Sorry - I actually know both kinds - actual audiophiles (including a Grammy-winning audio engineer) and platinum coated fairy dust audiophiles. The ones who care really do have external headphone amps and as long as USB out was an option probably wouldn't be affected.
The turntable was a cheap shot - but the Intel paper even said there was an analog side channel on the connector so a simple adapter would probably come with nearly every pair (or be available for $2 from Monoprice), so it's not as if getting a new pair of cans with a digital connector is really going to make a difference. We all already have 1/8-1/4 adapters lying around, what's one more?
I'm not saying that IFTTT isn't over-reaching, but trusting Mircosoft to have your best interests at heart is like letting your kid go pet a Belgian Malinois because the German Shepherd didn't seem friendly looking.
I wouldn't trust Flow primarily because MS has a horrible track record of supporting anything that's not created at MS. Eventually, this will only support MS products on MS servers, if it survives at all.
If you've every had to rescue an iDevice...you must have iTunes installed. If you want to load any kind of media onto a device which you didn't purchase from the iTunes store (which means every single chorister who has ever gotten a learning track or anyone who has created their own music) you must have iTunes. And it is horrifically awful.
Um, I expect that most audiophiles already have tube amps connected to high end DACs, which means that the next DAC they buy (and there is always a next one) will be USB-C capable. The headphones won't change because the conversion and amplification will be handled by dedicated hardware, just like it is now. No audio nut worth his platinum-wrapped, aerogel-dielectric, unidirectional patch cords is going to put his conversion or amplification gear anywhere inside the RFI/EMI hell that is a computer case.
Apparently I missed the turntable drive on new PCs, aka, - HTF do you play Vinyl on a PC? I think vinyl is safe for staying away from USB-C transfers.
And laaaaaaaaaag. Regular BT has 300ms lag, and even the very best BT headphones+transmitter have more than 60ms lag in real world applications. That may be cool for lag-aware applications that just do local playback of video, but for anything live and general video review it's simply infuriating.
Well, if an earlier poster got his/her math right, then it costs $28/mo for everyone to average 1TB/month (4Mbps average). I'd be willing to be metered at double that rate, to be honest, and I'm a pretty big bandwidth user for a 3 person house (~400-600GB/mo). It would still cost me 1/3 of what Comcast charges me (And I've never been charged for cap-exceedence).
I'm sorry - which OSS project intefaces seamlessly with Revit so that I can deal with three separate A/E offices (architect, electrical, mechanical) working simultaneously on the same project for a $10M project delivery in a month?
This is a pond-loop geothermal system with CO2 as the coolant. Compared to resistance heating the water it's going to be much more efficient, and - in Alaska especially - it's going to be more efficient than an air-based system as you won't be working against sub 20F temps for a good portion of the year. But the power to run the system is all electric, which means it's coming from traditional sources (and by traditional I mean both fossil based and renewable sources).
The article, however is clearly powered almost exclusively by biofuel - specifically, bullshit.
By then we'll be fighting mostly with robots (hell, we already are, it's just that one side doesn't have robots yet). I mean, whichever side has the better/more numerous robots will kill the other, but that's not an all out, kill 7 Billion people war that we need to reduce the population to sustainable levels. And 90% of the people who are left alive will still be the ones that would opt for living in squalor on a UBI over working.
That's really the problem with all of the utopian societies - no matter how much you try and exclude or shift the lazy/aggressive/counterproductive interruptable, the newly born will still have those traits.
It's the details that matter. Nobody is promoting an ideal minimum wage version of the UBI (not that is actually talking about implementing it). The payment under the UBI would be 1/2 or less than 1/2 of your $15 minimum wage. The idea is to replace the various different sources of welfare with a flat grant. It's actually very Republican in a sense - it's exactly what they want from every government program. Republicans say, "don't give us money to pay for what you think is right, just cut us a check for the total amount and let us use it where/how it works best for us."
Of course, the UBI is DOA without a universal healthcare system. What good is $8-10k/yr if you have to pay 1/2 (or more) in medical premiums, or if a single medical event (much less a chronic condition) could wipe out everything you receive in a year (broken arm )- or what you might receive for your entire life (heart attack).
