Oh my god, will you look at that! It's a real, live, audiofilus elitus my-system-cost-twenty-times-what-yours-did-so-it-i s-twenty-times-betterus! They're very rare! I absolutely hate the little fuckers!
(apologies to JoeCartoon)
Seriously, now. It's great that you enjoy your $1000 speakers. I'm sure they outperform this $800 speaker. I am also sure that the setup I described with $800 worth of bookshelf speakers and a sub will also outperform the "one" speaker system, which, you will recall, is the topic of this thread.
BTW, did you perform double-blind tests before buying? If not, I'd wager you paid way too much.
For $800, you can buy four or five reasonably nice bookshelf speakers and a subwoofer (and even get change back!), and placement, although still important, is not downright critical.
As for the psychoacoustic trick, it's not a new one. It is really the same thing as two-speaker surround, it is just that the two speakers are in one enclosure. Yes, yes, it has five. That sounds like two tweeters, two mids and a woofer.... not that I've been able to find a grill-off picture of it anywhere to confirm this....
Very long time. IMAX runs film that is 2X the width, with the film running horizontally (another 2X multiplier) at 48 frames per second (2X the frame rate of 35mm). That makes the cost 8X what it would have been in 35mm.
...then there is the cost of the equipment, and of refitting all of the 35mm cinemas for IMAX.
Of course, there is also the fact that running the film through the projector at that high speed also increases the damage that can be done if the equipment is out of spec or operated by an undertrained minimum-wage earner (this should not be taken as a slight against those who earn minimum wage, rather against those who pay it).
since we can approximate the current movie setups with our wide screens and dvds?
Not yet, you can't! DVD's have approximately the resolution of 16mm film. it sure beats VHS, but the cinemas still have the ace card. Until I can put in a media object (don't care if it is a disc, tape, ROM or what) and have it display at nX1080 and then run that through a line doubler to get a 1080p image, and set n to a value appropriate to the actual aspect ratio of the film (I should never have to look at letterboxes again, even if the film is shot in 2.1:1, as The Matrix and Lord of the Rings were) I haven't recreated the cinema experience.
My wife tells me I make some damned good popcorn, though!
I have a firewall/web server running on a 486DX4@133. It has run 24X7 since about 2001, except when I have left on vacation.
Additionally, I have about four friends using it on a daily basis as a web proxy.
Incidentally, the last time I went on vacation, I shut down all of my machines (a rarity). This one is the one that gave me the least trouble coming back up. My workstation, on the other hand, lost a hard drive in the process.
At the State University of New York (SUNY) at Alfred, on the VAX cluster there, running VMS, connected to BITNet and SUNYnet and a small, multiuniversity network running the DECnet protocol, there was a SEND command which would send what would accurately be called an instant message to any participant currently logged in on any system on one of these three networks. We even had some 'bots that could answer back and take messages. This was in 1989. Sorry Microsoft, you are at least 14 years late.
They don't have to "accept" it. It will be there if they accept it or not. They just need to understand that if they don't adapt to it, regardless of whether or not they "accept" it, it will flatten them.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Improvements in the software could add support for USTDMA, iDEN, CDMA, and maybe even AMPS/TACS (analogue) phones, making the specific phone architecture irrelevant, and ending the existing format war.
An additional benefit is this: If service is made available to emergency services (which was implied), then the emergency services can get access to better networking than they do now. Of course, the inherent risk in outsourcing the network must be weighed.
Regardless of what the outcome of the court is, all cable companies are required to get the permission of the localities in order to operate. Such permission is called a franchise. Franchises are the reason why we have public access channels--the localities demanded it as a condition of receiving a franchise.
So where I am going with this is this: The localities could easily decide, when the franchises come up for renewal, to make it a condition of the renewal that at least n ISP's be allowed to use the cable system to connect to the customers. For that matter, the franchise agreement could even name ISP's, with a stipulation that the cable provider not try to buy them out.
