I had a pager about ten years ago - one of the chunky number-only things that were around before SMS got really popular.
One drunken evening it got put into the wash - a full cycle. When I found it in the shirt pocket afterwards, it was full of water... there was a bubble in there too so it was more useful as a spirit level.
I tried to turn it on (you never know) but no joy - so I put it in a cupboard and forgot about it.
Four years later I found it again (thoroughly dried out) and tried turning it on - success! Amazingly enough, it worked fine.
I suppose an electronic gadget can recover from being soaked as long as you haven't short-fried any circuits.
Thankfully, it looks like this new phone has a headphone socket - a REAL headphones socket, not a stupid proprietory connection. My current Nokia has a MMC flash card MP3 player built in, but I've only ever used it once because you can only use their hands-free kit with it, which is a pain in the butt (and not very good quality).
Any phone that wants to provide a decent music listening system MUST have a headphone socket, and according the technical specs here, this does.
(warning - horrible Flash usecrime ahoy!)
They were pretty bad to begin with, but they grabbed a share of the market primarily by showing films at 9.00PM every night. Mostly pretty crap films, but with the odd 80's gem in there (eg. Terminator), and their film budget has slowly crept up and up.
And they're running CSI, plus CSI New York and CSI Miami (blarg).
It's unfair to talk about the endless Nazi documentaries and crap soaps, when it's the same for EVERY channel...
Maybe they're interested in pushing women into the sector 'cos when you only get to choose your workers from 50% of the population, you only get 50% of the best people available?
A British Pint is.568 of a litre, whereas the American one is 0.473 (so the definition of a gallon is different).
Fluid Ounces (fl oz.), too - there's 20 in a UK pint, and 16 in an American pint.
I think the American version is actually the original one - us Brits changed our measurements some time after the Revolutionary War, while the US kept them the same.
"Not to mention that it's not nearly the same to work in front of a computer as it is to work in front of a reel to reel. Being 'virtualized' in the screen is a much different experience than merely being plugged in to a reel to reel"
Yes, but you're assuming that working in front of a reel-to-reel is the 'correct' method, and that any computer software is only going to try and reacreate that process; I think a modern computer system has a valid methodolgy all of its own.
Either way, surely the 'correct' method is that the music happens inside your head, and then you transfer it to the real world using whatever tool best fits the job, whether thats a analogue electronic system or a digital one?
I agree - game sequels are not the same, as it might be a completely new engine.
I haven't played GTA 3 or later (yet) but I loved the first two games - and these had a completely different engine & game system from the later games. Admittedly, I think a lot of the games mentioned in the original post are sequels based on the original engine (I've only played Halo 2 but that's definitely similar), but in many ways a video game sequel can redefine the medium in ways that a film cannot.
Sorry, but that's not been the 'general perception' where I've worked.
I'm a Brit who's worked with plenty of Yanks and there's never been a problem accepting their qualifications. I've never even heard that view expressed!
The US Grads I've met have been obviously well-informed, and there's no comparison with 18 year-old school leavers.
ps - I have a Combined Honours degree, which is the UK version of a Double Major.
Yes, I believe they do - because the satellites involved are in orbit, there is a difference in the gravity they experience (ie they are in a partially weightless environment).
According to the theory of relativity, this means that their internal clocks should run at a different speed (relative to an earth-bound observer) to those on the planet's surface. In order to accurately calculate the position of the GPS unit, this difference in timing must be taken into account.
People use analogue filters to make their music sound more seventies?
I don't know where you get this idea from...
Practically ALL electronic music uses analogue, or analogue style filters. It's a major part of the sound - in particular, the Acid House movement was practically built on the Roland TB303 'Bassline', an analogue synthesiser with big fat resonant filters. That 'Josh Wink' filter scream is all analogue, baby.
And where would HipHop be without the sound of Vinyl cracks & pops? It's an integral part of the sound (less so now, but definitely part of the Golden Age of artists like Tribe Called Quest).
