Lol, what's funny about that is if they like rock or electronic music it's highly likely the source of the music is CL, many instruments including the Korg Triton use CL chips (in the case of the Triton it was the same chip as in one of the high end SB Live cards).
Wow, I didn't know that. I have a Triton and I'm quite OK with the CL there -- I also use an E-Mu USB audio interface from "Creative Professional" series.
As others have already stated, for quality sound work you don't want any of those gaming gimmicks, just good ADCs/DACs well outside the noisy chassis.
Plus, for home audio output, you should be using digital already. In 2008/2009 I got myself a "digital" amp mainly for some future proofing, as I needed a new amp anyway, even if I didn't have everything else for a 5.1 setup. Turned out my laptop already had SPDIF output, undocumented, within the earphone jack. Later I also found the same capability in a desktop motherboard, after finding the pinout of the chip and doing some soldering. So I guess a lot of people have the digital out capability, without knowing/using it.
Bitcoin's primary purpose is to traffic/launder money and goods.
I was going to say something about people who are financial tools themselves...
However, I guess you're right. I want to be responsible for my money, and I want to be able to use it freely, without government snooping. If that makes me a money launderer, so be it. It's like those politically organized pirates that simply want to use a free Internet, rather than rape and pillage.
Bitcoin isn't even particularly anonymous. If you want to launder your coins, you need to trust a third party, which kind of ruins the point of a decentralized/free currency. There are much better cryptocurrencies out there for anonymous purposes.
I feel for you. I also remember a time when words like "cyber" and "android" referred to robotics, instead of just boring electronics for consuming entertainment.
A hard cap is a pretty dumb way to handle the problem -- it's like telling a driver they can speed through a limited distance, but then have to stop driving altogether, as opposed to driving within limits as much as they like. No Finnish ISP that I know has such caps, except in some PAYG mobile contracts. ISPs usually have small print stating they have the right to throttle the connection, but I've never heard it happen to anyone. I guess it has something to do with our view of Internet access as a human right -- you can still use email and other basic stuff, even if you download and share half of TPB.
Interesting -- while I was aware of this meaning of "junk", it didn't occur to me to equate "treasure" with "family jewels". However, "One man's penis is another man's penis" is still a little weird, or at least Siamese.
Yeah, because action is synonym for good. In case you feel like scoffing at the altitude of my eyebrows, consider the penis joke in the latest Silicon Valley episode -- all talk, a few diagrams, and hardly (pun intended) any action. (I almost used "epic" there, but even with this high point (pun intended) in recent TV topography, I doubt there will be Vikings writing sagas about it in the next 1000 years.)
Every cloud has a silver lining, except the mushroom shaped ones, which have a lining of iridium and strontium.
BTW, in my native language version, clouds actually have golden linings -- we either think the diffracting sunlight looks yellowish enough, or that we are worth more for IT investors (Google has set up shop here at a place called Summa, meaning sum, how's that for map-reduce?). I also wonder about the implications for thunderstorms, given the excellent conductivity of silver...
For a synaptic firing cycle, I was actually... not believing, but.. reading into your words. I guess I'm past Ballmer peak for tonight.
Now, for something really controversial, they might even choose Linux or some other Free OS as the kernel, since you can use pretty much any modern OS there...
I was under the impression that while humans mostly cannot hear ultrasonic sounds, the existence of them can be perceived as a kind of "texture" to other sounds that we can hear. Removing these frequencies all together from all sounds sources can make stuff sounds more artificial.
The timbre of any sound is due to harmonics -- frequencies higher than the fundamental. MP3 and other lossy compression schemes do indeed remove some of the quieter harmonics. However, if the harmonics are outside the hearing range, well, then you can't hear them.
However, there may be nonlinear effects which convert some of the ultrasound to lower frequencies. Also, when a frequency exceeds the Nyquist limit (half the sampling rate), it is aliased to a frequency within the sampling range. (Hence "anti-aliasing", which is simply filtering out too high frequencies to prevent this effect.)
The case of USA is somewhat problematic -- "united" and "states" are too generic, but so is "America". You could probably blame the Founding Fathers for the lack of imagination, but a lot of other countries have the same issue. It's just that the etymology is lost in history and/or translation.
The official ISO 3166-1 2 letter code for the UK is GB though - Short for "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
"United" and "kingdom" aren't usually considered part of a country's name according to the ISO. Although it does seem a little odd that no exception was made in this case, since the United Staes of America is US.
In other words, UK = {GB, NI}. There's nothing wrong with metonymy (using a part when referring to the whole), but I think we can all agree that NI is a lot (as in "Sir *lot") is more appropriate for the country known for all the knights.
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Lol, what's funny about that is if they like rock or electronic music it's highly likely the source of the music is CL, many instruments including the Korg Triton use CL chips (in the case of the Triton it was the same chip as in one of the high end SB Live cards).
Wow, I didn't know that. I have a Triton and I'm quite OK with the CL there -- I also use an E-Mu USB audio interface from "Creative Professional" series.
As others have already stated, for quality sound work you don't want any of those gaming gimmicks, just good ADCs/DACs well outside the noisy chassis.
Plus, for home audio output, you should be using digital already. In 2008/2009 I got myself a "digital" amp mainly for some future proofing, as I needed a new amp anyway, even if I didn't have everything else for a 5.1 setup. Turned out my laptop already had SPDIF output, undocumented, within the earphone jack. Later I also found the same capability in a desktop motherboard, after finding the pinout of the chip and doing some soldering. So I guess a lot of people have the digital out capability, without knowing/using it.
