Just take an old computer ps, build a box and slap the car stereo and ps into it.
One of the guys I worked with at Dell had this rig set up in the testing lab. Even had a set of speakers with wireless remote that would let him turn them up/down/off from across the lab.
You can even wire up a set of jacks and get a splitter allowing you to hook the computer speakers to the car stereo and the PC at the same time. If you get a set of car stereo speakers and mount them in the box and slap a handle on it, you've got instant portability.
I'm planning on doing this for my workbench in the garage. I'll likely just use a jigsaw and cut a slot out for the stereo and mount the speakers in the bench as well.
I would've done the same thing with a marine-grade boat stereo and speakers in the master bath, had our homebuilder allowed me to wire the house up.
Some people use the Xing MP3 encoder, hear that is sounds like crap, and stop right there saying "mp3 is crap".
Try LAME at 160kbps VBR, then compare to your WMA9. Uou could also try Ogg Vorbis at 160kbps. If aksed between WMA, MP3 or OGG, I'd chose MP3 for compatibility (but only if properly encoded with a good encoder such as LAME), and Ogg Vorbis for quality/filesize
I've never used Xing, so I can't comment on that. However, LAME is freaking AWESOME. Best of all, its included with CDex.
I don't honestly see CDs being $5 or less (unless you're talking about bargin bin shiat) in our lifetime. I could see CDs priced at $9.99 or so being a very slim possibility, but the likelihood that we'll see CDs in the sub-$15 range anytime soon is less than my winning the lotto.
For the record, I don't play lotto. I might once we get the multi-state and we see $100M+ jackpots:-)
Now, if only I could find a freeware lotto number generator that generates statistical analysis from past winnings..
But at $20, CDs are not a cost-effective solution. At 1/10 the price it certainly would be. Perhaps even at 1/5 the price.
I, for one, would fill my bookcases with music CDs at that price. You can bet I'd have a 'complete works' of every artist that I love. But at $20 I can count on zero hands the number of CDs I've purchased in the last year.
Ahh yes, but those "in control" don't think this is actually the case. I guess they're not willing to drop the prices - even temporarily - to see what effect this has.
And by temporarily, I don't mean a couple of weeks. But doing it over the Christmas shopping season would be enough. Starting it on Black Friday would be the best thing, IMO.
I for one agree with your stance (as do a lot of others). $20 is too much for CDs. Everything else has come down in cost over the years (DVD players, CDRW drives, etc) but not this.
Will I buy them once they all come out on DVD in a box set? Yes. Which is why I didn't bother buying the VHS versions in the first place. Sure, Episodes I and II were utter shit, but they're part of a story that I want my kids to be able to see.
Look, just because you can't find Season 9 of Buffy on DVD doesn't mean you have to get your panties in a knot.
I have the boxed set of VHS tapes from the original three, and only because they were a gift. They're the digitally-remastered (gold box) set.
I have a couple of friends who pounced on the 1st box set that came out. I tried to warn them, knowing they'd release another set that had been digitially-remastered.
Well, if Kazaalite isn't on that machine, then Kazaalite must be the culprit trying to initiate an outgoing connection right??? There can't be anything else on that machine trying to make outbound connections right??? Nooooooo, of course not....
Precisely. There are NO P2P apps on the box where the pop-up appeared.
Not a single one. That's what the other box is for.
Which is why it struck me as odd. There'd be no reason for the pop-up to appear on that system.
1. The boxed set ? 2. Each title in letterbox/wide-screen ? 3. The letterbox/wide-screen boxed set ? 4. Each title as a 'limited editition' with a bunch of extra crap ? 5. The limited-edition boxed set ? 6. Each title released individually as 'Director's Cut' ? 7. The director's cut of the boxed set ?
'Cause you know they're going to take a page from George Lucas and whore the titles like he did with Star Wars.
..since I never could get it to work, I'd uninstalled it a LONG time ago.
I *did* notice one thing about KaZaA Lite however (not bullshitting):
I've got four systems on my network at home. One of the two on my desk is running KaZaA Lite. All the boxes have software firewalls installed in addition to my LinkSys NAT firewall/switch.
The other day, my primary machine's firewall displays a warning regarding an out-bound connection attempt from that box.
This box wasn't running KaZaA Lite. Nor is it installed on this system. Anyone else see anything like this?
Agreed, except I'd add that you obfuscate the address in the form. I'm the webauthor for my in-laws lamaze business and to prevent harvesting, I put site feedback in a form and obfuscated the email address.
In the year or so that the site's been up, I've not received a single bit of spam.
Sure, I had a couple of people input bogus information attempting to get the address from the results page, but that doesn't show them anything except a thank you message.
I can't seem to locate the link I originally used to do this, but these might work:
Sure, it has the ability to 'phone home' but that's so easy to disable and has been documented to death. Google is your friend.
