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Opinions on Winchester Model 100 in .308?
I am thinking of buying a Winchester model 100 in .308, and I am looking for opinions. My main concern is that I am looking for something insanely reliable, which is why I was wary of a semi-auto in the first place. What are your opinions?
Here's everything you ever wanted know know about the model 100,but were afraid to ask....
Personally,I'd look at the DSA FAL's for under $1100 at AIM, or if on a budget, the Saiga .308.
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That's a good rifle.
A semi-auto can be trusted. It just has to be proven to you that's all. Kept relatively clean and in good shapes, virtually all semi-autos will be trouble free. Even bolt and lever guns jamb too.
If going for a hunting rifle for SHTF purposes, purchase a very low magnification scope. Like 2-7x or 1-4x. Look for atleast 50ft field of view at 100 yards. 3-9x and up loose the field of view.
Another option at that price is a used browning BLR, savage 99, or even the marlin 336 rifle. Quick repeat shots are desired.
Many folks look for a .308 rifle thinking ammo can be easily found. You're your own ammo supply. There is just as much .30-06, .270 and if not more .30-30 around.
Make sure you check CT's laws well before buying. you probably know the hoops you have to go throuh already.
That is why I like my SKS rifle, it is not subject to current NY AWB laws. It has a fixed magazine and holds 10 or less rounds. Very reliable too. IF you shop around a bit, you can easily find one for $300 or so. You can search gunbroker by state too if you're interested in a local purchase.
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The model 100 does NOT have a good reputation for accuracy. And yeah, I USED to own one. Reliability is not a problem and it depends on what level of accuracy will make you happy. Pretty thing though!
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For these, though, I intend to leave them open sights. For now, at least. Even if used for hunting, the forest cover here is dense, and the deer are (for the time being, anyway) grievously overpopulated and docile.
I wasn't even looking when I came across these Winchesters. "They found me" as the saying goes. Because the seller is an acquaintance, I have the luxury of test-firing them at my leisure sometime next week.
As far as jumping through the correct hoops, CT is nowhere near as restrictive as NY. In fact, I was surprised when I first looked into CT gun laws, because they're a bit on the permissive side for a deep blue state, and there are a LOT of gun nuts here.
Thank you very much for all of the advice.
As far as the Saiga, I love the concept.
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My dad has a 100 in 243 it's been a solid deer killer for 30 years. He refinished it about 20 years back and made it look amazing....Maybe I'll try and bum it off him the next time I visit, he hasn't used it for at least 10 years.
Go for it...it's a good collector and a fun deer gun.
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So, you're looking for a hand out rifle. LEt's cover a few things about hand out rifles. The given will be novice to totally inexperienced hands.
what's a good rifle for people like that.
Simple to use
low recoil
The SKS does fit the bill. Another option ot look at is the hi point rifle. It is the modern version of the hand-out rifle. The ultimate desgined hand out rifle has to be the M1 carbine. Small, handy, very low recoil, good sights. The high point has the same thing. It comes in pistol calibers, which means low recoil. In very novice hands, shooting past 100 yards will not be very productive. They come in 9mm, 40 S&W, and 45acp. They may come in 380acp now too. 9mm is a very popular and affordable round.
I focus my collection on handout rifles. Most of my family is very novice at rifles. they may shoot a bit 2-3 times a year and that's it. The collection is mainly SKS rifles, 20 gauge shotguns, 336 marlin .30-30 rifles, and 22lr bolt action rifles. All of these rifles fit the bill of simple, low recoil, affordable ammunition, and easy to operate.
IF going for a hunting rifle route. I do think a more mild caliber than .308 should be selected. .243 or .223 is a good route. .223 is very affordable. With quality soft point ammunition, it can be a very effective round. Stevens 200 or marlin xl7 rifles topped with an affordable nikon prostaff scope can be bought for $450 or less with scope. Remington made a pump shotgun styled rifle, the 760 series.
The old handout rifle of favorites was either the M1 carbine or more today the mosin nagant. The M1 carbine is expensive and ammo is a bit pricey and hard to come by, the mosin I think makes a poor novice rifle. Too much recoil.
I would give a semi auto a try. Every military in the world uses semi autos or full auo as a primary firearm. Even precision longer range shooting is being more and more covered by semi automatic rifles.
I've had a few bugs to work out on some of my SKS rifles. But, I have several that never gave me a lick of trouble. The main one I use had atleast 2000 rounds through it and zero failures. You do have to be careful reloading them though. Improper reloading could cause the 1st round to jamb the tip into the lower reciever.
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I have a Model 100 in .308 and it has had the recalled parts replaced. It feeds and shoots premium ammo well, but has issues with dirty surplus 7.62 x 51 stuff.
If you are going to hunt at 200 yards or less and buy good premium ammo, you will be happy with it, just make sure you buy 168 grain or heavier ammo.
If you live in California and are thinking of getting one because it's an auto-loader in a good caliber and might be used as a legal battle rifle, you'll be disappointed. A Remington 750 would be a better choice.
