A good option would be to simply photoshop out the cars, but leave the background with a image under copyright dispute in the resulting white space. Maybe Ford will get a clue. I would buy one of the calandars just as an example of the ills of some IP laws.
Here is a photo of me in my new car! Sorry, Here is a photo of me and the shape of my new car.
All ipods install Quicktime on your computer, and quicktime is DEFINITELY malware. Apple should be ashamed.
I haven't had that problem lately. I noticed that iTunes seems to try to install Quicktime, but since I've moved to Ubuntu, that problem has gone away. GTKPod
with the proper lib works wonders on an iPod in place of iTunes/Quicktime on Windows.
I guess that's what I get for posting at 3:44 AM. Thanks.. As long as we are speaking of errors, speed errors impact both. I prefer a quartz lock drive. I don't DJ, so I don't need variable speed.
My favorite collectable is a 10 inch record (not vinyl) that my folks have. It is a demo of the new record. It is recorded on both sides! Turn it over and play the back. I'll have to see if I can swipe it from them long enough to rip it to post online as a nastalga item.
http://www.geocities.com/quadaudio/page6CD-4.html "CD-4 This is the "odd man out" in the quad world. Extremely 'fine' grooves were etched onto the vinyl record to provide frequencies between 35,000 and 50,000 hertz. The CD-4 demodulator sensed these high frequencies then converted them to a range of around 100 to 15,000 hertz.
Care to try to record and playback a 35-50KHZ analog signal on a CD? It was done on LP's.
They can sound better if you have a good turntable with a good cartridge, a good preamp and amp, and good speakers that are capable of resolving the differences between digital and analog audio.
The ones I laugh at are the ones who get a USB turntable because they don't like digital sound and want the analog experiance.
They get better sound simply because most vinyl isn't in the loudness war to kill the dynamic range. A CD with about 96 DB of dynamic range should sould better than the about 65 DB dynamic range of a turntable. Unfortunately the advantage of the CD format is often engineered out to sound louder.
The irony is a USB analog turntable outputs a digital signal on the USB cable. Often the sample rate is the same as a CD. Even more often they are sold to the clueless without even listing the sample rate or bits. Quick, can you tell me if this is an 8 bit, 16 bit, 24 bit, sample size at 16K, 44.1, 48, 96, 128 Ksamples/sec? http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/mp3/90a0/ They advertise it on a geek website without posting the important specs.. Guys, what's the wow & flutter and rumble levels?
For me, I'm sticking to my 1980's moving coil linear track turntable with a good reciever plugged into a quality mixer (to set levels) which is then fed into a pro USB a/d converter. I capture at 96KHZ 24bit and downconvert to CD quality to burn CD's. It works for me.
Some of these turntables get poor marks for their conversion to digital quality. "The TTUSB10 as a Turntable After my disappointing experience with the TTUSB10 USB turntable's recorded sound quality, I plugged it into the phono input in my stereo, hoping for some sweeter sounds. This time around, the TTUSB10 did not let me down: smooth, rich audio came through the speakers and my test headphones without a trace of the harsh digital noise that plagued my test recordings. It would be a bit of a waste of money just to buy it as a standard turntable, but if nothing else, the TTUSB10 makes for an excellent unit for playing your vinyl music collection on your stereo system." http://www.everythingusb.com/ion_ttusb10_usb_turntable_13231.html
Huh, and here I was thinking the RIAA was supposed to be a standards body promulgating a common equalization curve for grooved recordings.
They are. They are also the ones who forgot to tell the labels that the Compact Disc is a standard format used to sell music. Now we have incompatible and dangerous shiny plastic round things that no longer follow the standard that works and is safe. Visit any CD section and look for the Compact Disc logo on any of them. The RIAA fell down on this one.
It is less of an issue as more player now take more formats, but many players simply have not joined the multi-format pool beyond 2 or 3 formats with MP3 as the only common denominator.
Take an Ipod of any model, Creative flash player of any model, most Cell phones, Zune, Car stereo with ability to play off a USB thumb drive, and any portable DVD player. Now make a list of all supported formats for each and look for the one common denominator. It's still MP3 and nothing else.
