Most of Monster's audio cables use a kind of Litz wire which is composed of many thin gauge wires insulated from each other and wrapped into a thicker gauge strand. There are many of these strands in each conductor. This kind of wire is very effective at eliminating 'skin effect' that causes the current to flow only on the outside of the wire at high frequencies which in turn presents a high impedance to the flow of the signal. While this all sounds great in theory, the skin effect does not become a big problem until you get into radio frequencies. Skin effect does not present itself very much at AUDIO frequencies.
A friend of mine wired his speaker system with #12 Romex cable feeling that the heavy gauge was more important for the long runs in his high powered home theatre system with 4 ohm speakers. We could NOT hear the difference between using the Romex (that's what you have carrying the 120v AC power in your walls!) and high priced speaker cables.
Short bursts of overtime to meet a goal are understandable. I've been there where the company needed to get a prototype running for a trade show. We'd put in overtime for a few weeks and get the job done, then go back to the normal rate of burn. If they ask for anything longer, I'd tell them Hell No, unless you are willing to pay extra for it. I'd also become religious and insist on not working on the sabbath, etc.....(If they fire you for THAT, they can see you in federal court).
As I heard it, the reason Verizon did not carry the iPhone from day one (they were offered it before AT&T) was that they did not want to have to warranty a new product. Unlike AT&T, Verizon will replace your phone if it breaks at their cost. I guess Apple would not give them a 2-5 year unlimited warranty on the iPhone. I wonder if that has changed?
In the 1600's people from Europe went to colonize the new world. They brought with them tools and provisions to start a new life. Few of them went back home, in fact some of the ships that landed on American shores were taken apart for their wood to build shelter. There is a big difference between the colonization of America and the possible colonization of Mars. (Mars can't support life without a lot of technology that must be brought along, the new world was still Earth!) But the idea of leaving home and never going back with only limited communication possible with those left behind is the same. (It will actually be EASIER for the Mars colonists to communicate with their loved ones left behind than it was for the American colonists!) Eventually as the new world colonies grew, so did trade and it became possible for the colonists to travel back to Europe, and the same will happen for future Mars colonists.
Europe didn't start to colonize the America's until there were large fleets of ships plying the waters of the Atlantic. Until we have the same kind of access to space that 17th Century Europe had to the Atlantic I don't see us being able to colonize Mars. I also think we should establish a colony on the moon first, if for no other reason than to test the required technology.
I doubt that insect meat will EVER be acceptable in the west, though it is eaten in parts of Asia. Also it would be against the dietary laws of both Jews and Muslims to eat insects.
Whatever it is that Intel put into the cpu can always be done in software. Having the process native inside the CPU will make it faster, and means that a special DLL wouldn't be required. However, it will still be possible to do the same thing in software. So whatever it is, it will be cracked. QED.
When I first started flying most of Florida was on or near the zero isogonic line (meaning that magnetic north = true north). http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://avstop.com/ac/fig8-7.jpg&imgrefurl=http://avstop.com/ac/8-2.html&h=312&w=467&sz=33&tbnid=3K2v1zfxl4_SBM:&tbnh=86&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3Disogonic%2Blines&zoom=1&q=isogonic+lines&hl=en&usg=__nCfPrwsREvO8rbUJUiDGLqyEMuw=&sa=X&ei=fSomTeusGoO78gb-nLGLAg&ved=0CCgQ9QEwBQ This line ran through the Bermuda triangle as well as the great lakes, two areas in the world where many ships have been lost. Today there is probably over a 5 degree deviation between true and magnetic north over Florida, and since runway numbers are to the nearest 10 degrees I suppose a few of them might change. It also means that VFR pilots over Florida used to be able to ignore the need to correct their compass headings to match course headings (maps are read in true degrees not magnetic), now they will have to apply the correction to stay on course.
We also forget that the meaning of words change over time and where the words came from. Nigger is nothing more than a contraction and slur of the word Negro. The latter has it's roots in the Latin languages and simply means black. Today, even Negro has fallen out of favor (except if you are speaking Spanish I guess) and black or Afro-American is in favor. Nigger was never used in a good sense (except perhaps by blacks themselves under certain conditions).
Twain was certainly NOT racist, and he was capturing life in the south the way it was. It might be correct to replace the word nigger with slave in parts of the book where it was used as a noun, but not where it was used otherwise. Being ashamed of our past does not give us the right to bury it. Saying it never happened doesn't change the fact that it did. Ask the people in Germany about that.
There is a big difference between licenses for hunting or fishing and using the internet. The first is a regulation to preserve our natural resources, which have been plundered greatly since this country was mostly unknown wilderness. Streams have been over fished, woods over cut, and game over hunted. Think of the buffalo and whales to know what will happen if it goes unchecked. Licensing and registering hunters and fishermen helps enforce limits on harvest to make sure that these resources will be around for our grandchildren. The fees for these licenses should go toward enforcing the laws protecting the environment. I know the gun lobby is against licensing gun owners, but maybe the law could be turned into their favor. Require that a gun owner must pass a test to prove he can safely use a gun, and a marksmanship test to prove he can shoot straight! Maybe the NRA will pick up more members by providing gun classes.
