and you hit a bump in the road and it shorts. Now you lose power or braking.
You do no such thing. Despite what you think cars are actually quite well designed to deal with these issues and they actually happen very frequently without any kind of class action lawsuit.
- ABS shorts out? Well that's why it's an active monitored system and why it has a red light on the dash. Same with every other safety system in the car. - Brakes? You don't need electronics for breaks, just a functioning engine, and even if the engine fails you often have several decent pumps of the pedal before the hydraulics fail on you so you can still come to a stop. Individual brakes fail often enough, but you're still able to stop the car when you're down a couple. - As for all the sensitive systems that are required for a running car, that's what limp mode is for and that's what your hazards are for. O2 sensor fails, airflow sensor fails? Your car will gently slow down to something like 40 allowing you to get off the road and in worst case (as happened to us) drive painfully slowly to a garage. - Fuel injectors failing is a more serious one, but again your car dies gracefully, it doesn't just slam on the emergency brake and cause a pile up on the highway.
About one of the most dangerous things that can happen in a car is power steering failing just as you're about to enter a turn. That can really mess with drivers, but it can be overpowered with a bit of muscle (annoying on my car since the power steering is electric).
This, however, takes the cake, and we need to stand up to this by declaring the insulation issue a fundamental safety issue.
I declare every Friday to be a national holiday, alas it just isn't so.
I would encourage anyone with one of these vehicles to file a NHTSA complaint stating that soy wire harnesses should be banned and recalls instituted
The NHTSA has already looked into it and declared it not a safety hazard. Unfortunately when they declare it, it actually is so. What you really want is a lawsuit of sorts to settle this. Fortunately not only is this happening but it's been ongoing for a year given the lawsuit in TFS is actually from 2016.
Why on earth would anybody want wires with biodegradable insulation? That makes zero sense.
Because things end up in landfills. Biodegradable doesn't mean in 5 years it will have rotted away. Biodegradable just means that it can be broken down naturally. Typical plastics can only be reduced in size to the point where they enter the food cycle. Bio-degradable plastics just mean they can be broken down by bacteria in certain conditions.
That last sentence is key. Biodegradable plastics don't actually start to break down unless they are carefully composted in the right conditions.
So to answer your question: Who wouldn't want biodegradable insulation. It makes zero sense not to use it for anything other than the sensor in your compost monitoring system.
"Apple" and "wallet friendly" in the same sentence simply does not compute. Really not. And I've got an MB Air myself.
Wallet friendly requires context. This isn't wallet friendly for the poor. It's wallet friendly for the sheeple who must own an iPhone to be cool, but can't afford the latest shiny thing.
hopefully china will flood the market with decent phones
As a matter of interest if all you're doing is phone calls and txt msgs why are you waiting for a "decent" phone? There's plenty of options out there even with the label "smartphone" that could suit you for under $100.
Hell go buy a second hand Galaxy S5 and a fist full of spare batteries and you'll have something that lasts you forever.
So Linux provides the ability to update the CPU microcode during boot. Does Windows do something similar? I know that Microsoft has control over their Surface devices and often rolls out UEFI / BIOS updates via Windows updates, but does the OS itself have this functionality too?
It would seem there's a pretty big exposure if Linux is able to push out updates directly from Intel, but Microsoft says: Apply a BIOS update from your PC OEM. Last BIOS issued to my motherboard was in 2014 and it is listed as beta.
Yes and no. For all else being equal you would be right, but by its nature all else is not equal.
Firstly damping factor: If an even 10 fold increase in damping factor is an issue for your headphones then you shouldn't be designing amplifiers. On the flip side for speakers especially low impedance speakers damping factors starts becoming an issue. So why then are balance amps favoured in the high end? Double the current output and double the slew rate often offsets the doubling of the damping factor, something which is only really an issue on tube amplifiers anyway rather than any solid state circuit (which is also why you don't see balanced tube amps).
Secondly THD+N, split them up THD first. For all else being equal you double the THD because you're driving 2 signals. However THD is a factor of the input signal. Because the design is balanced you end up with double the voltage swing. You counteract this by halfing the input signal (bringing your total THD back down to where it was in the first place) or by halving the gain. Depending on your amp this would most commonly be done by increasing negative feedback... bringing down the THD.
+N second. There are two factors here in noise, noise applied as gain to the input signal which follows the same logic as the THD, it'll be the same. The noise inherent in the amplifying components. This shouldn't be a factor in any normal design as there's no post amplification to make it worse. The most common noise that comes through amplifiers (especially on those sharing digital circuitry) is from external interference and from the powersupply. The balanced design would cause this common mode to cancel out and the result is a dramatically increased noise floor as a result of improved PSRR.
