Indeed, or at that geek bar full now of slashdot readers taking advice from your fine suggestion you could plant a hot illegal immigrant and pay her $0.5/hr to send guys to your place for this gaming. She'll just have to tell them she likes it infront of webcams to make them bring their computer. When the geeks think it is a trick, tell them it is a trick and they are being imagined by a beowolf cluster of illegal immigrants in soviet russia, and they better do what they're told or else goatse.cx or tubgirl.cx will come along to join us.
I agree. I use Linux when I want to play with my computer, or do generic tasks (surf the net, email, etc) but my field is finance and when I work I want to use what gets the job done fastest - this is often Windows (OO's Spreadsheet is not up to Excel [though Excel is disgusting after some time - 64k lines is far too small]), just like I use a Bloomberg terminal for data rather than messing around on a web browser.
It would be nice to implement some of these things. I just don't have the time.
Damn, some good points, who the hell would put it as offtopic?!
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I was not the AC who took you down to the gutter where your pathetic attempt at a FP took you (did it add any value? was it amusing like TROLLKORE? was it even imaginative?).
My |CHOICE| was to join AC calling your momma a bitch. You had the |CHOICE| to read it, sir.
Yes, I agree rockets are damn good at their job of being very good at moving something very fast.
But a single space launch uses a hell of a lot of fuel and creates a lot of pollution - this is not sustainable.
Yes, rocket propulsion is efficient in a chemical-kinetic energy transfer way, but not efficient if all other costs are taken into account. Use geo-thermal energy to power such a mag-lev launcher thing... I find that preferable.
Save rockets for the last resort. Yes they are good at a quick effective solution... but multiple space launches a day (manned or unmanned but something IMHO, necessary for more than the minor interest we have in space now)... rockets no longer become the best option.
I was thinking about momentum and launching... why not get something really really really heavy to move at a moderate speed (could be through some environmentally friendly means, possibly a mag-lev to minimise friction. This heavy objects then hits the light shuttle, propelling it over some runway at fantastic speeds into orbit (could be in a vacuum tube for some time).
Maybe the Gs will be too much for a manned flight above... so how about bombarding a capsule with neutrons or something through a launch tude?
The idea of a rocket for regular flights is just so... flawed and wasteful.
All above ideas are governed be me... source is available but compilation (or building them!) is copyrighted!!!
Damn, now if i can just find something really really heavy!
Perhaps the increase in knowledge base necessary not to keep reinventing the wheel increases the experience in your equation... thereby pushing up the age of tradeoff?
I think 40 is probably the peak between the tradeoff between knowledge accumulation and physical decline. But stand for a psychologist or neurologist to correct me.
A bit like athletes maybe... experience vs. physiology results in a trade off.
yeah... so being $bns in defecit and aborting UN decisions is being the muscle huh?
I am ashamed of the US attitude to the UN... how can a global order succeed if at the behest of one powerful natons?
> The US is dumb anyway. ??? In what way sir, or are you appealing to the trailer trash? The UN is very canny, just its opinions do not always align with the US's own interests
>...world government... The UN is not a world government. Perhaps you want the US to be a world government? Is authority anologious to military power... if so you are a sad sad simple simple person
Liquidity is an opportunity cost (more liquid assets typically have less return). Yet they are useful when it comes to a cash push.
So a small amount of liquidity is always prefereble, with access to increased liquidity (so no high debt burden which will act against this) when is necessary.
I believe you're misunderstanding a 'cash-rich' industry, inplicit in this article. A 'cash-rich' company would only [choose to] be so because growth had stalled so cash becomes preferable to reinvestment (which shows little return). I may be in a successful industry but have little cash, because its better spent (and results in increased growth).
Then the tax treatment of dividends vs balance hseet growth or reinvestment, whether funds are better raised by what capital issue becomes the home of corporate finance theory - a fascinating area, buy a book on Amazon!
So should all people agree with each other, so as not to cause any potential trouble?
I disagree with the opinion expressed by MisterFancypants (and agree more with Rooktovin's reply above) but I cannot prove definately (note I cannot, yet, doesn't mean I can't in the furute with more thought, or someone else can), because whichever thought-process I use for this problem, the result can change depending on assumptions used at the beginning, I just get a preference based on prefered assumptions and behaviour.
