And its all good, the more people dream this very dream the more chance you have that it becomes reality so I'm all fine with it. The thing is, realize at least its a dream, 2008 Windows over "open source" (Linux)... we are in 2005, no one in the world but the geek who write for it uses Linux, and even then if you look at the market share of each distribution (which is sadly impossible to do but easy to evaluate) its even worst. This dream CAN come true but we are far from it (so not 2008), everyday when I read Slashdot I keep reading articles that goes like: Linux is the most important OS, Linux has already conquered the world, Microsoft bowing down in front Linus Trovald, Linus named king of the world, everybody uses open source, the 3 person still using windows should quit... and so on.
I mean guys, this is total fantasy world. We all dream of the day it will be true, all of us believe me but its surely not by constantly lying to oneself about reality that this will happen. Seeing your OS of choice where it isnt can only hurt its credibility. How many times you guys have claimed Linus was now desktop ready? Lots, constantly, to a point where some people have actually tried it... big mistake huh... cause you and I know its not desktop ready, and so did all the people I know who tried it and swore they would never again...
I was talking about frequency response not jitter, hence I havent noticed the reference, whats the point in bringing jitter in a conversation about frequency response? Anyways, my bad...
You don't test frequency response by simply generating a 10K tone, you need a full spectrum analisys, stop posting as something you arent to give you credit.
In what world would a single frequency judge the entire frequency range response! Common, at least try to steal decent info from google before comming to say crap.
Lol, the shuttle would cost you way more, remember those shuttle need a lot of thing to be added and they already are pretty expensive barebone... and everyone of their lookalike too, cube box in the PC world are worth money, lots of it,
I'm writting this from my PC btw, I'm no mac fanboy but your affirmation is such an exageration that I had to react!
Dead flat!? I dont believe it, the Telefunken at SNB (a mastering studio in montreal) is the flatest piece of equipment you might come accross and this baby isn't perfect flat, it cost 85000$ originally and required over 50000$ modification to achieve such audio performance.
Dead-flat? I really doubt it, then again PC mag made the call, not Audio-Media, Post or Mix...
Computer mags and websites should sincerly refrain from judging audio... because when they do, a million techno morons go down the street speading bullshit like they know what they talk about, they just repeat lies and since no one even them knows what they are talking about and those geeks have techno credits in other peoples mind, other people start spreading the same bullshit but with the telephone game kicking in (story gets modified each time it is told...), sentences changed to "my friend who studied programming told me that the audio performance of...".
Korg have been part of them pretty often (I build project studios, home studios for musicians and artists and I've build 2 commercial studios with a team, you dont do these alone!). Musicians like the rich sound these machines are capable of producing, the Prodigy, their first physical modeling synth, emulating, you guessed it, analog synth of the old school era, was a blast to hear, it sounded so rich the Prophet 5 in unisson mode couldn't reach such richness and the bottom was incredible, bass so defined you could feel them clear on you plexus. Of course Korg is mostly none for its workstation not synth, the M1 being the most popular of them, 01w-fd following close.
Now, later on they released the Triton... man that was a mess, one of the worts workstation ever. It sounded very well but thats it. The interface was awfull, I even had a musician who was asking me to go to her house everytime she would play music so I can operate the Triton (RTFM wasnt her moto I guess...). I did for a while and stopped, felt like a ridiculous thing to do and I didnt like it at all. But it tells you a lot on the way Korg has taken this very day they built the Triton: their synth would be more like computer than synth, you would need to learn an OS to make music. They just have achieved the peak of their research... Linux in a synth. I bet this will be invisible to the user but honestly what is the point??!!
This is like guys asking for shareware fee on a software he made because it hasnt been made with a langage usually used to do it: look i made a text editor in Flash, Flash aint suppose to do that, there is a lot of work in here, it is worth at least 20$; no its not, its a piece of shit and the day ill pay for a non-working piece of software just because some geeks programmed it in a alternate non-appropriate langage is far far away.
Same goes for a synth, why the ** did they had to adapt Linux to make it run on a synth? Just because it can be done doesnt mean it has to, like Chris Rock would say: you CAN drive your car with your feet but that dont mean its a good fuckin idea!
