Im having a hard time remembering the last time I used a floppy.
I'm not.
A guy came into my office (no, this is not the opening for a joke) last week with a Cisco 2501, and wanted to know what it was. I hooked it up to the serial port, reset the password and captured the boot, 'show version' and 'show diag', everything he needed. Dumped it all onto a floppy and off he went, happy as larry.
Floppy disks are still handy to give information to people. Not everybody has broadband nor a USB flash drive, nor necesarily want to dialup to read information.
These JBLs are dead flat from about 55Hz to 18kHz. -3db is around 40Hz. Below that they fall off pretty quickly. I can't hear anything above about 15kHz anyway thanks to a mispent youth playing in garage bands.
The yamaha subwoofer won't win any awards either.. it has an obvious resonance at around 45Hz, but I filter that out with the active Xover. It definitely serves to add the "boom" to explosions in movies, and nicely emphasises the kick drum in rock music. I don't need more than that at the moment.
I'm running OFHC speaker cable, but its the $3 a meter stuff.
I should mention that I live in an apartment with concrete walls. There is a limit to what I can achieve without glueing up egg-cartons or hanging curtains.
I don't have a 5.1 per sé, rather a couple of very good bi-channel amps: JVC 65Wx2 RMS power amp running front left and right, a JBL 55Wx2 RMS reciever running the surrounds + an 8" 80W powered yamaha sub. The center channel is mixed into the left and right using a Mackie 1202 mixingdesk, meaning I'm really only running a 4.1 system. Short of reducing the size of the sweet spot, there isn't a practical difference.
Front speakers are two way built from a kit and use polk drivers. Not the best speakers in the world, but when combined with the subwoofer (the weakest part of the system). The sub handles the +1 channel plus some of the roll-off from the L+C+R using an active cross-over.
Surrounds are JBL 3 way book shelves that nicely match the amp. Don't handle as much power as the fronts, but cover a wider range.
Yeah, its not an ideal system, being cobbled out of bits and pieces I've collected over the last 15 years, but it shits over the "all in one DVD+amp" 5.1 systems some of my friends have bought.
The on-board DACs a fine for theatre. Maybe they'd lose some definition on the highs for classical music, but given that I use my 10 year-old rock solid Sony CD-player for audio, and that I don't listen to classical music, I wouldn't know.
I've got an Abit NB-7S (?) with the Non-soundstorm certified Nvidia 5.1 chipset.
Kicks serious arse. Runs into my 5.1 amp and off to my JBL speakers and Yamaha subwoofer. Runs my whole home entertainment system. No problems with cross talk, hiss or noise.
Scully had degrees in physics and medicine. How is she not a scientist?
Medicine, as a degree, is not science. A standard medical degree is procedural. This is one reason medicine is moving toward a post-graduate degree, some of which require a "medical science" degree before hand.
Look, here I have a 80GB HD full of... um.. arthouse movies. I pick it up, move it a meter. Takes around half a second. Thus I am moving effectively moving data at 1280Gb/sec.
Beats their record.
Oh? It needs to go over wire. Fine.
Be amazed at my 80GB Harddrive over Cat 5 FLYING FOX!!
I don't see China abandoning their program if the shuttle is gone
They've got 1.6 Billion people. They can afford to lose a couple to space accidents as a trade off for having somewhere to put their next 1.6 billion people. The moon may very well be a possibility.
I don't know how I can spell this out. We are comparing ratios, and that is all.
"For every one person using linux, there are 2 guys who can suck their own dicks."
To restate using your analogy.
"For every 1 windows user using, there are 2 linux users using emacs."
As you pointed out, this does not say "thus there are more emacs users than notepad users". but then nowhere did I say "this means there are more autodicksuckers than linux users", which seems to be the logical (and incorrect) leap of faith you are accusing me of making.
Suprisingly, that's actually worth an insightful mod.
On reading that I looked at my watch, thought about three watches I own, tried to think about the 20 odd watches my fiances has (one for each pair of shoes, of course), and I think there isn't a full digital watch among them.
Possible exception is an "analogue" watch that I have with a digital module that displays the date or one of two other timezones, depending wher e I'm travelling.
Um.. No, not wrong.
1) There in the nothing in the statement assigning a gender to the "Linux User".
2) The number of women who can suck their own dicks is statistically insignificant.
3) Its a mathematical comparison.
Compare with the statment: "For every tea drinker in england there are two guys in the US who drink coffee".
There is nothing invalid about comparing apples and oranges in the form of "for every x apple, there are y oranges".
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And what, exactly, is the right way to breathe on a floppy?
I'm not.
A guy came into my office (no, this is not the opening for a joke) last week with a Cisco 2501, and wanted to know what it was. I hooked it up to the serial port, reset the password and captured the boot, 'show version' and 'show diag', everything he needed. Dumped it all onto a floppy and off he went, happy as larry.
Floppy disks are still handy to give information to people. Not everybody has broadband nor a USB flash drive, nor necesarily want to dialup to read information.
Agreed. 100%
These JBLs are dead flat from about 55Hz to 18kHz. -3db is around 40Hz. Below that they fall off pretty quickly. I can't hear anything above about 15kHz anyway thanks to a mispent youth playing in garage bands.
