But 2600 was a publication.... it contained source, or if i'm remembering a correctly, a link to a mirror that contained the source.
That was rather the point on the DeCSS campain, the fact the people who marketed t-shirts attempted to transform this source into a form of speech. All were a violation of the DCMA
I guess this book *could* contain information on how to create your own modchip, detailed specifications and such, but unfortunatly it "might" be used to circumvent copy protection and violate copyrights. But there is that whole *might* issue there.
But yea, looks like i'll be buying a copy of this book. Probally one of the few pieces of reference I personaly know of to actually repair those basted things, before it's banned
look at how fantastically successful Atari and Commodore have been
I am looking at how successful they *were*. In contrast to microsoft, there is NO contest... microsoft wins hands down. But Microsoft couldn't sell a home solution in 1981.
Apple, Commodore, Atari all sold home computers pre 1985 to a world that never experenced them before. The apple till has a massive userbase, dispite being an obsolete standard, but apple still makes computers. Atari as a corp got out of the gamming business, where Commodore sorta folded, but the Amiga corp still is producing... well not sure exactly what, but is still around (kinda). All of whom defined the concept of home computers, rather then being just an esoteric tool of business and industry.
The major marketing points on these legacy systems where...
1. Word Processing... was a new and unique concept which made documents look professional, and didn't need whiteout
2. Education... look at the parents who bought their kids 6502 based hardware for their enhanced learning
3. Entertainment....IMHO this was the final selling point. They played games.. more advanced then the atari 2600. Fun games, silly games, educational games, shoot 'em up games, board games.
Will every company who gets into consumer space travel be as sucessful as microsoft? Probally not. But will the research and develoment into manned spacecraft, develoment payed for by people who are willing to shell out big bucks just so say *i've been in space* actually advance the space program? I'd say so? Why, cause if all else failes, advancement of the human understanding of the cosmos, puttting in place world wide communciations systems, and useful tools like GPS fail, what will succeed is, "it's fun and you can go into space".
I'm not going to discount the value of such a solution. On the contrary, it's quite nice. But I can see some advantages to a dedicated recording device like the one offered here for $2000.00.
1. Stability... while i'm not personaly familar with the product, it doesn't apear to operate via a microsoft, apple, nor linux / bsd operating system. No worries about your sys admin setting it up correctly.
2. Simple user interface. From the user's perspective, it's just a recorder, sorta like using a portable dat recorder. Nothing too complex to learn.
3. Swift bootup time. Haven't used it, but chances are it's going to be faster then booting up an OS and loading pro-tools.
4. Smaller footprint. Laptops and that device you spoke of are indeed portable. Portable dat and the hard disk recorder based device are going to have a smaller footprint. While it doesn't nessicarly seem like a big deal, odds are there will be room for a small recording device, assuming your agenda is recording on the road. Finding a place for a small recorder is easy, finding a place for a laptop is harder.
Now i'd don't have the experence base with either or product, to be honest, but I do see it's attractive qualities.
haven't bothered to look if someone else offered that link, but a good documented example of what resulted in a land mark case of copyright infringement, and a little dog named snuggles
I'm sure i've said this in other similar threads, but i'll say it again..
Apple is doing something wonderful and putting a legit business model to music downloading. It provides users with access to music, for a fee, which i'm sure a percent goes to the hardware and such to keep the site up, a percent goes to apple, and a percent goes to music industry.
This is a valid business model.
So, let's say in the real world, and you get a copy of a CD from a friend, wonderful thing about the digital world is that whole (almost) lossless copy issue. A CD quality copy, assuming it was from a CD is there and about of.25cents these days.
There presently is NO system in place for people who actually which to support the bands they like who get pirated copies.
The next step I feel in this digital music revolution would be for record lables and such to actually legalize private and public sharing of media, and offering a license for it. Why buy the CD when you can get a copy, but how do you support the band? Buy a license, possibly in the form of an offical flyleaf, a nice CD label, jewel case for your home brewed CD solution. Word of mouth has always been the best means of marketing, and you have people willing to dedicate their bandwidth to distubute this material.
Users will get a warm fuzzy feeling and will be able to say, "hey, I support music" wether or not they are a signed artist or unsigned independent. It would reconize the value of peer to peer networks for their distubution of material that tradationaly was very costly.
