Yeah, I know. Much better to just pump coal into the atmosphere, considering Australia gets 86% of its power from coal, and is the worlds largest exporter of coal.
Yep, China buys coal from us and America buys Uranium from us. I object to both, but the big economies want it from us and no matter how hard we have tried to shut those mines down, you just won't turn off your computer will you.
Nuclear is one of the safest
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Acid leech, in situ uranium mining over the water table of the dryest continent on earth. and that's just to begin. You are clueless.
Or keep doing what you are doing, talk shit, and ignore the problems we have today.
Well Australia could stop All coal exports and China would be forced to use brown coal which is more CO2 intense. We could also shut down all uranium mining and end all commercial nuclear power operations around the world because you can't get enough fuel for your reactors. It wouldn't stop the US from their coal because you are your own domestic supplier. Australia could use it's massive resources of wind, geothermal and huge Solar reserves OR the Trillion barrels of coal seam gas in NSW alone and be *completely* energy self sufficient AND still have enough reserves to export pre-processed smelted steel. but the fact is our population isn't large enough to stop the interference of the rest of the world. So with all due respect, fuck off.
it looks like you have a chip on your shoulder. I will respond to a number of your points that stood out.
No, I just think it's disingenuous to compare scientology with Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Hindu's. What I forgot to mention, because I was so flummoxed by the stupidity of the comparison, was you don't have to *pay* to be a member of those established faiths.
Is google.com really so hard to find? Here, just took 10 seconds:
So what? did you spend any time trying to evaluate just the scope of charity work the Christian churches alone do? Please come back with a realistic comparison.
Rather, it is a human value that is most definitely not unique to religions. Religions just try to gobble up universal human values and pass them off as their own.
I have no doubt that, unbeknown to you, you maintain values that came from Christian belief system. So how does Monogamy and Polygamy fit into your 'universal human values' theory?
The "apathetic atheist" has confronted all religious beliefs.
Nice twisting of my actual question into a straw man. I notice that not one response addresses the issues of defending Human Right which I maintain an ongoing effort to do. I just happen to have the Balls to be upfront with my beliefs on slashdot AND defend Human Rights. So I ask again "What the fuck have you done to stand up for my human rights?"
Religion is one of the oldest evils there is and it needs to be confronted.
Evil is one of the oldest Religions there is and it needs to be confronted. Scientology is a manifestation of evil and you have already been deceived into defending it. Way to go, you feel enlightened but in reality you are just naive. It's ok, you're behaving just as the bible said you would. I guess they had your number 2000 years ago, how does it feel to be a sterotype?
but what you consider as your religion has very little to do with the bible.
What do you know about what I believe? This has more to do with what *you* believe.
Human rights, particularly freedom of religion, directly conflicts with what religions want (e.g. see Ten Commandments).
Frankly this statement is ridiculous. What's wrong with "Honor your father and mother", or Thou shall not Murder, steal or commit Adultery. When did they become human rights. In reality your issue is with your understanding of the Christian belief system. One God meant also One Law which brought cohesion to society when there was none. You have freedom of religion now as a result of that work, but remain thankless and refuse to acknowledge that that is the basis of our societies legal system today.
You can't read a bible and take anything literally, no, you have to use interpretations, symbolism and context. It rests entirely on your own interpretation, where anything you can think of is The Truth.
So you want to lecture me about reading the Bible and 'The Truth'? The truth atheism is a belief system and a religion based in doubt as opposed to faith. You cannot make any claims to 'certainty' because you and I both are not privy to 'The Truth' and it's arrogant for you to somehow allude that you are any closer to it than I am. Scientology is a Ponzi scheme which is undermining the rights of citizens around the world for their own ends.
I do believe the term "atheist" is a misnomer, however... Anything that's nonsense and cannot be verified, basically.
So, where is your proof that God doesn't exist? Personally I don't care what you believe, I don't judge you. I only want to know "What the fuck have you done to stand up for my human rights". Not a hard question, and for all your pontification none of the responses I've re
Smells like bullshit, no its just AnalPerfume, and your having a go at my pseudonym? So SmellOfAssWipe "What the fuck have you done to stand up for my human rights?"
