But it is an invisible thing that he doesn't understand. Don't interfere with his panic attack with reason or logic. Fear of what you can't see is a cornerstone of our society. Never mind the EM radiation coming out of his (probably 2GHz) computer. Or the wifi. Or, the X-rays from the sun. These aren't relevant, cell phones are evil cancer causing devices!
Sadly I lost my ham license while immigrating to a new country. I should really go get it sorted and a new call sign, but I find less and less free time for the hobby these days... Ah, well, such is life.
If we subscribe to the idea that there are no unbreakable record players (see my reply to sibling poster), then all sound systems are "defective by design." I do agree Dell should have taken greater steps to prevent this situation, but I don't see it as the massive mistake others do. Design of a real (not philosophically questionable ideal) involves a lot of compromise. Welcome to the real world. Try the veal, it is very good.
You clearly have never read Douglas R. Hofstadter's Godel Escher and Bach. Specifically the section on the "unbreakable" record player. But, yes, it may be possible to build such a device, though it is questionable if it could still be called a record player. But I wax philosophical now, and yes, Dell should have taken steps to prevent a normally unlikely situation.
I am not a sound engineer, so I can't refute that. I think in terms of the energy the speaker can withstand. I do think though if I was listening to music and the audio system suddenly "throttled" the volume, it would be a fairly jarring experience, but there may be other ways to "throttle"...
And do you understand the physical characteristics of a high wattage speaker? Size? Weight? and so on? Lots of things have multiple ratings for multiple scenarios. For example, I can run an a transformer at 40MVA average, but peak at 60MVA without additional cooling. This allows me to use a smaller, lighter transformer than if I had specified a 60MVA continuous rating. If I have correct protection circuitry, the system will function just fine, and in fact is more efficient, since I can get away with passive cooling on 40MVA, where at 60MVA in a similar form factor, I might be unable to.
The only thing I can see here is that Dell did not provide the speaker/driver specifications, although the much publicized "we don't support VLC" is sort of a clue. They attempted software protection, by trying to specify what software was supported - this is not an ideal approach, but it isn't nonsensical either.
I don't think you understand the difference between peak and average volume. A solution which limited you from pushing peak all the time would decrease the overall quality of the product.
No, it is compromise engineering. Which is OK for a lot of consumer electronics. For example, most laptops won't have enough cooling to dissipate full load heat at maximum rated temperature. This isn't a design flaw, it is a compromise to allow the designer to get more peak performance out of the laptop(or more peak volume in a movie, for example). It is the same with, say gmail. Do you really think google could have supplied every user 1Gb of mail space at launch?
I personally don't do this sort of engineering, but I can see the reasoning. And if you are trying to push high volumes out of your laptop speaker, you probably should be carrying external speakers. There are physical limitations to systems designed to be portable.
Well, I haven't been banned, but my regularly scheduled mod points have not appeared. All I did was mod up some of the more polite and reasoned anti-beta posts... The "Fuck beta" posts are anatomically improbable, and likely less than helpful, but I ignored them and left them where they were.
I am a late joiner (7 digits), but was an AC for a long time before I registered. I await the outcome of this situation. As far as I can tell, beta isn't being forced on us yet, and if it is, well, perhaps it is time I left/. behind anyway. It has been fun.:)
National Instruments does graphical programming in their motion control systems and it makes some sense, though it kind of sucks. Also PLCs are often written in ladder not text, unless your programmer has lost the plot a bit and thinks statement list is appropriate for everything (hint, it isn't).
I have found Japanese embedded software to be very well written. Even their programming interfaces. [rant]With the exception of Toshiba that makes PLC software from the 1900s which sucks worse than the/. beta interface (seriously, if you think beta is bad, write a complex system in TDP32. Really - black holes have nothing on PLC software without search and replace).[/rant]
Apart from it's annoying habit of logging me out and bland greyness, it it acceptable on the tablet. Still prefer the classic interface, but I can live with mobile.
I spent quite some time changing the Office 2012 menus back to normal text. Apparently it is easier with Visual Studio 2012(something in the registry), but I can't bring myself to take the time to move and every time I open it I feel like my eyes are on fire.... Still,.NET has some pretty cool stuff in it. And some pretty retarded stuff, but the workflow in developing for.NET is pretty good - whatever IDE you use.
There happens to be a fairly large amount of software used to control large synchronous machines. Heck, even on smaller scales a modern VSD probably has some form of basic embedded OS.
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I guess that in the end "nice guy syndrome" works to our advantage.
Wait... What?! I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I refer to it as Singles Awareness Day. Or, S.A.D.
No. Please see wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
That is technically the UHF band.
But it is an invisible thing that he doesn't understand. Don't interfere with his panic attack with reason or logic. Fear of what you can't see is a cornerstone of our society. Never mind the EM radiation coming out of his (probably 2GHz) computer. Or the wifi. Or, the X-rays from the sun. These aren't relevant, cell phones are evil cancer causing devices!
