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tarepanda posted:Is there some kind of goon home studio/recording thread? I have a friend who does home recordings for multitracking fairly regularly but is currently limping along with an older Tascam. I'd like to get him something better (with less frustrations and preferably with some decent mixing/editing software). Home Recording Megathread Based on those requirements his best bet might be to track down a used Mbox 2/Mbox 2 Pro with an included Pro Tools key. Not the newest hardware and it probably won't come with the newest version of Pro Tools, but even an older version like PT 8 will work just fine for that kind of need.
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tarepanda posted:I did a quick search on Amazon and came up with essentially two sets of products, one from Avid and one from DigiDesign. Which did you mean? Avid bought Digi a few years ago, so the Avid products (grey/silver) are the newer versions of the Digi (blue) ones. Either piece of hardware should be fine for your friend; I would guess that the older models are slightly more likely than the newer ones to come bundled with Pro Tools, since they date from the era when you had to own Digi hardware to run PT, but I'm sure you can find a good deal on a used bundle with either piece of hardware. I should also mention that the Pro model requires a FireWire port, while the regular Mbox 2 is USB.
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Is there a good book/website with a detailed history of the phone company? I was reading the obsolete technology thread, and some of the stories about being forced to lease phones, not being allowed to hook up answering machines, etc. made me want to read more about the historical reasons why we had a phone monopoly for so long, and what the effects of that were.
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Capt. Morgan posted:You can start with the wikipedia article on Bell Systems. dokmo posted:http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3246&context=lcp [PDF] Awesome, thanks guys!
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Socal Sapper posted:So I like buying expensive things but not just because they're expensive, sometimes they are just better quality than the cheaper options. Having said that, can someone please tell me what's up with Beats by Dr. Dre? I work in the advertising field so I know how effective marketing campaigns and celebrity endorsements can be, so I really wanted to get some honest opinions as to whether these headphones are really that much better than standard headphones. I can't speak to their build quality, but the audio quality on Beats gear is not great. The low and mid range are boosted ridiculously high, while the high frequencies are basically obliterated. This translates into very boomy bass and vocals, without much definition anywhere else. For music where these are desirable qualities, I suppose Beats would do an okay job, but you could get the same results for much less money from any of several other brands (Shure and Sennheiser especially come to mind), and of course most playback software/devices will let you adjust the EQ anyway. For uses where accurate sound reproduction is a priority, it's hard to do much worse than Beats at that price point. The idea that anyone would use Beats for actual studio work is hilarious. It would be like a graphic artist doing their job while wearing those old-school red and blue 3D glasses. Incidentally, Bose is similar in that the name is inexplicably worth much more than what it's got to back it up, but Bose is at least better gear. It's just still just overpriced for what you get. tl; dr: Beats are largely a marketing phenomenon popular with people who think that music quality is directly proportional to bass quantity
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Socal Sapper posted:Excellent post! Thanks for taking the time let me know your opinion! You're quite welcome! I was walking past a store that had them on display a few months ago, so I went in and tried them out, and...welp.
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Wedemeyer posted:What's a decent, free .vob file to mp4/mov/avi converter? I'm on Windows 7 and google's results are daunting. Half the reviews are blank or saying things are full of trojans HandBrake can handle vobs, right?
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hooah posted:I tried to put some air in my car tires this morning, and it made me feel like an idiot, because according to the car's sensors, I actually let out some air from each tire, despite my gauge saying I added ~10 PSI to each tire. I couldn't hear any air going into the tires no matter how I played with the nozzle. What could I be doing wrong? Was it a pump with a metal/rubber handle, a built-in mechanical gauge, and a short length of tube on the end? If so, you have to squeeze the metal part of the handle to get it to let air through; otherwise it's just using the gauge.
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hooah posted:Yeah, it was, and I know to squeeze the handle. Huh, maybe their poo poo is just broken then. I only mentioned that because I ran into what sounded like that exact situationa few weeks ago, and the problem was that I didn't know the squeeze the handle.
