And my point is, isn't this like predicting that rain will be wet since it's made of water. A capacitor is two conductors separated by an insulator. This thing is two (super)conductors separated by an insulator. It would be a big deal if they had predicted that it wouldn't act like a capacitor.
Gradients are what you get with resistors. As you "move" through the resistor body you gradually (see root word of gradient) move from one value in the difference of potential to the other. A capacitor with a gradient is a leaky capacitor.
Let's see, a "Josephson junction consists of two superconducting layers separated by a thin insulating layer." Two conductors separated by an insulator. Can anybody tell me why they wouldn't have predicted that it would behave like a capacitor seeing as how two conductors separated by an insulator *is* the definition of a capacitor?
Apparently I've previously assumed (without actually stopping to think about it) that when a story starts out " 'FillInTheBlank' writes..." that FillInTheBlank was a Slashdot account holder, but if their name is also a clickable link it seems to go to a webpage or e-mail address and not to their Slashdot user page, so they aren't immediately identifiable as a Slashdotter. I suppose an editor could post something from a non-user if they chose, but I'd kinda like to know if they is or if they ain't. Maybe they could put the user number after the name and make it a link to the user page like they do on the comments.
Now that I think about, FillInTheBlank sounds like it could be a Slashdot user name.
You sound like you might be someone who decides to open up the case and upgrade in a few years. Before you go with Dell, Google for "Dell ATX" and decide whether you really want to trust them or not.
Oh, also, search for "Sony DRM" and see how you feel about rewarding them with your money.
Finally, insist on a 10 year warranty on all capacitors.
Actually it's different article, once the link finally works.
First Zonk posted a submission from this guy, Carl Bialik, who apparently works for The Wall Street Journal, of a Walter Mossberg WSJ article.
Now ScuttleMonkey posts another submission from Bialik, of a Jason Fry article and this second submission also includes a mention of (and link to) the Mossberg article.
I guess it's a little faster than waiting for an actual Slashdot account holder to notice these articles on the WSJ site and submit them to the Slashdot editors (and I use the term very loosly), but it feels sorta "astroturfy" to me.
If hard science is considered and being about an Earthbound reaction to something in or from space is acceptable, then allow me to nominate "Andromeda Strain".
"Speakers, whether powered or not, have an impedance that must be watched if you're going to hook up more than two to each channel. Put two 8 ohm speakers in series you get 16 ohms of impedance."
The phrase "powered speakers" implies a speaker-amplifier combination. The manufacturer has already dealt with the amplifier output and speaker voice coil impedence matching issue. The input of a powered speaker isn't a speaker's input, it's an amplifier's input. Amplifier inputs fall into that nebulous mid to high impedence area known as "line level".
But aren't the Welsh the real, original English? The people who were there before the Angles or the Saxons or the Romans or the Normans or the Franks or anybody else?
Speaking of the Franks, that's where the last name of everyone's favorite cartoon scientist comes from. I figure somebody doing one of those illuminated manuscripts accidentally dotted an "a".
I'm not sure how big your house is (and how long the connecting cables are going to have to be) or what quality of powered speakers you have in mind, but here's a suggestion:
Google for Boosteroo. It's a one stereo in, three stereo out preamp/headphone amp that you could stick between your soundcard and your speakers.
I thought there was a Slashdot article about hacking it a while back but I'm not finding it.
The reason to need to know how to take it apart is because it runs on a battery or two and you might want to hook up an AC adapter.
"Problem would be finding an FM modulator running off AC power..."
Considering that he would be feeding it from the sound card, and it would therefore be right there at his computer, he could probably steal the small amount of 12 Volt current needed right from the computer's power supply.
"And for many people today, the idea of being *seen* while you are on the phone is a bit intrusive."
And even more so for the people of yesterday. Every five or so years they'd announce video phones, someone would bring up the phone ringing when you're in the shower scenario and the idea would fade for another five years.
I made my original jest based on the continuing effort to provide a solution to a non-existant problem.
I am. They didn't. That's a big part of why they never got anywhere with them. Not enough bandwidth to actually implement them outside the laboratory. Not enough interest or demand to even consider the gargantuan investment in new infrastructure that would have been neccessary.
"You could combine the two to make a nice feedback loop - a program that creates a tune, analyses it for potential success, then amends certain variables and repeating the process until you have a song that is so perfect that..."
...the RIAA sues both machines every time the song makes that round trip between the two.
The article linked to is about using fiber instead of Cat 3, Cat 5, Cat 5e, and/or Cat 6 (and, I guess, RG-58) for networking inside the premises, not for connecting your telephone to the phone company's central office.
As long as I'm livin' here in hurricane land I'm stayin' with 48 VDC current loop BUG* wire.
