Sure with two or more drivers in a single speaker enclosure you can get something similar to stereo imaging. I believe this is what you are referring to in terms of a multi-directional speaker. However in a device this size I think the differentiation between drivers and speakers sort of breaks down and I suspect we are just talking about one driver. I will grant that if the "speaker" has two or more drivers then you can get limited stereo sound. Of course I would have expected the marketing guys to call this two stereo speakers in the first place.
The only way I can think of getting some *like* stereo (but only the ambiance part not true imaging) out of single driver and coil would be with a Linaeum dipole or similar.
The car analogy is very apt and applies to the IT/support side as well. This is why, despite being an IT guy, they can have XP when they pry it from my cold dead computers. This is also why the first thing I do is make XP look like Windows 2000* (a MS high water mark for me in terms of stripped down interface simplicity and speed). Changing things up is like the Ribbon "innovation". Sure the older interface may have been a little less than optimal but after using it for years just about everyone knew where to find the things they needed. To me an OS "upgrade" should largely be under the hood and almost always allow you to use older, and usually faster/simpler, skins.
Given that a decent 5 year old PC has enough horsepower for most of the non gamers out there, the increased reliability of hardware, the economy, etc. I wouldn't be surprised to see XP maintain this lead for quite a while. It will be interesting to bet when it will slip below 50%.
Anyhow, I admin over half a dozen PCs in my house and they will be on XP for many years to come. While I progressed over the years from C64s, to SunOS4.1.1 (and many flavors of UNIX then Linux), to OS/2, to Windows; the "novelty" of a new OS has worn off a long time ago. I just want security, stability, and reliability. XP is "good enough" when configured and used correctly and when you only need it to run a browser, a few office type apps, and play movies; it will continue to be for the foreseeable future. The computer is a more mature appliance/tool today, not a toy and again the car/driving analogy works well.
*PS. This is also why the Parent could probably convince his people running W2K to upgrade to XP which is still being supported.
I use the thumb button for "back" *all* the time. When I started a new job I tossed the corded, three button optical in drawer and plugged in a wireless with thumb button from home. I find it hard to use a mouse without one. I feel as if my thumb has been cut off. Once you know the speed and ease of browsing with a middle scroll button for tabs and a thumb button for back you will never go back.
I'm going to "me too" this. I would love there to be a legal alternative to buy non-drm files instead of purchasing the bloody physical media. I'd pay a decent amount to download a high quality torrent. The value to me is having a trusted source with a beautiful 10GB encode from the original. I'd easily pay $5 per movie, perhaps $10 for that. As far as I'm concerened the MPAA should set this up and watch their distribution cost plummet. Heck they could stick to torrents and have the customers help distribute. For TV the same thing goes. I'd download ones with commercials even if they posted them at the same time as they go to air. I'd probably even pay a modest subscription. Basically until they offer something like this they have no business going after "pirates" since their other option are so crappy. Once they do, all the power to them.
Now all they need to do is have an insurgent tax, IED levy, and require permits for any terrorist act and our security problems will clear away like second hand smoke.
Actually you've got it backwards. In many or most first world countries the majority of people wear glasses. It is possible that eliminating reading glasses may take the number under 50% but since I have seen it quoted as almost 2/3 perhaps not. In any event it is also for these people that the 3D glasses are a PITA since they have to go over the prescription ones.
Some have been mentioned already such as Lem (I really liked 'The Futurological Congress'). Another is 'We' by Yevgeny Zamyatin which influenced '1984', possibly 'Brave New World' (although Huxley denied it), and other dystopian works. You might also study an early work that first introduced the term "robot"; 'R.U.R.' (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Capek. 'R.U.R.' also likely inspired some parts of 'Metropolis' (another good study in its own right).
Since you can easily buy 16 GB micro SD cards the Pigeon can do at least four times better. I'd actually bet they could carry several micro SD cards and do even better. Heck I predict a Moore's Law type curve when soon Pigeons will be carrying a TB of data across the country with impunity and much to the dismay of the RIAA/MPAA.
