Well, excluding Maryland and Virginia, software EULAs are of very dubious enforcibility in the US. There have not been many test cases since the 'first sale' principle was established; Basically publishers were trying to pull the same shenanigans the software industry is trying now.
Because nicads can deliver greater currents than equivalent NiMH? When delivering full capacity in 7 minutes, you want something with a low internal resistance.
And please note that NiCADs have shown exactly _one_ verified situation that will cause the memory effect: Satellites. The batteries have to be discharged to _exactly_ the same level over and over to show the memory effect.
Most NiCADs suffer from overheating, overcharging, and simple wear and tear (most consumer batteries are designed for ~500-1000 cycles; and deep discharging actually makes things worse!)
NiCADs do have better energy density than most SLAs, but usually in bulk SLAs are much cheaper. NiCADs also have a much higher self-discharge rate. It would be interesting to see the Cost/Benefit analysis.
I don't know how much study has been made of it, but there was a device that helped control stuttering by giving modified speech feedback.. the inventor said he had cured himself, and could talk freely without it now. Source: documentary on invention fair, sponsored, IIRC, by "The Sharper Image" or other novelty gadget store.
Well, in which case you have still moved the DACs outside the case, haven't you?:)
But that is a good point. If you consider going this way, try to use coax SPDIF. At household ranges it's just as effective and noise resistant, and it's a _lot_ cheaper (well, assuming you buy decent stuff; monster cable is not worth it.)
You haven't said what you want to do with said sound card. Here are some likely possible uses:
If you want high-fidelity field recording, USB is good (I use an Edirol UA-5 usb 'prosumer' audio connection, and am quite happy with the results). Really high level stuff requires a different interconnect, firewire, PC Card, USB2, etc.
If you want a gamer card, USB is a good choice for a laptop or other semiportable operation (LAN parties). Keep in mind, this environment may call for simply a decent pair of headphones. Moving 8 speakers around constantly is not fun, 2 or 3 (or headphones) are a better choice.
If you want a home theater setup (DVDs, DVB, HDTV) you're probably looking at a fairly static setup and might as well go with the standard expansion card. If you have a really high-end setup, (good amplifier, speakers, and room design) consider a good quality external solution to remove the EM noise from inside the computer's case. I strongly hestitate from describing any recent Creative Labs sound device as 'High Quality', but I have not in fact listened to the one you described.
Both USB models you chose are USB1.1, meaning low bandwidth, and will top out quite easily. Think 48k/24bit/2chan full duplex, a raw AC3 stream, or 96k/24bit/2chan half duplex.
Actually, in the US it is illegal to market a receiver capable of receiving the analog cell phone frequencies. The rest of the world does not seem to be as braindead, however.
Actually, if you reread the intro, the cellulose bomb was designed as a stealth measure for external ordinance. The lack of shapnel and loss of 'area of effect' were side effects of the stealthed design.
So why are you holding membership in Mensa up as a quantifier of high intelligence?
I have an alternative method: pick the top 10% of actors, and the top 10% of slashdoters, and see what percentage is involved with scientology. Lowest percentile wins:)
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Well, while that seems to be excluding many of the draft breeds, arguably they are being enhanced for function. Horses have 4 mainstream uses at the moment: 1) Racing. 2) Showing/Jumping/et al. 3) Herding/farm work. 4) Pleasure riding.
I'm on the eastern seaboard, so I almost swapped #3 and #4.
As for horses not right in the head, the worst ones I've encountered have _always_ been thoroughbreds off the track. Not that the others are all brilliant, but the thoroughbreds were almost exclusively ditzey.
The one thing that don't mention about this process, is while it may conserve genetic material, there is also a lot of environmental impact in a horse's development. A clone of a horse will look the same, but probably won't behave or perform the same way.
The original question is fairly US-centric; what the FCC did was propose a large number of relatively low-power (50-100 watts) broadcast licenses in the commercial 3m band (88-108 mhz). Essentially line-of-sight only, although there are very occasional openings. Even in the most crowded radio markets, there are usually a number of frequencies open to prevent interference with distant markets.
After very large outcries from the established stations, congress severely cut back the number of licenses granted. IIRC, many or most that were granted are religious stations. In any case, they would still have to deal with BMI/ASCAP/RIAA et al for rights to broadcast pretty much any music, even if performed by their own groups (ASCAP and BMI handle arrangers, composers, lyricists, RIAA handles specific recordings).