Anyone who is still paranoid should install a nice software firewall (I use Sygate) and check whats going out-bound. Once you disable XPs capability, you won't see the OS sending *anything* out.
I worked for a software company (it's initals are B M C) in Austin. I'd finally got out of the IT department and away from the IT manager (affectionately referred to by everyone as 'Squiggy' because he looked like the dude from Laverne & Shirley). After 9 months of bliss in another department where I had no immediate supervision (boss in another city), I get a call one Tuesday morning from my boss (who's in Houston) and a local HR rep.
They tell me the department's being phased out and I can either go back to the IT department (and work for the same asshole) or take a severance package. All four of us in the department were getting the same deal.
I talked it over with the wife, talked to the IT manager (yep, still a prick) so I walked over to HR and asked for the severance.
"Sure. Come back in a couple of days. We'll have the paperwork ready" she says.
"I'll see you in an hour" says I.
I took my $7800 severance (I'd been there four years) and took a contract position at Dell a week later testing laptops for $6K more a year.
Unfortunately, that position was cut when the bubble burst. I was 4 months into a 3 month contract-to-hire position. They'd gone as far as assigning me a telephone and a desk (something they DON'T do for contractors, unless they're hiring you..)
A company I used to do IT work for was purchasing BIOS backup batteries from our vendor for $70 a pop. Not the coin-sized batteries but the 9v-looking replacements.
That is, until I informed them that I could buy them locally for $6 each. The vendor quickly changed the price to $9.
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Just take an old computer ps, build a box and slap the car stereo and ps into it.
One of the guys I worked with at Dell had this rig set up in the testing lab. Even had a set of speakers with wireless remote that would let him turn them up/down/off from across the lab.
You can even wire up a set of jacks and get a splitter allowing you to hook the computer speakers to the car stereo and the PC at the same time. If you get a set of car stereo speakers and mount them in the box and slap a handle on it, you've got instant portability.
I'm planning on doing this for my workbench in the garage. I'll likely just use a jigsaw and cut a slot out for the stereo and mount the speakers in the bench as well.
I would've done the same thing with a marine-grade boat stereo and speakers in the master bath, had our homebuilder allowed me to wire the house up.
Some people use the Xing MP3 encoder, hear that is sounds like crap, and stop right there saying "mp3 is crap".
Try LAME at 160kbps VBR, then compare to your WMA9. Uou could also try Ogg Vorbis at 160kbps. If aksed between WMA, MP3 or OGG, I'd chose MP3 for compatibility (but only if properly encoded with a good encoder such as LAME), and Ogg Vorbis for quality/filesize
I've never used Xing, so I can't comment on that. However, LAME is freaking AWESOME. Best of all, its included with CDex.
I don't honestly see CDs being $5 or less (unless you're talking about bargin bin shiat) in our lifetime. I could see CDs priced at $9.99 or so being a very slim possibility, but the likelihood that we'll see CDs in the sub-$15 range anytime soon is less than my winning the lotto.
:-)
For the record, I don't play lotto. I might once we get the multi-state and we see $100M+ jackpots
Now, if only I could find a freeware lotto number generator that generates statistical analysis from past winnings..
But at $20, CDs are not a cost-effective solution. At 1/10 the price it certainly would be. Perhaps even at 1/5 the price.
I, for one, would fill my bookcases with music CDs at that price. You can bet I'd have a 'complete works' of every artist that I love. But at $20 I can count on zero hands the number of CDs I've purchased in the last year.
Ahh yes, but those "in control" don't think this is actually the case. I guess they're not willing to drop the prices - even temporarily - to see what effect this has.
And by temporarily, I don't mean a couple of weeks. But doing it over the Christmas shopping season would be enough. Starting it on Black Friday would be the best thing, IMO.
I for one agree with your stance (as do a lot of others). $20 is too much for CDs. Everything else has come down in cost over the years (DVD players, CDRW drives, etc) but not this.
Now if ford had been stealing the other manufacturers cars, and then selling them in his showrooms, that would be more like what is happening today
No, not really. No one's downloading songs and reselling the tunes. At least, not that I've heard of.
What would be more applicable is if Ford was stealing the cars and sharing them (or exact copies of them) with total strangers.
I'll personally be buying the Matrix complete whore bag edition.
Hey, I never said I wouldn't.
I own the 1st DVD. I'll personally wait until they release the Director's Cut box set.
This coming from someone cowering behind an AC account.
Classic.
You don't "know" they're going to whore the Matrix. All actions suggest otherwise.
But, they already have.
I take it you're forgetting the $500 Matrix cellphone, the PowerAde Matrix commercials, the video game, etc. I'm sure there are others.
They've whored it, just not to the point where Lucas pushed Star Wars.
At least The Matrix doesn't have a Jar Jar Binks.
Yes, only because it was a gift, douchebag.
Will I buy them once they all come out on DVD in a box set? Yes. Which is why I didn't bother buying the VHS versions in the first place. Sure, Episodes I and II were utter shit, but they're part of a story that I want my kids to be able to see.