The apple really hit the educational market. I remember a mass of applications schools at back when they were still somewhat new (1985 or so) that I have yet to see replaced. Mostly science applications, like real time how do go dig for oil, or how long it would take you to right a bicycle between the sun and pluto vs a car and light speed. Most of it was really simple stuff, but never the less, has yet to really be replicated under the PC platform.
Aside from that, to be honest, I was never a big apple fan, damn bizzaro video and using a tape drive controler for disk storage, which while may have been cost saving in 1978, it was just being damn cheep by 1985.
Plus you have logo, while not exclusivly a apple standard, is something that I feel should still be taught in the schools. Not because it's a good programing language, but teaches children to be logical.
Actually I was a Texas Instruments fan, it also had a plethra of educational programs, but alas the project went bust.
Laptop with a good soundcard, you do have a valid point to a degree. As long as your laptop supported 24bit 96kHZ recording, and was fully equiped to handle mike and line level inputs.. then yea. But most laptops are only released with support for 16bit 48kHz, just slightly above CD. I'm not aware of any PCMCIA cards that offer this fuctionality but you, but it wouldn't be far fetched for this to exist.
Mini disc, well you don't really have a valid point on. I don't remember the exact size of mini-disk, but I believe it's about 120megs per disk highly compressed. Doesn't really compare. Mini-disk isn't really adquate for something you'd wish to publish.
The advantage of this unit to you for example would be the fact that records at twice the sampling rate of CD, higher bitrate, is compatable with the prefered connections used in recording rather then consumer grade solutions like the mini disk.
I don't mean to flame you at all, you are asking a very logical question. But imagine if you were an audio professional, who considered buying a laptop for portable recording. This would run you a good chunk of change for software and the hardware, $1000-$2000 would be reasonable for such a device that records at CD-quality. Then imagine if someone offered you a digital recording device, something that doesn't need a computer to operate, but has the ability to download quickly and be manipluated for publishing. Assuming your application is exclusivly recording sound, the cost for the stereo unit is comparable to what you'd spend on a kick ass laptop.
Clearly you are happy with mini-disk... lots of people are. It's a great consumer grade product which provides (though some would argue) quality superior to cassette what is termed, *near CD quality*. I'm not knocking them at all, far from it. Mini-disc has done wonders to giving home users the ability make pretty brilient recordings. However when you start maniplulating sounds, you really don't want something that is compressed. A few transformations on it, and it will sound like crap. Your master recordings these days you want atleast uncompressed CD quality.
Is $2000 spendy? Well, compair to a Sony portable dat recorder fetching somewhere along the lines of $800. It's going to offer 16bit up to 48kHZ recording ability, which is most adquate for audio mastering, very portable, going to need some extras to plug into a mixing board, but will not provide 20gigs of storage nor firewire for quick transfer to a system, nor will it provide 24bit 96kHz sound quality.
But if you one to say mini-disc suits your needs, then great. To be honest, I have a hard time determining the diffrence between *some* mini-disk recordings and CDs. Mini-disk is cool. It's not CD quality, but most people don't notice. It just doesn't nessicarly meet the minium requirements for publishing a CD on a professional level, which just takes up more space then a mini-disk can hold. Dat, Adat, and digital recording is much prefered.
Much more in the way of jacks then for example the sony walkman dat recorder that i've experenced in the past. Not nearly so portable, and likely not nearly so quiet, but hey, looks like the perfect thing to jack into a mixing board.
It's nice to see someone designing goods that are ment to be modular. Part of the reason 4mm dat was attractive to me back in the 20th century was the fact that it was also a computer media standard and one could, in theory, pop it in a system for digital editing. Alas because of issues with the RIAA, it was a pain in the butt to get the drives though successfully upgraded the rom on a old HP unit and got something useful.
This unit on the other hand based on what I read is pretty much geared for fast transfer to a system.
I question sometimes the motive behind the RIAA getting on the case on devices who's sole purpose and design are for people who want the ability to master origional materal, rather then music pirates who use the CD. When I see this, I say, "wow, plug into a mixing board and get great recordings of live shows" something that you typicaly need the band's authoration for (well, record label and venue, but let the band fight out that aspect), somehow I suspect that it would be percieved as a great evil. Yea, the great evil the fact that professional grade recording equipment, the type you'd use to master with, is becoming lower in price and more practical for bands to actually own them selves, creating the danger of no longer needing to be signed with labels to get material out.
If you don't have a bat handy , which you generally don't unless you're following accepted electrical safty protocals (or happen to be a baseball fan, I believe if i'm remembering correctly the correct procedure is to kick the person free from danger, as generaly one is wearing shoes.
