When i was in high school we had a telex setup, though they use a 4 prong cord, i've not used any system within the last two years, but with clearcom's XLR setup, you have one less type of cable to stock, and its replacement parts are cheaper. If you've done any electrical work you can even solder together your own stations and just buy the headsets and the base.
we had walkie-talkies, but they really, truely suck because of janitors and people being on the wrong channel, and the mic in them tends to be crap, so they're noisy and hard to understand... the ticket booth got the joy of dealing with these
i would suggest against wifi, as schools are really bad about stopping resource hogs, you cant gaurantee someone wont be stupid when you need to use it... not to mention what happens if someone sees a computer and doesnt know/care its important and they to something stupid to it... a big part of tech is just trying to keep people (actors, fellow techs, random wanderers) from doing stupid things... and with no simple point and click setup (that I know of) for this, if something goes wrong it'd take more than 2 minutes to fix in all likelyhood...
SOOO... i'd suggest the clearcoms, as they really are more idiotproof, and they work really well.
Really hate to say this but look HERE for proof that whats there doesn't matter too much... fluid/paste is a lot better than a tims pad, but dan was able to use toothpaste and it worked fine without a huge difference over silver crap.
"The isolationists disliked the league of nations for the same reason that they hate the UN, it would restrict exercise of US power at a time when the US was becomming a world power."
actually mr US president had the idea for the LoN i believe, but opted out when they wouldnt incorporate some of his points... (which were later attributed as the reasons it faltered.)
and the points were things such as not having germany pay reparations(sp?), nothing too insane...
didnt they also release viavoice and visualization stuff freely for linux as well? it was a long time ago, but i still remember hearing about that too...
the ads they play saying linux is good about every thirty seconds during the NFL (american football) conference championships was kinda funny too...Its just all part of there "we really mean it" campaign i guess.
I used original minidisc a lot for theatre and radio stuff... it was like a CD, only you could re-arrange and delete/copy files on the fly...
I agree if you want a cheap mp3 player, you cant beat those 30$ mp3/cd deaks. But radio and some theatres still use these, as they've been smaller and easier to use in live situations then many hard disc based systems.
Yeah, I also think I saw IBM demos/ads for the fold out laptop a while back...
And then there's docking stations...
and you can even get a tablet with a stand and wireless mouse/keyboard... tablet fold over so its just a screen, so it'd be like a desktop, though with a carrying case and extra expense:)
Its been out forever, had ogg support, detachable hard drive (for when you want a smaller player for jogging etc), and i believe re-configurable menus...
I believe its also much bigger than the other players...
I don't own one (got me a 15gb ipod v2), but figure if you're comparing 20gb players, you might as well include it.
It looks kinda like they built a nice computer case...
In all the screenshots I didn't see a single one with the onboard LCD on.. and the mod wheels (pitch bend and assignable) should be to the left of the keyboard, not up in the middle of nowhere... I'm sure a company wishing to sell for over 3k$ a pop would notice such things right:) ?
Its looking pretty cool, but the lack of demos or screens of ANY functions of the keyboard being used in any way suggest that they're pretty much vaporware with a cool case right now...
and a floppy drive?? it comes with a cd/dvd burner, ethernet etc... why oh why? It has lots of buttons, but i didnt see any knobs, which is odd. It has sliders, but i've never seen a knobless, and it doesnt look like sliders are for more than volume or eq, though they might be assignable:) the scroll wheel also seems to be too tall, but that might just be my preference.
To respond to some earlier posts... musician's mainly care about music:) whether its on linux or windows, all that matters is what it can do. Its a tool, and its very important that it just works no matter what... I honestly hope the keyboard functions are completely seperate from the OS, and the OS has hooks for recording/using the harddrive as library storage etc. I know linux is stable, but its entirely possible to nuke it if you're an idiot, and having any OS and the keyboard stuff being able to mess with each other internally is asking for trouble.
And also, musician's dont tend to buy what everyone else is buying from my experience:) when i went to buy a pro keyboard, EVERYONE was buying korg tritons like candy, but the yamaha motif had just come out and after trying both extensively, the motif was better in just about every way (voice quality and price being the biggest), so guess which I got...
Also, my guitarist friend was looking for a better amp, and instead of justing getting a marshall like everyone else, we went and tested about 50 different amps in the local (well, 2 hours away, but only because their the best music store ever...) store (every marshall, peavey, mesa, some hughes, etc etc etc) and since the other guitarist had a mesa triple recto, he picked up a koch (small swedish company) powertone II, which is a killer amp, even though no one has really heard of them (they have the best unintentionally funny marketing i've seen in a while).
It looks kinda like they built a nice computer case...
