They're called limiters and they exist.
But when the amplifier clips hard, it's usually not the amplitude of the signal that kills the speaker, but the unusual frequencies that get added. No limiter will help in that case.
I have to disagree with that. While clipping can generate high order harmonics those will generally only hurt tweeters. When mids and woofers (sub woofers etc) get a clipped signal it's the extra power that sends them beyond mechanical or thermal limits that kills them.
"I have just one thing that makes me uneasy about this whole thing," he said, "when we mail these documents to our customers, I don't want them to be able to click on that link to go to our site."
Phillip K. Dick is an excellent author for high school studies. He was a prolific short story writer and short stories make for easier analysis and review (some are short enough to read through and briefly discuss in a class). Plus he covered a broad variety of topics, all of which are still valid (i.e. his writing is timeless).
The electric ant comes to mind as a good story. Paycheque was quite a short read but excellent. My favorite (but a little longer) is A Scanner Darkly. Screamers is short and interesting.. the list goes on and on. Also, many movies have been based off his work (all poorly interpreted imho), which could help generate interest in his work.
My experience with non-commission environments is that instead of $$ incentives you have sales quotas you must meet or beat or you lose your hours to someone who is selling better. So either way there is a push to sell.
My guess is that the sales agents will push for a few good sales to meet their quota then mysteriously become unavailable after that time.
Compact disc: sony originally had their own standard and phillips had their own.. ended up being a combined effort.
3.5" floppy: The adopted version (mass produced and used) was a variant of the sony 90.0 mm X 94.0 mm disk. The sony design was not adopted.
bluray: Sony started the spec but it was a collaboration between many companies.
trinitron: did anyone actually license that technology? Yeah sony sold a lot of trinitron tvs, but was it a common adopted standard or did people wait for the patent to expire to use it? Also it isn't a technology that has to be compatible... like any 2d tv you just use your eyes and it takes a normal NTSC/PAL signal.. the 3D tv won't be the same case (specific glasses and programming material).
If it was just $60 or $70, I'd get it, but $200+ is a bit steep.
I have to agree. I've been running the Win 7 RC on one of my machines and it's good enough, but not $200 good.
I really think MS needs to offer an early adopters special. Say $50 for a Win 7 license for the first few months (maybe first 6 months?) to get people buying it. Then they have a user base and if it IS as good as it appears to be late adopters will be willing to pay full retail to catch up with the early adopters.
I think the key is MS need to get people using this if they want it to gain significant market share. They shouldn't sit on their laurels and bet on, "Well it's the only real upgrade path.. who's gonna use vista?", because that means more people moving to Linux and OSX, or just sitting on their old XP license.
I think you missed the point of the parent. Schon was wittily illustrating the grammar mistake (then/than) and the effect it has on the meaning of the statement.
An appropriate response would have been something equally witty such as, "Well I don't know about you but I'd rather have 4GB then 32GB!"
Funny you mention that one. I remember moving to the US from Canada with my parents in the 80's. When we first got into town we went to McDonald's (iirc, could have been another drive-through restaurant) and we asked for "chips", the response was, "We don't sell chips here!" Of course we meant fries.
I don't hear it as much with my generation, but it's still used. I've never heard of a fish and fries shop.
They're planning on releasing a gps/car kit so it can also be used with the iPod touch.
Which would explain the large file size (app + map data for North America). The size isn't even a slight surprise to me. It's definitely a lot more convenient than your phone downloading the same stuff over and over (yes they could do some kind of caching, but 1gb isn't much to complain about, seriously).
Because of upcoming release I was holding out on buying a small gps unit since I have an Ipod touch already. I'm glad I broke down and bought a small TomTom unit for ~$100 now that the pricing is out. If the app alone is £60, how much more is the cradle going to cost? I had envisioned getting the software and cradle for less than their current entry level hardware as the hardware is already there. Oh well. It'll eventually come down.
They haven't used storks since 1973 when the Ciconiiformes Rights Protection Act was passed. Nowadays the baby is usually sent by first-class mail.
Just be careful on which carrier you use. My last baby came in less than perfect shape and the claims process is a total hassle! It looked like the carrier kicked it all the way to my house.