In the last few years the Big Thing in synthesisers has been virtual modelling of classic equipment & sounds, but before that there was a big resurgance in new Analogue equipment - MIDI compatible keyboards that used real analogue circuitry to generate the sound (I myself own a Novation Bass Station, a MIDI-ed up clone of the TB303).
The idea that modern music is created on all-modern equipment is a fallacy - just go to the Sound On Sound forums and check out how heated the recent debates on Digital vs Analogue have been... even people who make full-on Techno are using tape-to-tape reels and claiming they sound better.
As for Tube technology - nearly every major pro-audio company has brought out a tube-based pre-amplifier in the last three years. I don't feel the need to listen back to music using tube amplifiers, but as any producer will tell you, digital modelling of Tube Distortion / hot amplification is nowhere near as good as the real thing.
I don't understand - surely dual channel mono can be stereo (or not) depending on what's going through it?
If it's two independant mono signals, it'll be just be two channels of mono, but if it's the left and right side of a stereo signal being sent to left and right speakers... it's stereo?
No, I still can't see any connection between the rights of an individual and the rights of a government. You DON'T get to excuse yourself from governed society just because you don't agree with the rules, as David Koresh eventually found out!
If I decided to declare myself the Independant Republic of Steve and stop paying taxes, it wouldn't take long for the taxman to come knocking. Even people who become hermits and never leave their houses are subject to the rules of the society they live in, and have to pay taxes accordingly - we all have to live together in a land of scarce resources, and are bound to the rules of the land's government, usually through no choice of our own.
Note that I'm not saying this is a perfect system - a good example of it malfunctioning might be the Aboriginal kids removed from their parents in 50's Australia because the WASP guys in power at the time thought their way of life was 'unsuitable' for children (it was really none of their business, they shouldn't have interfered).
But my point is, I don't believe that the right of a government to rule is derived from the rights of its people - if that were true, then every right a government has would also be available to individual citizens, and my example of the death penalty shows that a government can do things that its citizens are rightly prevented from doing.
I believe I am free - there are plenty of restrictions that I have to observe in life (don't drive too fast, do pay my taxes etc), but I accept that these restrictions are a necessary part of living in a large, modern society. I didn't, however, get to make a choice on this - if I want to live in this country, I abide by its rules. The only choice I have is to attempt to change the rules (by voting, campaigning) or move somewhere else!
I play in a band, and we like to record all our rehearsals so we can keep any new ideas we come up with.
We usually record onto minidisc, either with a minidisc mic or coming straight outta the desk - recently I've been bringing my Axim X5 along in case the guy with the minidisc forgets to bring it. The Axim has a microphone built in, but it's pretty crappy - which is a real pity 'cos it's a damn site easier to distribute these recordings (to the rest of the band) than the minidisc recordings... I can just dump them straight onto my PC.
Since I'm also running Griff, a full sequencing program, I'd very much like to see a PDA with decent audio inputs & outputs, so I could record using a good mic (there's no point trying to improve the built in mic, they're never any good). I'm sure that eventually we'll see some models with proper audio I/O, even with multi-channel I/O, as there's a definite niche for a portable multichannel recording device.
Still, yesterday I downloaded the Beta version of Pocket X-Com......:)
Slashdot Mirror
dump (dump working set to screen and pipe it through more)
Of course. What ELSE could a 'dump' flag mean in this case..?
I had a pager about ten years ago - one of the chunky number-only things that were around before SMS got really popular.
One drunken evening it got put into the wash - a full cycle. When I found it in the shirt pocket afterwards, it was full of water... there was a bubble in there too so it was more useful as a spirit level.
I tried to turn it on (you never know) but no joy - so I put it in a cupboard and forgot about it.
Four years later I found it again (thoroughly dried out) and tried turning it on - success! Amazingly enough, it worked fine.
I suppose an electronic gadget can recover from being soaked as long as you haven't short-fried any circuits.
Would this be the action of paying college fees? It's a little naive to assume that everyone in the armed forces joins up for purely selfless reasons.