This is 'Slashdot: news for nerds, stuff that matters' not 'Sheep-dot: Linux is good, because that is geek-cool'.
Now, the website looks like it is going tits-up so time for some cut-n-paste:
--ARTICLE BELOW--
Due to arrive late Summer '03
April 17, 2003
Sound Devices quietly previewed two upcoming audio recorders, the 744T and 722, at NAB 2003 in Las Vegas. These products have instantly re-defined portable audio recording and are being viewed as the logical successor to time-code-DAT and portable-DAT recorders. They also bring important new capabilities to audio professionals including portable multi-track recording, non-linear file access, the ability to record to both internal hard drive and compact flash, high-speed data transfers via FireWire, up to 24-bit/96 kHz data rates with high-resolution A/D, native MP3 file encoding, and extended runtime from on-board batteries. The 744T and 722 recorders are slated for availability late summer 2003.
Below is preliminary feature information on one of the two recorders - the two channel 722. As Sound Devices nears introduction, additional product information will be posted. Please bookmark this page and stop by regularly. If you would like to be sent a notice that this information has been updated, drop us your e-mail address and request to be put on the recorder e-mailing list.
About the 722 (2 channel)
Features Analog Audio Inputs and Outputs
* Two full-featured active-balanced mic/line level inputs with selectable 48 V phantom powering on XLR-3 connectors
* MS stereo matrix
* High-resolution A/D and D/A converters
* Full input-to-output routing matrix
* Mic/line-level selectable outputs on balanced TA3 connectors
* Headphone output on 3.5-mm jack with level control
* Headphone source selection can monitor any input or output, including real time post-record monitoring
* Adjustable high-pass filter on XLR inputs
Display, Metering, and Controls
* Front panel backlit LCD display viewable in all lighting conditions
* Sunlight-viewable LED meter selectable among multiple sources, including analog input levels
Digital I/O
* Two-channel AES input on balanced TA3 connector
* Two-channel S/PDIF input on RCA connector
* AES real time digital outputs on balanced TA3 connector
* S/PDIF real time output on RCA connector
Recorder
* Selectable track arming of track 1 or 2
* Selectable bit depth of 16 or 24-bit (16-bit with or without dither)
* Selectable sampling rates of 44.1, 48, or 96 kHz
* Records to uncompressed.wav or.bwf (mono or poly) files
* On-board MP3 encoding at 128, 192, and 256 kb/s mono or stereo
Data Storage (Medium)
* Internal 40 GB 2.5-inch hard drive (field removable and replaceable)
* CF (type I, II, and + compatible) slot for removable medium
* Recording to internal hard drive, CF, or mirror to both mediums (identical file format)
* Record buffer of 20 second at 24-bit / 48 kHz x 2 (10 seconds at 24/96 x 2)
External Data Interface
* 1394 (FireWire 400) port for high-speed data transfer between local disks and computer. CF and internal drive appear as FAT32 volumes
* Serial port (future expansion)
* Word clock input and output - also allows linking multiple units
Powering
* Removable Lion rechargeable battery compatible with Sony M and L mounts
* Voltage metering on front panel LCD display
* 5-18 VDC input via 4-pin Hirose connector for external powering
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And a chlorine bath for the feet before the shower. Some may have foot infections.
Indeed, or at that geek bar full now of slashdot readers taking advice from your fine suggestion you could plant a hot illegal immigrant and pay her $0.5/hr to send guys to your place for this gaming. She'll just have to tell them she likes it infront of webcams to make them bring their computer. When the geeks think it is a trick, tell them it is a trick and they are being imagined by a beowolf cluster of illegal immigrants in soviet russia, and they better do what they're told or else goatse.cx or tubgirl.cx will come along to join us.
So Q XPress is on a (albeit closed) BSD based platform... will it be hard to map this across to other BSDs, then other *NIXs.
Yeah yeah, not easy, but an interesting reverse engineer tinker possibility.
If Apple put OSX on x86 platforms, then it would kick ass (almost as much as Slackware and EMACS etc misc Linux pleasing comments).
I agree. I use Linux when I want to play with my computer, or do generic tasks (surf the net, email, etc) but my field is finance and when I work I want to use what gets the job done fastest - this is often Windows (OO's Spreadsheet is not up to Excel [though Excel is disgusting after some time - 64k lines is far too small]), just like I use a Bloomberg terminal for data rather than messing around on a web browser.
