This is not insightful, it's total bullshit. DSP CAN NOT give you the same characteristics as a tube. Anyone that tells you they can is either an idiot, a DSP salesman, or both. Recent advances in modeling technology have made large leaps in making DSP sound better, but it's still not there for applications such as mic pres and guitar amps.
You can get the headroom you need on a DSP by adding more bits to the samples. 64 bits, for example, is major overkill, but feasible. You should be able to easily keep your peaks a full 20dB below full scale and not miss it. Having done this, you can then use tube emulation to get the pleasant distortion that makes tubes sound like tubes. Scale the output appropriately, then decimate to 24 or 16 bits to get a useful output.
My company pays for broadband. They also provide a terminal server for the benefit of employees who cannot get or do not want broadband, and a modem pool, with an 877 number, for employees to dial in to.
My nearest Best Buy is in Crossgates Mall, Guilderland (suburb of Albany, NY). There is a Guilderland police station located in the mall. Had this happened to me, I would have promptly marched to the end of the mall where the police station is and sworn out an assault complaint against the employee.
There are usually three antennas on each side: one for transmit and two for receive, with the extra receive antenna providing spatial diversity.
I had been under the impression that these were a phased array, enabling the antenna to be pointed in any direction for transmit. The phase relationship of the antennas on transmit would mirror the phase relationship of the received signal, thus focusing the signal in the direction of the handset. Such focusing would be signal-specific, enabling the antenna to focus each data stream on a specific handset.
Adelphia cable TV is *TERRIBLE*. Digital Cable looks like *CRAP* and they keep moving services over to it and taking them away from analog cable. They lie, cheat, steal (sending out letters telling you to "come pick up" a new cable box -- not telling you they charge for them monthly!) And no cartoon network! And did I mention all this service costs far more then dish?
Can you switch to broadcast basic and still get internet service from them? If so, you might do so, and then go back to dish.
Another option is to move to Time-Warner territory, because you can get Road Runner (their Internet service) without getting cable TV. I know because I have done so, and get my TV from Dish.
Same reason why we don't use 220 volts as wall current.
230, actually, except in the UK, where it is 240, or in Mexico or Saudi Arabia where it is 127, or Japan where it is 100, or Canada or the Bahamas, where, like here, they have standardized on 120, or is it 110? 115? (depends on where you are in the country and what your local utility decides)
Bottom line, no significant effort has been made to standardize on electrical supply voltage, and no effort has been made to standardize the plug, except to put IEC plugs on the appliance (most notably computers) and have the end user buy a power cord that fits their local plug.
Japan doesn't even have a standard frequency! Half the country is 50Hz, and the other half is 60Hz.
I had just barely started school when I first heard that that Canada would be moving to the metric system. At the time, there were fewer than 10 countries worldwide that did not yet use the metric system.
I had just barely started school when I first heard that the U.S. would be moving to the metric system. At that time, there were fewer than 10 countries worldwide that did not use the metric system. I'm still waiting.
Today, the USA alone bears the distinction of being the only nation on the planet that has not yet made any sort of government sponsored effort to switch to the metric system.
Not true. It's just that it was a token effort.:-)
Smallish bottles of drink (fizzy or milk) are 600 mL, the closest round measurement to the imperial pint (but we also have 375 mL cans (of grog or fizzy drinks) and 1.2 L bottles (of fizzy drinks), neither of which are nicely rounded imperial measurements,* so perhaps pre-metrication doesn't hold the answer for that, either).
Now, this I find interesting, because here in the U.S., the common sizes of fizzy drinks and bottled water are 500mL, 1L, 2L and 3L, alongside 12 oz (360mL), 16 oz (473mL), and 20 oz (592mL). Round metric units seem to be most popular for mid-to-large, and US units for mid-to-small. That the mid-to-large would be in round units, rather than 1.2 as it is in a metric country indicates that even though so many Americans are resistant to the metric system, maybe it is, at least in some ways, taking better than in metric nations.
What we NEED, and I mean REALLY NEED, is the ability to get HDTV from sources we int he real world actually USE (cable and sattelite) into our boxes. Right now there is no way to do this without an insanely expensive Component encoder card.
One of the satellite providers (I think it was DirecTV) had an HDTV receiver that spat out an 8VSB signal on channel 3 or 4 for use with OTA HDTV receivers. For some reason, that give me this odd sense of deja vu... but it would work with this card.
