Here ya go[pdf] - I *highly* recommend this for anybody at all interested in the environmental movement, or the true nature of DDT...it's a real eyeopener.
Here...sorry, it's WorldNet Daily - but they also mention the New Yorker article, "The Mosquito Killer", and talk about the inventor's plans for eliminating malaria.
DAT lays down two tracks on a normal-sized cassete, using a walkman-sized player. ADAT (Alesis DAT) lays down twenty-four tracks on a videocassete (or hard drive), and uses a rather large rack-mount machine. Both types are 16-bit, 48kHz.
DAT is used on a limited scale for sneakernetting final mixes around, but the two tracks are a severe limitation for 'real' recording - an ADAT master stores each mic on a different track, so you can record and mix/postprod/etc at your leisure, as well as rerecord only certain instruments. I don't know that ADAT was ever meant to be a home technology though - it's an ideal studio solution, but way too cumbersome and expensive for Joe Average.
Indiscriminately spraying tons of DDT over every domestic crop in the world is a Bad Idea - DDT is a pretty nasty substance to have in the food chain in massive quantities; I'm sure I don't need to review the effects. But, if it were used correctly, the way its inventor intended, it would be the Magic Bullet against malaria, without wreaking massive environmental havoc. (Source: New Yorker article about two years ago, reference it yourself. Interesting tangent - the New Yorker was the mag that serialized Silent Spring, exposing millions to the book and launching the environmental movement.) Basically, DDT gets lighttly sprayed on the walls and ceilings of sleeping quarters in malarial areas of the world. The mosquitos feed, then immedately land on the wall to sleep it off, where the trace residue of DDT kills them. IIRC, three bimonthly sprayings throughout the tropics would eliminate malaria while posing negligible environmental risk. But we thought since a little was good, a lot must be better - and we ruined it for everybody.
it's a free download from microsoft; i'd say it's a reasonable bet anybody who downloads it doesn't have a copy of windows. is this microsoft's sneaky way of killing the competition - wait till most mac users have wmp, then nail them all?
WTH, you know it's going to be quick and painless when it does come, so you might as well enjoy the last Big Ride In The Sky (and I say that with the utmost respect).
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by (malicious) stupidity. I got $100 says this was some u83r-1337 linux-lovng script kiddie who's all about getting those SCO bastards their due - I think it's incredibly self-important and shallow to think that somebody would go out of their way to defame the OSS movement this way.
And for what you pay, it's a ridiculously good deal - I valeted for awhile recently; I was looking at a Phaeton just last week and it compared favorably (IMHO) to the Mercedes-Benz S-classes and BMW 7-serieses I used to park, which has an MSRP about thirty thousand higher. Neither car is cheap, but one is a lot better deal.
The iPod Mini gives you sixteen times the storage of a Rio Chiba, for $50 more. Or eight times the storage of the Network Walkman, for $50 LESS. Of course, a chintzy no-name player is gonna be a lot cheaper, but you get what you pay for, and in its class, the MiPod is a pretty freakin' good deal - sort of the Phaeton of small players.
The kicker with this project (for me) was the custom software package developed with ObjC and Cocoa...feel free to suggest alternative development suites for Windows, if you can find any.
There's the rub, you're paying for the support - a grand isn't *that* much for unlimited clients if you get support (especially unlimited free, as somebody has claimed). How much is RH Enterprise?
i do the same thing myself, actually. unfortunately, i can't always find the album i want, and in that case i'm willing to make a compromise with the powers that be. itms is to me more inconvenient than restrictive, so i can live with it, ymmv.
Even though we, the technological cognoscenti, consider any form of DRM to be an encroachment on our rights and furthermore a "broken" product, we need to realize that non-independent music will NEVER EVER be legally released to the wild in a totally unencumbered form. Never.
Indie music will be and often already is freely purchasable, but anything from the major labels will simply have to include some form of DRM. You..oops, 'we'...bitch about iTunes as a "good idea but totally unacceptable [because of DRM]"; did you not listen to what Steve said about the copy protection, that without it, there would be virtually no large-label music for sale online? That the RIAA et al. will simply not allow 'free' mp3s to be sold? Dystopian perhaps, but reality for the time being.
