I'm as much a mac fan as you're likely to meet here, but in the history of iPods that happened twice - 6-pin Firewire was the native interface of the first two generations of iPod; they rolled out PC compatibility along with the 30 pin dock and USB2 logical interface.
Since I started buying laptops, I've bought nothing but Apple.
The eMate 300 ran all week on a charge. I only plugged it in every weekend, if I could be arsed, so plug durability was mostly a moot point.
The Macbook & Pros' magnetic power cords, on the other hand, have saved me replacing at least a half a dozen machines due to others' klutziness. You may call Macs overpriced, but they aren't sixfold overpriced. Ergo, I've turned a profit this way.
A standard microUSB connector is designed for 0.5 amps. They are routinely pushed to 0.9 amps. USB 3.0 can push 5 amps, however, but that runs into the same form factor problem I mentioned before.
If people are pushing 1.8 amps over microUSB connectors, why weren't they rated at that in the first place? Why was the spec not revised upwards?
Old nukes were just hard to get to go off, and were intrinsically fairly fail-safe. Unless the initiator erroneously sent a pulse, at which point you were probably pretty well boned.
New nukes actually make sure they're within expected operating parameters before so much as unlocking the firing data. Things like using clocks and accelerometers to measure "How long have I been in free-fall?" before allowing a bomb to detonate, or a missile checking to see if it's been under several gees of acceleration long enough to be clear of its launch site. Wikipedia talks about deliberate misplacement of initiators, so a simple simultaneous pulse will result in no significant fission yield (or at least a fizzle). Without loading very specific timing variations for every single initiator, modern American weapons cannot reliably be detonated.
Don't get me wrong - I don't endorse Monster or even Belkin, I'd prefer to get my stuff from Monoprice or Bluejean. Amazon's got much better shipping, however, and a famously permissive return policy.
You're well aware of the "reverse engineering for compatibility" exception?
And the anti-SLAPP laws on the books?
Right. Not that there's not a lot of companies that would love to do shit like that, but it's actually quite illegal and can be pretty lucrative to be on the receiving end of.
Having seen what happens when aftermarket ink is used in the wrong printhead, I can understand that in cheap consumer inkjets. Now doing that to toner cartridges, that's another story really, the imaging drum should be chipped and life-cycle-monitored, and it should happily eat any toner you pour in by the gallon.
And they couldn't shove 4x more current down a MicroUSB cable without using a jack three times as large. Have you looked at a MicroUSB3 plug lately? It's almost as big as the old dock connector they just retired. They could have gotten much of that benefit by switching to PDMI, but we're now at a point where battery life and plug size are seriously at odds.
I will be returning them to Amazon because I had the unexpected pleasure of seeing good old-fashioned TV snow again overlaid on top of my digital signal.
My (i)phone (4) hung in the middle of the upgrade, so I ended up having to do a clean install.
It took all night, but it feels less laggy than iOS 6 was at the end. Also, some have complained about the useless animations, but if my actions are acknowledged immediately, I don't end up assuming the phone ignored my input, trying again, and taking eleven pictures of the floor in front of me while trying to start the camera.
Actually, the bomb was aimed to put as many enemy war factories, including munitions and aircraft plants, as well as a logistically critical bridge, in the predicted blast zone. Or it was aimed so as to cause as many casualties as possible and hamstringing the enemy's munition plants was just gravy. Either way, targeting munitions plants is allowed under Just War Theory.
Bombing enemy forces probably would have been just as effective at getting the message across, if sinking a carrier battle group without a trace allowed damage assessment. Like it or not, they needed to make a crater since most of Japan's forces were naval.
I suggest you look at the photos/videos of nuclear tests that the governments of the US and USSR have helpfully provided.
Unless they could fake all that in the fifties, including all the glass-lined craters you can tour now, considerably more than two weapons successfully detonated, even if only those two were fired in anger.