I'm still thinking quick release plugs as being superior.. see cord, pull cord. No complex issues with switches, good old fasioned low tech.
I've always felt that one aspect of the computer revolution was not so much their fuctional value, but their entertainment value. From what i've observed, a computer marketed for entertainment resulted in more sales then those marketed for trivial little tasks like word processing.
People like my self have been waiting for years for this to happen, something out there that would generate money to advance the space program... and I think we have a winner. Not only will it fund R&D into manned space vehicels, but will renew an interest in the space program in general.
Let's face it, the last moonshot i'm aware of was 30 years ago, and the shuttle has proven to be most inadquate for any sorta high orbit depoyment and recovery. The private sector could provide funding to make a *real* space program possible, rather like how Atari and Commodore actually got people to buy their products, cause it's fun!
Just because we live in the digital age doesn't mean there haven't always been hardware or software people. You can't tell me the founding fathers of modern physics didn't see beauty in motion, nor did famous architects make a contrubution. Wasn't it Sir Christopher Wren who suggested the inverse square law of attraction independently Sir Issac Newton, or should we remember him exclusivly for his buildings?
Tell me about it. When IE5 first came out (with the modular installer) the installer had a nasty bug: If the FTP site it tried to connect to to download a CAB was full, it would create the CAB file which would contain no data, only the error message!
Tell me about it. Let alone to speak of the issue of getting service pack 4 under windows NT 4.0. If you are unfamilar, you need I.E. 4.0 or above to navigate to get service pack 4 which you need to install servicepack 4.0. Near as I'm aware, this is still an issue. My resolution was to download netscape to naviagate the site to get the approperate service pack, and I just declaired victory not so much because it was absolutly nessicary, but because it makes a nice story needing netscape to get any service patches from microsoft.
In theory, this should be the fuction of support, and support making the valued judgement wether or not something is a *bug*, and reporting exploits others report. But you would pretty much need a friend in the support realm who actually knew who to report to, cause the employees are just as helpless when dealing with their own help desk.
"Exchange server crashed, we only support outlook, try rebooting your system" -- typical responce to everything
(wasn't aware that appliances in the bathroom are not permited, thanks for the update)
I'm still thinking that this is not nessicarly a bad thing. When dealing with any sorta eletronics or electrical course, there usually is a sermon on safty basicly teaching students correct procedures to deal with a human who is experencing an electric shock. Basicly it involves either hitting the human in danger with a bat, there by freeing them from the circut, or using a bat to free the source electricity from the wall. I see easy release as an advantage in that case, not a disadvantage.
Regardless of the level of protection you have on an electrical appliance, nothing is 100%, not even fuses, or else we wouldn't have the joke about the job of an IC is to protect a fuse by blowing first. I honestly don't know about europe, but I know that faulty or non-existent earths are pretty common, basicly older homes where the owners haven't bothered upgrading to code. I've gotten a few shocks this way. There is that, and petty much only your circut breaker would help you in the event of fryed wires. Not to speak of the, "oh crap my device is on fire" where the approperate corse of action would be to yank the power plug from the way (likely cause for spring retainer clips).
There are advantages to quick release power cords. there is an obvious disadvantage of curious children though:S
you want a easy way of updating your VHS collection, why not go for the Panasonic or Sony VHS/DVD
Hmmm, don't both those units have macrovision detection onboard. Not the usual tweek with your video macrovision, but the hard core, "no sir, I won't peform the fuction you ask of me, cause the type is protected".
No longer having a TV with a vertical control knob, I don't know of a logical means of detecting macrovision, but usually those all in one units have copy prohibit onboard. Not too sure if they offer time base correction or not.
There is an outlined procedure for this sorta thing...
In the event a user discovers an exploit, inform user to reboot machine and it will go away.
But seriously, there seems to be no OFFICIAL way for end users to actually contact microsoft, nor any sorta automated system to rank e-mails based on importance, nor any human within the phone network who actually knows who to talk to. People who i've known that worked there also have no clue as far as who to talk to, and admit this if you're lucky. If you are unlucky, just say it's a vender issue without thinking the vender is Microsoft.
"Now that I'm finally a proud homeowner, I'm looking to integrate my video, audio, and computer hardware. Specifically, I'd like to be able to listen to Internet radio throughout the house (or at least through my main stereo unit), and transmit video from my computer to my home theater in a separate room.
I've been visiting http://www.audiokarma.org/ primarly because there is a person there who knows vintage sansui gear. Nots of great people there.
