An audio mixer is one of the simplest circuits you can build.
With a bunch of RCA or 1/8 audio jacks, a blank copper clad perfboard, and a few resistors you could do this. Add a pot, or even a small audio op-amp for level control. Could be built for less than $20. Make it $40, and you could put it in a small case.
Don't go to Radio Shack for parts, they're insanely expensive.
I think that the biggest problem in this case appears to be that the trailers etc from the Universal site are being presented as content on the MovieList site.
This is a little silly. Do you really believe that if someone downloaded a trailer via this link would believe that it was created by MovieList? I'd think that the huge "Universal" logo at the beginning of the trailer would be a tip-off that it was, in fact, created by Universal. Besides, trailers are esentially advertisements. Would an advertiser (in this case Universal) be upset if you were to show their ad for free (or at least provide another route to it)? I think not.
"Create [software] that even and idiot can use, and only an idiot will want to use it."
I don't know who came up with this quote, but it seems to fit. Seems that bloated software is mostly for people who don't "get" computers, but who *do* use them every day. This accounts for over 90% of the computer-using populous.
The downside is that the other 10% (or less) are nearly forced to use the bloatware also because the first 90% say "Here's that file I wanted you to look at, it's saved using Office 97." These are the same people who use MS Excel (or Word) to store record-and-field (read database) type info because they don't know what a database is or does.
I spend approximately 5-10% of my time writing scripts that do data conversion because someone decided to use "Bloatware" to do a particular job rather than the "correct" software. Why? Because "It's so easy to use!"
On the flip side, I *can't* use some of these products, because they're "too easy" to use. I still create HTML using a text editor. I'm the only one at my company (a multimedia company that produces web sites) who does this. Everyone else uses Frontpage, then wonders why the pages don't work right in Netscape. I will not use Word because it *insists* on correcting my "mistakes," and tries to anticipate what I want to do. If I put the letter 'c' in parentheses, it automatically converts it into a copyright symbol. If I wanted a freekin copyright symbol, I would have used charmap.exe.
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An audio mixer is one of the simplest circuits you can build.
With a bunch of RCA or 1/8 audio jacks, a blank copper clad perfboard, and a few resistors you could do this. Add a pot, or even a small audio op-amp for level control. Could be built for less than $20. Make it $40, and you could put it in a small case.
Don't go to Radio Shack for parts, they're insanely expensive.
You could encrypt it weakly (or not at all), and fill it full of the kind of keywords they're looking for ...
"Kill the President"
"DRUGS"
"Smuggle"
"terrorism"
etc...
send 3 emails like this every day. Jam the signal.
I think that the biggest problem in this case appears to be that the trailers etc from the Universal site are being presented as content on the MovieList site.
This is a little silly. Do you really believe that if someone downloaded a trailer via this link would believe that it was created by MovieList? I'd think that the huge "Universal" logo at the beginning of the trailer would be a tip-off that it was, in fact, created by Universal. Besides, trailers are esentially advertisements. Would an advertiser (in this case Universal) be upset if you were to show their ad for free (or at least provide another route to it)? I think not.
"Create [software] that even and idiot can use, and only an idiot will want to use it."
I don't know who came up with this quote, but it seems to fit. Seems that bloated software is mostly for people who don't "get" computers, but who *do* use them every day. This accounts for over 90% of the computer-using populous.
The downside is that the other 10% (or less) are nearly forced to use the bloatware also because the first 90% say "Here's that file I wanted you to look at, it's saved using Office 97." These are the same people who use MS Excel (or Word) to store record-and-field (read database) type info because they don't know what a database is or does.
I spend approximately 5-10% of my time writing scripts that do data conversion because someone decided to use "Bloatware" to do a particular job rather than the "correct" software. Why? Because "It's so easy to use!"
On the flip side, I *can't* use some of these products, because they're "too easy" to use. I still create HTML using a text editor. I'm the only one at my company (a multimedia company that produces web sites) who does this. Everyone else uses Frontpage, then wonders why the pages don't work right in Netscape. I will not use Word because it *insists* on correcting my "mistakes," and tries to anticipate what I want to do. If I put the letter 'c' in parentheses, it automatically converts it into a copyright symbol.
If I wanted a freekin copyright symbol, I would have used charmap.exe.
Enough soapboxing. =)