This will never happen as there are simply to many of the politicians from both sides on the take from the parties that make billions a year from our stolen/ proffered data. I like the concept but in the end regardless of who controls the government this will never make it out of committee.
Thanks for the correction, couldn't recall and didn't care enough at the time to look it up. And I agree about not really wanting to be in the middle of the shit storm.
Hero? Seriously? Look up the word before applying it to a moron like this guy. "Lieutenant Colonel Arnaud Beltrame" is the name of a hero. To try an apply the word to hughes simply sullies the real Heros of this world.
Well given the present state of "News" and the facts and not so facts one must question the validity of this statement from them. I mean seriously, Microsoft has made the same kind of statement in the past counter to the facts. I believe that Apple tries this crap as well. Lest be honest here, the OS's and firmware now running in these devices now days are so fucking complicated that there is literally no way that the term secure can be applied with any reasonable expectation of it being fact. For fucks sake, even the processors from Intel and AMD have hard coded holes that can't be effectively patched in their microcode. It is safe to assume that the same issues exist in ARM and MIPS as well. Nothing is secure!
Forgot to add that I do not have and Apple phone, laptop, Ipod, or Ipad. No Apple music account either so it will not even work for my needs, even if I were inclined... There is also no inputs for sources other than those Apple allows you to listen to via WiFi only. A rather high wall of entry, no?
While I understand your argument I sure as hell am not running out and spending over $350.00 just so that you are satisfied. I understand the tech underlying the unit and I have little doubt that it sounds fairly good. Other devices that I have listened to in the past, have on initial listen, sounded rather decent. Remember that some of the higher end sound bars leverage some of the same kind of processing we are likely to find in the Apple speaker. But, prolonged listening is a whole other matter. I have without fail walked away with a rather lack luster feeling toward these devices in general and without fail. Friends and family have various devices like portable speakers and sound bars and I am not impressed with the lot. I have said it before and will say it yet again. There is no replacement for a proper set of well engineered speakers with drivers and a box that can at least get to within a couple octaves above the bottom of our hearing. Listening to Psycho acoustic trickery over a prolonged period of time only causes me listener fatigue.
Yes I am a complete idiot. You have seen through me and I am outed. My observations are now no loner valid and my past experiences in audio and rendered mute and worthless. Please oh sagely one with the rapier whit, illuminate us with your endless depth and breath of knowledge. Explain to us all how the engineering gods at Apple have side stepped the laws of physics and produced the perfect stereo speaker in mono! We await your response with restrained excitement oh anonymous coward.
Though your logic is kind of sound the fact is that any of the small speakers using psycho acoustic processing to deliver the illusion of depth of space and span of frequency that I have heard in the past always leave me feeling very let down. I have listened to at least a dozen of these same kind of products over the years, most with stereo drivers. All were far from memorable. Slapping an Apple badge on this particular speaker does not differentiate it from the other products and allow it to actually change the laws of physics. Nor for that matter does in make my observations and inferences based on past experience with similar products less valid. I would encourage you to go out and buy one yourself and report back to us all about just how great it sounds compared to your home stereo system. If the opportunity presents itself I will have a listen with the great hope that this is the product that makes me go wow. But I have different criteria for music reproduction than you may and that which you might find more than acceptable to me might be akin to noise. Or visa versa.
Having worked in both high end stereo and later home theater, not your common HT stuff but theaters in the 7 digits of cost. I can still say that this is the speaker for the person not really interested in music. This is the Muzak of the speaker world. I have yet to hear one and considering that it is an Apple product and very over priced I will likely not be hearing it in my home. Besides I have an honest home theater setup with over 1500Wrms of power and full sized speakers so I am for sure not the target. Also the thought of paying so much for a device from a company to put an array of microphones in my home to listen in on my every goings on puts me more than on a little edge. I am more than capable of ordering products or playing music on my own without having them that deep in my business. As far as the mics and the beam forming... Well the processors and the DSP are so ubiquitous at this point that they are IP and can be added to silicon at just about the drop of a hat now. Apple rolls their own chips and tapes them out to fabs to be made so it is very likely that they have a fair bit of power under the hood. More than enough to do what you talk of. And likely far far more too. I am not interested in them, personally I see no real use or advantage in having one.
