Among many other things I'm not smart enough to answer -- fix their website. Why do I have to login (with a pretty annoying registration process with lots of clicks and "strong" password requirements) to download a demo or some docs? It's not online banking, but they act like it is.
I hope you're not referring to the parent, since he's totally wrong. PLLs certainly can, and do, include multiplers (and/or dividers.) They're called . . . wait for it . . . "multiplying PLLs" (as opposed to "clock-insertion-delay removing PLLs." He also botched his bit about the inverse square law (on multiple levels.)
Many more Germans, French, and Japanese immigrate to the US than the other way around.
America is still the land of opportunity, like it or not. And you don't even have to be from a poor hell-hole like Mexico to think so. You just have to put aside the hate long enough to be honest.
(Germany's 10%+ unemployment, France's Muslim rioters, and Japan's brutal homogeneity may also be interesting to consider.)
If you'd written "know-nothing" instead of "no-nothing" then we wouldn't all be certain that your problem is not actually HR, rather it's the fact that you're probably pretty close to a "know-nothing" yourself.
I doubt it, since it would suck with most modern devices even more than it did when it was new. Maybe you should look for a way to get his member out of your orifice. It seems to have been there since the 80's...
I would have done more but I have quite a bit of fluorescent lighting and they don't do fluorescents.
Huh; that's news to me! I have several dozen fluorescents (and halogens, and incandescents) controlled by X-10 devices in my home. X-10 work OK, X-10pro work better, and the molst expensive brand at Smarthome (Leviton or similar, I think) work nearly perfectly.
How hard is it to guarantee packet delivery, and to make the hardware not do something stupid if it gets an error?
As an EE I can say: unless you can tolerate (multiple redundant sets of) wires running to and from every device and every controller, or have an unlimited budget, then the answer is hard. Very hard, in fact.
I guess what I'm saying is, "reliably, cheap, not ugly -- pick two."
Odd; I and my associates have expressed the same sentiment about so many stories on./ over the last 6 months or so that we've all sort of decided that the shark has been jumped here, so to speak. But I didn't think that at all for this story -- it seems legit, and I'm quite interested.
Usually the stories I think are obvious shilling/astroturfing are for products or services that are not really new, not really available yet, or are of dubious merit and not an analogue of some existing, useful but decidedly imperfect product.
I wonder what signs make you think astroturfing in this case? I'm not really disagreeing as much as I am hoping to hone my shill-spotting techniques:)
That's not quite accurate. It's at least misleading.
1T-SRAM is really DRAM (it's dynamic, requiring refresh -- not static) but it's not the same as what people usually call eDRAM (embedded DRAM.) 1T-SRAM is a specific memory cell design developed and owned by MoSys. It uses a single transistor and a capacitor for each bit of storage. It's a very specific implementation.
eDRAM is a generic term for any embedded dynamic memory. This can be implemented as trench-style (IBM), MiM / Metal-insulator-metal type (NEC), or others. But it can't be "1T-SRAM" unless you're paying MoSys for it. Most DRAM is 4T or 6T.
What makes this a "gaming" headset? The bundled microphone? The carrying bag? The price? The fact that it comes in a box?
Apparently, it's sensibility. How much sensibility does your precious Sennheiser have? Huh? Yeah. I thought so!
The sensibility of this microphone is remarkable. It provides excellent sound quality during voice chats (tested on several chatting programmes such as Skype, Ventrilo, and MSN Messenger), and allows the user to speak freely without having to worry about where to place the microphone. Placing the microphone all around on my desk always resulted in good sound quality; all that had to be changed was the microphone volume control from the Volume Control Panel of the OS, so to allow others to still hear you loud, even if the microphone is set to be one foot away from the mouth.
(I think what really makes this a "gaming" headset is they want it to be, it's marketed as such, and they paid the slashvertisement fee.
OK, forget about the "sharpness"; I know a pixel is a pixel and that wasn't really the right term. I should have used a more general term like quality.
Sigh. You still don't understand DVI. It's digital. That means the signal is a stream of ones and zeros (represented by low and high voltage.) Do you think maybe some of the ones or zeros that come out of one card will be higher quality than those that come out of another card? (Just in case: they're not.)
But I was also interested in support for 1620 x 1050 widescreen resolution. I was hoping to learn what things I should look for in a card and any other intangibles.
Look for support for 1620 x 1050 widescreen. If it's DVI, then you're all set. There are no other metrics you need to consider for 2D. Really.
You seem to be saying all DVI cards are the same, at least for 2D.
All DVI outputs are indeed the same. DVI cards, of course, are not the same because they have different GPUs, amounts of memory, speeds, etc. But the DVI part will be the same. Seriously. I'm not kidding.
