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And that is another reason why I can't fault apple, the technology exists regardless of the 3.5mm connector. I have a USB headset on my desk right now. Fidelity is reasonable for the $7.00 I paid although I only use it for Skype. Apple is just going to put a Lightning connector on existing technolo...

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Yes, I was trying to describe our situation in California. For all the sun and good jobs, you pay a hell of a price to live here and get ripped off at every turn. For an example of our energy economics look back at the rolling blackouts and automatic rate hikes that we had a while back. Producers w...

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Unilaterally creating a new plug seems to be much worse than using an existing standard. The last thing we need is format wars for headphone plugs. Apple is only going to upset Apple users if the idea is a dud. Since I am not an Apple user, I can live with that. I agree that the lightning connect...

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The main thing that's "wrong" with it is that it is moves (ie, the male connector rotates within the jack). This allows for unnecessary disruption of contact. The trade off is built-in strain relief, which can be handy for jacks meant for portable devices. You will see, though, on higher ...

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Personally, I hope nuclear fusion doesn't become possible, simply because it will immediately trend itself towards a fusion/neutron bomb. If that happens, goodbye humans. I'm convinced that the only reason nuclear weapons aren't being used against nations post-WW2 is due to their radioactive fallou...

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The oil companies are never in a hurry to get them back on line either... I'm sorry, do you want them to hurry? I assume you're talking about Torrance, and that's down because it exploded, if you might remember...? No matter what happens, oil companies always price their gas to make a profit. As o...

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Everybody focuses on size but the fact remains that the 3.5mm stereo plug is a poor connector design. Remember IDE hard drives with 40 pin connectors and the transition to SATA with it's nice easy to use connector? That is modernization. The force working against modernization is inertia. I hope al...

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Being a Californian, I don't know anything else. In the grand scheme of things, I think vapor recovery gas pump nozzles are a very small price to pay (probably a fraction of a penny per gallon) and gasoline sales hardly seem like a marginal business. The oil companies might say different but take a...

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How hot does your PC run? If you use reasonable low power components you can seal up a lot of the holes in a case and route all of the air through one fan, use thermal convection to enhance airflow and elevate the case so it's not sucking dirty air from ground level. I can think of a way to use pant...

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That is an interesting concept although I am one of the people who doesn't know enough of the physics to really understand if the concept is feasible. One of the first slides said "inertial fusion" and I thought it was the LLNL flavor for a minute and almost hit stop because that is total ...

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The secret of the pantyhose is you wear it over your head so that you don't lose any hair or dead skin outside of your bunny suit. That creates zero fan noise.

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I think the biggest issue with the 2.5mm phone jack is that it is too fragile. The plugs fall apart if you bend them at all and their tiny size makes that a frequent reality. I personally think 3.5mm is on the too small to be strong side and 1/4" plugs are rarely built to a standard that I wou...

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But let's talk about gas tanks. People who like EVs seem to make them out to be extreme fire hazards but the reality of what it takes to cause a gas tank fire is very very uncommon and usually can be traced back to negligence of the operator or things like 60 mph rear end collisions. It is probabl...

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There is no California law requiring a gun safe to buy a rifle. If you don't own an approved safe you will have to buy a cable lock. As for what rifle to buy, that is a personal preference thing and depending on what type of shooting you like and your budget some rifles will be more appropriate than...

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That fire was caused by sloppy engineering, no doubt about that but unless you put a fuse inside the battery there is no way to protect against a dead short. The incident was across two 12v batteries connected in series inside the pack so it only took 24v to start the fire. It probably wasn't enough...

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It wasn't a conversion, it was just quite a while ago and was lead acid because NiMH was cost prohibitive and Lithium batteries would be a small fortune. But about those numbers, how many EV conversions do you think would self report an electrical fire to the NTSB? That report would go something lik...

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I think you need a book on speaker placement.

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Well, let's just say there's a gentlemen's agreement to not test, and that there are lots of repercussions in store for any nation violating that agreement. :) We did sign it though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Partial_Nuclear_Test_Ban_Treaty Now, back to insane audio gear...

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JBI is referring to low-profile DIMMs like these which barely (if at all) stick above the RAM mounting backets. Yes, thanks, I should've provided a link in the previous post. The standard DIMM height dates back to before the days of BGA chips, when DRAM chips had about double the footprint they d...

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I heard some information to the contrary from a researcher...

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I don't believe the statistically less likely in electric cars part. Car fires are not frequent and they usually are very old cars with rotten fuel lines (often caused by reformulated gas). Old electric vehicles are not around in large enough numbers to make good comparisons. For a personal anecdot...

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When I'm feeling stupid, I watch movies with my headphones, but crank up the eight 15" IB subwoofers to get the feel of everything. :) Ah, friendly with the neighbors! (..lol.) Lots of insulation, distant neighbors, and subsonics generally aren't localizable easily. :) Look at his location, he...

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That is another reason for line arrays, if the sound wave is created floor to ceiling, it behaves like it is radiating in to a 2D space rather than a 3D space and as such the amplitude does not fall off as quickly with distance so you will get a bigger sweet area and the difference in volume from th...

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Traditional line arrays run in to all of those problems but all of those problems have a solution. I think the phase problem you speak of is diffraction caused by driver spacing. That is a very real problem because an ideal line source has a maximum driver spacing and line length for every frequenc...

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I always had a suspicion that Apple had cooties.

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Less impedance just means heavier gauge wire in the voice coil, kind of like one of the mini speakers that you can find all over the place these days. The issue then is that mini speaker have horrible sensitivity while also having enough excursion to blow out your ears in a headphone. You can solve ...

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I have thought about using active crossovers and Linkwitz transforms to perfectly shape the crossover region for a speaker but if you try to avoid crossing over at the voice frequency range and have enough drivers to deliver a large SPL at low frequencies, you wind up with lots of little drivers and...

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I usually solder but mostly because I usually use cheap gold plated Radio Shack spade lugs. If I had a good crimper or spent money on compression or set screw terminals I would not solder. But on to the Nervosa, look at speaker building. That is a very complex rabbit hole. The electronics side is pr...

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Yes, if you build the driver like a traditional headphone driver with who knows how many ohms impedance. Chop down the impedance and it would work.

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Not by a long shot.

JEDEC is drafting, they just haven't told you about it. Intel is assembling their wish list. The other players are putting in their two cents. It's just not ready yet.

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