Basically ditto. Except I think I largely abandoned cursive in/before high school. I've been a fast printer and typist for almost a quarter century. I can't even write in cursive now. It looks like a 12 year old and I've forgotten some of the letters and many of the linkages.
How can anyone even consider asking for, let alone releasing private account credentials?
I can't even conceive filling this out and have *never* heard of this being asked of anyone.
Why don't they ask for transcripts of every rant you've had in a bar, every letter to the editor you've written, all you private correspondence, etc......
Did anyone watch the interview with the clueless attorney and off camera HR person. I'm just aghast at the ignorance and presumption.
I'm pretty much at a loss for any further words. Sad how far the land of individual freedom and rights has sunk.:(
I first read Lem about twenty years ago and thought he was quite the under appreciated gem. I last read 'The Futurological Congress' quite a while ago, perhaps 8 years or more, so my recollection is a little foggy. However I think I recall wondering if 'The Matrix' had some initial inspiration there.
Won't somebody note in the main summary that it is just plain wrong. The utilities only have the transmission losses of the poor power factor (and probably not along the entire tx path since they are often corrected) which are nowhere near the double consumption which is quoted. Probably an order of magnitude less.
I don't get why this monster needs to be quiet. Since, as mentioned, the video bandwidth is not important just put the darn thing in some sort of mini server room (eg. the corner of your basement) and remote into it. If you can afford a $16k PC you must have a massive pad with lots of far away corners ideal to put this in. Hell put a rack in there and do it right with server grade hardware instead of this mickey mouse hack. Even if video was an issue you can go a long way (~50ft) even without going optical and get decent video bandwidth. Many more cost effective ways to go other than this liquid cooled abomination which will depreciate real quick.
For a multimedia keyboard that I use all the time on *both* my HTPCs I recommend the Adesso WKB-4000US. Basically a wireless with great range that is the bottom half of a laptop. The 52" LCD and 106" projector is the other half:D. A one piece solution in a form factor that most people are used to and the keyboard is large enough to be usable.
http://www.adesso.com/products_detail.asp?productid=281
"Transition" devices have been available for years. I know we've had them for the last 6 or so:
http://www.gyration.com/
I don't think I have seen anyone use them off the table. Waving it around in the
air is way too imprecise and tiring.
On the subject of carbonation: you should *never* open a pop/soda, particularly a huge 2l bottle, unless you have chilled it. If you don't drink it right away it will be flat in no time (even worse when you leave a lot of air in the container). Look up the solubility of gasses with respect to temperature. If you do your experiment with chilled bottles the open one will fare a lot better.
After wading through the shitstorm in a samovar that are the comments from the brain trust of Modern Islam on the wikipedia talk pages, I can only say one thing: Let's hurry up and get the rest of those undersea cables to the Middle East cut!
Two observations:
On the Aliens IV "breath" authentication; I think more credit needs to be given besides novelty. Feasibility notwithstanding, this would be one of the few biometric methods where the authenticator needs to be alive and *breathing*. I found this concept intriguing and it does show some thought on how to have a system that at least cannot be fooled by a chopped off hand, plucked eyeball, or easily recorded voice. OTOH not being able to get through a door because of your last, garlic laden, meal does pose some problems.:D Second, with the Nebuchadnezzar approach scene in "The Matrix: Reloaded" I understood the controller to be jacked into a mini-matrix enviroment (like the training scenes) with the 'display' being a VR. I think the article implies they think it was some sort of 3D display.
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When Zooey Deschanel gets shot by the cops?
Well from my travels I'd say that most airlines have already been suffering from acute flight attendant shortage for years... I'm here all week too!
Well in manufacturing you may be correct but in construction AutoDesk is still a top dog.
Well for us 2012 does not seem to need admin to run; although you need to run as admin once to do the performance optimization/video card thing.
