I found the addition of the DuckDuckGo search engine a nice touch. It's really a nice search engine, which is all that google isn't on the privacy front.
User: What do you think about oss?
Cleverbot: I think it's illegal.
User: That's a rather bold statement, care to back it up?
Cleverbot: And how shall I back it up?
User: By providing a reason why it is illigal, of course.
Cleverbot: Uh...
User: OK, so you think oss is illegal?
Cleverbot: Depends.
User: Ah, that's already a more nuanced view.
Cleverbot: What do you think of George Bush?
Microphone port pumps some current into whatever is connected to it (to power the microphone up)
Line In doesn't provide any power, it only analyses incoming signal from external source, and will be often separated through transoptors or the like to protect the hardware from overcurrent from difference of potential between the devices.
Not sure why this was modded +5 informative; it's a load of hooey...
Not sure why this was modded +5 informative; it's a load of hooey...
Normal dynamic microphones are passive and do not require any external power to "power the microphone up". They generate a small current, usually from a coil moving inside a magnet. This is why you need a pre-amp of some kind to bring your mic-level signal up to a line-level signal that a regular amp can deal with. Your sound card has this built in.
If you have a condensor microphone, then it will need external power of some kind to function. This usually comes in the form of phantom power (+48V usually) over a balanced twisted pair microphone wire. I can promise you that your average soundcard (and pretty much anything with 1/8" jacks) does *not* supply phantom power. You need an external power supply of some kind to use a condensor mic with your soundcard.
So yeah, you accurately described how a professional setup works. It just doesn't apply to the situation we're talking about here.
The mic input on a soundcard does have a voltage (usually +5V) applied to the ring of the input. The microphones typically used with a computer are neither of the condenser nor dynamic type, but are electret microphones.
At least here in the Netherlands it is not required for the police to obey all traffic laws, even on normal patrol. It is perfectly legal for them to go over the speed limit if it is necessary for performing their duty.
60 mph on average isn't anything new either, the Dutch University of Delft team did an average of 103 km/h during the 2005 Solar Challenge with their Nuna car.
The solar car they will use this year is two generation further, so probably will go even faster.
Actually, there are already cars in production that make the emergency stop, but when the radar at the back senses a vehicle from behind, the brakeforce is reduced, as to divide the space between the car in front of you and the one that is coming from behind.
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I found the addition of the DuckDuckGo search engine a nice touch. It's really a nice search engine, which is all that google isn't on the privacy front.
2) The real #1 is still the human brain.
Somehow I doubt that the human brain can beat these system in a Linpack benchmark.
Hmm, indeed. Not too impressed.
User: What do you think about oss?
Cleverbot: I think it's illegal.
User: That's a rather bold statement, care to back it up?
Cleverbot: And how shall I back it up?
User: By providing a reason why it is illigal, of course.
Cleverbot: Uh...
User: OK, so you think oss is illegal?
Cleverbot: Depends.
User: Ah, that's already a more nuanced view.
Cleverbot: What do you think of George Bush?
Microphone port pumps some current into whatever is connected to it (to power the microphone up) Line In doesn't provide any power, it only analyses incoming signal from external source, and will be often separated through transoptors or the like to protect the hardware from overcurrent from difference of potential between the devices.
Not sure why this was modded +5 informative; it's a load of hooey...
Not sure why this was modded +5 informative; it's a load of hooey...
Normal dynamic microphones are passive and do not require any external power to "power the microphone up". They generate a small current, usually from a coil moving inside a magnet. This is why you need a pre-amp of some kind to bring your mic-level signal up to a line-level signal that a regular amp can deal with. Your sound card has this built in.
If you have a condensor microphone, then it will need external power of some kind to function. This usually comes in the form of phantom power (+48V usually) over a balanced twisted pair microphone wire. I can promise you that your average soundcard (and pretty much anything with 1/8" jacks) does *not* supply phantom power. You need an external power supply of some kind to use a condensor mic with your soundcard.
So yeah, you accurately described how a professional setup works. It just doesn't apply to the situation we're talking about here.
The mic input on a soundcard does have a voltage (usually +5V) applied to the ring of the input. The microphones typically used with a computer are neither of the condenser nor dynamic type, but are electret microphones.
At least here in the Netherlands it is not required for the police to obey all traffic laws, even on normal patrol. It is perfectly legal for them to go over the speed limit if it is necessary for performing their duty.
60 mph on average isn't anything new either, the Dutch University of Delft team did an average of 103 km/h during the 2005 Solar Challenge with their Nuna car. The solar car they will use this year is two generation further, so probably will go even faster.
Actually, there are already cars in production that make the emergency stop, but when the radar at the back senses a vehicle from behind, the brakeforce is reduced, as to divide the space between the car in front of you and the one that is coming from behind.
Using P/Invoke is a bad coding style in .NET anyway, so that just leaves the developers who just don't care who are unable to port to Mono.
I would like to propose an addition to the meta-moderation system so that the parents 5, insightful mod can be meta-modded funny.
Be careful though with the striking trough. It can get you in a lot of trouble [TheDailyWTF]