Next time you go to a gig, wire up with all your fellow fans and *BUY THE RECORDING OF THE ACT RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF YOU*, carry it away in your pocket, thanks to shit like this.
iPod v2 will have WiFi, I'm so sure. And if it doesn't, I'll eat my shorts. Promise.
"... also announced was the new 'Chicanium', which combines the 200Mnerdz power processing of the Itemium with the sexual prowess, digitally extracted, of a cheap Tijuana hooker and her little brother. Release date, 2002."
Hey, cool! Now whenever I need an extra 15 minutes of time to finish my compiles on those long-haul flights, all I need do is open the tank, hold the laptop to my arse, let one rip, and away we go...
No, irony is that I'm even bothering to try to out-smart-ass an Anonymous Coward, when really I should be cleaning out my navel, harvesting toe-jam, or maybe even going the whole hoot and giving the old earwax a bit of a taste...
Feel free to comment, though. I like your sharp wit and eager mind.
Feels good to help you waste it, when you could be doing something brilliant, I'm quite sure.
Re:OGG's niche is bandwidth, and that's it.
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BBC Reopens Ogg Streams
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The same is true for all of these encoders.
The fact is, AIFF is absolutely great for digital audio. 24bit, 96khz, overkill.
None of these formats are designed to do anything more than provide acceptable quality over low bandwidth connections.
In circumstances where bandwidth is not a concern, there are far better encoding methods than MP3, Ogg, WMA, etc.
Don't get too stuck on the concept of encoding - it's just a means of overcoming a lack of bandwidth, not an attempt at providing superlative audio quality, though that could be considered a secondary concern in the design.
As long as the audio quality is decent, and the filesizes are low, then the encoder is doing the job it was designed to do... anything above that is a bonus.
Not sure I like the idea of using MP3 for sample recording (lossy), but it would be really, really sweet for recording live acts.
As a musician, and as a music lover, I'd really like to see live acts offering outputs from the mix desk... or even better, if this thing had *802.11b*, then we could all just record the gig with the thing in our pocket.
Betcha any money we'll see that within the next 2 years... walk away from that gig with a good recording, which you paid for with the price of admission.
A good cup of china black, well steeped, would kick the living shit out of whatever 'coffee' you think you need to drink to get a 'buzz'...
Still, this case would make a pretty shitty tea table.
Re:I want fish in my computer
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A Real Tabletop PC
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In ionized water, the fish will die in about 5 minutes.
If they don't, they'll take a shit, and that'll dilute, and your boards will instantly short.
You'd be better off just doing creative glass work - put the board and all behind the aquarium, fish in front. Clean the glass really well so that you can't even see it through the water.
I've had one of these for quite a while, and aside from a recent firmware update to do a bit more in the power-saving department, little else has been done with this MP3 player by Hango... and I'm yet to see anyone hack one to do something other than play MP3's...
Which sort of surprises me, since there's a rather hefty DSP inside this box.
Anyone hacking the PJB100 these days? I like to ask this question every time there's an MP3 article on/. - it might seem off topic, but occasionally I hear from other PJB users who'd also like to get underneath the cover and see what else can be done with their MP3 players...
Yeah, that's what I'd *WANT* you to think, if I was Dr. Bad, hiding away in a mountain lair, I "conveniently" had built for me by the "U.S. Government"...
Imagine what sort of a hideout that would be, for, say, an international terrorist or two...
Man, the world is definitely getting to be more like "James Bond" than it is "Space, 1999".
Damnit.
Anyway, big deal about this nuclear repository problem, anyway. Once it's there, it's there, and all we gotta do is keep an eye on it.
Of course, getting it into that hole is going to be interesting. Imagine what a security nightmare *THAT* is going to be... I'd say a train carrying a bunch of nuclear, radioactive, material through, oh, say, 20 different states would be a pretty handy for any sort of weapon that would *burn* it easily.
Ercck. I don't even want to think about it. Way too much 007...
Ermmm... this sort of application of photography is actually already pretty widespread in industrial embedded systems, and while lasers are fairly commonly used, so are other optical systems too - depending on the relative wavelengths needed for exposure for optimal use of the CCD, etc.
A lot of DSP stuff was designed with these sorts of algorithms in mind.
The chips in the PC you're using to read this post probably had to fit within the bounds of a line convolution function at least a few thousand times before it was put in plastic to be sent to you...
I wouldn't be so hasty to presume that this stuff is really that expensive.
Any idiot can do digital electronics but it takes real skill and understanding to do anything analog.
... with the statement: Even better, is doing digital work that is indistinguishable from analog work, to the point that A/B comparisons produce 50/50 results.
