I don't own a set, but I like the Yorkville NX-55 P cabinets. These have a 12" woofer and a compression horn tweeter with a 1.4" diaphragm driving a 1" throat. They are also a powered speaker, which takes them, incorrectly, off the radar of most audiophiles. They have a 450W class D amp driving the woofer and a 100W class G driving the tweeter. Tres powerful and very nice sounding, and, yes, made in Canada, not China.
I rent these on an as-needed basis for DJ gigs. It helps to pair them up with subwoofers, but this is not absolutely necessary as these cabinets produce much deeper bass than you might expect from something their size. The supplier I rent them from tells me that these are the best-sounding speakers they have in their rental fleet (compared to some larger JBL and some Peavey units) and the most reliable as well.
Also (and this gets to my RCA plug = toy remark before) they take either a 1/4" balanced or an XLR as inputs and can be driven either at mic or line level. With this, I can go 100% balanced from my computer's output, through the mixer and EQs and all the way through to the speakers.
You can say that all you want, but posting it as AC strips you of credibility.
Now, if you want to consider moving out of the realm of consumer audio and into the realm of pro audio, I'll reconsider my position. Here you entere a space where the price tag is not a reflection of the buyer's ego (or, if you prefer, a surogate for inadiquate dick size), but rather the engineering prowess that went into the cabinet. This is, of course, because the likely buyer is not an individual who can be easily fooled, but usually a business that is trying to make money and needs to sound impressive. Bullshit doesn't fly in that arena. As such, I would put a $700 (each) pair of Yorkville speakers agasinst anything an audiophile can suggest any day of the week, and I will expect to win.
I could also play off of the audiophile mindset by saying that anything connected with RCA plugs is a toy.
I would put the threshold of diminishing returns at around $300-400.
I do, however, agree with your premise.
As to "warm" and such, it's a description used by idiot who don't understand what is actually going on. Not all audiophiles are this way. I believe that audiophiles come in different categories, and that some of them are, as you say, stupid. Others, however, are not.
I'm not sure that's a correct statement. Maybe it isn't direct, but he is using it in what essentially amounts to advertising. These events are not private parties, so the private party exemption (specific to music) is also gone.
I do believe, however, that Rude Music is in for a rude awakening because of a thing called compulsory licensing. In essence, they can collect money for their product, but they have to offer it to all comers, and, if memory serves me, they must do so with non-discriminatory pricing.
Indeed. He seems like a real stand-up guy; the real deal, so to speak. I think it would be cool if more people set about the process of embarrassing their particular industries over the junk they produce. I tend to say that IT would be a good place to start, but the problem is that it is hard to convey the concept of "doing it right" to the layperson when it comes to IT. With general contracting work, it's something people can understand.
I'll back up your point about successful Canadian content here in the US. I've also noticed an interesting side-effect of the CanCon rules . . . There's a hell of a lot of CanCon on American TV. A lot of it is pretty good, and you wouldn't notice it except for the northern accents (which don't vary that much from northern states) and an occasinoal "eh", more frequent on documentary/reality shows (e.g. anything with Mike Holmes) than on works of fiction.
Well, do you speak any other languages than English? I know the answer within the US is likely "no" but if you are outside, then I think the likelihood of a "yes" goes up one, if not two orders of magnitude. As I understand it, it is only the English-language version that is going dark.
If you believe you are running an OS that cannot be cracked / that is secure, feel free to post your IP address to some of the more interesting forums on the internet; with a minimal install, it might take them a week or so to crack; with a full install, and a fair number of normal services running, it might take several minutes.
Well, I'd say/. is one of the "more interesting forums on the internet" so here you go: 127.0.0.1. Have at it. I dare you.
True, though that relationship clearly existed well before SOPA reared its ugly head. Wikipedia has been fiercely anti-SOPA, to the point of putting the banner ads -er- appeals on the top of every page.
GoDaddy has recently been pushed to reverse their stance by customers leaving. I think Wikipedia may have been one of those threatening to leave.
I like your approach, though I would like to suggest also an option that goes along the lines of "How would you solve this problem" and get the candidate to sketch out, at a high level, what they think it would take to solve the problem. You could then, if you want, start introducing new constraints: "How would you change your approach in order to make it work if X?" I think this kind of questioning can be very telling of a programmer's actual skill. The idea may not take root, hoever, because it cannot be carried out by someone who knows nothing.
I am not opposed to a simple programming test as a shibboleth. Describe fizzbuzz and have them implement it in the language of choice. Get it roughly right and the interview continues. Get it grossly wrong, and you thank them for their time.