When I first read your post I thought it was another token-ring implementation, but it looks quite a bit smarter.
It does look fairly restricted to more or less permanent links, however, since most (preferably all) of the clients have to run the software (linux only) for it to be effective.
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There were several major troubles with the Mark XIV torpedo: 1) Magnetic detonator, 2) Erratic depth control, 3) Faulty firing pin (the pin is internal; the problem was the pin was designed for fairly slow torpedos, and as speeds ramped up the contact exploder was not redesigned.)
Much of the trouble came from insufficient testing, usually because of budget constraints.
I went through the same search when looking to record my choir when we were on tour. After looking at minidisk (lossy compression, no digital outs short of a really old console player, fairly expensive new) I went with a laptop + Eiderol UA-5.
It does resample digital sources, but it works well as an analog front end. The controls are a little funky (power cycle to change settings!), but then again you don't want to fiddle with it during an actual take.
I think I paid around $250 a year ago for it, on par with the better minidiscs and much cheaper than a portable DAT.
I actually don't understand this.. SPDIF is designed to run over ordinary coax in much longer runs than a consumer typically uses; why bother with converting to optical, and then back to electrical signalling, when coax, connectors and the required amps and encoders are so cheap to design?
To sell boobs $40 3' optical cables when a $.50 piece of coax will do the exact same job?
'linux' does not have a standard scm. the linus tree never used cvs.
Correction: There never was an official CVS archive for the whole kernel. There were unofficial CVS archives, as well as CVS archives for various subsystems (ISDN springs to mind, but I'm not positive).
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Well put. If I had mod points today, you'd get one.
Well, excluding Maryland and Virginia, software EULAs are of very dubious enforcibility in the US. There have not been many test cases since the 'first sale' principle was established; Basically publishers were trying to pull the same shenanigans the software industry is trying now.
Because nicads can deliver greater currents than equivalent NiMH? When delivering full capacity in 7 minutes, you want something with a low internal resistance.
And please note that NiCADs have shown exactly _one_ verified situation that will cause the memory effect: Satellites. The batteries have to be discharged to _exactly_ the same level over and over to show the memory effect.
Most NiCADs suffer from overheating, overcharging, and simple wear and tear (most consumer batteries are designed for ~500-1000 cycles; and deep discharging actually makes things worse!)
NiCADs do have better energy density than most SLAs, but usually in bulk SLAs are much cheaper. NiCADs also have a much higher self-discharge rate. It would be interesting to see the Cost/Benefit analysis.
Take some statistics. An average can indeed be set above more than half the sample. See also: Mean, Median, Mode, Outliers.
Consider 4 numbers: 55, 58, 61, 98. Average is 68.
(Not to say that in this case it is true, but the blanket generalization is definately not.)
Blame the MLA.. it specifies punction go inside quotations and parens, even if it does not logically belong there.
Then blame the school system for insisting on using it.
Nope.. I'm from MD, HI, NJ, and GA (mostly MD). Overall it's not bad, but there are some annoyances..
1) Resistors
2) Red Lights (_Much_ less bright than green or yellow; just assume it's red if you can't see it..)
3) "What color is my shirt?"
Aside from that, and having someone double check my color schemes, I don't notice it most of the time.
I don't know how much study has been made of it, but there was a device that helped control stuttering by giving modified speech feedback.. the inventor said he had cured himself, and could talk freely without it now. Source: documentary on invention fair, sponsored, IIRC, by "The Sharper Image" or other novelty gadget store.
I wouldn't mind that, on my copy 'Under Pressure' skips all the time.. maybe that's just a feature, though. :)
I've got one of the rarer types, myself, protoanomaly. Reds tones are actually dimmer to me.
For the curious person, has a nice visual example.
For a bunch of good links, try here.
Well, in which case you have still moved the DACs outside the case, haven't you? :)
But that is a good point. If you consider going this way, try to use coax SPDIF. At household ranges it's just as effective and noise resistant, and it's a _lot_ cheaper (well, assuming you buy decent stuff; monster cable is not worth it.)
You haven't said what you want to do with said sound card. Here are some likely possible uses:
If you want high-fidelity field recording, USB is good (I use an Edirol UA-5 usb 'prosumer' audio connection, and am quite happy with the results). Really high level stuff requires a different interconnect, firewire, PC Card, USB2, etc.
