Oh, shit, I'm sorry. I just went and read the article. I didn't know that they would actually spend over two weeks running content on the speakers to "break them in." It was a joke - I swear - and was based on some goofy audio nut I read on a newsgroup over a decade ago.
FTFA: I was sent a 4-foot single run pair and after a short break-in (Adam suggested that the break-in is minimal, but even so I gave them 48 hours on the Cable Cooker and good two-weeks 24/7 of music prior to the audition)
You must not have broken them in. While many prefer to break in their cables for a week or two using the preferred content, I find that the best uniform results occur with a volume-modulated version of pink noise for 10 days. Once that's done (and it only needs to be done once) you can sub-condition for yuor content. For example, if I'm going to listen to classical, I'll run some recordings by the same composer and orchestra for a day or two first. Afterwards, I'll cleanse the path with at least 4 hours of pink noise before either changing composer or orchestra. I prefer 12 hours or more of pink noise if I'm going to switch to jazz or rock.
You see, by not properly conditioning your cables, you made a mockery of the entire double blind test. These are sensitive, precision pieces of equipment, and can't simply be handled the way zip cord can.
You'll have to excuse me now, it seems my tongue has seriously bruised my left cheek.
No, there would have been no useful testimony extracted by the defense. Sherman is not an expert in the accounting systems, financial records, or contractual agreements of the member corporations. None of that would be information he could be expected to know, or to provide in any detail under a cross examination.
He would really only be qualified to answer questions about the organization and its projects in general forms. About the best you could do would be to get him to admit that he hasn't any data on the sales of music due to increased publicity from filesharing. It was alleged that such marketing was occuring in the recently leaked emails, but I'm sure he would claim no knowledge.
No, it's best that a propaganda witness was not allowed to testify.
Actually, I would say that it indicates to males that you have a higher social status and are more likely to successfully compete with them over females, thus reducing the chance that you will have direct competition when a female does arrive. I don't think females care about the cost of your cable (ahem).
As to gauge and length of your cable, as long as it is adequate for the purpose, I've heard that the type of performance is far more important. In general larger cables, of course, can be used over a wider dynamic range without drop outs. We're still talking about wires, right?
It is, sort of. The fineness of the strand is probably more important than the number of 9s behind the decimal in the purity (I'm thinking of frequency responsce and, um, skin effect?, but I'm not even sure if 16-20kHz enters into that realm). Still, there are definitely limits to human hearing, and now that I'm pushing 40 those limits seem all to obvious. I bought OFC wire for my home theater I just built primarily because it was cheaper (at the same gauge) than locally available zip cord. When I wanted to run a headphone jack, about 60' from the amp, I went out and bought a 75' long, 16 gauge grounded extension cord and popped off the ends. Nice stranded copper and to conductors plus ground, for about $7. Now, I don't have the opportunity to A-B that setup, but it sounds excellent on my MDR-V6 cans.
It's a model rocket - a big, complex, expensive model rocket. It will go straight up (provided it stays intact) and return via parachute. I think the X-wing actuation is just a fun gimmick. These guys size stuff for safe recovery all the time. Barring an actual equipment failure, which does occur occasionally, it should be recovered and be able to fly again.
I presume they'll be using Aerotech, but I'm curious what impulse level they're planning. At the take off weight, this is going to need some serious thrust. I'm not a high-power guy but a casual BAR (born-again rocketeer); I build and fly black-powder based models with my 5 year old, and just got my first composite mid-power kit airborne last week. Back in my day, mid/high power didn't even exist, as far as I know - the Estes D was the "big one". Those are little engines nowadays.
As for those asking "Why?" the answer is simple - because they can. Model rocketry is fun, and a bit of a show-off hobby (like many others). I don't have the spare change to go out and drop 4 figures on a big rocket, and then several hundred per flight on the propulsion. All depends on your priorities and what makes your nipples hard.
I hope it flies well and has a safe recovery. It's neat to see the hobby get some legs; it's one of those applied-science areas that kids can get involved in that's also a lot of fun.