In all the screenshots I didn't see a single one with the onboard LCD on.. and the mod wheels (pitch bend and assignable) should be to the left of the keyboard, not up in the middle of nowhere... I'm sure a company wishing to sell for over 3k$ a pop would notice such things right:) ?
Its looking pretty cool, but the lack of demos or screens of ANY functions of the keyboard being used in any way suggest that they're pretty much vaporware with a cool case right now...
and a floppy drive?? it comes with a cd/dvd burner, ethernet etc... why oh why? It has lots of buttons, but i didnt see any knobs, which is odd. It has sliders, but i've never seen a knobless, and it doesnt look like sliders are for more than volume or eq, though they might be assignable:) the scroll wheel also seems to be too tall, but that might just be my preference.
To respond to some earlier posts... musician's mainly care about music:) whether its on linux or windows, all that matters is what it can do. Its a tool, and its very important that it just works no matter what... I honestly hope the keyboard functions are completely seperate from the OS, and the OS has hooks for recording/using the harddrive as library storage etc. I know linux is stable, but its entirely possible to nuke it if you're an idiot, and having any OS and the keyboard stuff being able to mess with each other internally is asking for trouble.
And also, musician's dont tend to buy what everyone else is buying from my experience:) when i went to buy a pro keyboard, EVERYONE was buying korg tritons like candy, but the yamaha motif had just come out and after trying both extensively, the motif was better in just about every way (voice quality and price being the biggest), so guess which I got...
Also, my guitarist friend was looking for a better amp, and instead of justing getting a marshall like everyone else, we went and tested about 50 different amps in the local (well, 2 hours away, but only because their the best music store ever...) store (every marshall, peavey, mesa, some hughes, etc etc etc) and since the other guitarist had a mesa triple recto, he picked up a koch (small swedish company) powertone II, which is a killer amp, even though no one has really heard of them (they have the best unintentionally funny marketing i've seen in a while).
Problem is, they didnt use intel compilers either from what i read (which some say are up to 50% faster)... and that 20% improvement could just as easily be 30% or 5%...
Testing really wasnt thorough enough...
Either way, comparing dual procs to a single one is pretty pointless, especially when g5s are supposed to scale soo much better in SMP...
The 498 MFLOPS figure was WITH 2 G5s!!!! With a single G5, the 2ghz got a 254, and the 2.66ghz P4 got 255 MFLOPs... Please read the article more clearly, this DOES NOT IN ANY WAY validate apple's earlier claims... here's the quote that was misread
"Though dual processor benchmarks are not presented in detail here, it is worth noting that the G5 system benchmarked at 498 MFLOPS and 0.125 MFLOPS/MHz for scalar Jet3D performance when two processors were used."
Followed by a chart showing the P4 2.66ghz with 255MFLOPS at the top and a G5 2ghz with 254MFLOPS at the bottom...
So you could guess that a dual 2.66ghz would get about 499-500MFLOPS which would be a 0% performance advantage to the G5, and the P4 3.2ghz would be even faster...
kinda funny how this security thing is a one way arms race... they make better and better security checks, meanwhile crackers (instead of trying to keep up and trick the checks) can simply hex edit the security right out;)
This may be a bit more invovled, but it proves DRM will never really work, because computers were never originally designed to support restriction management, and retrofitting is too hard to implement since so many people already have really fast (unrestricted) computers/parts/technical knowledge.
Either way, if you can play music, and you have a line out, you can make copies... this is the same kinda thing.
Come up with the best software check you possibly can... no matter how great the method is, I'll always be able to make copies... Always... that's because I dont need to engage in an arms race to trick security checks when I can just use a hex editor to disable them;)
So waste your time, give the secuROM hustlers their money, in 3 hours I wont care wtf kind of security checks you use.
oh yeah, for the lazy, let someone else do it for you... http://www.gamecopyworld.com
They were only 30$ at best buy last week, I've had one for a couple years, 10 hours of music per CD, and no need to worry about about OS support, just burn the MP3s right onto CD, done.
A few years back PwC was trying to push its consulting arm for 18bil or so.. wouldn't have got that much.. even 10 would seem alright compared to 3.5, but they were going to split into two groups and go public anyways, then the accounting thing hit, followed by a dead market, and i guess someone decided maybe it'd be safer to go with big brother...
about 120 signed up... 30 RSVP'd, and around 30-40 actually showed up, quite impressive really... the restuarant had to move us around a bit cause people kept appearing;) overall it was a really nice event; everyone was ready to talk about anything;) definately doing this again... thanks all, 'twas a great idea...
