Oh, wow, lemme think. It was last week at the last ever Spirytus gig. A quid in the donations jar and I am now the proud owner of a signed (Ryan, Danny and Ben, the other Ben skipped the minute the performance was over and Mike was busy packing down the equipment while the rest were busy killing beer) Fundamentals EP.
Best. Unsigned. Band. Ever.
Made all the more satisfying knowing that no major label gets to see a penny. And that's the only difference between being unsigned and being signed. Labels get royalties and they own the rights, not the signed artists, who still have to pay for studio time and production out of their (average) five percent cut on hard sales of current catalogues, and two percent and less on back catalogues. Ask Janis Ian, she'll tell you, labels not only rip off consumers, they rip off artists - royally.
While not an astonishing success like SpaceX's (I am after all only one man with a dual core laptop or six, they have hundreds if not thousands of brains and supercomputers pouring out their wazoos), I did manage a water landing AND put a payload into orbit. Photo op here.
"sociopath": term used by someone who knows as much about forensic psychology as a murderess who tried it on and failed when she was called on it in 1968. Since when, no legitimate practitioner of the field would even consider it as a term to use, even in jest.
hate to tell you this, but the Columbus module on the ISS was assembled in Germany, as was the High Resolution Stereo Camera on Mars Express. They also have ten astronauts qualified in flight. They have 11 missions on current status including DAWN and Rosetta, and 29 missions on standby or completed status (including a dozen communications satellites now in graveyard orbits after upwards of thirty years apiece in service).
oh is THAT what that board is?? I ripped out a PCI card with 4 mini-DIN8 ports from a knackered G3 some years ago, it's had me absolutely stumped as to what it's for!
Firewire uses 1 controller for one port. USB uses one controller for 4 ports. Contested bandwidth is the killer here. If you have a laptop with three USB and 1 firewire port, chances are you're going to see frame drops with USB because even if the other two ports aren't being used, you're still going to see latency caused by bus scanning.
I have a laptop with an internal 1394 I use for the camera and a PC Card firewire adapter I use for connnecting a hard drive. The ONLY thing the USB ports get used for are trackball, external sound card (I like the iMic, it pisses all over any internal soundcard I've ever tried), and occasionally a DVB-T dongle. I don't see ANY dropped frames.
Before USB there were 14 competing standards. After USB came out, suddenly there were 15 competing standards. One of which now does indeed use no less than 12 different plugs, and these are what's in my cable drawer: type A, type B, type C, type C mid, mini 5, micro 5, micro 4, mini a, mini b, micro a, micro b, at least two Samsung connectors, at least two Motorola connectors, at least four(!) Nokia connectors, at least two Apple connectors, who knows how many Sony connectors because you could never get a data connection using a cable from a different Sony device on your walkman phone... I'm not talking about ANYTHING with intermediate electronics here, these are straight-through connectors.
if I can replace a device with a serial, ps/2, or parallel port with one which has one of the standard USB terminal connectors or hardwired to a console connector, I'm happy. Less so but still happy if I can update existing devices with nothing more than a mating adapter.
What pisses me off is the apparent joy camera manufacturers still seem to take in using nonstandard terminal connectors. SAMSUNG, I'M LOOKING AT YOU! £14 for a fucking replacement USB cable is not fucking funny!
I'm glad most phone manufacturers have got the hint that we'd all like to be able to carry just ONE cable for our phones and our portable hard drives! And speaking of that - what's with this USB3 bullshit?? They look like anorexic SATA connectors!
I hear of people plugging keyboards into XB360, even my son had a play (before his 360 blew up). Aside from the input options, what other issues affect game portability? Graphics? How hard can it be to port to 1080p when most modern consoles (if not all of the current generation) can output 1080p anyway?
I heard about one over the last week or so that encrypts home folders then throws away the key with the expectation that a skeleton key would do to decrypt once the ransom is paid... something about the author then either lost or trashed the skeleton key, so any systems which got crunched had to be scuttled - no way to retrieve the home folder whatsoever absent backups.
This might interest you - Blizzard have been talking about porting WoW to console (probably the next gen XBox), though how many DVDs the content would ship on is anybody's guess...
According to Gamerant, SWKOTOR *might* be getting a console remix.
I still have a stack of XBoxes. One's unmodded, that does me for Live. One's softmodded and packed with retro games. Four have ludicrous (for the base spec) hard drive upgrades and sit there running various file services including a webserver on a load-balanced pair (experimental, I don't expect for it to be getting a million hits a day or anything daft like that).
because they realised the real power is in software rather than hardware, so they reduced the hardware overhead by switching architecture to the x64 and rewrote most of their code. These days Mac laptops and their HTPC-type systems are fabricated by Dell in Ireland, same as they've always been, only this time round the only real divergence is when it comes to mounting the boards in the cases.
