Aside from that, you know how your old tape player had High Speed dubbing? I wonder if someone could rig a CD player to play that way, and then capture the sound digitally and slow it back down. That way you don't have to wait the full length of the CD.
High Speed dubbing, in terms of analog content, will cause signal degredation. I used to own vinyl albums that were mastered at 1/2 normal speed, to (marketing promo) "get every nuance of music onto the disc".
Personally, I think it's more likely that most of us have older computers sitting around that could easily be ressurected for the sole purpose of digitizing a CD (CD-ROM --> Line-Out --> Line-In --> WAV --> MP3) at 1X. It wouldn't bother me in the least, so long as I still had my primary computer available for Email, web surfing, games, chat, etc.:-)
Now my question: Recording 52 hours of what quality of video? A DVD quality video or what? I hope that this is not a result of marketing mumbo jumbo...
From the article:
The internal 40 GB HDD makes possible up to 52 hours of extended recording in EP mode to the HDD and 12 hours to a double-sided DVD-RAM disc
Not to mention that the air force is actively ousting out gays right now -- in spite of their other orders to discontinue many types of discharge to stem personnel loss.
Interesting... and dissapointing. I have a friend who is gay and was serving in the Air Force. A few years ago, he "came out" and his Commanding Officer got really pissed.
He was pissed because NOW he was forced to lose a good officer, not because he gave a shit that this guy was gay.
In fact, he told him outright that ANYTIME he wants to sign that "I am not gay" (or more accurately, "I won't act gay") waiver-whatchamacallit... that he would be fully reinstated.
It's too bad that that Air Force (in general) is still being so stupid. I guess times never change, what with Alan Turing's problems with the military and homosexuality. *sigh*
I wonder what they would do with a gay hacker?:-)
I grew up on an Apple//e myself, and spent many years decking it out in pretty much every conceivable fashion.
Once I'd moved on to more modern platforms, I decided I didn't want to just dump it... figuring there *had* to be some Apple// hobbyist who would kill for some of the hardware on this puppy.
This was in the days before E-Bay... so I ended up posting a note on comp.forsale (or something similar), offering my machine:
Apple//e (enhanced)
Upgraded 8MHz CPU
3mb RAM (Ramworks/// card, I think)
64mb SCSI hard drive
No Slot Clock chip
3.5" Floppy Drive
Apple Imagewriter II Color Printer
2400 Baud Modem
Mouse
A handful of technical books and copies of "Open-Apple", Softalk, etc.
I was asking $500, obo. I got no takers for a few days, till finally someone Emailed me and basically said he saw my ad and was interested in my machine. He asked if I would ship it to Japan, and said he wanted to pay $600 for the whole package.
SOLD!!!
The sad thing is... this guy ended up paying $900 after the el-cheapo shipping charges (ie: if we can't find the address, we leave it). I never did hear back from him, but I hope he was happy with the machine.
I've got your picture, I've got your picture
I'd like a million of them all round my cell
I want the doctor to take your picture
So I can look at you from inside as well You've got me turning up and turning down and turning in and turning 'round
I'm turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so...
I had DSL (through www.mminternet.com) for about a year and went from 256K to 768K (via a $50 service upgrade) for about $50/month.
Eventually I switched over to cable (Time Warner Cable / Road Runner) and was getting considerably faster access... according to the Road Runner page, I was seeing 1.5m+.
Overall, I have no complaints!! The service goes down infrequently... in fact, it's on-par with the DSL service I had. It's also $10/month cheaper.
I'm told other locales aren't so lucky. My friend lives in the San Jose area and he fully verified that sometimes a cable modem can lag behind a 56K dial-up connection. Man, I'd hate to live there!!
Anyway, I suspect YMMV... go with what works best in your area. Me? I've yet to see any significant slowdown in my area... Orange County, CA.
He drifts... floating from stupid Priceline.com commercials to writing books back to Priceline.com commercials.
Aw heck, I heard he got paid for those commercials with Priceline (PCLN) stock... which today, is trading at a whopping $4.94/share... up from $1.06 in late December (whoo hoo!!)