Following your logic, I can just shop on price and get a $19 Riva TNT2 PRO DVI 16MB. I'm doubtful that would work.
It would not work because such a card does not exist.
I think the advice of one responder to get at least a DirectX 9 card for Vista compatibility was a good one.
OK, sure, but that has nothing to do with DVI quality.
You got any other advice, other than to ridicule my misuse of the word sharpness?
I wasn't ridiculing anything, but if I were it would be your misunderstanding of the concept of DVI and your confusion of it with analog video signals. Moreover, I don't think you misused the word "sharpness" -- you just fail to recognize that it's irrelevant in this case.
It's true for any definition of sharpness that matters in this case. That is, no one can make a DVI output that can be "better" or "sharper" than another DVI output. Unless one is broken, they're going to look the same. The only thing that can affect image quality on a totally-digital display system is DVI timing, and that can be tweaked in software using PowerStrip or a similar utility. All you have to do is make sure the DVI timing output from your card matches what your LCD wants. Said differently, all you can do is adjust the DVI timing. There's no way to make a "better" DVI output -- this isn't the old days with analog VGA whose quality depended strongly on the A/D converter quality.
So you don't really need reviews to include 2D sharpness metrics; you need one to tell you they're all the same. Or you could study DVI and LCDs a bit and learn for yourself why that's true. Or you could save yourself some time and listen to some strangers on/. tell you, but that would mean skipping out on the fun of learning.
You're confused Mr. AC. Liksang sells the DS Lite for $169, which is $40 more than the normal DS (that's not 1.5x at all, even if the DS and DS lite were the same, which they're not.) The DS Lite is not available in the US, and it will certainly be around US$169 in Japan.
So they're not doing anything like you're suggesting.
Huh? No, not at all, to be honest. I'd say there really are only three to consider (Gameboy, NDS, and PSP) and that very few people will end up buying all three, much less all the versions of the GB (original, micro, color, advance.) And if you get an NDS, you can play all the GBA games.
$100 may get you a gameboy but it isn't enough for the NDS (close though, $129ish) and way short for a PSP (>$200.)
Moreover, I don't think anyone who owns an NDS (as I do) would say they only play it on airplanes. It's got some awesome games that you can't possibly play on a PC or other device (such as Ouendan! and Trauma Center) -- the touch and voice bit make it unique and fun.
Only in some very specialized jobs (pro sports, lawyers, doctors) subject to direct control of the free market does skill frequently have any reasonable correlation to pay and then usually only for the top few percent.
At the risk of sounding like I'm bragging, I'm going to have to call bullshit. I design ASICs. I do it 1.5-2x better than any of my peers. I get 1.5-2x their salary, and better bonuses.
This sort of reward for skill and efficiency is common in the semiconductor industry, even in companies (like mine) that are Japanese-owned and traditionally seniority-based.
You just don't know about it because we and our managers don't talk about it. That would be bad for the morale of the 1x and lower crew, and it's bad juju to disclose your salary anyway.
Why you would need to double mod it I have know idea.
"Know" idea indeed. This must be a troll. I have no idea how one could seriously try to be a pedant and fail so miserably. Most morons wouldn't even try; you must be a special kind of moron.
Finally, if I were writing an essay, and not merely replying to an individual, I would have certainly used more formal constructs (viz. pronoun choice).
Would you also use two unnecessary commas in your essay?
For all we know, it is not true. The only thing we have for it is TheNetAvenger's wholly unfounded claim that "One of the wiretaps was on the husband of Kerry's campaign manager..." but for whatever reason that allegation is so super-sensitive that he can't even provide a shred of evidence to support it.
Exactly how does a post that reads in its entirety "No, this is not true." possibly get modded up as 'informative'???
The exact same same way that the grandparent post, which used a few more words to make an equally unsubstantiated claim, managed to get modded +3 Insightful.
Last I checked, the jury was out on this one. If you have additional light to shed on this issue, kindly post the relevant links. If not, kindly stop astroturfing.
Well, last I checked there was nether a jury nor even any evidence for the "jury" to consider. So, if you have something worth looking at it, kindly post it. As the one making the baseless allegations, the onus is on your to provide evidence of the claim you (and the GP poster) are making. If you have none, kindly eat a dick.
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Cue the asshat that appears in every convergence thread to cry "I just want a phone to make calls and nothing else" in 5, 4, 3, . . .
(Pssst: Dad wants it too!)
Among many other things I'm not smart enough to answer -- fix their website. Why do I have to login (with a pretty annoying registration process with lots of clicks and "strong" password requirements) to download a demo or some docs? It's not online banking, but they act like it is.
