Yes, until someone gets sue happy and starts suing MP3 and AAC users. Maybe it will happen, maybe it won't.
Look at GIF, JPEG, and PNG. GIF is used for its quality, JPEG is used for its size, PNG is used by geeks. Unisys started suing webmasters, now the patent holder for JPEG is ruffling feathers, PNG is slowly becoming the accepted format. All it takes is some greedy SOB to make Ogg an attractive format.
I have no idea what he's got, the worst speaker Bose makes will do 85, so I'm starting off there. I hope he's got something at least in the mid 90s.
they use massive resonance to make bass
That's why I never use them in bass applications. Their HF drivers deliver good sound, I usually go with an EAW sub in my configurations, depending on what I'm doing.
Can you tell my why my 1960s loudspeakers sound better than any modern Bose rubbish?
Because anything made in 1960 is going to sound better. No point in singling out Bose here.
I know enough to ignore anyone who's bought into the bose myth
Bose myth? What myth? Sure, they're overpriced, but some of the stuff they've got in their labs (and in their retailers hands) is leap years ahead of other manufacturers. Besides, you can't tell me those Klipsch speakers were much cheaper than Bose.
The larger your speaker cable, the less resistance you will have. Two items to consider: power and damping factor.
Power is easy to understand. Your amp puts out X watts. If you run 50 feet of Cat5 to the speaker, you're looking at significant loss. I don't have the formula handy, but IIRC 50 feet of Cat5 will lose you about 6 dB, or 75% of your power. Most of the time home users don't crank their amps up all that high, so even though 75% of their power is lost, they don't notice the difference. Btw, the Bose speakers probably have a dBSPL 1w/1m at around 85, which means at 1 watt these speakers will put out 85dBSPL at 1 meter. Not too shabby, at 8 watts you'll be pushing 94, which is pretty loud. Chances are your overpriced amp puts out 100 watts or so, so power isn't all that big of a deal.
Damping factor is what kills you. If you grab a speaker by its cone and pull/push the cone, you'll feel it move fairly easily. Now take a piece of wire and short the speaker contacts together. Notice that the cone barely moves. By putting a dead short across the speaker, you've just given the cone no control. So if I have an 8 ohm speaker and an amp with an output impedence of.1 ohms, assuming I have perfect wire I have the same setup. The cone itself can only be moved by the amp, any outside forces won't be able to move it. The amp has total control of the cone, and you'll get a perfect reproduction of the sound. As you add resistance (wire of long runs and/or low guage) you start to loosen up that cone and allow it to move by itself. Now the sound you hear won't be exactly what the amp is sending, it's got some tolerance to it. Now add a 50ft run of cat5, and you'll see that the cone is moving freely again. Your sound is terrible, and you bet you can tell.
You always want to use higher guage cables to prevent power loss and damping factor degredation. In home theater, I see no reason to use anything expensive. Mine is just a couple of 12 guage extension cords, I paid $30 for a 100' cord and I've got good quality wire to my speakers. My power loss is around 1dB and damping factor is still fairly high.
Bose makes good stuff. I've worked directly with the engineers at Bose, some of the best physicists on the planet work in Bose labs. I've installed some of their commerical grade stuff in churches and other facilities, and it's pretty impressive. Unless you can tell me why Bose sucks, I have to believe you're just lashing out and can't think of anything better to say.
Oh, and real audiophiles don't shop in home audio stores. Get down to a Guitar Center or check out Full Compass and get yourself some real audio hardware.
Does this mean full sized keyboards on laptops, numpad and all?
I have no idea what this article is about. I agree with a few others I've seen in the last few days, I have no idea what this project is. 104 key keyboards on my embedded devices? Sweet!
20 min ago my co-irker came up to me asking me for some weird proprietary cable. She needs to connect a floppy drive to a PC and it's a proprietary job, so the cables to connect it are all wierd. In other words, she needed to move Mt. Fuji, but didn't have the right tools.
The proper way to handle this is to step back and look at what the real problem is. The problem is not that the floppy drive won't connect, it's that a 1 MB file needs to be copied onto this Windows PC. It's not that we need to move Mt Fuji, it's that I need to see around it.
