I can not imagine anyone taking out a second mortgage to purchase electronics. I might be a bit naive, but I'm a college student (albeit I have a job in systems administration that pays the bills) and I can pretty easy afford my HDTV, etc.
Having to obtain a second mortgage for electronics is more than just technolust, it's insanity. What a sad state of affairs.
Will I be able to view JPEG files in 50 years time? There is waaay too much porn on the internet in JPEG form for us to give up on the format that easily.
Seriously though, if we can find a way to play wax cylinders that the first sounds were recorded on, I think that viewing JPEGs is a moot point. No mechanical device needs to be procured to open bits.
It's possible the problem would be finding a CD drive, however I'm sure some rich audiophiles somewhere will have a CD player somewhere saying "Man, the lack of bits and bandwidth really lets these Oldies from Brittney Spears come through."
I wonder how Netflix fits into all of this. For no extra charge, one can have bluray and HD-DVD versions of movies sent to their home. I've never bought a HD-DVD but I am a rather heavy consumer of them. I have rented 34 titles so far from them. All of my friends that have HD-DVD and BluRay players do the same thing. The cost of the movie is prohibitive, but Netflix charges no more for the privilege.
I think you are looking for Octospiders. I've always found his conjecture in his book that warfare is the only thing that has truly pushed human civilization, whereas all of the technology of the Octospider's was developed to counter the need for warfare.
I work in IT at a medium sized organization. We recently ran out of Office licenses. I came up with the brilliant suggestion to use OpenOffice on non-essential personnels computers who would not be needing advanced features. Essentially on most of these machines, Office was used only to type letters in Word, or perhaps excel.
My employer refused to use it, because as a free piece of software, it would not have enough features, would be insecure, etc.
Well, I decided to repackage it as OfficeLite, I told them it'd cost an extra $15 dollars to install per machine (I did NOT say it cost this per license), and now they love it! They checked it out and thought it was a brilliant piece of software. I have since told them how I duped them, but eh, I get to keep the first 120 I made from it.
I am an avowed techie, and I own a variety of PC machines from Linux to Windows, however my primary computer is a Macbook Pro. I work in tech support removing spyware and viruses all day long. When I am done with a day of work, I love coming home to a virus and spyware free computer, that's easy to use and I get everything I need done. If I want to muck with an OS I can play in the Unix terminal, or just work on my AD domain.
I work in tech support for my university. Four people I work with have recently purchased Macbook Pros. It's a very fast computer , for not a huge premium. It's much lighter and thinner than any of my friends Dells. At a general education private university, we probably have 20% apple usage, however only 1-2% of our support calls involve them, and 90+% of those involve setting them up for 802.1x authentication.
'All I am saying is that there is a lot of room for WMDs in those basilicas...ehh I think that pointy looking thing outside of St. Peter's looks like a missile, either that or an ob-el-isk...
I'm giving the go-ahead order'
-President George W. Bush, last day in office.
On the final page it indicated that this ionic system can do 325 CMF. The rest of the units are in CFM, so I am assuming it's a typo. However, how can a fanless system do 325 cubic feet per minute? I've seen ionic systems before and they have never put out anything near that amount (at least from my non scientific estimations).
If so, than this is much more than just a passive solution. Unless it is 325 CMF, and it's cubic minutes per feet, but then I think that I just went crosseyed trying to think of cubic minutes.
This is a serious question. Why should I care how fast we can get a diesel engine based car to go? Last time I checked the fastest I drive is around 80mph. I'd be much more interested to see more efficent engines, than more powerful. However, could this technology trickle down to produce more efficent engines? Is there any practical application to this, besides pure speed?
Why don't they complain about audio quality? 128 kbps doesn't do it for me. In double-blind tests, I can tell the difference between 128kbps and the original around 90% of the time (depending on track), 70% for 192, 60 for 256, and falls to around 52% for 320. (100 trials, various tracks). (By the way, these are down with Sennheiser HD-650s, M-Audio Audiophile 2496 for source, DAC, and amp).
I would never purchase an album on itunes for 10 dollars when I can pick up the CD at Barnes and Noble at full quality, with full media, etc, for 13.
As a music lover, I agree with the album should be considered an artistic whole, but truly, how many bands even think of their music as an art form anymore?
I wouldn't say this is hifi in any way, including the T-amp. http://www.michael.mardis.com/sonic/measure/images /5066m-freq_05.gif As we see there is poor bass response, and the top end rolls off too quickly. (The green is various modifications used). There is a theory in audiophiledom that amplifiers make a lot of difference in sound. When in reality the loudspeaker itself (which converts electrical energy to acoustic, wheras an amplifier just increases the voltage of a signal and supplies current) is the largest supplier of intermodulation distortion, harmonic distortion, comb filtering, etc.