That is also what I meant by noise immunity. You're dead right induced fields on the headphone cable are irrelevant. If you're going to drive single ended you want to do it as close to the headphone as you want, but the single most common design for this is yet another conversation step after the main gain stage. This having all the downsides you attributed to balanced amps above but without any of the benefits.
$300 for the console, $60 for the games, $50 or whatever for the SD card because Nintendo is cheap on space, $80 or so for extra controller
Tell me about it. All that money and what do you get, a system capable of 4 player split screen, including a game for less than the cost of any other system... without a game... and only capable of single player.
The Australian government can't shut down in practice
Well no, it's unlikely to shutdown, as you said it has already happened in the past. Also it's quite interesting holding Australia up as an example of politicians working in their own interest. We have had an incredible number of double-dissolutions (parliament dissolved and politicians lose their jobs due to deadlock) to say nothing of the stubbornness that ultimately leads to an endless string of early elections, changing ministers, etc.
The actual reason Australia doesn't have shutdowns like the USA is because bills of supply and appropriation shall not contain matters not related to supply or appropriation. I.e. It's not possible to discuss a budget while tacking on some stupid rider like DACA protections or CHIP. The only thing you can discuss is the budget and they are segregated into multiple documents that it is very unlikely for a single supply bill to shutdown the government. The only reason this happened in 1975 is because the fundamental fight was on the funding of the government and the loans the government was making.
Whereas the USA sees the funding bills as opportunities to wave cocks around and force the other party to pass something unrelated.
Nope not at all. You're conflating two very different issues I presume because you don't understand the very VERY important distinction. Leaking information from a private company is not a crime, period. What is a crime is intentionally leaking very specific information, in the hopes to affect trading prices in a way that allows profit to be gained from this information.
The latter is a very tiny subset of info and also one that snapchat doesn't care about since the information that is likely to move the share price is information that needs to be legally disclosed anyway, kind of like in your linked example where the information that was leaked was nothing more than information that was made public a few days later anyway. For the company they don't care, the effect on them is identical. The SEC cares.
This is why in the context of what we're discussing, no you won't go to jail, and no Snap can't put you in jail.
Context matters.
Context is the difference between you giving me $5 and I giving you a cigarette, and you giving me $5 and I giving you a joint. One was a contractual issue (like leaking information), the other is in most jurisdictions a criminal offence.
Ok... then you're admitting you made a way overbroad statement at the beginning and are now reluctantly walking it back
If that's what you get out of my post then your reading comprehension is even worse than I thought.
No I'm more talking about the guy who managed to install a 3.5mm jack along with some circuitry to connect to the lightning jack in his iPhone 7 without removing any of the internal components or making the phone any thicker than it already was.
Splitting hairs is exactly what you need to do in this discussion, but they are HUGE hairs that you can split with an axe. There's a world of difference between leaking internal memos, leaking information on products and features, leaking user metrics which don't infringe privacy.... and leaking quarterly earnings report. Doing the former 3 is nothing more than a breach of contract with your employer and a tort law that could get you no more than sued. Doing the latter is facilitating insider trading and a federal crime.
No, I'm one of those 90% of people who don't suffer from dementia. Since you appear to be in the other 10% I think it's best that you stay off the road.
You know the first step to solving it is to admit you have a problem. You have a long way to go yet especially since you think you're able to judge my driving skills based on what I wrote. There's early onset dementia right there, to go with your stupid dangerous attitude towards driving.
I wish you a long life, but somehow I doubt it will happen.
The Sony connector may be better with its balanced TRRRS architecture
Short answer: Yes[1]
[1] Long note to the short answer: One of the benefits of the TRRS setup is that it allows for balanced audio signals. These days with modern DACs having balanced outputs for virtually nothing it's a shame to see them unused as there are some real benefits including noise immunity, interference immunity and rejection of distortion. However that takes space and you won't see that inside a phone. Now if you're talking about TRRRS then you have a very different purpose but not related to headhpones: Headsets. By adding another ring you get bi-directional stereo sound allowing the person on the other end of the phone to hear you too:-)
I have those headphones. I use them to listen to background crap when I don't want to listen to real high quality music. Unfortunately (fortunately?) my nice Sennheisers don't come in Bluetooth, or Lightning, and neither do most top quality headphones.