Per Wikipedia, modern weapons are designed in exactly that fashion. Go read up on what they've got unless you're afraid of being on a list; it's really fascinating reading.
Atom bombs are notoriously difficult to detonate. It's the reason that there's no pyrotechnic initiator capable of triggering them; even detcord is far too nonuniform.
According to Wikipedia, if the right command is sent to the permissive action link, the bomb will "explosively re-machine" the pit into something that cannot support an implosion. Reading into this euphemism of mass destruction, I suspect that since bombs are single-point safe (a single-point initiation - like a bullet - will produce no significant nuclear yield; you might detect it with lab equipment, but the destructive yield will be purely from chemical explosives) they trigger one of the initiators so as to destroy the weapon and turn the core into very expensive shrapnel that is decidedly non-trivial to recycle into a functional weapon.
It's getting pretty hard to be an anonymous member of an unpopular minority these days.
Hell, it took me thirty seconds to figure out how to prove someone plays D&D using Find My Friends and one flaky and/or gullible friend to expose location data. And zero budget. When all your crap is posting to Facebook on your behalf
Sometimes the noise floor in my house is in fact set by the incandescent light bulb I'm reading by. It's actually a fairly distracting sound, since it brings to mind a mosquito buzzing around. Back in elementary school hearing screenings, I was a few notches above (and below) what the audiologist thought was humanly possible. I've taken care of my ears, and every concert I attend, I attend with ear plugs. It's kind of a pain, actually - most headphones cut off at 20 Hz, and take the bottom out of a recording; I've found very few sets that'll go far enough to hear everything - I've got one electronica track with a baseline slightly below 20 Hz, and I can only hear it at all with a short list of expensive headphones - Sennheiser HD-280 Pro, Logitech/Ultimate Ears UE6000, and Bowers & Wilkins P5s are the only three I've tried that bring out that extra bonus bassline, presumably there either to be felt (in a club), or to be heard by us golden-ears crowd.
20 Hz is a damn, dirty lie. I don't know if it's just me, or if it's actually pretty common, but 10 Hz is about right. Dog whistle tones don't really contribute much musically, but if you like electronic, dub step, or D&B, 20 Hz is a liability and many headphone makers will embellish heavily about their lower end. Sure, it might be able to produce a 20 Hz tone, but it'll be rolled off by 30 dB. Here's hoping you can fix that with the equalizer
I would suggest that gun owners have a long memory, and have at least four times risen to the call - no, taken the bait - and when the loyal opposition said "Okay, we'll be happy if you compromise away this, and won't ask you for anything else" they went there. Well, if one side continues to compromise and the other gives no ground, that's not compromise, that's abuse. Compromise involves each side giving something up. When gun owners gave up grenades and machine guns, you'd be reasonable to have expected gun banners to have called it a fair trade and mission accomplished.
They didn't.
That was 1986; in 1994, the Assault Weapons Bill was passed, which had very little to do with "assault rifles" (a term of the art - a type of light machine gun banned since 1934) and a great deal to do with scary black rifles with good ergonomics. When a mouse is designed to avoid repetitive stress injuries, it's a great thing that everyone should buy and employers can be legally compelled to provide to injured employees, but when a gun's designed to avoid placing the same kind of stresses upon its user it's banned.
Unless you are able to afford a $30,000 English double-rifle made by master gunsmiths and artisans based on your personal measurements that were taken while you flew overseas. Anyone who wants to adjust an off-the-rack gun to fit them like a cheap suit is just screwed, however.
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I do it routinely. Should I have noticed a problem in the last 3 years?
I'm as much a mac fan as you're likely to meet here, but in the history of iPods that happened twice - 6-pin Firewire was the native interface of the first two generations of iPod; they rolled out PC compatibility along with the 30 pin dock and USB2 logical interface.
And you know about Lightning.
It's a small aluminum/steel monolith with six gold-plated conductors potted into the monolith with some polymer, probably epoxy.