Now in "theory" alot of vid cards support video output... BUT all the ones I have are crap. I bought a hollywood plus card by Sigma designs on a crappy special, came free with a crappy drive that doesn't play disks from Hollywood video. The nice thing about the newer card atleast is the fact that it offers dolby 5.1 digital output, and comes with a remote control. I know ATI has a vid card with svideo output and wireless remote control, but you'd have to get info form someone who has one, i'm happy with my g-force and dvd decoder combo.
I did something similar my self, though not the best setup.
I have a computer knook upstairs, which has 4 cat5 runs to the TV and entertainment system, and currently have Svideo and audio running on the same line though the creative use of splicing. While this is HARDLY ideal for the video, it seems most adquate for audio. I just have to make a secondary run for the video. I know sigma has a newer card that in theory supports mpeg 4, but i've not tested it, but is rumored to do divx-4 as well as xvid. For speakers, I just have a pair for the TV and a pair for the kitchen. As far as a remote control switch, I realy entirely on the telivision who's output is sent to my amp, which isn't ideal, but hey, it's there it does the job, I don't have enough ports on my amp nor switches.
But needless to say, computer video is on aux-1, digital cable on aux-2. As I have NO remote for the amp, I rely entirely on the telivision's volume control, which shockingly works adquatly.
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Regardless of wether you are dealing with analog or digital, a good pre-amp is your friend, gives you nice switches to switch between your diffrent gear. You can get away without having one if your amp has enough ports on it.
For sound, you might consider some vintage gear. While it's not going to support digital nor is it going to support things like remote control, you'd be shocked how good some of the better equipment from the 70's sounds. While my amp isn't anything to really write home about it's OK, my speakers are adquate.. one pair of sansui sp-1500's, one pair of au-300's [3 ways], one unknown advent 2 way, and a cheepo pair of sony uu-s500's. All were pretty much sub $40 solutions in the goodwill / friend forsale type market. While all (except the sony) are about 30+ years old, with the exception of changing out the wooders have required no maintance and sounds pretty damn spiffy.
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But one advantage about the american standard for power plugs. We're not afraid to install outlets and use hair dryers in the bathroom. Many a time a shocked human's arm leaped with just enough force to yank the power connector from the wall.
I was under the impression that "Thunderbird" and "Firebird" were always just transitory project
I was under the impression that "Thunderbird" and "Firebird" were fortified wines and the prefered drink of transients which resembled the taste of zippo lighter fluid, but not approaching the quality of such fine beverages like Boones Strawberry Hill.
The woodcase is actually kinda spiffy, i've made one my self actually not nearly so large. I have actually thought about converting furnature to actually house some of my hardware. Sorta having a rack mount effect, but having a more earthy feel to it. Plus the added bonus that theif would be likely to spot it as being valuable, and carting away with it.
Serious bonus to the fact that it also serves as a platform for things like printer and supplies, and the fact that furnature that just needs re-finishing work is pretty dirt cheep. All you need is a dremel, belt sander, and perhaps a random orbital and lots of elbow greese.
If your PC is going to be recycled in a couple of years anyways, because the parts on the inside are so cheap, why do we need to use all the noxious chemicals and whatnot to spray paint a steel or aluminum box
It does make a fair amount of sence for people who upgrade every 1.5 years in totality, but I think the typical upgrader is far less guilty of redundent finishing work (power coating and such) then the end user who replaces the entire PC every 1.5 years. The last time *I* replaced my cases was when I upgraded to ATX. Before that, I was using full towers that were sold with 386s in them. Pretty much the same case between 1992-1999.
Besides, power coating I do not believe released much in the way of toxins into the atmosphere, certainly not like a catalized paint does. Though i've observed that to remove powercoat requires much more in the way of high-tox solutions rather then enamals which can be removed with sodium carbonate. This only is a factor when recycling though.
The point is valid. If a strong, mass produced, easily recycled solution can be impemented, it would have a positive enviromental impact. Of which I can see the following
1. Steel melted and reused
2. Aluminium melted and reused
3. Plastic... can be shreaded, mixed with resin, and reused.
Though, something made with a renewable resource like cardboard though could be good as well, perhaps they could make strong cardboard cases based on hemp. That would be something.
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But 2600 was a publication.... it contained source, or if i'm remembering a correctly, a link to a mirror that contained the source.
