You are correct, I should have pointed out this is of course no good for a digital signal. I should also have pointed out other makes of audio compressor are available and probably of a much higher quality, but Behringer stuff is nice and cheap. It does the job.
Until I read this I'd completely forgotten about that little squeal that was always in the background when the Speccy was on - I suspect it was the quartz oscillator.
It got such a problem for us I just bought a cheapish Behringer audio compressor (volume compression, not data!), strapped it across the TV audio output and in to my amplifier. Set the controls and forgot about it. Works incredibly well.
I don't think it is worth the (huge) investment in re-charging infrastructure yet. Electric vehicles are too expensive at the moment, and when you add in 'well, if there's nowhere to charge, I'm not going to buy an all electric' there's the chicken and egg problem of no market to support said infrastructure.... Even if you have charging stations nearby, you have to wait a considerable time for a full charge. A journey of several hundred miles/kilometres would have a lot of 'wasted' time tacked onto it, which is unacceptable for most people (unless they are on some sort of touring holiday). Also, as someone has remarked above the size and weight of the current battery tech pretty much practically rules out swapping stations. IMHO, I think we should just spend more money for now focussing solely on the underlying battery technology rather than the cars or the infrastructure. Once we get ultracapacitor tech (or whatever the solution may end up being) nailed a lot of the infrastructure problems should go away, without perhaps having lost money on infrastructure 1.0 (for instance battery swap out stations, or the current 'long charge' types)
You sound VERY unlucky with your HP hardware. Have you checked how clean your power supply is recently? My HP has lasted since 2003 (still in use daily). I bought it a new mouse recently.
See GP - 'The ONLY people that drive BMW's' (my emphasis). That's what I'm responding to. Of course there are jerks in BMW's, and as a reply has already said, it does seem to attract a certain type of person, but not all of us are dicks. Or at least I try very hard not to be...
Hate to respond to such an obvious troll, but I keep hearing this well worn trope about BMW drivers. I think you will find there are dickheads behind the wheels of all makes of cars. Yes I own a BMW, I am not a middle manager, have earned my own money and I always use my indicators and let people out of side turnings on a daily basis. But, you know, keep propagating the sweeping generalisation...
I graduated with first class honours in 1997 in EE engineering. I found once I got into the design side of things (IRL work) that whilst you could put someone else's HW/SW in front of me and I could work it out down to the bare metal, asking me to build the same from a spec was a different matter - I quickly realised I just don't have the mindset. I did however find I did very well at evangelising technology, and it has served me well to date in several sales and marketing roles since. Now I know S&M is a dirty phrase on/. (for many reasons) but the fact of the matter is engineers would have no jobs if there was no-one to market their hard work, but there would be no need for marketing if there were no talented engineers (and I have known and respected many - by the way there are some shit engineers out there on a par with the shit 'marketdroids', as we are known). The fact of the matter is that there are shades of skill in tech, and after all is taken into account we all rely on each other. One thing I have noticed is the 'playboy' CEO's who only give a fuck where their next yacht is coming from. Those people need weeding out, but as they say, shit always floats.
Sorry - new build machine, didn't mean to AC...
In this order I have become addicted to the following on a pretty much full time basis: Tobacco, Alcohol and the 60mg Prozac I have to take a day to deal with life.
Before anyone comments on the Prozac/Drugs cycle - I've suffered depression forever, long before I tried anything I 'shouldn't have'.. But I have no regrets on the whole - but weirdly alcohol takes responsibility for 99.9% of those regrets I truly do. Yes less drugs over the years may well have made a difference, but too late to know for sure now.
Putting that aside..
E? Can't really handle the stuff. Love it, but I've embarrassed myself on more than one occasion as more than one or at most two pills is too much for me. I end up trying to tell peoples ankles how much I love them.
Tried Ketamine a couple of years ago. I suspect I did too much at the time (it being my first and all) but I won't give that a second chance. 'Being in the closet talking to God' is the most accurate description I've heard of anything, ever.
Cocaine? Had a bit of a fling with it around 2005-2006, but got over that. Just in time, I think. Still like the odd nosebleed but always end up with a porn bill.
Could smoke pot for the UK Olympic team, but then I don't smoke skunk anymore.
LSD? Never had a bad trip personally and I swear it has unlocked parts of my mind that would never have been accessible otherwise. I genuinely feel a more rounded person for the times I've taken it (maybe 15 times over the past 23 years?)