Okay, now, let's suppose you've owned it for a year. It's past the point where you can return it. You bought it with full intent to use PSN and use it heavily. Now, all of a sudden Sony says you can't sue them. You have a choice. Either (a) you can agree to relinquish your rights to sue them or (b) you can give up the functionality that your machine had when you bought it, and for which you bought it, and that you use.
The only correct choice is (c) force Sony to back down.
Unfortunately, there is no such legal requirement here in the US, so it is an act of generosity on the company's part. They're not required to provide any, as far as I know.
I also get 8% of my salary into a 401(k) which is sort of a privatized pension, plus they will match me up to another 7%.
If I were him, I'd be concerned about any travel, even if the destination fits your description. The reason is that the people he has pissed off are powerful enough that they may well trump up an emergency landing in some country that would extradite him. I don't even think they would work much at hiding it . . . something like a flight from London to Paris making an emergency landing in Oslo . . . the idea being that the emergency landing isn't anywhere near a straight line between points A and B.
It is also false. If it is part of the agreed-upon compensation, or was negotiated at the outset, it'll happen. Contrary to popular belief (such as the belief that all IT workers are salaried), some companies actually are generous. Proof: I get four weeks paid vacation.
There are different message priorities. I don't remember what the priority levels are called (it's been about eight years since I've been involved in broadcasting), but the options essentially allow some messages to be stored and rebroadcast later (with a limit on how much later). Higher priority messages go out in real-time; lower priority may be discarded.
The radio station's EAS ENDEC is supposed to manage this for them. In the event of a top-priority message, it just takes over the airwaves in real-time. Middle and lower priority alert the engineer to the situation and let him/her decide when to send the message. If the message is not sent before the time is up, middle-priority messages will seize the transmitter and lower-priority messages will get dropped.
I would expect this message to have been encoded with the middle option -- store it for up to xx minutes, then take action automatically if the station didn't do so voluntarily. This would result in it going out over different stations at different times, and that would be desired outcome.
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I don't own a set, but I like the Yorkville NX-55 P cabinets. These have a 12" woofer and a compression horn tweeter with a 1.4" diaphragm driving a 1" throat. They are also a powered speaker, which takes them, incorrectly, off the radar of most audiophiles. They have a 450W class D amp driving the woofer and a 100W class G driving the tweeter. Tres powerful and very nice sounding, and, yes, made in Canada, not China.
I rent these on an as-needed basis for DJ gigs. It helps to pair them up with subwoofers, but this is not absolutely necessary as these cabinets produce much deeper bass than you might expect from something their size. The supplier I rent them from tells me that these are the best-sounding speakers they have in their rental fleet (compared to some larger JBL and some Peavey units) and the most reliable as well.
Also (and this gets to my RCA plug = toy remark before) they take either a 1/4" balanced or an XLR as inputs and can be driven either at mic or line level. With this, I can go 100% balanced from my computer's output, through the mixer and EQs and all the way through to the speakers.
You can say that all you want, but posting it as AC strips you of credibility.
Now, if you want to consider moving out of the realm of consumer audio and into the realm of pro audio, I'll reconsider my position. Here you entere a space where the price tag is not a reflection of the buyer's ego (or, if you prefer, a surogate for inadiquate dick size), but rather the engineering prowess that went into the cabinet. This is, of course, because the likely buyer is not an individual who can be easily fooled, but usually a business that is trying to make money and needs to sound impressive. Bullshit doesn't fly in that arena. As such, I would put a $700 (each) pair of Yorkville speakers agasinst anything an audiophile can suggest any day of the week, and I will expect to win.
I could also play off of the audiophile mindset by saying that anything connected with RCA plugs is a toy.
I think that is a little exaggerated.
I would put the threshold of diminishing returns at around $300-400.
I do, however, agree with your premise.
As to "warm" and such, it's a description used by idiot who don't understand what is actually going on. Not all audiophiles are this way. I believe that audiophiles come in different categories, and that some of them are, as you say, stupid. Others, however, are not.
I'm not sure that's a correct statement. Maybe it isn't direct, but he is using it in what essentially amounts to advertising. These events are not private parties, so the private party exemption (specific to music) is also gone.
I do believe, however, that Rude Music is in for a rude awakening because of a thing called compulsory licensing. In essence, they can collect money for their product, but they have to offer it to all comers, and, if memory serves me, they must do so with non-discriminatory pricing.
