Comment digital vs. analog (Score 1) 743
All I'll say about digital vs. analog is that if have access to a vacuum tubed guitar amp (like say, a Fender Twin or something comparable) and use some alligator clips to attach the input guitar cable to a pair of butchered iPod headphone jacks, you are in for a TREAT.
I tried this once, and even with the mono output, I was blown away by how good it sounded. It was a little noisy because of the impedance mismatch of my ham fisted hardware hack, but it sounded warm and thick and full like you've never heard, like giving a down pillow to someone who's only had sponge foam pillows. Even newer digitally created music like Fatboy Slim sounded better.
It made me think of how those old Rock-Ola or Wurlitzer jukeboxes might have sounded.
The Herschel Telescope Close To Blast Off 136
pha7boy writes "The Herschel space observatory, the European Space Agency's answer to the Hubble Telescope, is about to be sent into orbit. With a mirror 1.5 times the size of the Hubble mirror, the Herschel will look at the universe in the infrared and sub-millimeter range. This 'will permit Herschel to see past the dust that scatters Hubble's visible wavelengths, and to gaze at really cold places and objects in the Universe — from the birthing clouds of new stars to the icy comets that live far out in the Solar System.'"
Setbacks Cast Doubt On NASA's Ares Project 255
stoolpigeon writes with this excerpt from an Orlando Sentinel article about the Ares program, which paints a bleak picture of the program's future: "Bit by bit, the new rocket ship that is supposed to blast America into the second Space Age and return astronauts to the moon appears to be coming undone. First was the discovery that it lacked sufficient power to lift astronauts in a state-of-the-art capsule into orbit. Then engineers found out that it might vibrate like a giant tuning fork, shaking its crew to death. Now, in the latest setback to the Ares I, computer models show the ship could crash into its launch tower during liftoff. "
Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 279
Your hypothetical Joe Shmoe has to go to a grimy little porn shop for his porn fix. Face it, that's a valid factor!
Berners-Lee Claims Web "Still In Infancy" 206
eldavojohn writes "The man credited with inventing the Web at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee, has made a statement on the 15th anniversary of the Web's initial code release that the Web is still in its infancy. He also made a pretty insightful comment about CERN's releasing of the code for the Web into public domain: 'If we had put a price on it like the University of Minnesota had done with Gopher then it would not have expanded into what it is now. We would have had some sort of market share alongside services like AOL and Compuserve, but we would not have flattened the world.'"
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