putting the URL in things with a regular extended 3 of 9 barcode? Wouldn't more people connect and use the scanner if they could also be used for other things? If my mouse could be used on one web page and not for any other program like word processing and spreadsheets, I probably wouldn't have a mouse connected. The same thing applies to a single puropse bar code scanner. They got greedy and wanted every scan to belong to them. It backfired as nobody had a reason to connect them. Giving out scanners and having a website with good content linked to the media may have been useful. (scan your coupon here, or scan for a rebate here) Magazines could serial number coupons in a magazine and this may increase magazine sales if you needed to scan a magazine to get an offer listed on a website. The Radio Shack catalog was a good use of the technology, but it was incompatible with my laser scanner. I didn't want to connect another harder to use scanner just to use the catalog. Online orders could have been easy. View more details by scanning the catalog (done). Fill out order by scanning in needed items (missed). Fill out your shipping info by scanning your shipping label (missed). Typos could have been eliminated from online ordering, but due to the DC software, this type of activity could not be done. All scans wanted to launch a new browser window, or take your browser to another web page. It could not be used to fill out an online form.
Colored filters? Never seen one. If you buy a set of projector CRT's (visit a repair shop and ask to see a set of used ones) it is about impossible to tell the colors apart. They all have a yellow whitish phosphor and no filter. To keep from blocking the light produced, they use a phosphor that only produces the color of light needed. No filter = no blocked light = brighter image. If you don't have access to a projector tube set, use a good magnifing glass and look at the screen of your TV when it is off. Can you tell the difference between the red, green and blue phosphors? I can't.
For those most inclined to try it... The red and blue wires to the yoke are usualy the horizontal. The green and yellow are the vert. Never turn on a tv without the yoke connected. It is usualy instant death to the horizontal section and a burned spot in the center of the CRT. Use a meter to verify wire pairs. Reverse the leads on both pairs. One pair turns the immage upside down and the other flips it right to left. Due to the location of the high voltage lead on the top of the CRT, just turning the CRT upside down in the set is not a good idea. The CRT connector usualy will not fit after the tube is turned upside down.
What intellectial property? They gave it away on TV so it's common knowledge now. Remember the commercials? "You got chocolate in my peanut butter?" "You got peanut butter on my cohocolate"? No DMCA reverse engineering here!
It is related to gravity.. The picture tube has a shadow mask. It is thin. It sags slightly (affected by gravity). It is true the beam is affected by the earth's magnetic field, but distortions to the shadow mask are a bigger influence. Try this at home... turn a large TV around and notice the color shift. This color shift is due to reversing the earth's magnetic field 180 degrees. Now lay the set on it's side or upside down. This color shift is due to both gravity and magnetic field. Notice how much greater this shift is. Only a small portion of the shift is due to the earth's magnetic field. The magnetic field was most noticable on large computer monitors that has a fine dot pitch as the small shift could more easly misallign the beam to the phosphor. Most TV's have large pitch so the magnetic field has a smaller effect on color purity.
For anybody who wants to know why they are so dim..
A CRT projector of the 3 tube variety uses this setup for several reasons related to brightness. Number one on the list is no slot mask! Each tube is one color. You are not blocking 80% of the electron beam to the phosphor with a matrix shadow mask inside the CRT.
Number 2 on the list is F stop. A large CRT giving off light with a lens far away gets very little light to and thru the lens. Most (about 80% or more) of the light hits the inside of the box instead of the lens. A projector set uses a small set of CRT's so the lens is very close to the CRT getting most of the light thru the lens. The smaller CRT's can easly have flat faces taking care of the focal plane problem also.
Raw Power.. The small CRT's in a projection set are not limited in beam current as there is no shadow mask to worry about overheating. The face of the CRT is gel or liquid coupled to the lense to reduce interelement reflections and aid in cooling. They can put out brightnesses on the face of the CRT's that can be painful to look at unlike a conventional tube.
The last item is when the distance to a projection surface doubles, the brightness goes down with the square of the distance. Doubling the distance to double the size decreases the brightness 4 fold. This is true for both a real projector and the home made variety, but the home made doesn't have the brightness to sacrifice on the larger immage.
With all these factors working for a 3 tube projector and against a single tube, the diffrence in projected brightness is typicaly more than 200X brighter. Translation.. a room with a couple candles in it will typicaly wash out the image on the home made projectors.
I've had two failures out of two in the last six months. That's 100% in 6 months for me. Those with them know the sound. Repeat after me. Click zitt zitt zitt. Click zit zit zit. Click zit zit zit. They work fine until after they were shut down. On boot up, they are corrupt and dead.