In short, the guy's gotta earn a living, and with any luck, he'll get bunch of free food, too.:-)
Doing something MUCH more minor, like playing a game on the computer in Computer apps in our school causes you to get computer privleges kicked out for the rest of the year. I'm serious. Oh, and it goes into your record too.
I'm sure this varies from school to school, and likely year-to-year...
My incident occured around May 1985, and the "computers" in use were really 300 baud green-screen terminals, connected to an IBM 370 mainframe down at the district office.
We actually played video games (a text game called "Target", loosely based on Star Trek) during lunch and most of the staff knew it... it was never against the rules, so long as no other student needed the computer for schoolwork.
So, is this just a technology hack until DVD-RW prices come down? This drive seems like a steal with a $250 USD sticker compared to the recordable DVD options."
With any luck, this is the technology hack that will force DVD-RW prices to come down!!
Consider that if you were a DVD-RW manufacturer, you wouldn't want the public wasting their time falling more in love with their CD-R/RW formats instead of upgrading to your DVD-R/RW format, would you?
Competition is supposed to be a good thing, right? A $250 price tag ($217 on Pricewatch!!) on this model really ought to rattle some cages
over on the DVD-side of the street. Let's hope this helps knock some of those DVD prices down to more acceptable levels.:-)
Well, it's been a long time since I've been in school, so I can't say what's a "reasonable" policy for computer hacking these days.
I did break into the school computer when I was in high school... they caught me about six weeks till the end of the semester. My "punishment" was getting kicked out of my computer class, which ultimately meant being short credits for completion. My alternative was to pay for access to a computer at the local community college and finish my assignments there, which I did.
At the same time, I can tell you I felt really, really empty inside. If there was *one* thing I was good at, it was computers. To have that taken away from me, and to become an outcast even in that realm was pretty disorienting... perhaps even crushing. At the same time, I suppose they could have been a lot meaner.
Now, this kid was apparently a rising star in a number of other activities, and I'm not sure why he wouldn't have simply funnelled his efforts toward another hobby for a little bit, and come back to computers a bit later.
I'm really saddened that such a bright youngster decided to take his life over what appears to be a minor infraction. I can honestly say I don't begrudge the school district one bit. I think the initial sting of punishment is probably a good thing, so long as it is followed up with guidance.
If people are going to (wrongly) blame the power crisis in Califonia on technology companies and servers running all the time, the industry could at least take something positive from this and deploy less power-hungry servers.
Perhaps... this may reduce your electrical bill (by how much, I have no idea), but it won't affect the "power crisis". Energy saved at night or during off-peak times cannot be stored for use during the next day. The biggest problem is "peak" usage, and generally at that time, you're using the big processor anyway since busy hours are busy hours.
I actually wonder if night-time energy conservation helps or hurts the power companies. The saved energy doesn't benefit us, and the lost revenue from night-time energy usage adversely affects the ability to build/rennovate other power plants.
Purposeful or under-handed power-company/governmental bunglings notwithstanding.:-)
You know... that whole part about talking to those ISPs who won't close their ports or relays? Well, in a situation like that, I think some karmic justice is the key. How about setting up a SPAM computer that targets those relays... then, using a list of all the executives, salespeople, support people, etc. for that ISP (get *every* address you can), start forwarding them all the SPAM you can find THROUGH THEIR OWN SERVERS!! I think a truckload of SPAM sent to them via their own machines would get their attention pretty quickly.:-)
Maybe a little OT, but I was thoroughly amused by a SPAM that I received this morning. It was someone who said they saw my website, thought it was really cool, and wanted to help me advertise it. Then they included a link to said website, which was merely a message I had posted on SOMEONE ELSE'S message board!! F*cking idiots I tell you!! They probably SPAMmed everyone else on that message board, too.
Idiot spammers are at least amusing... but I still wish it would just all stop.:-(
coaches push to fight against the weak- so the jocks naturally gravitate towards the oppression of the weak.
Personally, I think they've got this wrong. To paraphrase Worf (talking to Alexander): "There is no honor in picking on the weak... you must *earn* victory."
If only coaches would teach this... I mean, do you really feel that much more like a man to pick on someone you outweigh by 100lbs?
You know, if they could get the dolphins to respond to say, multi-tone whistling at a very high rate, maybe they could hit something like 300-1200 baud... think about it.:-)
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- A Beowulf cluster of E-machines?
