Posts by Steve 6 62 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Sep 2009
They were not jailed for sending smutty texts.
They were jailed for planning "to commit sin".
A married couple sending such texts to each other (not planning to commit sin) would not have faced penalty (AFAIK).
Anyone there planning to commit sin, by any other means, such as emails, would have faced that same penalty. Soon there'll be talk of "two jailed for smutty emails".
1: Too simples. Convection: not so effective in the box. No vapour feedback within it either.
2: Temperatures were no higher when the CO2 levels were 10-20x higher than now; in fact there were ice ages - temperatures were lower! Granted that was a long time ago, but physics doesn't change with time. Either explain that, or "GTFO"?
"HDD manufacturers had been selling HDD's with capacities where kilo was base ten long before this."
Any manufacturers doing that were naughty, but I've pesonally never come across any HDs using that scheme before 1998 (then again, I didn't use them much before then anyway - lol).
I agree base 2 lends itself to easier low-level programming because of the nature of binary and hardware arrays, but that's what you get when wisdom is substituted by bureaucrats .
As it stands *today*, HD manufacturers aren't being deceptive with their capacities.
"HDD makers are right because they "redefined" the old "correct" way"
The IEC redefined it, they're nothing to do with HDD manufacturers. This was done to harmonise the usage of the prefixes kilo, mega, giga etc.
Think about it, a kilogram isn't 1024 grammes is it; a kilovolt isn't 1024V is it!
"rms is about 0.707 of peak for a sinusoidal wave"
Only for current OR voltage, not power - and that's with a resistive load.
"RMS is about 20% less than the maximum power."
No no no!
The 'root of the mean of the square' of a sinewave squared is half.
In english, the RMS power is 50% of the peak power (resistive load).
HD manufacturers aren't misleading anyone. They're actually using the correct term for data storage which was amended a few years ago. 'kilobyte' at al has been redefined, the old version is now called 'kibibyte' (kilobinary byte); OSes haven't been updated to reflect this.
Yes it's irritating and confusing, but not misleading.
"PMPO (Music Power Output or Peak Music Power Output) ... the only way you'll get 1000 watts out of a device the size of a deck of cards."
Even that's not true. The maximum voltage output of the amplifiers can't drive the resistive (not reactive) loads of the speakers to that level.
In the given example assuming 2x2R loads, 650W requires over 25V - USB gives only 5V. Realistically, PMPO is really 25W.
Perhaps manufacturers have specified what the speakers can tolerate for 1ms (before permanent damage), dismissing the fact that the amplifiers can’t drive them that hard.
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