Skin effect is measurable at audio frequencies above 10-15KHz, which is to say, in the top octave of normal human hearing. It's measurable, but not necessarily audible, even for the golden-ears types like I was back in my 20's. Back then, I won bets by telling speaker cables apart, The best one was when someone bet me that I couldn't tell the difference between the speaker cable of my choice and 28 gauge single-strand telephone wire--I picked the thickest stuff I could find, and told him which one was louder. Despite all the pseudoscientific crap when vendors spouted (obTopic: "Dielectric bias system"???), I could tell when a particular cable was a better match for a particular amp/speaker combination--using those same cables with a different amp-speaker combination might sound like you threw blankets over the speaker cabinets, or assigned certain frequencies to random points in the soundstage.
That said, I could never tell any difference that I could conclusively attribute to skin effect.
My ears are shot now, decades later, so it's all moot. Lamp cord can't screw up the soundstage any more than the random frequency dropouts in my ears do. On the one hand, I hate not being able to hear the music as well. On the other, I can get by with merely decent gear instead of the expensive stuff, and use the savings on extra symphony tickets.
The difference is that the plumber can tell you not to flush copy paper, and if you do and the toilet overflows, you get slapped HARD, and the plumber isn't the one expected to clean the shit off the floor. (In an ideal world, the janitor wouldn't have to either. It'd be you, and the plumber and janitor could decide whether you get a mop.)
Your IT department isn't nearly fascist enough. Many places won't let any non-IT-supported machine on the network at all (i.e. their hardware, Windows, imaged by them, with special tools to elevate privilege for specific tasks like adding printers).
Right. 2n flips, 2^n compares. Unless we keep using the word "touch", but they do not think it means what we think it means.
I'm presuming that whatever process we use to determine the next pancake to flip to the top doesn't count as "touching" it, only the flip does. Is that wrong?
$1.2 billion, huh? Maybe the US could find a more intelligent way to invest in their own country other than building stadiums (the new Yankee Stadium cost $1.5 billion).
They're also common in situations where you're using multi-part forms ("Press hard, you're making four copies"). They're about the only impact printers left in common use, since they're much faster than daisy-wheel printers, and much easier to program for arbitrary forms. With daisy-wheel, you're a slave to the available point sizes of the wheel.
And if you're wondering why businesses don't just print the four copies on a laser printer, it's because in a lot of cases (e.g. freight delivery), people's signatures also have to be on more than one copy, and it's not good customer service (or security) to make people sign multiple times.
What's worse is that it has little to do with the artists themselves. Notice there's no coalition of musicians and moviemakers screaming about this. The *AAs are the studios and record companies whose profits are endangered, but they DON'T make movies or music, they make deals.
Support your favorite artist by going to the shows. They get a lot more out of your ticket price than the $1 or so they get from the CD you bought.
I always thought the same thing about firefighters. They'll incinerate themselves for me and my family for no better reason than my mere existence. They'll do the same for the Kardashian types who've made millions by contributing exactly nothing to society. Yet firefighters are either paid a pittance (and criticized for even that) or as in my town, are unpaid volunteers.
Even when I was seven I knew there was something wrong with that.
The Japan Prize started in 1985 with the government support and the Prize is awarded to honor the achievements of people throughout the world, who have contributed to the progress of science and technology and the advancement of world peace and prosperity. The Prize is in principle given for work done in any field of science and technology, but each year two particular fields are designated based on trends within these areas and other considerations. As a rule, the Prize is given to individuals, with one person being selected in each field. In certain cases, however, small groups of researchers will also be considered. Laureates receive a "Japan Prize" certificates of merit, a prize medals, and a cash award of 50 million yen for each field.
This year's categories were "Bioscience and Medical Science" and "Information and Communications". The prize in the latter category went to Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for some operating system thingie.
Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn won in 2008 for inventing the Internet. Tim Berners-Lee won in 2002 for inventing the World Wide Web. W. Wesley Peterson won in 1999 for inventing the CRC. Marvin Minsky won in 1990 for pioneering AI. John R. Pierce won one of the inaugural awards for being a co-inventor of pulse-code modulation (he also coined the word "transistor").
Do you happen to know who archived all that stuff (i.e., where Google Groups originally got it)? If I had to guess, it would have been someone like Mark Horton at AT&T Columbus.
True that. I live an hour from NYC in central Jersey but people still think of me (and everyone else within range of NYC radio stations) as being "from New York".
Then they installed it wrong. It should have gone to bypass mode if building power was still up. Also, machines with multiple power supplies should have had one connected to the UPS and one connected to building power.
Not surprising that Fujitsu is still in the act, since some of their people were involved (as in on-site at HP's Florham Park lab where I worked) when the original compiler and HP-UX port were being developed. Closing that site and laying us all off didn't speak well for HP's nascent world-changer.