I get up early when the sleeping pill wakes me I take a wake up pill and fill with energy I power on hard and I check my messages But I don't have any messages I take a driving pill and head to my car I drive around a bit 'cause work isn't very far... Work is over but I can't stay to work late Got to leave and get ready for my second date With a pretty girl that I met at the pharmacy Right in the prescription line I take a pill for my social anxiety I get a table and a nice bottle of chablis Now it's getting late and there's still no sign of her I have another glass of wine
All I know is the wine lasts longer when you don't gotta share it with someone All I know is the steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill
To address the other half of the statement the AC didn't:
"...it doesn't have to be a big craft..."
Well, it has to be large enough that it can generate thrust which will propel the craft. Right now, I think they're at about 3500W of power per Newton of thrust. At low orbit (the chepest destination) like where ISS sits, the atmospheric drag is on the order of 140 mN per square meter. Unless you plan on a nuclear source, you'll have about 200w for every square meter of solar panel, or 17.5 m2 of solar panel, creating up to 2.5N of drag, to power an engine which can produce 1N of thrust.
Now, this is terribly simplistic as your frontal area normal will not always be aligned so as to catch the maximum drag, but you can see how it doesn't take a large craft to zero out the thrust just in orbit decay forces. It's a pretty major mission to get something large enough to generate kW of power to an orbital height which has little enough drag to allow the thruster to work. Plus, the heavier the craft the longer it will take to accelerate. To put it in perspective, the typical Estes black powder engine you put in a model rocket has a peak thrust of around 14N. Strap that to a small car, and it's not going to accelerate quickly (even in a frictionless world). And that amount of peak thrust would take 50kW of power. The good news is that the thrust is relatively constant, so if it does get running, it can slowly accelerate to a useful speed.
"Parodies are protected speech, which would've covered this case even if the person's name were a trade-mark."
Not quite. Parodies are an affirmative defense. If the trademark owner disagrees, you must argue your case and a Judge decides whether the use is a legitimate parody and, if it is, you are not liable for damages under the infringement statues. It's a fine distinction.
For the vast majority of architects, any structures, fluid, or thermodynamics knowledge magically evaporates the day they walk out of their exams. I say this as a practicing engineer in the architectural world for nearly two decades. In a way, it's nice - it means I'm in demand because they can't do it themselves.
There are a few out there who are, no doubt, technically competent - but they are in the vast minority, I'm afraid. I've seen some wildly innovative things from architects - some of them are brilliant, and some of them are in direct opposition to productivity or efficiency. The "design as a radiator" is in that latter category.
"You wouldn't know that someone is using your login."
Short of phone malware that hides selected incoming SMS and deletes them before you open your SMS app, you should suspect someone is using your phone number when either (a) you get seemingly random login verification numbers or (b) your phone company bitches at you about having more than one location/identity on their network (SIM presence).
Okay, I don't really need a big type version, but maybe if I play the "for old people" angle they'll make a full size version like the old DX. I'd love to have one to put references on, but having a technical manual on a paperback sized device just doesn't cut it.
Yeah, I didn't RTFA (Though I skimmed the specs) and I assumed this would be the case. Anyone with a brain would have implemented this. It's just a good thing it isn't made by Microsoft, as they would have certainly omitted it. (Like the Surface/Surface Pro, which don't wake when you open the typecover, and bootloop if you try and wake from sleep while connected to the Microsoft Surface Dock).
When architects say "designed like a radiator" what they really mean is that they were artistically inspired by some sort of cooling device enclosure they took a fancy to. They have almost zero grasp of all but the most basic physics and have never, ever set foot in a thermodynamics class or done any substantial heat transfer coursework. Heck, most would be lucky to read a psychrometric chart.
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Sorry - I actually know both kinds - actual audiophiles (including a Grammy-winning audio engineer) and platinum coated fairy dust audiophiles. The ones who care really do have external headphone amps and as long as USB out was an option probably wouldn't be affected.
