I don't see why you would "limit" your music collection to 40 GB - your iPod is not the limit. I've got a 1G iPod mini and a 165 GB collection. There's no player on the market that would hold all of that, but why would I even want one? I want a small device, and there's no way I need to have all my music with me, all the time.
Besides, I'm not buying another MP3 player that doesn't have gapless MP3 playback. THAT's the big problem with iPods, IMO.
Battery life comes at a price you know, notably limiting the amplification level on the output. If you want to plug something in that requires amplification, add an amplifier or use a self powered/amplified device.
Of course battery life comes with a price. My point was, however, that limiting the output of these devices makes them all but unusable with any headphones less efficient than the crap they come with. If I buy a portable device, I want to be able to use it with quality headphones -- and yes, I'm willing to trade a little battery life for the increase in sound quality. But I don't want to lug around a separate battery powered headphone amplifier.
I've got a European iPod so I know how bad it can be. Luckily there's a workaround for iPods, but if the US (the biggest market) starts imposing limits as well, there won't be any workarounds for too long.
...that they limit the output to 100dB maximum on the crappy, yet extremely sensitive earbuds that come with the device. Plug in some less efficient but great sounding 'phones and you barely have enough volume on today's maxed-out compressed top 40 crap. Then try listening to some classical and you can't hear a thing except for the FF bits. And it's not because of hearing loss.
think the RIAA should encourage usage of two channel downloads for free and switch to 5.1, 6.1, 7.1 or whatever. Sound is the first thing to truely be 3 dimensional and yet, they refuse to capitalize on that.
True. But the problem is that music is rarely recorded in a concert hall or jazz club unless we're talking classical music or acoustic jazz -- multichannel is only useful if it can be used to deliver the actual acoustic space where the recording was made. Most music is multitracked in studios, and any spatial information mixed to the rear channels is just an illusion created by the reverb machine.
Bah. I'll take a well made stereo recording over a mediocre multichannel recording any day.
I'm planning on switching to an Intel-based Mac mini when that comes out, assuming it's done well. (My biggest fear being they'll go with the single core version of the processor.)
Of course they will go with the single core version. It's a budget computer, remember? If it does prove popular, they might come up with a dualie version at a much higher price point - otherwise it would eat into iMac sales.
Thanks for the info. I guess the developers should try to get a fixed API together so that add-on devs wouldn't have to block their stuff from newer Firefox/Thunderbird versions.
...the Calendar XPI add-on that I used with 1.06 doesn't work with the new version. Bummer. This seems to be a problem with all Firefox/Thunderbird updates -- add-ons never seem to work with new versions. Or rather, they're blocked automatically even if they would work without an update.
You can indeed format a larger disc FAT32 - I have a 120GB disc and a 200GB disc both formatted FAT32, which I formatted myself.
mkdosfs will do it quite happily. And Windows (and Linux) will be happy reading and writing that disc.
You can do it in Windows just as well -- as long as you're running a version older than 2k or XP. See, the limitation *is* completely artificial. Now, volumes (and drives) bigger than 137 GB might be a bit hard to get to work under Win9x, but that's another story.
Utterly crippling in the low margin, high volume USB storage market (especially at the low end)
What exactly would prevent these low margin, high volume USB key manufacturers selling their memory sticks unformatted? It's not like hard drive manufacturers have to pay a FAT tax -- it's just the device manufacturers whose stuff actually uses FAT, like digital camera makers.
Thanks for the info... would you mind trying if yours actually remembers the TV-out resolution as well? Try switching it to something TV native, 720x480i or 720x576i or the widescreen equivalents, and see if it survives a reboot.... It'd be interesting to know if it's just my stuff or if it's a feature.:)
I bought EyeTV Wonder, so I havent really had a resolution problem. THough I would say I am using "defaults".
But the EyeTV outputs through Mac's regular video output, right? So you use the default tv out settings... does it at least remember if the display was set for overscan or not?
How do you manage to have the Mac Mini keep the TV output resolution you set? Or do you just use the default?
I've tried one, and it would reset to 800x600 on every boot. Dammit, that was the only fault... well, that and the fact that it doesn't output RGB. But having a true widescreen resolution like 1024x576 on TV-out is really really sweet.
Actually, early shellac recording speeds varied from about 70 RPM to about 90 RPM, depending on record label, year, mastering engineer and the movements of the stars. Likewise, if it's an electronic recording you won't know exactly (unless the label had a standard) what sort of pre-emphasis was used, it was standardised only in 1956 or so.
So, to play back those things right you should have a turntable with adjustable speed (and suitable stylus for wide groove mono, of course) and a phono preamp that would allow different EQ curves to be applied.
I mean come on, editors/submitters. You could at least include a line in the blurb that would say *where* the card is sold - you know, different TV standards/digital TV formats/HDTV/connectors used around the world and all?
