According to the article they're trying to get the rights to use Lisa and Apu in their ads, not get the product placed into a Simpsons episode. How is this particularly different from the Butterfinger spots or the Intel ad?
Speaking of Cue Cats and Fox shows though, can you use the Cue Cat on the bar code on the back of Jessica Alba's neck? That particluar tie-in might make the CC more popular.
I had trouble with them a day or two ago, and it's not the first time, but it doesn't happen very often or last too long so I just figure it's caused by sunspots or something. If the problem was on their end they probably would have mentioned it on the site, unlike Slashdot, where you're just left to wonder.
I can e-mail you a copy of whatever Reg article you can't get if you let me know which one.
If Phoenix or Award or American Megatrends or whoever could legally "clean room reverse engineer" the IBM PC bios, it should be possible for someone else to do the same thing and make it open source, but someone will probably have to cough up some actual money to keep the ball rolling 'til it gets done.
If a quarter million Slashdotters each Paypal in a buck or two that might make a good start if it winds up in the hands of someone that can be trusted not to blow it all on administrative salaries like some "charities", and if that someone knows the right way to manage the project and the money.
If what you need to hear are warnings of problems or notifications of completion of processes, rather than entertainment like your favorite CDs or MP3s, do you really want to give up knowing from the directionality of those sounds which computer they are coming from?
Are we talking about small, low power speakers here? Is the amplifier on the sound card or in the speakers? Either way, using resistors to throw away some of either the signal to powered speakers or some of the amplifier output power to unpowered speakers is probably the cheapest and simplest way to go. E-mail me if you need to know how.
Audio can be either Alternating Current or a varying Direct Current, depending upon what you use for a reference point. Either way, running it through a diode will just screw it up, except in the case of a DC blocking capacitor on both sides of the diode, with a DC Voltage used to bias the diode on or off, thus making it a voltage controlled switch.
A Tip Ring Sleeve plug can be used for unbalanced applications, where the tip is one channel (usually the left), the ring is the other channel, and the sleeve is common, or ground.
In a balanced application, like low-impedence microphones (which usually use an XLR or "Cannon" plug, rather than a quarter-inch phone plug) or some audio patch panels, the tip and the ring are both "hot", but, just like the 2 hot lines of a 240 volt power circuit, each is 180 degrees out of phase with the other at any given instant. Any induced noise winds up on both conductors in the same phase so that when both signals are input to the 2 ends of a tranformer winding or the inverting and non-inverting inputs of an amplifier the noise signals cancel each other out.
If I understand what you mean by an insert cable, then the jack it plugs into has switches that are operated whenever the plug is inserted or removed. These switches either pass the signal coming into them on to the next stage uninterrupted when there is no plug in the jack or pass the signal from the insert cable along instead when the plug is inserted, sort of like the reverse of a headphone jack that cuts off the speakers when headphones are plugged in. Alternatively it could be wired to pass along the regular incoming audio and mix in the audio from the plug when the plug is inserted.
It's easier to explain this stuff with diagrams. I f you need a better explanation, e-mail me.
Let's see, signal to noise ratio found browsing Slashdot at -1 over last 2.5 years declines steadily and "experts" say Osama Ben Laden and other terrorists increasingly using internet for secure secret communications. Co-incidence?
Sic doesn't mean "spelled incorrectly", it's Latin for "thus", as in "Thus did we find this", a fancy way of saying "It was already broken before we got our hands on it".
They can force you to buy it the same way that they'll force you to buy all those internet connected refrigerators and microwaves that'll order groceries you don't want. They won't make any other kind and they'll make replacement parts for the older ones prohibitively expensive.
So all they need is a module that'll detect that the VCR is connected to a cable system that offers 100+ channels but nothing good on any of them and it'll know it's in the U.S.?
Actually it's probably the microswitches under the buttons that have gone bad, I've certainly had that happen. I've had cables go bad as well. Troubles like that are usually in inverse proportion to the quality of the components used to construct the mouse. In other words, the cheap ones wear out sooner and easier and the ones that are worth their higher price (as opposed to those that just cost more because of the name or because they're "novelty" items; race cars, cartoon characters, etc.)last longer.
Actually JFK's was "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" which isn't quite the same as the sig in question.
As I recall, the JFK quote (which was written for him by Theodore Sorenson or somebody like that) was from his inagural address, although I think I heard something about an earlier (by fifty or a hundred years) speech by someone else with a similar line in it.