Accuracy reports with them is hit or miss but mine is accurate with heavier bullets. 168-180 grain bullets. With 150 grain bullets or less it's not as accurate. I think the twist in the barrel has much to do with that and suspect that most of the guns labeled inaccurate were shot using lighter bullets. Most surplus nato rounds are 150 grains.
The Saiga in .308 is a much better design, and not nearly as picky with bullets.
If you have your heart set on the model 100, come see me and buy mine. :-)
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I've shot the 100, don't like it as much as my Remmy 700, even if the 100 is semi auto. Accuracy farther out just isn't there.
My model 100 with Vortex Diamondback 4-12 on it. With good ammo it is about a 1-1.5 moa rifle at 100 yards.
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I joined this forum specifically to respond to this zombie thread, in hopes of helping any poor lost soul who feels himself attracted to the Winchester 100 for survival purposes.
I assume that this being a survivalist forum, criteria for a solid rifle include ease of maintenance, reliability, ruggedness, and availability of spare parts.
Please be advised that regardless of whatever other virtues the Win 100 may possess, these do not include the above. I've had one since 1990, a legacy from a family member. The only reason I don't sell it is because it is an heirloom. It's been a PITA for 26 years.
It's VERY EASY for the magazines to become malformed or the spring to go bad. Sketchy replacement mags are $70 when they're in stock. Capacity is 4 rounds.
It needs to be cleaned probably every twenty rounds to function reliably. Disassembling the rifle for cleaning is a pain in the neck, and its easy to bend or even break irreplaceable parts (guide rods). My friend was babysitting this rifle for me while I was overseas, and tried to clean it for me. He ended up bending the guide rods and completely jamming up the rifle. The gunsmith had to sort it out for me.
Not every gunsmith wants to deal with the recall on the firing pin. I found one who did mine, eventually.
I kept mine in the back of my truck (under a cap) for a week, while moving. In spite of being in a case, it rusted internally. Cleaned it up successfully, but know that they are a bit more vulnerable to humidity than other guns. I've heard of the gas tubes rusting and fusing to the piston.
You need to send the bolt home hard to make sure its locked and ready to fire. Not too quiet.
People have complained about the stocks cracking because they are so thin in places (a semi-auto trying to look like a bolt action).
Ubiquitous complaints about extraction.
Accuracy hit and miss, depending on ammo.
So I would say that if you want a deer rifle that will live in the safe most of the year, this might be good if you are aware of its problems. As a survival rifle, I would leave it at home. I think about trading it for a bolt action at least twice per year.
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One of the few rifles I have sold without a hint of regret. Heavy, not accurate, and a spare magazine cost me $48 in 1998.
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I ended up buying a Winchester 100, but that is not why I wanted to find this thread. Rather, I wanted it for reference when I started a thread titled, "The ONLY Gun I have EVER Sold."
What a horrible design. The magazines are unreliable, cleaning is a chore requiring intimate disassembly, and the hammer kept getting lodged in places where nature didn't intend, also necessitating disassembly every time.
The worst part is that I am given to understand that these are common issues with them that nobody ever really flinches over.
Also, welcome to the forum.
Don't do it,
my brother's 100 isn't a nice gun to have and to hold.
Seriously, I think I'd rather be with my crazy ex-wife than own a Winchester 100.
If you're thinking of a civilian firearm then I'd recommend the Remington 74s.
I've worked on both of them and have not been impressed with the Winchesters.
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Thanks for the warm welcome! Warding young'uns of from the Win 100....this type of thing is what the internet was made for! Sorry you ended up buying it, but congratulations on getting out from under it! If you ever find yourself missing it, mine is up for trade....
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Winchester M100
One Sunday after church, one of my new buddies handed me a rifle in 243, semi-auto scoped with sling. I'm not one that cares to much for semi's, but it was free. He had told me it jams a lot and wouldn't eject rite and he was tired of messing with it.. It was kinda dirty, so when I got home, I cleaned it up a little and then I noticed what I had in my hand. A Winchester Model 100 in 95% condition. WOW !
I found his problem, or at least part of it. It was dirty as hades ! The bore was nasty and it was dry as a bone. I lubed it up and it came to life.
Took it shootin today and I found NO fail to feed or eject, matter of fact, it ran smooth as butter..
When I got back home, I went to cleaning it and man o man was she dirty !
After a good cleaning, I lightly oiled her up and put her to bed..
I'm a bolt guy, but I can get used to this sweetheart real quick !
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I had a model 100 in .308 and had all kinds of problems getting it to load and eject properly. Took it to a gunsmith twice -- he ran out of ideas, so did I. It was cleaned, lubed, etc. etc.
Look in the literature, they are inherently unreliable relative to most guns.
I loved its look, and it had some sentimental value, but I sold it to someone who thought he could make it work. He said he'd let me know when he got it working. Still have not heard from him....
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Today Forrester published its revised US consumer tablet forecast, updating its previous forecast from June 2010. When Apple's iPad first debuted, we saw the device as a game-changer but were too conservative with our forecast. Since then, we've fielded additional consumer surveys and an SMB and enterprise survey, conducted additional supply-side research, and seen more sales numbers from Apple. We've had briefings from many companies that will release new tablets at CES. All of these inputs have led us to revise our US consumer tablet forecast for 2010 upward to 10.3 million units, and we expect sales to more than double in 2011 to 24.1 million units. Of those sales, the lion's share will be iPads, and despite many would-be competitors that will be released at CES, we see Apple commanding the vast majority of the tablet market through 2012.
