so hook up to the speaker output.. or if speakers take digital outputs, hook up to the leads into the voice coil.. or if they move to some sort of servo controlled mechanism, hook up a digital micrometer and measure the change in the measurement..
or more simply, put a microphone in front of the speaker.
Until they can prevent sound from moving through air in compressions and rarefactions (is that right?), there will always be a way to get a copy- though perhaps not an exact copy. With good enough playback equipment and good enough recording equipment and the right type of room, theres no reason you couldn't get a near-perfect analog recording.
excessive startup and shutdown can cause premature wear and tear. HD's work best at a constant temperature to prevent platter warping and maintain evenly spaced bits. EG, hd is 40 degrees in your basement, off.. you turn it on and start writing data, the bits are closer together... the drive gets to 90 degrees, and your bits are further apart.
i dont have a cite for this, and maybe its an 'urkel' legend (geek legend) but, it makes sense to me.
I'm not a pro, but I purchased a Canon EOS 20D on Amazon on sale and combined with a rebate it was just a simdgeon over the cost of a Canon Digital Rebel XT.
I don't print at home- used to have a $500 printer that just couldn't cut it. We print at varying combinations of CostCo, Walgreens, and online photo places depending on what size print we want and what deals are going on. Almost always, we can print 5x7 for $0.40 and 4x6 for $0.20. The cost per page of a 4x6 is significantly cheaper for me than printing at home and dealing with replacing ink cartridges every day and paying for expensive paper that just doesn't match true photo paper.
Not sure if you're aware, but almost all modern photo printing places don't have your traditional film enlarger and chemicals style developing anymore. They used to have big expensive machines that did that process quickly and precisely, but the success of digital film as caused a switch. Now they have a majorly expensive digital photo printer and even your film based shots are scanned and printed on the same gear as the digital photos.
So, if I can take and print a picture that looks identical to film based pictures on the same exact hardware they print film prints on, how are things not equivalent?
Granted, equivalence past prints around 20x20 size is debatable due to cost, but come on, digital is on an even playing field, if not higher.
With film, the film is your original, and even your first print is a copy. With digital, your first print and every other print is your original. Can't beat that!
I used to bank at Bank of America from 1982 to 2000 when I moved to Iowa. I would have kept BofA, but the closest ATM or branch was more than 40 minutes away.
After a month of atm fees at $3.20 a pop from my bank and $1.20 from their bank, I got all my bills in line and changed banks..
But dont always assume there's an atm nearby, and I thought that the point of the 'networks' (star, cirrus, etc) was so that you didn't have to pay fees.
Anyway, I do agree that there should be some kind of fee- perhaps a once a month 'other bank atm usage' fee that's like $5 for unlimited other atm use- and then not get charged by the other bank too. What do you suppose it actually costs the bank in terms of the 1 minute you've tied up the atm, and the actual cost of sending the two packets of data to the other bank?
Seems like there should be fees, but you shouldn't get f***ed at both ends for every transaction.
DHL dented the bejeesus out of an SGI Origin 2000 I had shipped to me on a pallate. It was inadequately packaged to begin with, but it seemed to have been dented both top and bottom, and had its pallate knocked over at least once.
I've had at least a dozen ups ground packages come that looked like someone kickboxed them (no pun intended), sat on them, or threw them off a train in motion. UPS air is quite a lot better and I don't ship anything valuable by ground anymore.
you're forgetting, it's the heat from those coal and nuclear plants that's causing much of the greenhouse effect and thus the wind and bad weather that drives these turbines- so it's a two pronged effort (or three if you have newer sockets).
(oh and in case anyone was wondering, I'm not being serious)
This confirms my ethereal monitoring while listening after yesterday's post. (I posted in reply to someone else)
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follow up- i've been doing etheral captures with itunes playing music and the just for you turned on- nothing seems to be getting phoned home, at least not while playing.
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hidden in plain sight apparently.
I still wonder- that seems to shut off the display of suggestions, but does that mean its not still phoning home?
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i poked through the options.. where do I turn it off?
I've always at least entertained this idea at least in the corner of my mind
"What better way to create the best possible version of everything than evolution?" eg "Why couldn't God have created evolution?" or further "Why is it preposterous to assume God created evolution, knowing that ultimately we'd arise from it, among all the other things on this earth"
separate reply for a different topic- the do not call list.
The funny thing to me about the DNCL is that pretty much everyone wants to be on it (doesn't everyone?). It'd be someone who either does not know about the DNCL or who is truly masochistic that wants to stay on the virtual 'call me list'.