Sure with two or more drivers in a single speaker enclosure you can get something similar to stereo imaging. I believe this is what you are referring to in terms of a multi-directional speaker. However in a device this size I think the differentiation between drivers and speakers sort of breaks down and I suspect we are just talking about one driver. I will grant that if the "speaker" has two or more drivers then you can get limited stereo sound. Of course I would have expected the marketing guys to call this two stereo speakers in the first place. The only way I can think of getting some *like* stereo (but only the ambiance part not true imaging) out of single driver and coil would be with a Linaeum dipole or similar.
I don't know if I trust a company that prints the spec: "Speakers 1 high quality stereo speaker:"
The car analogy is very apt and applies to the IT/support side as well. This is why, despite being an IT guy, they can have XP when they pry it from my cold dead computers. This is also why the first thing I do is make XP look like Windows 2000* (a MS high water mark for me in terms of stripped down interface simplicity and speed). Changing things up is like the Ribbon "innovation". Sure the older interface may have been a little less than optimal but after using it for years just about everyone knew where to find the things they needed. To me an OS "upgrade" should largely be under the hood and almost always allow you to use older, and usually faster/simpler, skins.
Given that a decent 5 year old PC has enough horsepower for most of the non gamers out there, the increased reliability of hardware, the economy, etc. I wouldn't be surprised to see XP maintain this lead for quite a while. It will be interesting to bet when it will slip below 50%.
Anyhow, I admin over half a dozen PCs in my house and they will be on XP for many years to come. While I progressed over the years from C64s, to SunOS4.1.1 (and many flavors of UNIX then Linux), to OS/2, to Windows; the "novelty" of a new OS has worn off a long time ago. I just want security, stability, and reliability. XP is "good enough" when configured and used correctly and when you only need it to run a browser, a few office type apps, and play movies; it will continue to be for the foreseeable future. The computer is a more mature appliance/tool today, not a toy and again the car/driving analogy works well.
*PS. This is also why the Parent could probably convince his people running W2K to upgrade to XP which is still being supported.
I use the thumb button for "back" *all* the time. When I started a new job I tossed the corded, three button optical in drawer and plugged in a wireless with thumb button from home. I find it hard to use a mouse without one. I feel as if my thumb has been cut off. Once you know the speed and ease of browsing with a middle scroll button for tabs and a thumb button for back you will never go back.
I'm going to "me too" this. I would love there to be a legal alternative to buy non-drm files instead of purchasing the bloody physical media. I'd pay a decent amount to download a high quality torrent. The value to me is having a trusted source with a beautiful 10GB encode from the original. I'd easily pay $5 per movie, perhaps $10 for that. As far as I'm concerened the MPAA should set this up and watch their distribution cost plummet. Heck they could stick to torrents and have the customers help distribute. For TV the same thing goes. I'd download ones with commercials even if they posted them at the same time as they go to air. I'd probably even pay a modest subscription. Basically until they offer something like this they have no business going after "pirates" since their other option are so crappy. Once they do, all the power to them.
Now all they need to do is have an insurgent tax, IED levy, and require permits for any terrorist act and our security problems will clear away like second hand smoke.
Actually you've got it backwards. In many or most first world countries the majority of people wear glasses. It is possible that eliminating reading glasses may take the number under 50% but since I have seen it quoted as almost 2/3 perhaps not. In any event it is also for these people that the 3D glasses are a PITA since they have to go over the prescription ones.
Some have been mentioned already such as Lem (I really liked 'The Futurological Congress'). Another is 'We' by Yevgeny Zamyatin which influenced '1984', possibly 'Brave New World' (although Huxley denied it), and other dystopian works. You might also study an early work that first introduced the term "robot"; 'R.U.R.' (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Capek. 'R.U.R.' also likely inspired some parts of 'Metropolis' (another good study in its own right).
