I am a happy owner of Sennheiser's PX 200 IIi. There is a less expensive version which doesn't have the microphone and iPod/iPhone controls in the cord. They are over the ear, not around, but the seal is still good enough that ambient noise is at least subdued. I can use them on flights without going up to full volume. I had to go this direction because every headphone with noise cancellation gave me motion sickness.
You'll probably pay more than $50, but you get what you pay for.
The problem with the basic stuff is that we have priced ourselves out of our own labor market. No one in the US is going to work for $1 a day making basic goods, but there are people in southeast asia who will and they'll be happy to get a whole dollar.
Are you suggesting that it is Americans' fault for insisting upon a decent standard of living? Perhaps we should adjust our standard of living to match that of the average Chinese employee working at a Foxconn plant making iPods. I'm sure looking forward to 12 or 15 hour work days, 6 or 7 days per week for $100 a month. That's just enough money to pay for rent at my factory-owned dormitory, and pay for my crappy factory-supplied meals. Oh yes, and since the factory owns the dormitory, I'll be homeless the instant I quit my job, too. And this is APPLE, for crying out loud. Imagine what it's like making crappy little Happy Meal toys.
It's all too easy for us to take advantage of overseas conditions like this. All the dirty details remain hidden from the average Wal-Mart customer. All we care about is getting something cheaper, but nobody really takes notice of why it is cheaper.
You have illegally distributed the lyrics to Daniel Powter's song entitled "Bad Day", to an estimated 50,000 Slashdot users. As you must be aware, Warner Brothers owns the exclusive publishing rights to a plethora of popular music, including "Bad Day". The law entitles us to collect damages of $100,000 per illegally-distributed copy. Your bill comes to $5,000,000,000. Will that be cash or charge?
My experience is much different. Every holiday season, Amazon spams my inbox at least once a week. I never tell any online (r)etailer they can email me. I always uncheck every last box that says "Yes, please send me annoying blather about our promotions," or "Yes, please send my email address to all your corporate buddies so they can sell me crap too." Yet every year I have this fight with Amazon. Every year, I find that my privacy settings have been magically reset. Every year, I have to send Amazon volumes of hate mail to get them to stop emailing me. It is a blatant, it is wrong, and I wish someone would sue their socks off...
Does anyone else think the choice of "PlaysForSure" as a name is pretty odd? "SurePlay" or something would have been better - the only people I have ever heard say "for sure" are German people learning English.
... or folks from Fargo.
But seriously, PlaysForSure (PFS) opens itself up to a whole world of Acronym fun. (Anyone remember the old online game, Acrophobia?)
Who are you calling a whippersnapper? I remember when the earth didn't rotate at all, and the sun orbited the earth! Silly post-Copernicus know-it-alls...
Instead of Lindos, how about Lindros? They could use the handsome face of the Canadian-born New York Ranger as their logo, but what slogan would they use? Maybe something about hacking?
Big! Powerful! Productive!
Then in fine print... Do not bump computer's case. System may crash and not reboot for months at a time. Do not anger software author's father, or software may automatically revoke its license at any time without warning. Software may refuse to boot for certain users, except the Rangers or Leafs.
Who am I kidding, nobody will get these jokes on Slashdot! Say hello to -1 Off Topic!
Bad Astronomy is only one of a number of "Bad Science" pages. One of my old college professors, Dr. Alistair B. Fraser, maintains a Bad Meteorology page. He also links to several other Bad Science pages.
See Dr. Fraser's Bad Science page, with links at the bottom.
However, I do think some of the material and writing is too high-level for 8-11 year old kids.
I held out for the A2 Platinum Ex like a good little audiophile, and I am very happy with it in most areas. I do some home recording with some pretty decent instruments, so I wanted to make sure I could do 24/96 recording through S/PDIF. So far so good. I couldn't justify getting a real pro recording sound card, since I still use my computer for gaming and such. A2 Platinum Ex was my "good recording/good gaming" compromise, and it is less expensive than a true musician's card.
Good speakers can be a mixed blessing. They make a good signal sound great, but they also make a mediocre signal sound awful. I had Logitech's THX 4.1 system hooked up to the motherboard's AC-97 before I got the A2. It took me weeks to get the EQ to sound good. The A2, out of the box with no EQ tweaks, blew away my highly tweaked AC-97 sound. I was so happy! The signals, especially on the low end, are much cleaner than the AC-97. Bass lines that used to be way too boomy are now clean and crisp, yet still powerful.
The audio inputs are the A2's greatest improvement over a stock card. With AC-97, things I recorded rarely sounded the same on playback. A2 is simply excellent in this respect. I am able to get a mix that sounds virtually indistinguishable from some professionally recorded cd's. It's not 100% perfect, but what do you expect out of a consumer-grade card and an inexperienced recording engineer?:-)
The one kicker is that Linux support is virtually non-existant. *grr* I haven't been able to get one peep out of it in RedHat 8 (flame away), and I refuse to pay $40 for a third party driver. So much for pathos.
Bottom line: Audiophiles, aspiring musicians, home theater buffs, this card is for you. You will need good speakers to make the most of your experience, so beware. We're talking about a very pricey upgrade. But if you appreciate great sound, I promise you will not be disappointed.
Most folks, however, will be better served by the stock AC-97 and its plentiful support for both Windows and Linux.
The system would give customers an estimate of their waiting time to use the restroom and would notify them when the restroom was available and allow them to cancel their reservations.
...
if (shorts.isSoiled) reservation.Cancel(); ...
I know Penn State had a site licensing agreement for Microsoft Office and even Visual Studio a couple years ago. Students could pick up a copy for their PC while they were attending university, no charge. (bazillion dollar tuition bill excepted, of course)
Anyone know how common that sort of arrangement is in the rest of academia?