Lighten up, Sun.
I hope you're not referring to the parent, since he's totally wrong. PLLs certainly can, and do, include multiplers (and/or dividers.) They're called . . . wait for it . . . "multiplying PLLs" (as opposed to "clock-insertion-delay removing PLLs." He also botched his bit about the inverse square law (on multiple levels.)
Many more Germans, French, and Japanese immigrate to the US than the other way around.
America is still the land of opportunity, like it or not. And you don't even have to be from a poor hell-hole like Mexico to think so. You just have to put aside the hate long enough to be honest.
(Germany's 10%+ unemployment, France's Muslim rioters, and Japan's brutal homogeneity may also be interesting to consider.)
AHAHAHAHAHA. Ha. Ha ha. Yes. Outside of the US is where all the opportunities are. That's why most immigrants come here. They want the challenge!
If you'd written "know-nothing" instead of "no-nothing" then we wouldn't all be certain that your problem is not actually HR, rather it's the fact that you're probably pretty close to a "know-nothing" yourself.
Good luck with that angst.
"to"
Would have been a perfect post were it not for that.
I doubt it, since it would suck with most modern devices even more than it did when it was new. Maybe you should look for a way to get his member out of your orifice. It seems to have been there since the 80's...
I would have done more but I have quite a bit of fluorescent lighting and they don't do fluorescents.
Huh; that's news to me! I have several dozen fluorescents (and halogens, and incandescents) controlled by X-10 devices in my home. X-10 work OK, X-10pro work better, and the molst expensive brand at Smarthome (Leviton or similar, I think) work nearly perfectly.
How hard is it to guarantee packet delivery, and to make the hardware not do something stupid if it gets an error?
As an EE I can say: unless you can tolerate (multiple redundant sets of) wires running to and from every device and every controller, or have an unlimited budget, then the answer is hard. Very hard, in fact.
I guess what I'm saying is, "reliably, cheap, not ugly -- pick two."
Odd; I and my associates have expressed the same sentiment about so many stories on ./ over the last 6 months or so that we've all sort of decided that the shark has been jumped here, so to speak. But I didn't think that at all for this story -- it seems legit, and I'm quite interested.
:)
Usually the stories I think are obvious shilling/astroturfing are for products or services that are not really new, not really available yet, or are of dubious merit and not an analogue of some existing, useful but decidedly imperfect product.
I wonder what signs make you think astroturfing in this case? I'm not really disagreeing as much as I am hoping to hone my shill-spotting techniques
1T SRAM is just embedded DRAM
That's not quite accurate. It's at least misleading.
1T-SRAM is really DRAM (it's dynamic, requiring refresh -- not static) but it's not the same as what people usually call eDRAM (embedded DRAM.) 1T-SRAM is a specific memory cell design developed and owned by MoSys. It uses a single transistor and a capacitor for each bit of storage. It's a very specific implementation.
eDRAM is a generic term for any embedded dynamic memory. This can be implemented as trench-style (IBM), MiM / Metal-insulator-metal type (NEC), or others. But it can't be "1T-SRAM" unless you're paying MoSys for it. Most DRAM is 4T or 6T.
Yes; and that's saying something.
What makes this a "gaming" headset? The bundled microphone? The carrying bag? The price? The fact that it comes in a box?
Apparently, it's sensibility. How much sensibility does your precious Sennheiser have? Huh? Yeah. I thought so!
The sensibility of this microphone is remarkable. It provides excellent sound quality during voice chats (tested on several chatting programmes such as Skype, Ventrilo, and MSN Messenger), and allows the user to speak freely without having to worry about where to place the microphone. Placing the microphone all around on my desk always resulted in good sound quality; all that had to be changed was the microphone volume control from the Volume Control Panel of the OS, so to allow others to still hear you loud, even if the microphone is set to be one foot away from the mouth.
(I think what really makes this a "gaming" headset is they want it to be, it's marketed as such, and they paid the slashvertisement fee.
OK, forget about the "sharpness"; I know a pixel is a pixel and that wasn't really the right term. I should have used a more general term like quality.
Sigh. You still don't understand DVI. It's digital. That means the signal is a stream of ones and zeros (represented by low and high voltage.) Do you think maybe some of the ones or zeros that come out of one card will be higher quality than those that come out of another card? (Just in case: they're not.)
But I was also interested in support for 1620 x 1050 widescreen resolution. I was hoping to learn what things I should look for in a card and any other intangibles.
Look for support for 1620 x 1050 widescreen. If it's DVI, then you're all set. There are no other metrics you need to consider for 2D. Really.
You seem to be saying all DVI cards are the same, at least for 2D.