*Buried Under Ground
On a just barely related note, Sprint is coming under fire from the union for their plans to spin off their land line business (the old Carolina Tel. & Tel.) and leave it saddled with their debts while they specialize in being a wireless company. I think that would be great. The sooner the company that owns the last mile and the central office buildings goes bankrupt, the sooner local municipalities can buy them up cheap and either offer local phone and DSL cheap or give low cost access to any companies that want to compete with each other to offer local phone and internet.
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Actually I was fairly normal until some malevolent force put David Caruso back on prime time TV. I swear it's enough to make anyone an axe murderer.
And my point is, isn't this like predicting that rain will be wet since it's made of water. A capacitor is two conductors separated by an insulator. This thing is two (super)conductors separated by an insulator. It would be a big deal if they had predicted that it wouldn't act like a capacitor.
Gradients are what you get with resistors. As you "move" through the resistor body you gradually (see root word of gradient) move from one value in the difference of potential to the other. A capacitor with a gradient is a leaky capacitor.
Let's see, a "Josephson junction consists of two superconducting layers separated by a thin insulating layer." Two conductors separated by an insulator. Can anybody tell me why they wouldn't have predicted that it would behave like a capacitor seeing as how two conductors separated by an insulator *is* the definition of a capacitor?
Now that I think about, FillInTheBlank sounds like it could be a Slashdot user name.
Oh, also, search for "Sony DRM" and see how you feel about rewarding them with your money.
Finally, insist on a 10 year warranty on all capacitors.
First Zonk posted a submission from this guy, Carl Bialik, who apparently works for The Wall Street Journal, of a Walter Mossberg WSJ article.
Now ScuttleMonkey posts another submission from Bialik, of a Jason Fry article and this second submission also includes a mention of (and link to) the Mossberg article.
I guess it's a little faster than waiting for an actual Slashdot account holder to notice these articles on the WSJ site and submit them to the Slashdot editors (and I use the term very loosly), but it feels sorta "astroturfy" to me.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
If hard science is considered and being about an Earthbound reaction to something in or from space is acceptable, then allow me to nominate "Andromeda Strain".
To which Turtles do you refer?
rejoinder: Is that possible?
alternate rejoinder: Oh, you mean Fox News Channel!
Put two 8 ohm speakers in series you get 16 ohms of impedance."
The phrase "powered speakers" implies a speaker-amplifier combination. The manufacturer has already dealt with the amplifier output and speaker voice coil impedence matching issue. The input of a powered speaker isn't a speaker's input, it's an amplifier's input. Amplifier inputs fall into that nebulous mid to high impedence area known as "line level".
Hey, c'mon, this is a Japanese company. We shouldn't settle for anything less than self-spilled intestines all around.
Speaking of the Franks, that's where the last name of everyone's favorite cartoon scientist comes from. I figure somebody doing one of those illuminated manuscripts accidentally dotted an "a".
Google for Boosteroo. It's a one stereo in, three stereo out preamp/headphone amp that you could stick between your soundcard and your speakers.
I thought there was a Slashdot article about hacking it a while back but I'm not finding it.
The reason to need to know how to take it apart is because it runs on a battery or two and you might want to hook up an AC adapter.
Considering that he would be feeding it from the sound card, and it would therefore be right there at his computer, he could probably steal the small amount of 12 Volt current needed right from the computer's power supply.
Sony's starting to do a lot of things badly.
All these naval gazing posts and not one "hello, sailor" joke? :-)
And even more so for the people of yesterday. Every five or so years they'd announce video phones, someone would bring up the phone ringing when you're in the shower scenario and the idea would fade for another five years.
I made my original jest based on the continuing effort to provide a solution to a non-existant problem.
I am. They didn't. That's a big part of why they never got anywhere with them. Not enough bandwidth to actually implement them outside the laboratory. Not enough interest or demand to even consider the gargantuan investment in new infrastructure that would have been neccessary.
Did they introduce a way to transmit television quality pictures over regular 300 Hz to 3,000 Hz phone lines at the same time?
Next time try doing it for the tape. :-)
...the RIAA sues both machines every time the song makes that round trip between the two.
Oh, Daav-veey.
As long as I'm livin' here in hurricane land I'm stayin' with 48 VDC current loop BUG* wire.
*Buried Under Ground
On a just barely related note, Sprint is coming under fire from the union for their plans to spin off their land line business (the old Carolina Tel. & Tel.) and leave it saddled with their debts while they specialize in being a wireless company. I think that would be great. The sooner the company that owns the last mile and the central office buildings goes bankrupt, the sooner local municipalities can buy them up cheap and either offer local phone and DSL cheap or give low cost access to any companies that want to compete with each other to offer local phone and internet.