The Feds need to specify the ability of localities to offer service, because the major telcos have been lobbying at the state level to prevent this. The telcos don't want muni broadband, for obvious reasons, even if there is no other broadband service avaliable.
Bonded DSL works. I know a few G**gl* employees that have 3 bonded SDSL lines, so they can do video conferencing from home. It costs next to nothing on the user side, but the ISP has to be willing to invest a grand or so on the backend.
Ahhh, pants is correct. That AC outlet serves up nice little chunks of energy...no actual electrons move, they just vibrate eachother on down the line at 60 Hz. If the airport supplied DC power, then one could steal electrons...
Or, actually, we are the ones giving electrons (e-) to the airport, so we should sue them;-)
I would agree with the last part...Also, there are many cars that need to be put on flatbeds, and thus don't tow tilted. An exotic sportscar with all wheel drive and low ground clearance must be put on a flatbed.
It should be noted that most contracts include some sort of 'new media' clause that re-defines royalties for any type of distribution on a neew form of media. I have seen these clauses in boilerplate from Atlantic Records and others. I, however don't use them in my contracts, unless the new media is insanely excessively expensive.
CDs used to be considered 'new media', and even through the late 1990s, record companies would still only pay 75% of royalties due on CDs. The same thing applies to satellite (XM, Sirius) or online (iTunes, WalMart). Usually there is there is leeway to re-consider the container deduction and breakage clauses for new media.
I called my representative (Jim Moran) and had a productive conversation with a senior staffer. My congressman is in agreement with net neutrality, and has been since the issue first manifested itself. My two Virginia senators don't even have public issue statements yet, and are difficult to contact, even the staffers. Allen and Warner are difficult to deal with generally.
But anyway, to the meat of my comment: Our reps actually DO listen, at least when we call or write (on that flat white thin stuff...email is ignored) so, I chose to make some phone calls.
My basic pitch to the representatives: I'm a small business owner in Virginia. I voted for you. I might not in the future. A core part of my method of business relies on a neutral, accessible internet. If congress were to allow the telecoms to restrict access, my business might fail, along with many others in the state. Help us, and we will help you.
Basically, let your reps know your point of view, and make them recognize that this is a litmus test issue for you. Ask them to work for you and keep your vote. This won't work for the complete whores in congress, but the ones on the fence, or in vulnerable elections will listen. So: CALL OR WRITE THAT PERSON WHO YOU VOTED FOR, AND ARE PAYING TO REPRESENT YOU. IT WORKS SOMETIMES.
The parent is right, the 1884 board is probably way overkill for what the guy is trying to do. I love the board though, it has done well for me. I have the 8 pres connected to a balanced patchbay, so I can pass either line signals or mic signals from preamps, sound modules or outboard gear through the patchbay to the board. I like having 4 channels of MIDI I/O too. Tascam tech is OK...I spent some time on the board figuring out an incompatibility with a PCI graphics card I had installed...It isn't hugely good though.
I would suggets a presonus firepod...At the end of the day, you get what you pay for, and if a demo is worth $700 dollars, then invest the money. I have been the starving musician, and spending the money for a clean system is your best route, even if it takes a little time to earn the money. The closer to release-quality that demo is, the better received it will be. You NEVER want to have to say "well, it's a demo, so it could be better". That kills it completely.
Sabine, who came up with the first mathematical equations for acoustic modelling about 100 years ago pegged the threshold of human hearing at 60dB SPL. He was pretty damn close.
Being an audio engineering student, myself and friends thought we would test all this, including the claimed range of human hearing (up to 20000 Hz). Most of us could hear in the 17K-19.5K Hz range. We could percieve between 55 dB and 63 dB of drop. So, for us, there should be no difference with resolutions higher then 44.1 KHz at 16 bit. However, I would always want my source material at at least 24 bit and well over 48K. Digital auudio processing will exhibit aliasing and other nasty problems if you sample Red Book standards. Try using convolution reverb with something at 44.1/16 and listen.
So, point is, big hard drives are good, the consumer has no need for them, but all us professionals on slashdot do.
With all due respect, Avid products are shit for handling formats, especially when loaded on a Windows box. Avid on XP can't recognize pre AIFC AIFF formats, whereas Avid on 2K can. Have you ever gotten files from a Mac user, where extensions are optional? the Avid shits its pants over those. The only completely usable Avid setup I have used has been Adrenaline on a Mac. That being said, maybe one of the DVI to SDI convertor boxes and an Adrenaline box would suit his needs, probably for an extra zero in cost though.