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Jan 26, 2013 21:49
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Where can I buy clip-on sunglasses (to attach to regular eyeglasses)? I just got new glasses that are a different shape, so the old clip-ons don't fit anymore, but it's been so long since I got my previous pair that I don't remember where they came from. I do remember it taking forever to find a set that fit correctly, though, so ideally this would be a store I could walk into and actually try them on.
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Or, if you have an Android device: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3391052
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muike posted:It's actually a laptop, so I'm pretty sure my only inputs are USB, with SATA and HDMI outs. In this case your only hope is some kind of USB TV tuner card and even if you find one that's cheaper enough than an actual television would be, the latency will be so bad as to make games unplayable. Unfortunately your best bet is to just buy an external monitor with HDMI (and/or component/composite/whatever) inputs and hook both the laptop and the console(s) up to that.
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muike posted:I just wanted to see if I could get around buying a TV. Thanks! No problem; sorry to be the bearer of bad news! I tried the same thing a few years ago with a PS2 and a PCI TV card; games like Chrono Cross were fine, if a bit awkward, but any kind of action-based game (Mega Man Anniversary Collection, for example) was terrible. I can't imagine that a USB card would perform any better...
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hooah posted:I had oral surgery about a week and a half ago, and have been on a soft diet since. I've got at least until Friday, and I'm getting tired of soup and oatmeal as my main courses. What are some other suggestions that don't require much chewing? When I was recovering from oral surgery a while ago, I ate (drank) a lot of Carnation Instant Breakfast. I was pretty young and pretty doped up, so my mom made them for me and I therefore don't remember too many specifics, but I have a vague recollection that they tasted better when made with ice cream than with milk. I also remember that the "put tortellini in a blender" idea did not pan out nearly as well as I had hoped.
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Baron Bifford posted:So do modern OSes still use only the last two digits for the year in dates? I thought they changed that after 2000. UNIX-like operating systems set the time as "x seconds since y", where y is a specific date: 1 January 1970 in standard UNIX time, but different OSes select different dates. Without support for negative values of x, you can't have a date before it.
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N. Senada posted:Any suggestions on recording equipment to use for an in-person interview? My school has some available to rent, but I anticipate needing one frequently. Audio only, or video as well, and how complex a setup do you need? If you just need to record audio of two people talking, and you'll be sitting near each other, something like the Zoom H2 would be perfect. Records to SD card, so you can just connect it to your computer or pop the card out to transfer the files.
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N. Senada posted:For my stuff, audio's enough. Zoom looks nice. I guess I need to be willing to spend quite a bit in order to get high-quality, huh? Unfortunately yeah, that's about as cheap as you can get while maintaining any semblance of quality. It may be worth picking up one of those cheap-o voice recorders from a place with a liberal return policy and seeing if it meets your needs, but this is very much a "get what you pay for" situation. The cool thing about the H2 is that you can change the pickup pattern to omni, which means you can set it in the middle of the room and it'll pick up everything equally well. The Zoom H1, which is a lot cheaper, doesn't do this, but it could also work well.
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Black Noise posted:I am looking for a web comic I believe it to be the perry bible fellowship but it was an artist doing a nude painting and he reveals the canvas which says "lets have sex" This is probably not it but it's the closest I could find in the PBF archives: http://pbfcomics.com/233
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mlnhd posted:In the US, how many families with children don't have any daughters (they have only sons)? Also, whatever method you use to track down this info, be aware that you're asking two different questions. The set of families who "don't have any daughters" would also include families with no children.
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Noni posted:This kind of fecal scenario really belongs in Toilet and Hygiene Habits Megathread, not here in the stupid/small questions megathread. There you will get a more comprehensive answer and I'm almost certain that the boiling water clog myth is busted right in the OP. Read back a few dozen pages and you'll find some nice customized plungers from the 2012 holiday surge. These are designed to take care of clogs even when the bowl is at capacity, such as your serpentine log issue or the more common "double J" configuration. There is even an easily-constructed plunger that seals right to your bowl's lip and uses C-clamps and ski wax for when you really need it to be air-tight for a solid, full-force thrust. The ski wax is really just goons being hoity-toity. Candle wax or petroleum jelly will do, but you probably are aware that some of us like to keep all-temp ski wax around the bathroom so our toilet seats always have a nice shine. The only disappointing thing about this post is that the link to the poop thread doesn't work.
