YES - you beat me to it! I have the play only version and I reget not investing the extra hundred for the record version. Well, now I need a second one! Very solid machine. And, it will move ANY data, not just MP3 files.
...and you just want to mod the iPod, more power you to ya. But you just want a 6 gig device like the iPod that plays MP3, check out the Archos Jukebox 6000 and other toys. Mine was $220 from buy.com and it rawks. The really nice thing is I can use it as a normal disk drive when USB connected, so I can transfer up to 6 GB from one computer to another. Mac is supported but unfortunately, not Linux. So, if you are really up for moding, hey, write a Linux driver for this puppy!
No, just based toward the Linux/Intel world. But you have a VERY good point. My favorite music software (I run on Windoze) was actually written for the Mac first. It is called Melody Assistant.
oh, and add one of the great Yamaha keyboards for about $200. Full Midi (except aftertouch). GM sounds. Velocity sensitive. This is a great time to be alive!
I have to take issue with the idea that computer music is an expensive hobby. I have had great results with a PIII 600, 16-bit sound card, and a $15 program called Melody Assistant. Especially if you download the free extended soundbase (check the forums).
Now, I am a musician but I have to ask. Is 24-bits REALLY necessary? I understand that in mixing 24-bit audio encoded at 96kps does help with the slope of the filtering but during a performance ain't you just doing a playback of background instruments? I cannot imagine a performance situation where 16-bit/44.1kps would not be enough.
Not just DJ'ing but a computer is a value music instrument in of itself. I saw Steve Howe perform with a computer backup band. It would have been wonderful if he would just realize that he cannot sing worth a damn. BTW, he used 19" rack, about four feet high. 19" racks are pretty much standard for professional musicans these days.
Sooo, if HDTV supports 1080i and 16x9, that should about 1920x1080 - interlaced, right? Okay, round it off to 1920x1024. But since all VGA is progressive (please, correct me gently if I am wrong), then we should expect 1280x720 progressive. So, where does this 800x600 come from.......Satan? [he said in a Church Lady voice]
If only Isaac Asmiov where here to explain it all. I miss him.
If this was a supernova, the earth and the moon would be a plasma wave in a few seconds and the rest of the planets and the sun would be next. Hell, Alpha Centuri would be toast in about 4.5 years!
The pinks always want huge centralized generating plants so they can control distribution and price. Me, I want small decentralized generation at the site of use! FREEDOM!
Put solar panels and wind generators on every roof. Use the gird to even things out. The meter will run both ways. Make the system a neural net with no central control. REVOLUTION!
There ARE 15" laptops (and for less than $1500). What we need is for the 15" screens to die (except for laptops for those with small laps . I hope will will make the new iMac flat screens at least 17".
...check the claims for MC-10. Is this all it is cracked up to be? If so, it is aMAZing. Are they charging an arm and two legs for it?
14 hours on a single DVD? That's two high quality movies on a CD, right? What's the catch?
One thing, with the all of the emerging codec, I am wonder if DVD-R is the way to go...maybe I should put my library on DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, or DVD+RW after all.
Yes! I was so happy to see your post. This plan is so stupid. The real value in ALL of the materials in the moon is the fact that they are in a 1.5 mps gravity well and so much easier to get than from the earth's 7.5 mps gravity well. Throwing it back down to the earth rather then using it in space is sooooo damn wasteful. Don't waste your money on this half baked scheme! Go read Gerard O'Neil (http://spaceboy.nasda.go.jp/note/Kouso/E/kou102_c olony_e.html) - now he had a plan! This plan is literally throwing valuables down a well!
I believe that money will become irrelevent someday due to nanotech and hacking. Home replicators could be marketed with a digital rights management scheme and then be cracked by freedom lovers and even made to run on sunshine. Then anything you want for everyone. Very good original artists would still be valuable. Not the art (once it is posted on the Net), but artists will always be in demand - especially performers who can interact with an crowd. At least until artifical intelligence superceeds the human mind.
Can you say Singularity?
Whoa.
...just consider how many people have given up the QWERTY keyboard for the superior, more efficient Dvorak. It ain't gone happen anything soon. Thank gawd we finally got rid of the 5.25 floppy disk and today's floppies no longer flop.
Too small in size and too small in capacity. Dammit, will the world PLEASE standardize and stick to it? DVD-R and DVD+RW are my favorite but it if they would quit hanging on to old economies and old copy protection schemes and concentrate on a good standard, the economy of scale would make it cheap. The stores could have kioskes where you sample and listen and then burn the discs, print the book (an 8.5x11 inch book or so - so that this mad tendency for 4 point fonts will die!), and then the revolution will be OVER. Those who cannot adapt will lose and those who can will thrive. My freedom is more precious than your profit.
Until then, down with the RIAA, MPAA, and all other enemies of freedom!
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WHO CARES! This is soooo blatently off-topic, you have to be a huge greasy TROLL, just out of the hole!
...to stop the kind of crap. This is what federal regulations are for.
YES - you beat me to it! I have the play only version and I reget not investing the extra hundred for the record version. Well, now I need a second one! Very solid machine. And, it will move ANY data, not just MP3 files.