Final Cut Pro does marginally better with formats, but is mac only. A purpose built solution is probably the best.
Er, not entirely correct. They offer APO/FPO shipping, which starts as a USPS function...But yeah, it would be nice to have civilian USPS, especially given that some of us prefer to use P.O. Boxes for everything...mail forwarding and all.
People give the USPS a bad rap, but it really is just as good as UPS/Fedex/DHL. USPS will track packages just like the big guys. Hell, in some rural areas, USPS and other carriers will pool deliveries.
I agree. Best parts company ever. They have all sorts of cool stuff, including safety equipment.
BTW:
If you want big air cannon muscle, let me suggest some sched. 160 pipe, caps and elbows from them, along with flanges and a large flanged ball valve (steam rated). If you get a solenoid too, you can pop that valve open very quickly. Unfortunately, most construction compressors won't give you enough pressure. 130 psi is far below the 700 or so that those pipes and valves are meant to handle on a daily basis...
Example: If we all but little red books, the dartmouth student no longer is a signal, just one of a bunch of noise. If we up the noise enough to make sure this type of domestic spying overloads the capabilities of Department of Homeland Security, one of two things would happen:
A)We would have an innefective DHS, and nobody would have much to worry about, the system would be overloaded, and any investigation would be rendered meaningless. Unfortunately, this would also mean we would lack any decent domestic security where we need it. We would lose the capability to protect against actual terrorism, like the Aryan Nations, Timthy McVeighs and KKKs of the country
B)We would force the DHS to actually invesigate and monitor true threats by not bothing with the 'noise' we create.
So, if Oregon institutes this usage tax, and I'm a long-haul trucker with my truck registered in california, yet I do a regular Corvalis-> Sand Diego run, am I charged for the 85% of miles spent in California? How about people comutting across state lines? What about multi-use vehicles? I know a couple of orchardists who put over 7K a year on trucks driving on their PRIVATE land, and maybe 5K on public roads. Do they get taxed the same way?
Also, any halfwit which a Haynes manual can roll back (or forward) an odometer. These things are supposed to be tamper-resistant too. My friend once had a Chevy with 548,000 miles on it...just as a joke. He reset it to something reasonable when inspection time rolled around...
Sorry...Just my blotto box, spliced to coax instead of RJ-11...
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I agree wholeheartedly. This isn't just an issue for younger students either. My girlfriend (a college senior by credt, Junior by year) had to have a paper peer-reviewed in one of her classes. She got a grand total of two comments on the 15 page paper. One was about a semicolon, the other told her to split a well-crafted introduction into two parts because it was 'to long' and 'took up most of the first page'. We talked about it, and I told her that it wasn't a peer review. She should take it to the graduate class she was auditing.
I always gravitated towards the grownups as a kid, as I'm sure many did. I was the kid who listened to NPR, and skipped down the street singing Boutros Boutros-Ghali because of the alliteration.
What we also don't realise, is that smart kids who aren't challeneged can self-destruct, or do dangerous irresponsable things. In highschool, there was a group of maybe 7 of us out of 2,000. We all ended up dealing with our boredom by doing illegal things. We had school blueprints, schematics for the security system, more random hardware then could be hidden safely in our houses, and we forced a change in the rule book. because of us, the plenum spaces above the drop ceilings are now off limits. If somebody hadn't moved the keys at the last minute, we would have had 4 drivers-ed cars inside the gym, in front of the stage, up on blocks the night before grauation. We had the doors open, and the cars ready to roll, but no keys, nor the time to hotwire the cars safely.
Anyway, the point is, if we were had the opportunity to build MOSFET based circuits, carbon soap box racers, or work on any type of school-sponsored project at our level, it would have been better for everyone involved
There is also a certain art to hand-machined parts. I did my first project at age 9 on a Smithy lathe and milling machine with my grandfather. It is like cutting film on a Steinbeck flatbed, not the most efficient way, but with limits that bring out better results sometimes.
As to things being cheaper, my uncle is a professional machinist. He does mainly one-offs for specialized agricultural equipment, and makes the occasional 10 bhp steam engine. He has both CNC and manual machines, and often uses goes with the manual option because it is just plain faster.
I don't know what this hobbyist is doing, but if it is lower precision work with simple parts, even simple threading, he should go with a manual lathe...
After using premiere to cut a single project back in 2003, I said never again. I was even using it on a mac. The interface is weak, the effects and titling tools are cumbersome (no livetype)...The one redeeming feature was good deck control. I could use a consumer Mini-DV camera as a deck in a pinch and grab my footage painlessly.