And before you mod me down consider this: NOT a single musician in the world will view this has good news, no one, cause they make music they dont give a f* how it work, it just need to. Most of them already think samplers, synth and sequencers are way too complicated... Even if you tell them they wont have to deal with Linux in itself this will be viewed as being bad. Consider these are the same people who wouldnt come near a PC and they already think their Mac is too complicated, these people are affraid, litteraly of technology, even the techno kids that seems to know it all lose his temper and show his total inaptitude with real tech as soon as you let them loose in the computer and/or studio and something start to go wrong... techno kids! pffff; they know a bleep when they hear it, can discuss it for hours, don't know the fuck what it is... those twits are the pain of the modern studio world (one of them once told me he recorded all his CD in surround, I rest my case) but thats not the subject.
I've been playin the game constantly recently, I'm hooked, totaly but there are several flaws that will make me stop playing soon, I feel it.
1-Each and every map has a quest serie that goes a little something like this: get a lady ingredient for a pie, find a guys tools, ((kill x monsters of this type, bring x items of this type) x 6), kill the Bosses (3), go in far away land to retrieve item or give item to someone -- repeat
2-Although common to uncommon mineral (I can't speak for other ressources yet) is fair and balanced considering the amount needed to construct items as your profession evolve, the uncommon to rare ratio is ultimately ridiculous. It took me 3 days to get 6 silver ore which were needed by countless recipes of which the effect is totaly disproportionnal of the work you put in finding the ressources for its construction.
3-The profession and skills and talent system is extremely unrewarding, it take so much time to get 1% bonus in two-hand weapon damage, very ridiculous, by the time you can build a bomb that does x damage it barely removes a hint on the health bar of the creature it targets and so on...
All in all what makes this game exquisite isnt the gameplay in itself, the single move battle system and capacity to walk trough others are perfect example of that, but the sheer pleasure that you have in discovering the lands and realizing missions with others, plus the game is very well designed as far as encouraging people to be nice and helpfull to one another and just that is worth a lot in my opinion. It won't keep me paying for more than 1-2 maybe 3 month though, so I don't believe the game longevity will be that impressive.
Hearing non-audio people speaking about audio is always amusing.
Lets start with the obviously misunderstood:
96KHz is easy to produce and a good clock is, yes, very expensive. However the difference isn't a quality difference it's a latency difference. It is impossible to hear the difference between 44.1KHz, 48KHz and 96KHz or 192KHz for the simple fact that the low-pass filter cut-off point is more or less the same at the DAC output, only the filter curve is different, it is more subtle more pleasing, but wait, on converters that can do all those frequency the curve is equal to the one needed for the lowest supported sampling rate so: the only practical reason for 96KHz and up is latency, only latency; as a general rule of thumb it takes around 75 samples before what goes in, goes out, if you take 44100 sample per seconds those 75 samples takes longer to produce than if you take 96000 sample per seconds, therefore 96KHz solved one of the greatest and most annoying problem in digital recording: latency. Why 192KHz for DVDs then? Because like previsouly stated the filter curve is smoother, gentler, generates less oscillation because its not a brick wall filter anymore...
And thats just about 96KHz, 24 bit gets you an approximate theoretical max of 140dB, most converters don't produce that, not because they aren't good but because the manufacturer decided it was more pleasing to actually design a converter that requires smaller amplitude step to define outputed values, a 24 bit system with 116dB dynamic range will generally sound better than a 24 bit system with a 140dB dynamic range and no one, no movie, no orchestra produce such wide dynamic range material anyway except maybe a space shuttle taking off. Now when you go Edirol or any other company like that what you get is ADC that are 18-20 bits, each word of the stream gets 6-4 0s added to it and the output converters are real 24 bits DAC, because DAC are way cheaper than ADC, because a lot more DAC get produced than ADC no other reason.
Anyone reaching such sphere of wealth, sorry to break it to you, wasn't honest all the time. If you are really honest you will very quickly learn that the system is built in such way that you cannot get rich by being honest, you got to much taxes, rights, permits and such to pay, you make a very little cut out of everything you sell and everything you buy, because you are a business, cost you way more. The fact is that you get rich by beating the system, finding loopholes, knowing the good people who knows the good tricks and practices, you get rich by doing questionnable stuff, because bad business practices don't look like thievery but their effect is far nastier in the big scheme of thing. Every person that is rich did evil stuff or are the heir of someone who did evil stuff to get rich, no need to kill, just find a loophole and exploit it...
