No, you'd want a digital PCM stream. A stationary DA-converter by a respectable supplier should do a much better job than the iPod's own, because they are much less concerned by space, power and form factor constraints.
Or you could happen to own absolute high end equipment which quality-wise leaves anything portable in the dust.
If you connect your amp non-digitally, you're doing it wrong.
If it's for cheapness, well, cheap CD players have DA-converters inside and still be cheaper than 30 bucks.
If it's for quality, then interference and line noise will make analog transfer inferior and your Mark Levinson amp will do a much much better DA-conversion than the iPhone any day.
There's no reason to use analog audio signals, neither for cost nor for quality reasons. And for digital signals, USB could very well be adequate.
USB can supply everything and the sooner a giant like Apple is pushing it, the sooner we all get these ridiculous cables out of our living rooms and offices.
There's no need for video-out, there's no need for line-level audio out.
Headphones are the only thing you'd need to have analog, for simplicity and form factor reasons, everything else is digital inside the device and could (and should) be converted from the non-portable counterpart, like the TV, the amplifier or the iPod-docking station.
If DA-converters are cheap and small enough to carry them around at all times with the phone or ipod, they are sure as well cheap and small enough to put them in stationary, wall-powered devices.
Well, that's California for you. The state of do-gooders that is chronically bankrupt.
People have been locked up in much harsher jails for many centuries. I firmly believe that people who seriously broke the law should do their time behind bars, with as much "luxury" as they deserve and as frugal as we can afford.
If half a million people decides to break the law, we either repeal wrong or useless laws, ie. stop the damn war on drugs, we don't need people costing us money for smoking some green leaves. And the rest of the laws, those needed for free and peaceful life of innocents, they are enforced and we should rather build tent cities or even camps if there are too much criminals everywhere.
A ddos attack on our judicial system must be prevented and I don't want thieves and burglars running around because we have too many murderers in jail. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time, but don't expect the public to pay for luxuries such as a stable house for your jail experience.
You ever been to Bremen, Berlin, Brussels or Paris recently? I hear they have some great rioting adventures up in Sweden and down south in Greece, as well.
If you live in a nice little city where all this is irrelevant and have a reasonable job, entrench yourself there. There will be quite some trouble coming our way, stay where you can best wait that out and still raise your kids. Knowing their mates will not bring knives and stuff to school, that is. Kids in Berlin do, and I can't help but understand them.
How much is the difference between the money you make and the money you get?
How much of this money is re-distributed to "needy" people?
How large is your influence on what exactly is done with the rest of this money?
Have you ever considered the process in which the European Commission drafts laws that your parliament has to accept-or-else?
Are you aware that the elected European Parliament has no formal legislative or whatever powers over anything?
Are you aware that the European Commission has full legislative powers with no checks and no balances?
Are you aware that the European Court of Justice trumps all of your local courts as a judiciary power and yet strangely has never been formally established or acknowledged by your countries' highest authorities?
Are you aware that dissenters from the leading opinion are persecuted by loosely organized leftist militias all around Europe? (The same or similar background like those who burn down 10000 cars every year in Paris alone and who riot for months withouth our main press telling us?)
We have many, really, a lot, of the attributes of the communist bloc countries of the 1980's.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, ignore me and wait or read around the web - outside MSM and Indymedia of course.
You just proved what I said: poverty doesn't automatically produce crime rates. You are poor, but you probably are not a criminal.
That the worst parts of your town aren't dangerous to the common visitor may hint at another, much stronger factor influencing crime rates. One that coincides often with poverty, so they are confused often, I guess.
Anyway, of course I'm selfish. Which is a good thing because I will not bother anyone else if I can help in any way. Don't confuse being selfish with being careless, rude or reckless, but I care first about the well-being of my family and me and then of my friends and then about everyone else.
Since when is this a sign of bad character and why exactly? If everyone cared about themselves and their family while respecting the law and everyone else's personal space and freedom, would that really be bad?
