a few cups of good 'ol drip coffee. maybe with a shot or two (or three) of espresso in it for an extra kick. put it on ice if you want something cold. screw all that high-fructose corn syrup. it'll just come back to bite you with an insulin "low". i do like some sweet 'n low in mine, but whatever floats yer boat...
If I recall correctly, the first high-speed cameras involved spinning mirrors/prisms to take the pictures. How 'bout taking say, 100 CCD's from ordinary video cameras, arranging them in an arc with a spinning mirror to direct the image from one lens to each of the CCD's- they could even use ordinary MiniDV recorders- then capture your data and stitch them back together... 30 fps x 100 CCD's- 3000 fps? The trick, of course, would be synching the CCD's and the mirror...
Just an idea...
Here in Austin, we have the Goodwill Computer Works store. Not only is it a great place to get rid of your old stuff, but an awesome place to acquire some more! Do I really need a $25.00 486/25 laptop? No, but Linux will run great on that! ...of course, installation will take a lot of floppies...
Perhaps the record industry could improve their sales by making the CD's themselves worth having. At the moment, CD packaging is usually so lame and uninteresting that nobody cares if they don't have it. If artists would elevate their albums to complete packages with interesting materials and designs, people might feel the need to own the real deal. See the Rolling Stones' "Sticky Fingers" or Led Zeppelin III...
So what exactly is nostalgic about a modern PC in the case of something you are nostalgic about? Did you once do that in the past? Nostalgia is playing KC Munchkin on my Magnavox Odyssey 2, not ripping out its guts and shoving in the contents of my laptop. That just does both of them a disservice.
being used for security purposes. Who's gonna steal an original NES? I don't think they've acquired antique status, yet...
Other than that, why the hell would you want to do this?
that the Submitter's name links to the "Arialphone User's Group"? Is it not completely obvious that this crappy Arialphone company is responsible for this post, and might have even PAID slashdot to post it???
because while there is a large volume of MP3's being downloaded, they are being downloaded by a relatively small number of users. I download songs all the time from audiogalaxy -I often will just look up an artist I don't know and then download 20-30 or more of their songs- and haven't bought a CD in months. Most of the people I know who do MP3's have MASSIVE collections. Hence the fact in the article about the number of MP3's downloaded being like, 5x the number of CD's sold. I simply couldn't afford, in time or money, to listen to the amout of music I do today with CD's.
However, the majority of Americans do not have broadband and have no idea how to go about getting music, or it at least seems complicated enough to prevent them from wanting to do it all the time.
I'm a big fan of sharing my music, and I burn mix CD's for my friends all the time. Many of these friends like the music so much that they go out and buy the full albums of the artist. The record industry must realize that MP3's are a great tool for hardcore music enthusiasts, and that hardcore music enthusiasts share their enthusiasm and get casual music listeners excited about their product.
perhaps, if it's powerful enough, it could be loud enough to even cancel out the bass vibrations in your neighbor's apartment! he'd have to knock on YOUR door and ask you to turn your noise cancellation device down!:)
I download MP3's constantly. I have probably 20 gigs of mp3's, all downloaded from audiogalaxy and I have only bought a few CD's since I moved into my apartment and got my cable modem back in August.
With few exceptions, almost any MP3 can be found and put into a queue to be downloaded. One of my favorite pastimes is to search on allmusic.com for bands that I like and see who they recommend, and then go to audiogalaxy and get a bunch of their mp3's. I have been exposed to SO MUCH wonderful music this way, and I would certainly miss it if it ceased to be available.
But I have bought a few CD's, and they were all of things I had heard first on mp3's and decided that I would value having the actual album of. For one thing, I like having the whole package sometimes -the liner notes, and the lyrics (which used to be really easy to find online for free). But also there's the whole quality issue- there's sadly no consistently applied standard for MP3 encoding, and I get a lot of crappy stuff, and even with the good sounding stuff, you can tell the difference when you hear the actual CD.