Canada has given over 53million$CAN to the cause and they are the first one to recommend to the group of Paris to not reduced but to place a moratorium on the debt of those countries so as to help further, as far as Canada is concerned it's moratorium takes effect immediately (cause we are actually limited in fund we do what we can, we don't give money we don't have (US) and try to block aid efforts done by the UN so as to take the spotlight (US), this is not a popularity contest this is the single worst display of nature's rage I've seen in my life and as usual US is using this to display its incredible arrogance and self-centered attitude, what a fuckin lame nation...).
Let's not rewrite the dictionnary...
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A clone is an identical copy, if the copy isn't cell for cell the exact reproduction of it's original it is not a clone, it's a twin, made with similar DNA but different nonethless. Clone is identical if it's not it's not a clone, science as this nick of rewritting the dictionnary everytime it wanna look great and take some credit, nevermind the process, nevermind the "test show DNA to be identical", if they aren't identical they aren't clones, if the test find both DNA to be identical, the test is flawed or DNA isn't the sole component of life shaping.
Clones: identical, very similar isn't enough, only identical is Twins: look alike, very similar does fit here though
Don't panic chances are the Planetary Orbital Defense Network is built by the same company that builts the Missile Defense Shield, don't panic, you KNOW it doesn't work so cool off, light one up and die gleefully.
No seriously though everytime a PC maker does a box that doesn't look like a beige/black tower with a slab of colored plastic on the front people go "OMG it's better than Apple". It's not, Alienware and Shuttle makes better looking hardware than this Azus thing, it's not that it's not of any interest but apart from a good candidate for Win Media Center this thing isn't the Peru.
As it turns out, teleprompter aren't special super expensive machines only holywood has. I know I set some up pretty often and they basically are cheaper more practical versions than the one he made. Kudos for the imagination but here is the cheaper way to do it, which as it turns out is the real thing:
1-Use a microphone stand, it is telescopic, cost less than the amount of wood seen in the article, is faster and easier to set up and can be transported more easily, no need for the big mic stand with boom and all, the simplest telescopic stand will do.
2- Place a glass instead of a mirror at the top of the mic stand, for that you will need to buy a clip that can be screwed on a mic stand or built it yourself using a microphone clip and a glass fixed to a wood pole about the size of a mic which will fit in the mic clip. Again very inexpensive, less than what you see there, glass (or plastic glass (plexiglass is even better)) is less expensive than a mirror and let the person who reads the telepromter look at the set, the crowd or whatever he needs to be looking at without looking away from the teleprompter.
3-Use the same laptop with filemaker database, or whatever other database, he is using to generate text and or images. Be aware that there are teleprompter software on the web to do exactly what I describe here, cheap sotware that let you type anything and autoscroll it to provide a live teleprompting feed.
4-Place laptop under glass and push brightness to a max, use dark backgound (usually black but the surrounding will actually dictate what is apropriate) and bright text (on black use bright rich yellow, it's more obvious than white), OR, for a feel of luxury (;) ), feed the output of your laptop to a tv screen (if your laptop has such facility) use a big size font and feed the text to the tv from afar, which let you control the prompting without having to be close to the person reading it or without having this person to switch it itself making the speech more natural and continuous, plus a tv screen is way brighter than a laptop screen so the letters (or images) will be more visible trough the glass.
TV studios and movie studios use electronic teleprompter because the let you totaly free the speaker surrounding of any prompting gear by placing the prompter beside the cam it also helps the speaker to look at the camera without much conscious effort, but for most other situation what I described here is what you will see.
Giant AntiSpyware? Who the fuck are they? Never heard of those nowhere, are you working for Microsoft and trying to pose as a Slashdot Geek so that the message gets by?
That's the other problem with this service, most cable companies in Canada limit the upload speed of their client, I have a 4.5Mbps download bandwith and a 384Kbps upload bandwith, which is wrong. You'd expect I play nice games on the web but the upload is what makes it crappy, in fact for all two-way communication I might as well consider my total bandwith to be 384Kbps, I need more or less double that for uncompressed mono audio at 16bits/44.1KHz. Compression is inevitable plus there is the problem of latency...
let's say I won't jump on the bandwagon, I'll wait to see if people fall of it first, and then there is the ridiculous pricing...
