Actually if you recall, that Super Bowl episode of "3rd Rock From The Sun" some years ago, where the supermodels from Venus secretly invaded, Cindy Crawford's cover on Earth was as a plumber. She had a big wrench. They used it in the end to smash the evil invasion center control panel, so wouldn't it work on the gyroscope too?
I would like to be able to retire some pro audio gear, or at least replace it out in the field and leave it just for home studio use.
So, I would like, on my PDA++, to play and record UNCOMPRESSED audio files (e.g. linear PCM, stereo or 4-channel or 8-channel, 16 or 24 bit, 44.1 or 96 kHz). "CD-quality" stereo audio is around 11 Megs per minute. I'd need to record a couple of hours at one session (currently it takes a couple of DAT cassettes, in a semi-portable rack-mounted Panasonic SV3800 DAT recorder with separate outboard ART mike preamp)
I would like to be able to record from external inputs on the PDA++, so I would like GOOD quality, shielded A/D converters, also good quality microphone preamps, with 48V phantom power for condensor mikes.
I would like to feed various kinds of analog and digital audio outputs, so I would like a decent D/A converter to balanced XLR +4dbV (pro) analog outputs, or at least 1/4" tip-ring-sleeve outputs, OK if it has to be consumer grade -10dbV line level out, but just don't make it have only a tiny mini-plug stereo headphone jack with no other better quality outputs.
Also at least S/PDIF (the RCA jack), preferably AES/EBU (the XLR jack), digital audio I/O.
And be able to dump to, and read from, audio or data CD-R's, and maybe DVD+R's too.
Oh and MIDI I/O too, plus either SMPTE timecode, or at least MIDI timecode (MMC). So some kind of synthesis capability too, beyond just audio ("sample") playback.
It has to fit in a couple of pockets, maybe in a couple of pieces that would plug in together.
The outboard A/D, D/A, preamps etc. could be gathered in a separate 'breakout box', if the main PDA had a Firewire or USB 2 port.
There are various things around which can do various subsets of these capabilities now, but collecting them all in a couple of small boxes that plug in together and don't cost a fortune hasn't been done yet.....
Thingies (portable digital audio workstations) like the Roland/Boss BR532 are starting to get almost small enough etc., but the BR532 records compressed audio onto SmartMedia cards, lacks phantom power, and doesn't do CD-R's (you have to swap SmartMedia cards with a PC that has an SM reader and a CD-R burner).
And there are some more expensive portable digital audio workstation boxes, from Zoom & Roland & Fostex & Yamaha etc., that have the better mike preamps with phantom power, and hard drives for uncompressed audio (some come with 20 GB that I've seen in catalogs, though that is not so much, it will do as long as you can burn off CD-R's in between sessions to clear the hard drive and keep recording) and they either come with, or can add-on, builtin CD-R burners.
One of the Roland's even records directly to CD-RW, and doesn't even have a hard drive inside. I think it has a huge RAM buffer so you can mix and burn to CD-R, I guess you have to read in from the CD-RW and then swap in the CD-R for burning? (haven't had time to check it out yet, though they have one in a local music store)
If you have ever been a member of the IEEE Computer Society (computer.org) you might see that the software engineering code of ethics is maybe sort of along the lines of what you want.
The thing about the first Matrix film was that you had to juxtapose Keanu Reeves as the Buddha sitting under the lotus tree in Bertolucci's film, with Keanu as Bill (or was he Ted?) in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure + Bogus Journey, to truly understand the transcendence of his character Neo in the Matrix.
It's nice to not have the Flash plugin installed in any browsers I use (IE6, Netscrape 6.1, Opera, Mozilla, Konqueror).
With IE6 I do keep having to click "No" many times when some lame site tries to make me install Flash.
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> It doesn't get any better than this.
Yes it does.
Oh but that was back in the future, on a different timeline, sorry. (and don't forget the frame of reference thing, neither the Earth, nor the solar system, nor the galaxy, etc. is in the same place that it was, at the temporal "time" you want to "go back to")
Repeat after Chief O'Brien, "I hate temporal mechanics".
I'm waiting for some Star Trek characters to have another transporter incident, or a whirl around the Sun or whatever they do, and end up in "the past", where they see themselves on a TV show...
Which reminds me, how come no one else but me liked Ahnold's so-underrated movie "Last Action Hero"? (Ahnold as movie superhero, has to be convinced by a kid, who's fallen into the movie screen, that he's really just in a movie, with aAhnold admiring a "Terminator 2" poster starring Sylvestor Stallone in the local video store, everybody's phone numbers starting with "555", etc.)
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> "Let's get the models up there to fix it..."