According to hardware designers I've talked to, the thickness of the 3.5mm plug isn't the issue. The problem is its volume and placement. It consumes 240 mm^3 on an outer edge, on one end of the phone, which is incredibly valuable real estate in a modern phone
I know right! We need that space to put in a huge frigging vibrator for your pleasure.
Mind you it's amazing that Apple couldn't figure it out when this guy here managed to do it without removing any Apple components including the incredibly useful taptic engine that Apple claims was the reason they *needed* to remove the jack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
For everyone without dementia it takes essentially zero attention.
Ahhh yes, you're another one of those 90% of people who think they are above average drivers. But you are unique in one way: Most of those other people have actual reading comprehension skills. Specifically the bit about where he's complaining about being restricted in apps, and having a dumbed down interface.... You know, all the shit he's actually talking about rather than what you think he's talking about.
Nothing wrong with a luxury car, but “German Engineering” has an abysmal record of reliability and high maintenance
This is a relatively recent trend in the industry. It used to be widely known as a safe bet to buy a German, beaten only by some select Japanese cars for reliability. Alas...
That's it. Don't give me a different interface. Don't lock out features or apps. Don't throw me into a dedicated mode on my phone.
I have a better one for you: Don't use a shitty interface that demands a lot of attention while you're using your car.
Dear Google, On behalf of all the road users around sexconker please continue to not give him what he wants. We thank you for it. Signed, The luckily still alive because sexconker hasn't killed us yet.
it simply points out that the government has that ability:
Yes of course the government has that ability. But do the ability to do so because you leaked company information? I'm not sure the courts would agree on that one.
That depends entirely on how you use it. For many of us we pay for it in orders alone.
Their streaming service is substandard and the "free" shipping is just added on to the price of the item.
Except that the prices are still the same whether you have prime or don't, so you get everyone else in the world to subsidise your shipping cost, and at like 1/2 purchases a month the substandard streaming service can remain substandard because you're getting it for free, subsidised by those people in the world who don't order more than a couple of packages a month.
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and you hit a bump in the road and it shorts. Now you lose power or braking.
You do no such thing. Despite what you think cars are actually quite well designed to deal with these issues and they actually happen very frequently without any kind of class action lawsuit.
- ABS shorts out? Well that's why it's an active monitored system and why it has a red light on the dash. Same with every other safety system in the car.
- Brakes? You don't need electronics for breaks, just a functioning engine, and even if the engine fails you often have several decent pumps of the pedal before the hydraulics fail on you so you can still come to a stop. Individual brakes fail often enough, but you're still able to stop the car when you're down a couple.
- As for all the sensitive systems that are required for a running car, that's what limp mode is for and that's what your hazards are for. O2 sensor fails, airflow sensor fails? Your car will gently slow down to something like 40 allowing you to get off the road and in worst case (as happened to us) drive painfully slowly to a garage.
- Fuel injectors failing is a more serious one, but again your car dies gracefully, it doesn't just slam on the emergency brake and cause a pile up on the highway.
About one of the most dangerous things that can happen in a car is power steering failing just as you're about to enter a turn. That can really mess with drivers, but it can be overpowered with a bit of muscle (annoying on my car since the power steering is electric).
This, however, takes the cake, and we need to stand up to this by declaring the insulation issue a fundamental safety issue.
I declare every Friday to be a national holiday, alas it just isn't so.
I would encourage anyone with one of these vehicles to file a NHTSA complaint stating that soy wire harnesses should be banned and recalls instituted
The NHTSA has already looked into it and declared it not a safety hazard. Unfortunately when they declare it, it actually is so. What you really want is a lawsuit of sorts to settle this. Fortunately not only is this happening but it's been ongoing for a year given the lawsuit in TFS is actually from 2016.
Why on earth would anybody want wires with biodegradable insulation? That makes zero sense.
Because things end up in landfills. Biodegradable doesn't mean in 5 years it will have rotted away. Biodegradable just means that it can be broken down naturally. Typical plastics can only be reduced in size to the point where they enter the food cycle. Bio-degradable plastics just mean they can be broken down by bacteria in certain conditions.
That last sentence is key. Biodegradable plastics don't actually start to break down unless they are carefully composted in the right conditions.
So to answer your question: Who wouldn't want biodegradable insulation. It makes zero sense not to use it for anything other than the sensor in your compost monitoring system.
"Apple" and "wallet friendly" in the same sentence simply does not compute. Really not. And I've got an MB Air myself.
