However, solid state amps do no such thing and amplify exactly the sounds it's asked to amplify.
of course they do. don't be silly. a lot of it is cancelled out by negative feedback in modern amp designs, but the transistors aren't they themselves perfect.
not to mention, THD isn't the only measure of distortion that's relevant to amp performance, it's just convenient for marketing. there's all sorts of distortion contributed by all sorts of components in amps: resistors, capacitors and inductors aren't ideal devices; they all contribute noise and distortion. pop the lid on your amp... is it full of electrolytic caps and carbon comp resistors? they add distortion. if you're really unlucky, you'll have a few ceramic caps and inductors in the signal path.
not to mention, transistors have propagation delay that's proportional to gate size. you need bigger gates to handle more power... this is why things like op amps slew rate ratings. guess what? this adds distortion.
do you know the slew rates for the components in your amp? is it driven by ICs or by discrete components? are you maybe just mouthing off and don't know what you're talking about?
The aforementioned term springs from the same mindset from which the term "World Series" is applied to a US-only baseball league.
while i agree with the sentiment of your post, it should not be overlooked that Canada fields several teams that vie for a spot in the World Series. and sometimes they even win...
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I'm sure it's no bigger than an asteroid the size of a VW.
huh? don't you mean "I'm sure it's no bigger than a VW."? do you measure everything in terms of intermediate asteroids that are the size of something else?
"That steak was the size of an asteroid the size of a dinner plate!"
"She had breasts the size of asteroids the size of melons!"
Now, you can have your fancy object-oriented stuff, but in many ways it's overkill. For instance, if you needed to write a programme involving geometry, you could create an Angle object which would have a value assumed to be in radians and properties for its sine, cosine, tangent and representation in degrees; a Distance object which would have properties for its representation in different measuring units; and assigning a value to any property would affect the object and therefore its other properties. It might be beautiful if you like the OO concept, but it's a bit overkill if you just want to find the missing side of a triangle.
well, there's more than one way to do it in object oriented languages as well. you don't have to go through all that abstraction if it doesn't help solve the problem. hell, you could just write one class with one main method/function and pretend like you were writing procedural code to a large extent.
or you could just write in perl when you needed to and in OO stuff when you needed to. that's what i do.
gradolabs. the SR325 have metal earcups, then the RS1 and RS2 have wooden ones. note that these aren't cheap... they do have some synthetic components, but most aren't structural. you could pay someone to replace the cord with something that isn't jacketed in pvc or whatever, and mod the headband and earcups using instructions found here (scroll down).
You said it yourself - IKEA. Their stuff tends towards simplicity, with few materials, so it's easy for you to inspect beforehand to see if it works for you. Stuff like fabrics and upholstery are allergy tested (at least they are in Sweden) - we've had plenty of people worrying (rightly or wrongly) about these issues for a long time already, and so they've adapted to it.
apparently you haven't heard about IKEA's formaldehyde problem. just google "ikea formaldehyde" and you'll get tons of relevant hits. basically, anything made out of MDF will have a problem like this. IKEA lists in their product literature that some items are tested to comply with european formaldehyde standards, but that claim suspiciously is only on some of their products... a good number of IKEA's MDF products don't have that claim attached.
right but don't you have to walk to the scanner, place the material to be scanned, then walk back to your machine, tell the software to scan it, then walk back to the scanner, and get the material? everywhere i've worked, they've taken a junky machine and dedicated it as "the scanning machine." then you only make one trip, and just fileshare the file somewhere so you can work on it at your own workstation once you're done.
Well, get a USB flatbed scanner with GPL drivers and you can have a network attached scanner.
i'm having trouble understanding the purpose of this... if the scanner's so far away, using it via the network is going to require a bunch of back-and-forth between the client computer and the scanner. if it's close, then you could just plug the scanner in directly....
i, for one, welcome our new, genetically-altered athlete overlords, and offer them my services for rounding up people to toil in their underground lockerroom caves...
If you RTFA (fat chance, I know), the article addresses this: "In addition, current techniques to turn videos into cartoons are very labor intensive; the artist has to render each frame by hand. And it still doesn't solve the 'jumping' problem.".
Waking Life's software used keyframes and interpolation, too. you should watch the "Making of" documentary.
I sure would like to see an DFSG free implementation of Java, and I don't understand why this entails Sun "losing control" of the standard, and why they are in such a panic about allowing that to happen.
i don't think Sun's at all worried about any implementation of Java... they're worried about losing control of the specification of Java, and having it get fragmented by Microsoft (and maybe others, who knows). they do have some cause for alarm... it's not like Microsoft ever went after Perl or Python like it did Java.
