Block devices are terrible for sharing. You think booting your windows machine over iSCSI will be easier than using NFS? You have this exactly backwards.
...think you're exaggerating. *very* fragile and endangered? most of the reefs at popular dive destinations are DYING? Who wouldn't think you're exaggerating? The world's a very large place.
The Constitution is the last and final authority on all laws pertaining to or governing the United States of America.
Says who? Why, the Supreme Court of course!
Wrong. First of all, nothing that's "poorly written" could ever become an amendment to the Constitution. There are too many checks and balances to prevent that. But more importantly, an amendment is the law, period. It is not subject to judicial review. It cannot be overturned by any court. It could only be revoked by another amendment.
Sure, nothing poorly written ever becomes law. The Constitution is reviewed by the Supreme Court all the time. In fact, that's all they do.
I see you are a deep thinker. Exactly on who's authority is the Constitution the ultimate law of the land? If the Constitution is invoked to resolve a legal issue, exactly who is it that does that, and what if they read the Constitution in a way that you don't agree with? The Constitution itself is meaningless without the context of its interpretation by the courts and international recognition of the country's sovereignty.
Can't say that I agree with your distinction but at least I understand it. Thing is that the difference between the Nomad and the Zen that you've pointed out has nothing to do with the menus. All you mentioned was the physical appearance. Both the Nomad and the Zen are pieces of crap, of course.
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Prior to jitter being identified as an issue of there was no means to measure it. At that time, the inability to measure it meant it couldn't possibly be heard (according to some). Hearing, verifying and measuring are at times difficult to do but important nonetheless. I don't expect readers here to be open minded about it in any event.
Wow, so you thought important to educate everyone that audio standards have sample rates of at least the required 20Hz. How useful. This makes you seem so intelligent.
So how much is thick enough? How long is too long? What's the output impedance of the amp and what does the load of the loudspeaker look like? How much linear inductance and capacitance is acceptable?
Trouble is that you don't know nearly enough. Anyone with experience using tube amplifiers will tell you speaker cables can make a huge difference. I'm not a tube lover, but speaker cables make a big difference in my system. Sorry you haven't had the pleasure of experience how obvious this is for yourself.
No, no lower limit is necessary for audio CD's. They are often filtered so they don't present an unnecessary load on playback equipment, though. There is no reason that bass can't extend to 10HZ using a CD or DVD, and this is not uncommon on the special effects tracks on DVD's.
What's a DC motor after all? Loudspeakers are typically driven with voice coils. DC doesn't work too well with these but that doesn't matter because audio is an AC thing.
Subwoofers with active feedback are old news. Check out Velodyne.
Whether active feedback helps or not does not eliminate the need for an engineer to be concerned with the cabinet.
You mean that typical bass speakers are operated through their resonant range. That doesn't mean that the bass is "produced by resonance". Since resonance is passive nothing could ever be "produced" by it.
Now, should you avoid it? Of course not. It only matters how they sound (and feel). Bass horns don't necessarily sound much better and certainly not for this reason.
The bulk of the pipes for such an organ are hidden in pipe rooms. The ones you see are decorative, though functional, and only constitute a small percentage.
Speaker wire can make a difference in the sound of a system but it is dependent on the speakers and amplifiers as well as the wire itself.
People who deny this have never attempted to evaluate it for themselves and are probably in no position to anyway. Instead, they ridicule those that believe differently and suggest there is no technical basis for the claims. Of course, there certainly are technical reasons wire speaker cables can make a difference, but that's another matter.
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I wouldn't say that any true audiophile would rather have the tube. I've heard a one or two good tube amps in my day along with a few bad ones, but nothing touches my Levinsons. I'm certain there is other good equipment but I'm also certain that solid state is competitive with tubes.
It also doesn't matter what you listen to. Absolute fidelity should be the goal every step of the way and my experience is that "audiophile" equipment frequently fails to measure up to that ideal. This is especially true of equipment that needs certain musical forms to "appreciate" it.
Horn don't result in "faster bass". That's an absurd concept, as frequencies only "travel" as fast as they need to. Transients include high frequency components that aren't handled by the subwoofer. The original poster didn't know what he was talking about but you didn't do any better.
Horns do indeed provide great efficiency benefits as well as vastly improved harmonic distortion, but overall they do not exhibit less distortion that "box" speakers. Horns have terrible directivity issues and have very poor frequency response. In this much more important measure of distortion horns don't measure up. For high volume applications horns are desirable and are commonly used, but for near field listening they blow.
