The most expensive cable I can find, WireWorld Platinum Starlight, legend has it costs a thousand bucks a meter, boasts of, "carbon fiber connectors and 24 solid silver conductors in the DNA Helix design, to deliver the richest sonic textures and the most tactile images that the finest A/V systems can produce." It's not just twisted pair, it's "patent-pending DNA Helix cable design, which has 24 conductors – double that of conventional HDMI cables – arranged in an innovative symmetrical geometry that reduces noise while providing a precisely balanced 100-ohm impedance at every point along the cable’s length. These advantages minimize the timing errors known as digital jitter and the resulting data corruption, to produce amazing improvements in sound and image quality". Not only that, but "Common lengths of Platinum Starlight HDMI cable are capable of transfer rates above 30 Gigabits per second, far exceeding the HDMI v1.4 High Speed with Ethernet specification of 10.2 Gigabits per second. These extraordinary cables reveal an astonishing new dimension of acoustic and visual detail, bringing music, film and sporting events to life in your home."
Bwahahahahah. Can you imagine being invited to your gay boss' party and trying to keep a straight face while he explains why his A/V system is so much better than everyone elses.
Guess that's just the way it is in the world where engineering, marketing, standards and proprietary information overlap - same confusing labels as USB with 'full speed' being much slower than 'high speed' etc.
Anyway, this'll keep audio/video geeks in business, we don't want just anybody hooking up components successfully without working at at, jeesh.
What's so funny about that? Every time that I, too, feel that Solaris, java and c++ have gotten too hard, intricate and subtle I just shutdown to the openboot prompt and program in FORTH. I even have a board game (Othello, ported from BASIC) that will run in obp.
Not only that, but buried somewhere deep in the multi page EULA that nobody reads is the clause, "company shall not be held in indemnity for losses to person or environmental damage from deepwater oilwells bursting into flame due to defects in software, other than the cost of replacing defective media".
Imagine that trees could walk around, talk, and needed shelter. Suddenly, some Tree Scientist suggests that their houses should be make out of WOOD!!! Ahhhhh!! How disgusting!!!!!
Well, yeah, but only until the circle hits the edge of the rectangle, beyond which there is nothing to know. Or you could say, the more you know, the more you are aware of stuff you don't know but isn't worth knowing anyhow and is just a distraction from the specialty you should be focusing on. Or, as another professor put you, as you advance and specialize, you know more and more about less and less, until you reach the point where you know everything there is about nothing at all.
That give me an idea for one of those companies that peddle stuff to people who don't know any better, like Star Registry or cryogenics - get people to pay you big bucks to save some DNA samples of yourself on the premise that someday when human cloning is perfected, they can bring you back to life!!! (results may vary).
I can see the commercials, some sad old guy hobbles off to his grave, cut to futuristic world and the same guy is wearing a jumpsuit and a big smile. Voiceover, "It's never too late, so come see what the future has in store for you".
Did anybody think of that possibility? A perfect chance to obtain fresh earthling artifacts w/o disturbing the population with the loss of a human - they just targeted the tractor beam on it and diverted it off course.
Public relations - being a political publically funded body, a humanoid form is much more appealing to the average taxpayer than a spider. (ew, yuk! why is it so ugly?) You know, we're talking about people who elect politicians based on their haircut.
That's anti free trade and will only hurt the consumer. If USians can't compete in the open market maybe we don't deserve to have a 'chain of experience'. The only thing we need to teach our children is how to collect a government handout and shop at WalMart. Andy should be haunted by the spirit of Reagan in the church of Limbaugh.
Nice challenge - I just turned up this WWII political cartoon comparing Hitler to a child eating wolf - but look at the author, none other than Dr. Seuss!
Would suck to work at archive.org during an emergency - wandering hordes of internet addict zombies would converge on the place from all over to get their fix.
I remember a science toy advertised as an 'Atom Smasher' and example of 'Ionic Space Propulsion' - turned out to be a small VanDerGraff Generator that could, on cold winter days, maybe work up 200,000 volts. Amateur scientist articles from the 50's and 60's are full of homemade lasers, plasma generators, cyclotrons, etc. One was a 100KW Laser - yes it was, a flash only 10 nanoseconds long but technically, 100KW (power being energy/time - a small amount of time make it look like a lot of power, altho it was powered by a 6volt lantern battery) Not too surprising that people could fuse a few atoms - lets us know when it can safely put out more energy than it takes in.
Actually that's a good question - but it's comparing non-ionizing radiation (electric field) and ionizing radiation (beta decay radiation - emission of an electron or positron) - but more research is required to find the 'Banana Equivilent Dose' of a typical cell phone call.
I remember one woman in the 80's who was concerned about food exposed to microwave 'radiation'.
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They told the London populace that German V-2 impacts were 'gas pipe' explosions to keep panic down.