If you want a gamer card, USB is a good choice for a laptop or other semiportable operation (LAN parties). Keep in mind, this environment may call for simply a decent pair of headphones. Moving 8 speakers around constantly is not fun, 2 or 3 (or headphones) are a better choice.
If you want a home theater setup (DVDs, DVB, HDTV) you're probably looking at a fairly static setup and might as well go with the standard expansion card. If you have a really high-end setup, (good amplifier, speakers, and room design) consider a good quality external solution to remove the EM noise from inside the computer's case. I strongly hestitate from describing any recent Creative Labs sound device as 'High Quality', but I have not in fact listened to the one you described.
Both USB models you chose are USB1.1, meaning low bandwidth, and will top out quite easily. Think 48k/24bit/2chan full duplex, a raw AC3 stream, or 96k/24bit/2chan half duplex.
Actually, in the US it is illegal to market a receiver capable of receiving the analog cell phone frequencies. The rest of the world does not seem to be as braindead, however.
Actually, if you reread the intro, the cellulose bomb was designed as a stealth measure for external ordinance. The lack of shapnel and loss of 'area of effect' were side effects of the stealthed design.
So why are you holding membership in Mensa up as a quantifier of high intelligence?
:)
I have an alternative method: pick the top 10% of actors, and the top 10% of slashdoters, and see what percentage is involved with scientology. Lowest percentile wins
Well, while that seems to be excluding many of the draft breeds, arguably they are being enhanced for function. Horses have 4 mainstream uses at the moment:
1) Racing.
2) Showing/Jumping/et al.
3) Herding/farm work.
4) Pleasure riding.
I'm on the eastern seaboard, so I almost swapped #3 and #4.
As for horses not right in the head, the worst ones I've encountered have _always_ been thoroughbreds off the track. Not that the others are all brilliant, but the thoroughbreds were almost exclusively ditzey.
The one thing that don't mention about this process, is while it may conserve genetic material, there is also a lot of environmental impact in a horse's development. A clone of a horse will look the same, but probably won't behave or perform the same way.
LOL.
The original question is fairly US-centric; what the FCC did was propose a large number of relatively low-power (50-100 watts) broadcast licenses in the commercial 3m band (88-108 mhz). Essentially line-of-sight only, although there are very occasional openings. Even in the most crowded radio markets, there are usually a number of frequencies open to prevent interference with distant markets.
After very large outcries from the established stations, congress severely cut back the number of licenses granted. IIRC, many or most that were granted are religious stations. In any case, they would still have to deal with BMI/ASCAP/RIAA et al for rights to broadcast pretty much any music, even if performed by their own groups (ASCAP and BMI handle arrangers, composers, lyricists, RIAA handles specific recordings).
When I first read your post I thought it was another token-ring implementation, but it looks quite a bit smarter.
It does look fairly restricted to more or less permanent links, however, since most (preferably all) of the clients have to run the software (linux only) for it to be effective.
There were several major troubles with the Mark XIV torpedo:
1) Magnetic detonator,
2) Erratic depth control,
3) Faulty firing pin (the pin is internal; the problem was the pin was designed for fairly slow torpedos, and as speeds ramped up the contact exploder was not redesigned.)
Much of the trouble came from insufficient testing, usually because of budget constraints.
I went through the same search when looking to record my choir when we were on tour. After looking at minidisk (lossy compression, no digital outs short of a really old console player, fairly expensive new) I went with a laptop + Eiderol UA-5.
It does resample digital sources, but it works well as an analog front end. The controls are a little funky (power cycle to change settings!), but then again you don't want to fiddle with it during an actual take.
I think I paid around $250 a year ago for it, on par with the better minidiscs and much cheaper than a portable DAT.
QRK?
QRM?
QRT QRT QRT.
(I really don't understand why people use Q-codes during voice comms, though. Or especially when talking in person.)
So _that's_ why Jedi knights are supposed to build their own lightsabres.. leave out the pesky cellphone block^W^WLSRM.
Well, if you are chilling the air with nitrous, I can believe the 20 HP :)
I actually don't understand this.. SPDIF is designed to run over ordinary coax in much longer runs than a consumer typically uses; why bother with converting to optical, and then back to electrical signalling, when coax, connectors and the required amps and encoders are so cheap to design?
To sell boobs $40 3' optical cables when a $.50 piece of coax will do the exact same job?
Correction: There never was an official CVS archive for the whole kernel. There were unofficial CVS archives, as well as CVS archives for various subsystems (ISDN springs to mind, but I'm not positive).