I dare to lump all the major religions in with scientology.
Then you are a fool.
Christianity beat Scientology any day if you look at it historically. A more brutal conversion than the one from hedonism to christianity is hard to find.
Without a doubt, but things weren't fluffy clouds and little white rabbits back then. Back then there was no such thing as police and there were barely courts or laws. The Church *was* the law and since there was no police force brutality was the tool used to instill fear into people so they would not do wrong. I'm not saying it's right - just how it was.
You carry on closing your eyes and dont whatever you do read any history.
And if you do read it don't under any circumstances try to understand it, just twist it so that you can manipulate people.
Your narrow-minded comments marginalise the charity work that many Churches do tirelessly *today* picking up drunk, sick, vomiting, depressed, suicidal, drug addicted or other people off the street. Then without judgement give them a meal and put a roof over their head. When I see the Scientologists doing this *then* they can call themselves a religion, until the they remain a cult that is deceptive and evil.
I personally have given up my time to attend forums for the very Human Rights Commission that the scientologists are trying to manipulate and frankly find this to be a twisting of the Human rights charter that many Australians are dedicated to setting up - whatever they believe. This action by scientologists is going to cost me personally in time and method to conceal myself from their deceit and character attacks whilst defending principles of the fledgling Human rights charter Australia is attempting to construct. Something like this has the potential to discredit it and undermine *every* Australians access to a Human Right Charter in Australia. Something I have, for many years, lobbied for.
So, my dear apathetic atheist, what have you done to confront systemic evil?
What the fuck have you done to stand up for my human rights when I personally, as a matter of faith, consider it my duty as a human being to stand up for human rights. Are you going to have the balls to stand in the line of fire from these crackpot lunatics as they attack one of the few freedoms Australians have. Have you even been to a Human Rights Charter forum, lobbied government on legislation? Because if you haven't I'd suggest you keep your mean spirited ignorance to yourself.
So do you support collective bargaining or not? If not, why? Your own principles dictate that you should: unions are a natural consequence of the freedom to assemble and the freedom to contract.
Unless they think they are part of the privileged few who have the birthright to suppress all for their needs and wants. But those people who undermine freedom for the masses are the 'Useful Idiots' to the elite who are actually in that position of wealth and power.
Whether it should or not, it looks like we're definitely on track to make sure we never get into space on our own again.
Agree. Clearly it looks like a case of picking a platform, despite it's warts, and committing to ongoing development of that platform. Had this occurred with the original Saturn V launchers there would have been a process of continued development that would mirror the reliability of the Soyuz launchers for less ongoing investment. What's the point of paying infrastructure cost 3, 4 times over when maintenance is more cost effective.
Starting from scratch is *always* going to incur the up-front development costs. Ares or Direct, who gives a shit, does it work, can the problems be solved now lets get on with it. Unfortunately the vested interests appear to be impeding every aspect of human progress.
Also, I object to the apostrophe being misused. It is used to refer to omission or possession.
Thanks' for letting me know.
I object to "fanboi" being used to refer to obsessed trolls. There's nothing wrong with being a fan of something, or indeed a "boi". For people who are obsessed over something - e.g, those who love to use childish terms like "M$", and put it bold just to make the point, and repeatedly use phrases like "get over it" (one might as well say you should "get over it" for people using "MS") - please use another term.
What would you suggest that fits in two letters that is not already being used? M$ has been the standard way to refer to Micro$oft for almost 2 decades. When I type M$ it creates a certain reaction, it is totally appropriate to use it to refer to Microsoft.
Even if what you said is correct, if MS are being a bunch of underhanded arseholes
I object to MS being used to refer to MicroSoft, it is used to refer to Multiple sclerosis. It's bad enough for people to have MS than to have Microsoft fanboi's usurp the acronym because they dislike the standard acronym for that has been used for years to describe Microsoft and that is M$. so ahem:
Even if what you said is correct, if M$ are being a bunch of underhanded arseholes
Fixed that for ya! and of course the obligatory "I'll propably get modded as a troll for this but IT"S F%^#*NG TRUE"
I'd suggest to all the little M$ fanbois who seeth with whatever emotion that grips them when confronted with the acronym M$ - Get over it, because M$ describes Micro$oft perfectly.
