What would be nice would be a cheap plastic box just big enough to hold four AAs and protect their contacts. I've been on the lookout, but I haven't seen this for sale anywhere.
I have. It's called a Q-Tip travel pack. Go to your local drugstore and look for a $1 package of 30 Q-Tips in a plastic box with a flip up lid. Open box, discard Q-Tips, insert 6 AA batteries. They'll rattle around a little but it's as good a fit as you're going to find for the money.
Now let me get this straight... you diss somebody for choosing USB2 over Firewire, then tell us your 8x Firewire drive will only burn 4x media at 2.4x....?
More than likely, the article had changed between the time your friend saw it and you saw it. One or both of your proxies are probably caching different versions of the web page
I think the parent post is right on target. According to the message board thread about this article the article has been substantially edited since it first appeared (Cecil Ad... err, Ed Zotti himself even chimed in to warn of the pending changes). I read it when it was first posted and, while I don't remember specific differences, it seems to be remarkably different now.
Even without this knowledge it would be a shorter leap of credulity to simply assume Ed changed something in the original article to "Lesbian Porn" for the yux of it than to hypothesize some corporate proxy monkey actively filtering text word by word. The article text simply got altered between visits, and your proxy server(s) took care of the rest.
Great Ghu save us from people who think they know more than they actually do!
Indeed.
You are evidently unaware that PC audio processing takes place on chunks of audio as it passes through the sound card's buffers. This is where the latency comes from. And since it would require two buffer trips (read buffer -> phase shift -> write buffer) the latency will be doubled.
Furthermore, the environmental noise sample would need to be taken as close as possible to the point in space where the "dead zone" is to be simulated. This means we'll need to attach two mics to the ears of the listener. It follows then that we'll need to process two independent signals, so double the effective size of your buffers and figure on devoting a few more CPU cycles to the "phase shift" step in the scenario above.
All things considered, with a fast CPU and extremely small buffers you might be able to reduce latency to fifty or sixty milliseconds, but this simply won't suffice for the requested application.
Face it, PC sound cards were designed for making asynchronous beep-beep game noises, not for realtime signal processing. Laptop sound "cards" are even worse.
The Mel Brooks classics with their director's commentary are almost a class in film making.
The only one I've heard was on Blazing Saddles, and it was worthless. It wasn't a "director's commentary" at all, but rather more like a radio interview somebody dredged up from the time of the film's original release. There was no correlation between what Brooks was talking about and the action onscreen. And IIRC, it ended about halfway through the film.
But hey, at least it wasn't Life Stinks or Robin Hood: Men In Tights. No amount of insightful commentary could help those films.
Yeah, you'd think so, wouldn't you? However, despite all the copies on my shelf of various versions of the Object Pascal Language Reference published by Borland, the official line is (now) that the language used in the product known as Delphi is and always has been officially called Delphi. Not Object Pascal.
I get a feeling that some lawyer in Scott's Valley got a call from some lawyer in Cupertino last year regarding the trademark to "Object Pascal" or something.
I used to work at a radio station with this guy, where the rumor went around that he was a cousin of Matt. I couldn't help but think that, if the rumor were true (and, no, I never bothered to just ask him), Homer must have been based at least partly on him. See the photo to judge for yourself.
Strangely, I recall him having less hair. And saying "d'oh!" a lot.
From the article: The receiver, which typically is portable, calculates its distance from the various satellites and triangulates to determine its own location within an inch.
Uh, is there really such a thing as a non-portable GPS receiver?
Not quite. According to the article, "a quick field test wasn't able to confirm that the substance was petroleum-based." For all we know, somebody licked it and decided it didn't taste like motor oil.
They have this el retardo policy that the card must be signed on the back or no using it.
That's probably a good policy -- if properly implemented, anyway. I tried to rent a car from Hertz once while travelling, using a new card that I had just activated but hadn't bothered to sign yet. The girl behind the counter told me she couldn't accept the card because it wasn't signed. So, of course, I asked to borrow her pen and signed it right there in front of her, and she ran the charge without giving me any more trouble.
I guess Hertz doesn't think their reps need to actually understand the policy, just enforce it.
Yes, and frankly it doesn't sound all that great. All three formats sound like crap at 32kbps and 64kbps. I don't anticipate anyone forsaking their mp3 collection to switch over to this.
The coolest watch I ever had was one I owned for a couple of years in the late 1980s. It was made by Casio and looked like a typical analog watch with a single-line LCD at the bottom for date, time, etc. However, it was actually a calculator watch. You just pressed the mode button a couple of times until "CALC" showed in the display, then you'd draw the numbers and operators on the glass with your fingertip and the results would show up in the LCD. It was almost like Palm Grafitti on a smaller scale.
Does anyone else remember these? At the time I figured it was the Next Big Thing and they'd be available all over the place within a year, but as far as I know Casio never made another. Mine got stolen and I've missed it ever since. I search eBay for them from time to time but have never been able to find one. If you know any relevant model numbers that would help me locate another, please respond.
