The heatsinks are huge to make the cooling even more efficient to keep the system quieter (which is also why there's 8 fans which run at a low speed, instead of 2-3 which run exceedingly fast). The G5 at 2GHz only dissipates 17W of power, there's no need for a fan directly on the heatsink, and the heatsink is fairly cool to the touch.
If a P4 gets too hot, it acutally throttles its CPU speed (with some scary self-clocking asynchronous circuitry). You can actually run a P4 without a heatsink, though it'll be quite slow.
Tom's Hardware did a thing a few years ago where they had two running systems, one Athlon and one P4, and they popped off the heat sink while it was under extreme load. The P4 just slowed down and kept on running, while the Athlon actually burst into flames...
Sharp makes a CompactFlash camera attachment for the Zaurus. It's a bit pricey at something like $130 though.
Also, you can always use the Zaurus to view pictures taken on a digital camera. One time I was borrowing a friend's digital camera for a photo shoot, and rather than hold on to the camera I just used my Zaurus to copy the contents off the camera's CF card, and then when I got home used my CF WiFi card to transfer the images to my computer. Worked wonderfully.
I hang out with dozens of studio musicians, and way more of them use DAT in the studio than ADAT. They mostly use DAT as a scratchpad for when they're just jamming away, or for field recording or whatever (though even more of them use minidisc, which is what I tend to use as well); in the studio they use hard-disk based multitrack recording.
I do know one musician who still uses ADAT, but he's thinking of switching to hard-disk too.
Also, I'd hardly call DAT "normal-sized," what with it being about twice as thick and all.
Sure, but I don't think that means that digital recording technology as a whole has been held back, it's just one single instance of it. The average Joe Consumer can still use Windows Sound Recorder on their laptop or whatever.
Also, personally I find that minidiscs are much better than DAT for the sorts of purposes which DAT is supposed to be for anyway, and it's not as if ATRAC's lossiness is even noticeable anyway (it just subtly loses frequencies, unlike mp3 which adds in new frequencies as it degrades). Considering that the microphone itself is already losing a lot of the frequencies, I don't see this as a problem.
The "iTunes is evil" stuff predates iTMS allowing independent musicians on (via CDBaby or whatever). It needs updating.
Independent artists get a phenomenal cut of the song download. I sell some music through CDBaby and iTMS and get 53 cents per song on iTMS, which is way more than I get on the physical CD. It's a great deal for me.
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The heatsinks are huge to make the cooling even more efficient to keep the system quieter (which is also why there's 8 fans which run at a low speed, instead of 2-3 which run exceedingly fast). The G5 at 2GHz only dissipates 17W of power, there's no need for a fan directly on the heatsink, and the heatsink is fairly cool to the touch.
Tom's Hardware did a thing a few years ago where they had two running systems, one Athlon and one P4, and they popped off the heat sink while it was under extreme load. The P4 just slowed down and kept on running, while the Athlon actually burst into flames...
Also, you can always use the Zaurus to view pictures taken on a digital camera. One time I was borrowing a friend's digital camera for a photo shoot, and rather than hold on to the camera I just used my Zaurus to copy the contents off the camera's CF card, and then when I got home used my CF WiFi card to transfer the images to my computer. Worked wonderfully.
I do know one musician who still uses ADAT, but he's thinking of switching to hard-disk too.
Also, I'd hardly call DAT "normal-sized," what with it being about twice as thick and all.
Sure, but I don't think that means that digital recording technology as a whole has been held back, it's just one single instance of it. The average Joe Consumer can still use Windows Sound Recorder on their laptop or whatever. Also, personally I find that minidiscs are much better than DAT for the sorts of purposes which DAT is supposed to be for anyway, and it's not as if ATRAC's lossiness is even noticeable anyway (it just subtly loses frequencies, unlike mp3 which adds in new frequencies as it degrades). Considering that the microphone itself is already losing a lot of the frequencies, I don't see this as a problem.
but the underlying idea, namely pure-digital recording of sound, has survived just fine, even with RIAA's objections.
Independent artists get a phenomenal cut of the song download. I sell some music through CDBaby and iTMS and get 53 cents per song on iTMS, which is way more than I get on the physical CD. It's a great deal for me.