TheUnnamedNewbie

I'm curious as well! I really wonder how they will do. I can imagine they have to be completly watersealing around the ear since water between the driver and your ear will impact sound quite significantly.

People often like to believe that their audiosetup should be perfectly flat to give the best experiences. This is however not really true. For instance: even 500 euro Beyerdynamic T90s, are regarded as being amongst the "best in their class", yet (with exception of some 15khz+ if i'm not mistaken) a ATH-50 has better frequencyresponse - a T90 has a ("beyerdynamic signature") reverse slight v-shape. Even beyerdynamic's own "lower end" DT880 has a flatter response. It's the same reason why some people like tube amplifiers: they tend to give the sound a more pronounced lower-mid section "warming up" the sound. I would be lying if I were to claim I know the nitty-gritty details of why and how, but if monitors were the best option in terms of sound-enjoyment, nobody would spend money on things like Bowers and Wilkins speaker sets and high-end amplifiers and everyone would have monitors in their house. My source: http://graphs.headphone.com/graphCompare.php?graphType=0&graphID[]=963&graphID[]=2941&graphID[]=4143&scale=15 The only region where the "best headphone" actually has the best response is between 700Hz and 3kHz (upper mids). You can clearly see the "beyer signature" hump in both the DT880 and T90.

I'm fully aware of that. I was wondering about how we (should) program it

Don't get monitors for audiolistening. As much as people would like to believe that perfectly linear stuff is great for listening, it's not. You want distortion to "spice up" your sound. Monitors for actual enjoyment gennerally sound sharp, shallow, and lifeless.

Say "ill just get this part for now, and upgrade next month". You never upgrade next month.

This sounds very similar to what I have been having in 3d games. I also run a r9 280X. (see my post - will link in later). Tempratures are fine, works fine in everyday use, start gaming, and it suddenly just freezes. Can you check eventlogger to see if windows knows something goes wrong?

My guess would be testing or something like that even though it would be silly to have a cutout in the plastic (gennerally things are tested before they are put together). I think it might be for programming something, maybe for different places having different regulations concerning frequency bands or something?

Why not? They can't be made reverse compatible anyways, so why bother making the socket? this will just make it easier for people to know when a CPU will work with a motherboard.

And I can imagine something like a 4-wire headphone thing have issues aswell, since the sensing is gennerally just a 4th contact that will short on the ground pin of the connector when something is plugged in.

Well, the top speed is due to it being a prototype... I remember them also making it pretty much fully foam so people wouldn't go throwing themselves in front of it to get easy insurance money. Once they start hitting production (I can imagine this in as little as a few years) I am quite sure they will be made out of aluminum or the likes, and they must also be capable of at least 130km/h since otherwise nobody would use them (At least in most of europe, where 120km/h or even 130 km/h is the highest speed limit).

I understand that, but I was wondering more in the lines of "how" we do the calculation. If we just go utilitaristic on it, we might as well start sending people to kill themselvse so their organs can save more people than had to die. This would also open up a weakness: If you know a car will take the least-dead aproach, you could use this as a method of "killing", by simply giving the car the choice (say, stroll in it's way with a child) and knowing it's outcome. Should people pay for the wrongdoings of others (if I cross the street where I shouldn't, is it not my own fault that it kills me?), and, are certain people more important to others (is it worse to kill 3 80 year old people and save 2 children?) ... As simple as it sounds (just make it kill as few people as possible) I think there is a lot more to it once you start thinking.

I use a workstation/gaming system as my main system. Laptop for taking notes during class Smartphone for also taking notes during class Server for torrents, FTP, git. Second laptop for linux-things. If possible, I feel like smartphones should be added to the list, since I myself do a lot of work on the server with it (via ssh), and I even know a few guys that program on theirs when on the train on the way to class.

I think this is the right place for this, if not, do tell me. So, watching topgear, Jeremy Clarkson pointed out something interesting (that was already known, but he again reminded me about it): How do we do moral choices in a autonomous car? Since the autonomous car has no inherent sense of self-preservation yet is in control, lot's of moral issues come up - we now have a choice on picking who to injure and/or kill. Say a car is heading into the following situation: a pedestrian mother with her child start crossing a road, to close to the car for it to stop safely. On the left is a wall (hypothetically) and to the right is a row of trees. It now faces a choice: either, hit the pedestrians and kill them (or at least very likely kill them) or turn right, hitting a tree, killing both itself (but who cares) and the passenger. I think most drivers would go for the first option (or unknowingly kill themselves trying to dodge them) - our sense of self-preservation takes care of that. But should a car do the same? And on a sidenote: Should there be some "standard" for moral choices? I can imagine the need for one, since if the car of brand A will always put your life ahead of that of others (willing to kill many others in order to do so), but car B doesn't, that will give brand A an advantage, even though it's arguably morraly *inferiour* to brand B. Thoughts, opinions, other issues?

I'm guessin it's also possible to hack into the signal going between the monitor and computer, they have "newframe" commands. However, an arduino is no way near fast enought for that. (I'd think unless there is something handy like a frame-clock line in the cable but I'm not familiar enought with the standards to know). I wouldn't know how to do it in software, since this is something that get's done by the GPU.

Python is really aweseme, esp as a first language because it forces you to use propper indentation (using tabs and so on to "organise" your code) and it has both imparitive and object-oriented things (the main 2 you need as a beginner I think). Pretty much anything can be done with it, you just need to find the propper libraries for certain I/O related things I think.