One of my favorite amps is my 40 year old Marantz 8b and and 38 year old Tannoys. Just a volume knob and a good music source. My diy daily-driver amp is perhaps 6w and folks are generally surprised it's not a lot of power.
Most folks don't use much more than 1w for normal listening. In any case, the speakers matter far more than the amplifier as far as sound quality goes.
A very important note to keep in mind... stay away from hardware RAID! When your controller dies, so does all your data, unless you have an identical spare controller card (buy it up front, they won't exist in a couple years).
That's just plain wrong. Using RAID 1, your data is fine, not matter what controller you use. It may be a pain to extract, but your statement is misleading. Recovery does become more difficult if using any other RAID other than a plain mirror.
If recovery is a primary concern then mirror your disk with hardware, and then stitch them together with JBOD if your hardware allows it or with software.
I especially liked Netflix because the Bluray rentals were a steal. I'd expect bluray fanatics to be unfazed. I don't watch enough of anything to pay for a steep increase so I'll be bumping down to streaming only. The kids use it all day, and aren't exposed to the crap advertising. For recent releases I'll use Vudu since my Bluray player supports it.
Actually a film type capacitor can be even more dangerous where they generally have a lower ESR. I have 600uF 500v metallized film caps that would probably blow a hole in the wall if it had a serious internal short.
A cap is a cap either way. I suppose the same danger applies to the battery pack too. Oh well.
Does anyone fail to see the problem of having what would likely be several Farads of high voltage stashed away in the body panels? I would expect if fully charged the capacitors if shorted, in a fender bender or whatever, they would leave little trace that they or anything that touches them ever existed. Just a spot of charred metal and the smell of electrolyte.
And what about the aging of capacitors or capacitor failure? It's certainly exiting when a small capacitor goes POP! Imagine when one of these suckers blow your doors off while you're driving!
That's correct. Although many kids are able to make good decisions it only takes a few knuckleheads to make a very hostile situation. School is for learning not a playground for sociopaths. Freedom of speech is a protected right in the USA. Hateful behavior can be criminal though, and I think it is entirely reasonable for a trusted adult to provide stern guidance about what is not acceptable. You can't expect kids to police themselves when they rarely have the skills to do so.
A server rebuild won't necessarily fix anything. It could be a good recovery strategy, but when you run into a performance or functionality issue who is going to be there to find that and fix it? A rebuild won't help you there. No a good systems administrator probably isn't needed in a "we don't care" one size fits all commodity environment, but you can't expect the same level of service that a skilled professional can provide.
This looks like a scheme to pump up demand for gold. In turn the effect will be even more inflation of gold values. Chances are the folks buying this stuff are knuckle dragging idots who will only loose money playing this game.
There are all sorts of problems with the Monsanto GM products. First of all is that it puts them into position for a near monopoly of the seed market, and could prove devastating to genetic diversity if traditional crops. Then there's the issue of GM crop safety. Do you want to be the guinea pig for this stuff. Yeah. Think cancer.
So what's the big attraction to the Monsanto seeds? They're Round-up (a Monsanto product) proof. That means farmers can dump more herbicide on food crops. Yeah! Great idea!
I'm not 40 yet, but I can attest that I don't have then energy that I used to. Not only that, but I can smell a crap idea earlier that I used to and I'm not afraid to make my opinion known. It does seem to me that a lot of the older folks are rather complacent, but appearances can be deceptive. That old dude who appears to be just idling along is possibly just very efficient. For example, with my experience now, I can do the work that would take two or three of me when I was in my 20's.
There is a perception that older employees are dinosaurs, which I think is wrong. I think it has more to do with shit management that doesn't know how to tap into those resources.
I think we are seeing a glimpse of the future. Here in the USA we've spent a century building infrastructure that nobody appears to want to maintain. A levee breaks, a bridge collapses. The real folks to blame are ourselves for not kicking up a stink the poor state of our country's infrastructure. We should also blame a political system that is only interested in buying votes and getting paid rather than doing what is best for our country. If our politicians understand that infrastructure = votes, then things may change if corruption doesn't get in the way.
Some of your audiophiles will tell you that tube based amplifiers produce less distortion than transistor based models.