Worst is I can't get even a partial refund shipping it back. You'd think they could post it as a scratch and dent special.. heck I'd even pay 15% restocking, but NOoooO.
Nope. I send all important email messages as blank body with a Word attachment! If I can't be bothered to copy and paste do you think I'm going covert something to plaintext just for you? I don't even know how to do that and don't have time to learn. Much too busy. Much much too busy.
*opens dashboard, presses "Upgrade to 2.8.4" button*
Fixed.:D
Not sure why you got modded down (probably just the way you put it). Upgrading Wordpress is trivially easy.
Exploits happen, and this is a pretty minor one (just an annoyance, not user permission escalation, admin rights etc). They got a fix out quick and it's easy enough to apply.
RTFA? Did you RTFSummary? The point is that the password is reset but the reset doesn't get sent to the admin email as per usual. Yes, the attacker can't get the password, but the admin doesn't get it either.
It's not about verifying age, they had sufficient tools to do that before the scan, picture save to db. It is (theoretically) about safety. If someone does something violent then there is an easy way to identify that person (go through the photos taken that night and the corresponding id swipes). Let's just ignore any possibility of fake id's that scan properly for now. So if something bad happens you have the guy/girl caught as long as someone witnessed it (and with how crammed clubs are lots of people probably witnessed it). So great, the culprit is easier to find as you have a positive identification and justice can be served.
The problem is lots of data is collected, against peoples' will and rights and there are currently no standards in place. If this data collection is to be allowed, then how long and how data is kept and how it is to be used has to specified and must be audited. If there were no incidents that night then why should data be kept longer than 24-48 hours? If it is specified that 24 hours is the maximum storage time, then who is going to verify that is actually happening?
I worked in bars in Victoria when I was younger. I can't guarantee it, but with the way most of them work I'd bet they are using the scanned info to profile their customers to figure out how to make more money. That's valuable data and the bar scene is very competitive (lots of bars with a limited customer base). If any one bar starts using that data then they all have to just to keep up.
It does seem like bar violence has decreased since the measures have been implemented, but at what expense? I am willing to bet that the previous problem makers no longer show up at the bars that are taking id info, so you the end you are just taking info from people who will not be an issue and storing it so that it's temptingly accessible by bar owners. If you have a data connection to a federally or provincially controlled data warehouse and nothing is stored locally (ok pretend they couldn't just grab the data as they scan it) it gets rid of the owner issue, allows identifying violent patrons but is still a privacy issue (are you going to trust that the gov't will only access the data under warrant because of an incident?).
I can't suggest a better solution off the top of my head, but I can suggest that bars/cabarets start following the laws and quit over serving guests. That would cut down on violence (profits as well though..). The BC liquor laws prohibit serving someone more than 3 legal drinks in a hour and prohibit serving someone who is apparently intoxicated (according to my "Serving it right" course I took to be licensed to serve drinks). No bars follow that and it isn't enforced. Start by enforcing that. Yes bar owners will be upset (drunk customers == $$$), but if the goal is customer safety I think profits should be sacrificed before privacy.
At the university I attended the professors chose what language to teach the courses in. In some cases you could choose what language to do the assignments in (numerical methods I could use any language as long as the first assignment was done in Matlab.. I chose Octave for most, but for a few Perl was quicker. Some people wrote java.. of course their code was 3 times as long, but that's what they felt comfortable in).
While I didn't come out of school particularly competent in any language (a nice smathering of C,C++, Java, Perl, Lisp, ML etc), I came out confident I could learn any language I needed to quickly. My first real programming job (quite recent, I was a business analyst previously), I had to pick up delphi (objective pascal basically). Two days tearing through the codebase and I was up and running doing bug fixes and adding new features. Within a month I had written some new code (dll) ground up. Then we moved to C# for all new code. Easy enough. Read a few gotchas written for java and c++ coders and I was good to go...
My point being. Language doesn't matter. You are going to have to learn new languages. That's the industry. You need a solid base of theory and the language is just how you express what you already know. It's like an artist working in different mediums. A good artist should be able to use any medium. They may prefer one or two, but asked to create something in any medium it shouldn't be a big deal.