Thankfully, it looks like this new phone has a headphone socket - a REAL headphones socket, not a stupid proprietory connection. My current Nokia has a MMC flash card MP3 player built in, but I've only ever used it once because you can only use their hands-free kit with it, which is a pain in the butt (and not very good quality).
Any phone that wants to provide a decent music listening system MUST have a headphone socket, and according the technical specs here, this does.
(warning - horrible Flash usecrime ahoy!)
"We wunt to be togevvah" - That was Mark Williams...
They were pretty bad to begin with, but they grabbed a share of the market primarily by showing films at 9.00PM every night. Mostly pretty crap films, but with the odd 80's gem in there (eg. Terminator), and their film budget has slowly crept up and up.
And they're running CSI, plus CSI New York and CSI Miami (blarg).
It's unfair to talk about the endless Nazi documentaries and crap soaps, when it's the same for EVERY channel...
I think it was called:
Hey, Don't Feed Cobalt To Those Bugs.
(Coming soon as a feature film starring Will Smith, only set in LA and replacing Bugs with sexy android women)
I just downloaded the trailer - boy, the effects look good!
Pity the acting SUCKS ASS. Those nomarks couldn't act their way out of a paper bag.
And yes, IAAA.
Maybe they're interested in pushing women into the sector 'cos when you only get to choose your workers from 50% of the population, you only get 50% of the best people available?
Do you realise that the definitions of Fl Oz, Pints and Gallons are different in America and Britain?
.568 of a litre, whereas the American one is 0.473 (so the definition of a gallon is different).
A British Pint is
Fluid Ounces (fl oz.), too - there's 20 in a UK pint, and 16 in an American pint.
I think the American version is actually the original one - us Brits changed our measurements some time after the Revolutionary War, while the US kept them the same.
Well, Dr Jackson's been a little busy recently...
"Not to mention that it's not nearly the same to work in front of a computer as it is to work in front of a reel to reel. Being 'virtualized' in the screen is a much different experience than merely being plugged in to a reel to reel"
Yes, but you're assuming that working in front of a reel-to-reel is the 'correct' method, and that any computer software is only going to try and reacreate that process; I think a modern computer system has a valid methodolgy all of its own.
Either way, surely the 'correct' method is that the music happens inside your head, and then you transfer it to the real world using whatever tool best fits the job, whether thats a analogue electronic system or a digital one?
I agree - game sequels are not the same, as it might be a completely new engine.
I haven't played GTA 3 or later (yet) but I loved the first two games - and these had a completely different engine & game system from the later games. Admittedly, I think a lot of the games mentioned in the original post are sequels based on the original engine (I've only played Halo 2 but that's definitely similar), but in many ways a video game sequel can redefine the medium in ways that a film cannot.
Sorry, but that's not been the 'general perception' where I've worked.
I'm a Brit who's worked with plenty of Yanks and there's never been a problem accepting their qualifications. I've never even heard that view expressed!
The US Grads I've met have been obviously well-informed, and there's no comparison with 18 year-old school leavers.
ps - I have a Combined Honours degree, which is the UK version of a Double Major.
There certainly IS such a thing as a British Citizen:
Definition of British Citizen
Flow Chart
Home Office site
They've come a long way.
For at least ten years now, they've managed to spell the name of their product right on their homepage...
(or does no-one else remember this?)
"Half Adding" ...?
Is that some kind of Zen thing?
"What is 4 plus?"
The sun shines pretty much everywhere, every day...
Hmmm - I'm guessing you don't live in Britain?
Yes, I believe they do - because the satellites involved are in orbit, there is a difference in the gravity they experience (ie they are in a partially weightless environment).
According to the theory of relativity, this means that their internal clocks should run at a different speed (relative to an earth-bound observer) to those on the planet's surface. In order to accurately calculate the position of the GPS unit, this difference in timing must be taken into account.
Ding. Now I see what you mean... :-)
People use analogue filters to make their music sound more seventies?