M$M$M$M$M$
The only other way I would spell M$ is with using unicode to replace every letter in the brand with currency symbols from around the world to empha$ize the dollar aspect as it is not empha$ized enough.
What I mean is the geneal public still don't use M$ to refer to M$ and I don't think the message would be lost on them, M$ actually conveys it quite accurately.
Wow, we keep moving forward with Linux. What did Ghandi say "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." Linux must be really starting to scare them, where are we now in this saying.
I find these tests of memory not problem solving ability - I find they annoy me for that reason. I don't need/want to remember the syntax for everything off the top of my head, thats what books and manuals are for. Even when I'm on a project I commit less and less to memory and as much as I can to UML and ER diagram's so I don't go insane taking work home in my head. I code in at least 5 languages and I just remember what I want to do. Personally I find remembering the minutia of every little thing useless until I have to start using it, the cogs grind in my head for a day or so while I clear my memory - then I get to work.
In any case it takes much longer to know the ins and outs of a codebase than it does to remember how to code in a specific language. Companies who ask you to take these tests probably aren't going to be able to supply you with the best resources to do a job anyway. I tried it once and found I was constantly limited to *their* understanding of how the work should be done and my performance was hamstrung by those limitations. I told them that, took my money, left some recommendations and got the hell out of there after a week. Was in a new role less than a week later coding the same language with all the resources I needed to make them and me happy with the results.
>I work really hard with the bands I produce (I produce music) to create *exactly* the sound intended
It must be really depressing then to have the CD mastering wreck all that with over compression.
my transient control is so practised that a mastering engineer would have to try real hard to fuck up my mixes. Even so, why take a chance, so I actually do the mastering to disc.
H'mm, while I agree with the sentiment, I wonder about the reasoning. For instance, some of the most linear power amplifiers I have ever seen used vacuum tubes. Vacuum tubes are inherently more linear than solid state devices. Granted, these amplifiers were 200 watts to 100 kW and were RF amplifiers, but that makes no real difference.
From my understanding this is a factor because audio power amplifiers (domestic and musical) introduce the third harmonic distortion as the tubes are being physically vibrated by the speakers that they are driving.
Secondly, it has been shown via double blind testing that virtually no one can hear distortion if it is below about 1.5%.
Agree.
Curiously, a measurably low distortion on an audio amplifier doesn't necessarily mean the Amp "sounds" good.
While I was at technical school doing electronics my teacher referred to analogue electronics as the artful form of electronics so you will find that there are many ways to screw up an amplifier in the design process, let alone having components that fall into a range of values instead of being a specific value, i.e resistors can have 10% or less tolerance, crappy capacitors, inductors, power supply issues the list goes on. Some people blueprint their amplifiers with closer tolerance components (like 1% or less tolerance resistors).
What I'm saying here is that I'd expect you may even hear differences in 4 different amplifiers of the same brand and model (ok maybe not the same batch) especially if you consider that these amplifiers are going to have different characteristics in different frequency ranges. You may have had amplifiers where one had enough amplification in a certain frequency range that was just right to set up the standing waves for *your* room.
My monitors have roll-off compensation for how far away they are from the wall, a corner and high and low frequency adjustment to match room characteristics. There is a phase adjustment between the sub woofer and the stereo monitors that is based on distance. All this has to be set-up *before* I crack open the measure microphone and start pumping out pink noise that is frequency adjusted for different ranges and that has to be set-up *before* I get to doing sound inversion tests to balance the computer pre-amps dac's, adc's. And I haven't even mentioned what I have to do to set the room up.
Sure you are not going to go to that effort for a domestic system but the room and the amplifier both have there own characteristics.
Your ears are probably better than you think they are. As long as they are fresh and rested I see no reason why with a little ingenuity, pink noise and some time you can't set-up you domestic system's equalisation settings to produce a quality listening environment. Setting them up first will do much more to improving the listening quality *before* the introduction of a third harmonic distortion that many audiophiles get a boner for.
.. We need open source software so that the voting process is transparent. I'll stick to any location I can find that still uses paper ballots otherwise. I also seem to remember these machines being trivially easy to tinker with.