Not only that, but GEOS was the first client for AOL back in the day... before Win3.0 was available, it used to be that you'd boot into GEOS to do e-mail, read news, etc.
GEOS was one of the first widely available multitasking OS's for the Intel platform, and it was used exclusively for getting onto AOL.
When Win3.1 came out, they ported the client apps, and abandoned the GEOS platform. I think it was spun off - it survived in various forms for years. One of the first PDA's (Sharp?) used GEOS, if I recall correctly...
Seriously though: if virii are industrial terrorism, then MS Outlook is the Taliban, and we need to bomb the shit out of Redmond.
And I do mean it. Seriously.
Rubbish. Ignore this foolish troll.
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Coder or Architect?
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Submitting circumstances to public forum, and being able to assess viable conclusions is a *key* and vital skill required of anyone who desires to manage.
Never let yourself be governed by those who chose to run from hypocrisy or contradiction.
Garner this skill wisely, though. Don't capitulate to "collective think".
As an engineer, alway seek a solution that *solves* the problem, and never let the prejudices such as those stated by this troll to sway your judgment.
A good architect knows no bias other than a desire to get the job done, and done properly.
Whatever: Just get the job done.
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Coder or Architect?
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After 20 years in the computer industry, I pitch myself as a Systems Architect. If someone doesn't understand what that is, I simply explain:
Analysis
Design
Development
Implementation
Education
All fall under the realm of any decent architect. Nothing was ever built without a little of all of the above, well applied, and when needed.
Stay on top of the tools, keep your finger on the pulse of the brick and mortar materials science realm of the industry.
But always wear the hat of the architect, even when you're doing something as humble writing code.
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Ah, I did not know that it was re-made on the PC and Mac ... that's interesting. I'll have to look for it for my Apple ][ emu some time ...
Fuck the MPAA, fuck CD's.
Next time you go to a gig, wire up with all your fellow fans and *BUY THE RECORDING OF THE ACT RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF YOU*, carry it away in your pocket, thanks to shit like this.
iPod v2 will have WiFi, I'm so sure. And if it doesn't, I'll eat my shorts. Promise.
"... also announced was the new 'Chicanium', which combines the 200Mnerdz power processing of the Itemium with the sexual prowess, digitally extracted, of a cheap Tijuana hooker and her little brother. Release date, 2002."
(The processor, not her little brother.)
I seem to remember SpectreVR came out before Stellar7.
...
Also, it was one of the first (if not the first) multiplayer LAN games, too
Hey, cool! Now whenever I need an extra 15 minutes of time to finish my compiles on those long-haul flights, all I need do is open the tank, hold the laptop to my arse, let one rip, and away we go ...
Make for a nice conversation starter too!
"Hey, did I just see you fart at your laptop?"
"Yeah! Cool, isn't it!"
No, irony is that I'm even bothering to try to out-smart-ass an Anonymous Coward, when really I should be cleaning out my navel, harvesting toe-jam, or maybe even going the whole hoot and giving the old earwax a bit of a taste...
Feel free to comment, though. I like your sharp wit and eager mind.
Feels good to help you waste it, when you could be doing something brilliant, I'm quite sure.
The same is true for all of these encoders.
... anything above that is a bonus.
The fact is, AIFF is absolutely great for digital audio. 24bit, 96khz, overkill.
None of these formats are designed to do anything more than provide acceptable quality over low bandwidth connections.
In circumstances where bandwidth is not a concern, there are far better encoding methods than MP3, Ogg, WMA, etc.
Don't get too stuck on the concept of encoding - it's just a means of overcoming a lack of bandwidth, not an attempt at providing superlative audio quality, though that could be considered a secondary concern in the design.
As long as the audio quality is decent, and the filesizes are low, then the encoder is doing the job it was designed to do
Actually, being as she's God, and God Is All, she actually *does* get her panties in a twist.
...
Also, she's pretty good with irony, too, unlike some people
You call God "Allah"?
Fuck, now you're really going to incur Her wrath, whitie...
Hmm ...
... or even better, if this thing had *802.11b*, then we could all just record the gig with the thing in our pocket.
... walk away from that gig with a good recording, which you paid for with the price of admission.
...
Not sure I like the idea of using MP3 for sample recording (lossy), but it would be really, really sweet for recording live acts.
As a musician, and as a music lover, I'd really like to see live acts offering outputs from the mix desk
Betcha any money we'll see that within the next 2 years
Beat *that*, RIAA
A good cup of china black, well steeped, would kick the living shit out of whatever 'coffee' you think you need to drink to get a 'buzz'...
Still, this case would make a pretty shitty tea table.
In ionized water, the fish will die in about 5 minutes.