Since you can easily buy 16 GB micro SD cards the Pigeon can do at least four times better. I'd actually bet they could carry several micro SD cards and do even better. Heck I predict a Moore's Law type curve when soon Pigeons will be carrying a TB of data across the country with impunity and much to the dismay of the RIAA/MPAA.
Basically ditto. Except I think I largely abandoned cursive in/before high school. I've been a fast printer and typist for almost a quarter century. I can't even write in cursive now. It looks like a 12 year old and I've forgotten some of the letters and many of the linkages.
How can anyone even consider asking for, let alone releasing private account credentials? I can't even conceive filling this out and have *never* heard of this being asked of anyone. Why don't they ask for transcripts of every rant you've had in a bar, every letter to the editor you've written, all you private correspondence, etc...... Did anyone watch the interview with the clueless attorney and off camera HR person. I'm just aghast at the ignorance and presumption. I'm pretty much at a loss for any further words. Sad how far the land of individual freedom and rights has sunk. :(
Well Matrix borrowed from a lot of works and themes. I poked around and I'm not the only one who thinks that the Wachowski's might have read Lem: http://www.challengingdestiny.com/reviews/futurological.htm
I first read Lem about twenty years ago and thought he was quite the under appreciated gem. I last read 'The Futurological Congress' quite a while ago, perhaps 8 years or more, so my recollection is a little foggy. However I think I recall wondering if 'The Matrix' had some initial inspiration there.
Won't somebody note in the main summary that it is just plain wrong. The utilities only have the transmission losses of the poor power factor (and probably not along the entire tx path since they are often corrected) which are nowhere near the double consumption which is quoted. Probably an order of magnitude less.
I don't get why this monster needs to be quiet. Since, as mentioned, the video bandwidth is not important just put the darn thing in some sort of mini server room (eg. the corner of your basement) and remote into it. If you can afford a $16k PC you must have a massive pad with lots of far away corners ideal to put this in. Hell put a rack in there and do it right with server grade hardware instead of this mickey mouse hack. Even if video was an issue you can go a long way (~50ft) even without going optical and get decent video bandwidth. Many more cost effective ways to go other than this liquid cooled abomination which will depreciate real quick.
For a multimedia keyboard that I use all the time on *both* my HTPCs I recommend the Adesso WKB-4000US. Basically a wireless with great range that is the bottom half of a laptop. The 52" LCD and 106" projector is the other half :D. A one piece solution in a form factor that most people are used to and the keyboard is large enough to be usable.
http://www.adesso.com/products_detail.asp?productid=281
"Transition" devices have been available for years. I know we've had them for the last 6 or so: http://www.gyration.com/ I don't think I have seen anyone use them off the table. Waving it around in the air is way too imprecise and tiring.
...now I have to buy yet another version!!!
On the subject of carbonation: you should *never* open a pop/soda, particularly a huge 2l bottle, unless you have chilled it. If you don't drink it right away it will be flat in no time (even worse when you leave a lot of air in the container). Look up the solubility of gasses with respect to temperature. If you do your experiment with chilled bottles the open one will fare a lot better.
After wading through the shitstorm in a samovar that are the comments from the brain trust of Modern Islam on the wikipedia talk pages, I can only say one thing: Let's hurry up and get the rest of those undersea cables to the Middle East cut!
Two observations: On the Aliens IV "breath" authentication; I think more credit needs to be given besides novelty. Feasibility notwithstanding, this would be one of the few biometric methods where the authenticator needs to be alive and *breathing*. I found this concept intriguing and it does show some thought on how to have a system that at least cannot be fooled by a chopped off hand, plucked eyeball, or easily recorded voice. OTOH not being able to get through a door because of your last, garlic laden, meal does pose some problems. :D Second, with the Nebuchadnezzar approach scene in "The Matrix: Reloaded" I understood the controller to be jacked into a mini-matrix enviroment (like the training scenes) with the 'display' being a VR. I think the article implies they think it was some sort of 3D display.