Yeah, or presenters sticking electrical tape over the remote sensors on the displays.
Anyone in IR photography knows that most organic dyes are IR transparant. A glass of Coke looks like a glass of sprite. Polarized dark sunglasses look like clear prescription sunglasses. Most electrical tape is near IR transparent. To be effective use something with a carbon base dye, such as toner from a photocopier. Tape several layers of black printed paper over the sensor. It will work much better.
Encryption is not needed. Replacing the original factory IR receiver with a coax link to the head end (program source cabinet) is the simple solution. Make up cables and route them with the video lines for complete secure control. This is a simple job for a good TV shop to remove the original IR diode and replace it with an optocoupler. This makes monitors and TV's immune to stray IR signals in a room.
The seem to spontaneously launch into the air, gravitating toward the point of RF emission that induced the sports footage vacuum.
If I was a geek (I am), up to no good (I am not) and intent on being discreet in that type of hack, it's easy to remove the IR diode from the remote and with a length of wire, remote it to your MP3 player headphones. Nobody needs to know you did it.
I have modified remotes in the past for another purpose. In a head end in a hotel, a rack of satellite receivers can easily be messed up buy using a full power remote to change the program on one receiver in a rack. I have changed the LED current limiting resistor from a low resistance to several K ohm to make a remote with less than a 6 inch range. It was perfect for changing the channel on just one receiver instead of the entire rack.
I don't know about your part of the world, but here in the UK record labels decided that the logo wasn't very important years before they introduced DRM.
I'll tell you about my part of the world. When the DRM stuff hit and I learned about Defective by design, I then decided to only buy stuff with the logo. I gave up shopping retail for CD's because finding one was like looking for a 4 leaf clover. They were few and far between.
If the RIAA realy wants to do something good for the music industry, they should insist the member labels use the official format and properly label their product. Then advertise, look for the logo for a genuine CD. Extras and videos can be included on a 2 disc set on the second disc, but the package must include a properly labeled Compact Disc tm. If they offered Compact Discs tm. and the consumers knew it and the price was right and the music is of proper quality, then they may be able to turn around the sagging sales. For those in the know and currently watching the RIAA radar, dropping the litigation campaign would be a step again in improving sales. I fall in that camp. If it's not got a Compact Disc tm. logo or on the RIAA radar site as UNSAFE, it's no sale. As such I haven't bought much music lately except from American Gramophone and Pure and Simple Music labels.
but amazon only sells drm free tracks - and itunes sells a few drm free tracks.
True, but Amaxon is selling tracks in the universal format. Apple is not. Tracks from Amazon will play in by son's iPod, my daughter's Creative Zen, my Coby MP3 player, and in my living room DVD player. Itunes tracks on the other hand will play on my Son's Ipod and a couple computers and nowhere else. The choice of music vendors is simply a matter of compatibility for many. DRM is a compatibility issue. So is formats other than MP3.
I think it is a good move on Sony's part to release DRM-free music. But it is too soon to start buying their stuff. They are still Sony. Don't forget the Blu-Ray DRM. With the region codes they intend to spring if they win the format war. And don't forget the rootkit fiasco. As I understand it, Sony continues to plant trojans on their CDs, they just don't contain rootkits anymore. Yes, definitely too soon.
Think what they didn't say. They are not above suspicion. Think they would love to track. Think files watermarked with your account information. Think file sharing and litigation. Only the paranoid survive. It's Sony. I don't trust them.
Such a disappointment to find that it didn't involve stealing at all, but just some boring copyright violation.
What's not boring is the amount of money stolen from the companies through the legal system. People wonder why the jobs are going overseas.. Many places have lower labor rates and lower risk to doing business. I don't blame them for pulling out and moving to a place less dangerous to business. This does not just impact the companies directly involved. It has chilling effects. The business climate is tested by anyone wanting to start a business and anyone in business. Your next job may simply not be there.
