True enough, most people do think viral when hepatitis is mentioned, but you wouldn't get away with that kind of imprecision in a professional medical forum. I suppose how much a similar terminological distinction matters depends on how close you consider/. is to being a professional tech forum...
Hepatitis means "infammation of the liver", and can be caused by bacteria, protozoa, fungi, parasites, toxins (including alcohol), pregnancy, auto immune conditions or metabolic deficiencies. Only viral hepatitis is caused by viruses (obviously)...so the answer is no, it's actually a symptom.
There's nothing wrong with the term "subwoofer". It generally refers to speakers which have a response intentionally limited to somewhere between 100 and 200Hz, which is well below the 500Hz-4kHz woofer crossover frequency you'd find in typical two and three way enclosures. Probably the best definition is "a speaker that can only reproduce frequencies of wavelengths too long for us to detect the source direction" (this is why you can put a true subwoofer almost anywhere in a room, and you only need one even for stereo).
Old woofers were huge because the enclosures were usually either simple folded baffle or sealed; the lowest wavelength that can be reproduced by such designs is proportional to the diameter of the speaker cone and either the length of the acoustic feedback path from back to front of speaker or volume of the enclosure. Thanks to the work of Neville Thiele and Richard Small in the 70s, CAD and modern manufacturing techniques it's now possible to design speakers matched to enclosures that use resonant acoustic delay lines (ports) to extend the frequency response dramatically. For these designs the speaker's excursion range, suspension stiffness and the volume of air it moves (among other factors) are more important than diameter alone*, so it's easily possible to have a 5" speaker that can reproduce down to 40Hz in a very small enclosure.
Your mention of quadraphonic reminds me of the old joke "quadraphonic is the sound system for people with four ears". I have to agree with you about surround sound in general: the sound of anything on the screen should come from where it is on the screen because our eyes follow audio cues (something to do with millions of years of wanting to avoid being eaten I suspect). But surround ambient background noises can be quite effective when used subtly (that too is natural), extreme low frequencies that are more felt than heard do add to special effects movies, and the centre speaker doesn't hurt, so 5.1 is plenty IMO. I doubt there'd be significant benefit from extra speakers in the Y dimension, since we're less sensitive to vertical displacement and the spacing of the speakers may be too narrow for more than the first few rows to really hear a difference, but it makes more sense than 62 speakers.
And I'm with you 100% on spoken vs written, though what I don't get is that since speaking is much slower than reading you'd think people with short attention spans would prefer...ooh, a shiny!
*Note to nitpickers: yes, this is vastly oversimplified.
it's about as dumb as apple naming their new Ipad the New Ipad.
First, if you go to Apple's web site you'll see that it isn't called the "New iPad", it's just the new iPad, lower case "n"; they've simply dropped the generation suffix, which makes sense since it was never printed on the device anyway. Second, Apple has sold many models of iMac since 1998 without creating confusion, and they don't seem to be generating any problems with the different models of iPads, MacBooks, Pros or Minis either if their profit statements are any indication. I guess some people can cope with the concept of printing the device family on the front and the exact model number on the back better than others; perhaps it comes from decades of experience with car makers using a similar scheme (ie the Camaro. Oh, sorry, that's the "New Camaro").
That said, reusing the name Surface doesn't seem wise, since (a) they're completely different device families (not that they're difficult for anyone who isn't completely blind or stupid to tell apart), and (b) anyone who knew about the original Surface, AKA "Big Ass Table" will be sour on the name, while to everyone else there's no recognition value in it at all, so overall they're starting with a slight negative bias. Marginally better than calling it Kin or Zune, though.
What gets under my skin is cutting off people using Dropbox SDK that have nothing to do with this.
Then you'll be pleased to learn that existing apps using previous Dropbox SDK versions still work perfectly and can still be downloaded from the app store (including Dropbox's own app). Nothing that was already approved has been removed or uninstalled.
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No, you're supposed to take it orally.
True enough, most people do think viral when hepatitis is mentioned, but you wouldn't get away with that kind of imprecision in a professional medical forum. I suppose how much a similar terminological distinction matters depends on how close you consider /. is to being a professional tech forum...
[lightbulb]
...OK, it's futile, I get it...
Hepatitis means "infammation of the liver", and can be caused by bacteria, protozoa, fungi, parasites, toxins (including alcohol), pregnancy, auto immune conditions or metabolic deficiencies. Only viral hepatitis is caused by viruses (obviously)...so the answer is no, it's actually a symptom.
I'd just be happy with a battery that 1/2 to 1/10 of the energy volume density of gasoline
Ever raise kids?
No...how do they compare to gasoline for energy density?
Wouldn't that generate positrons?
That doesn't preclude anything...it's a wide and varied world.
