Guess what, everything leaves a mark on oiled wood. Guess what, the nice thing about oiled wood is you can re-oil it and marks go away.
I assume that you don't own anything with oiled wood if you think that everything marks it. Personally I've never re-oiled any of the nice shiny furniture I have in my house and nothing I place on it seems to leech out the colour either.
I guess you're too busy staring at pictures to read the bits about no other devices causing the problems, reviewers never having seen similar things, and this specific problem being a material incompatibility with silicone and oil.
Speaking of. Can we stop making consumer devices with silicon coatings? FFS they attract dirt like all heck, and look feral after a few months.
Citation needed. The modern Linux kernel may have more in it and may require more resources to run, but KPTI aside Linux has never been faster. Aside from a few minor dips as some features are added without maturity Linux kernels have mostly seen slight speed improvements between versions, with a few introducing good step changes in performance improvements.
What you're complaining about is the software that we expect to do more. That's not an OS issue.
Interesting. Just right clicking Skype on the start menu and clicking Uninstall seems to do the trick just fine too. There's nothing deep about it. It's a standard UWP app.
The summary talks about advising Americans against using Huawei phones, but then quotes telecommunications infrastructure. These are two very different applications with very different risk profiles.
For the average American an American made device likely poses a higher risk than that made under the influence of a foreign power. For a nation's infrastructure the influence of a foreign actor posts a higher risk than in-sourcing as much as possible. And that would make America consistent with other countries. Australia has also banned Huawei from bidding on government contracts. They make some decent budget phones though.
Tell your friend to stop being a leech and relying on ads for revenue. Get a real job that doesnt rely on polluting the web. and annoying users. Hes a parasite if he cant live without ads, we dont need his work if they are the only way to do it.
The irony of you posting this on a service that is highly dependent on ads to survive is delicious.
That's certainly true, but I think the GP's point is that anybody who can afford to drive will still do so, because the car runs on exactly your schedule, and goes exactly where you want to go. The route can be changed at any moment and offers much more comfort and a more pleasant experience.
Apart from this, even if parking is sparse, it will usually be much faster to drive. It depends on the city, but most people value less time spent commuting over all else.
Lets look at that for a moment:
because the car runs on exactly your schedule
Most public transport in Europe runs to very regular schedules with frequent services. If the schedule is delayed more than a 10min due to a change of transport, or bad timing it would be the exception rather than the norm.
and goes exactly where you want to go
Most public transport in Europe, the car gets you no where near where you want to go. You'll likely find public transport gets you closer. Heck when I visit other cities I will often take a "park and ride" service over the painstaking process of finding parking and then paying through the nose in a major city.
The route can be changed at any moment
The only time people typically change their routes with cars is due to problems on the road. The vast majority of car trips go from A to B without any change that wouldn't also be possible by public transport. Though I will admit to the very occasional unplanned stop at IKEA, but really in those cases I could happily wait for the day after and take the car when I need to.
and offers much more comfort and a more pleasant experience
Yes this is a significant difference. In one case I get to sit down, relax, listen to music, post to Slashdot, screw around on my phone and generally ignore everything around me. In the other case I need to pay constant attention to changing conditions, deal with delays, traffic, starting and stopping traffic lights, concentrate on what I'm doing and generally get to where I'm going exhausted. One is far more pleasant, but it sure as hell isn't the car.
Apart from this, even if parking is sparse, it will usually be much faster to drive.
You're American right? I have found it impossible to drive into any major city in Europe and get to my destination faster than if I had used public transport. The majority of European cities are not car friendly ranging between leaving you in traffic jams in the best case while trams and busses get priority to the outright aggressive cases like Houten where cars must use the ring highway to get from one area in the city to the other which can turn a 5min bike trip or a 20min drive. The only thing car friendly about most european cities is the park and ride concept: Cheap parking at train stations outside of the cities to entice people not to bring their cars into the city centre while acknowledging that trains don't necessarily go to every small town in the country.
but most people value less time spent commuting
Only people who don't understand the value of having your time returned to you while commuting. Even if commutes did take longer than cars I would happily opt for the opportunity to do something while commuting rather than sitting behind the wheel concentrating on not hitting another metal box with my metal box.
I still value the time lost way higher than the price of riding with my car.
100% of your time is lost riding a car. A small fraction of it is lost when commuting by other means. Examples:
- I happily spend 2h commuting to another city by train rather than driving for 45min as I get to sit, eat, relax, learn a language, and bitch/moan on Slashdot using my laptop. By comparison I would lose 45min of my time driving by car. - I happily spend 15min light jogging to the supermarket instead of driving the 10min by car (there's a pedestrian bridge that cuts a lot out of the trip). Essentially this gives me 30min of exercise for 10min investment where the alternative is I spend 20min sedentary and pissed off at traffic lights to gain a measly 10min.