I've modded my pedal after the cheap one that came with the kit inevitably broke after the third day of playing. Since the bass pedal connects to the rest of the kit using a mono audio plug, it's easy for someone with even the most rudimentary knowledge of electronics (me) to rig a real bass pedal to work with the kit. Documented here: http://rockband.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2029 [scorehero.com]
Having a background in high reliability electronics, I know many switches are rated for a limited number of operations before they wear out. A button designed for occasional use often quickly expire in this type application which you found out. In many places a non-contact sensor is a much better choice. Either an optical interrupter or magnetic hall sensor or reed switch will be a better fit. The advantage of non-contact sensors is not only the wear issues, but they make no changes to the original function of the pedal.
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I couldn't have done it by describing a BJT (transistor), because they're far weirder.
To make bipolar simpler, they are simply a current amplifier, not a voltage amplifier. Think power steering. You push some, the force is boosted in proportion to the push you provide. The low voltage current needed to drive them instead of a high impedance voltage is why much bi-polar stuff is low impedance.
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Any person who is not tone deaf can tell the difference between solid state distortion and tube distortion. Please don't compare the basic principles of rock guitar with overpriced audiophile folly.
Much of the overpriced is going away along with tube microphonics, gassy tubes, high voltage resistors, capacitors and high power consumption. With Digital Signal Processing DSP is rapidly providing 24 bit 40KHZ or higher modeling of the classic sounds without the problems and high cost. The overdrive curve of tubes can easly be modeled in a DSP.
So how exactly is it Microsoft Windows Vista's fault for the fact that Adobe releases poorly written software and nagware patchers that demand admin rights to run even when you don't interact with them?
Vista did the thing it was designed to do. Get permission where required. The bad part is stopping the show for the dialog box instead of simply blinking a toolbar item like in Ubuntu.
I already use OpenDNS. How does OpenDNS compare with ScrubIT?
The biggest thing I noticed is the lack of any need to create an account. If you want to use ScrubIT, it's as simple as simply using their DNS server. In my case, I simply plugged in the DNS numbers in the router and that instantly protects the entire LAN including net appliances and all OS versions.
Just plug in the DNS numbers 67.138.54.100 and 207.225.209.66 into your router and the filter is done.
DRM'd to the eyeballs compact discs are NOT Redbook audio.
Just for grins, vist the music section of your local Wal*Mart or Best Buy and look at a few of the offerings. Grab 100 and then look for the official Compact Disc logo. Did you find it on over 5% of the disks? Consumers quit looking for the official product. They associate the packaging with a Compact Disc recording in a form of false advertising. Those who were paying the royalty for the official Compact Disc logo simply quit as the product sold just fine without it. Now that Defective by Design product is everywhere, it's time to let the labels know they have to be off the RIAA Radar and proudly display the official Compact Disc logo to boost their sales. http://www.riaaradar.com/ http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/spring05/cps182s/assign/project/fall03/mjt14_2/CDcopy.pdf
Another approach is to just block it in your HOSTS file:
A filtered DNS server goes a long way and often is already blocking the content before you learn about it. A filtered DNS server isn't just for NSFW sites. It's a good idea. Common phishing sites, malware, and porn are filtered cross platform. I use it all the time now.
It is community supported so when a new malware site pops up, anyone can report it so it can be quickly re-routed to the warning page instead of the bad page.
For some reason, a lot of PC manufacturers don't give the consumer an option for a pre-loaded OS.
This is true. In the past (DOS days) people would ask me regarding computer purchase selections. What I said then is just as true today. Find out what programs you need to run and then find the hardware which is capabile of running it.
Many people wanting to do multimedia, photography, video production, etc are needing something with realtime hardware support. Those people are moving to hardware and OS that support the required applications. Vista is not a real time OS and is unsuitable for many capture devices. Alternatives to fill the gap often include Apple and some Linux distributions such as Ubuntu Studio.
Nothing kills a live session more than a request for an Adobe PDF viewer update request in the middle of a session. I got this one during a live presentation while playing a DVD. The DVD on the projector simply stopped. Going to the laptop, we discovered that despite the fact were in the field with no internet connection, Adobe needed our permission to get an update. The fact a PDF viewer has permission to stop the show by having Windows Vista stop it to ask permission for an update without a net connection convinced me that Vista is unsuitable for presentation and digital audio workstation applications.
My Digital Audio Workstation is now Ubuntu Studio based with low latency and no interruptions of a live recording session. Some people prefer an Apple soulution.
