I use IJKL for character movement along with Ctrl IJKL for screen movement which means I can't use Tab and Shift-Tab for insert a literal TAB (say for Makefile) and/or indent / unindent . The work-around is to use the slightly awkward Shift to indent/indent and and Ctrl-Q Tab to insert a literal tab respectively.
I see. I don't mind the arrow keys, however I use pg up/dwn, home/end in combination with Ctrl. Ctrl+left/right yields a word progression as opposed to character progression. So I press Ctrl for large movements and arrows for character movements. I think there are a few more I use unconsciously as well that don't come to mind immediately.
I'm very fussy about keyboard customization and optimization of minimal keystrokes
I very with you on this. I think it's important because it is the limiter on the throughput you have to your machine, fatigue and injury using a computer, in my experiences.
I don't remember when it happened, however the left or right click terminology for mousing stuck when users were trying to understand how to use a computer en masse, however it doesn't translate to the left side of the body. For context, consider using a right handed mouse. The right hand index finger is on the left button called 'select' and right button is called 'context' or 'menu'. The middle button is called 'middle' and introduced paste, then later scroll wheel and left/right. Now consider the same thing with a left handed mouse, left and right click no longer makes any sense.
I realised this when I first helped left handed users get set up ergonomically. Later injury forced me from being a right hander to left for some time and I got to experience their frustrations. I ended up ambidextrous (and a pretty good drummer), so I use two mouses to satisfy the ergonomics I have requirements to avoid re-injury.
I don't know if that is formally defined somewhere or I've unconsciously picked it up along the way, however to communicate it specifically during training sessions, I started referring to them as 'select' as index finger click, middle as middle finger click and 'context' as outside finger click, so that it makes sense to left handers as well.
The reason I told you all that is..
This works but I find it clunky.
If I may offer a suggestion, you may find some favourable vim functionality by using it with cygwin/X term, it's (DEC VT100) vs (ansi) terminal type. So when manipulating text an index click positions the cursor, a double index selects a word or a begins a drag to select, and a triple click selects a line (as normal). However you add the middle click and that becomes your first paste buffer, which is also a visible buffer.
Find the right terminal type (like xterm under linux) and vim will support the scroll wheel to page text, the mouse to position the cursor which *might* help the issue you are facing .
-- which is the main reason I love Vim's modal style.
When you add text in the edit mode of vim then select an add or insert at a certain position you can continue to select and paste text into the edit point by only using index and middle clicks. It is a simple, but powerful facility that I use in combination with command mode. For example apply the same regular expression over a range on some things over a number of files by middle click and y/n,:'a,'b g/expression/ s/find/replaced/gc:wn
I _would_ use Ctrl-# for bookmarks, and Buffer Management, along with other macros I use daily.
Interesting. I tried Ctrl-#, but I'm not sure how it should work? Would you mind sharing what I am missing?
I don't know your preferred hotkeys and shortcuts so I can't say. Probably not.
I use bookmarks, however I think I might be using vim differently. First I use "m" (for mark) and then a upper
Class A uses the most power (~20% efficient), Class AB about 60% and D comes in a little under 100% (~90%) or so because the semiconductors are acting as switches dissipating very little heat. The downside is that the high frequency switching can induce all manner of interference which will cause havoc if not properly dealt with.
You are right. I was confusing a class D amp construction with an amplifier type that has only a single power amp transistor on the output phase - thanks for pointing that out.
Actually that's not true, just ask a guitarist (and IAAG - I Am A Guitarist!)
Vacuum tubes create a noisy signal, but in a weird coincidence, they do it in a way that is pleasing to the ear. The clipping and distortion sounds "warm," and there's an added depth in the sound (harmonics) that you don't get via transistors....So, sir, you might argue that you dislike what a noisy tube does to your signal, but you can't say some people won't perceive it as improved, as it's about personal taste.
IAAP and Vacuum amps add a 'third harmonic distortion' to an input signal. Whilst this is desirable for a guitarist, for home listening it introduces distortion that I did not intend to be there when I produced your excellent performance. All that time I spent adjusting the attack and release on the compression to capture those really cool movements of your fingers on the strings are lost because a 'audiophile' decided that they knew better that the people who produced the music in the first place.