FCP is god compared to Premiere. In terms of learning curve, FCP is significantly better then the AVIDs too, which is important when I am dealing with a bunch of university students at work.
Actually, the price breakdown is a little different...But you are prefectly correct. I have heard numbers between 22 and 35 cents for apple's cut. The other 65-78% goes to artists and record companies. Artists will get around 12% of the remainder, minus deductions, so about 6-10% of the 65-78%. Indies do quite a bit better, giving their artists anywhere from 20-70% of online distribution profit.
Also, it should be noted that a lot of indie record companies do a lot more for their artists then RIAA members ever do. A lot serve as both manager and agent, booking concerts, promoting songs to other artists for use as covers (HFA royalties) and a host of other things that actually makes their cut almost worth it.
The difference is that finger prints are much like a serial number. The identify and differentiate who a person is amongst billions. DNA, on the other hand serves as much, much more then just a serial-number like ID. It is a means to a vast, vast amount of medical information, information on one's family, even one's future children.
Sure, they could collect samples from a saliva sample or band-aid, but this is a congressional-approved, legal database, and having a database allows comprehensive DNA testing easily, cheaply and without public supervision. If they started collecting huge numbers of soda cans, bandages, hars and ass-lint, people would start to notice.
Do you have a cite for any of the Virginia laws? A lawyer practicing in VA bet me I couldn't find these laws actually on the books in the Virginia State code. If they aren't on the books, then this is a snopes-worthy urban legend. Anyway, if you have a citation, or know where to find it, I would be indebted.
I did one worse as a kid....old enough to be dangerous, but yound enough not to have any grasp of the conceptual difference between AC and DC current, and voltage for that matter.
In my kit, the batteries were in one 'bubble', and the motors in another. I noticed that the power cord from some old radio fit in the Capsella motor plug, so I plugged it in. Then I plugged it into the wall. My little 'car' made a nice pop and went the fastest three feet of it's (short) life. Oops.
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The Feds need to specify the ability of localities to offer service, because the major telcos have been lobbying at the state level to prevent this. The telcos don't want muni broadband, for obvious reasons, even if there is no other broadband service avaliable.
You have never worked for yourself, have you?
Bonded DSL works. I know a few G**gl* employees that have 3 bonded SDSL lines, so they can do video conferencing from home. It costs next to nothing on the user side, but the ISP has to be willing to invest a grand or so on the backend.
Ahhh, pants is correct. That AC outlet serves up nice little chunks of energy...no actual electrons move, they just vibrate eachother on down the line at 60 Hz. If the airport supplied DC power, then one could steal electrons...
;-)
Or, actually, we are the ones giving electrons (e-) to the airport, so we should sue them
I would agree with the last part...Also, there are many cars that need to be put on flatbeds, and thus don't tow tilted. An exotic sportscar with all wheel drive and low ground clearance must be put on a flatbed.
Speaking of resource forks, I miss ResEdit. It was an awsome little program, and it did awsome things...
It should be noted that most contracts include some sort of 'new media' clause that re-defines royalties for any type of distribution on a neew form of media. I have seen these clauses in boilerplate from Atlantic Records and others. I, however don't use them in my contracts, unless the new media is insanely excessively expensive.
CDs used to be considered 'new media', and even through the late 1990s, record companies would still only pay 75% of royalties due on CDs. The same thing applies to satellite (XM, Sirius) or online (iTunes, WalMart). Usually there is there is leeway to re-consider the container deduction and breakage clauses for new media.
I called my representative (Jim Moran) and had a productive conversation with a senior staffer. My congressman is in agreement with net neutrality, and has been since the issue first manifested itself. My two Virginia senators don't even have public issue statements yet, and are difficult to contact, even the staffers. Allen and Warner are difficult to deal with generally.
But anyway, to the meat of my comment: Our reps actually DO listen, at least when we call or write (on that flat white thin stuff...email is ignored) so, I chose to make some phone calls.
My basic pitch to the representatives: I'm a small business owner in Virginia. I voted for you. I might not in the future. A core part of my method of business relies on a neutral, accessible internet. If congress were to allow the telecoms to restrict access, my business might fail, along with many others in the state. Help us, and we will help you.
Basically, let your reps know your point of view, and make them recognize that this is a litmus test issue for you. Ask them to work for you and keep your vote. This won't work for the complete whores in congress, but the ones on the fence, or in vulnerable elections will listen. So: CALL OR WRITE THAT PERSON WHO YOU VOTED FOR, AND ARE PAYING TO REPRESENT YOU. IT WORKS SOMETIMES.