Many capture devices have serious latency and breakup problems in Vista. Audacity works in Vista, but capturing sound should be done on another platform.
I found some of the Yamaha mixers with built-in USB interfaces list Vista, but the manual was quick to point out problems are caused if it has too little memory, has a slower processor, or several other items that can cause problems with multi-track recordings.
For real-time capture, I prefer to use a hardware priority OS. I have used this instead of Vista for Digital Music Studio work. http://ubuntustudio.org/
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A good option would be to simply photoshop out the cars, but leave the background with a image under copyright dispute in the resulting white space. Maybe Ford will get a clue. I would buy one of the calandars just as an example of the ills of some IP laws.
Here is a photo of me in my new car! Sorry, Here is a photo of me and the shape of my new car.
All ipods install Quicktime on your computer, and quicktime is DEFINITELY malware. Apple should be ashamed.
I haven't had that problem lately. I noticed that iTunes seems to try to install Quicktime, but since I've moved to Ubuntu, that problem has gone away. GTKPod
with the proper lib works wonders on an iPod in place of iTunes/Quicktime on Windows.
Typical viral spread, the only difference being that now it's high-tech electronics being used as the vector, not simple media.
What is missing from most flash based devices is what floppies had.. A write protect.
Wow and rumble, yes. But flutter refers to tape.
I guess that's what I get for posting at 3:44 AM. Thanks.. As long as we are speaking of errors, speed errors impact both. I prefer a quartz lock drive. I don't DJ, so I don't need variable speed.
My favorite collectable is a 10 inch record (not vinyl) that my folks have. It is a demo of the new record. It is recorded on both sides! Turn it over and play the back. I'll have to see if I can swipe it from them long enough to rip it to post online as a nastalga item.
Proof is here..
http://www.geocities.com/quadaudio/page6CD-4.html
"CD-4
This is the "odd man out" in the quad world. Extremely 'fine' grooves were etched onto the vinyl record to provide frequencies between 35,000 and 50,000 hertz. The CD-4 demodulator sensed these high frequencies then converted them to a range of around 100 to 15,000 hertz.
Care to try to record and playback a 35-50KHZ analog signal on a CD? It was done on LP's.
They can sound better if you have a good turntable with a good cartridge, a good preamp and amp, and good speakers that are capable of resolving the differences between digital and analog audio.
The ones I laugh at are the ones who get a USB turntable because they don't like digital sound and want the analog experiance.
They get better sound simply because most vinyl isn't in the loudness war to kill the dynamic range. A CD with about 96 DB of dynamic range should sould better than the about 65 DB dynamic range of a turntable. Unfortunately the advantage of the CD format is often engineered out to sound louder.
The irony is a USB analog turntable outputs a digital signal on the USB cable. Often the sample rate is the same as a CD. Even more often they are sold to the clueless without even listing the sample rate or bits. Quick, can you tell me if this is an 8 bit, 16 bit, 24 bit, sample size at 16K, 44.1, 48, 96, 128 Ksamples/sec?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/mp3/90a0/
They advertise it on a geek website without posting the important specs.. Guys, what's the wow & flutter and rumble levels?
For me, I'm sticking to my 1980's moving coil linear track turntable with a good reciever plugged into a quality mixer (to set levels) which is then fed into a pro USB a/d converter. I capture at 96KHZ 24bit and downconvert to CD quality to burn CD's. It works for me.
Here is another USB turntable with no specs listed.
http://www.amazon.com/Ion-iTTUSB-Turntable-USB-Record/dp/B000BUEMOO
and another;
http://www.amazon.com/Numark-TTUSB-Turntable-with-USB/dp/B000G3FNVM
Here is one that is reviewed and the A/D stats are known..
The sound quality was as good as can be expected from old, scratchy records. The built-in audio card records 16-bit at 44.1khz
http://reviews.cnet.com/turntables/stanton-t-90-usb/4505-7860_7-32417457.html
Wow, no better than CD quality...
Some of these turntables get poor marks for their conversion to digital quality.
