Optical is like Seeing, so it makese sense the word disc ends with a C
:P
Don't let anyone tell you it has to do with which route you prefer the word took to enter the English language as that trick was known well before optical or magnetic media
Hmmm.. you'd need some aluminium bar-stock, a small die-casting setup, watchmakers lathe and an ultra-clean glovebox for assembly. And of course sacrificial drives to grab the platters and heads out of. You'd need to redesign the driver board and remember to feed extra power to the motor to counter all the extra mass.
And while you're at it, why not cap the whole thing off with a perspex window and internal LEDs.
But what a wonderfully uber-kewl project it would be:)
The soulful singer's Arista debut, which arrives in stores today, may look like a traditional CD. But it's the first of an expected wave of CDs intended to keep listeners from swapping songs on the Net.
Basically the RIAA is sacrificing this poor artist.
Not to mention they are again selling CD's that don't meet CD standards.
What happens when this Doesn't actually play in my CD player and I want my money back?. What will the little counter bunny at the record store say? What will Rhonda the return girl at Wal-Mart say? Will they all think of me as an outcast geek looking for a means to voice a political vendetta?
How can I scream outloud how much the RIAA is ruining everything without getting blank stares or evil flames and such. The RIAA has to go NOW.
You do realize that the industry is under no obligation whatsoever to package the music in the format you want, nor to make ripping mp3s easy.
They are however under obligation however to honer trademarks and copyrights and patents that say what exactly a CD is and is not and should not sell disc that do not meet the STANDARDS of what a CD is while falsely labling it as a CD.
This sense of entitlement confuses me. If you dont like the product, you dont buy it, but it doesnt give you the right to steal it
What I don't understand is how YOU buy a bushel of apples and are satisfied when you find out they are oranges.
I doubt anyone is going to have the dexterity to not hit those letter keys while meaning to just use the numeric part of the keypad.
You didn't read the aritcle then... the object is to hit the four letter keys surrounding the number you want, not the number itself. --this in itself could lead to even more typos and frustration.
Ask yourself: Have you ever seen a mirror flip your image at a 90` angle? No. Upside down or reversed right or left but vertical and horizontal stay the same.
With a dish you really don't have that much bouncing and refracting as a source for a signal like a normal antenna. You get most of your signal directly from the source
You don't refract a signal with a dish, just reflect. EM can be bent in weird ways but reflecting is all your dish is doing. Even a distorting mirror at a fun house can only reflect (well excluding defects in theglass which could refract as the light passes through it)
I'm in Racine and *might* be interested... I want to go to the Hamfest in Grayslake, IL tomorrow first, see what goodies they got just in case i won't have time for yet another project.
Whatever you do, do not forget to match your polarity.......It really does matter more than you think I don't know why it matters more with a dish than not. Maybe a HAM-op on here will explain it.
The easiest way to help you see what's going on is to use polarized sunglasses. if you take two lenses and hold them in the same direction and look through both of them you will see through them. If you rotate one 90 degrees you wont.
It actually matters throughout all frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum. You merely notice it more when using such a low power source. Also much lower frequencies refract in the ionosphere and that too has an effect. Other factors such as multipath signal reflection and the like will have an effect on how much you notice by having the wrong polarization. -if you get a bright enough light you'll see it through your cross polarized sunglass lenses too.
The RIAA is getting it both ways. They can use P2P as their own little advertizing mechanism and for demographic research aswell. Plus they can use it as a way to rake in money from the lawsuits that follow.
Atleast back then, although the bug may still be there You could SEE it in the works AND you had the satisfaction of knowing that the computer would kill the bug even though it didn't remove it.- not like today at all.
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Optical is like Seeing, so it makese sense the word disc ends with a C
:P
Don't let anyone tell you it has to do with which route you prefer the word took to enter the English language as that trick was known well before optical or magnetic media
Uranium, Plutonium? In space? Sounds like WMD! INVADE!!!
DOn't worry nothing can go wrong. rememebr it's made French Tough so there's nothing to worry about.
But what a wonderfully uber-kewl project it would be :)
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Did you see this? Did you notice it?... EWE!
The soulful singer's Arista debut, which arrives in stores today, may look like a traditional CD. But it's the first of an expected wave of CDs intended to keep listeners from swapping songs on the Net.Basically the RIAA is sacrificing this poor artist.
Not to mention they are again selling CD's that don't meet CD standards.
