Someone should put up some stats about the change in internet traffic due to these sites being down. I'm sure somebody is in charge of a university network or something?
If BT was accounting for 35% of traffic, what's it at now? Still declining?
2nd game ever to use the online functions?? sounds like the wasted technology of all those morons who played 2d sidescrollers on n64 i remember from middle school.
This was done at purdue this year, the BoilerBikes. Painted gold, signs that say "free to use, ride at your own risk" etc. And then a girl ran into a bus or something, and they got rid of all of them and gave her a full ride shcolarship to make up FOR HER STUPIDITY.
1) The current calander isn't that hard to use, every intro to a programming language I've taken has forced us to deal with leap year crap, etc.
2) We here in Indiana still dont have Daylight Savings Time. If we switch to 10 hours days, how are the cows going to know when to sleep?
3) My bithday occasionally falls on Superbowl Sunday, and would forever more be on a Sunday. Do you know how hard it is to have a birthday party on Superbowl Sunday?!?!?
How often does these tests fail? I'd sayit's not promising that we need near 101% reliability on these systems, and they just plain dont work. I think there are a few West Wing episodes that poke fun at our ability to shoot down our own missles.
Here at Purdue, I have seen the sonoluminescence lab, and although the "Mr. Fusion" part of it could be loosely deemed tabletop (no dining room table, but maybe a table in a lab), the rest of the equipment for calibration and whate have you bring this whole experiment to just that. An experiment. You're not getting as much energy out as you're putting in. In fact, how much energry can we actually capture with one of these things?
i'm sorry, i must not have meant toslink on my minidisc, i dont pretend to know everything about everything. my discman does have the combo. i guess toslink is the square one?
no caps this time just for you:)
and you dont have to listen to an ipod exclusively while carying it around. i'm sorry you fell for that marketing trap.
my suitemate carries his ipod around, and doesnt' listen to it exclusively with headphones(SHOCK!!(like the capital letters?)). it's called a bluetooth adapter to another person's computer.
i'm sorry i think outside the box and dont share the same criterea that the average consumer does. please, rip me apart some more. i enjoy inflating your ego.
it still helps with 128kbps, because it eliminates line noise and the quality of the headphone amp circuit. the ipod already doesn't have the highest signal to noise ratio.
i have toslink optical in/out on my mobo, my minidisc has toslink input, my discman has toslink output, my 2 dvd players (one is a 5 disc changer) has toslink output, my surround sound reciever has 4 toslink inputs, and i have a USB toslink soundcard that came with my minidisc recorder that i can put on my laptop. they exist and are useful, and i didn't go out of my way to get any of these things. (the 5 disc dvd changer was $1 at a garage sale b/c the RCA output didn't work.)
if you put it in the dock, you then have to carry the dock around, or worse yet, move it every time you want to listen to it on your stereo or have it connected to your computer. i looked in my discman, the toslink connector isn't much bigger by any limiting means. power consumption difference is negligable, no amp circuit running.
the optical output was the one criteria i had for purchasing an mp3 player, but since VERY VERY few existed, and i didn't like them, i went with teh zen touch for it's battery life, and that i could get it for $200. i would have paid an extra $100 for an ipod or something else with a toslink, but *le sigh* it didnt' exists in a viable form. i'm a moron. mod me down.
anyone who has 80gigs of music didn't buy it all on itunes, most likely, so no neat "128kbps" standard.
i have a 90 gig music collection, 18,969 files, average bitrate of 155kbps, and the total play time is 8 weeks, 1day, 5 hours, 3 minutes and 20.690 seconds.
i think what we've been missing is that it's not a full moon, so the planet will seem to randomly appear from BESIDE the visible part of the moon...right??
sounds like more crap we're giving ourselves about "fair use" and whatnot.
if you want to feel really cheated, there are MANY different examples of the japs have 3x better technology in the commonplace than us. i read something about a year ago about how almost all cellphones in japan are color screen and camera built in. at that time we had them as an option, but it was like 15% of our market, wheras b/c they are 95% over there, it's much cheaper for them. and oh yes, minidisc actually caught on over there...*knocks stack of MD's off desk*
i own the bigger, better speakers (5.1 channel kenwood with polk audio voice matched speakers) AND a $200 pair of sennheiser headphones. a normal CD doesn't sound "great" to me anymore.:(:( damn the sacd's and dvd-a's
i spent a ton of money ($2300) on a nice kenwood reciever, and 5.1 channel polk audio speakers, for good quality music and movies. Why on earth would i want to degrade my sound quality????