"The TTUSB10 as a Turntable
After my disappointing experience with the TTUSB10 USB turntable's recorded sound quality, I plugged it into the phono input in my stereo, hoping for some sweeter sounds. This time around, the TTUSB10 did not let me down: smooth, rich audio came through the speakers and my test headphones without a trace of the harsh digital noise that plagued my test recordings. It would be a bit of a waste of money just to buy it as a standard turntable, but if nothing else, the TTUSB10 makes for an excellent unit for playing your vinyl music collection on your stereo system."
http://www.everythingusb.com/ion_ttusb10_usb_turntable_13231.html
Huh, and here I was thinking the RIAA was supposed to be a standards body promulgating a common equalization curve for grooved recordings.
They are. They are also the ones who forgot to tell the labels that the Compact Disc is a standard format used to sell music. Now we have incompatible and dangerous shiny plastic round things that no longer follow the standard that works and is safe. Visit any CD section and look for the Compact Disc logo on any of them. The RIAA fell down on this one.
It is less of an issue as more player now take more formats, but many players simply have not joined the multi-format pool beyond 2 or 3 formats with MP3 as the only common denominator.
Take an Ipod of any model, Creative flash player of any model, most Cell phones, Zune, Car stereo with ability to play off a USB thumb drive, and any portable DVD player. Now make a list of all supported formats for each and look for the one common denominator. It's still MP3 and nothing else.
Yeah, or presenters sticking electrical tape over the remote sensors on the displays.
Anyone in IR photography knows that most organic dyes are IR transparant. A glass of Coke looks like a glass of sprite. Polarized dark sunglasses look like clear prescription sunglasses. Most electrical tape is near IR transparent. To be effective use something with a carbon base dye, such as toner from a photocopier. Tape several layers of black printed paper over the sensor. It will work much better.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1058/602658344_0be4c13df8.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.justuber.com/blog/index.php%3Ftag%3Dhardware&h=375&w=500&sz=98&hl=en&start=10&tbnid=L9d50sVmPqCswM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3DIR%2Bglass%2Bcoke%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG
Scroll to the bottom of the page for a photo of a Bottle of coke in IR.
One photo on this page might not be safe for work.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd295/terence78/ir_pass_filter.jpg&imgrefurl=http://ebay.auction.co.kr/detail.html%3FitemNo%3D350010425088%26FeedBackPercent%3D99.4&h=358&w=476&sz=36&hl=en&start=8&tbnid=ck6ntVdUsz4wkM:&tbnh=97&tbnw=129&prev=/images%3Fq%3DIR%2Bsunglasses%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG
Encryption is not needed. Replacing the original factory IR receiver with a coax link to the head end (program source cabinet) is the simple solution. Make up cables and route them with the video lines for complete secure control. This is a simple job for a good TV shop to remove the original IR diode and replace it with an optocoupler. This makes monitors and TV's immune to stray IR signals in a room.
The seem to spontaneously launch into the air, gravitating toward the point of RF emission that induced the sports footage vacuum.
If I was a geek (I am), up to no good (I am not) and intent on being discreet in that type of hack, it's easy to remove the IR diode from the remote and with a length of wire, remote it to your MP3 player headphones. Nobody needs to know you did it.
I have modified remotes in the past for another purpose. In a head end in a hotel, a rack of satellite receivers can easily be messed up buy using a full power remote to change the program on one receiver in a rack. I have changed the LED current limiting resistor from a low resistance to several K ohm to make a remote with less than a 6 inch range. It was perfect for changing the channel on just one receiver instead of the entire rack.
I don't know about your part of the world, but here in the UK record labels decided that the logo wasn't very important years before they introduced DRM.
I'll tell you about my part of the world. When the DRM stuff hit and I learned about Defective by design, I then decided to only buy stuff with the logo. I gave up shopping retail for CD's because finding one was like looking for a 4 leaf clover. They were few and far between.
If the RIAA realy wants to do something good for the music industry, they should insist the member labels use the official format and properly label their product. Then advertise, look for the logo for a genuine CD. Extras and videos can be included on a 2 disc set on the second disc, but the package must include a properly labeled Compact Disc tm. If they offered Compact Discs tm. and the consumers knew it and the price was right and the music is of proper quality, then they may be able to turn around the sagging sales. For those in the know and currently watching the RIAA radar, dropping the litigation campaign would be a step again in improving sales. I fall in that camp. If it's not got a Compact Disc tm. logo or on the RIAA radar site as UNSAFE, it's no sale. As such I haven't bought much music lately except from American Gramophone and Pure and Simple Music labels.
but amazon only sells drm free tracks - and itunes sells a few drm free tracks.