See, here's your problem: Pollution is taken care of by the natural processes for most all of the earth. Humans have caused two problems: (1) there are too many of us by a factor of about 100 (maybe 1000, depending on your ideals) and (2) the ways we have found ways to support that overpopulation generally require stirring up old pollution which has been "processed" already (i.e.: digging stuff up and re-dispersing it).
In a way it's sort of a vicious cycle - the more people to support, the more intensive we are to provide that support, which increases both the direct and indirect pollution we cause.
In a balanced world, we would get up with the sun and go to bed with the sun; you wouldn't need intense lighting after dark. Those who live in the extreme north and south should move to a more temperate area. That's great, except that there are too many of us to do that (that overpopulation thing again).
By the way - if someone from US congress or administration is reading...your new DST is an utterly useless waste of time. Thanks to the new DST, I spend an extra hour in the morning with the lights on, and an hour less an night. Good call on saving energy. Not. More like a good waste of time and effort to change the date.
That would require the politicians to grow a backbone, and simply won't happen. But yes, physical plant should be maintained by an entirely separate entity - ideally a semi-governmental one, though one with tight regulatory and price control would be acceptable (think of your water and sewer service as a good example).
Of course, if that were the case you might argue that satellites should be the same. Then again, if we had public physical plants, we probably wouldn't need satellite to have competition!
Better yet, drop $100 on an annual subscription. Over 5 years, your chances are better of winning the big one, and it takes a lot less work and cash outlay.
(Feel free to keep taking your chance on software, just don't count on hitting it big any more than you do with the lotto. The odds really are against you.)
Math, physics, and biology are not fundamentals of engineering. They are prerequisites. Olin may succeed if their graduates have all these extras along with a very sound technical course. Sadly, most colleges can't even graduate kids with all the technical they need. Many believe that a MS should be the minimum required, along with 4 years of experience, to be licensed as a Professional Engineer. (Which suggests that Olin, if they are suggesting engineers open their own firms immediately, care nothing about professional engineers - as you cannot get your PE right out of school) The body of knowledge for engineers has increased dramatically over the years, and in the practical engineering fields the body of knowledge is only the start of an education.
I'd suggest that Olin is for folks who are really business people who want to do something associated with engineering. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I haven't quite figured it out, but my HD runs just about continuously for about 2.5 minutes after I log in. I even get a message that I don't have my firewall turned on because there is such a lag in the startup. I have yet to figure out what is taking so fucking long, since a restore from hibernation only takes 30 seconds or so (2GB of RAM), so it's not like it's having troubles loading everything it needs into RAM. And it's not caching a bunch of shit to the paging file, because I don't have one (with 2GB of RAM, I don't need one, even with Firefox running all morning).
I'm about 80% of the way through a fresh install on a new (bigger) HD, and it takes about 10 seconds. I wish I had a way to see what thread is accessing the HD, like I get with the processor list in the task manager.
I think the OP means to unhack your iphone before the update. The danger is that a bricked iphone cannot be accessed, and therefore un-bricked. There are ways to unbrick phones, but they are not always successful. I'm not familiar with most of them as I've never bricked my TyTN (nor would I want to).
Vinnie and Guido never really make money by breaking kneecaps, even with the local clinic's protection money kick backs. It's all about keeping the people in line - a cost of doing business, of you will. Just because they get caught falling down drunk with a couple of hookers is no reason to fire them. Unless they start missing kneecaps they're so sauced. Then you can either cut them loose, or figure out a way for them to do their jobs while falling-down drunk, or figure out how to keep them off the sauce during work hours. The latter two are likely more efficient, since training loyal thugs is so damned expensive these days.
You're going to purchase the pre-ripped and tagged version of the album, they're throwing out the "distribution costs" that aren't applicable, and you're mad they're not giving you a better deal?
This is what most people have been asking for: DRM-free, downloadable tunes that are priced without the distribution overhead.
I suspect you won't be happy until it's free. I hope you enjoy leeching the new Britney Spears album off of Bittorrent.