Ok, what do I have for copying this file? I have a parallel port, a serial port, an external CDROM drive, and an ethernet connector. The external CDROM needs drivers, which reuqires a floppy drive. The serial/parallel option might work, maybe I could set up SLIP/PLIP on my linux laptop and set up direct connect in Windows. Well, that might need cab files, which are not on this machine. What about the ethernet connector.. it will require a driver, but maybe that driver's loaded. Yes it is, and TCP/IP is also loaded. Problem solved.
Mt. Fuji is in the same spot. The floppy drive still cannot be connected, that hasn't changed. I found an alternative solution that made the location of Mt. Fuji irrelevant to my problem.
I think if you rent movies by the truckload for the sake of renting movies, Netflix is for you. or should I say, was.
I rent maybe one DVD a weekend. Figure that out, probably about the same cost of Netflix. With Netflix, I need to figure out a week in advance what I want to watch next weekend, so it gets shipped to me in time. For me, it's not practical at all. For some movie buffs, who rent for the sake of renting, it's probably a Good Thing (tm).
In light of this info, the movie buff who rents because s/he can is getting the shaft because they rent so many movies. Makes sense from a business angle, but I wonder how many subscribers have dropped their subscription? As a newbie it's a great deal, but if you utilize the service (5 or 6 movies a month to break even, depending on where you rent from) you'll eventually be getting screwed and paying way too much for slow, unreliable service.
Netflix has dotcom written all over it. Neat concept, but IMHO too expensive to really gain most users any benefit.
How do I do that? I was using Vmware 3 and just ignoring all the acceleration errors, but with Vmware 4 it stops completely. How can I disable acceleration?
64 bit instruction set for faster low level functions, faster 64 bit pipes. Good stuff, all around. Will you have an immediate use for it? No. It will eventually replace 32 bit, and you'll be happier. Just like the Pentium replacing the 486, the 386 replacing the 286, it's a move in the right direction.
You don't own software. Software is a contract, and even though you shelled out $x for a piece of software, you are bound to the agreement. Transfering a Windows license is like any other contract.. read it carefully and make sure you're permitted to do so.
I'm not saying that MS is good, quite the contrary. They will rape their customers for as much money as they can, but from a bunsiness standpoint they're just just doing business.
If you're that lazy that it's cost effective to purchase such a remote, you really need to get outside. You can buy a pair of nice rollerbaldes or a small home gym for the price of that remote.
Does anyone find it interesting that Philips' allegedly smart remote has South Park on the Weather Channel and The Man Show on CSPAN?
We were having problems with our deskjets here. Nowadays, you can't even buy a printer without color. Problem? If you never use the color cartridges, they dry out. The printer refuses to print until you replace it. That's right, you have to buy color cartridges just to print black. Go figure.
We started using HP1000 personal laser printers. The printer is right around $200, the toner is around $60. The toner lasts a LOT longer than the ink cartridges, and even if it goes unused for 6 months it prints flawlessly. I haven't had one long enough to find out all the problems with them yet, but so far they seem to be a champ.
am I the only one having issues getting to the other pages of the article? For some reason, no matter which page I click I never move off page 1. Tried 2 different browsers, page is b0rked.
ANYWAY, I fail to see why legacy is such a bad thing. Just because it's 20 years old doesn't mean it needs to go away. Using this guy's philosophy, Ethernet is 30 years old, and obviously that's a bottleneck compared to newer technologies like token ring and Turbo Arcnet. UNIX is over 30 years old, and obviously it's a bottleneck compared to the young NT kernel.
Just because the PC's core is 20 years old, I'm not sure why we suddenly need to drop everything and change it.
That's what it sounds like, but you won't have the officially blessed version of 4.8. Besides the differences in the MFS disk, it shouldn't really matter.
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Yes, until someone gets sue happy and starts suing MP3 and AAC users. Maybe it will happen, maybe it won't.
Look at GIF, JPEG, and PNG. GIF is used for its quality, JPEG is used for its size, PNG is used by geeks. Unisys started suing webmasters, now the patent holder for JPEG is ruffling feathers, PNG is slowly becoming the accepted format. All it takes is some greedy SOB to make Ogg an attractive format.
85db sensitivity? Now that really sucks
I have no idea what he's got, the worst speaker Bose makes will do 85, so I'm starting off there. I hope he's got something at least in the mid 90s.
they use massive resonance to make bass
That's why I never use them in bass applications. Their HF drivers deliver good sound, I usually go with an EAW sub in my configurations, depending on what I'm doing.
