I remember doing the maths once and figuring out that your typical coal power plant emits more radiation per megawatt than an equvalent Gas cooled reactor. Of course the reactor has more radiation locked inside it and in its fuel, but the coal plant is venting it into the air, of course, if the reactor goes wrong then more nasty radiation gets out.
Anyway, with appropriate scrubbing coal can be greener, but I don't really see it as being an option for the future. Then again, Oil and gas are fossil fuels which have many uses outside of power generation and we should be working to preserve those, so given the shoice between a coal fired station and an Oil/Gas station it's probably a better long term idea to go for the coal. I don't think coal has so many uses in comparison, except maybe as raw materials for Superman cornering the Diamond cartels.
I don;t know where you buy your vinyl, but my local record store is covered with white label remixes - not Mash Ups. I'll even create remixes of tunes to set my DJ sets apart from the rest of the world.
Sure, there are plenty of current releases that get the remix treatment at the request of the publisher. But there are just as many unofficial remixes of old tracks which weren't approved. Sometimes a popular white label will get licensed properly if the original copyright holder is happy with it, but this usually happens after the remix has become a hit with DJ's.
Ahhh yes.... from the days before I was snatched away by the promise of internet companies. It's been over 5 years since I created that page and it keeps getting rediscovered. I need to update some of my astroid animations how that I can do video editing with something more powerful than shell scripts;-)
People should also check out the local map for today, showing Toutatis right next to the planet.
Most online record sales still think in terms of individual tracks, and when you get a DJ mix album there aren't any gaps between the tracks. Problem is both MP3 and AAC encodings of these albums leave glitches between the tracks, either when you play it or try to burn a CD from it.
Vorbis or FLAC would fix this issue, at least from a CD burning point of view, but a lot of players will still add an auduble glitch into otherwise perfect DJ glue.
Don't Forget MsPinky - way cooler than either Final Scratch or Serato. Sure you have to build your own IO using a multi channel sound card and phono pre-amps, but the upside of this is that the hardware you buy actually sounds a whole lot better and can be used for studio work and other things.
MsPinky also provides an SDK for smart hackers and can be used to control video as well as plain old audio - check out www.mspinky.com.
Sure, I wrote a load of open source mp3 stuff and made a carrer for myself in the digital music world.
But I still use good old fashioned records all the time, partly it's because it's the best way to DJ, but even outside of the clubs I'm a vinyl fan.
I've just been at my mother in law's this weekend digging through furniture, toys and other nik naks to stocky my new house. I found this ancient 'show n' tell' toy - basically a player for little 7" records and an associated slide show - usually kids stories or mini documentaries. I'm feeling a strange fascination towards this 1950's predecessor to 'Encarta' - at least the hardware doesn't blue screen (although I guess it needs a bulb replaced from time to time).
Anyway, the best find is a 1951 Sunbeam toaster, all automatic, drop the toast in and it lowers itself, toasts, and pops up slowly (and silently). Sure, most toasters these days aren't digital (except for that java driven weather forecast toaster) but this 'fully automated' device feels more high tech than many modern variations.
I've got a bunch of 50 year old vinyl (33 rpm 'microgroove') records that I can't wait to listen to when I get back, I wonder how many of my CD's will still be working 50 years after buying them.
10 years after I'd left school I got a few e-mails from people who'd caused me grief during my school years. Dissing me, trying to bring me down.
It was a real pleasure sending a response from 6000 miles aways, and describing my successes in life. and then of course owning their lame website, and signing them up for every spam list which I could find.
The PS2 controller is a fantastic interface for controlling video games, the Turntable and mixer is the parfect interface for DJ'ing - this is nothing more than a novelty.
But then again, novelty can make for interesting events. Someone always finds a way to make things more than what they were intended to be.
It's a pivotal moment in ambient dance music - sure to calm anyone's frayed nerves. At least if the sound quality isn't so bad..... Here's waiting for CD quality VOIP codecs
I've got one of these - it's essentially a 20 gig HD with enough processing power on board to play and record audio and video.
The package I got included a gizmo that let me read compact flash, so I was able to backup all my Honeymoon photos to this device while travelling. It is possible to charge it a lot more easily than a laptop and since it only needs to run for as long as it takes to transfer photos then it could probably go a long time between charges.
It's also a standard USB hard disk so you can plug it in to a regular PC at an opportune moment and back up things further.
Anyone Remember Myplay.com? Used to Offer 3gigs of storage for music uploads - get you music online then you can listen to it anywhere you ahve an internet connection.
Sounds expensive, but since the record biz were so anal about licensing and wanted too much money it turned out to be cheaper to do it this way.
my.mp3.com used less disk space but ended up paying a lot more than the money they saved in legal judgements against them....
just an aside - myplay.com launched in 1999, 5 years on the cost of disk space has dropped a lot.
Used to be from Roxio, but symantec bought it. It's like a logging filesystem that lets you revert data to a point in the past. Maybe not idea for this situation because it only stores the last 10% or so of disk activity, older events get forgotten, so depending on system activity this could be anything from days to months of history.