OTOH a license to make use of my 1st amendment rights goes against those rights. I suppose having to suck up to Ma Bell or Comcast is about the equal of a license though.
Forget the commie jokes here, it no longer applies. Russia is now a republic with real elections (usually more than one person on the ballot). While their government may be as corrupt as any is South America, the country is no longer a Marxist dictatorship.
Anyway, who would have thunk that the Linux world domination would start in the land of the Czars?
I wonder how this would effect airplanes. Years ago the FAA changed regulations to allow the use of auto fuel in certain aircraft (non-commercial use, private aircraft with certain engines). At least in aircraft there is a sump drain at the lowest point in the fuel system where water is trapped and a required pre-flight inspection calls for draining the sump until no water is detected in the fuel. With pure avgas there is usually a few cc's of water in the sump if the plane hasn't been flown for a week or more in humid weather. I don't know what ethanol will do to an aircraft's fuel system. BTW, the original use of ethanol in motor fuel has been as a replacement for chemical (lead) based anti-knock compounds required in unleaded gas. In this use it's concentration is under 10% (depending on the desired octane rating).
Well there is Warehouse 13 which is pretty good and has lots of possible plots. Also Eureka, though the last season started with a throwback to the Philidelphia Experiment.
My point was that this whole thing isn't about copyright, that's just the foot in the door. This is about parallel imports, or gray market sales. Nobody here need worry about not being able to resell stuff they have bought from outside the US, that was never the issue.
This will give Nikon, Cannon, etc all the clout they need to prevent places like 47th Street Photo from selling gray market cameras in the US at prices lower than everybody else.
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Most of Monster's audio cables use a kind of Litz wire which is composed of many thin gauge wires insulated from each other and wrapped into a thicker gauge strand. There are many of these strands in each conductor. This kind of wire is very effective at eliminating 'skin effect' that causes the current to flow only on the outside of the wire at high frequencies which in turn presents a high impedance to the flow of the signal. While this all sounds great in theory, the skin effect does not become a big problem until you get into radio frequencies. Skin effect does not present itself very much at AUDIO frequencies.
A friend of mine wired his speaker system with #12 Romex cable feeling that the heavy gauge was more important for the long runs in his high powered home theatre system with 4 ohm speakers. We could NOT hear the difference between using the Romex (that's what you have carrying the 120v AC power in your walls!) and high priced speaker cables.
5 gigi-bytes or 5 gigi-BITS per month?
I wouldn't put it past them!
Short bursts of overtime to meet a goal are understandable. I've been there where the company needed to get a prototype running for a trade show. We'd put in overtime for a few weeks and get the job done, then go back to the normal rate of burn. If they ask for anything longer, I'd tell them Hell No, unless you are willing to pay extra for it.
I'd also become religious and insist on not working on the sabbath, etc.....(If they fire you for THAT, they can see you in federal court).
Ken Jennings is a software engineer. What else WOULD he say?
As I heard it, the reason Verizon did not carry the iPhone from day one (they were offered it before AT&T) was that they did not want to have to warranty a new product. Unlike AT&T, Verizon will replace your phone if it breaks at their cost. I guess Apple would not give them a 2-5 year unlimited warranty on the iPhone. I wonder if that has changed?
In the 1600's people from Europe went to colonize the new world. They brought with them tools and provisions to start a new life. Few of them went back home, in fact some of the ships that landed on American shores were taken apart for their wood to build shelter. There is a big difference between the colonization of America and the possible colonization of Mars. (Mars can't support life without a lot of technology that must be brought along, the new world was still Earth!) But the idea of leaving home and never going back with only limited communication possible with those left behind is the same. (It will actually be EASIER for the Mars colonists to communicate with their loved ones left behind than it was for the American colonists!) Eventually as the new world colonies grew, so did trade and it became possible for the colonists to travel back to Europe, and the same will happen for future Mars colonists.
Europe didn't start to colonize the America's until there were large fleets of ships plying the waters of the Atlantic. Until we have the same kind of access to space that 17th Century Europe had to the Atlantic I don't see us being able to colonize Mars. I also think we should establish a colony on the moon first, if for no other reason than to test the required technology.
I doubt that insect meat will EVER be acceptable in the west, though it is eaten in parts of Asia. Also it would be against the dietary laws of both Jews and Muslims to eat insects.
There was a post awhile ago that after the BD editions come out they are going to re-process it for yet another release in BD-3D.
