All those silvery slick conforming cases remind me more of something from the book 1984. Ironic considering there advertising campaign of twenty years ago.
Interesting project though, and for those wondering what it will actually do: (from VT press release)
Virginia Tech researchers are already active in a number of areas that will benefit from the new supercomputing facilities, says Kevin Shinpaugh, director of research and cluster computing for the university. These include: nanoscale electronics, quantum chemistry, computational chemistry, aerodynamics through multidisciplinary design optimization, molecular statics, computational acoustics, and the molecular modeling of proteins.
And I thought it was going to run something with a cute name like iFiniteElementAnalysis...
In short the $1.50 tax is added, but the prices of their residential plans have fallen $5 and $1 respectively. So in my case it's a $0.50 hike to keep the government off their back. If I used the full unlimited service my bill would go down.
Also, as a quick review... I love the service, it's saving me $20 each month over conventional phone service. Calls are clear, and I keep in touch with my family much more these days. The only downsides... There are very few downsides including no phone when the power goes out or Comcast has a service outage in Nashville. You have to pay a little attention to bandwidth issues, meaning don't use a P2P app while on the phone or it gets a little shaky. This is insignificant compared to free voice mail, a naturally unlisted number, and portability to anywhere you plug the Cisco box in... I could go on for days... But to clarify I attached the e-mail from today.
Note the full text of the e-mail:
I am pleased to announce changes in our two Residential rate plans, which take effect September 20, 2003.
Our Premium Unlimited Plan, which was $39.99, is now reduced to a monthly rate of $34.99. Our Unlimited Local Plan is reduced from $25.99 to $24.99. Your new lower rates will appear on your next bill automatically. There is nothing required on your part to take advantage of this cost reduction.
The new lower rates will take effect when your next billing cycle begins after September 20th, and will remain at those lower rates in subsequent billing periods. We urge you to consider upgrading any Local Unlimited lines to our popular Premium Unlimited Residential Plan with the new $5.00 discount. At $34.99 it has never been a better value.
In your next billing cycle, Vonage will begin to charge a Regulatory Recovery Fee of $1.50 per phone number. This is a fee that Vonage charges its customers to recover required costs of Federal and State Universal Service Funds as well as other related fees and surcharges. State and Federal agencies collect these fees from communications providers to fund public projects such as rural and library communications programs. Your total Regulatory Recovery Fee will reflect a $1.50 surcharge for every phone number in your account including primary voice lines, second lines, fax lines, Toll Free PlusSM numbers and Virtual Phone NumbersSM.
Discounts for additional lines will still be $5.00 per month. This means that when you add more Premium Unlimited lines to your Vonage account, the rate for these lines will be just $29.99 per month. Discounts for added Unlimited Local lines will be just $19.99 per month.
Our one goal at Vonage is nothing less than your total satisfaction. Over the last several months we've made large strides in developing new calling features for you. We've also dramatically increased our geographic presence throughout the United States. What I find most exciting is that this is just a preview of what's to come.
We are extremely gratified that our customers continue to be our biggest enthusiasts and our best source of new ideas as we continue to innovate and redefine global communications.
On behalf of all of us here at Vonage, thank you for your business.
Man, there go the plans for my chicken shit powered car and generator. Well... the problem was never really getting the engines to work. It was the massive distribution network and infrastructure needed so that next time you pull up to the pump:
Regular Plus Super Chicken Shit
In all seriousness now... the next comparison needs to be a cost to joule ratio. Then you have to factor in availability of the fuel. Not to mention many other engineering decisions and constraints.
I'm wanting to eventually incorporate new unobtrusive solar into my home to lower my dependence on outside energy... I think that's eventually were we'll shift. The grid will be a backup battery of sorts for our own homes that have a form of generation installed... Kinda like a reversion to the days where the wood fired stove meant everything to the home. Heat, Light and Cooking.
