Good few thousand discs available to buy right now from here. Ditto if you search 'SACD' on Amazon. Granted there's very little mainstream pop crap and is mostly classical, but there is more than you think. Plus with many DVD players and the Playstation 3 able to play SACD, it perhaps shouldn't be completely dismissed out of hand.
With damn near every digital format seemingly infected with DRM these days, maybe this is just consumers protesting with their strongest weapons yet - their wallets. Its seems rare these days to find a cd without a rootkit on it, without some crappy media player software need to play the tracks, or just a plain old redbook cd with the offical cd logo on it to prove it.
A vinyl disc is just pure audio, ain't no other crap on there, trying to stop you enjoying the music or ruining your PC. Sure ripping is a little more hassle, but with a good deck the results could exceed any cd rip.
I picked up a Brother 1250 off ebay for £50 quid a couple of years ago. My other half gives it some stick while doing her law degree, printing off zillions of statutes and cases.
Toner is very reasonably priced too. £45 for 6000 sheets.
Just how much more crap are we gonning to have to take from printer/ink manufacturers before we just push the paperless office idea through into normal practice?
I'm surprised we haven't seen RFID'd paper, that a printer will only print on. Giving them yet another consumable to rip us off on.
I think we should just avoid printing altogether. Just spend our money on solutions that make paperless working feasible and transparent. Just think of the environment, no need to fill land fills with empty ink carts (or even half full expired ones), printers dumped due to ink costing more than a printer; reams of paper for 'test pages' and other mistakes. Then of course, think of all the trees we would save.
It does look pretty cool. However my music collection is made up of all kinds of file formats, mp3's, ogg's, vqf's, flac's, etc. This SliMP3 has to transcode anything not mp3 to play them. Hmmmmm, surely that's all your quality gone down the bin.
Were we to go with a small computer option, you'd have no problem decoding anything that you threw at it, including new file formats?
From my time at Uni, everyone used zip disks. We did have lab's full of SGI's so no floppy. Most recent bios's let you boot off one anyway, so once you fill one with fdisk, P.M. or whatever you safe in any emergency.
I know when I last built a machine, I couldn't be bothered buying a floppy drive. Also, my PSU only had one mini power connecter, which went on the zip (scsi zip hence small power socket). I don't know how common this is on many PSU's...
I picked up a Panasonic CF41 laptop off ebay for £10 quid. Problem I'm having is everything for it is proprietry. Ram is rare and expensive, I managed to hunt down an 8meg module for $25 quid. Battery is dead (of course). Power supply has a funny connector, I either hack it, or buy an overpriced ac adapter. The floppy drive was missing and seem to go for £100 second hand! The built in CD drive appears to be pre ide, and doesn't seem to work with Linux.
Thank god they had agreed on PCMCIA back then.
At least these days we have standard sodimms and stuff.
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Plenty of material:
http://store.acousticsounds.com/sacd.cfm
Good few thousand discs available to buy right now from here. Ditto if you search 'SACD' on Amazon. Granted there's very little mainstream pop crap and is mostly classical, but there is more than you think. Plus with many DVD players and the Playstation 3 able to play SACD, it perhaps shouldn't be completely dismissed out of hand.
With damn near every digital format seemingly infected with DRM these days, maybe this is just consumers protesting with their strongest weapons yet - their wallets. Its seems rare these days to find a cd without a rootkit on it, without some crappy media player software need to play the tracks, or just a plain old redbook cd with the offical cd logo on it to prove it.
A vinyl disc is just pure audio, ain't no other crap on there, trying to stop you enjoying the music or ruining your PC. Sure ripping is a little more hassle, but with a good deck the results could exceed any cd rip.
Interesting choice of release date, with it scheduled as the released date of Fedora Core 4. Fedora. http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/
I sure its just coincidence...
I picked up a Brother 1250 off ebay for £50 quid a couple of years ago. My other half gives it some stick while doing her law degree, printing off zillions of statutes and cases.
Toner is very reasonably priced too. £45 for 6000 sheets.
Just how much more crap are we gonning to have to take from printer/ink manufacturers before we just push the paperless office idea through into normal practice?
I'm surprised we haven't seen RFID'd paper, that a printer will only print on. Giving them yet another consumable to rip us off on.
I think we should just avoid printing altogether. Just spend our money on solutions that make paperless working feasible and transparent. Just think of the environment, no need to fill land fills with empty ink carts (or even half full expired ones), printers dumped due to ink costing more than a printer; reams of paper for 'test pages' and other mistakes. Then of course, think of all the trees we would save.
It does look pretty cool. However my music collection is made up of all kinds of file formats, mp3's, ogg's, vqf's, flac's, etc. This SliMP3 has to transcode anything not mp3 to play them. Hmmmmm, surely that's all your quality gone down the bin. Were we to go with a small computer option, you'd have no problem decoding anything that you threw at it, including new file formats?
From my time at Uni, everyone used zip disks. We did have lab's full of SGI's so no floppy. Most recent bios's let you boot off one anyway, so once you fill one with fdisk, P.M. or whatever you safe in any emergency.
I know when I last built a machine, I couldn't be bothered buying a floppy drive. Also, my PSU only had one mini power connecter, which went on the zip (scsi zip hence small power socket). I don't know how common this is on many PSU's...
I picked up a Panasonic CF41 laptop off ebay for £10 quid. Problem I'm having is everything for it is proprietry. Ram is rare and expensive, I managed to hunt down an 8meg module for $25 quid. Battery is dead (of course). Power supply has a funny connector, I either hack it, or buy an overpriced ac adapter. The floppy drive was missing and seem to go for £100 second hand! The built in CD drive appears to be pre ide, and doesn't seem to work with Linux. Thank god they had agreed on PCMCIA back then. At least these days we have standard sodimms and stuff.