I have several multicore machines (albit all fairly low spec but clustered they can keep up with a Skylake) that I chew through a LOT of video hours on.
underpowered? I bet that the Surface Pro pisses all over my laptop.
My laptop: Dual core 1.6GHz AMD with dual core Radeon HD on die 8GB RAM 500GB HDD storage + 3xUSB 2.0 + DVDRAM 15.4" 1366x768 panel 2MP camera
Not bad for £339 back in March 2011.
Surface Pro 4 (to meet spec): quad core 4GHz Skylake i7 2736x1824 12.3" touchscreen 16GB RAM 1TB SSD 8MP camera Miniport + USB 3.0
I don't know if the £1800 asking price is worth it, though. I could get a beast of a desktop system for about that.
Asus Crosshair 990FX motherboard with 5GHz AMD Piledriver 8-core and 16GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR3: £515 (that's 14 USB 3.0 and 4 USB 2.0 ports for anyone who's counting) CIT Black Edition 1KW PSU at I think my last one cost £60. That's one thousand Watts certified continuous output. Samsung 850 Evo 1TB SSD @£322 XFX Radeon R9 390X 8GB £374 CIT Venom case: £19 Coolermaster T4 CPU cooler: £22 Noctua Vortex 120mm case fan x3 @£13 (these things are brilliant: whisper quiet and they shift a LOAD of air) Pioneer Blu-Ray/DVDRW £61
That's £1412 give or take. I have change there for another TB SSD! Or I might spoil myself and go for a £305 24" 4k UHD monitor.
(anyone know what happened to Firewire? Finding a "modern" system with Firewire is like hunting unicorns these days... oh, wait, found a card on Amazon for £16.)
GPRS dialup was metered by data volume, not connection time. At least in the UK. Otherwise leaving a GPRS modem online all day while you pottered about a warehouse doing a stocktake could kill a company.
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my ears and my brain form a recording system. I remember music. My wetware makes a copy of everything I hear.
I must be the most prolific "pirate" going.
Oh, wow, lemme think. It was last week at the last ever Spirytus gig. A quid in the donations jar and I am now the proud owner of a signed (Ryan, Danny and Ben, the other Ben skipped the minute the performance was over and Mike was busy packing down the equipment while the rest were busy killing beer) Fundamentals EP.
Best. Unsigned. Band. Ever.
Made all the more satisfying knowing that no major label gets to see a penny. And that's the only difference between being unsigned and being signed. Labels get royalties and they own the rights, not the signed artists, who still have to pay for studio time and production out of their (average) five percent cut on hard sales of current catalogues, and two percent and less on back catalogues. Ask Janis Ian, she'll tell you, labels not only rip off consumers, they rip off artists - royally.
So after seeing the video, I thought, why not?
While not an astonishing success like SpaceX's (I am after all only one man with a dual core laptop or six, they have hundreds if not thousands of brains and supercomputers pouring out their wazoos), I did manage a water landing AND put a payload into orbit. Photo op here.
"sociopath": term used by someone who knows as much about forensic psychology as a murderess who tried it on and failed when she was called on it in 1968. Since when, no legitimate practitioner of the field would even consider it as a term to use, even in jest.
hate to tell you this, but the Columbus module on the ISS was assembled in Germany, as was the High Resolution Stereo Camera on Mars Express. They also have ten astronauts qualified in flight. They have 11 missions on current status including DAWN and Rosetta, and 29 missions on standby or completed status (including a dozen communications satellites now in graveyard orbits after upwards of thirty years apiece in service).
usb is useless IMO for production video work - bus contention is just too high.
oh is THAT what that board is?? I ripped out a PCI card with 4 mini-DIN8 ports from a knackered G3 some years ago, it's had me absolutely stumped as to what it's for!
Firewire uses 1 controller for one port. USB uses one controller for 4 ports. Contested bandwidth is the killer here. If you have a laptop with three USB and 1 firewire port, chances are you're going to see frame drops with USB because even if the other two ports aren't being used, you're still going to see latency caused by bus scanning.
I have a laptop with an internal 1394 I use for the camera and a PC Card firewire adapter I use for connnecting a hard drive. The ONLY thing the USB ports get used for are trackball, external sound card (I like the iMic, it pisses all over any internal soundcard I've ever tried), and occasionally a DVB-T dongle. I don't see ANY dropped frames.
Before USB there were 14 competing standards. After USB came out, suddenly there were 15 competing standards. One of which now does indeed use no less than 12 different plugs, and these are what's in my cable drawer: type A, type B, type C, type C mid, mini 5, micro 5, micro 4, mini a, mini b, micro a, micro b, at least two Samsung connectors, at least two Motorola connectors, at least four(!) Nokia connectors, at least two Apple connectors, who knows how many Sony connectors because you could never get a data connection using a cable from a different Sony device on your walkman phone... I'm not talking about ANYTHING with intermediate electronics here, these are straight-through connectors.
if I can replace a device with a serial, ps/2, or parallel port with one which has one of the standard USB terminal connectors or hardwired to a console connector, I'm happy. Less so but still happy if I can update existing devices with nothing more than a mating adapter.
