Comment Re:Some (Score 1) 433
see "Lord of the Flies"
If it's anything like The Fly I'm going to need a barf bag.
see "Lord of the Flies"
If it's anything like The Fly I'm going to need a barf bag.
This. As far as I can hear, compression is the main difference between vinyl and digital, and that's something that is caused by the guys doing the mastering, not by the medium.
I'd like to further add to that by mentioning some technical details; audio CDs even to this day conform to a standard known as Red Book Audio published by Philips and Sony (Unfortunately I cannot reference it because it requires an expensive license AFAIK) in which audio is encoded in a lossless uncompressed PCM format at a sample rate of 44 KHz. So clearly audio discs themselves are no slouch when it comes to audio quality so if vinyl sounds better it must have something to do with the original mastering as you mentioned.
Because then Mozilla will go through all that effort to implement PPAPI but then Google will change PPAPI on a whim and it will break all the plugins on Firefox and people will ignorantly blame Mozilla, and then Mozilla will have to put all that effort into updating to the latest random revision of PPAPI only to rinse and repeat.
For reliability, I prefer actual data over your anecdotal opinion: Consumer drives shown to be more reliable than enterprise drives.
This probably has more to do with TLER than anything because consumer drives are designed with the expectation they'll be run as a single isolated disk whereas enterprise disks are typically expected to be part of some RAID array running in tandem with other disks the RAID controller can use to correct errors, so while an enterprise and consumer drive might share the same physical hardware the firmware for enterprise drives can differ significantly in the way they handle error recovery.
But both of my desktop monitors are locked into landscape.
Do you not have a GPU driver that can rotate the display or do you mean they're physically locked in landscape?
... and innovate the way we did in the 70s
Don't get me wrong I love science and the idea of space exploration but unfortuantely I believe a lot of the early innovation in space exploration was just political chest pounding grandstanding with the Soviet Union. With the Soviet Union gone the U.S. hasn't been really been fearful of looking inferior to a rival nation capable of destroying the planet let alone our own country.
While it is fortunate that the constant threat of total, and possibly nuclear, war is gone unfortunately it also has had the consequence of resulting in less attention to the space program. It is rather unfortunate that war is the biggest cause of major innovation, for example; I really don't believe we would be where we are today technologically had it not been for the two World Wars which brought with it all kinds of innovation as a side effect of an escalating arms race between powers but the cost was that those wars ended millions of lives.
For instance, in desert regions, there's no shortage of waste heat, so the idea of trapping and re-using it elsewhere may not make any sense.
Not that this is directly relevant but your comment made me think about something interesting; in Arizona in the Phoenix valley during the summer the water coming in underground pipes heats up so much before it even gets to the house that you don't even need a hot water heater. I have family in Arizona and used to live there; Arizona is hot.
I still have a computer that's 12 years old with a 3 GHz processor. It's not slower than a laptop today, because processor speeds plateaued 12 years ago.
Are you forgetting the fabrication size? For example a 130nm CPU clocked at 3 GHz will be much much slower than a 14nm CPU clocked at the same 3 GHz frequency and it will be a lot cooler too. The reason for this is because the transistors in the CPU are much closer therefore there is less resistance (and consequently less heat) for the electricity traveling between them.
And why did they give our local PD 145 flashlights worth $130K? What does a thousand-dollar flashlight even
They're probably flashlights designed to be mounted onto weapons that put out incredible recoil. A lot of cheap flashlights will break somehow on the first shot because the forces involved are just massive so building a flashlight that can withstand these forces and be reliable takes some quality materials and engineering.
Though to be honest I still can't imagine even the finest built flashlight being worth $1000 but it's not out of character for our government to like to overpay for everything.
Now, let's bring that logic here to the US.
I've given a couple of bad reviews on places on Google but I think it really says something about the state of affairs here in the U.S. when I feel terrified that I'm going to get a summons every time I post a bad review.
They fail to understand the purpose of e-mail, and as such we would never ever get the most basic and oldest of the e-mail client functions: folders
This might be an annoyance if you use the Gmail webclient but; K-9, Outlook and Thunderbird display all my labels as folders when connected to Gmail via IMAP, and I noticed in the webmail client you can make sub-labels too so I guess I always took 'Label' as Google-speak for 'Folder.'
... good luck getting AT&T or Verizon to provide the updates OTA. And if you're stuck with an older phone, says > 1 year. Good luck getting any update at all.
If carriers even bother to provide updates at all they usually lag so far behind because they need to develop and test all their bloatware against the latest version of Android. Samsung in particular insists on using TouchWiz on their mobile devices so TouchWiz needs to be updated for every version of Android and then on top of that the carriers need to test update and test their bloatware and whatever else they insist on installing on devices.
One solution is to install CyanogenMod if you can but that will void the warranty on your $500+ phone and some carriers might even terminate your service if they suspect you're not running official carrier firmware (Because for example CyanogenMod lets you tether without paying for the carrier's tethering fees).
Except that the real innovation was to introduce ONE thumbstick, and it was done by Nintendo with the N64 controller. Whatever...
I'm not really sure what Nintendo was thinking but I'm pretty sure the N64 controller was designed for three armed aliens. It was really awkward to use for video games that made full use of all the buttons on the controller because since the majority of games made use of the thumbstick and trigger half of the controller would be inaccessible at any given time.
Now I wish I'd just gone and took up millinery.
Well you can play Team Fortress 2 and get the best of both worlds!
Get a less noisy system. How hard is that to figure out?
Get a case that has one or two 120mm or larger fans for airflow. They generate much MUCH less noise than 80mm fans and still push enough air to keep the thing chilled.
My system has a total of nine 120mm fans (two front, two top, two side, two internal and one exhaust); five of them being 120mm CoolerMaster JetFlo's (four intake, one exhaust) and two of them for a Corsair H110i closed loop radiator. Now granted the system does sound like a jet airplane at 100% but if you use something like AMD Cool'and'Quiet or SpeedFan it's generally not all that loud, in fact from across my room the OTB filter in my 55g fish tank is probably louder. GPU card is a Sapphire Vapor-X Radeon HD 7970 and generally it won't be loud enough to notice unless it's under heavy load in which case I'm probably playing loud video games anyway.
What the gods would destroy they first submit to an IEEE standards committee.