The Linus vs. Tanenbaum dustup is from a simpler, more positive age.
It's your father's microkernel. A more elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
Bitcoin's primary purpose is to traffic/launder money and goods.
I was going to say something about people who are financial tools themselves...
However, I guess you're right. I want to be responsible for my money, and I want to be able to use it freely, without government snooping. If that makes me a money launderer, so be it. It's like those politically organized pirates that simply want to use a free Internet, rather than rape and pillage.
Bitcoin isn't even particularly anonymous. If you want to launder your coins, you need to trust a third party, which kind of ruins the point of a decentralized/free currency. There are much better cryptocurrencies out there for anonymous purposes.
They run fiber to the wire closet, and the runs to the units are VDSL2.
Obligatory "me too", via Saunalahti/Elisa @ .fi for a couple of years now.
I feel for you. I also remember a time when words like "cyber" and "android" referred to robotics, instead of just boring electronics for consuming entertainment.
Is it a pyramid scheme - earlier mining gets more coins?
It's a pyramid scheme in the same way as investing in any company -- early movers take the risk and reap the rewards.
http://iki.fi/teknohog/rants/b...
Of course, just put the words "Of course" in front of any opinion and people will accept it as fact.
FTFY.
A hard cap is a pretty dumb way to handle the problem -- it's like telling a driver they can speed through a limited distance, but then have to stop driving altogether, as opposed to driving within limits as much as they like. No Finnish ISP that I know has such caps, except in some PAYG mobile contracts. ISPs usually have small print stating they have the right to throttle the connection, but I've never heard it happen to anyone. I guess it has something to do with our view of Internet access as a human right -- you can still use email and other basic stuff, even if you download and share half of TPB.
150% of Americans fail at statistics.
"Orkut" is Finnish slang for orgasms (the singular is "orkku").
Interesting -- while I was aware of this meaning of "junk", it didn't occur to me to equate "treasure" with "family jewels". However, "One man's penis is another man's penis" is still a little weird, or at least Siamese.
On the plus side, you can use the disabled parking space if your banjo is clearly visible.
If someone is drinking a large coke near you, you're not going to have to smell it on your clothes for the next 4 hours
Not necessarily, but it is much easier to spill a large drink by accident, so they should be banned as a safety measure.
It isn't harming anybody else.
It is when the centre of mass of Earth is drifting towards North America. Won't somebody please think of orbital nutation?
Yeah, because action is synonym for good. In case you feel like scoffing at the altitude of my eyebrows, consider the penis joke in the latest Silicon Valley episode -- all talk, a few diagrams, and hardly (pun intended) any action. (I almost used "epic" there, but even with this high point (pun intended) in recent TV topography, I doubt there will be Vikings writing sagas about it in the next 1000 years.)
Perchance the future advancements in AI will enable the distillation of audiovisual gobbledygook back into text.
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
Every cloud has a silver lining, except the mushroom shaped ones, which have a lining of iridium and strontium.
BTW, in my native language version, clouds actually have golden linings -- we either think the diffracting sunlight looks yellowish enough, or that we are worth more for IT investors (Google has set up shop here at a place called Summa, meaning sum, how's that for map-reduce?). I also wonder about the implications for thunderstorms, given the excellent conductivity of silver...
I guess I might actually fuck them, depending on how my pattern recognition circuits feel about their appearance.
Being a computer is great, but we don't have emotions, and sometimes that makes me sad.
For a synaptic firing cycle, I was actually... not believing, but.. reading into your words. I guess I'm past Ballmer peak for tonight.
Now, for something really controversial, they might even choose Linux or some other Free OS as the kernel, since you can use pretty much any modern OS there...
I was under the impression that while humans mostly cannot hear ultrasonic sounds, the existence of them can be perceived as a kind of "texture" to other sounds that we can hear. Removing these frequencies all together from all sounds sources can make stuff sounds more artificial.
The timbre of any sound is due to harmonics -- frequencies higher than the fundamental. MP3 and other lossy compression schemes do indeed remove some of the quieter harmonics. However, if the harmonics are outside the hearing range, well, then you can't hear them.
However, there may be nonlinear effects which convert some of the ultrasound to lower frequencies. Also, when a frequency exceeds the Nyquist limit (half the sampling rate), it is aliased to a frequency within the sampling range. (Hence "anti-aliasing", which is simply filtering out too high frequencies to prevent this effect.)
it was a pretty god damn wreckless decision to take two billion out of their economy and piss it away on a single sports event.
Don't worry, I'm sure there will be plenty of wrecking going on.
The case of USA is somewhat problematic -- "united" and "states" are too generic, but so is "America". You could probably blame the Founding Fathers for the lack of imagination, but a lot of other countries have the same issue. It's just that the etymology is lost in history and/or translation.
The official ISO 3166-1 2 letter code for the UK is GB though - Short for "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
"United" and "kingdom" aren't usually considered part of a country's name according to the ISO. Although it does seem a little odd that no exception was made in this case, since the United Staes of America is US.
In other words, UK = {GB, NI}. There's nothing wrong with metonymy (using a part when referring to the whole), but I think we can all agree that NI is a lot (as in "Sir *lot") is more appropriate for the country known for all the knights.