Semi anechoic measurements in ones home or office with a calibrated mic are fine but the facts are still the same... Rooms have peaks and dips in response due to the reflections of the sounds at various frequencies. These build up in ways that, though they can be corrected for a specific listening location, will still cause havoc in the rest of the space resulting in a less than satisfactory listening experience. IE: listening out of the "sweet spot". There is in reality no way to correct a rooms acoustics for all listening locations. The other issue for some will be listening fatigue. A small driver is unable to reproduce the lowest octaves of the audio range and must resort to psycho acoustic trickery to make you think you hear what is not really there. This will lead to listener fatigue. In the case of speakers there is literally no replacement for displacement.
The facts don't support your assertion at this time. The length of the Muller investigation would tend to lend credence to the fact that your statement is in fact most likely false. If in fact there was little to no evidence of collusion between the Russians and some, and likely more than some, in the trump campaign this would have been wrapped up long ago. Factor in as well that there has literally been not a word out of Muller or his investigators for the duration of this investigation and I think that inference is rather compellingly in favor of there in fact being a far from tenuous tie between them.
In our Saab wagon (GM owned Saab in 92) the Onstar unit is disconnected from the antenna... Wonder who did such a thing? Call me paranoid but I suspected that car manufactures did this, sad to see it confirmed. I just figured, What is the most evil use of such a unit and what are the likely capabilities of the ECU and various systems tied into the CANbus and acted accordingly.
Repeating what has been said in the context of this persons story. I totally agree with you that people should not be referred to as assets but this is likely the way Manning thought about them in the context of his/her leak of data.
Only the Chinese have been starting to realize that the environmental toll that they are paying is costing them far more than it is benefiting them. They are starting to push hard on that front. As far as the tariffs are concerned, the real winners are the gas and oil companies. Now let me think, who in the government is tied in with the gas and oil companies??? Well it will come to me soon. Solar panels are made here with parts sourced abroad. This will simply move assembly here and provide a few jobs tending assembly machines on the line. No real bump for the workers in the USA. This is what one would call window dressing and subterfuge. Again, the American people will pay the price for this legislation. The Chinese will find ways around the tariffs and it will again be business as usual for them.
Pursuant to a lawfully issued warrant they carried out the above noted action. They will say sorry about that and that is just about it... The guy will have to fix the door on his own dime and then try to sue the department to recover cost. If Apple did in fact list his phone as one of the devices stolen in error and then contact police when it was activated then they may be partially on the hook for damages and duress. Either way the guy and his wife should get a lawyer as they will have a long road to being whole again. Apparently a fool and his money are soon parted more than once in the case of buying an apple product!
Fuck Manning! This shit bag dumped intelligence hap hazard very likely causing possible deaths to assets. He/She didn't give a shit about others and it's actions show that. Perhaps that means that he/she would make a very good GOP candidate after all. If on the other hand this was to be Snowden running I could get behind that. He has shown that his efforts were in the best interest of the American people time and again, unlike Manning, FUCK MANNING!
To be honest I am pretty happy with a CHUWI Hi12. It has good life on the battery and though it is android 5.1 it is also windows 10 dual boot as well. Not cutting edge at all but the performance is good for the cost and the display is sharp with video performance good enough for HD. There are allot of cheap and decent dual boot tablets/laptops out there and a simple search of google or the like will direct you to them.
I suspect that we know just where they are working around the cables... Ever hear of hydrophone strings? Locating the devices would not be to hard.
We are all racing towards quantum entangled communications, the Chinese especially. This will render brute force attacks on the physical links between Europe and the US of minimal value at best. I give it 10-20 years before they are them. None of the countries want any major war, it is easier to hose the people with banks, insurance companies, and shitty business practices. Dead people have no need for such things and that is bad for business.
Was going to bring up just this same thing... We tapped the undersea cable in the sea of Okhotsk in the early 70s, operation Ivy bells was the name of it. So they are sniffing around the cables? Big whoopy. The fact is that they can monitor/ interrupt data just fine by compromising the network infrastructure that the internet runs on. I suspect that they are looking at the easiest locations to sever the cables in a time of war. Remember that the Chinese are also out there in the cyber war arena as well. Throw in the North Koreans and the Iranians and the environment is pretty grim. The fact is that they are all facing the American industrial and military as targets of their cyber efforts to even the technological fields and to be ready for possible disruption. We are good but they are many. That and we train them in our schools and then send them home...
He doesn't have to worry at all. Sinclair is a right wing religious broadcasting company and they are not going to have to pay the fine. It will be quietly reduced to nothing later. They are a part of team "Shit Show" ruining the country right now. Sorry, meant to say "Running"... Or did I?
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This will never happen as there are simply to many of the politicians from both sides on the take from the parties that make billions a year from our stolen/ proffered data. I like the concept but in the end regardless of who controls the government this will never make it out of committee.
