Everyone’s ear canals have unique shapes that affect hearing; some of us pick up high frequencies better, while others are attuned to bass. These in-ear headphones are the first that let you tweak the acoustics to suit your ears—or your taste—avoiding the distortion that results from adjusting the equalizer on your music player. For more thump on hip-hop tracks, attach the bass modules to the back of each earphone, adding larger chambers for the sound to resonate. Make vocals stand out by changing the treble filter on the earpiece to one that allows more high frequencies through.
And they're so thrifty!
Common wisdom dictates that in order to learn a complicated skill, it is best to break the skill down into parts, conquer simpler steps first, and then incrementally move forward, eventually getting to the hard stuff. For example, you don't just tackle a multivariable equation, you start with easier examples. First, you learn to add, subtract, multiply and divide. Then, you learn how to solve 2x=8, then x + y = 7, and so on and so forth until you are aptly equipped to solve 2(5x + z) = 30x + 3y + 10.
Met just drop kicked you all.
Fascinating. And free if you have a cam already. Love it. Still trying to figure out the wood chipper pic, though. What, are you about to throw something/ someone in it?
As part of PopSci's "Future of the Environment" special, we commissioned a modern, eco-themed take on the classic videogame "Frogger." In our version, called "The Walker," players have to catch various forms of alternatively fueled vehicles to help them cross a busy highway and make it to school on time.
This game is lame. There is a random sequence of cars that creates barely any opportunity. It's pretty impossible. And to make it worse, the music isn't looped right, so it sounds like you're listening to a record with a skip in it (or a bad ringtone). But, have some fun getting "booed" over and over for naught!
In poker, it is well known that playing the odds will net you more wins than losses, but it wont make you a top player. For that, you need an unquantifiable ability to read the other players at the table and decipher their emotional state when they make bets. Just the opposite is proving to be true when it comes to betting on winners in the NCAA tournament. Engineering professors at the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated that statistics accurately inform success in the tournament. Most peoples picks are based largely on emotional inference, they say, which leads to inaccurate choices.
Ok, I'll look at the model's results a little more closely next time... And the next time, the Heels WILL take the title!!!
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/04/01/april_1st/ Albeit I first heard it on the radio.
In poker, it is well known that playing the odds will net you more wins than losses, but it wont make you a top player. For that, you need an unquantifiable ability to read the other players at the table and decipher their emotional state when they make bets. Just the opposite is proving to be true when it comes to betting on winners in the NCAA tournament. Engineering professors at the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated that statistics accurately inform success in the tournament. Most peoples picks are based largely on emotional inference, they say, which leads to inaccurate choices.
Wait a minute, a statistical analysis machine puts the overall top seed in the tourney behind the overall number 4 seed? And the Psycho T factor should have put them winning in double digits. Rameses says GO HEELS!!!
The Financial Times reported yesterday that Apple is considering a plan to give people free access to its library of tunes if they pay more for their iPods or iPhones.
Bring it.
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