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What's wrong with the connector? Was it supposed to be like an ethernet cable, where you have to crimp the plug around the end, but the technician ended up doing it all the needlessly hard way?
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120 watts * 10 100 000 = 1.21 gigawatts!
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Probably, not to mention that I'd worry if he did real electricity wiring that way (note the brown wire, where the copper is exposed outside the connector).
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TRWTF is of course Yamaha recorders. Get him a Dolmetsch one.
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You've requested a new password, which is "provided here".
Fixed it.
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Option 2:
You've requested a new password, which is provided here:
" " (8 white spaces)
Addendum 2019-02-08 08:23: Great, the site removed my white spaces.. oh well you get the idea
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The recorder listing is accurate. At least, I'm pretty sure my son can produce 120 watts of sound power with his recorder.
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That password is unguessable.
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No, it's not. Watts is a unit of instantaneous electrical energy and has no direct correlation with sound energy in decibels.
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At a previous job, we hired a network technician to run all the CAT 5 cabling for a building. First day of work, he tells us he's colorblind.
He said "Point out which wire is which color." They were also patterned. Over 200 cable runs later, there's ONE dead connection. Lower problem rate than the color sighted techs at previously sized job.
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Are you trying to troll the physicists? Almost got me...
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Hertz Corp has inspired me. I'm going right down to City Hall and getting my name legally changed to "FirstName NoMiddleInitial LastName" .
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Judging by the indentations on the brown wire, it looks like it was placed properly but slipped out when someone opened the connector.
So with this kind of connector, I think the point is that you don't have to strip the wires. You do have to get the right colour in the right channel, but when you close the connector it simply cuts through the insulation to make contact.
But what's the significance of the monitoring's not "working so great"? Are the wires too loose when you do it this way?
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What wrong with that password? For security reasons, it is printed white on white background. Just use your mouse to highlight it, and you'll be able to read it. Thus, bad guys (TM) scanning your emails won't be able to detect it. Really safe!
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Acoustic power is expressed in acoustic watts. there is no set relationship between dB PWL and dBW; the former expresses acoustic power, the latter electrical power.
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He may prefer the YRS302BIII, which Amazon UK currently lists as having a slightly tamer 60 watts output, or if even that is too much, the YRA28BUKIII at a paltry 30 watts.
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120 W is about 50.8 dBm. I don't understand your assertion. There's totally a direct correlation between Watts and decibels, since decibels are actually a ratio so you have to define your reference value (1mW for dBm)
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I'm red-green color blind, and at my first programming job after college, one of my side tasks was to strip and cap network cables. I can't remember for sure which ones I had the problem with; it was either the green and orange wires or the green and brown wires. Some cable brands used a shade of green that was really easy to distinguish, and others used a shade that was almost impossible to distinguish.
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I'm supposedly colourblind, but the only effect it seems to have on my practical day-to-day life is that I can't get those colour-blindness test cards correct. The fact that I can't see the "right" number, or that I can't see a number at all, makes me a subhuman moron unfit to partake of the privileges of modern society, as is indeed meet and right.
But when I came to have my interview as a callow 17-year-old with a major electronics corporation, and I imparted to the interviewer about my condition, he gave me a bunch of colour-coded wires and asked me to classify them according to their code. I think out of 100 or so, I got 1 wrong.
Now, can someone explain to me that on some of these charts I can see more than one number, depending on whether I assemble it from, say, green and red sections, or from green and blue sections?
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See i.e. Wikipedia on color blindness. There are a multitude of different variants of color-blindness. The most common one is red-green blindness, but there are other forms, where one is unable to differentiate other colors or can only see a certain color with limited intensity.
The test cards used to detect color blindness are made up so that different kinds of color blindness can be determined.
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Hate to tell you (...no I don't) - the SI unit of sound power is the Watt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_power
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Hate to tell you (...no I don't) - the SI unit of sound power is the Watt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_power
Addendum 2019-02-11 08:51: Stupid proxy posting twice...
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You're worried about the brown wire? Take a close look at the white wire above it.
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TRWTF on that last one is emailing out the password, rather than providing a password reset link. Ideally, there should never be any sort of plaintext handling of a password. No way to retrieve it, no way for the support staff tonsee it, no 'here is your new password' email, nothing.
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You're looking for "e.g." there, meaning "for example". "i.e." means "in other words".
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Man, everybody's trolling everybody on this thread.