the jackasses at Hydrogen audio who are buying $700+ turntables.
Err... The guys at Hydrogen Audio are the ones who insist on double-blind ABX tests before they accept subjective statements about sound quality (TOS #8). They are also firm believers in digital formats, and especially lossless compression such as FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio etc. etc..
I've gotten more useful and genuinely insightful audio advice there than any other place.
You must be thinking of some audiophile-infested forum somewhere else, but it's most likely not Hydrogen Audio.
Here ya go: a SATA-to-CF adapter from Addonics.
I'm guessing it's just a SATA interface and an IDE converter on the same board with a CF connector on the end.
So no need to worry... CF will work fine on SATA:-)
But I was thinking more along the lines of watching movies and TV with the lights in the room on. I know it's not a perfect movie-watching situation, but it's something to consider. Then again... That's what you use your "tiny" 40" LCD for;-)
I wish I had the space (and cash) for some kind of home cinema... I'll just have to settle for my nice 24" widescreen monitor on my PC for now, I guess...
I've seen one of these in person and played around with it a bit, so I guess I'm pretty much obliged to comment...
Yes, it is ridiculously huge, just bit over 2.6 metres from corner to corner.
It's also not a TV, it's just a monitor. From what I was told it takes both VGA and DVI inputs, and it has an RS232 port for controlling brightness etc.
HD looks great on it, the colours are good, and you can easily view it from almost 90 degrees to the side without any real loss of color or contrast. Then again, you really have to be at least 3 or 4 metres away from it to be able to see the whole image comfortably.
There are 12 (yes, twelve!) fans on the back of it to provide cooling, which I guess you need every bit you can get of, considering the monitor uses 1500 watts when in use.
I think their target market is high-end home cinemas, but at that price and at that power usage, I would think an HD projector would be more economical. The monitor is useful in daylight though, you can't really say that for most projectors.
As charming as your suggestion and childish demeanor is, it's no good. I have tried the USB sound card with my Thinkpad running WinXP, and it has the same problem.
Perhaps one of you fellow slashdotters can help me with this...
I have my computer hooked up to my stereo via ordinary an ordinary stereo RCA->RCA connection. To avoid distortion I have to set the volume to a maximum of 75% with alsamixer. I have to turn the volume knob on my amplifier at least twice as high as I have to with my ordinary CD player to get the same volume. For most stuff and ordinary listening it's fine, but if I have to play something that's recorded rather quietly (classical music, for instance), I can't turn it up enough for a proper listening level without maxing out the volume on the amplifier.
This happens with both my Edirol UA-1X USB sound card, and the onboard Realtek crap I also tried.
Is there any fix for this short of buying a preamp?
Which is why many (most?) diesel cars today are fitted with diesel particulate filters. Sulfur interferes with the process, so your moves towards lower-sulfur diesel helps you towards cleaner exhausts, as well.
And it's only a viable product due to the ridiculous design of a certain OS.
If only swap was handled properly on Windows, the iRAM would never have existed, since you would just add more RAM to your machine and switch off swap completely, which you can on a proper OS.
(damn, what was that comic strip with the peas selling consoles, and one of them only has one in stock and claims to have the most popular console ever after the first sale?)
Cleatype looks like ass on my 17" DVI-connected LCD display, even if I use an unofficial tuning tool.
On the other hand, my fonts in X on my Linux installation look absolutely stunning. They are well-defined with just the right amount of anti-aliasing. It even looks better than what I see in OS X on one of my friends' MacBook Pro.
My Wii cost me 2200DKK, which is ~$385. When you subtract the 25% VAT that makes $308.
So yeah, we're paying the equivalent of $300 before VAT.
The release date here in Denmark was the 8th of December, but I only got it about 10 days ago, and even then, it was apparently from a Greek storehouse or something, since the manual is in Greek. And I had it pre-ordered from a while before the release.
The Wii is selling like hotcakes here. I haven't been able to spot a single one on shelves in any of the stores I frequent, and every online store I know of has them back-ordered.
Well, you could buy WW for the GC and play it on your Wii. If you can get your hands on the "limited" gold edition, you even get OOT and Master Quest, too. Even better, if you can find the Zelda Promotional disk, you get Zelda 1 and 2, along with OOT (again) and MM.
But yeah, I'm really waiting for SMG right now... I'm still working my way through TP, but I really can't wait to get my hands on a new Mario platformer. And I'm definitely getting Mario 64 (and a few others) as soon as I get my Wii on the internet.
A running joke in my family is that some of the best gigs my dad's band had were at the local school for the deaf.
I think they got a completely different take on the music by not being able to hear it, but instead feeling the beat. My dad says that he considers it the best praise of his drumming and the bass player's bass lines they ever got.
If only those people would contain their soundtrack to themselves on an iPod or something. But noooo, they have to put up their boomboxes (or even worse, their music playing mobile phones) on the friggin' train where people are sometimes trying to catch a quick nap.