Ahh, but carburetor specialists are far and few between. There are plenty of brake monkeys out there (everyone claims to be able to do brakes), but very few who can actually performance tune a carburetor. The pay is much better, and if need be you can always pick up doing brake pads if all the jobs supporting carburetors dry up. In the mean time you'll be making a lot more money doing more challenging work.
Broadcom is you example of wireless chipsets that work well in linux?!
Broadcom chips working out of the box is pretty recent. I'm quite sure my receding hairline is a result of getting broadcom based cards working (and attempting to get them working reliably). Sure the last 2-3 releases of Ubuntu were fine, but broadcom has been making wireless chipsets a lot longer than that.
If you find an old, pre-1950 dictionary and look up "computer", you'll find that it defines "computer" as a person who is employed to do maths. Thousands of computers were employed for the military, large corporations, etc doing ballistics calculations, statistical math, and the like.
A recently retired math professor at the University I attended was a "computer" (long before he was a professor in the math faculty). According to him he mainly computed missile trajectories, though I'd assume he'd do whatever was asked of him at the time. They would have multiple people work the same problem to verify the results.
295Mhz MIPS vs. 485 Mhz PowerPC vs. 733 Mhz x86 (Coppermine-based intel cpu)
Comparing raw clock speeds doesn't mean a thing. Comparing FLoating point Operations Per Second might be a little more meaningful (but still doesn't tell the whole story when comparing processors)
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They're called limiters and they exist. But when the amplifier clips hard, it's usually not the amplitude of the signal that kills the speaker, but the unusual frequencies that get added. No limiter will help in that case.
I have to disagree with that. While clipping can generate high order harmonics those will generally only hurt tweeters. When mids and woofers (sub woofers etc) get a clipped signal it's the extra power that sends them beyond mechanical or thermal limits that kills them.
"I have just one thing that makes me uneasy about this whole thing," he said, "when we mail these documents to our customers, I don't want them to be able to click on that link to go to our site."
Phillip K. Dick is an excellent author for high school studies. He was a prolific short story writer and short stories make for easier analysis and review (some are short enough to read through and briefly discuss in a class). Plus he covered a broad variety of topics, all of which are still valid (i.e. his writing is timeless).
The electric ant comes to mind as a good story. Paycheque was quite a short read but excellent. My favorite (but a little longer) is A Scanner Darkly. Screamers is short and interesting.. the list goes on and on. Also, many movies have been based off his work (all poorly interpreted imho), which could help generate interest in his work.
My experience with non-commission environments is that instead of $$ incentives you have sales quotas you must meet or beat or you lose your hours to someone who is selling better. So either way there is a push to sell.
My guess is that the sales agents will push for a few good sales to meet their quota then mysteriously become unavailable after that time.
Compact disc: sony originally had their own standard and phillips had their own.. ended up being a combined effort.
3.5" floppy: The adopted version (mass produced and used) was a variant of the sony 90.0 mm X 94.0 mm disk. The sony design was not adopted.
bluray: Sony started the spec but it was a collaboration between many companies.
trinitron: did anyone actually license that technology? Yeah sony sold a lot of trinitron tvs, but was it a common adopted standard or did people wait for the patent to expire to use it? Also it isn't a technology that has to be compatible... like any 2d tv you just use your eyes and it takes a normal NTSC/PAL signal.. the 3D tv won't be the same case (specific glasses and programming material).
Excellent point. Sony doesn't have a good history with the industry adopting their formats or standards (e.g. beta, minidisc, ATRAC).
Personally I'll be waiting for the open standard not invented by Sony.
If it was just $60 or $70, I'd get it, but $200+ is a bit steep.
I have to agree. I've been running the Win 7 RC on one of my machines and it's good enough, but not $200 good.
I really think MS needs to offer an early adopters special. Say $50 for a Win 7 license for the first few months (maybe first 6 months?) to get people buying it. Then they have a user base and if it IS as good as it appears to be late adopters will be willing to pay full retail to catch up with the early adopters.