I can't tell the difference between a 256kb MP3 and a FLAC. I've done the ABX, and my threshold on good equipment is somewhere in the 224 range, give or take a bit depending on the program. That said, I can usually tell the difference between a 256mp3->128kbmp4 and a FLAC->128kbmp4. Bad experience with past formats made me re-rip my entire collection to FLAC. Those are my "masters" and I recode to the format-of-the-hour (on the fly to my portable with media monkey) for use on the road.
I like the Amazon store, and I'm pretty likely to use it. I'd be happier if they offered FLAC. Hell, any uncompressed would be okay, since I'd just transcode to FLAC, but getting it native would be nice.
I haven't seen a really good tether boost that (a) didn't use a massive body to boost a smaller one and (b) was more reliable than chemical propulsion. I don't remember the numbers, but tethers from booster stages weren't much more reliable after low orbit insertion than sending up a chemical rocket. And I was personally involved in the safety board ugliness which surrounded an attempt to fly a tether-boosted satellite from MSFC on the shuttle.
Really? Most places the IT leads suggest the proper equipment and software, and management generally approves or denies the purchase. The good managers do, at least. The lousy ones have some hidden agenda or pet software they think they need. You're not working for lousy managers, are you?
If IT can't let a system coast for a week without a major failure, there's a serious problem with what is going on. Granted, if you leave for a week, you'll probably have a full voicemail box, but - hey - so will the manager. The smart ones will delete all the messages, knowing that most of them cancel out, and the people with really important issues will call back. (Okay, that's not really true...though I once had a manager who thought that way. Taught you not to leave long voicemail messages, though!)
And you couldn't just shoot it out the back of the parent spacecraft to impart the required delta-V to de-orbit? I haven't run the numbers*, but it seems a good bit more reliable than a long tether. Tethers have a nasty habit of doing bad things in space, where forward is up, backwards is down, and anything to the side comes back to hit you half and orbit later.
*Yes, I have taken space guidance and navigation courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level. Thanks for asking.
If management is good, then being gone for a week and everything functioning well during that time reflects well on their ability manage efficiently.
If your IT system is so fragile that being gone for a week leads to major failures, then you're not doing a very good job at...wait for it...managing your systems. You shouldn't have to be on your systems 24/7 just to make them work. If that's the case, then something wrong is going on.
You can hack your Tivo, and there has been some (backhanded) help from Tivo insiders to do so. You can make it do all sorts of wonderful things that Tivo did not intend, or were to litigation averse to embed in the system. Thing is, when Tivo updates the boxes you lose all your hacks. The community realized this and created a workaround that prevented automatic updates. Then they get the new software update, sifted through it, and either provided new hacks or a customized update to work with existing hacks.
I don't own an iPhone - I have a cingy 8525. I have flashed it to a not-quite-released WM6 firmware. If I want the latest and greatest approved stuff from AT&T, I need to load their software (though it does not appear to affect my unlock status...but it could). If I don't want the updated goodness, I don't update. My DTivo is about 3-4 minor updates behind, and before the last update I was a major upgrade behind. I'm not willing to lose my TiVo hacks for a couple bells and whistles (proper DST...which could be an issue coming up here...and folders).
If the firmware upgrades are "forced", those with hacked phones need to either code a workaround to avoid the updates or just suck it up.
This law puts IT workers back with blue collar workers. Your g/f (right!) is not required to get OT pay. Period. Engineers are universally considered exempt employees. Nurses may or may not be specifically exempt, but the market is such that they can walk at any moment and get a job somewhere else.
Make IT workers really hard to find (like nurses), and you'll see a shift. There are too many hacks out there, though, and no real state-regulated certification process (like nurses, accountants, engineers, doctors, etc.), so there will always be a glut of IT hacks available that you'll need to compete with.
You'll probably also notice that the best and brightest in just about every field will find a job where overtime is compensated. Those who have the wherewithal to compete will get the better benefits. If you're just taking what's available, you may not get your best compensation package.
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Oh, shit, I'm sorry. I just went and read the article. I didn't know that they would actually spend over two weeks running content on the speakers to "break them in." It was a joke - I swear - and was based on some goofy audio nut I read on a newsgroup over a decade ago.
