Well, here's why their approval rating is flat on its back at 11%.. cozying up to big telecom, while the people scream for their 4th amendment rights. Take that, rule of law. What's an industry-wide get out of jail free card cost these days, anyway?
Now that this is over, they can go back to offending Turkey and China.
No, but I have listened to them extensively. These cables do a better job than cheap zip-cord speaker wire, or the standard Monster wire.. and are still reasonably priced, at least in the hi-end field.
Also, please keep in mind that many hi-end products are made in small batches, by individual builders working for small outfits. $50 in material, plus an hour's labor at a cost of $25 to the company, plus overhead can result in a quick $100 for cost of goods sold. Now, the company and the dealer each need to make a profit.. and we get to $300 pretty quickly.
"The thing is, even the cheap drilled wire of your phone-line is good enough to transmit multi-mhz signals for DSL over a few km."
That's because the telephone system uses low-impedance balanced lines; without this technology, POTS would be largely impractical, and long-distance nearly impossible (at least in the days before satellite).
Low-Z balanced lines are also used in many hi-end audio systems, for the same reasons; they offer a material advantage. In fact, an inexpensive low-z balanced line cable can easily better very high-priced single-ended cables. It's the primary reason that all of the equipment I build and work with uses balanced line technology.. better performance without fancy cables = value for the customer.
I didn't realize that speaker cables required shielding.. are you sure you aren't just making this up?
Note, I am not an advocate of high-priced wire voodoo, but these repeating blanket statements of "None of it makes any difference, because it's all really the same" are seriously ill-informed. Part of this is just good old-fashioned Slashdot skepticism / cynicism, but I suspect that the listening habits (MP3 players, cheap CD players, computer speaker systems) of the posters play heavily into the situation.
You're on the right track. With typical consumer-grade equipment, you probably won't notice much difference between Cable A and Cable B. But, as the resolution of the system improves through the use of better built power amplifiers, preamplifiers, loudspeakers and so forth, cable effects can be quite noticeable.
However, I've found that when it comes to cables - speaker or interconnect - price and quality have no direct relationship, at least not when prices move into the thousands of dollars. When asked by a customer, I generally suggest a certain brand of speaker cable that sells in the $300 range.
In short, until digital is a zero-cost option, I'll stick with analog TV. There just isn't that much on TV which interests me enough to purchase & install some new-fangled hardware. My analog TV (29" Panasonic, was a cast-off from a friend) plays just fine with my Basic Cable, VCR and DVD player.. and every one of my video game consoles. I only have the cable package, as it represents a net savings of $5/month when bundled with Comcast cable Internet.
As I'm sure you've noticed, there is a dilution effect coupled to the increase in available channels. That is, if the number of channels suddenly doubles from 100 to 200, there is not a commensurate doubling of programming.. and any net increase in programming is tied to an increase in the frequency and length of commercial breaks.
So, they can shut off the analog broadcast, and shut off a viewer - or give me a free converter, and keep their viewer. If it's the former, I can't say I'll really miss much.
Off-topic for the rest of the thread, but hey man - congrats! I accomplished a 70+ pound loss when I was 19-21 years old. Having been a 'fatkid' for most of my life, it was absolutely the greatest thing I ever did for myself.
And yep, I've kept (almost all) of it off. 38 years old now, and not missing that weight one bit!
But one question.. do you feel that it's the elimination of HFCS that is at the core of your weight loss, or the broader elimination of all the crappy, processed junk that is normally the carrier for HFCS? Personally, I've totally lost my taste for junk foods and soda; what was once so appealing kind of nauseates me these days. As time goes by, it gets easier and easier to look at food objectively - and quite often, my response is simply "No, that's pure crap, and there's no way in hell I'm going to eat it".
It's a good fight, keep at it!
-ML
SNL is right.. If I recall, it was Akroyd playing Mr. Earnest Mainway, being interviewed by Jane Curtin. Hillarious farking sketch, with Dan at his sleazy-guy best.
I'm with you on awesome. You never know, a talent like we see in Florian Schneider might come around more than once, in a lifetime.
Kraftwerk has been such a fantastic influence on techno music, and popular music in general. To me, the influence is obvious - but he is certainly doing his own thing!
You're totally right.. I've 'almost inadvertently' contributed to a few projects, just by being on freenode, and running into people who needed a little testing, comment, and so on.