I don't know where you get this idea from...
Practically ALL electronic music uses analogue, or analogue style filters. It's a major part of the sound - in particular, the Acid House movement was practically built on the Roland TB303 'Bassline', an analogue synthesiser with big fat resonant filters. That 'Josh Wink' filter scream is all analogue, baby.
And where would HipHop be without the sound of Vinyl cracks & pops? It's an integral part of the sound (less so now, but definitely part of the Golden Age of artists like Tribe Called Quest).
In the last few years the Big Thing in synthesisers has been virtual modelling of classic equipment & sounds, but before that there was a big resurgance in new Analogue equipment - MIDI compatible keyboards that used real analogue circuitry to generate the sound (I myself own a Novation Bass Station, a MIDI-ed up clone of the TB303).
The idea that modern music is created on all-modern equipment is a fallacy - just go to the Sound On Sound forums and check out how heated the recent debates on Digital vs Analogue have been... even people who make full-on Techno are using tape-to-tape reels and claiming they sound better.
As for Tube technology - nearly every major pro-audio company has brought out a tube-based pre-amplifier in the last three years. I don't feel the need to listen back to music using tube amplifiers, but as any producer will tell you, digital modelling of Tube Distortion / hot amplification is nowhere near as good as the real thing.
I don't understand - surely dual channel mono can be stereo (or not) depending on what's going through it?
If it's two independant mono signals, it'll be just be two channels of mono, but if it's the left and right side of a stereo signal being sent to left and right speakers... it's stereo?
No, I still can't see any connection between the rights of an individual and the rights of a government. You DON'T get to excuse yourself from governed society just because you don't agree with the rules, as David Koresh eventually found out!
If I decided to declare myself the Independant Republic of Steve and stop paying taxes, it wouldn't take long for the taxman to come knocking. Even people who become hermits and never leave their houses are subject to the rules of the society they live in, and have to pay taxes accordingly - we all have to live together in a land of scarce resources, and are bound to the rules of the land's government, usually through no choice of our own.
Note that I'm not saying this is a perfect system - a good example of it malfunctioning might be the Aboriginal kids removed from their parents in 50's Australia because the WASP guys in power at the time thought their way of life was 'unsuitable' for children (it was really none of their business, they shouldn't have interfered).
But my point is, I don't believe that the right of a government to rule is derived from the rights of its people - if that were true, then every right a government has would also be available to individual citizens, and my example of the death penalty shows that a government can do things that its citizens are rightly prevented from doing.
I believe I am free - there are plenty of restrictions that I have to observe in life (don't drive too fast, do pay my taxes etc), but I accept that these restrictions are a necessary part of living in a large, modern society. I didn't, however, get to make a choice on this - if I want to live in this country, I abide by its rules. The only choice I have is to attempt to change the rules (by voting, campaigning) or move somewhere else!
Government (people as a collective) has no right to do what individual people have no right to do.
What? That is blantantly untrue. How about the government's right to make new laws, allocate tax funds, declare war, etc. etc?
And in the case of America - the government has the right to kill citizens...
I play in a band, and we like to record all our rehearsals so we can keep any new ideas we come up with.
:)
We usually record onto minidisc, either with a minidisc mic or coming straight outta the desk - recently I've been bringing my Axim X5 along in case the guy with the minidisc forgets to bring it. The Axim has a microphone built in, but it's pretty crappy - which is a real pity 'cos it's a damn site easier to distribute these recordings (to the rest of the band) than the minidisc recordings... I can just dump them straight onto my PC.
Since I'm also running Griff, a full sequencing program, I'd very much like to see a PDA with decent audio inputs & outputs, so I could record using a good mic (there's no point trying to improve the built in mic, they're never any good). I'm sure that eventually we'll see some models with proper audio I/O, even with multi-channel I/O, as there's a definite niche for a portable multichannel recording device.
Still, yesterday I downloaded the Beta version of Pocket X-Com......