No this is completely true... mod this guy back up. At the America's Cup Ellison and Paul Allen had a minor pissing contest over who had a bigger mega-yacht. Ellison's sports a basketball court and can outrun most modern naval vessels... Paul Allen's had a helicopter pad and was something like 50 feet longer. Ellison's boat is called Katana, it's for sale too... anyone want to buy it?
Where it is now specifically illegal to view pornography on your in car system. Due to the fact that some parent actually saw some from a passing vehicle. If you can't beat someone in a race with your car... the distraction isn't going to help, they've already passed you... All you'll do is offend old ladies and other such slow creatures.
I thought this thing's first dance might be "The Human" a opposed to "The Robot". This is going to further some neat abilities of robots to move more like humans... but will the final consequence be yet another way for the socially inept to isolate themselves by taking robots to dinner and dancing... then who knows.
OK jackass think about what goes into a computer before you flame. Two things that it MUST have are a good audio card that will send a nice clean digital signal to the reciever. The other thing it needs is PLENTY of disk space. Part of the reason I got into MP3's is because I don't like combing through all my CD's. I'm also going to buy it a nice case, maybe a video card with TV out, remote... etc. And build it to last because not much is going to change as far as audio is concerned to make it obselete anytime soon.
By the way if you know where to get a decent dual P4 Xeon with 4GB for $1200 send me the brochure from the fantasy world you live in... you giant flamer.
Now this free codec will inspire me to re-rip all my audio to this new format and promptly go out and buy $1200 worth of computer equipment to do a home audio server up right!
Who says OSS fans are cheapskates? We just believe that all our money should be spent on durable goods. Which raises a couple of questions...
1. Is the reason that OSS fans don't like to pay for software because they think some people over-value their intellectual property?
2. Will the creation of an Ogg Vorbis decoder really creat the economies of scale that would allow hardware makers to make the jump.
In other words, will the money that they save in buying an Ogg Decoder for their player be worth the few cents per MP3 decoder royalty when coupled with the marketshare lead that MP3 now enjoys?
I'd like to see Ogg do it personally, but can it penetrate a mass market? I'd like to take Ogg out for a Jog.
I've actually been shocked by my PCGR-370 VAIO laptop. Can't say it was all that painful. It did catch me off guard, followed by "What the hell was that?!"
Not as bad as getting shocked when holding a phone cord with your teeth... Yeah I did it... Now I just smell popcorn everywhere I go.
If the shock is similar to what I got off the laptop though... and as infrequent... Whoever would get a multi-million or either multi-thousand dollar settlement should be required to wear a football helmet for life... pansies
Visit www.scaled.com and you'll see who's going to win the X-Prize. Burt Rutan designer of the famous Voyager, the plane that made the first non-stop flight around the world.
This guy has been engineering exceptional aircraft for years. Father of one of the most radical and popular homebuilt aircraft designs ever.
J.C. has an interesting background and obviously the mind of an engineer, but no one is going to catch up with Rutan's design which resembles the X-15 project of the 1960's.
If someone at Scaled Composites is reading... Can I have a job? Yeah, like that will happen...
Hey when you go to that font link click back and forth between the Zip File Preview and Image Preview... Watch it totally freak out the URL of the file for downloading. In addition, the download link on that page uses the tag... Which along with Mary Hart's voice... is proven to cause seizures and if not that... annoy the hell out of visitors.
Can you imagine how much games would suck...
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If you let kill-joy technocrats put laws around your games. Although it would be funny if you kill another player's character and your superbadass wizard in Diablo and a little virtual cop car rolls up and gives him life in prison.
Even the story of this game being hacked. It's really cheap... bad sportsmanship... but in the end you've gotta laugh that someone was able to do that. If this game was a subscription service I think the company in charge should have a backup policy in place to prevent this from ruining what you've really paid for... Otherwise... it's a game, lighten up.
Their tunnel systems...
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will resemble the fractal patterns of your screen saver.
