I don't use WinAmp 3.0, i'm on Winamp 2.91. I can't remember exactly what the deal with with 3.0, but 2.91 does support OGG files. There were three versions available to download, one for people like the partent who don't want another media player.
[http://classic.winamp.com/download/index.jhtml]
I for one actually use winamp for it's audio and video player abilities. I don't consider a 1.6 or 2.2 meg download to be bloatware. Infact, i've observed that playback of divx vids, esp the ultra compressed low quality ones, winamp 2.91 does a better job then Windows Media Player. I honestly have no clue about 3.0 but 3.18 MB download with windows media support to me is a fuck of alot better then the massive download of Microsoft Media Player.
While you might have a point, I don't see a version 3 I can download without the extra crap, but I actually use the extra crap! Winamp 2.91 isn't perfect, I still have a problem with SVCD playback, so I can't use it exclusivly for my media player, but other then that hitch I find it to a very full featured product and less bloated then other solutions for the Windows platform. If there was some assurance 3.0 supported OGG i'd take the time to download.
Version 2.91 still whips the llama's ass IMHO though.
I'm actually a fan of ICQ, probally because it's been around the longest, esp the fact that the network offers peer to peer messanging rather then routing it via MSN or Yahoo's servers. The only reasons I don't use it on a daily basis is living in America no one really uses it anymore, they've all moved on to MSN or Yahoo servers. The only people I know personaly who use it on a regular bases are those who corispond to users is places like Hong Kong, Germany, and Belgium.
But needless to say it's a big deal in places like europe. I've knows a few people in Belgum who's phone offers SMS-> icq service long before we in america started seeing phones with SMS -> other chat services. While this is just an uneducated observation, icq seems to have caught out more quickly. I'd suspect it's do to the sillyness of paying moolah for local calls, such an insentave I suspect it's likely for ICQ's popularity.
From what I remember SMS-> AIM and ICQ messaging were the first to be seen on mobiles, so I see this intrgragation as being a big deal. No longer would it be the big 4 messanging standards that need respective software support.
I see a bunch of money grubbing bastards flocking to the.la domain just to peforming that age old tradition of cybersquatting.
Now don't get me wrong... I think it kicks ass in theory. Say what you will but L.A. is indeed a large media center, and is just dandy for popular stars of the silver screen to have their own place to promte them selves. Let's face it, your got comercial, then you've got L.A. it self, taking comercial to a whole new level(TM)(TM)(TM)(TM)(R)(C)
But I also see it as mostly looking like the real LA with the web equilivent people on the street selling maps to the stars homes. Popups galore, with the usual, "would you like this crappy site to be your start page". Oh wait, perhaps this will be the place to actually get the real nude photos of britney spears.
And ya know... it just fits! Arts, media, entertainment, crappy hotels, pornography, smog, really nasty attitude. This is L.A.! Gotta love it. Oh wait, i've never been back there, I didn't love it.
In short, I imagine sites under this domain being considered the least creditable unless having to do with music / film / entertainment industry.
I remember back when compuserve was the only choice for service providers that I remember, and their rates were roughly the cost of long distance for 300 baud. 10cents/min or $6.00 an hour. 135KB/hr or 2.250KB a min, which was toughly 10 cents. That is the highest cost I've personaly experenced transfering data with the exception to a BBS system in estonia. International operated assisted calls are a pain, esp when they don't understand you're trying to talk to a modem.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but can't get unlimited downloads over 56k lines? It is just broadband that's metered?
The reason why I ask is because you can actually get a single CD iso distrubution in roughly 24 hours assuming you have an ideal 56k connection. It's a pain but can be done.
I will agree that most of american broadband does not meter. There are some exceptions to this generalization, there was a choice for an ISP offering 1.5mbit/384K but their service was metered at pennies a gig, but I decided no way. It was US$50 monthly for the metered service, or a more national mainstreem ISP for $50 a month without metering.
Actually, I was the person who submited that, and no I didn't submit it anonymously.
And yes, I own a copy of john denver greatest hits volume 2. It after all has Calypso, Grandma's Feather Bed, and Thank God I'm a Country Boy.
Calypso means something to me because I come from a family of fishermen.
Grandma's feather bed is just silly.
Thank god i'm a country boy is prepresentive of a fun vs worth ethic as well as a contrast between urban and urual social activities. This was not written by John Denver so i'm allowed to like it.
Driving cross country 7 years old it was one of just a few 8-tracks that we had for ye old 1976 Mercury.
Am I going to actually PAY money to satisify a little bit of nostalga. Fuck no! I shoveled fertalizer to earn enough money to buy it on 8-track.
Specificly volume 2 and not volume one. I own that on vinyl. I specificly bought that because of issues in my neighborhood being opposed to backwards satanic messages. Playing Rhymes and Reasons backwards you can clearly hear, "roast beef", where playing it forwards it sounds like "deep throat". If you can get sugestive phrases out of john denver, you can get it from anything was my defence.
So yes, I like 3 tracks on John Denver's Greatest hits volume 2. I do not like volume 1 except for the backwards messages. I do not like or own anything else by this fellow. And yes... I get flipped shit for it, but only by people who actually know the lyrics to "thank god i'm a country boy".
Everything you described sounds fine to me. You should enjoy your John Denver 8 Track, and feel free to copy it to other media.
