The Wicker Man The Magic Christian THe Name of the Rose Videodrome Slaughterhouse 5 Ugetsu Monogatari In The Realm of the Senses Tokyo Decadence Highway 61 Tampopo Andy Warhol's Trash, Heat, & Flesh Hiroshima Mon Amour Sid & Nancy Rosemary's Baby Liquid Sky Mr Hulot's Holiday
rs232, tcp/ip, and IR control, digital out, tv out (composite and s-video), analog out, analog in, built-in samba and webserver, runs QNX, excellent support, pre-written modules for control from high-end systems like Crestron, drives are swappable, fully-documented open protocols, java remote, etc, etc. Highly recommended. I have an ARQ1 that I'm very happy with, and I get to play with ARQ2-135's almost everyday.
(I have played with Arrakis DC6, Escient Fireball's, Lansonic, and prefer the AudioRequest by far. If I was going to recommend a runner up, it would be the Arrakis because of the 6 zones, but the AudioRequest wins for me because of MP3 support, upcoming OggVorbis support, better interfaces and it is their primary business).
It's really a waste of your time if you want to have a reliable, maintainable, system. The price of a small Panasonic keysystem is worth it, and there are plenty of places that support them. You'll end up with a much better solution plus if you're putting this in your house, it'll *increase* the resale value of your house. A roll-your-own solution based on a trash pc will *decrease* the value of your house.
The story I've always been told is that when President Carter tried to switch the US to the metric system, the aerospace companies stepped in and told him a couple things:
1) cost plus on government contracts is going to be a much bigger PLUS
2) it'll hurt US manufacturing by making it easier for those foreigners to sell their products here (without conversion to US measurements)
For anyone interested in brushing up on calculus, I highly recommend Howard Swann's cartoon opus, "Professor E. McSquared's Calculus Primer"
It is the best introduction to Calculus I've ever come across, and while many mathematicians know of the book and recommend it, it is rarely seen in bookstores.
Unlike most calculus books which assume you already know calculus, Prof. E. McSquared assumes that you will have difficulty with calculus and patiently explains some of the difficult initial concepts.
All the staff will become stronger as a result of having an additional flavour of Unix.
Having only one vendors' implementation of Unix weakens a staff. They become blinded by minor differences rather than appreciating the power, depth, and flexibility of Unix.
There is a couple programs to play shogi - If you are on a normal system, GNU Shogi.
People cursed to be on a windoze platform might check out Shocky
If you prefer tactile response, you may want to go here instead.
aem
slow news day? Time to dredge up old toys?
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USB Remote Control
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This has been out and well-publicized for months! Why is it on slashdot? It's been onsale since about september of last year! Everyone and their brother has reviewed it! It's been featured on remotecentral since february!
Is slashdot near death? Tell me something new, not something that has been beat to death elsewhere!
RealNames did not need anyone to make their "technology irrelevent". They did that themselves. It was a poor idea, executed poorly, dependent on a unreliable partner, and should have failed much sooner. The real losers are the people who invested because they thought that having microsoft as a partner spelled success.
Similar question: for those of us with Audio Request or Arrakis network music servers, what will the CD do?
While these are computer-controlled, they are absolutely not computers but audio servers for providing whole-house audio. They read the audio cd using a cd-rom however. Damage to one of these X-thousand dollars devices would really piss me off.
Having reviewed the article my comments stand. It is an interesting paper, and I recommend reading it. I believe there are some sampling shortcomings and my comments re buffers and pulse-stretching are right on, but it is interesting research that Loughry and Umphress have done and does reveal a shortcoming in a small number of communications devices.
dr. andrew mossberg. Member of the ACM since 1980.
(having not yet read the article) the premise is unlikely since most LED's on front panels are designed to stay on for longer than the actual activity lasts - in order to present useful information. If there was a one-to-one correspondence between the data and the LED - it would usually appear to a human viewer as an always-on-but-dim LED since the blink-on time would be so short.
To put it another way - there's a buffer before the LED.
Don't be sarcastic. You shot yourself in your foot by making that last comment.
Meta tags can not be used to index a site on many of the most popular search engines. I'm sorry that you are perhaps a macromedia stockholder, but that doesn't make flash a good choice for accessible websites.
If you had done the most basic research on web accessibility, as I have on many occasions, you would know that my lynx reference is a very basic check step to ensure accessibility. The first step of making an accessible site is to make sure that there is appropriate TEXT for everything. Not images that might resemble text. Not images that might contain pictures of text. TEXT.
For the more intelligent readers, bobby is good for checking sites.
Absolutely a good point. Flash sites don't index properly.
I have customers who complain to me about their sites not showing up on search engines, and get the fun of explaining that their choice of web designers screwed them.
I think the other points about accessibility issues are also right on. Microsoft accessibility solutions are not a step forward, but a step backward. Sites that are truly accessible should be usuable and navigable via lynx+a text reader.
If they're so successful at restricting access to the Internet, why are 10% of the spam sources and 8% of the hacking attempts against my servers from.cn domains?
As someone else mentioned, the original deal was 4 at one time for $19.95, since degraded to 3 at one time. I was also grandfathered in - and that kept me a subscriber for an extra couple months.
