If hey incorporate RGB lighting inside the cases, it would allow users to make their CPU any color they want. Retailers had to keep five different SKU's for the different iMac colors. This was terribly inefficient; especially considering the only difference between the items was their plastic shell. Eliminating this issue may not only save time and money, but also help prevent the product shortages Apple is famous for.
While I'm not sure of the market share of MiniDisc versus DAT, I can tell you that MiniDisc will not give you the same quality because it is a COMPRESSED MEDIUM. DAT stores raw data and therefore there is no compression artifacting. Now, if its quality you're after, I recommend a laptop with a good audio input (pronounced "external audio interface"). There are firewire and USB pro-grade interfaces starting at under $250. Many even support balanced XLR inputs and also supply phantom power. If you can handle lugging a laptop with you (preferably closed in a shoulder bag) than this is the way to go.
A former DTE employee, I am typing this on my laptop with no power here in Detroit, MI. I agree, this is certainly not a result of deregulation. Perhaps I can offer some insight on some of the specifics.
The reason so many plants are now offline is because of a safety system put in place to protect their generating equipment. An overload can severely damage generators. The device which disconnects the plant from the grid is a shoebox-sized relay. The great northeastern blackout of 1965 was actually caused by a defective relay.
However, it is highly unlikely that a relay was the cause of this outage. If not for faulty equipment, what caused it to happen? Since the problem seems to have originated in Niagra Falls, New York, I suspect that a major line which provedes part of the northeastern US with power from generating plants in Canada went down. This event would have triggered the above scenario, causing plants in both the US and Canada to shut down.
It is interesting to note that, as with land-based phone systems, little has changed in the way power is distributed to customers in the last 30 years (certainly advances in fiber optics have advanced phone systems, but the last-mile copper systems have remained unchanged in over 50 years). Hopefully now, systems will be put in place to prevent outages of this magnitude from happening again. A system of automated switches with real-time network links could be used to disconnect parts of the grid instantly before the problem could spread. Maybe we will see some of this technology in the future, now that there is a definate need to persue it.
The author says the PUBLIC is confused? He writes:
"Only slightly more than half correctly identified the definition of megahertz - a measurement of frequency which can be used to measure how many times a part of the processor, called the clock, ticks every millionth of a second."
That would mean my old PII would be somewhere in the neighborhood of... 333,000,000,000,000 cycles per second! 333THz!! And to think I almost got rid of it!
Imagine this technology in the adult toy indusrty. Doc Johnson introduces the "Perpetual Viberator!!" It's a fantastic investment opprotunity!!
Are they just figuring this out?
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We used to do this all the time in college. In fact, I remember reading it in the infamous "Arnarchist's Handbook" in the late 80's. Anyone else remember this?
Remember you are paying for MORE THAN THE DISC when you buy a CD. I must admit that CD's are grosley overpriced. YES, the record companies are making a killing and YES, the artists are (for the most part) getting screwed. However, looking over the threads, I've seen some people are a bit unclear about the process of creating a CD and the costs involved.
As mentioned in an earlier post, the compact disc media has become very very cheap over the last 15 years, yet CD prices continue to rise. Here are some of the other costs involved in producing a CD:
MECHANICAL LICENSE FEE: When you buy a CD, part of the cost covers a mechanichal license fee. Believe it or not there is a fee of 7.55 cents PER TRACK for any CD pressed.
RECORDING/ENGINEER FEES: It is not a simple process to create a CD. There are 3 steps, recording (at least $2,500 per track assuming you don't need to many overdubs), mixing (at least $2,000 per track) and mastering (at least $500 per track). Now these costs are relative to the caliber of studio you record and mix at. For a big-time artist at a platinum-quality studio, you can easily quadrouple these numbers.
RECORD COMPANY FEES: Most people get upset and claim these guys are driving the cost way up. Well, for the most part, that is true. But it is important to realize that these people are the ones responsible for promoting an album. The artist does NOTHING to help move their albums (well, I suppose you can count touring). The producers and record execs do all the work to push your album.
PRODUCTION: It boils down to $2.25-3.00 per disc for 1,000 - 10,000 copies. This includes a glass master, the disc itself with 4-color face printing, 10 page 4-color insert, jewl case, barcoding and all those annoying stickers on the case edge. For large quantities, the cost is certainly hess. Probably about 40% less for more than 500,000 copies.
I certainly hope you find this information useful.
This article hits really clost to home for me. I live in Bloomfield Hills. (less than 10 min from West Bloomfield). I read the article last week before it made it on/. Now, I have a client in West Bloomfield and the other day, just for kicks, I decided to drive by the house. It is very real, and very big. One who knows the area can tell you EXACTLY where the house is from the article. The papers stopped just short of giving you the actual house number. They tell you RIGHT where he lives.
