iPod's can't record, but if you really want something that does, then get a Sony Mini-disk player/recorder. They aren't that expensive and the disks hold quite a bit of audio.
Now, I wonder if the iPod's remote buttons are separate from the internal buttons from the iPod's point of view. If they are, then it should be possible to mod your remote and make it into a microphone that you could use with either hacked iPod software (yeah, right) or the Linux on iPod project. Just write a program that interprets the 'next' button on the remote as microphone data.
Don't forget Cassius of Robot Wars fame. It was just a wedge with a vertical pneumatic ram. IIRC, it brought down three of the house robots in one round. It could even right itself if someone actually managed to flip it over. That was the best design that I've seen on those shows yet.
No way man. Subvocal processing and cochlear implants, all the way.
On a side note, I could see this being cool if the speaker could be mounted on a ring. That way, you cup your hand to your ear and talk into the wrist-band of the watch. It could have some pretty good noise rejection if it has one mic on the band and another on the face.
The series finale for Enterprise is going to involve them going through time fixing all sorts of things. The Suliban will be prevented from existing, the first encounter with the Borg will be removed from history, etc.
I can almost guarantee that that is what they are going to pull. They've been hinting at it since the first episode, what with the whole "temporal cold war" that was never refered to in any other show and all.
All right. For the last time, Apple's pricing scheme is as follows:
$.99 per song $9.99 per album or $.99 per track in the album, whichever is cheaper
If you eliminate a third of the price that should normally go to the producers, advertisers, and everyone else, then you get the following:
$.66 per song $6.66 per album or $.66 per track in the album, whichever is cheaper
Therefore, the cost of an 11 or more song album is $6.66, and not $6.60. Only a 10 song album costs $6.60.
Those figures all follow Apple's pricing scheme for this service. I was able to use it enough to see the pricing, but I didn't really have a chance to do anything else with it.
For anyone wondering how to request artists and such look up Knowledge Base Article number 93048.
Look at Apple's pricing again. I've said it twice already, but here it is again.
Apple charges $.99 per song or $9.99 for the entire album, whichever is cheaper. For a 10 song album, they charge $9.90. For more songs, it pegs at $9.99.
If you eliminate one of the parties to the contract, the price per song goes down to $.66. Using the same pricing scheme for albums, that's $.66 per song or $6.66, whichever is lower.
Therefore, the price of most albums would work out to $6.66.
Look at Apple's current pricing scheme for albums. It's $.99 per song or $9.99, whichever is cheaper. With $.66 songs, that becomes $.66 per song or $6.66, whichever is less.
So, for a 10 song album, it would come out to $6.60, but for more songs, $6.66.
Argh. I have no mod points. And I've already posted in this article. But if those were untrue, then I'd give you a +1 something. Probably Insightful. Great comment.
That is a really good question. I wonder if the music store is just a web page or if it uses some iTunes 4 specific stuff. If it's just a web page and it only serves clients with iTunes UA strings, then it should be pretty easy to spoof.
I really don't see why not. iTunes runs on OSX, so it should run on most other *NIX systems with little to no modification. In fact, it should just take a recompile and possibly a UI redesign. If enough people ask for it, then they'll probably do it.
I really need to spell check my posts. Either that or learn to spell. Recommended/recomend. In the same paragraph, no less. That's almost as bad as Lewis (or was it Clark?).
Teh current album price is either $.99 per song or $9.99, whichever is less. I changed it to be $.66 per song, or $6.66, whichever is less because one of three parties was eliminated from the equation.
Well, from what I've heard (I can't use the store since I'm stuck with Windows), you can recommend artists. So, go recomend all of your favorite independant bands. Hopefully, Apple will decide to pick some of them up.
If Apple starts selling Indy music, then they can either do it at a lower price, higher profit, or both. Without the record labels in the way, set Apple's cut at $.33, the musicians' cut at another $.33, and that makes for a $.66 song. Pretty good competition for the RIAA, really.
I only have one drive on the channel, so I can't use DMA at all on that channel.
Since the tracks are skipping even from RAM, that makes me think that somehow, I set new processes starting to be a real-time priority task.
For some reason, Windows says that I have an "Unknown CPU Type", so perhaps it isn't handling it properly?
Windows xp is a big improvement over almost everything that Microsoft has put out. It has a phenomenal desktop environment compared to any other version of Windows. Its backend is almost as stable as Windows 2000, and it's significantly more compatible with software. In fact, this is the least annoying version of Windows that I've used yet. We should applaud Microsoft for making it almost as good as MacOS (I think that it's roughly to the level of MacOS 8). I mean, honestly, it makes working with Windows a lot less painful.
Of course, I still prefer OSX any day of the week.
Well, it makes it act like a Quadro, but it isn't quite as powerful. Since the Quadro hardware features (such as wireframe anti-aliasing) aren't there, the card emulates them.