I've got the Skagen 233LSS and it's about the thinnest I've ever seen. It's well under 2mm at the edge, although it does bulge a bit in the center to accommodate the works. Strapped against your wrist, however, it appears to be only slightly thicker than a US quarter.
It's also the least "cluttered" watch I've ever owned. No numbers, date, backlight, etc. Just elegant Danish design and Japanese innards.
Granted, Pocket Studio isn't a directly competitive product, but it all depends on how broadly you interpret the EULA and how tenacious a legal team you can afford. The BDE and MIDAS alternatives make no bones about their intent to cut into Borland's market, however.
Thanks for your concern about my ability to read, but I've purchased two bags of 100 from Computergate over the last five years. Trust me... they didn't get $200.
My understanding is that having a region-free player is only half the battle... an R2 disc in PAL format won't play back on a region-free NTSC machine, but this Apex automatically senses and converts between the two formats. My one R2 PAL disc (Citizen Kane) plays fine on my NTSC television (and I would assume the reverse holds true as well) so you wouldn't have to jettison your current collection.
Quality-wise, the machine looks a little cheesy, but the picture is great, it has component video and DTS/SPDIF audio out, and all the features you could want. Best of all, it uses a standard IDE DVD-ROM drive, so all the moving parts that are likely to go bad can be replaced on the cheap.
You can also turn off Macrovision via the secret menu, but I've yet to feel the urge to make a VHS copy of any of my DVDs.
This is cool -- and thanks to everyone who posted the link -- but I'm not keen to pay an arm and a leg to ship a $24 impulse purchase, nor am I in the mood to give IBM all my personal info to calculate shipping charges. So does anyone know what IBM charges to ship these? Their "shipping estimator" is no help at all.
I totally missed the point that you were talking about a particular group. Sorry. I saw your post after reading Mr. Madere's request for archives from that same general period and thought I might have uncovered some wider connection.:)
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What would be nice would be a cheap plastic box just big enough to hold four AAs and protect their contacts. I've been on the lookout, but I haven't seen this for sale anywhere.
I have. It's called a Q-Tip travel pack. Go to your local drugstore and look for a $1 package of 30 Q-Tips in a plastic box with a flip up lid. Open box, discard Q-Tips, insert 6 AA batteries. They'll rattle around a little but it's as good a fit as you're going to find for the money.
Now let me get this straight... you diss somebody for choosing USB2 over Firewire, then tell us your 8x Firewire drive will only burn 4x media at 2.4x....?
the original Mambo No. 5
You mean Mambo 5.0?
More than likely, the article had changed between the time your friend saw it and you saw it. One or both of your proxies are probably caching different versions of the web page
I think the parent post is right on target. According to the message board thread about this article the article has been substantially edited since it first appeared (Cecil Ad... err, Ed Zotti himself even chimed in to warn of the pending changes). I read it when it was first posted and, while I don't remember specific differences, it seems to be remarkably different now.
Even without this knowledge it would be a shorter leap of credulity to simply assume Ed changed something in the original article to "Lesbian Porn" for the yux of it than to hypothesize some corporate proxy monkey actively filtering text word by word. The article text simply got altered between visits, and your proxy server(s) took care of the rest.
In case you don't know, the above quote is from BhG's 'Fire Water Burn'.
No, actually it's not.
Great Ghu save us from people who think they know more than they actually do!
Indeed.
You are evidently unaware that PC audio processing takes place on chunks of audio as it passes through the sound card's buffers. This is where the latency comes from. And since it would require two buffer trips (read buffer -> phase shift -> write buffer) the latency will be doubled.
Furthermore, the environmental noise sample would need to be taken as close as possible to the point in space where the "dead zone" is to be simulated. This means we'll need to attach two mics to the ears of the listener. It follows then that we'll need to process two independent signals, so double the effective size of your buffers and figure on devoting a few more CPU cycles to the "phase shift" step in the scenario above.
All things considered, with a fast CPU and extremely small buffers you might be able to reduce latency to fifty or sixty milliseconds, but this simply won't suffice for the requested application.
Face it, PC sound cards were designed for making asynchronous beep-beep game noises, not for realtime signal processing. Laptop sound "cards" are even worse.
The similarities between Dune and Star Wars are incredible
Yeah, but Dune takes place 10,000 years in the future, whereas SW was a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. So George can claim prior art.
The Mel Brooks classics with their director's commentary are almost a class in film making.
The only one I've heard was on Blazing Saddles, and it was worthless. It wasn't a "director's commentary" at all, but rather more like a radio interview somebody dredged up from the time of the film's original release. There was no correlation between what Brooks was talking about and the action onscreen. And IIRC, it ended about halfway through the film.
But hey, at least it wasn't Life Stinks or Robin Hood: Men In Tights. No amount of insightful commentary could help those films.
Object Pascal r00ls!
Yeah, you'd think so, wouldn't you? However, despite all the copies on my shelf of various versions of the Object Pascal Language Reference published by Borland, the official line is (now) that the language used in the product known as Delphi is and always has been officially called Delphi. Not Object Pascal.