Voice over IP should cost LESS not a bit less, it's not like they have to built a network or something, they get some servers gear configure it the way they want and the trick is done. 30$ a month is what I pay here in Quebec and I consider it expensive. VOIP for 30$ a month, it should cost that a year with NO long distance fee AT ALL, since no, absolutely no extra charge is placed upon the company when you make a long distance, you don't use more of their network you just connect an IP to another IP, you do not use the phone system of another country, you do not have to pay them to communicate on their land, that's the internet, it's would be like my ISP charging me more to connect to a japanese website!
This is timeless though, a technology is proposed, supposedly it will revolutionize the field for which it has been concieve because it is so unexpensive, so cheap. A company launch the service with the new technology and instead of the consummer paying less it's the company that makes more profit, VOIP, banking machines...
The CD (in collaboration with Phillips) The DVD (in part, originally was MMCD by Sony and Phillips, then became DVD when they merged the proposed standard with another one from Toshiba, Matsushita and Time Warner) PCM1630 (de facto standard for a long time for digital audio delivery to mastering house) S/PDIF for digital audio transfer
that's all I can think of now
Cell phones are for mindless servants anyways
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That is what I don't like about cell phones. They are a great tool and all but if you start thinking about it, who need a cell phone:
-The worker who needs to be constantly reached, wheter because he is contractual or because he is "important in the company and need to be reached". Or maybe he works "on call".
-The teen who wants to be like his friend. there are no other reason to buy a cell phone for a teen, just hear them speak on their thing; "Yeah, hi, well, like I'm in the bus right now... and I'm heading toward you, I'll call you at the bus stop."... I mean she NEEDED to say that, or anything else. Kids do NOT need cell phones they do it to be like others.
-The trophy wife who likes to parade her husband's money.
All in all, they are mindless, anoying, a sort of servant, disturbing (all those women who will stop, whereever they are to answer their phone, including in the stairs or in a door frame... btw, no sexism here I just never saw a guy do this sry for the feminazis around) and all in all they are sheeps. VERY few people actually have a genuine use for a cell phone, the more they are permitted the more our society alienates itself from itself. Planes are already annoying, do we need the mindless automaton of this world to disturb us even while in the air?
"I don't want a cell phone, I want people who have cell phones"
Is that there aren't any truth in advertising. Long gone are the days of the devil in the detail, even though capitalism prepared us to what is happening now we still have to confront the harsh truth: The single most unifying caracteristic of capitalist entities is to, at any cost, give you less than what they sold you in such way that you believe you are the bad guy, the one who overevaluated the product. Try hard, when was the last time you bought something and it worked as advertised, as implied, was as sturdy and functionnal as told?
We are so used to it we even consider people who are pissed at recieving a burger that looks like a quarter of what is found on the pictures morons or naive. they are not, we are, the more we let capitalism win the more we lose. Don't get me wrong, capitalism is potentialy a great thing but only if kept on leash, real tight leash and if it's teeth are removed. Right now any occidental citizen who believe he's free should take a serious look at his lifestyle, we are servant, nothing more. You work your entire life so that a few people live happily and rich, on our sweat, with our money.
Bake off in mags: pure bullshit, period. the best way to buy products, and this is what I personnaly do with for my company, is to order test versions of said product from the company for evaluation and test the shit out of those, only then you will KNOW what is right for you. Any salesman, any publicity, bake off, review, comparison chart is a load of bullshit, whatever the site whatever the source. Every tech review website (anandtech, hardocp, tom's hardware), are all bullshit, they are held by people with agendas. the review and advices on Slashdot seen in the forums, bullshit, again, written by someone with an agenda even if this agenda is to make him look knowledgeable, an expert in some way.
the only thing I trust is my experience and it works very well, you should try.
It is being used to program games for the XBOX next, via dual G5 machines from Apple. I doubt the games are programmed on MacosX,plus, more than onesource seems to agree...
In other country Apple had problem getting indies onboard, one would have thought they would be prepared this time. This ain't gonna work if they have no music from here to sell us, The rest of Canada might appreciate but the national fiber is too strong here for a majority of people to adhere to a service that doesn't sell them their own music...
If you are a gamer, pure and hard, truly a Mac isn't the computer of choice. That's not why people use Mac or play games on them. Mac users usually want the option of running a few games, they will buy their computer for video editing, audio engineering, media content creation and management, biochemistry, genomics... that sort of thing, if it can also play games... yay!