Maybe so, but this cluster still made into the top 500 most powerful computers.I dunno. It's kinda lacking when you compare it to all the other Beowulf clusters we've considered.
Now, imagine a cluster of Athlon 1.4GHz machines doing the same thing ... now there's a drool factor, and probably cheaper to boot!!
- I have a somewhat old computer (Pentium, 233MHz) running with 256 MB of RAM. WMA lags, skips and generally does not sound good.
Maybe WMA is that "killer app" everyone's been looking for to get us all up on 2.5GHz processors.Frankly, I'm not surprised... :-)
- Aside from that, you know how your old tape player had High Speed dubbing? I wonder if someone could rig a CD player to play that way, and then capture the sound digitally and slow it back down. That way you don't have to wait the full length of the CD.
High Speed dubbing, in terms of analog content, will cause signal degredation. I used to own vinyl albums that were mastered at 1/2 normal speed, to (marketing promo) "get every nuance of music onto the disc".Personally, I think it's more likely that most of us have older computers sitting around that could easily be ressurected for the sole purpose of digitizing a CD (CD-ROM --> Line-Out --> Line-In --> WAV --> MP3) at 1X. It wouldn't bother me in the least, so long as I still had my primary computer available for Email, web surfing, games, chat, etc. :-)
- Now my question: Recording 52 hours of what quality of video? A DVD quality video or what? I hope that this is not a result of marketing mumbo jumbo...
From the article:- The internal 40 GB HDD makes possible up to 52 hours of extended recording in EP mode to the HDD and 12 hours to a double-sided DVD-RAM disc
"EP mode" doesn't sound like DVD quality to me...- Not to mention that the air force is actively ousting out gays right now -- in spite of their other orders to discontinue many types of discharge to stem personnel loss.
InterestingBring in a laptop to prove to them that it doesn't play in your computer.
Most music stores I've seen have a sign posted: "If it plays here, it's not defective".
Bringing in a laptop probably wouldn't prove the case, as they'd pop it in their system and it would play fine.
However, you could eat up about 20 minutes of their time anyway.
Once I'd moved on to more modern platforms, I decided I didn't want to just dump it ... figuring there *had* to be some Apple // hobbyist who would kill for some of the hardware on this puppy.
This was in the days before E-Bay ... so I ended up posting a note on comp.forsale (or something similar), offering my machine:
I was asking $500, obo. I got no takers for a few days, till finally someone Emailed me and basically said he saw my ad and was interested in my machine. He asked if I would ship it to Japan, and said he wanted to pay $600 for the whole package.
SOLD!!!
The sad thing is ... this guy ended up paying $900 after the el-cheapo shipping charges (ie: if we can't find the address, we leave it). I never did hear back from him, but I hope he was happy with the machine.
I do miss my Beagle Bros. software, though... :-)
I've got your picture, I've got your picture
I'd like a million of them all round my cell
I want the doctor to take your picture
So I can look at you from inside as well
You've got me turning up and turning down and turning in and turning 'round
I'm turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so...
Eventually I switched over to cable (Time Warner Cable / Road Runner) and was getting considerably faster access ... according to the Road Runner page, I was seeing 1.5m+.
Overall, I have no complaints!! The service goes down infrequently ... in fact, it's on-par with the DSL service I had. It's also $10/month cheaper.
I'm told other locales aren't so lucky. My friend lives in the San Jose area and he fully verified that sometimes a cable modem can lag behind a 56K dial-up connection. Man, I'd hate to live there!!
Anyway, I suspect YMMV ... go with what works best in your area. Me? I've yet to see any significant slowdown in my area ... Orange County, CA.
(Noting that calling Window an "OS" is indeed stretching the point a bit...) :-)
Aw heck, I heard he got paid for those commercials with Priceline (PCLN) stock ... which today, is trading at a whopping $4.94/share ... up from $1.06 in late December (whoo hoo!!)
In short, the guy's gotta earn a living, and with any luck, he'll get bunch of free food, too. :-)
Not for my school...
Doing something MUCH more minor, like playing a game on the computer in Computer apps in our school causes you to get computer privleges kicked out for the rest of the year. I'm serious. Oh, and it goes into your record too.
