I have seen this setup when i was in India. The same problem as Fang posted existed, lightning does not have to hit the wire, it just has to hit close enough to induce a charge in the cable, which then fries anything connected.
The cheapest solution i found was this..heh
By counting the seconds between the flash and the thunder and dividing by 5, an estimate of the distance to the strike (in miles) can be made.
SO if lightining is imminent yank out the cables and then plug back in when its crossed over. Not an automatic solution mind you but i did say cheapest;)
Cant beleive no one mentioned this media manager. It's not free but not too expensive either.
It blows away iTunes in terms of flexibility, usability and speed.
It's forte is audio, but can also manage photos, videos and documents.
...a phone company in the US...can only depreciate their equipment every 22 years..so they dont have an incentive to upgrade the swithches which wil give you the humoungous broadband everyone is dreaming about..whereas a corp can depreciate its equipment every 3 yrs...
now to have fast broadband would require the IRS to change that 22 yr rule to something smaller... its a pity because there is bandwidth in the optic cables already laid out( almost 100 times available)...something world com almost went bankrupt doing...
a simpler reason for slow rollouts is also the lack of percieved sustainable demand.
Electronic music is the term used in the US. Dance is the common catch-all used in the UK.
First some background..as Electronica covers a lot of genres.
Trance used to big but its kinda dead now as its got too repetitive unless your a teenager. Paul Oakenfold was a pioneer in this genre in the early to mid 90s in the UK, it came over to the US a few yrs later and exploded.
Progressive House is what DJs like Sasha & Digweed play, again pioneers in this genre since the early to mid-90s.
House is good old staple of the US, chicago sound. probably the hardiest of the lot that will endure as its easier, looser than the previous 2 genres.
Drum n Bass, offshoot of Jungle, LTJ Bukem is probably the best know in this genre for his style of atmospheric DnB.
Electronica to me is groups like Air that mix stuff up with synths and other stuff, they are the electronic version of the usual bands we grew up to. but there are a lot of other groups out there.
where do you find this kind of music ? Thats a hard one, its easier to tune into radio stations for this sort of thing over the internet.
The Essential Mix on the BBC is a show that airs 2 hr long sets of many interesting DJs every saturday 0200 GMT
Kiss FM in London hosts John Digweed's show every Fri midnight GMT
they both have real audio feeds so you can tune in, which is a real godsend as you are not going to get shows like that in the US. Why ? no radio station can play this sort of thing as there is no way to put any ads in it as most of the radio in the US is comercial driven.
if you are looking for something a bit more on the cutting edge i could recommend protonradio.com, they host a lot of shows of a lot of up and coming talent.
How do you get stuff ?.find out where ppl hang out, on newsgroups, hang out in chat rooms, talk to ppl and you will be surprised what you will find.
Yup, i agree..its all about control. They are losing that with file-sharing as it is. They probably realise they cant stop it completely, the aim of the game for them is to hinder sharing in any form.
...they will keep getting at the more popular services until Joe Public realises its easier to just get it from them in the first place.
The concept i suggested is not very newbie friendly and needs patience. Also it has taken me a while to build up my contacts. I'd say the main problem with this approach is that it favors ppl with large collections. You need to have something to get stuff.
i realised it was far more efficient to build up trust with ppl than to rely on P2P. You only need a few contacts to get it going. Everyone benefits from this approach as its quality in, quality out.
You are right not a lot of ppl are that ftp knowledgeable so i suppose i am lucky that my taste of music has listeners that are fairly techy. But then you can always teach ppl how to set things up and try to explain the benefits. Or the alternative is you find a dump and let ppl use that as an intermediary.
truth of the matter is i dont even run an ftp server. i usually up/down from ppls boxes and let them know on a regular basis if i have something that might interest them. Also it means i help them find stuff they are looking for.
use the network:) in many ways this is using tech in the familar way we shared music with friends in real life.
I stopped using P2P since napster went out of buisness..
Why ? for all the reasons you mentioned. I decided to make friends with ppl that i traded with and buit up a web of contacts.
Now i trade exclusively with ppl with ftp servers. These ppl themselves have good contacts with others so i usually have a pretty good assortment of the latest stuff. Also they dont put stuff out that is bad quality or incomplete.
regarding your question of broadening your musical horizons. If you know few ppl that share similar tastes then chances are you are going to see a lot of stuff you have not heard before.
just start building trust with ppl that you share with in many cases they recommned stuff and i do the same. the result is i spend less time looking for stuff and usually go with recommendations.
I have seen this subject crop up time and again, seems that flat rate is becoming too expensive to support.
Why cant they offer a time based criteria rather than a volume based one.. Seems more fair as the consumer has no control of how much gets upped/downed when viewing web-sites.
So something like $x for x hours use.
Having been through this same process..i must say that i agree..the one advantage that i see missing is that it gives you mobility and 700Mb a pop isnt bad..most important the Volt has decent output quality..if its hooked up to a powered subwoofer the sound levels are acceptable enough for me.
The only downsides as you mention are not being able to jog with it but since i dont do that much this isnt a problem. Since its powered either by AC at home or with an adapter in the car again the battery issue isnt a problem either
I use it in the car with an adapter and it works great. My home system consists of a 20Gb server on an old P90 that is samba mounted..
My next project would be to get this hooked up to a DSL line with accompanying web interface and streaming capability so that i can access it from anywhere..
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I will third this... JRiver media center is the best at managing large collections. Forget amarok, it's yrs behind in terms of speed & functionality.
