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  1. Re:Body language is an effective tool on How To Sneak In To a Security Conference · · Score: 2

    I certainly don't intend to, but it seems whenever I go out shopping for something I end up being asked "do you work here" - if someone doesn't outright assume I do and ask for help.

    It happens even when I'm wearing something completely different than the store's uniform. ... am I unintentionally giving that kind of impression, do you think? I wonder if I could put that into something useful :P

  2. Re:No thanks on Schematics and Circuit Simulation In the Browser · · Score: 1

    Not a true export, but you can get your data saved in some form. Better than nothing.

  3. Re:No thanks on Schematics and Circuit Simulation In the Browser · · Score: 3, Informative

    I just created a test schematic, and if I then go in my workbench and select it, I can export it to PDF. Sure, it's not perfect (eg it's not something parsable like an XML), but it also means that your work doesn't go "poof" either.

  4. Re:This actually looks pretty amazing on Schematics and Circuit Simulation In the Browser · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's a troll within a troll, and you appear to have fallen into the trap (and dragged me along with you) :(

  5. Re:Not Safari? on Schematics and Circuit Simulation In the Browser · · Score: 1

    So? They warn you that they don't test with it, but let you continue with the warning that things might not work properly.

    Sounds reasonable to me!

  6. Re:Hey, the pirates can help on Master Engineer: Apple's "Mastered For iTunes" No Better Than AAC-Encoded Music · · Score: 1

    I see. I didn't realize AAC worked that way - and I can see how the noise would push the floating point over and cause bits that would otherwise be useful to be 'wasted'.

    I'll give you points for explaining this so well :)

  7. Re:No difference or no discernible difference? on Master Engineer: Apple's "Mastered For iTunes" No Better Than AAC-Encoded Music · · Score: 1

    You misunderstand. I am said amateur. I'm no professional but I've used tools and tried some the techniques. Whenever anyone asks how to tell how much better something sounds, someone tells them to do this phase flipping trick - even the people who write the studio software.

    If it's a bad technique, I can't explain why everyone recommends it so much... including the people who should know best (synth/DAW programmers)

  8. Re:No difference or no discernible difference? on Master Engineer: Apple's "Mastered For iTunes" No Better Than AAC-Encoded Music · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's exactly how one is supposed to determine if a signal is identical (flip the phase on one and add them).

    This is coming from an amateur producer/mixer and a radio guy... for what it's worth.

  9. Re:Hey, the pirates can help on Master Engineer: Apple's "Mastered For iTunes" No Better Than AAC-Encoded Music · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Lets be honest. The only thing you end up losing when going to 16-bit is lost below the noise floor anyway. You use 24 (or better) in the mixing process because that's when it matters.

  10. Re:Hey, the pirates can help on Master Engineer: Apple's "Mastered For iTunes" No Better Than AAC-Encoded Music · · Score: 2

    If you want to listen to popular music, you'll need to deal with mastering for popular listening conditions.

    It's an unfortunate truth these days.

  11. It's not so simple as a beating heart. What about those who have no beating heart? Artificial hearts, people mid-transplant, on life support machines etc.

    It's brain death that determines death - and that usually occurs via #1 in my post, or #3. I think #2 interferes with oxygenation and so really is #1 in disguise.

    So, as far as trauma (such as aforementioned cranial-aircraft collisions) - I'd say that the whole system (including oxygenation) is a support system for the brain. If the brain is gone then there's no point in considering the rest of the system.

  12. Re:XB-70 on US Military Working On 'Optionally-Manned' Bomber · · Score: 1

    That airplane has got to have a radar cross section approximating an aircraft carrier or maybe even a small moon with all those right angles everywhere.

    That depends on what the skin is made of, and how the interior structures are laid out. Here, second paragraph.

  13. Re:Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove? on US Military Working On 'Optionally-Manned' Bomber · · Score: 1

    Barksdale

    Who/What/Where?

  14. Re:Same as school exercise on Active Video Games Don't Make Kids Exercise More · · Score: 1

    I was hoping for a recipe or other text. Video doesn't really help me much. Especially something gimmicky like that dog.

  15. Re:Same as school exercise on Active Video Games Don't Make Kids Exercise More · · Score: 1

    I have absolutely no idea what to look for in one. Unfortunately I don't know anyone who uses them either.

    How do you tell the decent ones, or even find one to worry about?

    This is something my parents didn't do very well teaching me. We always just went to Shaws and Wal-Mart.

  16. Re:Same as school exercise on Active Video Games Don't Make Kids Exercise More · · Score: 1

    Can you share any more details on that? Sounds good.

    Additionally, would brown or mixed rice be acceptable?

  17. Re:In a country that drinks wine like water? on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    Well, I read that as you taking 25% literally and saying "you know, 0.25 is quite close to 0.32, which is just about fatal."

    You could have made that clearer.

  18. Re:In a country that drinks wine like water? on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    0.25x = 0.25 ONLY IF x == 1.

    Learn 2 maths.

  19. Re:"Novel solution"? on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

  20. Re:In a country that drinks wine like water? on France's Bold Drunk-Driving Legislation - Every Car To Carry a Breathalyzer · · Score: 1

    25% of a small number is not 0.25.

  21. (Apropos of nothing, a friend once said that it's not guns that kill people, and it's not people that kill people; it's the bullet entering the body at extremely high speed that tends to be the culprit....)

    Well, if you want to get super technical, it tends to be one of the following that does the job:
    1. hypoxia of neurological tissue (low oxygen)
    2. hypercapnia (excessive CO2)
    3. direct neurological trauma (mechanical destruction of CNS)

    Everything else is a means to an end :P

  22. Re:Prior Art on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 1

    Oh, just do the rest of us a favor and push the Smite button.

  23. Re:Lies on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 1

    Interesting idiom.

    Does it mean having a beard makes it easier to lie? (eg being shaven makes it more difficult to hide, and so requires a more cavalier attitude towards it?)

  24. Re:I might just be a luddite, but on UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money · · Score: 1

    Maybe if you put a big candle in front of a reflector!

  25. Re:I might just be a luddite, but on UK To Dim Highway Lights To Save Money · · Score: 2

    You realize that pedestrians and bicycles are prohibited on most (if not all) US Highways? (and I mean the real ones, like I-75 - not "highways" by name)

    There's a sign on the on-ramps that tells you what is and is not allowed on the highway.