Come to think of it, one of the main reasons I was in a position to be helpful, was due to all that I had learned... from channels like ##slackware on freenode.
No doubt many others have had similar experiences. RIP Rob, and genuine condolences to your friends & family.
That's interesting, because that's just the sort of question a constitutionalist would tend to ask.
Not all constitutionalists are great scholars of the US Constitution.. but sometimes, knowing which questions to ask and when to ask them are all that is required.
So, yeah, America has been guided through some spectacularly difficult times by that Constitution.
If you're actually referring to the US Civil war, the US Constitution wasn't so much of a guiding hand in that conflict, but a major point of contention. Ask a northerner why they fought the Civil War, and they'll tell you "slavery". Ask a southerner, and they'll tell you "states rights".
Truth be told, they are both correct, but in the analysys, the southern states had the stronger constitutional position. In fact, it were the waging and outcome(s) of the Civil War which led to the vast expansion of powers by the federal government, and therein we have the linkage to the discussion at hand - the broadening of undelegated federal powers.
Unfortunately, the "rights" asserted by these several southern states included the right to (continue to) break the back of the black man for their own enrichment. And it's not as if there weren't enough poor southerners to work the fields, but from the viewpoint of the slaveowners, that would mean paying someone... not that slaves were cheap, but they could be worked, bred and sold much more profitably than simply employing poor whites.
Is it just me, or were there a LOT more DVD players and DVD media in enduser hands, before the announcement of DVD burners?
It's almost like they (yes, the perjorative and mysterious 'they') want to have it both ways.. sell the stamped media, the blank media, and the hardware all at once - yet you *know*, from recent demonstrations, that they are geared up to protect any potential infringement of copyrights.
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Well, here's why their approval rating is flat on its back at 11%.. cozying up to big telecom, while the people scream for their 4th amendment rights. Take that, rule of law. What's an industry-wide get out of jail free card cost these days, anyway?
Now that this is over, they can go back to offending Turkey and China.
No, but I have listened to them extensively. These cables do a better job than cheap zip-cord speaker wire, or the standard Monster wire.. and are still reasonably priced, at least in the hi-end field.
Also, please keep in mind that many hi-end products are made in small batches, by individual builders working for small outfits. $50 in material, plus an hour's labor at a cost of $25 to the company, plus overhead can result in a quick $100 for cost of goods sold. Now, the company and the dealer each need to make a profit.. and we get to $300 pretty quickly.
"The thing is, even the cheap drilled wire of your phone-line is good enough to transmit multi-mhz signals for DSL over a few km."
That's because the telephone system uses low-impedance balanced lines; without this technology, POTS would be largely impractical, and long-distance nearly impossible (at least in the days before satellite).
Low-Z balanced lines are also used in many hi-end audio systems, for the same reasons; they offer a material advantage. In fact, an inexpensive low-z balanced line cable can easily better very high-priced single-ended cables. It's the primary reason that all of the equipment I build and work with uses balanced line technology.. better performance without fancy cables = value for the customer.
I didn't realize that speaker cables required shielding.. are you sure you aren't just making this up?
Note, I am not an advocate of high-priced wire voodoo, but these repeating blanket statements of "None of it makes any difference, because it's all really the same" are seriously ill-informed. Part of this is just good old-fashioned Slashdot skepticism / cynicism, but I suspect that the listening habits (MP3 players, cheap CD players, computer speaker systems) of the posters play heavily into the situation.
You're on the right track. With typical consumer-grade equipment, you probably won't notice much difference between Cable A and Cable B. But, as the resolution of the system improves through the use of better built power amplifiers, preamplifiers, loudspeakers and so forth, cable effects can be quite noticeable.
However, I've found that when it comes to cables - speaker or interconnect - price and quality have no direct relationship, at least not when prices move into the thousands of dollars. When asked by a customer, I generally suggest a certain brand of speaker cable that sells in the $300 range.
IBHEAE - I build hi-end audio electronics
In short, until digital is a zero-cost option, I'll stick with analog TV. There just isn't that much on TV which interests me enough to purchase & install some new-fangled hardware. My analog TV (29" Panasonic, was a cast-off from a friend) plays just fine with my Basic Cable, VCR and DVD player.. and every one of my video game consoles. I only have the cable package, as it represents a net savings of $5/month when bundled with Comcast cable Internet.