Thanks for the correction, couldn't recall and didn't care enough at the time to look it up. And I agree about not really wanting to be in the middle of the shit storm.
Correct me if I am wrong but would this be happening if the USA had not seeded the control ICAN to these assholes?
And so the decline began not with a bang but with quiet apathy and indifference. The end result will still be the same.
Hero? Seriously? Look up the word before applying it to a moron like this guy. "Lieutenant Colonel Arnaud Beltrame" is the name of a hero. To try an apply the word to hughes simply sullies the real Heros of this world.
Well given the present state of "News" and the facts and not so facts one must question the validity of this statement from them. I mean seriously, Microsoft has made the same kind of statement in the past counter to the facts. I believe that Apple tries this crap as well. Lest be honest here, the OS's and firmware now running in these devices now days are so fucking complicated that there is literally no way that the term secure can be applied with any reasonable expectation of it being fact. For fucks sake, even the processors from Intel and AMD have hard coded holes that can't be effectively patched in their microcode. It is safe to assume that the same issues exist in ARM and MIPS as well. Nothing is secure!
Likely a type of cruse missile test or the like that was secret. Who cares until the parade the aliens out in front of us!
Forgot to add that I do not have and Apple phone, laptop, Ipod, or Ipad. No Apple music account either so it will not even work for my needs, even if I were inclined... There is also no inputs for sources other than those Apple allows you to listen to via WiFi only. A rather high wall of entry, no?
While I understand your argument I sure as hell am not running out and spending over $350.00 just so that you are satisfied. I understand the tech underlying the unit and I have little doubt that it sounds fairly good. Other devices that I have listened to in the past, have on initial listen, sounded rather decent. Remember that some of the higher end sound bars leverage some of the same kind of processing we are likely to find in the Apple speaker. But, prolonged listening is a whole other matter. I have without fail walked away with a rather lack luster feeling toward these devices in general and without fail. Friends and family have various devices like portable speakers and sound bars and I am not impressed with the lot. I have said it before and will say it yet again. There is no replacement for a proper set of well engineered speakers with drivers and a box that can at least get to within a couple octaves above the bottom of our hearing. Listening to Psycho acoustic trickery over a prolonged period of time only causes me listener fatigue.
Still not nearly as worthless as your comment... Troll on sir as this would appear to be your major contribution to this thread.
Yes I am a complete idiot. You have seen through me and I am outed. My observations are now no loner valid and my past experiences in audio and rendered mute and worthless. Please oh sagely one with the rapier whit, illuminate us with your endless depth and breath of knowledge. Explain to us all how the engineering gods at Apple have side stepped the laws of physics and produced the perfect stereo speaker in mono! We await your response with restrained excitement oh anonymous coward.
Though your logic is kind of sound the fact is that any of the small speakers using psycho acoustic processing to deliver the illusion of depth of space and span of frequency that I have heard in the past always leave me feeling very let down. I have listened to at least a dozen of these same kind of products over the years, most with stereo drivers. All were far from memorable. Slapping an Apple badge on this particular speaker does not differentiate it from the other products and allow it to actually change the laws of physics. Nor for that matter does in make my observations and inferences based on past experience with similar products less valid. I would encourage you to go out and buy one yourself and report back to us all about just how great it sounds compared to your home stereo system. If the opportunity presents itself I will have a listen with the great hope that this is the product that makes me go wow. But I have different criteria for music reproduction than you may and that which you might find more than acceptable to me might be akin to noise. Or visa versa.
Having worked in both high end stereo and later home theater, not your common HT stuff but theaters in the 7 digits of cost. I can still say that this is the speaker for the person not really interested in music. This is the Muzak of the speaker world. I have yet to hear one and considering that it is an Apple product and very over priced I will likely not be hearing it in my home. Besides I have an honest home theater setup with over 1500Wrms of power and full sized speakers so I am for sure not the target. Also the thought of paying so much for a device from a company to put an array of microphones in my home to listen in on my every goings on puts me more than on a little edge. I am more than capable of ordering products or playing music on my own without having them that deep in my business. As far as the mics and the beam forming... Well the processors and the DSP are so ubiquitous at this point that they are IP and can be added to silicon at just about the drop of a hat now. Apple rolls their own chips and tapes them out to fabs to be made so it is very likely that they have a fair bit of power under the hood. More than enough to do what you talk of. And likely far far more too. I am not interested in them, personally I see no real use or advantage in having one.