FTFA:
I was sent a 4-foot single run pair and after a short break-in (Adam suggested that the break-in is minimal, but even so I gave them 48 hours on the Cable Cooker and good two-weeks 24/7 of music prior to the audition)
You must not have broken them in. While many prefer to break in their cables for a week or two using the preferred content, I find that the best uniform results occur with a volume-modulated version of pink noise for 10 days. Once that's done (and it only needs to be done once) you can sub-condition for yuor content. For example, if I'm going to listen to classical, I'll run some recordings by the same composer and orchestra for a day or two first. Afterwards, I'll cleanse the path with at least 4 hours of pink noise before either changing composer or orchestra. I prefer 12 hours or more of pink noise if I'm going to switch to jazz or rock.
You see, by not properly conditioning your cables, you made a mockery of the entire double blind test. These are sensitive, precision pieces of equipment, and can't simply be handled the way zip cord can.
You'll have to excuse me now, it seems my tongue has seriously bruised my left cheek.
No, there would have been no useful testimony extracted by the defense. Sherman is not an expert in the accounting systems, financial records, or contractual agreements of the member corporations. None of that would be information he could be expected to know, or to provide in any detail under a cross examination.
He would really only be qualified to answer questions about the organization and its projects in general forms. About the best you could do would be to get him to admit that he hasn't any data on the sales of music due to increased publicity from filesharing. It was alleged that such marketing was occuring in the recently leaked emails, but I'm sure he would claim no knowledge.
No, it's best that a propaganda witness was not allowed to testify.
Actually, I would say that it indicates to males that you have a higher social status and are more likely to successfully compete with them over females, thus reducing the chance that you will have direct competition when a female does arrive. I don't think females care about the cost of your cable (ahem).
As to gauge and length of your cable, as long as it is adequate for the purpose, I've heard that the type of performance is far more important. In general larger cables, of course, can be used over a wider dynamic range without drop outs. We're still talking about wires, right?
It is, sort of. The fineness of the strand is probably more important than the number of 9s behind the decimal in the purity (I'm thinking of frequency responsce and, um, skin effect?, but I'm not even sure if 16-20kHz enters into that realm). Still, there are definitely limits to human hearing, and now that I'm pushing 40 those limits seem all to obvious. I bought OFC wire for my home theater I just built primarily because it was cheaper (at the same gauge) than locally available zip cord. When I wanted to run a headphone jack, about 60' from the amp, I went out and bought a 75' long, 16 gauge grounded extension cord and popped off the ends. Nice stranded copper and to conductors plus ground, for about $7. Now, I don't have the opportunity to A-B that setup, but it sounds excellent on my MDR-V6 cans.
Oh, come on, you don't get an opportunity like this every day!
It's a model rocket - a big, complex, expensive model rocket. It will go straight up (provided it stays intact) and return via parachute. I think the X-wing actuation is just a fun gimmick. These guys size stuff for safe recovery all the time. Barring an actual equipment failure, which does occur occasionally, it should be recovered and be able to fly again.
I presume they'll be using Aerotech, but I'm curious what impulse level they're planning. At the take off weight, this is going to need some serious thrust. I'm not a high-power guy but a casual BAR (born-again rocketeer); I build and fly black-powder based models with my 5 year old, and just got my first composite mid-power kit airborne last week. Back in my day, mid/high power didn't even exist, as far as I know - the Estes D was the "big one". Those are little engines nowadays.
As for those asking "Why?" the answer is simple - because they can. Model rocketry is fun, and a bit of a show-off hobby (like many others). I don't have the spare change to go out and drop 4 figures on a big rocket, and then several hundred per flight on the propulsion. All depends on your priorities and what makes your nipples hard.
I hope it flies well and has a safe recovery. It's neat to see the hobby get some legs; it's one of those applied-science areas that kids can get involved in that's also a lot of fun.
My water and sewer system, and the system in all the places I've lived, work pretty darned well. I'd be happy with management like that.