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The initiative to improve the schools was the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). The Challenge was brought to Chicago by Ayers, a University of Illinois-Chicago education professor and former domestic terrorist, and was chaired by Obama from 1995 to 2001. Over those years, the Challenge distributed millions of dollars to non-profit organizations working with Chicago public schools.
"Results suggest that among the schools it supported, the Challenge had little impact on school improvement and student outcomes, with no statistical differences between Annenberg and non-Annenberg schools in the rate of achievement gain, classroom behavior, student self-efficacy and social competence," the August 2003 report by the Consortium of Chicago School Research said of the CAC.
The CAC began with a $49.2 million grant from the Annenberg Foundation in 1995. It was one part of a $500 million distributed by the Foundation to 18 school districts across the United States, including Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and South Florida. Like Chicago, each of these Annenberg Challenge programs was run at the local level.
Annenberg grant money went to 210 different schools in the Chicago area, about 90 percent of which were elementary schools, according to the report by the Consortium of Chicago School Research.
Illinois standardized reading and math test scores improved city wide in Chicago by about one point, according to the report. The schools that received Annenberg grants saw no more improvement than the Chicago schools that received no grants.
"Across Annenberg schools, student engagement was only slightly greater in 2001 than before the Challenge," the report said. "Although some measures of organizational capacity were slightly stronger or weaker in 2001 than at the beginning of the Challenge, there was little net change. In all, the organizational capacity of the Annenberg schools at the end of the Challenge looked much like it did at the beginning."
The report was written by Mark A. Smylie and Stacy A Wenzel.
Smylie stressed that Annenberg should not be viewed as a complete failure, as public schools need time to improve.
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John Simmons, with the Strategic Learning Initiative, said he saw the CAC initiative work.
The Learning and Sharing Connection program, for example, run by Simmons's group, was funded with $665,000 in Annenberg grants from 1998 through 2001. The program helped turn around one of the poorest, worst-performing schools in the United States. Test scores there improved by 11 times in a single year over other schools in the Chicago region, Simmons said.
Simmons thinks the Annenberg program deserves more credit than it has received.
"You read the Annenberg report and it says there wasn't much progress, but Annenberg did help schools," Simmons said. "What people miss is that Annenberg took on a bold move nobody ever did before."
However, according to the report, the Annenberg-funded schools were weaker than other schools in some measurements.
"Student classroom behavior in Annenberg schools declined between 1994 and 2001 at a small but steady rate, although it stayed within the 'moderately positive' category," the Consortium report said. "In 2001, students in Annenberg schools were somewhat less inclined than in 1994 to respect each other, work well together and help each other learn."
"They were somewhat less likely to report that students who do well in school are not made fun of; that students work together to solve problems; and that they get along well, care about each other and treat each other with respect," the report continued.
Further, the report said social competence declined. That means students were less likely to help people, to take turns, and listen to what others said.
In the final summary, the report assessed why the Annenberg grants were not more successful.
"The failure of the Challenge to achieve an overall effect on school improvement could be due to a number of shortcomings in the design and implementation of the challenge itself," the report said. "These include the breadth of its goals and the vagueness of its strategies for school development; the number of participating schools and the inadequacy of the resources they received; and general weaknesses in the levers for change that it developed, particularly with regards to accountability."
The conclusion continues: "Failure to achieve an overall effect could also be due to weaknesses in the capabilities and resources of external partners and the organizational capacities of Annenberg schools to engage effectively in the Challenge's approach to reform."
Coinciding with reforms already in place at the Chicago level was a problem, according to a national report by the Annenberg Foundation that assessed all 18 school districts and how well the initiative worked.
"In Chicago, the Challenge geared up to strengthen parents' involvement in running neighborhood schools, but the Illinois legislature moved in the opposite direction, giving the mayor sweeping authority in 1995 to run the local schools," the 2002 Annenberg report said.
"The mayor installed the city's former budget director as the chief executive officer. The new chief restored the schools' financial health, built dozens of new schools and repaired hundreds of old ones, but departed finding it considerably more difficult to remedy academic failings," the report said.
The 2002 report failed to find major improvements across the country in the school districts that received Annenberg money.
"The Challenge did not work miracles, but it breathed new life into American education. It brought hope to schools that had been all but abandoned," the national report said. "It helped educators who accepted mediocrity and failure to make a new commitment to excellence."
On the positive side, the national report said that Chicago elementary students at the targeted schools went from being half a grade behind students in the average Chicago schools to being a quarter of a grade ahead of the average. The report said the average grant for a school was $39,000 for schools with an average operating budget of $3.8 million.
While Obama was chairman of the CAC board of directors, Ken Rolling served as the executive director of the organization working there on a day-to-day basis.
Rolling was quoted in the report about Chicago, concluding, "at the end of the day, all fingers point to teacher and principal professional development as the main priority we needed to address."


