Thank you, right on the nose. Using equalization can fix some frequency response issues at the expense of adding phase shifts which ultimately destroy the impulse response. The KEFs are nowhere near audiophile quality so I'm not impressed.
This is really a lame-brain position. As a long time developer I have two mottos: * If it isn't tested, it doesn't work. * A developer make assumptions all the time.
I can guarantee that, if I was responsible for QA on my own code, things would be broken in subtle ways.
Many years ago I did QA consulting for AT&T. We set up a system where the human factors engineering group would document an application in a specification. One copy went to the developers and one copy went to the QA personnel. The QA staff designed a test plan from this spec and then implemented it against the product sent from the developers. I can't tell you how many things the developers missed because of assumptions they made that were caught by the test plans.
This is the reason I picked up a Blackberry Android device. If nothing else, Blackberry has been true to their word about keeping their phones secure. I ran the vulnerability checker and it claims that my Priv is properly patched (at least by the first week of September when the last monthly patches came).
WebOS was a blank sheet of paper new design. It was well thought out and things worked seamlessly, albeit a bit slow as they never got the chance to optimize the javascript engine. I'm still using a WebOS phone daily thanks to the dedicated work of the homebrew community to keep apps running. Every time I have to grit my teeth and use Android or iOS I have a "if only" moment. Damn you Leo!
I couldn't have stated it any clearer. Net neutrality is not the only thing that will suffer under the new head. He's already put the kibosh on work to get carriers to push available security patches to our phones in a timely manner.
However, Trump continues to use a Pew report and twist it's results. Even after Pew publicly stated that their data in the report does not support his claims, he continues to spew the same rhetoric. It's an impressive embrace of Orwellian tactics.
There is a nominal point of unemployment that is healthy. If it were 0% then there can be no economic growth. The inflationary pressures happen when it approaches 0% and employers are forced to increase wages to hire from the available pool. http://www.economicshelp.org/b...
Oh my! So it's OK to fib as long as you're repeating it? Why is it still repeated? He also claims things are supported by research even after being de-bunked. You should join his team, you'll fit right in.
Note that the data includes all citizens age 16 and older. To find the right number for unemployment, we must remove students, retirees, handicapped, etc. from this pool. Any policies to do with unemployment directly on this data is meaningless and misleading. If you wanted to significantly reduce the 37.3% you would have to put all retirees and students to work. Between 37.3% and 42% proposed by Trump is 18 Million people! That's almost twice the population of NYC.
Trump, Time magazine interview, Aug. 20, 2015: Our real unemployment rate–in fact, I saw a chart the other day, our real unemployment–because you have ninety million people that aren’t working. Ninety-three million to be exact. If you start adding it up, our real unemployment rate is 42%. We have a lot of room. We have a lot of people who want to work.
Since there are around 38 million blacks in the US and he claims 93 million are out of work, this cannot be true unless every black man, woman, and child is out of work three times. BTW, the 93 Million figure came from a report on non-workers, not unemployed workers. Even using this bogus number comes to under 30% unemployment.
He should have mastered this level of math by 5th grade. If you look at the ~5% unemployment figure, this is a reasonable number. When the unemployment drops below 3% we'll be under severe inflationary pressure.
I totally agree. However, you only need an elementary level in math to realize that something is amiss with Trumps numbers. For example, he claims that up to 42% in the US are out of work. Anyone with common sense would realize that having least 2 in 5 people out of work is absurd. In order to get to a figure like that, you would have to include every man, woman, and child over the age of 9. This includes retirees, students, handicapped, and other categories that can't or choose not to work. So to get that number down to a reasonable number, he would have to put children and retirees to work. I'll bet that he backtracks on this number and accepts the 5% unemployment very soon.
I did and don't see any credible rebuttal. My personal opinion is somewhere in-between. I neither trust the intelligence report nor the conspiracy pundits. Both latch onto an enemy and attach vague attributes to justify their position. I don't think the report is grasping at straws but I personally feel that they didn't drive the nail in the coffin.
There is evidence that an East - West facing roof can be effective as well. It took me a year of searching to find this property with little solar obstruction and the perfect orientation. That was after ten years of research for the best materials at a reasonable cost. Friends have good results on existing houses. Do what works best for you and your wallet.
I was going to respond to this until I looked at how much you've contributed on Slashdot, and probably elsewhere. I didn't find a single post that added to the conversation, you only try to belittle and berate others. Who's the pompous ass now?
Sorry, my panels are from SunPower, made in the USA. In two years I've saved over 18 barrels of oil from being consumed, equivalent to about 70k pounds of CO2 so, yes I do feel good about this. Sorry that doing something make you assume I'm conceited. I was responding to "some places have weather" post. I'm not in CA, have "weather", and can still be energy positive with a small carbon footprint.
