That's why most computer recording systems use the soundcard's clock which is designed to be very stable. Most pro soundcards accept a world clock input as well for true stability and synchronization with other equipment. It's not too hard to achieve 1 ms latency on modern hardware and still be in sync.
It's not very expensive to buy a soldering iron and a roll of solder, and I think if you're so inclined as to actually open up your nano in the first place you'd be able to solder on a new battery. The process would take all of 30 seconds to remove the old wires and attach the new ones. It's not rocket science.
I've been thinking about doing a QEMU setup on a flash drive with an encrypted file system, and including QEMU executables for various OSs. You coul d then boot up the QEMU image, which could have networking support with Samba or something, and then access the files over the network.
I haven't actually tried this yet, and I'm not entirely convinced it's a good idea, but it's one suggestion. Has anyone else tried this? Any comments or suggestions?
"talk to me in 10 years, when a new storage medium has come out... and your PS3 is still using a storage format you can only find used on eBay."
Yeah, just like I have to go to eBay to find memory cards for the PSX used...
I know it's not 10 years old yet, but I can still find memory cards for it in plentiful supply and they don't appear to be about to disappear any time soon.
MS claims they'll be able to reduce costs by reducing the number of times the system will have to be rebooted.. Hmm.. I could swear I heard this before.. where was that.... oh yes, now I remember
They said the EXACT same thing when Windows XP was on the horizon. They wanted to eliminate reboots after application installs and the like, and guess what... I don't think it really worked. I swear pretty much every time I install some app or another, it asks me to reboot the system, ESPECIALLY MS apps such as their own AntiSpyware, Visual Studio, etc. and every time they release some security update (on a nearly weekly basis) I *still* need to reboot. Drives me nuts, especially since I tend to have a many-windowed workspace open for many days at a time (or would, if it wasn't for their damn reboots!).
I've also heard rumors that amplitude modulated radio signals could be used for the same purpose! Possibly even travelling greater distances.. alas, only a rumor.
Yeah but the point is that now they're competitively priced versus the $399 or $499 (Candian dollars here) Dell boxes you can buy. There's no way my friend would have paid the $1200+ for a mac previously. Sure there is still a small premium with buying a mini, but it's a much better value all things considered.
While I'm a PC user who uses primarily XP and Linux myself (I'd like to purchase a Mac in the future) when it came time to help my friend buy a new computer, I recommended she get a Mac mini.
Traditional her and her family had always bought PC's, mostly because they were the default option. They owned several old Compaqs and a white-box store built machine. The primary reason I got her to buy a Mac is because she's a totally non-techie, and hasn't the slightest clue about computers (nor should she have to, IMO). Mostly she just wanted to be able to type stuff up for college, browse the web, IM, email, and play music.
Initially she was very hesitant about going through with the purchase (she had been set on a Dell previously..) since it was something totally new and she was concerned she wouldn't be able to use it. But I eventually convinced her to buy the Mini.
I was supposed to go over there and help her set it up once it arrived but when I called her to confirm, she gleefully told me that she had managed to set the whole thing up by herself and was already using. No help from me required, and this was someone who was a complete techno-phobe.
She's had her mini for several months now and uses it way more than she ever used her PC, which was full of crashing software, crawling with spyware, and in generally a bad state. Last I checked, the mini was running good as new. She's now recommending it to all her friends.
I think this experience highlights what I think is the best part of Apple's whole initiative.. they have simplified the computing process for the average user. Most people have no need nor desire to be computer experts, they just want the damn thing to work properly and stay out of their way. This is the way it should be. I really hope Apple keeps up the good work, because if someone like my friend can set up, use, and maintain their computers with so little trouble, then Apple is doing things right.
From my experiences with Microsoft, I still don't think they "get it". People should just be able to USE their computers, and from what I've seen of Longhorn, it doesn't look like the situation will be improving..
Oh ok, I misunderstood. I've never used multiple monitors in X, but is it not possible to use the same set of virtual desktops for both monitors? It probably should be anyway..
... have you tried out a tablet PC lately? It can do for the first time what no computer could do before:
Read really bad human hand writing (ie: mine)
Understand really cruddy spoken words.
I did not expect speech recon to ever work; now it goes. Handwriting recon that actually can understand my scribbled? Wonderful.
Maybe it's just me, but I *still* can't get most of these devices to recognize my writing worth a damn. I have at work a CE.Net 2003 based tablet, and attempting to write on it using the handwriting recognition is an exercise in futility..
Haven't really tried any more recent devices, perhaps they're better.. but my experiences haven't been exactly encouraging.
