...you can keep your old Xbox? I mean, turn it into a real entertainment centre -- mod it, run Xbox Media Center, arcade games and old console games under emulation on it, along with the Xbox games you care for. I'll never let go of mine, no matter which (if any) next-gen console I buy.
So if it did play those files correctly, would you be bitching about how the battery doesn't last long enough on a charge because of poor power management? Just curious.
Absolutely not. I have a 1G iPod mini, and I have never had trouble getting through the day with one charge. That's enough for me. I also have a nano (that's going back *very* quickly) that stutters on tracks that play completely cleanly on the old mini. If I were to choose, sound quality would always come before battery life. And actually, throttling the CPU down so much that it can't process the sound file on time *is* poor power management.
They seem to love touch-control tech, and so do consumers. Why not do away with the wheel and put a touch LCD in its place? This LCD displays a wheel that functions the same as the physical wheel, but also slides away when you want to input names and numbers into your address book. You can plug your headset in and make VoIP calls in WiFi hotspots, or record audio directly onto your iPod. The touch LCD navigation makes it easy to create playlists and name them.
Yeah, right. Have you seen how easy it is to get even the current models all smudged up with fingerprints? A touch LCD might look great at the store, but in practise when you've already bought it.... oh wait, that's iPod nano right there already:-)
They are definitely going for the worse. There's still no gapless playback for any format, let alone mp3, but the newest generation can't even play Lame encoded VBR mp3's correctly! Apparently it's due to the aggressive power saving feature that can't keep up with the wild fluctuations in bitrate, causing stutters on some material.
I would strongly advise against buying an iPod now, but instead to wait and see if this cardinal bug will be fixed or not.
Creative bought E-mu already in the mid-90's. The first Creative card to use an E-mu DSP (e8000) was the Sound Blaster AWE32, which was basically an SB16 with an E-mu sampler on board. The whole 10k-series, used in Lives and Audigys, is just an evolution of the all-in-one sampler chips once used in E-mu rackmounts.
On the cover of the "Tieto" magazine on Earth it a headline reads "Pissa vai kakka - kumpi on hauskempi?", roughly translated "piss or poo - which one's funnier?"
More likely, XBMC just b0rked for some reason. If you have a very recent CVS build, the internal DVD player in XBMC is passable, but anything older than two weeks just didn't work too well.
XBMC does *not* care about region coding, CSS or anything else on the DVD -- it just plays it.
If you can't get a DVD to play with XBMC, try DVDX or the MS player.
Ok, go and rip a live or mix (as in tunes mixed together with no gaps in between) CD and transfer it to your iPod.
First, play the audio CD on a real CD player. Notice the smooth transition from one song to next.
Now try the iPod -- you'll get audible gaps (almost a second) in between the tracks, which totally kill the mood. I.e. the iPod can't play an album, something CD players, turntables, cassette decks and whatever have done forever.
Now, before someone notes that MP3 isn't gapless by design -- no it isn't, but there are ways around that. Ways that even the market leader in MP3 players should go.
No gapless MP3 playback! Come on, the Rio Karma could do it years ago. I've got a 1st gen Mini now, but I won't buy another iPod before they can do gapless. Mix albums just don't work now.
Of course, they'd have to start with iTunes. A jukebox that can't do gapless is severely b0rked IMO..sc
Know why? Adobe Reader 7 (and I'd guess Acrobat 7 too) start a speed launch app at system startup... of course, the downside is slower system startup and a couple of megs of lost RAM. Which isn't all that much if you consider that Logitech's latest mouse drivers take up to ten...
Although I can't vouch for the quality, since they apparently restructured the company when they changed the name, and outsourced the production.
They didn't outsource, but spun off the non-core businesses. The boots are supposedly the same as ever.
In addition to the rubber boot factory, there's Nokian Tyres(best studded winter tyres available, btw), and the TV set manufacturer Finlux.
Keytronic (and Unicomp) not in Europe...
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KeyTronic quit the EU market from the beginning of August 2005. They probably don't even make the various European layouts any more. Unicomp says that most layouts are available on order, but you'll have to order from the USA, ($79 + overseas shipping)*1,22 and the price including VAT isn't all that realistic.
Bottom line -- in the EU we're just supposed to scour through junk heaps to find some working IBM clickers...
seems like you need to rip up another turntable to make this floppy turntable with its unreliable motor...
If you didn't know, a stylus is *not* an integral part of a turntable. It's a component (replaceable or not) of a *cartridge*. They're sold separately, just like tonearms so no ripping up involved.
This project only aimed to build a turntable(plinth, platter, bearing + motor), and not a tonearm or cartridge. They would be much more complex to DIY.
That resolution of 1024x768 (which was cool in 1997), and the non-CoreImage graphics card makes the thing look old at the day of introduction!