The only issue would be if you decided you wanted to download somebody else's copy of John Denver's Greatest Hits (which was likely from a CD, and a much higher audio quality).
Great, I should enjoy my john denver 8-track. Well, I should but I don't own an 8-tack player! They don't make them anymore! And it's rather warped and distorted for being over played and a simple lack of lubercent. It got fucked up!
If the only issue is that a version from CD converted to MP3 arguably higher quality then the 8-track edition, then that would not be ok. Right then, download.mp3 copy to physical tape. Problem solved! Converting to.mp3 isn't CD quality anymore, and anyone who records digital to analog is going to get some loss and added noise (60 cycle hum, 133 cycle hum on my set).
This way... I get my john denver, and i'm not getting anything extra except for media that FUCKING WORKS RIGHT. It's no longer superior to the CD, everythings cool right!
Please don't confuse me for a john denver fan, or even an 8-track fan. 8 tracks sound pretty good only if you have properly aligned heads, and the right type of lubercent on the tape it self. However, no one knows how to align 8-track properly anymore as you can't buy the dignostic cassettes anymore. No one was told about lubercation, so they made a hell of alot of noise and broke.
This whole "better recording" concept is so freaking subjective it bugs the living crap out of me. So it's OK to download on online edition provided the audio quality isn't suprerior to what I own? This sounds fair but who makes that sorta judgement? There are still people who argue about CD vs vinyl to this day. 8-track vs cassette is a hard one for me to make a fair judgement on because I don't own a player, but i'm willing to believe it's in the same class as cassette tape under ideal conditions. But needless to say I'm not qualified to make a blanket statement which has the "better recorder" cause there are so many factors involved to record something.
8-tracks are the best example I can think of because you can NO longer buy pre-recorded media!
If that 8-track breaks due to normal use or neglect, you can't really buy another copy of john denver on 8-track! You could however, provided you are lucky enough to have an 8-track recorder in good working order, buy a blank 8-track tape, and make your own copy from CD, which isn't going to be anywhere near the quality of offical 8-track release.
It seems to be the RIAA attudude. "just buy another one". Buy another one my ass. How many times does one hae to buy a release before they own a copy of the music?
If I bought it on cassette, and my media breaks, and I make another copy onto cassette, I think that's cool! I'm not getting anything extra, just a working copy.
If I bought a copy on 8-track, and it gets fucked up, and I make another copy onto 8-track, I think that's cool too. Hard to get anything extra out of a goodwill 2nd hand improperly aligned 8-track recorder.
If my VHS or betamax copy of Breakfast at Tiffinies deicdes to rot, like tapes eventually will do... and I make a copy from DVD to beta / vhs... oh yea that's cool!
I often wondered about " Australia must pay for all traffic both to and from the US, apparently about 12c/MB, ". I have no actual research in this area, but according to random people during the napster hayday, new zealand users didn't really have the same problem. But this is something i'd seriously look in to.
But the biggest complaint Bigpond users had was the fact that they believed that the bandwidth meters NEVER where accurate. This was based on their local bandwidth meter being raditicaly diffrent then what the bill was. Fortunatly for consumers, they don't itemize, so it's easy enough to dispute the bill and get the charges dropped.
It never made sence to me the horrid rates when I knew for a fact that if someone in america for example didn't like someone on Telstra, well just ping them and make sure they get a horrid horrid bill. Easy enough to rack up a few gigs of data in ping requests a month, not a problem.
You hear no argument from me there;-) What I meant was that the software implementation is simple, not that the algorithm runs quickly.
I'm thinking of running netscape on an old mac. I bring up macintosh because simply put, it was a hell of alot easier to get a web browser to display 8-bit. Even on a 68030 based mac, I think it was an LC III [short pizza box], checking hotmail with a 56k modem took roughly 3-min for the page to load. Getting the riser card with math-co onboard I didn't actually time it because I could actually drink my tea and fetch my e-mail, rather then fetch my e-mail, brew tea (2min 20 seconds in microwave, sugar and icecube). And this was classic hotmail with jack squat in the way of graphics.
I honestly don't know. I could run most software I wanted to that called for AGA graphics. Ugh it's been so long I can't remember the titles. But needless to say I wanted to do graphics editing which was a bit of a pain under a stock amiga. All the software I had either supported the retina directly which was the cool stuff, or worked under the retina AGA emulation.
*****Except Web browsers***** which refused to run under workbench 2.1. I'm not sure what was so diffrent about 3.x kickstart / workbench, but I didn't have it, nor did I want to buy it. By that point I litterly could buy a PC for the value of the roms for the Amiga. In fact, I did buy a PC.
Don't get me wrong, I still think it's great that people are interested in getting a standard web browser under the amiga. For someone like my self, it sorta defeats the purpose to invest money just to get a free web browser working.
I know back when I used a pager it was a simple mater of structuring a url in order to send my self a page. I imagine that someone could do the same bloody thing on any website that offers web->SMS services
Unlike email->sms which typicaly is a seperate service, web->sms pretty much covers anyone who chooses to use SMS messaging.
While I don't know a mobile subscriber in Finland personaly [yes I do know people there without mobiles]... I would imagine there is some form of e-mail to phone based service rather then sms mobile to mobile.
