Re:"Gaining speeds of up to 140mph"?
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Also, according to the article, they prep the cars by taking out the engine and the transmission. I guess this is so the planes can take off with them easier, etc. I'm sure this has a huge effect on their terminal velocity.
I thought 140mph was way too slow as well, until I read that. With just an empty sheet metal body it would still have the same surface area but a lot less mass.
This has been around a pretty long time; I built a component stereo MP3 player almost 2 years ago now.
It runs all the mp3's off of my serve in the basement over ethernet, so there is no need for a hard drive or any other spinning, noisy moving parts.
It's pretty cool, and it cost maybe $100 to put together. And it is very non-vapor, cause I've been using it for many moons.
I agree completely. The brilliance of napster wasnt really the easy UI or peer to peer stuff; that had arguably been done before. The read brilliance of it, in my opinion, was that when you clicked the X in the corner to cloase it, it would just minimize. When I first saw that last september... I was extatic. Oh, and lets not forget the fact that if you left it alone for a while, it would start to scan directories to share. At least on the early versions. The point is that napster made it so the thosands of people who just dont care about computers beyond thier immediate use [nothing wrong with that], would be serving lots of files by default. Gnutella, on the other hand, makes you click a couple times to set a share directory. I know, its easy, but still, people wont do it as much. And when you close gnutella, it actually closes! It's not he end of the world, I can still find mp3s...its just that napster made it way easier and nicer. And I'll miss it.
Publish? Not really... Of course, you connect to other people, and they get your IP address. But then, that's the same a s napster. I think Freenet is the only one that offers some type of disguise for your IP address and identity. Most of the other protocols require that everyone give out IP addresses... otherwise, how can you connect to other people?
While surveys like this are a nice way to laugh at the RIAA, think about the long-term implications. 10 years from now, can you honestly say that MP3-type files [mediumless, unencrypted, digital audio, whatever the format may be] will encourage CD sales?? Or whatever type sales there are in 2010? The RIAA et al are not going after this for their immediate defense; this is obviously not a threat in the next 1 or 2 years. But I think they can see where this is headed, and that's what worries them.
Hmmm... Come on, don't tell me no one noticed the obvous similarities to the whole "Aqua" theme. That was the first thing I thought of when I saw it; the shaded blue lines and white background... Anyone agree?
What, exactly, does this program *do*? I can go run gnut and just search for an mp3. I then get a big list of matches, complete with IP addresses. How else am I supposed to download the file if I dont have the IP? Anyway, I'm not worried about this kind of thing. So they have your IP address. Fortunately, they also have about 10K other IP addresses. Who can they complain to? The ISPs? They'd have to complain to hundreds of ISPs, most of which wouldn't care. It's just not feasable. The whole SNR thing is much more of a problem, if you ask me.
Ok, this is slashdot, we're mostly linux computer-types here... I can beleive no one's mentioned CAJUN. It used to be at http://cajun.current.nu, but that seems to be down. Anyone know who's maintaining it? Anyway, it basically turns a linux box into a jukebox... Mine is kindof neat, I mounted a pentium motherboard into a tape deck. It runs LIRC [linux infrared remote control] and so I control it with my reciever's remote. It also has a nifty LCD screen. Also, because I wanted it to sound good, I bought a fancy SBlive and use SP/DIF, and also took out all the fans and spun down the hard drive. So now it just plays mp3s over ethernet from the samba server in my basement. Definetly not mass market or anything, and a real pain to build... but it's so 1337... Ive got my ram image of it here along with some really bad blurry pictures. I hope cajun is progressing 'cause it is really cool.
Re:I don't like these Quickiefests.
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But see... That's what makes slashdot great! All the sortof meta-data / overhead. It wouldn't be slashdot without trolls lurking under the -1 bridge, and mindelss quickies and whatnot. Otherwise this place would just be cnn.com, or worse, cnet... Quickies [and more recently, slashback] are good places to concentrate this meta-data stuff.
So, the worth of this discussion is, uh, qualitative, not quantitative.
This is why everyone needs a bunch of thin clients, and a big server in their basement next to the furnace... While that wont happen for a while, there are a bunch of things you can do; I have a machine _under_clocked and all the fans taken out. And it loads linux into an 8M ramdisk, after which the hard drive spins down. It is utterly silent. There are some blurry pictures of it here.
This seems like one of the areas in which we actually arent competing with microsoft. Sure, theres cakewalk and stuff, but a lot of cool stuff is on amigas, ataris, etc. That doesn't make it any easier to advance in the field really, but I cant imagine that any professional sound engineers would use windows.
(Mainly because my friends & I had such a hassle recording a few songs using windows)
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One thing people haven't mentioned is the fact that now.vob files can be played on computers without any DVD drives at all. My freind ripped the Matrix a few days ago and sent it to me overnight. Now I can watch the DVD without even buying a drive, let alone the actual disk. I just don't see how copyrights can hold out against this kind of thing.
