You are so incredibly wrong. For proof go to headphone.com and check out the graphs for different headphones, the cheapest unit they carry are like $35 and you can see huge differences between them and even the low end Sennheisers. If you have good hearing and had ever tried a pair you would know what I'm talking about. In fact I prefer my headphones to my home theater with speakers many times more expensive because they more accuratly recreate sound =) Btw my heaphones are aureal or open so they allow sound through and out, I can hold conversations with the music at a medium volume. Btw if the simple membrane thing were true all cone speakers would be identical in performance, they aren't.
And yet somehow on Sept 11th all the cellphones used on airplanes didn't melt down the cell network on the eastern seaboard, oh yeah thats right there is no problem with it because the way CMDA and GSM encoding work, duh.
1)The paranoia is NOT justified, look at the Sept 11th events, tons of people on cellphones on the planes with no problems. If an airplanes electronics are accepting super low power interference from ISM band devices they should be fixed because they will have real problems if they get too close to radar installations.
2)There are several airlines worldwide testing WiFi for in plane access because its hella cheaper than putting ethernet everywhere and they want to recoupe some of the revenue they are losing with business travelers not paying top buck for last minute bookings.
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Umm, no there is a big difference, solid state amps reproduce sounds more exactly but can introduce harsh harmonics, on the other hand tube amps tend to add warm harmonics while distorting. These warm distortions are more pleasing to the ear, of course ideally you would produce zero distortion and get your harmonics from an effects processor =)
Well your first problem is your headphones, they are distorting the crap out of any music source, go get some Sennheisers, they start around $60 for a good pair of open cans. Also if you are using anything but Fraunhoffer or better LAME for mp3 its just not fair. Btw, I've found high range problems with OGG that were not present in my Lame mp3's (I did A,B,C blind tests on a variety of samples and found a couple of problems with OGG which I reported with samples). AAC at 128kbit sounds like trash just like every other codec at 128, get around 200kbps VBR or 256 CBR and thats where the differences start to really show up (ok they show up at the very low end like 90kbps too but I don't even want to think about that)
Um traditional P/E for the NYSE is 19 during non-recession years so I don't know where you are getting 6 from. For two decades of figures see the last page of This pdf, for more historical info search around.
Sounds about right, Cisco and a few others that made piles on the.com boom and didn't piss it to the wind or use it to buy tons of other.coms will probably do well long term. In fact Cisco had a major focus on expanding its lead during these lean years in order to be even bigger once the orders started to ramp up again. Perchance do you know who wrote the article, I want them doing my investments =)
Hate to reply to myself but I decided to do some research and Petzl the guys who make my headlamp (the Zoom, the most popular headlamp around for good reason) have a new product coming out. It's their Myo series and it has an interesting set of features. For the Myo 5 they have two bulbs systems in one lamp, a bright halogen bulb for extremely bright light, but it will only last about 4 hours running on this bulb. They also have a 5 LED array that has 3 settings, normal for most walking, max for quick walking or technical terrain, and a power saving mode for map reading, campsite setup etc. The interesting thing is that in the normal mode it provides ~30 hours of max lighting vs the zooms 20 hours, so for most of my activities 50% better battery life, and it can continue to function at dimished capacity for over 100 hours! All this and the battery pack is only 2/3's the weight. I am sold and will be buying one of these before my next technical trip. Oh yeah and it uses standard AA's so I can share spare batteries with other devices and use high density rechargables to get even better life =)
What about heat output. If you are removing heat from the environment then any watts of heat cost about 4X as many watts of electricity to remove. Plus white led's are much, much more pleasing on the eyes than any fluorescent.
Do any of them throw nearly as much light as a battery operated miners light? If so it would seem to be ideal for spelunking and hiking use. Of course one of my headlights is on its second battery after like 6 years of intermitant use so it's not a huge deal but I always freak about being without power for my headlamp at night as I have had to make two night descents (one was altitude sickness after consuming dinner at base camp where the oxegen use from digesting food worsened the condition and the other was a night hike through the grand canyon where the daytime high was 121 degrees F at Fantom Ranch) so I always carry two spares, but they are darn heavy. I'd love to carry just one spare.
ugh, wonder if we can petition Apple for at least the playlist feature for the next upgrade, it really is my only gripe with my current ipod, I have very eclectic tastes and what I want to listen to varies with my mood so on the fly playlists would make me a much happier camper.
Guess it depends on the format. Using winamp I can output any supported format to wav or mp3 on disk just by switching my output device. I have support for mjuice, wma, and some other "protected" formats. Even if it requires some other format that needs its own player I have a directsound plugin that allows me to redirect a virtual soundcard to wav on disk. This is part of why the media companies want Paladium, general purpose pc's are just too flexible. Of course the solution for Paladium is to record the soundcards output to its input and recording the input, there is some loss of quality due to DAC issues, but not as much as lossy compression already introduces.
hmm, just going by what the Apple site states since the windows version won't be up for a couple weeks. I hope you are missing something as the on the fly playlist support is something that has been bugging me for some time.