>Sure, once the tubes are at operating temperature...
The joke didn't need explaining. Trust me.
I actually thought value_added was having a crack at the audiophiles that describe sound produced through valve amplifiers as 'warm' as opposed to semiconductor amplifiers. I can understand the use of Valve amps in musical instruments because they are seeking the third harmonic distortion of the waveform produced by the musical instrument. In actuality the amplifier *is* part of the instrument.
I work really hard with the bands I produce (I produce music) to create *exactly* the sound intended which is why I really appreciated value_added's comment. I find it tiresome when audiophiles use a valve amplifier in a domestic environment to produce a warmer sound, because they are introducing a third harmonic distortion that was not intended to be there when the album was recorded and produced.
Sure audiophiles may argue that they can hear the 0.001% THD of a modern semiconductor amplifier but I've trained my ears *really* well and I've never heard it. Sure there maybe some argument for the temporal distortions that a semiconductor causes to the waveform but I've never had an audiophile even able to name that as the consequence of the transistors switching. I'm glad they love music but I often muse to myself if they were that committed to sound quality they would purchase a Class A *power* amplifier which would introduce no distortion at all.
Ok, sorry that that was all very off topic but I thought it was the appropriate time to vent my spleen and share my bemusement.
Imagine a beowulf custer, it's easy if you try
Idle time available, while calculating pi
Imagine all the systems, we'd cluster today
Imagine there's no OS wars, It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or ps for, And no zealotry too
Imagine all the systems,computing their piece
Whooo Hooo
You may say that I'm a schema, But I'm a zero and a one
I hope someday you'll join us, And the cluster will be as one
Imagine divide by zero, I wonder if you can
No need for greedy matching, A motherboard that can
Imagine all the processes, Sharing memory
You may say that I'm a schema, But I'm a zero and a one
I hope someday you'll join us, And the cluster will be as one
Don't forget the Dropbears. One of those buggers nearly took my head off last ANZAC Day while I was driving my ute down to pick up some prawns for the barbie.
One nearly took a roo steak I had on the barbie right off the barbie, the cheek of the thing. Fortunately I was on the last swig of me pale so I threw the bottle at the friggin thing. I dunno what it's like around your way but the drop bears here have been gettin *real* aggressive.
That's right. And don't forget the drop-bears that hang from lamp-posts at night and drop on you if you haven't taken the precaution of rubbing Vegemite behind your ears.
That's just cruel. Locals know that dropbears *love* vegemite as much as the ears that it is smeared on. YOU shouldn't be telling people such fabrications or else tourists might get hurt trying to stop them. A bit of responsibility, please.
Where are they going to get vaccum tubes or other antiquated apparatuses from? How much will they cost?
I think many vacuum tubes are being manufactured in Russia right now, I know this from buying guitar amplifier tubes so I suspect that is where they will be sourced.
the abrupt metallic-sounding whistle that it makes on takeoff...
That scares the absolute crap out of you if you haven't noticed them while you are going out to hang the washing on the line. Just another one of the craaazzzyy animals that occupy my back yard.
Possums that fall out of trees when *you're* drunk, and then look all embarrassed about it - waaay too funny - I mean they live in trees.
Myopic Kookaburras that *miss the ground* when hunting for food and slide along in a cloud of dust and feathers, get up and look at you like 'oh it's just a human'.
The obstreperous lorikeets that race each other (they get to about 60kph) and decide both sides of your head is part of the obstacle course they are flying, squawking loudly as they pass by, also scaring the crap out of you.
Or the owls that sit on the washing line at night and wait until you are about a foot away from them before they fly off and *also* scare the crap out of you.
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Yep, China buys coal from us and America buys Uranium from us. I object to both, but the big economies want it from us and no matter how hard we have tried to shut those mines down, you just won't turn off your computer will you.
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Acid leech, in situ uranium mining over the water table of the dryest continent on earth. and that's just to begin. You are clueless.