True, but Amaxon is selling tracks in the universal format. Apple is not. Tracks from Amazon will play in by son's iPod, my daughter's Creative Zen, my Coby MP3 player, and in my living room DVD player. Itunes tracks on the other hand will play on my Son's Ipod and a couple computers and nowhere else. The choice of music vendors is simply a matter of compatibility for many. DRM is a compatibility issue. So is formats other than MP3.
I think it is a good move on Sony's part to release DRM-free music. But it is too soon to start buying their stuff. They are still Sony. Don't forget the Blu-Ray DRM. With the region codes they intend to spring if they win the format war. And don't forget the rootkit fiasco. As I understand it, Sony continues to plant trojans on their CDs, they just don't contain rootkits anymore. Yes, definitely too soon.
Think what they didn't say. They are not above suspicion. Think they would love to track. Think files watermarked with your account information. Think file sharing and litigation. Only the paranoid survive. It's Sony. I don't trust them.
He wants to know why suddenly everything down there is now... FROZEN!
They answered him. "We dropped DRM, but you should see the litigation campaign we are starting with our watermarking program!"
Suddenly there was a nice warm spring thaw.
Such a disappointment to find that it didn't involve stealing at all, but just some boring copyright violation.
What's not boring is the amount of money stolen from the companies through the legal system. People wonder why the jobs are going overseas.. Many places have lower labor rates and lower risk to doing business. I don't blame them for pulling out and moving to a place less dangerous to business. This does not just impact the companies directly involved. It has chilling effects. The business climate is tested by anyone wanting to start a business and anyone in business. Your next job may simply not be there.
The list is great for software to avoid as high liability.
I've modded my pedal after the cheap one that came with the kit inevitably broke after the third day of playing. Since the bass pedal connects to the rest of the kit using a mono audio plug, it's easy for someone with even the most rudimentary knowledge of electronics (me) to rig a real bass pedal to work with the kit. Documented here: http://rockband.scorehero.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2029 [scorehero.com]
Having a background in high reliability electronics, I know many switches are rated for a limited number of operations before they wear out. A button designed for occasional use often quickly expire in this type application which you found out. In many places a non-contact sensor is a much better choice. Either an optical interrupter or magnetic hall sensor or reed switch will be a better fit. The advantage of non-contact sensors is not only the wear issues, but they make no changes to the original function of the pedal.
A sensor like one of these is literally good for millions of operations. The bearings in your pedal will be dead first.
http://www.melexis.com/Sensor_ICs_Hall_effect/Hall_effect_Bipolar_Switches/Bipolar_Hall_Switch_-_Very_High_Sensitivity_141.aspx
For sheer simplicity and the lack of need for a power supply, you can't beat a reed switch. They are cheap and easy to get.
http://www.hascorelays.com/reed_switches.asp
For a simple ready to use package for your pedal, one of the switches used on door and window alarms is ideal.
http://www.trossenrobotics.com/store/p/3503-Security-Reed-Switch.aspx?feed=Froogle
Connecting these is a no brainer for beginners in electronics
I couldn't have done it by describing a BJT (transistor), because they're far weirder.
To make bipolar simpler, they are simply a current amplifier, not a voltage amplifier. Think power steering. You push some, the force is boosted in proportion to the push you provide. The low voltage current needed to drive them instead of a high impedance voltage is why much bi-polar stuff is low impedance.
Any person who is not tone deaf can tell the difference between solid state distortion and tube distortion. Please don't compare the basic principles of rock guitar with overpriced audiophile folly.
Much of the overpriced is going away along with tube microphonics, gassy tubes, high voltage resistors, capacitors and high power consumption. With Digital Signal Processing DSP is rapidly providing 24 bit 40KHZ or higher modeling of the classic sounds without the problems and high cost. The overdrive curve of tubes can easly be modeled in a DSP.
http://emusician.com/dsp/studio_devil_virtual_guitar_amp/
http://www.analog.com/processors/tigersharc/overview/customerstories/fractalAudio/fractalAudioIndex.html
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/FM15DSP/
So how exactly is it Microsoft Windows Vista's fault for the fact that Adobe releases poorly written software and nagware patchers that demand admin rights to run even when you don't interact with them?
