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Find And Run Robot / Re: programing mouse buttons for FARR
« Last post by Armando on March 23, 2008, 12:32 AM »Thanks! 
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. But one does not even have to go into technical details to understand the flaws in the argumentation. The fact is that even in double blind experiments (one of the most famous reported in the well known article by Ian G Masters & David L Clark : Do All Amplifiers Sound Alike in Stereo Review), "connoisseurs" who pretend that there are perceptible differences between -- for example -- reasonably "cheap" amps/cables and expensive ones can't in fact tell the difference (in a controlled environment)! The validity of the physics and electronic principles are one thing (and you have the right to believe that they're not reliable...), but these experiments involve human beings : if the so called expert that claims to be able to differentiate the great from the bad actually can't, the "theory" is... in big trouble (it's falsified on both sides : "humanly" and "technically", if I may say so). Prove me wrong, I'll be glad to learn something new.
One *could* say that they more expensive digital cables sound better because one paid more and is listening more closely...
Ok - Devil's advocate session is over...-Renegade (March 22, 2008, 11:23 AM)
It's the same thing with digital cabling. The input signal might be questionable, and after the signal has traversed the cable, the output systems can be questioned. But as f0dder and Edvard have said, the perfection of a cable carrying a digital signal within its specifications (distance, input voltage, etc) can be easily verified.-CWuestefeld (March 22, 2008, 01:39 PM)
With analog signals, it's a bit of a different story, because you can't do the same kind of bit-by-bit comparison, and then people get all emotional about their investment and obviously want to justify spending a zillion dollars on gold wired cables. All you really need, though, is cabling with the right level of resistance and enough shielding. If you live in a normal withtout a lot of EMI, buying super-expensive audio cables is just plain silly. I daresay that normal power-chord cables would do the job just fine-f0dder (March 22, 2008, 09:07 AM)
The Cable Lie
Logically this is not the lie to start with because cables are accessories, not primary audio components. But it is the hugest, dirtiest, most cynical, most intelligence-insulting and, above all, most fraudulently profitable lie in audio, and therefore must go to the head of the list. The lie is that high-priced speaker cables and interconnects sound better than the standard, run-of-the-mill (say, Radio Shack) ones. [...]
The simple truth is that resistance, inductance, and capacitance (R, L, and C) are the only cable parameters that affect performance in the range below radio frequencies. The signal has no idea whether it is being transmitted through cheap or expensive RLC. Yes, you have to pay a little more than rock bottom for decent plugs, shielding, insulation, etc., to avoid reliability problems, and you have to pay attention to resistance in longer connections. In basic electrical performance, however, a nice pair of straightened-out wire coat hangers with the ends scraped is not a whit inferior to a $2000 gee-whiz miracle cable. Nor is 16-gauge lamp cord at 18¢ a foot. Ultrahigh-priced cables are the biggest scam in consumer electronics, and the cowardly surrender of nearly all audio publications to the pressures of the cable marketers is truly depressing to behold. (For an in-depth examination of fact and fiction in speaker cables and audio interconnects, see Issues No. 16 and No. 17.)
I'd have gone with mouser on the security app thing (doesn't necessarily have to be an AV, could be something like a firewall bundled with HIPS) but your claim that CPU usage is very low blows away that theory.
Use Process Explorer to single out what's using so much CPU power during file operations.-nosh (March 22, 2008, 01:45 PM)
while initializing the menus-kartal (March 21, 2008, 09:38 PM)
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I want a good old tree based note taking program with rich text editing capabilities in notes. Why do people think they have to reinvent the note taking app in such weird ways like Evernote? One feature I would like in a note taking program is a new note hotkey that I can use from anywhere and it JUST pops up a note entry dialog with the ability to select a category from a drop down and the editing controls. Nice and compact, when you use the hotkey from Evernote it brings up the whole ugly unwieldy app interface. Why does taking notes have to be rocket science?-Tekzel (March 21, 2008, 08:55 AM)
We have to face it Evernote 2.2 is the end of the line unless you want a paid never ending subscription to a service that is at best unnecessary and at worst potentially worrying. Grab it while you can or forget Evernote. I have OneNote 2007 so I guess I will do the latter.-Carol Haynes (March 21, 2008, 08:30 AM)
People are forgetting - beta testing is making sure the software does what is required by the developer - not about providing what the beta testers want.-Carol Haynes (March 21, 2008, 08:30 AM)
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Yes it does. It was just sort of funny that a thread with this title would get so longBut to answer that simple question, SQLNotes is the greatest PIM on the market right now. Or more broadly: SQLNotes is anything you want it to be.-TucknDar (March 14, 2008, 03:08 PM)-superboyac (March 14, 2008, 03:48 PM)
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