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Skin effect is measurable at audio frequencies above 10-15KHz, which is to say, in the top octave of normal human hearing. It's measurable, but not necessarily audible, even for the golden-ears types like I was back in my 20's. Back then, I won bets by telling speaker cables apart, The best one was when someone bet me that I couldn't tell the difference between the speaker cable of my choice and 28 gauge single-strand telephone wire--I picked the thickest stuff I could find, and told him which one was louder. Despite all the pseudoscientific crap when vendors spouted (obTopic: "Dielectric bias system"???), I could tell when a particular cable was a better match for a particular amp/speaker combination--using those same cables with a different amp-speaker combination might sound like you threw blankets over the speaker cabinets, or assigned certain frequencies to random points in the soundstage.
That said, I could never tell any difference that I could conclusively attribute to skin effect.
My ears are shot now, decades later, so it's all moot. Lamp cord can't screw up the soundstage any more than the random frequency dropouts in my ears do. On the one hand, I hate not being able to hear the music as well. On the other, I can get by with merely decent gear instead of the expensive stuff, and use the savings on extra symphony tickets.
The difference is that the plumber can tell you not to flush copy paper, and if you do and the toilet overflows, you get slapped HARD, and the plumber isn't the one expected to clean the shit off the floor. (In an ideal world, the janitor wouldn't have to either. It'd be you, and the plumber and janitor could decide whether you get a mop.)
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
Your IT department isn't nearly fascist enough. Many places won't let any non-IT-supported machine on the network at all (i.e. their hardware, Windows, imaged by them, with special tools to elevate privilege for specific tasks like adding printers).
I can go one better: Try supporting the staff of a church. Computer illiterate *and* technophobic.
s/2^n/n^2/
Right. 2n flips, 2^n compares. Unless we keep using the word "touch", but they do not think it means what we think it means.
I'm presuming that whatever process we use to determine the next pancake to flip to the top doesn't count as "touching" it, only the flip does. Is that wrong?
The Palm app may have predated the DMCA, which was signed into law on October 28, 1998.
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge? Several of its segs faulted and its core dumped most egregiously.
$1.2 billion, huh? Maybe the US could find a more intelligent way to invest in their own country other than building stadiums (the new Yankee Stadium cost $1.5 billion).
They're also common in situations where you're using multi-part forms ("Press hard, you're making four copies"). They're about the only impact printers left in common use, since they're much faster than daisy-wheel printers, and much easier to program for arbitrary forms. With daisy-wheel, you're a slave to the available point sizes of the wheel.
And if you're wondering why businesses don't just print the four copies on a laser printer, it's because in a lot of cases (e.g. freight delivery), people's signatures also have to be on more than one copy, and it's not good customer service (or security) to make people sign multiple times.
What's worse is that it has little to do with the artists themselves. Notice there's no coalition of musicians and moviemakers screaming about this. The *AAs are the studios and record companies whose profits are endangered, but they DON'T make movies or music, they make deals.
Support your favorite artist by going to the shows. They get a lot more out of your ticket price than the $1 or so they get from the CD you bought.
When I'm in your town, I'll be sure to have cancer only on Wednesdays.
I always thought the same thing about firefighters. They'll incinerate themselves for me and my family for no better reason than my mere existence. They'll do the same for the Kardashian types who've made millions by contributing exactly nothing to society. Yet firefighters are either paid a pittance (and criticized for even that) or as in my town, are unpaid volunteers.
Even when I was seven I knew there was something wrong with that.
The Japan Prize started in 1985 with the government support and the Prize is awarded to honor the achievements of people throughout the world, who have contributed to the progress of science and technology and the advancement of world peace and prosperity. The Prize is in principle given for work done in any field of science and technology, but each year two particular fields are designated based on trends within these areas and other considerations. As a rule, the Prize is given to individuals, with one person being selected in each field. In certain cases, however, small groups of researchers will also be considered. Laureates receive a "Japan Prize" certificates of merit, a prize medals, and a cash award of 50 million yen for each field.
This year's categories were "Bioscience and Medical Science" and "Information and Communications". The prize in the latter category went to Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for some operating system thingie.
Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn won in 2008 for inventing the Internet. Tim Berners-Lee won in 2002 for inventing the World Wide Web. W. Wesley Peterson won in 1999 for inventing the CRC. Marvin Minsky won in 1990 for pioneering AI. John R. Pierce won one of the inaugural awards for being a co-inventor of pulse-code modulation (he also coined the word "transistor").
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Do you happen to know who archived all that stuff (i.e., where Google Groups originally got it)? If I had to guess, it would have been someone like Mark Horton at AT&T Columbus.
is Scotty talking into the Mac's mouse.
Ook.
True that. I live an hour from NYC in central Jersey but people still think of me (and everyone else within range of NYC radio stations) as being "from New York".
1. Drill hole through Earth's crust.
2. ???
3. Profit!
Then they installed it wrong. It should have gone to bypass mode if building power was still up. Also, machines with multiple power supplies should have had one connected to the UPS and one connected to building power.
Not surprising that Fujitsu is still in the act, since some of their people were involved (as in on-site at HP's Florham Park lab where I worked) when the original compiler and HP-UX port were being developed. Closing that site and laying us all off didn't speak well for HP's nascent world-changer.
Ahh, the least-used feature of the CD-ROM file system, (ISO-9660), specifically included for backing up VMS file systems.
Apple has promised that the white iPhone will come with a free copy of the mobile edition of Duke Nukem Forever.