While I grant that Macintoshes, Amigas, Ataris, Commodore 64's & 128's and VIC-20's et al are personal computers, they are not Personal Computers. If you didn't understand that sentence, reread it, paying careful attention to capitalization. IBM produced a product called a Personal Computer, abbreviated PC. Others cloned it. These are PC's, even though competing architectures may also be pc's. A 64-bit pc, such as a high-end Mac, is not a 64-bit PC by virtue of not being a PC, but a pc.
I have tried to access a nonexistent domain through several different routes, and in all cases, it times out. And before you ask, yes, the name resolves to (what else?) 64.94.110.11.
Doh! I should proofread more carefully. Strike that first sentence and replace it with, "Again, I emphasize, the ouster of Dubya is critically urgent."
Again, I emphasize, the ouster of Dubya is critically important and urgent.
Note that I say urgent, not important.
Electoral reform is much more important, and the most recent presidential election highlighted this fact. Right now, however, we have a bull in the china shop. It is more urgent that we get the bull out, rather than pontificate about how to keep the next bull from getting in. We can worry about bull-proofing the china shop after we have this bull out.
Oh, Pshaw! I expect we'll reach 70 or 80 comments before someone thinks to post the home phone numbers of various telemarketing company's CEOs (hint, hint, c'mon, someone out there has those suckers, post em!).
I'd almost be more interested in having these numbers just to find out if they're on the national DNC registry....
While I understand, and, in most cases, share your view here, the problem is the "winner take all" election system we have in most of the states. It ensures that, regardless how the vote was split in a given state, 100% of that state's votes are applied to the candidate with the most votes in that state.
In most elections, I have had no care whether the election was won by Democrate or Republican. I found both candidates to be equally repulsive in most past elections. For this reason, I voted Libertarian or Green, depending on specifics, because I knew, deep down, that either a Democrat or a Replublican was going to win the election, and assumed that either would be equally bad.
This upcoming election, however, is different. I think that it is vitally important to the well-being of this nation that George W Bush no longer occupy the Oval Office. I feel this is more important than the ideologies that normally govern my vote. What we have here is an emergency situation, wherein we must band together under one banner in order to surgically remove this cancer that currently occupies our government. Attempting to do so under the Green or Libertarian flag would be a classic David vs. Goliath fight, but Goliath would win.
We cannot allow that. The only way to deal with this is to make it a Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, not a David vs. Goliath. Yes, much of what we hold dear will be flattened, burned or torn up, but the crisis will be allowed to pass.
This year, for the first time, and hopefully the only time, I will vote Democrat, not because I like the Democratic candidate (whoever that might be), but because I find George W Bush unsuitable for public office.
"The operator said there were legal concerns that have held up the release of the licenses," Sandine said. "I was told that as soon as the concerns are resolved and the licenses are released for purchase, the sales staff will begin returning calls."
I wonder if these legal concerns would have anything to do with the fact that SCO owns neither Linux nor UNIX?!?
There are viable solar projects running in New York and Maine. I have specced one out myself for my home in upstate New York. It will produce (when completed) approximate 24kWh on the shortest day of the year, and 40kWh on the longest day. It is feasible.
Wind and hydro projects, on the other hand, while they may release higher energy output, are also very high maintenance. Wind is further complicated by the increased liklihood of storm damage, and the lower predictability of output.
Yes, cloudy days are an issue for solar. They are not, however, as big of an issue as you might think. From the outset, you have to "derate" solar panels to about 80% of their rated output to accomodate inefficiencies that result from the panels heating up. On cloudy days, they don't heat up as much, and so are more efficient. This makes up for most of the reduced sunlight hitting the panel. Partly cloudy days are the real bitch.
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Oh my god, will you look at that! It's a real, live, audiofilus elitus my-system-cost-twenty-times-what-yours-did-so-it-i s-twenty-times-betterus! They're very rare! I absolutely hate the little fuckers!
(apologies to JoeCartoon)
Seriously, now. It's great that you enjoy your $1000 speakers. I'm sure they outperform this $800 speaker. I am also sure that the setup I described with $800 worth of bookshelf speakers and a sub will also outperform the "one" speaker system, which, you will recall, is the topic of this thread.