I do understand the arguments against DRM, and I would LOVE high-quality unencumbered mp3s, but at least for the forseeable future, you/we're simply going to have to compromise a bit. (If you have any interest in owning major-label music, that is.) Hell, maybe even SUPPORT iTMS - would you rather have that DRM scheme, which is arguably the best middle ground, or WMA's total-lockdown?
I was reading a good page on low-pressure physiology (had to do witk HALO skydiving) where they did the calculations and figured out you're about equally screwed with or without O2 on Everest - if you don't bring O2, you're naturally sluggish and slow, but if you do, you have a hard time getting enough extra energy to make up for the extra weight you have to carry. There is a "sweet spot", but go very far outside of it and you might as well just breathe the thin air.
They don't have to respect your freedom of speech, just like a mall who's owner refuses to allow protesters inside. You don't like it, you're free to find an ISP that does provide an acceptable-to-you AUP...but there's nothing in the Constitution that says your ISP has to let you do whatever you want.
The pilots wore full pressure suits in case the cockpit lost pressure or they had to bail out at 100K+...man, that would be some freefall. I'm pretty sure the suits were kept at sea-level pressure or something close to it, I suspect the cabin pressure was there to keep the suits from getting overly rigid.
The 71 cockpit was pressurized to 26K' equivalent.
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Or at least so says this page on "Cockpit Pressurization Schedules" from the flight manual...gotta love FOIA.
I have an 8 year old Trinitron that's still my favorite monitor ever, but I'm having a problem with it. The anti-reflective coating isn't nearly as durable as the glass, and it's gettins so worn and scratched the image quality is really going to shit. I can deal with a shiny monitor, so I'm wondering how to strip off the AR coating without damaging the glass. I know 0000 steel wool cleans glass, I'm curious if that will strip off the AR without scuffing the glass itself. If not, would a light buffing with cerium oxide work? I know it's used to shape and polish lenses; I'm wondering if that might not take too much glass off and distort the image though.
Wake me when they are...and when PPCs are available boxed, cheap.
So? I'm too lazy to change my prefs every 2 weeks
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I don't know how frequently it happens to the rest of you, but I score mod points every couple of weeks - I hate having to change from threaded to nested, Not to mention that I dont really have the time to process 2-500 comments per story. I look at high-modded comments that appeal to me and have spawned threads, and then just read and mod the thread. Maybe/. should be more selective with moderators, and offer to pay them say $100 for 24 hours with 5 points, so they can have the time to peruse every comment.
I always understood we used plain transformers because if you increase current drain on the output, the current in will increase to compensate. Something about the field in the tranny becoming unbalanced and the flux pulling more I into the primary...something like that. If you analogy is right, you can't draw more current from the secondary than is fed into the primary - useful for some applications, horrid for anything you'd want a transformer for.
And did he invite you down to his basement, where he had a freezer full of popsicles for you? Or ask you to reach in his pocket to collect your tip? I'm sorry, but that creepy old male neighbor (Family Guy, 'To Live and Die in Dixie") sp00ked me but good. His voice did it, I think...
...we could have a standardized hardware scheduler chip that would be uber-fast. Unfortunately, they wont standardize, and to ice the cake there's no truly 'optimum' scheduler for all systems and user loads, so it looks like you're SOL.
My Mac runs a BSD layer on a Mach microkernel (duh), so I know just a little about Unix-ish OS structure and function. Dipshit. (sorry, feeding the troll.) What I want to know is what scheduler does Darwin use? If I had to guess, I'd say Apple uses whatever the BSDs use, but I have noticed a dearth in harcr0e technical press covering Darwin's internals. Sure, YDL might use the 2.6 kernel with that wonderful scheduling Ars talks about, but I like my Photoshop, and my Final Cut Express, and my iTunes - I even adore my OS X/Darwin; it's just as stable and flexible as YDL 3.0 IME, and it's a hell of a lot better supported. So, I'm sure some slashdotter wants to display his/her vast p00ter knowlege...how does the Darwin scheduler work, and how does it stack up against Linux? (Or does Mach handle the scheduling?)
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Here ya go [pdf] - I *highly* recommend this for anybody at all interested in the environmental movement, or the true nature of DDT...it's a real eyeopener.
Here...sorry, it's WorldNet Daily - but they also mention the New Yorker article, "The Mosquito Killer", and talk about the inventor's plans for eliminating malaria.