in my opinion, the surround sound modes of modern recievers (pro logic II and CircleSurroundII) already does great implementation of stereo->surround upmixing (with independant selection for movie or music modes on both). i'm sure modern soundcards have the same capabilities (most likely proprietary formats) built in ( i wouldn't know, i use the optical out ->reciever ), so wouldn't they just be over complicating things for the average user?
ex. If you truelly care about surround sound, you get the AC3 source (w/ divx or on dvd in it's natural state) and you enjoy it because you know the difference....and if you just like "oooh it's surround sound", i bet you can't tell the different between pro logic II and DTS, and your only going to make things more complicated, and most likely apply multiple proccessings to the signal, and all your music is going to come out of the subwoofer alone, lol.
(sorry, the audiophile in me puked at the sight of "mp3 surround")
If I remember correctly, there's a project going on here at Purdue with deuterated acetone called "sonofusion" or something...why dont we just nickname that "coldfusion"?
*searches for a story about it on public server*
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever/2004/040302.T aleyarkhan.fusion.html
The following joke is circulating at the Cold Fusion
Institute:
Why do you never see neutrons, tritium, and heat all in the same experiment?
Nobody can make that many mistakes.
i spent around 3,000 for a 48" sony wega widescreen rear projection LCD. great brightness, clarity, no screen burn, and only like 14 inches deep. my comcast digital cable provides around 8 channels in HD. when they play HD content on them, it looks the same as my DVHS player. the thing i find lacking about digital cable is the "digital surround sound"...even when it's actually working, it's nowhere near watching the same movie in dolby or dts.
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Someone should put up some stats about the change in internet traffic due to these sites being down. I'm sure somebody is in charge of a university network or something?
If BT was accounting for 35% of traffic, what's it at now? Still declining?
2nd game ever to use the online functions?? sounds like the wasted technology of all those morons who played 2d sidescrollers on n64 i remember from middle school.
This was done at purdue this year, the BoilerBikes. Painted gold, signs that say "free to use, ride at your own risk" etc. And then a girl ran into a bus or something, and they got rid of all of them and gave her a full ride shcolarship to make up FOR HER STUPIDITY.
shit, /. didn't post this the first time, and i forgot br's the second time.
Jan 29th is my b-day, bytheway.
1) The current calander isn't that hard to use, every intro to a programming language I've taken has forced us to deal with leap year crap, etc. 2) We here in Indiana still dont have Daylight Savings Time. If we switch to 10 hours days, how are the cows going to know when to sleep? 3) My bithday occasionally falls on Superbowl Sunday, and would forever more be on a Sunday. Do you know how hard it is to have a birthday party on Superbowl Sunday?!?!?
How often does these tests fail? I'd sayit's not promising that we need near 101% reliability on these systems, and they just plain dont work. I think there are a few West Wing episodes that poke fun at our ability to shoot down our own missles.
with the right software on the PC, it can capture and output sound from the trasmitter. I believe matt is using somethign similar, but not as pretty.
Here at Purdue, I have seen the sonoluminescence lab, and although the "Mr. Fusion" part of it could be loosely deemed tabletop (no dining room table, but maybe a table in a lab), the rest of the equipment for calibration and whate have you bring this whole experiment to just that. An experiment. You're not getting as much energy out as you're putting in. In fact, how much energry can we actually capture with one of these things?
i'm sorry, i must not have meant toslink on my minidisc, i dont pretend to know everything about everything. my discman does have the combo. i guess toslink is the square one?
:)
no caps this time just for you
and you dont have to listen to an ipod exclusively while carying it around. i'm sorry you fell for that marketing trap.
my suitemate carries his ipod around, and doesnt' listen to it exclusively with headphones(SHOCK!!(like the capital letters?)). it's called a bluetooth adapter to another person's computer.
i'm sorry i think outside the box and dont share the same criterea that the average consumer does. please, rip me apart some more. i enjoy inflating your ego.
it still helps with 128kbps, because it eliminates line noise and the quality of the headphone amp circuit. the ipod already doesn't have the highest signal to noise ratio.
i have toslink optical in/out on my mobo, my minidisc has toslink input, my discman has toslink output, my 2 dvd players (one is a 5 disc changer) has toslink output, my surround sound reciever has 4 toslink inputs, and i have a USB toslink soundcard that came with my minidisc recorder that i can put on my laptop. they exist and are useful, and i didn't go out of my way to get any of these things. (the 5 disc dvd changer was $1 at a garage sale b/c the RCA output didn't work.)