1. Would be quite cool. I worked for a comany (which will remain unnamed) on a product (which will also remain unnamed..) which featured a magensium body. The cool thing is that the device had an integrated GPS unit, and used its own magnesium case as the GPS antenna. It would be cool to do something similar with a laptop, maybe use the top edge of the screen or something, or provide a connector for a pigtail antenna.
I LOVED destroyable terrain in X-Com! No game has got the concept right since then. It was awesome tossing grenades around and blowing up walls of houses, hopefully taking out some aliens in the process;)
Yeah, that *is* a pain. No real support for parallel port either, nor TAPI. I had to program an application that used all three, and it was using.Net. It was quite a surprise, as it was my first time doing a.Net app, that it simply didn't have support for what I would consider common features anywhere else. Also highly annoying that MS deprecated and changed so many functions in.Net 2.0. They can't seem to hold on to one API for any significant length of time..
Wow, it's extremely difficult to send data on the serial port of a PC to control a couple of servos.. and a web interface..
Maybe it's interesting for some train geeks, but I think that's about it. The camera isn't even mounted ON the train. That might at least make it mildly more entertaining. Yeah, some internet controlled hacks are cool (especially the christmas lights one, doubly so because it was fake:) but I don't think this is one of them.
Maybe I'm just not seeing it, but how does that make it more efficient? If instead of a==b, a==c, or b==c, then you've just wasted a comparison.. I guess it would depend on the frequency with which b is expected to differ from a.
I have to totally agree with you on this. I had a similar experience with group projects at school. We'd spend long nights working on these project courses, and when stuff wasn't working, we'd inevitably get pissed off at each other. At some point, we started installing some games on our laptops such as Quake and Unreal Tournament.. and whenever we were getting frustrated we'd fire up the game and play a few rounds of deathmatch and blow off some steam. After an hour or so we'd get bored of fragging each other and get back to work, but it definitely helped to ease the tension between group members.
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That's why most computer recording systems use the soundcard's clock which is designed to be very stable. Most pro soundcards accept a world clock input as well for true stability and synchronization with other equipment. It's not too hard to achieve 1 ms latency on modern hardware and still be in sync.
It's not very expensive to buy a soldering iron and a roll of solder, and I think if you're so inclined as to actually open up your nano in the first place you'd be able to solder on a new battery. The process would take all of 30 seconds to remove the old wires and attach the new ones. It's not rocket science.
I've been thinking about doing a QEMU setup on a flash drive with an encrypted file system, and including QEMU executables for various OSs. You coul d then boot up the QEMU image, which could have networking support with Samba or something, and then access the files over the network.
I haven't actually tried this yet, and I'm not entirely convinced it's a good idea, but it's one suggestion. Has anyone else tried this? Any comments or suggestions?
Actually, I think the spirit of the GPL is to protect the freedom of the SOFTWARE. Not the developer nor the user
"talk to me in 10 years, when a new storage medium has come out ... and your PS3 is still using a storage format you can only find used on eBay."
Yeah, just like I have to go to eBay to find memory cards for the PSX used...
I know it's not 10 years old yet, but I can still find memory cards for it in plentiful supply and they don't appear to be about to disappear any time soon.
MS claims they'll be able to reduce costs by reducing the number of times the system will have to be rebooted.. Hmm.. I could swear I heard this before.. where was that.... oh yes, now I remember
They said the EXACT same thing when Windows XP was on the horizon. They wanted to eliminate reboots after application installs and the like, and guess what... I don't think it really worked. I swear pretty much every time I install some app or another, it asks me to reboot the system, ESPECIALLY MS apps such as their own AntiSpyware, Visual Studio, etc. and every time they release some security update (on a nearly weekly basis) I *still* need to reboot. Drives me nuts, especially since I tend to have a many-windowed workspace open for many days at a time (or would, if it wasn't for their damn reboots!).
I've also heard rumors that amplitude modulated radio signals could be used for the same purpose! Possibly even travelling greater distances.. alas, only a rumor.
Heh, looks like the two people are standing on a cliff edge ready to jump.. "farewell cruel world!" ;)
Ah, but what about the 80 minute CD's ? ;)
Yeah but the point is that now they're competitively priced versus the $399 or $499 (Candian dollars here) Dell boxes you can buy. There's no way my friend would have paid the $1200+ for a mac previously. Sure there is still a small premium with buying a mini, but it's a much better value all things considered.