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You can go from the future of media, cities and our coming water crisis to a debate on whether we should ration end of life health care. Then there are "labs" on building robots, luring opera audiences, innovation in the gaming industry, preparing seafood and maximizing transparency in an online world.
There are lots of young folks making and listening to presentations and scads of emerging high-tech entrepreneurs. There's a reassuring air of vitality coursing many of the sessions and the hallways discussions after each gathering.
A criminal justice session caught my attention as much as any so far, with journalist Ray Bonner setting the stage (on a stage) at the Goodman Theatre by noting our nation's depressing incarceration rate: 730 per 100,000 citizens, highest in the world and even topping the likes of Russia and Cubs. The youth incarceration rate is especially dismal, at 336 per 100,000 citizens, leaving all nations in the dust.
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Well, said Berk, a very respected fellow, we're well on our way there. That sounded a bit hyperbolic, at least until he started rattling off the many ways in which we already attempt to predict criminal behavior. such as in sentencing, parole board and other decisions. We're "lousy" at it, he said, but we do try.
We try to forecast the possibility somebody will commit a homicide while out on parole. We try, too, when we consider bail recommendations and prison housing decisions (the guys likely to be badasses are dispatched to the most onerous cells).
Now, he said, consider the increasing use of GPS, closed circuit television and other technologies when it comes to both tracking any or all of us and also discerning patterns of behavior. Computer chips embedded in a parolee's electronic ankle bracelet can be read by a hidden video camera on a building.
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Pros and Cons for a stubby bumper
I've been reading on how to do the stubby bumper mod, but I would like to know the pros and cons for doing the mod if you don't take your jeep off-road..:hide:.
Any inputs would be appreciated...
I cant really think of any cons...pros I guess would be looks (depending on the owner).
This is only if you dont plan to take it offroad.
Offroad is a different story. A stubby is less to hang up/smash on the trail. Also a stubby will expose more of the front of the tire, making it easier to put your tires on or against something taller than your bumper.
I would think an on-road con would be the exact opposite of the off-road pro... Tires more exposed... (Those Zombies will get hung up there in the wheel well!!!! )
One con I have noticed is the cap color might not exactly match the color of the bumper, especially if your stock bumper has seen a lot of sun. Not a very big con, all things considered.
Beyond aesthetic preferences, there really aren't any cons onroad IMO--I'd rather have my tire bump into stuff than my bumper anyway, given how easily the stock bumper crumples.
And offroad it's definitely all pros for the reasons Cons Table stated above.
I put the RC caps on mine months ago and I'd do it again immediately if I suddenly ended up with a new jeep.
w00t! I am putting mine on the 21st.
10% extra horsepower is all I got. :rolleyes:
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After just 1/2 mile on a gravel road after rain, here's what you get:
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Not a problem now:
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Ooh, I like that a lot. How much were the end caps?
^ That's a pretty mean parking lot.
Oh ya repping both stubbys on both our jks
We were going to do this on ours but opted to do the fender chop and buy the bumpers we liked. Same functionality, just a personal preference on looks really.
But that stock bumper sticking out has gotta go. We've both got wear marks inside from the 35's rubbing it on the inside while disconnected. So much more clearance after getting rid of that and chopping the flares.
Thanks for all the info, I like the VDP stubby end cap look myself, think I will be looking into doing this mod then. I still have the factory tires, I wonder if it will look weird until I upgrade the tires....:whistling:
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I ordered my VDP stubby kit today, for obvious reasons...
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It's on my list
The only (cosmetic) con that I have run across is if you have painted/bed-lined your rims only on the outside then the unpainted side would be easier to see.
I'm wanting to try this method with the stock bumper
Here is a link to how he did the stock DIY stubby (this seems to be the best description from that thread.. It starts before this, and the picture is from one page before)
If you had the stubby and got hit like DakotaBuck did ^^^^ i would imagine it could screw up your tire if somthing hit it straight on
Have you actually looked at the ends of the stock bumper? Either by sticking your head under your jeep, or by actually cutting them off and handling them?
They're just pieces of lightweight extruded plastic. If you hit something hard enough to actually damage your tire or steering components, whatever it was would easily go through the flimsy plastic of the stock bumper.
At most, I'd say that at low speeds the crushing of the stock bumper could provide you with an AUDIBLE clue that your tire is approaching an obstacle. But otherwise, I don't think it's going to offer any "protection" for the tire behind it.
To put in another way, I'd expect those stock bumper ends are about as good at protecting your tires as a tissue box taped to your forehead would be at protecting your face while being punched by a heavyweight boxer.
maybe con: you might throw a few more rocks at the stuff in front of you
Yeah that is annoying and one of the reasons I did mine too.
LOL at the tissue box analogy. Quite apt.
I think that plastic end does function more than said here. Just like most plastic bumper, it will do the job to deflect high speed flying objects kicked up by the cars in front, it happened a lot on the freeway here, rather than it will go straight to your wheel or wheel well. And I think it will cause less harm to the pedestrians than hitting them with the hard part or a rolling wheel.