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When i was in high school we had a telex setup, though they use a 4 prong cord, i've not used any system within the last two years, but with clearcom's XLR setup, you have one less type of cable to stock, and its replacement parts are cheaper. If you've done any electrical work you can even solder together your own stations and just buy the headsets and the base.
we had walkie-talkies, but they really, truely suck because of janitors and people being on the wrong channel, and the mic in them tends to be crap, so they're noisy and hard to understand... the ticket booth got the joy of dealing with these
i would suggest against wifi, as schools are really bad about stopping resource hogs, you cant gaurantee someone wont be stupid when you need to use it... not to mention what happens if someone sees a computer and doesnt know/care its important and they to something stupid to it... a big part of tech is just trying to keep people (actors, fellow techs, random wanderers) from doing stupid things... and with no simple point and click setup (that I know of) for this, if something goes wrong it'd take more than 2 minutes to fix in all likelyhood...
SOOO... i'd suggest the clearcoms, as they really are more idiotproof, and they work really well.
Really hate to say this but look HERE for proof that whats there doesn't matter too much... fluid/paste is a lot better than a tims pad, but dan was able to use toothpaste and it worked fine without a huge difference over silver crap.
"The isolationists disliked the league of nations for the same reason that they hate the UN, it would restrict exercise of US power at a time when the US was becomming a world power."
actually mr US president had the idea for the LoN i believe, but opted out when they wouldnt incorporate some of his points... (which were later attributed as the reasons it faltered.)
and the points were things such as not having germany pay reparations(sp?), nothing too insane...
didnt they also release viavoice and visualization stuff freely for linux as well? it was a long time ago, but i still remember hearing about that too...
the ads they play saying linux is good about every thirty seconds during the NFL (american football) conference championships was kinda funny too...Its just all part of there "we really mean it" campaign i guess.
I used original minidisc a lot for theatre and radio stuff... it was like a CD, only you could re-arrange and delete/copy files on the fly...
I agree if you want a cheap mp3 player, you cant beat those 30$ mp3/cd deaks.
But radio and some theatres still use these, as they've been smaller and easier to use in live situations then many hard disc based systems.
all imho, of course
The difference is that over 95% of MS OS users use IE... same with MS word...
While mozilla and openoffice seem to have the biggest user base, the linux "market" is far far more segmented...
I think that was the original point
Yeah, I also think I saw IBM demos/ads for the fold out laptop a while back... And then there's docking stations... and you can even get a tablet with a stand and wireless mouse/keyboard... tablet fold over so its just a screen, so it'd be like a desktop, though with a carrying case and extra expense :)
How could you possibly leave out the neuros ;) ?
Its been out forever, had ogg support, detachable hard drive (for when you want a smaller player for jogging etc), and i believe re-configurable menus...
I believe its also much bigger than the other players...
I don't own one (got me a 15gb ipod v2), but figure if you're comparing 20gb players, you might as well include it.
forgot my p's and missed the preview button :(
I suck...
In all the screenshots I didn't see a single one with the onboard LCD on.. and the mod wheels (pitch bend and assignable) should be to the left of the keyboard, not up in the middle of nowhere... I'm sure a company wishing to sell for over 3k$ a pop would notice such things right :) ?
Its looking pretty cool, but the lack of demos or screens of ANY functions of the keyboard being used in any way suggest that they're pretty much vaporware with a cool case right now...
and a floppy drive?? it comes with a cd/dvd burner, ethernet etc... why oh why? It has lots of buttons, but i didnt see any knobs, which is odd. It has sliders, but i've never seen a knobless, and it doesnt look like sliders are for more than volume or eq, though they might be assignable :) the scroll wheel also seems to be too tall, but that might just be my preference.
To respond to some earlier posts... musician's mainly care about music :) whether its on linux or windows, all that matters is what it can do. Its a tool, and its very important that it just works no matter what... I honestly hope the keyboard functions are completely seperate from the OS, and the OS has hooks for recording/using the harddrive as library storage etc. I know linux is stable, but its entirely possible to nuke it if you're an idiot, and having any OS and the keyboard stuff being able to mess with each other internally is asking for trouble.
And also, musician's dont tend to buy what everyone else is buying from my experience :) when i went to buy a pro keyboard, EVERYONE was buying korg tritons like candy, but the yamaha motif had just come out and after trying both extensively, the motif was better in just about every way (voice quality and price being the biggest), so guess which I got...
Also, my guitarist friend was looking for a better amp, and instead of justing getting a marshall like everyone else, we went and tested about 50 different amps in the local (well, 2 hours away, but only because their the best music store ever...) store (every marshall, peavey, mesa, some hughes, etc etc etc) and since the other guitarist had a mesa triple recto, he picked up a koch (small swedish company) powertone II, which is a killer amp, even though no one has really heard of them (they have the best unintentionally funny marketing i've seen in a while).