E-mail isn't really equiped to be billed for by the sender. People who I know in countries that bill like europe does (caller pays), subscribers pay extra for e-mail to mobile service, flat rate per so many e-mails, and charge per mail above and beyond that.
But cases where I was billed for incomming calls from spammers on my mobile, in those rare cases I went above and beyond my monthly plan, I just highlighted them on my bill and got them and got the charges removed.
FYI.. that's the way it works. Last person I knew from the UK visiting america was on T-mobile. For incomming calls, she paid, out going calls, she paid. I.e. people phoning her in the UK paid normal mobile rates, where she paid for the international air time or roaming. Needless to say, landline was far cheeper. Good luck finding out how much, dispite the fact that we have t-mobile in the states, uk users are told to call the states support line, and the state side support line tells you to call the UK.
But atleast there are websites that offer free messaging to UK subscribers.
In order to run Amiga os 3, don't you need the corisponding roms? My memory could be incorrect on this issue. I remember I traded my 1.3 roms for some 2.x roms, but I lost the ability to run amiga os 3.0, which was nessicary to run Aweb as well as Voyager. This is assuming i'm remembering correctly. There was a hack to do a software load of the 3.x roms that didn't work at all under the 2.x roms I had.
If someone would be so kind as to refresh my memory... do you need rom revision of 3 or above to run amiga os 3 or above?
As far as JPEG decoding... I with respect disagree. if you are talking 68040 / 68060 / PPC I believe they all had FPUs onboard. If you are talking like a 68030, there was NO fpu onboard. While you can decode JPEG compression, it's butt slow on a 68030. Not so slow as a 486-sx machine, but pretty damn slow.
I honestly don't know if 24bit graphics cards required OS 3.0.... I did just fine with Amiga OS 1.3 and 2.x.. I was an old hitachi monitor at 1152-834 or so resolution. It was a fixed frequency, but games that operated at standard amiga modes would display, just look smaller on the screen. Rembrandt I think was another one that was 24 bit that worked under AmigaOS 1.3, though I could be wrong on the model name.
But the Retnina card did support AGA emulation, but from what I understood all the web browsers that existed for the amiga required rom revision 3.x or above. I'd have to really search back and figure out the issue, but dispite the fact that i had a 24bit graphics card, dispite the fact that I could emulate AGA pretty well, I was stuck with viewing jpegs with 1st generation amiga graphics.
I really don't remember what the issue was, as I knew other people who owned the retina graphics card who were above to actually see the colors using AGA emulation. But those people had the latest roms commodore released before they went under.
Most users is a relative term. Those still active with Amiga are likely to have these things. Other people, many whom I know personaly, still keep their amiga around just for its game library, pretty much kept it stock. No need for accelerator just to run Pirates after all.
I pose these issues because there are alot of people like my self who still have an amiga. Such a project like getting a modern web browser to work on it would be spiffy.
In my case, I own an amiga 2000... I have like 2.x roms and a 68030 accelerator with math-co [can't remember which one]. If I could get a web browser working on it, it would likely still be in service. To me it's not long forgotten past when talking about a machine that I keep under my futon.
It's good to see someone interested in mozilla for Amiga, something that could be considered to be a standard up to date web browser.
I honestly don't know what I used on the amiga in ages past, I just remember I made the mistake of accepting some 2.x roms and could no longer do that software load of 3.x [exact version number I can not remember presently]
From what I remember, even if you had AGA or 3rd party 24 bit graphics, in my case it was a retna (sp) card, your web browsing experence was pretty limited due to the fact that the stock amiga graphics were at best 16/32/64 colors. I don't honestly remember the details, it's not like you couldn't get 4096 colors, just apparently not for things like gif or jpeg files.
Which brings another point all together, pre 68030 based machines are not really the best at web browsing unless you have a math-co. Gifs are not so bad, jpegs however are pretty slugish. This is not to say that modern amiga users don't have accelerators... this is to say such a product would only be useful to those people.
Perhaps someone wiser then I could remember the particulars, I really couldn't be bothered being nickle and dimed on my amiga, so I just went with lynx and got frustrated and went to the PC.
So issues I see with this project
1. Would browsing in 8bit color or above graphics require a specific rom set?
2. How ever are you going to find a math-co for jpeg decoding.
This is actually comming from a person who was and still is to an extent a big amiga fan. Part of the reason I had to abandon it was the simple fact that even web browsers that were made for the amiga required money from me to display properly.
I think I paid 4x as much for my 2400 baud modem then my 1200 baud modem. I was using an 8-bit computer at the time, so my average transfer time was 3min under 1200 baud, and 1.5min under 2400 baud.
Besides, 4x as much is pretty much the diffrence between a $50 CD-r and a $200 CD-r... what I get for the ide units on www.pricewatch.com and based on shopping at office depot.
If you honestly could build a CD drive that employed the use... to make things simple here.. a stationary disk and a spinning laser reader / writer for about the $200, i'm sure you'll find a market for it. Keep the media low cost, but the drive would be a bit costly.
