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...moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses, and villages after bein’ a litterbug.”As the debate over the Solomon Amendment plays out in the Supreme Court, I often find myself thinking about Arlo. After all, beyond the other questions that surround the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy there is a fundamental absurdity: the American military of 2005 telling gays and lesbians they’re not moral enough to join up.The debate over the Solomon Amendment...
Facebook.com creator Mark E. Zuckerberg advised introductory programming students to “surround themselves with smart people” in a guest lecture on web development he delivered at the College yesterday. The young entrepreneur—who was a member of the Class of 2006 until starting facebook.com in the spring of his sophomore year—spoke in a Computer Science 50 (CS50) “topic session” about the application of programming knowledge to real world endeavors. “I suggest you take the hardest courses that you can, because you learn...
...surround sound, you normally need either a home theater in a box-combo DVD player/sound system with a bunch of speakers-or a DVD player connected to an audio/video receiver that's in turn connected to the five speakers and subwoofer of your choice. The primary tasks of the receiver are to decode the surround-sound information coming from the DVD player (or cable/satellite set-top box), and to power the speakers to which it routes that sound...
...sound beam drivers," little speakers that work in conjunction to bounce sound at different angles all around a room. It also has 23 tiny digital amplifiers providing 82 watts of power. Since it also decodes the surround-sound data coming from the DVD player or set-top box, a separate a/v receiver isn't necessary. You do, however, need to plug in a subwoofer for the full effect. Yamaha sells an affordable matching companion sub, the YST-FSW100 subwoofer...
...Using a DVD of Constantine (surprisingly watchable, by the way), I compared the YSP-800 to a mid-priced surround-sound setup with Acoustic Research speakers powered by Pioneer's VSX-72TXV receiver (more on the Pioneer receiver in the coming weeks). I was impressed by how well the sound projector could replace the five speakers that are carefully positioned-ugly exposed wiring and all-around my TV room. The speakers give a little more midrange than the sound projector, but when it came to the tinkling of glass or rushing of wind in the surround channel, both rigs gave...