I can't not tell from the images what drivers are used, but I wonder what quality they are. I've seen very few neo tweeters that test well, and this does not appear to be one of them, however, I could be in error in terms of the driver quality.
What is most suspect is that this tweeter probably crosses over at 3khz or so, and there is a good deal of space between the woofer and tweeter which introduces comb filtering at these frequencies.
I also wonder what kind of crossover is used. I think special care would need to be taken to keep the woofer out of breakup nodes and the tweeter away from low end distortion with the drivers used.
However, if there were a den of prostitutes whose internal workings made them impervious to nearly all known viruses, but would still be vulnerable to viruses that were engineered specifically for them, however given that they cost more, most virus writers shyed away from writing viruses for these prostitut....
From wikipedia, the latest nuclear reactor provides 1600megawatts(being built in Finland, other reactors produce around 1500megawatts, YMMV), which works out to.04 nuclear reactors for 500k Xbox360s. The Grand Coulee Dam produces 6,809 megawatts, and there is a station in Brazil that produces 12,666 megawatts! For the Grand Coulee it works out to.011 stations per 500k Xbox360, or.0057 stations for Brazil.
For the PS1, it would be.00016 stations in Brazil,.00029 Grand Coulee stations, or.0013 Finnish nuclear reactors.
In other words, I'm not entirely sure that wind power is going to solve our energy crisis.
The Roman office of the inquisition had little to do with the Spanish Inqusition. It was to be the final court of appeals for the various Counter-Reformation inquistions that sprung up, and actually was designed to squelch the excesses of the various local inquisitions. It's name was changed in 1908 by St. Pius X to the Holy Office, and then sometime in the late 60's it was renamed to the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith....
It is interesting, however, that John Paul II, one of the most liberal popes in history said this. I wonder how much was the result of the same "tragic mutual misinterperation" that seemed to have sprung up with Galileo.
Hmmm, in my chemistry classes I worked out the results before hand by theory, and then made sure that my 'experimental' results were extremely close, because if not I failed the lab.
That takes me back to science olympiad.
Maybe a better solution to this whole problem is to invest the the Middle and High School students in Science Olympiad with materials of higher quality than rubber bands, drinking straws, popsickle sticks and some paper....
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I can not imagine anyone taking out a second mortgage to purchase electronics. I might be a bit naive, but I'm a college student (albeit I have a job in systems administration that pays the bills) and I can pretty easy afford my HDTV, etc.
Having to obtain a second mortgage for electronics is more than just technolust, it's insanity. What a sad state of affairs.
As long as the dumptruck ran on vegetable oil, I wouldn't have a problem with that.
Believe it or not, Windows Longhorn Server/Windows Server 2003 is not included in Vista Ultimate.
As for the family pack, what bastards are they, offering 5 licenses for a largely reduced price?
Jerks.
Seriously though, if we can find a way to play wax cylinders that the first sounds were recorded on, I think that viewing JPEGs is a moot point. No mechanical device needs to be procured to open bits.
It's possible the problem would be finding a CD drive, however I'm sure some rich audiophiles somewhere will have a CD player somewhere saying "Man, the lack of bits and bandwidth really lets these Oldies from Brittney Spears come through."
I wonder how Netflix fits into all of this. For no extra charge, one can have bluray and HD-DVD versions of movies sent to their home. I've never bought a HD-DVD but I am a rather heavy consumer of them. I have rented 34 titles so far from them. All of my friends that have HD-DVD and BluRay players do the same thing. The cost of the movie is prohibitive, but Netflix charges no more for the privilege.
I think you are looking for Octospiders. I've always found his conjecture in his book that warfare is the only thing that has truly pushed human civilization, whereas all of the technology of the Octospider's was developed to counter the need for warfare.
I work in IT at a medium sized organization. We recently ran out of Office licenses. I came up with the brilliant suggestion to use OpenOffice on non-essential personnels computers who would not be needing advanced features. Essentially on most of these machines, Office was used only to type letters in Word, or perhaps excel.
My employer refused to use it, because as a free piece of software, it would not have enough features, would be insecure, etc.
Well, I decided to repackage it as OfficeLite, I told them it'd cost an extra $15 dollars to install per machine (I did NOT say it cost this per license), and now they love it! They checked it out and thought it was a brilliant piece of software. I have since told them how I duped them, but eh, I get to keep the first 120 I made from it.
Sounds like a pretty good idea to me!
Vista: This is from AMD. Do you trust AMD? .....
Me: yes, they pay me. I trust them. (click)
Wait, you TRUST your employer? What is this board coming to?