All DVI outputs are indeed the same. DVI cards, of course, are not the same because they have different GPUs, amounts of memory, speeds, etc. But the DVI part will be the same. Seriously. I'm not kidding.
Following your logic, I can just shop on price and get a $19 Riva TNT2 PRO DVI 16MB. I'm doubtful that would work.
It would not work because such a card does not exist.
I think the advice of one responder to get at least a DirectX 9 card for Vista compatibility was a good one.
OK, sure, but that has nothing to do with DVI quality.
You got any other advice, other than to ridicule my misuse of the word sharpness?
I wasn't ridiculing anything, but if I were it would be your misunderstanding of the concept of DVI and your confusion of it with analog video signals. Moreover, I don't think you misused the word "sharpness" -- you just fail to recognize that it's irrelevant in this case.
It's true for any definition of sharpness that matters in this case. That is, no one can make a DVI output that can be "better" or "sharper" than another DVI output. Unless one is broken, they're going to look the same. The only thing that can affect image quality on a totally-digital display system is DVI timing, and that can be tweaked in software using PowerStrip or a similar utility. All you have to do is make sure the DVI timing output from your card matches what your LCD wants. Said differently, all you can do is adjust the DVI timing. There's no way to make a "better" DVI output -- this isn't the old days with analog VGA whose quality depended strongly on the A/D converter quality.
/. tell you, but that would mean skipping out on the fun of learning.
So you don't really need reviews to include 2D sharpness metrics; you need one to tell you they're all the same. Or you could study DVI and LCDs a bit and learn for yourself why that's true. Or you could save yourself some time and listen to some strangers on
You're confused Mr. AC. Liksang sells the DS Lite for $169, which is $40 more than the normal DS (that's not 1.5x at all, even if the DS and DS lite were the same, which they're not.) The DS Lite is not available in the US, and it will certainly be around US$169 in Japan.
So they're not doing anything like you're suggesting.
Huh? No, not at all, to be honest. I'd say there really are only three to consider (Gameboy, NDS, and PSP) and that very few people will end up buying all three, much less all the versions of the GB (original, micro, color, advance.) And if you get an NDS, you can play all the GBA games.
$100 may get you a gameboy but it isn't enough for the NDS (close though, $129ish) and way short for a PSP (>$200.)
Moreover, I don't think anyone who owns an NDS (as I do) would say they only play it on airplanes. It's got some awesome games that you can't possibly play on a PC or other device (such as Ouendan! and Trauma Center) -- the touch and voice bit make it unique and fun.
Frankly, your post confuses me.
Only in some very specialized jobs (pro sports, lawyers, doctors) subject to direct control of the free market does skill frequently have any reasonable correlation to pay and then usually only for the top few percent.
At the risk of sounding like I'm bragging, I'm going to have to call bullshit. I design ASICs. I do it 1.5-2x better than any of my peers. I get 1.5-2x their salary, and better bonuses.
This sort of reward for skill and efficiency is common in the semiconductor industry, even in companies (like mine) that are Japanese-owned and traditionally seniority-based.
You just don't know about it because we and our managers don't talk about it. That would be bad for the morale of the 1x and lower crew, and it's bad juju to disclose your salary anyway.
Why you would need to double mod it I have know idea.
"Know" idea indeed. This must be a troll. I have no idea how one could seriously try to be a pedant and fail so miserably. Most morons wouldn't even try; you must be a special kind of moron.
Finally, if I were writing an essay, and not merely replying to an individual, I would have certainly used more formal constructs (viz. pronoun choice).
Would you also use two unnecessary commas in your essay?
I'm curious as to how one could be "proven to no longer be a danger to society." How would you go about establishing proof of such a thing?
(Note that some psychiartrist's or social worker's opinion in no way constitutes proof.)
For all we know, it is not true. The only thing we have for it is TheNetAvenger's wholly unfounded claim that "One of the wiretaps was on the husband of Kerry's campaign manager..." but for whatever reason that allegation is so super-sensitive that he can't even provide a shred of evidence to support it.
Exactly how does a post that reads in its entirety "No, this is not true." possibly get modded up as 'informative'???
The exact same same way that the grandparent post, which used a few more words to make an equally unsubstantiated claim, managed to get modded +3 Insightful.
Last I checked, the jury was out on this one. If you have additional light to shed on this issue, kindly post the relevant links. If not, kindly stop astroturfing.
Well, last I checked there was nether a jury nor even any evidence for the "jury" to consider. So, if you have something worth looking at it, kindly post it. As the one making the baseless allegations, the onus is on your to provide evidence of the claim you (and the GP poster) are making. If you have none, kindly eat a dick.
No, this is not true.