^ parking level = pro.


In other news, I followed it:

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http://imgur.com/SIcGR7q

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Just gonna drop a note here. The Presonus Eris E8 is a fucking amazing powered speaker. Got a pair of 'em set up on the test bench, which is in an ~8,000 ft^2 open storage area on the 2nd floor of the building above the newsroom. Turns out to be an awesome listening space.

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I seriously spent about an hour doing absolutely nothing but sitting there listening to 70s / 80s power-ballads on Friday.

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Definitely gonna buy a pair of these for the kitchen after the move.

The port makes me wonder if that is a 1/4 wave tranny line configuration. Nothing I have ever heard beats a properly designed 1/4 wave TL.

No clue. I don't pretend to have the slightest idea about acoustical physics, I just know which brands to buy and how to hook 'em up. For $450 a pair, the Aries E8 is one of the best-sounding nearfield monitors I've ever used.

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(Yes, I dialed in a little bump ~100hz while listening to Jon Cleary And The Absolute Monster Gentlemen's Got to be more careful. Shaking the god damned floor with that one.)

beware of tiger:

This hard drive is fairly old. I bought it around 2010 or so, when the drive in my Vaio started making scary noises. Can't remember the exact date, but I'm pretty sure I was in a Raddisson hotel at the time. It was down in SoHo, and I remember that while the room itself was almost indescribably minuscule, there was a very groovy roof deck with a big firepit and a small bar. I cannot for the life of me recall a visual image of the bathroom, which is unusual. I do remember quite well a falaffel joint just down the block that I frequented. Pricey, but delicious.

Still kinda blows my mind how tiny this thing is. And, somehow, mankind never progressed beyond this level of smallness in mainstream hard disk technology. This was it. This was the End of Innovation.

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Joe, where did you find those at that price? A quick google is turning up $500/pr.

I need to buy the lady a pair of those for her turntable so she can trash the horrible speakers she is playing it through now.

Spoiled tard:



Ecotard:

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is that so.

I buy them from Markertek, but a quick Amazon search shows a few vendors selling 'em at the same price.

Make no mistake- these are not concert-level speakers. They would not be a good choice for DJ work at a nightclub or a wedding reception. These are near-field monitors, intended to bathe a small area in great sound at reasonable levels.




None of those things are hard disks.


That was my point. I totally get that SSD / Flash Media are objectively superior in every way. Faster, cheaper, more reliable, smaller, lower power consumption, etc. It's just that there was a certain mechanical artistry involved in the design of really small hard drives, not unlike that which goes into the making of a fine Swiss watch. And while a 4G-connected smartwatch will always keep better time, there's just something about the elegantly raw, mechanical nature of a Rolex that makes people buy them.

There's nothing viscerally exiting about a flat piece of sand with some sub-microscopic lines burned into it.


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Uh, Joe...

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It's a platter drive and its SATA interface rather than whatever goofy ribbon cable your Vaio was using. I also have much smaller hands than you do, so...

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Laptop SSD for scale. Do I win?

:party:

Edit: Looking at this again, your freakishly large hands really screw up the scale of the drive and these may actually be the same footprint. Mine is SATA though, so still gooder.

That Toshiba you're showing is the same size, both physically in terms of storage capacity, as the one I posted.

That was my point. That was as far as mainstream hard drive technology ever got. They created that family of drives, and then stopped.

Sure, I'm aware of the existence of the IBM / Hitachi 1.3" Microdrive, but that was never a "real" product. They were unreliable, slow, never exceeded 8 GB (and that in 2008, when 800 GB drives were commonplace), and failed to gain commercial acceptance in any consumer product.

It just makes me a little sad. Our generation has witnessed, not the death per se, but the stagnation of so many technologies which once held such great promise.

Up next: Moore's Law ceases to apply.
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Bah, small hard drives aren't viscerally exciting.

No pictures, alas, but in the late 80s when I was in high school a friend of mine's parent worked for IBM Research, Almaden, where they had done a lot of the early hard drive R&D. You've seen those coffee tables that people make by taking a big piece of glass and putting some kind of support under it, right? Well, her living room had a couple tables like that, except instead of glass they used hard drive platters. Normal-sized coffee tables too, not doll-sized.

--Ian

What interface is on your drive, PATA or SATA? Also, see my edit. ;)

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That time you were a loser wannabe drifter and thought you were doing a cool burnout in a Miata and you were using a stock clutch.

Grabs a beer at 1:11

Many safety. Much responders. Wow.

I didn't realize this Super Street magazine page filler sh!t events still took place.

About 0:55 in you know it's not going to end well.

Some people get exactly what they deserve. (Though I expect from the look of it that he still has both feet, which is sad.)



