As there's likely no switch before the step up transformer (and quite possibly none at all) some power will always go to making a magnetic field several thousand times a second, despite there being nothing plugged in to load it. Nothing's 100% efficient, damn entropy.
48kHz masters sound like a good thing, but I'm unconvinced they actually are. Assuming the masters use the higher sampling frequency but the same sample size, then the stream will be almost 10% higher bitrate. Which of course means that it must be compressed almost 10% more to bring it down to the 128kbps. Masters with better sample sizes as well only make things worse. Maybe that extra 10% compression isn't noticeable, but it doesn't really sound like an advantage to me.
Macrovision is indeed an exploit of simple-minded AGCs, but is absolutely not itself automatic gain control. Macrovision is analagous to audio cd copy protection that prevents playback in computers by including intentional errors that confuse the error correction hardware/software. It wouldn't be difficult to design a more intelligent AGC that wouldn't be affected by the Macrovision signal, (if nothing else just put a black burst regenerator ahead of it, same as external de-Macrovision boxes do) it just isn't worth the extra money to most consumers or manufacturers.
More importantly, will anybody care what a motivated thief does? When my roomate enlisted my help to free his bike after he lost the key to his U lock, we simply took the jack from his truck and busted the lock off the sign post. In broad daylight, on a street less than a mile from police headquarters, in front of a bar. Maybe one person even noticed us, and certainly nobody said anything like 'What are you doing?' of 'Is that your bike?' People just don't give a damn, and don't want to get involved.
Well, if you really want to be technical, solenoid is synonymous with "cylindrical wound inductor", as you can have inductors of any shape you like. Toroids are the most common after solenoids, but any bit of wire has *some* stray inductance, just like it has some stray capacitance and resistance.
No. Just no. Your ARM doesn't have energy, and the tiny capsule of gears and springs that runs the car cannot tap that non-existant energy. Once the spring has released the energy you put in it by pulling the car back the car coasts until it stops. Were there no friction in the moving parts of the car and no air resistance it would go forever.
Yes, yes it does. Large ones. Although you're not helping by turning up the morph slider, as that *increases* the likelyhood a given song will be played again before every other song on the list has gotten a chance.
No, without a disconnect you will not be the only guy with his lights on durring the black out. You will, however, be the only guy on the block to recieve a visit from an electric company expert skull cracker and solar panel smasher, after a linesman gets cooked working on supposed-to-be dead lines. There is a reason you *must* have an incoming undervolt cutoff to even maybe legally connect your generating equipment to the grid.
Sure you can. You can't just have an operator+() method with an int left-hand-side declared in the Object class definition, that's not how operators work. You can, however, have a global operator with an int LHS and a YourObject RHS, possibly declared friend to YourObject if you need access to its internals. Pretty much the only use for friend I've ever come across...
Oooooh, a whole thousand dollars? The treasury burn s more than that every 10 minutes or something. And I don't mean spends/wastes, that would be a much higher figure. Burns, as in with fire, to destroy bills unfit for circulation.
Bravo, I was begining to think I was the only one who looked at this and though 'security through obscurity'. I don't know the numbers for breakins from inside the network vs outside the network off the top of my head, but I do know that the number of inside jobs is certainly high enough that all the people saying 'but to sniff your network they have to have broken in already' are deluded.
Great link! It never ceases to amaze me that people believe the 'plans were lost' crap. Does they really think that the people who have managed to hold on to the *original* constitution and such for 230+ years can't keep track of some microfilmed blueprints for 40?
My god, I didn't think anyone anywhere actually thought the word was 'mute'. That makes it use in sitcoms more sad than funny. Moot. The word is moot. If the TV is muted, the argument over the volume is moot. There, handy mnemonic device for you, free of charge.
Unless it was a 30' weather ballon full of hydrogen, the other teacher exagerated quite a bit. A party balloon full of even a perfect 2:1 hydrogen-oxygen mix might dislodge some false ceiling tiles, but certainly not deafen anyone, and most definitely not be audible across campus. In intro to chemistry we did the ballons full of gas trick, with students *holding* the balloons on fairly short (~4') strings. None suffered any ill effects, except the one guy who screamed when his balloon popped and got laughed at.
Umm, no. There is no such thing as a 3mm lens, at least not in 35mm photography. Not a whole lot of call for a lens with something like a 300+ degree field of vision. Unless you like including yourself up to the waist in yout photots. A 24mm 8x zoom lens has 24mm as the minimum length, and 192mm as the maximum, which just barely qualifies as a telephoto lens. Further, of course you can get a picture with no bluring from jitter with a 1/2000th shutter speed, no matter how much lens you have. It's quite the nice camera that will even shoot that fast.
Well, not really, since our eyes are *much* more sensitive to green light than blue. Can you honestly say that if you were mugged by Slashdot green that you'd describe it to the police as anything but green?
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The zip disk is not especially good evidence, since bad drives kill disks just as well as bad disks kill drives; That's how the Click of Death spread.
As there's likely no switch before the step up transformer (and quite possibly none at all) some power will always go to making a magnetic field several thousand times a second, despite there being nothing plugged in to load it. Nothing's 100% efficient, damn entropy.
Yup, I sure wish P3s had stuck with good old socket 7. Nothing better than SIMMs.
Simulated power hum would be recreating that old "no chasis grounded" feel, not that old "vaccum tube" feel.
