Boy, it sure looks like a lot of you guys have a great plan in place. "I will spew much encrypted garbage data along with encrypted real data!" "I will encrypt my own shit and not give up the key! If I have to give up the key, the key will be encrypted!!" I wonder: how long would you sit in jail, without parole or phone call, until you decide to give the keys up to the local police? Because those guys don't care how encrypted your shit is, and thanks to the current administration they don't have to.
If you're wondering why Cisco - who has enough money to buy just about anyone except for Microsoft or Motherfucking Fujitsu Heavy Industries - is bothering to implement this particular technology, consider the above.
Do I see 3G applications with a vibrate() call mandatory every couple minutes?
You do not. MC Hawking wrote an excellent article on why this wouldn't work:
Entropy, how can I explain it? I'll take it frame by frame it, to have you all jumping, shouting saying it. Let's just say that it's a measure of disorder, in a system that is closed, like with a border. It's sorta, like a, well a measurement of randomness, proposed in 1850 by a German, but wait I digress. "What the fuck is entropy?", I here the people still exclaiming, it seems I gotta start the explaining.
You ever drop an egg and on the floor you see it break? You go and get a mop so you can clean up your mistake. But did you ever stop to ponder why we know it's true, if you drop a broken egg you will not get an egg that's new.
That's entropy or E-N-T-R-O to the P to the Y, the reason why the sun will one day all burn out and die. Order from disorder is a scientific rarity, allow me to explain it with a little bit more clarity. Did I say rarity? I meant impossibility, at least in a closed system there will always be more entropy. That's entropy and I hope that you're all down with it, if you are here's your membership.
Chorus You down with entropy? Yeah, you know me! (x3) Who's down with entropy? Every last homey!
Defining entropy as disorder's not complete, 'cause disorder as a definition doesn't cover heat. So my first definition I would now like to withdraw, and offer one that fits thermodynamics second law. First we need to understand that entropy is energy, energy that can't be used to state it more specifically. In a closed system entropy always goes up, that's the second law, now you know what's up.
You can't win, you can't break even, you can't leave the game, 'cause entropy will take it all 'though it seems a shame. The second law, as we now know, is quite clear to state, that entropy must increase and not dissipate.
Creationists always try to use the second law, to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw. The second law is quite precise about where it applies, only in a closed system must the entropy count rise. The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun, so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun! That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about, you're now down with a discount.
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No. That would be "Where the Buffalo Roam" by Hans Bjordahl. "Where the Buffalo Roam" started in 1991, and had its own Usenet group long before Doctor Fun came along, and is still running on the web.
"Lawrence, what would you do if you had a million dollars?" "I'll tell you what I'd do, man. One phone number for the rest of my life, man." "Hehe.. he.. That's it? If you had a million dollars you'd get one phone number for the rest of your life?" "Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up too, 'cause phone companies dig dudes with money." "Well not all phone companies..." "Well.. the type of phone companies who'd give one number to a dude like me do." "Good point."
Regarding the recording of music on PDAs in general, I don't see this happening. There isn't a need. A minidisc is about as small as your gonna get, if size is what your after. Also, many of the current tapers have a dat deck, a good A/D converter, and some even have separate preamps to give gain from the mics to the a/d converter.
A quick glance at Usenet will tell you that there's at least a small market for it, and it's a quickly growing market now that home recording gear has become more affordable in the last few years. There are actually more projects than this one in the works aimed at upgrading from DAT as the standard taping equipment. I just posted Core Audio's because I thought it was a cool idea and because they seem to be fairly open source friendly. If a lot of people get involved, then maybe it'll actually come out (or come out sooner even).
I would disagree that there's no need for something better. DAT is very old technology, and the academic side alone makes developing a new piece of hardware a worthwhile endeavor as far as I'm concerned. Plus it's frankly embarassing to me that because of economics (or whatever), DAT is still "the standard" for audience recording. DAT is ridiculous: it has a lot of moving parts, the heads wear out, and digital-on-tape is (IMO) clunky compared to something like CF or even a hard drive. Not to mention that new DATs are getting more and more scarce with each passing year. DAT was a great hack for its time, but its time has passed. There is better technology out there just in the consumer market, as this project illustrates.