Transistor based amplifiers also introduce distortion. Referred to as THD (Total Harmonic Distortion) I like to think of it as 'temporal' distortion. It occurrs when the push and pull sets of the amp cross the waveform (sine) over 0v. It takes about.6v to activaste the transistor and this translates to a 'jag' at 0v of the waveform. It is unlikely that you are ever going to hear it - however that is what semi-conductors are all about, getting more accurate. I think the new class D amps eliminate even this issue, however they use more electricity.
You're right - to some extent it is a matter of personal preference. However home stereo valve amps reduces the "accuracy" of what was intended to be presented to you, the listener and to some extent being an audioophile is an oxymoron. If you like the 3rd harmonic distortion then that is ok, however many audiophiles like to claim this is an 'accurate' representation of a playback, when in fact it is distortion.
Now pick a valve amp for an instrument, then that is different because the valves and electronics are being vibrated by the amplification of yor playing - it sounds cool. You don't get that same effect from a semiconductor guitar amp. My friend and I like to mess around with these amps and do things like changing the transformers to give the amp a more 'ballsy' sound. We took a Musicman 130W valve amp and used Australian sourced transformers as the iron used in them is denser (I'm told) which seems to make the sound more meaty - so it is not just about the valves in the amp.
For my next trick a valve amped Theramin - at least for the pre-amp stage:)
We are not taken seriously for what we do because we don't have organizations acting on our behalf to look after our interests at a political level.
If we had that then when representations were needed on important decisions like infrastructure, education, employment conditions, research and development - a relevant organization would be there to respond. It's our failure to recognise that as individuals, we don't look after each other as a group. The consequence of that our common interests are treated like those of a group of individuals instead of an individual group.
Technologists already know certain infrastructure decisions are important if innovation is to occurr. As economies around the world are finding out, the only way to sustain growth in an economy is innovation. If you stifle the ideas by undermining the lives of the people who are suposed to create that future, how can you move forward?
The world is again changing, this time from the impact of the net. Government and business are still absorbing the fact that they have to adapt and, that to adapt, they have to relinquish enough control so that people have the freedom to innovate. Police states don't innovate. That is their dilema.
I suspect it will take a few more years for the realizations to finally sink into governments about how important these things are as we move from the industrial to the knowledge age. Prosperity is tied to the freedom to innovate. Governments that stifle that freedom, stifle that prosperity.
Can we stop with this "deep learning" bullshit now? It is just algorithms. Every moron has to interject "AI" or "deep learning" or "neural nets" into their program description.
The entire business model converts disk space into repeated bandwidth usage. The whole reason we have these discussions is because media companies haven't figured out a way to stop people stealing the stuff they stole from other people.
We were made to eat meat, that is the bottom line.
Considering that the primate whose digestive system closest to ours is Orangutan, we were made to eat fruit and scavenging the odd bit of fat or an insect when we can. Additional information about what we were meant to eat can also be gleaned from examining the diets of tribal and aboriginal humans.
Weston A Price did this work decades ago and also found that Orangutan who ate scavenged human fast food would get the same diseases modern humans get.
The bottom line? Don't eat processed foods, they mess around with the way the body figures out what nutrients it needs.
such huge structures falling uncontrollably would cause amazing amounts of damage
Back in the 90s I was obsessed with WTC as a place I wanted to visit and possibly work at. For some time there were design documents of WTC was available online and to my fascination and horror, they collapsed *precisely* how the engineering and fire documents said the building would. IIRC one floor was engineered to take the weight of 1-2 of the floors above before it would pancake. It was also designed to take the impact of a fully fuelled 707, so I don't know how that compares to a 767.
The only thing I didn't see in those specs was that one building would fall because another tower did, that does not make a lot of sense. Perhaps a forensic investigation would have had a civil engineer available to answer those questions for us.
Those buildings did NOT fall naturally.
If you mean, the structures were interfered with, then knowing that is the justice that all American and, indeed all people of the world, have been denied.
Getting rid of the analog port obsoletes all analog headphones released, ever. Drag.
You also have to keep in mind that you want to be able to have a private wired connection to the phone. That is not just useful, but essential to the function of a communication device like a phone, a hard-wired connection.
But - allowing an outboard wired DAC is a Good Thing.
Yep.
Right now, several popular phone models have DAC and analog output stages that are excellent but the presentation is completely marred by replay gain and digital volume control, among other processing.