I'm in DE and have put up about 11KW of panels. I'm in a roughly zero cash-flow situation as my monthly gas and electric bills are virtually $0 after payment from the utility company for my generated power. My breakeven point will be in less than 4.5 years after installation. Of course I planned for this by building a super-efficient (LEED qualified) home with the roof facing solar South. Large overhangs prevent passive solar heating in the Summer but encourage it in the Winter. With the external blinds drawn and no supplied heat, my living room can reach 80F on a sunny day while the external temperature is at freezing.
So, it is possible to have a low carbon footprint and still improve your quality of life.
As someone that was part of the team that pioneered iris recognition in the late 80s, I can say that this is totally the fault of the current software. We had various techniques implemented from the start that would prevent this kind of problem. Controlling multiple IR leds to provide a changing specularity pattern. This would guarantee that the eye was shaped as expected, rejecting all flat copies. Checking for the normal pulsation of the pupil would reject dead eyes. There were various other checks, like verification of facial features (there were two eyes, etc.). Checking for the proper occlusion of the eyelids was also part of the process. With only a few captures our testing has not shown this kind of issue (and we did try perfect eye replication). I've heard this kind of thing from the beginning, nothing new here. Again, we implemented all of these features in our original work, but implementors felt that these should not be included in their products.
You hit the nail on the head. If it weren't for a $200 "loyal customer" incentive I wouldn't have bought my Priv. That said, I'm not sorry I did. BB10 was pretty good, not nearly as synergistic as WebOS, but very usable and a far cry better than Android's jump from app to app approach. Unfortunately, there was a dearth of apps and the Android emulator only partially filled the bill. The Hub implementation on Android is getting better with each release, but it is still a far cry from the experience on BB10.
Part of AT&T and Verizon's problem selling this unit is they take way too long to update. The Priv's software was pretty immature when it was released but got better (smoother and faster) with each update. Non-carrier phones have been upgraded to Marshmallow for months and there is still no sign of it for the carrier locked phones.
One of the things that may scare off people is the locked bootloader. If Blackberry stops supporting the Priv then there is no way to load an alternative OS. This is a far cry from my WebOS Pre 3 that has an active homebrew community making sure that as standards change (carrier APIs, Google APIs, etc.) the phone continues to be a winner. If it weren't for the fact that there isn't any modern hardware (LTE, etc.) support I would keep rocking with WebOS.
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Thank you, right on the nose. Using equalization can fix some frequency response issues at the expense of adding phase shifts which ultimately destroy the impulse response. The KEFs are nowhere near audiophile quality so I'm not impressed.
Absolutely captivated me. From then on I was a fan. She will be missed.
This is really a lame-brain position. As a long time developer I have two mottos:
* If it isn't tested, it doesn't work.
* A developer make assumptions all the time.
I can guarantee that, if I was responsible for QA on my own code, things would be broken in subtle ways.
Many years ago I did QA consulting for AT&T. We set up a system where the human factors engineering group would document an application in a specification. One copy went to the developers and one copy went to the QA personnel. The QA staff designed a test plan from this spec and then implemented it against the product sent from the developers. I can't tell you how many things the developers missed because of assumptions they made that were caught by the test plans.
This is the reason I picked up a Blackberry Android device. If nothing else, Blackberry has been true to their word about keeping their phones secure. I ran the vulnerability checker and it claims that my Priv is properly patched (at least by the first week of September when the last monthly patches came).
WebOS was a blank sheet of paper new design. It was well thought out and things worked seamlessly, albeit a bit slow as they never got the chance to optimize the javascript engine. I'm still using a WebOS phone daily thanks to the dedicated work of the homebrew community to keep apps running. Every time I have to grit my teeth and use Android or iOS I have a "if only" moment. Damn you Leo!
I couldn't have stated it any clearer. Net neutrality is not the only thing that will suffer under the new head. He's already put the kibosh on work to get carriers to push available security patches to our phones in a timely manner.
However, Trump continues to use a Pew report and twist it's results. Even after Pew publicly stated that their data in the report does not support his claims, he continues to spew the same rhetoric. It's an impressive embrace of Orwellian tactics.
There are over 300 million people in the US. http://www.worldometers.info/w...
There is a nominal point of unemployment that is healthy. If it were 0% then there can be no economic growth. The inflationary pressures happen when it approaches 0% and employers are forced to increase wages to hire from the available pool. http://www.economicshelp.org/b...
This was in reply to meta-monkey that insinuated that he was only talking about black males. This was the racist remark that I was de-bunking.
Examples?
Oh my! So it's OK to fib as long as you're repeating it? Why is it still repeated? He also claims things are supported by research even after being de-bunked. You should join his team, you'll fit right in.
Correction... There are approximately 8 million people in NYC so that is over twice their population.
Note that the data includes all citizens age 16 and older. To find the right number for unemployment, we must remove students, retirees, handicapped, etc. from this pool. Any policies to do with unemployment directly on this data is meaningless and misleading. If you wanted to significantly reduce the 37.3% you would have to put all retirees and students to work. Between 37.3% and 42% proposed by Trump is 18 Million people! That's almost twice the population of NYC.
Yes....
