Setting aside the fact that drawing analogies between digital hardware and human wetware is somewhat dodgy... I'd have thought the equivalent of short term memory would run nearer 8GB than 8MB.
I don't know about you, but I'm a 'visual' thinker, and its all pretty much 3D images that come to mind. For example, reference to recent discussion invokes images of the actual conversation, not just the content. OK, human memory is pretty good at eliding details and interpolating from previous experience (analagous to heavy JPEG compression maybe?), but even 10minutes of pottering about the house must equate to a huge 'dataset'.
Got it in one. I agree. In fact I'd go further and point out a few things that come to mind immediately:
1) Permanent magnet motors start at around 80% efficiency (for tiny motors) and get much better from there. Ergo, generating the same mechanical power output from only 20% of the electrical input - which is the principle claim in the article - puts this firmly in the realms of a perpetual-motion claim. Show me the requisite extraordinary proof...
2) The motor ain't the major source of noise in small fans. It's white noise from the inefficiency of a small rotor stirring the air at high speed - effectively a mechaincal-impedance mismatch.
3)IF I could do what the article claims, I'd run and sell out to the very largest industrial installations first - traction, pumping etc , where saving MWH contributes to the bottom line. And retire *loaded*, in a year or two.
Sounds very much like snake oil to me. What this is is doing on a News-For-Nerds website I have no idea.
(and no, I'm not as 'new around here' as my ID no. suggests...)
...a paper-based information storage medium with at least equal information (bit) density; furthermore it is a universal standard that can be read without reference to particular software, or even hardware platform. It is suitable for archival use, but only available in PROM form.
Sounds more like Real is getting desperate for new marketing opportunities.
Apart from that, given what an invasive mess the Realplayer software is I don't want to imagine what they could do to an iPod...flashing banner ads on the display, anyone?
One, the ambient noise floor is typically 20+dB lower at night when all the traffic stops; that makes a huge differnce to the ability to hear things in the distance.
Two, and more significant in the effect you describe, is the fact that radiative heat loss by the ground to the night sky cools the air near the ground. Sound which otherwise would dissipate upwards can then be diffracted back towards the earth, because effectively it is radiating in a medium which has a varying refractive index - think how graded optical fibre works;-)
Try running the numbers. We have to worry about losing the Moon and biodiversity from abstracting tidal energy to roughly the same degree we have to plan in advance for the Earth being consumed when the Sun turns Red Giant...
..means zero time delay around the amplifier FB loop trying to correct its own output. There is a school of audio-taste that holds the lack of 'smearing' effects is worth the higher-on-paper distortion, because the musical message of the performers playing in time etc. is better preserved.
I think their wrong, but at this level, it's all about taste (or lack of).
He'll not be blowing things driving this with 6w tube amplifiers...
Note the extreme sensitivity of the speaker, 110dB/W. That's about 16% efficiency in conversion of electrical to acoustic energy, or 20dB (c.100 times) more than even good hifi speakers. High sensivity gets you natural dynamics and musical subtlety, which the usual approach ofhonkin'-great-poweramps into insensitive speakers is usually rather bad at. Once you've heard what horns can do, when you absolutely, positively gotta shake every mother in the room - accept no substitutes.
Look, this is one (extreme!) take by a bunch of guys into sound quality, not quantity. I bet this thing will sound sublime at realistic levels - all from a flea-power amplifier.
...music sharing (and the sharing of other treasured creative works) is a basic feature of human culture. We want to share the songs we love, the books and movies we love, and so on. I think what we've got to aim for is a legal system that preserves the goals of the Copyright Act while accommodating, to the extent possible, the human impulse to share the cultural creations we love.
What the man said. It's no small relief to hear the bigger picture is in mind.
It doesn't affect the judgement delivered last week. Sun may have lent fuel to the fire, but the EU prosecuted having satisfied itself that anti-competitive practices by Microsoft in the EU required legal remedy.
Of course I'm sure Microsoft's lawyers will present things differently when they appeal the EU's rulings...
All good architecture is born in answering the user's real requirements, then transcending the limitations imposed by project context. There are many, many 'pretty' buildings which are dreadful bits of architecture.
It takes time, talent and forethought to design something well.
Bingo!