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Giant Squid posted:Has there been a major Asian festival or holiday recently? I've noticed that some doors in my town are decorated with red diamonds that have a Chinese (?) character written on them in gold. The diamond is also decorated with two pictures of a bald old man with a long white beard and two happy little kids around him. Chinese New Year was at the end of January. Maybe this is just the Chinese equivalent of leaving the Christmas tree up until July?
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Odd posted:I remember back in the 80s or maybe 90s, that a fictional franchise or product was actually created for real, from a popular (to me) movie. I REALLY think it was a food restaurant or something similar, also it's not Good Burger that's after my time. Anyone know what that was? I keep thinking it was something from Back to the Future 2 but that's probably just wishful thinking. No hoverboards yet This probably isn't it, but The Mighty Ducks spawned an NHL team with the same name and logo as the team in the movie.
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Torka posted:What are these? They're called QR codes, or sometimes 2D barcodes. They hold small bits of data (usually a URL or a short string of text) that you can read by scanning them with your phone. This particular one has a link to download a Windows executable.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:So I go to a restaurant and ask for a coke. The server asks me if pepsi's ok? I say sure, because it doesn't make a big difference to me. Cola is cola as far as I'm concerned, and I don't have any particular brand loyalty to either. But it makes me wonder, does anyone care about this sort of thing? Have any goons been upset, or witnessed someone being upset when their soft drink of choice isn't available? Never underestimate the degree of irrational anger of which consumers are capable.
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photinus posted:How much does it cost to tune a piano in the UK? I've got an upright piano that I don't think has been tuned in 25 years and it sounds... well, bad. The sustain pedal sounds like it's pressed down all the time and some keys just don't sound right - it's not so much that they're out of tune, but they don't sound like a piano. It'll need a lot of work if I'm ever going to play it again. (Is it even worth trying to tune, given that it was never a great piano and it hasn't been tuned in donkey's years?) I've always seen prices around $100 per tuning session in the US, although that can vary based on how badly out of tune it is. A quick Google shows that the situation isn't too different in the UK, but that's of course assuming there isn't any other work that needs to be done. I'm far from a piano specialist, but it sounds like there could very well be some other damage. You could probably get someone to at least give you a quote for free or cheaply by looking up piano tuners in your area. If you can't find any (or don't know who to choose), maybe talk to someone at a local music conservatory. University music departments have quite a bit of need for piano maintenance services as you can imagine, and in the US, they'll either have someone on staff (who can at the very least recommend someone they know to be good) or an outside person/group of people who do most of the work. In order to be not worth restoring, it would have to either have been an exceptionally terrible piano in the first place or have sustained some serious structural damage.
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Tiggum posted:So, looking at the US senate right now it seems that the numbers are 52 to 46, with two independents, so neither party can actually make up the required sixty. So again, how does anything actually get passed? Do people actually willingly vote to stop members of their own party from blocking things? In the US Senate, there has been a trend in recent years towards a "silent filibuster", where the minority party is not actually required to stand up and talk, but the minority leader basically goes "Yup, we're not letting this pass", the majority leader goes "Well poo poo", and they move on to other things. This has changed the filibuster from an extraordinary tactic used only in emergency situations to a routine method of gumming up the works, since no individual senator has to pay a political price for slowing things down, and the public (whose understanding of the situation ranges from "vague" to "none") just blames "government" rather than the filibustering party. As you might imagine, this has also lead to the number of filibusters skyrocketing in recent years. Effectively this does actually mean that basically nothing gets done, especially since different parties currently control each house of the US Congress, so even something that gets through the Senate is unlikely to pass the House. It's exactly as hosed up as your first impressions would lead you to believe.