I'll grant you that there are plenty of excellent recordings made with DAT (and I'll happily ignore the ignorant posters who think Minidisc is "the bomb" or that the Minidisc's onboard A/D converters are adequate), but moving to 24 bit - even without jumping to a higher bitrate - gives you a lot more dynamic range to work with. This can be important if you can't afford a preamp + A/D + compressor package like the Apogee Mini-Me or if you just want more dynamic range, period. I personally listen to everything with a set of decent headphones and a headphone amp, so it's fairly easy for me to tell the difference between 24 and 16 bits, especially if that something is an audience recording.
# A dual-boot laptop. # Tom's root and boot floppy. # LNX-BBC cdrom + a boot floppy # Knoppix-3.2 + a boot floppy. # Memtest86 floppy. # A fully service packed windows 9* CD-ROM + a boot floppy.
You could dispense with the floppies and CDs by keeping hundreds of disk images/ISOs of anything you could concievably need (OSes, drivers, patch clusters, repair tools, docs, contact info for every concievable vendor and telco's tech support, field engineer manuals for cards/mobos/systems, etc) on your laptop's drive. Then when you need something on CD, pull out one or two CDRWs or floppies and go to town or mount -o loop it for a multi-machine network install/patch project. Then you don't have to worry about accidentally losing something. A lot of those things don't actually take up even close to 700M of space (hardware drivers and IRIX media spring to mind...) so with a decent drive you could go nuts filling it up. You could even build small bootable drive images and with firewire, externally hook up an IDE drive and dd the image on in case the CDROM was hosed. The possibilities are endless!
And the truly paranoid could even have a mirrored laptop drive in another pocket.
But I'd venture a guess that with OSX converting Linux users left and right that it'd be around 6-8% by now. Thoughts?
I like OSX a lot, but I'm not switching from Linux/FBSD to use it. Why? Because I'm not about to shell out more money for more systems when I can just build an x86 box. And I'm *especially* not going to get a Mac laptop when there are cheaper and better PC laptops around. The interface isn't cool enough to warrant spending the extra money.
According to the specs, the screen (I'm assuming each screen) is 1024x768. Side by side that's 1536x1024. So what's the big deal? My Thinkpad will do 1600x1200 on a single LCD and costs less than $1k on ebay right now.
I find it hard to believe anybody can identify 320 days worth of music they actually like.
Yeah, that's a lot of music. Over 7000 albums worth of music, in fact. I think that at the 500 gig point though, you're storing more than just mp3s. You're storing DivXes, ISOs, old email, etc. I built a 240G server a few months ago and I've been really surprised at how much space I've taken up on it just from being sloppy about what I keep around and what I don't.
Another thing to consider is that if you have 500G worth of storage you can actually store your music as wavs instead of putting up with mp3s, which is a nice thing if you are seriously backing up your CD collection.
A long time prior to 1995, someone came up with a joke about Jesus being nailed to the cross. Jesus calls one of the disciples over to him (which one depends on who is telling the joke) and eventually gets around to saying "I can see your house from here!"
besides the fact that it would have to weigh about 20lbs, be slightly larger that "pocket-sized," and the gyroscopic force would make putting your cell phone up to your ear nearly impossible
Here is a link which will tell you more or less why it wouldn't weigh 20lbs.
As far as the gyroscopic force issue, please exercise some creativity here. As I pointed out earlier there's no reason why you couldn't have some (instead of one) small flywheels in multiples of two, spinning in opposite directions. I mean if US Flywheel is working on a solution for the ISS, I don't see why it wouldn't be an applicable technology for cell phones and laptops provided you could miniaturize things enough.
Seriously, wouldn't the gyroscopic effect seriously affect the portability of a small device with a flywheel? Imagine the struggle to turn your laptop vertically so you can slide it into your backpack.