Vista did the thing it was designed to do. Get permission where required. The bad part is stopping the show for the dialog box instead of simply blinking a toolbar item like in Ubuntu.
I already use OpenDNS. How does OpenDNS compare with ScrubIT?
The biggest thing I noticed is the lack of any need to create an account. If you want to use ScrubIT, it's as simple as simply using their DNS server. In my case, I simply plugged in the DNS numbers in the router and that instantly protects the entire LAN including net appliances and all OS versions.
Just plug in the DNS numbers 67.138.54.100 and 207.225.209.66 into your router and the filter is done.
DRM'd to the eyeballs compact discs are NOT Redbook audio.
Just for grins, vist the music section of your local Wal*Mart or Best Buy and look at a few of the offerings. Grab 100 and then look for the official Compact Disc logo. Did you find it on over 5% of the disks? Consumers quit looking for the official product. They associate the packaging with a Compact Disc recording in a form of false advertising. Those who were paying the royalty for the official Compact Disc logo simply quit as the product sold just fine without it. Now that Defective by Design product is everywhere, it's time to let the labels know they have to be off the RIAA Radar and proudly display the official Compact Disc logo to boost their sales.
http://www.riaaradar.com/
http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/spring05/cps182s/assign/project/fall03/mjt14_2/CDcopy.pdf
Copy Protected music should have the Worldwide Copy Control Icon, but many labels know this kills sales and don't bother including the warning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_Control
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/25/1048354575685.html
Another approach is to just block it in your HOSTS file:
A filtered DNS server goes a long way and often is already blocking the content before you learn about it. A filtered DNS server isn't just for NSFW sites. It's a good idea. Common phishing sites, malware, and porn are filtered cross platform. I use it all the time now.
http://www.scrubit.com/
It is community supported so when a new malware site pops up, anyone can report it so it can be quickly re-routed to the warning page instead of the bad page.
For some reason, a lot of PC manufacturers don't give the consumer an option for a pre-loaded OS.
This is true. In the past (DOS days) people would ask me regarding computer purchase selections. What I said then is just as true today. Find out what programs you need to run and then find the hardware which is capabile of running it.
Many people wanting to do multimedia, photography, video production, etc are needing something with realtime hardware support. Those people are moving to hardware and OS that support the required applications. Vista is not a real time OS and is unsuitable for many capture devices. Alternatives to fill the gap often include Apple and some Linux distributions such as Ubuntu Studio.
Nothing kills a live session more than a request for an Adobe PDF viewer update request in the middle of a session. I got this one during a live presentation while playing a DVD. The DVD on the projector simply stopped. Going to the laptop, we discovered that despite the fact were in the field with no internet connection, Adobe needed our permission to get an update. The fact a PDF viewer has permission to stop the show by having Windows Vista stop it to ask permission for an update without a net connection convinced me that Vista is unsuitable for presentation and digital audio workstation applications.
My Digital Audio Workstation is now Ubuntu Studio based with low latency and no interruptions of a live recording session. Some people prefer an Apple soulution.
Audacity is OSS and cross platform. It works fine on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Many capture devices have serious latency and breakup problems in Vista. Audacity works in Vista, but capturing sound should be done on another platform.
Many popular USB capture devices simply are not supported on Vista because of the non-real time nature of the OS. Here are a few popular interfaces without Vista support;
Roland http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.aspx?ObjectId=743&ParentId=114
http://www.roland.com/products/en/UA-101/specs.html
Beringer http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pdf/man/m_702540.pdf
I found some of the Yamaha mixers with built-in USB interfaces list Vista, but the manual was quick to point out problems are caused if it has too little memory, has a slower processor, or several other items that can cause problems with multi-track recordings.
For real-time capture, I prefer to use a hardware priority OS. I have used this instead of Vista for Digital Music Studio work.
http://ubuntustudio.org/