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Too many non-neutral colors for critical viewing. This is also impressive for people who believe tubes are the only way to go, yet tubes aren't known for neutral rendering or good bass response and horns aren't known for smooth response either. I'd say this may be the largest and most efficient home subwoofer (who knows) of its capability but I doubt it's the best. I use 12 18" BagEnd subs in a concrete chamber beneath my home theater. That a 3KW amp does the trick nicely and extends every bit as low as this job.
Not that married couples typically get tax breaks for being married, but it's absurd to argue that same-sex couples should be denied those same benefits. There are many more important benefits afforded to married couples than tax filing status.
The government needs to get out of the social engineering business. The only conceivable benefit to society of promoting marriage is the welfare of children and that can be done far more directly. The moral arguments need to be left to the churches where they belong. As far the government goes, there should only be civil unions and marriages shouldn't exist at all.
While the Constitution may the ultimate law of the land, it is only powerful when it is applied and if everyone chooses to ignore it then it ceases to be relevant. It is the Supreme Court that interprets the Constitution, so technically anything written in the Constitution could be invalidated by a court decision. While this would unlikely effect gun ownership, it is conceivable that a poorly written gay marriage ammendment that appears at odds with the rest of the Constitution could be effectively invalidated in this manner.
Of course, the Constitution could be replaced by overthrow or invasion, so amendment is not strictly necessary.
Except that Apple didn't specify actual menu structure or the wheel ("spin and click") in the claims, so avoiding those things would have no bearing on infringment.
This is absolutely not a design patent.
I guess Apple doesn't need to design their own UI when they enter an existing market but their competitors should.
Because what they're trying to patent is a ripoff of existing designs at the time. Hierarchical menus were already used in players on the market.
All Apple is trying to do is lay claim to core IP that is both obvious and non-innovative. Since such applications are not really scrutinized, the patent may issue but it could never be valid. Such a patent would be useful in a portfolio or against a weak opponent only.
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Block devices are terrible for sharing. You think booting your windows machine over iSCSI will be easier than using NFS? You have this exactly backwards.
It's a shame this can't be modded funny and insightful and the same time. Sometimes a quality post only takes a couple choice words.
...think you're exaggerating. *very* fragile and endangered? most of the reefs at popular dive destinations are DYING? Who wouldn't think you're exaggerating? The world's a very large place.
Says who? Why, the Supreme Court of course!
Wrong. First of all, nothing that's "poorly written" could ever become an amendment to the Constitution. There are too many checks and balances to prevent that. But more importantly, an amendment is the law, period. It is not subject to judicial review. It cannot be overturned by any court. It could only be revoked by another amendment.
Sure, nothing poorly written ever becomes law. The Constitution is reviewed by the Supreme Court all the time. In fact, that's all they do.
I see you are a deep thinker. Exactly on who's authority is the Constitution the ultimate law of the land? If the Constitution is invoked to resolve a legal issue, exactly who is it that does that, and what if they read the Constitution in a way that you don't agree with? The Constitution itself is meaningless without the context of its interpretation by the courts and international recognition of the country's sovereignty.
Can't say that I agree with your distinction but at least I understand it. Thing is that the difference between the Nomad and the Zen that you've pointed out has nothing to do with the menus. All you mentioned was the physical appearance. Both the Nomad and the Zen are pieces of crap, of course.
Prior to jitter being identified as an issue of there was no means to measure it. At that time, the inability to measure it meant it couldn't possibly be heard (according to some). Hearing, verifying and measuring are at times difficult to do but important nonetheless. I don't expect readers here to be open minded about it in any event.
It's not the reconstruction filter but rather the antialiasing filter that's the issue. Nyquist says you need 2x the sample frequency, not > 2x.
Wow, so you thought important to educate everyone that audio standards have sample rates of at least the required 20Hz. How useful. This makes you seem so intelligent.
Maybe not but it's consuming amplifier power.
Generally these things are called rumble filters.
So how much is thick enough? How long is too long? What's the output impedance of the amp and what does the load of the loudspeaker look like? How much linear inductance and capacitance is acceptable?
Trouble is that you don't know nearly enough. Anyone with experience using tube amplifiers will tell you speaker cables can make a huge difference. I'm not a tube lover, but speaker cables make a big difference in my system. Sorry you haven't had the pleasure of experience how obvious this is for yourself.
You mean 20KHz Nyquist.