Sticks to a magnet. Machined steel, compared to MicroUSB's stamped tinfoil.
Since I started buying laptops, I've bought nothing but Apple.
The eMate 300 ran all week on a charge. I only plugged it in every weekend, if I could be arsed, so plug durability was mostly a moot point.
The Macbook & Pros' magnetic power cords, on the other hand, have saved me replacing at least a half a dozen machines due to others' klutziness. You may call Macs overpriced, but they aren't sixfold overpriced. Ergo, I've turned a profit this way.
A standard microUSB connector is designed for 0.5 amps. They are routinely pushed to 0.9 amps. USB 3.0 can push 5 amps, however, but that runs into the same form factor problem I mentioned before.
If people are pushing 1.8 amps over microUSB connectors, why weren't they rated at that in the first place? Why was the spec not revised upwards?
Old nukes were just hard to get to go off, and were intrinsically fairly fail-safe. Unless the initiator erroneously sent a pulse, at which point you were probably pretty well boned. New nukes actually make sure they're within expected operating parameters before so much as unlocking the firing data. Things like using clocks and accelerometers to measure "How long have I been in free-fall?" before allowing a bomb to detonate, or a missile checking to see if it's been under several gees of acceleration long enough to be clear of its launch site. Wikipedia talks about deliberate misplacement of initiators, so a simple simultaneous pulse will result in no significant fission yield (or at least a fizzle). Without loading very specific timing variations for every single initiator, modern American weapons cannot reliably be detonated.
Until they don't.
Don't get me wrong - I don't endorse Monster or even Belkin, I'd prefer to get my stuff from Monoprice or Bluejean. Amazon's got much better shipping, however, and a famously permissive return policy.
You're well aware of the "reverse engineering for compatibility" exception?
And the anti-SLAPP laws on the books?
Right. Not that there's not a lot of companies that would love to do shit like that, but it's actually quite illegal and can be pretty lucrative to be on the receiving end of.
If you've got a sufficiently new TV.
Having seen what happens when aftermarket ink is used in the wrong printhead, I can understand that in cheap consumer inkjets. Now doing that to toner cartridges, that's another story really, the imaging drum should be chipped and life-cycle-monitored, and it should happily eat any toner you pour in by the gallon.
PDMI, however, is designed for that duty cycle.
Shame nobody uses it.
It also requires those rational actors to be well informed. I can hardly believe that one's true.
And they couldn't shove 4x more current down a MicroUSB cable without using a jack three times as large. Have you looked at a MicroUSB3 plug lately? It's almost as big as the old dock connector they just retired. They could have gotten much of that benefit by switching to PDMI, but we're now at a point where battery life and plug size are seriously at odds.
Protip: I just bought a pair of $4 HDMI cables.
I will be returning them to Amazon because I had the unexpected pleasure of seeing good old-fashioned TV snow again overlaid on top of my digital signal.
My (i)phone (4) hung in the middle of the upgrade, so I ended up having to do a clean install.
It took all night, but it feels less laggy than iOS 6 was at the end. Also, some have complained about the useless animations, but if my actions are acknowledged immediately, I don't end up assuming the phone ignored my input, trying again, and taking eleven pictures of the floor in front of me while trying to start the camera.
Protip: Consider doing a clean install.
Actually, the bomb was aimed to put as many enemy war factories, including munitions and aircraft plants, as well as a logistically critical bridge, in the predicted blast zone. Or it was aimed so as to cause as many casualties as possible and hamstringing the enemy's munition plants was just gravy. Either way, targeting munitions plants is allowed under Just War Theory.
Bombing enemy forces probably would have been just as effective at getting the message across, if sinking a carrier battle group without a trace allowed damage assessment. Like it or not, they needed to make a crater since most of Japan's forces were naval.
I suggest you look at the photos/videos of nuclear tests that the governments of the US and USSR have helpfully provided.
