Almost but the idea is not to terminate it at the "far" end but rather the "near" end. The noise should be brought back to the low-impedance source. It's completely bogus in any residential or living room but not completely unrealistic when talking about long cable runs.
You've never talked to an audiophile before have you.
Actually they knew exactly what they were doing. The Audiofool crowd love talking about how things sound despite things like specs, measurements, the laws or physics or anything else being against them. They started off by doing a blind trial. Right there and then it should have been over. The tests I think were done more for shits-and-giggles.
I've been in my house 5 years and replaced one. It broke when I knocked a lamp over.
So... back to either finding a decent bulb fittings which don't overheat the bulb or getting the power quality in your house checked.
The Blu-ray went from concept to product in 3 years and the specification only took an additional year on top of that. So 4 years to develop.
The CD took 3 years from joining of efforts between Sony and Philips, 2 years from the time the Redbook standard was published, and that's not taking into account that both companies had been working independently prior to 1979.
Given we're only 1 year into the Archival Disc announcement I'll give them a little more time before I declare it vaporware.
Still waiting on that 10GHz Pentium 4 that Intel promised me. Or rather, that they bragged the NetBurst architecture would be able to hit.
And I'm sure they would have hit it too if the world didn't turn around and say stop this is absurd your pipelines are getting too long, your processors are getting to hot and we're going to shop at your competitor who's chasing efficiency rather than pointless speed.
NetBurst was a delivered architecture.
Some people got quite close to 10GHz using incredible cooling and overclocking techniques.
Next.
both got a windows prompt telling me the program wanted to be default, and both times I clicked yes. Default browser after this: The microsoft one.
This process has been completely locked out in Windows 10. Finally!
Any browser attempting to set itself as default now brings up a window that says if you want to change the default browser go into Settings > Blah > Blah and change it there.
Perhaps this default settings quarrel is Microsoft trying to grab a lump of marketshare for Edge
Perhaps the default settings quarrel is not a quarrel at all but rather unjustified complaining of a CEO who may or may not have blindly clicked yes a dozen times to get through the windows setup. The setup presents a screen asking if default programs should be reset. You can chose not to, which is what I did.
Ha, the EU will be all over this. Microsoft were supposedly turning themselves around, not opening themselves up for more fines from EU courts.
No they won't. The Mozilla CEO is moaning and apparently has never even attempted the upgrade.
Windows 10 installer presents a screen asking if you want to change the default applications and giving you an option for a whole set: Browser, Video, Audio, Pictures etc. The installer actually gives the user the choice and choice was in essence what the EU settlement was all about.
When I upgraded to Windows 10 yesterday, there was a screen that came up that asked me if I wanted to reset the default apps. I said no for my browser
Very much this. Users who upgrade to Windows 10 get to *choose* whether to set Edge as the default browser. Choice. You know that thing that MS was forced to do in Europe, provide users choice. This sounds like desperate moaning from a CEO who doesn't understand why users are fleeing his bloated Chrome clone.
A huge percentage are frickin' snowflakes demand to be given the same rights and berth as automobiles
Can you imagine someone demanding the same rights as an automobile?
Everyone knows automobiles were endowed by the Creator with inalienable rights to have everyone get out of the fucking way.
Most of us are looking forward to the advent of autonomous vehicles.
Are you shitting me? Most of us were looking forward to the advent of flying cars, too.
Earlier this week...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru...
And who do they think is going to be purchasing all these "autonomous vehicles" and with all the twenty-somethings and millennials moving back home with their parents, how do they think they're going to afford them?
Look, I don't mind advertisements on Slashdot, but goddamn, please stop with the press releases from "anonymous" parties.
I consider it an opt-out, because if you just click Next, your previous settings are changed.
I'm starting to wonder if all the loud music when I was younger damaged my ears. Every time I turn on the radio, everything sounds like shit.
I just gave my sysadmin an eightball of coke and a box full of Raspberry Pi's. He says he's "planning something big".
I'm starting to wonder if I should maybe tell someone.
"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde
