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RIP: Lou Ottens, creator of the cassette tape, has died at 94

 

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Lou Ottens, who brought joy to many music lovers with his invention of the audio cassette tape, has died at the age of 94.

Ottens started working for the Phillips electronic manufacturing company in 1952, but his big moment came in the 1960s when he was the head of product development at the Belgian Hasselt branch of the Eindhoven company Phillips. It was there that he created the audio cassette tape, which officially launched in 1963 at the Berlin Radio Show Electronics Fair.

The cassette tape was meant to be a more user-friendly product than the reel-to-reel systems that were primarily used at the time. Their more concise packaging led the company to trademark the name "compact cassette" in 1964.

Ottens would later reveal to Eindhovens Dagblad that at the time of the invention, he was unaware of its future significance. "We were little boys who had fun playing. We didn’t feel like we were doing anything big. It was a kind of sport,” he stated [as relayed by Netherlands News Live].

The Ottens design became the standard for audio cassettes around the world, with over 100 billion being sold since its introduction.

Ottens also had a hand in the technology that would eventually start to phase out the cassette as the popular mode for audio consumption. He worked with Phillips and Sony on the joint development of the compact disc in 1979.

Cassette tapes grew in popularity in the '70s and early '80s prior to the introduction of the CD, but started to decline in popularity and were largely diminished for store sales by the late '90s and early 2000s. However, much like vinyl, the cassette tape has seen a recent resurgence in popularity as the CD has faded as a popular technology.

The audio cassette was not only great for the release of full albums, but it also was a recordable technology where many music lovers would compile mixtapes of favorite songs or pressed play to record tracks off the radio.

Ottens was a true pioneer for the spread of modern music and part of his story was told in the 2016 documentary, Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape.



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I remember at the very beginning when I was a little youngster, I couldn't take defeat from anyone or being kept back a grade in school, where education or gaming (not chess for some reason) were the measure of my entire existence to escape from my childhood problems. Self-absorption of wanting to be the center of attention and feeling destined for greatness, did hinder me.


Back in the era when my deceased mother was growing up, she said I inherited the arrogance and sore loser behavior from her, but I turned out even worse than she did, because I would belittle people for doing better than me, throwing or damaging the controller, while she didn't want to bothered in comparison. I've finally grown out of this when my mom died in my early 20s. Her death changed me.


I went to take cognitive testing so much later in life, because I suffered from the worsening of memory problems and information being hard to process. The outcome of the testing was severely humbling and was filled with bitterness, because I wasn't who I thought I was. I think even with Borderline Intellectual Functioning, there is always a way to improvise, because I eventually had to acknowledge that perfectionism is flawed by the harsh reality of compromising strengthens and weaknesses.

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Last post for tonight

 

I think extreme selflessness was the default devotion to a less depressing life for me or so I thought. My mistakes in the past were with not establishing healthy boundaries. The feeling of betrayal by those who took advantage of my kindness and being falsely accused of crimes and having to go through intensive care was one of the abstract cases of my isolation from society, because I was afraid of being hurt again. 


It took a while with forgiveness a few years down the line, but prior to that, I was filled with anger and homicidal thoughts for 2 years. Though for me, I could never take another person's life, because I'm too empathetic for others, always placing their lives over the well being of my own. 


After a while, I began to think should I have a healthy balance of the co-existence embedded selfishness and selflessness in me, but the two have lost it's appeal.

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1 hour ago, AYO?! said:

Stop being crazy and get some help for once B-Tier, because your typical brand of cray-cray isn't going to fly here. 

I'm not crazy. You are too dumb to understand what I am saying. Dumb people think smart people are crazy. If you have done your research, you will realize that I am right about Covid 19. The whole pandemic is a big fat scam. 

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22 minutes ago, Lord Vega said:

I'm not crazy. You are too dumb to understand what I am saying. Dumb people think smart people are crazy. If you have done your research, you will realize that I am right about Covid 19. The whole pandemic is a big fat scam. 

This moderator was talking to me, because apparently that's my nickname here. I guess I can't be too honest about my life, since AYO probably feels that I'm beyond inappropriate.

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Some of the shit my friends like to eat is incredibly disgusting to me... dude mentioned "rag baloney", and right away it sounded gross; I had to look that shit up online and yeahhhh that's another no for me, dawg. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_sausage

 

I did eat regular balogna sandwiches way back in elementary school, on occasion...then at some point it just became pointless when I discovered so many other things that were far superior.  Even worse though was liverwurst ...I actually liked that when I was a kid, then tried it again later on and couldn't believe that was something I once ate on a regular basis... it was repulsive.... I couldn't stand more than 1 bite of that nonsense.

 

*on another note--I was checking out this thread recently on people's character ideas for VtM...some interesting ones in there:

http://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/main-forum/the-classic-world-of-darkness/vampire-the-masquerade/860617-1001-interesting-character-ideas/page2 

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Lord Vega Level 1

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2 hours ago, Emptyeyes said:

This moderator was talking to me, because apparently that's my nickname here. I guess I can't be too honest about my life, since AYO probably feels that I'm beyond inappropriate.

Your nickname is one of my old usernames, yes. It feels like I'm your counterpart here. I feel he doesn't like what you are saying, too. He banned me for being inappropriate once. Ha ha ha ha!

