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Firefly on Blu-Ray is on Gold box today for $40. Cheapest competition appears to be about $47-48.

Will do.

Yeah, especially with me -- I live in safe neighborhood, and I work in a safe place with my car in a monitored garage, so there's no "fear of my car being broken into" to suddenly kick in and remind me.

I am reminded by this that I was going to boycott Monster Cable. Damn, I keep forgetting.

WTF is going on in this thread? Where's the hate? Have you all died and been replaced by pod-people?

I did, too. I'm tempted to do a rock version of portions of Schubert's "Die Frau Ohne Schatten", or, as I like to call it, "The Lady who hasn't had her shots".

I'd be happy to, if you don't end up being talked into doing it yourself. I've jailbroken my iPhone 2ce now (1.4 and 2.2.1). (And when I say "I've jailbroken", I don't want to take too much credit -- I didn't figure it out, I just ran someone else's software.) There is always a lag between versions and jailbreaks -- sometimes they're longer than others. I suspect 3.0 will be non-trivial, so we'll have to watch for it. I monitor the jailbreaking community, so I can let you know.

Well, it wasn't me, but I appreciate you posting it publicly, as it definitely interests me.

Direct connectivity > tape adapter >> fm transmitter (Translation: it's still better than an FM transmitter, by far.)

[devil's advocate]So what are you saying, that headphones are more resolving than speakers?[/devil's advocate]

Hey! I like Jeff Lynne. See here for example. (And read the link in the link.)

Oh, pshaw. Pshaw, I say.

Well, yeah, there's a performance point below which it's just not worth doing, that goes without saying.

I don't know that Pattern Recognition is necessarily the best Gibson book to start with, even though I liked it so much. What about The Difference Engine? That was my favorite work by him (although in that case, it wasn't him alone) before Pattern Recognition. Or what about the first bridge book, Virtual Light? I really like Dogfight, a short story of his, but I don't know how to tell you to read that alone, out of context. He's worth reading, he's just not my favorite of the genre.

That's true too -- I rearranged my room so that the corners were actually taken up by large, heavy objects (bookshelves and dressers and record shelves and whatnot), that actually will help some. If you make the corners into more, lesser corners, that's a good thing. But in my case, I'm also a bass-head, so that helped, too. You could try hitting yourself in the back of the head with a shovel.

Okay, I didn't realize it needed certain (hardware) capabilities, that's the key thing I was missing. I thought you could do it with anything. I stand corrected.

Yeah, it's a function of the wavelength and the thickness of the foam, you're right. I don't know if Ethan Winer has the actual formula on his site, but it's discussed on there somewhere. link ...or you could just ask him -- he was very active on there the one time I went on there, and honestly admitted he didn't know a lot about sound proofing when we realized that that was what my question was ultimately about. He says he specializes in low frequencies, and loves to share his knowledge with DIYers so that they can do it themselves.

So, I've seen some oblique references to "Duggeh's" surrounder (I think). What's the story? It's not like they don't exist. To wit: Zalman; Tritton; I'm pretty sure I've others.

What? Some people prefer the rear entry. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

It's like a surround sound microphone, except with cameras.

Well, there is no such thing as "Cuda hardware" -- accessing the GPU's in a video card can be done for any video card. It's just...a lot harder without the API. I think. Feel free to correct me.

What about up towards the ceiling? ...corners are the most crucial, so this arrangement will be surprisingly effective. Also, check out Ethan Winer's Bass Traps, I'm sure he has the information somewhere on his site...okay, he doesn't even bother measuring below 50Hz...that's not a good sign......

Yeah, and the "getting it working" thing, if it's not. (Although it sounds like, from the description that Afrikane gave, that it is.)

Thanks for posting an update, I was about to ask. Time to investigate "room treatments". Sounds like you have a serious standing wave problem, and it's possible to solve that with fancy DSP-based room-correction, but not with simple EQ. Believe it or not, it's much easier to get consistent results by treating the room. I would start with the corners. Even something as simple (albeit expensive for "just foam") as the Auralex LENRD bass traps made an improvement in my old room.