...and you just want to mod the iPod, more power you to ya. But you just want a 6 gig device like the iPod that plays MP3, check out the Archos Jukebox 6000 and other toys. Mine was $220 from buy.com and it rawks. The really nice thing is I can use it as a normal disk drive when USB connected, so I can transfer up to 6 GB from one computer to another. Mac is supported but unfortunately, not Linux. So, if you are really up for moding, hey, write a Linux driver for this puppy!
No, just based toward the Linux/Intel world. But you have a VERY good point. My favorite music software (I run on Windoze) was actually written for the Mac first. It is called Melody Assistant.
oh, and add one of the great Yamaha keyboards for about $200. Full Midi (except aftertouch). GM sounds. Velocity sensitive. This is a great time to be alive!
I have to take issue with the idea that computer music is an expensive hobby. I have had great results with a PIII 600, 16-bit sound card, and a $15 program called Melody Assistant. Especially if you download the free extended soundbase (check the forums).
Now, I am a musician but I have to ask. Is 24-bits REALLY necessary? I understand that in mixing 24-bit audio encoded at 96kps does help with the slope of the filtering but during a performance ain't you just doing a playback of background instruments? I cannot imagine a performance situation where 16-bit/44.1kps would not be enough.
You don't understand. This is a MUSICIAN, not just someone who wants to listen to music!
Not just DJ'ing but a computer is a value music instrument in of itself. I saw Steve Howe perform with a computer backup band. It would have been wonderful if he would just realize that he cannot sing worth a damn. BTW, he used 19" rack, about four feet high. 19" racks are pretty much standard for professional musicans these days.
"Actually, there is no dark side to the moon. As a matter of fact, it is all dark" - Nick Mason, I believe, from the album.
a man after my own heart...you got three movies also?
Sooo, if HDTV supports 1080i and 16x9, that should about 1920x1080 - interlaced, right? Okay, round it off to 1920x1024. But since all VGA is progressive (please, correct me gently if I am wrong), then we should expect 1280x720 progressive. So, where does this 800x600 come from.......Satan? [he said in a Church Lady voice] If only Isaac Asmiov where here to explain it all. I miss him.
If this was a supernova, the earth and the moon would be a plasma wave in a few seconds and the rest of the planets and the sun would be next. Hell, Alpha Centuri would be toast in about 4.5 years!
What a load of hype!!!
Yes, Xenopax. I am the proud owner of a SB Platinum 5.1 and it does more that I could possible want. It is more than Good Enough.
The pinks always want huge centralized generating plants so they can control distribution and price. Me, I want small decentralized generation at the site of use! FREEDOM!
Put solar panels and wind generators on every roof. Use the gird to even things out. The meter will run both ways. Make the system a neural net with no central control. REVOLUTION!
There ARE 15" laptops (and for less than $1500). What we need is for the 15" screens to die (except for laptops for those with small laps . I hope will will make the new iMac flat screens at least 17".
...check the claims for MC-10. Is this all it is cracked up to be? If so, it is aMAZing. Are they charging an arm and two legs for it? 14 hours on a single DVD? That's two high quality movies on a CD, right? What's the catch? One thing, with the all of the emerging codec, I am wonder if DVD-R is the way to go...maybe I should put my library on DVD-RAM, DVD-RW, or DVD+RW after all.
Judges like this, we need. More of them!
Yes, yes, YES, Bonker. It is called the Wide World Web and if you do not want the Wide World to see it, put it somewhere else.
I hope that Google comes to it's senses and does not change a thing. They are doing a great, great job.
Yes! I was so happy to see your post. This plan is so stupid. The real value in ALL of the materials in the moon is the fact that they are in a 1.5 mps gravity well and so much easier to get than from the earth's 7.5 mps gravity well. Throwing it back down to the earth rather then using it in space is sooooo damn wasteful. Don't waste your money on this half baked scheme! Go read Gerard O'Neil (http://spaceboy.nasda.go.jp/note/Kouso/E/kou102_c olony_e.html) - now he had a plan! This plan is literally throwing valuables down a well!
I believe that money will become irrelevent someday due to nanotech and hacking. Home replicators could be marketed with a digital rights management scheme and then be cracked by freedom lovers and even made to run on sunshine. Then anything you want for everyone. Very good original artists would still be valuable. Not the art (once it is posted on the Net), but artists will always be in demand - especially performers who can interact with an crowd. At least until artifical intelligence superceeds the human mind. Can you say Singularity? Whoa.
...just consider how many people have given up the QWERTY keyboard for the superior, more efficient Dvorak. It ain't gone happen anything soon. Thank gawd we finally got rid of the 5.25 floppy disk and today's floppies no longer flop.
...but all too DIGUSTING! FREEDOM! FREEDOM! FREEDOM! And to HELL with anything who messes with my F-R-E-E-D-O-M!!
Too small in size and too small in capacity. Dammit, will the world PLEASE standardize and stick to it? DVD-R and DVD+RW are my favorite but it if they would quit hanging on to old economies and old copy protection schemes and concentrate on a good standard, the economy of scale would make it cheap. The stores could have kioskes where you sample and listen and then burn the discs, print the book (an 8.5x11 inch book or so - so that this mad tendency for 4 point fonts will die!), and then the revolution will be OVER. Those who cannot adapt will lose and those who can will thrive. My freedom is more precious than your profit. Until then, down with the RIAA, MPAA, and all other enemies of freedom!