Before I go the the fridge and get a "Coke", which in the south is synonamous with any carbonated beverage... The people that usually don't want a brand name to become a generic term are the trademark holders... If Xerox becomes part of the common language for a photocopier... Anyone can put Xerox on their brand photocopier. Capitalize on the Xerox name etc...
Also for the very good reason you mention that people do want to get the name out when their product is mentioned... Hence the KFC cashier correcting your request for Coke with Pepsi...
"Keep that popcorn chicken coming colonel" - God, from The Simpsons
My brother and I ordered them from Japan back during Christmas. They are in fact really cool little toys.
The advantages these little things have over the other MiniRC craze are:
No ugly/fragile antenna (IR Control)
Better cosmetic detail of the bodies. A couple little plastic pieces to glue on for added effect are included.
The IR Weapons onboard complete the ultimate childhood fantasy of having your little plastic army men fight.
Good control unit with swapable modules so you can use the same radio to control all the different types of tanks...
The IR control is pretty good as far as range is concerned as long as you have line of sight. You have to mind that you point the control unit in the general direction of the tank... I've been stalled and hit a couple times because I didn't pay attention. There are cool little LED special effects and shaking when your opponent hits you with a shot...
These things will have you building little obstacles and battlefields pretty soon after playing a couple rounds...
Glad somebody wrote a review on these Konami tanks... Very cool... There are also hobbyists who make larger 1/15 scale versions but they cost hundreds... You can get two of these for about $100 plus shipping from Japan right now.
There is a state park in Burlington, WI on the list too... Major Richard (aka Dick) Bong state park in WI. Named after the top scoring WWII Ace from the US, Major Dick Bong.
The best part of it is that a huge Grateful Dead Reunion was held nearby this past summer. How many hippies do you think were trying to get a camping spot in the Bong Recreation Area?
The space elevator would certainly have to be an international project. I think it also presents the most interesting challenges. For instance we were talking about failures in a space elevator system in a class I had on Tuesday... The kinetic energy of the system would pose a HUGE problem if the cable should ever fail.
The example we discussed was a steel cable linking barges. When those cables snap they can cut through 2 inch thick steel plates. Imagine the space elevator cable snapping and cutting a continent in half.
It was mentioned a sci-fi book was written about a space elevator that destroyed a planet. Anybody know what it's called? I'd like to read that.
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Arnold Engineering Design Center in Tullahoma, TN.
The facility tests every engine used by the Air Force. The impact range is a simple shed housing all the hardware that they bring outside when the weather is right... There are a bunch of old test subjects sitting stacked on the ground outside. Some are totally destroyed.
Oh and they get birds, I think turkeys actually, from local farmers... totally unfrozen... They're split on whether the British myth is actually true.
...Jackass to hook up to the internet on MS Flight Simulator and pretend he's flying the plane he's on...
I think this is interesting though... a weird little community in the sky... IM'ing buddies throughout the 13 hour flight... Checking current news or seeing what's going on in town... Or god forbid maybe get some work done... I also think the price is right too. What does everyone else think about $32 for a transatlantic flight? Would that make a cross country flight $15 maybe for cross country sound reasonable?
I took a class from the prof who's researching this! It's all signal analysis and designing a control system to respond right? Now can I have an A in that System Dynamics course?
Congrats to Sarkar and the grad students toiling away in one of the weirdest buildings known to man: Vanderbilt's Olin Hall.
I remember he did ask us at the beginning of the course if any of us wanted to work on this project. He said they were going to be using some SBCs (Single Board Computers) not sure if they were PC104 or what.
I've been lucky enough to get out to see the coolest shows in this "genre" this year. I think it's a cool thing they're doing even from the simple fact that it gives us a chance to test and find the business model that we like for dealing music on the web... With so many companies biting it... Liquid Audio for instance... Some experimentation is in order.
I'll tell you why I'll by directly from Phish online... Quality control... they're not going to release a poor quality recording on that site... It's going to be the best you can get.