It would be nice to implement some of these things. I just don't have the time.
Damn, some good points, who the hell would put it as offtopic?!
I was not the AC who took you down to the gutter where your pathetic attempt at a FP took you (did it add any value? was it amusing like TROLLKORE? was it even imaginative?).
My |CHOICE| was to join AC calling your momma a bitch. You had the |CHOICE| to read it, sir.
I AM dirrrrrrrrrrrty.
I havn't showered or bathed for two months.
Yo momma likes it dirty.
And, incidentally, AC has far more FPs then yo wanky ass.
AC4ever. Bitch.
Yes, I agree rockets are damn good at their job of being very good at moving something very fast.
But a single space launch uses a hell of a lot of fuel and creates a lot of pollution - this is not sustainable.
Yes, rocket propulsion is efficient in a chemical-kinetic energy transfer way, but not efficient if all other costs are taken into account. Use geo-thermal energy to power such a mag-lev launcher thing... I find that preferable.
Save rockets for the last resort. Yes they are good at a quick effective solution... but multiple space launches a day (manned or unmanned but something IMHO, necessary for more than the minor interest we have in space now)... rockets no longer become the best option.
haha!
I was thinking about momentum and launching... why not get something really really really heavy to move at a moderate speed (could be through some environmentally friendly means, possibly a mag-lev to minimise friction. This heavy objects then hits the light shuttle, propelling it over some runway at fantastic speeds into orbit (could be in a vacuum tube for some time).
Maybe the Gs will be too much for a manned flight above... so how about bombarding a capsule with neutrons or something through a launch tude?
The idea of a rocket for regular flights is just so... flawed and wasteful.
All above ideas are governed be me... source is available but compilation (or building them!) is copyrighted!!!
Damn, now if i can just find something really really heavy!
Perhaps the increase in knowledge base necessary not to keep reinventing the wheel increases the experience in your equation... thereby pushing up the age of tradeoff?
I think 40 is probably the peak between the tradeoff between knowledge accumulation and physical decline. But stand for a psychologist or neurologist to correct me.
A bit like athletes maybe... experience vs. physiology results in a trade off.
yeah... so being $bns in defecit and aborting UN decisions is being the muscle huh?
...world government...
I am ashamed of the US attitude to the UN... how can a global order succeed if at the behest of one powerful natons?
> The US is dumb anyway.
??? In what way sir, or are you appealing to the trailer trash? The UN is very canny, just its opinions do not always align with the US's own interests
>
The UN is not a world government. Perhaps you want the US to be a world government? Is authority anologious to military power... if so you are a sad sad simple simple person
or, they could be less likely to walk and use a Segway, then use a car for other journeys just like before.
A Segway should never be used on pavements... that really dissuades those that walk.
We used to have cycle lanes... why not use the Segway (or even better... a bike!) in them?
No it's not.
Liquidity is an opportunity cost (more liquid assets typically have less return). Yet they are useful when it comes to a cash push.
So a small amount of liquidity is always prefereble, with access to increased liquidity (so no high debt burden which will act against this) when is necessary.
Perl, Python, PHP, C, damn break out that Cobol...
I learnt with APL2. That kicks ass guy!
Unless, huh, I got a loan and bought cash.
I believe you're misunderstanding a 'cash-rich' industry, inplicit in this article. A 'cash-rich' company would only [choose to] be so because growth had stalled so cash becomes preferable to reinvestment (which shows little return). I may be in a successful industry but have little cash, because its better spent (and results in increased growth).
Then the tax treatment of dividends vs balance hseet growth or reinvestment, whether funds are better raised by what capital issue becomes the home of corporate finance theory - a fascinating area, buy a book on Amazon!
damn, i spelt strike wrong... sorry.
Yeah though, technology for technology's sake is a bad thing... ludditism for luddist sake is also a bad thing
environmental benefit too, a double edged sword, we just have to make sure we don't always strick with one side.
Yeah, flash has a limited amount of write operations, so I guess you've been the first /. to actually kill a chip, rather than bandwidth.
Nice idea, just remember not to put the LinuxDC swap file on the flash...
Span exists because of pigs like you.