48kHz masters sound like a good thing, but I'm unconvinced they actually are. Assuming the masters use the higher sampling frequency but the same sample size, then the stream will be almost 10% higher bitrate. Which of course means that it must be compressed almost 10% more to bring it down to the 128kbps. Masters with better sample sizes as well only make things worse. Maybe that extra 10% compression isn't noticeable, but it doesn't really sound like an advantage to me.
stories of missionaries (truthful or not) offering food to starving people if they become Christians
Appalling? Yes. New practice? Certainly not. Sword-point conversions were all the rage a few hundred years back.
Macrovision is indeed an exploit of simple-minded AGCs, but is absolutely not itself automatic gain control. Macrovision is analagous to audio cd copy protection that prevents playback in computers by including intentional errors that confuse the error correction hardware/software. It wouldn't be difficult to design a more intelligent AGC that wouldn't be affected by the Macrovision signal, (if nothing else just put a black burst regenerator ahead of it, same as external de-Macrovision boxes do) it just isn't worth the extra money to most consumers or manufacturers.
More importantly, will anybody care what a motivated thief does? When my roomate enlisted my help to free his bike after he lost the key to his U lock, we simply took the jack from his truck and busted the lock off the sign post. In broad daylight, on a street less than a mile from police headquarters, in front of a bar. Maybe one person even noticed us, and certainly nobody said anything like 'What are you doing?' of 'Is that your bike?' People just don't give a damn, and don't want to get involved.
Well, if you really want to be technical, solenoid is synonymous with "cylindrical wound inductor", as you can have inductors of any shape you like. Toroids are the most common after solenoids, but any bit of wire has *some* stray inductance, just like it has some stray capacitance and resistance.
No. Just no. Your ARM doesn't have energy, and the tiny capsule of gears and springs that runs the car cannot tap that non-existant energy. Once the spring has released the energy you put in it by pulling the car back the car coasts until it stops. Were there no friction in the moving parts of the car and no air resistance it would go forever.
Yes, yes it does. Large ones. Although you're not helping by turning up the morph slider, as that *increases* the likelyhood a given song will be played again before every other song on the list has gotten a chance.
Rare and expensive eh? Funny, Tower Reccords had a whole rack of Ben-Hur on dual sided dual layered dvds for the low low price of $19.95.
No, without a disconnect you will not be the only guy with his lights on durring the black out. You will, however, be the only guy on the block to recieve a visit from an electric company expert skull cracker and solar panel smasher, after a linesman gets cooked working on supposed-to-be dead lines. There is a reason you *must* have an incoming undervolt cutoff to even maybe legally connect your generating equipment to the grid.
Sure you can. You can't just have an operator+() method with an int left-hand-side declared in the Object class definition, that's not how operators work. You can, however, have a global operator with an int LHS and a YourObject RHS, possibly declared friend to YourObject if you need access to its internals. Pretty much the only use for friend I've ever come across...
A) Pronounced lead? It's an acronym, you say each letter, L-E-D.
B) In all likelyhood the leads on your LED are made of lead and then tinned for easier soldering.
Oooooh, a whole thousand dollars? The treasury burn s more than that every 10 minutes or something. And I don't mean spends/wastes, that would be a much higher figure. Burns, as in with fire, to destroy bills unfit for circulation.
Everything conducts if you put enough voltage across it. Big sparks, aka lightning, come from... you guessed it, static charges in the air.
Bullshit. Obviously you've never tried to run AIX-compiled java bytecode on aony of the HPUX JREs.
Bravo, I was begining to think I was the only one who looked at this and though 'security through obscurity'. I don't know the numbers for breakins from inside the network vs outside the network off the top of my head, but I do know that the number of inside jobs is certainly high enough that all the people saying 'but to sniff your network they have to have broken in already' are deluded.
Great link! It never ceases to amaze me that people believe the 'plans were lost' crap. Does they really think that the people who have managed to hold on to the *original* constitution and such for 230+ years can't keep track of some microfilmed blueprints for 40?
My god, I didn't think anyone anywhere actually thought the word was 'mute'. That makes it use in sitcoms more sad than funny. Moot. The word is moot. If the TV is muted, the argument over the volume is moot. There, handy mnemonic device for you, free of charge.
Unless it was a 30' weather ballon full of hydrogen, the other teacher exagerated quite a bit. A party balloon full of even a perfect 2:1 hydrogen-oxygen mix might dislodge some false ceiling tiles, but certainly not deafen anyone, and most definitely not be audible across campus. In intro to chemistry we did the ballons full of gas trick, with students *holding* the balloons on fairly short (~4') strings. None suffered any ill effects, except the one guy who screamed when his balloon popped and got laughed at.
Length of footage added in FotR SE: approx. 30 minutes
Length of footage spilled onto second disc of FotR SE: approx. 30 minutes
Change in video bitrate: 0
Umm, no. There is no such thing as a 3mm lens, at least not in 35mm photography. Not a whole lot of call for a lens with something like a 300+ degree field of vision. Unless you like including yourself up to the waist in yout photots. A 24mm 8x zoom lens has 24mm as the minimum length, and 192mm as the maximum, which just barely qualifies as a telephoto lens. Further, of course you can get a picture with no bluring from jitter with a 1/2000th shutter speed, no matter how much lens you have. It's quite the nice camera that will even shoot that fast.
Well, not really, since our eyes are *much* more sensitive to green light than blue. Can you honestly say that if you were mugged by Slashdot green that you'd describe it to the police as anything but green?