Sadly I lost my ham license while immigrating to a new country. I should really go get it sorted and a new call sign, but I find less and less free time for the hobby these days... Ah, well, such is life.
The implication being that if LF is 900MHz, what is VHF? Visible light?
So, 900MHz is the new LF band. Now where did I put my 2m VHF handheld...?
But Red Dwarf was only 3 million years old when Dave Lister woke up.
If we subscribe to the idea that there are no unbreakable record players (see my reply to sibling poster), then all sound systems are "defective by design." I do agree Dell should have taken greater steps to prevent this situation, but I don't see it as the massive mistake others do. Design of a real (not philosophically questionable ideal) involves a lot of compromise. Welcome to the real world. Try the veal, it is very good.
You clearly have never read Douglas R. Hofstadter's Godel Escher and Bach. Specifically the section on the "unbreakable" record player. But, yes, it may be possible to build such a device, though it is questionable if it could still be called a record player. But I wax philosophical now, and yes, Dell should have taken steps to prevent a normally unlikely situation.
I am not a sound engineer, so I can't refute that. I think in terms of the energy the speaker can withstand. I do think though if I was listening to music and the audio system suddenly "throttled" the volume, it would be a fairly jarring experience, but there may be other ways to "throttle"...
And do you understand the physical characteristics of a high wattage speaker? Size? Weight? and so on? Lots of things have multiple ratings for multiple scenarios. For example, I can run an a transformer at 40MVA average, but peak at 60MVA without additional cooling. This allows me to use a smaller, lighter transformer than if I had specified a 60MVA continuous rating. If I have correct protection circuitry, the system will function just fine, and in fact is more efficient, since I can get away with passive cooling on 40MVA, where at 60MVA in a similar form factor, I might be unable to.
The only thing I can see here is that Dell did not provide the speaker/driver specifications, although the much publicized "we don't support VLC" is sort of a clue. They attempted software protection, by trying to specify what software was supported - this is not an ideal approach, but it isn't nonsensical either.
Advertising much?
However the ALL CAPS UGLINESS in office 2013 is just horrible except to the legally blind.
SFC is really useful for a small set of problems. The major advantage of ladder, is it makes following whats going on in live system easy.
I don't think you understand the difference between peak and average volume. A solution which limited you from pushing peak all the time would decrease the overall quality of the product.
No, it is compromise engineering. Which is OK for a lot of consumer electronics. For example, most laptops won't have enough cooling to dissipate full load heat at maximum rated temperature. This isn't a design flaw, it is a compromise to allow the designer to get more peak performance out of the laptop(or more peak volume in a movie, for example). It is the same with, say gmail. Do you really think google could have supplied every user 1Gb of mail space at launch?
I personally don't do this sort of engineering, but I can see the reasoning. And if you are trying to push high volumes out of your laptop speaker, you probably should be carrying external speakers. There are physical limitations to systems designed to be portable.
Well, I haven't been banned, but my regularly scheduled mod points have not appeared. All I did was mod up some of the more polite and reasoned anti-beta posts... The "Fuck beta" posts are anatomically improbable, and likely less than helpful, but I ignored them and left them where they were.
I am a late joiner (7 digits), but was an AC for a long time before I registered. I await the outcome of this situation. As far as I can tell, beta isn't being forced on us yet, and if it is, well, perhaps it is time I left /. behind anyway. It has been fun. :)
What if a legitimate foreign hacker was ...
As opposed to a bastard foreign hacker?
National Instruments does graphical programming in their motion control systems and it makes some sense, though it kind of sucks. Also PLCs are often written in ladder not text, unless your programmer has lost the plot a bit and thinks statement list is appropriate for everything (hint, it isn't).
I have found Japanese embedded software to be very well written. Even their programming interfaces. [rant]With the exception of Toshiba that makes PLC software from the 1900s which sucks worse than the /. beta interface (seriously, if you think beta is bad, write a complex system in TDP32. Really - black holes have nothing on PLC software without search and replace).[/rant]
Apart from it's annoying habit of logging me out and bland greyness, it it acceptable on the tablet. Still prefer the classic interface, but I can live with mobile.
I spent quite some time changing the Office 2012 menus back to normal text. Apparently it is easier with Visual Studio 2012(something in the registry), but I can't bring myself to take the time to move and every time I open it I feel like my eyes are on fire.... Still, .NET has some pretty cool stuff in it. And some pretty retarded stuff, but the workflow in developing for .NET is pretty good - whatever IDE you use.
There happens to be a fairly large amount of software used to control large synchronous machines. Heck, even on smaller scales a modern VSD probably has some form of basic embedded OS.
Huh? Where I live that is a good 120+beers. I don't know any 14 year olds with that capacity.