Maybe the best Puddles covers I've heard yet:




(Could use an electric pickup and some reverb on the guitar, but amazing vocal work.)

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Signed?

What about CF drives? I had one in my MP3 player. https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=...drive4.jpg&f=1

There's also these: A Hard Drive smaller than a Quarter - CES 2006 - Day 3: Playstation 3, Quarter-size Hard Drives, SED and lots of TVs but they probably never made it anywhere.

PATA.

This was a difficult replacement to find at first, but became easy once I knew where to look. Sony didn't ship a ton of 11.5" Vaio laptops, but Apple did ship a ton of video iPods. Turns out they used the exact same drive.

These machines were built before SATA became popular. I didn't even know Toshi built a SATA version of it, but from external appearances, it appears to be the exact same mechanism, right down to the placement of the vent hole.



See:



IBM RAMAC?

In college, I had a couple of 14" platters from a DEC RA80 hard disk drive. I made them into wind chimes. They were impressive, but nowhere near coffee-table-grade.



5 MB:

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I dunno what kind of hard disk they were out of, but they were something like 2-3 feet in diameter.

--Ian

One of my 1st engr tech jobs was to build/test drive spindles for the RP04 (not my photo):

Smokin' hot... at the time! Why would you ever need more space then that? Interestingly enough, the bearing company where I worked was unable to produce bearings with the required accuracy and so we sourced bearings from a German bearing company...


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James Bond is dead. Long live James Bond!

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can i just state for the record i dont like piddles nor do i understand the hype.

Your disapproval increases Puddles' sadness.

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I don't know that there's any hype per se, he's just a very tall person with an excellent vocal range, who sings well.

I tell you what I don't get- those videos where a guy smashes food on the counter with his hand, mixes all kinds of disgusting random shit together, makes a huge mess, and calls it cooking. But I recognize that some folks find it hilarious.

This Jewbaru was in front of me today:

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Illinois. Say no more. State of Boring.

Sixshooter does not approve

^ Careful, Brainey will get Youtube to ban you for that. :D



I sincerely hope that whoever designed this "easily re-legendable" switch cap died horribly and alone.

I hope that they struggled against unimaginable pain to draw their final breath, wrought with terror on the brink of the abyss.

And I hope that, just seconds before the cloak of darkness finally descended upon them, they were suddenly and incomprehensibly filled with thoughts of shame and regret.

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Mmmm. Crankshaft porn.

An oldie, but a goodie ...

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I think this might currently be my favorite Puddles cover yet:

I need to know what cameras & lens that was shot on. The big 2/3" stuff I have here at WGN can just barely handle that sort of dynamic range, and I'm assuming Puddles didn't drop $25k on a camera.

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iPhone Se.

I'm guessing a Sony A7r

Apparently, goat-balancing is a thing now:

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^^ OK boss, I'll stand here all day, just don't fuckin eat me. :rofl:


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Cross-posting from the gourmet thread, because 'Mericuh.


It's Memorial Day, when Americans honor those who have given their lives in defense of this nation by consuming large amounts of beef and alcohol.


It is well-known that the ritual consumption of beef in remembrance of the fallen is originally an Italian custom. The practice is thought to have originated in the late 16th century in Palermo, where each year a day-long celebration known as La Notte della Mucca Vivente (The Night of the Living Cow) commemorates the Bovine Uprising of 1583, when cattle from a nearby farm, under the leadership of a pig which was rumored to walk upon its hind legs and speak fluent Latin*, stormed the Palazzo dei Normanni. Hundreds of Sicilians were gored before the cattle were finally put down by the townspeople, after which their meat was roasted in a feast which lasted for a whole week.
It is interesting to note that only one person ever claimed to have actually witnessed the cattle rebellion first-hand; a young farmhand named Cosimo Bramante who, by his own admission, had consumed a rather generous quantity of wine on the night in question. Even more interesting is the fact that the farmer's wife would later claim to have witnessed Bramante in flagrante delicto with the very same cattle on that evening. However, the veracity of her testimony is questionable, as she was widely known to to be an opium-user with highly flirtations tendencies. As Bramante had, some days earlier, written in his diary that he had rebuked her amorous advances, many historians speculate that this claim was made falsely, a spiteful attempt to seek revenge against him.


Regardless of the slightly unverifiable nature of these facts, the people of southern Italy continue to celebrate Mucca Vivente each year in late May. And in honor of that glorious custom, I present: Veal Marsala with cremini mushrooms, pancetta, and glazed scallion, with a side of roasted brussel sprout topped with a sherry-cream sauce with bacon and sun-dried tomato:

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