What pisses me off is the apparent joy camera manufacturers still seem to take in using nonstandard terminal connectors. SAMSUNG, I'M LOOKING AT YOU! £14 for a fucking replacement USB cable is not fucking funny!
I'm glad most phone manufacturers have got the hint that we'd all like to be able to carry just ONE cable for our phones and our portable hard drives! And speaking of that - what's with this USB3 bullshit?? They look like anorexic SATA connectors!
Beryl.
uh... he was voted in twice. If that's not legitimising his position, what is?
and why wouldn't he? Assad is the legitimate head of state in Syria. He flies the official flag of tricolore and two stars.
Because there are two constants in today's economy: data and weapons. Nobody ever went broke selling either.
I refer you to BAE Systems' recent contracts and the fact that people still sell CDROM discs full of verified email addresses.
http://www.baesystems.com/en/a... (£1.3Bn for a nuclear submarine)
http://www.b2b-bl.com/?p=220 (B2B Spam and why opt-in lists work about as well as opt-out).
I hear of people plugging keyboards into XB360, even my son had a play (before his 360 blew up). Aside from the input options, what other issues affect game portability? Graphics? How hard can it be to port to 1080p when most modern consoles (if not all of the current generation) can output 1080p anyway?
you mean the one that's the same as my doomsday weapon insta-bang password?
I heard about one over the last week or so that encrypts home folders then throws away the key with the expectation that a skeleton key would do to decrypt once the ransom is paid... something about the author then either lost or trashed the skeleton key, so any systems which got crunched had to be scuttled - no way to retrieve the home folder whatsoever absent backups.
This might interest you - Blizzard have been talking about porting WoW to console (probably the next gen XBox), though how many DVDs the content would ship on is anybody's guess...
According to Gamerant, SWKOTOR *might* be getting a console remix.
games are what consoles are for.
I still have a stack of XBoxes. One's unmodded, that does me for Live. One's softmodded and packed with retro games. Four have ludicrous (for the base spec) hard drive upgrades and sit there running various file services including a webserver on a load-balanced pair (experimental, I don't expect for it to be getting a million hits a day or anything daft like that).
because they realised the real power is in software rather than hardware, so they reduced the hardware overhead by switching architecture to the x64 and rewrote most of their code. These days Mac laptops and their HTPC-type systems are fabricated by Dell in Ireland, same as they've always been, only this time round the only real divergence is when it comes to mounting the boards in the cases.
A/V work.
I have several multicore machines (albit all fairly low spec but clustered they can keep up with a Skylake) that I chew through a LOT of video hours on.
that's £1799, not $1799. http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/new...
In USD that's about $2738 at today's rate.
underpowered? I bet that the Surface Pro pisses all over my laptop.
My laptop:
Dual core 1.6GHz AMD with dual core Radeon HD on die
8GB RAM
500GB HDD storage + 3xUSB 2.0 + DVDRAM
15.4" 1366x768 panel
2MP camera
Not bad for £339 back in March 2011.
Surface Pro 4 (to meet spec):
quad core 4GHz Skylake i7
2736x1824 12.3" touchscreen
16GB RAM
1TB SSD
8MP camera
Miniport + USB 3.0
I don't know if the £1800 asking price is worth it, though. I could get a beast of a desktop system for about that.
Asus Crosshair 990FX motherboard with 5GHz AMD Piledriver 8-core and 16GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR3: £515
(that's 14 USB 3.0 and 4 USB 2.0 ports for anyone who's counting)
CIT Black Edition 1KW PSU at I think my last one cost £60. That's one thousand Watts certified continuous output.
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB SSD @£322
XFX Radeon R9 390X 8GB £374
CIT Venom case: £19
Coolermaster T4 CPU cooler: £22
Noctua Vortex 120mm case fan x3 @£13 (these things are brilliant: whisper quiet and they shift a LOAD of air)
Pioneer Blu-Ray/DVDRW £61
That's £1412 give or take. I have change there for another TB SSD! Or I might spoil myself and go for a £305 24" 4k UHD monitor.
(anyone know what happened to Firewire? Finding a "modern" system with Firewire is like hunting unicorns these days... oh, wait, found a card on Amazon for £16.)
GPRS dialup was metered by data volume, not connection time. At least in the UK. Otherwise leaving a GPRS modem online all day while you pottered about a warehouse doing a stocktake could kill a company.
a penny per MB can get quite expensive.
My last GPRS bill was for nearly £3000, at that rate on T-Mobile. I nearly frickin' died.