Actually, this reminds me of the HTTG Infocom game. If you let your house get knocked down by Prosser and his bulldozer, a bit of shrapnel knocks you on the head and you die.
But since there are a few more steps to take place, the narrative continues. Regardless what you type, though, the game responds, "You stay out of this, you're dead!"
I've been a Dish Network customer for several years now. I am very pleased with the system, performance, etc. Some less-popular channels have kind of low bitrates, and get a little grotty and laggy sometimes, but that's to be expected.
First off, the cooling is regional, not global. Average tempurature globally will rise, with equatorial climates rising more than average while temperate climates drop.
That said, the effect is caused by the melting of ice. As the ice melts, the salinity of the ocean drops. This has an adverse effect on the thermohalide conveyor, which is a north-south water current. This current rises at the equator, cycles both north and south from there at the surface of the ocean, cools (warming the regions it passes through), sinks to the ocean floor, and returns to the equator.
This conveyor requires that the water be of a certain density or higher. As the ice melts and dilutes the water to lower salt concentrations, the density drops. Theoretically, if this drops below a certain level, the conveyor will stop, and this will cause cooling of the temperate zones and warming of the equatorial zones above and beyond the average warming.
That's the theory, anyway, as I understand it. I reserve the right to be wrong.
Just like you, I have gotten free Chiropractic care in exchange for computer help. The running deal is that my Chiropractor and I are effectivley on retainer for each other. I get all the chiropractic care I want at no charge, he gets all the computer help he needs at the same rate. He pays for all materials.
Thus far, it has involved speccing out a couple of computers for him, installing a LAN in his office (from scratch, cabling and all) and straightening the Green pin on one of his monitors so that the video was no longer purple. It has been a very good deal.
For another customer, I have done a hard drive upgrade in exchange for the old hard drive and a monitor. The monitor was promptly redeployed to my wife's computer (hers was staring to go fuzzy) and the hard drive was then sold to another customer of mine (nothing unethical, sold as used and wiped clean first).
This also neglects the simple fact that there is more energy per unit of volume of diesel than of gasoline, by a 3:2 ratio, give or take a little. For this reason, it would be entirely unreasonable for a diesel not to get better fuel economy than an equivalent gasoline engine.
And, I believe that diesels can produce up into the 40 MPG range (e.g. VW Passat).
It is inappropriate to compare a diesel engine to a gasoline engine due to the fact that a given quantity of diesel has more energy in it than an identical quantiy of gasoline. I don't remember the precise ratio, but I think it is somewhere around 1.5:1 in favour of diesel.
Batteries are also the single most agressively recycled automobile part, with deposits charged and refunded like they are on pop bottles in some states.
These are maybe not as strong cases as the ones I made. Let me explain:
No real need to standardize on what sport interests the people. I can ignore Baseball and American footbal just as easily as Cricket and Soccer.
110V vs. 220, which is actually 120 vs. 230, except in the UK where it's 240 and in Japan where it's 100 and Mexico and Saudi Arabia where it's 127 and....
Letter instead of A4 = imperial vs. metric. The size of an A4 page is.125 square meters.
NTSC vs. PAL is a reverse scenario. We established NTSC based on the B&W standard here, which was based on a 60Hz power supply. PAL was an adaptation and improvement (self-correcting colour eliminating the need for tint and colour knobs) and I put it in the same category as CDMA for cell phones. Incompatible, but superior. By contrast, SECAM (used in some other places that are also non-PAL) is deliberately incompatible with PAL. By the way, which pal is standard, PAL-G? PAL-M? PAL-A? Incidentally, the US and Canada are not the only NTSC countries. Also, Mexico, Japan, the Philippines (I think) and others.
Don't get me wrong, I like the idea, and I appreciate the further search for examples. Someone else mentioned 50 vs. 60 Hz power supplies, with most of the world on 50Hz. Japan has it even worse, with half the country on each.
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IIRC, another opponent(was it NexGEN ?) had issued a blah-586.
AMD, actually, had done this as well. It was basically a souped-up 486-DX4. I had one that I ran as a web server until about three months ago.
This is not insightful, it's total bullshit. DSP CAN NOT give you the same characteristics as a tube. Anyone that tells you they can is either an idiot, a DSP salesman, or both. Recent advances in modeling technology have made large leaps in making DSP sound better, but it's still not there for applications such as mic pres and guitar amps.