It looks kinda like they built a nice computer case... In all the screenshots I didn't see a single one with the onboard LCD on.. and the mod wheels (pitch bend and assignable) should be to the left of the keyboard, not up in the middle of nowhere... I'm sure a company wishing to sell for over 3k$ a pop would notice such things right :) ?
Its looking pretty cool, but the lack of demos or screens of ANY functions of the keyboard being used in any way suggest that they're pretty much vaporware with a cool case right now...
and a floppy drive?? it comes with a cd/dvd burner, ethernet etc... why oh why? It has lots of buttons, but i didnt see any knobs, which is odd. It has sliders, but i've never seen a knobless, and it doesnt look like sliders are for more than volume or eq, though they might be assignable :) the scroll wheel also seems to be too tall, but that might just be my preference.
To respond to some earlier posts... musician's mainly care about music :) whether its on linux or windows, all that matters is what it can do. Its a tool, and its very important that it just works no matter what... I honestly hope the keyboard functions are completely seperate from the OS, and the OS has hooks for recording/using the harddrive as library storage etc. I know linux is stable, but its entirely possible to nuke it if you're an idiot, and having any OS and the keyboard stuff being able to mess with each other internally is asking for trouble.
And also, musician's dont tend to buy what everyone else is buying from my experience :) when i went to buy a pro keyboard, EVERYONE was buying korg tritons like candy, but the yamaha motif had just come out and after trying both extensively, the motif was better in just about every way (voice quality and price being the biggest), so guess which I got...
Also, my guitarist friend was looking for a better amp, and instead of justing getting a marshall like everyone else, we went and tested about 50 different amps in the local (well, 2 hours away, but only because their the best music store ever...) store (every marshall, peavey, mesa, some hughes, etc etc etc) and since the other guitarist had a mesa triple recto, he picked up a koch (small swedish company) powertone II, which is a killer amp, even though no one has really heard of them (they have the best unintentionally funny marketing i've seen in a while).
Problem is, they didnt use intel compilers either from what i read (which some say are up to 50% faster)... and that 20% improvement could just as easily be 30% or 5%... Testing really wasnt thorough enough... Either way, comparing dual procs to a single one is pretty pointless, especially when g5s are supposed to scale soo much better in SMP...
The 498 MFLOPS figure was WITH 2 G5s!!!!
With a single G5, the 2ghz got a 254, and the 2.66ghz P4 got 255 MFLOPs...
Please read the article more clearly, this DOES NOT IN ANY WAY validate apple's earlier claims... here's the quote that was misread
"Though dual processor benchmarks are not presented in detail here, it is worth noting that the G5 system benchmarked at 498 MFLOPS and 0.125 MFLOPS/MHz for scalar Jet3D performance when two processors were used."
Followed by a chart showing the P4 2.66ghz with 255MFLOPS at the top and a G5 2ghz with 254MFLOPS at the bottom...
So you could guess that a dual 2.66ghz would get about 499-500MFLOPS which would be a 0% performance advantage to the G5, and the P4 3.2ghz would be even faster...
Time to set up a non-profit to pass out chips from foreign countries... or just relabel them as accessibility devices.
;)
Sucks.. someone fix it
kinda funny how this security thing is a one way arms race... they make better and better security checks, meanwhile crackers (instead of trying to keep up and trick the checks) can simply hex edit the security right out ;)
This may be a bit more invovled, but it proves DRM will never really work, because computers were never originally designed to support restriction management, and retrofitting is too hard to implement since so many people already have really fast (unrestricted) computers/parts/technical knowledge.
Either way, if you can play music, and you have a line out, you can make copies... this is the same kinda thing.
Come up with the best software check you possibly can... no matter how great the method is, I'll always be able to make copies... Always... that's because I dont need to engage in an arms race to trick security checks when I can just use a hex editor to disable them ;)
So waste your time, give the secuROM hustlers their money, in 3 hours I wont care wtf kind of security checks you use.
oh yeah, for the lazy, let someone else do it for you...
http://www.gamecopyworld.com
They were only 30$ at best buy last week, I've had one for a couple years, 10 hours of music per CD, and no need to worry about about OS support, just burn the MP3s right onto CD, done.
A few years back PwC was trying to push its consulting arm for 18bil or so.. wouldn't have got that much.. even 10 would seem alright compared to 3.5, but they were going to split into two groups and go public anyways, then the accounting thing hit, followed by a dead market, and i guess someone decided maybe it'd be safer to go with big brother...
about 120 signed up... 30 RSVP'd, and around 30-40 actually showed up, quite impressive really... the restuarant had to move us around a bit cause people kept appearing ;) overall it was a really nice event; everyone was ready to talk about anything ;) definately doing this again... thanks all, 'twas a great idea...
later