Or at the school I go to. Some of us appreciate a bit of quiet as we eat our lunches, but almost every single day some jerkwad will have his mobile phone turned all the way up, playing some god-awful rap tune through shitty tinny speakers. I asked one of them to turn it down one day, and he seriously threatened to break my nose if I didn't shut up and let him play his music. Luckily, I'm a big guy and the other guys in my class are too, so he never made good on his threat. I'd like to have seen him try, though.
Apparently, you don't have the right to interfere with their music and how they're allowed to listen to their music everywhere they want to and as much as they want to. Obviously, their fragile little minds can't handle not being blasted with crap 24/7. Imagine the horror if they were to actually have room in their tiny heads to think.
Personally, I love listening to music. I have a fairly good stereo system at home, and I do like my portable player for when the train rides get a little dreary and boring. But sometimes (a lot of times) what you really just need is a bit of peace and quiet. This will not coincide with other people's needs, which is why headphones and players that go both up and DOWN in volume were invented.
People are getting more and more egoistical and intolerant, and that's a shame.
Doom 3 doesn't use the Havok physics engine, they wrote their own physics engine along with the graphics engine. It works pretty well (as the Grabber in the expansion pack shows, but according to people who've digged a bit through the code, the defined object weights are way off in some cases. I think one of the worst examples is that the burger boxes in the game are heavier than the explosive barrels.
I have two Model M's, of slightly different vintages; one really old with the grey logo, and one with the slightly newer blue logo. But the best bit is that both have the extra-long detachable cord which I find extremely useful. I actually used one of them as the remote control for my MythTV box for quite a while before I bothered to build an IR receiver. And to think that people just threw them away. Silly buggers, you'll never find a better keyboard than an old Model M.
I am 100% certain that those two keyboards are going to outlast every single other piece of hardware I own. The only better keyboard would be a Model M made entirely from high-grade stainless steel. The ultimate LART, anyone?
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Err... The guys at Hydrogen Audio are the ones who insist on double-blind ABX tests before they accept subjective statements about sound quality (TOS #8). They are also firm believers in digital formats, and especially lossless compression such as FLAC, WavPack, Monkey's Audio etc. etc..
I've gotten more useful and genuinely insightful audio advice there than any other place.
You must be thinking of some audiophile-infested forum somewhere else, but it's most likely not Hydrogen Audio.
Here ya go: a SATA-to-CF adapter from Addonics. I'm guessing it's just a SATA interface and an IDE converter on the same board with a CF connector on the end. So no need to worry... CF will work fine on SATA :-)
Cool idea about the tin foil! :-)
;-)
But I was thinking more along the lines of watching movies and TV with the lights in the room on. I know it's not a perfect movie-watching situation, but it's something to consider. Then again... That's what you use your "tiny" 40" LCD for
I wish I had the space (and cash) for some kind of home cinema... I'll just have to settle for my nice 24" widescreen monitor on my PC for now, I guess...
I've seen one of these in person and played around with it a bit, so I guess I'm pretty much obliged to comment...
Yes, it is ridiculously huge, just bit over 2.6 metres from corner to corner.
It's also not a TV, it's just a monitor. From what I was told it takes both VGA and DVI inputs, and it has an RS232 port for controlling brightness etc.
HD looks great on it, the colours are good, and you can easily view it from almost 90 degrees to the side without any real loss of color or contrast. Then again, you really have to be at least 3 or 4 metres away from it to be able to see the whole image comfortably.
There are 12 (yes, twelve!) fans on the back of it to provide cooling, which I guess you need every bit you can get of, considering the monitor uses 1500 watts when in use.
I think their target market is high-end home cinemas, but at that price and at that power usage, I would think an HD projector would be more economical. The monitor is useful in daylight though, you can't really say that for most projectors.
(Yeah yeah, "don't feed the trolls")
As charming as your suggestion and childish demeanor is, it's no good. I have tried the USB sound card with my Thinkpad running WinXP, and it has the same problem.
Yes, the sound distorts fairly obviously on loud content if I put it higher than 75%, both on the USB and onboard sound.
Perhaps one of you fellow slashdotters can help me with this...
I have my computer hooked up to my stereo via ordinary an ordinary stereo RCA->RCA connection. To avoid distortion I have to set the volume to a maximum of 75% with alsamixer. I have to turn the volume knob on my amplifier at least twice as high as I have to with my ordinary CD player to get the same volume. For most stuff and ordinary listening it's fine, but if I have to play something that's recorded rather quietly (classical music, for instance), I can't turn it up enough for a proper listening level without maxing out the volume on the amplifier.
This happens with both my Edirol UA-1X USB sound card, and the onboard Realtek crap I also tried.
Is there any fix for this short of buying a preamp?
You can get it with either Linux or Windows XP. And I believe the 1GB version is Linux and the 2GB is Windows XP.