The turntable was a cheap shot - but the Intel paper even said there was an analog side channel on the connector so a simple adapter would probably come with nearly every pair (or be available for $2 from Monoprice), so it's not as if getting a new pair of cans with a digital connector is really going to make a difference. We all already have 1/8-1/4 adapters lying around, what's one more?
I'm not saying that IFTTT isn't over-reaching, but trusting Mircosoft to have your best interests at heart is like letting your kid go pet a Belgian Malinois because the German Shepherd didn't seem friendly looking.
I wouldn't trust Flow primarily because MS has a horrible track record of supporting anything that's not created at MS. Eventually, this will only support MS products on MS servers, if it survives at all.
If you've every had to rescue an iDevice...you must have iTunes installed. If you want to load any kind of media onto a device which you didn't purchase from the iTunes store (which means every single chorister who has ever gotten a learning track or anyone who has created their own music) you must have iTunes. And it is horrifically awful.
Um, I expect that most audiophiles already have tube amps connected to high end DACs, which means that the next DAC they buy (and there is always a next one) will be USB-C capable. The headphones won't change because the conversion and amplification will be handled by dedicated hardware, just like it is now. No audio nut worth his platinum-wrapped, aerogel-dielectric, unidirectional patch cords is going to put his conversion or amplification gear anywhere inside the RFI/EMI hell that is a computer case.
Apparently I missed the turntable drive on new PCs, aka, - HTF do you play Vinyl on a PC? I think vinyl is safe for staying away from USB-C transfers.
And laaaaaaaaaag. Regular BT has 300ms lag, and even the very best BT headphones+transmitter have more than 60ms lag in real world applications. That may be cool for lag-aware applications that just do local playback of video, but for anything live and general video review it's simply infuriating.
Well, if an earlier poster got his/her math right, then it costs $28/mo for everyone to average 1TB/month (4Mbps average). I'd be willing to be metered at double that rate, to be honest, and I'm a pretty big bandwidth user for a 3 person house (~400-600GB/mo). It would still cost me 1/3 of what Comcast charges me (And I've never been charged for cap-exceedence).
*sets down tablet*
"Hmmmm...make America great again...oh, look, my video is ready to play!"
"if you stop paying their software stops allowing you to update or modify your work, but allows you to view and export essentially all of your data"
FTFY
I'm sorry - which OSS project intefaces seamlessly with Revit so that I can deal with three separate A/E offices (architect, electrical, mechanical) working simultaneously on the same project for a $10M project delivery in a month?
Yeah, didn't think so.
This is a pond-loop geothermal system with CO2 as the coolant. Compared to resistance heating the water it's going to be much more efficient, and - in Alaska especially - it's going to be more efficient than an air-based system as you won't be working against sub 20F temps for a good portion of the year. But the power to run the system is all electric, which means it's coming from traditional sources (and by traditional I mean both fossil based and renewable sources).
The article, however is clearly powered almost exclusively by biofuel - specifically, bullshit.
By then we'll be fighting mostly with robots (hell, we already are, it's just that one side doesn't have robots yet). I mean, whichever side has the better/more numerous robots will kill the other, but that's not an all out, kill 7 Billion people war that we need to reduce the population to sustainable levels. And 90% of the people who are left alive will still be the ones that would opt for living in squalor on a UBI over working.
That's really the problem with all of the utopian societies - no matter how much you try and exclude or shift the lazy/aggressive/counterproductive interruptable, the newly born will still have those traits.
It's the details that matter. Nobody is promoting an ideal minimum wage version of the UBI (not that is actually talking about implementing it). The payment under the UBI would be 1/2 or less than 1/2 of your $15 minimum wage. The idea is to replace the various different sources of welfare with a flat grant. It's actually very Republican in a sense - it's exactly what they want from every government program. Republicans say, "don't give us money to pay for what you think is right, just cut us a check for the total amount and let us use it where/how it works best for us."
Of course, the UBI is DOA without a universal healthcare system. What good is $8-10k/yr if you have to pay 1/2 (or more) in medical premiums, or if a single medical event (much less a chronic condition) could wipe out everything you receive in a year (broken arm )- or what you might receive for your entire life (heart attack).
