AM/FM was degraded by the digital subchannels stealing bandwidth. 8-Track was a joke from day one and I still have a case of them along with a player and the splicing die because that's just how I roll.
As for phase issues, it's tough to tell when they are in different rooms, but you can adjust the delay in 1 ms increments if there's a problem.
Mostly I play old records unless I want background music around the house all day long. I still crank up the Victrola now and then for that genuine 1:1 uncompressed analog experience.
1. Bluetooth audio is TERRIBLE 2. BT range is ~10M at best, Chromecast uses WiFI/Ethernet 3. CC supports synchronous multiple endpoint streaming 4. CC supports guest streaming without pairing 5. CC lets you control playback from multiple devices
Bummer, I could use another one. Nothing like listening to OK-ish digital music through four 7591a tubes. Friendly tube distortion mixed with digital artifacts. Sort of like crossing proton pack streams, might be "bad", or it might banish Zuul.
I noticed that when I am running my ultrasonic cleaner, Siri becomes almost completely unable to recognize my words. It knows I am speaking and detects word breaks but the accuracy drops to the point of uselessness even 5-6 feet from the source of the sound.
I haven't checked but it should be running in the 35-40 KHz range.
I have had FiOS as long as anyone. The original deployment used PPPOE encapsulation for traffic, and required your router to sign in before getting an IP address.
Newer installs are regular Ethernet and simply rely on the router MAC address for access control. PPPOE and Ethernet configurations are currently co-existing on the FiOS network I am using, I can use both at the same time with two routers, one with DHCP and the other with PPPOE.
They are maintaining dual infrastructures with entirely separate public IP address ranges. While charging their customers to encourage them to get rid of the legacy ActionTEC routers is annoying, they did send me a new one for free. I'll possibly set it up some day if I am forced to.
I use two 24" 1920x1200 screens in portrait mode side by side. That gets me 1900x2400 viewable with a vertical bar down the center. They are IPS panels so the viewing angle is fine in that orientation.
Putting the two monitors side-by-side in landscape or mixed was not going to happen at my desk so this was just sort of a happy discovery. With the nearly square aspect, it fits into the corner where the old CRT used to put it's backside and I still get lots-o-dots to look at.
I usually end up working with 4 windows tiled equally across the two panels, or a document maximized on one side while working on the other.
I spent entirely too much time scaling and cropping an antique world map with the side-by-side globes to perfectly span the two screens with the fold lost in the vertical bar. If nothing else it is a real attention-getter.
Imagine he was in an accident and rendered unconscious with his car still powering the jamming device. Assume it was a single car accident, no need to be cruel to others. Anyhow, nobody can call for help and nobody thinks to switch off the ignition in his vehicle which is clearly not running. If it jammed first responders communication equipment too, all the better. He could enjoy a nice long wait for an ambulance.
It sits there in standby waiting for print jobs that almost never come, then with a wheeze the top fan blows out the accumulated dust, the lights dim briefly and I get my printout like it was 1999.
No room for disk brake on the front as the motor is a massively oversized hub. The goal is to put a disk brake on the rear and a heavy-duty cantilever on the front.
Until I can justify the price of the battery pack I want, it doesn't matter anyway.
Based on a steel mountain bike frame, it's decidedly INelegant and heavy, but super-effective on a commute that rarely exceeds 20 MPH by car.
I got a solid 7 years out of a 36V 10AH NiMH battery pack before it croaked. Now it is resting in the basement until I decide to re-power it with some flavor of lithium.
In the original post I asked if the Golden Island machinery motor was any good. Neither the motor nor the controller gave me a day's trouble though the original wire was too thin.
I also asked about lead-acid batteries. They were garbage. Too heavy and the power faded below a useful level long before they were considered discharged. I got a good deal on an NiMH pack and was very pleased with it overall.
I have since lashed up a 48V test pack and really enjoyed the power it gives. The original controller seems to work fine at 48V, the capacitors are all rated 60v.
The best thing I did was add a Watts-UP meter so I can keep an eye on remaining capacity and monitor power flow.
The most alarming thing about the bike is the brakes which are marginally adequate for the combined weight of bike and rider. They need to be upgraded before I hit the road again.