Which is why many (most?) diesel cars today are fitted with diesel particulate filters. Sulfur interferes with the process, so your moves towards lower-sulfur diesel helps you towards cleaner exhausts, as well.
Either one is probably great for many uses, but hemp has the advantage that it's ridiculously easy to grow. It is a weed, after all.
You'd better hope they come pre-formatted, otherwise you'd probably have to wait for oh say, an eternity for mk2fs to finish ;-)
And it's only a viable product due to the ridiculous design of a certain OS.
If only swap was handled properly on Windows, the iRAM would never have existed, since you would just add more RAM to your machine and switch off swap completely, which you can on a proper OS.
Shut up, Darl. You're not fooling anyone :-P
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=212
Cleatype looks like ass on my 17" DVI-connected LCD display, even if I use an unofficial tuning tool.
On the other hand, my fonts in X on my Linux installation look absolutely stunning. They are well-defined with just the right amount of anti-aliasing. It even looks better than what I see in OS X on one of my friends' MacBook Pro.
My Wii cost me 2200DKK, which is ~$385. When you subtract the 25% VAT that makes $308.
So yeah, we're paying the equivalent of $300 before VAT.
The release date here in Denmark was the 8th of December, but I only got it about 10 days ago, and even then, it was apparently from a Greek storehouse or something, since the manual is in Greek. And I had it pre-ordered from a while before the release.
The Wii is selling like hotcakes here. I haven't been able to spot a single one on shelves in any of the stores I frequent, and every online store I know of has them back-ordered.
Well, you could buy WW for the GC and play it on your Wii. If you can get your hands on the "limited" gold edition, you even get OOT and Master Quest, too. Even better, if you can find the Zelda Promotional disk, you get Zelda 1 and 2, along with OOT (again) and MM.
But yeah, I'm really waiting for SMG right now... I'm still working my way through TP, but I really can't wait to get my hands on a new Mario platformer. And I'm definitely getting Mario 64 (and a few others) as soon as I get my Wii on the internet.
Not quite current, since they stopped making Saxo's in 2003. It was superceded by the C3, which is a current model.
Port 80 gets lots of interesting requests, mostly for phpBB vulnerabilities, apparently...
Port 443 only gets the occasional "Bad protocol version identification '\026\003'", which logically is a HTTPS request.
443 has the added bonus that traffic through it is expected to be encrypted, so perhaps SSH won't raise as much as a red flag as on port 80.
A running joke in my family is that some of the best gigs my dad's band had were at the local school for the deaf.
I think they got a completely different take on the music by not being able to hear it, but instead feeling the beat. My dad says that he considers it the best praise of his drumming and the bass player's bass lines they ever got.
If only those people would contain their soundtrack to themselves on an iPod or something. But noooo, they have to put up their boomboxes (or even worse, their music playing mobile phones) on the friggin' train where people are sometimes trying to catch a quick nap.
Or at the school I go to. Some of us appreciate a bit of quiet as we eat our lunches, but almost every single day some jerkwad will have his mobile phone turned all the way up, playing some god-awful rap tune through shitty tinny speakers. I asked one of them to turn it down one day, and he seriously threatened to break my nose if I didn't shut up and let him play his music. Luckily, I'm a big guy and the other guys in my class are too, so he never made good on his threat. I'd like to have seen him try, though.
Apparently, you don't have the right to interfere with their music and how they're allowed to listen to their music everywhere they want to and as much as they want to. Obviously, their fragile little minds can't handle not being blasted with crap 24/7. Imagine the horror if they were to actually have room in their tiny heads to think.
Personally, I love listening to music. I have a fairly good stereo system at home, and I do like my portable player for when the train rides get a little dreary and boring. But sometimes (a lot of times) what you really just need is a bit of peace and quiet. This will not coincide with other people's needs, which is why headphones and players that go both up and DOWN in volume were invented.
People are getting more and more egoistical and intolerant, and that's a shame.
Doom 3 doesn't use the Havok physics engine, they wrote their own physics engine along with the graphics engine. It works pretty well (as the Grabber in the expansion pack shows, but according to people who've digged a bit through the code, the defined object weights are way off in some cases. I think one of the worst examples is that the burger boxes in the game are heavier than the explosive barrels.
I have two Model M's, of slightly different vintages; one really old with the grey logo, and one with the slightly newer blue logo. But the best bit is that both have the extra-long detachable cord which I find extremely useful. I actually used one of them as the remote control for my MythTV box for quite a while before I bothered to build an IR receiver. And to think that people just threw them away. Silly buggers, you'll never find a better keyboard than an old Model M.
I am 100% certain that those two keyboards are going to outlast every single other piece of hardware I own. The only better keyboard would be a Model M made entirely from high-grade stainless steel. The ultimate LART, anyone?
Please don't use TOR for P2P activity. It's slow enough as it is, and adding P2P traffic would kill it.
Go to about:config and change "ui.allow_platform_file_picker". It should disable the GTK file picker and give you the much saner old-style picker.