But it proves your point: even the mention of porn gets the mind ticking over.
Put some porn in front of my eyes and my thoughts will go nuts
Um...which definition of "nuts" applies here? Just want to be sure we're on the same page...
In another twenty years expect batteries formed from pure thought.
Least reliable power source ever.
Mask terminal areas and use conductive paint. Seems easy enough.
There's nothing wrong with the term "subwoofer". It generally refers to speakers which have a response intentionally limited to somewhere between 100 and 200Hz, which is well below the 500Hz-4kHz woofer crossover frequency you'd find in typical two and three way enclosures. Probably the best definition is "a speaker that can only reproduce frequencies of wavelengths too long for us to detect the source direction" (this is why you can put a true subwoofer almost anywhere in a room, and you only need one even for stereo).
Old woofers were huge because the enclosures were usually either simple folded baffle or sealed; the lowest wavelength that can be reproduced by such designs is proportional to the diameter of the speaker cone and either the length of the acoustic feedback path from back to front of speaker or volume of the enclosure. Thanks to the work of Neville Thiele and Richard Small in the 70s, CAD and modern manufacturing techniques it's now possible to design speakers matched to enclosures that use resonant acoustic delay lines (ports) to extend the frequency response dramatically. For these designs the speaker's excursion range, suspension stiffness and the volume of air it moves (among other factors) are more important than diameter alone*, so it's easily possible to have a 5" speaker that can reproduce down to 40Hz in a very small enclosure.
Your mention of quadraphonic reminds me of the old joke "quadraphonic is the sound system for people with four ears". I have to agree with you about surround sound in general: the sound of anything on the screen should come from where it is on the screen because our eyes follow audio cues (something to do with millions of years of wanting to avoid being eaten I suspect). But surround ambient background noises can be quite effective when used subtly (that too is natural), extreme low frequencies that are more felt than heard do add to special effects movies, and the centre speaker doesn't hurt, so 5.1 is plenty IMO. I doubt there'd be significant benefit from extra speakers in the Y dimension, since we're less sensitive to vertical displacement and the spacing of the speakers may be too narrow for more than the first few rows to really hear a difference, but it makes more sense than 62 speakers.
And I'm with you 100% on spoken vs written, though what I don't get is that since speaking is much slower than reading you'd think people with short attention spans would prefer...ooh, a shiny!
*Note to nitpickers: yes, this is vastly oversimplified.
it's about as dumb as apple naming their new Ipad the New Ipad.
First, if you go to Apple's web site you'll see that it isn't called the "New iPad", it's just the new iPad, lower case "n"; they've simply dropped the generation suffix, which makes sense since it was never printed on the device anyway. Second, Apple has sold many models of iMac since 1998 without creating confusion, and they don't seem to be generating any problems with the different models of iPads, MacBooks, Pros or Minis either if their profit statements are any indication. I guess some people can cope with the concept of printing the device family on the front and the exact model number on the back better than others; perhaps it comes from decades of experience with car makers using a similar scheme (ie the Camaro. Oh, sorry, that's the "New Camaro").
That said, reusing the name Surface doesn't seem wise, since (a) they're completely different device families (not that they're difficult for anyone who isn't completely blind or stupid to tell apart), and (b) anyone who knew about the original Surface, AKA "Big Ass Table" will be sour on the name, while to everyone else there's no recognition value in it at all, so overall they're starting with a slight negative bias. Marginally better than calling it Kin or Zune, though.
You could also give voting rights to 10 year olds if a state voted for it.
Good idea. Most politicians seem to be cartoon characters already, might as well vote in some genuine cartoon characters.
Memorialising Patrick Swayze?
Is that the wurst you can do?
But that's normal for Slashdot...
Why did this get modded down? Seems like a perfectly reasonable question from a concerned party.
Just because the heads of these companies are male doesn't mean they don't know how to women.
I hope that's not the latest term for cross-dressing...the thought of Steve Ballmer in drag gives me the screaming meemies.
Perhaps they do and are trying to delay our species' "adapt or die" phase.
Sounds like a bad ending to me.
Wow, pwned before he even finished posting.
A red herring, more likely.
Focusing on consumers is also a dumb idea for a laser company. You get more repeat customers when they're not on fire.
What gets under my skin is cutting off people using Dropbox SDK that have nothing to do with this.
Then you'll be pleased to learn that existing apps using previous Dropbox SDK versions still work perfectly and can still be downloaded from the app store (including Dropbox's own app). Nothing that was already approved has been removed or uninstalled.
The logical conclusion being that all politicians would spout less drivel if they spent some time in prison. Worth a try IMO.
You'd never say "He leveraged the razor and cut himself" because that isn't using to his advantage
You obviously don't know many Emos.