Wallet friendly requires context. This isn't wallet friendly for the poor. It's wallet friendly for the sheeple who must own an iPhone to be cool, but can't afford the latest shiny thing.
hopefully china will flood the market with decent phones
As a matter of interest if all you're doing is phone calls and txt msgs why are you waiting for a "decent" phone? There's plenty of options out there even with the label "smartphone" that could suit you for under $100.
Hell go buy a second hand Galaxy S5 and a fist full of spare batteries and you'll have something that lasts you forever.
So Linux provides the ability to update the CPU microcode during boot. Does Windows do something similar? I know that Microsoft has control over their Surface devices and often rolls out UEFI / BIOS updates via Windows updates, but does the OS itself have this functionality too?
It would seem there's a pretty big exposure if Linux is able to push out updates directly from Intel, but Microsoft says: Apply a BIOS update from your PC OEM. Last BIOS issued to my motherboard was in 2014 and it is listed as beta.
Yes and no. For all else being equal you would be right, but by its nature all else is not equal.
Firstly damping factor: If an even 10 fold increase in damping factor is an issue for your headphones then you shouldn't be designing amplifiers. On the flip side for speakers especially low impedance speakers damping factors starts becoming an issue. So why then are balance amps favoured in the high end? Double the current output and double the slew rate often offsets the doubling of the damping factor, something which is only really an issue on tube amplifiers anyway rather than any solid state circuit (which is also why you don't see balanced tube amps).
Secondly THD+N, split them up THD first. For all else being equal you double the THD because you're driving 2 signals. However THD is a factor of the input signal. Because the design is balanced you end up with double the voltage swing. You counteract this by halfing the input signal (bringing your total THD back down to where it was in the first place) or by halving the gain. Depending on your amp this would most commonly be done by increasing negative feedback ... bringing down the THD.
+N second. There are two factors here in noise, noise applied as gain to the input signal which follows the same logic as the THD, it'll be the same. The noise inherent in the amplifying components. This shouldn't be a factor in any normal design as there's no post amplification to make it worse. The most common noise that comes through amplifiers (especially on those sharing digital circuitry) is from external interference and from the powersupply. The balanced design would cause this common mode to cancel out and the result is a dramatically increased noise floor as a result of improved PSRR.
That is also what I meant by noise immunity. You're dead right induced fields on the headphone cable are irrelevant. If you're going to drive single ended you want to do it as close to the headphone as you want, but the single most common design for this is yet another conversation step after the main gain stage. This having all the downsides you attributed to balanced amps above but without any of the benefits.
A timeline to switch over before the first successful prototypes been demonstrated . . .
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Yes indeed. What we really need is a proposal that lacks both an idea and a goal. That will drive innovation! /sarcasm
$300 for the console, $60 for the games, $50 or whatever for the SD card because Nintendo is cheap on space, $80 or so for extra controller
Tell me about it. All that money and what do you get, a system capable of 4 player split screen, including a game for less than the cost of any other system ... without a game ... and only capable of single player.
The Australian government can't shut down in practice
Well no, it's unlikely to shutdown, as you said it has already happened in the past. Also it's quite interesting holding Australia up as an example of politicians working in their own interest. We have had an incredible number of double-dissolutions (parliament dissolved and politicians lose their jobs due to deadlock) to say nothing of the stubbornness that ultimately leads to an endless string of early elections, changing ministers, etc.
The actual reason Australia doesn't have shutdowns like the USA is because bills of supply and appropriation shall not contain matters not related to supply or appropriation. I.e. It's not possible to discuss a budget while tacking on some stupid rider like DACA protections or CHIP. The only thing you can discuss is the budget and they are segregated into multiple documents that it is very unlikely for a single supply bill to shutdown the government. The only reason this happened in 1975 is because the fundamental fight was on the funding of the government and the loans the government was making.
Whereas the USA sees the funding bills as opportunities to wave cocks around and force the other party to pass something unrelated.
Nope not at all. You're conflating two very different issues I presume because you don't understand the very VERY important distinction. Leaking information from a private company is not a crime, period. What is a crime is intentionally leaking very specific information, in the hopes to affect trading prices in a way that allows profit to be gained from this information.
The latter is a very tiny subset of info and also one that snapchat doesn't care about since the information that is likely to move the share price is information that needs to be legally disclosed anyway, kind of like in your linked example where the information that was leaked was nothing more than information that was made public a few days later anyway. For the company they don't care, the effect on them is identical. The SEC cares.
This is why in the context of what we're discussing, no you won't go to jail, and no Snap can't put you in jail.
Context matters.
Context is the difference between you giving me $5 and I giving you a cigarette, and you giving me $5 and I giving you a joint. One was a contractual issue (like leaking information), the other is in most jurisdictions a criminal offence.