The parent is right, the 1884 board is probably way overkill for what the guy is trying to do. I love the board though, it has done well for me. I have the 8 pres connected to a balanced patchbay, so I can pass either line signals or mic signals from preamps, sound modules or outboard gear through the patchbay to the board. I like having 4 channels of MIDI I/O too. Tascam tech is OK...I spent some time on the board figuring out an incompatibility with a PCI graphics card I had installed...It isn't hugely good though.
I would suggets a presonus firepod...At the end of the day, you get what you pay for, and if a demo is worth $700 dollars, then invest the money. I have been the starving musician, and spending the money for a clean system is your best route, even if it takes a little time to earn the money. The closer to release-quality that demo is, the better received it will be. You NEVER want to have to say "well, it's a demo, so it could be better". That kills it completely.
Sabine, who came up with the first mathematical equations for acoustic modelling about 100 years ago pegged the threshold of human hearing at 60dB SPL. He was pretty damn close.
Being an audio engineering student, myself and friends thought we would test all this, including the claimed range of human hearing (up to 20000 Hz). Most of us could hear in the 17K-19.5K Hz range. We could percieve between 55 dB and 63 dB of drop. So, for us, there should be no difference with resolutions higher then 44.1 KHz at 16 bit. However, I would always want my source material at at least 24 bit and well over 48K. Digital auudio processing will exhibit aliasing and other nasty problems if you sample Red Book standards. Try using convolution reverb with something at 44.1/16 and listen.
So, point is, big hard drives are good, the consumer has no need for them, but all us professionals on slashdot do.
With all due respect, Avid products are shit for handling formats, especially when loaded on a Windows box. Avid on XP can't recognize pre AIFC AIFF formats, whereas Avid on 2K can. Have you ever gotten files from a Mac user, where extensions are optional? the Avid shits its pants over those. The only completely usable Avid setup I have used has been Adrenaline on a Mac. That being said, maybe one of the DVI to SDI convertor boxes and an Adrenaline box would suit his needs, probably for an extra zero in cost though.
Final Cut Pro does marginally better with formats, but is mac only. A purpose built solution is probably the best.
Er, not entirely correct. They offer APO/FPO shipping, which starts as a USPS function...But yeah, it would be nice to have civilian USPS, especially given that some of us prefer to use P.O. Boxes for everything...mail forwarding and all.
People give the USPS a bad rap, but it really is just as good as UPS/Fedex/DHL. USPS will track packages just like the big guys. Hell, in some rural areas, USPS and other carriers will pool deliveries.
I agree. Best parts company ever. They have all sorts of cool stuff, including safety equipment.
BTW:
If you want big air cannon muscle, let me suggest some sched. 160 pipe, caps and elbows from them, along with flanges and a large flanged ball valve (steam rated). If you get a solenoid too, you can pop that valve open very quickly. Unfortunately, most construction compressors won't give you enough pressure. 130 psi is far below the 700 or so that those pipes and valves are meant to handle on a daily basis...
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Right track. How about this:
screw with the signal to noise ratio.
Example:
If we all but little red books, the dartmouth student no longer is a signal, just one of a bunch of noise. If we up the noise enough to make sure this type of domestic spying overloads the capabilities of Department of Homeland Security, one of two things would happen:
A)We would have an innefective DHS, and nobody would have much to worry about, the system would be overloaded, and any investigation would be rendered meaningless. Unfortunately, this would also mean we would lack any decent domestic security where we need it. We would lose the capability to protect against actual terrorism, like the Aryan Nations, Timthy McVeighs and KKKs of the country
B)We would force the DHS to actually invesigate and monitor true threats by not bothing with the 'noise' we create.
Meant to read: " So, if Oregon institutes this usage tax, and I'm a long-haul trucker with my truck registered in oregon,"
sorry
So, if Oregon institutes this usage tax, and I'm a long-haul trucker with my truck registered in california, yet I do a regular Corvalis-> Sand Diego run, am I charged for the 85% of miles spent in California? How about people comutting across state lines? What about multi-use vehicles? I know a couple of orchardists who put over 7K a year on trucks driving on their PRIVATE land, and maybe 5K on public roads. Do they get taxed the same way?
Also, any halfwit which a Haynes manual can roll back (or forward) an odometer. These things are supposed to be tamper-resistant too. My friend once had a Chevy with 548,000 miles on it...just as a joke. He reset it to something reasonable when inspection time rolled around...