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Also, according to the article, they prep the cars by taking out the engine and the transmission. I guess this is so the planes can take off with them easier, etc. I'm sure this has a huge effect on their terminal velocity.
I thought 140mph was way too slow as well, until I read that. With just an empty sheet metal body it would still have the same surface area but a lot less mass.
This has been around a pretty long time; I built a component stereo MP3 player almost 2 years ago now.
It runs all the mp3's off of my serve in the basement over ethernet, so there is no need for a hard drive or any other spinning, noisy moving parts.
It's pretty cool, and it cost maybe $100 to put together. And it is very non-vapor, cause I've been using it for many moons.
Thats exactly what I have in my dorm room, no joke. ... its perl and stuff designed to do just that.
Check out CAJUN
I agree completely. .its just that napster made it way easier and nicer. And I'll miss it.
The brilliance of napster wasnt really the easy UI or peer to peer stuff; that had arguably been done before.
The read brilliance of it, in my opinion, was that when you clicked the X in the corner to cloase it, it would just minimize. When I first saw that last september... I was extatic.
Oh, and lets not forget the fact that if you left it alone for a while, it would start to scan directories to share. At least on the early versions.
The point is that napster made it so the thosands of people who just dont care about computers beyond thier immediate use [nothing wrong with that], would be serving lots of files by default. Gnutella, on the other hand, makes you click a couple times to set a share directory. I know, its easy, but still, people wont do it as much. And when you close gnutella, it actually closes!
It's not he end of the world, I can still find mp3s..
Publish? Not really...
Of course, you connect to other people, and they get your IP address. But then, that's the same a s napster.
I think Freenet is the only one that offers some type of disguise for your IP address and identity. Most of the other protocols require that everyone give out IP addresses... otherwise, how can you connect to other people?
While surveys like this are a nice way to laugh at the RIAA, think about the long-term implications. 10 years from now, can you honestly say that MP3-type files [mediumless, unencrypted, digital audio, whatever the format may be] will encourage CD sales?? Or whatever type sales there are in 2010? The RIAA et al are not going after this for their immediate defense; this is obviously not a threat in the next 1 or 2 years.
But I think they can see where this is headed, and that's what worries them.
Hmmm...
Come on, don't tell me no one noticed the obvous similarities to the whole "Aqua" theme. That was the first thing I thought of when I saw it; the shaded blue lines and white background...
Anyone agree?
What, exactly, does this program *do*? I can go run gnut and just search for an mp3. I then get a big list of matches, complete with IP addresses. How else am I supposed to download the file if I dont have the IP?
Anyway, I'm not worried about this kind of thing. So they have your IP address. Fortunately, they also have about 10K other IP addresses. Who can they complain to? The ISPs? They'd have to complain to hundreds of ISPs, most of which wouldn't care. It's just not feasable.
The whole SNR thing is much more of a problem, if you ask me.
Ok, this is slashdot, we're mostly linux computer-types here... I can beleive no one's mentioned CAJUN.
It used to be at http://cajun.current.nu, but that seems to be down. Anyone know who's maintaining it?
Anyway, it basically turns a linux box into a jukebox... Mine is kindof neat, I mounted a pentium motherboard into a tape deck. It runs LIRC [linux infrared remote control] and so I control it with my reciever's remote. It also has a nifty LCD screen.
Also, because I wanted it to sound good, I bought a fancy SBlive and use SP/DIF, and also took out all the fans and spun down the hard drive. So now it just plays mp3s over ethernet from the samba server in my basement.
Definetly not mass market or anything, and a real pain to build... but it's so 1337...
Ive got my ram image of it here along with some really bad blurry pictures.
I hope cajun is progressing 'cause it is really cool.
But see...
That's what makes slashdot great! All the sortof meta-data / overhead. It wouldn't be slashdot without trolls lurking under the -1 bridge, and mindelss quickies and whatnot.
Otherwise this place would just be cnn.com, or worse, cnet... Quickies [and more recently, slashback] are good places to concentrate this meta-data stuff.
So, the worth of this discussion is, uh, qualitative, not quantitative.
This is why everyone needs a bunch of thin clients, and a big server in their basement next to the furnace... While that wont happen for a while, there are a bunch of things you can do; I have a machine _under_clocked and all the fans taken out.
And it loads linux into an 8M ramdisk, after which the hard drive spins down. It is utterly silent. There are some blurry pictures of it here.
(Mainly because my friends & I had such a hassle recording a few songs using windows)
e ^ (pi*i) = -1
that one's not too obvious!
One thing people haven't mentioned is the fact that now .vob files can be played on computers without any DVD drives at all. My freind ripped the Matrix a few days ago and sent it to me overnight. Now I can watch the DVD without even buying a drive, let alone the actual disk. I just don't see how copyrights can hold out against this kind of thing.