A full horn design sounds ambitious! Where can I go to listen to a pair? (I live in Nothern VA)
From what I've auditioned, I think I like when they combine technologies: multiple long-throw woofers mated with a horn tweeter provide detail and directionality where it's important.
but the DSPs could just zero-extend to 32 bits, process, then normalize. Or even do the DSP math in 64-bit FP... There's no reason for the INFRASTRUCTURE to need to support 32-bits. That's overkill.
The Klipschs are nice, but tacky. And the sub is a bit sloppy. Also, it crosses over to the sub @140, which is too high. The MediaDesk crosses at less than 110, which brings it safely into the non-directional part of human hearing.
It's probably the best $1000 you'll ever spend on audio equipment. It will make you want to throw your home stereo (if you have one) in the garbage.:-) I'd pay $1500 for a similar set up that was designed for a larger room, but the Media Desk does just fine if you place the couch and the speakers intelligently.
Multiply by 2 to get the rate up to 96khz. It's already stereo at 24-bit, so multiply by 3 to get 6 channels. 6 * 6 = 36mbps. Hmmmm... I recall that 802.11g is 54mbps. 36 mbps works for me reliably from opposite ends of the house.
I think you could swing that easily when you are transmitting with line of sight, modulated in the regulated 5Ghz range.
It's only like a 6MHz-wide band (just above a 6Mbps datarate). Figure you use TDMA to allow for multiple channel pairs (say up to 5). Then you're looking at 30MHz. You could probably shove that somewhere in the 2.4GHz or 5GHz unregulated ranges easy. What's nice is that it can carry it's own timecode. Just build speakers that have nice DAC/amps, and off you go. Place em', plug 'em in, set the "speaker ID", and enjoy.
It already exists. What's neat is that you don't use a PCI card, but you'll hook your "sound card" via USB. This means you can isolate it from your computer and avoid some noise if there's D/A conversion going on it there. Now, some companies add extra features to said devices that make it so you need to use their drivers. But unless the unit is completely non-standard, it'll still work fine using the standard USB-audio drivers too (minus an advertised feature or two).
...but what I've found is that nothing beats a simple set of active monitors. There's something about the way it sounds when you're dedicating an amplifier PER DRIVER. ^_^
Plus nowadays you can get all-digital active monitors which makes wireless a possibility, and cabling an non-issue. Either that or just run balanced line-level; the possibility of interference or degradation there is practically nil.
Roland DM-20s Roland DA-30s Event TR8s KRK RP5s, 6s or 8s Behringer B2030As
I know the Mackie HRx24s are the "answer", but the question is do I have > $1000 to spend on a pair, or between $150-$300.
I really am looking hard at the DM-20s, if they sound a bit as good (even if quiet) compared to any others on that list, they'd be much better than the MA-8s for only twice as much... with digital inputs no less.
All operating systems do this anyway with your system RAM.
The memory on the drive is just there as a holding pen for pending reads and writes so that it can give the drive head a chance to get to where it needs to be, perhaps killing multiple birds with one stone. At a certain capacity you start needing more cache because you'll be dealing with potentially more complex access patterns (more disparate regions to access data, larger transfer units per track)
It is not a substitute for a file-system/block cache.
You should also consider investing in a windows resource kit or two... the su.exe program is very useful for making links to programs that are idiotically designed to need Administrator privledges.
Don't fuck up the gift of the earth and sol. There ain't any others nearby. So let's take care of it or start splicing genomes so we can vacation on Venus.
I mean really? What do you all suppose God would want us to have relationships with him for anyway? To entertain him?
What possible choices could we make after we're dead that could have any bearing on anything, and why would God care? So why would you need free will at that point?
Theoretical physicists don't try to treat time specially. It just so happens that many "processes" that we're aware of have large components in the increasing/decreasing t direction in a 4-dimensional space-time manifold.
And they all agree before the big bang, time didn't exist either. None of the dimensions existed. They exist in our universe in as much as they describe relative potential energies between particles and their interactions.
Also, it is speculated that the occurence of the big bang didn't need a reason. Quantum fluctations bring into existance all matter of particles all the time, which is usually balanced out by their destruction. These events are like miniature big-bangs. The creation of a particle energetic enough to become the universe is inevitable if time is meaningless. Ashes could become paper.