Seems to me, they should have just outlawed telemarketers instead. But this was an underhanded way of saying, we'll, you can call the people stupid enough not to list themselves.
To be honest, I'm not sure where I stand on the legality of that. Seems like it should be between you and the phone company, not you and the government. But since not everyone who signs up for phone service can get flagged as a telemarkter and have your phone programmed to ignore those, the government becomes the only viable solution since fines seem to be the only way to stop things like that. I'm one who is all for reducing the number of things legislated- morally/socially wrong or not, there are some things the government shouldn't be able to control (abortion, etc). So it would seem that even those of us for smaller government have to admit once in a while that there are things that don't work out like youd hope and need the hand of the government to level the playing field- so the question -really- is, is leveling the playing field something the government should do? If so, for what circumstances? All? None? Ultimately all or none isn't very useful, and then you find you need the courts in the middle- which is why our judicial system is a complete mess and the dockets are full from here to 2030.
It is all a very fine balance, that seems most of the time to be leaning one way or another, never centered.
seems like theres a few separate issues here, illustrated by scenario
1) someone posts once to your blog saying "you suck" 2) someone writes a bot to post "you suck" to your blog a couple times a day 3) someone writes a bot to post "you suck" to your blog a couple times second 4) someone posts once to your blog saying "I'm going to kill you when you come home from work tonight" 5) someone writes a bot to post "I'm going to kill you when you come home from work tonight" to your blog a couple times a day 6) someone writes a bot to post "I'm going to kill you when you come home from work tonight" to your blog a couple times second
So what's the difference between all of these? Someone saying "you suck" is an annoyance, but as you mentioned, online isn't so much of in invasive issue. Someone obliterating the functionality of your blog is definately a problem. However, this seems to be something that should be treated similarly to hacking and follow those avenues of contacting the ISP, etc. Someone saying they're going to kill you, is not merely an annoyance, it's a death threat and should be treated under other applicable laws. Posting it a thousand times, in all honesty, probably decreases the liklihood of the threat, but probably should involve the authorities as well as the ISP.
Either way, it seems like there are a bunch of separate things to think about here.
My comment, as moderated, is probably a bit overrated. I mostly meant, I thought it was this big thing that could house a full scale jet (or at least an engine) for testing purposes and saw the pricetag of $1M and thought, "Hey, that's not bad at all- quite impressive". Then I read it was 18". My first analogy/metaphor in my head was that it was like hearing about the great high tech mansion that would be a boon to research and was only $1M to build and then finding out it was a shoebox sized diarama. And I suppose for being able to generate Mach 6 laminar flows, even at 18", if the thing really does help research somehow in a big way, then $1M isn't as unimpressive as first thought.
I do wonder how much of the $1M was in polishing the metal so perfectly, and how much was in the air ballast system?
this is one situation where the biggest company anywhere (MS) doesn't have the clout to release non-drm mp3 files, which would be the only thing that could become more popular than iTunes AAC/m4p files.
In the back of my mind, it seems like Apple is/was hoping someone like MS could release plain format MP3 files and deal with the RIAA battles so then the floodgates would be open and they could join in and provide the content they really seem to want to.
my thoughts exactly. I looked around before posting it myself and getting a -1 redundant.
What I've always wanted, more than a full cockpit flight simulator, was a fully drive by wire car with a nice heavy duty fighter jet joystick. Push forward to accelerate, centered maintains speed, pull back to decelerate. Have a non-linear scale so its faster accel/decel as you get into the last 1/3 of the travel range, but be nice and gentle within the middle. I hate having to have my hands up on the wheel and usually find myself with one arm resting on my lap gripping the bottom of the wheel. I think I'd have a lot more control with a nice joystick setup. As a consolation prize until this is possible, I wish I could have a speed based throttle on my steering wheel- eg set by MPH instead of by fuel rate.
Oh well, I'll keep dreaming, but yeah, I'd rather have either of those things than a nifty gaming system on a dinky 7" lcd.
mods feeling cranky today? Seems like a waste of a point!
My point about the comment was that for being hosted on the official page of the blendo team, the spelling in the article is terrible. I'm surprised that Jamie (being somewhat retentive about getting things right) didn't proof read it himself.
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so hook up to the speaker output.. or if speakers take digital outputs, hook up to the leads into the voice coil.. or if they move to some sort of servo controlled mechanism, hook up a digital micrometer and measure the change in the measurement..
or more simply, put a microphone in front of the speaker.