Sorry...Just my blotto box, spliced to coax instead of RJ-11...
I agree wholeheartedly. This isn't just an issue for younger students either. My girlfriend (a college senior by credt, Junior by year) had to have a paper peer-reviewed in one of her classes. She got a grand total of two comments on the 15 page paper. One was about a semicolon, the other told her to split a well-crafted introduction into two parts because it was 'to long' and 'took up most of the first page'. We talked about it, and I told her that it wasn't a peer review. She should take it to the graduate class she was auditing.
I always gravitated towards the grownups as a kid, as I'm sure many did. I was the kid who listened to NPR, and skipped down the street singing Boutros Boutros-Ghali because of the alliteration.
What we also don't realise, is that smart kids who aren't challeneged can self-destruct, or do dangerous irresponsable things. In highschool, there was a group of maybe 7 of us out of 2,000. We all ended up dealing with our boredom by doing illegal things. We had school blueprints, schematics for the security system, more random hardware then could be hidden safely in our houses, and we forced a change in the rule book. because of us, the plenum spaces above the drop ceilings are now off limits. If somebody hadn't moved the keys at the last minute, we would have had 4 drivers-ed cars inside the gym, in front of the stage, up on blocks the night before grauation. We had the doors open, and the cars ready to roll, but no keys, nor the time to hotwire the cars safely.
Anyway, the point is, if we were had the opportunity to build MOSFET based circuits, carbon soap box racers, or work on any type of school-sponsored project at our level, it would have been better for everyone involved
There is also a certain art to hand-machined parts. I did my first project at age 9 on a Smithy lathe and milling machine with my grandfather. It is like cutting film on a Steinbeck flatbed, not the most efficient way, but with limits that bring out better results sometimes.
As to things being cheaper, my uncle is a professional machinist. He does mainly one-offs for specialized agricultural equipment, and makes the occasional 10 bhp steam engine. He has both CNC and manual machines, and often uses goes with the manual option because it is just plain faster.
I don't know what this hobbyist is doing, but if it is lower precision work with simple parts, even simple threading, he should go with a manual lathe...
After using premiere to cut a single project back in 2003, I said never again. I was even using it on a mac. The interface is weak, the effects and titling tools are cumbersome (no livetype)...The one redeeming feature was good deck control. I could use a consumer Mini-DV camera as a deck in a pinch and grab my footage painlessly.
FCP is god compared to Premiere. In terms of learning curve, FCP is significantly better then the AVIDs too, which is important when I am dealing with a bunch of university students at work.
Actually, the price breakdown is a little different...But you are prefectly correct. I have heard numbers between 22 and 35 cents for apple's cut. The other 65-78% goes to artists and record companies. Artists will get around 12% of the remainder, minus deductions, so about 6-10% of the 65-78%. Indies do quite a bit better, giving their artists anywhere from 20-70% of online distribution profit.
Also, it should be noted that a lot of indie record companies do a lot more for their artists then RIAA members ever do. A lot serve as both manager and agent, booking concerts, promoting songs to other artists for use as covers (HFA royalties) and a host of other things that actually makes their cut almost worth it.
The difference is that finger prints are much like a serial number. The identify and differentiate who a person is amongst billions. DNA, on the other hand serves as much, much more then just a serial-number like ID. It is a means to a vast, vast amount of medical information, information on one's family, even one's future children.
Sure, they could collect samples from a saliva sample or band-aid, but this is a congressional-approved, legal database, and having a database allows comprehensive DNA testing easily, cheaply and without public supervision. If they started collecting huge numbers of soda cans, bandages, hars and ass-lint, people would start to notice.
Do you have a cite for any of the Virginia laws? A lawyer practicing in VA bet me I couldn't find these laws actually on the books in the Virginia State code. If they aren't on the books, then this is a snopes-worthy urban legend. Anyway, if you have a citation, or know where to find it, I would be indebted.
I did one worse as a kid....old enough to be dangerous, but yound enough not to have any grasp of the conceptual difference between AC and DC current, and voltage for that matter.
In my kit, the batteries were in one 'bubble', and the motors in another. I noticed that the power cord from some old radio fit in the Capsella motor plug, so I plugged it in. Then I plugged it into the wall. My little 'car' made a nice pop and went the fastest three feet of it's (short) life. Oops.
I have my first order going to PAiA around christmas...Hopefully, I can build a P9700S Package, and get a bunch of independent study credit for it...
My school has a Moog 55 in semi-working condition...built way before my time.
Oh yeah, RIP Mr. Moog