The most expensive cable I can find, WireWorld Platinum Starlight, legend has it costs a thousand bucks a meter, boasts of, "carbon fiber connectors and 24 solid silver conductors in the DNA Helix design, to deliver the richest sonic textures and the most tactile images that the finest A/V systems can produce." It's not just twisted pair, it's "patent-pending DNA Helix cable design, which has 24 conductors – double that of conventional HDMI cables – arranged in an innovative symmetrical geometry that reduces noise while providing a precisely balanced 100-ohm impedance at every point along the cable’s length. These advantages minimize the timing errors known as digital jitter and the resulting data corruption, to produce amazing improvements in sound and image quality". Not only that, but "Common lengths of Platinum Starlight HDMI cable are capable of transfer rates above 30 Gigabits per second, far exceeding the HDMI v1.4 High Speed with Ethernet specification of 10.2 Gigabits per second. These extraordinary cables reveal an astonishing new dimension of acoustic and visual detail, bringing music, film and sporting events to life in your home."
Bwahahahahah. Can you imagine being invited to your gay boss' party and trying to keep a straight face while he explains why his A/V system is so much better than everyone elses.
Guess that's just the way it is in the world where engineering, marketing, standards and proprietary information overlap - same confusing labels as USB with 'full speed' being much slower than 'high speed' etc.
Anyway, this'll keep audio/video geeks in business, we don't want just anybody hooking up components successfully without working at at, jeesh.
What's so funny about that? Every time that I, too, feel that Solaris, java and c++ have gotten too hard, intricate and subtle I just shutdown to the openboot prompt and program in FORTH. I even have a board game (Othello, ported from BASIC) that will run in obp.
Not only that, but buried somewhere deep in the multi page EULA that nobody reads is the clause, "company shall not be held in indemnity for losses to person or environmental damage from deepwater oilwells bursting into flame due to defects in software, other than the cost of replacing defective media".
Imagine that trees could walk around, talk, and needed shelter. Suddenly, some Tree Scientist suggests that their houses should be make out of WOOD!!! Ahhhhh!! How disgusting!!!!!
Well, yeah, but only until the circle hits the edge of the rectangle, beyond which there is nothing to know. Or you could say, the more you know, the more you are aware of stuff you don't know but isn't worth knowing anyhow and is just a distraction from the specialty you should be focusing on. Or, as another professor put you, as you advance and specialize, you know more and more about less and less, until you reach the point where you know everything there is about nothing at all.
I'll have to add the Domain Specific Language to my proposal for cloud computing to be presented at the management consultant meeting.
I was expecting something that would let me zoom in on the window of the girl next door, anytime.
That give me an idea for one of those companies that peddle stuff to people who don't know any better, like Star Registry or cryogenics - get people to pay you big bucks to save some DNA samples of yourself on the premise that someday when human cloning is perfected, they can bring you back to life!!! (results may vary).
I can see the commercials, some sad old guy hobbles off to his grave, cut to futuristic world and the same guy is wearing a jumpsuit and a big smile. Voiceover, "It's never too late, so come see what the future has in store for you".
Check out the movies Willard and Ben first, altho they are rats.
Did anybody think of that possibility? A perfect chance to obtain fresh earthling artifacts w/o disturbing the population with the loss of a human - they just targeted the tractor beam on it and diverted it off course.
Public relations - being a political publically funded body, a humanoid form is much more appealing to the average taxpayer than a spider. (ew, yuk! why is it so ugly?) You know, we're talking about people who elect politicians based on their haircut.
That's anti free trade and will only hurt the consumer. If USians can't compete in the open market maybe we don't deserve to have a 'chain of experience'. The only thing we need to teach our children is how to collect a government handout and shop at WalMart. Andy should be haunted by the spirit of Reagan in the church of Limbaugh.
(sorry, too much energy drink!!)
Nice challenge - I just turned up this WWII political cartoon comparing Hitler to a child eating wolf - but look at the author, none other than Dr. Seuss!
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I couldn't read your comment without seeing, "sticking it to" - as in, "laws are created to help the man sticking it to common folks".
Wow, that destroyed my entire innocent childhood memories of Dudley Do-Right
A new Disney flick leaked - if not stopped immediately that could cause irreparable hard to the entertainment economy.
Would suck to work at archive.org during an emergency - wandering hordes of internet addict zombies would converge on the place from all over to get their fix.
I remember a science toy advertised as an 'Atom Smasher' and example of 'Ionic Space Propulsion' - turned out to be a small VanDerGraff Generator that could, on cold winter days, maybe work up 200,000 volts. Amateur scientist articles from the 50's and 60's are full of homemade lasers, plasma generators, cyclotrons, etc. One was a 100KW Laser - yes it was, a flash only 10 nanoseconds long but technically, 100KW (power being energy/time - a small amount of time make it look like a lot of power, altho it was powered by a 6volt lantern battery) Not too surprising that people could fuse a few atoms - lets us know when it can safely put out more energy than it takes in.
Now if they could just get Harrison Ford, Carrie Fischer, Mark Hamill and Peter Mayhew to get in costume and come play with him.
X-tream scale, mind altering computing...
That was we can simulate nuking out enemies faster than they can simulate nuking us.
Or they could come up with climate models that are actually almost somewhat predictive.
It will be adopted by progressive advertisers to achieve even greater degrees of annoyance per page
I've seen the future and it's having a 50% off sale for the first 100 customers to click now!!
Actually that's a good question - but it's comparing non-ionizing radiation (electric field) and ionizing radiation (beta decay radiation - emission of an electron or positron) - but more research is required to find the 'Banana Equivilent Dose' of a typical cell phone call.
I remember one woman in the 80's who was concerned about food exposed to microwave 'radiation'.
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