One guy there makes inflatable guitars. They sound pretty well.
Actually - having rigid wall on enclosure - is just inviting parasitic vibration - knock on a solid box - it resonates. Good speakers add dumpening material to fight that, and/or other measures. Soft wall may work just fine - or even better..
Not that I will ever pay for such gizmo. My speakers work rather fine, thank you..
..You never know what this "audiophiles" will get drooling about.. With right marketing of "warm" (with heated air inside the speakers, no less), "airy" sound you can sell him a spare tire for $10000..;)
..this officer to have a thumb print reader attached to his wearable computer linked into national database.. Or just a face recognition camera on each lamp post.. yeah, you are not required to carry anything..
Now, that's scary.. Land of the free, no less.. Osama is smiling..
Soviet Union used to have a national ID (internal passport). Regime's ability to track what all ciezen are doing was not even close to what is already going on in this country..
He was right when he said that we did not have any privacy left anymore. Get over it. Communism won.;P
Even 20% speed increase in compilation time is worth it for me... $500 is not an issue, except for shortsighted bean counters, when you save hours and hours and hours of engineers time..
I will repeat myself - but I really really want it: 20inch, 300dpi touch sensitive LCD panel with graffiti recognition in all text widgets.. for $20K what it costs now..
historical progression of operating systems. Went like this: DOS->Windows->NT->BOB.
aga. no VMS.. or UNIX.. or MULTIX.. or CP/M..
you can just admire the guy's arrogance..
I want a 300 dpi 20 inch LCD panel with touch screen and grafiiti in all text widgets. Technology actually exists - but when it drops in price from $20K to $1k - I hope we will see new interfaces fro it..
So we finally can tell the animated office assistant, and whatever else MS tries to stick up our asses, to FUCK OFF!! Without having to click and select..
..Before we can change the WIMP approach - there should be a corresponding leap in the hardware design.
My personal favorite would be a ultra-high resolution touch sensitive LCD screen (like SONY now makes, but bigger and better) with reliable text recognition built into all the widgets used throughout the software - plus gestures.. MOre dimensions in input will allow for creation of a better interface then - current single point + keyboard..
Yeah.. it just ticks me off, being a physicist, when all this pseudo-technical terms are being used. What exactly is "warmth", damn it? Transfer function is a transfer function, digitization errors are just that. You may talk about RMS errors, quantization etc. But "depth"? Or other bullshit?
Said that - I perfectly understand what this phono freaks mean - psychoacoustics - when you take your brain into the equation.. Your ear make a weird transform, somewhat closer to wavelet time-frequency one, then to Fourier. Then you evaluate the result using a lot of strange rules, which I have little knowledge about.
But why not to state it straight? That vinyl causes such reproduction that is pleasant to hear, that's it.. No pseudo-scientific bullshit..
Yeah, but the recording was probably done on digital equipment (albeit likely 24bit one) - and all the uber-hip stuff was created on ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENTS!! Which is a digital waveform generator, of whatever quality (albeit somethimes better then the CD fidelity). Saying that it later sounds "warmer" or "richer" when transferred to vinyl is bullshit.
CD will be just fine when we all switch to 24bit/96kHz or better..
".. You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives. It is up to people like you and me who are out of our tiny little minds to try and help these people overcome their sanity. You can start in small ways with ping-pong ball eyes and a funny voice and then you can paint half of your body red and the other half green and then you can jump up and down in a bowl of treacle going "squawk, squawk, squawk..." And then you can go "Neurhhh! Neurhhh!" and then you can roll around on the floor going "pting pting pting"...
..It show really well what this click through licenses are worth.
The difference being: if you violate some say Microsoft's one - they will sue and jail you (if it was some copyright protection related one - and soon anything else..)
But if THEY violate YOURS: they will sue YOU again, since this license ain't worth crap in court.
So no matter what you do - those who lined establishment and law firms with money (that YOU paid them, for products, to start with) - you are fucked, screwed and ain't worth shit.
Sad.
..It show really well what this click through licenses are worth.
The difference being: if you violate Microsofts one - they will sue a jail you (if it was some copyright protection one)
But if THEY violate YOURS: they will sue YOU again, since this license ain't worth crap in court.