That was rather the point on the DeCSS campain, the fact the people who marketed t-shirts attempted to transform this source into a form of speech. All were a violation of the DCMA
I guess this book *could* contain information on how to create your own modchip, detailed specifications and such, but unfortunatly it "might" be used to circumvent copy protection and violate copyrights. But there is that whole *might* issue there.
But yea, looks like i'll be buying a copy of this book. Probally one of the few pieces of reference I personaly know of to actually repair those basted things, before it's banned
look at how fantastically successful Atari and Commodore have been
I am looking at how successful they *were*. In contrast to microsoft, there is NO contest... microsoft wins hands down. But Microsoft couldn't sell a home solution in 1981.
Apple, Commodore, Atari all sold home computers pre 1985 to a world that never experenced them before. The apple till has a massive userbase, dispite being an obsolete standard, but apple still makes computers. Atari as a corp got out of the gamming business, where Commodore sorta folded, but the Amiga corp still is producing... well not sure exactly what, but is still around (kinda). All of whom defined the concept of home computers, rather then being just an esoteric tool of business and industry.
The major marketing points on these legacy systems where...
1. Word Processing... was a new and unique concept which made documents look professional, and didn't need whiteout
2. Education... look at the parents who bought their kids 6502 based hardware for their enhanced learning
3. Entertainment....IMHO this was the final selling point. They played games.. more advanced then the atari 2600. Fun games, silly games, educational games, shoot 'em up games, board games.
Will every company who gets into consumer space travel be as sucessful as microsoft? Probally not. But will the research and develoment into manned spacecraft, develoment payed for by people who are willing to shell out big bucks just so say *i've been in space* actually advance the space program? I'd say so? Why, cause if all else failes, advancement of the human understanding of the cosmos, puttting in place world wide communciations systems, and useful tools like GPS fail, what will succeed is, "it's fun and you can go into space".
I'm not going to discount the value of such a solution. On the contrary, it's quite nice. But I can see some advantages to a dedicated recording device like the one offered here for $2000.00.
1. Stability... while i'm not personaly familar with the product, it doesn't apear to operate via a microsoft, apple, nor linux / bsd operating system. No worries about your sys admin setting it up correctly.
2. Simple user interface. From the user's perspective, it's just a recorder, sorta like using a portable dat recorder. Nothing too complex to learn.
3. Swift bootup time. Haven't used it, but chances are it's going to be faster then booting up an OS and loading pro-tools.
4. Smaller footprint. Laptops and that device you spoke of are indeed portable. Portable dat and the hard disk recorder based device are going to have a smaller footprint. While it doesn't nessicarly seem like a big deal, odds are there will be room for a small recording device, assuming your agenda is recording on the road. Finding a place for a small recorder is easy, finding a place for a laptop is harder.
Now i'd don't have the experence base with either or product, to be honest, but I do see it's attractive qualities.
http://www.negativland.com/audio.html
haven't bothered to look if someone else offered that link, but a good documented example of what resulted in a land mark case of copyright infringement, and a little dog named snuggles
I'm sure i've said this in other similar threads, but i'll say it again..
.25cents these days.
Apple is doing something wonderful and putting a legit business model to music downloading. It provides users with access to music, for a fee, which i'm sure a percent goes to the hardware and such to keep the site up, a percent goes to apple, and a percent goes to music industry.
This is a valid business model.
So, let's say in the real world, and you get a copy of a CD from a friend, wonderful thing about the digital world is that whole (almost) lossless copy issue. A CD quality copy, assuming it was from a CD is there and about of
There presently is NO system in place for people who actually which to support the bands they like who get pirated copies.
The next step I feel in this digital music revolution would be for record lables and such to actually legalize private and public sharing of media, and offering a license for it. Why buy the CD when you can get a copy, but how do you support the band? Buy a license, possibly in the form of an offical flyleaf, a nice CD label, jewel case for your home brewed CD solution. Word of mouth has always been the best means of marketing, and you have people willing to dedicate their bandwidth to distubute this material.
Users will get a warm fuzzy feeling and will be able to say, "hey, I support music" wether or not they are a signed artist or unsigned independent. It would reconize the value of peer to peer networks for their distubution of material that tradationaly was very costly.
The apple really hit the educational market. I remember a mass of applications schools at back when they were still somewhat new (1985 or so) that I have yet to see replaced. Mostly science applications, like real time how do go dig for oil, or how long it would take you to right a bicycle between the sun and pluto vs a car and light speed. Most of it was really simple stuff, but never the less, has yet to really be replicated under the PC platform.