Now, of course I think what this guy is doing is dead wrong and am TOTALLY against unsolicited email. But reguardless of what this guy does, isit responsible for the press to tell everyone exactly where he lives? I think this just opens the door for a violent attack. Sure, SPAM pisses me off, but I know people who REALLY get in a rage over it. (I wouldn't be at all supprised if someone takes action).
My suggestion? Everyone on/. should send him a postcard!
A human is the I/O, the sensors, the actuators, the flight control processor, and everything else. Automating a small plane would most likely double the cost, at least.
Absolutely right. In addition, whomever is "flying" the remote-controlled plane will need to be able to interpret the incoming data very quickly. One miscalculation (or a bad sensor for that matter) could cause a crash and destroy your prototype, even if everything was working perfectly.
I think "baby steps" are the way to go here. We're in no hurry to mass produce these crafts. The more time spent in research and development, the better the outcome will be. I can't wait to hear the results of the fuel cell plane.
I admit this is a clever way for the artist to send a the message "Technology will lead to its own demise," however I think there are much more "impactful" applications for such a device (pun intended). For instance, a mail server which would crush itself slowly as it detects SPAM messages being delivered to users. Surely this would raise a few eyebrows as we battle the junk email epidemic. Don't you agree? Of course in such a case the doomed server would need to be running in parallel with a "backup" server as it would be destined for destruction.
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Step 1: Remove the GPS device from your car
Step 2: Drive around!
Their membership is gonna increase 1000% once Slashdot geeks get a look at these girls!
(I'm a member and love the site!)
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-DJ
"According to the People's Daily's article on the subject nothing seems to have gone wrong."
Obviously SOMETHING went wrong, and the Chineese Govt doesn't want to fess up.
There's nothing like good old government-controlled press. I'm glad to see communism is still alive and well.
To further complicate matters, the user must also putchase an expensive hardware key before the software will function properly.
It sure is great the progress of voIP is hindered because the FBI can't figure out how to hack it.
If hey incorporate RGB lighting inside the cases, it would allow users to make their CPU any color they want. Retailers had to keep five different SKU's for the different iMac colors. This was terribly inefficient; especially considering the only difference between the items was their plastic shell. Eliminating this issue may not only save time and money, but also help prevent the product shortages Apple is famous for.
...with the nearly 2 million loony-tunes and translucent floppy disks my users insist on using?
I think MS will sleep soundly knowing NOBODY will pirate this OS.
"..this limitation 'helps [users] stay organized and reduces confusion.'"
This new user base may be overseas, but they aren't retarded.
"Duel envelopes, both made of Kevlar" aparently the envelopes fight eachother.
With all of these icons, will there even be ROOM for the logo on the Windows box?
"For Suggestions on ways we can improve our software, please contact us at: suggestions@earthstationv.com" Perhaps someone should drop them a line.
This way when I reboot my database server once a year, it will come back online 45 seconds faster.
While I'm not sure of the market share of MiniDisc versus DAT, I can tell you that MiniDisc will not give you the same quality because it is a COMPRESSED MEDIUM. DAT stores raw data and therefore there is no compression artifacting. Now, if its quality you're after, I recommend a laptop with a good audio input (pronounced "external audio interface"). There are firewire and USB pro-grade interfaces starting at under $250. Many even support balanced XLR inputs and also supply phantom power. If you can handle lugging a laptop with you (preferably closed in a shoulder bag) than this is the way to go.
Will the blonde chick in pink come set it up for me? That would make it worth the investment. Hell, I'd even buy a new iMac.
A former DTE employee, I am typing this on my laptop with no power here in Detroit, MI. I agree, this is certainly not a result of deregulation. Perhaps I can offer some insight on some of the specifics.
The reason so many plants are now offline is because of a safety system put in place to protect their generating equipment. An overload can severely damage generators. The device which disconnects the plant from the grid is a shoebox-sized relay. The great northeastern blackout of 1965 was actually caused by a defective relay.
However, it is highly unlikely that a relay was the cause of this outage. If not for faulty equipment, what caused it to happen? Since the problem seems to have originated in Niagra Falls, New York, I suspect that a major line which provedes part of the northeastern US with power from generating plants in Canada went down. This event would have triggered the above scenario, causing plants in both the US and Canada to shut down.