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Tiggum posted:I have no idea what you're talking about. If what Penguissimo said is accurate though, I'll just take that answer since it's the one I understood! What he said is also true, but I figured I would present a sanitized version for our international friends  Harry Reid (the Senate Majority Leader) had a chance to lead reform of the filibuster at the beginning of this year, since the Senate can change its own rules with just a simple majority at the beginning of a new session. He instead opted for a "handshake agreement" with Mitch McConnell (Senate Minority Leader), under which Republicans would be nice and promise not to use the filibuster slightly less or something if Harry Reid agreed to not get rid of it. Thankfully, due to this agreement between gentlemen who have only the public interest in mind, McConnell and the Republican caucus have seen the error of their ways, and filibusters have plummeted dramatically since.note: Charlie Brown also eventually got to kick that football Thanatosian posted:There are two different votes in the U.S. Senate: there's the vote on the bill, which takes a simple majority to pass. If someone is deciding they want to speak, though, they are allowed to, and for as long as they want. The only conditions are: In addition to this, note that appointees to certain offices (all judicial positions and many executive positions as well) must be confirmed by the Senate, and those votes are...you guessed it, subject to the filibuster! So we also have the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms having gone without a leader for eight (?) years, and a federal judicial system that can barely function because there are so many vacant seats on the bench.
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aude omnia posted:What cord(s)/adapter should I use to port data from a 2010 Macbook Pro to a 2013 Macbook Air? Apple has a program called Migration Assistant that can help you out. Works over your local network, though of course a wired connection will be faster than a wireless one.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:Is there a thread where people can give vague recollections of past threads, hoping someone can identify it? Yeah, I know. There in fact is!
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It could, however, quite easily collapse from the ridiculous and unique legal obligation to prefund its pension plan for employees who have yet to be hired.
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Mescal posted:Cell phone and broadband internet service in the US are poor, expensive for the consumer, and sometimes nonexistent. Public utilities (like landline phone service, electricity, and water) are cheap, high-quality, and ubiquitous. How come? Because cell phones and the internet are "young" at like 30 years old? Because there's not much regulation? Why can't they be public utilities, too? There were concerted government efforts to bring those utilities to rural areas. There's no inherent reason why the same couldn't be done with cellular and internet service; their youth is only a problem in that those technologies were developed after Americans stopped believing in the power of collective action for the common good.
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XmasGiftFromWife posted:Find an audiologist and get custom earplugs. I have some made by westone that let me swap out different filters (40db 80db etc) This is absolutely the correct answer, but if you can't afford this right now (you should figure out a way to afford this) then Etymotic Research makes really good earplugs that provide relatively flat attenuation.
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lllllllllllllllllll posted:Until a few weeks/months ago you could load a video on youtube and then jump to any part easily. Now whenever you move the slider it seems to start a new load. Its like there is no caching anymore. Why is that? They changed the caching system so that it loads in tiny chunks rather than all at once. I suppose it saves them bandwidth when people open tabs and don't finish the video, but it sucks when you're on a slow connection and need to pre-buffer, as well as the situation you mention.
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I need a small-ish (around 6" x 4" x 2", but a little bigger is fine too) pouch that can attach somewhat firmly to the shoulder strap of an existing carrying case, ideally by way of a loop through which I could thread the shoulder strap. A somewhat firm exterior and/or padded interior are definitely pluses. This is the closest thing I've been able to find: http://www.timbuk2.com/tb2/products/3way-smartphone-accessory-case/1914323 but it's a bit too small. Does anyone know of a similar-but-bigger product, or even what search terms I would use to find it? I've tried stuff like "luggage pouch", "luggage accessories", "strap pouch", all to no avail.
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Cakefool posted:You want a camera case, comes in a million sizes, padded inside, any outside finish you want. I would have never thought of this. Thanks!!
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Also the visa information depends on your destination rather than the US. This site is, like all Wiki* sites, of wildly varying quality but at least a halfway decent place to start: http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page
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Baron Porkface posted:What is this joke supposed to be? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=796590553703733&set=a.737221629640626.1073741825.205344452828349&type=1&theater It's a play on "the final frontier". (it's not a very funny joke)
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Are there any famous, or see semi-famous, people that are confirmed to have a forums account? Mike Nelson of MST3K/Rifftrax fame has an account and I think has done a few A/T threads.
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Dropbox has a bandwidth limit, so if you're posting images in heavily-trafficked threads, you can hit that limit pretty quickly. If you haven't noticed any issues so far, though, then there likely won't be any down the road either.
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