DAT lays down two tracks on a normal-sized cassete, using a walkman-sized player. ADAT (Alesis DAT) lays down twenty-four tracks on a videocassete (or hard drive), and uses a rather large rack-mount machine. Both types are 16-bit, 48kHz.
DAT is used on a limited scale for sneakernetting final mixes around, but the two tracks are a severe limitation for 'real' recording - an ADAT master stores each mic on a different track, so you can record and mix/postprod/etc at your leisure, as well as rerecord only certain instruments. I don't know that ADAT was ever meant to be a home technology though - it's an ideal studio solution, but way too cumbersome and expensive for Joe Average.
Indiscriminately spraying tons of DDT over every domestic crop in the world is a Bad Idea - DDT is a pretty nasty substance to have in the food chain in massive quantities; I'm sure I don't need to review the effects. But, if it were used correctly, the way its inventor intended, it would be the Magic Bullet against malaria, without wreaking massive environmental havoc. (Source: New Yorker article about two years ago, reference it yourself. Interesting tangent - the New Yorker was the mag that serialized Silent Spring, exposing millions to the book and launching the environmental movement.)
Basically, DDT gets lighttly sprayed on the walls and ceilings of sleeping quarters in malarial areas of the world. The mosquitos feed, then immedately land on the wall to sleep it off, where the trace residue of DDT kills them. IIRC, three bimonthly sprayings throughout the tropics would eliminate malaria while posing negligible environmental risk. But we thought since a little was good, a lot must be better - and we ruined it for everybody.
it's a free download from microsoft; i'd say it's a reasonable bet anybody who downloads it doesn't have a copy of windows. is this microsoft's sneaky way of killing the competition - wait till most mac users have wmp, then nail them all?
WTH, you know it's going to be quick and painless when it does come, so you might as well enjoy the last Big Ride In The Sky (and I say that with the utmost respect).
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by (malicious) stupidity. I got $100 says this was some u83r-1337 linux-lovng script kiddie who's all about getting those SCO bastards their due - I think it's incredibly self-important and shallow to think that somebody would go out of their way to defame the OSS movement this way.
And for what you pay, it's a ridiculously good deal - I valeted for awhile recently; I was looking at a Phaeton just last week and it compared favorably (IMHO) to the Mercedes-Benz S-classes and BMW 7-serieses I used to park, which has an MSRP about thirty thousand higher. Neither car is cheap, but one is a lot better deal.
I was just regurgitating the Ars chart for the parent, who obviously didn't read it in the first place. I'm very happy with my 15gig iPod, thanks.
Most of the other high-end mini players are just as little, or less, for just as much, or more, cash:
Manufacturer | Model | Price(USD) | Capacity
Apple | iPod Mini | 249 | 4.0 GB
Creative | MuVo2 | 299/199 | 4.0 GB
Rio | Nitrus | 249 | 4.0 GB
iRiver | iGP-100 | 249 | 1.5 GB
Rio | Nitrus | 199 | 1.5 GB
Sony | NW-MS70D Network Walkman | 299 | 256MB
iRiver | iFP-195T | 299 | 512 MB
Creative | Muvo TX | 269 | 512 MB
DigitalWay | MPIO FY-200 | 249 | 512 MB
Rio | Chiba | 199 | 256 MB
iRock! | iRock! 860 | 149 | 256 MB
The iPod Mini gives you sixteen times the storage of a Rio Chiba, for $50 more. Or eight times the storage of the Network Walkman, for $50 LESS. Of course, a chintzy no-name player is gonna be a lot cheaper, but you get what you pay for, and in its class, the MiPod is a pretty freakin' good deal - sort of the Phaeton of small players.
The kicker with this project (for me) was the custom software package developed with ObjC and Cocoa...feel free to suggest alternative development suites for Windows, if you can find any.
There's the rub, you're paying for the support - a grand isn't *that* much for unlimited clients if you get support (especially unlimited free, as somebody has claimed). How much is RH Enterprise?
i do the same thing myself, actually. unfortunately, i can't always find the album i want, and in that case i'm willing to make a compromise with the powers that be. itms is to me more inconvenient than restrictive, so i can live with it, ymmv.
Even though we, the technological cognoscenti, consider any form of DRM to be an encroachment on our rights and furthermore a "broken" product, we need to realize that non-independent music will NEVER EVER be legally released to the wild in a totally unencumbered form. Never.