I would asume it would be so your phone doesn't go dead when you stop at the street corner to wait for the light to change.;-)
Humor aside, it's the same reason your car has a battery. It is not there to keep the lights on when the car is parked, but to provide high power (starting) for short amounts of time. The shoes may generate a half watt. Some mobile phones run on 2 watts. The other 1-1/2 watts come from the battery while talking on the phone.
Thanks, I was checking everything marked "download" and it wasn't there, It was stuck in a list of other links. I missed it as I was looking for a winamp download, not links to elswhere.
Anybody have a Dennon Test CD or digital equivilant? Anyone have a distortion anlyzer? Osciliscope? Spectrum display? Take a CD of some of the sine wave tracks (direct digital mastered) and encode them into the various formats. Check the results. I am interested in THD, S/N ratio, Jitter, and ailising frequencies. Anybody up to this and posting repeatable test results? Lets find out what the artifacts are on a 20 HZ bass signal as well a 440 HZ and 3 KHZ. I have part of the test equipment needed to perform the tests. My amp is rated at 0.005% THD which is below the capibilities of my test equipment to measure it.
I guess it depends on what your browser reports. I got the following...
Requirements: This BETA version of Winamp3 requires a Pentium II or higher class processor, 64MB of RAM (128MB recommended), and Windows 98 and higher (Windows 2000/XP Recommended).
The D/L file is an EXE not an RPM. I guess I'll have to boot back in the other OS to get the RPM. They choose the Win/Lin version depending on what browser you arrive with.
Some customers who don't do the homework are easly hooked by the little line at the bottom of the slip claiming "you saved $$$.$$".
An example I like to show, non grocery related, is ink jet ink. My old printer (HP722) used color cartridges that were 30 mL of ink.(HP C1823D) I bought them in the two pack for about $45. My new printer uses a standard cartridge that is 19 mL for $32.00 The high capacity cartridge is 38 mL for $53.00 for a savings of over $10 over two standard cartridges.(HP 78 A & D)
I quickly saw the large capacity cartridge had only 8 mL more ink than my old printer cartridge at more than double the price. The big price change over my older printer rang an alarm bell, so I bought bulk color ink at 13.95 per 1/2 pint.
I only buy a cartridge when one plugs up beyond revovery. I retained my old printer for printing web pages and other non critical stuff and use the new printer only for digital photography. My prints are often mistaken for conventional photos.
Do ya think Microsoft would add the cost of the "EU" tax on top of the product? Do you think they would shame the EU by advertising the cost went up because of the EU tax (fine)? They have a monopoly. They can jack up the price without loosing too much market share. If you don't believe me, Star Office cost me less than $70 for the windows/linux retail non upgrade retail boxed version. MS office pro runs about $500. They do about the same thing... If you communicate business to business, It's MS or nothing in most shops.
It is a problem in a situation in a nearby lightning strike. Most Cat 5 is not protected for voltage spikes over 10KV when stuff arcs over into the sensitive stuff.. Fiber on the other hand isn't bothered by a 500,000 volt surge end to end on a 500 foot cable.
I found there is a cost to the database, which is of course passed along to consumers. (Serious now, who do you think pays for it?) I have found out long ago that most stores that do not have the program have lower average prices all the time. It just isn't worth the trip to the high priced store just to see what the K-mart style special item is this week. I save lots more elsewhere without the cost of the database program added to the cost of the products. I quit shopping Safeway because the noticable differance in the bottom line. A 3.50 item with a savings of.75 is still more than the same item at 2.50 elsewhere.
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Stand alone players read the header on a blank CD to get information such as what size it is, who made it, what type of die is used, etc. This format information is written and pressed in from the master. It is not alterable as it is pressed not written from the master. Consumer computer CDR's may ignore the Music CD bits. A hardware deveice may have have coding to not ignore these bits and refuse to write to a non-music CD.
First time this gets tumble dried with wool pants and a polyester shirt, it will be toast!
I stand corrected again.. It says in the fine print on the second page (PDF won't allow cut and paste.. Darn..) Burn custom music and MP3 CD's.. I guess you can get MP3's out of the box. Now it is starting to look interesting.. ;-)
It does come with a 10/100 ethernet port. But it looks like it is only used with it's web browser for broadband access thru your supplied router. They are tight lipped about what format you can post your music online. We need a good review of this in action on getting and putting MP3's to and from this device. We also need a positive answer. Will it burn MP3's on a CDR as MP3's and not a music CD? In other words.. Can it export the MP3's?
Hmmm, In that case, I'll hold out for one with an ethernet port instead of a modem. I want the ability to upload/download with my high speed connection and FTP to this device. That way I can also burn the MP3's into a CDR. The website says you can burn your favorite music to CD's. Reading between the lines means a music CD, NOT A MP3 CD!. You won't be getting MP3's off this to share with friends.