While I'm a PC user who uses primarily XP and Linux myself (I'd like to purchase a Mac in the future) when it came time to help my friend buy a new computer, I recommended she get a Mac mini.
Traditional her and her family had always bought PC's, mostly because they were the default option. They owned several old Compaqs and a white-box store built machine. The primary reason I got her to buy a Mac is because she's a totally non-techie, and hasn't the slightest clue about computers (nor should she have to, IMO). Mostly she just wanted to be able to type stuff up for college, browse the web, IM, email, and play music.
Initially she was very hesitant about going through with the purchase (she had been set on a Dell previously..) since it was something totally new and she was concerned she wouldn't be able to use it. But I eventually convinced her to buy the Mini.
I was supposed to go over there and help her set it up once it arrived but when I called her to confirm, she gleefully told me that she had managed to set the whole thing up by herself and was already using. No help from me required, and this was someone who was a complete techno-phobe.
She's had her mini for several months now and uses it way more than she ever used her PC, which was full of crashing software, crawling with spyware, and in generally a bad state. Last I checked, the mini was running good as new. She's now recommending it to all her friends.
I think this experience highlights what I think is the best part of Apple's whole initiative.. they have simplified the computing process for the average user. Most people have no need nor desire to be computer experts, they just want the damn thing to work properly and stay out of their way. This is the way it should be. I really hope Apple keeps up the good work, because if someone like my friend can set up, use, and maintain their computers with so little trouble, then Apple is doing things right.
From my experiences with Microsoft, I still don't think they "get it". People should just be able to USE their computers, and from what I've seen of Longhorn, it doesn't look like the situation will be improving..
Oh ok, I misunderstood. I've never used multiple monitors in X, but is it not possible to use the same set of virtual desktops for both monitors? It probably should be anyway..
I never have a problem moving windows between virtual desktops in X, why would you say you can't move them?
Maybe it's just me, but I *still* can't get most of these devices to recognize my writing worth a damn. I have at work a CE.Net 2003 based tablet, and attempting to write on it using the handwriting recognition is an exercise in futility..
Haven't really tried any more recent devices, perhaps they're better.. but my experiences haven't been exactly encouraging.
Yes, the US can start a "War on Spam" and go invade Nigeria. Should be easier than Iraq anyway ;)
1. Would be quite cool. I worked for a comany (which will remain unnamed) on a product (which will also remain unnamed..) which featured a magensium body. The cool thing is that the device had an integrated GPS unit, and used its own magnesium case as the GPS antenna. It would be cool to do something similar with a laptop, maybe use the top edge of the screen or something, or provide a connector for a pigtail antenna.
*sings* One of these is not like the other.. *sings*
Seriously though, is moving to Toronto really "off shoring". I think last I checked Canada was still on the same continent as the US
I've written just such a tool. See source below:
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I LOVED destroyable terrain in X-Com! No game has got the concept right since then. It was awesome tossing grenades around and blowing up walls of houses, hopefully taking out some aliens in the process ;)
Yeah, that *is* a pain. No real support for parallel port either, nor TAPI. I had to program an application that used all three, and it was using .Net. It was quite a surprise, as it was my first time doing a .Net app, that it simply didn't have support for what I would consider common features anywhere else. Also highly annoying that MS deprecated and changed so many functions in .Net 2.0. They can't seem to hold on to one API for any significant length of time..
:)
Anyway, enough OT ranting from me
Wow, it's extremely difficult to send data on the serial port of a PC to control a couple of servos.. and a web interface..
:) but I don't think this is one of them.
Maybe it's interesting for some train geeks, but I think that's about it. The camera isn't even mounted ON the train. That might at least make it mildly more entertaining. Yeah, some internet controlled hacks are cool (especially the christmas lights one, doubly so because it was fake
Maybe I'm just not seeing it, but how does that make it more efficient? If instead of a==b, a==c, or b==c, then you've just wasted a comparison.. I guess it would depend on the frequency with which b is expected to differ from a.
I have to totally agree with you on this. I had a similar experience with group projects at school. We'd spend long nights working on these project courses, and when stuff wasn't working, we'd inevitably get pissed off at each other. At some point, we started installing some games on our laptops such as Quake and Unreal Tournament.. and whenever we were getting frustrated we'd fire up the game and play a few rounds of deathmatch and blow off some steam. After an hour or so we'd get bored of fragging each other and get back to work, but it definitely helped to ease the tension between group members.
Hopefully she doesn't read slashdot as much as you, otherwise it will no longer be much of a surprise ;)
5 shoot ????
or is this that new game, "Reloader" I've been hearing about ?