It also takes a client body that will pay for it -TANSTAAFL. This requires you to have demonstrated from the outset, and to their satisfaction, that it's the design skill and time is what they are really paying for, and that it's cheap at the price.
The perception when bidding is that, while professionals who will get 'the job' done are needed, they're unresponsive, then turn up with a near-frozen solution on a just few sheets of paper - where did the money go..?
'The job' however usually starts as client preconception; rarely is it their best option. Therefore it is fundamental to the role of designer to develop the brief with the Client. Note this applies especially to the smaller jobs, which might seem a contradiction. It's not, because corporate clients and the like are well versed in management of their (incidental) Property portfolios. The resulting FM input greatly accelerates the briefing and design development.
It is a rare pleasure to deliver what [the client] did not know they could have, on time, in budget. It's all sooo much easier when everyone understands the process is key, not the pretty picture.
[obDisclaim: I have no knowledge of software development, and am utterly reliant on commercial software....]
L and R can lead to problems in everyday life. I worked in Asia for three years where during introductions my surname, Clark, usually caused facial expressions akin to a bulldog chewing a wasp.
Of course its reciprocal. I paused the first time I met a Mr. Ng.
..as in, stay a while and yours will change, probably end up somewhere mid-atlantic. You too could end up sounding like Gross Lloydman.
I'm English, with pretty much a 'received-pronounciation' accent. Following 3 years spent working in Asia, when I returned home 2/3rds of the people I met for the first 6 months asked if I was Australian. Afetr a while I was sorely tempted to just reply 'Ah shit yeah.'
Example, most cinemas in the UK now have the usual pre-screening stills preceeded by a dire anti-taping warning headed FACT - allegedly the 'Federation Against Copyright Theft'.
Come on guys, you're not convincing anyone. Trying to co-opt language smacks of desperation, not moral right.
Corollary: it's possible to derive an easily-memorized algorithm for consistently beating the House at Roulette... that only works for spherical cows in a vacuum.
..would be mindbuggeringly fast. Imagine standing in the middle of the Bonneville Salt Flats, with perfect visibility in all directions:
The X-43A would cross from (visible) horizon to horizon in about 10 seconds.
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· Score: 1, Insightful
..would be mindbuggeringly fast. Imagine you're standing in the middle of the Bonneville Salt Flats on a day with perfect visibility in all directions:
The X-43A would cross from (visible) horizon to horizon in about 10 seconds.
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Setting aside the fact that drawing analogies between digital hardware and human wetware is somewhat dodgy... I'd have thought the equivalent of short term memory would run nearer 8GB than 8MB.
I don't know about you, but I'm a 'visual' thinker, and its all pretty much 3D images that come to mind. For example, reference to recent discussion invokes images of the actual conversation, not just the content. OK, human memory is pretty good at eliding details and interpolating from previous experience (analagous to heavy JPEG compression maybe?), but even 10minutes of pottering about the house must equate to a huge 'dataset'.
1) Permanent magnet motors start at around 80% efficiency (for tiny motors) and get much better from there. Ergo, generating the same mechanical power output from only 20% of the electrical input - which is the principle claim in the article - puts this firmly in the realms of a perpetual-motion claim. Show me the requisite extraordinary proof...
2) The motor ain't the major source of noise in small fans. It's white noise from the inefficiency of a small rotor stirring the air at high speed - effectively a mechaincal-impedance mismatch.
3)IF I could do what the article claims, I'd run and sell out to the very largest industrial installations first - traction, pumping etc , where saving MWH contributes to the bottom line. And retire *loaded*, in a year or two.
Sounds very much like snake oil to me. What this is is doing on a News-For-Nerds website I have no idea.
(and no, I'm not as 'new around here' as my ID no. suggests...)
Martin.
It's called photographic paper.
Sounds more like Real is getting desperate for new marketing opportunities.
Apart from that, given what an invasive mess the Realplayer software is I don't want to imagine what they could do to an iPod...flashing banner ads on the display, anyone?
One, the ambient noise floor is typically 20+dB lower at night when all the traffic stops; that makes a huge differnce to the ability to hear things in the distance.
