Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

[433521]

True story: Sonar operators on my sub once located a Soviet sub that we were playing war games with by hearing someone drop a wrench onboard that ship. From about 10,000 yards away. They have highly trained ears.

Was it dropped on purpose to see if you'd hear it?

 

[sduford]

I'm waiting on the aliens to arrive and enslave us. Given our ability to handle crises, this shouldn't take more than 4 minutes.

Just imagine if they asked: "Take me to your leader".

 

[macdonjh]

True story: Sonar operators on my sub once located a Soviet sub that we were playing war games with by hearing someone drop a wrench onboard that ship. From about 10,000 yards away. They have highly trained ears.

I've always wondered why the US Navy uses yards. I know it's as good a unit as any, but why not feet or miles? Or furlongs.

 

[bcowen]

I've always wondered why the US Navy uses yards. I know it's as good a unit as any, but why not feet or miles? Or furlongs.

It's because of football. Imagine the announcers having to deal with "First down and 0.0056818 from the Panther's 0.022727 mile line."

 

[bcowen]

In music related news, we lost another great today. RIP Eddie Van Halen

Very sad. One of my favorites. I have every Van Halen album on both LP and CD.

 

[GumbyDammit223]

Very sad. One of my favorites. I have every Van Halen album on both LP and CD.

High school would not have been the same had I not been exposed to their first album. That was the first tape to be worn out in my truck's tape deck.

 

[sheldaze]

EDIT: average what Homer Simpson? Can’t quite get the word there.

The normal - likely to be above average - person allowed into Space would be called an Astronaut. Homer, being of a lesser mind, is called instead Averagenaut - not a real word.

 

[Ableza]

Was it dropped on purpose to see if you'd hear it?

Uh, no.

I've always wondered why the US Navy uses yards. I know it's as good a unit as any, but why not feet or miles? Or furlongs.

Good question. The only answer I have is because it's always been that way. The Navy does use Nautical Miles when the distances are large, like moving a ship across a sea, but always yards for ranging and targeting.

 

[JohnnyCanuck]

I've always wondered why the US Navy uses yards. I know it's as good a unit as any, but why not feet or miles? Or furlongs.

Good question. The only answer I have is because it's always been that way. The Navy does use Nautical Miles when the distances are large, like moving a ship across a sea, but always yards for ranging and targeting.

A "radar mile" was defined as 2,000 yards which turned out to be the most convenient measurement, so no need for land miles, nautical miles or furlongs.

JC

 

[GearMe]

Very sad. One of my favorites. I have every Van Halen album on both LP and CD.

...and 8-track (C'mon, man! Full disclosure )

 

[CarlosAudio51]

That is a good workaround except my monitor does not have an optical out. It has a headphone/speaker out which is functional but has a high noise floor.

Your approach works, but your TV still has to split the HDMI audio before spitting it out via optical. It is probably way better than those no-name HDMI audio splitters, but probably not as jitter-free as a direct USB connection to a DAC. I know we are splitting hairs here, but that’s what these forums are for.

I've always wondered about that. How is the audio affected by all the processing between the console (Xbox One/PS4) and the TV? On my console I have the HDMI audio output set to PCM. I don't know if that means that the game "outputs" 5.1 audio to the console and then the console audio controller splits off the 2-ch PCM signal to send it via the HDMI cable to the TV or if the game outputs 2-ch PCM signal natively. On the TV side, I have the audio output as PCM and then use an optical SPDIF cable to a Modi 3.

I do not know if this is better than using an external HDMI audio splitter or output 5.1 audio to the TV and let the TV do the splitting to 2-ch PCM. I haven't really tested this. This is the family room system. Very, very basic system (Modi 3 -> cheap Onkyo stereo receiver -> cheap Sony tower speakers) and almost never listen to much music with it so I guess I don't have much incentive to test it.

 

[bcowen]

...and 8-track (C'mon, man! Full disclosure )

LOL! OK, I'll admit to having a couple VH albums on cassette. Those are long gone. Disposed of after the high frequencies faded away or the tape wound itself around the player's capstan a time or two. My fondest memory of cassettes is when CD's replaced them.

 

[Varejao17]

A "radar mile" was defined as 2,000 yards which turned out to be the most convenient measurement, so no need for land miles, nautical miles or furlongs.

FWIW, aviation worldwide uses feet and nautical miles - even outside the US.

Feet is convenient because standard altitudes are 500' and 1000' apart, based upon a safety analysis of the performance of the altimetry systems (barometric for a number of reasons - not least of which is that baro is more accurate than GPS.) The problem with meters is that 100 meter altitude gaps are too close together, while 500 or 1000m gaps would be wasteful of airspace. And from a communications standpoint where voice is still predominant, you don't want to go to 300m or something like that as it would be difficult to speak, understand, and also visualize mentally. (That said, there are countries where meters are used for altitudes - Russia for instance - but they don't have the airspace efficiency needs that US, Europe, and other places have.)

Nautical miles are used because it is easier to convert nautical miles to latitudes - a Nautical Mile is 1 minute of latitude. Using kilometers would be less of an issue though as most navigation is done with computer assistance these days, even in small airplanes.

ed

 

[macdonjh]

A "radar mile" was defined as 2,000 yards which turned out to be the most convenient measurement, so no need for land miles, nautical miles or furlongs.

JC

Boy, that's not any less weird. A statutory mile has 1760 yards... At least the radar mile math is easier. As long as all those guys know what their buddies are talking about.

FWIW, aviation worldwide uses feet and nautical miles - even outside the US.

I wouldn't have expected that.

Slightly different topic: even for fairly large equipment, the few times I've had to use metric dimensions the standard was mm. It made for some pretty large numbers at times. Of course, if the standard had been m, the number of digits would have been the same, there just would have been that pesky decimal.

Now, is the Bifrost output in yards or meters? Is one of the upgrades in capability you get with the Yggdrasil the ability to have either US Customary or metric output?

 

[Varejao17]

Now, is the Bifrost output in yards or meters? Is one of the upgrades in capability you get with the Yggdrasil the ability to have either US Customary or metric output?

Volts and amps are both metric (SI) units.