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  1. Re:lies on China Overtakes US For Healthy Lifespan, WHO Data Finds (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They also put it in reverse and back over you. https://www.google.com/amp/amp...

  2. Re:Lost Productivity on IBM Bans Staff From Using Removable Storage Devices (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    New ass spectrum analyzers have USB. Old ass spectrum analyzers have analog pen plotter outputs.

  3. Re:If I were Iran I'd just wait it out on Trump Withdraws US From Iran Nuclear Deal (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The mule was likable.

  4. Re:wrong conclusion on Digital and Analog Audio's Curious Coexistence (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha ha, well I wasn't. I was talking about the initial capture.

  5. Re:wrong conclusion on Digital and Analog Audio's Curious Coexistence (cnet.com) · · Score: 1
  6. Re:wrong conclusion on Digital and Analog Audio's Curious Coexistence (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The noise floor is made of of quantaniztion noise, thermal noise, etc. The former has nothing to do with the analog front end.

  7. Re:wrong conclusion on Digital and Analog Audio's Curious Coexistence (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course it's not, but decreasing the noise floor certainly does increase dynamic range, unless you are talking about SFDR. The oversampling I'm talking about directly increases the ENOB.

  8. Re:wrong conclusion on Digital and Analog Audio's Curious Coexistence (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I’ll ad to that, in theory, with a perfect converter and clock, you can oversample 64x with a 1-bit converter and get equivalent performance of a 16-bit converter.

  9. Re:wrong conclusion on Digital and Analog Audio's Curious Coexistence (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Oversampling, then decimating, certainly does increase dynamic range. It does this since quantanization noise is spread out over the entire band, then decimating averages that noise, decreasing the noise in the decimated band. If you oversample 2x, then decimate 2x, you get 3 dB decease in noise. This is quite common in comms systems. The drawback is that you need very low clock jitter, but that is simple at audio frequencies.

  10. Re: wrong conclusion on Digital and Analog Audio's Curious Coexistence (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No you don’t. A 22 kHz sine sampled at 44 kHz is a series of impulses. A perfect anti-aliasing filter reconstructs that to a perfect sine. Of course nothing is perfect, hence slight over sampling.

  11. Re:wrong conclusion on Digital and Analog Audio's Curious Coexistence (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What people don’t realize is the extra dynamic range obtained by decimating an oversampled stream. Decimating from 96 kHz to 48 kHz gets you an additional 3 dB, or about 1/2 effective number of bits. It has nothing to due with frequency response of your ears, unless you are talking about intermodulation.

  12. Re:Won't damage the driver?? on The Pentagon's Ray Gun Can Stall Cars (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    Earthing something has absolutely nothing to do with electromagnetic shielding.

  13. Re: Won't damage the driver?? on The Pentagon's Ray Gun Can Stall Cars (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    S band is perfectly fine for RADAR and comms; no water resonance. http://www.rfcafe.com/referenc...

  14. Yes. General aviation in the USA has a crash about every 3 days.

  15. Re:Really Bad luck on Southwest Airlines Engine Failure Results In First Fatality On US Airline In 9 Years (heavy.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Boeing does not make engines. They choose another manufacturer at time of order. It’s probably GE, RR, or P&W.

  16. Wish I had points to mod you up.

  17. Re:Funny on Canada Has Pulled Off a Brain Heist (axios.com) · · Score: 0

    The stock market was up due to the prospects of having a non-socialist president, and the repatriation of foreign earnings. Do you really think the economy would have improved under Clinton or Sanders?

  18. Re:Law of Supply and Demand on The Gig Economy Keeps Growing, But Worker Benefits Aren't (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    He wrote “green cards”.

  19. Re:The point is to make an end run on The Gig Economy Keeps Growing, But Worker Benefits Aren't (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It’s not “single payer”. It’s 48% of taxpayers paying for everyone. At least call it what it is.

  20. Re:Too many freeloader dicks on The Slow Demise of Barnes & Noble (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    CDs are cheaper now than the early 90’s, even including inflation.

  21. Re:50% markup over Amazon on The Slow Demise of Barnes & Noble (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    They don’t have those top shelf magazines. Have to go to truck stops for those.

  22. Re:B&N went from best-middle of the road on The Slow Demise of Barnes & Noble (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Ahem, that’s thunk it.

  23. 50% markup over Amazon on The Slow Demise of Barnes & Noble (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    B&N sells the books for list price, which is typically 50% over Amazon. That’s too damn much, physical store or not.

  24. Re:B&N went from best-middle of the road on The Slow Demise of Barnes & Noble (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It is, isn’t it? Not that it’s important.

  25. Re:Trump isn't going far enough on Trump Administration Wants To Fire 248 Forecasters At the National Weather Service (fortune.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No one watches the weather for the weather, only to look at the bimbos. Fire the old codgers at the NWS and replace them with more bimbos with big boobs.