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williamsharkey
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 Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:55 pm Post subject:
Powering your gear in Utopia
Subject description: In a perfect world, how would your gear be powered |
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I am interested in how you think the most elegant society would power their musical gear.
Excluding wireless power (unless you know a way to make it efficient) how do you think they would deliver power? Would they use AC power and wall-warts like we commonly do, or might homes have some sort of centralized DC power station, or something else?
I am open to wherever you want to take this conversation. |
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robsol
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I am still dreaming up an acoustic future with screens and machines!
At one point we should be going back to nature and let the robots take care of all that electric nonsense ! 
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nobody
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http://thezeitgeistmovement.com/
I'm all in favour of having machines work for us - provided they are not made sentient and thus turned into slaves.
Speaking of powering our gear, I have plans to get a solar panel strip to lay on the window sill outside (it's quite wide) and run it to a battery inside, to which I'll plug in a UPS and from there as many instruments as possible will be powered. |
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Antimon
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| audiodef wrote: |
I'm all in favour of having machines work for us - provided they are not made sentient and thus turned into slaves. |
Or turn us into their slaves... or worse. This is actually a little concern that I have. Anyway, back to the Utopia Power thingy.
/Stefan
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nobody
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I was watching The Matrix trilogy + Animatrix this week. Every time I watch those films, I feel ever more strongly that should AI be developed to a sentient level in the near future, such scenarios are inevitable. The human race doesn't respect anything else - let alone each other - for shit.
On the other hand, should humanity develop sentient machines and respect them, I'm not concerned about them turning us into slaves. Rational, sentient beings do not act, well, irrationally. |
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I'm going to power my synth with hamster wheels. I figure one hamster wheel per board should be enough to do the job. I'll start with a male and a female and add to the synth as they reproduce.
Les
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nobody
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| Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:05 am Post subject:
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Good one, Les! 
How about a really fun way to power your gear? Capture the energy produced by having sex! Let's call it "fucking power"! |
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blue hell
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I was about to mention power harvesting but see some (biomechanical) examples already  |
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Oskar
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Les, you absolute LOONY! I love you forever for that one!
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| Oskar wrote: | Les, you absolute LOONY! I love you forever for that one!
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TY Oscar, cheers!
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| My name... is Neeble! |
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In Utopia, I wouldn't even need any devices, as each unit would be built into my brain, and powered by a sense of self smugness! 
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DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKSEN.
IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
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So YOU'RE Michael C. Hall's character in "Gamer".  |
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v-un-v
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In what? 
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DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKSEN.
IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN. |
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| v-un-v wrote: | | In Utopia, I wouldn't even need any devices, as each unit would be built into my brain, and powered by a sense of self smugness! |
I remind you that the bible tells us that God himself apparently enjoys a host of angelic creatures who sing "Holy Holy Holy to the Highest". Despite the possible validiity of this myth, I have found great comfort in the notion that we will all Jam with each other in the afterlife. You can't take it with you but your music will be yours forever, amen.
Les
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| Inventor wrote: | | ...I have found great comfort in the notion that we will all Jam with each other in the afterlife. |
I like that interpretation
Wonder if they have solution to the problem of the upstairs venue vs the downstairs venue... maybe a snake can be applied
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nobody
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| v-un-v wrote: | | In what? |
A good movie with a cheesy title. GF and I almost passed it up but it turned out to be well played. |
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nobody
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| Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:00 am Post subject:
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| DrJustice wrote: | | Inventor wrote: | | ...I have found great comfort in the notion that we will all Jam with each other in the afterlife. |
I like that interpretation
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