If Apple puts a big fat "ZERO SUM" option somewhere in iOS that forces software out to be forwarded to the jack unimpeded, I would be completely on board.
Well, this will be a huge vector for DRM control of audio experience. Get ready for more advertising.
Death to the analog port.
Analog connections are important for a number of reasons. Privacy and vector of control of your device are things I am uncomfortable losing.
All companies around the world produce negative externalities that have a detrimental effect on the ecosystem of the Earth. It is profitable to obscure them so as not to spend money on acting to correct the externality. There are tens of thousands of negative externalities that all contribute to destroy the environment the human species depends on, with carbon based pollution being the alpha externality of them all.
That's why the denialist rhetoric is hyperactive about carbon externalities. The very fact that there are so many other externalities to deal with is a huge expense to business. If you can obscure cabon's role as an externality then you can bring the role of all externalities into question and avoid those costs.
PR is always cheaper than actually doing something.
> Since time has revealed these laws to be in-effective at stopping terrorism that shows us who ever wants these laws to monitor us is very powerful indeed.
What's the point of monitoring if they can't stop shit?
Let us be a bit pragmatic about this by analysing the electronics and the data stream.
I'm a fan of the jack because it allows me to choose the headphones. The only thing I don't have control over is the DAC in the phone.
For general listening Beats are a heavy headphone and after seeing a construction breakdown on/. some time ago found their specs to be average. A good set of senheiser headphones would be a better investment. Bose look and sound good however I had a hard time tracking down specs last time I was shopping. I'm pretty fussy and my headphones have a response range 16Hz - 28kHz and handle 200mw of power. I have to wear them alot for mixing so they have to be leightweight and they also have interesting features like auto muting when I take them off. I found AKGs to be perfect here.
Apple's decision means I can choose higher quality DACs for headphones however it also means the end of the era for lightweight quality headphones as it means these devices will have to carry a battery, receiver, DAC, amplifier *AND* audio membrane. More likely, significantly more functionality.
Considering iTunes accepts music at 96Khz for the masters it is likely this is the next phase of innovation Apple is suggesting where DAC converter in headphone technology improve as consumer grade headphones are able to process higher bitrates with better sound quality and still deliver an enjoyable power delivery and battery life. What it means for people like me is that my high quality gear exposes the limitations of the phone.
It also means all the associated DAC technology on the phone only has to match the bandwidth of the phone's speakers. I can see why this is a plus for manufacturers as I doubt the DAC in many phones now could deliver the dynamic range that my AKGs can handle and the only way to improve that is to have better DACs and amplifiers on the phone. By not having to have that shootout with other phone manufacturers all manufacturers reduce cost, complexity and, power consumption of their phones.
However it also means the end of private analogue connection to the phone as locally eavesdroping on unencrypted bluetooth connections becomes more probable.
This is a new type of market, that apple is creating because now they race is to produce phone headphones that are hyped or actually can deliver quality audio to consumers at a rate more frequent than the delivery of a new phone. Neither bad or good, but a change to the market for headphones.
An "Official Report" is not a Forensic Investigation that conducts various scientific analysis of the crime scene. The very fact that there has been no formal Forensic Investigation with evidence given from structural engineers and scientists on what was the biggest crime scene in U.S is evidence enough of some sort of conspiracy, regardless of how it was achieved.
The laws justified after 9/11 were the very ones that enabled the type of police state monitoring of citizens that not just US, but many other countries like the UK, Canada, Australia and, others all endure today. Before 9/11 western governments had not passed laws to remove our freedoms (that terrorists hated) because adequate laws were already in place to deal with terrprism. Those laws were based on what was learned by the UK government dealing with the IRA's terrorism.
Those two very obvious facts often go unacknowledged by 9/11 theorists and denialists because that allows them to (understandably) ignore the frightening reality that the laws justified by 9/11 moved western societies to an overt surveillance state. These two facts show us how and why, just not who could create such a conspiracy. Since time has revealed these laws to be in-effective at stopping terrorism that shows us who ever wants these laws to monitor us is very powerful indeed.
I don't know the specifics of how the towers were destroyed, but I do know that the laws passed because of 9/11 left us in a police state.
