With this rebate, the price goes down from $2000+ to $1900+ ($60x12x2+the purchase price+charges for use beyond your plan). The rebate (and the price drop) don't seem so significant anymore.
FTFS: 700 watt-hours... -- enough to light a 100-watt bulb for seven hours
Did the submitter honestly expect the/. crowd not to be able to work that one out for themselves? This site's tagline is "news for nerds", not airheads.
Apple offers a remote with next/previous/volume up/down/pause buttons [1]. That's the bare minimum. What's needed is a function to select playlists; some in-car solutions assign the numerical buttons to playlists but then you end up with only the first 6 playlists being accessible from the interface. What would be useful is a function to select the next/previous playlist.
I've been experimenting with this for a while now. My car has a CD changer, the head unit can play MP3 CDs and it has an iPod input. I found I prefer the CD options over the iPod, mostly because I know the folder structure of an MP3 CD (or the stack in the CD changer) completely so I can navigate it without looking, and because I have an easy way to change between folders/disks (similar to a next/previous playlist function).
1: unfortunately, the remote takes up the dock slot on the iPod, so you can't use the remote while docking the iPod (e.g. for use in a car). I haven't seen any dock splitters yet.
Close, but no cigar. Valve amps sound 'warm' due to distortion, but this has nothing to do with clipping. Valves produce harmonic distortion at different frequencies than transistors (even vs. uneven harmonics, I forget which produces which). This causes the 'warm' tubes vs. 'cold' transistors sound difference. Your description of valves clipping more pleasantly is correct, but only relevant for things like guitar amps. Home audio equipment is rarely driven with out-of-bounds signals.
It might have been available at the time, but nobody I knew used it. The school computers didn't run Windows yet, and computers capable of running Windows 3.1 were new and expensive.
Back in 1993 when I got my first computer (Mac LC II) with ClarisWorks 2.0, my classmates were struggling with PCs running MS-DOS (oh, horror) and WordPerfect 5.1 (a steaming pile of excrement compared to ClarisWorks). Interapplication communication, PC-style, meant printing your shit and then cutting and pasting the hard way, with glue and scissors. My smugness knew no bounds...
It was brilliant. The only "works" package that didn't suck. Its integrated approach, with text processing, spreadsheet, drawing and database modules in a single application program was rather elegant. For quickly throwing together a document that needs all of those, I still haven't seen anything that beats it.
1. Cryptonomicon-style, with a big coil embedded in the door frame of the room where the server was stored (question is, would that even work, without using an MRI as the coil) 2. with a brick of thermite on a proximity detonator inserted into the case 3. boring ol' cryptography
It's bad enough we've got politicians and pundits hyperventilating over "think what the terrorists could do with [insert new technology/newly-public information/whatever]". Now I've got to endure it from/. posters as well? Terrorism is still vaporware, on the whole. Wake me up when terrorist attacks in the US become as frequent as, say IRA bombings were in the UK a couple decades ago.
I can't find the paper yet at pnas.org, and as usual, TFA is light on details. Where and how is the energy stored? Capacitance between individual nanotubes? Or between sides of the paper? Or a chemical process?
What happens when you fold the paper? Wouldn't you short-circuit it?
How well does the carbon adhere to the paper? Pencil strokes always flake off a bit over time.
Meaning, why doesnt Boeing have their own hospital?
Why would they? It's (as always) a matter of cost vs. benefit. Is the healthcare in the area so bad that it's worthwhile for a company to open its own hospital? Shenzen is a new city, perhaps decent healthcare wasn't available when Hon Hai started their business there. Boeing was started in a long-established city.
And that's just as dogmatic as the GP, just going the other way. Sound quality is a continuum: you can keep improving a sound system by throwing money at it. Diminishing returns do apply, and at the high end there's lots of bullshit to wade through. Not all components show the same amount of improvement for X amount of dollars: the quality curve flattens for CD players and amplifiers sooner than for loudspeakers.
$100 does not get you a 'very good' pair of full-range speakers. I recently tried buying a set of inexpensive speakers for use with my computer; I listened to about 15 sets in the $100-1000/pair price range. All $100 sets sounded horrible. Sound quality generally improved with price, but rather nonlinearly. Personal preference also plays an important role here. The least expensive loudspeakers I could live with were a $200/pair set of bookshelf speakers. Full-range loudspeakers at that price offered more frequency range, but had a very uneven frequency response. Decent full-range speakers started at about $400/pair, iirc.
For $100 you can get an amplifier with 0.02% THD, which is about as good as you can get
Amplifier quality is about more than just THD. THD and noise are easy to get good specs on. Things like phase response and crossover distortion are much more difficult (=expensive) to get right.