Why I never got into Etree... professed.shn snobs are the primary reason. Why on earth would I want to here all the lossless glory of a two Shure SM58 mics hooked up to a Sony minidisc player. (In other words some people... SOME people out there are not recording experts...) And in that case You're not going to get a feed that would sound good enough to merit a file size 10x larger. I would get into.shn if I knew the source of the audio was High quality (came straight from the band or a buddy who was a taper.). Instead of spending 500MB of downloading on what turned out to be crap...
I can't wait to download NYC on New Years Eve after I get home from that show.
Also... I speak for most people... I buy the CD's because studio recording and live performance are two entirely different arts. Both which should be appreciated. Live CD's I buy for the reason I'd download a confirmed high quality lossless recording... quality of live recording.
Oh yeah... and who else out there thought Bonnaroo rocked?!!!
It lies in this technicality. They were the first to take off under their own power from an altitude equal or less than the spot that they landed from.
Pearce's flights are described as being made from a hill, landing in a spot near a creek at a lower elevation.
People had been gliding for years before the Wright's. People built much better gliders then the Wright Flyer. Glenn Curtis built a great plane very shortly after the Wrights. While the Wrights stored their plane for 4 years after the 17th Dec 1903... Trying to lock down patents on it. The fact however remains that by the majority of serious aeronautical engineers they are the birth of the age of powered flight.
Patriotism... maybe a little... but spliting hairs is much more of an apt description... I for one think that it's a valid distinction.
Re:Your Tinfoil Hat Will Protect You.--paper hats.
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A valid point... but think of this... chaff... invented to fool radar systems of the WWII era was simply strips of metal or some other reflective material. Chaff cost very little compared to radar which cost a very large sum of money, and it severly reduced or eliminated the effectiveness or radar. Simple tact and using countermeasures when crucial is what's important.
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All those silvery slick conforming cases remind me more of something from the book 1984. Ironic considering there advertising campaign of twenty years ago.
Interesting project though, and for those wondering what it will actually do: (from VT press release)
Virginia Tech researchers are already active in a number of areas that will benefit from the new supercomputing facilities, says Kevin Shinpaugh, director of research and cluster computing for the university. These include: nanoscale electronics, quantum chemistry, computational chemistry, aerodynamics through multidisciplinary design optimization, molecular statics, computational acoustics, and the molecular modeling of proteins.
And I thought it was going to run something with a cute name like iFiniteElementAnalysis...
I am a Vonage Customer...
In short the $1.50 tax is added, but the prices of their residential plans have fallen $5 and $1 respectively. So in my case it's a $0.50 hike to keep the government off their back. If I used the full unlimited service my bill would go down.
Also, as a quick review... I love the service, it's saving me $20 each month over conventional phone service. Calls are clear, and I keep in touch with my family much more these days. The only downsides... There are very few downsides including no phone when the power goes out or Comcast has a service outage in Nashville. You have to pay a little attention to bandwidth issues, meaning don't use a P2P app while on the phone or it gets a little shaky. This is insignificant compared to free voice mail, a naturally unlisted number, and portability to anywhere you plug the Cisco box in... I could go on for days... But to clarify I attached the e-mail from today.
Note the full text of the e-mail:
I am pleased to announce changes in our two Residential rate plans, which take effect September 20, 2003.
Our Premium Unlimited Plan, which was $39.99, is now reduced to a monthly rate of $34.99. Our Unlimited Local Plan is reduced from $25.99 to $24.99. Your new lower rates will appear on your next bill automatically. There is nothing required on your part to take advantage of this cost reduction.
The new lower rates will take effect when your next billing cycle begins after September 20th, and will remain at those lower rates in subsequent billing periods. We urge you to consider upgrading any Local Unlimited lines to our popular Premium Unlimited Residential Plan with the new $5.00 discount. At $34.99 it has never been a better value.