I was waiting for someone to say this. I'm quite familar with the zip fights, basicly one person on a soapbox saying how we should switch to arj/lha (LHarc LZH)/zoo/dwc/rar/ace whatever. But the reason people like my self stuck to zip is for the simple reason that just about everyone had unzip in one flavor or another. 10 years ago when it actually was a concern, i knew for a fact that you could get unzip for *nix, vms, mac, amiga, atari ST, pretty much by the 1990's just about every platform in existance had some program that you can use to unzip shit. Unlike ARC it was pretty much seen as a PC standard, and people grumbled at the fact that they had to download zip to be comptable with the PC people, but the point is i knew for a fact that for the most part you could find something. I wasn't so sure about these other standards.
Hell, I got complaints from PC people if I gave them a ARC or LHA. ARC I used on my atari 8-bit, LHA was far more popular on the Amiga. Another one that I new for a fact existed for a number of platforms. But oddly though, not so common place on the PC.
But as far as using PKware utilities, I still have a number of versions of the classic dos utilities on this machine. While I admit to using winzip or winrar most of the time, when i'm on the command line, I never bothered to update, though extended file name support would be most spiffy.
It seems to me there are a heck of alot of places that mobile phones are not permited to be used. Airplanes, hospitals and the like due to the possiblity of interearance with equipment. This makes a fair amount of sence. Rather then trying to redesign something like an aircraft, medical equipment and the like... why not create a stanard for closed circut mobile.
Let's say a plane, you can't use them on board anyway, let's say there was a simple protocal to tell the phone to not search for the usual towers, but work on the designated local system? While this wouldn't work too well for typical consumers in hospitals, wouldn't be so bad for doctors to keep in touch. For the period of time fixed in the physical hospital, it would use the hospital network.
I know the concept is a touch too impractical for words, but hey just a thought as people are generally stupid when it comes to following these rules even when safty is an issue. I always thought it was somewhat silly to own both a cordless and a mobile if it was easy enough to make the mobile work on cordless frequencies. What not as elaberate as a designated no mobile zone, it would be something i'd buy.
Perhaps this is why cursive fonts are not too popular.
Cursive makes sence if you are using a calagraphy pen rather then a ball point. Even by the time we had fountain pens that stored the ink inside them, there always seemed to be a blob at the begining, or the end. The felt tip pen was less prone to this issue, but not totally immune.
Keep in mind the fact that the ball point pen was a 20th century invention. Thanks to the ball point, print doesn't look sloppy. I.e. no blob of ink at the end of characters. Cursive uses a swish motion that resolves this issue.
Also cursive is in theory lower impact for large amounts of writing. Dispite the fact that my cursive is not ledgeable.... my hand is less likely to cramp up using it
My take on cursive is one's penminship really goes down hill after you are out of school. However printing on the other tends to be readable. I base this on forms that require signature and a printed verison of your name. Pens typcialy used today do not suffer the from issues of the old dip style. Even a sheaffer no nonsence calligraphy pen [www.sheaffer.com/pens/calligraphy.shtml] is pretty sutable for print, about as sutable as a felt tip from my experence.
There is this magnaficent device known as the "manual typewrighter" offering the following benifits
#1. Takes power directly from the user rather from an external source. It's the user who wants to type the document anyway, why impact the enviroment?
#2. Data gets transcribed directly to a physical medium with the storage capability of 5 - 6.5 kilobytes of data per page. In the event of a power serge your data is automaticly backed up. Non magnetic storage immune from magnetic erasale, good for enviroments up to 451 degrees farenheight.
#3. Universal compatability... can be read by anyone literate in the language. No issues requiring the purchace of the approperate software to view.
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On a serious note... I was asked by my teachers to typewrite becaus my cursive was unacceptable by their standards. The only thing I had was a vintage underwood typewriter. Well, techincaly I owned a TI/99 4a computer but didn't do me much good as I owned no printer by that point. This was like 7th grade in 1985. Eventually I got an atari and an atari ploter, but for a signifagent period of time, it was early 20th century Underwood. So old it has no number one or zero, expecting you to use lower case L or the letter o for zero. After all, why bother when it looks just like a one or zero.
Now, it was a touch bit warn, the letter O would punch through the page... and I never owned a ribben for it, always used impact carbon paper, but i'm sure that wouldn't be possible. My supply was pretty limited to either impact paper (whatever this is called that goes blue under presure), or orange carbon paper. It was free at some point.
So in responce to your question, i'm sure someone out there does have typewriten letters from me. They know it's from me because of letter O punched through the page, and x-mas and birthday cards with the text in orange. My late grandmother got a few of these... which warmed her soul because I was using the underwood typewriter that was passed down from generation to generation.
I think I bought one age 15, as a gag gift for a friend. It wasn't a "real" dildo after all, but rather a novility item according to the label on it. I imagine that most shops that sell dildos also sell pornography, but i'm not really aware on the restrictions regarding "dildo's" the novelity device.
But at the same time, age 15 is when sex education begins in many places, and the gag was, "this is a dildo, we covered them in class last week".
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Didn't they at one point offer free binary download of solaris 7 and 8 for both sparc and x86?
My memory is a touch vague, but I seem to remember that I got a downloaded version 8 before I was given a offical CD distrobution.
I'd have to check my CD-R box, but i'm sure that I had solaris 1.1.1, solaris 2. and solaris 8 downloaded, and the source was sun it self.
Solaris 7 I believe I didn't bother downloading as it seemed worth it to pay the nominal fee to get both x86 and sparc editions of the disks.