Ahh beat me to it... Yep Magic Carpet was a fantastice title, I remember it was one of the first games I played that had water with reflections - if you had a fast enough machine.
You know in the heady days of '99 I worked at a company called myplay.com - we managed to sidestep the whole 'online music' problem by letting people store music on our website. - we gave people 3 gigs to store music - of course I had some neat 'compression' technology on the backend that removed file redundancy, but still it's a lot of space . so 1gig for mail just doesn't even cut it, even as an april 1st joke.
Of course the code has been legally buried by the crash of the company that I developer it for. I didn't even think for a second that this might be somehting that someone could patent.
Actually the Amiga CPU ran at 7.2 MHz - it was the Atari ST which ran it's CPU at 8 MHz. Amiga custom hardware helped for a lot of things especially sprite based games. But the atari with only 4 bit planes to handle and a 10% faster cpu typically produced slightly better 3D games.
At least that's what I'd tell all my amiga owning friends in the days before I purchased a load of Midi driven gear to take advantage of the one real bonus that the ST offered.
The only thing with audacity is that It's so damn slow on OSX - it takes me about 5 minutes to save a 10 minuute mp3 file - regardless of how I configure the LAME setup.
But..... it is way more versatile than any of the 'professional' audio editors I've tried - most of them won't even import mp3 never mind FLAC or OGG.
You can probably find it for under $1000 if you look around, but remember on top of this you need to buy extras to get the best out of it.
Some important highlights are.... * 3CCD optics * Leica Dicomar lense * 30p non-interlace mode for that film look * 3.5 inch video display * Proper manual focus control * Optical Image stabilisation * 10x Zoom * Firewire and USB2 connections * Video Pass trhough - Direct video to DV
It's also a 3 megapixel still camera, it has a load of onboard effects which I never use. I bought this for the image quality and it's done me well.
Ended up buying a Panasonic 3CCD camcorder on their recommendation and haven't looked back. They never seemed to give it a proper review, but it was still named their camcoder of the year.
Now I'm lusting after the JVC HDTV camcoders which record MPEG/2 to miniDV.
I've got something setup on my computer which gives me analogue dials to display memory use, cpu use and CPU temperature - it's build into a box on the front of the case and runs off a little bit of code I hacked together.
Of course.... what I really want is an analogue accelerator pedal to control clock speed;-)
Slashdot Mirror
Interlacing doubles the number of lines in TV images using multiple fields. Is it likely that this is a variation of this concept?
I remember doing the maths once and figuring out that your typical coal power plant emits more radiation per megawatt than an equvalent Gas cooled reactor. Of course the reactor has more radiation locked inside it and in its fuel, but the coal plant is venting it into the air, of course, if the reactor goes wrong then more nasty radiation gets out.
Anyway, with appropriate scrubbing coal can be greener, but I don't really see it as being an option for the future. Then again, Oil and gas are fossil fuels which have many uses outside of power generation and we should be working to preserve those, so given the shoice between a coal fired station and an Oil/Gas station it's probably a better long term idea to go for the coal. I don't think coal has so many uses in comparison, except maybe as raw materials for Superman cornering the Diamond cartels.
I don;t know where you buy your vinyl, but my local record store is covered with white label remixes - not Mash Ups. I'll even create remixes of tunes to set my DJ sets apart from the rest of the world.
Sure, there are plenty of current releases that get the remix treatment at the request of the publisher. But there are just as many unofficial remixes of old tracks which weren't approved. Sometimes a popular white label will get licensed properly if the original copyright holder is happy with it, but this usually happens after the remix has become a hit with DJ's.
Ahhh yes.... from the days before I was snatched away by the promise of internet companies. It's been over 5 years since I created that page and it keeps getting rediscovered. I need to update some of my astroid animations how that I can do video editing with something more powerful than shell scripts ;-)
People should also check out the local map for today, showing Toutatis right next to the planet.
Most online record sales still think in terms of individual tracks, and when you get a DJ mix album there aren't any gaps between the tracks. Problem is both MP3 and AAC encodings of these albums leave glitches between the tracks, either when you play it or try to burn a CD from it.
Vorbis or FLAC would fix this issue, at least from a CD burning point of view, but a lot of players will still add an auduble glitch into otherwise perfect DJ glue.
Don't Forget MsPinky - way cooler than either Final Scratch or Serato. Sure you have to build your own IO using a multi channel sound card and phono pre-amps, but the upside of this is that the hardware you buy actually sounds a whole lot better and can be used for studio work and other things.
MsPinky also provides an SDK for smart hackers and can be used to control video as well as plain old audio - check out www.mspinky.com.
But I still use good old fashioned records all the time, partly it's because it's the best way to DJ, but even outside of the clubs I'm a vinyl fan.
I've just been at my mother in law's this weekend digging through furniture, toys and other nik naks to stocky my new house. I found this ancient 'show n' tell' toy - basically a player for little 7" records and an associated slide show - usually kids stories or mini documentaries. I'm feeling a strange fascination towards this 1950's predecessor to 'Encarta' - at least the hardware doesn't blue screen (although I guess it needs a bulb replaced from time to time).