In your next billing cycle, Vonage will begin to charge a Regulatory Recovery Fee of $1.50 per phone number. This is a fee that Vonage charges its customers to recover required costs of Federal and State Universal Service Funds as well as other related fees and surcharges. State and Federal agencies collect these fees from communications providers to fund public projects such as rural and library communications programs. Your total Regulatory Recovery Fee will reflect a $1.50 surcharge for every phone number in your account including primary voice lines, second lines, fax lines, Toll Free PlusSM numbers and Virtual Phone NumbersSM.
Discounts for additional lines will still be $5.00 per month. This means that when you add more Premium Unlimited lines to your Vonage account, the rate for these lines will be just $29.99 per month. Discounts for added Unlimited Local lines will be just $19.99 per month.
Our one goal at Vonage is nothing less than your total satisfaction. Over the last several months we've made large strides in developing new calling features for you. We've also dramatically increased our geographic presence throughout the United States. What I find most exciting is that this is just a preview of what's to come.
We are extremely gratified that our customers continue to be our biggest enthusiasts and our best source of new ideas as we continue to innovate and redefine global communications.
On behalf of all of us here at Vonage, thank you for your business.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Citron
CEO
Man, there go the plans for my chicken shit powered car and generator. Well... the problem was never really getting the engines to work. It was the massive distribution network and infrastructure needed so that next time you pull up to the pump:
Regular
Plus
Super
Chicken Shit
In all seriousness now... the next comparison needs to be a cost to joule ratio. Then you have to factor in availability of the fuel. Not to mention many other engineering decisions and constraints.
I'm wanting to eventually incorporate new unobtrusive solar into my home to lower my dependence on outside energy... I think that's eventually were we'll shift. The grid will be a backup battery of sorts for our own homes that have a form of generation installed... Kinda like a reversion to the days where the wood fired stove meant everything to the home. Heat, Light and Cooking.
No this is completely true... mod this guy back up. At the America's Cup Ellison and Paul Allen had a minor pissing contest over who had a bigger mega-yacht. Ellison's sports a basketball court and can outrun most modern naval vessels... Paul Allen's had a helicopter pad and was something like 50 feet longer. Ellison's boat is called Katana, it's for sale too... anyone want to buy it?
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Check this boat out!
http://www.yachtspotter.com/yotw.php
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/americasc
Oh yeah and hooray for Linux at Oracle!
Where it is now specifically illegal to view pornography on your in car system. Due to the fact that some parent actually saw some from a passing vehicle.
If you can't beat someone in a race with your car... the distraction isn't going to help, they've already passed you... All you'll do is offend old ladies and other such slow creatures.
I thought this thing's first dance might be "The Human" a opposed to "The Robot". This is going to further some neat abilities of robots to move more like humans... but will the final consequence be yet another way for the socially inept to isolate themselves by taking robots to dinner and dancing... then who knows.
OK jackass think about what goes into a computer before you flame. Two things that it MUST have are a good audio card that will send a nice clean digital signal to the reciever. The other thing it needs is PLENTY of disk space. Part of the reason I got into MP3's is because I don't like combing through all my CD's. I'm also going to buy it a nice case, maybe a video card with TV out, remote... etc. And build it to last because not much is going to change as far as audio is concerned to make it obselete anytime soon.
By the way if you know where to get a decent dual P4 Xeon with 4GB for $1200 send me the brochure from the fantasy world you live in... you giant flamer.
Now this free codec will inspire me to re-rip all my audio to this new format and promptly go out and buy $1200 worth of computer equipment to do a home audio server up right!
Who says OSS fans are cheapskates? We just believe that all our money should be spent on durable goods. Which raises a couple of questions...
1. Is the reason that OSS fans don't like to pay for software because they think some people over-value their intellectual property?
2. Will the creation of an Ogg Vorbis decoder really creat the economies of scale that would allow hardware makers to make the jump.
In other words, will the money that they save in buying an Ogg Decoder for their player be worth the few cents per MP3 decoder royalty when coupled with the marketshare lead that MP3 now enjoys?