Aside from that, to be honest, I was never a big apple fan, damn bizzaro video and using a tape drive controler for disk storage, which while may have been cost saving in 1978, it was just being damn cheep by 1985.
Plus you have logo, while not exclusivly a apple standard, is something that I feel should still be taught in the schools. Not because it's a good programing language, but teaches children to be logical.
Actually I was a Texas Instruments fan, it also had a plethra of educational programs, but alas the project went bust.
Laptop with a good soundcard, you do have a valid point to a degree. As long as your laptop supported 24bit 96kHZ recording, and was fully equiped to handle mike and line level inputs.. then yea. But most laptops are only released with support for 16bit 48kHz, just slightly above CD. I'm not aware of any PCMCIA cards that offer this fuctionality but you, but it wouldn't be far fetched for this to exist.
Mini disc, well you don't really have a valid point on. I don't remember the exact size of mini-disk, but I believe it's about 120megs per disk highly compressed. Doesn't really compare. Mini-disk isn't really adquate for something you'd wish to publish.
The advantage of this unit to you for example would be the fact that records at twice the sampling rate of CD, higher bitrate, is compatable with the prefered connections used in recording rather then consumer grade solutions like the mini disk.
I don't mean to flame you at all, you are asking a very logical question. But imagine if you were an audio professional, who considered buying a laptop for portable recording. This would run you a good chunk of change for software and the hardware, $1000-$2000 would be reasonable for such a device that records at CD-quality. Then imagine if someone offered you a digital recording device, something that doesn't need a computer to operate, but has the ability to download quickly and be manipluated for publishing. Assuming your application is exclusivly recording sound, the cost for the stereo unit is comparable to what you'd spend on a kick ass laptop.
Clearly you are happy with mini-disk... lots of people are. It's a great consumer grade product which provides (though some would argue) quality superior to cassette what is termed, *near CD quality*. I'm not knocking them at all, far from it. Mini-disc has done wonders to giving home users the ability make pretty brilient recordings. However when you start maniplulating sounds, you really don't want something that is compressed. A few transformations on it, and it will sound like crap. Your master recordings these days you want atleast uncompressed CD quality.
Is $2000 spendy? Well, compair to a Sony portable dat recorder fetching somewhere along the lines of $800. It's going to offer 16bit up to 48kHZ recording ability, which is most adquate for audio mastering, very portable, going to need some extras to plug into a mixing board, but will not provide 20gigs of storage nor firewire for quick transfer to a system, nor will it provide 24bit 96kHz sound quality.
But if you one to say mini-disc suits your needs, then great. To be honest, I have a hard time determining the diffrence between *some* mini-disk recordings and CDs. Mini-disk is cool. It's not CD quality, but most people don't notice. It just doesn't nessicarly meet the minium requirements for publishing a CD on a professional level, which just takes up more space then a mini-disk can hold. Dat, Adat, and digital recording is much prefered.
Much more in the way of jacks then for example the sony walkman dat recorder that i've experenced in the past. Not nearly so portable, and likely not nearly so quiet, but hey, looks like the perfect thing to jack into a mixing board.
It's nice to see someone designing goods that are ment to be modular. Part of the reason 4mm dat was attractive to me back in the 20th century was the fact that it was also a computer media standard and one could, in theory, pop it in a system for digital editing. Alas because of issues with the RIAA, it was a pain in the butt to get the drives though successfully upgraded the rom on a old HP unit and got something useful.
This unit on the other hand based on what I read is pretty much geared for fast transfer to a system.
I question sometimes the motive behind the RIAA getting on the case on devices who's sole purpose and design are for people who want the ability to master origional materal, rather then music pirates who use the CD. When I see this, I say, "wow, plug into a mixing board and get great recordings of live shows" something that you typicaly need the band's authoration for (well, record label and venue, but let the band fight out that aspect), somehow I suspect that it would be percieved as a great evil. Yea, the great evil the fact that professional grade recording equipment, the type you'd use to master with, is becoming lower in price and more practical for bands to actually own them selves, creating the danger of no longer needing to be signed with labels to get material out.
If you don't have a bat handy , which you generally don't unless you're following accepted electrical safty protocals (or happen to be a baseball fan, I believe if i'm remembering correctly the correct procedure is to kick the person free from danger, as generaly one is wearing shoes.
I'm still thinking quick release plugs as being superior.. see cord, pull cord. No complex issues with switches, good old fasioned low tech.
