Besides the second Iraq war, what wars has the US initiated? WWI and WWII clearly not, Korea no, Vietnam you could make an argument for, but really it was getting involved in someone else's civil war more than initiating a conflict, Desert Storm obviously not, Afghanistan was a response to 9/11. The US is clearly hostile, but historically they generally let the other guy shoot first.
Unless the "other guy" happens to be a potential ally of the Soviet Union during the cold war. The US military (or the CIA) invaded practically half of latin america during the cold war.
Also, don't forget that Saddam probably wouldn't have invaded Iran in the 80's (certainly at least not at the scale he attempted) if the US hadn't backed him.
I can definitely tell the difference between 16 bit & 24 bit audio with the stuff I've recorded & mixed. After you've worked with 24 bit audio the dynamic range of 16 bit audio really feels flat & compressed unless it's been downsampled just right to take maximum advantage of the entire 16 bit range, which is not usually the case.
Sample frequency is more of a subjective thing. On the lower-powered systems I used when processing audio around 2003 (PBG4), I'd record at 24 bits & 48khz as it was the best compromise between quality & resource usage. 48 already gives you a little appreciable extra headroom in what is still the audible spectrum for most people. Could I notice the difference between 48 & 96? Sometimes perhaps, if the material had a lot of cymbal work or other extreme highs & I was auditioning the music on a friend's $1000 pair of Dynaudio monitors in a good room. Bit the difference between 16 & 24 bits was readily apparent even on my pawn shop Yamaha monitors in my bedroom, and 48khz definitely helps with the highs & doesn't push your gear much more than plain old 44.1.
Using RHCP records as a basis for comparison is a terrible example; everything they've brought out since One Hot Minute has been overcompressed to death at multiple stages in production (Californication is even cited as a specific example of a crappily mastered record in the Wiki article).
Shortly after reading this article on ars I went to check it out for myself. Yes, technically they are still "just" 256k VBR AAC files just like other stuff in the iTunes Store. But if the engineer doing the mastering has busted his/her ass to play the cat & mouse cycle of re-tweaking the dynamics after listening to the encoded result a few times, the results are extremely surprising.
If you've got a good stereo or a nice pair of headphones, go listen to a normal CD version of Jimmy Smith's "The Cat" ripped at 256k VBR AAC, and then listen to the "mastered for iTunes" version. I had no idea lossily compressed audio from 40+ year old analog master tapes could sound that good.
"A loose connection between the fiber link from a GPS receiver to a computer is thought to cause the 60 nanosecond delay; tightening the connection makes the delay through the fiber decrease. However, additional data has to be taken to test the hypothesis. A second error with the crystal oscillator is expected to have lengthened the reported flight-time of neutrinos. Repeat tests with short pulsed beams have been scheduled for May. The two errors affect the result in opposite ways. The OPERA collaboration has not released quantitative estimates of how the errors affect the results, and expect to check the effects directly when a bunched beam is available later in 2012."
...they made sure their fiber optic connectors were tightened before they challenged relativity.
FTFA: "According to sources familiar with the experiment, the 60 nanoseconds discrepancy appears to come from a bad connection between a fiber optic cable that connects to the GPS receiver used to correct the timing of the neutrinos' flight and an electronic card in a computer. After tightening the connection and then measuring the time it takes data to travel the length of the fiber, researchers found that the data arrive 60 nanoseconds earlier than assumed. Since this time is subtracted from the overall time of flight, it appears to explain the early arrival of the neutrinos."
Really? It took two independent research teams months to determine that the extra delay was due to an uncalculated-for air gap in a fiber optic connector on the timing system?
If their timing system is this sensitive to things like air gap tolerances in the connectors, then how the hell do you calibrate it properly? OK, a top-of-the-line Trimble Acutime Gold claims 15ns accuracy, but that's +/- 15ns, and presumably if you've got CERN's budget for neutrino measurement you're not going to make the claim that faster-than-light travel is possible based on the timing data close to the margin of error of your COTS GPS timing unit?
FWIW, Volkswagen claims in the user manual for my diesel car (Jetta SportWagen TDI) that only fuel blends of up to 5% biodiesel are safe to run. Is that BS, or is there something about it?
The primary reason for this is that VW couldn't get any guarantees on the quality of biodiesel available in the US. Even if 99% of the producers are making good stuff, the industry is (or was) unregulated enough that they'd be on the hook if the remaining 1% of B20 (or more) caused damage to the car's fuel system.