BTW, did you perform double-blind tests before buying? If not, I'd wager you paid way too much.
If IBM et al. pulverize SCO in court first, then the cost of the buyout will be much lower.
For $800, you can buy four or five reasonably nice bookshelf speakers and a subwoofer (and even get change back!), and placement, although still important, is not downright critical.
As for the psychoacoustic trick, it's not a new one. It is really the same thing as two-speaker surround, it is just that the two speakers are in one enclosure. Yes, yes, it has five. That sounds like two tweeters, two mids and a woofer.... not that I've been able to find a grill-off picture of it anywhere to confirm this....
Not to mention the fact that a number of users are likely to actuall break the cart just to get it to shut the hell up!
How long before everything is IMAX
Very long time. IMAX runs film that is 2X the width, with the film running horizontally (another 2X multiplier) at 48 frames per second (2X the frame rate of 35mm). That makes the cost 8X what it would have been in 35mm.
...then there is the cost of the equipment, and of refitting all of the 35mm cinemas for IMAX.
Of course, there is also the fact that running the film through the projector at that high speed also increases the damage that can be done if the equipment is out of spec or operated by an undertrained minimum-wage earner (this should not be taken as a slight against those who earn minimum wage, rather against those who pay it).
since we can approximate the current movie setups with our wide screens and dvds?
Not yet, you can't! DVD's have approximately the resolution of 16mm film. it sure beats VHS, but the cinemas still have the ace card. Until I can put in a media object (don't care if it is a disc, tape, ROM or what) and have it display at nX1080 and then run that through a line doubler to get a 1080p image, and set n to a value appropriate to the actual aspect ratio of the film (I should never have to look at letterboxes again, even if the film is shot in 2.1:1, as The Matrix and Lord of the Rings were) I haven't recreated the cinema experience.
My wife tells me I make some damned good popcorn, though!
You beat me!
I have a firewall/web server running on a 486DX4@133. It has run 24X7 since about 2001, except when I have left on vacation.
Additionally, I have about four friends using it on a daily basis as a web proxy.
Incidentally, the last time I went on vacation, I shut down all of my machines (a rarity). This one is the one that gave me the least trouble coming back up. My workstation, on the other hand, lost a hard drive in the process.
Sorry, brain fart.
It has been deregulated in that the rules have been reduced. The rules have not, however, been abolished, it is therefore not unregulated.
Previous major outage affecting the NYC metro area: 25 July 1977
Most recent outage affecting NYC metro area: 14 August 2003
Duration of most recent outage: Total hours between 26 July 1977 and 14 august 2003: 228360.
1 - Duration of outage divided by time between failures: 0.999868. Looks pretty close to five nines to me!
At the State University of New York (SUNY) at Alfred, on the VAX cluster there, running VMS, connected to BITNet and SUNYnet and a small, multiuniversity network running the DECnet protocol, there was a SEND command which would send what would accurately be called an instant message to any participant currently logged in on any system on one of these three networks. We even had some 'bots that could answer back and take messages. This was in 1989. Sorry Microsoft, you are at least 14 years late.
They don't have to "accept" it. It will be there if they accept it or not. They just need to understand that if they don't adapt to it, regardless of whether or not they "accept" it, it will flatten them.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Improvements in the software could add support for USTDMA, iDEN, CDMA, and maybe even AMPS/TACS (analogue) phones, making the specific phone architecture irrelevant, and ending the existing format war.
An additional benefit is this: If service is made available to emergency services (which was implied), then the emergency services can get access to better networking than they do now. Of course, the inherent risk in outsourcing the network must be weighed.
Regardless of what the outcome of the court is, all cable companies are required to get the permission of the localities in order to operate. Such permission is called a franchise. Franchises are the reason why we have public access channels--the localities demanded it as a condition of receiving a franchise.
So where I am going with this is this: The localities could easily decide, when the franchises come up for renewal, to make it a condition of the renewal that at least n ISP's be allowed to use the cable system to connect to the customers. For that matter, the franchise agreement could even name ISP's, with a stipulation that the cable provider not try to buy them out.
