aristide1 wrote:
With conventional speakers the cone is suppose to move and the frame is to remain motionless. It's much more difficult to execute than first imagined.

Well now we're getting somewhere. Knowledgeable critique rather than just reaction.

You can Google "japan biz cast 2010.07.14" and get links to torrents. (I had been looking for articles about the speakers, not for the show.)

Here's a little blurb from the Web site of the show:

http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/t ... 00714.html

Not to belabor this, but: People here know that if you attach a hard drive to a heavy steel case it results in less audible vibration than if you used a rickety aluminum case, but more than if you suspended it with elastic or placed it on soft foam. I would imagine that it's always been assumed that...

I've been suitably impressed by the nonsense of using special power cords, $100 speaker cables, double posting (is that what they call it?) and the like, but this seems to make sense.

If it is true, I can also see that it's something that a lot of people would not like one bit.

Amazingly, I couldn't get a single reference to a relevant Web page when doing a number of searches for this. I only saw it on a video at a restricted site I can't link to: Somebody in Japan discovered that by putting a high quality speaker atop a rolled-up carpet runner, the speaker sounded better ...

Out of the requested price range, but the Hyundai Equus, not yet released everywhere, is said to have devoted great attention to quietude.

Might the flash used today have only a brief day in the sun?

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/ ... memristor/

I think everybody's mind is boggling trying to figure out where this would actually be practical to use.

I think it's awesome looking.....

To put it simply, under the presumed usual conditions, two identical noise sources would produce a sound that was approximately 3dB louder than just one. So two of your 15dBA fans would be about 18dBA. Add a third and it would be about 20dBA; a fourth, about 21dBA.

As it turns out, the world's most dangerous person is not even human and lives in an undisclosed location, but has the will and the personal magnetism to achieve global domination. A photo, apparently unaltered, resides at the link below: http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc79/Reachable1/Mostdanger...

Awesome! Just like all your creations.

Now you have me yearning to see a Bakelite computer. Such grandeur that would have.

I visited the website of the TV program "60 Minutes". (I wanted to check out a segment on the easy-to-behold Penelope Cruz.) On the front page there was a poll "Who is the most dangerous person in the world?" The way this was executed was infuriating, because there were only four choices: Osama bin ...

There is clear proof of EMFs effect on physiological processes whether or not one can extend the proof to actual symptoms.

Trying to find out specifically what's causing the problem might not be that useful or necessary for you. The more one thinks about it the more complex the procedure for the testing is revealed to be; and if the culprit is ultrasound, how do you shield it? I think you should just accept the problem ...

Dallas rhymes with palace and chalice.

Dulles is pronounced duh'-liss.

Don't feel too bad about not getting the BB 3000. It's fretless!

The Silent Spirit is utterly cute when it's upside down in the photos. It looks like an earnest little robot.

OK, that shed's no light whatsoever on the subject, but I had to say it.

i always called it more wor-shes-er. :/ that shit always confused me. damn you english with your stupid spellings and pronunciations. i prefer it here in california with our mangled spanish place names. at least this shit makes sense. least we're not completely skipping syllables here. The English ...

Here in Massachusetts we pronounce the English place names just like they do in England ....... except that we mangle it.

For instance, Worcester is pronounced Wuss-ter instead of Wor-ses-ter, but most of the locals pronounce it Wista.

Do high quality PSUs ever have a thermal sensor (or a fan speed sensor) that would shut off the unit if the fan were to fail?

Hard drives are so straightforward, which makes this list particularly useful.

Does a page refresh in your browser get tabulated as a view in the thread who's page you're refreshing?

Also remember that all the patriotic songs taught to schoolchildren in America are hymns : "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"; the song that begins "My Country 'Tis of Thee" (consider the second verse), "America the Beautiful", etc., etc. So, you're opening a big can of worms if you try to strike "un...

The issue of having the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance is less important than the fact that the Pledge is recited at all, by schoolchildren, for whom it is compulsory. When they get to be adults they can decide who or what they want to pledge their allegiance to. If it all seems harm...

This site wasn't even started as a "business" per se -- it was just a project. It was in the spirit of sharing knowledge to fill a need required by an esoteric community. As is the case with the Web (and the world in general), if there's a continuing need for something, a way will be found to keep i...

I'm one of those who find the flash ads either innocuous or mildly entertaining. Perhaps it's because I like the companies that run the ads -- Antec, Corsair, etc. Aren't those ads generated differently than, say, the Amazon ads? Don't they come from SPCR's servers, while the others are third party?

and going through individual words so I didnt have to speak with a "northern accent". You mean like from Birmingham or Liverpool? If so, that's kinda funny. The Queen couldn't have used it then, nor anybody from Oxford who spoke the way Americans think they speak. In the U.S. now when you call tele...

I tried a few, albeit about 10 years ago, they were all very far from perfect, and training simply didnt work on half of them, the software still expected an accent, and refused to accept some words unless you changed your accent. But, man, that was 10 years ago. They've refined these programs a lo...

If you do forgo SSDs for the time being, there are now quite a number of hard drives that are extremely quiet, some of them with very large capacity.

Maybe I'm a little out of my league here, but I thought that plexiglass and acrylic glass were one and the same, with polycarbonate being a different material.