Maybe Monsanto could ask some its folks to adapt hyacinth to make some kind of container like a gourd or coconut? Object would be to have the plant store its gathered heavy metals in there, then harvest the stuff maybe wearing a Bio-Suit?
Maybe we could just have Monsanto executives eat the heavy metals directly & save the rest of the world a lot of trouble...
...certainly used to be Microsoft, but if you look at the recent deluge of lawsuits I think one could argue that the title for "main Apple competitor" now lies somewhere between Samsung and Android.
The Apollo astronauts commented that the mission's lander kicked up a tremendous amount of dust from the lunar surface; so much so that the blast radius was visible from the command module in orbit.
Judging from the video, there seems to be a significant risk of:
- bits of Curiosity getting fried by the descent engines
- the lander covering Curiosity with a massive amount of dust
Now, given that there are massive duststorms on Mars anyway, the team has hopefully prepared the rover to deal with being absolutely covered with martian dust, but it seems a shame to me to have to start the mission off that way as a result of the landing technique.
Perhaps they could test it in the worst part of the sub-Saharan Harmattan season?
Well, it's a good thing he didn't try to use a toner cartridge, at those can apparently blow up a whole airliner! Thankfully, those in charge of "protecting" us have banned them from checked luggage and cargo flights.
On a more serious note, this is a horrible blow against the accessibility of public officials, and a senseless attack against some very good people. But I fear it'll only get worse if the US is unable to reboot itsself.
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My question is:
Is this the first time a first-post has been modded +5 Insightful?
Besides the second Iraq war, what wars has the US initiated? WWI and WWII clearly not, Korea no, Vietnam you could make an argument for, but really it was getting involved in someone else's civil war more than initiating a conflict, Desert Storm obviously not, Afghanistan was a response to 9/11. The US is clearly hostile, but historically they generally let the other guy shoot first.
Unless the "other guy" happens to be a potential ally of the Soviet Union during the cold war. The US military (or the CIA) invaded practically half of latin america during the cold war.
Also, don't forget that Saddam probably wouldn't have invaded Iran in the 80's (certainly at least not at the scale he attempted) if the US hadn't backed him.
Iran has never initiated overt military hostility since the 19th century. This is over 6+ regeimes.
...and the most recent one figured out long ago that it was much easier to simply fund & equip Hesbolla to do their dirty work for them.
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I can definitely tell the difference between 16 bit & 24 bit audio with the stuff I've recorded & mixed. After you've worked with 24 bit audio the dynamic range of 16 bit audio really feels flat & compressed unless it's been downsampled just right to take maximum advantage of the entire 16 bit range, which is not usually the case.
Sample frequency is more of a subjective thing. On the lower-powered systems I used when processing audio around 2003 (PBG4), I'd record at 24 bits & 48khz as it was the best compromise between quality & resource usage. 48 already gives you a little appreciable extra headroom in what is still the audible spectrum for most people. Could I notice the difference between 48 & 96? Sometimes perhaps, if the material had a lot of cymbal work or other extreme highs & I was auditioning the music on a friend's $1000 pair of Dynaudio monitors in a good room. Bit the difference between 16 & 24 bits was readily apparent even on my pawn shop Yamaha monitors in my bedroom, and 48khz definitely helps with the highs & doesn't push your gear much more than plain old 44.1.
Using RHCP records as a basis for comparison is a terrible example; everything they've brought out since One Hot Minute has been overcompressed to death at multiple stages in production (Californication is even cited as a specific example of a crappily mastered record in the Wiki article).
Shortly after reading this article on ars I went to check it out for myself. Yes, technically they are still "just" 256k VBR AAC files just like other stuff in the iTunes Store. But if the engineer doing the mastering has busted his/her ass to play the cat & mouse cycle of re-tweaking the dynamics after listening to the encoded result a few times, the results are extremely surprising.
If you've got a good stereo or a nice pair of headphones, go listen to a normal CD version of Jimmy Smith's "The Cat" ripped at 256k VBR AAC, and then listen to the "mastered for iTunes" version. I had no idea lossily compressed audio from 40+ year old analog master tapes could sound that good.
"The name's Cook. Tim Cook."
Commemorative product?
So, it seems that the previously calculated stddev was -5.9/+8.3ns, which is about double the certainty of the best COTS systems (it had better be, they're plugged directly into atomic clocks). Basically:
"A loose connection between the fiber link from a GPS receiver to a computer is thought to cause the 60 nanosecond delay; tightening the connection makes the delay through the fiber decrease. However, additional data has to be taken to test the hypothesis. A second error with the crystal oscillator is expected to have lengthened the reported flight-time of neutrinos. Repeat tests with short pulsed beams have been scheduled for May. The two errors affect the result in opposite ways. The OPERA collaboration has not released quantitative estimates of how the errors affect the results, and expect to check the effects directly when a bunched beam is available later in 2012."