I also contribute to the artists by going to their shows when they come to town. We all know the record industry rips them off anyway, and that they make most of their money from their tours.
And we all know that CD's only cost pennies a piece to manufacture and that even the "low" price of $12/cd is ridiculous.
anyway... that's my $.02
the best solution would be for each user to have a unique card that has a fingerprint scanner and a keypad on it. at login, the user is presented with a code which must be entered into their unique card, which then authenticates the user by their fingerprint and also calculates a password based on some formula which is unique to the card and involves both the code the user entered and the user's fingerprint. a friend of mine who worked for the DoD had a card similar to this, but it didn't involve fingerprints, so theoretically anyone with his card who knew his login might be able to login for him. of course, even if it DID have fingerprint recognition, someone smart enough could probably steal the card, get his fingerprint, and do some sort of hardware hack to trick the card into thinking my friend's finger was pressed to it... i dunno... sounds pretty secure, though...
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but then, of course, as soon as a googlewhack gets posted on one of those bulletin boards, it ceases to be a googlewhack, as it will soon be found by google's crawler and assimilated, raising the number of hits to at least 2. the game will only get harder as more people play it and continue to post their entries online. at some point in the very distant future, there will be none left, and then we'll have to do 3-word googlewhacks, or 2-result googlewhacks, or something... hmmm...
...Windows 2k is just as stable as Linux. My box stays up and running for months at a time without the slightest error or problem. Windows' problem is exactly what makes it better than Linux- Morons use it.
Put the average Winows-Using-American-Moron (the same people who watch "Survivor" and voted for Bush) in front of a Linux box, and if they don't figure out how to crash it, they'll ask you where AOL is, and if you could get AOL on *NIX (just to make them happy) that would surely crash it.
But all these morons do often use really cool software that Linux can't lay a finger on- what are you seriously gonna use to edit video on Linux? And don't tell me that the GIMP can even hold a candle to Photoshop. Not to mention the many games, productivity software, etc...
"But wait," you say "most of this software also exists on the Mac!" but (at least pre-OS X) Macs were even less stable for the average user than Windows, and required even more tweaking to become stable./.ers also like to say that Microsoft intentionally puts security holes and bugs to keep people buying their new OS's, but that's a severe misinterpretation of what's really happening. It seems apparent to me that Microsoft is so constantly trying to add new features and support new things -to innovate and support the innovations that normal people really want- that many times they get ahead of themselves. The fact that people are willing to pay money for new features drives Microsoft and Windows developers to innovate. What's driving Linux developers to make tons of software that doesn't appeal to Linux developers?
Linux is stable because it doesn't have so much software, doesn't support as much hardware, and because the people who use Linux are generally computer people who enjoy tweaking their systems and using them for very certain activities.
Don't get me wrong- I think Linux is great for Linux users, and great at doing many things, but for the vast majority of people, and a great many tasks, Windows is the best solution.
No, really- I don't work for Microsoft. I'm just tired of hearing the usual/. bullshit.
how about using this to improve video compression quality? make a codec that correctly identifies the more important objects in a scene (ones closer to the camera, ones that are moving) and use more of the bandwidth for those objects, less on things like the background, or plants, or whatever. or create 3D animations from reality that rival the quality (but not the size) of raster-based video.
(GASP!) Good GOD, man! You mean to tell me that they want computers to be able to do NEW things!? Things which might require more powerful processors!? New things so useful that people might be willing to buy these more powerful processors so that they might have computers that could do them!? OH! The shame!!
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just for those who happened to be given an X-box and were unable to return it, right? Or maybe you stole one and couldn't pawn it... riiight...