I take public transport where possible precisely because I value my time and hate losing it behind the wheel.
It would appear like that right until you look at the ownership history and the Shareholder laws regarding Volkswagen. You see for the government to fine VW they would have to first admit that they themselves were to blame as a significant share holder of the company and as a passer of a law that gives the government voting veto rights over any shareholder decision.
Fining or suing yourself isn't as appealing as it sounds.
I know right. We're number 1 in many things that people just don't appreciate.
Number 1 in debt, Number 1 in citizen incarceration rate, number 1 in mass shootings, number 1 in climate change denial, number 1 in letting our infrastructure collapse under our feet, number 1 in letting poor people die due to lack of medical insurance, number 1 in bankrupting people who go to our universities.
2). If the EU does it, it means that it's undemocratic and bad.
Not at all. In the case recently of mobile competition sometimes you end up with: 2a) If the EU does it, pretend it was a partisan win for whoever is currently in power and that they came up with their ideas independently to preserve the Brexit narrative.
Many of us have to deal with clients or suppliers in other countries
Okay, let me stop you there Mr fortune 500. The overwhelming majority of any population never has any business with people outside of their own timezone. At best they may have business with people within their timezone who will internally to their own company source something from another timezone.
er capita is meaningless in relation to *TOTAL GLOBAL* levels.
Per capita is the ONLY meaningful metric in a global world where we each need to do out bit. Do remember us little people when you look down from your high horse and expect us to clean up your shit.
is entire post is about whether the HomePod can achieve a decent stereo effect
That is what you get when you read a single line without context. His entire post was about the HomePod not being a decent audiophile product unlike the assertion that the redditor made.
The start of his premise was that it can't even achieve a stereo effect, and several others chimed in with the other many shortcomings that cause the conclusion to be unable to be drawn from the review presented.
24bit audio implies 144dB of dynamic range. Before you start worrying about 144dB of dyanmic range, try and see what the Homepod would do generating 144dB of anything. To achieve this I suggest plugging it into a 3.3kV power socket.
Not quite. In a good system THD is just as bad in the bass range as anywhere else. However in mixed subwoofer satellite systems, especially cheap ones the audible effects of THD is dwarfed by phase and group delay which destroy the punchy sound that we generally find pleasing from bass. When you have that under control you start to hear harmonic distortion more clearly.
Also try and remember what harmonic distortion is and what these numbers are telling us. 50% harmonic distortion implies either the subwoofer is putting out two very different bass notes instead of one at the same time (would easily be audible), or the waveform contains a shitload of stuff that isn't at all bass. The latter is a more likely scenario in a single driver system like this. This is how some subwoofers sound like sub-farters instead.
Personally I wouldn't worry about a couple of percent THD in the subwoofer range unless you have a very high end sound system and your delays and phases are well controlled in the room. But it is unconscionable to quote the numbers presented as irrelevant, let alone "good".
Yes, he has, and your assertion to the contrary is nothing more than denialism.
You either didn't read the GP's post, or you didn't read the Redditor's review. The review covers nothing of what was covered in the above post.
Getting a truly flat response is hardly the trivial task you make it out to be
Yes it is. In the 60s it was achieved easily through a mixture of drivers working in their flat range crossed over out the wazoo. There were plenty of speakers on the market flat within the audible range. That is also the same time we learnt that messing with the audio signal to produce flatness through the use of crossover components or later on digital correction actually really sucked. The era of 6-way crossover systems was fucked, but man did we have a flat response. This is why in high-end audio this kind of correction is nowadays generally reserved for subwoofers where a small subset of a signal can easily be corrected and the negative affects are not as perceptible due to the long wavelengths. Phase and group delay aren't as serious down there, unlike anywhere else where they can seriously screw up the sound.
You’d simply rely on reflection instead of spatial separation
So beam forming is not possible unless you use something that isn't beam forming? Good to know.
Canada varies by state, but nearly every state has a legally mandated sick leave scheme which requires no evidence from the employee to use.
So you're either bullshitting, or you have some incredibly unlucky Canadian friends. Unlike the USA where sickleave has nothing to do with luck but great privilege.
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Guess what, everything leaves a mark on oiled wood. Guess what, the nice thing about oiled wood is you can re-oil it and marks go away.
I assume that you don't own anything with oiled wood if you think that everything marks it. Personally I've never re-oiled any of the nice shiny furniture I have in my house and nothing I place on it seems to leech out the colour either.
I guess you're too busy staring at pictures to read the bits about no other devices causing the problems, reviewers never having seen similar things, and this specific problem being a material incompatibility with silicone and oil.