What happens when this Doesn't actually play in my CD player and I want my money back?. What will the little counter bunny at the record store say? What will Rhonda the return girl at Wal-Mart say? Will they all think of me as an outcast geek looking for a means to voice a political vendetta?
How can I scream outloud how much the RIAA is ruining everything without getting blank stares or evil flames and such. The RIAA has to go NOW.
Anthony Hamilton knows who you are
But wait, the RIAA is doing this with a more obscure artist first before they do it to all your favorites
Thank God many of my Punk Rock favorites have their own issues with the RIAA so as I don't have to worry about this
They are however under obligation however to honer trademarks and copyrights and patents that say what exactly a CD is and is not and should not sell disc that do not meet the STANDARDS of what a CD is while falsely labling it as a CD.
This sense of entitlement confuses me. If you dont like the product, you dont buy it, but it doesnt give you the right to steal it
What I don't understand is how YOU buy a bushel of apples and are satisfied when you find out they are oranges.
If yer gunna homebrew your drive you should put all the platters in the same casing! -anyone can have a bunch of drives
To Be or not to Be?
Well I know that's gunna be my question anyway. I am going to have to try this out and see.
It's about time I can Be again ---I hope I still like it!
My question is, what self-respecting Slashdot reading nerd here wouldn't already know the story about Murphy's Law?
Just wondering --since I think it's stuff that matters
You didn't read the aritcle then... the object is to hit the four letter keys surrounding the number you want, not the number itself. --this in itself could lead to even more typos and frustration.
You must remember
The angle of incidence == the angle of reflection
Ask yourself: Have you ever seen a mirror flip your image at a 90` angle? No. Upside down or reversed right or left but vertical and horizontal stay the same.
With a dish you really don't have that much bouncing and refracting as a source for a signal like a normal antenna. You get most of your signal directly from the source
You don't refract a signal with a dish, just reflect. EM can be bent in weird ways but reflecting is all your dish is doing. Even a distorting mirror at a fun house can only reflect (well excluding defects in theglass which could refract as the light passes through it)
I'm in Racine and *might* be interested... I want to go to the Hamfest in Grayslake, IL tomorrow first, see what goodies they got just in case i won't have time for yet another project.
Oh, you mean like with, say, modems, where 14.4kbps = 14,400bps, 28.8kbps = 28,800 bps, and so on?
Those are in bits we're talking about bytes!
Whatever you do, do not forget to match your polarity.... ...It really does matter more than you think I don't know why it matters more with a dish than not. Maybe a HAM-op on here will explain it.
The easiest way to help you see what's going on is to use polarized sunglasses. if you take two lenses and hold them in the same direction and look through both of them you will see through them. If you rotate one 90 degrees you wont.
It actually matters throughout all frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum. You merely notice it more when using such a low power source. Also much lower frequencies refract in the ionosphere and that too has an effect. Other factors such as multipath signal reflection and the like will have an effect on how much you notice by having the wrong polarization. -if you get a bright enough light you'll see it through your cross polarized sunglass lenses too.
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No there was QRM on 40 meters, I could hear all the broadcasters but very few hams. 20 Meters had some but not many. 75 Meters was noisey.
What got me is I couldn't hear anyone on CW at all.
I checked everything again and again and nothing was wrong. and on the weekend I was working Siberia and the canarey islands so I know it works!
This was using a Swan 500CX with External VFO and a dipole
-. ----.Amateurs can almost always find a band where they have acceptible propagation.
Well except when trying to show ham radio to someone last night
We're actually ALWAYS there. We're usualy just lurking for a disaster.
Well, either that or trying to find the next coffee clutch
Oh Cool. I'm in EN62, but on the other side of the water form CmdrTaco
A woman on Slashdot who has a clue about ham radio?
May I ask you what your gridsquare is?
Why isn't spam free speech? What is free speech, anyway?
Well lets look at it from a much simpler angle here
I have to pay to receive spam there for it cannot be free speech
END OF ARGUMENT
What exactly is so difficult for you people to understand?
The RIAA is getting it both ways. They can use P2P as their own little advertizing mechanism and for demographic research aswell. Plus they can use it as a way to rake in money from the lawsuits that follow.
Have they sued any Time-Warner Customers yet?
I wonder why we'd use an Atlas.... um? hmm? Didn't we loose, or destroy many important shematics and designs for the Saturn V?
um, maybe we could ask the Russians if they still have any of their intel on it.
Atleast back then, although the bug may still be there You could SEE it in the works AND you had the satisfaction of knowing that the computer would kill the bug even though it didn't remove it.- not like today at all.