I'd like to see Ogg do it personally, but can it penetrate a mass market? I'd like to take Ogg out for a Jog.
I have no idea what it means but 80's rock makes me laugh.
I've actually been shocked by my PCGR-370 VAIO laptop. Can't say it was all that painful. It did catch me off guard, followed by "What the hell was that?!"
Not as bad as getting shocked when holding a phone cord with your teeth... Yeah I did it... Now I just smell popcorn everywhere I go.
If the shock is similar to what I got off the laptop though... and as infrequent... Whoever would get a multi-million or either multi-thousand dollar settlement should be required to wear a football helmet for life... pansies
Visit www.scaled.com and you'll see who's going to win the X-Prize. Burt Rutan designer of the famous Voyager, the plane that made the first non-stop flight around the world.
This guy has been engineering exceptional aircraft for years. Father of one of the most radical and popular homebuilt aircraft designs ever.
J.C. has an interesting background and obviously the mind of an engineer, but no one is going to catch up with Rutan's design which resembles the X-15 project of the 1960's.
If someone at Scaled Composites is reading... Can I have a job? Yeah, like that will happen...
Hey when you go to that font link click back and forth between the Zip File Preview and Image Preview... Watch it totally freak out the URL of the file for downloading. In addition, the download link on that page uses the tag... Which along with Mary Hart's voice... is proven to cause seizures and if not that... annoy the hell out of visitors.
If you let kill-joy technocrats put laws around your games. Although it would be funny if you kill another player's character and your superbadass wizard in Diablo and a little virtual cop car rolls up and gives him life in prison.
Even the story of this game being hacked. It's really cheap... bad sportsmanship... but in the end you've gotta laugh that someone was able to do that. If this game was a subscription service I think the company in charge should have a backup policy in place to prevent this from ruining what you've really paid for... Otherwise... it's a game, lighten up.
will resemble the fractal patterns of your screen saver.
Before I go the the fridge and get a "Coke", which in the south is synonamous with any carbonated beverage... The people that usually don't want a brand name to become a generic term are the trademark holders... If Xerox becomes part of the common language for a photocopier... Anyone can put Xerox on their brand photocopier. Capitalize on the Xerox name etc...
Also for the very good reason you mention that people do want to get the name out when their product is mentioned... Hence the KFC cashier correcting your request for Coke with Pepsi...
"Keep that popcorn chicken coming colonel" - God, from The Simpsons
My brother and I ordered them from Japan back during Christmas. They are in fact really cool little toys.
The advantages these little things have over the other MiniRC craze are:
No ugly/fragile antenna (IR Control)
Better cosmetic detail of the bodies. A couple little plastic pieces to glue on for added effect are included.
The IR Weapons onboard complete the ultimate childhood fantasy of having your little plastic army men fight.
Good control unit with swapable modules so you can use the same radio to control all the different types of tanks...
The IR control is pretty good as far as range is concerned as long as you have line of sight. You have to mind that you point the control unit in the general direction of the tank... I've been stalled and hit a couple times because I didn't pay attention. There are cool little LED special effects and shaking when your opponent hits you with a shot...
These things will have you building little obstacles and battlefields pretty soon after playing a couple rounds...
Glad somebody wrote a review on these Konami tanks... Very cool... There are also hobbyists who make larger 1/15 scale versions but they cost hundreds... You can get two of these for about $100 plus shipping from Japan right now.
There is a state park in Burlington, WI on the list too... Major Richard (aka Dick) Bong state park in WI. Named after the top scoring WWII Ace from the US, Major Dick Bong.
The best part of it is that a huge Grateful Dead Reunion was held nearby this past summer. How many hippies do you think were trying to get a camping spot in the Bong Recreation Area?
The space elevator would certainly have to be an international project. I think it also presents the most interesting challenges. For instance we were talking about failures in a space elevator system in a class I had on Tuesday... The kinetic energy of the system would pose a HUGE problem if the cable should ever fail.