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And its all good, the more people dream this very dream the more chance you have that it becomes reality so I'm all fine with it. The thing is, realize at least its a dream, 2008 Windows over "open source" (Linux)... we are in 2005, no one in the world but the geek who write for it uses Linux, and even then if you look at the market share of each distribution (which is sadly impossible to do but easy to evaluate) its even worst. This dream CAN come true but we are far from it (so not 2008), everyday when I read Slashdot I keep reading articles that goes like: Linux is the most important OS, Linux has already conquered the world, Microsoft bowing down in front Linus Trovald, Linus named king of the world, everybody uses open source, the 3 person still using windows should quit... and so on.
I mean guys, this is total fantasy world. We all dream of the day it will be true, all of us believe me but its surely not by constantly lying to oneself about reality that this will happen. Seeing your OS of choice where it isnt can only hurt its credibility. How many times you guys have claimed Linus was now desktop ready? Lots, constantly, to a point where some people have actually tried it... big mistake huh... cause you and I know its not desktop ready, and so did all the people I know who tried it and swore they would never again...
I was talking about frequency response not jitter, hence I havent noticed the reference, whats the point in bringing jitter in a conversation about frequency response? Anyways, my bad...
You don't test frequency response by simply generating a 10K tone, you need a full spectrum analisys, stop posting as something you arent to give you credit.
In what world would a single frequency judge the entire frequency range response! Common, at least try to steal decent info from google before comming to say crap.
Lol, the shuttle would cost you way more, remember those shuttle need a lot of thing to be added and they already are pretty expensive barebone... and everyone of their lookalike too, cube box in the PC world are worth money, lots of it,
I'm writting this from my PC btw, I'm no mac fanboy but your affirmation is such an exageration that I had to react!
Dead flat!? I dont believe it, the Telefunken at SNB (a mastering studio in montreal) is the flatest piece of equipment you might come accross and this baby isn't perfect flat, it cost 85000$ originally and required over 50000$ modification to achieve such audio performance.
Dead-flat? I really doubt it, then again PC mag made the call, not Audio-Media, Post or Mix...
Computer mags and websites should sincerly refrain from judging audio... because when they do, a million techno morons go down the street speading bullshit like they know what they talk about, they just repeat lies and since no one even them knows what they are talking about and those geeks have techno credits in other peoples mind, other people start spreading the same bullshit but with the telephone game kicking in (story gets modified each time it is told...), sentences changed to "my friend who studied programming told me that the audio performance of...".
Korg have been part of them pretty often (I build project studios, home studios for musicians and artists and I've build 2 commercial studios with a team, you dont do these alone!). Musicians like the rich sound these machines are capable of producing, the Prodigy, their first physical modeling synth, emulating, you guessed it, analog synth of the old school era, was a blast to hear, it sounded so rich the Prophet 5 in unisson mode couldn't reach such richness and the bottom was incredible, bass so defined you could feel them clear on you plexus. Of course Korg is mostly none for its workstation not synth, the M1 being the most popular of them, 01w-fd following close.
Now, later on they released the Triton... man that was a mess, one of the worts workstation ever. It sounded very well but thats it. The interface was awfull, I even had a musician who was asking me to go to her house everytime she would play music so I can operate the Triton (RTFM wasnt her moto I guess...). I did for a while and stopped, felt like a ridiculous thing to do and I didnt like it at all. But it tells you a lot on the way Korg has taken this very day they built the Triton: their synth would be more like computer than synth, you would need to learn an OS to make music. They just have achieved the peak of their research... Linux in a synth. I bet this will be invisible to the user but honestly what is the point??!!
This is like guys asking for shareware fee on a software he made because it hasnt been made with a langage usually used to do it: look i made a text editor in Flash, Flash aint suppose to do that, there is a lot of work in here, it is worth at least 20$; no its not, its a piece of shit and the day ill pay for a non-working piece of software just because some geeks programmed it in a alternate non-appropriate langage is far far away.
Same goes for a synth, why the ** did they had to adapt Linux to make it run on a synth? Just because it can be done doesnt mean it has to, like Chris Rock would say: you CAN drive your car with your feet but that dont mean its a good fuckin idea!