Half a million deaths in the Human population is not a lot
I doubt you'd be as blase if you lived in parts of the world most afflicted by malaria. And even if it doesn't kill you, it can leave you disabled if not treated in time.
That's malaria, not mosquitos. The question I am posing is if we would not be making for even worse consequences.
I think before we make any sort of risky move eliminating mosquitoes I think we should be asking about what role they play with the human immune system.
Half a million deaths in the Human population is not a lot and I would be interested in the specifics of those people who did die before executing a species. A lot of people *don't* die from being bitten by a mosquito, after all. People's immune systems should be strong enough to tolerate the challenge of being bitten by a mosquito.
How do we know we are not compromising our species immune responses over time if we don't have something like a mosquito to challenge it?
And they left it to Sierra Nevada to propose a space plane.
Indeed and you have supplied good examples of the craft with Dream Chaser, which is a more optimized design - thanks. I accept your's and cjameshuff's points about a space plane. I'm not arguing a capsule vs plane approach, simply commenting on the state of art in that technology. If a market emerges perhaps we will see more of them.
Yes, but their candidate for Commercial Crew is the CST-100. Which looks like a modernization and upscaling of the Apollo CM.
I have nothing against the capsule approach and have often lamented on how progressed space travel might have been had the Apollo platform been developed more. Far from arguing against the development of this type of vehicle, I'm excited that we are able to have a conversation like this and that there are three 7 crew member options available all vying for a role taking people to space.
The commercialization of space is one of the most exciting things I have seen for a while, I'm grateful for Elon Musk's efforts.
I won't be able to respond to further posts for a while as I am of to get some surgery on my spine today. Thanks for the conversation.
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I use IJKL for character movement along with Ctrl IJKL for screen movement which means I can't use Tab and Shift-Tab for insert a literal TAB (say for Makefile) and/or indent / unindent . The work-around is to use the slightly awkward Shift to indent/indent and and Ctrl-Q Tab to insert a literal tab respectively.
I see. I don't mind the arrow keys, however I use pg up/dwn, home/end in combination with Ctrl. Ctrl+left/right yields a word progression as opposed to character progression. So I press Ctrl for large movements and arrows for character movements. I think there are a few more I use unconsciously as well that don't come to mind immediately.
I'm very fussy about keyboard customization and optimization of minimal keystrokes
I very with you on this. I think it's important because it is the limiter on the throughput you have to your machine, fatigue and injury using a computer, in my experiences.
I don't remember when it happened, however the left or right click terminology for mousing stuck when users were trying to understand how to use a computer en masse, however it doesn't translate to the left side of the body. For context, consider using a right handed mouse. The right hand index finger is on the left button called 'select' and right button is called 'context' or 'menu'. The middle button is called 'middle' and introduced paste, then later scroll wheel and left/right. Now consider the same thing with a left handed mouse, left and right click no longer makes any sense.
I realised this when I first helped left handed users get set up ergonomically. Later injury forced me from being a right hander to left for some time and I got to experience their frustrations. I ended up ambidextrous (and a pretty good drummer), so I use two mouses to satisfy the ergonomics I have requirements to avoid re-injury.
I don't know if that is formally defined somewhere or I've unconsciously picked it up along the way, however to communicate it specifically during training sessions, I started referring to them as 'select' as index finger click, middle as middle finger click and 'context' as outside finger click, so that it makes sense to left handers as well.
The reason I told you all that is..
This works but I find it clunky.
If I may offer a suggestion, you may find some favourable vim functionality by using it with cygwin/X term, it's (DEC VT100) vs (ansi) terminal type. So when manipulating text an index click positions the cursor, a double index selects a word or a begins a drag to select, and a triple click selects a line (as normal). However you add the middle click and that becomes your first paste buffer, which is also a visible buffer.
Find the right terminal type (like xterm under linux) and vim will support the scroll wheel to page text, the mouse to position the cursor which *might* help the issue you are facing .
-- which is the main reason I love Vim's modal style.
When you add text in the edit mode of vim then select an add or insert at a certain position you can continue to select and paste text into the edit point by only using index and middle clicks. It is a simple, but powerful facility that I use in combination with command mode. For example apply the same regular expression over a range on some things over a number of files by middle click and y/n, :'a,'b g/expression/ s/find/replaced/gc :wn
I _would_ use Ctrl-# for bookmarks, and Buffer Management, along with other macros I use daily.