If caring for one's self is not allowed anymore or severely frowned upon, please call our Ortsgruppenleiter that I've been a bad Comrade recently. I've barely paid my mandatory 50% tax/social security fees and not donated anything for African kids this year so bring on the re-education camp, if you must.
Well, I'm one of the last to pay taxes here. A quarter of a million of my taxpaying collegues are fleeing every year to never return. Says the official statistic, not me.
No one is handing over 50% of their income every month out of sheer philanthropy. We do, because the police and the circumstances doesn't allow any different, but as you, my friendly welfare recipients, have gained the literal and absolute majority for all coming general elections, I feel a little uneasy about the future tax rates, I don't know why.
If I could ride the bus safely, I just might shut up and pay the horrendous amounts of money our tax authorities are extorting every month. But as it stands now, myself and many other people surely check their emigration options. 250'000 of them take their college degree and do so already. Every year.
Who will pay for your booze and weed when the last of us is gone?
Strangely, potential muggers and the usual feral crazies don't even seem to notice me when I'm riding my bike through the city. They gaze through you like you're transparent, I don't know why. I just assume because you're not looking like their usual victims their hunting reflexes aren't activated. Or they just know that they cannot catch you neither at the stoplight nor anywhere else.
But there's the smashed glass all around the curbsides and the strong wind and rain so common between October and March. And the rare incidents where you have to confront one of those shuffling zombies or risk a collision with a truck are not that great either.
Muggers with a pistol are still rare here in Europe, thank God, even if the numbers are slowly increasing. I doubt muggers can shoot, though.
Not everyone can switch their center of life on a whim.
I've personally been to some cities in China. Their subway and overall public security are pristine. I love my freedom and I know very well about the downsides and the number of executions there, thank you.
But you simply cannot imagine the "personal" freedom you breathe in the absence of anti-socials, human and literal trash and graffitti. It just feels like a hundredweight taken from your chest for that you suddenly can breathe and walk normally. No one will bother you, even in the height of rush hour when there are millions of people in that subway car with you. And no one will bother anyone else, either - everyone does their thing, reads a book or listens to their mp3s. No one is verbally abused, threatened, stared at.
We Westerners have long since forgotten and buried this civilized behavior, sadly. I'm very aware of the downsides of their tradeoffs, but I cannot possibly explain how relaxing a simple ride on the subway can be. In the states or in Western Europe, you will never experience anything remotely close to this, not in your life.
If you've experienced this, you will suddenly and with incredible clarity understand why some people vote for ANYONE who can provide tangible public security.
I had to ride the bus once some months ago, my car broke down and I was the last one to leave the office and all other options (family, friends or taxi) were unavailable that day.
Riding the bus. In a clean business suit with a briefcase that obviously contained a notebook.
Needless to say I survived. But dude, it was pretty horrible. Next time I'd better sleep in the office, really.
The worst thing is the eyes of Freddy The Freeloader - you will know they see nothing else but a large piggy bank in your person, slowly pondering the pros and cons of mugging you on the spot. You see this decision in their eyes, I swear, like you and I would ponder a tasty but fattening steak: do or don't. Gruesome.
Please provide more than two datapoints to back up your assumption that mass transit reduces crime.
And please do not mix datapoints between totally different societies, namely a homogenous Asian city like Tokio and a, let's say heterogenous city like Baltimore. We all know very well what group commits more than two thirds of all the murders there, as we could nicely map a direct influence on overall crime and murder rates depending on the percente of this group on the overall population of an area. But let's all ignore this stealthy elephant for a while and pretend this is because of "American" society as a whole or other factors.
I'm still pretty confident, that a high crime rate is the first and primary reason for severe underutilization of public transportation, which in turn leaves public transport companies without funding or income they needed to improve their service.
Less crime brings more passengers, which equals more income and with it more investments in larger coverage or tighter schedules. More crime rotates the wheel in the other direction.
Please present counterarguments, because I'm pretty confident that most people shun buses and "the tunnels of death" as the subways are called nowadays BECAUSE of crime. People seldomly ride the bus in Chicago out of sheer pleasure unarmed and without kevlar vests, would they?