See, here's your problem: Pollution is taken care of by the natural processes for most all of the earth. Humans have caused two problems: (1) there are too many of us by a factor of about 100 (maybe 1000, depending on your ideals) and (2) the ways we have found ways to support that overpopulation generally require stirring up old pollution which has been "processed" already (i.e.: digging stuff up and re-dispersing it).
In a way it's sort of a vicious cycle - the more people to support, the more intensive we are to provide that support, which increases both the direct and indirect pollution we cause.
In a balanced world, we would get up with the sun and go to bed with the sun; you wouldn't need intense lighting after dark. Those who live in the extreme north and south should move to a more temperate area. That's great, except that there are too many of us to do that (that overpopulation thing again).
By the way - if someone from US congress or administration is reading...your new DST is an utterly useless waste of time. Thanks to the new DST, I spend an extra hour in the morning with the lights on, and an hour less an night. Good call on saving energy. Not. More like a good waste of time and effort to change the date.
That would require the politicians to grow a backbone, and simply won't happen. But yes, physical plant should be maintained by an entirely separate entity - ideally a semi-governmental one, though one with tight regulatory and price control would be acceptable (think of your water and sewer service as a good example).
Of course, if that were the case you might argue that satellites should be the same. Then again, if we had public physical plants, we probably wouldn't need satellite to have competition!
Better yet, drop $100 on an annual subscription. Over 5 years, your chances are better of winning the big one, and it takes a lot less work and cash outlay.
(Feel free to keep taking your chance on software, just don't count on hitting it big any more than you do with the lotto. The odds really are against you.)
Math, physics, and biology are not fundamentals of engineering. They are prerequisites. Olin may succeed if their graduates have all these extras along with a very sound technical course. Sadly, most colleges can't even graduate kids with all the technical they need. Many believe that a MS should be the minimum required, along with 4 years of experience, to be licensed as a Professional Engineer. (Which suggests that Olin, if they are suggesting engineers open their own firms immediately, care nothing about professional engineers - as you cannot get your PE right out of school) The body of knowledge for engineers has increased dramatically over the years, and in the practical engineering fields the body of knowledge is only the start of an education.
I'd suggest that Olin is for folks who are really business people who want to do something associated with engineering. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I haven't quite figured it out, but my HD runs just about continuously for about 2.5 minutes after I log in. I even get a message that I don't have my firewall turned on because there is such a lag in the startup. I have yet to figure out what is taking so fucking long, since a restore from hibernation only takes 30 seconds or so (2GB of RAM), so it's not like it's having troubles loading everything it needs into RAM. And it's not caching a bunch of shit to the paging file, because I don't have one (with 2GB of RAM, I don't need one, even with Firefox running all morning).
I'm about 80% of the way through a fresh install on a new (bigger) HD, and it takes about 10 seconds. I wish I had a way to see what thread is accessing the HD, like I get with the processor list in the task manager.
I think the OP means to unhack your iphone before the update. The danger is that a bricked iphone cannot be accessed, and therefore un-bricked. There are ways to unbrick phones, but they are not always successful. I'm not familiar with most of them as I've never bricked my TyTN (nor would I want to).
Vinnie and Guido never really make money by breaking kneecaps, even with the local clinic's protection money kick backs. It's all about keeping the people in line - a cost of doing business, of you will. Just because they get caught falling down drunk with a couple of hookers is no reason to fire them. Unless they start missing kneecaps they're so sauced. Then you can either cut them loose, or figure out a way for them to do their jobs while falling-down drunk, or figure out how to keep them off the sauce during work hours. The latter two are likely more efficient, since training loyal thugs is so damned expensive these days.
Wouldn't this make for prior art? Or at least give credence to any future obviousness claim.
You're going to purchase the pre-ripped and tagged version of the album, they're throwing out the "distribution costs" that aren't applicable, and you're mad they're not giving you a better deal?
This is what most people have been asking for: DRM-free, downloadable tunes that are priced without the distribution overhead.
I suspect you won't be happy until it's free. I hope you enjoy leeching the new Britney Spears album off of Bittorrent.