if you put it in the dock, you then have to carry the dock around, or worse yet, move it every time you want to listen to it on your stereo or have it connected to your computer. i looked in my discman, the toslink connector isn't much bigger by any limiting means. power consumption difference is negligable, no amp circuit running.
the optical output was the one criteria i had for purchasing an mp3 player, but since VERY VERY few existed, and i didn't like them, i went with teh zen touch for it's battery life, and that i could get it for $200. i would have paid an extra $100 for an ipod or something else with a toslink, but *le sigh* it didnt' exists in a viable form. i'm a moron. mod me down.
i just ordered a zen touch 20gig for $175 (newegg owed me bigtime for screwing up a previous order), so we'll see how that compares.
main reason, battery life is about 2x as long, and it was under $200, which means i dont have to dip into my savings account. (poor college student)
80gb =22days is just plain ignorance
anyone who has 80gigs of music didn't buy it all on itunes, most likely, so no neat "128kbps" standard.
i have a 90 gig music collection, 18,969 files, average bitrate of 155kbps, and the total play time is 8 weeks, 1day, 5 hours, 3 minutes and 20.690 seconds.
8 weeks != 22 days
We have an english department here at Purdue? I thought I took Sleep108...i guess that explains why I always woke up with an essay to catch my drool.
is the space time abnormatily caused by a cat with a piece of buttered bread peskily tied to it's back?
Doesn't matter if they do Purdue's, I think we have the 11th worst library in the Big10. I already use Google for my papers, anyways.
i think what we've been missing is that it's not a full moon, so the planet will seem to randomly appear from BESIDE the visible part of the moon...right??
sounds like more crap we're giving ourselves about "fair use" and whatnot.
if you want to feel really cheated, there are MANY different examples of the japs have 3x better technology in the commonplace than us. i read something about a year ago about how almost all cellphones in japan are color screen and camera built in. at that time we had them as an option, but it was like 15% of our market, wheras b/c they are 95% over there, it's much cheaper for them. and oh yes, minidisc actually caught on over there...*knocks stack of MD's off desk*
oh this will be WONDERFUL to watch with the naked eye.
how about i stand on my head while watching this, stream it on the net, and....yeah, i've got nothing.
what's all the broohaha about?
yup.
my suitemate saw me using suprnova.org, and promply went to his room, and signed up for suprnova.com.
if only he had asked me what i was doing...but i got a good laugh out of it.
i own the bigger, better speakers (5.1 channel kenwood with polk audio voice matched speakers) AND a $200 pair of sennheiser headphones. a normal CD doesn't sound "great" to me anymore. :( :( damn the sacd's and dvd-a's
i spent a ton of money ($2300) on a nice kenwood reciever, and 5.1 channel polk audio speakers, for good quality music and movies. Why on earth would i want to degrade my sound quality????
in my opinion, the surround sound modes of modern recievers (pro logic II and CircleSurroundII) already does great implementation of stereo->surround upmixing (with independant selection for movie or music modes on both). i'm sure modern soundcards have the same capabilities (most likely proprietary formats) built in ( i wouldn't know, i use the optical out ->reciever ), so wouldn't they just be over complicating things for the average user?
ex. If you truelly care about surround sound, you get the AC3 source (w/ divx or on dvd in it's natural state) and you enjoy it because you know the difference....and if you just like "oooh it's surround sound", i bet you can't tell the different between pro logic II and DTS, and your only going to make things more complicated, and most likely apply multiple proccessings to the signal, and all your music is going to come out of the subwoofer alone, lol. (sorry, the audiophile in me puked at the sight of "mp3 surround")
d-d fusion exists (cold fusion)...but they're saying it has sing 1989 and still isn't a viable energy source? i'm confused.
If I remember correctly, there's a project going on here at Purdue with deuterated acetone called "sonofusion" or something...why dont we just nickname that "coldfusion"? *searches for a story about it on public server* http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever/2004/040302.T aleyarkhan.fusion.html
The following joke is circulating at the Cold Fusion
Institute:
Why do you never see neutrons, tritium, and heat all in the same experiment?
Nobody can make that many mistakes.
i spent around 3,000 for a 48" sony wega widescreen rear projection LCD. great brightness, clarity, no screen burn, and only like 14 inches deep. my comcast digital cable provides around 8 channels in HD. when they play HD content on them, it looks the same as my DVHS player. the thing i find lacking about digital cable is the "digital surround sound"...even when it's actually working, it's nowhere near watching the same movie in dolby or dts.