I get up early when the sleeping pill wakes me ...
I take a wake up pill and fill with energy
I power on hard and I check my messages
But I don't have any messages
I take a driving pill and head to my car
I drive around a bit 'cause work isn't very far
Work is over but I can't stay to work late
Got to leave and get ready for my second date
With a pretty girl that I met at the pharmacy
Right in the prescription line
I take a pill for my social anxiety
I get a table and a nice bottle of chablis
Now it's getting late and there's still no sign of her
I have another glass of wine
All I know is the wine lasts longer when you don't gotta share it with someone
All I know is the steak tastes better when I take my steak tastes better pill
To address the other half of the statement the AC didn't:
"...it doesn't have to be a big craft..."
Well, it has to be large enough that it can generate thrust which will propel the craft. Right now, I think they're at about 3500W of power per Newton of thrust. At low orbit (the chepest destination) like where ISS sits, the atmospheric drag is on the order of 140 mN per square meter. Unless you plan on a nuclear source, you'll have about 200w for every square meter of solar panel, or 17.5 m2 of solar panel, creating up to 2.5N of drag, to power an engine which can produce 1N of thrust.
Now, this is terribly simplistic as your frontal area normal will not always be aligned so as to catch the maximum drag, but you can see how it doesn't take a large craft to zero out the thrust just in orbit decay forces. It's a pretty major mission to get something large enough to generate kW of power to an orbital height which has little enough drag to allow the thruster to work. Plus, the heavier the craft the longer it will take to accelerate. To put it in perspective, the typical Estes black powder engine you put in a model rocket has a peak thrust of around 14N. Strap that to a small car, and it's not going to accelerate quickly (even in a frictionless world). And that amount of peak thrust would take 50kW of power. The good news is that the thrust is relatively constant, so if it does get running, it can slowly accelerate to a useful speed.
I think we crossed that mark in the past. At this point we're just reducing the turnaround time for the fakes.
Yes, it is a defense. It is NOT a by-rights use. If you're going to poke a sleeping bear, you have to be ready to fight when he wakes up.
"Parodies are protected speech, which would've covered this case even if the person's name were a trade-mark."
Not quite. Parodies are an affirmative defense. If the trademark owner disagrees, you must argue your case and a Judge decides whether the use is a legitimate parody and, if it is, you are not liable for damages under the infringement statues. It's a fine distinction.
File this under "no good deed goes unpunished"
That's an autocorrect f-up, no doubt.
Don't throw me into that brier patch!
For the vast majority of architects, any structures, fluid, or thermodynamics knowledge magically evaporates the day they walk out of their exams. I say this as a practicing engineer in the architectural world for nearly two decades. In a way, it's nice - it means I'm in demand because they can't do it themselves.
There are a few out there who are, no doubt, technically competent - but they are in the vast minority, I'm afraid. I've seen some wildly innovative things from architects - some of them are brilliant, and some of them are in direct opposition to productivity or efficiency. The "design as a radiator" is in that latter category.
"You wouldn't know that someone is using your login."
Short of phone malware that hides selected incoming SMS and deletes them before you open your SMS app, you should suspect someone is using your phone number when either (a) you get seemingly random login verification numbers or (b) your phone company bitches at you about having more than one location/identity on their network (SIM presence).
Okay, I don't really need a big type version, but maybe if I play the "for old people" angle they'll make a full size version like the old DX. I'd love to have one to put references on, but having a technical manual on a paperback sized device just doesn't cut it.
Yeah, I didn't RTFA (Though I skimmed the specs) and I assumed this would be the case. Anyone with a brain would have implemented this. It's just a good thing it isn't made by Microsoft, as they would have certainly omitted it. (Like the Surface/Surface Pro, which don't wake when you open the typecover, and bootloop if you try and wake from sleep while connected to the Microsoft Surface Dock).
When architects say "designed like a radiator" what they really mean is that they were artistically inspired by some sort of cooling device enclosure they took a fancy to. They have almost zero grasp of all but the most basic physics and have never, ever set foot in a thermodynamics class or done any substantial heat transfer coursework. Heck, most would be lucky to read a psychrometric chart.