I know, don't reply to your own posts, blah blah. Just wanted to point out that, according the the current CDConnection.com website, they've been online since 1990! That's gotta count for something...
I distinctly remember ordering a few CDs from cdconnection.com in the summer of '94. It was an online CD store that had a telnet interface. I remember it quite clearly. I dialed in to my brother's university shell account, using my 286 with DOS and Qmodem, to make the purchase. CDs arrived safe and sound about a week later.
"Takes about two minutes to hook up the transmitter and start the mower. I come home and it's done."
Or more realistically, it takes two minutes to hook up the transmitter and start the mower, and when I come home the lawn is half done and the mower has been stolen.
Here it is. Looks like it just had a hefty price cut too, from $999 to $399. Alas, no ethernet...
Specifications
-Size of a standard 17"stereo component -20.0 GB hard drive -2-line,20-character VFD display -Single-tray CD drive -Analog audio In/Out -Co-ax and optical digital audio In/Out -TV video and S-video Out -V.90 modem -HomePNA 2.0 -Full-function remote control -S-Link (CD changer control -Three USB ports (one on front of PC, two on back)
I think the point of bi-wiring a speaker is so that you can use two separate power-amps (ie. one for the tweeter and one for the woofer). Having two wires going to the same amp is pretty pointless.
The B&W Nautilus speakers actually require four separate stereo power amps (or eight mono amps) for each pair of speakers, since there are four driver units in each speaker. This would obviously require four wires going to each speaker. So if you want to drop $25,000 on a pair of speakers, be prepared to drop another $25,000 or so on all the amps you'll need:p
The best example of this was a double-blind study done on speaker cables a while back. They compared $200/ft solid core silver speaker wires against $.10/ft 16-gauge copper lamp wire (you can get a 250ft spool at home depot for about $25).
The results were damn near 50-50, with the slight edge going to the lamp wire. I'm now using lamp wire to connect my B&W DM601 speakers, and they sound fabulous.
Launch your favourite spreadsheet program. Push the down arrow a few times. See what happens? Now turn on scroll lock and try that down arrow again. See how it's different?;-)
Tivo service is not available in Canada. Are there any competing products that are available up here (that don't require satellite tv service, I don't want bell expressvu). I can't find any info on availability on the ReplayTV website. Am I going to have to build a small form factor windows box with an ATI A-I-W 7500 in it?
No, actually, you don't need to do that at all. My 3.2 MP camera (Canon PowerShot S30) produces full colour images at 2048x1536, which equals 3,145,728 pixels.
They should do it like canon (or at least how canon used to when they made my bubble jet 4100). Individually replaceable black ink, colour ink, and print head. If the head is still good, just buy ink tanks. If the head is bad, buy a set of tanks and head in one box.
The jumbo black ink cartridge had a built in print head, but the colour and black combined kit is in three separate pieces that fit together.
That would be an absolute killer home entertainment PC, with multi format flash card reader (CF/MMC/MS/SM/SD/Micro Drive), firewire, usb 2.0, and spdif optical digital audio all built in. They'll have models supporting P4, P3, AND Athlon.
The only thing it doesn't say is if it has an AGP slot. If you can't put an all-in-wonder card in there, it kind of defeats the purpose...
I think your numbers are off a little, since my 3.2 megapixel camera can do 2048x1536. My brother's 4 megapixel camera does 2272x1704. I think that would make the rest of your calculations make a little more sense.
Been there, done that. Ever seen "Short Circuit"? Johnny 5 did exactly that when studying the encyclopedias. Let's just ask the movie producers how they did that?:)
That's not so out of reach with today's technology. There's certainly no reason to use a cluster, since it could be done internally with the proper (custom, expensive) hardware. I believe the highest bandwidth consumer dram is PC1066 RDRAM, which has a bandwidth of approx. 3.2Gbytes/s. You'd need eleven RDRAM channels to reach 35Gbytes/s, so you get one second of video for each GB of RDRAM per channel that you throw at it.
Number of required channels can be reduced if higher bandwidth DRAM is used, which I'm sure exists somewhere.
Yes, it would be frighteningly expensive, but these high speed film cameras aren't exactly cheap either.
Answer to first question: Ever heard of Slow-Motion? Record at 12,000 fps, play back at 30 fps, and it basically slows down time so you can see really fast events moving slowly.
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I know, don't reply to your own posts, blah blah. Just wanted to point out that, according the the current CDConnection.com website, they've been online since 1990! That's gotta count for something...
I distinctly remember ordering a few CDs from cdconnection.com in the summer of '94. It was an online CD store that had a telnet interface. I remember it quite clearly. I dialed in to my brother's university shell account, using my 286 with DOS and Qmodem, to make the purchase. CDs arrived safe and sound about a week later.
"Takes about two minutes to hook up the transmitter and start the mower. I come home and it's done."
