In the 70's, I worked briefly for a high end audio store. The buzz at that time was that America would adopt high end stereos in a craze. What they didn't see coming was the portability trend. A few years later, there were boom boxes and Sony Walkman players and its been portability ever since. High end audio is now relegated to a few very rich and very crazy individuals. Another lesson in how technology geeks guessed wrong!
I remember discussing sex with my playmates (no pun intended) as early as five years old. By the time I was six, it was a raging discussion. The concept that children are traumatized by the very idea of sex is just bizarre to me. Do we suddenly become qualified to deal with it at age 13 years, 3 months and 6 days? I think that as children, the kids in our neighborhood were especially inclined to discuss sex with each other, because they knew they couldn't discuss it with their parents.
The physicist Maxwell developed a similar process, but he didn't dedicate a lot of time to using it. I bought Prokudin-Gorskii's book back in the 80's when I was a grad student in Russian studies. His achievements were truly remarkable. It is our good luck that Tsar Nichols II commissioned the photographer to chronicle scenes from around the Russian Empire.
As for Kodachrome, we shouldn't forget that the first process was developed by two classical musicians who dabbled in chemistry on the side. Much of their pioneering work was done in a closet. They were well on their way when Kodak heard about them and gave them a laboratory to work in.
These may be fine for covering the middle to high end of the audible range, but to create bass sounds, you need to move lots of air. These speakers won't be able to do that. I also think that "roll-up" speakers will have irregularities in the sound-generating surface that will distort the sound. So, it's a cool idea, but only for very low-end audio.
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Why back in my day, we had to enter computer commands into a stone tablet!! That's the way it was and we liked it!
In the 70's, I worked briefly for a high end audio store. The buzz at that time was that America would adopt high end stereos in a craze. What they didn't see coming was the portability trend. A few years later, there were boom boxes and Sony Walkman players and its been portability ever since. High end audio is now relegated to a few very rich and very crazy individuals. Another lesson in how technology geeks guessed wrong!
I remember discussing sex with my playmates (no pun intended) as early as five years old. By the time I was six, it was a raging discussion. The concept that children are traumatized by the very idea of sex is just bizarre to me. Do we suddenly become qualified to deal with it at age 13 years, 3 months and 6 days? I think that as children, the kids in our neighborhood were especially inclined to discuss sex with each other, because they knew they couldn't discuss it with their parents.
The physicist Maxwell developed a similar process, but he didn't dedicate a lot of time to using it. I bought Prokudin-Gorskii's book back in the 80's when I was a grad student in Russian studies. His achievements were truly remarkable. It is our good luck that Tsar Nichols II commissioned the photographer to chronicle scenes from around the Russian Empire.
As for Kodachrome, we shouldn't forget that the first process was developed by two classical musicians who dabbled in chemistry on the side. Much of their pioneering work was done in a closet. They were well on their way when Kodak heard about them and gave them a laboratory to work in.
These may be fine for covering the middle to high end of the audible range, but to create bass sounds, you need to move lots of air. These speakers won't be able to do that. I also think that "roll-up" speakers will have irregularities in the sound-generating surface that will distort the sound. So, it's a cool idea, but only for very low-end audio.
Hooray for Gnutella! And an even bigger hooray for LimeWire, for updating the client and making it viable again.
But what about the Nubile Morons?