This sounds like a modern take on Hostels. Which from personal experience I've found to be much easier on the wallet when travelling abroad and a lot more interesting than staying in a cookie cutter hotel room.
The point that you sorely forget is that with the advent of DVD burners, and the steadily dropping cost of DVD+/-R Media your point about the annoyance of switching a SVCD movie half-way thru is null & void. You now have the ability to easily rent a DVD see if it's worth going to the trouble of ripping, rip the VOB files, and the burn them right back to a DVD-R disc. *OR* Simply encode them into a single file that's about 2.3GB in size, and put TWO Ripped DVD's onto one DVD-R disc.
The Dead Alewives apparently promote p2p downloading of their stuff as they provide it freely from their site, and when I went to purchase their cd I was greeted with this text:
Sorry, We're all out of the CD. Better search through napster to find pirated versions.
This is nothing new at all. Potato Guns and Spudguns have been around for years, and are immensely cheaper than 1400 dollars. Though most of the pnuematic guns aren't self contained like that, It doesn't necessarily rule out the possiblity that one could be built (and for much less than 1400 bucks).
I work @ a radio station, a SMALL AM radio station for that matter (http://www.wmoaradio.com) one of the few Not owned by ClearChannel. Anyways..we operate on a fairly slim budget, always fixing up the old and busted till it breaks again.
The best that I could think of is to use the mixer for running audio to the speakers, have the mic's as inputs split, so you can run it strait to the mixer (then to the speakers), or into the comp to realtime add your effects.
Depending on the number of channels/mic's used you might need another 4 channel mixer.
If you ran 3 mic's & the computer, that would fill the mixer, I'm assuming 1 wireless, & 2 taped stage mics (it's what we had @ my HS), and then one channel for the computer. You'll need A/B Selector switches available @ radio shack if you'd like to run the mic's strait to the PA, or run them to the Computer input for effects & such.
If you have a computer with a cd_rom you can play your audio off of that, however my choice would be off of winamp, and playlists @ 128kbps or somewhere close rate (hey.. it's not surround, just PA speakers).
However, if you could score an old Cart Recorder (look on ebay) these record what are essentially 8-track cassetes, that have 1/4 magnetic tape in an endless loop. We have about a dozen @ the station where I work, and they are impressively easy to use & reliable. However a Cart Recorder might cost upwards of 200 or 300 dollars. And most of the functions it can do, can again be replaced by a computer.
Another item you might find useful, is a Reel-to-Reel deck, a recorder obviously. But this again can be replaced with a dependable computer just as the Cart Recorder can.
So basically, some A/B switches, a fast computer with a Zip drive or Burner, and your 4 Channel mixer, leave you in pretty good standing.
My only suggestion is that if you have sound clips, bumps, & liners that you like, and use often, burn the off to CD to ensure that they won't get misplaced, or accidentally deleted. Hard copies are absolutely indispensible.
Oh yeah, I like tinkering around with audio files on Goldwave (http://www.goldwave.com) At the station we use SAW 32+, Studio Audio Works (http://www.sawstudio.com/) and it's pretty slick, I've used it for about 12 months, and still haven't figured out everything it can do. I think it costs though.
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This sounds like a modern take on Hostels. Which from personal experience I've found to be much easier on the wallet when travelling abroad and a lot more interesting than staying in a cookie cutter hotel room.
I'm drunk and have bad karma but I think I might have 1st post...
Am I the only one that's reminded once again of a Neal Stephenson work?
This looks like it lept off the page of The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. I just got done reading it last week. I recommend it highly. Review of The Diamond Age @ The Cyberpunk Database Page
Amazon.com - The Diamond Age
The site was down so I thought I'd post a mirror from February.
w ww.ultimatesecurehome.com/secure_home.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20040214234814/http://
the computers get sick from us. (and the vodka).
http://s92169157.onlinehome.us/img/whiteis.jpg
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Enjoy, and hey at least this post had a point.
first ever 2nd post :D I suck.