Well Australia could stop All coal exports and China would be forced to use brown coal which is more CO2 intense. We could also shut down all uranium mining and end all commercial nuclear power operations around the world because you can't get enough fuel for your reactors. It wouldn't stop the US from their coal because you are your own domestic supplier. Australia could use it's massive resources of wind, geothermal and huge Solar reserves OR the Trillion barrels of coal seam gas in NSW alone and be *completely* energy self sufficient AND still have enough reserves to export pre-processed smelted steel. but the fact is our population isn't large enough to stop the interference of the rest of the world. So with all due respect, fuck off.
No, I just think it's disingenuous to compare scientology with Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Hindu's. What I forgot to mention, because I was so flummoxed by the stupidity of the comparison, was you don't have to *pay* to be a member of those established faiths.
So what? did you spend any time trying to evaluate just the scope of charity work the Christian churches alone do? Please come back with a realistic comparison.
I have no doubt that, unbeknown to you, you maintain values that came from Christian belief system. So how does Monogamy and Polygamy fit into your 'universal human values' theory?
Nice twisting of my actual question into a straw man. I notice that not one response addresses the issues of defending Human Right which I maintain an ongoing effort to do. I just happen to have the Balls to be upfront with my beliefs on slashdot AND defend Human Rights. So I ask again "What the fuck have you done to stand up for my human rights?"
Evil is one of the oldest Religions there is and it needs to be confronted. Scientology is a manifestation of evil and you have already been deceived into defending it. Way to go, you feel enlightened but in reality you are just naive. It's ok, you're behaving just as the bible said you would. I guess they had your number 2000 years ago, how does it feel to be a sterotype?
What do you know about what I believe? This has more to do with what *you* believe.
Frankly this statement is ridiculous. What's wrong with "Honor your father and mother", or Thou shall not Murder, steal or commit Adultery. When did they become human rights. In reality your issue is with your understanding of the Christian belief system. One God meant also One Law which brought cohesion to society when there was none. You have freedom of religion now as a result of that work, but remain thankless and refuse to acknowledge that that is the basis of our societies legal system today.
So you want to lecture me about reading the Bible and 'The Truth'? The truth atheism is a belief system and a religion based in doubt as opposed to faith. You cannot make any claims to 'certainty' because you and I both are not privy to 'The Truth' and it's arrogant for you to somehow allude that you are any closer to it than I am. Scientology is a Ponzi scheme which is undermining the rights of citizens around the world for their own ends.
So, where is your proof that God doesn't exist? Personally I don't care what you believe, I don't judge you. I only want to know "What the fuck have you done to stand up for my human rights". Not a hard question, and for all your pontification none of the responses I've re
Smells like bullshit, no its just AnalPerfume, and your having a go at my pseudonym? So SmellOfAssWipe "What the fuck have you done to stand up for my human rights?"
Then you are a fool.
Without a doubt, but things weren't fluffy clouds and little white rabbits back then. Back then there was no such thing as police and there were barely courts or laws. The Church *was* the law and since there was no police force brutality was the tool used to instill fear into people so they would not do wrong. I'm not saying it's right - just how it was.
And if you do read it don't under any circumstances try to understand it, just twist it so that you can manipulate people.
Your narrow-minded comments marginalise the charity work that many Churches do tirelessly *today* picking up drunk, sick, vomiting, depressed, suicidal, drug addicted or other people off the street. Then without judgement give them a meal and put a roof over their head. When I see the Scientologists doing this *then* they can call themselves a religion, until the they remain a cult that is deceptive and evil.
I personally have given up my time to attend forums for the very Human Rights Commission that the scientologists are trying to manipulate and frankly find this to be a twisting of the Human rights charter that many Australians are dedicated to setting up - whatever they believe. This action by scientologists is going to cost me personally in time and method to conceal myself from their deceit and character attacks whilst defending principles of the fledgling Human rights charter Australia is attempting to construct. Something like this has the potential to discredit it and undermine *every* Australians access to a Human Right Charter in Australia. Something I have, for many years, lobbied for.
So, my dear apathetic atheist, what have you done to confront systemic evil?
What the fuck have you done to stand up for my human rights when I personally, as a matter of faith, consider it my duty as a human being to stand up for human rights. Are you going to have the balls to stand in the line of fire from these crackpot lunatics as they attack one of the few freedoms Australians have. Have you even been to a Human Rights Charter forum, lobbied government on legislation? Because if you haven't I'd suggest you keep your mean spirited ignorance to yourself.
