I get the same feeling every time I read that article. I found it about a year ago when I was looking into building my own audiophile amp. Just thinking about the sound that those things must produce makes my knees go all weak.
You won't get sound as good as what I'm sure they have, but this design is a bit more reasonable for the average home (and budget). From the article:
Most woofers just don't quite do the lowest octave. You read the specs that say "usable response: 20 Hz - 20 KHz" and you know that the 20 Hz part of it is wildly optimistic. Achieving very low frequencies at reasonable power levels is not an easy job...
Let's face it. Size does matter.
El Pipe-O consists of very large woofers mated to large cylindrical transmission lines. The goal is to get good powerful response down to 20 Hz at levels where the room starts to rattle before the loudspeaker.
Great. They are going to fine and impose these restrictions on Microsoft. How long before it actually happens? Will Microsoft just be able to tie this up with endless appeals and draw it out for another five years?
My girlfriend's roommate has a brand new record player that makes awful noises while it is playing a record just before a cell phone that is within about 3 feet of it begins to ring and continues to make the noise until you move away from it or end the call.
I guess you haven't used this piece of hardware...
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AFAIK it only takes a few seconds in most modern operating systems to switch your keyboard layout. If you can type DVORAK w/o looking at your hands, it's no biggie to "use your friend's computer"
I still miss the IBM keyboard that was made mostly out of steel that came with my 8086 back in the day. That thing was a tank! The Model M that I have now comes in a close second. I hate typing on the new-fangled KBs with squisy keys (no click!) that get stuck and aren't repairable.
Nobody is ever supposed to post anything on/. that has already been posted. Especially not the editors. Don't you have anything better to do with your time?
I found this to be one of the more interesting links from the NASA site. It is about a watchmaker in California who modified mechanical watches to keep Mars time.
As a DJ, I'd have to agree with the original poster. The quality lost by MP3s make them completely useless to me. The parts that you lose in converting music to MP3 are some of the most important ones when you're playing it through a 30.000 watt sound system.
Of course, I haven't bought anything aside from vinyl for the past three years, so I guess I don't really care about digital anyway.
I can't imagine a single/. user (hopefully) who doesn't have 128-bit WEP
WEP (128-bit or othewise) really isn't very secure. If you're that freaked out about it, you should be using something else...
Of course, 128-bit WEP is better than nothing, but it really isn't any better than any other strength WEP.
Using today's computing horsepower, this feature (128-bit WEP) increases the time it takes to brute force crack a WEP key from a few days to approximately 20 weeks. While it seems like a good idea, there are several key areas where this security initiative falls short of the definitive security solution. On top of the management problems using static WEP keys there are two serious issues that plague 128 bit WEP. First of all, the attacks on WEP have nothing whatsoever to do with the key length itself. Whether you are using a 64 bit or 128 bit WEP you still have the exact same 24 bit IV which is the source of the weaknesses. This increases security absolutely zero for today's wireless implementations because no one bothers to brute force a WEP key when it is so easy to use one of the other attacks.
It was an enormous external Phillips (I think) SCSI unit. It took up about as much desk space as a 500-watt home theater receiver. It burned CDs at 1x and consumed all of the resources of the 150mhz Pentium II that it was attached to. Don't remember what software I was using to burn the CDs, though...
Honestly, though... What is a good solution to this problem? Biometric authentication? Some sort of physical token (ring, bracelet, key fob)? Any time you introduce humans into the equation, you're going to reduce security no matter what.
Machines always (ok, most of the time) do what you tell them to do, humans usually ignore instructions...
I agree. Especially because the Judge cited, several times, the abnormal proportions (large muscles, etc) of the figures in declaring them non-human. Barbie has pretty inhuman proportions as well...
Yup, it is just another clone of Bust a Move/Puzzle Bobble. It seems to be getting at least some commercial success, too. My friend's little brother's have it (Bust a Move or Super Bust a Move or some such thing) for PlayStation 2. It is the most addictive PS/2 game that I've ever played, too. His damn 12 year old brothers can routinely beat the pants off me at it, so I stayed up until 3:00 AM trying to prove that I was better at it than they were. I failed, but had a great time at it!
I agree, I think that simply sending the discs back in the mail is a superior strategy. To this day, my father still sends all the junk mail he receives back to the sender in their own postage-paid envelopes. It might not reduce the volume of junk mail, but at least you can snicker as you stick it to them!
I don't think that streaming media is accelerated by the video card. That would be helpful to PC users. I guess Intel is waiting util broadband cable access hits almost every home and streaming media hits it big.
even so, it seems that such streaming media would have to incorporate some sort of special instructions that the cpu would understand and then be able to use to speed up the 3d rendering. we've already got open gl...why reinvent the wheel?!
Laptops users don't quite have that option! SWAR is a tad helpful in that respect.
as for the laptops...good point. however, i'm not sure how fast the p4 will make it to the mobile platforms. with that many transistors its gotta be pretty hot. unless they start making laptops liquid cooled with a radiator mounted on the back of the screen or something, you're going to have an awful hot lap if you use one of those things. not to mention short battery life...
In a preview of the chip at the company's headquarters, technicians showed how a Pentium 4 computer can rapidly render, or draw, 3D images downloaded from the Internet. That sort of processing power could make it easy for sellers on eBay to post virtual representations of their products, for example.