Anyway, I'm more leaning to get those modular ones so I can customize it whenever I like :)
Some states require you to have a full width front bumper. NJ is one of them but I have never had a problem. The state also requires an
elevated vehicle approval certificate for tires 4 inches larger than stock, body lift, coil lift
no wheel spacers
full width bumpers
fender flares covering tires 100 %
limit to the amount of lights you have and a height restriction
Point is... I know a bunch of guys, myself included that go against these regulations. Check your states lift laws and be aware of it but you shouldn't have a problem.
one pro I can think of for full-width bumper is deer protection
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Posted by Mark Mulligan on January 24, 2010
I've just finished presenting to delegates at the music conference Midem some of the findings of new Forrester report: The Music Industry Meltdown: Recasting the Mold. Here are a few highlights:
The 1990s were the recorded music industry's high-water mark, with the CD at its height as a product. The CD now finds itself in terminal decline and with no heir apparent. Instead music fans have fallen out of love with the CD and struck up a whirlwind romance with free music. This is an affair that has changed forever how people perceive music as a product.
The contagion of free music infects everything. (But file sharing is just the symptom, not the cause.) We are in the midst of a painful period of transition from the distribution paradigm of selling units of music to the consumption era where music fans expect music to be on tap, unlimited and whenever and wherever they want it. It's hard too fight free when it is riding on the wave of inevitable change. Instead it must be beaten at its own game: a big fat carrot needs to accompany the stick.
Posted by Sonal Gandhi on January 14, 2010
We have just published our annual music forecast for 2009-2014 for the US market. Recorded music revenues for the year 2009 are expected to close at $6.3 billion (not including ring tones and ring backs). That's down 13 percent from the year before. The outlook for the near future is not too bright either. Recorded music revenues will continue to decline before settling at around $5.5 billion in 2012.
Some other highlights of the forecast are -
It is no secret that the industry has stepped up its efforts to diversify its revenue streams in the last few years. Licensing to digital music services (MySpace, Youtube) and performance royalties from Internet radio are thus becoming an important source of revenue for the industry. We have therefore included revenues from digital music licensing in this year's forecast report.
Bottom line for digital music licensing is this – revenue from digital music licensing will be a decent amount but it will be nowhere near filling the hole in the revenue from recorded music created between now and 2014.
Posted by Mark Mulligan on January 13, 2010
Back in July my colleague Nick Thomas wrote a report entitled: We Are All Media Companies Now: How Brands Can Benefit From The Media Meltdown. I heavily recommend you read it. As we enter the second decade of the 21st century its core arguments are more relevant now than ever before.
The fundamentals of media business are toppling as their 20th century foundations crumble. Consumers are falling out of love with paying for media and striking up illicit affairs with free content, not just because it is free, but also because it is on their terms. YouTube, BitTorrent and Spotify don't dictate when audiences watch and listen, they let them take control. This is great news for consumers but terrible news for media businesses that have spent years building revenues upon near-monopolistic control of supply of content. This is the Media Meltdown.
Why all this matters to brands is because the tectonic shifts in media value chains are creating exciting new opportunities for non-media companies to become media companies themselves. Just as Apple transformed from hardware company to media services company with the launch of the iTunes Store, so too are brands such as Procter and Gamble with BeingGirl.com, Tommy Hilfiger with Tommy TV and Audi with its UK TV channel.
Why are brands such as these choosing to become media companies? Because communicating with audiences can be so much more valuable a relationship than a cold, hard sell to potential customers. Engaging young girl readers on BeingGirl.com with articles about what it means to be a young girl on the verge of womanhood means so much more to that audience than an old fashioned TV ad by P&G's Tampax (one of the brands behind the site).
Posted by Ian Fogg on January 8, 2010
Tomorrow, on the 9th, it's three years since the announcement of the iPhone. In that short space of time, and as Apple promised back then, Apple has reinvented the phone.
The iPhone has proven to be the 'Ironclad' of mobile phones. Everything that went before was obsolete overnight, both smartphones and dumb phones included. No prior phone could compete with the experience and the abilities of the iPhone. Sure, some phones were superior in very specific regards -- especially on cost and call quality -- just as very early Ironclad warships were not always the most sea worthy vessels. But overall, nothing existing could go toe-to-toe with the iPhone.
Other manufacturers saw this fast and reacted. Just like with the warships of the latter part of the 19th century the pace of innovation since, both from other manufacturers and from across the whole mobile ecosystem, has been ferocious. This week at CES we've seen numerous competing high end mobile phone launches that demonstrate that the pace of innovation in mobile is accelerating, rather than slowing.
Consumers use this new breed of high end phones in completely different ways to older 'smartphones' or dumb phones (we have consumer data on this, clients please ask!). This is especially true in Europe where consumer ownership of Nokia's Symbian Series 60 handsets is so great.
Posted by Mark Mulligan on January 7, 2010
A new French government sponsored study has recommended taxing online advertising revenues to help compensate the French creative industries for copyright infringement. The study proposes taxing the large online players Google, Facebook, Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo, but not ISPs, which are more traditionally seen as the key conduit for online media piracy. The sharp eyed among you will have noticed that these are all American companies and that the French ISPs are, well, French.
