Why? Can't you just tell me what you want to say? I already know what I'm talking about.

The noise should be sent to the switch where no audio is playing. That's what I'm considering the far end. The noise won't do anything there.

Yeah - that's why I said there's great reasoning. But it doesn't justify the cost - anyone can make a cable following that principle for a few dollars.

I'm going to both agree and disagree with you. Yes, everyone missed that this introduced noise making it to the analog side is the reason for the shielding they use. It's not about missing bits that will be retransmitted anyway.

But on a cheap DAC, I get all sorts of PCI bus noise going through my speakers. Have you never owned a cheap computer where moving a wired mouse produces noise through the speakers? Or gotten coil whine from a GPU to introduce noise to the speakers? Obviously an audiophile will own better equipment, but there's theoretically a chance of interference.

Of course the solution for that is just just use optical cable to your speakers to prevent any possible analog noise.

No - because they pick up so much noise. And the wire can literally break inside from being too cheap. I know, because I threw out my cheap one.

I think the directionality is based on extra shielding that is grounded only on the far end so extra electronic noise isn't brought into the DAC. Doesn't mean it's not completely bogus, but they have great reasoning behind it.

The Roku updates automatically. Ever come back to your Roku and see it on the home screen? That's thanks to an update.

And you've never tried typing with any swipe keyboard? Android's built-in keyboard lets you swipe and spell and is faster than I've ever been able to get with a physical keyboard. And that's one-handed operation.

Accessibility? I hurt one hand and typed one-handed for a while. Used caps lock to type capital letters. I use caps-lock on my phone all the time for passwords when operating one-handed.

Flashdot?

No - green marker on the edge.

The 1000x durability wasn't based on writes alone. In fact, they even say it's "not significantly impacted by the number of write cycles"

Seems a little silly to put the user input checking in db code instead of server code.

Probably a bad SQL query join that checked for the existence of a value. If you mistype a code it might be found. If you enter no code, there might be matches.

That would be nobody. Nobody has purchased it.