Are you paying attention? A speaker is an analog device. It doesn't have a "cutoff", it has a frequency response curve. Speakers typically used in laptops are quite small, so tend to perform better at higher frequencies than lower ones. Typically I'd guess they're +/- 3dB between 200Hz and 15kHz, with more attenuation outside of that range. Better ones (as might be fitted to a Mac) might manage to stay within +/- 3dB between 100Hz and 20kHz.
Pretty sure the Mac can be set to record and playback af 48k samples per second.That gives you at least 4kHz of bandwidth above the limits of human hearing right there. With modern encodings, that's probably good for around 20kbps.
The iPhone 4 was still on the market when iOS7 was announced. The Galaxy Nexus doesn't get Android 4.4 for the same reason the original iPad didn't get iOS 6 18 months after it was released.
First, no speaker in a Mac can generate "ultrasonic" !!
Second, no mic in a Mac can capture "ultrasonic" !!
Sure they can. Maybe not very efficiently, and not far above the range of human hearing, but they are analog devices, so there is no sharp cutoff at some limit. I agree on your conclusion about the fool nonetheless.
We're either looking at someone who has a LOT of free time and hardware on his hands, or a 1st or 2nd world military-level dev team with LOTS of cash to spend, IMO.
You've discounted the most obvious option - an attention whore who isn't adverse to making shit up.
w/o almost immediately falling into the star itself.
Has it been observed for long enough to know that is not exactly what is happening? "Immediately" on the scale of a planet spiralling into its sun most likely takes centuries, if not millenia.
All light units and the plug for the trailer hitch are connected to this bus.
CAN enabled light bulbs? No, there is a CAN enabled relay box somewhere near the top of the engine bay (maybe reachable from the outside of the car if you use your imagination and pretend you have octopus tentacles for arms) which controls the lighting. As for trailer connections, maybe on a semi where the CAN bus is standard SAE J1939, but on cars and light trucks, the protocols are all manufacturer specific so there would be no point in passing them through to a trailer.
Do you know they're not using Flash? It's been a long time since I've seen masked ROM for anything but boot functions and whatnot. Even if it's cheaper, masked ROM is a production nightmare.
For that there is the OTP bit in many Flash devices. Any safety critical system should be using it.
Surely, a basic consequence of the mechanisms involved in evolution is that all long term changes in individual species are effectively driven by factors of the environment they live in, whether that's predators or other dangers, or the needs of being able to acquire food or raise offspring, etc. Snakes are, we know, dangerous. So surely it's obvious rather than controversial that they should have had some effect on our evolution?
I'd like to see the methodology behind this study and the alternate hypotheses that were considered before passing judgement on whether this is an obvious outcome of evolution, or a bunch of creationists trying to justify some Bible story with "science".
Which is the other side of what I said - the majority that haven't "viably moved" between nations are more comparable to the Americans living in poverty in Detroit than the small minority who do make that move.
A whole buch of people on Slashdot, including myself, "viably moved" between nations, while not being insanely rich in the first place. An Indian or Chinese citizen faces a far more formidable barrier than a US citizen; and still, there are many Indian and Chinese computer nerds busy at work in US companies. Even an illegal Mexican risks his life by crossing the desert. A citizen of Detroit risks nothing.
That Chinese or Indian citizen has something that the citizen of Detroit does not. A decent start in life as a middle class citizen of their own country, with the education that goes with it and from there grows hopes and aspirations.
We need to do a study on cyclical climate change. But it needs to be done without the obvious outcome that its political backers will attempt to use the results, which will include the foregone conclusion that "cyclical climate change exists", to "disprove" other sources of climate change that were explicitly excluded from the study.
The main barrier is that Japan does not recognize dual citizenship, and many people who otherwise qualify for citizenship do not want to give up their ties to their ancestral homeland, so prefer to remain as permanent residents with foreign nationality (even those who are born in Japan). This did for a while cause some problems with children being born stateless, as Japan is a citizenship by ancestry country, rather than citizenship by birth, and if the parents' birth country was a citizenship by birth country (or limited to one or two generations born outside the country), neither Japan nor the parents' home country would automatically grant citizenship. I think this got sorted a few years back, though perhaps only with an exception for children with Korean ancestry, which was the most affected group.
The waiting list is about 3 days, mine came through this morning. Maybe that's really long to kids these days, but I'm old enough to remember the waiting lists for Google Wave, and Facebook when it first went from invitation only to open to the public.
One of my local shops has a deal on a Canon inkjet with continuous ink system for a 50% markup over just the printer. Just the first set of cartridges after you finish off the "starter" cartridges (ie almost empty when new) that come with the printer will set you back more than that if you buy genuine cartridges. And refilling cartridges is a hassle - most of the companies offering refill kits play the same stupid games as the printer manufacturers, with cartridge reset tools that contain counters so you have to buy a new one every 5 or so refills.
Having a USB VID and PID is not a "USB compliant" certification. Having a VID means you've paid some money to the USB-IF. Allocating a PID is done by the owner of the VID, not by any certifying body.
There was a car bomb in Birmingham in 2001, which failed to detonate properly. And a couple of months earlier, another car bomb in Ealing Broadway which did detonate properly. But these were both Real-IRA bombs, so people forget about them now that terrorism is firmly linked with Islamists in the public mind.
Since 2000, we have seen serious major acts of terrorism in this country typically once or twice a year.