The point that you sorely forget is that with the advent of DVD burners, and the steadily dropping cost of DVD+/-R Media your point about the annoyance of switching a SVCD movie half-way thru is null & void. You now have the ability to easily rent a DVD see if it's worth going to the trouble of ripping, rip the VOB files, and the burn them right back to a DVD-R disc. *OR* Simply encode them into a single file that's about 2.3GB in size, and put TWO Ripped DVD's onto one DVD-R disc.
Sorry, We're all out of the CD. Better search through napster to find pirated versions.
The song in Reference is Dungeons & Dragons easilly downloadable from the Dead Alewives website here:http://www.deadalewives.com/funny.ccc
Mod as you see fit.
Images of the new $20. $20 Front $20 Back There you go. Just a little RTF'ing and clicking gets you a long way.
This is nothing new at all. Potato Guns and Spudguns have been around for years, and are immensely cheaper than 1400 dollars. Though most of the pnuematic guns aren't self contained like that, It doesn't necessarily rule out the possiblity that one could be built (and for much less than 1400 bucks).
For more links regarding Spud Guns & the like:
If you like pumkin cannons, & potato cannons you should check out the yahoo group, http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/spudguns << shameless plug (I'm the owner/moderator), as well as geocities.com/pyrocookbook/ << shameless plug, and finally http://www.spudguns.org.
Enjoy.
Here are some Scans from Man Machine Interface manga: http://kukaku.free.fr/scans.shtml Google's Cache: http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:jMoIPAePIMUC: kukaku.free.fr/scans.shtml+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
And Links to the entire un-translated GitS 2 Manga, scanned, HI-Res 3000x2000 dpi, it's about 300 jpgs, and 337MB zip file.
http://www.anime.diaspora.ru/manga/
Googles Cache: http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:kL7rI1miR0UC: www.anime.diaspora.ru/manga/+&hl=en&ie=UTF -8
Ghost in the Shell desktops http://www.wallpapershq.com/gal.php?id=1433
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F %2Fwww.verax.de%2Ftechnik%2Ftechnologie.html&langp air=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flangua ge_tools
Check it out it's an interesting read.
At places such as the Columbus Convention Center, in which they have ACRES of carpet on smooth floors, this could eventually pay for itself.
I work @ a radio station, a SMALL AM radio station for that matter (http://www.wmoaradio.com) one of the few Not owned by ClearChannel. Anyways..we operate on a fairly slim budget, always fixing up the old and busted till it breaks again.
The best that I could think of is to use the mixer for running audio to the speakers, have the mic's as inputs split, so you can run it strait to the mixer (then to the speakers), or into the comp to realtime add your effects.
Depending on the number of channels/mic's used you might need another 4 channel mixer.
If you ran 3 mic's & the computer, that would fill the mixer, I'm assuming 1 wireless, & 2 taped stage mics (it's what we had @ my HS), and then one channel for the computer.
You'll need A/B Selector switches available @ radio shack if you'd like to run the mic's strait to the PA, or run them to the Computer input for effects & such.
If you have a computer with a cd_rom you can play your audio off of that, however my choice would be off of winamp, and playlists @ 128kbps or somewhere close rate (hey.. it's not surround, just PA speakers).
However, if you could score an old Cart Recorder (look on ebay) these record what are essentially 8-track cassetes, that have 1/4 magnetic tape in an endless loop. We have about a dozen @ the station where I work, and they are impressively easy to use & reliable. However a Cart Recorder might cost upwards of 200 or 300 dollars. And most of the functions it can do, can again be replaced by a computer.
Another item you might find useful, is a Reel-to-Reel deck, a recorder obviously. But this again can be replaced with a dependable computer just as the Cart Recorder can.
So basically, some A/B switches, a fast computer with a Zip drive or Burner, and your 4 Channel mixer, leave you in pretty good standing.
My only suggestion is that if you have sound clips, bumps, & liners that you like, and use often, burn the off to CD to ensure that they won't get misplaced, or accidentally deleted. Hard copies are absolutely indispensible.
Oh yeah, I like tinkering around with audio files on Goldwave (http://www.goldwave.com) At the station we use SAW 32+, Studio Audio Works (http://www.sawstudio.com/) and it's pretty slick, I've used it for about 12 months, and still haven't figured out everything it can do. I think it costs though.