The yamaha subwoofer won't win any awards either.. it has an obvious resonance at around 45Hz, but I filter that out with the active Xover. It definitely serves to add the "boom" to explosions in movies, and nicely emphasises the kick drum in rock music. I don't need more than that at the moment.
I'm running OFHC speaker cable, but its the $3 a meter stuff.
I should mention that I live in an apartment with concrete walls. There is a limit to what I can achieve without glueing up egg-cartons or hanging curtains.
Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
And the US considers the UN a relevant body since when?
No, I'm not.
I don't have a 5.1 per sé, rather a couple of very good bi-channel amps: JVC 65Wx2 RMS power amp running front left and right, a JBL 55Wx2 RMS reciever running the surrounds + an 8" 80W powered yamaha sub. The center channel is mixed into the left and right using a Mackie 1202 mixingdesk, meaning I'm really only running a 4.1 system. Short of reducing the size of the sweet spot, there isn't a practical difference.
Front speakers are two way built from a kit and use polk drivers. Not the best speakers in the world, but when combined with the subwoofer (the weakest part of the system). The sub handles the +1 channel plus some of the roll-off from the L+C+R using an active cross-over.
Surrounds are JBL 3 way book shelves that nicely match the amp. Don't handle as much power as the fronts, but cover a wider range.
Yeah, its not an ideal system, being cobbled out of bits and pieces I've collected over the last 15 years, but it shits over the "all in one DVD+amp" 5.1 systems some of my friends have bought.
The on-board DACs a fine for theatre. Maybe they'd lose some definition on the highs for classical music, but given that I use my 10 year-old rock solid Sony CD-player for audio, and that I don't listen to classical music, I wouldn't know.
I've got an Abit NB-7S (?) with the Non-soundstorm certified Nvidia 5.1 chipset.
Kicks serious arse. Runs into my 5.1 amp and off to my JBL speakers and Yamaha subwoofer. Runs my whole home entertainment system. No problems with cross talk, hiss or noise.
Recomended.
Bloody astronomers.
Medicine, as a degree, is not science. A standard medical degree is procedural. This is one reason medicine is moving toward a post-graduate degree, some of which require a "medical science" degree before hand.
Physics, however, is the only real science.
Disclaimer: Yes, I am a physicist.
... that wong was wrong all along. So long.
> No, no. It's five syllables, then seven, then
> five. 7-3-2 is completely unharmonious.
These adds you spam me
To enhance my sex prowess
Wont help you, fucker.
... to declare open season on spammers.
.. have no balls... .. fucker"
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You obviously lack corn in your diet.
Pons and Fleischmann, the original perpertrators of Cold Fusion, were from the University of Utah.
What's the bet that this "re-birth" of Cold Fusion has something to do with SCO?
Judge: Mr McBride, do you have anything to say before the jury adjourn to find you guilty and sentence you to death by stoning?
Darl: Look! Excess neutrons!
Jugde: Where? [Looks away]
Darl: [Exit, stage left]
Look, here I have a 80GB HD full of... um.. arthouse movies. I pick it up, move it a meter. Takes around half a second. Thus I am moving effectively moving data at 1280Gb/sec.
Beats their record.
Oh? It needs to go over wire. Fine.
Be amazed at my 80GB Harddrive over Cat 5 FLYING FOX!!
Bwahahaha.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if 533,000 of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
Yep. Populate the moon with virgins!
They've got 1.6 Billion people. They can afford to lose a couple to space accidents as a trade off for having somewhere to put their next 1.6 billion people. The moon may very well be a possibility.
I don't know how I can spell this out. We are comparing ratios, and that is all.
"For every one person using linux, there are 2 guys who can suck their own dicks."
To restate using your analogy.
"For every 1 windows user using, there are 2 linux users using emacs."
As you pointed out, this does not say "thus there are more emacs users than notepad users". but then nowhere did I say "this means there are more autodicksuckers than linux users", which seems to be the logical (and incorrect) leap of faith you are accusing me of making.
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Suprisingly, that's actually worth an insightful mod.
On reading that I looked at my watch, thought about three watches I own, tried to think about the 20 odd watches my fiances has (one for each pair of shoes, of course), and I think there isn't a full digital watch among them.
Possible exception is an "analogue" watch that I have with a digital module that displays the date or one of two other timezones, depending wher e I'm travelling.
Um.. No, not wrong. 1) There in the nothing in the statement assigning a gender to the "Linux User". 2) The number of women who can suck their own dicks is statistically insignificant. 3) Its a mathematical comparison. Compare with the statment: "For every tea drinker in england there are two guys in the US who drink coffee". There is nothing invalid about comparing apples and oranges in the form of "for every x apple, there are y oranges".
Boise swinging off Darl's nipples was really not an image I needed... but thanks anyway.
In poker, that's called "milking".
Remind me never to play power with Boise et al.
I remember reading a "report" in a "men's entertainment" magazine that gave the statistic that 2% of men could orally pleasure themselves.
If these numbers are accurate, that means for every person using Linux, there are 2 guys who can suck their own dicks.
I wouldn't call that penetration.