I would also think that the Quadro devices are designed much more robustly. ATA drive is to SCSI drive as Ti card is to Quadro.
I could be completely wrong on both points. If I am, please correct me.
Actually, from the looks of it, that card is quite good in workstation apps. So, if you want to build a cheap Maya computer (yeah, right!), then this card is for you.
Of course, if you are going to be buying Maya in the first place, you might as well get the high-end Quadro, since it only costs a few hundred dollars as opposed to Maya at $2000 or $7000.
Perhaps it is. I've re-installed Windows something like 5 times on this machine. First 2000, and I had no problems. Then, xp Pro and it started doing some of the strangest things.
Really, I didn't notice the skipping until recently. Perhaps it was some Windows update that I installed? I haven't done anything else system related since I installed xp, so I wonder what it could be.
Anyway, my point was that I've had some really bad experiences with my Athlon. Windows doesn't 'just work' the way that it should. I've got processing power and RAM to spare and it doesn't allocate it such that my MP3s don't skip. Meanwhile, my friend's iBook with one third the processor speed (I know, I know, unfair compairison) and half the RAM running at less than one quarter the speed doesn't have any problems whatsoever.
PPC multitasks better than x86 could hope to. I know a guy with a 500 MHz iBook (that means a G3) with 256 MB of RAM. We were burning a CD, listening to MP3s, and browsing the Internet in both Safari and IE and none of the tasks skipped. The CD came out just fine.
Compare this to my 1800+ TBred A running at 1.6 GHz with 512 MB of RAM. I was just listening to some MP3s using Winamp. When I started Phoenix, my MP3s skipped for well over 5 seconds. When I launch Word 2000, they do the same thing. It's a serious annoyance. I can't burn CDs without leaving my computer completely free for the duration of the burning. This is with Windows xp Pro with all of the latest updates.
Do you mean Sound Check? I don't have a Mac to check right now, but if I understand that technology correctly, it smooths the volume of the entire song.
It would cause the louder points to be slightly quieter and the quieter portions to be slightly louder.
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iPod's can't record, but if you really want something that does, then get a Sony Mini-disk player/recorder. They aren't that expensive and the disks hold quite a bit of audio.
Now, I wonder if the iPod's remote buttons are separate from the internal buttons from the iPod's point of view. If they are, then it should be possible to mod your remote and make it into a microphone that you could use with either hacked iPod software (yeah, right) or the Linux on iPod project. Just write a program that interprets the 'next' button on the remote as microphone data.
Don't forget Cassius of Robot Wars fame. It was just a wedge with a vertical pneumatic ram. IIRC, it brought down three of the house robots in one round. It could even right itself if someone actually managed to flip it over. That was the best design that I've seen on those shows yet.
No way man. Subvocal processing and cochlear implants, all the way.
On a side note, I could see this being cool if the speaker could be mounted on a ring. That way, you cup your hand to your ear and talk into the wrist-band of the watch. It could have some pretty good noise rejection if it has one mic on the band and another on the face.
Sort of like those wrist PDAs with AC adapters.
Oh, just what I wanted! A watch that needs to be plugged into the wall every two hours!
The series finale for Enterprise is going to involve them going through time fixing all sorts of things. The Suliban will be prevented from existing, the first encounter with the Borg will be removed from history, etc.
I can almost guarantee that that is what they are going to pull. They've been hinting at it since the first episode, what with the whole "temporal cold war" that was never refered to in any other show and all.
All right. For the last time, Apple's pricing scheme is as follows:
$.99 per song
$9.99 per album or $.99 per track in the album, whichever is cheaper
If you eliminate a third of the price that should normally go to the producers, advertisers, and everyone else, then you get the following:
$.66 per song
$6.66 per album or $.66 per track in the album, whichever is cheaper
Therefore, the cost of an 11 or more song album is $6.66, and not $6.60. Only a 10 song album costs $6.60.
Those figures all follow Apple's pricing scheme for this service. I was able to use it enough to see the pricing, but I didn't really have a chance to do anything else with it.
For anyone wondering how to request artists and such look up Knowledge Base Article number 93048.
Oh. OK, so I was totally wrong.
I wonder if Carbon could be ported.
No, I wasn't trying to be funny. That just happened to be the price that the albums came out to.
It's not really a joke at all.
Look at Apple's pricing again. I've said it twice already, but here it is again.
Apple charges $.99 per song or $9.99 for the entire album, whichever is cheaper. For a 10 song album, they charge $9.90. For more songs, it pegs at $9.99.
If you eliminate one of the parties to the contract, the price per song goes down to $.66. Using the same pricing scheme for albums, that's $.66 per song or $6.66, whichever is lower.
Therefore, the price of most albums would work out to $6.66.
No. No, I don't.
Look at Apple's current pricing scheme for albums. It's $.99 per song or $9.99, whichever is cheaper. With $.66 songs, that becomes $.66 per song or $6.66, whichever is less.