Until they can prevent sound from moving through air in compressions and rarefactions (is that right?), there will always be a way to get a copy- though perhaps not an exact copy. With good enough playback equipment and good enough recording equipment and the right type of room, theres no reason you couldn't get a near-perfect analog recording.
please do so in a well ventilated area. I would rather not die of toxic plastic and RIAA poisoning
apparently 98% of summaries contain mistakes too.
and kill your hard drives.
excessive startup and shutdown can cause premature wear and tear. HD's work best at a constant temperature to prevent platter warping and maintain evenly spaced bits. EG, hd is 40 degrees in your basement, off.. you turn it on and start writing data, the bits are closer together... the drive gets to 90 degrees, and your bits are further apart.
i dont have a cite for this, and maybe its an 'urkel' legend (geek legend) but, it makes sense to me.
I'm not a pro, but I purchased a Canon EOS 20D on Amazon on sale and combined with a rebate it was just a simdgeon over the cost of a Canon Digital Rebel XT.
I don't print at home- used to have a $500 printer that just couldn't cut it. We print at varying combinations of CostCo, Walgreens, and online photo places depending on what size print we want and what deals are going on. Almost always, we can print 5x7 for $0.40 and 4x6 for $0.20. The cost per page of a 4x6 is significantly cheaper for me than printing at home and dealing with replacing ink cartridges every day and paying for expensive paper that just doesn't match true photo paper.
Not sure if you're aware, but almost all modern photo printing places don't have your traditional film enlarger and chemicals style developing anymore. They used to have big expensive machines that did that process quickly and precisely, but the success of digital film as caused a switch. Now they have a majorly expensive digital photo printer and even your film based shots are scanned and printed on the same gear as the digital photos.
So, if I can take and print a picture that looks identical to film based pictures on the same exact hardware they print film prints on, how are things not equivalent?
Granted, equivalence past prints around 20x20 size is debatable due to cost, but come on, digital is on an even playing field, if not higher.
With film, the film is your original, and even your first print is a copy. With digital, your first print and every other print is your original. Can't beat that!
I used to bank at Bank of America from 1982 to 2000 when I moved to Iowa. I would have kept BofA, but the closest ATM or branch was more than 40 minutes away.
After a month of atm fees at $3.20 a pop from my bank and $1.20 from their bank, I got all my bills in line and changed banks..
But dont always assume there's an atm nearby, and I thought that the point of the 'networks' (star, cirrus, etc) was so that you didn't have to pay fees.
Anyway, I do agree that there should be some kind of fee- perhaps a once a month 'other bank atm usage' fee that's like $5 for unlimited other atm use- and then not get charged by the other bank too. What do you suppose it actually costs the bank in terms of the 1 minute you've tied up the atm, and the actual cost of sending the two packets of data to the other bank?
Seems like there should be fees, but you shouldn't get f***ed at both ends for every transaction.
DHL dented the bejeesus out of an SGI Origin 2000 I had shipped to me on a pallate. It was inadequately packaged to begin with, but it seemed to have been dented both top and bottom, and had its pallate knocked over at least once.
I've had at least a dozen ups ground packages come that looked like someone kickboxed them (no pun intended), sat on them, or threw them off a train in motion. UPS air is quite a lot better and I don't ship anything valuable by ground anymore.
you're forgetting, it's the heat from those coal and nuclear plants that's causing much of the greenhouse effect and thus the wind and bad weather that drives these turbines- so it's a two pronged effort (or three if you have newer sockets).
(oh and in case anyone was wondering, I'm not being serious)
This confirms my ethereal monitoring while listening after yesterday's post. (I posted in reply to someone else)
follow up- i've been doing etheral captures with itunes playing music and the just for you turned on- nothing seems to be getting phoned home, at least not while playing.
hidden in plain sight apparently.
I still wonder- that seems to shut off the display of suggestions, but does that mean its not still phoning home?
i poked through the options.. where do I turn it off?
I've always at least entertained this idea at least in the corner of my mind
"What better way to create the best possible version of everything than evolution?"
eg "Why couldn't God have created evolution?"
or further "Why is it preposterous to assume God created evolution, knowing that ultimately we'd arise from it, among all the other things on this earth"
also keep in mind, people make links to the original sources on wikipedia as well.
Almost never should you cite wikipedia directly, but use it to find cites.
exactly my point- no new laws needed (and yours too I think)
I wasn't actually aiming to shoot down anything about your posts, just adding my $.02 + inflation. =)
separate reply for a different topic- the do not call list.
The funny thing to me about the DNCL is that pretty much everyone wants to be on it (doesn't everyone?). It'd be someone who either does not know about the DNCL or who is truly masochistic that wants to stay on the virtual 'call me list'.