You wouldn't just have one flywheel, you'd have several smaller flywheels that spin in opposing directions, thus canceling out the gyroscopic stuff. Sort of similar to how helicopters with multiple lift rotors get by without having tail rotors.
My Thinkpad A21p has a 15" 1600x1200 display (and cost $1k on ebay a few months ago). The 16:10 display thing is great, but only if the horizontal resolution is enormous. 1280 is piss poor by today's standards. If the chip will drive a higher resolution display, Apple should join the rest of us in the 21st century and put a better LCD in the machine. I'd sell my left kidney for a TiBook if the resolution and wireless range didn't suck.
I do believe that you are taking a backwards approach to getting your problems solved.
You are quite correct. That is why I solved said problem by turning to the other local cable internet provider, Everest. My new service was installed today and I've now got 3Mb/s downstream instead of the 2Mb/s before to go with my freedom from ridiculous TW/RR. The install tech didn't even know what DHCP was but he was cool with plugging in the cable modem and letting me take it from there.
I live in KC and have Time Warner. Every time I call in I start out by saying that I have a Unix box connected and they go into this spiel about how they don't support it and thanks for calling. I can usually catch them in time to say "oh wait, I have a Windows box too.." and then after they walk me through "reinstalling the TCP stack" I eventually get to talk to a real tech (generally 45 minutes to an hour later). They may be on the LUG list and all, but you'd never see evidence pointing to that based on their piss poor tech support.
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Just what we need: a website with animated .gifs of money dancing and annoying music playing in the background. As if the hamsters weren't enough!
Boy, it sure looks like a lot of you guys have a great plan in place. "I will spew much encrypted garbage data along with encrypted real data!" "I will encrypt my own shit and not give up the key! If I have to give up the key, the key will be encrypted!!" I wonder: how long would you sit in jail, without parole or phone call, until you decide to give the keys up to the local police? Because those guys don't care how encrypted your shit is, and thanks to the current administration they don't have to.
If you're wondering why Cisco - who has enough money to buy just about anyone except for Microsoft or Motherfucking Fujitsu Heavy Industries - is bothering to implement this particular technology, consider the above.
"The most cigarettes."
Do I see 3G applications with a vibrate() call mandatory every couple minutes?
You do not. MC Hawking wrote an excellent article on why this wouldn't work:
Entropy, how can I explain it? I'll take it frame by frame it,
to have you all jumping, shouting saying it.
Let's just say that it's a measure of disorder,
in a system that is closed, like with a border.
It's sorta, like a, well a measurement of randomness,
proposed in 1850 by a German, but wait I digress.
"What the fuck is entropy?", I here the people still exclaiming,
it seems I gotta start the explaining.
You ever drop an egg and on the floor you see it break?
You go and get a mop so you can clean up your mistake.
But did you ever stop to ponder why we know it's true,
if you drop a broken egg you will not get an egg that's new.
That's entropy or E-N-T-R-O to the P to the Y,
the reason why the sun will one day all burn out and die.
Order from disorder is a scientific rarity,
allow me to explain it with a little bit more clarity.
Did I say rarity? I meant impossibility,
at least in a closed system there will always be more entropy.
That's entropy and I hope that you're all down with it,
if you are here's your membership.
Chorus
You down with entropy?
Yeah, you know me! (x3)
Who's down with entropy?
Every last homey!
Defining entropy as disorder's not complete,
'cause disorder as a definition doesn't cover heat.
So my first definition I would now like to withdraw,
and offer one that fits thermodynamics second law.
First we need to understand that entropy is energy,
energy that can't be used to state it more specifically.
In a closed system entropy always goes up,
that's the second law, now you know what's up.
You can't win, you can't break even, you can't leave the game,
'cause entropy will take it all 'though it seems a shame.
The second law, as we now know, is quite clear to state,
that entropy must increase and not dissipate.
Creationists always try to use the second law,
to disprove evolution, but their theory has a flaw.