I'm sure this varies from school to school, and likely year-to-year...
My incident occured around May 1985, and the "computers" in use were really 300 baud green-screen terminals, connected to an IBM 370 mainframe down at the district office.
We actually played video games (a text game called "Target", loosely based on Star Trek) during lunch and most of the staff knew it ... it was never against the rules, so long as no other student needed the computer for schoolwork.
You wouldn't be looking for work in Amsterdam, would you? :-)
With any luck, this is the technology hack that will force DVD-RW prices to come down!!
Consider that if you were a DVD-RW manufacturer, you wouldn't want the public wasting their time falling more in love with their CD-R/RW formats instead of upgrading to your DVD-R/RW format, would you?
Competition is supposed to be a good thing, right? A $250 price tag ($217 on Pricewatch!!) on this model really ought to rattle some cages over on the DVD-side of the street. Let's hope this helps knock some of those DVD prices down to more acceptable levels. :-)
Well, it's been a long time since I've been in school, so I can't say what's a "reasonable" policy for computer hacking these days.
I did break into the school computer when I was in high school ... they caught me about six weeks till the end of the semester. My "punishment" was getting kicked out of my computer class, which ultimately meant being short credits for completion. My alternative was to pay for access to a computer at the local community college and finish my assignments there, which I did.
At the same time, I can tell you I felt really, really empty inside. If there was *one* thing I was good at, it was computers. To have that taken away from me, and to become an outcast even in that realm was pretty disorienting ... perhaps even crushing. At the same time, I suppose they could have been a lot meaner.
Now, this kid was apparently a rising star in a number of other activities, and I'm not sure why he wouldn't have simply funnelled his efforts toward another hobby for a little bit, and come back to computers a bit later.
I'm really saddened that such a bright youngster decided to take his life over what appears to be a minor infraction. I can honestly say I don't begrudge the school district one bit. I think the initial sting of punishment is probably a good thing, so long as it is followed up with guidance.
Wow, reminds me of old Apple ][ low-res graphics
Great imagination on the site, though!!
Perhaps ... this may reduce your electrical bill (by how much, I have no idea), but it won't affect the "power crisis". Energy saved at night or during off-peak times cannot be stored for use during the next day. The biggest problem is "peak" usage, and generally at that time, you're using the big processor anyway since busy hours are busy hours.
I actually wonder if night-time energy conservation helps or hurts the power companies. The saved energy doesn't benefit us, and the lost revenue from night-time energy usage adversely affects the ability to build/rennovate other power plants.
Purposeful or under-handed power-company/governmental bunglings notwithstanding. :-)
You know ... that whole part about talking to those ISPs who won't close their ports or relays? Well, in a situation like that, I think some karmic justice is the key. How about setting up a SPAM computer that targets those relays ... then, using a list of all the executives, salespeople, support people, etc. for that ISP (get *every* address you can), start forwarding them all the SPAM you can find THROUGH THEIR OWN SERVERS!! I think a truckload of SPAM sent to them via their own machines would get their attention pretty quickly. :-)
Maybe a little OT, but I was thoroughly amused by a SPAM that I received this morning. It was someone who said they saw my website, thought it was really cool, and wanted to help me advertise it. Then they included a link to said website, which was merely a message I had posted on SOMEONE ELSE'S message board!! F*cking idiots I tell you!! They probably SPAMmed everyone else on that message board, too. Idiot spammers are at least amusing ... but I still wish it would just all stop. :-(
Personally, I think they've got this wrong. To paraphrase Worf (talking to Alexander): "There is no honor in picking on the weak ... you must *earn* victory."
If only coaches would teach this ... I mean, do you really feel that much more like a man to pick on someone you outweigh by 100lbs?
Wow!! When are they coming out with a version that provides video game "feedback" and can like, knock your head back when there's an explosion?? :-)
Yeah, but unless you carry that last 3, you'll still be watching static. *sigh*, victim of another bad translation... :-)
Canada: All your Iridium are belong to us!!!
Why bother communicating with Mars??? I thought Venus was the one with all the chicks... :-)
You know, if they could get the dolphins to respond to say, multi-tone whistling at a very high rate, maybe they could hit something like 300-1200 baud ... think about it. :-)