"The clause in the Constitution grants the government to right to mint money. It does not precluded anybody else from doing so."
The Constitution clearly states any powers/rights not delegated to the government are thus the powers/rights of the people and/or states. Since the government has the power to mint money granted to it, the people by constitutional decree do not have that right.
"and have shorter lifetimes than solid state electronics."
Spoken like someone that never used W-grade (military) tubes in their life. Mine are still kicking in my 1978 Fender Super Reverb, from when my father bought them. That's almost 40 years. You got any solid state stuff that old, gramps?
"I'm not confident, should I actually use it, that the X56 will have no issues before the 2 year warranty period is up. "
Give me one week and I bet I'll fish out any problem it has. If you'd like, I'll even send you the money for the shipping + device. I love embarrassing the shit out of Logitech with any use/teardown I do of their products, especially their shitty webcams. The embarrassment never goes public (I e-mail them with my findings,) but their engineers know me by name and hate my guts when I point out their incompetence.
I just worked on one of these the other day. The X-axis pot gets fucked too easily. Cleaning it did nothing. I had to replace the cheap-ass pot that was used.
"The mouse button switches on the M/570 trackball mouse wear out after 4-6 months for me, particularly the right mouse button"
That's because your middle finger has more strength than your index finger. Your middle finger is usually the one hitting the right-click unless you're left-handed. Given the same plastic type, switch construction, and equal weighting between usage of left/right mouse buttons, the right one will wear out far faster.
Guitarists learn this early on, and focus more strength training on the outer digits versus precision training for the middle one. It's one of the biggest causes of fret wear and tear. Watch a bunch of metal or rock music videos. When almost any note being bent without the aid of a tremolo bridge happens and is shown in video, it's done almost exclusively by the middle or index fingers. These are our dominant phlanges on that section of our body, and what we use the most often, so it makes sense they'd be stronger than the others.
I'm married, happy, and watch porn with my SO. As for what the fuck I'm doing here, I'm here laughing at your specific type while I'm waiting on my next VoIP consultation to happen.
What the fuck are YOU doing here? Probably being lonely and mad at others who have a life.
Apple doesn't make studio-quality headphones (Beats are anything but neutral) so this is going to piss off anyone using studio-grade monitors/headphones. And BlueTooth doesn't provide any fidelity worth a shit for mastering at half the bitrate of a standard audio CD.
So much for being useful for music. Not like I ever used them, as I have dedicated hardware DAWs.
$120M is in no way, shape, or form enough money to provide enough WAPs and the necessary infrastructure to provide decent usable coverage to even half of the EU cities. I've done physical network buildouts in buildings before, and those can run a couple million easy depending upon things like age, construction type, pre-existing interference, building size, etc. Imagine a city vs a typical warehouse building. Now imagine every city (I wonder if they're including towns and more rural areas) in every EU country. You'd probably burn through the $120M in high-end WAPs alone to provide 100% coverage in all of the major+capital cities just by themselves. That's not including dedicated infrastructure to support such a network.
You'd hardly do much better building out an LTE network with that little amount of money.
So the question in my head is who are the proposed suppliers of this equipment and infrastructure for such a project? Who has connections where?
"Side note, the whole "Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment." thing is patently ridiculous these days. The site isn't even close to being high enough traffic that people can't reply as much as they'd like."
That was never the point. The point was to stop spam and GNAA trolling.
"But there is no way you can get that down to your ten cents, no way, no how, no place."
You must not know nothing of Alibaba/Aliexpress. I can get several thousand dollar faceting machines for twenty bucks. Bulk headphone jacks are two fucking cents in quantities of 1,000 or more.
"We only have 8 molars which are for crushing plant matter."
Maybe you do. I have twelve (my wisdom teeth came in perfectly straight.)
"Remember when writing something that it's important to take both sides of an argument to not come across as a biased fool."
Hilarious coming from someone that obviously forgot about wisdom teeth, which are considered the third set of molars. You showed your bias in trying to make a point and failed utterly.
"We were made to eat meat, that is the bottom line."
