Snake Oil Department, Top This

[ppierre]

Hey, this is supposed to be high-end snake oil, not chiptune!

 

[Redacted]

Hey, this is supposed to be high-end snake oil, not chiptune!

Not really - there's snakeoil for every price-point on this thread.
We view cheap snake-oil as being fine for comment too.

 

[AndyBell]

Hey, this is supposed to be high-end snake oil, not chiptune!

But assembly language is definitely easier to write and compile if your power cables are specially designed to eliminate non maskable interrupts and invalid op codes.

I mean, isn’t that obvious?

 

[Redacted]

no-op
no-op

 

[Multicore]

FYI: In english it is called Assembly (language).
Assembler might be the cobble together the commands “assembled together”?

I wasn’t trying to nit pick.

I see.

Assembler was perfectly normal usage in the house I grew up in. And my mum was a pro programmer of that stuff since the 50s.

 

[Redacted]

My thing is that we need the death penalty for incorrect use of "apostrophe's" --- oooh bugger, no, please no!

 

[Multicore]

But assembly language is definitely easier to write and compile if your power cables are specially designed to eliminate non maskable interrupts and invalid op codes.

I mean, isn’t that obvious?

NMIs can be darned useful.

 

[ppierre]

But assembly language is definitely easier to write and compile if your power cables are specially designed to eliminate non maskable interrupts and invalid op codes.

I mean, isn’t that obvious?

Did older consoles have a toroidal transformer, given that this is a topic of interest to audiophiles...?

 

[Redacted]

Did older consoles have a toroidal transformer, given that this is a topic of interest to audiophiles...?

Don't be crazy! - we did however have to place our RS232 cables on raised plastic bridges in order to ensure the bits used for treble got to the device when testing.

 

[Redacted]

This is turning into "who is the oldest geezer on the thread?"

 

[mhardy6647]

 

[AndyBell]

NMIs can be darned useful.

Yup. I always keep some with me… IIRC Andrew Braybook used some in his games… Audiophile NMIs sound better, but cost more cpu cycles!

 

[Redacted]

I try to keep Non-Musical Interludes to a minimum.

 

[antcollinet]

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Letter O? Luxury! We used to DREAM of 'aving t' letter O. We had to merk do with a full stop int' middle o' t' ro'rd. Evry mornin' ....


I think I have said enough.

 

[xanalog]

"apostrophe's"

12 Apostles's? [sic?]
Are we back to religion again?

 

[Head_Unit]

Isn't the pope a Cathodic?

That's this one

 

[Egbert]

Maybe you are seeing something that I am not, but those eye pattern results tell the story…they are all clean enough that there would be no bit errors were introduced in any of those tests. That means the file would be the same regardless of whether the cores were installed on the ethernet cable or not. Also if there were bit errors, they would sound like a click or a pop if they are heard at all. There can be no improvement in sound (other than the absence of clicks/pops) as that would require co-ordinated changes to the file…something an ethernet cable, with or without ferrite cores, cannot do.

A response is valuable if you have investigated it yourself. A prejudice adds nothing. These are not expensive manufacturers with marketing stories but enthusiasts who, among other things, Have investigated themselves. Costs are about 35 dollars.

 

[Ropeburn]

A response is valuable if you have investigated it yourself. A prejudice adds nothing. These are not expensive manufacturers with marketing stories but enthusiasts who, among other things, Have investigated themselves. Costs are about 35 dollars.

Are you sure it's prejudice and not technically informed opinion? If it's the latter, the prejudice lies elsewhere.

"We investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong"... yeah, you know where this is going. Nowhere useful.

35 dollars for a useless thing is still 35 dollars better invested elsewhere, where it actually counts.

 

[MatrixS2000]

A response is valuable if you have investigated it yourself. A prejudice adds nothing. These are not expensive manufacturers with marketing stories but enthusiasts who, among other things, Have investigated themselves. Costs are about 35 dollars.

Problem is I have investigated. I am familiar with eye diagrams, I am familiar with ethernet, I am familiar with very large ethernet installations, I have designed very large ethernet networks and I have supported very large ethernet networks. Never have I recommended ferrite cores as a fix to a problem, particularly when the eye diagrams show there is no layer 1 problem. That type of reasoning would have landed me in very hot water not only with my former* customers but with my former* employer.

*former because I am retired now.

 

[Ralph_Cramden]