No, no lower limit is necessary for audio CD's. They are often filtered so they don't present an unnecessary load on playback equipment, though. There is no reason that bass can't extend to 10HZ using a CD or DVD, and this is not uncommon on the special effects tracks on DVD's.
What's a DC motor after all? Loudspeakers are typically driven with voice coils. DC doesn't work too well with these but that doesn't matter because audio is an AC thing.
Subwoofers with active feedback are old news. Check out Velodyne.
Whether active feedback helps or not does not eliminate the need for an engineer to be concerned with the cabinet.
I don't think that's the reason. In this case the poster is simply uninformed. I think bad audio engineers are like all other bad engineers.
You mean that typical bass speakers are operated through their resonant range. That doesn't mean that the bass is "produced by resonance". Since resonance is passive nothing could ever be "produced" by it.
Now, should you avoid it? Of course not. It only matters how they sound (and feel). Bass horns don't necessarily sound much better and certainly not for this reason.
The bulk of the pipes for such an organ are hidden in pipe rooms. The ones you see are decorative, though functional, and only constitute a small percentage.
Speaker wire can make a difference in the sound of a system but it is dependent on the speakers and amplifiers as well as the wire itself.
People who deny this have never attempted to evaluate it for themselves and are probably in no position to anyway. Instead, they ridicule those that believe differently and suggest there is no technical basis for the claims. Of course, there certainly are technical reasons wire speaker cables can make a difference, but that's another matter.
I wouldn't say that any true audiophile would rather have the tube. I've heard a one or two good tube amps in my day along with a few bad ones, but nothing touches my Levinsons. I'm certain there is other good equipment but I'm also certain that solid state is competitive with tubes.
It also doesn't matter what you listen to. Absolute fidelity should be the goal every step of the way and my experience is that "audiophile" equipment frequently fails to measure up to that ideal. This is especially true of equipment that needs certain musical forms to "appreciate" it.
Well, if they're using horns I doubt they're too concerned with frequency response.
Horn don't result in "faster bass". That's an absurd concept, as frequencies only "travel" as fast as they need to. Transients include high frequency components that aren't handled by the subwoofer. The original poster didn't know what he was talking about but you didn't do any better.
Horns do indeed provide great efficiency benefits as well as vastly improved harmonic distortion, but overall they do not exhibit less distortion that "box" speakers. Horns have terrible directivity issues and have very poor frequency response. In this much more important measure of distortion horns don't measure up. For high volume applications horns are desirable and are commonly used, but for near field listening they blow.
Too many non-neutral colors for critical viewing. This is also impressive for people who believe tubes are the only way to go, yet tubes aren't known for neutral rendering or good bass response and horns aren't known for smooth response either. I'd say this may be the largest and most efficient home subwoofer (who knows) of its capability but I doubt it's the best. I use 12 18" BagEnd subs in a concrete chamber beneath my home theater. That a 3KW amp does the trick nicely and extends every bit as low as this job.
Not that married couples typically get tax breaks for being married, but it's absurd to argue that same-sex couples should be denied those same benefits. There are many more important benefits afforded to married couples than tax filing status.
The government needs to get out of the social engineering business. The only conceivable benefit to society of promoting marriage is the welfare of children and that can be done far more directly. The moral arguments need to be left to the churches where they belong. As far the government goes, there should only be civil unions and marriages shouldn't exist at all.
While the Constitution may the ultimate law of the land, it is only powerful when it is applied and if everyone chooses to ignore it then it ceases to be relevant. It is the Supreme Court that interprets the Constitution, so technically anything written in the Constitution could be invalidated by a court decision. While this would unlikely effect gun ownership, it is conceivable that a poorly written gay marriage ammendment that appears at odds with the rest of the Constitution could be effectively invalidated in this manner.
Of course, the Constitution could be replaced by overthrow or invasion, so amendment is not strictly necessary.
You need to experience the look and feel "perfection" quickly because it doesn't last long.
Except that Apple didn't specify actual menu structure or the wheel ("spin and click") in the claims, so avoiding those things would have no bearing on infringment.
This is absolutely not a design patent.
I guess Apple doesn't need to design their own UI when they enter an existing market but their competitors should.
Because what they're trying to patent is a ripoff of existing designs at the time. Hierarchical menus were already used in players on the market.
All Apple is trying to do is lay claim to core IP that is both obvious and non-innovative. Since such applications are not really scrutinized, the patent may issue but it could never be valid. Such a patent would be useful in a portfolio or against a weak opponent only.