I don't use WinAmp 3.0, i'm on Winamp 2.91. I can't remember exactly what the deal with with 3.0, but 2.91 does support OGG files. There were three versions available to download, one for people like the partent who don't want another media player.
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[http://classic.winamp.com/download/index.jhtml
I for one actually use winamp for it's audio and video player abilities. I don't consider a 1.6 or 2.2 meg download to be bloatware. Infact, i've observed that playback of divx vids, esp the ultra compressed low quality ones, winamp 2.91 does a better job then Windows Media Player. I honestly have no clue about 3.0 but 3.18 MB download with windows media support to me is a fuck of alot better then the massive download of Microsoft Media Player.
While you might have a point, I don't see a version 3 I can download without the extra crap, but I actually use the extra crap! Winamp 2.91 isn't perfect, I still have a problem with SVCD playback, so I can't use it exclusivly for my media player, but other then that hitch I find it to a very full featured product and less bloated then other solutions for the Windows platform. If there was some assurance 3.0 supported OGG i'd take the time to download.
Version 2.91 still whips the llama's ass IMHO though.
I'm actually a fan of ICQ, probally because it's been around the longest, esp the fact that the network offers peer to peer messanging rather then routing it via MSN or Yahoo's servers. The only reasons I don't use it on a daily basis is living in America no one really uses it anymore, they've all moved on to MSN or Yahoo servers. The only people I know personaly who use it on a regular bases are those who corispond to users is places like Hong Kong, Germany, and Belgium.
But needless to say it's a big deal in places like europe. I've knows a few people in Belgum who's phone offers SMS-> icq service long before we in america started seeing phones with SMS -> other chat services. While this is just an uneducated observation, icq seems to have caught out more quickly. I'd suspect it's do to the sillyness of paying moolah for local calls, such an insentave I suspect it's likely for ICQ's popularity.
From what I remember SMS-> AIM and ICQ messaging were the first to be seen on mobiles, so I see this intrgragation as being a big deal. No longer would it be the big 4 messanging standards that need respective software support.
I see a bunch of money grubbing bastards flocking to the .la domain just to peforming that age old tradition of cybersquatting.
Now don't get me wrong... I think it kicks ass in theory. Say what you will but L.A. is indeed a large media center, and is just dandy for popular stars of the silver screen to have their own place to promte them selves. Let's face it, your got comercial, then you've got L.A. it self, taking comercial to a whole new level(TM)(TM)(TM)(TM)(R)(C)
But I also see it as mostly looking like the real LA with the web equilivent people on the street selling maps to the stars homes. Popups galore, with the usual, "would you like this crappy site to be your start page". Oh wait, perhaps this will be the place to actually get the real nude photos of britney spears.
And ya know... it just fits! Arts, media, entertainment, crappy hotels, pornography, smog, really nasty attitude. This is L.A.! Gotta love it. Oh wait, i've never been back there, I didn't love it.
In short, I imagine sites under this domain being considered the least creditable unless having to do with music / film / entertainment industry.
SCSI? Try 8 inch SMD drives!
Not only was the 4/260 a decent heater, but that SMD drive chassie was a big ass gyroscope.
And fast too, I was clocked going 32mph downhill.
I remember back when compuserve was the only choice for service providers that I remember, and their rates were roughly the cost of long distance for 300 baud. 10cents/min or $6.00 an hour. 135KB/hr or 2.250KB a min, which was toughly 10 cents. That is the highest cost I've personaly experenced transfering data with the exception to a BBS system in estonia. International operated assisted calls are a pain, esp when they don't understand you're trying to talk to a modem.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but can't get unlimited downloads over 56k lines? It is just broadband that's metered?
The reason why I ask is because you can actually get a single CD iso distrubution in roughly 24 hours assuming you have an ideal 56k connection. It's a pain but can be done.
I will agree that most of american broadband does not meter. There are some exceptions to this generalization, there was a choice for an ISP offering 1.5mbit/384K but their service was metered at pennies a gig, but I decided no way. It was US$50 monthly for the metered service, or a more national mainstreem ISP for $50 a month without metering.
Actually, I was the person who submited that, and no I didn't submit it anonymously.
And yes, I own a copy of john denver greatest hits volume 2. It after all has Calypso, Grandma's Feather Bed, and Thank God I'm a Country Boy.
Calypso means something to me because I come from a family of fishermen.
Grandma's feather bed is just silly.
Thank god i'm a country boy is prepresentive of a fun vs worth ethic as well as a contrast between urban and urual social activities. This was not written by John Denver so i'm allowed to like it.
Driving cross country 7 years old it was one of just a few 8-tracks that we had for ye old 1976 Mercury.
Am I going to actually PAY money to satisify a little bit of nostalga. Fuck no! I shoveled fertalizer to earn enough money to buy it on 8-track.
Specificly volume 2 and not volume one. I own that on vinyl. I specificly bought that because of issues in my neighborhood being opposed to backwards satanic messages. Playing Rhymes and Reasons backwards you can clearly hear, "roast beef", where playing it forwards it sounds like "deep throat". If you can get sugestive phrases out of john denver, you can get it from anything was my defence.