Parochialism aside, there is a major flaw in the logic here: if these large companies are deemed responsible in part for illegal content consumption, then so are the ISPs (arguably more so). And indeed the French Hadopi (Three Strikes) bill which this study is intended to complement, expressly apportions responsibility to the ISPs, making them partners in anti-piracy enforcement. So if they are deemed responsible under French law, shouldn't they also be subject to a levy, if one is implemented?
The so called 'Google Tax' proposals also suggest that the tax should be paid regardless of whether the publishers have offices in France, based instead on whether French consumers view the ads. So this would mean, for example, that Google would have to make payment to support the French media industries if a French consumer clicked on a sponsored link, say, for washing machines in Seattle.
Posted by Ian Fogg on January 5, 2010
Much that's been leaked about the Google announcement later today is familiar and evolutionary. What will matter most is how Google communicates the news and how it's received. This will set the tone for the Android smartphone operating system for 2010 and influence how other firms involved in Android -- Motorola, LG, SonyEricsson as well as the operators -- react and adjust their strategy.


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|22nd December 2001, 11:54 PM
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PC as scope and spectrum analyzer?
Hi folks,
I want to get back into electronics,breadboarding and solderslinging,the works.It has been awhile.I have a couple of meters.I know I need a scope.It seems like the last time I picked up Electronics World there is a way to use one's PC as a scope,spectrum analyzer,etc. with the proper software.Is that right?That is fabulous if so.Save me from having to invest in a scope,not that they are that expensive,especially on the used market.Nonetheless one can save space at the very least with a scope PC.Any info on this subject,pro or con,would be greatly appreciated.Thanks tons in advance.
|23rd December 2001, 01:50 AM
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AudioXpress magazine (formerly Audio Amateur, then Audio Electronics) published a series of reviews a few years ago by Charles Hansen of different PC-based instruments. I found it to be a good source of information when I was looking. The magazine is at http://www.audioxpress.com if you're interested.
As you may already know, choosing one of these units involves a three-way tradeoff between bandwidth, resolution, and cost. (The software interface is also a factor, but probably not until you've settled on the first three.) Most of the affordable units I've seen have 8-bit resolution, which gives you about 54 dB noise floor as a spectrum analyzer -- somewhat limiting for audio work, I think. I'd suggest going for at least 12 bits (= 80 dB noise floor) if you can afford it.
For bandwidth, I'd go as high as the wallet will allow, especially if you are designing feedback amplifiers and want to see those HF oscillations. 20 MHz is probably a minimum figure, but you could be forgiven for wanting anything up to 200 MHz in my view.
What will this cost? I haven't surveyed the field recently, but I do know of a model by Pico Technologies (http://www.pico-tech.co.uk) that offers 12-bit resolution and 25 MHz bandwidth for about $750 US. They also have a 50 MHz model for just over a grand. I have a different Pico model and am happy with it, but am not otherwise affiliated with the company.
|23rd December 2001, 02:03 AM
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I understood what you meant is software to be used with a soundcard as the interface... yes, such software exists (try a few searches on www.download.com). Of course, you're limited with bandwidth, resolution and SPECIALLY, on the voltage the input can take (most scopes are virtually undestructibles in that sense), but, free (or almost) is the best price Hope that helps!
|23rd December 2001, 02:13 AM
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cheap PC scope and analyzer
There are a number of software packages on the Web for using a PC as a scope or THD/Spectrum Analyzer. I have been using the following software which has a free demo and is cheap to purchase, $35 I think. www.sumuller.de/audiotester/
Can get around 80 dB dynamic range with most sound cards I think. I am now using a 24 bit 96KHz sampling card made by M-Audio, Audiophile 2496, street price around $160 (check zZounds.com) which gives around 100 db range. (.002% distortion) For THD analysis can add this circuitry to measure down to typically .0001% distortion: http://www.angelfire.com/ab3/mjramp...d/golopid6.html
|23rd December 2001, 02:22 AM
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There are quite a number of software programs available that will measure distortion and generate test signals. These all use computer sound cards. With the right sound cards you can generate test signals with very low distortion (.0002%) or better and measure distortion down to around -130DB with little problem in the analog mode. They also let you test for jitter and so forth.
What you can do with this software depends to a large degree on the quality of your sound card. You can expect to pay $400 on up to $800 or so for a suitable one. The newer 24 bit cards with samplig rates to or exceeding the 96KBs sampling rate are preferend. A sound baster card will not do and the built in sound cards on mother boards have to much noise to be useable below about -80DB.
Two such software programs that I use are HPworks and a version of SpectraLab that Pioneer Hill software sells. SpectraPro is also a good choice. HPworks is harder to use but may be more accurate. With a 16 bit 44.1 Kbs sound card you will be limited to a upper frequency of about 22 Khz. Thus you cannot measure third harmonic distortion past the 7 Khz fundamental frequency with that sampling rate. So additional test equipment is normally always required.
I would not consider using a sound card for a scope because the performance would be very poor and to limited in frequency response.
There is no need to build distortion analyzers or most other test equipment since suitable equipment can be purchased on Ebay for very reasonable prices. I have sold quite a number of my older equipment items there.