My guess would be that there won't be a DVB-T/C model of the card with 1024x576i RGB SCART output any time soon, although it would be sweet. No, we don't have HDTV over here.
The A3000+ was supposed to be an amazing box - my own machines included a heavily modified A1200 and A4000. Big fan from back in the day.
Me too. I still have an A1200 with an 030 card in a closet somewhere. The A3000+ would have been sweet - an AGA-based 3000, AGA chipset with scandoubler, Motorola DSP for sampling, audio playback and modem emulation, Fast-SCSI2 controller, HD floppies, built-in networking.... I just can't understand why it was never brought to market. A rumour says that the manager in charge of R&D changed at the time and the first thing the new PHB did was to give the axe to every one of his predecessor's projects...:(
He didn't. Tramiel's Atari lost a dirty bidding war with Commodore for Amiga, Inc's technologies. If Atari had won, they would have used the chips to make a new console platform and probably kick out Miner & co.
The guy you want is Mehdi Ali, who along with Irving Gould ran Commodore to the ground as fast as they could. They are ultimately responsible for creating a company that would throw out any real innovation coming out of the engineering department and going for fast bucks instead. No R&D, just cheap crippled products -- that was Commodore in the 90's. They should have started a next-gen Amiga project as soon as they got the A500 on the market, but they didn't. And when Engineering *did* have a brilliant product (the A3000+) it was scrapped. And when Sun would have sold (shitloads of) rebadged A3000's as Unix workstations, the deal fell through because C= thought they could conquer the Unix market themselves. And...
Whatever. Commodore remains one of the great examples of management by idiocy.
...where TV sets (even from Sony) switch to widescreen/4:3/zoom modes automatically, thanks to the magic of SCART and control signals embedded in the TV broadcasts. Ok ok, we don't have HD yet, and nobody has mentioned if the same features will ever be implemented in the HD tellies. If they won't, I'll get mad.
Further, an award show for games? Your largest demographic typically has to ask their parents for their allowance to *buy* the games in question.
Well, the music in MTV's award shows is also typically what the allowance crowd buys, so I don't see why they wouldn't try to pull the same thing with games.
Realistically anyone that can afford an xbox and can afford an HTDV can drop $150 on a halfway decent surround sound system.
$150 will not get you a halfway decent surround system. It will get you something that's good for gaming, so-so for movies, but definitely not good enough for music.
If you really want 2.0, cant you just connect it to your stereo and tell the amp to do Phantom Center and Phantom Rear. It should do a far better job of downmixing than the xbox itself.
So if I want to continue using my (good) speakers in the living room, I'd have to get a new amp with surround features I would never need otherwise -- just for the Xbox? Get real.
The XBox360 does not have any standard stereo output. It either uses the Dolby digital, or it downsamples 5 channels together as 'mono'.
What??? That's so incredibly stupid. Many people only have a stereo system, and it's enough for console games. The directional sounds used in for example Brothers in Arms work quite well in stereo, you can really hear it when someone's behind you.
I don't have a 5.1 setup, and never will. My hi-fi is mainly used for music, and besides, most movies sound better with 2 good speakers than 5 mediocre ones.
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Besides, I'm not buying another MP3 player that doesn't have gapless MP3 playback. THAT's the big problem with iPods, IMO.
"No highs, no lows - must be Bose"
Of course battery life comes with a price. My point was, however, that limiting the output of these devices makes them all but unusable with any headphones less efficient than the crap they come with. If I buy a portable device, I want to be able to use it with quality headphones -- and yes, I'm willing to trade a little battery life for the increase in sound quality. But I don't want to lug around a separate battery powered headphone amplifier.
I've got a European iPod so I know how bad it can be. Luckily there's a workaround for iPods, but if the US (the biggest market) starts imposing limits as well, there won't be any workarounds for too long.
...that they limit the output to 100dB maximum on the crappy, yet extremely sensitive earbuds that come with the device. Plug in some less efficient but great sounding 'phones and you barely have enough volume on today's maxed-out compressed top 40 crap. Then try listening to some classical and you can't hear a thing except for the FF bits. And it's not because of hearing loss.
True. But the problem is that music is rarely recorded in a concert hall or jazz club unless we're talking classical music or acoustic jazz -- multichannel is only useful if it can be used to deliver the actual acoustic space where the recording was made. Most music is multitracked in studios, and any spatial information mixed to the rear channels is just an illusion created by the reverb machine.
Bah. I'll take a well made stereo recording over a mediocre multichannel recording any day.
Of course they will go with the single core version. It's a budget computer, remember? If it does prove popular, they might come up with a dualie version at a much higher price point - otherwise it would eat into iMac sales.
AFAIK Evolution doesn't have newsgroups support. That's what has kept me away from it so far.
Thanks for the info. I guess the developers should try to get a fixed API together so that add-on devs wouldn't have to block their stuff from newer Firefox/Thunderbird versions.