I am an avowed techie, and I own a variety of PC machines from Linux to Windows, however my primary computer is a Macbook Pro. I work in tech support removing spyware and viruses all day long. When I am done with a day of work, I love coming home to a virus and spyware free computer, that's easy to use and I get everything I need done. If I want to muck with an OS I can play in the Unix terminal, or just work on my AD domain.
I work in tech support for my university. Four people I work with have recently purchased Macbook Pros. It's a very fast computer , for not a huge premium. It's much lighter and thinner than any of my friends Dells. At a general education private university, we probably have 20% apple usage, however only 1-2% of our support calls involve them, and 90+% of those involve setting them up for 802.1x authentication.
'All I am saying is that there is a lot of room for WMDs in those basilicas...ehh I think that pointy looking thing outside of St. Peter's looks like a missile, either that or an ob-el-isk... I'm giving the go-ahead order' -President George W. Bush, last day in office.
On the final page it indicated that this ionic system can do 325 CMF. The rest of the units are in CFM, so I am assuming it's a typo. However, how can a fanless system do 325 cubic feet per minute? I've seen ionic systems before and they have never put out anything near that amount (at least from my non scientific estimations). If so, than this is much more than just a passive solution. Unless it is 325 CMF, and it's cubic minutes per feet, but then I think that I just went crosseyed trying to think of cubic minutes.
This is a serious question. Why should I care how fast we can get a diesel engine based car to go? Last time I checked the fastest I drive is around 80mph. I'd be much more interested to see more efficent engines, than more powerful. However, could this technology trickle down to produce more efficent engines? Is there any practical application to this, besides pure speed?
Why don't they complain about audio quality? 128 kbps doesn't do it for me. In double-blind tests, I can tell the difference between 128kbps and the original around 90% of the time (depending on track), 70% for 192, 60 for 256, and falls to around 52% for 320. (100 trials, various tracks). (By the way, these are down with Sennheiser HD-650s, M-Audio Audiophile 2496 for source, DAC, and amp). I would never purchase an album on itunes for 10 dollars when I can pick up the CD at Barnes and Noble at full quality, with full media, etc, for 13. As a music lover, I agree with the album should be considered an artistic whole, but truly, how many bands even think of their music as an art form anymore?
....and if Moore's law keeps going, that's only 15 years out!
I can't not tell from the images what drivers are used, but I wonder what quality they are. I've seen very few neo tweeters that test well, and this does not appear to be one of them, however, I could be in error in terms of the driver quality.
What is most suspect is that this tweeter probably crosses over at 3khz or so, and there is a good deal of space between the woofer and tweeter which introduces comb filtering at these frequencies.
I also wonder what kind of crossover is used. I think special care would need to be taken to keep the woofer out of breakup nodes and the tweeter away from low end distortion with the drivers used.
However, if there were a den of prostitutes whose internal workings made them impervious to nearly all known viruses, but would still be vulnerable to viruses that were engineered specifically for them, however given that they cost more, most virus writers shyed away from writing viruses for these prostitut....
ok my analogy broke down in there,
However, all things being equal:
Give me iWhores, or give me death.
From wikipedia, the latest nuclear reactor provides 1600megawatts(being built in Finland, other reactors produce around 1500megawatts, YMMV), which works out to .04 nuclear reactors for 500k Xbox360s. The Grand Coulee Dam produces 6,809 megawatts, and there is a station in Brazil that produces 12,666 megawatts! For the Grand Coulee it works out to .011 stations per 500k Xbox360, or .0057 stations for Brazil.
For the PS1, it would be .00016 stations in Brazil, .00029 Grand Coulee stations, or .0013 Finnish nuclear reactors.
In other words, I'm not entirely sure that wind power is going to solve our energy crisis.
The Roman office of the inquisition had little to do with the Spanish Inqusition. It was to be the final court of appeals for the various Counter-Reformation inquistions that sprung up, and actually was designed to squelch the excesses of the various local inquisitions. It's name was changed in 1908 by St. Pius X to the Holy Office, and then sometime in the late 60's it was renamed to the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.... It is interesting, however, that John Paul II, one of the most liberal popes in history said this. I wonder how much was the result of the same "tragic mutual misinterperation" that seemed to have sprung up with Galileo.
Hmmm, in my chemistry classes I worked out the results before hand by theory, and then made sure that my 'experimental' results were extremely close, because if not I failed the lab.
That takes me back to science olympiad. Maybe a better solution to this whole problem is to invest the the Middle and High School students in Science Olympiad with materials of higher quality than rubber bands, drinking straws, popsickle sticks and some paper....