Vintage HP distortion analyzers such as the HP 334 sell for as little at $85.00 older versions such as a 331 sell for around $35.00. You will likely find all the test equipment you need available on Ebay. Look at the industrial section and then test equipment.
John Fassotte
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|23rd December 2001, 01:41 PM
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Has anyone considered The Bitscope, an open design 100MHz Digital Sampling Oscilloscope and 8 channel Logic Analyzer.

Simultaneous analog/digital capture

100 MHz sub-sampling bandwidth

50 Ms/s logic sample rate (max)

40 Ms/s analog sample rate (max)

20 MHz single-shot bandwidth

4 analog inputs (multiplexed)

8 logic inputs via DB25 POD

Two 32K x 8 capture buffers

Sophisticated triggers (analog or digital)

1GHz Prescaler/frequency counter
The Complete Kit. US$290.00 or you can just get the pcb/chipset and try to source the rest youself
|23rd December 2001, 02:24 PM
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I don't recommend using soundcards for a "pc-scope". The input of soundcards is often DC-protected, so you can't measure DC-signals; the inputvoltage is often limited to +0.6V and -0.6V (with two simple diodes) and as mentioned above the bandwith is also limited.
Best regards,
|15th August 2002, 07:29 PM
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I've been using the PICO oscilloscopes for quite some time now, and the perfectly suit my needs. Check them out on www.picotech.com
If you're interested in seeing them operate and you live in Belgium: we sell them in our store (Geel - Belgium). Give me a call for a demo: email@example.com
|16th August 2002, 09:38 AM
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The whole thread should maybe reside in the "everything else" forum, but never mind.
With regard to building a high resolution distortion/spectrum analyzer, an external TI PCM1802 would make an excellent convertor, question is how to get the sdata at 6 MHz+ inside the computer.
Anybody know a sound-card or other add-on that has a 24 bit/96 or 192 kHz SPDIF input?
Or any other idea how to get three separate data lines (bitclock, sdata, LRclock) into the computer? There used to be AT-slot digital I/O cards and there are some more expensive PCI I/O cards now, but none will tell what that max data rate is.
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Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are stochastic search algorithms inspired by the process of neo-Darwinian evolution. The motivation for applying EAs to data mining is that they are robust, adaptive search techniques that perform a global search in the solution space. This chapter first presents a brief overview of EAs, focusing mainly on two kinds of EAs, viz. Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and Genetic Programming (GP). Then the chapter reviews the main concepts and principles used by EAs designed for solving several data mining tasks, namely: discovery of classification rules, clustering, attribute selection and attribute construction. Finally, it discusses Multi-Objective EAs, based on the concept of Pareto dominance, and their use in several data mining tasks.
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Hi guys, I'm Aquanox. It's a little weird to write these lines here again, a place where I spent so much time and effort and made many virtual friends. It looks so different than before in both good and not that good ways but I'll get on that later (i.e. in other posts)
For those who don't know me I was an active Xbox fan who made his rep around here in the Xbox 360 section, which modesty apart, was an splendidly well fed section back then, thanks to the many fans around. Unfortunately, there was a witch hunt many here might have heard of and well, some of the best xbox posters were banned for the most ridiculous reasons. I need to say, I'm happy the guys who initiated it are gone now, they truly ruined this place, a place of great debate which made you come back again and again just to see what the others had to say, and not necessarily, others with almost the exact same opinion as you.
After that I started my own website, a very small (only 500 ppl or so) but pretty website. Don't worry admins, it's in spanish and is xbox dedicated. No conflicts here. The good thing is, I've learned a lot about things from the other side of the coin (being a mod/admin)
I'd lie if I'd say I'm here to be back in full effect this time around but I'll be glad to stick here and, If I can, I'll colaborate with the same stuff I get to my website.
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Last edited by Aquanox; 02-02-2011 at 22:59.Proud future owner of a PS4. W00t W000t!!
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ayoho there, welcome back, and prepare to be slobbered on by all your many many fans♥ ∈ ∅
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Sup Aquanox. I remember you. Welcome back. Watch out for the Sony slaves. (Take a good look at the thread, "Sony wins Geohot restraining order". The fanboyism in certain areas has really gotten worse. We have people that literally defend Sony with every fiber of their being. It's sad. Good thing I'm no longer one of them.
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Welcome back! Remember me? I was one of the original people in the 360 section. I think the section has gone downhill and people just call each other trolls for having opinions against the 360 nowadays (Got called a troll when I bought my Xbox 360 slim and it was having problems.. people accused me of lying just to make Microsoft look bad! opposite from when you were here!) I hope you stick around.
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Glad you're back, you might not remember me (new name) but just reading your name brings back memories of the good ol' banana controller days
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I remember your name and all the uproar it would cause among the Sony guys at the mention of it
Regardless, welcome back brostradamus.I once ate a dirty sock...don't tell anyone.
World domination has taken a momentary setback...talk amongst yourselves in the meantime.UK>America. its just true
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Hey man. It's always good to see old members coming back to this place again. Hope you can stay this time.
