He said "high-end receivers". Clearly, there's a whole market above the typical home all-in-one receiver - true top-end separates can cost a couple of orders of magnitude more than anything Onkyo makes. But in the "normal-people" market, yes, I think Onkyo makes pretty decent stuff. (And for "normal people with more money", there's the Integra line which competes against the Sony ES and Pioneer Elite stuff.) I've owned Onkyo equipment since back in college, and I've never had a component fail or deliver anything less than good sound. (And I used to beat on my gear, let me tell you.)
Murder... life in prison or death (by state) Grand theft auto... 10 years Ass[a]ult and battery... 5 years Theft... 3 years ( -1 year for good behavior) Throwing eggs or spray painting a building... 6 months - 2 years Hacking a computer a[nd] defacing a web site... 20 years?????
Does that make sen[s]e????
What doesn't make sense isn't that the penalty for black-hattery is so long, but that the penalties for those other crimes are so screwed up. 5 years for physically harming a human being, but 10 years for stealing a car? What's with that? IMO we'd all be a lot better off if penalties for violent crimes were increased, and the penalties for victimless crimes (drug use, gambling, etc.) were reduced.
A simple experiment: put your hand in 212 degree hot air. Then put your hand in 212 degree hot (i.e. boiling) water. After that, hold a 212 degree hot metal bar in your hand. Then tell me which material has better thermal conductivity.
Wouldn't this have as much to do with specific heat as with conductivity? Water has a very high specific heat relative to air; therefore, a given volume of water at 100C contains much more thermal energy than the same volume of air, regardless of how well that heat is conducted through the medium.
Hasn't happened yet, but it's the truth. The problem is that everyone wants a college degree anyway, so anyone looking to work in the programming industry thinks "Computer Science"...
At least part of the problem there, IMO, is that too few schools offer programs in Software Engineering. Not just programming (although programming is cerntainly a big part of it), and not the math-intensive curriculum that usually goes with a CS degree, but how to be a software engineer - understanding a customer's problem, determining requirements, specifications, how to design a software system (rather than the relatively small monolithic programs one often writes in CS courses), how to write code that is readable, robust, and maintanable, how to test, how to work on a team, how to manage the lifecycle of a piece of software, etc.
My own CS program (at Polytechnic University, subject of a recent/. thread) taught none of these things (and I'd imagine quite a few CS-not-SE programs out there are the same in this regard); I learned them (and am still learning them, twelve years later) the hard way, on my own and on the job.
Err, I hate to rain on your parade but you can walk into any phone store in Europe and buy a tri-band phone on a choice of networks that will work virtually anywhere in the world (including the US).
Um, I hate to rain on your parade but I can do the same thing in the US. My tri-band (800 analog, 900/1900 GSM) phone works just fine in Europe.
If you're going to credit Tim Berners-Lee (and I'm not saying we shouldn't), then we should also credit Vannevar Bush, whose "Memex" concept is the spiritual father of the Web.
My 1999 Passat gets 150HP, where as the TT gets 225HP (it also has some other features that improve power too, including IIRC a second turbo). I can chip it for an extra 40HP. This is considered pretty safe and within spec for the components (which are also shared with the Audis).
Careful there - I believe the 150HP 1.8Ts used a smaller turbo; the turbo was enlarged starting with the first 170HP engines and has, IIRC, been the same on all 1.8Ts (170/180/225) since then.
OK, I know... racing tracks, Autobahn etc. I've noticed that most cars seem to be capped at 250-270 km/h (155-170 mph)
AIUI, the larger German auto manufacturers (Porsche appears to be exempt) have a "gentleman's agreement" with the government that they will limit their cars to 250 km/h (155 mph), in exchange for which the government will not impose speed limits on the Autobahnen. For instance, IIRC the new Maybach 57 is limited to 155 mph, but according to a recent Car & Driver article, if the limiter were disabled, the car would max out at nearly 180. (Holy kinetic energy, Batman!)
Hence, Apple, seemingly the only company that doesn't subscribe to that train of thought, is the top computer manufacturer... And yet Dell, HP, et al, just don't see past the $10 they saved.
Huh? Have you ever actually owned or used a Dell? I have; several of them. They're dead silent - no noise whatsoever. I have no idea what you're talking about here.
No[r]th American Capitalism *IS* Capitalism, dont confuse welfare states with private ownership of goods with capitalism.
...but, um, the US, Canada, and Mexico are welfare states that "graciously" allow private ownership of goods. "North American capitalism" is most certainly not capitalism (i.e. presumption of freedom plus protection of rights plus non-initiation of force), in the true sense.