Look, just because you can't find Season 9 of Buffy on DVD doesn't mean you have to get your panties in a knot.
And you're right : I am better than you.
Yes, but it was labeled as Kazaa's executible and on kazaa's out-bound port.
Yes, I know both of these don't undoubtedly equal Kazaa, but not of the spyware catchers I've used have otherwise reported anything as being amiss.
Practice what you preach, shitbag.
Maybe if you weren't suckling at Lucas' teat, you'd recognize SARCASM when its written.
I guess my humor's too high-brow for your neaderthal brain.
They don't have Episodes IV, V and VI on DVD.
I have the boxed set of VHS tapes from the original three, and only because they were a gift. They're the digitally-remastered (gold box) set.
I have a couple of friends who pounced on the 1st box set that came out. I tried to warn them, knowing they'd release another set that had been digitially-remastered.
Well, if Kazaalite isn't on that machine, then Kazaalite must be the culprit trying to initiate an outgoing connection right??? There can't be anything else on that machine trying to make outbound connections right??? Nooooooo, of course not....
Precisely. There are NO P2P apps on the box where the pop-up appeared.
Not a single one. That's what the other box is for.
Which is why it struck me as odd. There'd be no reason for the pop-up to appear on that system.
Now, when can we expect:
1. The boxed set ?
2. Each title in letterbox/wide-screen ?
3. The letterbox/wide-screen boxed set ?
4. Each title as a 'limited editition' with a bunch of extra crap ?
5. The limited-edition boxed set ?
6. Each title released individually as 'Director's Cut' ?
7. The director's cut of the boxed set ?
'Cause you know they're going to take a page from George Lucas and whore the titles like he did with Star Wars.
Sure you can.
Boot into safe mode, attrib the files with -a -s -r and delete at will.
You might also look at using System Restore, assuming you're using XP.
..since I never could get it to work, I'd uninstalled it a LONG time ago.
I *did* notice one thing about KaZaA Lite however (not bullshitting):
I've got four systems on my network at home. One of the two on my desk is running KaZaA Lite. All the boxes have software firewalls installed in addition to my LinkSys NAT firewall/switch.
The other day, my primary machine's firewall displays a warning regarding an out-bound connection attempt from that box.
This box wasn't running KaZaA Lite. Nor is it installed on this system. Anyone else see anything like this?
Thanks!!
Which JS does this?
Agreed, except I'd add that you obfuscate the address in the form. I'm the webauthor for my in-laws lamaze business and to prevent harvesting, I put site feedback in a form and obfuscated the email address.
m ailObscucator.htm
In the year or so that the site's been up, I've not received a single bit of spam.
Sure, I had a couple of people input bogus information attempting to get the address from the results page, but that doesn't show them anything except a thank you message.
I can't seem to locate the link I originally used to do this, but these might work:
http://www.zapyon.de/spam-me-not/
http://www.killersites.com/webDesignersHandbook/e
What software packages are you using to achieve this?
I've wanted to do something like this for some time. Do you have any resources you can point a beginner to?
Don't believe the FUD you hear/read about XP.
Sure, it has the ability to 'phone home' but that's so easy to disable and has been documented to death. Google is your friend.
Anyone who is still paranoid should install a nice software firewall (I use Sygate) and check whats going out-bound. Once you disable XPs capability, you won't see the OS sending *anything* out.
I worked for a software company (it's initals are B M C) in Austin. I'd finally got out of the IT department and away from the IT manager (affectionately referred to by everyone as 'Squiggy' because he looked like the dude from Laverne & Shirley). After 9 months of bliss in another department where I had no immediate supervision (boss in another city), I get a call one Tuesday morning from my boss (who's in Houston) and a local HR rep.
They tell me the department's being phased out and I can either go back to the IT department (and work for the same asshole) or take a severance package. All four of us in the department were getting the same deal.
I talked it over with the wife, talked to the IT manager (yep, still a prick) so I walked over to HR and asked for the severance.
"Sure. Come back in a couple of days. We'll have the paperwork ready" she says.
"I'll see you in an hour" says I.
I took my $7800 severance (I'd been there four years) and took a contract position at Dell a week later testing laptops for $6K more a year.
Unfortunately, that position was cut when the bubble burst. I was 4 months into a 3 month contract-to-hire position. They'd gone as far as assigning me a telephone and a desk (something they DON'T do for contractors, unless they're hiring you..)
Token Ring MAUs (Multi Access Units, I believe) are/were something like $300 a pop.
And all it got you was one additional connection into the ring.
A company I used to do IT work for was purchasing BIOS backup batteries from our vendor for $70 a pop. Not the coin-sized batteries but the 9v-looking replacements.
That is, until I informed them that I could buy them locally for $6 each. The vendor quickly changed the price to $9.
I don't get the Lalla Ward reference. What's the deal? Were they involved or something?