It is interesting to note that, as with land-based phone systems, little has changed in the way power is distributed to customers in the last 30 years (certainly advances in fiber optics have advanced phone systems, but the last-mile copper systems have remained unchanged in over 50 years). Hopefully now, systems will be put in place to prevent outages of this magnitude from happening again. A system of automated switches with real-time network links could be used to disconnect parts of the grid instantly before the problem could spread. Maybe we will see some of this technology in the future, now that there is a definate need to persue it.
The author says the PUBLIC is confused? He writes:
"Only slightly more than half correctly identified the definition of megahertz - a measurement of frequency which can be used to measure how many times a part of the processor, called the clock, ticks every millionth of a second."
That would mean my old PII would be somewhere in the neighborhood of... 333,000,000,000,000 cycles per second! 333THz!! And to think I almost got rid of it!
Imagine this technology in the adult toy indusrty. Doc Johnson introduces the "Perpetual Viberator!!" It's a fantastic investment opprotunity!!
We used to do this all the time in college. In fact, I remember reading it in the infamous "Arnarchist's Handbook" in the late 80's. Anyone else remember this?
Remember you are paying for MORE THAN THE DISC when you buy a CD. I must admit that CD's are grosley overpriced. YES, the record companies are making a killing and YES, the artists are (for the most part) getting screwed. However, looking over the threads, I've seen some people are a bit unclear about the process of creating a CD and the costs involved.
As mentioned in an earlier post, the compact disc media has become very very cheap over the last 15 years, yet CD prices continue to rise. Here are some of the other costs involved in producing a CD:
MECHANICAL LICENSE FEE: When you buy a CD, part of the cost covers a mechanichal license fee. Believe it or not there is a fee of 7.55 cents PER TRACK for any CD pressed.
RECORDING/ENGINEER FEES: It is not a simple process to create a CD. There are 3 steps, recording (at least $2,500 per track assuming you don't need to many overdubs), mixing (at least $2,000 per track) and mastering (at least $500 per track). Now these costs are relative to the caliber of studio you record and mix at. For a big-time artist at a platinum-quality studio, you can easily quadrouple these numbers.
RECORD COMPANY FEES: Most people get upset and claim these guys are driving the cost way up. Well, for the most part, that is true. But it is important to realize that these people are the ones responsible for promoting an album. The artist does NOTHING to help move their albums (well, I suppose you can count touring). The producers and record execs do all the work to push your album.
PRODUCTION: It boils down to $2.25-3.00 per disc for 1,000 - 10,000 copies. This includes a glass master, the disc itself with 4-color face printing, 10 page 4-color insert, jewl case, barcoding and all those annoying stickers on the case edge. For large quantities, the cost is certainly hess. Probably about 40% less for more than 500,000 copies.
I certainly hope you find this information useful.
-DJ Blair
This article hits really clost to home for me. I live in Bloomfield Hills. (less than 10 min from West Bloomfield). I read the article last week before it made it on /. Now, I have a client in West Bloomfield and the other day, just for kicks, I decided to drive by the house. It is very real, and very big. One who knows the area can tell you EXACTLY where the house is from the article. The papers stopped just short of giving you the actual house number. They tell you RIGHT where he lives.
/. should send him a postcard!
Now, of course I think what this guy is doing is dead wrong and am TOTALLY against unsolicited email. But reguardless of what this guy does, isit responsible for the press to tell everyone exactly where he lives? I think this just opens the door for a violent attack. Sure, SPAM pisses me off, but I know people who REALLY get in a rage over it. (I wouldn't be at all supprised if someone takes action).
My suggestion? Everyone on
http://www.apple.com/switch/ads/janieporche.html
Well, I think doing that would put even a greater strain on the /. servers. The hit would not only be in bandwidth, but storage as well.
A human is the I/O, the sensors, the actuators, the flight control processor, and everything else.
Automating a small plane would most likely double the cost, at least.
Absolutely right. In addition, whomever is "flying" the remote-controlled plane will need to be able to interpret the incoming data very quickly. One miscalculation (or a bad sensor for that matter) could cause a crash and destroy your prototype, even if everything was working perfectly.
I think "baby steps" are the way to go here. We're in no hurry to mass produce these crafts. The more time spent in research and development, the better the outcome will be. I can't wait to hear the results of the fuel cell plane.
I admit this is a clever way for the artist to send a the message "Technology will lead to its own demise," however I think there are much more "impactful" applications for such a device (pun intended). For instance, a mail server which would crush itself slowly as it detects SPAM messages being delivered to users. Surely this would raise a few eyebrows as we battle the junk email epidemic. Don't you agree? Of course in such a case the doomed server would need to be running in parallel with a "backup" server as it would be destined for destruction.