To a small degree. Our teeth only have 4 canines, which are the teeth for tearing meat. Our digestive tracts are much longer than pretty much any other carnivore, even carnivores larger than us have drastically shorter digestive tracts, which means that we're more geared towards vegetation with some allocation for meat for our dietary requirements.
"Well, an iron ingot is easier to obtain than ore"
Not true. You can grab dry land just about anywhere and you'll likely have iron oxide (an ore of iron) right there. How much dry land out there will allow youto just reach down and grab an iron ingot?
You fell for Bose marketing. Those "Acoustic waveguides" are just long tubes attached to the ported part of the speaker box. They're not even cut to the same lengths across different systems of the same model. I did the same thing to a pair of car audio speakers and got roughly the same sound effect at 1/50th of the cost, easily.
I love how your lack of logical rebuttal below denotes your feeble mind. That's all children can do, after all, throw insults without any logical thought behind it. Typical behavior of an Apple user.
It's even more sad that you apparently don't have half a clue how planned obsolescence works - you force new licensing from third-party equipment manufacturers for that new Lightning adapter they're undoubtedly going to want to make and sell themselves.
Plus if people don't want to use the adapter, oh look, more reason for Apple to point you towards a pair of grossly-overpriced cheap-shit Beats headphones.
Electrical tape is cheaper, lasts longer, and is thicker.
Aluminum tape is also far more effective and just as cheap. A hundred dims for 6 bucks versus being able to punch out THOUSANDS at the same price from a roll of opaque tape.
Slashdot Mirror
"The clause in the Constitution grants the government to right to mint money. It does not precluded anybody else from doing so."
The Constitution clearly states any powers/rights not delegated to the government are thus the powers/rights of the people and/or states. Since the government has the power to mint money granted to it, the people by constitutional decree do not have that right.
"and have shorter lifetimes than solid state electronics."
Spoken like someone that never used W-grade (military) tubes in their life. Mine are still kicking in my 1978 Fender Super Reverb, from when my father bought them. That's almost 40 years. You got any solid state stuff that old, gramps?
"I'm not confident, should I actually use it, that the X56 will have no issues before the 2 year warranty period is up. "
Give me one week and I bet I'll fish out any problem it has. If you'd like, I'll even send you the money for the shipping + device. I love embarrassing the shit out of Logitech with any use/teardown I do of their products, especially their shitty webcams. The embarrassment never goes public (I e-mail them with my findings,) but their engineers know me by name and hate my guts when I point out their incompetence.
I just worked on one of these the other day. The X-axis pot gets fucked too easily. Cleaning it did nothing. I had to replace the cheap-ass pot that was used.
"The mouse button switches on the M/570 trackball mouse wear out after 4-6 months for me, particularly the right mouse button"
That's because your middle finger has more strength than your index finger. Your middle finger is usually the one hitting the right-click unless you're left-handed. Given the same plastic type, switch construction, and equal weighting between usage of left/right mouse buttons, the right one will wear out far faster.
Guitarists learn this early on, and focus more strength training on the outer digits versus precision training for the middle one. It's one of the biggest causes of fret wear and tear. Watch a bunch of metal or rock music videos. When almost any note being bent without the aid of a tremolo bridge happens and is shown in video, it's done almost exclusively by the middle or index fingers. These are our dominant phlanges on that section of our body, and what we use the most often, so it makes sense they'd be stronger than the others.
I'm married, happy, and watch porn with my SO. As for what the fuck I'm doing here, I'm here laughing at your specific type while I'm waiting on my next VoIP consultation to happen.
What the fuck are YOU doing here? Probably being lonely and mad at others who have a life.
"Fapping to someone else having sex is the ultimate sadness."
I can well imagine that there are worse things. At least in this situation you know your sex drive works.
I do have better stats - it's called THEIR STOCK NUMBERS.
Funnily enough my dentist says you're the moron. See, I actually consult with professionals on a near-daily basis. You obviously do not.
"If you're serious about audio you're already using an offboard USB DAC."
Not if you're sensitive to latency, you're not.
Apple doesn't make studio-quality headphones (Beats are anything but neutral) so this is going to piss off anyone using studio-grade monitors/headphones. And BlueTooth doesn't provide any fidelity worth a shit for mastering at half the bitrate of a standard audio CD.