The example we discussed was a steel cable linking barges. When those cables snap they can cut through 2 inch thick steel plates. Imagine the space elevator cable snapping and cutting a continent in half.
It was mentioned a sci-fi book was written about a space elevator that destroyed a planet. Anybody know what it's called? I'd like to read that.
Arnold Engineering Design Center in Tullahoma, TN.
The facility tests every engine used by the Air Force. The impact range is a simple shed housing all the hardware that they bring outside when the weather is right... There are a bunch of old test subjects sitting stacked on the ground outside. Some are totally destroyed.
Oh and they get birds, I think turkeys actually, from local farmers... totally unfrozen... They're split on whether the British myth is actually true.
...Jackass to hook up to the internet on MS Flight Simulator and pretend he's flying the plane he's on...
I think this is interesting though... a weird little community in the sky... IM'ing buddies throughout the 13 hour flight... Checking current news or seeing what's going on in town... Or god forbid maybe get some work done... I also think the price is right too. What does everyone else think about $32 for a transatlantic flight? Would that make a cross country flight $15 maybe for cross country sound reasonable?
The Morbid Truth: It crashes. The server that is... Or it simply mirrors to several small cessnas being flown in your hometown.
I took a class from the prof who's researching this! It's all signal analysis and designing a control system to respond right? Now can I have an A in that System Dynamics course?
Congrats to Sarkar and the grad students toiling away in one of the weirdest buildings known to man: Vanderbilt's Olin Hall.
I remember he did ask us at the beginning of the course if any of us wanted to work on this project. He said they were going to be using some SBCs (Single Board Computers) not sure if they were PC104 or what.
Vanderbilt MEs... We RULE.
I've been lucky enough to get out to see the coolest shows in this "genre" this year. I think it's a cool thing they're doing even from the simple fact that it gives us a chance to test and find the business model that we like for dealing music on the web... With so many companies biting it... Liquid Audio for instance... Some experimentation is in order.
.shn snobs are the primary reason. Why on earth would I want to here all the lossless glory of a two Shure SM58 mics hooked up to a Sony minidisc player. (In other words some people... SOME people out there are not recording experts...) And in that case You're not going to get a feed that would sound good enough to merit a file size 10x larger. I would get into .shn if I knew the source of the audio was High quality (came straight from the band or a buddy who was a taper.). Instead of spending 500MB of downloading on what turned out to be crap...
I'll tell you why I'll by directly from Phish online... Quality control... they're not going to release a poor quality recording on that site... It's going to be the best you can get.
Why I never got into Etree... professed
I can't wait to download NYC on New Years Eve after I get home from that show.
Also... I speak for most people... I buy the CD's because studio recording and live performance are two entirely different arts. Both which should be appreciated. Live CD's I buy for the reason I'd download a confirmed high quality lossless recording... quality of live recording.
Oh yeah... and who else out there thought Bonnaroo rocked?!!!
It lies in this technicality. They were the first to take off under their own power from an altitude equal or less than the spot that they landed from.
Pearce's flights are described as being made from a hill, landing in a spot near a creek at a lower elevation.
People had been gliding for years before the Wright's. People built much better gliders then the Wright Flyer. Glenn Curtis built a great plane very shortly after the Wrights. While the Wrights stored their plane for 4 years after the 17th Dec 1903... Trying to lock down patents on it. The fact however remains that by the majority of serious aeronautical engineers they are the birth of the age of powered flight.
Patriotism... maybe a little... but spliting hairs is much more of an apt description... I for one think that it's a valid distinction.
A valid point... but think of this... chaff... invented to fool radar systems of the WWII era was simply strips of metal or some other reflective material. Chaff cost very little compared to radar which cost a very large sum of money, and it severly reduced or eliminated the effectiveness or radar. Simple tact and using countermeasures when crucial is what's important.