PURSUANT TO my conversation with @PFTompkins regarding DANCING TOWEL SCULPTURE MONKEYS here is another video in which the camera-person makes an already troubling scene EVEN MORE TROUBLING.
THIS IS Brattleboro, Vermont. As everyone in NYC was laughing about what a dud Hurricane Irene was, Brattleboro was underwater. It is a good town that still needs help, so if you have any last minute CONSUMER SEASON shopping to do in New England, won’t you consider visiting?
That is all.
(Source: hodgman)
A carnival ride turns inside of the cooling tower of a former nuclear power plant in Kalkar, Germany, near the border with the Netherlands, on May 28, 2011. The plant was constructed from 1977 to 1986, but never operated as a nuclear power plant. Now the plant has been converted to a fun park called “Wunderland Kalkar” and receives some 600,000 visitors a year.
Photograph: Patrik Stollarz
The Apple-centric blogosphere has been abuzz the past week with discussion over the iPhone “ring/silent switch”. To summarize, a guy sat in the front row at a New York Philharmonic Orchestra performance. His new iPhone rang for around a minute, causing the conductor to halt the show. He…
Good Magazine didn’t need my photos for the water piece, so here are a few I took those days. The green glass is the “frostie” mentioned in the article.
Apple wants users to be able to stream films they buy through the cloud to any iOS device. No surprise there, this is exactly what they just unveiled for music and television shows. But it sounds like Hollywood wants something in return: Apple to play nicely with UltraViolet — their shitty name for a new form of DRM.
Put simply: UltraViolet will not work without Apple on board. As the LA Times notes, iTunes accounts for 66% of online movie sales and rentals. But the key isn’t iTunes, it’s the iOS devices. If Hollywood can’t get UltraViolet to work on them, the effort is dead in the water.
In my view, Apple has all the leverage here. But having worked in Hollywood for a few years, I’m also positive that they’re too stupid to realize that. The likelihood they fuck this up is high.
By INGRID ROJAS
Channel: Latin American AffairsWilman Villar Mendoza became the third Cuban dissident to die from the effects of a hunger strike in the last three years. His death has provoked intense reactions among Miami’s Cuban exile community, one of the largest in the country.
I’ve given up on giving up slowly
I’m blending in so You won’t even know me
Apart from this whole world that shares my fate
And this one last bullet you mention
Is my one last shot at redemption
Cause I know to live you must give your life awayCause I’ve been housing all this doubt and…
Gourmet Ghetto - Berkeley, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Two stars.
He forked another helping of seared Muscovy duck breast with foraged chanterelle succotash into his mouth and chewed it mechanically and without joy. On his tongue the rusty tang of revenge sought and…
Have you ever wondered what some of the technical jargon means that makers take in order to specify the performance of affordable cordless speakers? In this commentary, I am going to describe one commonly used term: THD or “total harmonic distortion”. Looking for the ideal model from the huge amount of products, you might have a difficult time understanding a few of the technical jargon and specs that you will find in the specifications of modern models are available in all different shapes and sizes. Picking the right model can frequently be tricky. However, this term is still significant by way of determining the quality of a particular type. If a speaker states a distortion of 10% for instance then one tenth of the energy radiated by the loudspeaker is distortion. A distortion of 10% can also be shown as -20 dB. 1% distortion equals -40dB. On the other hand, be cautious because there are in fact a few elements that bring about harmonic distortion. Cordless loudspeakers along with any type of active loudspeaker or active subwoofer all have built-in power amplifiers to drive the speaker element. Amp distortion usually depends on the amplifier output power and is now and then shown for several power levels. Having amp distortion specifications for a few output power levels offers a better picture of the amplifier distortion performance. A lot of digital amplifiers are going to exhibit increasing distortion with higher frequency which can not easily be uncovered by glancing at the spec sheet. Distortion is furthermore induced by the speaker driver itself. The majority of loudspeakers use a driver which carries a voicecoil. This voicecoil is placed in a magnetic field. The voicecoil is going to track the magnetic field which is controlled by the music signal in order to move the diaphragm. This results in the signal being distorted by the loudspeaker element itself. In addition, the larger to power level with which the loudspeaker is driven, the larger the distortion. The total distortion of the loudspeaker therefore is the total of the amplifier distortion in addition to the speaker element distortion. On top of that, there are different contributing factors. As a result extra sound distortion is going to be brought on by the box itself. The audio analyzer will calculate the level of higher harmonics and compare these with the main signal to compute the distortion. Intermodulation distortion analysis is one more technique that provides a better picture of the loudspeaker distortion performance with real-world signals by using a test signal with two harmonics and measuring how many harmonics at different frequencies are produced by the loudspeaker. A different factor contributing to distortion is the audio transmission of cordless loudspeakers, in particular with models that transmit an analog signal at 900 MHz. The audio is digitized in the transmitter and not affected during the transmission itself.