...I'll respond.
I can't tell the difference between a 256kb MP3 and a FLAC. I've done the ABX, and my threshold on good equipment is somewhere in the 224 range, give or take a bit depending on the program. That said, I can usually tell the difference between a 256mp3->128kbmp4 and a FLAC->128kbmp4. Bad experience with past formats made me re-rip my entire collection to FLAC. Those are my "masters" and I recode to the format-of-the-hour (on the fly to my portable with media monkey) for use on the road.
I like the Amazon store, and I'm pretty likely to use it. I'd be happier if they offered FLAC. Hell, any uncompressed would be okay, since I'd just transcode to FLAC, but getting it native would be nice.
I haven't seen a really good tether boost that (a) didn't use a massive body to boost a smaller one and (b) was more reliable than chemical propulsion. I don't remember the numbers, but tethers from booster stages weren't much more reliable after low orbit insertion than sending up a chemical rocket. And I was personally involved in the safety board ugliness which surrounded an attempt to fly a tether-boosted satellite from MSFC on the shuttle.
Really? Most places the IT leads suggest the proper equipment and software, and management generally approves or denies the purchase. The good managers do, at least. The lousy ones have some hidden agenda or pet software they think they need. You're not working for lousy managers, are you?
If IT can't let a system coast for a week without a major failure, there's a serious problem with what is going on. Granted, if you leave for a week, you'll probably have a full voicemail box, but - hey - so will the manager. The smart ones will delete all the messages, knowing that most of them cancel out, and the people with really important issues will call back. (Okay, that's not really true...though I once had a manager who thought that way. Taught you not to leave long voicemail messages, though!)
And you couldn't just shoot it out the back of the parent spacecraft to impart the required delta-V to de-orbit? I haven't run the numbers*, but it seems a good bit more reliable than a long tether. Tethers have a nasty habit of doing bad things in space, where forward is up, backwards is down, and anything to the side comes back to hit you half and orbit later.
*Yes, I have taken space guidance and navigation courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level. Thanks for asking.
If management is good, then being gone for a week and everything functioning well during that time reflects well on their ability manage efficiently.
If your IT system is so fragile that being gone for a week leads to major failures, then you're not doing a very good job at...wait for it...managing your systems. You shouldn't have to be on your systems 24/7 just to make them work. If that's the case, then something wrong is going on.
You can hack your Tivo, and there has been some (backhanded) help from Tivo insiders to do so. You can make it do all sorts of wonderful things that Tivo did not intend, or were to litigation averse to embed in the system. Thing is, when Tivo updates the boxes you lose all your hacks. The community realized this and created a workaround that prevented automatic updates. Then they get the new software update, sifted through it, and either provided new hacks or a customized update to work with existing hacks.
I don't own an iPhone - I have a cingy 8525. I have flashed it to a not-quite-released WM6 firmware. If I want the latest and greatest approved stuff from AT&T, I need to load their software (though it does not appear to affect my unlock status...but it could). If I don't want the updated goodness, I don't update. My DTivo is about 3-4 minor updates behind, and before the last update I was a major upgrade behind. I'm not willing to lose my TiVo hacks for a couple bells and whistles (proper DST...which could be an issue coming up here...and folders).
If the firmware upgrades are "forced", those with hacked phones need to either code a workaround to avoid the updates or just suck it up.
This law puts IT workers back with blue collar workers. Your g/f (right!) is not required to get OT pay. Period. Engineers are universally considered exempt employees. Nurses may or may not be specifically exempt, but the market is such that they can walk at any moment and get a job somewhere else.
Make IT workers really hard to find (like nurses), and you'll see a shift. There are too many hacks out there, though, and no real state-regulated certification process (like nurses, accountants, engineers, doctors, etc.), so there will always be a glut of IT hacks available that you'll need to compete with.
You'll probably also notice that the best and brightest in just about every field will find a job where overtime is compensated. Those who have the wherewithal to compete will get the better benefits. If you're just taking what's available, you may not get your best compensation package.