On a side note, I find it disturbing when people equal poverty with violence and crime. I would not murder and steal when some people have wealth and I don't. I don't know about you, but your statements suggest an unhealthy direction, really.
Exactly. Roads that no one uses will not be built, roads that few people use are not built so expensive while congested areas with heavy traffic probably attract investors in droves to finance 10-lane highways.
Money is allocated more or less where it needs to be. It's almost as if there's some invisible hand guiding this process, I wonder how that works.
Well, in socialist Russia, there were thousands of utterly useless jobs, were you were paid to do nothing or make up for piss-poor planning and engineering of someone else.
Jobs are not a measure of wealth, efficiency is.
Hiring warm bodies just to keep them from rioting is, well, dumb. Equally dumb as welfare, paying people for doing nothing, but that's another question. But Europe does, so just watch what happens in the next three years.
My car is the only thing that shields me from the failures of society. This 3mm steel wall between me and the scum is all I can ever hope to get in the now socialist Western Europe.
I have no legally available weapon to defend myself against millions of knife-wielding gangsters in our buses and subways, the "youth", you know who I'm talking about.
The police feeding off my taxes is overwhelmed with hundreds of calls every hour, while and because judges and state attorneys will free two out of three suspects because of social outlook and on parole, even after dozens of misdemeanors.
Welfare allows 80% of the "Youths" to never work one day in their life. We never force anyone to do anything, we pay hard cash and you'd never even have to say "thanks". It's not only the group torching all the cars in our capital cities, the one you know I'm talking about, but also a sheer staggering amount: a third of our workforce, oh and they are sooooo willing to work, just not at McDonalds or the dollar store, that's too low for them, really.
That's why I drive that car to work. It's 5km away, I could basically walk. But then again, I have to wear a clean white collar to work everyday, which means I'd probably get annoyed, spit at or mugged by the feral illiterates who prowl our cities.
Thanks, but I'd rather pay another quarter of my income for having a 3mm steel wall and 100kW acceleration between me and the welfare-diseased scum.
To be precise: - everything except underage kids (this was declared illegal because of international pressure in the 1970s or so)
So, just let me say: whatever there was in this collection, most people probably would not want to see it even if they were paid to. Really. Dutch sex shops have open windows and are running advertising and sample videos in TVs viewable by anyone. And these videos include all of the aforementioned abominations. I used to call my self tolerant and openminded, but this... EWWWWWWWW
Well, if this is taking too long, you've never waited behind that old lady who always pays in pennies. Paying in cash takes an awful amount of time or produces a fat wallet full of pennies from the change they give you.
Oh and if you lose your wallet, it's gone. If you lose your credit card, you might have some protection or insurance.
Ever bought a car with cash? How did it feel to go there with one year's earnings in your pocket?
This was unfairly modded troll. It is provocative, but short and to the point: costs and the willingness of passengers to bear them.
Back in the PanAm days of glory, flying was extremely expensive and they provided all this luxury, service and space because of this. They just had to accomodate for the incredible pricing and to satisfy the rich passengers they where transporting.
Nowadays, we have the option to pay affordable prices from lower middle class people up, in cattle herd lane or pay a huge premium to get first class benefits. First class will get you the same service like the times of glory - or even better, because a choice of 40 different in-flight movies were not available then.
This is what GP said, use first class, pay a lot and get service like its 1963 or take economy and get prices comparable to Amtrak and Greyhound.
We predict it statistically, just with most other quality or process controll issues.
Compare a series of computations of 300 inaccurate cores with the result of 10 deterministic ones. Observe the results, make sure that errors are evenly distributed, i.e. all inaccurate cores have a similar error ration and then you're set.
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No, you'd want a digital PCM stream. A stationary DA-converter by a respectable supplier should do a much better job than the iPod's own, because they are much less concerned by space, power and form factor constraints.
Or you could happen to own absolute high end equipment which quality-wise leaves anything portable in the dust.
Firewire or USB can both saturate any 2.5 inch or 1.5 inch drive inside any portable music player.
Differences in transfer speeds are either software related or due to intentional speed bumps.