So no matter what you do - those who lined establishment and law firms with money (that YOU paid them, for products, to start with) - you are fucked, screwed and ain't worth shit.
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Rather cool and it works..
Inflatable Guitar. I heard it - sound oK.
Actually - having rigid wall on enclosure - is just inviting parasitic vibration - knock on a solid box - it resonates. Good speakers add dumpening material to fight that, and/or other measures. Soft wall may work just fine - or even better..
Not that I will ever pay for such gizmo. My speakers work rather fine, thank you..
..You never know what this "audiophiles" will get drooling about.. With right marketing of "warm" (with heated air inside the speakers, no less), "airy" sound you can sell him a spare tire for $10000.. ;)
"There is America, full of fear from its north to its south, from its west to its east. Thank God for that...
I swear by God, who has elevated the skies without pillars, neither America nor the people who live in it will dream of security
" Having us running scared, and installing totalitaristic control over population IS his stated goal.
Now, that's scary.. Land of the free, no less.. Osama is smiling..
He was right when he said that we did not have any privacy left anymore. Get over it. Communism won. ;P
Just replace your battery every 6 hours and count the old ones in your pocket.
Banning Slashdot though, would be a better idea..
Just to imagine that I had a job offer from MS Research after Ph.D.. brrrr.. ;-)))
I will repeat myself - but I really really want it: 20inch, 300dpi touch sensitive LCD panel with graffiti recognition in all text widgets.. for $20K what it costs now..
aga. no VMS.. or UNIX.. or MULTIX.. or CP/M.. you can just admire the guy's arrogance..
I want a 300 dpi 20 inch LCD panel with touch screen and grafiiti in all text widgets. Technology actually exists - but when it drops in price from $20K to $1k - I hope we will see new interfaces fro it..
And I can tell my project - GO, FIX YOURSELF!!
No. Stupid people may use these words just fine, but they are meaningful and necessary words if you use them appropriately.
My personal favorite would be a ultra-high resolution touch sensitive LCD screen (like SONY now makes, but bigger and better) with reliable text recognition built into all the widgets used throughout the software - plus gestures.. MOre dimensions in input will allow for creation of a better interface then - current single point + keyboard..
I know, i know.. when I press it with middle finger it calls my boss...
..How many accounts do you think he got? ;-)
Said that - I perfectly understand what this phono freaks mean - psychoacoustics - when you take your brain into the equation.. Your ear make a weird transform, somewhat closer to wavelet time-frequency one, then to Fourier. Then you evaluate the result using a lot of strange rules, which I have little knowledge about.
But why not to state it straight? That vinyl causes such reproduction that is pleasant to hear, that's it.. No pseudo-scientific bullshit..
CD will be just fine when we all switch to 24bit/96kHz or better..
That 95% of american males like wild unprotected sex with cute underage girls. Repeal the statutory rape laws! Listen to people.
".. You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives. It is up to people like you and me who are out of our tiny little minds to try and help these people overcome their sanity. You can start in small ways with ping-pong ball eyes and a funny voice and then you can paint half of your body red and the other half green and then you can jump up and down in a bowl of treacle going "squawk, squawk, squawk..." And then you can go "Neurhhh! Neurhhh!" and then you can roll around on the floor going "pting pting pting"...
..I am POSITIVE I was making this reply to the other thread. How this ended up here..? Strange..
..It show really well what this click through licenses are worth. The difference being: if you violate some say Microsoft's one - they will sue and jail you (if it was some copyright protection related one - and soon anything else..) But if THEY violate YOURS: they will sue YOU again, since this license ain't worth crap in court. So no matter what you do - those who lined establishment and law firms with money (that YOU paid them, for products, to start with) - you are fucked, screwed and ain't worth shit. Sad.
The difference being: if you violate Microsofts one - they will sue a jail you (if it was some copyright protection one)
But if THEY violate YOURS: they will sue YOU again, since this license ain't worth crap in court.
So no matter what you do - those who lined establishment and law firms with money (that YOU paid them, for products, to start with) - you are fucked, screwed and ain't worth shit.
Sad.
I do not have a second account and my Karma is 8 now (after ~600 posts in several years). It will be 7 now: Fuck you, anonymous asshole.