More likely, the ashes will break down into more volatile constituents by the introduction of a catalyst or energtic photon, and be integrated into other compounds that temporarily might offer a lower energy state. There's enough energy in the universe and places for stuff to cool down to make a whole wealth of things possible that seem to be the reverse of entropy. Really what's happening is unorganized waste heat is ultimately expunged into the ever-expanding reaches of space, which gives us more chances to harness processes that require a temperature gradiant.
And so on.
Remember, there is no such thing as purpose unless you ALREADY believe that someone has a reason. Your questions are mostly irrelevant unless you already believe a higher sentinent power is involved. But if there was no someone then there is no purpose.
Just because something is random doesn't mean it isn't important. A whole bunch of "coincidences" can happen in a day. That's just a bunch of essentially random things that TO YOU were important. Unless you can prove someone is sending you a message, you may just be "lucky" as it were.
I was _at_ the game. The defense seemed to be really feeding off the crowd energy.
It's just an observation as a fan, not some sort of twisted allegory about the Bush administration or the DoD or some stupid shit like that. Yes, I know what article this thread is attached to... but if I was going to make some sort joke or political tie in I would have come right out and said it.
was when the Redskins just sort of gave up there. The Packers probably wouldn't have had the scoring opportunity if that touchdown counted, provided the defense kept its act together.
It's better to have a combination of both hardware and software RAID. You can take better advantage of a larger server (especially with multiple I/O buses) if you add a couple of independant RAID controllers, then bind them together with software RAID. Raid 50 comes to mind... So you can treat each controller and it's respective drives as individual volumes in the metaraid, spreading out the chance of data loss due to an adapter dying; simultaneously getting a nice performance boost.
what you are suggesting is more along the lines of emulating the linux syscall API and scheduling model as a replacement set of APIs for java code (the ported linux userland programs).
That'd be really strange to behold, and the amount of work recoding everything in java would be enormous. Not to say you couldn't emulate it all from a non-developers' user's perspective, but the source code itself would be shockingly different.
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A full horn design sounds ambitious! Where can I go to listen to a pair? (I live in Nothern VA)
From what I've auditioned, I think I like when they combine technologies: multiple long-throw woofers mated with a horn tweeter provide detail and directionality where it's important.
but the DSPs could just zero-extend to 32 bits, process, then normalize.
Or even do the DSP math in 64-bit FP...
There's no reason for the INFRASTRUCTURE to need to support 32-bits. That's overkill.
The Klipschs are nice, but tacky. And the sub is a bit sloppy. Also, it crosses over to the sub @140, which is too high.
:-) I'd pay $1500 for a similar set up that was designed for a larger room, but the Media Desk does just fine if you place the couch and the speakers intelligently.
The MediaDesk crosses at less than 110, which brings it safely into the non-directional part of human hearing.
It's probably the best $1000 you'll ever spend on audio equipment. It will make you want to throw your home stereo (if you have one) in the garbage.
Multiply by 2 to get the rate up to 96khz. It's already stereo at 24-bit, so multiply by 3 to get 6 channels.
6 * 6 = 36mbps. Hmmmm... I recall that 802.11g is 54mbps. 36 mbps works for me reliably from opposite ends of the house.
I think you could swing that easily when you are transmitting with line of sight, modulated in the regulated 5Ghz range.
It's only like a 6MHz-wide band (just above a 6Mbps datarate). Figure you use TDMA to allow for multiple channel pairs (say up to 5). Then you're looking at 30MHz. You could probably shove that somewhere in the 2.4GHz or 5GHz unregulated ranges easy.
What's nice is that it can carry it's own timecode.
Just build speakers that have nice DAC/amps, and off you go. Place em', plug 'em in, set the "speaker ID", and enjoy.
It already exists.
What's neat is that you don't use a PCI card, but you'll hook your "sound card" via USB. This means you can isolate it from your computer and avoid some noise if there's D/A conversion going on it there.
Now, some companies add extra features to said devices that make it so you need to use their drivers. But unless the unit is completely non-standard, it'll still work fine using the standard USB-audio drivers too (minus an advertised feature or two).
...but what I've found is that nothing beats a simple set of active monitors. There's something about the way it sounds when you're dedicating an amplifier PER DRIVER. ^_^
Plus nowadays you can get all-digital active monitors which makes wireless a possibility, and cabling an non-issue. Either that or just run balanced line-level; the possibility of interference or degradation there is practically nil.
Has anyone tried any of the following:
Roland DM-20s
Roland DA-30s
Event TR8s
KRK RP5s, 6s or 8s
Behringer B2030As
I know the Mackie HRx24s are the "answer", but the question is do I have > $1000 to spend on a pair, or between $150-$300.