If you connect your amp non-digitally, you're doing it wrong.
If it's for cheapness, well, cheap CD players have DA-converters inside and still be cheaper than 30 bucks.
If it's for quality, then interference and line noise will make analog transfer inferior and your Mark Levinson amp will do a much much better DA-conversion than the iPhone any day.
There's no reason to use analog audio signals, neither for cost nor for quality reasons. And for digital signals, USB could very well be adequate.
USB can supply everything and the sooner a giant like Apple is pushing it, the sooner we all get these ridiculous cables out of our living rooms and offices.
There's no need for video-out, there's no need for line-level audio out.
Headphones are the only thing you'd need to have analog, for simplicity and form factor reasons, everything else is digital inside the device and could (and should) be converted from the non-portable counterpart, like the TV, the amplifier or the iPod-docking station.
If DA-converters are cheap and small enough to carry them around at all times with the phone or ipod, they are sure as well cheap and small enough to put them in stationary, wall-powered devices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_video_device_class
There's only few things that cannot be handled by 480mps USB.
Remote controlling a music player does not saturate a USB 1.0 connection, not in the least.
You need to get out and watch more movies, seriously :)
An organic crust? Produced by space borne microbes or what?
Well, that's California for you. The state of do-gooders that is chronically bankrupt.
People have been locked up in much harsher jails for many centuries. I firmly believe that people who seriously broke the law should do their time behind bars, with as much "luxury" as they deserve and as frugal as we can afford.
If half a million people decides to break the law, we either repeal wrong or useless laws, ie. stop the damn war on drugs, we don't need people costing us money for smoking some green leaves. And the rest of the laws, those needed for free and peaceful life of innocents, they are enforced and we should rather build tent cities or even camps if there are too much criminals everywhere.
A ddos attack on our judicial system must be prevented and I don't want thieves and burglars running around because we have too many murderers in jail. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time, but don't expect the public to pay for luxuries such as a stable house for your jail experience.
You ever been to Bremen, Berlin, Brussels or Paris recently? I hear they have some great rioting adventures up in Sweden and down south in Greece, as well.
If you live in a nice little city where all this is irrelevant and have a reasonable job, entrench yourself there. There will be quite some trouble coming our way, stay where you can best wait that out and still raise your kids. Knowing their mates will not bring knives and stuff to school, that is. Kids in Berlin do, and I can't help but understand them.
Trust me, I do ride the public transport some times, in different cities or when all the cabs are stuck in heavy traffic.
And there are tons of drug or booze zombies shuffling around everywhere around the central stations. This is disgusting and you know it.
How much is the difference between the money you make and the money you get?
How much of this money is re-distributed to "needy" people?
How large is your influence on what exactly is done with the rest of this money?
Have you ever considered the process in which the European Commission drafts laws that your parliament has to accept-or-else?
Are you aware that the elected European Parliament has no formal legislative or whatever powers over anything?
Are you aware that the European Commission has full legislative powers with no checks and no balances?
Are you aware that the European Court of Justice trumps all of your local courts as a judiciary power and yet strangely has never been formally established or acknowledged by your countries' highest authorities?
Are you aware that dissenters from the leading opinion are persecuted by loosely organized leftist militias all around Europe? (The same or similar background like those who burn down 10000 cars every year in Paris alone and who riot for months withouth our main press telling us?)
We have many, really, a lot, of the attributes of the communist bloc countries of the 1980's.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, ignore me and wait or read around the web - outside MSM and Indymedia of course.
You just proved what I said: poverty doesn't automatically produce crime rates. You are poor, but you probably are not a criminal.
That the worst parts of your town aren't dangerous to the common visitor may hint at another, much stronger factor influencing crime rates. One that coincides often with poverty, so they are confused often, I guess.
Anyway, of course I'm selfish. Which is a good thing because I will not bother anyone else if I can help in any way. Don't confuse being selfish with being careless, rude or reckless, but I care first about the well-being of my family and me and then of my friends and then about everyone else.
Since when is this a sign of bad character and why exactly? If everyone cared about themselves and their family while respecting the law and everyone else's personal space and freedom, would that really be bad?