How long before NASA gets funding in order to maintain tracking private vehicels, and offering flight plans?
I've always felt that one aspect of the computer revolution was not so much their fuctional value, but their entertainment value. From what i've observed, a computer marketed for entertainment resulted in more sales then those marketed for trivial little tasks like word processing.
People like my self have been waiting for years for this to happen, something out there that would generate money to advance the space program... and I think we have a winner. Not only will it fund R&D into manned space vehicels, but will renew an interest in the space program in general.
Let's face it, the last moonshot i'm aware of was 30 years ago, and the shuttle has proven to be most inadquate for any sorta high orbit depoyment and recovery. The private sector could provide funding to make a *real* space program possible, rather like how Atari and Commodore actually got people to buy their products, cause it's fun!
Just because we live in the digital age doesn't mean there haven't always been hardware or software people. You can't tell me the founding fathers of modern physics didn't see beauty in motion, nor did famous architects make a contrubution. Wasn't it Sir Christopher Wren who suggested the inverse square law of attraction independently Sir Issac Newton, or should we remember him exclusivly for his buildings?
If it evokes an emotional reaction, it's ART!
Using microsoft products evokes a raticaly diffrent reaction then using let's say an Apple product, or a Linux product.
Why would it be insulting for art and science to be the same thing. A good deal of science goes into art, and art into science.
Tell me about it. When IE5 first came out (with the modular installer) the installer had a nasty bug: If the FTP site it tried to connect to to download a CAB was full, it would create the CAB file which would contain no data, only the error message!
Tell me about it. Let alone to speak of the issue of getting service pack 4 under windows NT 4.0. If you are unfamilar, you need I.E. 4.0 or above to navigate to get service pack 4 which you need to install servicepack 4.0. Near as I'm aware, this is still an issue. My resolution was to download netscape to naviagate the site to get the approperate service pack, and I just declaired victory not so much because it was absolutly nessicary, but because it makes a nice story needing netscape to get any service patches from microsoft.
In theory, this should be the fuction of support, and support making the valued judgement wether or not something is a *bug*, and reporting exploits others report. But you would pretty much need a friend in the support realm who actually knew who to report to, cause the employees are just as helpless when dealing with their own help desk.
"Exchange server crashed, we only support outlook, try rebooting your system" -- typical responce to everything
allowing the plug to fall out easily
:S
(wasn't aware that appliances in the bathroom are not permited, thanks for the update)
I'm still thinking that this is not nessicarly a bad thing. When dealing with any sorta eletronics or electrical course, there usually is a sermon on safty basicly teaching students correct procedures to deal with a human who is experencing an electric shock. Basicly it involves either hitting the human in danger with a bat, there by freeing them from the circut, or using a bat to free the source electricity from the wall. I see easy release as an advantage in that case, not a disadvantage.
Regardless of the level of protection you have on an electrical appliance, nothing is 100%, not even fuses, or else we wouldn't have the joke about the job of an IC is to protect a fuse by blowing first. I honestly don't know about europe, but I know that faulty or non-existent earths are pretty common, basicly older homes where the owners haven't bothered upgrading to code. I've gotten a few shocks this way. There is that, and petty much only your circut breaker would help you in the event of fryed wires. Not to speak of the, "oh crap my device is on fire" where the approperate corse of action would be to yank the power plug from the way (likely cause for spring retainer clips).
There are advantages to quick release power cords. there is an obvious disadvantage of curious children though
you want a easy way of updating your VHS collection, why not go for the Panasonic or Sony VHS/DVD
Hmmm, don't both those units have macrovision detection onboard. Not the usual tweek with your video macrovision, but the hard core, "no sir, I won't peform the fuction you ask of me, cause the type is protected".
No longer having a TV with a vertical control knob, I don't know of a logical means of detecting macrovision, but usually those all in one units have copy prohibit onboard. Not too sure if they offer time base correction or not.
There is an outlined procedure for this sorta thing...
In the event a user discovers an exploit, inform user to reboot machine and it will go away.
But seriously, there seems to be no OFFICIAL way for end users to actually contact microsoft, nor any sorta automated system to rank e-mails based on importance, nor any human within the phone network who actually knows who to talk to. People who i've known that worked there also have no clue as far as who to talk to, and admit this if you're lucky. If you are unlucky, just say it's a vender issue without thinking the vender is Microsoft.