As I'm sure you've noticed, there is a dilution effect coupled to the increase in available channels. That is, if the number of channels suddenly doubles from 100 to 200, there is not a commensurate doubling of programming.. and any net increase in programming is tied to an increase in the frequency and length of commercial breaks.
So, they can shut off the analog broadcast, and shut off a viewer - or give me a free converter, and keep their viewer. If it's the former, I can't say I'll really miss much.
As I always like to say.. It's not who you hate, but how you hate them, that counts.
Off-topic for the rest of the thread, but hey man - congrats! I accomplished a 70+ pound loss when I was 19-21 years old. Having been a 'fatkid' for most of my life, it was absolutely the greatest thing I ever did for myself. And yep, I've kept (almost all) of it off. 38 years old now, and not missing that weight one bit! But one question.. do you feel that it's the elimination of HFCS that is at the core of your weight loss, or the broader elimination of all the crappy, processed junk that is normally the carrier for HFCS? Personally, I've totally lost my taste for junk foods and soda; what was once so appealing kind of nauseates me these days. As time goes by, it gets easier and easier to look at food objectively - and quite often, my response is simply "No, that's pure crap, and there's no way in hell I'm going to eat it". It's a good fight, keep at it! -ML
Sorry folks, forgot to edit the subjectline.. my bad.
Well, now we know what that White Power-up does.
The irony being, that John probably taught Ted how to swim.
Oh sure, In Soviet Russia, nuts send CBS to you!
SNL is right.. If I recall, it was Akroyd playing Mr. Earnest Mainway, being interviewed by Jane Curtin. Hillarious farking sketch, with Dan at his sleazy-guy best.
I'm with you on awesome. You never know, a talent like we see in Florian Schneider might come around more than once, in a lifetime.
Kraftwerk has been such a fantastic influence on techno music, and popular music in general. To me, the influence is obvious - but he is certainly doing his own thing!
Now that's what I call a 'drop shipment'.
You're totally right.. I've 'almost inadvertently' contributed to a few projects, just by being on freenode, and running into people who needed a little testing, comment, and so on. Come to think of it, one of the main reasons I was in a position to be helpful, was due to all that I had learned ... from channels like ##slackware on freenode.
No doubt many others have had similar experiences. RIP Rob, and genuine condolences to your friends & family.
Cough syrups contain opiates for their anti-spasmodic effects - they suppress the coughing reflex.
Does anyone else remember back in the day when the United States was a government of the people, by the people and for the people?
I doubt anyone reading this can remember 1913.
+5 Nail Hit Squarely on Head
I am not a constitutionalist
That's interesting, because that's just the sort of question a constitutionalist would tend to ask.
Not all constitutionalists are great scholars of the US Constitution.. but sometimes, knowing which questions to ask and when to ask them are all that is required.
Put Hawkins on a dozen Star Trek tapes
Coming right up. Would you prefer Clem, Sophie, Coleman or Screaming Jay?
So, yeah, America has been guided through some spectacularly difficult times by that Constitution.
If you're actually referring to the US Civil war, the US Constitution wasn't so much of a guiding hand in that conflict, but a major point of contention. Ask a northerner why they fought the Civil War, and they'll tell you "slavery". Ask a southerner, and they'll tell you "states rights".
Truth be told, they are both correct, but in the analysys, the southern states had the stronger constitutional position. In fact, it were the waging and outcome(s) of the Civil War which led to the vast expansion of powers by the federal government, and therein we have the linkage to the discussion at hand - the broadening of undelegated federal powers.
Unfortunately, the "rights" asserted by these several southern states included the right to (continue to) break the back of the black man for their own enrichment. And it's not as if there weren't enough poor southerners to work the fields, but from the viewpoint of the slaveowners, that would mean paying someone... not that slaves were cheap, but they could be worked, bred and sold much more profitably than simply employing poor whites.
The assholes.
Truly, you speek for an entire generation of young Americans.
Don't know about you, but I'm joining the resistance
Is it just me, or were there a LOT more DVD players and DVD media in enduser hands, before the announcement of DVD burners?
It's almost like they (yes, the perjorative and mysterious 'they') want to have it both ways.. sell the stamped media, the blank media, and the hardware all at once - yet you *know*, from recent demonstrations, that they are geared up to protect any potential infringement of copyrights.
Or is this just how things work, these days?