The best part is that the 1.3 firmware that includes games, text reader, on the fly playlist creation and some other features will be or is already available for all older iPod users. I love the fact that I bought my digital music player almost a year ago yet it is just getting better and better. Support like this will keep me coming back to Apple, now if only their workstations weren't 5X what I can build my own for =(
Consumer Reports is the best source of imformation about consumer level products around. They buy everything off the shelf so they don't get tweaked demo units, they do not accept advertising so they can remain unbiased, and they use repeatable scientific methods to test the products. Why would anyone not like them??? Just because you have had some kind of psychosematic aleviation of your symptoms does not mean that scientific principals are suddenly invalid.
actually this just leads to faster problems if you do not routinly change the filters as the dust blocking the filter will lead to problems long before the accumulated dust would have.
Get a HEPA filter with a washable dust prefilter. Walmart sells several and you can get them rated for 20X20 foot rooms for $200, if your room is bigger then get two and set aside whatever is left over for replacement filters. Plus if your environment is that bad you should be cleaning the area for the workers sake, equipment is cheap to replace, sick or disgusted workers are not.
many, many linux programs have been 64bit clean for some time as linux runs on all of the major 64 bit platforms and has for quite a while. Sure there are a lot of small projects that are not 64bit clean but all of the core services are.
Trust me Yamhill is still alive and well somewhere inside Intel, they would be stupid not to hedge their bets. At an intro speed of 1.4Ghz the Opteron will be faster at 32 bit code at a fraction of the cost (Newegg shows $315 for 1.4Ghz Opteron (Intel P4 equivilant of ~2.8Ghz) vs $2800 (at pricewatch) for a 900Mhz Itanium 2 (what will the 1.5Ghz part cost???)).
Actually the RISC crowd was primarily right, they were just targeting the wrong area. All x86 cpus since the Pentium have been RISC internally with CISC externals. This works well because the larger words work well to minimize cache latencies (if you can fit more into each fetch then the impact waiting for it to arrive is minimized) and the RISC internals make it easier to ramp up the speed of the actual execution units. As you pointed out the PPC is seen as a "RISCish" cpu yet it shares many traits with the "CISCish" x86 cpu's. Pure RISC cpu's are a thing of the past, but it did have quite an impact on the overall design of CPU's.
Yep and use software from Extreme Protocol Solutions or someone like them. Yes you can put together your own testing software, but why bother when there are others out there who have already gone through all the variables and problems. They explicitly support 3Ware cards for IDE testing see This link.
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You are so incredibly wrong. For proof go to headphone.com and check out the graphs for different headphones, the cheapest unit they carry are like $35 and you can see huge differences between them and even the low end Sennheisers. If you have good hearing and had ever tried a pair you would know what I'm talking about. In fact I prefer my headphones to my home theater with speakers many times more expensive because they more accuratly recreate sound =) Btw my heaphones are aureal or open so they allow sound through and out, I can hold conversations with the music at a medium volume. Btw if the simple membrane thing were true all cone speakers would be identical in performance, they aren't.
And yet somehow on Sept 11th all the cellphones used on airplanes didn't melt down the cell network on the eastern seaboard, oh yeah thats right there is no problem with it because the way CMDA and GSM encoding work, duh.
1)The paranoia is NOT justified, look at the Sept 11th events, tons of people on cellphones on the planes with no problems. If an airplanes electronics are accepting super low power interference from ISM band devices they should be fixed because they will have real problems if they get too close to radar installations.
2)There are several airlines worldwide testing WiFi for in plane access because its hella cheaper than putting ethernet everywhere and they want to recoupe some of the revenue they are losing with business travelers not paying top buck for last minute bookings.
Umm, no there is a big difference, solid state amps reproduce sounds more exactly but can introduce harsh harmonics, on the other hand tube amps tend to add warm harmonics while distorting. These warm distortions are more pleasing to the ear, of course ideally you would produce zero distortion and get your harmonics from an effects processor =)
Well your first problem is your headphones, they are distorting the crap out of any music source, go get some Sennheisers, they start around $60 for a good pair of open cans. Also if you are using anything but Fraunhoffer or better LAME for mp3 its just not fair. Btw, I've found high range problems with OGG that were not present in my Lame mp3's (I did A,B,C blind tests on a variety of samples and found a couple of problems with OGG which I reported with samples). AAC at 128kbit sounds like trash just like every other codec at 128, get around 200kbps VBR or 256 CBR and thats where the differences start to really show up (ok they show up at the very low end like 90kbps too but I don't even want to think about that)
What about a slashbox for it?
Thanks, I haven't belly laughed like that since I was downsized months ago. Being newly employed combined with that great post just made my week =)
Um traditional P/E for the NYSE is 19 during non-recession years so I don't know where you are getting 6 from. For two decades of figures see the last page of This pdf, for more historical info search around.