Recently, in a preview in a dorm room in Vermont, technicians showed how a Pentium II (r) computer equiped with an inexpensive 3D graphics card can rapidly render, or draw, 3D images.
duh. is it just me, or is this just a load of crap. with the incredible tech available right now in 3d video cards, which are getting better all the time and will probably hit the ceiling pretty soon, why would any home user want 3d on their cpu? for the extra cash it would cost to get this feature, i'd rather spend on a kick-ass 3d card. cut the crap with all this hardware bloat and just give us a fast reliable chip! oh, and a motherboard with a reasonably fast bus would be nice as well, but let's not get started on that one...
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I get the same feeling every time I read that article. I found it about a year ago when I was looking into building my own audiophile amp. Just thinking about the sound that those things must produce makes my knees go all weak.
Great. They are going to fine and impose these restrictions on Microsoft. How long before it actually happens? Will Microsoft just be able to tie this up with endless appeals and draw it out for another five years?
My girlfriend's roommate has a brand new record player that makes awful noises while it is playing a record just before a cell phone that is within about 3 feet of it begins to ring and continues to make the noise until you move away from it or end the call.
http://www.fu-fme.com/
It is VERY gender-specific!
AFAIK it only takes a few seconds in most modern operating systems to switch your keyboard layout. If you can type DVORAK w/o looking at your hands, it's no biggie to "use your friend's computer"
I still miss the IBM keyboard that was made mostly out of steel that came with my 8086 back in the day. That thing was a tank! The Model M that I have now comes in a close second. I hate typing on the new-fangled KBs with squisy keys (no click!) that get stuck and aren't repairable.
The Onion has been doing this for a while. They always give you a link to click to skip the advert, though...
Nobody is ever supposed to post anything on /. that has already been posted. Especially not the editors. Don't you have anything better to do with your time?
I found this to be one of the more interesting links from the NASA site. It is about a watchmaker in California who modified mechanical watches to keep Mars time.
As a DJ, I'd have to agree with the original poster. The quality lost by MP3s make them completely useless to me. The parts that you lose in converting music to MP3 are some of the most important ones when you're playing it through a 30.000 watt sound system.
Of course, I haven't bought anything aside from vinyl for the past three years, so I guess I don't really care about digital anyway.
Yeah, didn't read that one too closely. Obviously not on NYT...
This article is in the registration free section of NYT
WEP (128-bit or othewise) really isn't very secure. If you're that freaked out about it, you should be using something else...
From this Ars Technica article:Of course, 128-bit WEP is better than nothing, but it really isn't any better than any other strength WEP.
Sorry, my memory isn't so good. I guess it wasn't a PII 150. However, that isn't really the important part of the story...
Yes, actually.
It was an enormous external Phillips (I think) SCSI unit. It took up about as much desk space as a 500-watt home theater receiver. It burned CDs at 1x and consumed all of the resources of the 150mhz Pentium II that it was attached to. Don't remember what software I was using to burn the CDs, though...
http://suspended.net/robosweep/robosweep.html One of the images is missing, but better than nothing...
Excellent point, mod this up!
Honestly, though... What is a good solution to this problem? Biometric authentication? Some sort of physical token (ring, bracelet, key fob)? Any time you introduce humans into the equation, you're going to reduce security no matter what.
Machines always (ok, most of the time) do what you tell them to do, humans usually ignore instructions...
I agree. Especially because the Judge cited, several times, the abnormal proportions (large muscles, etc) of the figures in declaring them non-human. Barbie has pretty inhuman proportions as well...
and did the Judge need to perform a "comprehensive examination" of her including removing her clothes?
Yup, it is just another clone of Bust a Move/Puzzle Bobble. It seems to be getting at least some commercial success, too. My friend's little brother's have it (Bust a Move or Super Bust a Move or some such thing) for PlayStation 2. It is the most addictive PS/2 game that I've ever played, too. His damn 12 year old brothers can routinely beat the pants off me at it, so I stayed up until 3:00 AM trying to prove that I was better at it than they were. I failed, but had a great time at it!
My favorite part of the 1000 free hours campaign was when they were offering 1000 free hours (to be used in one month).
Hmmm... 31 x 24 = 744
Wasn't long before they changed to 1000 free hours (to be used in 45 days).
I guess MA101 isn't required for a Marketing major
I agree, I think that simply sending the discs back in the mail is a superior strategy. To this day, my father still sends all the junk mail he receives back to the sender in their own postage-paid envelopes. It might not reduce the volume of junk mail, but at least you can snicker as you stick it to them!
as for the laptops...good point. however, i'm not sure how fast the p4 will make it to the mobile platforms. with that many transistors its gotta be pretty hot. unless they start making laptops liquid cooled with a radiator mounted on the back of the screen or something, you're going to have an awful hot lap if you use one of those things. not to mention short battery life...
duh. is it just me, or is this just a load of crap. with the incredible tech available right now in 3d video cards, which are getting better all the time and will probably hit the ceiling pretty soon, why would any home user want 3d on their cpu? for the extra cash it would cost to get this feature, i'd rather spend on a kick-ass 3d card. cut the crap with all this hardware bloat and just give us a fast reliable chip! oh, and a motherboard with a reasonably fast bus would be nice as well, but let's not get started on that one...