I think the key is MS need to get people using this if they want it to gain significant market share. They shouldn't sit on their laurels and bet on, "Well it's the only real upgrade path.. who's gonna use vista?", because that means more people moving to Linux and OSX, or just sitting on their old XP license.
No, it's a licensing limit..
I think you missed the point of the parent. Schon was wittily illustrating the grammar mistake (then/than) and the effect it has on the meaning of the statement.
An appropriate response would have been something equally witty such as, "Well I don't know about you but I'd rather have 4GB then 32GB!"
No, not that kind of multitasking!
Really? Because the first thing I thought of was the the Trifecta. Pastrami, tv and sex at the same time. Multitasking for pleasure.
What's a Playboy? Is that like a Playstation?
Yes. But Playboy only offers single player action.
..and adopt the US meaning for "chips"...
Funny you mention that one. I remember moving to the US from Canada with my parents in the 80's. When we first got into town we went to McDonald's (iirc, could have been another drive-through restaurant) and we asked for "chips", the response was, "We don't sell chips here!" Of course we meant fries.
I don't hear it as much with my generation, but it's still used. I've never heard of a fish and fries shop.
They're planning on releasing a gps/car kit so it can also be used with the iPod touch.
Which would explain the large file size (app + map data for North America). The size isn't even a slight surprise to me. It's definitely a lot more convenient than your phone downloading the same stuff over and over (yes they could do some kind of caching, but 1gb isn't much to complain about, seriously).
Because of upcoming release I was holding out on buying a small gps unit since I have an Ipod touch already. I'm glad I broke down and bought a small TomTom unit for ~$100 now that the pricing is out. If the app alone is £60, how much more is the cradle going to cost? I had envisioned getting the software and cradle for less than their current entry level hardware as the hardware is already there. Oh well. It'll eventually come down.
They haven't used storks since 1973 when the Ciconiiformes Rights Protection Act was passed. Nowadays the baby is usually sent by first-class mail.
Just be careful on which carrier you use. My last baby came in less than perfect shape and the claims process is a total hassle! It looked like the carrier kicked it all the way to my house.
Worst is I can't get even a partial refund shipping it back. You'd think they could post it as a scratch and dent special.. heck I'd even pay 15% restocking, but NOoooO.
Next time I'm just going to buy a bigger tv.
Can you just give it to me as plaintext instead?
Nope. I send all important email messages as blank body with a Word attachment! If I can't be bothered to copy and paste do you think I'm going covert something to plaintext just for you? I don't even know how to do that and don't have time to learn. Much too busy. Much much too busy.
*opens dashboard, presses "Upgrade to 2.8.4" button*
Fixed. :D
Not sure why you got modded down (probably just the way you put it). Upgrading Wordpress is trivially easy.
Exploits happen, and this is a pretty minor one (just an annoyance, not user permission escalation, admin rights etc). They got a fix out quick and it's easy enough to apply.
RTFA? Did you RTFSummary? The point is that the password is reset but the reset doesn't get sent to the admin email as per usual. Yes, the attacker can't get the password, but the admin doesn't get it either.
There was a tax on MP3 players in 2004.
True, but Stephen can speak at least one of his nation's languages fluently...
Finally someone who gets it.
It's not about verifying age, they had sufficient tools to do that before the scan, picture save to db. It is (theoretically) about safety. If someone does something violent then there is an easy way to identify that person (go through the photos taken that night and the corresponding id swipes). Let's just ignore any possibility of fake id's that scan properly for now. So if something bad happens you have the guy/girl caught as long as someone witnessed it (and with how crammed clubs are lots of people probably witnessed it). So great, the culprit is easier to find as you have a positive identification and justice can be served.
The problem is lots of data is collected, against peoples' will and rights and there are currently no standards in place. If this data collection is to be allowed, then how long and how data is kept and how it is to be used has to specified and must be audited. If there were no incidents that night then why should data be kept longer than 24-48 hours? If it is specified that 24 hours is the maximum storage time, then who is going to verify that is actually happening?
I worked in bars in Victoria when I was younger. I can't guarantee it, but with the way most of them work I'd bet they are using the scanned info to profile their customers to figure out how to make more money. That's valuable data and the bar scene is very competitive (lots of bars with a limited customer base). If any one bar starts using that data then they all have to just to keep up.