So yes, I like 3 tracks on John Denver's Greatest hits volume 2. I do not like volume 1 except for the backwards messages. I do not like or own anything else by this fellow. And yes... I get flipped shit for it, but only by people who actually know the lyrics to "thank god i'm a country boy".
Everything you described sounds fine to me. You should enjoy your John Denver 8 Track, and feel free to copy it to other media.
.mp3 copy to physical tape. Problem solved! Converting to .mp3 isn't CD quality anymore, and anyone who records digital to analog is going to get some loss and added noise (60 cycle hum, 133 cycle hum on my set).
The only issue would be if you decided you wanted to download somebody else's copy of John Denver's Greatest Hits (which was likely from a CD, and a much higher audio quality).
Great, I should enjoy my john denver 8-track. Well, I should but I don't own an 8-tack player! They don't make them anymore! And it's rather warped and distorted for being over played and a simple lack of lubercent. It got fucked up!
If the only issue is that a version from CD converted to MP3 arguably higher quality then the 8-track edition, then that would not be ok. Right then, download
This way... I get my john denver, and i'm not getting anything extra except for media that FUCKING WORKS RIGHT. It's no longer superior to the CD, everythings cool right!
Please don't confuse me for a john denver fan, or even an 8-track fan. 8 tracks sound pretty good only if you have properly aligned heads, and the right type of lubercent on the tape it self. However, no one knows how to align 8-track properly anymore as you can't buy the dignostic cassettes anymore. No one was told about lubercation, so they made a hell of alot of noise and broke.
This whole "better recording" concept is so freaking subjective it bugs the living crap out of me. So it's OK to download on online edition provided the audio quality isn't suprerior to what I own? This sounds fair but who makes that sorta judgement? There are still people who argue about CD vs vinyl to this day. 8-track vs cassette is a hard one for me to make a fair judgement on because I don't own a player, but i'm willing to believe it's in the same class as cassette tape under ideal conditions. But needless to say I'm not qualified to make a blanket statement which has the "better recorder" cause there are so many factors involved to record something.
8-tracks are the best example I can think of because you can NO longer buy pre-recorded media!
If that 8-track breaks due to normal use or neglect, you can't really buy another copy of john denver on 8-track! You could however, provided you are lucky enough to have an 8-track recorder in good working order, buy a blank 8-track tape, and make your own copy from CD, which isn't going to be anywhere near the quality of offical 8-track release.
It seems to be the RIAA attudude. "just buy another one". Buy another one my ass. How many times does one hae to buy a release before they own a copy of the music?
If I bought it on cassette, and my media breaks, and I make another copy onto cassette, I think that's cool! I'm not getting anything extra, just a working copy.
If I bought a copy on 8-track, and it gets fucked up, and I make another copy onto 8-track, I think that's cool too. Hard to get anything extra out of a goodwill 2nd hand improperly aligned 8-track recorder.
If my VHS or betamax copy of Breakfast at Tiffinies deicdes to rot, like tapes eventually will do... and I make a copy from DVD to beta / vhs... oh yea that's cool!
Problem solved!
I often wondered about " Australia must pay for all traffic both to and from the US, apparently about 12c/MB, ". I have no actual research in this area, but according to random people during the napster hayday, new zealand users didn't really have the same problem. But this is something i'd seriously look in to.
But the biggest complaint Bigpond users had was the fact that they believed that the bandwidth meters NEVER where accurate. This was based on their local bandwidth meter being raditicaly diffrent then what the bill was. Fortunatly for consumers, they don't itemize, so it's easy enough to dispute the bill and get the charges dropped.
It never made sence to me the horrid rates when I knew for a fact that if someone in america for example didn't like someone on Telstra, well just ping them and make sure they get a horrid horrid bill. Easy enough to rack up a few gigs of data in ping requests a month, not a problem.
You hear no argument from me there ;-) What I meant was that the software implementation is simple, not that the algorithm runs quickly.
I'm thinking of running netscape on an old mac. I bring up macintosh because simply put, it was a hell of alot easier to get a web browser to display 8-bit. Even on a 68030 based mac, I think it was an LC III [short pizza box], checking hotmail with a 56k modem took roughly 3-min for the page to load. Getting the riser card with math-co onboard I didn't actually time it because I could actually drink my tea and fetch my e-mail, rather then fetch my e-mail, brew tea (2min 20 seconds in microwave, sugar and icecube). And this was classic hotmail with jack squat in the way of graphics.
I honestly don't know. I could run most software I wanted to that called for AGA graphics. Ugh it's been so long I can't remember the titles. But needless to say I wanted to do graphics editing which was a bit of a pain under a stock amiga. All the software I had either supported the retina directly which was the cool stuff, or worked under the retina AGA emulation.
*****Except Web browsers***** which refused to run under workbench 2.1. I'm not sure what was so diffrent about 3.x kickstart / workbench, but I didn't have it, nor did I want to buy it. By that point I litterly could buy a PC for the value of the roms for the Amiga. In fact, I did buy a PC.
Don't get me wrong, I still think it's great that people are interested in getting a standard web browser under the amiga. For someone like my self, it sorta defeats the purpose to invest money just to get a free web browser working.
I know back when I used a pager it was a simple mater of structuring a url in order to send my self a page. I imagine that someone could do the same bloody thing on any website that offers web->SMS services
Unlike email->sms which typicaly is a seperate service, web->sms pretty much covers anyone who chooses to use SMS messaging.