Mobility Radeon 9550 is just a lower-clocked version of the M9600, and perfectly capable of doing CoreImage effects. The 32 meg VRAM should be plenty for just 1024x768. Which, by the way, is a very good resolution for a 12" screen, IMO. The 14" could use some improvement however.
Because it will be illegal/against the DMCA/against copyright law in your country/against the Mac OS X EULA to run Mac OS X on anything but Apple hardware, as it currently is today.
I understand the part about the DMCA, if (and when) hacking will be needed to get OS X running on commodity hardware. But how would that violate copyright law in countries with more sane legislation, or even in the USA? Assuming, of course, that the person has bought a legal copy of OS X.
Most keyboard players hold his old Kurzweil Music Systems products in high esteem. The K250 (introduced in 1984) was one of the first affordable samplers that was actually any good (no, the E-mu Emulator wasn't all that good)...
From Vintage Synth Explorer's Kurzweil K250 page:
One of the first keyboard samplers, it was great then and still good today. It has an adjustable sample rate of 5kHz to 50kHz which means 100 to 10 seconds of sampling time, respectively. Its sampler was also 16-bit. Many other samplers of this time had much more limited sampling/digital audio specs which made this synth a very prominent keyboard. By todays standards, however, this synth has many limitations such as samples are stored directly on Apple Mac disks only. But it had extremely modern features that make this synth easy to use and quite versatile.
It has a 12-track sequencer, chorus, transpose, tune, 36 ROM sounds, 96 pristine quality acoustic instruments, 341 presets, 12 voice polyphony, 2 LFO's per voice, variable sampling rate, truncation, looping, velocity crossfading, full 88 weighted keyboard, MIDI and more! Of course the newer K2000 series is supposed to be better, but the K250 still seems like a major contender even in todays modern synthesizer era. It was also available in keyboardless Expander (pictured above) or as a rackmount module.
It has been used by Stevie Wonder, Sean Hopper, Richard Wright, Patrick Moraz, Paul Shaffer, Lorin Hollander, Michael Kamen, Kitaro, and John Carpenter.
Let's face it: iTunes *still* can't play back albums properly. Sure, a part of the problem is the inherent final-frame padding in the MP3 format, and crossfading can sometimes disguise the problem. Still, this POS can't do what CD players have done for over 20 years.
Better yet, having gapless support in iTunes might mean we could one day have a gapless iPod (*GASP*)...
They're not switching G5's for P4's. The transition will start from the low end and laptops -- Apple want to get rid of the G4 chip finally. They'll start using Pentium-M's, probably the then-current Dothan version in either single or dual core versions, and probably with AMD64 extensions.
To be fair they were used on Atari STs as well, which had similar sound hardware (until the STE which had multichannel 16bit though a DSP).
No it didn't. The ST's had a 3-channel Yamaha YM2149 FM sound chip that didn't do native sample playback, which in itself was a hack. Sounded really bad too.
The STE's had 8-bit DAC's, but IIRC there were only two of them, so software mixing for MOD playback was still needed. That DSP you're thinking of was in the Falcon, the floppy ST sequel that finally passed the Amiga in sound capabilities -- 8-channel 16-bit, although I'm not sure if the Moto DSP mixed these in software, or if there was a dedicated chip...
I particularly loved, back in the 9x days, how--after the computer crashes and forces you to restart--you are slapped on the wrist for shutting down the computer wrong.
Exactly! I always wondered why no-one bothered to hack a version of scandisk.exe that would say "Because Windows was not designed properly, one of your disks has to be checked for errors."
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...you can keep your old Xbox? I mean, turn it into a real entertainment centre -- mod it, run Xbox Media Center, arcade games and old console games under emulation on it, along with the Xbox games you care for. I'll never let go of mine, no matter which (if any) next-gen console I buy.
You forget the Nintendo Revolution. Small, innovative and non-evil.
Absolutely not. I have a 1G iPod mini, and I have never had trouble getting through the day with one charge. That's enough for me. I also have a nano (that's going back *very* quickly) that stutters on tracks that play completely cleanly on the old mini. If I were to choose, sound quality would always come before battery life. And actually, throttling the CPU down so much that it can't process the sound file on time *is* poor power management.
Yeah, right. Have you seen how easy it is to get even the current models all smudged up with fingerprints? A touch LCD might look great at the store, but in practise when you've already bought it.... oh wait, that's iPod nano right there already :-)
I would strongly advise against buying an iPod now, but instead to wait and see if this cardinal bug will be fixed or not.
Creative bought E-mu already in the mid-90's. The first Creative card to use an E-mu DSP (e8000) was the Sound Blaster AWE32, which was basically an SB16 with an E-mu sampler on board. The whole 10k-series, used in Lives and Audigys, is just an evolution of the all-in-one sampler chips once used in E-mu rackmounts.