It does seem like bar violence has decreased since the measures have been implemented, but at what expense? I am willing to bet that the previous problem makers no longer show up at the bars that are taking id info, so you the end you are just taking info from people who will not be an issue and storing it so that it's temptingly accessible by bar owners. If you have a data connection to a federally or provincially controlled data warehouse and nothing is stored locally (ok pretend they couldn't just grab the data as they scan it) it gets rid of the owner issue, allows identifying violent patrons but is still a privacy issue (are you going to trust that the gov't will only access the data under warrant because of an incident?).
I can't suggest a better solution off the top of my head, but I can suggest that bars/cabarets start following the laws and quit over serving guests. That would cut down on violence (profits as well though..). The BC liquor laws prohibit serving someone more than 3 legal drinks in a hour and prohibit serving someone who is apparently intoxicated (according to my "Serving it right" course I took to be licensed to serve drinks). No bars follow that and it isn't enforced. Start by enforcing that. Yes bar owners will be upset (drunk customers == $$$), but if the goal is customer safety I think profits should be sacrificed before privacy.
Exactly.
At the university I attended the professors chose what language to teach the courses in. In some cases you could choose what language to do the assignments in (numerical methods I could use any language as long as the first assignment was done in Matlab.. I chose Octave for most, but for a few Perl was quicker. Some people wrote java.. of course their code was 3 times as long, but that's what they felt comfortable in).
While I didn't come out of school particularly competent in any language (a nice smathering of C,C++, Java, Perl, Lisp, ML etc), I came out confident I could learn any language I needed to quickly. My first real programming job (quite recent, I was a business analyst previously), I had to pick up delphi (objective pascal basically). Two days tearing through the codebase and I was up and running doing bug fixes and adding new features. Within a month I had written some new code (dll) ground up. Then we moved to C# for all new code. Easy enough. Read a few gotchas written for java and c++ coders and I was good to go...
My point being. Language doesn't matter. You are going to have to learn new languages. That's the industry. You need a solid base of theory and the language is just how you express what you already know. It's like an artist working in different mediums. A good artist should be able to use any medium. They may prefer one or two, but asked to create something in any medium it shouldn't be a big deal.
Ahh, but carburetor specialists are far and few between. There are plenty of brake monkeys out there (everyone claims to be able to do brakes), but very few who can actually performance tune a carburetor. The pay is much better, and if need be you can always pick up doing brake pads if all the jobs supporting carburetors dry up. In the mean time you'll be making a lot more money doing more challenging work.
Broadcom is you example of wireless chipsets that work well in linux?!
Broadcom chips working out of the box is pretty recent. I'm quite sure my receding hairline is a result of getting broadcom based cards working (and attempting to get them working reliably). Sure the last 2-3 releases of Ubuntu were fine, but broadcom has been making wireless chipsets a lot longer than that.
If you find an old, pre-1950 dictionary and look up "computer", you'll find that it defines "computer" as a person who is employed to do maths. Thousands of computers were employed for the military, large corporations, etc doing ballistics calculations, statistical math, and the like.
A recently retired math professor at the University I attended was a "computer" (long before he was a professor in the math faculty). According to him he mainly computed missile trajectories, though I'd assume he'd do whatever was asked of him at the time. They would have multiple people work the same problem to verify the results.
CPU: 295 Mhz vs. 485 Mhz vs. 733 Mhz
Yes but more accurately it's:
295Mhz MIPS vs. 485 Mhz PowerPC vs. 733 Mhz x86 (Coppermine-based intel cpu)
Comparing raw clock speeds doesn't mean a thing. Comparing FLoating point Operations Per Second might be a little more meaningful (but still doesn't tell the whole story when comparing processors)
6.2gFlops vs. 1.9gFlops vs. 5.8
Looks like ps2 wins on that metric.
Frankly, the point still stands. Perhaps even better.
Yep. Hockey is just gentleman's lacrosse, on ice.
The ice part allows the sport to be played (virtually) year round, while lacrosse can only be played during the one week of summer.