Seems to me, they should have just outlawed telemarketers instead. But this was an underhanded way of saying, we'll, you can call the people stupid enough not to list themselves.
To be honest, I'm not sure where I stand on the legality of that. Seems like it should be between you and the phone company, not you and the government. But since not everyone who signs up for phone service can get flagged as a telemarkter and have your phone programmed to ignore those, the government becomes the only viable solution since fines seem to be the only way to stop things like that. I'm one who is all for reducing the number of things legislated- morally/socially wrong or not, there are some things the government shouldn't be able to control (abortion, etc). So it would seem that even those of us for smaller government have to admit once in a while that there are things that don't work out like youd hope and need the hand of the government to level the playing field- so the question -really- is, is leveling the playing field something the government should do? If so, for what circumstances? All? None? Ultimately all or none isn't very useful, and then you find you need the courts in the middle- which is why our judicial system is a complete mess and the dockets are full from here to 2030.
It is all a very fine balance, that seems most of the time to be leaning one way or another, never centered.
seems like theres a few separate issues here, illustrated by scenario
1) someone posts once to your blog saying "you suck"
2) someone writes a bot to post "you suck" to your blog a couple times a day
3) someone writes a bot to post "you suck" to your blog a couple times second
4) someone posts once to your blog saying "I'm going to kill you when you come home from work tonight"
5) someone writes a bot to post "I'm going to kill you when you come home from work tonight" to your blog a couple times a day
6) someone writes a bot to post "I'm going to kill you when you come home from work tonight" to your blog a couple times second
So what's the difference between all of these? Someone saying "you suck" is an annoyance, but as you mentioned, online isn't so much of in invasive issue. Someone obliterating the functionality of your blog is definately a problem. However, this seems to be something that should be treated similarly to hacking and follow those avenues of contacting the ISP, etc. Someone saying they're going to kill you, is not merely an annoyance, it's a death threat and should be treated under other applicable laws. Posting it a thousand times, in all honesty, probably decreases the liklihood of the threat, but probably should involve the authorities as well as the ISP.
Either way, it seems like there are a bunch of separate things to think about here.
My comment, as moderated, is probably a bit overrated. I mostly meant, I thought it was this big thing that could house a full scale jet (or at least an engine) for testing purposes and saw the pricetag of $1M and thought, "Hey, that's not bad at all- quite impressive". Then I read it was 18". My first analogy/metaphor in my head was that it was like hearing about the great high tech mansion that would be a boon to research and was only $1M to build and then finding out it was a shoebox sized diarama. And I suppose for being able to generate Mach 6 laminar flows, even at 18", if the thing really does help research somehow in a big way, then $1M isn't as unimpressive as first thought.
I do wonder how much of the $1M was in polishing the metal so perfectly, and how much was in the air ballast system?
then you are given a song every day by someone on the subway that has an attractive theme but words you dont understand that say 'yvan eht nioj'!
I read and thought "A million bucks? Is that all?" then I read it was 18" in diameter. Oh well.
as stated elsewhere, even if he never has to pay a dime to the plaintiff, he'll owe untold millions to the government in tax on the unpaid amount.
this is one situation where the biggest company anywhere (MS) doesn't have the clout to release non-drm mp3 files, which would be the only thing that could become more popular than iTunes AAC/m4p files.
In the back of my mind, it seems like Apple is/was hoping someone like MS could release plain format MP3 files and deal with the RIAA battles so then the floodgates would be open and they could join in and provide the content they really seem to want to.
my thoughts exactly. I looked around before posting it myself and getting a -1 redundant.
What I've always wanted, more than a full cockpit flight simulator, was a fully drive by wire car with a nice heavy duty fighter jet joystick. Push forward to accelerate, centered maintains speed, pull back to decelerate. Have a non-linear scale so its faster accel/decel as you get into the last 1/3 of the travel range, but be nice and gentle within the middle. I hate having to have my hands up on the wheel and usually find myself with one arm resting on my lap gripping the bottom of the wheel. I think I'd have a lot more control with a nice joystick setup. As a consolation prize until this is possible, I wish I could have a speed based throttle on my steering wheel- eg set by MPH instead of by fuel rate.
Oh well, I'll keep dreaming, but yeah, I'd rather have either of those things than a nifty gaming system on a dinky 7" lcd.
mods feeling cranky today? Seems like a waste of a point!
My point about the comment was that for being hosted on the official page of the blendo team, the spelling in the article is terrible. I'm surprised that Jamie (being somewhat retentive about getting things right) didn't proof read it himself.
the spelling in the sf weekly article is atrocious! (i don't claim to be a great speller, btw)