And before you mod me down consider this: NOT a single musician in the world will view this has good news, no one, cause they make music they dont give a f* how it work, it just need to. Most of them already think samplers, synth and sequencers are way too complicated... Even if you tell them they wont have to deal with Linux in itself this will be viewed as being bad. Consider these are the same people who wouldnt come near a PC and they already think their Mac is too complicated, these people are affraid, litteraly of technology, even the techno kids that seems to know it all lose his temper and show his total inaptitude with real tech as soon as you let them loose in the computer and/or studio and something start to go wrong... techno kids! pffff; they know a bleep when they hear it, can discuss it for hours, don't know the fuck what it is... those twits are the pain of the modern studio world (one of them once told me he recorded all his CD in surround, I rest my case) but thats not the subject.
I've been playin the game constantly recently, I'm hooked, totaly but there are several flaws that will make me stop playing soon, I feel it.
1-Each and every map has a quest serie that goes a little something like this: get a lady ingredient for a pie, find a guys tools, ((kill x monsters of this type, bring x items of this type) x 6), kill the Bosses (3), go in far away land to retrieve item or give item to someone -- repeat
2-Although common to uncommon mineral (I can't speak for other ressources yet) is fair and balanced considering the amount needed to construct items as your profession evolve, the uncommon to rare ratio is ultimately ridiculous. It took me 3 days to get 6 silver ore which were needed by countless recipes of which the effect is totaly disproportionnal of the work you put in finding the ressources for its construction.
3-The profession and skills and talent system is extremely unrewarding, it take so much time to get 1% bonus in two-hand weapon damage, very ridiculous, by the time you can build a bomb that does x damage it barely removes a hint on the health bar of the creature it targets and so on...
All in all what makes this game exquisite isnt the gameplay in itself, the single move battle system and capacity to walk trough others are perfect example of that, but the sheer pleasure that you have in discovering the lands and realizing missions with others, plus the game is very well designed as far as encouraging people to be nice and helpfull to one another and just that is worth a lot in my opinion. It won't keep me paying for more than 1-2 maybe 3 month though, so I don't believe the game longevity will be that impressive.
Hearing non-audio people speaking about audio is always amusing.
Lets start with the obviously misunderstood:
96KHz is easy to produce and a good clock is, yes, very expensive. However the difference isn't a quality difference it's a latency difference. It is impossible to hear the difference between 44.1KHz, 48KHz and 96KHz or 192KHz for the simple fact that the low-pass filter cut-off point is more or less the same at the DAC output, only the filter curve is different, it is more subtle more pleasing, but wait, on converters that can do all those frequency the curve is equal to the one needed for the lowest supported sampling rate so: the only practical reason for 96KHz and up is latency, only latency; as a general rule of thumb it takes around 75 samples before what goes in, goes out, if you take 44100 sample per seconds those 75 samples takes longer to produce than if you take 96000 sample per seconds, therefore 96KHz solved one of the greatest and most annoying problem in digital recording: latency. Why 192KHz for DVDs then? Because like previsouly stated the filter curve is smoother, gentler, generates less oscillation because its not a brick wall filter anymore...
And thats just about 96KHz, 24 bit gets you an approximate theoretical max of 140dB, most converters don't produce that, not because they aren't good but because the manufacturer decided it was more pleasing to actually design a converter that requires smaller amplitude step to define outputed values, a 24 bit system with 116dB dynamic range will generally sound better than a 24 bit system with a 140dB dynamic range and no one, no movie, no orchestra produce such wide dynamic range material anyway except maybe a space shuttle taking off. Now when you go Edirol or any other company like that what you get is ADC that are 18-20 bits, each word of the stream gets 6-4 0s added to it and the output converters are real 24 bits DAC, because DAC are way cheaper than ADC, because a lot more DAC get produced than ADC no other reason.
Hope this helps...
Anyone reaching such sphere of wealth, sorry to break it to you, wasn't honest all the time. If you are really honest you will very quickly learn that the system is built in such way that you cannot get rich by being honest, you got to much taxes, rights, permits and such to pay, you make a very little cut out of everything you sell and everything you buy, because you are a business, cost you way more. The fact is that you get rich by beating the system, finding loopholes, knowing the good people who knows the good tricks and practices, you get rich by doing questionnable stuff, because bad business practices don't look like thievery but their effect is far nastier in the big scheme of thing. Every person that is rich did evil stuff or are the heir of someone who did evil stuff to get rich, no need to kill, just find a loophole and exploit it...