A form of uranium mining that is illegal in the US and Russia. After everything he said - Unbe-fucking-leivable
Unless they think they are part of the privileged few who have the birthright to suppress all for their needs and wants. But those people who undermine freedom for the masses are the 'Useful Idiots' to the elite who are actually in that position of wealth and power.
Agree. Clearly it looks like a case of picking a platform, despite it's warts, and committing to ongoing development of that platform. Had this occurred with the original Saturn V launchers there would have been a process of continued development that would mirror the reliability of the Soyuz launchers for less ongoing investment. What's the point of paying infrastructure cost 3, 4 times over when maintenance is more cost effective.
Starting from scratch is *always* going to incur the up-front development costs. Ares or Direct, who gives a shit, does it work, can the problems be solved now lets get on with it. Unfortunately the vested interests appear to be impeding every aspect of human progress.
I really wanted to read your comment but please, some whitespace.
Thanks' for letting me know.
What would you suggest that fits in two letters that is not already being used? M$ has been the standard way to refer to Micro$oft for almost 2 decades. When I type M$ it creates a certain reaction, it is totally appropriate to use it to refer to Microsoft.
I object to MS being used to refer to MicroSoft, it is used to refer to Multiple sclerosis. It's bad enough for people to have MS than to have Microsoft fanboi's usurp the acronym because they dislike the standard acronym for that has been used for years to describe Microsoft and that is M$. so ahem:
Fixed that for ya! and of course the obligatory "I'll propably get modded as a troll for this but IT"S F%^#*NG TRUE"
I'd suggest to all the little M$ fanbois who seeth with whatever emotion that grips them when confronted with the acronym M$ - Get over it, because M$ describes Micro$oft perfectly.
M$ M$ M$ M$ M$ The only other way I would spell M$ is with using unicode to replace every letter in the brand with currency symbols from around the world to empha$ize the dollar aspect as it is not empha$ized enough.
What I mean is the geneal public still don't use M$ to refer to M$ and I don't think the message would be lost on them, M$ actually conveys it quite accurately.
So get over it M$ fanboi's.
Thanks - all pictures here.
Wow, we keep moving forward with Linux. What did Ghandi say "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." Linux must be really starting to scare them, where are we now in this saying.
Pity the bandwidth of the site was exceeded - could not see the piccys.
I find these tests of memory not problem solving ability - I find they annoy me for that reason. I don't need/want to remember the syntax for everything off the top of my head, thats what books and manuals are for. Even when I'm on a project I commit less and less to memory and as much as I can to UML and ER diagram's so I don't go insane taking work home in my head. I code in at least 5 languages and I just remember what I want to do. Personally I find remembering the minutia of every little thing useless until I have to start using it, the cogs grind in my head for a day or so while I clear my memory - then I get to work.
In any case it takes much longer to know the ins and outs of a codebase than it does to remember how to code in a specific language. Companies who ask you to take these tests probably aren't going to be able to supply you with the best resources to do a job anyway. I tried it once and found I was constantly limited to *their* understanding of how the work should be done and my performance was hamstrung by those limitations. I told them that, took my money, left some recommendations and got the hell out of there after a week. Was in a new role less than a week later coding the same language with all the resources I needed to make them and me happy with the results.
my transient control is so practised that a mastering engineer would have to try real hard to fuck up my mixes. Even so, why take a chance, so I actually do the mastering to disc.
From my understanding this is a factor because audio power amplifiers (domestic and musical) introduce the third harmonic distortion as the tubes are being physically vibrated by the speakers that they are driving.
Agree.
While I was at technical school doing electronics my teacher referred to analogue electronics as the artful form of electronics so you will find that there are many ways to screw up an amplifier in the design process, let alone having components that fall into a range of values instead of being a specific value, i.e resistors can have 10% or less tolerance, crappy capacitors, inductors, power supply issues the list goes on. Some people blueprint their amplifiers with closer tolerance components (like 1% or less tolerance resistors).