The second law is quite precise about where it applies,
only in a closed system must the entropy count rise.
The earth's not a closed system' it's powered by the sun,
so fuck the damn creationists, Doomsday get my gun!
That, in a nutshell, is what entropy's about,
you're now down with a discount.
Is Doctor Fun the oldest comic on the Internet?
No. That would be "Where the Buffalo Roam" by Hans Bjordahl. "Where the Buffalo Roam" started in 1991, and had its own Usenet group long before Doctor Fun came along, and is still running on the web.
"Lawrence, what would you do if you had a million dollars?"
"I'll tell you what I'd do, man. One phone number for the rest of my life, man."
"Hehe.. he.. That's it? If you had a million dollars you'd get one phone number for the rest of your life?"
"Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up too, 'cause phone companies dig dudes with money."
"Well not all phone companies..."
"Well.. the type of phone companies who'd give one number to a dude like me do."
"Good point."
A quick glance at Usenet will tell you that there's at least a small market for it, and it's a quickly growing market now that home recording gear has become more affordable in the last few years. There are actually more projects than this one in the works aimed at upgrading from DAT as the standard taping equipment. I just posted Core Audio's because I thought it was a cool idea and because they seem to be fairly open source friendly. If a lot of people get involved, then maybe it'll actually come out (or come out sooner even).
I would disagree that there's no need for something better. DAT is very old technology, and the academic side alone makes developing a new piece of hardware a worthwhile endeavor as far as I'm concerned. Plus it's frankly embarassing to me that because of economics (or whatever), DAT is still "the standard" for audience recording. DAT is ridiculous: it has a lot of moving parts, the heads wear out, and digital-on-tape is (IMO) clunky compared to something like CF or even a hard drive. Not to mention that new DATs are getting more and more scarce with each passing year. DAT was a great hack for its time, but its time has passed. There is better technology out there just in the consumer market, as this project illustrates.
I'll grant you that there are plenty of excellent recordings made with DAT (and I'll happily ignore the ignorant posters who think Minidisc is "the bomb" or that the Minidisc's onboard A/D converters are adequate), but moving to 24 bit - even without jumping to a higher bitrate - gives you a lot more dynamic range to work with. This can be important if you can't afford a preamp + A/D + compressor package like the Apogee Mini-Me or if you just want more dynamic range, period. I personally listen to everything with a set of decent headphones and a headphone amp, so it's fairly easy for me to tell the difference between 24 and 16 bits, especially if that something is an audience recording.
# A dual-boot laptop.
# Tom's root and boot floppy.
# LNX-BBC cdrom + a boot floppy
# Knoppix-3.2 + a boot floppy.
# Memtest86 floppy.
# A fully service packed windows 9* CD-ROM + a boot floppy.
You could dispense with the floppies and CDs by keeping hundreds of disk images/ISOs of anything you could concievably need (OSes, drivers, patch clusters, repair tools, docs, contact info for every concievable vendor and telco's tech support, field engineer manuals for cards/mobos/systems, etc) on your laptop's drive. Then when you need something on CD, pull out one or two CDRWs or floppies and go to town or mount -o loop it for a multi-machine network install/patch project. Then you don't have to worry about accidentally losing something. A lot of those things don't actually take up even close to 700M of space (hardware drivers and IRIX media spring to mind...) so with a decent drive you could go nuts filling it up. You could even build small bootable drive images and with firewire, externally hook up an IDE drive and dd the image on in case the CDROM was hosed. The possibilities are endless!
And the truly paranoid could even have a mirrored laptop drive in another pocket.
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Build a concrete monolithic dome house.
But I'd venture a guess that with OSX converting Linux users left and right that it'd be around 6-8% by now. Thoughts?
I like OSX a lot, but I'm not switching from Linux/FBSD to use it. Why? Because I'm not about to shell out more money for more systems when I can just build an x86 box. And I'm *especially* not going to get a Mac laptop when there are cheaper and better PC laptops around. The interface isn't cool enough to warrant spending the extra money.
you should be in a win-win situation
:)
Funny how this is also a no-win situation.