Universe is about 15 000 000 000 years old. If habitable planets are common then there has to be much older races than we are. Let's say that one of those races is capable of space traveling and it takes 1000 years for that race to spread from planet to another.
That's if they chose to spread. Maybe they're too busy playing the local equivalent of GTA3.
If you could make a fractal-surfaced object that exactly matched the surface of your fridge, it wouldn't have to be magnetic, as long as it had enough surface area - there'd be no air between the object and the fridge, and air pressure would hold it in place.
Yes it is a terribly big deal. The point is that it is discriminatory to foreign students. If it meant background checks for everyone involved, there would be no points of contention, but the idea that only foreigners pose a security threat is absurd.
It seems to me that half of/. gets upset about the notion of the government running security investigations on American citizens. Meanwhile, the other half get upset about the government not running investigations on American citizens. Which is it to be, folks?
That's stupid. Most fraternities are just a bunch of retarded jocks who aren't secure enough to live by themselves. They need to join a group of other retards who are also scared to be independent.
In the U.S., the partying buffoons are allowed to expose themselves, have a good time, burn out, and eventually become used-car dealers and fast-food restaurant managers
You Americans swear by the capitalist system, but when the simple fact of an over-supply of 'engineers' causes the market to collapse, you insist the problem is elsewhere.
I swear by the capitalist system, I graduated Poly, and I still have a job that pays very well, thank you. Yes, the present problem is due to a glut of engineers, attracted by fat salaries and easy employment back in the '80s and '90s. Now, the market is correcting itself, and will even out eventually. So what? It's not as if central planners are any better at this sort of thing than the laws of supply and demand are. In either system, those who are capable keep their jobs, while those who are not lose theirs.
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He said "high-end receivers". Clearly, there's a whole market above the typical home all-in-one receiver - true top-end separates can cost a couple of orders of magnitude more than anything Onkyo makes. But in the "normal-people" market, yes, I think Onkyo makes pretty decent stuff. (And for "normal people with more money", there's the Integra line which competes against the Sony ES and Pioneer Elite stuff.) I've owned Onkyo equipment since back in college, and I've never had a component fail or deliver anything less than good sound. (And I used to beat on my gear, let me tell you.)
Murder ... life in prison or death (by state) ... 10 years ... 5 years ... 3 years ( -1 year for good behavior) ... 6 months - 2 years ... 20 years?????
Grand theft auto
Ass[a]ult and battery
Theft
Throwing eggs or spray painting a building
Hacking a computer a[nd] defacing a web site
Does that make sen[s]e????
What doesn't make sense isn't that the penalty for black-hattery is so long, but that the penalties for those other crimes are so screwed up. 5 years for physically harming a human being, but 10 years for stealing a car? What's with that? IMO we'd all be a lot better off if penalties for violent crimes were increased, and the penalties for victimless crimes (drug use, gambling, etc.) were reduced.
A simple experiment: put your hand in 212 degree hot air. Then put your hand in 212 degree hot (i.e. boiling) water. After that, hold a 212 degree hot metal bar in your hand. Then tell me which material has better thermal conductivity.
Wouldn't this have as much to do with specific heat as with conductivity? Water has a very high specific heat relative to air; therefore, a given volume of water at 100C contains much more thermal energy than the same volume of air, regardless of how well that heat is conducted through the medium.
Hasn't happened yet, but it's the truth. The problem is that everyone wants a college degree anyway, so anyone looking to work in the programming industry thinks "Computer Science"...
At least part of the problem there, IMO, is that too few schools offer programs in Software Engineering. Not just programming (although programming is cerntainly a big part of it), and not the math-intensive curriculum that usually goes with a CS degree, but how to be a software engineer - understanding a customer's problem, determining requirements, specifications, how to design a software system (rather than the relatively small monolithic programs one often writes in CS courses), how to write code that is readable, robust, and maintanable, how to test, how to work on a team, how to manage the lifecycle of a piece of software, etc.
My own CS program (at Polytechnic University, subject of a recent /. thread) taught none of these things (and I'd imagine quite a few CS-not-SE programs out there are the same in this regard); I learned them (and am still learning them, twelve years later) the hard way, on my own and on the job.
Fuck off-topic and fuck karma.
Are we a Tool fan, by chance? ;-)
Does your head warm up when you're on the phone? Yes.
I have only found this to be the case when I'm on analog - never happens on a digital call.
Err, I hate to rain on your parade but you can walk into any phone store in Europe and buy a tri-band phone on a choice of networks that will work virtually anywhere in the world (including the US).
