don't confuse the format, which is an abstract description, with the medium, which is a physical item, susceptible to physical damage.

but yeah, if the medium can't carry the abstraction through time, it's no good.

"3) You can't full brake the tires when trying to stop on snow, ice or gravel."

but... that is the optimal way to emergency brake on gravel?

...where companies used to rig benchmarks?

Oh right, we're still not past them.

AND WE'LL NEVER BE!

Always use real world applications, in actual, real usage. Never benchmarks.

"The process starts with a hacker sending a convincing email, a message advising me to change my Twitter password, with a link to a fake Twitter site."

so, in short, be careful with your password.

why do i have this suspicion that the whole bitcoin is some elaborate, very drawn out, convoluted, mutated version of a pyramid scheme?

You would do well to read the article just a bit more carefully

It can use the sensors to launch coordinated attacks. Not just deploy when it hears a certain sound.

on the other hand, i can't imagine astronauts being so picky with their coffee. Or if drinking is a good idea, being an astronaut.

maybe my mind is still 50 years back.

could you give some examples about what you say in the second paragraph?

the main idea is that in the chain source-amp-speakers-air-ear

the worst offenders are the speakers

one could raise a point saying that ears (and the air, perhaps, haven't done any measurements or even *seen* any) are even worse (psychoacoustics etcetcetc) but since we can't do anything about it we ignore them

Hm.

how does graduation, or fornication, affect perception of sound?

ever since i constructed the 200 L, 12" full-range speakers, i can hear details i could never hear before. MP3? screw that, i can tell if a cd has been properly recorded. metal? pointless. pop? even more so. it sounds clear and perfect, but it is like artificial food flavoring. Acoustic jazz (no electric guitar, eg)? yes. full orchestra? sweet sweet fulfillment.

I had sex 10 years ago for the first time and graduated high school 15 years ago, fwiw.

in relation to this topic, i am thinking of getting a turntable, see if the filters on DACs' outputs have any effect on stereo imaging (and for the first time in my life, excepting binaural audio which in itself is a *revelation*, i understood what it means, because you have to place your head in centimeter-exact position).

ignore the DAC the amp the source and everything... ...except the speaker drivers themselves. even the best in the world are wildly non-linear.

and then there's the air between your ears and the speakers

another non-linearity

Best source? .0001% THD. best amp? .0001% THD. Speakers? 1% THD haha good luck.

not easy to translate greek in other languages, especially by people who do not understand greek. They mostly transliterated, they did not translate. iirc the original word was ÏαÏμαÎÎÏÏ? In that case a rough translation is "the one who poisons".

they'll reply "god isn't 'somebody', he is god"

That's why i initially said it's a flawed way to keep a site up.

I think the greatest mistake in the history of computing is microsoft releasing a stupid OS for a multitasking-multiuser capable cpu (286). It became ridiculously popular and the desktop computer managed to make the leap and go multitasking (amongst other things) more than a decade later, which, in computer terms, is longer than forever.