If they don't, they'll take a shit, and that'll dilute, and your boards will instantly short.
You'd be better off just doing creative glass work - put the board and all behind the aquarium, fish in front. Clean the glass really well so that you can't even see it through the water.
I've had one of these for quite a while, and aside from a recent firmware update to do a bit more in the power-saving department, little else has been done with this MP3 player by Hango ... and I'm yet to see anyone hack one to do something other than play MP3's...
/. - it might seem off topic, but occasionally I hear from other PJB users who'd also like to get underneath the cover and see what else can be done with their MP3 players...
Which sort of surprises me, since there's a rather hefty DSP inside this box.
Anyone hacking the PJB100 these days? I like to ask this question every time there's an MP3 article on
Especially when you consider that OSX now has a graphics engine based on PDF, which begins to finally close the gap between screen and paper ...
Gotta love those dreamy nerds.
Yeah, that's what I'd *WANT* you to think, if I was Dr. Bad, hiding away in a mountain lair, I "conveniently" had built for me by the "U.S. Government"...
And I'll take my blonde bunny army with me, too!
Imagine what sort of a hideout that would be, for, say, an international terrorist or two ...
...
Man, the world is definitely getting to be more like "James Bond" than it is "Space, 1999".
Damnit.
Anyway, big deal about this nuclear repository problem, anyway. Once it's there, it's there, and all we gotta do is keep an eye on it.
Of course, getting it into that hole is going to be interesting. Imagine what a security nightmare *THAT* is going to be... I'd say a train carrying a bunch of nuclear, radioactive, material through, oh, say, 20 different states would be a pretty handy for any sort of weapon that would *burn* it easily.
Ercck. I don't even want to think about it. Way too much 007
Ermmm... this sort of application of photography is actually already pretty widespread in industrial embedded systems, and while lasers are fairly commonly used, so are other optical systems too - depending on the relative wavelengths needed for exposure for optimal use of the CCD, etc.
...
A lot of DSP stuff was designed with these sorts of algorithms in mind.
The chips in the PC you're using to read this post probably had to fit within the bounds of a line convolution function at least a few thousand times before it was put in plastic to be sent to you
I wouldn't be so hasty to presume that this stuff is really that expensive.
Just esoteric.
Doesn't work if you've got both OSX and OS9 on the same partition ...
What my tiBook needs is a good quality graphical bootloader so that I can choose OS9/OSX from *the same partition*.
...
Yeah, I know I could do this if I put OS9/OSX each on their own separate partitions. But I don't wanna do that.
Guess I'll quit bitching and go download the code, and see what its gonna take to make a PPC-friendly bootsector
Absolutes are unobtainable...
Which is why I'll respond to:
Any idiot can do digital electronics but it takes real skill and understanding to do anything analog.
... with the statement: Even better, is doing digital work that is indistinguishable from analog work, to the point that A/B comparisons produce 50/50 results.
As a new member of one of the leading Virtual Analog synthesizer development teams, I can tell you this:
These are very exciting times.
Not only that, but GEOS was the first client for AOL back in the day... before Win3.0 was available, it used to be that you'd boot into GEOS to do e-mail, read news, etc.
GEOS was one of the first widely available multitasking OS's for the Intel platform, and it was used exclusively for getting onto AOL.
When Win3.1 came out, they ported the client apps, and abandoned the GEOS platform. I think it was spun off - it survived in various forms for years. One of the first PDA's (Sharp?) used GEOS, if I recall correctly...
Don't they make TV's or something?
Seriously though: if virii are industrial terrorism, then MS Outlook is the Taliban, and we need to bomb the shit out of Redmond.
And I do mean it. Seriously.
Submitting circumstances to public forum, and being able to assess viable conclusions is a *key* and vital skill required of anyone who desires to manage.
Never let yourself be governed by those who chose to run from hypocrisy or contradiction.
Garner this skill wisely, though. Don't capitulate to "collective think".
As an engineer, alway seek a solution that *solves* the problem, and never let the prejudices such as those stated by this troll to sway your judgment.
A good architect knows no bias other than a desire to get the job done, and done properly.
After 20 years in the computer industry, I pitch myself as a Systems Architect. If someone doesn't understand what that is, I simply explain:
Analysis
Design
Development
Implementation
Education
All fall under the realm of any decent architect. Nothing was ever built without a little of all of the above, well applied, and when needed.
Stay on top of the tools, keep your finger on the pulse of the brick and mortar materials science realm of the industry.
But always wear the hat of the architect, even when you're doing something as humble writing code.
You idiot, "we" were puzzled how the green came about. "Those morons" were still doing it.
I guess "observation" isn't in your lexicon.