Um, I hate to rain on your parade but I can do the same thing in the US. My tri-band (800 analog, 900/1900 GSM) phone works just fine in Europe.
If you're going to credit Tim Berners-Lee (and I'm not saying we shouldn't), then we should also credit Vannevar Bush, whose "Memex" concept is the spiritual father of the Web.
My 1999 Passat gets 150HP, where as the TT gets 225HP (it also has some other features that improve power too, including IIRC a second turbo). I can chip it for an extra 40HP. This is considered pretty safe and within spec for the components (which are also shared with the Audis).
Careful there - I believe the 150HP 1.8Ts used a smaller turbo; the turbo was enlarged starting with the first 170HP engines and has, IIRC, been the same on all 1.8Ts (170/180/225) since then.
OK, I know... racing tracks, Autobahn etc. I've noticed that most cars seem to be capped at 250-270 km/h (155-170 mph)
AIUI, the larger German auto manufacturers (Porsche appears to be exempt) have a "gentleman's agreement" with the government that they will limit their cars to 250 km/h (155 mph), in exchange for which the government will not impose speed limits on the Autobahnen. For instance, IIRC the new Maybach 57 is limited to 155 mph, but according to a recent Car & Driver article, if the limiter were disabled, the car would max out at nearly 180. (Holy kinetic energy, Batman!)
Is the new plug shaped like a little Apple-with-bite-missing?
Hence, Apple, seemingly the only company that doesn't subscribe to that train of thought, is the top computer manufacturer... And yet Dell, HP, et al, just don't see past the $10 they saved.
Huh? Have you ever actually owned or used a Dell? I have; several of them. They're dead silent - no noise whatsoever. I have no idea what you're talking about here.
No[r]th American Capitalism *IS* Capitalism, dont confuse welfare states with private ownership of goods with capitalism.
...but, um, the US, Canada, and Mexico are welfare states that "graciously" allow private ownership of goods. "North American capitalism" is most certainly not capitalism (i.e. presumption of freedom plus protection of rights plus non-initiation of force), in the true sense.
CATS?!?! Oh no!!!!
All your wall outlet are belong to us. HA HA HA...
Actually, I thought it was the frequent laser scanning that was slowly eating his face away...
Universe is about 15 000 000 000 years old. If habitable planets are common then there has to be much older races than we are. Let's say that one of those races is capable of space traveling and it takes 1000 years for that race to spread from planet to another.
That's if they chose to spread. Maybe they're too busy playing the local equivalent of GTA3.
Like just how many rads that 19" monitor is blasting into your little soldiers...
I've got LCD, baby! Nyah, nyah! (Sorry - I just got it two days ago, and I'm still tingling... ;-)
If you could make a fractal-surfaced object that exactly matched the surface of your fridge, it wouldn't have to be magnetic, as long as it had enough surface area - there'd be no air between the object and the fridge, and air pressure would hold it in place.
Yes it is a terribly big deal. The point is that it is discriminatory to foreign students. If it meant background checks for everyone involved, there would be no points of contention, but the idea that only foreigners pose a security threat is absurd.
It seems to me that half of /. gets upset about the notion of the government running security investigations on American citizens. Meanwhile, the other half get upset about the government not running investigations on American citizens. Which is it to be, folks?
That's stupid. Most fraternities are just a bunch of retarded jocks who aren't secure enough to live by themselves. They need to join a group of other retards who are also scared to be independent.
Washed out, didja?
In the U.S., the partying buffoons are allowed to expose themselves, have a good time, burn out, and eventually become used-car dealers and fast-food restaurant managers
...or President of the United States, even.
Must you be so... so... so damn British?
So who can guess where we will be 20 years from now? Wide scale broadband using IPv6? Small scale super broadband using an IP replacement?
I don't know exactly what technologies will be in use, but I'll bet someone figures how to do 3D interactive porn over the 'Net by then.
But, come on - surely the integrity of the remaining plant has been at least somewhat compromised by the meltdown?
You Americans swear by the capitalist system, but when the simple fact of an over-supply of 'engineers' causes the market to collapse, you insist the problem is elsewhere.
I swear by the capitalist system, I graduated Poly, and I still have a job that pays very well, thank you. Yes, the present problem is due to a glut of engineers, attracted by fat salaries and easy employment back in the '80s and '90s. Now, the market is correcting itself, and will even out eventually. So what? It's not as if central planners are any better at this sort of thing than the laws of supply and demand are. In either system, those who are capable keep their jobs, while those who are not lose theirs.