Yes I geocache. Just for fun, I have hidden a cache in a Hide A Key box. I have had more than 20 people find it so far. The location given is close enough they can identify what structure in the park it's hidden in, on, or under. Comments about wanting to tear it apart to find the cache are common. Use keyword "Tiny" if you want to look it up on the website. It is not uncommon for a cache to be found 50 or more feet from the posted location, but many finders post the error seen and other cachers get the same results. Caches on mountain ridges with a good WAAS signal typicaly are found with 10 feet. There is no question which tree, brush, or rock outcropping it's hidden under. Signals in heavy forest on the side of a hill or ravine are more of a job to find.
I think the above poster does not have e-mail or is a newbie. The post does not mention anything regarding actually trying to fight spam. Anybody who has recieved it in large quanities knows otherwise. Maybe the above post is just a troll. Sure you can contact them. Call the Tarrot card reader phone number given in the spam and complain. That'll be $10.95 + $3 per minute billed to your phone number. thanks..
Some high end pro audio gear also uses heat pipes to large heat sinks. Getting the geometry right to sit on a socketed CPU is probably why they are not used. Big 3 lead transistors can simply be bolted to a copper block on the heat pipe. I've also seen convection oil cooled equipment.
Warning! A set that does not come on is the set most likely to have stored power as the set is not drawing it from the power supply. Do not assume a dead set has no power. Check it with a meter and discharge the capacitors.
For those who care, I am ISCET certified. (International Society of Certified Electronics Technicians)
I first saw them ad figured this is a mistake. I contacted Radio Shack and Symbol regarding the limited usefullness of the product. I let Digital Convergance know I already had a bar code scanner. What would be wrong with putting the URL in things with a regular extended 3 of 9 barcode? Wouldn't more people connect and use the scanner if they could also be used for other things? If my mouse could be used on one web page and not for any other program like word processing and spreadsheets, I probably wouldn't have a mouse connected. The same thing applies to a single puropse bar code scanner. They got greedy and wanted every scan to belong to them. It backfired as nobody had a reason to connect them. Giving out scanners and having a website with good content linked to the media may have been useful. (scan your coupon here, or scan for a rebate here) Magazines could serial number coupons in a magazine and this may increase magazine sales if you needed to scan a magazine to get an offer listed on a website. The Radio Shack catalog was a good use of the technology, but it was incompatible with my laser scanner. I didn't want to connect another harder to use scanner just to use the catalog. Online orders could have been easy. View more details by scanning the catalog (done). Fill out order by scanning in needed items (missed). Fill out your shipping info by scanning your shipping label (missed). Typos could have been eliminated from online ordering, but due to the DC software, this type of activity could not be done. All scans wanted to launch a new browser window, or take your browser to another web page. It could not be used to fill out an online form.
Colored filters? Never seen one. If you buy a set of projector CRT's (visit a repair shop and ask to see a set of used ones) it is about impossible to tell the colors apart. They all have a yellow whitish phosphor and no filter. To keep from blocking the light produced, they use a phosphor that only produces the color of light needed. No filter = no blocked light = brighter image. If you don't have access to a projector tube set, use a good magnifing glass and look at the screen of your TV when it is off. Can you tell the difference between the red, green and blue phosphors? I can't.
For those most inclined to try it... The red and blue wires to the yoke are usualy the horizontal. The green and yellow are the vert. Never turn on a tv without the yoke connected. It is usualy instant death to the horizontal section and a burned spot in the center of the CRT. Use a meter to verify wire pairs. Reverse the leads on both pairs. One pair turns the immage upside down and the other flips it right to left. Due to the location of the high voltage lead on the top of the CRT, just turning the CRT upside down in the set is not a good idea. The CRT connector usualy will not fit after the tube is turned upside down.
What intellectial property? They gave it away on TV so it's common knowledge now. Remember the commercials? "You got chocolate in my peanut butter?" "You got peanut butter on my cohocolate"? No DMCA reverse engineering here!
It is related to gravity.. The picture tube has a shadow mask. It is thin. It sags slightly (affected by gravity). It is true the beam is affected by the earth's magnetic field, but distortions to the shadow mask are a bigger influence. Try this at home... turn a large TV around and notice the color shift. This color shift is due to reversing the earth's magnetic field 180 degrees. Now lay the set on it's side or upside down. This color shift is due to both gravity and magnetic field. Notice how much greater this shift is. Only a small portion of the shift is due to the earth's magnetic field. The magnetic field was most noticable on large computer monitors that has a fine dot pitch as the small shift could more easly misallign the beam to the phosphor. Most TV's have large pitch so the magnetic field has a smaller effect on color purity.
A CRT projector of the 3 tube variety uses this setup for several reasons related to brightness. Number one on the list is no slot mask! Each tube is one color. You are not blocking 80% of the electron beam to the phosphor with a matrix shadow mask inside the CRT.