You just did it to make some money? Spammers do it just to make some money, and if I trace them I'll sue their ass dry.
So should all people agree with each other, so as not to cause any potential trouble?
I disagree with the opinion expressed by MisterFancypants (and agree more with Rooktovin's reply above) but I cannot prove definately (note I cannot, yet, doesn't mean I can't in the furute with more thought, or someone else can), because whichever thought-process I use for this problem, the result can change depending on assumptions used at the beginning, I just get a preference based on prefered assumptions and behaviour.
This is 'Slashdot: news for nerds, stuff that matters' not 'Sheep-dot: Linux is good, because that is geek-cool'.
? ...locked in to using certain propriety software... ?
Isn't it ironic they released a Real Aduio (TM) sample!
Yeah exactly. There is no moore's law... just a regular increase which has maintained at a steadyly increasing rate.
There is no 'law'...
Parent makes a valid point, pls mod up.
/96 kHz data rates with high-resolution A/D, native MP3 file encoding, and extended runtime from on-board batteries. The 744T and 722 recorders are slated for availability late summer 2003.
.wav or .bwf (mono or poly) files
Now, the website looks like it is going tits-up so time for some cut-n-paste:
--ARTICLE BELOW--
Due to arrive late Summer '03
April 17, 2003
Sound Devices quietly previewed two upcoming audio recorders, the 744T and 722, at NAB 2003 in Las Vegas. These products have instantly re-defined portable audio recording and are being viewed as the logical successor to time-code-DAT and portable-DAT recorders. They also bring important new capabilities to audio professionals including portable multi-track recording, non-linear file access, the ability to record to both internal hard drive and compact flash, high-speed data transfers via FireWire, up to 24-bit
Below is preliminary feature information on one of the two recorders - the two channel 722. As Sound Devices nears introduction, additional product information will be posted. Please bookmark this page and stop by regularly. If you would like to be sent a notice that this information has been updated, drop us your e-mail address and request to be put on the recorder e-mailing list.
About the 722 (2 channel)
Features
Analog Audio Inputs and Outputs
* Two full-featured active-balanced mic/line level inputs with selectable 48 V phantom powering on XLR-3 connectors
* MS stereo matrix
* High-resolution A/D and D/A converters
* Full input-to-output routing matrix
* Mic/line-level selectable outputs on balanced TA3 connectors
* Headphone output on 3.5-mm jack with level control
* Headphone source selection can monitor any input or output, including real time post-record monitoring
* Adjustable high-pass filter on XLR inputs
Display, Metering, and Controls
* Front panel backlit LCD display viewable in all lighting conditions
* Sunlight-viewable LED meter selectable among multiple sources, including analog input levels
Digital I/O
* Two-channel AES input on balanced TA3 connector
* Two-channel S/PDIF input on RCA connector
* AES real time digital outputs on balanced TA3 connector
* S/PDIF real time output on RCA connector
Recorder
* Selectable track arming of track 1 or 2
* Selectable bit depth of 16 or 24-bit (16-bit with or without dither)
* Selectable sampling rates of 44.1, 48, or 96 kHz
* Records to uncompressed
* On-board MP3 encoding at 128, 192, and 256 kb/s mono or stereo
Data Storage (Medium)
* Internal 40 GB 2.5-inch hard drive (field removable and replaceable)
* CF (type I, II, and + compatible) slot for removable medium
* Recording to internal hard drive, CF, or mirror to both mediums (identical file format)
* Record buffer of 20 second at 24-bit / 48 kHz x 2 (10 seconds at 24/96 x 2)
External Data Interface
* 1394 (FireWire 400) port for high-speed data transfer between local disks and computer. CF and internal drive appear as FAT32 volumes
* Serial port (future expansion)
* Word clock input and output - also allows linking multiple units
Powering
* Removable Lion rechargeable battery compatible with Sony M and L mounts
* Voltage metering on front panel LCD display
* 5-18 VDC input via 4-pin Hirose connector for external powering
Mechanicals
* Class-defining compact design
* Extruded aluminum chassis
Estimated 722 Retail Price: * ~$2000 with 40 GB internal drive
Estimated 744T Price: ~$4000
Please note that features, specifications, and pricing are subject to change...and will. This is not a complete list of features.
--E