btw, dyslexia, in its various and varied forms, is probably near to 25-30% of all people, including you and me, though we may not have been enough affected to notice. In its serious form, it is a blight on the entire education methodology (or should that be vice versa?) as it is practiced today. The universal ability to read and write is one of those myths of development, not at all supported by anthropological studies.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:11 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 26 Sep 2011 16:50:28 sajan venniyoor wrote: > > On 26 September 2011 15:58, Vickram Crishna <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > ever heard of SD cards? Last I heard, it is quite difficult to make a > > > deadly shiv from one. MicroSDs, even more difficult. > > > > I am not sure if this has much to do with their inability to keep up with > > technology. I thought of pen-drives myself, but I think the insistence on > > cassettes -- beyond the shiv factor -- has something to do with copyright > > and DRM issues. As the prison story suggests, publishers would prefer to > > sell audio tapes which, unlike digital files, are rather difficult to > copy > > and pirate (unless, of course, you are one of India's more famous music > > companies). > > Actually it is very easy to copy a tape. You need an autoreverse head and > exact similiar transport mechanisms (called deck). the reader reads both a > and b sides simultaneously. The recorder records the same way. You run > the > tape in cue mode, so that the head is in contact with the tape while it is > running at high speed (the head is retracted in ff and rewind). Same for > the > recording deck. Voila - 60 minutes in 60 secs. These are for small shops. > The bigger guys have 1:10. One reader 10 writers. Even bigger guys have > synced motors and 1:20x10. 200 copies per minute. Built and sold quite a > number of these in the late 70s early 80s. > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > -- Vickram Fool On The Hill <http://communicall.wordpress.com>
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