/me slaps forehead.
no, that was the MYSQL JDBC driver you saw in the stack trace. JDBC is a database-agnostic plugin architecture for communicating with databases that abstracts away a lot of the stuff that makes talking to a database a "to the metal" task. it's like pear_db, only you don't have to hope that your ISP included it when it was compiling PHP. you just plop some JARs in your web application and chug.
simultaneously, in another part of the world, another child is born with another mutation that causes his bones to be unusually brittle. kids nickname him Mr. Glass. he looks eerily like a moodily-lit Samuel Jackson.
well, that's a chicken and egg kind of problem, but the point is that the FCC licensed away all that spectrum *for free* and hasn't bothered to coerce the industry to fulfill their end of the bargain... in theory, that's the citizen's spectrum that they're using.
um, the whole point of giving the broadcast industry wide ranges of spectrum for HDTV without any fee was that they were supposed to vacate the normal TV spectrum by a certain deadline. that deadline has passed more than twice now.
michael powell is in the pocket of the broadcasters and other major companies.
128kbps doesn't cut it. It's an absolute lossy, disgusting bitrate, no matter what it's in. They should test similar file sizes instead of by bitrate, to determine whether something is good or not
perhaps you'd like to try my new lossy codec, then. it throws away all the music save for the first note, but then that gets encoded at 3 Meg/sec.
When we first went to talk to these record companies -- you know, it was a while ago. It took us 18 months. And at first we said: None of this technology that you're talking about's gonna work. We have Ph.D.'s here, that know the stuff cold, and we don't believe it's possible to protect digital content.
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And it only takes one stolen copy to be on the Internet. And the way we expressed it to them is: Pick one lock -- open every door. It only takes one person to pick a lock. Worst case: Somebody just takes the analog outputs of their CD player and rerecords it -- puts it on the Internet. You'll never stop that. So what you have to do is compete with it.
apple *expects* this stuff to get hacked lickety split, people. they aren't even trying to protect it that much...
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not to mention, THD isn't the only measure of distortion that's relevant to amp performance, it's just convenient for marketing. there's all sorts of distortion contributed by all sorts of components in amps: resistors, capacitors and inductors aren't ideal devices; they all contribute noise and distortion. pop the lid on your amp... is it full of electrolytic caps and carbon comp resistors? they add distortion. if you're really unlucky, you'll have a few ceramic caps and inductors in the signal path.
not to mention, transistors have propagation delay that's proportional to gate size. you need bigger gates to handle more power... this is why things like op amps slew rate ratings. guess what? this adds distortion.
do you know the slew rates for the components in your amp? is it driven by ICs or by discrete components? are you maybe just mouthing off and don't know what you're talking about?
"That steak was the size of an asteroid the size of a dinner plate!"
"She had breasts the size of asteroids the size of melons!"
etc.
or you could just write in perl when you needed to and in OO stuff when you needed to. that's what i do.
and they sound awesome. :)
right but don't you have to walk to the scanner, place the material to be scanned, then walk back to your machine, tell the software to scan it, then walk back to the scanner, and get the material? everywhere i've worked, they've taken a junky machine and dedicated it as "the scanning machine." then you only make one trip, and just fileshare the file somewhere so you can work on it at your own workstation once you're done.
i, for one, welcome our new, genetically-altered athlete overlords, and offer them my services for rounding up people to toil in their underground lockerroom caves...
is that like LAME? should it be called SAOSOS?
"SAOSOS ain't an open source OS"
leave 3.0 alone! >:(
dude, you forgot the duct tape!
SHOVELING COAL FOR SATAN: Christopher Hitchens collects check from Microsoft, calls Moore a coward
read that article, please.
/me slaps forehead. no, that was the MYSQL JDBC driver you saw in the stack trace. JDBC is a database-agnostic plugin architecture for communicating with databases that abstracts away a lot of the stuff that makes talking to a database a "to the metal" task. it's like pear_db, only you don't have to hope that your ISP included it when it was compiling PHP. you just plop some JARs in your web application and chug.
simultaneously, in another part of the world, another child is born with another mutation that causes his bones to be unusually brittle. kids nickname him Mr. Glass. he looks eerily like a moodily-lit Samuel Jackson.
if you mean WOR the radio station, give Phil Donohue a big friendly slap on the back today. he's a great guy.
i can't wait to eat that monkey!
well, that's a chicken and egg kind of problem, but the point is that the FCC licensed away all that spectrum *for free* and hasn't bothered to coerce the industry to fulfill their end of the bargain... in theory, that's the citizen's spectrum that they're using.
michael powell is in the pocket of the broadcasters and other major companies.