Speaking of. Can we stop making consumer devices with silicon coatings? FFS they attract dirt like all heck, and look feral after a few months.
Modern Linux is not as fast
Citation needed. The modern Linux kernel may have more in it and may require more resources to run, but KPTI aside Linux has never been faster. Aside from a few minor dips as some features are added without maturity Linux kernels have mostly seen slight speed improvements between versions, with a few introducing good step changes in performance improvements.
What you're complaining about is the software that we expect to do more. That's not an OS issue.
Interesting. Just right clicking Skype on the start menu and clicking Uninstall seems to do the trick just fine too. There's nothing deep about it. It's a standard UWP app.
The summary talks about advising Americans against using Huawei phones, but then quotes telecommunications infrastructure. These are two very different applications with very different risk profiles.
For the average American an American made device likely poses a higher risk than that made under the influence of a foreign power.
For a nation's infrastructure the influence of a foreign actor posts a higher risk than in-sourcing as much as possible. And that would make America consistent with other countries. Australia has also banned Huawei from bidding on government contracts. They make some decent budget phones though.
Just because someone has their own ecosystem doesn't mean they aren't competing with single vendors from other ecosystems.
Tell your friend to stop being a leech and relying on ads for revenue. Get a real job that doesnt rely on polluting the web. and annoying users. Hes a parasite if he cant live without ads, we dont need his work if they are the only way to do it.
The irony of you posting this on a service that is highly dependent on ads to survive is delicious.
I haven't met a single ad I like
I have met plenty that are easy to ignore and I'm happy they subsidise and keep the content on the internet free as a result.
That's certainly true, but I think the GP's point is that anybody who can afford to drive will still do so, because the car runs on exactly your schedule, and goes exactly where you want to go. The route can be changed at any moment and offers much more comfort and a more pleasant experience.
Apart from this, even if parking is sparse, it will usually be much faster to drive. It depends on the city, but most people value less time spent commuting over all else.
Lets look at that for a moment:
because the car runs on exactly your schedule
Most public transport in Europe runs to very regular schedules with frequent services. If the schedule is delayed more than a 10min due to a change of transport, or bad timing it would be the exception rather than the norm.
and goes exactly where you want to go
Most public transport in Europe, the car gets you no where near where you want to go. You'll likely find public transport gets you closer. Heck when I visit other cities I will often take a "park and ride" service over the painstaking process of finding parking and then paying through the nose in a major city.
The route can be changed at any moment
The only time people typically change their routes with cars is due to problems on the road. The vast majority of car trips go from A to B without any change that wouldn't also be possible by public transport. Though I will admit to the very occasional unplanned stop at IKEA, but really in those cases I could happily wait for the day after and take the car when I need to.
and offers much more comfort and a more pleasant experience
Yes this is a significant difference. In one case I get to sit down, relax, listen to music, post to Slashdot, screw around on my phone and generally ignore everything around me. In the other case I need to pay constant attention to changing conditions, deal with delays, traffic, starting and stopping traffic lights, concentrate on what I'm doing and generally get to where I'm going exhausted.
One is far more pleasant, but it sure as hell isn't the car.
Apart from this, even if parking is sparse, it will usually be much faster to drive.
You're American right? I have found it impossible to drive into any major city in Europe and get to my destination faster than if I had used public transport. The majority of European cities are not car friendly ranging between leaving you in traffic jams in the best case while trams and busses get priority to the outright aggressive cases like Houten where cars must use the ring highway to get from one area in the city to the other which can turn a 5min bike trip or a 20min drive.
The only thing car friendly about most european cities is the park and ride concept: Cheap parking at train stations outside of the cities to entice people not to bring their cars into the city centre while acknowledging that trains don't necessarily go to every small town in the country.
but most people value less time spent commuting
Only people who don't understand the value of having your time returned to you while commuting. Even if commutes did take longer than cars I would happily opt for the opportunity to do something while commuting rather than sitting behind the wheel concentrating on not hitting another metal box with my metal box.
I still value the time lost way higher than the price of riding with my car.
100% of your time is lost riding a car. A small fraction of it is lost when commuting by other means. Examples:
- I happily spend 2h commuting to another city by train rather than driving for 45min as I get to sit, eat, relax, learn a language, and bitch/moan on Slashdot using my laptop. By comparison I would lose 45min of my time driving by car.
- I happily spend 15min light jogging to the supermarket instead of driving the 10min by car (there's a pedestrian bridge that cuts a lot out of the trip). Essentially this gives me 30min of exercise for 10min investment where the alternative is I spend 20min sedentary and pissed off at traffic lights to gain a measly 10min.