Can you tell my why my 1960s loudspeakers sound better than any modern Bose rubbish?
Because anything made in 1960 is going to sound better. No point in singling out Bose here.
I know enough to ignore anyone who's bought into the bose myth
Bose myth? What myth? Sure, they're overpriced, but some of the stuff they've got in their labs (and in their retailers hands) is leap years ahead of other manufacturers. Besides, you can't tell me those Klipsch speakers were much cheaper than Bose.
OK, a lesson in audio physics.
.1 ohms, assuming I have perfect wire I have the same setup. The cone itself can only be moved by the amp, any outside forces won't be able to move it. The amp has total control of the cone, and you'll get a perfect reproduction of the sound. As you add resistance (wire of long runs and/or low guage) you start to loosen up that cone and allow it to move by itself. Now the sound you hear won't be exactly what the amp is sending, it's got some tolerance to it. Now add a 50ft run of cat5, and you'll see that the cone is moving freely again. Your sound is terrible, and you bet you can tell.
The larger your speaker cable, the less resistance you will have. Two items to consider: power and damping factor.
Power is easy to understand. Your amp puts out X watts. If you run 50 feet of Cat5 to the speaker, you're looking at significant loss. I don't have the formula handy, but IIRC 50 feet of Cat5 will lose you about 6 dB, or 75% of your power. Most of the time home users don't crank their amps up all that high, so even though 75% of their power is lost, they don't notice the difference. Btw, the Bose speakers probably have a dBSPL 1w/1m at around 85, which means at 1 watt these speakers will put out 85dBSPL at 1 meter. Not too shabby, at 8 watts you'll be pushing 94, which is pretty loud. Chances are your overpriced amp puts out 100 watts or so, so power isn't all that big of a deal.
Damping factor is what kills you. If you grab a speaker by its cone and pull/push the cone, you'll feel it move fairly easily. Now take a piece of wire and short the speaker contacts together. Notice that the cone barely moves. By putting a dead short across the speaker, you've just given the cone no control. So if I have an 8 ohm speaker and an amp with an output impedence of
You always want to use higher guage cables to prevent power loss and damping factor degredation. In home theater, I see no reason to use anything expensive. Mine is just a couple of 12 guage extension cords, I paid $30 for a 100' cord and I've got good quality wire to my speakers. My power loss is around 1dB and damping factor is still fairly high.
Bose makes good stuff. I've worked directly with the engineers at Bose, some of the best physicists on the planet work in Bose labs. I've installed some of their commerical grade stuff in churches and other facilities, and it's pretty impressive. Unless you can tell me why Bose sucks, I have to believe you're just lashing out and can't think of anything better to say.
Oh, and real audiophiles don't shop in home audio stores. Get down to a Guitar Center or check out Full Compass and get yourself some real audio hardware.
Does this mean full sized keyboards on laptops, numpad and all?
I have no idea what this article is about. I agree with a few others I've seen in the last few days, I have no idea what this project is. 104 key keyboards on my embedded devices? Sweet!
20 min ago my co-irker came up to me asking me for some weird proprietary cable. She needs to connect a floppy drive to a PC and it's a proprietary job, so the cables to connect it are all wierd. In other words, she needed to move Mt. Fuji, but didn't have the right tools.
The proper way to handle this is to step back and look at what the real problem is. The problem is not that the floppy drive won't connect, it's that a 1 MB file needs to be copied onto this Windows PC. It's not that we need to move Mt Fuji, it's that I need to see around it.
Ok, what do I have for copying this file? I have a parallel port, a serial port, an external CDROM drive, and an ethernet connector. The external CDROM needs drivers, which reuqires a floppy drive. The serial/parallel option might work, maybe I could set up SLIP/PLIP on my linux laptop and set up direct connect in Windows. Well, that might need cab files, which are not on this machine. What about the ethernet connector.. it will require a driver, but maybe that driver's loaded. Yes it is, and TCP/IP is also loaded. Problem solved.
Mt. Fuji is in the same spot. The floppy drive still cannot be connected, that hasn't changed. I found an alternative solution that made the location of Mt. Fuji irrelevant to my problem.
Mozilla browser == not available
:-)
IE browser == in stock, shipping ASAP
You've just unlocked the real secret to Netflix
I think if you rent movies by the truckload for the sake of renting movies, Netflix is for you. or should I say, was.