This is simply the sound of the database market evolving -- a testament to the viability of using MySQL and PostGres for a growing number of database projects. Why should anyone pay thousands of dollars for a database back-end to something like a messageboard?
But for more complex projects, like those that use geospatial or geodetic information, something like Informix's Datablades or other proprietary API's will make the difference. The competition from freebie databases will just feed this kind of innovation. The market is still there for Oracle/IBM/M$, as long as they can stay ahead of the curve.
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I am a happy owner of Sennheiser's PX 200 IIi. There is a less expensive version which doesn't have the microphone and iPod/iPhone controls in the cord. They are over the ear, not around, but the seal is still good enough that ambient noise is at least subdued. I can use them on flights without going up to full volume. I had to go this direction because every headphone with noise cancellation gave me motion sickness. You'll probably pay more than $50, but you get what you pay for.
The problem with the basic stuff is that we have priced ourselves out of our own labor market. No one in the US is going to work for $1 a day making basic goods, but there are people in southeast asia who will and they'll be happy to get a whole dollar.
Are you suggesting that it is Americans' fault for insisting upon a decent standard of living? Perhaps we should adjust our standard of living to match that of the average Chinese employee working at a Foxconn plant making iPods. I'm sure looking forward to 12 or 15 hour work days, 6 or 7 days per week for $100 a month. That's just enough money to pay for rent at my factory-owned dormitory, and pay for my crappy factory-supplied meals. Oh yes, and since the factory owns the dormitory, I'll be homeless the instant I quit my job, too. And this is APPLE, for crying out loud. Imagine what it's like making crappy little Happy Meal toys.
It's all too easy for us to take advantage of overseas conditions like this. All the dirty details remain hidden from the average Wal-Mart customer. All we care about is getting something cheaper, but nobody really takes notice of why it is cheaper.
Dear Mr. Digitaldc,
You have illegally distributed the lyrics to Daniel Powter's song entitled "Bad Day", to an estimated 50,000 Slashdot users. As you must be aware, Warner Brothers owns the exclusive publishing rights to a plethora of popular music, including "Bad Day". The law entitles us to collect damages of $100,000 per illegally-distributed copy. Your bill comes to $5,000,000,000. Will that be cash or charge?
Sincerely,
Warner Brothers
Easy. Macbook Pro.
Oooo... My wish is granted!
Who are you calling a whippersnapper? I remember when the earth didn't rotate at all, and the sun orbited the earth! Silly post-Copernicus know-it-alls...
Err... anything else dumb.
What's that? We had that opportunity? November 2004, you say? Oops.
Then in fine print... Do not bump computer's case. System may crash and not reboot for months at a time. Do not anger software author's father, or software may automatically revoke its license at any time without warning. Software may refuse to boot for certain users, except the Rangers or Leafs.
Who am I kidding, nobody will get these jokes on Slashdot! Say hello to -1 Off Topic!
Pardon the cynicism, but has anyone checked this for spyware?
See Dr. Fraser's Bad Science page, with links at the bottom.
However, I do think some of the material and writing is too high-level for 8-11 year old kids.
I held out for the A2 Platinum Ex like a good little audiophile, and I am very happy with it in most areas. I do some home recording with some pretty decent instruments, so I wanted to make sure I could do 24/96 recording through S/PDIF. So far so good. I couldn't justify getting a real pro recording sound card, since I still use my computer for gaming and such. A2 Platinum Ex was my "good recording/good gaming" compromise, and it is less expensive than a true musician's card.
:-)
Good speakers can be a mixed blessing. They make a good signal sound great, but they also make a mediocre signal sound awful. I had Logitech's THX 4.1 system hooked up to the motherboard's AC-97 before I got the A2. It took me weeks to get the EQ to sound good. The A2, out of the box with no EQ tweaks, blew away my highly tweaked AC-97 sound. I was so happy! The signals, especially on the low end, are much cleaner than the AC-97. Bass lines that used to be way too boomy are now clean and crisp, yet still powerful.
The audio inputs are the A2's greatest improvement over a stock card. With AC-97, things I recorded rarely sounded the same on playback. A2 is simply excellent in this respect. I am able to get a mix that sounds virtually indistinguishable from some professionally recorded cd's. It's not 100% perfect, but what do you expect out of a consumer-grade card and an inexperienced recording engineer?
The one kicker is that Linux support is virtually non-existant. *grr* I haven't been able to get one peep out of it in RedHat 8 (flame away), and I refuse to pay $40 for a third party driver. So much for pathos.
Bottom line: Audiophiles, aspiring musicians, home theater buffs, this card is for you. You will need good speakers to make the most of your experience, so beware. We're talking about a very pricey upgrade. But if you appreciate great sound, I promise you will not be disappointed.
Most folks, however, will be better served by the stock AC-97 and its plentiful support for both Windows and Linux.
Cheers!
if (shorts.isSoiled) reservation.Cancel();
... it's real *fweeeep* educational. :-)
I know Penn State had a site licensing agreement for Microsoft Office and even Visual Studio a couple years ago. Students could pick up a copy for their PC while they were attending university, no charge. (bazillion dollar tuition bill excepted, of course)
Anyone know how common that sort of arrangement is in the rest of academia?
This is simply the sound of the database market evolving -- a testament to the viability of using MySQL and PostGres for a growing number of database projects. Why should anyone pay thousands of dollars for a database back-end to something like a messageboard?
But for more complex projects, like those that use geospatial or geodetic information, something like Informix's Datablades or other proprietary API's will make the difference. The competition from freebie databases will just feed this kind of innovation. The market is still there for Oracle/IBM/M$, as long as they can stay ahead of the curve.