So much for being useful for music. Not like I ever used them, as I have dedicated hardware DAWs.
$120M is in no way, shape, or form enough money to provide enough WAPs and the necessary infrastructure to provide decent usable coverage to even half of the EU cities. I've done physical network buildouts in buildings before, and those can run a couple million easy depending upon things like age, construction type, pre-existing interference, building size, etc. Imagine a city vs a typical warehouse building. Now imagine every city (I wonder if they're including towns and more rural areas) in every EU country. You'd probably burn through the $120M in high-end WAPs alone to provide 100% coverage in all of the major+capital cities just by themselves. That's not including dedicated infrastructure to support such a network.
You'd hardly do much better building out an LTE network with that little amount of money.
So the question in my head is who are the proposed suppliers of this equipment and infrastructure for such a project? Who has connections where?
Follow the money, let's see what we find.
"Side note, the whole "Slashdot requires you to wait between each successful posting of a comment to allow everyone a fair chance at posting a comment." thing is patently ridiculous these days. The site isn't even close to being high enough traffic that people can't reply as much as they'd like."
That was never the point. The point was to stop spam and GNAA trolling.
"The devices in your image are all outdated pre-chip-card readers"
Not the European versions which were out for years and had chip+pin. Try again little penguin.
"But there is no way you can get that down to your ten cents, no way, no how, no place."
You must not know nothing of Alibaba/Aliexpress. I can get several thousand dollar faceting machines for twenty bucks. Bulk headphone jacks are two fucking cents in quantities of 1,000 or more.
Embedded developer != Sourcing Manager.
"We only have 8 molars which are for crushing plant matter."
Maybe you do. I have twelve (my wisdom teeth came in perfectly straight.)
"Remember when writing something that it's important to take both sides of an argument to not come across as a biased fool."
Hilarious coming from someone that obviously forgot about wisdom teeth, which are considered the third set of molars. You showed your bias in trying to make a point and failed utterly.
"The teeth we mislabeled 'canines' are actually nothing like a canine's canines."
Yours might not be that way. I had to have mine filed down because they hit my lower gums and were curved, much like a typical carnivore.
Sharks. They're essentially nothing but canines.
That you couldn't think of such an easy answer makes me wonder what point you were trying to prove with your poorly-thought question.
Twitter is NOT fine. If you look at a 5 year history, they've been doing nothing but falling.
"We were made to eat meat, that is the bottom line."
To a small degree. Our teeth only have 4 canines, which are the teeth for tearing meat. Our digestive tracts are much longer than pretty much any other carnivore, even carnivores larger than us have drastically shorter digestive tracts, which means that we're more geared towards vegetation with some allocation for meat for our dietary requirements.
"Well, an iron ingot is easier to obtain than ore"
Not true. You can grab dry land just about anywhere and you'll likely have iron oxide (an ore of iron) right there. How much dry land out there will allow youto just reach down and grab an iron ingot?
You fell for Bose marketing. Those "Acoustic waveguides" are just long tubes attached to the ported part of the speaker box. They're not even cut to the same lengths across different systems of the same model. I did the same thing to a pair of car audio speakers and got roughly the same sound effect at 1/50th of the cost, easily.
You can't see the money grab because you know jack shit about BOM and cost reduction.
You also don't see the money grab because you're too narrow-minded. Let me expand your feeble mind on why they killed the headphone jack.
I love how your lack of logical rebuttal below denotes your feeble mind. That's all children can do, after all, throw insults without any logical thought behind it. Typical behavior of an Apple user.
It's so sad that you're unable to figure out why Apple got rid of the 3.5mm jack.
It's even more sad that you apparently don't have half a clue how planned obsolescence works - you force new licensing from third-party equipment manufacturers for that new Lightning adapter they're undoubtedly going to want to make and sell themselves.
Plus if people don't want to use the adapter, oh look, more reason for Apple to point you towards a pair of grossly-overpriced cheap-shit Beats headphones.
Electrical tape is cheaper, lasts longer, and is thicker.
Aluminum tape is also far more effective and just as cheap. A hundred dims for 6 bucks versus being able to punch out THOUSANDS at the same price from a roll of opaque tape.