Actually if you recall, that Super Bowl episode of "3rd Rock From The Sun" some years ago, where the supermodels from Venus secretly invaded, Cindy Crawford's cover on Earth was as a plumber. She had a big wrench. They used it in the end to smash the evil invasion center control panel, so wouldn't it work on the gyroscope too?
I would like to be able to retire some pro audio gear, or at least replace it out in the field and leave it just for home studio use.
So, I would like, on my PDA++, to play and record UNCOMPRESSED audio files (e.g. linear PCM, stereo or 4-channel or 8-channel, 16 or 24 bit, 44.1 or 96 kHz). "CD-quality" stereo audio is around 11 Megs per minute. I'd need to record a couple of hours at one session (currently it takes a couple of DAT cassettes, in a semi-portable rack-mounted Panasonic SV3800 DAT recorder with separate outboard ART mike preamp)
I would like to be able to record from external inputs on the PDA++, so I would like GOOD quality, shielded A/D converters, also good quality microphone preamps, with 48V phantom power for condensor mikes.
I would like to feed various kinds of analog and digital audio outputs, so I would like a decent D/A converter to balanced XLR +4dbV (pro) analog outputs, or at least 1/4" tip-ring-sleeve outputs, OK if it has to be consumer grade -10dbV line level out, but just don't make it have only a tiny mini-plug stereo headphone jack with no other better quality outputs.
Also at least S/PDIF (the RCA jack), preferably AES/EBU (the XLR jack), digital audio I/O.
And be able to dump to, and read from, audio or data CD-R's, and maybe DVD+R's too.
Oh and MIDI I/O too, plus either SMPTE timecode, or at least MIDI timecode (MMC). So some kind of synthesis capability too, beyond just audio ("sample") playback.
It has to fit in a couple of pockets, maybe in a couple of pieces that would plug in together.
The outboard A/D, D/A, preamps etc. could be gathered in a separate 'breakout box', if the main PDA had a Firewire or USB 2 port.
There are various things around which can do various subsets of these capabilities now, but collecting them all in a couple of small boxes that plug in together and don't cost a fortune hasn't been done yet.....
Thingies (portable digital audio workstations) like the Roland/Boss BR532 are starting to get almost small enough etc., but the BR532 records compressed audio onto SmartMedia cards, lacks phantom power, and doesn't do CD-R's (you have to swap SmartMedia cards with a PC that has an SM reader and a CD-R burner).
And there are some more expensive portable digital audio workstation boxes, from Zoom & Roland & Fostex & Yamaha etc., that have the better mike preamps with phantom power, and hard drives for uncompressed audio (some come with 20 GB that I've seen in catalogs, though that is not so much, it will do as long as you can burn off CD-R's in between sessions to clear the hard drive and keep recording) and they either come with, or can add-on, builtin CD-R burners.
One of the Roland's even records directly to CD-RW, and doesn't even have a hard drive inside. I think it has a huge RAM buffer so you can mix and burn to CD-R, I guess you have to read in from the CD-RW and then swap in the CD-R for burning? (haven't had time to check it out yet, though they have one in a local music store)
If you have ever been a member of the IEEE Computer Society (computer.org) you might see that the software engineering code of ethics is maybe sort of along the lines of what you want.
The thing about the first Matrix film was that you had to juxtapose Keanu Reeves as the Buddha sitting under the lotus tree in Bertolucci's film, with Keanu as Bill (or was he Ted?) in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure + Bogus Journey, to truly understand the transcendence of his character Neo in the Matrix.
It's nice to not have the Flash plugin installed in any browsers I use (IE6, Netscrape 6.1, Opera, Mozilla, Konqueror).
With IE6 I do keep having to click "No" many times when some lame site tries to make me install Flash.
> It doesn't get any better than this.
Yes it does.
Oh but that was back in the future, on a different timeline, sorry. (and don't forget the frame of reference thing, neither the Earth, nor the solar system, nor the galaxy, etc. is in the same place that it was, at the temporal "time" you want to "go back to")
Repeat after Chief O'Brien, "I hate temporal mechanics".
I'm waiting for some Star Trek characters to have another transporter incident, or a whirl around the Sun or whatever they do, and end up in "the past", where they see themselves on a TV show...
Which reminds me, how come no one else but me liked Ahnold's so-underrated movie "Last Action Hero"? (Ahnold as movie superhero, has to be convinced by a kid, who's fallen into the movie screen, that he's really just in a movie, with aAhnold admiring a "Terminator 2" poster starring Sylvestor Stallone in the local video store, everybody's phone numbers starting with "555", etc.)
Two things:
1. If you think X11 sucks, you should have seen X10.
2. What about the effects on man-in-the-moon marigolds?