Interesting. I tried Ctrl-#, but I'm not sure how it should work? Would you mind sharing what I am missing?
I don't know your preferred hotkeys and shortcuts so I can't say. Probably not.
I use bookmarks, however I think I might be using vim differently. First I use "m" (for mark) and then a upper
Class A uses the most power (~20% efficient), Class AB about 60% and D comes in a little under 100% (~90%) or so because the semiconductors are acting as switches dissipating very little heat. The downside is that the high frequency switching can induce all manner of interference which will cause havoc if not properly dealt with.
You are right. I was confusing a class D amp construction with an amplifier type that has only a single power amp transistor on the output phase - thanks for pointing that out.
Actually that's not true, just ask a guitarist (and IAAG - I Am A Guitarist!)
Vacuum tubes create a noisy signal, but in a weird coincidence, they do it in a way that is pleasing to the ear. The clipping and distortion sounds "warm," and there's an added depth in the sound (harmonics) that you don't get via transistors....So, sir, you might argue that you dislike what a noisy tube does to your signal, but you can't say some people won't perceive it as improved, as it's about personal taste.
IAAP and Vacuum amps add a 'third harmonic distortion' to an input signal. Whilst this is desirable for a guitarist, for home listening it introduces distortion that I did not intend to be there when I produced your excellent performance. All that time I spent adjusting the attack and release on the compression to capture those really cool movements of your fingers on the strings are lost because a 'audiophile' decided that they knew better that the people who produced the music in the first place.
Transistor based amplifiers also introduce distortion. Referred to as THD (Total Harmonic Distortion) I like to think of it as 'temporal' distortion. It occurrs when the push and pull sets of the amp cross the waveform (sine) over 0v. It takes about .6v to activaste the transistor and this translates to a 'jag' at 0v of the waveform. It is unlikely that you are ever going to hear it - however that is what semi-conductors are all about, getting more accurate. I think the new class D amps eliminate even this issue, however they use more electricity.
You're right - to some extent it is a matter of personal preference. However home stereo valve amps reduces the "accuracy" of what was intended to be presented to you, the listener and to some extent being an audioophile is an oxymoron. If you like the 3rd harmonic distortion then that is ok, however many audiophiles like to claim this is an 'accurate' representation of a playback, when in fact it is distortion.
Now pick a valve amp for an instrument, then that is different because the valves and electronics are being vibrated by the amplification of yor playing - it sounds cool. You don't get that same effect from a semiconductor guitar amp. My friend and I like to mess around with these amps and do things like changing the transformers to give the amp a more 'ballsy' sound. We took a Musicman 130W valve amp and used Australian sourced transformers as the iron used in them is denser (I'm told) which seems to make the sound more meaty - so it is not just about the valves in the amp.
For my next trick a valve amped Theramin - at least for the pre-amp stage :)
Just out of curiosity - what are you using the ctrl combinations for? Am I missing something extra in vim?
Although it may not look right, its is the correct word here. It's always means "it is." If "it is" doesn't make sense, then use its instead.
My bad for posting tired.
Vim's 8.0 release was actually September 12th. Emacs 25.1 came out yesterday, September 17th.
Slashdot is just incredibly slow. :)
Yeah, I was wondering why it hadn't been picked up earlier by someone - it had been out for a while.
We are not taken seriously for what we do because we don't have organizations acting on our behalf to look after our interests at a political level.
If we had that then when representations were needed on important decisions like infrastructure, education, employment conditions, research and development - a relevant organization would be there to respond. It's our failure to recognise that as individuals, we don't look after each other as a group. The consequence of that our common interests are treated like those of a group of individuals instead of an individual group.
Technologists already know certain infrastructure decisions are important if innovation is to occurr. As economies around the world are finding out, the only way to sustain growth in an economy is innovation. If you stifle the ideas by undermining the lives of the people who are suposed to create that future, how can you move forward?
The world is again changing, this time from the impact of the net. Government and business are still absorbing the fact that they have to adapt and, that to adapt, they have to relinquish enough control so that people have the freedom to innovate. Police states don't innovate. That is their dilema.
I suspect it will take a few more years for the realizations to finally sink into governments about how important these things are as we move from the industrial to the knowledge age. Prosperity is tied to the freedom to innovate. Governments that stifle that freedom, stifle that prosperity.
