Posts by Some Beggar

Re: taking this theory further...

Most of that 15C is because urban areas are made of brick, concrete and asphalt and act as massive solar ovens storing up the sun's heat and blocking any cooling winds. Pompeii is effing hot in the summer and I don't think there are many Roman aircon units still running.

Re: Constant input

Quite. But that's the same constant input as is received by any other area at the same latitude. They are trying to explain why there would be local differences.

Re: Humidity?

Built-in aircon drips the humidity into the drains. The units that are bolted to the side of existing buildings don't. You can steam clean your clothes outside half the residential buildings in Kowloon.

Re: taking this theory further...

Not quite as daft as it sounds. Ever stood by the exterior vent of an air conditioning unit? In built-up areas, air conditioning contributes a non-negligible amount to the heat and humidity of the immediate surrounding area.

Re: But cooling elsewhere

Removing energy from the flow means that the flow can't reach as far as it once did, so 'where ever' doesn't get the cooling breezes it used to.Consequently, 'where ever' gets warmer.

First Law of Thermodynamics again. How does removing energy from the system cause another part of the system to gain energy in the form of heat?

Re: Would you like to buy a bridge?

That's not what I asked.

Re: jitter-free analogue signal

(that should be "Arcam sales bumph")

Re: It is not intended to be a panacea

I'm putting them up my bum.

Re: Don't be too harsh

"If you can get a £10 box of bits and sell it for £150, welcome to capitalism"

Absolutely. But when somebody does sell a £10 box of bits for £150 it is the responsibility of people who know better to point that out. And a reviewer on a techie website should be one of the people who knows better. Writing a fluff piece that gives that £10 box of bits a score of 90% is weak.

Re: Would you like to buy a bridge?

Rather than spamming a blog, perhaps you could simply explain what else you believe is inside that pretty box that would bring the necessary BoM and design costs into double figures, let alone up to £75 or £150.

I just poked around and the same (or essentially the same) DAC is used in several of those cheapo USB-driven (rather than USB-powered) PC speakers. So that's the entire useful contents of that box plus two (or four) drivers, power/volume control, caseworks, headphone output and cable to connect the satellite speaker ... all for between £25 and £50 retail.

So ... can you persuade me that this device is anything other than audiophile homeopathy?

I've never had any trouble with them. They must really hate you.

Re: So ?

They're not.

HTH.

Re: Premature

Many of these [insert your superlative] products are about as 'real' as the concept cars you see at motor shows. There's no rush to ever get them to market. They get attention at trade shows and free advertising in the papers.

I mean ... not The Register obviously. They wouldn't be gullible enough to splash the word PANASONIC onto their interweb just because somebody at PANASONIC released the sniff of a hint of a rumour that a big and shiny PANASONIC product might possibly go on sale at some vague point in the future. Maybe. Perhaps.

Re: Eh?

He's presumably talking about impulse rather than force. The basic arithmetic and underlying point remain: you would need to drop a truly massive hat to cause a ripple on the Richter scale.

(and if you're going to attempt pedantry then force is written as an upper case F)

Re: Weak.

"What's so crazy about the idea of multi-cellular life forms being part of a higher level multi-cellular life form?"

There is no mechanism proposed by this could work and no test proposed to verify whether it is false. That might make it "interesting" to some people, but it disqualifies it from being a scientific hypothesis.

Re: They haven't built a "computer" by any ordinary definition.

Comparing performance is not really the same as calling it a computer.

It's like bragging about the power of a jet engine by comparing it to "the most powerful internal combustion engine".

Bill Hicks was right about marketing.

Re: Here I am..

a reproductive tract the size of the universe

George Osborne?

Re: This sentence should be taken out and shot!

It makes more sense if you read it in the voice of Borat.

Re: portable?

You seem somewhat confused about what "portable" means. Is your name Humpty Dumpty?

And tablets are already available with 3G. It'll be standard in all but the bottom rung in the next generation.

Re: What's it called?

@Neil Lewis

Are you sure you're not confusing 'work' with another word that starts with 'w' and ends with 'k'?