Semi anechoic measurements in ones home or office with a calibrated mic are fine but the facts are still the same... Rooms have peaks and dips in response due to the reflections of the sounds at various frequencies. These build up in ways that, though they can be corrected for a specific listening location, will still cause havoc in the rest of the space resulting in a less than satisfactory listening experience. IE: listening out of the "sweet spot". There is in reality no way to correct a rooms acoustics for all listening locations. The other issue for some will be listening fatigue. A small driver is unable to reproduce the lowest octaves of the audio range and must resort to psycho acoustic trickery to make you think you hear what is not really there. This will lead to listener fatigue. In the case of speakers there is literally no replacement for displacement.
The facts don't support your assertion at this time. The length of the Muller investigation would tend to lend credence to the fact that your statement is in fact most likely false. If in fact there was little to no evidence of collusion between the Russians and some, and likely more than some, in the trump campaign this would have been wrapped up long ago. Factor in as well that there has literally been not a word out of Muller or his investigators for the duration of this investigation and I think that inference is rather compellingly in favor of there in fact being a far from tenuous tie between them.
In our Saab wagon (GM owned Saab in 92) the Onstar unit is disconnected from the antenna... Wonder who did such a thing? Call me paranoid but I suspected that car manufactures did this, sad to see it confirmed. I just figured, What is the most evil use of such a unit and what are the likely capabilities of the ECU and various systems tied into the CANbus and acted accordingly.
Repeating what has been said in the context of this persons story. I totally agree with you that people should not be referred to as assets but this is likely the way Manning thought about them in the context of his/her leak of data.
About 98% of them are shit bags.
Only the Chinese have been starting to realize that the environmental toll that they are paying is costing them far more than it is benefiting them. They are starting to push hard on that front. As far as the tariffs are concerned, the real winners are the gas and oil companies. Now let me think, who in the government is tied in with the gas and oil companies??? Well it will come to me soon. Solar panels are made here with parts sourced abroad. This will simply move assembly here and provide a few jobs tending assembly machines on the line. No real bump for the workers in the USA. This is what one would call window dressing and subterfuge. Again, the American people will pay the price for this legislation. The Chinese will find ways around the tariffs and it will again be business as usual for them.
Pursuant to a lawfully issued warrant they carried out the above noted action. They will say sorry about that and that is just about it... The guy will have to fix the door on his own dime and then try to sue the department to recover cost. If Apple did in fact list his phone as one of the devices stolen in error and then contact police when it was activated then they may be partially on the hook for damages and duress. Either way the guy and his wife should get a lawyer as they will have a long road to being whole again. Apparently a fool and his money are soon parted more than once in the case of buying an apple product!
Fuck Manning! This shit bag dumped intelligence hap hazard very likely causing possible deaths to assets. He/She didn't give a shit about others and it's actions show that. Perhaps that means that he/she would make a very good GOP candidate after all. If on the other hand this was to be Snowden running I could get behind that. He has shown that his efforts were in the best interest of the American people time and again, unlike Manning, FUCK MANNING!
To be honest I am pretty happy with a CHUWI Hi12. It has good life on the battery and though it is android 5.1 it is also windows 10 dual boot as well. Not cutting edge at all but the performance is good for the cost and the display is sharp with video performance good enough for HD. There are allot of cheap and decent dual boot tablets/laptops out there and a simple search of google or the like will direct you to them.
I suspect that we know just where they are working around the cables... Ever hear of hydrophone strings? Locating the devices would not be to hard. We are all racing towards quantum entangled communications, the Chinese especially. This will render brute force attacks on the physical links between Europe and the US of minimal value at best. I give it 10-20 years before they are them. None of the countries want any major war, it is easier to hose the people with banks, insurance companies, and shitty business practices. Dead people have no need for such things and that is bad for business.
Was going to bring up just this same thing... We tapped the undersea cable in the sea of Okhotsk in the early 70s, operation Ivy bells was the name of it. So they are sniffing around the cables? Big whoopy. The fact is that they can monitor/ interrupt data just fine by compromising the network infrastructure that the internet runs on. I suspect that they are looking at the easiest locations to sever the cables in a time of war. Remember that the Chinese are also out there in the cyber war arena as well. Throw in the North Koreans and the Iranians and the environment is pretty grim. The fact is that they are all facing the American industrial and military as targets of their cyber efforts to even the technological fields and to be ready for possible disruption. We are good but they are many. That and we train them in our schools and then send them home...
He doesn't have to worry at all. Sinclair is a right wing religious broadcasting company and they are not going to have to pay the fine. It will be quietly reduced to nothing later. They are a part of team "Shit Show" ruining the country right now. Sorry, meant to say "Running"... Or did I?