I'll bite:
Canada has given over 53million$CAN to the cause and they are the first one to recommend to the group of Paris to not reduced but to place a moratorium on the debt of those countries so as to help further, as far as Canada is concerned it's moratorium takes effect immediately (cause we are actually limited in fund we do what we can, we don't give money we don't have (US) and try to block aid efforts done by the UN so as to take the spotlight (US), this is not a popularity contest this is the single worst display of nature's rage I've seen in my life and as usual US is using this to display its incredible arrogance and self-centered attitude, what a fuckin lame nation...).
A clone is an identical copy, if the copy isn't cell for cell the exact reproduction of it's original it is not a clone, it's a twin, made with similar DNA but different nonethless. Clone is identical if it's not it's not a clone, science as this nick of rewritting the dictionnary everytime it wanna look great and take some credit, nevermind the process, nevermind the "test show DNA to be identical", if they aren't identical they aren't clones, if the test find both DNA to be identical, the test is flawed or DNA isn't the sole component of life shaping.
Clones: identical, very similar isn't enough, only identical is
Twins: look alike, very similar does fit here though
Don't panic chances are the Planetary Orbital Defense Network is built by the same company that builts the Missile Defense Shield, don't panic, you KNOW it doesn't work so cool off, light one up and die gleefully.
No seriously though everytime a PC maker does a box that doesn't look like a beige/black tower with a slab of colored plastic on the front people go "OMG it's better than Apple". It's not, Alienware and Shuttle makes better looking hardware than this Azus thing, it's not that it's not of any interest but apart from a good candidate for Win Media Center this thing isn't the Peru.
As it turns out, teleprompter aren't special super expensive machines only holywood has. I know I set some up pretty often and they basically are cheaper more practical versions than the one he made. Kudos for the imagination but here is the cheaper way to do it, which as it turns out is the real thing:
;) ), feed the output of your laptop to a tv screen (if your laptop has such facility) use a big size font and feed the text to the tv from afar, which let you control the prompting without having to be close to the person reading it or without having this person to switch it itself making the speech more natural and continuous, plus a tv screen is way brighter than a laptop screen so the letters (or images) will be more visible trough the glass.
1-Use a microphone stand, it is telescopic, cost less than the amount of wood seen in the article, is faster and easier to set up and can be transported more easily, no need for the big mic stand with boom and all, the simplest telescopic stand will do.
2- Place a glass instead of a mirror at the top of the mic stand, for that you will need to buy a clip that can be screwed on a mic stand or built it yourself using a microphone clip and a glass fixed to a wood pole about the size of a mic which will fit in the mic clip. Again very inexpensive, less than what you see there, glass (or plastic glass (plexiglass is even better)) is less expensive than a mirror and let the person who reads the telepromter look at the set, the crowd or whatever he needs to be looking at without looking away from the teleprompter.
3-Use the same laptop with filemaker database, or whatever other database, he is using to generate text and or images. Be aware that there are teleprompter software on the web to do exactly what I describe here, cheap sotware that let you type anything and autoscroll it to provide a live teleprompting feed.
4-Place laptop under glass and push brightness to a max, use dark backgound (usually black but the surrounding will actually dictate what is apropriate) and bright text (on black use bright rich yellow, it's more obvious than white), OR, for a feel of luxury (
TV studios and movie studios use electronic teleprompter because the let you totaly free the speaker surrounding of any prompting gear by placing the prompter beside the cam it also helps the speaker to look at the camera without much conscious effort, but for most other situation what I described here is what you will see.
Giant AntiSpyware? Who the fuck are they? Never heard of those nowhere, are you working for Microsoft and trying to pose as a Slashdot Geek so that the message gets by?
That's the other problem with this service, most cable companies in Canada limit the upload speed of their client, I have a 4.5Mbps download bandwith and a 384Kbps upload bandwith, which is wrong. You'd expect I play nice games on the web but the upload is what makes it crappy, in fact for all two-way communication I might as well consider my total bandwith to be 384Kbps, I need more or less double that for uncompressed mono audio at 16bits/44.1KHz. Compression is inevitable plus there is the problem of latency...
let's say I won't jump on the bandwagon, I'll wait to see if people fall of it first, and then there is the ridiculous pricing...