...the Calendar XPI add-on that I used with 1.06 doesn't work with the new version. Bummer. This seems to be a problem with all Firefox/Thunderbird updates -- add-ons never seem to work with new versions. Or rather, they're blocked automatically even if they would work without an update.
You can do it in Windows just as well -- as long as you're running a version older than 2k or XP. See, the limitation *is* completely artificial. Now, volumes (and drives) bigger than 137 GB might be a bit hard to get to work under Win9x, but that's another story.
What exactly would prevent these low margin, high volume USB key manufacturers selling their memory sticks unformatted? It's not like hard drive manufacturers have to pay a FAT tax -- it's just the device manufacturers whose stuff actually uses FAT, like digital camera makers.
Thanks for the info... would you mind trying if yours actually remembers the TV-out resolution as well? Try switching it to something TV native, 720x480i or 720x576i or the widescreen equivalents, and see if it survives a reboot.... It'd be interesting to know if it's just my stuff or if it's a feature. :)
But the EyeTV outputs through Mac's regular video output, right? So you use the default tv out settings... does it at least remember if the display was set for overscan or not?
How do you manage to have the Mac Mini keep the TV output resolution you set? Or do you just use the default?
I've tried one, and it would reset to 800x600 on every boot. Dammit, that was the only fault... well, that and the fact that it doesn't output RGB. But having a true widescreen resolution like 1024x576 on TV-out is really really sweet.
Actually, early shellac recording speeds varied from about 70 RPM to about 90 RPM, depending on record label, year, mastering engineer and the movements of the stars. Likewise, if it's an electronic recording you won't know exactly (unless the label had a standard) what sort of pre-emphasis was used, it was standardised only in 1956 or so.
So, to play back those things right you should have a turntable with adjustable speed (and suitable stylus for wide groove mono, of course) and a phono preamp that would allow different EQ curves to be applied.
Funny, yes, but not true. The patch is available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin /MS06-001.mspx
Just downloaded it with Firefox. It's just Windows Update that requires IE.
That would more closely translate as
The Finnish equivalent for your translation would beI mean come on, editors/submitters. You could at least include a line in the blurb that would say *where* the card is sold - you know, different TV standards/digital TV formats/HDTV/connectors used around the world and all?
My guess would be that there won't be a DVB-T/C model of the card with 1024x576i RGB SCART output any time soon, although it would be sweet. No, we don't have HDTV over here.
Me too. I still have an A1200 with an 030 card in a closet somewhere. The A3000+ would have been sweet - an AGA-based 3000, AGA chipset with scandoubler, Motorola DSP for sampling, audio playback and modem emulation, Fast-SCSI2 controller, HD floppies, built-in networking.... I just can't understand why it was never brought to market. A rumour says that the manager in charge of R&D changed at the time and the first thing the new PHB did was to give the axe to every one of his predecessor's projects...:(
He didn't. Tramiel's Atari lost a dirty bidding war with Commodore for Amiga, Inc's technologies. If Atari had won, they would have used the chips to make a new console platform and probably kick out Miner & co.
The guy you want is Mehdi Ali, who along with Irving Gould ran Commodore to the ground as fast as they could. They are ultimately responsible for creating a company that would throw out any real innovation coming out of the engineering department and going for fast bucks instead. No R&D, just cheap crippled products -- that was Commodore in the 90's. They should have started a next-gen Amiga project as soon as they got the A500 on the market, but they didn't. And when Engineering *did* have a brilliant product (the A3000+) it was scrapped. And when Sun would have sold (shitloads of) rebadged A3000's as Unix workstations, the deal fell through because C= thought they could conquer the Unix market themselves. And...
Whatever. Commodore remains one of the great examples of management by idiocy.
...where TV sets (even from Sony) switch to widescreen/4:3/zoom modes automatically, thanks to the magic of SCART and control signals embedded in the TV broadcasts. Ok ok, we don't have HD yet, and nobody has mentioned if the same features will ever be implemented in the HD tellies. If they won't, I'll get mad.
Not on the site, perhaps, but her name was in the movie credits. Tiina Routamaa.
Well, the music in MTV's award shows is also typically what the allowance crowd buys, so I don't see why they wouldn't try to pull the same thing with games.
$150 will not get you a halfway decent surround system. It will get you something that's good for gaming, so-so for movies, but definitely not good enough for music.
If you really want 2.0, cant you just connect it to your stereo and tell the amp to do Phantom Center and Phantom Rear. It should do a far better job of downmixing than the xbox itself.
So if I want to continue using my (good) speakers in the living room, I'd have to get a new amp with surround features I would never need otherwise -- just for the Xbox? Get real.
What??? That's so incredibly stupid. Many people only have a stereo system, and it's enough for console games. The directional sounds used in for example Brothers in Arms work quite well in stereo, you can really hear it when someone's behind you.
I don't have a 5.1 setup, and never will. My hi-fi is mainly used for music, and besides, most movies sound better with 2 good speakers than 5 mediocre ones.