Unless they could fake all that in the fifties, including all the glass-lined craters you can tour now, considerably more than two weapons successfully detonated, even if only those two were fired in anger.
And now we know why.
Per Wikipedia, modern weapons are designed in exactly that fashion. Go read up on what they've got unless you're afraid of being on a list; it's really fascinating reading.
Atom bombs are notoriously difficult to detonate. It's the reason that there's no pyrotechnic initiator capable of triggering them; even detcord is far too nonuniform.
According to Wikipedia, if the right command is sent to the permissive action link, the bomb will "explosively re-machine" the pit into something that cannot support an implosion. Reading into this euphemism of mass destruction, I suspect that since bombs are single-point safe (a single-point initiation - like a bullet - will produce no significant nuclear yield; you might detect it with lab equipment, but the destructive yield will be purely from chemical explosives) they trigger one of the initiators so as to destroy the weapon and turn the core into very expensive shrapnel that is decidedly non-trivial to recycle into a functional weapon.
Do you remember the "Toner Wars" of Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age"?
It's getting pretty hard to be an anonymous member of an unpopular minority these days.
Hell, it took me thirty seconds to figure out how to prove someone plays D&D using Find My Friends and one flaky and/or gullible friend to expose location data. And zero budget. When all your crap is posting to Facebook on your behalf
If it was the bridge of a real starship, they'd have air superiority. Are you sure that's a good idea?
I'm a golden ear. Xiph talks about how you aren't that sensitive, because if you were, you could hear an incandescent light bulb.
:p
Sometimes the noise floor in my house is in fact set by the incandescent light bulb I'm reading by. It's actually a fairly distracting sound, since it brings to mind a mosquito buzzing around. Back in elementary school hearing screenings, I was a few notches above (and below) what the audiologist thought was humanly possible. I've taken care of my ears, and every concert I attend, I attend with ear plugs. It's kind of a pain, actually - most headphones cut off at 20 Hz, and take the bottom out of a recording; I've found very few sets that'll go far enough to hear everything - I've got one electronica track with a baseline slightly below 20 Hz, and I can only hear it at all with a short list of expensive headphones - Sennheiser HD-280 Pro, Logitech/Ultimate Ears UE6000, and Bowers & Wilkins P5s are the only three I've tried that bring out that extra bonus bassline, presumably there either to be felt (in a club), or to be heard by us golden-ears crowd.
20 Hz is a damn, dirty lie. I don't know if it's just me, or if it's actually pretty common, but 10 Hz is about right. Dog whistle tones don't really contribute much musically, but if you like electronic, dub step, or D&B, 20 Hz is a liability and many headphone makers will embellish heavily about their lower end. Sure, it might be able to produce a 20 Hz tone, but it'll be rolled off by 30 dB. Here's hoping you can fix that with the equalizer
I'm going back to Head-Fi now.
I would suggest that gun owners have a long memory, and have at least four times risen to the call - no, taken the bait - and when the loyal opposition said "Okay, we'll be happy if you compromise away this, and won't ask you for anything else" they went there. Well, if one side continues to compromise and the other gives no ground, that's not compromise, that's abuse. Compromise involves each side giving something up. When gun owners gave up grenades and machine guns, you'd be reasonable to have expected gun banners to have called it a fair trade and mission accomplished.
They didn't.
That was 1986; in 1994, the Assault Weapons Bill was passed, which had very little to do with "assault rifles" (a term of the art - a type of light machine gun banned since 1934) and a great deal to do with scary black rifles with good ergonomics. When a mouse is designed to avoid repetitive stress injuries, it's a great thing that everyone should buy and employers can be legally compelled to provide to injured employees, but when a gun's designed to avoid placing the same kind of stresses upon its user it's banned.
Unless you are able to afford a $30,000 English double-rifle made by master gunsmiths and artisans based on your personal measurements that were taken while you flew overseas. Anyone who wants to adjust an off-the-rack gun to fit them like a cheap suit is just screwed, however.