I was just thinking that heat was what computers could use more of these days...
a glass? who's got time for that? anyone who's serious only drinks things that come in bottles or cans...
a few cups of good 'ol drip coffee. maybe with a shot or two (or three) of espresso in it for an extra kick. put it on ice if you want something cold. screw all that high-fructose corn syrup. it'll just come back to bite you with an insulin "low". i do like some sweet 'n low in mine, but whatever floats yer boat...
If I recall correctly, the first high-speed cameras involved spinning mirrors/prisms to take the pictures. How 'bout taking say, 100 CCD's from ordinary video cameras, arranging them in an arc with a spinning mirror to direct the image from one lens to each of the CCD's- they could even use ordinary MiniDV recorders- then capture your data and stitch them back together... 30 fps x 100 CCD's- 3000 fps?
The trick, of course, would be synching the CCD's and the mirror...
Just an idea...
Here in Austin, we have the Goodwill Computer Works store. Not only is it a great place to get rid of your old stuff, but an awesome place to acquire some more! Do I really need a $25.00 486/25 laptop? No, but Linux will run great on that!
...of course, installation will take a lot of floppies...
It's not like I ever have to type anything in when I'm looking at porn...
Perhaps the record industry could improve their sales by making the CD's themselves worth having. At the moment, CD packaging is usually so lame and uninteresting that nobody cares if they don't have it. If artists would elevate their albums to complete packages with interesting materials and designs, people might feel the need to own the real deal. See the Rolling Stones' "Sticky Fingers" or Led Zeppelin III...
So when the terrorists hijack one of these after the 10 years of flight school or whatever they would have to take to be able to handle one...
So what exactly is nostalgic about a modern PC in the case of something you are nostalgic about? Did you once do that in the past?
Nostalgia is playing KC Munchkin on my Magnavox Odyssey 2, not ripping out its guts and shoving in the contents of my laptop. That just does both of them a disservice.
being used for security purposes. Who's gonna steal an original NES? I don't think they've acquired antique status, yet... Other than that, why the hell would you want to do this?
that the Submitter's name links to the "Arialphone User's Group"? Is it not completely obvious that this crappy Arialphone company is responsible for this post, and might have even PAID slashdot to post it???
just get one of these?
...something tells me you'll be finding out tomorrow!
because while there is a large volume of MP3's being downloaded, they are being downloaded by a relatively small number of users. I download songs all the time from audiogalaxy -I often will just look up an artist I don't know and then download 20-30 or more of their songs- and haven't bought a CD in months. Most of the people I know who do MP3's have MASSIVE collections. Hence the fact in the article about the number of MP3's downloaded being like, 5x the number of CD's sold. I simply couldn't afford, in time or money, to listen to the amout of music I do today with CD's. However, the majority of Americans do not have broadband and have no idea how to go about getting music, or it at least seems complicated enough to prevent them from wanting to do it all the time. I'm a big fan of sharing my music, and I burn mix CD's for my friends all the time. Many of these friends like the music so much that they go out and buy the full albums of the artist. The record industry must realize that MP3's are a great tool for hardcore music enthusiasts, and that hardcore music enthusiasts share their enthusiasm and get casual music listeners excited about their product.
how 'bout high-altitude solar-powered drones circling above your town, beaming up/down your data? could be better than satellites...? -wm
perhaps, if it's powerful enough, it could be loud enough to even cancel out the bass vibrations in your neighbor's apartment! he'd have to knock on YOUR door and ask you to turn your noise cancellation device down! :)
I download MP3's constantly. I have probably 20 gigs of mp3's, all downloaded from audiogalaxy and I have only bought a few CD's since I moved into my apartment and got my cable modem back in August. With few exceptions, almost any MP3 can be found and put into a queue to be downloaded. One of my favorite pastimes is to search on allmusic.com for bands that I like and see who they recommend, and then go to audiogalaxy and get a bunch of their mp3's. I have been exposed to SO MUCH wonderful music this way, and I would certainly miss it if it ceased to be available. But I have bought a few CD's, and they were all of things I had heard first on mp3's and decided that I would value having the actual album of. For one thing, I like having the whole package sometimes -the liner notes, and the lyrics (which used to be really easy to find online for free). But also there's the whole quality issue- there's sadly no consistently applied standard for MP3 encoding, and I get a lot of crappy stuff, and even with the good sounding stuff, you can tell the difference when you hear the actual CD. I also contribute to the artists by going to their shows when they come to town. We all know the record industry rips them off anyway, and that they make most of their money from their tours. And we all know that CD's only cost pennies a piece to manufacture and that even the "low" price of $12/cd is ridiculous. anyway... that's my $.02
'cause we've had an ikea in our neighborhood for years!