Sounds about right, Cisco and a few others that made piles on the .com boom and didn't piss it to the wind or use it to buy tons of other .coms will probably do well long term. In fact Cisco had a major focus on expanding its lead during these lean years in order to be even bigger once the orders started to ramp up again. Perchance do you know who wrote the article, I want them doing my investments =)
Hate to reply to myself but I decided to do some research and Petzl the guys who make my headlamp (the Zoom, the most popular headlamp around for good reason) have a new product coming out. It's their Myo series and it has an interesting set of features. For the Myo 5 they have two bulbs systems in one lamp, a bright halogen bulb for extremely bright light, but it will only last about 4 hours running on this bulb. They also have a 5 LED array that has 3 settings, normal for most walking, max for quick walking or technical terrain, and a power saving mode for map reading, campsite setup etc. The interesting thing is that in the normal mode it provides ~30 hours of max lighting vs the zooms 20 hours, so for most of my activities 50% better battery life, and it can continue to function at dimished capacity for over 100 hours! All this and the battery pack is only 2/3's the weight. I am sold and will be buying one of these before my next technical trip. Oh yeah and it uses standard AA's so I can share spare batteries with other devices and use high density rechargables to get even better life =)
What about heat output. If you are removing heat from the environment then any watts of heat cost about 4X as many watts of electricity to remove. Plus white led's are much, much more pleasing on the eyes than any fluorescent.
Do any of them throw nearly as much light as a battery operated miners light? If so it would seem to be ideal for spelunking and hiking use. Of course one of my headlights is on its second battery after like 6 years of intermitant use so it's not a huge deal but I always freak about being without power for my headlamp at night as I have had to make two night descents (one was altitude sickness after consuming dinner at base camp where the oxegen use from digesting food worsened the condition and the other was a night hike through the grand canyon where the daytime high was 121 degrees F at Fantom Ranch) so I always carry two spares, but they are darn heavy. I'd love to carry just one spare.
Phase change pads generally leave little or no residue.
ugh, wonder if we can petition Apple for at least the playlist feature for the next upgrade, it really is my only gripe with my current ipod, I have very eclectic tastes and what I want to listen to varies with my mood so on the fly playlists would make me a much happier camper.
Guess it depends on the format. Using winamp I can output any supported format to wav or mp3 on disk just by switching my output device. I have support for mjuice, wma, and some other "protected" formats. Even if it requires some other format that needs its own player I have a directsound plugin that allows me to redirect a virtual soundcard to wav on disk. This is part of why the media companies want Paladium, general purpose pc's are just too flexible. Of course the solution for Paladium is to record the soundcards output to its input and recording the input, there is some loss of quality due to DAC issues, but not as much as lossy compression already introduces.
hmm, just going by what the Apple site states since the windows version won't be up for a couple weeks. I hope you are missing something as the on the fly playlist support is something that has been bugging me for some time.
The best part is that the 1.3 firmware that includes games, text reader, on the fly playlist creation and some other features will be or is already available for all older iPod users. I love the fact that I bought my digital music player almost a year ago yet it is just getting better and better. Support like this will keep me coming back to Apple, now if only their workstations weren't 5X what I can build my own for =(
Consumer Reports is the best source of imformation about consumer level products around. They buy everything off the shelf so they don't get tweaked demo units, they do not accept advertising so they can remain unbiased, and they use repeatable scientific methods to test the products. Why would anyone not like them??? Just because you have had some kind of psychosematic aleviation of your symptoms does not mean that scientific principals are suddenly invalid.
Yeah except years earlier and with real machine code not idealized bytecode =)
actually this just leads to faster problems if you do not routinly change the filters as the dust blocking the filter will lead to problems long before the accumulated dust would have.
Get a HEPA filter with a washable dust prefilter. Walmart sells several and you can get them rated for 20X20 foot rooms for $200, if your room is bigger then get two and set aside whatever is left over for replacement filters. Plus if your environment is that bad you should be cleaning the area for the workers sake, equipment is cheap to replace, sick or disgusted workers are not.
many, many linux programs have been 64bit clean for some time as linux runs on all of the major 64 bit platforms and has for quite a while. Sure there are a lot of small projects that are not 64bit clean but all of the core services are.
Trust me Yamhill is still alive and well somewhere inside Intel, they would be stupid not to hedge their bets. At an intro speed of 1.4Ghz the Opteron will be faster at 32 bit code at a fraction of the cost (Newegg shows $315 for 1.4Ghz Opteron (Intel P4 equivilant of ~2.8Ghz) vs $2800 (at pricewatch) for a 900Mhz Itanium 2 (what will the 1.5Ghz part cost???)).
Actually the RISC crowd was primarily right, they were just targeting the wrong area. All x86 cpus since the Pentium have been RISC internally with CISC externals. This works well because the larger words work well to minimize cache latencies (if you can fit more into each fetch then the impact waiting for it to arrive is minimized) and the RISC internals make it easier to ramp up the speed of the actual execution units. As you pointed out the PPC is seen as a "RISCish" cpu yet it shares many traits with the "CISCish" x86 cpu's. Pure RISC cpu's are a thing of the past, but it did have quite an impact on the overall design of CPU's.
Yep and use software from Extreme Protocol Solutions or someone like them. Yes you can put together your own testing software, but why bother when there are others out there who have already gone through all the variables and problems. They explicitly support 3Ware cards for IDE testing see This link.