Not a line as such, but...
On the cover of the "Tieto" magazine on Earth it a headline reads "Pissa vai kakka - kumpi on hauskempi?", roughly translated "piss or poo - which one's funnier?"
More likely, XBMC just b0rked for some reason. If you have a very recent CVS build, the internal DVD player in XBMC is passable, but anything older than two weeks just didn't work too well.
XBMC does *not* care about region coding, CSS or anything else on the DVD -- it just plays it.
If you can't get a DVD to play with XBMC, try DVDX or the MS player.
They don't, it's the other way around -- Mini has a 9200, iBook a 9550.
See also: http://www.pretentiousname.com/mp3players/
Ok, go and rip a live or mix (as in tunes mixed together with no gaps in between) CD and transfer it to your iPod.
First, play the audio CD on a real CD player. Notice the smooth transition from one song to next.
Now try the iPod -- you'll get audible gaps (almost a second) in between the tracks, which totally kill the mood. I.e. the iPod can't play an album, something CD players, turntables, cassette decks and whatever have done forever.
Now, before someone notes that MP3 isn't gapless by design -- no it isn't, but there are ways around that. Ways that even the market leader in MP3 players should go.
No gapless MP3 playback! Come on, the Rio Karma could do it years ago. I've got a 1st gen Mini now, but I won't buy another iPod before they can do gapless. Mix albums just don't work now.
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Of course, they'd have to start with iTunes. A jukebox that can't do gapless is severely b0rked IMO.
Know why? Adobe Reader 7 (and I'd guess Acrobat 7 too) start a speed launch app at system startup... of course, the downside is slower system startup and a couple of megs of lost RAM. Which isn't all that much if you consider that Logitech's latest mouse drivers take up to ten...
They didn't outsource, but spun off the non-core businesses. The boots are supposedly the same as ever.
In addition to the rubber boot factory, there's Nokian Tyres(best studded winter tyres available, btw), and the TV set manufacturer Finlux.
KeyTronic quit the EU market from the beginning of August 2005. They probably don't even make the various European layouts any more. Unicomp says that most layouts are available on order, but you'll have to order from the USA, ($79 + overseas shipping)*1,22 and the price including VAT isn't all that realistic.
Bottom line -- in the EU we're just supposed to scour through junk heaps to find some working IBM clickers...
If you didn't know, a stylus is *not* an integral part of a turntable. It's a component (replaceable or not) of a *cartridge*. They're sold separately, just like tonearms so no ripping up involved.
This project only aimed to build a turntable(plinth, platter, bearing + motor), and not a tonearm or cartridge. They would be much more complex to DIY.
Mobility Radeon 9550 is just a lower-clocked version of the M9600, and perfectly capable of doing CoreImage effects. The 32 meg VRAM should be plenty for just 1024x768. Which, by the way, is a very good resolution for a 12" screen, IMO. The 14" could use some improvement however.
I understand the part about the DMCA, if (and when) hacking will be needed to get OS X running on commodity hardware. But how would that violate copyright law in countries with more sane legislation, or even in the USA? Assuming, of course, that the person has bought a legal copy of OS X.
From Vintage Synth Explorer's Kurzweil K250 page:
Check out the rest of the range: http://www.vintagesynth.com/kurzweil/
Let's face it: iTunes *still* can't play back albums properly. Sure, a part of the problem is the inherent final-frame padding in the MP3 format, and crossfading can sometimes disguise the problem. Still, this POS can't do what CD players have done for over 20 years.
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Better yet, having gapless support in iTunes might mean we could one day have a gapless iPod (*GASP*)
http://www.students.tut.fi/~seres/DAS_en.html
(the page is in English, btw)
They're not switching G5's for P4's. The transition will start from the low end and laptops -- Apple want to get rid of the G4 chip finally. They'll start using Pentium-M's, probably the then-current Dothan version in either single or dual core versions, and probably with AMD64 extensions.
I think you've been misinformed... there has *never* been a sexy female soccer player. The whole sport is strictly off limits to everyone but tomboys.
No it didn't. The ST's had a 3-channel Yamaha YM2149 FM sound chip that didn't do native sample playback, which in itself was a hack. Sounded really bad too.
The STE's had 8-bit DAC's, but IIRC there were only two of them, so software mixing for MOD playback was still needed. That DSP you're thinking of was in the Falcon, the floppy ST sequel that finally passed the Amiga in sound capabilities -- 8-channel 16-bit, although I'm not sure if the Moto DSP mixed these in software, or if there was a dedicated chip...
Exactly! I always wondered why no-one bothered to hack a version of scandisk.exe that would say "Because Windows was not designed properly, one of your disks has to be checked for errors."