The truth is that they often produce MORE distortion, only the distortion that they produce is pleasing to the ear, where as the distortion created by transistor based amps tends to be unpleasant to listen to.
This is a generalization that is rather short sighted and can be proven false. The truth is that BOTH produce distortion. How much depends on the design and the application. A lot of tubeheads refuse to incorporate modern tech into their designs which results in higher distortion which is where this stereotype seems to come from.
The device iBasso D3 uses a TI PCM2706 which is notoriously jittery. They may have gotten better results using a good pro-grade PCI bus sound card and an external DAC using S/PDIF instead. The Beyerdynamic 770 headphones are good, but hardly what I'd consider a good choice for this test. AKG K701's would be better for the job.
In any case the author does make a reasonable point. Using ho-hum equipment returns ho-hum results where folks can't tell the difference. The author refers to audiophiles as mystics who are confused about sound quality. Fact is anyone with scientifically proven equipment that is up to snuff and with a trained ear, can determine the difference and appreciate a higher resolution format.
That right. I would suggest that you line up another job before you notify BSA. Otherwise I would suggest pushing things like OpenOffice as an alternate to getting legit licensing.
I don't understand why folks think that Oracle has something to gain by driving MySQL to failure. If it make money, Oracle will embrace it with open arms. If it doesn't make money, it goes away. Supporting Oracle DB and MySQL under the same roof is great business! It's another stream for revenue for Oracle which is what any business with any smarts wants.
MySQL is open source. Oracle gets branding, not the code. For all intensive purposes Oracle could spin it's own MySQL right now, and call it Oracle MyPL/SQL.
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Uh. Yeah. I think FCC rules prohibit encryption. And we are talking about radio, not wired communications.
You want privacy? Use a phone. Unless you're at a DEFCON gathering.
One of my favorite amps is my 40 year old Marantz 8b and and 38 year old Tannoys. Just a volume knob and a good music source. My diy daily-driver amp is perhaps 6w and folks are generally surprised it's not a lot of power.
Most folks don't use much more than 1w for normal listening. In any case, the speakers matter far more than the amplifier as far as sound quality goes.
A very important note to keep in mind... stay away from hardware RAID! When your controller dies, so does all your data, unless you have an identical spare controller card (buy it up front, they won't exist in a couple years).
That's just plain wrong. Using RAID 1, your data is fine, not matter what controller you use. It may be a pain to extract, but your statement is misleading. Recovery does become more difficult if using any other RAID other than a plain mirror.
If recovery is a primary concern then mirror your disk with hardware, and then stitch them together with JBOD if your hardware allows it or with software.
I especially liked Netflix because the Bluray rentals were a steal. I'd expect bluray fanatics to be unfazed. I don't watch enough of anything to pay for a steep increase so I'll be bumping down to streaming only. The kids use it all day, and aren't exposed to the crap advertising. For recent releases I'll use Vudu since my Bluray player supports it.
Actually a film type capacitor can be even more dangerous where they generally have a lower ESR. I have 600uF 500v metallized film caps that would probably blow a hole in the wall if it had a serious internal short.
A cap is a cap either way. I suppose the same danger applies to the battery pack too. Oh well.
Does anyone fail to see the problem of having what would likely be several Farads of high voltage stashed away in the body panels? I would expect if fully charged the capacitors if shorted, in a fender bender or whatever, they would leave little trace that they or anything that touches them ever existed. Just a spot of charred metal and the smell of electrolyte.
And what about the aging of capacitors or capacitor failure? It's certainly exiting when a small capacitor goes POP! Imagine when one of these suckers blow your doors off while you're driving!
Time to get out the Champagne and celebrate. This doesn't bode well for Pakistan though.
That's correct. Although many kids are able to make good decisions it only takes a few knuckleheads to make a very hostile situation. School is for learning not a playground for sociopaths. Freedom of speech is a protected right in the USA. Hateful behavior can be criminal though, and I think it is entirely reasonable for a trusted adult to provide stern guidance about what is not acceptable. You can't expect kids to police themselves when they rarely have the skills to do so.
