Hello happy readers…Sorry about the posting hiatus, had to do some maintenance…Today I’m writing a tiny bit about Charles Babbage, his protégé Ada Lovelace, and the antecedents of electronic computing. To start, consider the Industrial Revolution, when everything possible was being automated. Cloth manufacturing, a lucrative process that produced high value goods from low value commodities, was an early industry [...]
Posted on April 27th, 2008 by OMas
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Hello, happy reader…For this entry, I wanted to update y’all on the current state of UWB as it applies to USB. Enough TLAs for you? :: OK, we all know about USB, the bus spec designed to replace PS-2 and other old school serial protocols for peripherals. So as to increase the amount of radio [...]
Posted on April 6th, 2008 by OMas
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Sorry, no Sam Fuller here folks but, this time ’round, I’m talking about what Mr. Fuller called “pictures.” This past Saturday, I attended the inaugural meeting of the Northern California chapter of the Digital Cinema Society. The focus of the meeting was the RED ONE camera from the RED Digital Cinema Camera Corporation. :: For those who [...]
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by OMas
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For those of you who’ve been locked in the studio with your smokin’ install of Sound Designer, I have a new gadget for you. The rest of you, move away from the computer as this could be tedious… :: OK, say you have a few peripherals, like a RAID array and a HUI, as well [...]
Posted on February 14th, 2008 by OMas
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Well, the rain has departed for a time and the temperature is creeping toward the 60’s. The sea has calmed, and the sunset is peach and blueberry sherbet…Which really does not put me in a mood to add one last (promise) MacWorld installment. :: This last go round wasn’t as rich a treasure trove of schwag [...]
Posted on February 8th, 2008 by OMas
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Saturday turned almost sunny so I headed out to run some errands. In particular, I wanted to hit the Queen of Sheba, a nice market selling halal meat. On the way, I happened upon the local Tet or Viet New Year’s festival. This is a Rat year which had little to do with my need for [...]
Posted on February 4th, 2008 by OMas
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Hello all, just got word that Amazon will purchase Audible.com for $300M. According to Amazon’s site, “Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Audible Inc. (NASDAQ:ADBL)…The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, and is expected to close by the second quarter of 2008.”:: This, along with [...]
Posted on February 1st, 2008 by OMas
Filed under: Audio & Acoustics, Gadgetry | 1 Comment »