I take public transport where possible precisely because I value my time and hate losing it behind the wheel.
It's as if they've all been bought off.
It would appear like that right until you look at the ownership history and the Shareholder laws regarding Volkswagen. You see for the government to fine VW they would have to first admit that they themselves were to blame as a significant share holder of the company and as a passer of a law that gives the government voting veto rights over any shareholder decision.
Fining or suing yourself isn't as appealing as it sounds.
So you DO compare the USA to 3rd world countries. Glad that's settled.
I know right. We're number 1 in many things that people just don't appreciate.
Number 1 in debt, Number 1 in citizen incarceration rate, number 1 in mass shootings, number 1 in climate change denial, number 1 in letting our infrastructure collapse under our feet, number 1 in letting poor people die due to lack of medical insurance, number 1 in bankrupting people who go to our universities.
USA! USA! USA!
They will start beeping at 2am instead of 3am.
2). If the EU does it, it means that it's undemocratic and bad.
Not at all. In the case recently of mobile competition sometimes you end up with:
2a) If the EU does it, pretend it was a partisan win for whoever is currently in power and that they came up with their ideas independently to preserve the Brexit narrative.
Friday is actually part of a 3-day weekend and that the working week is only 4 days long?
Yes but that proposal also comes with learning to speak French.
Seems reasonable to me.
Tell me about it. Clearly these people are unfit to be politicians.
Many of us have to deal with clients or suppliers in other countries
Okay, let me stop you there Mr fortune 500. The overwhelming majority of any population never has any business with people outside of their own timezone. At best they may have business with people within their timezone who will internally to their own company source something from another timezone.
So the obvious choice is to then pair a decent text editor like vi with a good operating system like emacs.
er capita is meaningless in relation to *TOTAL GLOBAL* levels.
Per capita is the ONLY meaningful metric in a global world where we each need to do out bit.
Do remember us little people when you look down from your high horse and expect us to clean up your shit.
is entire post is about whether the HomePod can achieve a decent stereo effect
That is what you get when you read a single line without context. His entire post was about the HomePod not being a decent audiophile product unlike the assertion that the redditor made.
The start of his premise was that it can't even achieve a stereo effect, and several others chimed in with the other many shortcomings that cause the conclusion to be unable to be drawn from the review presented.
I.e. Bullshit.
Apple devices are for the masses, not just for people trying to make ends meet in the bay area.
24bit audio implies 144dB of dynamic range. Before you start worrying about 144dB of dyanmic range, try and see what the Homepod would do generating 144dB of anything. To achieve this I suggest plugging it into a 3.3kV power socket.
Not quite. In a good system THD is just as bad in the bass range as anywhere else. However in mixed subwoofer satellite systems, especially cheap ones the audible effects of THD is dwarfed by phase and group delay which destroy the punchy sound that we generally find pleasing from bass. When you have that under control you start to hear harmonic distortion more clearly.
Also try and remember what harmonic distortion is and what these numbers are telling us. 50% harmonic distortion implies either the subwoofer is putting out two very different bass notes instead of one at the same time (would easily be audible), or the waveform contains a shitload of stuff that isn't at all bass. The latter is a more likely scenario in a single driver system like this. This is how some subwoofers sound like sub-farters instead.
Personally I wouldn't worry about a couple of percent THD in the subwoofer range unless you have a very high end sound system and your delays and phases are well controlled in the room. But it is unconscionable to quote the numbers presented as irrelevant, let alone "good".
Yes, he has, and your assertion to the contrary is nothing more than denialism.
You either didn't read the GP's post, or you didn't read the Redditor's review. The review covers nothing of what was covered in the above post.
Getting a truly flat response is hardly the trivial task you make it out to be
Yes it is. In the 60s it was achieved easily through a mixture of drivers working in their flat range crossed over out the wazoo. There were plenty of speakers on the market flat within the audible range. That is also the same time we learnt that messing with the audio signal to produce flatness through the use of crossover components or later on digital correction actually really sucked. The era of 6-way crossover systems was fucked, but man did we have a flat response. This is why in high-end audio this kind of correction is nowadays generally reserved for subwoofers where a small subset of a signal can easily be corrected and the negative affects are not as perceptible due to the long wavelengths. Phase and group delay aren't as serious down there, unlike anywhere else where they can seriously screw up the sound.
You’d simply rely on reflection instead of spatial separation
So beam forming is not possible unless you use something that isn't beam forming? Good to know.
Canada varies by state, but nearly every state has a legally mandated sick leave scheme which requires no evidence from the employee to use.
So you're either bullshitting, or you have some incredibly unlucky Canadian friends. Unlike the USA where sickleave has nothing to do with luck but great privilege.