What's logic got to do with it? The fear of death/will to live is not logical, so talking about die in 10 vs die in 15 and then say "logically analyze" is silly.
Protons are expected to decay at around 10^35 year half-life, so your atom won't be around forever. In 10^100 all blackholes would be evaporated, so so much for that as well. All that's left is unstructured energy (QM will smooth out any structure over large enough timescales). The only structure would be on Hubble volume scales, where space between regions is expanding too fast for light-speed information to cause homogenization, but that's not very useful in terms of efficiency, and you can't use it to do work (in the physics sense of the word) to sustain life or whatever.
If protons don't decay, the timescales above are much larger but quantum tunneling will still cause the same end result.
If you move one end of the wormhole relativistically, it will time-lag from the other and you can use the wormhole to travel to the past, and again this causes paradoxes (say you come out of the lagging end before you go in the other one and kill yourself before entering). Wormholes also don't work out for other reasons (need negative energy to keep it open).
They say it's patent pending, but I can't find the patent application on the USPTO site. Anyone have better luck? I'm just curious how the hell they deal with the incoherency of secondary rays.
I've never seen a 16 bit DAC chip that was linear to the least significant bit. In the case of typical CD players, the jitter is worse.
24 bit is even further from the optimum. A high end chip like AD1955 is linear to about -120 dBFS over a wide range instead of the -144 theoretical limit, and that's only with a clock that has under 0.5 picosecond jitter (at 96 kHz sampling rate)--maybe 0.1% of players out there have such specs.
It is overkill in a typical, but not all, cases. There are a couple of issues that this report does not address. The hearing range of a human ear is 120 dB (a classical orchestra will have peak transients approaching that), and a CD can only get to that that in narrow subsets of the full frequency range and with aggressive noise-shaped dithering (undithered is only 86 dB). Now, in most listening environments, the noise floor of the environment will be at the very least 10 dB, usually 20, but it is worth noting that the ear can hear signals below the noise floor by a good 6 dB, if those signals are sufficiently narrow in bandwidth. Moreover, when noise-isolating in-ear-canal headphones, such as Etymotic or Sure ones, are used, the environmental noise floor goes down significantly.
I remember reading about testing Benchmark did that surprised them when listeners preferred systems with artificially increased jitter, which they apparently perceived as microdetails. This all makes me think that it is unfortunate people no longer listen to acoustically-produced music. Just like with video games, and in the future VR, it's yet another way we distance ourselves from reality.
I'm also an audiophile, but an engineer as well, and I should point out that the supposed benefit of the cone-shaped legs has been completely disproved.
The hell are you talking about? Records have a dynamic range rarely going above 70 dB. Even the 16-bit CD exceeds that by 16 dB, and much more when noise-shaped dither is used. You need to stop listening to crappily mastered, compressed dynamic range music, and the improvement that the extended dynamic range of a CD becomes immediately apparent.
The way he should have worded it is that certain methods of extraction (and parameters used in that method) maximize flavors in coffee found pleasant by most of the population (chocolaty, fruity, etc.) and minimize those that are unpleasant (bitterness, etc.)--there was a good SciAm article a while back identifying the various relevant aromatic compounds and the differential extraction rates at different temperatures and pressures.
French press is worse than good drip coffee because it has too much silt getting through the coarse metal filter. The best of the cheap paths to coffee (i.e. not espresso) is the Aero Press, which uses very fine paper filters.
Probably the same things will happen with video games (and, in the near future, virtual reality), as people will more and more prefer it to the real world. While my area of work is in computer graphics, I am ethically opposed to this trend, and I very much see the issue in this article as yet another facet of it.
You'd be surprised at the amount of pure acoustical music still being performed. For example, here in Vancouver, there is every night live acoustical jazz performances at varioius venues, and classical concerts at least weekly. But even in the case of music produced with the help of electronics, the point is that playback equipment should not be a musical instrument, since it's not controlled by the artist.
A vacuum triode is a more linear voltage gain device than a transistor. It's the distortion of output transformers people are listening to in the typical tube amp. Use electrostatic or other low current/high voltage speakers driven directly by tubes, and a properly constructed tube amp can exhibit distortion in the parts per million--just as a high end transistor based amp. The place where tubes really do have a big advantage is their lack of thermal memory effects at audio frequencies (temperature modulates gain, and is in turn affected by the signal); this is difficult to design around with transistor amps.
Conservatives are simply suspicious of those trying to provoke empathy, since in most cases the goal of said attempt is an emotional wedge in promoting a socialist redistribution of wealth.
Much of the flavor in coffee is from its oils. When used coffee grounds sit for not too long (less than an hour), the remaining oils start turning rancid and shortly you will find your printed items to have a rather unpleasant odor that persists a long time.
As the sensitivity of tests increases, I fear we will end up in a situation where everyone is diagnosed with some disorder or other. There is no longer "average"...
I'm surprised at the polarized opinions here. Personaly, I find there are good and bad points almost equally on both sides. This sort of labor protectionism is a complex issue full of grays; anyone claiming to know the right balance point is being intellectually dishonest.
"I think it is often the more patriotic act to defy your government, than to obey it without thinking."
Note that there's at least as much truth to saying "I think it is often the more patriotic act to obey your government, than to defy it without thinking." Most people I know that hold libertarian and anarchist views do so more to be hip or are being reactionary, despite fooling themselves to the contrary.
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What's logic got to do with it? The fear of death/will to live is not logical, so talking about die in 10 vs die in 15 and then say "logically analyze" is silly.
Uh, there is Walmart in Canada, and I have seen them advertise on TV. So it's definitely not a sign one is watching a US channel.