Finally some 4K content for my Seiki. Normally I just use it as a computer display. VLC has experimental support for hardware accelerated decoding which is absolutely necessary to play back 4K video.
but it is a 36" Proton CRT with native 720p and 1080i. Lovely picture but it weighs around 250 lbs and wedged so thoroughly into the entertainment center that I might need to cut it out.
Imagine coming up from a stone cold shutdown. What would be a super thing to have? How about DNS and DHCP? AD too if that's your thing. Some nice little box that can wake up your LAN in 5 minutes so you can start troubleshooting the boot storm as the rest of your VMs try to start up and all get stuck in the doorway like the Three Stooges.
I own several composting toilets. I am looking forward to something far better.
If you want to "flush" to the composting location then you need an ultra-low water head. This is problematic for many reasons. If you don't want a flush then you need to rely on gravity and need a vent fan to keep the bad air out of the house. This is problematic too.
If the compost gets too dry, the process slows, and you end up with fungus that attracts fungus flies. If the compost gets too wet, well ewww.... you have to clean out the system before it overflows.
In winter the compost may not generate enough heat to keep the system from freezing. More ewww...
It is especially difficult to run a system with guests. Imagine spending 10 minutes explaining how to use the toilet. What can go in, what can't, how to flush, what is that stuff down there...
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, obviously.
AM/FM was degraded by the digital subchannels stealing bandwidth. 8-Track was a joke from day one and I still have a case of them along with a player and the splicing die because that's just how I roll.
As for phase issues, it's tough to tell when they are in different rooms, but you can adjust the delay in 1 ms increments if there's a problem.
Mostly I play old records unless I want background music around the house all day long. I still crank up the Victrola now and then for that genuine 1:1 uncompressed analog experience.
Search for HDMI Audio Extractor. They are not especially expensive but it's another thing that you need to plug in.
Don't normally reply to AC but here you go...
1. Bluetooth audio is TERRIBLE
2. BT range is ~10M at best, Chromecast uses WiFI/Ethernet
3. CC supports synchronous multiple endpoint streaming
4. CC supports guest streaming without pairing
5. CC lets you control playback from multiple devices
Bummer, I could use another one. Nothing like listening to OK-ish digital music through four 7591a tubes. Friendly tube distortion mixed with digital artifacts. Sort of like crossing proton pack streams, might be "bad", or it might banish Zuul.
I noticed that when I am running my ultrasonic cleaner, Siri becomes almost completely unable to recognize my words. It knows I am speaking and detects word breaks but the accuracy drops to the point of uselessness even 5-6 feet from the source of the sound.
I haven't checked but it should be running in the 35-40 KHz range.
Brings to mind George Carlin's bit about flamethrowers...
http://www.quotes.net/mquote/3...
Give us five hundred thousand and paint them dark brown. We don't want anyone to see them.
I have had FiOS as long as anyone. The original deployment used PPPOE encapsulation for traffic, and required your router to sign in before getting an IP address.
Newer installs are regular Ethernet and simply rely on the router MAC address for access control. PPPOE and Ethernet configurations are currently co-existing on the FiOS network I am using, I can use both at the same time with two routers, one with DHCP and the other with PPPOE.
They are maintaining dual infrastructures with entirely separate public IP address ranges. While charging their customers to encourage them to get rid of the legacy ActionTEC routers is annoying, they did send me a new one for free. I'll possibly set it up some day if I am forced to.
Seeing an 8-bit binary executing in simulated 3D brings to mind the experience of being jacked into William Gibson's idea of cyberspace.
Forget the iPhone 6, I have an Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7.
(edit) that's 2400x1920 in portrait mode, or 4h x 3.2 w
I use two 24" 1920x1200 screens in portrait mode side by side. That gets me 1900x2400 viewable with a vertical bar down the center. They are IPS panels so the viewing angle is fine in that orientation.
Putting the two monitors side-by-side in landscape or mixed was not going to happen at my desk so this was just sort of a happy discovery. With the nearly square aspect, it fits into the corner where the old CRT used to put it's backside and I still get lots-o-dots to look at.
I usually end up working with 4 windows tiled equally across the two panels, or a document maximized on one side while working on the other.
I spent entirely too much time scaling and cropping an antique world map with the side-by-side globes to perfectly span the two screens with the fold lost in the vertical bar. If nothing else it is a real attention-getter.