Trump, Time magazine interview, Aug. 20, 2015: Our real unemployment rate–in fact, I saw a chart the other day, our real unemployment–because you have ninety million people that aren’t working. Ninety-three million to be exact. If you start adding it up, our real unemployment rate is 42%. We have a lot of room. We have a lot of people who want to work.
Since there are around 38 million blacks in the US and he claims 93 million are out of work, this cannot be true unless every black man, woman, and child is out of work three times. BTW, the 93 Million figure came from a report on non-workers, not unemployed workers. Even using this bogus number comes to under 30% unemployment.
He should have mastered this level of math by 5th grade. If you look at the ~5% unemployment figure, this is a reasonable number. When the unemployment drops below 3% we'll be under severe inflationary pressure.
I totally agree. However, you only need an elementary level in math to realize that something is amiss with Trumps numbers. For example, he claims that up to 42% in the US are out of work. Anyone with common sense would realize that having least 2 in 5 people out of work is absurd. In order to get to a figure like that, you would have to include every man, woman, and child over the age of 9. This includes retirees, students, handicapped, and other categories that can't or choose not to work. So to get that number down to a reasonable number, he would have to put children and retirees to work. I'll bet that he backtracks on this number and accepts the 5% unemployment very soon.
I did and don't see any credible rebuttal. My personal opinion is somewhere in-between. I neither trust the intelligence report nor the conspiracy pundits. Both latch onto an enemy and attach vague attributes to justify their position. I don't think the report is grasping at straws but I personally feel that they didn't drive the nail in the coffin.
I guess you don't want to read past the first comment in your link. I don't see anything "ripped to shreds".
There is evidence that an East - West facing roof can be effective as well. It took me a year of searching to find this property with little solar obstruction and the perfect orientation. That was after ten years of research for the best materials at a reasonable cost. Friends have good results on existing houses. Do what works best for you and your wallet.
I was going to respond to this until I looked at how much you've contributed on Slashdot, and probably elsewhere. I didn't find a single post that added to the conversation, you only try to belittle and berate others. Who's the pompous ass now?
Forgot to mention that I buy my coffee beans Peet's "Major Dikinson" discounted from Costco to make my daily coffee. Son-of-a-gun, I'm frugal too!
Sorry, my panels are from SunPower, made in the USA. In two years I've saved over 18 barrels of oil from being consumed, equivalent to about 70k pounds of CO2 so, yes I do feel good about this. Sorry that doing something make you assume I'm conceited. I was responding to "some places have weather" post. I'm not in CA, have "weather", and can still be energy positive with a small carbon footprint.
I'm in DE and have put up about 11KW of panels. I'm in a roughly zero cash-flow situation as my monthly gas and electric bills are virtually $0 after payment from the utility company for my generated power. My breakeven point will be in less than 4.5 years after installation. Of course I planned for this by building a super-efficient (LEED qualified) home with the roof facing solar South. Large overhangs prevent passive solar heating in the Summer but encourage it in the Winter. With the external blinds drawn and no supplied heat, my living room can reach 80F on a sunny day while the external temperature is at freezing.
So, it is possible to have a low carbon footprint and still improve your quality of life.
Why does a game like this need to have access to all your contacts? I'll load it when I can block this kind of nonsense.
As someone that was part of the team that pioneered iris recognition in the late 80s, I can say that this is totally the fault of the current software. We had various techniques implemented from the start that would prevent this kind of problem. Controlling multiple IR leds to provide a changing specularity pattern. This would guarantee that the eye was shaped as expected, rejecting all flat copies. Checking for the normal pulsation of the pupil would reject dead eyes. There were various other checks, like verification of facial features (there were two eyes, etc.). Checking for the proper occlusion of the eyelids was also part of the process. With only a few captures our testing has not shown this kind of issue (and we did try perfect eye replication). I've heard this kind of thing from the beginning, nothing new here. Again, we implemented all of these features in our original work, but implementors felt that these should not be included in their products.
You hit the nail on the head. If it weren't for a $200 "loyal customer" incentive I wouldn't have bought my Priv. That said, I'm not sorry I did. BB10 was pretty good, not nearly as synergistic as WebOS, but very usable and a far cry better than Android's jump from app to app approach. Unfortunately, there was a dearth of apps and the Android emulator only partially filled the bill. The Hub implementation on Android is getting better with each release, but it is still a far cry from the experience on BB10.
Part of AT&T and Verizon's problem selling this unit is they take way too long to update. The Priv's software was pretty immature when it was released but got better (smoother and faster) with each update. Non-carrier phones have been upgraded to Marshmallow for months and there is still no sign of it for the carrier locked phones.
One of the things that may scare off people is the locked bootloader. If Blackberry stops supporting the Priv then there is no way to load an alternative OS. This is a far cry from my WebOS Pre 3 that has an active homebrew community making sure that as standards change (carrier APIs, Google APIs, etc.) the phone continues to be a winner. If it weren't for the fact that there isn't any modern hardware (LTE, etc.) support I would keep rocking with WebOS.