What I'm saying here is that I'd expect you may even hear differences in 4 different amplifiers of the same brand and model (ok maybe not the same batch) especially if you consider that these amplifiers are going to have different characteristics in different frequency ranges. You may have had amplifiers where one had enough amplification in a certain frequency range that was just right to set up the standing waves for *your* room.
My monitors have roll-off compensation for how far away they are from the wall, a corner and high and low frequency adjustment to match room characteristics. There is a phase adjustment between the sub woofer and the stereo monitors that is based on distance. All this has to be set-up *before* I crack open the measure microphone and start pumping out pink noise that is frequency adjusted for different ranges and that has to be set-up *before* I get to doing sound inversion tests to balance the computer pre-amps dac's, adc's. And I haven't even mentioned what I have to do to set the room up.
Sure you are not going to go to that effort for a domestic system but the room and the amplifier both have there own characteristics. Your ears are probably better than you think they are. As long as they are fresh and rested I see no reason why with a little ingenuity, pink noise and some time you can't set-up you domestic system's equalisation settings to produce a quality listening environment. Setting them up first will do much more to improving the listening quality *before* the introduction of a third harmonic distortion that many audiophiles get a boner for.
I wanted to mod you insightful but I thought it may be better to let you know that an open source voting system already exists. A security analysis (pdf warning) has been performed and the ACT Electoral Commission has full details of the the behaviour of the code you can download.
You should also check out Open Voting Consortium because we are all friends so lets help each other be free.
I actually thought value_added was having a crack at the audiophiles that describe sound produced through valve amplifiers as 'warm' as opposed to semiconductor amplifiers. I can understand the use of Valve amps in musical instruments because they are seeking the third harmonic distortion of the waveform produced by the musical instrument. In actuality the amplifier *is* part of the instrument.
I work really hard with the bands I produce (I produce music) to create *exactly* the sound intended which is why I really appreciated value_added's comment. I find it tiresome when audiophiles use a valve amplifier in a domestic environment to produce a warmer sound, because they are introducing a third harmonic distortion that was not intended to be there when the album was recorded and produced.
Sure audiophiles may argue that they can hear the 0.001% THD of a modern semiconductor amplifier but I've trained my ears *really* well and I've never heard it. Sure there maybe some argument for the temporal distortions that a semiconductor causes to the waveform but I've never had an audiophile even able to name that as the consequence of the transistors switching. I'm glad they love music but I often muse to myself if they were that committed to sound quality they would purchase a Class A *power* amplifier which would introduce no distortion at all.
Ok, sorry that that was all very off topic but I thought it was the appropriate time to vent my spleen and share my bemusement.
With apologies to john Lennon
Sure, once the tubes are at operating temperature...
One nearly took a roo steak I had on the barbie right off the barbie, the cheek of the thing. Fortunately I was on the last swig of me pale so I threw the bottle at the friggin thing. I dunno what it's like around your way but the drop bears here have been gettin *real* aggressive.
They can hurt ya, but maybe you can eat them?
That's just cruel. Locals know that dropbears *love* vegemite as much as the ears that it is smeared on. YOU shouldn't be telling people such fabrications or else tourists might get hurt trying to stop them. A bit of responsibility, please.
I think many vacuum tubes are being manufactured in Russia right now, I know this from buying guitar amplifier tubes so I suspect that is where they will be sourced.
Beowulf.
In the meantime is called 'not-realistic' to fix the economic system that put us in this mess in the first place.
That scares the absolute crap out of you if you haven't noticed them while you are going out to hang the washing on the line. Just another one of the craaazzzyy animals that occupy my back yard.
Possums that fall out of trees when *you're* drunk, and then look all embarrassed about it - waaay too funny - I mean they live in trees.
Myopic Kookaburras that *miss the ground* when hunting for food and slide along in a cloud of dust and feathers, get up and look at you like 'oh it's just a human'.
The obstreperous lorikeets that race each other (they get to about 60kph) and decide both sides of your head is part of the obstacle course they are flying, squawking loudly as they pass by, also scaring the crap out of you.
Or the owls that sit on the washing line at night and wait until you are about a foot away from them before they fly off and *also* scare the crap out of you.
Oh yeah, Australian animals are all mental.