At this point, there are other companies that do distance rental, both at a pris fixe a la Netflix
or individually at a deeper discount than blockbuster including shipping. If I were in need of a regular dvd fix, I would try out the alternatives before returning to NetFlix.
I was a member of netflix for 10 months - overall it was good, but...
1. interesting movies (like cult movies, or special interest) were extremely limited, so the waiting list was often on the order of MONTHS
2. popular movies, ibid.
3. initially they were quick to send out movies when your movies were returned. By the time I canceled (sept), they would sit on returns for a few days before sending out the movie at the top of my queue.
4. when I canceled, they charged me for the movies en-route back to them 2 DAYS after cancellation despite their policy that says otherwise.
Yet another reason not to buy an XBox! Between crashing demo units, crappy customer service on defective units, and an imminent HomeStation that makes the XBox obsolete, there's absolutely no reason for anyone to even consider buying an XBox!
GE has been selling their fuel cell systems for over a year. Sizes from whole house residential systems to commercial building-sized units.
They use propane (or natural gas?) and extract the hydrogen from there. Still have the problem of storage, but at least propane/natural gas storage is common and suppliers abound.
Hint: "US-controlled GPS". If you were a sovereign nation would you want to trust that the US would continue providing reasonable accurate signals globally, or would you want to have a multinational system that couldn't be turned off, or be switched to provide misleading information.
I posted this story a last friday and it was rejected, despite links to EFF, CPSR, EPIC, FAIR, and FAS, organizations seeking to safeguard civil liberties which "timothy" and "Saratoga C++" are apparently not familiar with.
Along with links to the House and Senate so people could look up the bills themselves. It too late now for slashdot'rs to do much - Bush will sign it in to law today I'm sure.
I guess it was far more important to discuss MSN, MP3s, ATI and the like rather than THE LOSS OF CIVIL LIBERTIES AND UNIVERSAL MONITORING OF NETWORK TRAFFIC. Good Job Slashdot! Toys are much more important than life, right?
BSST. Wrong. Any congress critter that is on any COMMITTEE is *supposed* to be representing more than just their narrow geographical constituency.
If they ignore comments that are relevant to their committee roles, then a written letter should be sent to the speaker of the house or senate and the committee chair suggesting their participation in the committee be terminated.
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The Wicker Man
The Magic Christian
THe Name of the Rose
Videodrome
Slaughterhouse 5
Ugetsu Monogatari
In The Realm of the Senses
Tokyo Decadence
Highway 61
Tampopo
Andy Warhol's Trash, Heat, & Flesh
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Sid & Nancy
Rosemary's Baby
Liquid Sky
Mr Hulot's Holiday
All of these make my top 50 list
aem
ARQ2-135 or their new TeraServer
Absolutely the best engineered component MP3 player available.
ReQuest Multimedia
rs232, tcp/ip, and IR control, digital out, tv out (composite and s-video), analog out, analog in, built-in samba and webserver, runs QNX, excellent support, pre-written modules for control from high-end systems like Crestron, drives are swappable, fully-documented open protocols, java remote, etc, etc. Highly recommended. I have an ARQ1 that I'm very happy with, and I get to play with ARQ2-135's almost everyday.
PR link at request
(I have played with Arrakis DC6, Escient Fireball's, Lansonic, and prefer the AudioRequest by far. If I was going to recommend a runner up, it would be the Arrakis because of the 6 zones, but the AudioRequest wins for me because of MP3 support, upcoming OggVorbis support, better interfaces and it is their primary business).
Consider the value of your time!
It's really a waste of your time if you want to have a reliable, maintainable, system. The price of a small Panasonic keysystem is worth it, and there are plenty of places that support them. You'll end up with a much better solution plus if you're putting this in your house, it'll *increase* the resale value of your house. A roll-your-own solution based on a trash pc will *decrease* the value of your house.
Anonymous Coward, were you even alive in 1976?
Yes, many aerospace engineers use metric now. They didn't in the mid-1970's.
The story I've always been told is that when President Carter tried to switch the US to the metric system, the aerospace companies stepped in and told him a couple things:
1) cost plus on government contracts is going to be a much bigger PLUS
2) it'll hurt US manufacturing by making it easier for those foreigners to sell their products here (without conversion to US measurements)
For anyone interested in brushing up on calculus, I highly recommend Howard Swann's cartoon opus,
t ml
"Professor E. McSquared's Calculus Primer"
It is the best introduction to Calculus I've ever come across, and while many mathematicians know of the book and recommend it, it is rarely seen in bookstores.
Unlike most calculus books which assume you already know calculus, Prof. E. McSquared assumes that you will have difficulty with calculus and patiently explains some of the difficult initial concepts.
The best place to get it is from Dr. Howard Swann himself (who is at San Jose State University), via
http://www.mathcs.sjsu.edu/faculty/swann/mcsqrd.h
All the staff will become stronger as a result of
having an additional flavour of Unix.
Having only one vendors' implementation of Unix weakens a staff. They become blinded by minor differences rather than appreciating the power, depth, and flexibility of Unix.
aem
There is a couple programs to play shogi - If you are on a normal system, GNU Shogi.