If caring for one's self is not allowed anymore or severely frowned upon, please call our Ortsgruppenleiter that I've been a bad Comrade recently. I've barely paid my mandatory 50% tax/social security fees and not donated anything for African kids this year so bring on the re-education camp, if you must.
Well, I'm one of the last to pay taxes here. A quarter of a million of my taxpaying collegues are fleeing every year to never return. Says the official statistic, not me.
No one is handing over 50% of their income every month out of sheer philanthropy. We do, because the police and the circumstances doesn't allow any different, but as you, my friendly welfare recipients, have gained the literal and absolute majority for all coming general elections, I feel a little uneasy about the future tax rates, I don't know why.
If I could ride the bus safely, I just might shut up and pay the horrendous amounts of money our tax authorities are extorting every month. But as it stands now, myself and many other people surely check their emigration options. 250'000 of them take their college degree and do so already. Every year.
Who will pay for your booze and weed when the last of us is gone?
Strangely, potential muggers and the usual feral crazies don't even seem to notice me when I'm riding my bike through the city. They gaze through you like you're transparent, I don't know why. I just assume because you're not looking like their usual victims their hunting reflexes aren't activated. Or they just know that they cannot catch you neither at the stoplight nor anywhere else.
But there's the smashed glass all around the curbsides and the strong wind and rain so common between October and March. And the rare incidents where you have to confront one of those shuffling zombies or risk a collision with a truck are not that great either.
Muggers with a pistol are still rare here in Europe, thank God, even if the numbers are slowly increasing. I doubt muggers can shoot, though.
Not everyone can switch their center of life on a whim.
I've personally been to some cities in China. Their subway and overall public security are pristine. I love my freedom and I know very well about the downsides and the number of executions there, thank you.
But you simply cannot imagine the "personal" freedom you breathe in the absence of anti-socials, human and literal trash and graffitti. It just feels like a hundredweight taken from your chest for that you suddenly can breathe and walk normally. No one will bother you, even in the height of rush hour when there are millions of people in that subway car with you. And no one will bother anyone else, either - everyone does their thing, reads a book or listens to their mp3s. No one is verbally abused, threatened, stared at.
We Westerners have long since forgotten and buried this civilized behavior, sadly. I'm very aware of the downsides of their tradeoffs, but I cannot possibly explain how relaxing a simple ride on the subway can be. In the states or in Western Europe, you will never experience anything remotely close to this, not in your life.
If you've experienced this, you will suddenly and with incredible clarity understand why some people vote for ANYONE who can provide tangible public security.
I had to ride the bus once some months ago, my car broke down and I was the last one to leave the office and all other options (family, friends or taxi) were unavailable that day.
Riding the bus. In a clean business suit with a briefcase that obviously contained a notebook.
Needless to say I survived. But dude, it was pretty horrible. Next time I'd better sleep in the office, really.
The worst thing is the eyes of Freddy The Freeloader - you will know they see nothing else but a large piggy bank in your person, slowly pondering the pros and cons of mugging you on the spot. You see this decision in their eyes, I swear, like you and I would ponder a tasty but fattening steak: do or don't. Gruesome.
Please provide more than two datapoints to back up your assumption that mass transit reduces crime.
And please do not mix datapoints between totally different societies, namely a homogenous Asian city like Tokio and a, let's say heterogenous city like Baltimore. We all know very well what group commits more than two thirds of all the murders there, as we could nicely map a direct influence on overall crime and murder rates depending on the percente of this group on the overall population of an area. But let's all ignore this stealthy elephant for a while and pretend this is because of "American" society as a whole or other factors.
I'm still pretty confident, that a high crime rate is the first and primary reason for severe underutilization of public transportation, which in turn leaves public transport companies without funding or income they needed to improve their service.
Less crime brings more passengers, which equals more income and with it more investments in larger coverage or tighter schedules. More crime rotates the wheel in the other direction.