You can get the headroom you need on a DSP by adding more bits to the samples. 64 bits, for example, is major overkill, but feasible. You should be able to easily keep your peaks a full 20dB below full scale and not miss it. Having done this, you can then use tube emulation to get the pleasant distortion that makes tubes sound like tubes. Scale the output appropriately, then decimate to 24 or 16 bits to get a useful output.
...and I think it will work fine for a mike pre.
My company pays for broadband. They also provide a terminal server for the benefit of employees who cannot get or do not want broadband, and a modem pool, with an 877 number, for employees to dial in to.
That's PHreaks, thank you very much!
My nearest Best Buy is in Crossgates Mall, Guilderland (suburb of Albany, NY). There is a Guilderland police station located in the mall. Had this happened to me, I would have promptly marched to the end of the mall where the police station is and sworn out an assault complaint against the employee.
didn't read the article
Obviously. If you had, you would have known this.
Who modded this informative?!?
Not everyone has access to police or rescue radios.
True, but anyone who wants to can get access to Amateur radio.... as long as BPL doesn't destroy the spectrum.
There are usually three antennas on each side: one for transmit and two for receive, with the extra receive antenna providing spatial diversity.
I had been under the impression that these were a phased array, enabling the antenna to be pointed in any direction for transmit. The phase relationship of the antennas on transmit would mirror the phase relationship of the received signal, thus focusing the signal in the direction of the handset. Such focusing would be signal-specific, enabling the antenna to focus each data stream on a specific handset.
why is an american company running the iraqi tld?
If you'd RTFA, you'd know.... Oh yeah, this is Slashdot. And you got modded interesting for that?!?
Adelphia cable TV is *TERRIBLE*. Digital Cable looks like *CRAP* and they keep moving services over to it and taking them away from analog cable. They lie, cheat, steal (sending out letters telling you to "come pick up" a new cable box -- not telling you they charge for them monthly!) And no cartoon network! And did I mention all this service costs far more then dish?
Can you switch to broadcast basic and still get internet service from them? If so, you might do so, and then go back to dish.
Another option is to move to Time-Warner territory, because you can get Road Runner (their Internet service) without getting cable TV. I know because I have done so, and get my TV from Dish.
Same reason why we don't use 220 volts as wall current.
230, actually, except in the UK, where it is 240, or in Mexico or Saudi Arabia where it is 127, or Japan where it is 100, or Canada or the Bahamas, where, like here, they have standardized on 120, or is it 110? 115? (depends on where you are in the country and what your local utility decides)
Bottom line, no significant effort has been made to standardize on electrical supply voltage, and no effort has been made to standardize the plug, except to put IEC plugs on the appliance (most notably computers) and have the end user buy a power cord that fits their local plug.
Japan doesn't even have a standard frequency! Half the country is 50Hz, and the other half is 60Hz.
A 2x4 is about a 10x20
Actually, isn't it a 5X10?
Of course, it does ruin the joke about bashing the clueless in the head with a clue-by-four :-)
I had just barely started school when I first heard that that Canada would be moving to the metric system. At the time, there were fewer than 10 countries worldwide that did not yet use the metric system.
I had just barely started school when I first heard that the U.S. would be moving to the metric system. At that time, there were fewer than 10 countries worldwide that did not use the metric system. I'm still waiting.
Today, the USA alone bears the distinction of being the only nation on the planet that has not yet made any sort of government sponsored effort to switch to the metric system.
Not true. It's just that it was a token effort. :-)
Smallish bottles of drink (fizzy or milk) are 600 mL, the closest round measurement to the imperial pint (but we also have 375 mL cans (of grog or fizzy drinks) and 1.2 L bottles (of fizzy drinks), neither of which are nicely rounded imperial measurements,* so perhaps pre-metrication doesn't hold the answer for that, either).
Now, this I find interesting, because here in the U.S., the common sizes of fizzy drinks and bottled water are 500mL, 1L, 2L and 3L, alongside 12 oz (360mL), 16 oz (473mL), and 20 oz (592mL). Round metric units seem to be most popular for mid-to-large, and US units for mid-to-small. That the mid-to-large would be in round units, rather than 1.2 as it is in a metric country indicates that even though so many Americans are resistant to the metric system, maybe it is, at least in some ways, taking better than in metric nations.
Additionally, an Imperial ounce is 0.96 US ounces, thus an Imperial pint is 1.2 US pints, not the 1.25 US pints that one would expect.