I drink and smoke every day. Now tell me what is the most damaging drug? I wake up every day hacking my lungs up due to 'light' cigarrettes, ans surely at 20 a day I'd hardly be considered heavy, even by today's standards. Having said that, it's always horses for courses. If it wasn't, Slashdot probably would have burnt itself out through too much agreement a long time ago.
I find it hard to get LSD nowadays but I would trip for the next week if it meant giving up the crap I currently find myself spending too much on and really actually damaging my health with.
Very much so - but no points to mod you up I'm afraid.
Some will adapt and survive, some will die, alternate strategies or not. And there will be some players in future we don't know of yet thriving too.
We need to get used to this idea - no corp ever lasts forever, the most interesting question is who will live and who will die? Short term arguments about patents are trivial - who do we think is really going to be around in 100 years in anything like their current guise?
Love to know
Yes. similarly, I have 5-10 cups of tea a day (Brit here - what ho!). It's not caffeine that keeps me awake. Nothing keeps me awake (other than class 'A's). Horses for courses, YMMV, my 2p etc etc..
The world we live in at the moment is broken and bereft of moral values - if you're a religious type or not, we all have our own personal values (or ' morals') and with the population of the world leading to intellectual entropy I'm not sure opinions will ever converge unless we all go and live in North Korea. We all discuss it on-line, everyday, but we will never come to a majority judgement or solution on any topic, will we? I love the internet in so many ways, and it is fascinating to hear everyone's opinion - this is a subject important top me as the father of a five year old - But not the point I want to make right now.
We need discussion, absolutely (and free speech too), but does anyone else on/. just feel a little bit more than helpless about anything any more? I don't mean to offtopic, but I wasn't going to submit this to/. as an 'Ask Slashdot' - Maybe I should?
Genuine question - are you weeping for the future?
Thanks. Yes that's it but my (possibly failing) memory remembers a similar model stripped back to the 'finger' keyboard with slim yellow inlays around the 'finger keys' . As ever, I could be wrong, but have found my ailing memory to be quite reliable in some random cases recently, so can I reserve the right to push this?
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You are correct, I should have pointed out this is of course no good for a digital signal. I should also have pointed out other makes of audio compressor are available and probably of a much higher quality, but Behringer stuff is nice and cheap. It does the job.
Until I read this I'd completely forgotten about that little squeal that was always in the background when the Speccy was on - I suspect it was the quartz oscillator.
It got such a problem for us I just bought a cheapish Behringer audio compressor (volume compression, not data!), strapped it across the TV audio output and in to my amplifier. Set the controls and forgot about it. Works incredibly well.
for me in the exact way described, so maybe the problem's not fixed yet?
I think you mean 'damning with faint praise'?
I don't think it is worth the (huge) investment in re-charging infrastructure yet. Electric vehicles are too expensive at the moment, and when you add in 'well, if there's nowhere to charge, I'm not going to buy an all electric' there's the chicken and egg problem of no market to support said infrastructure.... Even if you have charging stations nearby, you have to wait a considerable time for a full charge. A journey of several hundred miles/kilometres would have a lot of 'wasted' time tacked onto it, which is unacceptable for most people (unless they are on some sort of touring holiday). Also, as someone has remarked above the size and weight of the current battery tech pretty much practically rules out swapping stations. IMHO, I think we should just spend more money for now focussing solely on the underlying battery technology rather than the cars or the infrastructure. Once we get ultracapacitor tech (or whatever the solution may end up being) nailed a lot of the infrastructure problems should go away, without perhaps having lost money on infrastructure 1.0 (for instance battery swap out stations, or the current 'long charge' types)
You sound VERY unlucky with your HP hardware. Have you checked how clean your power supply is recently? My HP has lasted since 2003 (still in use daily). I bought it a new mouse recently.
Down the back of Homer Simpsons rad suit yet?
See GP - 'The ONLY people that drive BMW's' (my emphasis). That's what I'm responding to. Of course there are jerks in BMW's, and as a reply has already said, it does seem to attract a certain type of person, but not all of us are dicks. Or at least I try very hard not to be...
Hate to respond to such an obvious troll, but I keep hearing this well worn trope about BMW drivers. I think you will find there are dickheads behind the wheels of all makes of cars. Yes I own a BMW, I am not a middle manager, have earned my own money and I always use my indicators and let people out of side turnings on a daily basis. But, you know, keep propagating the sweeping generalisation...