I really am looking hard at the DM-20s, if they sound a bit as good (even if quiet) compared to any others on that list, they'd be much better than the MA-8s for only twice as much... with digital inputs no less.
I'll gladly rip out your children's HEARTS and EAT THEM.
Delicious!
All operating systems do this anyway with your system RAM.
The memory on the drive is just there as a holding pen for pending reads and writes so that it can give the drive head a chance to get to where it needs to be, perhaps killing multiple birds with one stone.
At a certain capacity you start needing more cache because you'll be dealing with potentially more complex access patterns (more disparate regions to access data, larger transfer units per track)
It is not a substitute for a file-system/block cache.
You should also consider investing in a windows resource kit or two... the su.exe program is very useful for making links to programs that are idiotically designed to need Administrator privledges.
If it doesn't remove (or allow you to remove) anything that could be identified as annoying or intrusive, it's not doing it's job.
Always use more than one... SpyBot, AdAware, etc.
Don't fuck up the gift of the earth and sol. There ain't any others nearby. So let's take care of it or start splicing genomes so we can vacation on Venus.
I mean really? What do you all suppose God would want us to have relationships with him for anyway? To entertain him?
What possible choices could we make after we're dead that could have any bearing on anything, and why would God care? So why would you need free will at that point?
Theoretical physicists don't try to treat time specially. It just so happens that many "processes" that we're aware of have large components in the increasing/decreasing t direction in a 4-dimensional space-time manifold.
And they all agree before the big bang, time didn't exist either. None of the dimensions existed. They exist in our universe in as much as they describe relative potential energies between particles and their interactions.
Also, it is speculated that the occurence of the big bang didn't need a reason. Quantum fluctations bring into existance all matter of particles all the time, which is usually balanced out by their destruction. These events are like miniature big-bangs. The creation of a particle energetic enough to become the universe is inevitable if time is meaningless.
Ashes could become paper.
More likely, the ashes will break down into more volatile constituents by the introduction of a catalyst or energtic photon, and be integrated into other compounds that temporarily might offer a lower energy state.
There's enough energy in the universe and places for stuff to cool down to make a whole wealth of things possible that seem to be the reverse of entropy. Really what's happening is unorganized waste heat is ultimately expunged into the ever-expanding reaches of space, which gives us more chances to harness processes that require a temperature gradiant.
And so on.
Remember, there is no such thing as purpose unless you ALREADY believe that someone has a reason. Your questions are mostly irrelevant unless you already believe a higher sentinent power is involved.
But if there was no someone then there is no purpose.
Just because something is random doesn't mean it isn't important. A whole bunch of "coincidences" can happen in a day. That's just a bunch of essentially random things that TO YOU were important. Unless you can prove someone is sending you a message, you may just be "lucky" as it were.
If God has a hand in evolution, what is doing, deciding who gets to mate? Because that's what we do.
The great literary mind, and great Apologist.
Well, the guys running the show at the game didn't show the replay. I missed that coverage. ::shrugs::
I was _at_ the game.
The defense seemed to be really feeding off the crowd energy.
It's just an observation as a fan, not some sort of twisted allegory about the Bush administration or the DoD or some stupid shit like that. Yes, I know what article this thread is attached to... but if I was going to make some sort joke or political tie in I would have come right out and said it.
Get a clue.
was when the Redskins just sort of gave up there. The Packers probably wouldn't have had the scoring opportunity if that touchdown counted, provided the defense kept its act together.
RAID5 is almost always better when offloaded (unless you have like mad SCSI controllers for your direct-attached discs)
It's better to have a combination of both hardware and software RAID. You can take better advantage of a larger server (especially with multiple I/O buses) if you add a couple of independant RAID controllers, then bind them together with software RAID. Raid 50 comes to mind... So you can treat each controller and it's respective drives as individual volumes in the metaraid, spreading out the chance of data loss due to an adapter dying; simultaneously getting a nice performance boost.
They make good RAID controllers too for a competetive price. (They OEM the Dell "PERC" cards)
what you are suggesting is more along the lines of emulating the linux syscall API and scheduling model as a replacement set of APIs for java code (the ported linux userland programs).
That'd be really strange to behold, and the amount of work recoding everything in java would be enormous. Not to say you couldn't emulate it all from a non-developers' user's perspective, but the source code itself would be shockingly different.