What we NEED, and I mean REALLY NEED, is the ability to get HDTV from sources we int he real world actually USE (cable and sattelite) into our boxes. Right now there is no way to do this without an insanely expensive Component encoder card.
One of the satellite providers (I think it was DirecTV) had an HDTV receiver that spat out an 8VSB signal on channel 3 or 4 for use with OTA HDTV receivers. For some reason, that give me this odd sense of deja vu... but it would work with this card.
Actually, this reminds me of the HTTG Infocom game. If you let your house get knocked down by Prosser and his bulldozer, a bit of shrapnel knocks you on the head and you die.
But since there are a few more steps to take place, the narrative continues. Regardless what you type, though, the game responds, "You stay out of this, you're dead!"
That would be Vroonfondle and Majikthise. Certainly very good names, in a distictly Douglas Adamsy way.
I've been a Dish Network customer for several years now. I am very pleased with the system, performance, etc. Some less-popular channels have kind of low bitrates, and get a little grotty and laggy sometimes, but that's to be expected.
Yes.
First off, the cooling is regional, not global. Average tempurature globally will rise, with equatorial climates rising more than average while temperate climates drop.
That said, the effect is caused by the melting of ice. As the ice melts, the salinity of the ocean drops. This has an adverse effect on the thermohalide conveyor, which is a north-south water current. This current rises at the equator, cycles both north and south from there at the surface of the ocean, cools (warming the regions it passes through), sinks to the ocean floor, and returns to the equator.
This conveyor requires that the water be of a certain density or higher. As the ice melts and dilutes the water to lower salt concentrations, the density drops. Theoretically, if this drops below a certain level, the conveyor will stop, and this will cause cooling of the temperate zones and warming of the equatorial zones above and beyond the average warming.
That's the theory, anyway, as I understand it. I reserve the right to be wrong.
Just like you, I have gotten free Chiropractic care in exchange for computer help. The running deal is that my Chiropractor and I are effectivley on retainer for each other. I get all the chiropractic care I want at no charge, he gets all the computer help he needs at the same rate. He pays for all materials.
Thus far, it has involved speccing out a couple of computers for him, installing a LAN in his office (from scratch, cabling and all) and straightening the Green pin on one of his monitors so that the video was no longer purple. It has been a very good deal.
For another customer, I have done a hard drive upgrade in exchange for the old hard drive and a monitor. The monitor was promptly redeployed to my wife's computer (hers was staring to go fuzzy) and the hard drive was then sold to another customer of mine (nothing unethical, sold as used and wiped clean first).
This also neglects the simple fact that there is more energy per unit of volume of diesel than of gasoline, by a 3:2 ratio, give or take a little. For this reason, it would be entirely unreasonable for a diesel not to get better fuel economy than an equivalent gasoline engine.
Diesels produce more torque, too.
And, I believe that diesels can produce up into the 40 MPG range (e.g. VW Passat).
It is inappropriate to compare a diesel engine to a gasoline engine due to the fact that a given quantity of diesel has more energy in it than an identical quantiy of gasoline. I don't remember the precise ratio, but I think it is somewhere around 1.5:1 in favour of diesel.
Batteries are also the single most agressively recycled automobile part, with deposits charged and refunded like they are on pop bottles in some states.
These are maybe not as strong cases as the ones I made. Let me explain:
No real need to standardize on what sport interests the people. I can ignore Baseball and American footbal just as easily as Cricket and Soccer.
110V vs. 220, which is actually 120 vs. 230, except in the UK where it's 240 and in Japan where it's 100 and Mexico and Saudi Arabia where it's 127 and....
Letter instead of A4 = imperial vs. metric. The size of an A4 page is .125 square meters.
NTSC vs. PAL is a reverse scenario. We established NTSC based on the B&W standard here, which was based on a 60Hz power supply. PAL was an adaptation and improvement (self-correcting colour eliminating the need for tint and colour knobs) and I put it in the same category as CDMA for cell phones. Incompatible, but superior. By contrast, SECAM (used in some other places that are also non-PAL) is deliberately incompatible with PAL. By the way, which pal is standard, PAL-G? PAL-M? PAL-A? Incidentally, the US and Canada are not the only NTSC countries. Also, Mexico, Japan, the Philippines (I think) and others.
Don't get me wrong, I like the idea, and I appreciate the further search for examples. Someone else mentioned 50 vs. 60 Hz power supplies, with most of the world on 50Hz. Japan has it even worse, with half the country on each.