It doesn't "give" money. It transfers them from holders of money, because the creation of this money fosters future inflation.
The authors are Italian too... talk about wiseguys! :P
But seriously, I skimmed the paper and it's not a joke.
Protons are expected to decay at around 10^35 year half-life, so your atom won't be around forever. In 10^100 all blackholes would be evaporated, so so much for that as well. All that's left is unstructured energy (QM will smooth out any structure over large enough timescales). The only structure would be on Hubble volume scales, where space between regions is expanding too fast for light-speed information to cause homogenization, but that's not very useful in terms of efficiency, and you can't use it to do work (in the physics sense of the word) to sustain life or whatever. If protons don't decay, the timescales above are much larger but quantum tunneling will still cause the same end result.
If you move one end of the wormhole relativistically, it will time-lag from the other and you can use the wormhole to travel to the past, and again this causes paradoxes (say you come out of the lagging end before you go in the other one and kill yourself before entering). Wormholes also don't work out for other reasons (need negative energy to keep it open).
They say it's patent pending, but I can't find the patent application on the USPTO site. Anyone have better luck? I'm just curious how the hell they deal with the incoherency of secondary rays.
I've never seen a 16 bit DAC chip that was linear to the least significant bit. In the case of typical CD players, the jitter is worse. 24 bit is even further from the optimum. A high end chip like AD1955 is linear to about -120 dBFS over a wide range instead of the -144 theoretical limit, and that's only with a clock that has under 0.5 picosecond jitter (at 96 kHz sampling rate)--maybe 0.1% of players out there have such specs.
It is overkill in a typical, but not all, cases. There are a couple of issues that this report does not address. The hearing range of a human ear is 120 dB (a classical orchestra will have peak transients approaching that), and a CD can only get to that that in narrow subsets of the full frequency range and with aggressive noise-shaped dithering (undithered is only 86 dB). Now, in most listening environments, the noise floor of the environment will be at the very least 10 dB, usually 20, but it is worth noting that the ear can hear signals below the noise floor by a good 6 dB, if those signals are sufficiently narrow in bandwidth. Moreover, when noise-isolating in-ear-canal headphones, such as Etymotic or Sure ones, are used, the environmental noise floor goes down significantly.
I remember reading about testing Benchmark did that surprised them when listeners preferred systems with artificially increased jitter, which they apparently perceived as microdetails. This all makes me think that it is unfortunate people no longer listen to acoustically-produced music. Just like with video games, and in the future VR, it's yet another way we distance ourselves from reality.
I'm also an audiophile, but an engineer as well, and I should point out that the supposed benefit of the cone-shaped legs has been completely disproved.
The hell are you talking about? Records have a dynamic range rarely going above 70 dB. Even the 16-bit CD exceeds that by 16 dB, and much more when noise-shaped dither is used. You need to stop listening to crappily mastered, compressed dynamic range music, and the improvement that the extended dynamic range of a CD becomes immediately apparent.
The way he should have worded it is that certain methods of extraction (and parameters used in that method) maximize flavors in coffee found pleasant by most of the population (chocolaty, fruity, etc.) and minimize those that are unpleasant (bitterness, etc.)--there was a good SciAm article a while back identifying the various relevant aromatic compounds and the differential extraction rates at different temperatures and pressures.
Disclaimer: I'm a coffee snob.
French press is worse than good drip coffee because it has too much silt getting through the coarse metal filter. The best of the cheap paths to coffee (i.e. not espresso) is the Aero Press, which uses very fine paper filters.
Probably the same things will happen with video games (and, in the near future, virtual reality), as people will more and more prefer it to the real world. While my area of work is in computer graphics, I am ethically opposed to this trend, and I very much see the issue in this article as yet another facet of it.
You'd be surprised at the amount of pure acoustical music still being performed. For example, here in Vancouver, there is every night live acoustical jazz performances at varioius venues, and classical concerts at least weekly. But even in the case of music produced with the help of electronics, the point is that playback equipment should not be a musical instrument, since it's not controlled by the artist.
A vacuum triode is a more linear voltage gain device than a transistor. It's the distortion of output transformers people are listening to in the typical tube amp. Use electrostatic or other low current/high voltage speakers driven directly by tubes, and a properly constructed tube amp can exhibit distortion in the parts per million--just as a high end transistor based amp. The place where tubes really do have a big advantage is their lack of thermal memory effects at audio frequencies (temperature modulates gain, and is in turn affected by the signal); this is difficult to design around with transistor amps.
Conservatives are simply suspicious of those trying to provoke empathy, since in most cases the goal of said attempt is an emotional wedge in promoting a socialist redistribution of wealth.
Much of the flavor in coffee is from its oils. When used coffee grounds sit for not too long (less than an hour), the remaining oils start turning rancid and shortly you will find your printed items to have a rather unpleasant odor that persists a long time.
You don't say...
Hey, where do I find this 'fanfic' you speak of?
As the sensitivity of tests increases, I fear we will end up in a situation where everyone is diagnosed with some disorder or other. There is no longer "average"...
I'm surprised at the polarized opinions here. Personaly, I find there are good and bad points almost equally on both sides. This sort of labor protectionism is a complex issue full of grays; anyone claiming to know the right balance point is being intellectually dishonest.
It's their tourism promotional marketing!
"I think it is often the more patriotic act to defy your government, than to obey it without thinking." Note that there's at least as much truth to saying "I think it is often the more patriotic act to obey your government, than to defy it without thinking." Most people I know that hold libertarian and anarchist views do so more to be hip or are being reactionary, despite fooling themselves to the contrary.
And you use terms like "evil". Enough said.