So this thing is far from over...
...they made sure their fiber optic connectors were tightened before they challenged relativity.
FTFA: "According to sources familiar with the experiment, the 60 nanoseconds discrepancy appears to come from a bad connection between a fiber optic cable that connects to the GPS receiver used to correct the timing of the neutrinos' flight and an electronic card in a computer. After tightening the connection and then measuring the time it takes data to travel the length of the fiber, researchers found that the data arrive 60 nanoseconds earlier than assumed. Since this time is subtracted from the overall time of flight, it appears to explain the early arrival of the neutrinos."
Really? It took two independent research teams months to determine that the extra delay was due to an uncalculated-for air gap in a fiber optic connector on the timing system?
If their timing system is this sensitive to things like air gap tolerances in the connectors, then how the hell do you calibrate it properly? OK, a top-of-the-line Trimble Acutime Gold claims 15ns accuracy, but that's +/- 15ns, and presumably if you've got CERN's budget for neutrino measurement you're not going to make the claim that faster-than-light travel is possible based on the timing data close to the margin of error of your COTS GPS timing unit?
Well, if there was an RTG onboard, then maybe the radiation damage was from inside the spacecraft.
It seems strange to me that they'd blame radiation damage as they have a separate institution dedicated to developing rad-hard SPARC chips for space applications that has a very successful track record.
Question: how do they know it was radiation damage if they never heard back from the probe?
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OpenBSD has had the Epitome deduplication framework for some time. I believe version 2 is considered production-ready.
1: go read smallnetbuilder and decide for yourself.
2: Mikrotik probably has something you'd be happy with for not a lot of money.
Think of Wave as a prototype of Google+...
FWIW, Volkswagen claims in the user manual for my diesel car (Jetta SportWagen TDI) that only fuel blends of up to 5% biodiesel are safe to run. Is that BS, or is there something about it?
The primary reason for this is that VW couldn't get any guarantees on the quality of biodiesel available in the US. Even if 99% of the producers are making good stuff, the industry is (or was) unregulated enough that they'd be on the hook if the remaining 1% of B20 (or more) caused damage to the car's fuel system.
Somehow it all seems cursed. Assuming it has vestigial BeOS bits in it
Nope, Access owns BeOS. They used the multimedia bits in their Access Linux platform.
Where you're right is that both BeOS & PalmOS have a long history of being championed by companies unable to gain sufficient for their technology...
Fill the jails!
Uhm, in case you haven't been reading the news for the last 20 years, the jails are already full, mostly with nonviolent drug offenders...
Maybe Monsanto could ask some its folks to adapt hyacinth to make some kind of container like a gourd or coconut? Object would be to have the plant store its gathered heavy metals in there, then harvest the stuff maybe wearing a Bio-Suit?
Maybe we could just have Monsanto executives eat the heavy metals directly & save the rest of the world a lot of trouble...
"now it can be done using the open standard VNC"
there are no less than four open-source IPMI projects
...certainly used to be Microsoft, but if you look at the recent deluge of lawsuits I think one could argue that the title for "main Apple competitor" now lies somewhere between Samsung and Android.
The Apollo astronauts commented that the mission's lander kicked up a tremendous amount of dust from the lunar surface; so much so that the blast radius was visible from the command module in orbit.
Judging from the video, there seems to be a significant risk of:
- bits of Curiosity getting fried by the descent engines
- the lander covering Curiosity with a massive amount of dust
Now, given that there are massive duststorms on Mars anyway, the team has hopefully prepared the rover to deal with being absolutely covered with martian dust, but it seems a shame to me to have to start the mission off that way as a result of the landing technique.
Perhaps they could test it in the worst part of the sub-Saharan Harmattan season?
Well, it's a good thing he didn't try to use a toner cartridge, at those can apparently blow up a whole airliner! Thankfully, those in charge of "protecting" us have banned them from checked luggage and cargo flights.
On a more serious note, this is a horrible blow against the accessibility of public officials, and a senseless attack against some very good people. But I fear it'll only get worse if the US is unable to reboot itsself.
Women of /., please comment
Please, all 3 of you :-)
Don't be shy now...
The CDT has a really good summary of the Comcast/Level3 spat, & why it isn't a net neutrality issue....
Perhaps you shouldn't sit idly by while corporations take over the government, like you're so willing to let them do.
too late...