Which governments are "Pro-Democracy" for anything other than political advantage.
wow, no one has a sense of humour today
Can we stop with this "deep learning" bullshit now? It is just algorithms. Every moron has to interject "AI" or "deep learning" or "neural nets" into their program description.
Aren't you a clever slashbot.
No ass, no dick, can't piss, can't shit.
He is dying and brings very bad news.
Dies irae
The entire business model converts disk space into repeated bandwidth usage. The whole reason we have these discussions is because media companies haven't figured out a way to stop people stealing the stuff they stole from other people.
We were made to eat meat, that is the bottom line.
Considering that the primate whose digestive system closest to ours is Orangutan, we were made to eat fruit and scavenging the odd bit of fat or an insect when we can. Additional information about what we were meant to eat can also be gleaned from examining the diets of tribal and aboriginal humans.
Weston A Price did this work decades ago and also found that Orangutan who ate scavenged human fast food would get the same diseases modern humans get.
The bottom line? Don't eat processed foods, they mess around with the way the body figures out what nutrients it needs.
cell phones are still perfectly safe as long as you don't eat them.
such huge structures falling uncontrollably would cause amazing amounts of damage
Back in the 90s I was obsessed with WTC as a place I wanted to visit and possibly work at. For some time there were design documents of WTC was available online and to my fascination and horror, they collapsed *precisely* how the engineering and fire documents said the building would. IIRC one floor was engineered to take the weight of 1-2 of the floors above before it would pancake. It was also designed to take the impact of a fully fuelled 707, so I don't know how that compares to a 767.
The only thing I didn't see in those specs was that one building would fall because another tower did, that does not make a lot of sense. Perhaps a forensic investigation would have had a civil engineer available to answer those questions for us.
Those buildings did NOT fall naturally.
If you mean, the structures were interfered with, then knowing that is the justice that all American and, indeed all people of the world, have been denied.
I trust they will create a 'perception' based marketing campaign and make a lot of money.
I vote we put this down next to plank's constant as one of the fundamental properties of the universe :-)
I think you are onto something there!
I was with you on the outboard DAC.
It is useful functionality.
Getting rid of the analog port obsoletes all analog headphones released, ever. Drag.
You also have to keep in mind that you want to be able to have a private wired connection to the phone. That is not just useful, but essential to the function of a communication device like a phone, a hard-wired connection.
But - allowing an outboard wired DAC is a Good Thing.
Yep.
Right now, several popular phone models have DAC and analog output stages that are excellent but the presentation is completely marred by replay gain and digital volume control, among other processing.
If Apple puts a big fat "ZERO SUM" option somewhere in iOS that forces software out to be forwarded to the jack unimpeded, I would be completely on board.
Well, this will be a huge vector for DRM control of audio experience. Get ready for more advertising.
Death to the analog port.
Analog connections are important for a number of reasons. Privacy and vector of control of your device are things I am uncomfortable losing.
All companies around the world produce negative externalities that have a detrimental effect on the ecosystem of the Earth. It is profitable to obscure them so as not to spend money on acting to correct the externality. There are tens of thousands of negative externalities that all contribute to destroy the environment the human species depends on, with carbon based pollution being the alpha externality of them all.
That's why the denialist rhetoric is hyperactive about carbon externalities. The very fact that there are so many other externalities to deal with is a huge expense to business. If you can obscure cabon's role as an externality then you can bring the role of all externalities into question and avoid those costs.
PR is always cheaper than actually doing something.
Apple's decision means I can choose higher quality DACs ... snip ....Considering iTunes accepts music at 96Khz for the masters
So you trust Apple
I trust they will create a 'perception' based marketing campaign and make a lot of money.
> Since time has revealed these laws to be in-effective at stopping terrorism that shows us who ever wants these laws to monitor us is very powerful indeed.
What's the point of monitoring if they can't stop shit?
Exactly.
Let us be a bit pragmatic about this by analysing the electronics and the data stream.
I'm a fan of the jack because it allows me to choose the headphones. The only thing I don't have control over is the DAC in the phone.