Wow. Over here, companies use direct bank transfers to pay their workers' salaries, and have done so for at least 30 years now. I've no need to ever carry large amounts of cash or cash-analogue paper (checks).
Is the US banking industry really that backward? How come?
I could be mistaken, but I don't remember the Japanese getting into the 'cheap ripoff' business, certainly not to the extent the Chinese are.
So far, I've found one instance where a Japanese company copied others' designs (Datsun built a copy of the Austin Seven in the 1930s). That's way before Japan's rise as a manufacturing giant. Even the first generation Japanese cars that were exported were original designs. Japanese products became popular because they were inexpensive (on cars, "all the options were standard"), and because they were well-built and reliable (at a time when the British motorcycle industry and the US motor industry were building crap). Electronics were a similar story.
They killed FrameMaker on the Mac by putting out version 5.5, which was a buggy POS which had the misfortune of coming smack dab in the middle of the 68k/PPC transition. This meant the OS (version 7.5 at that time) threw a Type 11 error at the slightest provocation, so every FrameMaker crash resulted in having to restart the entire machine. We went from mostly-Mac to all-Windows because of that debacle, and we won't have been the only ones.
FrameMaker is still alive for Windows and Solaris (in fact, they've just published a new version). It's still one of the very few usable and affordable tools for producing large documents.
Well, if they're providing the data to someone who's using mythtv, it's quite possible that that person won't be watching the advertising.
That's quite possible regardless of the hardware in use. I've still got a VHS VCR, and I skip all commercials. I've hardly watched any live TV for about 10 years now. MythTV makes this a bit more likely, but then again, so does any harddisc recorder available today.
Besides, the scheduling information isn't what makes it easy to skip commercials.
The networks normally present their schedule in an ad-laden format (at least TV guides over here are always full of ads). They probably don't want to lose that revenue.
Almost. They've announced two keyboards: a small (laptop layout, more or less) BT keyboard, and a full-size wired keyboard that looks like the Engadget photos.
"On the morning of Steve Jobs's keynote presentation, the online Apple store grinds to a halt as Mac-heads set their browsers to refresh every 15 seconds."
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If you are going to outsource code, do it to someplace with blackjack, and hookers. The Netherlands,
There, fixed that for you.
With this rebate, the price goes down from $2000+ to $1900+ ($60x12x2+the purchase price+charges for use beyond your plan). The rebate (and the price drop) don't seem so significant anymore.
FTFS: 700 watt-hours... -- enough to light a 100-watt bulb for seven hours
/. crowd not to be able to work that one out for themselves? This site's tagline is "news for nerds", not airheads.
Did the submitter honestly expect the
Yes (except for the A in "then", of course)
Apple offers a remote with next/previous/volume up/down/pause buttons [1]. That's the bare minimum.
What's needed is a function to select playlists; some in-car solutions assign the numerical buttons to playlists but then you end up with only the first 6 playlists being accessible from the interface.
What would be useful is a function to select the next/previous playlist.
I've been experimenting with this for a while now. My car has a CD changer, the head unit can play MP3 CDs and it has an iPod input. I found I prefer the CD options over the iPod, mostly because I know the folder structure of an MP3 CD (or the stack in the CD changer) completely so I can navigate it without looking, and because I have an easy way to change between folders/disks (similar to a next/previous playlist function).
1: unfortunately, the remote takes up the dock slot on the iPod, so you can't use the remote while docking the iPod (e.g. for use in a car). I haven't seen any dock splitters yet.
When anyone approaches it, move the robot away from the person and shout "No disassemble!"
Close, but no cigar. Valve amps sound 'warm' due to distortion, but this has nothing to do with clipping. Valves produce harmonic distortion at different frequencies than transistors (even vs. uneven harmonics, I forget which produces which). This causes the 'warm' tubes vs. 'cold' transistors sound difference.
Your description of valves clipping more pleasantly is correct, but only relevant for things like guitar amps. Home audio equipment is rarely driven with out-of-bounds signals.
It might have been available at the time, but nobody I knew used it. The school computers didn't run Windows yet, and computers capable of running Windows 3.1 were new and expensive.
Back in 1993 when I got my first computer (Mac LC II) with ClarisWorks 2.0, my classmates were struggling with PCs running MS-DOS (oh, horror) and WordPerfect 5.1 (a steaming pile of excrement compared to ClarisWorks). Interapplication communication, PC-style, meant printing your shit and then cutting and pasting the hard way, with glue and scissors.
My smugness knew no bounds...
It was brilliant. The only "works" package that didn't suck.
Its integrated approach, with text processing, spreadsheet, drawing and database modules in a single application program was rather elegant. For quickly throwing together a document that needs all of those, I still haven't seen anything that beats it.