Whatever it is that Intel put into the cpu can always be done in software. Having the process native inside the CPU will make it faster, and means that a special DLL wouldn't be required. However, it will still be possible to do the same thing in software. So whatever it is, it will be cracked. QED.
Then there is Atlanta that has 4 parallel runways. So they couldn't use the L,R, and M. I think they 'lied' about the heading on two of them.
When I first started flying most of Florida was on or near the zero isogonic line (meaning that magnetic north = true north). http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://avstop.com/ac/fig8-7.jpg&imgrefurl=http://avstop.com/ac/8-2.html&h=312&w=467&sz=33&tbnid=3K2v1zfxl4_SBM:&tbnh=86&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3Disogonic%2Blines&zoom=1&q=isogonic+lines&hl=en&usg=__nCfPrwsREvO8rbUJUiDGLqyEMuw=&sa=X&ei=fSomTeusGoO78gb-nLGLAg&ved=0CCgQ9QEwBQ This line ran through the Bermuda triangle as well as the great lakes, two areas in the world where many ships have been lost. Today there is probably over a 5 degree deviation between true and magnetic north over Florida, and since runway numbers are to the nearest 10 degrees I suppose a few of them might change. It also means that VFR pilots over Florida used to be able to ignore the need to correct their compass headings to match course headings (maps are read in true degrees not magnetic), now they will have to apply the correction to stay on course.
We also forget that the meaning of words change over time and where the words came from. Nigger is nothing more than a contraction and slur of the word Negro. The latter has it's roots in the Latin languages and simply means black. Today, even Negro has fallen out of favor (except if you are speaking Spanish I guess) and black or Afro-American is in favor. Nigger was never used in a good sense (except perhaps by blacks themselves under certain conditions).
Twain was certainly NOT racist, and he was capturing life in the south the way it was. It might be correct to replace the word nigger with slave in parts of the book where it was used as a noun, but not where it was used otherwise. Being ashamed of our past does not give us the right to bury it. Saying it never happened doesn't change the fact that it did. Ask the people in Germany about that.
There is a big difference between licenses for hunting or fishing and using the internet. The first is a regulation to preserve our natural resources, which have been plundered greatly since this country was mostly unknown wilderness. Streams have been over fished, woods over cut, and game over hunted. Think of the buffalo and whales to know what will happen if it goes unchecked. Licensing and registering hunters and fishermen helps enforce limits on harvest to make sure that these resources will be around for our grandchildren. The fees for these licenses should go toward enforcing the laws protecting the environment. I know the gun lobby is against licensing gun owners, but maybe the law could be turned into their favor. Require that a gun owner must pass a test to prove he can safely use a gun, and a marksmanship test to prove he can shoot straight! Maybe the NRA will pick up more members by providing gun classes.
OTOH a license to make use of my 1st amendment rights goes against those rights. I suppose having to suck up to Ma Bell or Comcast is about the equal of a license though.
maybe true, but they used Apollo hardware look-a-like props (which would have been USELESS on Mars).
If I were at NASA I'd have voted Capricorn One as the worst SciFi movie of all time. After all this film claims the moon landing was faked.
Forget the commie jokes here, it no longer applies. Russia is now a republic with real elections (usually more than one person on the ballot). While their government may be as corrupt as any is South America, the country is no longer a Marxist dictatorship.
Anyway, who would have thunk that the Linux world domination would start in the land of the Czars?
This sounds like the kind of research that the Mythbusters should look into!
I wonder how this would effect airplanes. Years ago the FAA changed regulations to allow the use of auto fuel in certain aircraft (non-commercial use, private aircraft with certain engines). At least in aircraft there is a sump drain at the lowest point in the fuel system where water is trapped and a required pre-flight inspection calls for draining the sump until no water is detected in the fuel. With pure avgas there is usually a few cc's of water in the sump if the plane hasn't been flown for a week or more in humid weather. I don't know what ethanol will do to an aircraft's fuel system. BTW, the original use of ethanol in motor fuel has been as a replacement for chemical (lead) based anti-knock compounds required in unleaded gas. In this use it's concentration is under 10% (depending on the desired octane rating).
After all some people swear in French, German, etc. Maybe even Pig Latin!
No, that is the plot of a Ferengi christmas.
Well there is Warehouse 13 which is pretty good and has lots of possible plots. Also Eureka, though the last season started with a throwback to the Philidelphia Experiment.
when this guy gets caught he'll probably end up on Letterman's show.
My point was that this whole thing isn't about copyright, that's just the foot in the door. This is about parallel imports, or gray market sales. Nobody here need worry about not being able to resell stuff they have bought from outside the US, that was never the issue.
This will give Nikon, Cannon, etc all the clout they need to prevent places like 47th Street Photo from selling gray market cameras in the US at prices lower than everybody else.
"investor" == blackmailed victim. Simple double speak.
Patent troll? More like a patent Mofia. ("You usea my IP, I breaka you face")