I graduated with first class honours in 1997 in EE engineering. I found once I got into the design side of things (IRL work) that whilst you could put someone else's HW/SW in front of me and I could work it out down to the bare metal, asking me to build the same from a spec was a different matter - I quickly realised I just don't have the mindset. I did however find I did very well at evangelising technology, and it has served me well to date in several sales and marketing roles since. Now I know S&M is a dirty phrase on /. (for many reasons) but the fact of the matter is engineers would have no jobs if there was no-one to market their hard work, but there would be no need for marketing if there were no talented engineers (and I have known and respected many - by the way there are some shit engineers out there on a par with the shit 'marketdroids', as we are known). The fact of the matter is that there are shades of skill in tech, and after all is taken into account we all rely on each other. One thing I have noticed is the 'playboy' CEO's who only give a fuck where their next yacht is coming from. Those people need weeding out, but as they say, shit always floats.
Sorry - new build machine, didn't mean to AC... In this order I have become addicted to the following on a pretty much full time basis: Tobacco, Alcohol and the 60mg Prozac I have to take a day to deal with life. Before anyone comments on the Prozac/Drugs cycle - I've suffered depression forever, long before I tried anything I 'shouldn't have'.. But I have no regrets on the whole - but weirdly alcohol takes responsibility for 99.9% of those regrets I truly do. Yes less drugs over the years may well have made a difference, but too late to know for sure now. Putting that aside.. E? Can't really handle the stuff. Love it, but I've embarrassed myself on more than one occasion as more than one or at most two pills is too much for me. I end up trying to tell peoples ankles how much I love them. Tried Ketamine a couple of years ago. I suspect I did too much at the time (it being my first and all) but I won't give that a second chance. 'Being in the closet talking to God' is the most accurate description I've heard of anything, ever. Cocaine? Had a bit of a fling with it around 2005-2006, but got over that. Just in time, I think. Still like the odd nosebleed but always end up with a porn bill. Could smoke pot for the UK Olympic team, but then I don't smoke skunk anymore. LSD? Never had a bad trip personally and I swear it has unlocked parts of my mind that would never have been accessible otherwise. I genuinely feel a more rounded person for the times I've taken it (maybe 15 times over the past 23 years?) I drink and smoke every day. Now tell me what is the most damaging drug? I wake up every day hacking my lungs up due to 'light' cigarrettes, ans surely at 20 a day I'd hardly be considered heavy, even by today's standards. Having said that, it's always horses for courses. If it wasn't, Slashdot probably would have burnt itself out through too much agreement a long time ago. I find it hard to get LSD nowadays but I would trip for the next week if it meant giving up the crap I currently find myself spending too much on and really actually damaging my health with.
FYI, in marketing, it's called a 'corner case'.
Nor, apparently overdose on it as I was once told a long time back. By a teacher of mine. Anyone know if I was told the truth?
Not obvious - just one scenario amongst many.
Very much so - but no points to mod you up I'm afraid. Some will adapt and survive, some will die, alternate strategies or not. And there will be some players in future we don't know of yet thriving too. We need to get used to this idea - no corp ever lasts forever, the most interesting question is who will live and who will die? Short term arguments about patents are trivial - who do we think is really going to be around in 100 years in anything like their current guise? Love to know
Don't mean to troll here but maybe decaf doesn't taste so good because as you swig, the caffeines not there to light the 'taste' up?
Yes. similarly, I have 5-10 cups of tea a day (Brit here - what ho!). It's not caffeine that keeps me awake. Nothing keeps me awake (other than class 'A's). Horses for courses, YMMV, my 2p etc etc..
Good for you. Well done.
Thanks. I really would like to hear more people comment on this.
The world we live in at the moment is broken and bereft of moral values - if you're a religious type or not, we all have our own personal values (or ' morals') and with the population of the world leading to intellectual entropy I'm not sure opinions will ever converge unless we all go and live in North Korea. We all discuss it on-line, everyday, but we will never come to a majority judgement or solution on any topic, will we? I love the internet in so many ways, and it is fascinating to hear everyone's opinion - this is a subject important top me as the father of a five year old - But not the point I want to make right now. We need discussion, absolutely (and free speech too), but does anyone else on /. just feel a little bit more than helpless about anything any more? I don't mean to offtopic, but I wasn't going to submit this to /. as an 'Ask Slashdot' - Maybe I should?
Genuine question - are you weeping for the future?
On further searching, it looks like I did imagine it. Funny how in my mind it is real.
Thanks. Yes that's it but my (possibly failing) memory remembers a similar model stripped back to the 'finger' keyboard with slim yellow inlays around the 'finger keys' . As ever, I could be wrong, but have found my ailing memory to be quite reliable in some random cases recently, so can I reserve the right to push this?
Thank, but emphatically, that's NOT it.
To further jog anyone else's memory - It was mainly black plastic with yellow around the 'keys'