Number 2 on the list is F stop. A large CRT giving off light with a lens far away gets very little light to and thru the lens. Most (about 80% or more) of the light hits the inside of the box instead of the lens. A projector set uses a small set of CRT's so the lens is very close to the CRT getting most of the light thru the lens. The smaller CRT's can easly have flat faces taking care of the focal plane problem also.
Raw Power.. The small CRT's in a projection set are not limited in beam current as there is no shadow mask to worry about overheating. The face of the CRT is gel or liquid coupled to the lense to reduce interelement reflections and aid in cooling. They can put out brightnesses on the face of the CRT's that can be painful to look at unlike a conventional tube.
The last item is when the distance to a projection surface doubles, the brightness goes down with the square of the distance. Doubling the distance to double the size decreases the brightness 4 fold. This is true for both a real projector and the home made variety, but the home made doesn't have the brightness to sacrifice on the larger immage.
With all these factors working for a 3 tube projector and against a single tube, the diffrence in projected brightness is typicaly more than 200X brighter. Translation.. a room with a couple candles in it will typicaly wash out the image on the home made projectors.
I've had two failures out of two in the last six months. That's 100% in 6 months for me. Those with them know the sound. Repeat after me. Click zitt zitt zitt. Click zit zit zit. Click zit zit zit. They work fine until after they were shut down. On boot up, they are corrupt and dead.
Humor aside, it's the same reason your car has a battery. It is not there to keep the lights on when the car is parked, but to provide high power (starting) for short amounts of time. The shoes may generate a half watt. Some mobile phones run on 2 watts. The other 1-1/2 watts come from the battery while talking on the phone.
Thanks, I was checking everything marked "download" and it wasn't there, It was stuck in a list of other links. I missed it as I was looking for a winamp download, not links to elswhere.
Anybody have a Dennon Test CD or digital equivilant? Anyone have a distortion anlyzer? Osciliscope? Spectrum display? Take a CD of some of the sine wave tracks (direct digital mastered) and encode them into the various formats. Check the results. I am interested in THD, S/N ratio, Jitter, and ailising frequencies. Anybody up to this and posting repeatable test results? Lets find out what the artifacts are on a 20 HZ bass signal as well a 440 HZ and 3 KHZ. I have part of the test equipment needed to perform the tests. My amp is rated at 0.005% THD which is below the capibilities of my test equipment to measure it.
Requirements: This BETA version of Winamp3 requires a Pentium II or higher class processor, 64MB of RAM (128MB recommended), and Windows 98 and higher (Windows 2000/XP Recommended).
The D/L file is an EXE not an RPM. I guess I'll have to boot back in the other OS to get the RPM. They choose the Win/Lin version depending on what browser you arrive with.
An example I like to show, non grocery related, is ink jet ink. My old printer (HP722) used color cartridges that were 30 mL of ink.(HP C1823D) I bought them in the two pack for about $45. My new printer uses a standard cartridge that is 19 mL for $32.00 The high capacity cartridge is 38 mL for $53.00 for a savings of over $10 over two standard cartridges.(HP 78 A & D)
I quickly saw the large capacity cartridge had only 8 mL more ink than my old printer cartridge at more than double the price. The big price change over my older printer rang an alarm bell, so I bought bulk color ink at 13.95 per 1/2 pint.
I only buy a cartridge when one plugs up beyond revovery. I retained my old printer for printing web pages and other non critical stuff and use the new printer only for digital photography. My prints are often mistaken for conventional photos.
Do ya think Microsoft would add the cost of the "EU" tax on top of the product? Do you think they would shame the EU by advertising the cost went up because of the EU tax (fine)? They have a monopoly. They can jack up the price without loosing too much market share. If you don't believe me, Star Office cost me less than $70 for the windows/linux retail non upgrade retail boxed version. MS office pro runs about $500. They do about the same thing... If you communicate business to business, It's MS or nothing in most shops.
It is a problem in a situation in a nearby lightning strike. Most Cat 5 is not protected for voltage spikes over 10KV when stuff arcs over into the sensitive stuff.. Fiber on the other hand isn't bothered by a 500,000 volt surge end to end on a 500 foot cable.
I found there is a cost to the database, which is of course passed along to consumers. (Serious now, who do you think pays for it?) I have found out long ago that most stores that do not have the program have lower average prices all the time. It just isn't worth the trip to the high priced store just to see what the K-mart style special item is this week. I save lots more elsewhere without the cost of the database program added to the cost of the products. I quit shopping Safeway because the noticable differance in the bottom line. A 3.50 item with a savings of .75 is still more than the same item at 2.50 elsewhere.
New note on the web server.. Beeping has been disabled.