;-)
Two, and more significant in the effect you describe, is the fact that radiative heat loss by the ground to the night sky cools the air near the ground. Sound which otherwise would dissipate upwards can then be diffracted back towards the earth, because effectively it is radiating in a medium which has a varying refractive index - think how graded optical fibre works
And this was moderated 'insightful'...?
Try running the numbers. We have to worry about losing the Moon and biodiversity from abstracting tidal energy to roughly the same degree we have to plan in advance for the Earth being consumed when the Sun turns Red Giant...
I think their wrong, but at this level, it's all about taste (or lack of).
Note the extreme sensitivity of the speaker, 110dB/W. That's about 16% efficiency in conversion of electrical to acoustic energy, or 20dB (c.100 times) more than even good hifi speakers. High sensivity gets you natural dynamics and musical subtlety, which the usual approach ofhonkin'-great-poweramps into insensitive speakers is usually rather bad at. Once you've heard what horns can do, when you absolutely, positively gotta shake every mother in the room - accept no substitutes.
Look, this is one (extreme!) take by a bunch of guys into sound quality, not quantity. I bet this thing will sound sublime at realistic levels - all from a flea-power amplifier.
I'm sorry Dave I cannot do that...
It doesn't affect the judgement delivered last week. Sun may have lent fuel to the fire, but the EU prosecuted having satisfied itself that anti-competitive practices by Microsoft in the EU required legal remedy.
Of course I'm sure Microsoft's lawyers will present things differently when they appeal the EU's rulings...
The perception when bidding is that, while professionals who will get 'the job' done are needed, they're unresponsive, then turn up with a near-frozen solution on a just few sheets of paper - where did the money go..?
'The job' however usually starts as client preconception; rarely is it their best option. Therefore it is fundamental to the role of designer to develop the brief with the Client. Note this applies especially to the smaller jobs, which might seem a contradiction. It's not, because corporate clients and the like are well versed in management of their (incidental) Property portfolios. The resulting FM input greatly accelerates the briefing and design development. It is a rare pleasure to deliver what [the client] did not know they could have, on time, in budget. It's all sooo much easier when everyone understands the process is key, not the pretty picture.
[obDisclaim: I have no knowledge of software development, and am utterly reliant on commercial software....]
Yes. American.
It's between 'Ung' and 'Ang'.
I spent my time being called 'Mr Matin' - my middle name was the most 'accessible'!
L and R can lead to problems in everyday life. I worked in Asia for three years where during introductions my surname, Clark, usually caused facial expressions akin to a bulldog chewing a wasp.
Of course its reciprocal. I paused the first time I met a Mr. Ng.
..as in, stay a while and yours will change, probably end up somewhere mid-atlantic. You too could end up sounding like Gross Lloydman.
I'm English, with pretty much a 'received-pronounciation' accent. Following 3 years spent working in Asia, when I returned home 2/3rds of the people I met for the first 6 months asked if I was Australian. Afetr a while I was sorely tempted to just reply 'Ah shit yeah.'
who finds this kind of thing disingenuous.
Example, most cinemas in the UK now have the usual pre-screening stills preceeded by a dire anti-taping warning headed FACT - allegedly the 'Federation Against Copyright Theft'.
Come on guys, you're not convincing anyone. Trying to co-opt language smacks of desperation, not moral right.
..it was supposed to be sarcasm.
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Ah well, friends don't let friends drink beer and surf
...ywist a good conne ywhile ye can do't. Ask Chaucer.
..but the new rules will limit the size of countries you can subjugate. It also limits Britain to colouring no more that 40% of the Globe pink.
It appears you are contemplating jumping $hip. Do you wish to:
[ ] believe our obfuscation of your choices?
[ ] wait until you don't have any choices?
[x] make your own mind up?
..I've been round the globe once already and managed to post the same damn thing twice. Sorry.
Corollary: it's possible to derive an easily-memorized algorithm for consistently beating the House at Roulette... that only works for spherical cows in a vacuum.
..would be mindbuggeringly fast. Imagine standing in the middle of the Bonneville Salt Flats, with perfect visibility in all directions:
The X-43A would cross from (visible) horizon to horizon in about 10 seconds.
..would be mindbuggeringly fast. Imagine you're standing in the middle of the Bonneville Salt Flats on a day with perfect visibility in all directions:
The X-43A would cross from (visible) horizon to horizon in about 10 seconds.