Just my $.02 worth....
Get a smaller car, you insensitive clod!
The site is still up for now, but how long will it last?
About five minutes after posting on Slashdot....
While I grant that Macintoshes, Amigas, Ataris, Commodore 64's & 128's and VIC-20's et al are personal computers, they are not Personal Computers. If you didn't understand that sentence, reread it, paying careful attention to capitalization. IBM produced a product called a Personal Computer, abbreviated PC. Others cloned it. These are PC's, even though competing architectures may also be pc's. A 64-bit pc, such as a high-end Mac, is not a 64-bit PC by virtue of not being a PC, but a pc.
Got it?
You would know better if you RTFA!
I have tried to access a nonexistent domain through several different routes, and in all cases, it times out. And before you ask, yes, the name resolves to (what else?) 64.94.110.11.
Doh! I should proofread more carefully. Strike that first sentence and replace it with, "Again, I emphasize, the ouster of Dubya is critically urgent."
Again, I emphasize, the ouster of Dubya is critically important and urgent.
Note that I say urgent, not important.
Electoral reform is much more important, and the most recent presidential election highlighted this fact. Right now, however, we have a bull in the china shop. It is more urgent that we get the bull out, rather than pontificate about how to keep the next bull from getting in. We can worry about bull-proofing the china shop after we have this bull out.
Oh, Pshaw! I expect we'll reach 70 or 80 comments before someone thinks to post the home phone numbers of various telemarketing company's CEOs (hint, hint, c'mon, someone out there has those suckers, post em!).
I'd almost be more interested in having these numbers just to find out if they're on the national DNC registry....
While I understand, and, in most cases, share your view here, the problem is the "winner take all" election system we have in most of the states. It ensures that, regardless how the vote was split in a given state, 100% of that state's votes are applied to the candidate with the most votes in that state.
In most elections, I have had no care whether the election was won by Democrate or Republican. I found both candidates to be equally repulsive in most past elections. For this reason, I voted Libertarian or Green, depending on specifics, because I knew, deep down, that either a Democrat or a Replublican was going to win the election, and assumed that either would be equally bad.
This upcoming election, however, is different. I think that it is vitally important to the well-being of this nation that George W Bush no longer occupy the Oval Office. I feel this is more important than the ideologies that normally govern my vote. What we have here is an emergency situation, wherein we must band together under one banner in order to surgically remove this cancer that currently occupies our government. Attempting to do so under the Green or Libertarian flag would be a classic David vs. Goliath fight, but Goliath would win.
We cannot allow that. The only way to deal with this is to make it a Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, not a David vs. Goliath. Yes, much of what we hold dear will be flattened, burned or torn up, but the crisis will be allowed to pass.
This year, for the first time, and hopefully the only time, I will vote Democrat, not because I like the Democratic candidate (whoever that might be), but because I find George W Bush unsuitable for public office.
"The operator said there were legal concerns that have held up the release of the licenses," Sandine said. "I was told that as soon as the concerns are resolved and the licenses are released for purchase, the sales staff will begin returning calls."
I wonder if these legal concerns would have anything to do with the fact that SCO owns neither Linux nor UNIX?!?
Follow the links, it's all there.
You go here.
There are viable solar projects running in New York and Maine. I have specced one out myself for my home in upstate New York. It will produce (when completed) approximate 24kWh on the shortest day of the year, and 40kWh on the longest day. It is feasible.
Wind and hydro projects, on the other hand, while they may release higher energy output, are also very high maintenance. Wind is further complicated by the increased liklihood of storm damage, and the lower predictability of output.
Yes, cloudy days are an issue for solar. They are not, however, as big of an issue as you might think. From the outset, you have to "derate" solar panels to about 80% of their rated output to accomodate inefficiencies that result from the panels heating up. On cloudy days, they don't heat up as much, and so are more efficient. This makes up for most of the reduced sunlight hitting the panel. Partly cloudy days are the real bitch.