People cursed to be on a windoze platform might check out Shocky
If you prefer tactile response, you may want to go here instead.
aem
This has been out and well-publicized for months! Why is it on slashdot? It's been onsale since about september of last year!
Everyone and their brother has reviewed it! It's been featured on remotecentral since february!
Is slashdot near death? Tell me something new, not something that has been beat to death elsewhere!
RealNames did not need anyone to make their "technology irrelevent". They did that themselves. It was a poor idea, executed poorly, dependent on a unreliable partner, and should have failed much sooner. The real losers are the people who invested because they thought that having microsoft as a partner spelled success.
aem
Similar question: for those of us with Audio Request or Arrakis network music servers, what will the CD do?
While these are computer-controlled, they are absolutely not computers but audio servers for providing whole-house audio. They read the audio
cd using a cd-rom however. Damage to one of these X-thousand dollars devices would really piss me off.
aem
Having reviewed the article my comments stand. It is an interesting paper, and I recommend reading it. I believe there are some sampling shortcomings and my comments re buffers and pulse-stretching are right on, but it is interesting research that Loughry and Umphress have done and does reveal a shortcoming in a small number of communications devices.
dr. andrew mossberg.
Member of the ACM since 1980.
(having not yet read the article) the premise is unlikely since most LED's on front panels are designed to stay on for longer than the actual activity lasts - in order to present useful information. If there was a one-to-one correspondence between the data and the LED - it would usually appear to a human viewer as an always-on-but-dim LED since the blink-on time would be so short.
To put it another way - there's a buffer before the LED.
Don't be sarcastic. You shot yourself in your foot by making that last comment.
Meta tags can not be used to index a site on many of the most popular search engines. I'm sorry that you are perhaps a macromedia stockholder, but that doesn't make flash a good choice for accessible websites.
If you had done the most basic research on web accessibility, as I have on many occasions, you would know that my lynx reference is a very basic check step to ensure accessibility. The first step of making an accessible site is to make sure that there is appropriate TEXT for everything. Not images that might resemble text. Not images that might contain pictures of text. TEXT.
For the more intelligent readers,
bobby is good for checking sites.
dr. andrew e. mossberg
Absolutely a good point. Flash sites don't index properly.
I have customers who complain to me about their sites not showing up on search engines, and get the fun of explaining that their choice of web designers screwed them.
I think the other points about accessibility issues are also right on. Microsoft accessibility solutions are not a step forward, but a step backward. Sites that are truly accessible should be usuable and navigable via lynx+a text reader.
aem
is windows "a stable and consistent development platform,"?
Is there a version of windows I missed?
If they're so successful at restricting access to the Internet, why are 10% of the spam sources and 8% of the hacking attempts against my servers from .cn domains?
As someone else mentioned, the original deal was 4 at one time for $19.95, since degraded to 3 at one time. I was also grandfathered in - and that kept me a subscriber for an extra couple months.
At this point, there are other companies that do distance rental, both at a pris fixe a la Netflix
or individually at a deeper discount than blockbuster including shipping. If I were in need of a regular dvd fix, I would try out the alternatives before returning to NetFlix.
I was a member of netflix for 10 months - overall it was good, but...
1. interesting movies (like cult movies, or special interest) were extremely limited, so the waiting list was often on the order of MONTHS
2. popular movies, ibid.
3. initially they were quick to send out movies when your movies were returned. By the time I canceled (sept), they would sit on returns for a few days before sending out the movie at the top of my queue.
4. when I canceled, they charged me for the movies en-route back to them 2 DAYS after cancellation despite their policy that says otherwise.
aem
Yes, what's up with the moderators?
They are rejecting submissions and then days later when it is no longer NEWS approving the same submissions from their friends!
The S/N ratio on slashdot is getting worse. I finally giving serious thought to dropping it from my daily reading list.
Dr. Andrew E. Mossberg
Yet another reason not to buy an XBox! Between crashing demo units, crappy customer service on defective units, and an imminent HomeStation that makes the XBox obsolete, there's absolutely no reason for anyone to even consider buying an XBox!
GE has been selling their fuel cell systems for over a year. Sizes from whole house residential systems to commercial building-sized units.
They use propane (or natural gas?) and extract the hydrogen from there. Still have the problem of storage, but at least propane/natural gas storage is common and suppliers abound.
Hint: "US-controlled GPS". If you were a sovereign nation would you want to trust that the US would continue providing reasonable accurate signals globally, or would you want to have a multinational system that couldn't be turned off, or be switched to provide misleading information.
I guess it was far more important to discuss MSN, MP3s, ATI and the like rather than THE LOSS OF CIVIL LIBERTIES AND UNIVERSAL MONITORING OF NETWORK TRAFFIC. Good Job Slashdot! Toys are much more important than life, right?
BSST. Wrong. Any congress critter that is on any COMMITTEE is *supposed* to be representing more than just their narrow geographical constituency.
If they ignore comments that are relevant to their committee roles, then a written letter should be sent to the speaker of the house or senate and the committee chair suggesting their participation in the committee be terminated.