I wait for the day when an ipod can read cue files that are used in conjunctoin with an mp3 to get around the gapless problem.
I have seen this setup when i was in India. The same problem as Fang posted existed, lightning does not have to hit the wire, it just has to hit close enough to induce a charge in the cable, which then fries anything connected.
..heh
;)
The cheapest solution i found was this
By counting the seconds between the flash and the thunder and dividing by 5, an estimate of the distance to the strike (in miles) can be made.
(Source http://thunder.msfc.nasa.gov/primer/index.html)
SO if lightining is imminent yank out the cables and then plug back in when its crossed over. Not an automatic solution mind you but i did say cheapest
Cant beleive no one mentioned this media manager. It's not free but not too expensive either. It blows away iTunes in terms of flexibility, usability and speed. It's forte is audio, but can also manage photos, videos and documents.
...a phone company in the US...can only depreciate their equipment every 22 years..so they dont have an incentive to upgrade the swithches which wil give you the humoungous broadband everyone is dreaming about..whereas a corp can depreciate its equipment every 3 yrs... now to have fast broadband would require the IRS to change that 22 yr rule to something smaller... its a pity because there is bandwidth in the optic cables already laid out( almost 100 times available)...something world com almost went bankrupt doing... a simpler reason for slow rollouts is also the lack of percieved sustainable demand.
Electronic music is the term used in the US. Dance is the common catch-all used in the UK.
.find out where ppl hang out, on newsgroups, hang out in chat rooms, talk to ppl and you will be surprised what you will find.
First some background..as Electronica covers a lot of genres.
Trance used to big but its kinda dead now as its got too repetitive unless your a teenager. Paul Oakenfold was a pioneer in this genre in the early to mid 90s in the UK, it came over to the US a few yrs later and exploded.
Progressive House is what DJs like Sasha & Digweed play, again pioneers in this genre since the early to mid-90s.
House is good old staple of the US, chicago sound. probably the hardiest of the lot that will endure as its easier, looser than the previous 2 genres.
Drum n Bass, offshoot of Jungle, LTJ Bukem is probably the best know in this genre for his style of atmospheric DnB.
Electronica to me is groups like Air that mix stuff up with synths and other stuff, they are the electronic version of the usual bands we grew up to. but there are a lot of other groups out there.
where do you find this kind of music ? Thats a hard one, its easier to tune into radio stations for this sort of thing over the internet.
The Essential Mix on the BBC is a show that airs 2 hr long sets of many interesting DJs every saturday 0200 GMT
Kiss FM in London hosts John Digweed's show every Fri midnight GMT
they both have real audio feeds so you can tune in, which is a real godsend as you are not going to get shows like that in the US. Why ? no radio station can play this sort of thing as there is no way to put any ads in it as most of the radio in the US is comercial driven.
if you are looking for something a bit more on the cutting edge i could recommend protonradio.com, they host a lot of shows of a lot of up and coming talent.
How do you get stuff ?
Yup, i agree..its all about control. They are losing that with file-sharing as it is. They probably realise they cant stop it completely, the aim of the game for them is to hinder sharing in any form.
...they will keep getting at the more popular services until Joe Public realises its easier to just get it from them in the first place.
Thanks for the compliment.
:) in many ways this is using tech in the familar way we shared music with friends in real life.
The concept i suggested is not very newbie friendly and needs patience. Also it has taken me a while to build up my contacts. I'd say the main problem with this approach is that it favors ppl with large collections. You need to have something to get stuff.
i realised it was far more efficient to build up trust with ppl than to rely on P2P. You only need a few contacts to get it going. Everyone benefits from this approach as its quality in, quality out.
You are right not a lot of ppl are that ftp knowledgeable so i suppose i am lucky that my taste of music has listeners that are fairly techy. But then you can always teach ppl how to set things up and try to explain the benefits. Or the alternative is you find a dump and let ppl use that as an intermediary.
truth of the matter is i dont even run an ftp server. i usually up/down from ppls boxes and let them know on a regular basis if i have something that might interest them. Also it means i help them find stuff they are looking for.
use the network
I stopped using P2P since napster went out of buisness.. Why ? for all the reasons you mentioned. I decided to make friends with ppl that i traded with and buit up a web of contacts. Now i trade exclusively with ppl with ftp servers. These ppl themselves have good contacts with others so i usually have a pretty good assortment of the latest stuff. Also they dont put stuff out that is bad quality or incomplete. regarding your question of broadening your musical horizons. If you know few ppl that share similar tastes then chances are you are going to see a lot of stuff you have not heard before. just start building trust with ppl that you share with in many cases they recommned stuff and i do the same. the result is i spend less time looking for stuff and usually go with recommendations.
I have seen this subject crop up time and again, seems that flat rate is becoming too expensive to support. Why cant they offer a time based criteria rather than a volume based one.. Seems more fair as the consumer has no control of how much gets upped/downed when viewing web-sites. So something like $x for x hours use.
Having been through this same process..i must say that i agree..the one advantage that i see missing is that it gives you mobility and 700Mb a pop isnt bad..most important the Volt has decent output quality..if its hooked up to a powered subwoofer the sound levels are acceptable enough for me.
The only downsides as you mention are not being able to jog with it but since i dont do that much this isnt a problem. Since its powered either by AC at home or with an adapter in the car again the battery issue isnt a problem either
I use it in the car with an adapter and it works great. My home system consists of a 20Gb server on an old P90 that is samba mounted..
My next project would be to get this hooked up to a DSL line with accompanying web interface and streaming capability so that i can access it from anywhere..