A server rebuild won't necessarily fix anything. It could be a good recovery strategy, but when you run into a performance or functionality issue who is going to be there to find that and fix it? A rebuild won't help you there. No a good systems administrator probably isn't needed in a "we don't care" one size fits all commodity environment, but you can't expect the same level of service that a skilled professional can provide.
This looks like a scheme to pump up demand for gold. In turn the effect will be even more inflation of gold values. Chances are the folks buying this stuff are knuckle dragging idots who will only loose money playing this game.
There are all sorts of problems with the Monsanto GM products. First of all is that it puts them into position for a near monopoly of the seed market, and could prove devastating to genetic diversity if traditional crops. Then there's the issue of GM crop safety. Do you want to be the guinea pig for this stuff. Yeah. Think cancer.
So what's the big attraction to the Monsanto seeds? They're Round-up (a Monsanto product) proof. That means farmers can dump more herbicide on food crops. Yeah! Great idea!
I'm not 40 yet, but I can attest that I don't have then energy that I used to. Not only that, but I can smell a crap idea earlier that I used to and I'm not afraid to make my opinion known. It does seem to me that a lot of the older folks are rather complacent, but appearances can be deceptive. That old dude who appears to be just idling along is possibly just very efficient. For example, with my experience now, I can do the work that would take two or three of me when I was in my 20's.
There is a perception that older employees are dinosaurs, which I think is wrong. I think it has more to do with shit management that doesn't know how to tap into those resources.
That sucks. Definitely not going to help sell servers.
Check antennaweb.org to see if your antenna is set up correctly. Indoor antennas suck so you can't complain if that is what you're using.
Looks like a botnet to me yo. What the fella doesn't explain is if that activity was inbound or outbound.
I think we are seeing a glimpse of the future. Here in the USA we've spent a century building infrastructure that nobody appears to want to maintain. A levee breaks, a bridge collapses. The real folks to blame are ourselves for not kicking up a stink the poor state of our country's infrastructure. We should also blame a political system that is only interested in buying votes and getting paid rather than doing what is best for our country. If our politicians understand that infrastructure = votes, then things may change if corruption doesn't get in the way.
Some of your audiophiles will tell you that tube based amplifiers produce less distortion than transistor based models.
The truth is that they often produce MORE distortion, only the distortion that they produce is pleasing to the ear, where as the distortion created by transistor based amps tends to be unpleasant to listen to.
This is a generalization that is rather short sighted and can be proven false. The truth is that BOTH produce distortion. How much depends on the design and the application. A lot of tubeheads refuse to incorporate modern tech into their designs which results in higher distortion which is where this stereotype seems to come from.
The device iBasso D3 uses a TI PCM2706 which is notoriously jittery. They may have gotten better results using a good pro-grade PCI bus sound card and an external DAC using S/PDIF instead. The Beyerdynamic 770 headphones are good, but hardly what I'd consider a good choice for this test. AKG K701's would be better for the job.
In any case the author does make a reasonable point. Using ho-hum equipment returns ho-hum results where folks can't tell the difference. The author refers to audiophiles as mystics who are confused about sound quality. Fact is anyone with scientifically proven equipment that is up to snuff and with a trained ear, can determine the difference and appreciate a higher resolution format.
That right. I would suggest that you line up another job before you notify BSA. Otherwise I would suggest pushing things like OpenOffice as an alternate to getting legit licensing.
I don't understand why folks think that Oracle has something to gain by driving MySQL to failure. If it make money, Oracle will embrace it with open arms. If it doesn't make money, it goes away. Supporting Oracle DB and MySQL under the same roof is great business! It's another stream for revenue for Oracle which is what any business with any smarts wants.
MySQL is open source. Oracle gets branding, not the code. For all intensive purposes Oracle could spin it's own MySQL right now, and call it Oracle MyPL/SQL.
Bunch a EU whiners.
Traffic here is normally awful, but thanks to this it was really bad this morning.
No doubt. Forget how dirty the shower head is. Try swabbing a human. Yucky people.
Would you mess with a house full of trigger happy rednecks? Hell no. That's why nobody has messed with this. It would be suicide.
That's right. I don't understand what is new here aside from marketing spin.