I get a feeling that some lawyer in Scott's Valley got a call from some lawyer in Cupertino last year regarding the trademark to "Object Pascal" or something.
I used to work at a radio station with this guy, where the rumor went around that he was a cousin of Matt. I couldn't help but think that, if the rumor were true (and, no, I never bothered to just ask him), Homer must have been based at least partly on him. See the photo to judge for yourself.
Strangely, I recall him having less hair. And saying "d'oh!" a lot.
From the article: The receiver, which typically is portable, calculates its distance from the various satellites and triangulates to determine its own location within an inch.
Uh, is there really such a thing as a non-portable GPS receiver?
tests seem to show it's not petroleum-based.
Not quite. According to the article, "a quick field test wasn't able to confirm that the substance was petroleum-based." For all we know, somebody licked it and decided it didn't taste like motor oil.
"Make TV your bitch. I did." -- gad zuki
I'd love to see this quote in one of TiVo's testimonial ads. RB, are you reading slashdot?
The Personal Edition is $100 if you must have a CD, but it's also made available for free via download.
They have this el retardo policy that the card must be signed on the back or no using it.
That's probably a good policy -- if properly implemented, anyway. I tried to rent a car from Hertz once while travelling, using a new card that I had just activated but hadn't bothered to sign yet. The girl behind the counter told me she couldn't accept the card because it wasn't signed. So, of course, I asked to borrow her pen and signed it right there in front of her, and she ran the charge without giving me any more trouble.
I guess Hertz doesn't think their reps need to actually understand the policy, just enforce it.
Anybody compare them yet?
Yes, and frankly it doesn't sound all that great. All three formats sound like crap at 32kbps and 64kbps. I don't anticipate anyone forsaking their mp3 collection to switch over to this.
The coolest watch I ever had was one I owned for a couple of years in the late 1980s. It was made by Casio and looked like a typical analog watch with a single-line LCD at the bottom for date, time, etc. However, it was actually a calculator watch. You just pressed the mode button a couple of times until "CALC" showed in the display, then you'd draw the numbers and operators on the glass with your fingertip and the results would show up in the LCD. It was almost like Palm Grafitti on a smaller scale.
Does anyone else remember these? At the time I figured it was the Next Big Thing and they'd be available all over the place within a year, but as far as I know Casio never made another. Mine got stolen and I've missed it ever since. I search eBay for them from time to time but have never been able to find one. If you know any relevant model numbers that would help me locate another, please respond.
I've got the Skagen 233LSS and it's about the thinnest I've ever seen. It's well under 2mm at the edge, although it does bulge a bit in the center to accommodate the works. Strapped against your wrist, however, it appears to be only slightly thicker than a US quarter.
It's also the least "cluttered" watch I've ever owned. No numbers, date, backlight, etc. Just elegant Danish design and Japanese innards.
Note that DVDs... are never sold in standard CD jewel cases
Never say "never".
you couldn't legally use C++ Builder or Delphi/Kylix to write a database engine or an IDE
Makes me wonder what's going to become of Pocket Studio (a Palm compiler based upon and written, I believe, in Delphi) or the various Borland Database Engine alternatives written in Delphi. There are even alternatives to Borland's MIDAS.
Granted, Pocket Studio isn't a directly competitive product, but it all depends on how broadly you interpret the EULA and how tenacious a legal team you can afford. The BDE and MIDAS alternatives make no bones about their intent to cut into Borland's market, however.
Thanks for your concern about my ability to read, but I've purchased two bags of 100 from Computergate over the last five years. Trust me... they didn't get $200.
A penny apiece.
If you're lucky enough to find one of the original run of this Apex player, you can disable region coding altogether. Mine plays every R1 and R2 disc I've tossed into it.
My understanding is that having a region-free player is only half the battle... an R2 disc in PAL format won't play back on a region-free NTSC machine, but this Apex automatically senses and converts between the two formats. My one R2 PAL disc (Citizen Kane) plays fine on my NTSC television (and I would assume the reverse holds true as well) so you wouldn't have to jettison your current collection.
Quality-wise, the machine looks a little cheesy, but the picture is great, it has component video and DTS/SPDIF audio out, and all the features you could want. Best of all, it uses a standard IDE DVD-ROM drive, so all the moving parts that are likely to go bad can be replaced on the cheap.
You can also turn off Macrovision via the secret menu, but I've yet to feel the urge to make a VHS copy of any of my DVDs.
This is cool -- and thanks to everyone who posted the link -- but I'm not keen to pay an arm and a leg to ship a $24 impulse purchase, nor am I in the mood to give IBM all my personal info to calculate shipping charges. So does anyone know what IBM charges to ship these? Their "shipping estimator" is no help at all.
I totally missed the point that you were talking about a particular group. Sorry. I saw your post after reading Mr. Madere's request for archives from that same general period and thought I might have uncovered some wider connection. :)