Indeed. He seems like a real stand-up guy; the real deal, so to speak. I think it would be cool if more people set about the process of embarrassing their particular industries over the junk they produce. I tend to say that IT would be a good place to start, but the problem is that it is hard to convey the concept of "doing it right" to the layperson when it comes to IT. With general contracting work, it's something people can understand.
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Not any more!
I'll back up your point about successful Canadian content here in the US. I've also noticed an interesting side-effect of the CanCon rules . . . There's a hell of a lot of CanCon on American TV. A lot of it is pretty good, and you wouldn't notice it except for the northern accents (which don't vary that much from northern states) and an occasinoal "eh", more frequent on documentary/reality shows (e.g. anything with Mike Holmes) than on works of fiction.
Well, do you speak any other languages than English? I know the answer within the US is likely "no" but if you are outside, then I think the likelihood of a "yes" goes up one, if not two orders of magnitude. As I understand it, it is only the English-language version that is going dark.
Well, apparently you get the joke. Whoever modded me "Troll" didn't.
Well, I'd say /. is one of the "more interesting forums on the internet" so here you go: 127.0.0.1. Have at it. I dare you.
Only if the registry is in the US. Mine is in the Cayman Islands.
True, though that relationship clearly existed well before SOPA reared its ugly head. Wikipedia has been fiercely anti-SOPA, to the point of putting the banner ads -er- appeals on the top of every page.
GoDaddy has recently been pushed to reverse their stance by customers leaving. I think Wikipedia may have been one of those threatening to leave.
I like your approach, though I would like to suggest also an option that goes along the lines of "How would you solve this problem" and get the candidate to sketch out, at a high level, what they think it would take to solve the problem. You could then, if you want, start introducing new constraints: "How would you change your approach in order to make it work if X?" I think this kind of questioning can be very telling of a programmer's actual skill. The idea may not take root, hoever, because it cannot be carried out by someone who knows nothing.
I am not opposed to a simple programming test as a shibboleth. Describe fizzbuzz and have them implement it in the language of choice. Get it roughly right and the interview continues. Get it grossly wrong, and you thank them for their time.
Okay, now, let's suppose you've owned it for a year. It's past the point where you can return it. You bought it with full intent to use PSN and use it heavily. Now, all of a sudden Sony says you can't sue them. You have a choice. Either (a) you can agree to relinquish your rights to sue them or (b) you can give up the functionality that your machine had when you bought it, and for which you bought it, and that you use.
The only correct choice is (c) force Sony to back down.
Unfortunately, there is no such legal requirement here in the US, so it is an act of generosity on the company's part. They're not required to provide any, as far as I know.
I also get 8% of my salary into a 401(k) which is sort of a privatized pension, plus they will match me up to another 7%.
If I were him, I'd be concerned about any travel, even if the destination fits your description. The reason is that the people he has pissed off are powerful enough that they may well trump up an emergency landing in some country that would extradite him. I don't even think they would work much at hiding it . . . something like a flight from London to Paris making an emergency landing in Oslo . . . the idea being that the emergency landing isn't anywhere near a straight line between points A and B.
That is very cynical, and I respect that.
It is also false. If it is part of the agreed-upon compensation, or was negotiated at the outset, it'll happen. Contrary to popular belief (such as the belief that all IT workers are salaried), some companies actually are generous. Proof: I get four weeks paid vacation.
LLC = Limited Liability Corporation.
There are different message priorities. I don't remember what the priority levels are called (it's been about eight years since I've been involved in broadcasting), but the options essentially allow some messages to be stored and rebroadcast later (with a limit on how much later). Higher priority messages go out in real-time; lower priority may be discarded.
The radio station's EAS ENDEC is supposed to manage this for them. In the event of a top-priority message, it just takes over the airwaves in real-time. Middle and lower priority alert the engineer to the situation and let him/her decide when to send the message. If the message is not sent before the time is up, middle-priority messages will seize the transmitter and lower-priority messages will get dropped.
I would expect this message to have been encoded with the middle option -- store it for up to xx minutes, then take action automatically if the station didn't do so voluntarily. This would result in it going out over different stations at different times, and that would be desired outcome.
The CAN-SPAM act loses what little punch it has as soon as you cross the state line from New York into Quebec . . .
But sales are slumping .
And no-one will say why
Couldn't be you put out one to many lousy records . . .
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Go to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and you will find that bot a hard G and a soft G are acceptable in pronunciation of "giga", but thanks for trying.
<div class="sarcasm">Well, that explains Windows' success in the presence of alternatives perfectly.</div>
Solo can't kill Kirk . . . Kirk doesn't wear a red shirt. (No, the red tunics from the movies do not count!)