While I don't know a mobile subscriber in Finland personaly [yes I do know people there without mobiles]... I would imagine there is some form of e-mail to phone based service rather then sms mobile to mobile.
E-mail isn't really equiped to be billed for by the sender. People who I know in countries that bill like europe does (caller pays), subscribers pay extra for e-mail to mobile service, flat rate per so many e-mails, and charge per mail above and beyond that.
But cases where I was billed for incomming calls from spammers on my mobile, in those rare cases I went above and beyond my monthly plan, I just highlighted them on my bill and got them and got the charges removed.
FYI.. that's the way it works. Last person I knew from the UK visiting america was on T-mobile. For incomming calls, she paid, out going calls, she paid. I.e. people phoning her in the UK paid normal mobile rates, where she paid for the international air time or roaming. Needless to say, landline was far cheeper. Good luck finding out how much, dispite the fact that we have t-mobile in the states, uk users are told to call the states support line, and the state side support line tells you to call the UK.
But atleast there are websites that offer free messaging to UK subscribers.
Ahhhhh! This is where I need a memory refresher.
In order to run Amiga os 3, don't you need the corisponding roms? My memory could be incorrect on this issue. I remember I traded my 1.3 roms for some 2.x roms, but I lost the ability to run amiga os 3.0, which was nessicary to run Aweb as well as Voyager. This is assuming i'm remembering correctly. There was a hack to do a software load of the 3.x roms that didn't work at all under the 2.x roms I had.
If someone would be so kind as to refresh my memory... do you need rom revision of 3 or above to run amiga os 3 or above?
As far as JPEG decoding... I with respect disagree. if you are talking 68040 / 68060 / PPC I believe they all had FPUs onboard. If you are talking like a 68030, there was NO fpu onboard. While you can decode JPEG compression, it's butt slow on a 68030. Not so slow as a 486-sx machine, but pretty damn slow.
I honestly don't know if 24bit graphics cards required OS 3.0.... I did just fine with Amiga OS 1.3 and 2.x.. I was an old hitachi monitor at 1152-834 or so resolution. It was a fixed frequency, but games that operated at standard amiga modes would display, just look smaller on the screen. Rembrandt I think was another one that was 24 bit that worked under AmigaOS 1.3, though I could be wrong on the model name.
But the Retnina card did support AGA emulation, but from what I understood all the web browsers that existed for the amiga required rom revision 3.x or above. I'd have to really search back and figure out the issue, but dispite the fact that i had a 24bit graphics card, dispite the fact that I could emulate AGA pretty well, I was stuck with viewing jpegs with 1st generation amiga graphics.
I really don't remember what the issue was, as I knew other people who owned the retina graphics card who were above to actually see the colors using AGA emulation. But those people had the latest roms commodore released before they went under.
Most users is a relative term. Those still active with Amiga are likely to have these things. Other people, many whom I know personaly, still keep their amiga around just for its game library, pretty much kept it stock. No need for accelerator just to run Pirates after all.
I pose these issues because there are alot of people like my self who still have an amiga. Such a project like getting a modern web browser to work on it would be spiffy.
In my case, I own an amiga 2000... I have like 2.x roms and a 68030 accelerator with math-co [can't remember which one]. If I could get a web browser working on it, it would likely still be in service. To me it's not long forgotten past when talking about a machine that I keep under my futon.
It's good to see someone interested in mozilla for Amiga, something that could be considered to be a standard up to date web browser.
I honestly don't know what I used on the amiga in ages past, I just remember I made the mistake of accepting some 2.x roms and could no longer do that software load of 3.x [exact version number I can not remember presently]
From what I remember, even if you had AGA or 3rd party 24 bit graphics, in my case it was a retna (sp) card, your web browsing experence was pretty limited due to the fact that the stock amiga graphics were at best 16/32/64 colors. I don't honestly remember the details, it's not like you couldn't get 4096 colors, just apparently not for things like gif or jpeg files.
Which brings another point all together, pre 68030 based machines are not really the best at web browsing unless you have a math-co. Gifs are not so bad, jpegs however are pretty slugish. This is not to say that modern amiga users don't have accelerators... this is to say such a product would only be useful to those people.
Perhaps someone wiser then I could remember the particulars, I really couldn't be bothered being nickle and dimed on my amiga, so I just went with lynx and got frustrated and went to the PC.
So issues I see with this project
1. Would browsing in 8bit color or above graphics require a specific rom set?
2. How ever are you going to find a math-co for jpeg decoding.
This is actually comming from a person who was and still is to an extent a big amiga fan. Part of the reason I had to abandon it was the simple fact that even web browsers that were made for the amiga required money from me to display properly.
I think I paid 4x as much for my 2400 baud modem then my 1200 baud modem. I was using an 8-bit computer at the time, so my average transfer time was 3min under 1200 baud, and 1.5min under 2400 baud.
Besides, 4x as much is pretty much the diffrence between a $50 CD-r and a $200 CD-r... what I get for the ide units on www.pricewatch.com and based on shopping at office depot.
If you honestly could build a CD drive that employed the use... to make things simple here.. a stationary disk and a spinning laser reader / writer for about the $200, i'm sure you'll find a market for it. Keep the media low cost, but the drive would be a bit costly.