the best solution would be for each user to have a unique card that has a fingerprint scanner and a keypad on it. at login, the user is presented with a code which must be entered into their unique card, which then authenticates the user by their fingerprint and also calculates a password based on some formula which is unique to the card and involves both the code the user entered and the user's fingerprint. a friend of mine who worked for the DoD had a card similar to this, but it didn't involve fingerprints, so theoretically anyone with his card who knew his login might be able to login for him. of course, even if it DID have fingerprint recognition, someone smart enough could probably steal the card, get his fingerprint, and do some sort of hardware hack to trick the card into thinking my friend's finger was pressed to it... i dunno... sounds pretty secure, though...
but then, of course, as soon as a googlewhack gets posted on one of those bulletin boards, it ceases to be a googlewhack, as it will soon be found by google's crawler and assimilated, raising the number of hits to at least 2. the game will only get harder as more people play it and continue to post their entries online. at some point in the very distant future, there will be none left, and then we'll have to do 3-word googlewhacks, or 2-result googlewhacks, or something... hmmm...
uhh... dude... it's slashdot...
...Windows 2k is just as stable as Linux. My box stays up and running for months at a time without the slightest error or problem. Windows' problem is exactly what makes it better than Linux- Morons use it. Put the average Winows-Using-American-Moron (the same people who watch "Survivor" and voted for Bush) in front of a Linux box, and if they don't figure out how to crash it, they'll ask you where AOL is, and if you could get AOL on *NIX (just to make them happy) that would surely crash it. But all these morons do often use really cool software that Linux can't lay a finger on- what are you seriously gonna use to edit video on Linux? And don't tell me that the GIMP can even hold a candle to Photoshop. Not to mention the many games, productivity software, etc... "But wait," you say "most of this software also exists on the Mac!" but (at least pre-OS X) Macs were even less stable for the average user than Windows, and required even more tweaking to become stable. /.ers also like to say that Microsoft intentionally puts security holes and bugs to keep people buying their new OS's, but that's a severe misinterpretation of what's really happening. It seems apparent to me that Microsoft is so constantly trying to add new features and support new things -to innovate and support the innovations that normal people really want- that many times they get ahead of themselves. The fact that people are willing to pay money for new features drives Microsoft and Windows developers to innovate. What's driving Linux developers to make tons of software that doesn't appeal to Linux developers?
Linux is stable because it doesn't have so much software, doesn't support as much hardware, and because the people who use Linux are generally computer people who enjoy tweaking their systems and using them for very certain activities.
Don't get me wrong- I think Linux is great for Linux users, and great at doing many things, but for the vast majority of people, and a great many tasks, Windows is the best solution.
No, really- I don't work for Microsoft. I'm just tired of hearing the usual /. bullshit.
how about using this to improve video compression quality? make a codec that correctly identifies the more important objects in a scene (ones closer to the camera, ones that are moving) and use more of the bandwidth for those objects, less on things like the background, or plants, or whatever. or create 3D animations from reality that rival the quality (but not the size) of raster-based video.
(GASP!) Good GOD, man! You mean to tell me that they want computers to be able to do NEW things!? Things which might require more powerful processors!? New things so useful that people might be willing to buy these more powerful processors so that they might have computers that could do them!? OH! The shame!!