So, for a 10 song album, it would come out to $6.60, but for more songs, $6.66.
Argh. I have no mod points. And I've already posted in this article. But if those were untrue, then I'd give you a +1 something. Probably Insightful. Great comment.
That is a really good question. I wonder if the music store is just a web page or if it uses some iTunes 4 specific stuff. If it's just a web page and it only serves clients with iTunes UA strings, then it should be pretty easy to spoof.
I really don't see why not. iTunes runs on OSX, so it should run on most other *NIX systems with little to no modification. In fact, it should just take a recompile and possibly a UI redesign. If enough people ask for it, then they'll probably do it.
I really need to spell check my posts. Either that or learn to spell. Recommended/recomend. In the same paragraph, no less. That's almost as bad as Lewis (or was it Clark?).
Teh current album price is either $.99 per song or $9.99, whichever is less. I changed it to be $.66 per song, or $6.66, whichever is less because one of three parties was eliminated from the equation.
Well, from what I've heard (I can't use the store since I'm stuck with Windows), you can recommend artists. So, go recomend all of your favorite independant bands. Hopefully, Apple will decide to pick some of them up.
If Apple starts selling Indy music, then they can either do it at a lower price, higher profit, or both. Without the record labels in the way, set Apple's cut at $.33, the musicians' cut at another $.33, and that makes for a $.66 song. Pretty good competition for the RIAA, really.
Of course, then they'd have $6.66 albums.
I only have one drive on the channel, so I can't use DMA at all on that channel.
Since the tracks are skipping even from RAM, that makes me think that somehow, I set new processes starting to be a real-time priority task.
For some reason, Windows says that I have an "Unknown CPU Type", so perhaps it isn't handling it properly?
Windows xp is a big improvement over almost everything that Microsoft has put out. It has a phenomenal desktop environment compared to any other version of Windows. Its backend is almost as stable as Windows 2000, and it's significantly more compatible with software. In fact, this is the least annoying version of Windows that I've used yet. We should applaud Microsoft for making it almost as good as MacOS (I think that it's roughly to the level of MacOS 8). I mean, honestly, it makes working with Windows a lot less painful.
Of course, I still prefer OSX any day of the week.
Well, it makes it act like a Quadro, but it isn't quite as powerful. Since the Quadro hardware features (such as wireframe anti-aliasing) aren't there, the card emulates them.
I would also think that the Quadro devices are designed much more robustly. ATA drive is to SCSI drive as Ti card is to Quadro.
I could be completely wrong on both points. If I am, please correct me.
Actually, from the looks of it, that card is quite good in workstation apps. So, if you want to build a cheap Maya computer (yeah, right!), then this card is for you.
Of course, if you are going to be buying Maya in the first place, you might as well get the high-end Quadro, since it only costs a few hundred dollars as opposed to Maya at $2000 or $7000.
Actually, I ran the demo on my GeForce 4 Ti 4400 using nVidia's NV30 emulator. It ran at more like 1 frame per 10 seconds. It's just hideously slow.
In Phoenix, it's under general.useragent. You have to get the advanced preferences plugin to get ot it, though.
Just set part of your user agent string to say that.
Perhaps it is. I've re-installed Windows something like 5 times on this machine. First 2000, and I had no problems. Then, xp Pro and it started doing some of the strangest things.
Really, I didn't notice the skipping until recently. Perhaps it was some Windows update that I installed? I haven't done anything else system related since I installed xp, so I wonder what it could be.
Anyway, my point was that I've had some really bad experiences with my Athlon. Windows doesn't 'just work' the way that it should. I've got processing power and RAM to spare and it doesn't allocate it such that my MP3s don't skip. Meanwhile, my friend's iBook with one third the processor speed (I know, I know, unfair compairison) and half the RAM running at less than one quarter the speed doesn't have any problems whatsoever.
Oh. So it's normalizing on the fly?
PPC multitasks better than x86 could hope to. I know a guy with a 500 MHz iBook (that means a G3) with 256 MB of RAM. We were burning a CD, listening to MP3s, and browsing the Internet in both Safari and IE and none of the tasks skipped. The CD came out just fine.
Compare this to my 1800+ TBred A running at 1.6 GHz with 512 MB of RAM. I was just listening to some MP3s using Winamp. When I started Phoenix, my MP3s skipped for well over 5 seconds. When I launch Word 2000, they do the same thing. It's a serious annoyance. I can't burn CDs without leaving my computer completely free for the duration of the burning. This is with Windows xp Pro with all of the latest updates.
Do you mean Sound Check? I don't have a Mac to check right now, but if I understand that technology correctly, it smooths the volume of the entire song.
It would cause the louder points to be slightly quieter and the quieter portions to be slightly louder.
Try turning it off and see if that fixes it.