I was waiting for someone to say this. I'm quite familar with the zip fights, basicly one person on a soapbox saying how we should switch to arj/lha (LHarc LZH)/zoo/dwc/rar/ace whatever. But the reason people like my self stuck to zip is for the simple reason that just about everyone had unzip in one flavor or another. 10 years ago when it actually was a concern, i knew for a fact that you could get unzip for *nix, vms, mac, amiga, atari ST, pretty much by the 1990's just about every platform in existance had some program that you can use to unzip shit. Unlike ARC it was pretty much seen as a PC standard, and people grumbled at the fact that they had to download zip to be comptable with the PC people, but the point is i knew for a fact that for the most part you could find something. I wasn't so sure about these other standards.
Hell, I got complaints from PC people if I gave them a ARC or LHA. ARC I used on my atari 8-bit, LHA was far more popular on the Amiga. Another one that I new for a fact existed for a number of platforms. But oddly though, not so common place on the PC.
But as far as using PKware utilities, I still have a number of versions of the classic dos utilities on this machine. While I admit to using winzip or winrar most of the time, when i'm on the command line, I never bothered to update, though extended file name support would be most spiffy.
Sorry, I was in catholic school pre-puberty. The only talk I had about the subject were references to daunte's inferno that I didn't quite understand.
It seems to me there are a heck of alot of places that mobile phones are not permited to be used. Airplanes, hospitals and the like due to the possiblity of interearance with equipment. This makes a fair amount of sence. Rather then trying to redesign something like an aircraft, medical equipment and the like... why not create a stanard for closed circut mobile.
Let's say a plane, you can't use them on board anyway, let's say there was a simple protocal to tell the phone to not search for the usual towers, but work on the designated local system? While this wouldn't work too well for typical consumers in hospitals, wouldn't be so bad for doctors to keep in touch. For the period of time fixed in the physical hospital, it would use the hospital network.
I know the concept is a touch too impractical for words, but hey just a thought as people are generally stupid when it comes to following these rules even when safty is an issue. I always thought it was somewhat silly to own both a cordless and a mobile if it was easy enough to make the mobile work on cordless frequencies. What not as elaberate as a designated no mobile zone, it would be something i'd buy.
Perhaps this is why cursive fonts are not too popular.
Cursive makes sence if you are using a calagraphy pen rather then a ball point. Even by the time we had fountain pens that stored the ink inside them, there always seemed to be a blob at the begining, or the end. The felt tip pen was less prone to this issue, but not totally immune.
Keep in mind the fact that the ball point pen was a 20th century invention. Thanks to the ball point, print doesn't look sloppy. I.e. no blob of ink at the end of characters. Cursive uses a swish motion that resolves this issue.
Also cursive is in theory lower impact for large amounts of writing. Dispite the fact that my cursive is not ledgeable.... my hand is less likely to cramp up using it
My take on cursive is one's penminship really goes down hill after you are out of school. However printing on the other tends to be readable. I base this on forms that require signature and a printed verison of your name. Pens typcialy used today do not suffer the from issues of the old dip style. Even a sheaffer no nonsence calligraphy pen [www.sheaffer.com/pens/calligraphy.shtml] is pretty sutable for print, about as sutable as a felt tip from my experence.
There is this magnaficent device known as the "manual typewrighter" offering the following benifits
#1. Takes power directly from the user rather from an external source. It's the user who wants to type the document anyway, why impact the enviroment?
#2. Data gets transcribed directly to a physical medium with the storage capability of 5 - 6.5 kilobytes of data per page. In the event of a power serge your data is automaticly backed up. Non magnetic storage immune from magnetic erasale, good for enviroments up to 451 degrees farenheight.
#3. Universal compatability... can be read by anyone literate in the language. No issues requiring the purchace of the approperate software to view.
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On a serious note... I was asked by my teachers to typewrite becaus my cursive was unacceptable by their standards. The only thing I had was a vintage underwood typewriter. Well, techincaly I owned a TI/99 4a computer but didn't do me much good as I owned no printer by that point. This was like 7th grade in 1985. Eventually I got an atari and an atari ploter, but for a signifagent period of time, it was early 20th century Underwood. So old it has no number one or zero, expecting you to use lower case L or the letter o for zero. After all, why bother when it looks just like a one or zero.
Now, it was a touch bit warn, the letter O would punch through the page... and I never owned a ribben for it, always used impact carbon paper, but i'm sure that wouldn't be possible. My supply was pretty limited to either impact paper (whatever this is called that goes blue under presure), or orange carbon paper. It was free at some point.
So in responce to your question, i'm sure someone out there does have typewriten letters from me. They know it's from me because of letter O punched through the page, and x-mas and birthday cards with the text in orange. My late grandmother got a few of these... which warmed her soul because I was using the underwood typewriter that was passed down from generation to generation.
You have to be 18 to buy a dildo?
I think I bought one age 15, as a gag gift for a friend. It wasn't a "real" dildo after all, but rather a novility item according to the label on it. I imagine that most shops that sell dildos also sell pornography, but i'm not really aware on the restrictions regarding "dildo's" the novelity device.
But at the same time, age 15 is when sex education begins in many places, and the gag was, "this is a dildo, we covered them in class last week".