Indie music will be and often already is freely purchasable, but anything from the major labels will simply have to include some form of DRM. You..oops, 'we'...bitch about iTunes as a "good idea but totally unacceptable [because of DRM]"; did you not listen to what Steve said about the copy protection, that without it, there would be virtually no large-label music for sale online? That the RIAA et al. will simply not allow 'free' mp3s to be sold? Dystopian perhaps, but reality for the time being.
I do understand the arguments against DRM, and I would LOVE high-quality unencumbered mp3s, but at least for the forseeable future, you/we're simply going to have to compromise a bit. (If you have any interest in owning major-label music, that is.) Hell, maybe even SUPPORT iTMS - would you rather have that DRM scheme, which is arguably the best middle ground, or WMA's total-lockdown?
I was reading a good page on low-pressure physiology (had to do witk HALO skydiving) where they did the calculations and figured out you're about equally screwed with or without O2 on Everest - if you don't bring O2, you're naturally sluggish and slow, but if you do, you have a hard time getting enough extra energy to make up for the extra weight you have to carry. There is a "sweet spot", but go very far outside of it and you might as well just breathe the thin air.
They don't have to respect your freedom of speech, just like a mall who's owner refuses to allow protesters inside. You don't like it, you're free to find an ISP that does provide an acceptable-to-you AUP...but there's nothing in the Constitution that says your ISP has to let you do whatever you want.
The pilots wore full pressure suits in case the cockpit lost pressure or they had to bail out at 100K+...man, that would be some freefall. I'm pretty sure the suits were kept at sea-level pressure or something close to it, I suspect the cabin pressure was there to keep the suits from getting overly rigid.
Or at least so says this page on "Cockpit Pressurization Schedules" from the flight manual...gotta love FOIA.
I have an 8 year old Trinitron that's still my favorite monitor ever, but I'm having a problem with it. The anti-reflective coating isn't nearly as durable as the glass, and it's gettins so worn and scratched the image quality is really going to shit. I can deal with a shiny monitor, so I'm wondering how to strip off the AR coating without damaging the glass. I know 0000 steel wool cleans glass, I'm curious if that will strip off the AR without scuffing the glass itself. If not, would a light buffing with cerium oxide work? I know it's used to shape and polish lenses; I'm wondering if that might not take too much glass off and distort the image though.
Wake me when they are...and when PPCs are available boxed, cheap.
I don't know how frequently it happens to the rest of you, but I score mod points every couple of weeks - I hate having to change from threaded to nested, Not to mention that I dont really have the time to process 2-500 comments per story. I look at high-modded comments that appeal to me and have spawned threads, and then just read and mod the thread. Maybe /. should be more selective with moderators, and offer to pay them say $100 for 24 hours with 5 points, so they can have the time to peruse every comment.
I always understood we used plain transformers because if you increase current drain on the output, the current in will increase to compensate. Something about the field in the tranny becoming unbalanced and the flux pulling more I into the primary...something like that. If you analogy is right, you can't draw more current from the secondary than is fed into the primary - useful for some applications, horrid for anything you'd want a transformer for.
And did he invite you down to his basement, where he had a freezer full of popsicles for you? Or ask you to reach in his pocket to collect your tip? I'm sorry, but that creepy old male neighbor (Family Guy, 'To Live and Die in Dixie") sp00ked me but good. His voice did it, I think...
...we could have a standardized hardware scheduler chip that would be uber-fast. Unfortunately, they wont standardize, and to ice the cake there's no truly 'optimum' scheduler for all systems and user loads, so it looks like you're SOL.
My Mac runs a BSD layer on a Mach microkernel (duh), so I know just a little about Unix-ish OS structure and function. Dipshit. (sorry, feeding the troll.) What I want to know is what scheduler does Darwin use? If I had to guess, I'd say Apple uses whatever the BSDs use, but I have noticed a dearth in harcr0e technical press covering Darwin's internals. Sure, YDL might use the 2.6 kernel with that wonderful scheduling Ars talks about, but I like my Photoshop, and my Final Cut Express, and my iTunes - I even adore my OS X/Darwin; it's just as stable and flexible as YDL 3.0 IME, and it's a hell of a lot better supported. So, I'm sure some slashdotter wants to display his/her vast p00ter knowlege...how does the Darwin scheduler work, and how does it stack up against Linux? (Or does Mach handle the scheduling?)