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Thanks guys. I'd be nice if yu can help me catch up with the forums. How's the 360 section doing? Ps3 sections? Wii still being ignored?
Kinect being trolled to death? =)
I'll take a look at every recommendation. I'll read that Geohot thread.Proud future owner of a PS4. W00t W000t!!
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Hey Aquanox. I too am back from nearly a 2 year hiatus as I was just brought back on board about 2 weeks ago. See you in the 360 thread and welcome back.
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I haven't used XBMC, I mainly browse Netflix so a PS3/360/Apple TV would be enough for me.
edit: Wrong thread. My mistake.
02-02-2011 #12
May God have mercy on this forum.
02-02-2011 #13
You're safe Aquanox. The 360 posters have diplomatic immunity now and you cannot question anything about the 'M' word if you aren't a regular in that section.
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Oh, it's like a big family reuinion. I think I'm going to cry.
Welcome back.
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Welcome back, Aquanox. When you left, I was still a regular member. (Edit: Wow, apparently I hadn't even registered yet! Lurker extraordinaire ). Anyway, I've been working for PSU for nearly four years now, three as a U.S. editor. The site and community have gone through a series of ups and downs in your absence, but Doug Bishop (our new manager as of this past summer) really knows how to please the community and run a great website.
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Hell is freezing over and even the devil doesn't know whats going on.
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Wait a minute, what?
who let you back here
Welcome back Aqua.
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It's like one massive $#@! fest over one member, Jesus. It's not as if he was a God. HE WAS A F**** TROLL. HE SHOULD GTFO.
I'm kidding, obviously. Welcome back, dude.
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Darren Aronofsky's Noah, like the Book of Genesis, raises important questions about evil, God, and what a righteous person should do. Some of the details between the two portrayals differ, but the horror of genocide and its effect on survivors are not avoided.
Genesis uses stories, some with historical origins, to face hard questions. The book does not offer a consistent image of God. Rather it reflects the struggle of primitive societies to adapt to an unpredictable and dangerous world. When the Tigris and Euphrates rivers would flood, indiscriminately killing many, the survivors would ask "Why did God/the gods allow this to happen?" and "Why did we survive and not others?".
Earlier in Genesis, humans were created with a "you-can-choose" gene. In time, evil was the result. Yet the decision in Genesis 7 for the Creator to suddenly become, like the worst of humans, a mass murderer is truly shocking for the reader.
Dr Karen Armstrong writes: "At best, the God of the Flood can be seen to behave like a petulant child who is tired of the castle he's created with his building blocks and knocks it down. At worst, he appears like those tyrants and dictators in our own century who have assumed godlike powers and have attempted to purge the world of what they regard as evil."
Aronofsky raises the same theological issues. God is largely silent in the movie. At one point the key villain laments: "Why doesn't God talk to us anymore?". Why, indeed. Do you excommunicate and drown your children when they have the gall to grow up and disagree with you and make choices you don't like?
The director then shows in his portrayal of Noah the effects of following such a God. Aronofsky's Noah is an enigma. On the one hand, he champions the animals and cares for the Earth. On the other hand, he shows no compassion for those he considers wicked, even for their babies and children. On the one hand he builds an ark to save his family. On the other, his commitment to the destructive God fractures the wellbeing and relationships within his own family.
The Genesis Noah is also enigmatic. Although he's called "righteous", such righteousness does not include compassion for his fellow human beings. Noah does not stand up for humanity - unlike Abraham who, a few chapters later, successfully petitions God to spare the people of Sodom. Noah doesn't even speak up for the entirely guiltless birds and animals that are wiped out.
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As far as we can tell, Noah did not even consider smuggling a few of the doomed men and women on to the Ark. Noah was no Oskar Schindler. Schindler saved every Jew he could from the Nazi genocide. Noah's virtue consisted of obeying the rules. Schindler's virtue consisted of finding ways around them. Schindler was a playboy and philanderer - he would have almost certainly been condemned to death by the God of the Flood. Yet it is the type of righteousness known in Schindler - compassion, tolerance and mercy - that comes to dominate in the development of the Jewish and then Christian concepts of God.
After viewing the post-flood decimation and bloated bodies, God apparently decides dealing with the "evil inclination" gene by killing off most of humanity was a bad idea. Kind of like a violent husband surveying the damage the next morning and deciding to turn over a new leaf. In the movie, this violence is reflected in Noah wanting to kill his grandchildren. Aronofsky has a nice happily-ever-after episode at the end; but like mending a family after violent abuse one wonders how long it will last.
The Genesis story of Noah does not finish with a rainbow. It finishes with a curse. Noah, unable to spiritually survive the flood's trauma, abuses alcohol and then scapegoats his grandson, Canaan. Christians would later use this curse to justify slavery. Africans were believed to be the descendants of Ham and were thus condemned to be the "lowest of slaves". The God of the Flood's favoured survivor passed the mantle of his suffering on to others.
Genesis is not a collection of nice rainbow stories. Rather it raises questions, often through its deficient characters and deities, about evil and suffering. Aronofsky does likewise.
Glynn Cardy is a minister at St Luke's Presbyterian Church, Remuera.


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