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4 hours ago, AYO?! said:

Stop being crazy and get some help for once B-Tier, because your typical brand of cray-cray isn't going to fly here. 

I guess I'll bite this once. I'm failing to see how I'm a nuance to you and possibly to rest. And here I thought the forums are a purpose to connect and engage amongst each other, be it serious, moderate, or casual topics, without crossing foul play. There are interesting people here where I can take advice from and could relate, but you want me to take heed of your warning instead? I understand that I can't be liked by everyone and not the owner of this forum, but can you at the least be a little open-minded? On the other hand, maybe I'm too far out there in general behavior. 


Luckily, for you it's good timing that I've ran out of things to say about myself at this time. So, that could help ease your intolerance of me.

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11 hours ago, Scanman said:

James Chen YET AGAIN ignoring that forums

Do yourself a favor and ignore James Chen.

 

Seem nice enough, but hearing him talk makes me feel like I'm eating a bowl of glass 

 

It's always something along the lines of:

"So, like, yeah, ok, I played in the arcade, with Valle, ok, and if, like, you, like, I'm old, yeah, *FORCED LAUGHTER* like, yeah, pffffftttt, ok I farted! *FORCED LAUGHTER*"

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5 hours ago, misterBee said:

Vaccines are legit, COVID is real.

 

That's all that needs to be said.  Thanks.  😎

 

People are free to believe in their (wrong) conspiracy theories but this site and most of the people on it aren't gonna back you up.  Just sayin.

He also has QAnon beliefs, too.

 

Hell, he should just come out as a flat-earther too. Just go all out with the batshit insanity

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5 hours ago, Lord Vega said:

I'm not crazy. You are too dumb to understand what I am saying. Dumb people think smart people are crazy. If you have done your research, you will realize that I am right about Covid 19. The whole pandemic is a big fat scam. 

You're D-tier Bison?

Why did you guys change your name? Look at the One who is Undefeated in Religion threads. HIS name is the same today as it was yesterday. 

BTW:
Is Kingtabb Soviat?

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5 minutes ago, Emptyeyes said:

Cisco...I vaguely remember that name, along with The Damned. I don't think SRK took kindly to religious discussions back then and you could have been the most active in your beliefs at the time, but I could be wrong. 

I had 1 interaction with Cisco and it was hilarious. He called himself the saviour of SRK and I told him I didn't even know who he was. He ripped the fattest ass I had ever seen.

 

I don't understand how he functions daily. Has to be missing some fingers, right?

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11 minutes ago, Emptyeyes said:

Cisco...I vaguely remember that name, along with The Damned. I don't think SRK took kindly to religious discussions back then and you could have been the most active in your beliefs at the time, but I could be wrong. 

You know HIS name very well. Just by everything else you wrote here. 
I haven't heard from The Dammed for a long time, and the last time I recall anything about him was him getting humiliated and smacked around like a bitch in a religion thread, by the One who is Undefeated.


btw: The Dammed was that guy who posted about how he cries when other people touch him? 

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https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-superearth-planet-discovered-toi-561b/

 

The planet is about 50 percent larger than Earth but requires less than half a day to orbit its star.

“For every day you’re on Earth, this planet orbits its star twice,” said UC Riverside planetary astrophysicist and team member Stephen Kane.

 

Part of the reason for the short orbit is the planet’s proximity to its star, which also creates incredible heat. Its estimated average surface temperature is over 2,000 degrees Kelvin—much too toasty to host life as we know it today, though it may once have been possible.

 

In addition, Kane said that although the planet has roughly three times the mass of Earth, the team calculated its density to be the same as our planet.

“This is surprising because you’d expect the density to be higher,” Kane said. “This is consistent with the notion that the planet is extremely old.”

 

The older a planet is, the less dense it’s likely to be because not as many heavy elements were available when it formed, explained Kane. Heavy elements are produced by fusion reactions in stars as they age. Eventually stars explode, dispersing these elements from which new stars and planets will form.

 

Discovery of planet TOI-561b, and additional observations the team made about its composition, have been accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal.

“TOI-561b is one of the oldest rocky planets yet discovered,” said University of Hawaii postdoctoral fellow and team lead Lauren Weiss. “Its existence shows that the universe has been forming rocky planets almost since its inception 14 billion years ago.”


Named for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS Object of Interest (TOI) 561 belongs to a rare population of stars called the galactic thick disk. Stars in this region are chemically distinct, with fewer heavy elements such as iron or magnesium that are associated with planet building.

 

The TESS Mission team used the University of California’s access to the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii—home to some of the most scientifically productive telescopes on Earth—to confirm the presence of planet TOI-561b. The observatory’s equipment also helped the team calculate the planet’s mass, density, and radius.

Astronomers are continually trying to understand the relationship between the mass and radius of the planets they find. This information yields insight about the interior structure of planets that with today’s technology are too far away to visit and sample.

 

“Information about a planet’s interior gives us a sense of whether the surface of the planet is habitable by life as we know it,” Kane said. “Though this particular planet is unlikely to be inhabited today, it may be a harbinger of a many rocky worlds yet to be discovered around our galaxy’s oldest stars.”

 

(I haven't read the articles of this site in a long time, but it's good to hear news like this, instead of bad news.)

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