I rent maybe one DVD a weekend. Figure that out, probably about the same cost of Netflix. With Netflix, I need to figure out a week in advance what I want to watch next weekend, so it gets shipped to me in time. For me, it's not practical at all. For some movie buffs, who rent for the sake of renting, it's probably a Good Thing (tm).
In light of this info, the movie buff who rents because s/he can is getting the shaft because they rent so many movies. Makes sense from a business angle, but I wonder how many subscribers have dropped their subscription? As a newbie it's a great deal, but if you utilize the service (5 or 6 movies a month to break even, depending on where you rent from) you'll eventually be getting screwed and paying way too much for slow, unreliable service.
Netflix has dotcom written all over it. Neat concept, but IMHO too expensive to really gain most users any benefit.
It's like I always say: `Kill -9 first. Ask questions later.'"
Yes, but it doesn't roll off your tongue quite the same way.
How do I do that? I was using Vmware 3 and just ignoring all the acceleration errors, but with Vmware 4 it stops completely. How can I disable acceleration?
After you've had a few and can no longer race your barstools, you can always race your Belt Sander.
Write new code, contribute it back to Microsoft (containing many, many destructive bugs)
Now that's a feat to behold.. sending code back to Microsoft in worse condition than when you recieved it!
Why not?
64 bit instruction set for faster low level functions, faster 64 bit pipes. Good stuff, all around. Will you have an immediate use for it? No. It will eventually replace 32 bit, and you'll be happier. Just like the Pentium replacing the 486, the 386 replacing the 286, it's a move in the right direction.
You don't own software. Software is a contract, and even though you shelled out $x for a piece of software, you are bound to the agreement. Transfering a Windows license is like any other contract.. read it carefully and make sure you're permitted to do so.
I'm not saying that MS is good, quite the contrary. They will rape their customers for as much money as they can, but from a bunsiness standpoint they're just just doing business.
If you don't like it, use linux.
If you're that lazy that it's cost effective to purchase such a remote, you really need to get outside. You can buy a pair of nice rollerbaldes or a small home gym for the price of that remote.
Does anyone find it interesting that Philips' allegedly smart remote has South Park on the Weather Channel and The Man Show on CSPAN?
obviously some moderator is way too busy thinking about computers to have any clue what a 3-way is.
What a geek.
We were having problems with our deskjets here. Nowadays, you can't even buy a printer without color. Problem? If you never use the color cartridges, they dry out. The printer refuses to print until you replace it. That's right, you have to buy color cartridges just to print black. Go figure.
We started using HP1000 personal laser printers. The printer is right around $200, the toner is around $60. The toner lasts a LOT longer than the ink cartridges, and even if it goes unused for 6 months it prints flawlessly. I haven't had one long enough to find out all the problems with them yet, but so far they seem to be a champ.
Of course, nothing will ever beat the HP4.
Lego Mindstorms. :-)
I thought Monday was Patch Your Microsoft Server days
Samba is just trying to emulate every aspect of a Windows server, including Windows patch Mondays.
Yet another compatibility feature we can check off the list.
Why is this news?
$2 million is news. That's a lot of money to be out into open source.
am I the only one having issues getting to the other pages of the article? For some reason, no matter which page I click I never move off page 1. Tried 2 different browsers, page is b0rked.
ANYWAY, I fail to see why legacy is such a bad thing. Just because it's 20 years old doesn't mean it needs to go away. Using this guy's philosophy, Ethernet is 30 years old, and obviously that's a bottleneck compared to newer technologies like token ring and Turbo Arcnet. UNIX is over 30 years old, and obviously it's a bottleneck compared to the young NT kernel.
Just because the PC's core is 20 years old, I'm not sure why we suddenly need to drop everything and change it.
Windows 2000 that's on SP3, soon to be SP4?
Office 2000 that's now on SP3, soon to be SP4?
That Office and Windows?
Which company are you referring to?
Microsoft DOESN'T test things very well before releasing, that's why we make fun of them.
That's what it sounds like, but you won't have the officially blessed version of 4.8. Besides the differences in the MFS disk, it shouldn't really matter.
I kinda like this. Basically, the release is held up because the needed files don't fit on a floppy.
Rather than just reformat the floppy as a 1.722MB, they'd rather just get everything fitting onto a 1.44MB. Kudos to you, FreeBSD team!