Or more realistically, it takes two minutes to hook up the transmitter and start the mower, and when I come home the lawn is half done and the mower has been stolen.
... and then the popular agricultural show "Pigs In Spaaaaaaaace"
Here it is. Looks like it just had a hefty price cut too, from $999 to $399. Alas, no ethernet...
Specifications
-Size of a standard 17"stereo component
-20.0 GB hard drive
-2-line,20-character VFD display
-Single-tray CD drive
-Analog audio In/Out
-Co-ax and optical digital audio In/Out
-TV video and S-video Out
-V.90 modem
-HomePNA 2.0
-Full-function remote control
-S-Link (CD changer control
-Three USB ports (one on front of PC, two on back)
Parental lockout is included with every headset. To activate it, disconnect the headset and place it in a locked cabinet. Duh. ;-)
I think he's being sarcastic. Dell servers are poop. Compaq makes by far the best intel servers on the planet.
That's not a link, this is a link!!
I think the point of bi-wiring a speaker is so that you can use two separate power-amps (ie. one for the tweeter and one for the woofer). Having two wires going to the same amp is pretty pointless.
:p
The B&W Nautilus speakers actually require four separate stereo power amps (or eight mono amps) for each pair of speakers, since there are four driver units in each speaker. This would obviously require four wires going to each speaker. So if you want to drop $25,000 on a pair of speakers, be prepared to drop another $25,000 or so on all the amps you'll need
The best example of this was a double-blind study done on speaker cables a while back. They compared $200/ft solid core silver speaker wires against $.10/ft 16-gauge copper lamp wire (you can get a 250ft spool at home depot for about $25).
The results were damn near 50-50, with the slight edge going to the lamp wire. I'm now using lamp wire to connect my B&W DM601 speakers, and they sound fabulous.
Launch your favourite spreadsheet program. Push the down arrow a few times. See what happens? Now turn on scroll lock and try that down arrow again. See how it's different? ;-)
Tivo service is not available in Canada. Are there any competing products that are available up here (that don't require satellite tv service, I don't want bell expressvu). I can't find any info on availability on the ReplayTV website. Am I going to have to build a small form factor windows box with an ATI A-I-W 7500 in it?
http://premierdownload.microsoft.com/download/whis tler/SP/SP1/WXP/EN-US/xpsp1_en_x86.exe
A more appropriate title is "Supreme Dictator for Life".
No, actually, you don't need to do that at all. My 3.2 MP camera (Canon PowerShot S30) produces full colour images at 2048x1536, which equals 3,145,728 pixels.
Not so fast: Binary Prefixes are different.
They should do it like canon (or at least how canon used to when they made my bubble jet 4100). Individually replaceable black ink, colour ink, and print head. If the head is still good, just buy ink tanks. If the head is bad, buy a set of tanks and head in one box.
The jumbo black ink cartridge had a built in print head, but the colour and black combined kit is in three separate pieces that fit together.
If you can afford an Origin 3800, you can probably afford solid state disks too...
Whoa, even better than that. Check out the G-Max "FB" series that's "coming soon".
Gigabyte G-MAX FB Series
That would be an absolute killer home entertainment PC, with multi format flash card reader (CF/MMC/MS/SM/SD/Micro Drive), firewire, usb 2.0, and spdif optical digital audio all built in. They'll have models supporting P4, P3, AND Athlon.
The only thing it doesn't say is if it has an AGP slot. If you can't put an all-in-wonder card in there, it kind of defeats the purpose...
I think your numbers are off a little, since my 3.2 megapixel camera can do 2048x1536. My brother's 4 megapixel camera does 2272x1704. I think that would make the rest of your calculations make a little more sense.
It's from an episode of South Park, where there were little creatures called "Underpants Gnomes". Their business plan was:
1. Steal underpants
2. ???
3. Profit!!
They just hadn't quite figured out step two yet...
"Hehe, I get that with cable. ;)"
In both directions? T1 is just as fast uploading as it is downloading...
Been there, done that. Ever seen "Short Circuit"? Johnny 5 did exactly that when studying the encyclopedias. Let's just ask the movie producers how they did that? :)
That's not so out of reach with today's technology. There's certainly no reason to use a cluster, since it could be done internally with the proper (custom, expensive) hardware. I believe the highest bandwidth consumer dram is PC1066 RDRAM, which has a bandwidth of approx. 3.2Gbytes/s. You'd need eleven RDRAM channels to reach 35Gbytes/s, so you get one second of video for each GB of RDRAM per channel that you throw at it.
Number of required channels can be reduced if higher bandwidth DRAM is used, which I'm sure exists somewhere.
Yes, it would be frighteningly expensive, but these high speed film cameras aren't exactly cheap either.
Answer to first question: Ever heard of Slow-Motion? Record at 12,000 fps, play back at 30 fps, and it basically slows down time so you can see really fast events moving slowly.
Answer to second question: No, you didn't