If you search the News and Observer site or their nando spinoff, you might find an article from a few days ago about "privileged options" and how some people who exercised those options early last year when the stock was selling for, say $50 per share and they had an option to buy for $10 per share, now owe taxes on that $40 paper profit even though they held the stock instead of selling it and it's now worth $6 or $8 on the open market.
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Posters such as yourself are why I sometimes think AC is bad.
Does it have DNA made up of 3 strands of RNA? :-)
Maybe he meant the guy who created Babylon 5. Isn't he J. Michael?
Speaking of Cue Cats and Fox shows though, can you use the Cue Cat on the bar code on the back of Jessica Alba's neck? That particluar tie-in might make the CC more popular.
Was that your Ed Sullivan impression?
Wasn't that Tracey Ullman's show that they were on? Did Mary Tyler Moore do a variety show?
Are you from Charlotte?
Of course I remember Salvage One. It starred fellow North Carolinian Andy Griffith and the ultimate object of fascination, a junkyard.
I can e-mail you a copy of whatever Reg article you can't get if you let me know which one.
If a quarter million Slashdotters each Paypal in a buck or two that might make a good start if it winds up in the hands of someone that can be trusted not to blow it all on administrative salaries like some "charities", and if that someone knows the right way to manage the project and the money.
Are we talking about small, low power speakers here? Is the amplifier on the sound card or in the speakers? Either way, using resistors to throw away some of either the signal to powered speakers or some of the amplifier output power to unpowered speakers is probably the cheapest and simplest way to go. E-mail me if you need to know how.
A Tip Ring Sleeve plug can be used for unbalanced applications, where the tip is one channel (usually the left), the ring is the other channel, and the sleeve is common, or ground.
In a balanced application, like low-impedence microphones (which usually use an XLR or "Cannon" plug, rather than a quarter-inch phone plug) or some audio patch panels, the tip and the ring are both "hot", but, just like the 2 hot lines of a 240 volt power circuit, each is 180 degrees out of phase with the other at any given instant. Any induced noise winds up on both conductors in the same phase so that when both signals are input to the 2 ends of a tranformer winding or the inverting and non-inverting inputs of an amplifier the noise signals cancel each other out.
If I understand what you mean by an insert cable, then the jack it plugs into has switches that are operated whenever the plug is inserted or removed. These switches either pass the signal coming into them on to the next stage uninterrupted when there is no plug in the jack or pass the signal from the insert cable along instead when the plug is inserted, sort of like the reverse of a headphone jack that cuts off the speakers when headphones are plugged in. Alternatively it could be wired to pass along the regular incoming audio and mix in the audio from the plug when the plug is inserted.
It's easier to explain this stuff with diagrams. I f you need a better explanation, e-mail me.
Yeah, we don't really mind the FUD as long as you're precise about it.
Let's see, signal to noise ratio found browsing Slashdot at -1 over last 2.5 years declines steadily and "experts" say Osama Ben Laden and other terrorists increasingly using internet for secure secret communications. Co-incidence?
Sic transit gloria slashdot
If you want to know the *real* reason for the success of the 3.5's, just try tucking a 5.25 into your shirt pocket.
They can force you to buy it the same way that they'll force you to buy all those internet connected refrigerators and microwaves that'll order groceries you don't want. They won't make any other kind and they'll make replacement parts for the older ones prohibitively expensive.
So all they need is a module that'll detect that the VCR is connected to a cable system that offers 100+ channels but nothing good on any of them and it'll know it's in the U.S.?
Actually it's probably the microswitches under the buttons that have gone bad, I've certainly had that happen. I've had cables go bad as well. Troubles like that are usually in inverse proportion to the quality of the components used to construct the mouse. In other words, the cheap ones wear out sooner and easier and the ones that are worth their higher price (as opposed to those that just cost more because of the name or because they're "novelty" items; race cars, cartoon characters, etc.)last longer.
As I recall, the JFK quote (which was written for him by Theodore Sorenson or somebody like that) was from his inagural address, although I think I heard something about an earlier (by fifty or a hundred years) speech by someone else with a similar line in it.
If you search the News and Observer site or their nando spinoff, you might find an article from a few days ago about "privileged options" and how some people who exercised those options early last year when the stock was selling for, say $50 per share and they had an option to buy for $10 per share, now owe taxes on that $40 paper profit even though they held the stock instead of selling it and it's now worth $6 or $8 on the open market.
Wasn't that the government's excuse for the Chicago 7 trial?
Are they obligated not only to delete their copy of it but correct your oversight in not saving a copy for yourself?
They'll use the national security criteria to justify witholding the knowledge of whether or not they have any such archives.
But then you've got Win95 on it, and the idea is to leave it usable.