According to the specs, the screen (I'm assuming each screen) is 1024x768. Side by side that's 1536x1024. So what's the big deal? My Thinkpad will do 1600x1200 on a single LCD and costs less than $1k on ebay right now.
You've got to be kidding me. This problem is as old as IT itself.
Who knows what it will be next year?
I bet SGI makes a killer abacus.
1. The 'Hey, Bob, look at this!' signal
...
2. The 'Jesus Christ!' signal
3. The 'Fuck me!' signal
5. The 'Profit!' signal
I find it hard to believe anybody can identify 320 days worth of music they actually like.
Yeah, that's a lot of music. Over 7000 albums worth of music, in fact. I think that at the 500 gig point though, you're storing more than just mp3s. You're storing DivXes, ISOs, old email, etc. I built a 240G server a few months ago and I've been really surprised at how much space I've taken up on it just from being sloppy about what I keep around and what I don't.
Another thing to consider is that if you have 500G worth of storage you can actually store your music as wavs instead of putting up with mp3s, which is a nice thing if you are seriously backing up your CD collection.
Just go to a command prompt and type "format c:".
A long time prior to 1995, someone came up with a joke about Jesus being nailed to the cross. Jesus calls one of the disciples over to him (which one depends on who is telling the joke) and eventually gets around to saying "I can see your house from here!"
besides the fact that it would have to weigh about 20lbs, be slightly larger that "pocket-sized," and the gyroscopic force would make putting your cell phone up to your ear nearly impossible
Here is a link which will tell you more or less why it wouldn't weigh 20lbs.
As far as the gyroscopic force issue, please exercise some creativity here. As I pointed out earlier there's no reason why you couldn't have some (instead of one) small flywheels in multiples of two, spinning in opposite directions. I mean if US Flywheel is working on a solution for the ISS, I don't see why it wouldn't be an applicable technology for cell phones and laptops provided you could miniaturize things enough.
Seriously, wouldn't the gyroscopic effect seriously affect the portability of a small device with a flywheel? Imagine the struggle to turn your laptop vertically so you can slide it into your backpack.
You wouldn't just have one flywheel, you'd have several smaller flywheels that spin in opposing directions, thus canceling out the gyroscopic stuff. Sort of similar to how helicopters with multiple lift rotors get by without having tail rotors.
I'd much rather have a flywheel power source.
No wonder she chose an 'occupation' that doesn't require interaction with others. She looks like a smacked ass! ..and yet she has a fiance?
Heeeeeyyy, must be the moneeeeeyyy!
3) and snazzy 16:10 displays...
My Thinkpad A21p has a 15" 1600x1200 display (and cost $1k on ebay a few months ago). The 16:10 display thing is great, but only if the horizontal resolution is enormous. 1280 is piss poor by today's standards. If the chip will drive a higher resolution display, Apple should join the rest of us in the 21st century and put a better LCD in the machine. I'd sell my left kidney for a TiBook if the resolution and wireless range didn't suck.
don't forget the yada's
Please see Bob's Guide to the Apostrophe.
I do believe that you are taking a backwards approach to getting your problems solved.
You are quite correct. That is why I solved said problem by turning to the other local cable internet provider, Everest. My new service was installed today and I've now got 3Mb/s downstream instead of the 2Mb/s before to go with my freedom from ridiculous TW/RR. The install tech didn't even know what DHCP was but he was cool with plugging in the cable modem and letting me take it from there.
I live in KC and have Time Warner. Every time I call in I start out by saying that I have a Unix box connected and they go into this spiel about how they don't support it and thanks for calling. I can usually catch them in time to say "oh wait, I have a Windows box too.." and then after they walk me through "reinstalling the TCP stack" I eventually get to talk to a real tech (generally 45 minutes to an hour later). They may be on the LUG list and all, but you'd never see evidence pointing to that based on their piss poor tech support.