"Now that I'm finally a proud homeowner, I'm looking to integrate my video, audio, and computer hardware. Specifically, I'd like to be able to listen to Internet radio throughout the house (or at least through my main stereo unit), and transmit video from my computer to my home theater in a separate room.
I've been visiting http://www.audiokarma.org/ primarly because there is a person there who knows vintage sansui gear. Nots of great people there.
Now in "theory" alot of vid cards support video output... BUT all the ones I have are crap. I bought a hollywood plus card by Sigma designs on a crappy special, came free with a crappy drive that doesn't play disks from Hollywood video. The nice thing about the newer card atleast is the fact that it offers dolby 5.1 digital output, and comes with a remote control. I know ATI has a vid card with svideo output and wireless remote control, but you'd have to get info form someone who has one, i'm happy with my g-force and dvd decoder combo.
I did something similar my self, though not the best setup.
I have a computer knook upstairs, which has 4 cat5 runs to the TV and entertainment system, and currently have Svideo and audio running on the same line though the creative use of splicing. While this is HARDLY ideal for the video, it seems most adquate for audio. I just have to make a secondary run for the video. I know sigma has a newer card that in theory supports mpeg 4, but i've not tested it, but is rumored to do divx-4 as well as xvid. For speakers, I just have a pair for the TV and a pair for the kitchen. As far as a remote control switch, I realy entirely on the telivision who's output is sent to my amp, which isn't ideal, but hey, it's there it does the job, I don't have enough ports on my amp nor switches.
But needless to say, computer video is on aux-1, digital cable on aux-2. As I have NO remote for the amp, I rely entirely on the telivision's volume control, which shockingly works adquatly.
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Regardless of wether you are dealing with analog or digital, a good pre-amp is your friend, gives you nice switches to switch between your diffrent gear. You can get away without having one if your amp has enough ports on it.
For sound, you might consider some vintage gear. While it's not going to support digital nor is it going to support things like remote control, you'd be shocked how good some of the better equipment from the 70's sounds. While my amp isn't anything to really write home about it's OK, my speakers are adquate.. one pair of sansui sp-1500's, one pair of au-300's [3 ways], one unknown advent 2 way, and a cheepo pair of sony uu-s500's. All were pretty much sub $40 solutions in the goodwill / friend forsale type market. While all (except the sony) are about 30+ years old, with the exception of changing out the wooders have required no maintance and sounds pretty damn spiffy.
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But one advantage about the american standard for power plugs. We're not afraid to install outlets and use hair dryers in the bathroom. Many a time a shocked human's arm leaped with just enough force to yank the power connector from the wall.
I'd rather the gents in question go bankrupt so they don't have to pay.
I was under the impression that "Thunderbird" and "Firebird" were always just transitory project
I was under the impression that "Thunderbird" and "Firebird" were fortified wines and the prefered drink of transients which resembled the taste of zippo lighter fluid, but not approaching the quality of such fine beverages like Boones Strawberry Hill.
The woodcase is actually kinda spiffy, i've made one my self actually not nearly so large. I have actually thought about converting furnature to actually house some of my hardware. Sorta having a rack mount effect, but having a more earthy feel to it. Plus the added bonus that theif would be likely to spot it as being valuable, and carting away with it.
Serious bonus to the fact that it also serves as a platform for things like printer and supplies, and the fact that furnature that just needs re-finishing work is pretty dirt cheep. All you need is a dremel, belt sander, and perhaps a random orbital and lots of elbow greese.
It does make a fair amount of sence for people who upgrade every 1.5 years in totality, but I think the typical upgrader is far less guilty of redundent finishing work (power coating and such) then the end user who replaces the entire PC every 1.5 years. The last time *I* replaced my cases was when I upgraded to ATX. Before that, I was using full towers that were sold with 386s in them. Pretty much the same case between 1992-1999.
Besides, power coating I do not believe released much in the way of toxins into the atmosphere, certainly not like a catalized paint does. Though i've observed that to remove powercoat requires much more in the way of high-tox solutions rather then enamals which can be removed with sodium carbonate. This only is a factor when recycling though.
The point is valid. If a strong, mass produced, easily recycled solution can be impemented, it would have a positive enviromental impact. Of which I can see the following
1. Steel melted and reused
2. Aluminium melted and reused
3. Plastic... can be shreaded, mixed with resin, and reused.
Though, something made with a renewable resource like cardboard though could be good as well, perhaps they could make strong cardboard cases based on hemp. That would be something.
Perhaps someone could include a means to provide cardboard popups on this case, that would be sweet!