Please present counterarguments, because I'm pretty confident that most people shun buses and "the tunnels of death" as the subways are called nowadays BECAUSE of crime. People seldomly ride the bus in Chicago out of sheer pleasure unarmed and without kevlar vests, would they?
On a side note, I find it disturbing when people equal poverty with violence and crime. I would not murder and steal when some people have wealth and I don't. I don't know about you, but your statements suggest an unhealthy direction, really.
Exactly. Roads that no one uses will not be built, roads that few people use are not built so expensive while congested areas with heavy traffic probably attract investors in droves to finance 10-lane highways. Money is allocated more or less where it needs to be. It's almost as if there's some invisible hand guiding this process, I wonder how that works.
Well, in socialist Russia, there were thousands of utterly useless jobs, were you were paid to do nothing or make up for piss-poor planning and engineering of someone else.
Jobs are not a measure of wealth, efficiency is.
Hiring warm bodies just to keep them from rioting is, well, dumb. Equally dumb as welfare, paying people for doing nothing, but that's another question. But Europe does, so just watch what happens in the next three years.
My car is the only thing that shields me from the failures of society. This 3mm steel wall between me and the scum is all I can ever hope to get in the now socialist Western Europe.
I have no legally available weapon to defend myself against millions of knife-wielding gangsters in our buses and subways, the "youth", you know who I'm talking about.
The police feeding off my taxes is overwhelmed with hundreds of calls every hour, while and because judges and state attorneys will free two out of three suspects because of social outlook and on parole, even after dozens of misdemeanors.
Welfare allows 80% of the "Youths" to never work one day in their life. We never force anyone to do anything, we pay hard cash and you'd never even have to say "thanks". It's not only the group torching all the cars in our capital cities, the one you know I'm talking about, but also a sheer staggering amount: a third of our workforce, oh and they are sooooo willing to work, just not at McDonalds or the dollar store, that's too low for them, really.
That's why I drive that car to work. It's 5km away, I could basically walk. But then again, I have to wear a clean white collar to work everyday, which means I'd probably get annoyed, spit at or mugged by the feral illiterates who prowl our cities.
Thanks, but I'd rather pay another quarter of my income for having a 3mm steel wall and 100kW acceleration between me and the welfare-diseased scum.
If violence didn't solve your problem, use more!
And then again, violence doesn't solve problems, it eliminates them.
If you've ever been to the Netherlands, you'd know by now that there are almost no taboos in PORN there.
- animals
- feces
- families
- furries
- adult babies
To be precise:
- everything except underage kids
(this was declared illegal because of international pressure in the 1970s or so)
So, just let me say: whatever there was in this collection, most people probably would not want to see it even if they were paid to. Really. Dutch sex shops have open windows and are running advertising and sample videos in TVs viewable by anyone. And these videos include all of the aforementioned abominations. I used to call my self tolerant and openminded, but this... EWWWWWWWW
Well, if this is taking too long, you've never waited behind that old lady who always pays in pennies. Paying in cash takes an awful amount of time or produces a fat wallet full of pennies from the change they give you.
Oh and if you lose your wallet, it's gone. If you lose your credit card, you might have some protection or insurance.
Ever bought a car with cash? How did it feel to go there with one year's earnings in your pocket?
This was unfairly modded troll. It is provocative, but short and to the point: costs and the willingness of passengers to bear them.
Back in the PanAm days of glory, flying was extremely expensive and they provided all this luxury, service and space because of this. They just had to accomodate for the incredible pricing and to satisfy the rich passengers they where transporting.
Nowadays, we have the option to pay affordable prices from lower middle class people up, in cattle herd lane or pay a huge premium to get first class benefits. First class will get you the same service like the times of glory - or even better, because a choice of 40 different in-flight movies were not available then.
This is what GP said, use first class, pay a lot and get service like its 1963 or take economy and get prices comparable to Amtrak and Greyhound.
You can't have your cake and eat it.
We predict it statistically, just with most other quality or process controll issues.
Compare a series of computations of 300 inaccurate cores with the result of 10 deterministic ones. Observe the results, make sure that errors are evenly distributed, i.e. all inaccurate cores have a similar error ration and then you're set.