Anyway, the best find is a 1951 Sunbeam toaster, all automatic, drop the toast in and it lowers itself, toasts, and pops up slowly (and silently). Sure, most toasters these days aren't digital (except for that java driven weather forecast toaster) but this 'fully automated' device feels more high tech than many modern variations.
I've got a bunch of 50 year old vinyl (33 rpm 'microgroove') records that I can't wait to listen to when I get back, I wonder how many of my CD's will still be working 50 years after buying them.
strings filename | grep
10 years after I'd left school I got a few e-mails from people who'd caused me grief during my school years. Dissing me, trying to bring me down.
It was a real pleasure sending a response from 6000 miles aways, and describing my successes in life. and then of course owning their lame website, and signing them up for every spam list which I could find.
And the Final Fantasy Chronicles release with some extra cutscenes is worth picking up if you can find it.
But then again, novelty can make for interesting events. Someone always finds a way to make things more than what they were intended to be.
It's a pivotal moment in ambient dance music - sure to calm anyone's frayed nerves. At least if the sound quality isn't so bad.....
Here's waiting for CD quality VOIP codecs
Again - nice and easy to do with a Laptop and webcam, and about 12x normal speed - I'd post it on my site..... but this is slashdot after all.
I'm not sure mach 9 is as watchable, it's certainly faster, but I kinda like the way I can pick out details at a simulated speed of 720mph
I've got one of these - it's essentially a 20 gig HD with enough processing power on board to play and record audio and video.
The package I got included a gizmo that let me read compact flash, so I was able to backup all my Honeymoon photos to this device while travelling.
It is possible to charge it a lot more easily than a laptop and since it only needs to run for as long as it takes to transfer photos then it could probably go a long time between charges.
It's also a standard USB hard disk so you can plug it in to a regular PC at an opportune moment and back up things further.
Of course, that still won't affect 90% of mainstream hip-hop cause they've long since left the live DJ behind....
Anyone Remember Myplay.com? Used to Offer 3gigs of storage for music uploads - get you music online then you can listen to it anywhere you ahve an internet connection.
Sounds expensive, but since the record biz were so anal about licensing and wanted too much money it turned out to be cheaper to do it this way.
my.mp3.com used less disk space but ended up paying a lot more than the money they saved in legal judgements against them....
just an aside - myplay.com launched in 1999, 5 years on the cost of disk space has dropped a lot.
Used to be from Roxio, but symantec bought it. It's like a logging filesystem that lets you revert data to a point in the past. Maybe not idea for this situation because it only stores the last 10% or so of disk activity, older events get forgotten, so depending on system activity this could be anything from days to months of history.
Ahh beat me to it... Yep Magic Carpet was a fantastice title, I remember it was one of the first games I played that had water with reflections - if you had a fast enough machine.
You know in the heady days of '99 I worked at a company called myplay.com - we managed to sidestep the whole 'online music' problem by letting people store music on our website. - we gave people 3 gigs to store music - of course I had some neat 'compression' technology on the backend that removed file redundancy, but still it's a lot of space . so 1gig for mail just doesn't even cut it, even as an april 1st joke.
Scott Manley
Of course the code has been legally buried by the crash of the company that I developer it for. I didn't even think for a second that this might be somehting that someone could patent.
Actually the Amiga CPU ran at 7.2 MHz - it was the Atari ST which ran it's CPU at 8 MHz. Amiga custom hardware helped for a lot of things especially sprite based games. But the atari with only 4 bit planes to handle and a 10% faster cpu typically produced slightly better 3D games.
At least that's what I'd tell all my amiga owning friends in the days before I purchased a load of Midi driven gear to take advantage of the one real bonus that the ST offered.
The only thing with audacity is that It's so damn slow on OSX - it takes me about 5 minutes to save a 10 minuute mp3 file - regardless of how I configure the LAME setup.
But..... it is way more versatile than any of the 'professional' audio editors I've tried - most of them won't even import mp3 never mind FLAC or OGG.
It's still getting there....
Here's a Review of the model I have.
You can probably find it for under $1000 if you look around, but remember on top of this you need to buy extras to get the best out of it.
Some important highlights are....
* 3CCD optics
* Leica Dicomar lense
* 30p non-interlace mode for that film look
* 3.5 inch video display
* Proper manual focus control
* Optical Image stabilisation
* 10x Zoom
* Firewire and USB2 connections
* Video Pass trhough - Direct video to DV
It's also a 3 megapixel still camera, it has a load of onboard effects which I never use. I bought this for the image quality and it's done me well.
Ended up buying a Panasonic 3CCD camcorder on their recommendation and haven't looked back. They never seemed to give it a proper review, but it was still named their camcoder of the year.
Now I'm lusting after the JVC HDTV camcoders which record MPEG/2 to miniDV.
My computer fears my disk space requirements.
I've got something setup on my computer which gives me analogue dials to display memory use, cpu use and CPU temperature - it's build into a box on the front of the case and runs off a little bit of code I hacked together.
;-)
Of course.... what I really want is an analogue accelerator pedal to control clock speed