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How do you house so many puns in your head?
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The threads are pulling them together.
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Why are apartments so close together?
Because in America we park on driveways and drive on parkways.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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And you wear your pants on the outside as well ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Why are departments still around?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Because they are all that's left, right?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Why is it called taking a crap, when you are in fact leaving one?
Jeremy Falcon
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Because you're renting a part of the whole building. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I like the title 
Bryian Tan
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The SO "Hot Network Questions" always have me chuckling. Here's a few of today's burning issues:
Quote: How would a command structure and strategy for a galactic war be organized?
Badly, I would have thought.
Quote:
How can I reliably catch fish without drowning?
If this is a recurring issue, stick to getting your fish from the market.
Quote: I've just been bitten by a rattlesnake; how, exactly, do I "keep calm"?
Pretend that the snake is a nice, fluffy kitten.
Quote: In Star Trek, why do Federation / Starfleet ships always seem to delay returning fire until it's almost too late?
Because it would be a bit of a dull show if they didn't.
Quote: Why are haiku usually of 17 syllables?
So you can tell they're not sonnets or limericks.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I was in a charity shop the other day and a record (vinyl) cover caught my eye. It was this Bert Kaempfert | Album | A Swingin’ Safari[^] which I recognized as an album my Dad had owned in the sixties. What I remembered was that the music was very corny but the recording quality good. I checked the disc and it looked almost unplayed so I bought it for $2. I took it home, put in on the turntable and was amazed. Lots of things have come a long way in 50 years but in my opinion an mp3 played on a headset just doesn't come close to a record played through a good hifi. I am now playing Dire Straits, Love over gold and that sounds pretty good too. The record store label from where I bought it states 5-10-82 which was just on the cusp of cd's. Looks like a bottle of red and some chicken wings tonight - oh and of course dig out some more old records.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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pwasser wrote: The record store label from where I bought it states 5-10-82
80's and 90's vinyl was actually pretty low quality compared to what went before and what has come since, as it tends to be very low weight and almost entirely recycled. And it still sounds better than any digital format could ever hope to do.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I still have Beatles albums from the sixties and yes they are thicker. I can remember the oil crisis of the seventies when vinyl records suddenly became wafer thin. I love the sound but if I stream internet radio through a Raspberry Pi and a good dac into the same hifi it also sounds pretty good.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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MP3 recorded at 160Kbps or 192 have all the data to play better than vinyl - of course if the source was that refined itself. Of course a good hi-fi has better audio than a headset: no power consumption contraint, no weight/cost constraint, no size constraint. They have different uses - my headset is almost constantly in use while my Hi-Fi has maybe 30 hours of usage in 10 years.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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den2k88 wrote: MP3 recorded at 160Kbps or 192 have all the data to play better than viny
No doubt under certain conditions - the dac being crucial.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Of course 
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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DACs can be surprisingly good but ultimately analogue will always beat digital when it comes to sound.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Just like vacuum tubes will always beat transistors in amplifiers.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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There is a real explanation for that: When a transistor reaches the ceiling, it hits the ceiling very hard. The signal peak is clipped, as if the peak of the signal curve was cut off with a knife. That gives an extremely nasty kind of distortion (which is nothing like the dynamic compression that some people refer to as "clipping"). Tube amps doesn't have any such hard ceiling: They may be unable to bring the signal curve to its very top, but first: It can for (very) short periods go way above the rated effect, and second: Even though lower than idea, the curve form resembles the ideal curve quite well.
The answer to this problem: When buying a transistor amp, select one which has at least ten times the output power you will normally need. Now, five watts gives you a lot of sound from most HiFi-class speakers, so fifty watts is plenty for most living rooms. But if you regularly turn up you amp to more than -20 dB (assuming that you have a volume knob graded in dB, with 0 dB as max), you need a bigger amp.
Another thing that is rarely discussed: Even a tube amp can deliver those peaks only if it can draw the power from somewhere. In the old days, the power supply transformer held signifiant energy as an electromagnetic field in the coils and transformer core, and a brief sound burst could tap this energy. Some amps had power supplies designed explicitly for building up an energy reserve: When the amp was switched on, you should let the power supply "charge" for maybe half a minute before playing loud music. Modern, switched power supplies have no such energy storage, unless they are equipped with huge capacitors solely for this purpose (which some of them have).
Again: If you have an amp designed to deliver 10 dB more than you will ever want to listen to, you will not risk emptying the reserve power stores. You do not need the power to play loud (even though some HiFi-freaks use it for that...) but to have power for the peaks when playing at more normal levels.
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PeejayAdams wrote: ... but ultimately analogue will always beat digital when it comes to sound.
Until that annoying crackle or rhythmic pop starts up, or the needle comes to that little scratch and skips half the song.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Doesn't happen if you look after your records!
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Not everyone has the ability to care for their records like that, especially not a teen or twenty-something I and my friends were back in the Days of Vinyl. And, stuff happens. To everyone.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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It seems to me that even grown people, so old that they must have handled vinyl records in their youth, now have forgotten how to treat the records. In my youth, we knew never to touch the surface, only the edge and the label, to discharge static electricity and carefully brush all dust off using a special-purpose brush. These days, you hardly see anyone but extreme HiFi-fans handling vinyl in a proper way. Not even in nostalgic TV-programs where you see them putting the record on the player.
You can hear it from the sound quality: In the old days, I sometimes taped (to open-reel tape at 7,5 ips) music from the radio because my own vinyl was worn down due to hundreds of times playing: The copy at the radio station was always without dust, cracks and static noise. Nowadays, vinyl played by the radio station is much worse than my own records, ruined by the kind of noise that comes from improper handling.
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