Voice over IP should cost LESS not a bit less, it's not like they have to built a network or something, they get some servers gear configure it the way they want and the trick is done. 30$ a month is what I pay here in Quebec and I consider it expensive. VOIP for 30$ a month, it should cost that a year with NO long distance fee AT ALL, since no, absolutely no extra charge is placed upon the company when you make a long distance, you don't use more of their network you just connect an IP to another IP, you do not use the phone system of another country, you do not have to pay them to communicate on their land, that's the internet, it's would be like my ISP charging me more to connect to a japanese website!
This is timeless though, a technology is proposed, supposedly it will revolutionize the field for which it has been concieve because it is so unexpensive, so cheap. A company launch the service with the new technology and instead of the consummer paying less it's the company that makes more profit, VOIP, banking machines...
capitalism really sucks
Well:
The CD (in collaboration with Phillips)
The DVD (in part, originally was MMCD by Sony and Phillips, then became DVD when they merged the proposed standard with another one from Toshiba, Matsushita and Time Warner)
PCM1630 (de facto standard for a long time for digital audio delivery to mastering house)
S/PDIF for digital audio transfer
that's all I can think of now
That is what I don't like about cell phones. They are a great tool and all but if you start thinking about it, who need a cell phone:
-The worker who needs to be constantly reached, wheter because he is contractual or because he is "important in the company and need to be reached". Or maybe he works "on call".
-The teen who wants to be like his friend. there are no other reason to buy a cell phone for a teen, just hear them speak on their thing; "Yeah, hi, well, like I'm in the bus right now... and I'm heading toward you, I'll call you at the bus stop."... I mean she NEEDED to say that, or anything else. Kids do NOT need cell phones they do it to be like others.
-The trophy wife who likes to parade her husband's money.
All in all, they are mindless, anoying, a sort of servant, disturbing (all those women who will stop, whereever they are to answer their phone, including in the stairs or in a door frame... btw, no sexism here I just never saw a guy do this sry for the feminazis around) and all in all they are sheeps. VERY few people actually have a genuine use for a cell phone, the more they are permitted the more our society alienates itself from itself. Planes are already annoying, do we need the mindless automaton of this world to disturb us even while in the air?
"I don't want a cell phone, I want people who have cell phones"
Is that there aren't any truth in advertising. Long gone are the days of the devil in the detail, even though capitalism prepared us to what is happening now we still have to confront the harsh truth:
The single most unifying caracteristic of capitalist entities is to, at any cost, give you less than what they sold you in such way that you believe you are the bad guy, the one who overevaluated the product. Try hard, when was the last time you bought something and it worked as advertised, as implied, was as sturdy and functionnal as told?
We are so used to it we even consider people who are pissed at recieving a burger that looks like a quarter of what is found on the pictures morons or naive. they are not, we are, the more we let capitalism win the more we lose. Don't get me wrong, capitalism is potentialy a great thing but only if kept on leash, real tight leash and if it's teeth are removed. Right now any occidental citizen who believe he's free should take a serious look at his lifestyle, we are servant, nothing more. You work your entire life so that a few people live happily and rich, on our sweat, with our money.
Bake off in mags: pure bullshit, period. the best way to buy products, and this is what I personnaly do with for my company, is to order test versions of said product from the company for evaluation and test the shit out of those, only then you will KNOW what is right for you. Any salesman, any publicity, bake off, review, comparison chart is a load of bullshit, whatever the site whatever the source. Every tech review website (anandtech, hardocp, tom's hardware), are all bullshit, they are held by people with agendas. the review and advices on Slashdot seen in the forums, bullshit, again, written by someone with an agenda even if this agenda is to make him look knowledgeable, an expert in some way.
the only thing I trust is my experience and it works very well, you should try.
I'm moderating right now, I should be moderating now, but I can't, cause there aren't any entry for "creepy"
It is being used to program games for the XBOX next, via dual G5 machines from Apple. I doubt the games are programmed on MacosX,plus, more than one source seems to agree...
Alternative:
anything that isn't Bon Jovi nowadays
In other country Apple had problem getting indies onboard, one would have thought they would be prepared this time. This ain't gonna work if they have no music from here to sell us, The rest of Canada might appreciate but the national fiber is too strong here for a majority of people to adhere to a service that doesn't sell them their own music...
If you are a gamer, pure and hard, truly a Mac isn't the computer of choice. That's not why people use Mac or play games on them. Mac users usually want the option of running a few games, they will buy their computer for video editing, audio engineering, media content creation and management, biochemistry, genomics... that sort of thing, if it can also play games... yay!