For general listening Beats are a heavy headphone and after seeing a construction breakdown on /. some time ago found their specs to be average. A good set of senheiser headphones would be a better investment. Bose look and sound good however I had a hard time tracking down specs last time I was shopping. I'm pretty fussy and my headphones have a response range 16Hz - 28kHz and handle 200mw of power. I have to wear them alot for mixing so they have to be leightweight and they also have interesting features like auto muting when I take them off. I found AKGs to be perfect here.
Apple's decision means I can choose higher quality DACs for headphones however it also means the end of the era for lightweight quality headphones as it means these devices will have to carry a battery, receiver, DAC, amplifier *AND* audio membrane. More likely, significantly more functionality.
Considering iTunes accepts music at 96Khz for the masters it is likely this is the next phase of innovation Apple is suggesting where DAC converter in headphone technology improve as consumer grade headphones are able to process higher bitrates with better sound quality and still deliver an enjoyable power delivery and battery life. What it means for people like me is that my high quality gear exposes the limitations of the phone.
It also means all the associated DAC technology on the phone only has to match the bandwidth of the phone's speakers. I can see why this is a plus for manufacturers as I doubt the DAC in many phones now could deliver the dynamic range that my AKGs can handle and the only way to improve that is to have better DACs and amplifiers on the phone. By not having to have that shootout with other phone manufacturers all manufacturers reduce cost, complexity and, power consumption of their phones.
However it also means the end of private analogue connection to the phone as locally eavesdroping on unencrypted bluetooth connections becomes more probable.
This is a new type of market, that apple is creating because now they race is to produce phone headphones that are hyped or actually can deliver quality audio to consumers at a rate more frequent than the delivery of a new phone. Neither bad or good, but a change to the market for headphones.
An "Official Report" is not a Forensic Investigation that conducts various scientific analysis of the crime scene. The very fact that there has been no formal Forensic Investigation with evidence given from structural engineers and scientists on what was the biggest crime scene in U.S is evidence enough of some sort of conspiracy, regardless of how it was achieved.
The laws justified after 9/11 were the very ones that enabled the type of police state monitoring of citizens that not just US, but many other countries like the UK, Canada, Australia and, others all endure today. Before 9/11 western governments had not passed laws to remove our freedoms (that terrorists hated) because adequate laws were already in place to deal with terrprism. Those laws were based on what was learned by the UK government dealing with the IRA's terrorism.
Those two very obvious facts often go unacknowledged by 9/11 theorists and denialists because that allows them to (understandably) ignore the frightening reality that the laws justified by 9/11 moved western societies to an overt surveillance state. These two facts show us how and why, just not who could create such a conspiracy. Since time has revealed these laws to be in-effective at stopping terrorism that shows us who ever wants these laws to monitor us is very powerful indeed.
I don't know the specifics of how the towers were destroyed, but I do know that the laws passed because of 9/11 left us in a police state.
I doubt you'd be as blase if you lived in parts of the world most afflicted by malaria. And even if it doesn't kill you, it can leave you disabled if not treated in time.
That's malaria, not mosquitos. The question I am posing is if we would not be making for even worse consequences.
I think before we make any sort of risky move eliminating mosquitoes I think we should be asking about what role they play with the human immune system.
Half a million deaths in the Human population is not a lot and I would be interested in the specifics of those people who did die before executing a species. A lot of people *don't* die from being bitten by a mosquito, after all. People's immune systems should be strong enough to tolerate the challenge of being bitten by a mosquito.
How do we know we are not compromising our species immune responses over time if we don't have something like a mosquito to challenge it?
And they left it to Sierra Nevada to propose a space plane.
Indeed and you have supplied good examples of the craft with Dream Chaser, which is a more optimized design - thanks. I accept your's and cjameshuff's points about a space plane. I'm not arguing a capsule vs plane approach, simply commenting on the state of art in that technology. If a market emerges perhaps we will see more of them.
Yes, but their candidate for Commercial Crew is the CST-100. Which looks like a modernization and upscaling of the Apollo CM.
I have nothing against the capsule approach and have often lamented on how progressed space travel might have been had the Apollo platform been developed more. Far from arguing against the development of this type of vehicle, I'm excited that we are able to have a conversation like this and that there are three 7 crew member options available all vying for a role taking people to space.
The commercialization of space is one of the most exciting things I have seen for a while, I'm grateful for Elon Musk's efforts.
I won't be able to respond to further posts for a while as I am of to get some surgery on my spine today. Thanks for the conversation.