As compared to 1999, when there were at least 4? In my recollection, there has only been an average of one credible serious attack every two years since then. I suspect they are counting the attacks like this one that might have been, had they not preemptively arrested the alleged attackers, many of which appear to have been based on fairly dodgy evidence and many of those attacks would have been unlikely to have been serious if the deranged individuals that were planning them were to ever carry out their unsophisticated plans (much like the attack on Glasgow airport that was carried out, damaging the attackers' car and not a lot else).
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Are you paying attention? A speaker is an analog device. It doesn't have a "cutoff", it has a frequency response curve. Speakers typically used in laptops are quite small, so tend to perform better at higher frequencies than lower ones. Typically I'd guess they're +/- 3dB between 200Hz and 15kHz, with more attenuation outside of that range. Better ones (as might be fitted to a Mac) might manage to stay within +/- 3dB between 100Hz and 20kHz.
Did you sample your office full of identical models from the same manufacturer to come up with that statistic?
Dell laptop here (so not an unusual brand), using an audio codec from IDT.
Pretty sure the Mac can be set to record and playback af 48k samples per second.That gives you at least 4kHz of bandwidth above the limits of human hearing right there. With modern encodings, that's probably good for around 20kbps.
The iPhone 4 was still on the market when iOS7 was announced. The Galaxy Nexus doesn't get Android 4.4 for the same reason the original iPad didn't get iOS 6 18 months after it was released.
Sure they can. Maybe not very efficiently, and not far above the range of human hearing, but they are analog devices, so there is no sharp cutoff at some limit. I agree on your conclusion about the fool nonetheless.
You've discounted the most obvious option - an attention whore who isn't adverse to making shit up.
Australia has a specific tax exemption for people who state false prices on customs forms? Still haven't shaken the penal colony mentality I see.
Are you sure about that?
Has it been observed for long enough to know that is not exactly what is happening? "Immediately" on the scale of a planet spiralling into its sun most likely takes centuries, if not millenia.
CAN enabled light bulbs? No, there is a CAN enabled relay box somewhere near the top of the engine bay (maybe reachable from the outside of the car if you use your imagination and pretend you have octopus tentacles for arms) which controls the lighting. As for trailer connections, maybe on a semi where the CAN bus is standard SAE J1939, but on cars and light trucks, the protocols are all manufacturer specific so there would be no point in passing them through to a trailer.
I guess one day in the near future, someone will invent the digital speedometer, and that will cease to be true.
For that there is the OTP bit in many Flash devices. Any safety critical system should be using it.
A shame that manual transmission didn't stop you posting while driving though.
I'd like to see the methodology behind this study and the alternate hypotheses that were considered before passing judgement on whether this is an obvious outcome of evolution, or a bunch of creationists trying to justify some Bible story with "science".
That, and child labor in crumbling factories in Bangladesh. Another consequence of lack of government oversight.
Which is the other side of what I said - the majority that haven't "viably moved" between nations are more comparable to the Americans living in poverty in Detroit than the small minority who do make that move.
That Chinese or Indian citizen has something that the citizen of Detroit does not. A decent start in life as a middle class citizen of their own country, with the education that goes with it and from there grows hopes and aspirations.
We need to do a study on cyclical climate change. But it needs to be done without the obvious outcome that its political backers will attempt to use the results, which will include the foregone conclusion that "cyclical climate change exists", to "disprove" other sources of climate change that were explicitly excluded from the study.
The main barrier is that Japan does not recognize dual citizenship, and many people who otherwise qualify for citizenship do not want to give up their ties to their ancestral homeland, so prefer to remain as permanent residents with foreign nationality (even those who are born in Japan). This did for a while cause some problems with children being born stateless, as Japan is a citizenship by ancestry country, rather than citizenship by birth, and if the parents' birth country was a citizenship by birth country (or limited to one or two generations born outside the country), neither Japan nor the parents' home country would automatically grant citizenship. I think this got sorted a few years back, though perhaps only with an exception for children with Korean ancestry, which was the most affected group.
The waiting list is about 3 days, mine came through this morning. Maybe that's really long to kids these days, but I'm old enough to remember the waiting lists for Google Wave, and Facebook when it first went from invitation only to open to the public.
One of my local shops has a deal on a Canon inkjet with continuous ink system for a 50% markup over just the printer. Just the first set of cartridges after you finish off the "starter" cartridges (ie almost empty when new) that come with the printer will set you back more than that if you buy genuine cartridges. And refilling cartridges is a hassle - most of the companies offering refill kits play the same stupid games as the printer manufacturers, with cartridge reset tools that contain counters so you have to buy a new one every 5 or so refills.
Having a USB VID and PID is not a "USB compliant" certification. Having a VID means you've paid some money to the USB-IF. Allocating a PID is done by the owner of the VID, not by any certifying body.
Good documentation doesn't mean 10 million pages.
There was a car bomb in Birmingham in 2001, which failed to detonate properly. And a couple of months earlier, another car bomb in Ealing Broadway which did detonate properly. But these were both Real-IRA bombs, so people forget about them now that terrorism is firmly linked with Islamists in the public mind.
As compared to 1999, when there were at least 4? In my recollection, there has only been an average of one credible serious attack every two years since then. I suspect they are counting the attacks like this one that might have been, had they not preemptively arrested the alleged attackers, many of which appear to have been based on fairly dodgy evidence and many of those attacks would have been unlikely to have been serious if the deranged individuals that were planning them were to ever carry out their unsophisticated plans (much like the attack on Glasgow airport that was carried out, damaging the attackers' car and not a lot else).