1. Cryptonomicon-style, with a big coil embedded in the door frame of the room where the server was stored (question is, would that even work, without using an MRI as the coil)
2. with a brick of thermite on a proximity detonator inserted into the case
3. boring ol' cryptography
does it flux?
It's bad enough we've got politicians and pundits hyperventilating over "think what the terrorists could do with [insert new technology/newly-public information/whatever]". Now I've got to endure it from /. posters as well? Terrorism is still vaporware, on the whole. Wake me up when terrorist attacks in the US become as frequent as, say IRA bombings were in the UK a couple decades ago.
Think of the things you can do with a paper airplane...
I can't find the paper yet at pnas.org, and as usual, TFA is light on details. Where and how is the energy stored? Capacitance between individual nanotubes? Or between sides of the paper? Or a chemical process?
What happens when you fold the paper? Wouldn't you short-circuit it?
How well does the carbon adhere to the paper? Pencil strokes always flake off a bit over time.
Meaning, why doesnt Boeing have their own hospital?
Why would they? It's (as always) a matter of cost vs. benefit. Is the healthcare in the area so bad that it's worthwhile for a company to open its own hospital? Shenzen is a new city, perhaps decent healthcare wasn't available when Hon Hai started their business there. Boeing was started in a long-established city.
which is about as good as you can get,
And that's just as dogmatic as the GP, just going the other way. Sound quality is a continuum: you can keep improving a sound system by throwing money at it. Diminishing returns do apply, and at the high end there's lots of bullshit to wade through. Not all components show the same amount of improvement for X amount of dollars: the quality curve flattens for CD players and amplifiers sooner than for loudspeakers.
$100 does not get you a 'very good' pair of full-range speakers. I recently tried buying a set of inexpensive speakers for use with my computer; I listened to about 15 sets in the $100-1000/pair price range. All $100 sets sounded horrible. Sound quality generally improved with price, but rather nonlinearly. Personal preference also plays an important role here.
The least expensive loudspeakers I could live with were a $200/pair set of bookshelf speakers. Full-range loudspeakers at that price offered more frequency range, but had a very uneven frequency response. Decent full-range speakers started at about $400/pair, iirc.
For $100 you can get an amplifier with 0.02% THD, which is about as good as you can get
Amplifier quality is about more than just THD. THD and noise are easy to get good specs on. Things like phase response and crossover distortion are much more difficult (=expensive) to get right.
Wow. Over here, companies use direct bank transfers to pay their workers' salaries, and have done so for at least 30 years now. I've no need to ever carry large amounts of cash or cash-analogue paper (checks).
Is the US banking industry really that backward? How come?
I could be mistaken, but I don't remember the Japanese getting into the 'cheap ripoff' business, certainly not to the extent the Chinese are.
So far, I've found one instance where a Japanese company copied others' designs (Datsun built a copy of the Austin Seven in the 1930s). That's way before Japan's rise as a manufacturing giant.
Even the first generation Japanese cars that were exported were original designs. Japanese products became popular because they were inexpensive (on cars, "all the options were standard"), and because they were well-built and reliable (at a time when the British motorcycle industry and the US motor industry were building crap). Electronics were a similar story.
They killed FrameMaker on the Mac by putting out version 5.5, which was a buggy POS which had the misfortune of coming smack dab in the middle of the 68k/PPC transition. This meant the OS (version 7.5 at that time) threw a Type 11 error at the slightest provocation, so every FrameMaker crash resulted in having to restart the entire machine. We went from mostly-Mac to all-Windows because of that debacle, and we won't have been the only ones.
FrameMaker is still alive for Windows and Solaris (in fact, they've just published a new version). It's still one of the very few usable and affordable tools for producing large documents.
That's not so bad. It's the urge to take over the world that really causes problems.
Well, if they're providing the data to someone who's using mythtv, it's quite possible that that person won't be watching the advertising.
That's quite possible regardless of the hardware in use. I've still got a VHS VCR, and I skip all commercials. I've hardly watched any live TV for about 10 years now. MythTV makes this a bit more likely, but then again, so does any harddisc recorder available today.
Besides, the scheduling information isn't what makes it easy to skip commercials.
The networks normally present their schedule in an ad-laden format (at least TV guides over here are always full of ads). They probably don't want to lose that revenue.
Almost. They've announced two keyboards: a small (laptop layout, more or less) BT keyboard, and a full-size wired keyboard that looks like the Engadget photos.
"On the morning of Steve Jobs's keynote presentation, the online Apple store grinds to a halt as Mac-heads set their browsers to refresh every 15 seconds."
(from the Apple Product Life Cycle)
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What? Sticking something into a blender is NC-17 now? Crazy Americans...