Si. OH WOW
Imagine he was in an accident and rendered unconscious with his car still powering the jamming device. Assume it was a single car accident, no need to be cruel to others. Anyhow, nobody can call for help and nobody thinks to switch off the ignition in his vehicle which is clearly not running. If it jammed first responders communication equipment too, all the better. He could enjoy a nice long wait for an ambulance.
It sits there in standby waiting for print jobs that almost never come, then with a wheeze the top fan blows out the accumulated dust, the lights dim briefly and I get my printout like it was 1999.
No shatter. It's spun carbon fiber. You end up with a big bowl of carbon spaghetti.
No room for disk brake on the front as the motor is a massively oversized hub. The goal is to put a disk brake on the rear and a heavy-duty cantilever on the front.
Until I can justify the price of the battery pack I want, it doesn't matter anyway.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/04/10/03/2137229/e-bike-e-xperiences/
Based on a steel mountain bike frame, it's decidedly INelegant and heavy, but super-effective on a commute that rarely exceeds 20 MPH by car.
I got a solid 7 years out of a 36V 10AH NiMH battery pack before it croaked. Now it is resting in the basement until I decide to re-power it with some flavor of lithium.
In the original post I asked if the Golden Island machinery motor was any good. Neither the motor nor the controller gave me a day's trouble though the original wire was too thin.
I also asked about lead-acid batteries. They were garbage. Too heavy and the power faded below a useful level long before they were considered discharged. I got a good deal on an NiMH pack and was very pleased with it overall.
I have since lashed up a 48V test pack and really enjoyed the power it gives. The original controller seems to work fine at 48V, the capacitors are all rated 60v.
The best thing I did was add a Watts-UP meter so I can keep an eye on remaining capacity and monitor power flow.
The most alarming thing about the bike is the brakes which are marginally adequate for the combined weight of bike and rider. They need to be upgraded before I hit the road again.
Frankly, I thought I'd never be able to play 4K video on my system.
Windows Media Player is completely unable to handle it and YouTube@4K is jerky at best, even with all the tweaks in Chrome turned on.
I am running a Radeon HD7700, Seiki SE50UY04 and a Core 2 Quad with Windows 7 x64 and the latest Catalyst and VLC.
Once I turned on hardware decoding in VLC it played flawlessly. I can stream YouTube videos to VLC but I can't get them to send 4K yet.
Finally some 4K content for my Seiki. Normally I just use it as a computer display. VLC has experimental support for hardware accelerated decoding which is absolutely necessary to play back 4K video.
It looks great, nice work folks.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/
That's the problem with randomness, you can never be sure.
but it is a 36" Proton CRT with native 720p and 1080i. Lovely picture but it weighs around 250 lbs and wedged so thoroughly into the entertainment center that I might need to cut it out.
Imagine coming up from a stone cold shutdown. What would be a super thing to have? How about DNS and DHCP? AD too if that's your thing. Some nice little box that can wake up your LAN in 5 minutes so you can start troubleshooting the boot storm as the rest of your VMs try to start up and all get stuck in the doorway like the Three Stooges.
...it would be like the "iPad of sanitation," he said.
There's an app for that.
I own several composting toilets. I am looking forward to something far better.
If you want to "flush" to the composting location then you need an ultra-low water head. This is problematic for many reasons. If you don't want a flush then you need to rely on gravity and need a vent fan to keep the bad air out of the house. This is problematic too.
If the compost gets too dry, the process slows, and you end up with fungus that attracts fungus flies. If the compost gets too wet, well ewww.... you have to clean out the system before it overflows.
In winter the compost may not generate enough heat to keep the system from freezing. More ewww...
It is especially difficult to run a system with guests. Imagine spending 10 minutes explaining how to use the toilet. What can go in, what can't, how to flush, what is that stuff down there...
Might get more Muslim visitors that way.
You can catch it in the act.
I just turned off WiFi and 3G, forcing my iPhone onto AT&T's 850 MHz 2G network.
Now any data transmitted triggers a very audible BRAPPPA-BRAP-BUZZ! through the speakers.
Turn up the volume and go to bed.
On EDGE it will take a long time upload all that data. It will be quite obvious if this is really happening.
Also, use cheap speakers, fancy ones might be shielded. I didn't even plug them into the phone.
-j