Ok... then you're admitting you made a way overbroad statement at the beginning and are now reluctantly walking it back
If that's what you get out of my post then your reading comprehension is even worse than I thought.
No I'm more talking about the guy who managed to install a 3.5mm jack along with some circuitry to connect to the lightning jack in his iPhone 7 without removing any of the internal components or making the phone any thicker than it already was.
Splitting hairs is exactly what you need to do in this discussion, but they are HUGE hairs that you can split with an axe. There's a world of difference between leaking internal memos, leaking information on products and features, leaking user metrics which don't infringe privacy .... and leaking quarterly earnings report. Doing the former 3 is nothing more than a breach of contract with your employer and a tort law that could get you no more than sued. Doing the latter is facilitating insider trading and a federal crime.
No, I'm one of those 90% of people who don't suffer from dementia. Since you appear to be in the other 10% I think it's best that you stay off the road.
You know the first step to solving it is to admit you have a problem. You have a long way to go yet especially since you think you're able to judge my driving skills based on what I wrote. There's early onset dementia right there, to go with your stupid dangerous attitude towards driving.
I wish you a long life, but somehow I doubt it will happen.
The Sony connector may be better with its balanced TRRRS architecture
Short answer: Yes[1]
[1] Long note to the short answer: One of the benefits of the TRRS setup is that it allows for balanced audio signals. These days with modern DACs having balanced outputs for virtually nothing it's a shame to see them unused as there are some real benefits including noise immunity, interference immunity and rejection of distortion. However that takes space and you won't see that inside a phone. :-)
Now if you're talking about TRRRS then you have a very different purpose but not related to headhpones: Headsets. By adding another ring you get bi-directional stereo sound allowing the person on the other end of the phone to hear you too
and they dropped 3.5mm because it was too big
Wow, someone fell for that marketing garbage?
I have those headphones. I use them to listen to background crap when I don't want to listen to real high quality music. Unfortunately (fortunately?) my nice Sennheisers don't come in Bluetooth, or Lightning, and neither do most top quality headphones.
According to hardware designers I've talked to, the thickness of the 3.5mm plug isn't the issue. The problem is its volume and placement. It consumes 240 mm^3 on an outer edge, on one end of the phone, which is incredibly valuable real estate in a modern phone
I know right! We need that space to put in a huge frigging vibrator for your pleasure.
Mind you it's amazing that Apple couldn't figure it out when this guy here managed to do it without removing any Apple components including the incredibly useful taptic engine that Apple claims was the reason they *needed* to remove the jack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Nope. He wasn't jailed for leaking company information, he was jailed for insider trading a very different thing and a very real federal crime.
For everyone without dementia it takes essentially zero attention.
Ahhh yes, you're another one of those 90% of people who think they are above average drivers. But you are unique in one way: Most of those other people have actual reading comprehension skills. Specifically the bit about where he's complaining about being restricted in apps, and having a dumbed down interface. ... You know, all the shit he's actually talking about rather than what you think he's talking about.
Nothing wrong with a luxury car, but “German Engineering” has an abysmal record of reliability and high maintenance
This is a relatively recent trend in the industry. It used to be widely known as a safe bet to buy a German, beaten only by some select Japanese cars for reliability. Alas...
That's it. Don't give me a different interface. Don't lock out features or apps. Don't throw me into a dedicated mode on my phone.
I have a better one for you: Don't use a shitty interface that demands a lot of attention while you're using your car.
Dear Google,
On behalf of all the road users around sexconker please continue to not give him what he wants. We thank you for it.
Signed,
The luckily still alive because sexconker hasn't killed us yet.
it simply points out that the government has that ability:
Yes of course the government has that ability. But do the ability to do so because you leaked company information? I'm not sure the courts would agree on that one.
A great company would simply remind employees that it's in their best interest not to leak information.
That's what they did, they just didn't sugar coat it for the easily offended.
No one forces you to do most things. That doesn't mean it isn't of interest to people.
News only about things you're being forced to do is called government propaganda.
It wasn't worth it at the old price.
That depends entirely on how you use it. For many of us we pay for it in orders alone.
Their streaming service is substandard and the "free" shipping is just added on to the price of the item.
Except that the prices are still the same whether you have prime or don't, so you get everyone else in the world to subsidise your shipping cost, and at like 1/2 purchases a month the substandard streaming service can remain substandard because you're getting it for free, subsidised by those people in the world who don't order more than a couple of packages a month.