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I think I'd prefer the more sedate Tesla S, I love the idea of a sports car, pity I could not fit in one!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I'm looking for a good headset with microphone. I really need one that gives good audio fidelity and where speech will be rendered cleanly with minimal background noise. The kicker is, I'm going to be using this on an Ultrabook without a microphone input - so what I really need is for it to be USB. I'm not that bothered about cost, it's the quality that is important.
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I have 2 of these.[^]
They work very well
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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You know, I'd never even considered wireless. Nice.
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They work well, even from a distance. I really like them.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Wouldn't you have you shout pretty loud if you were using it from a distance?
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I also have this,[^] and there is no interference with the headset.
The USB plugs looks the same so you gotta know which one is the headset, but it's not really a problem
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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With wireless it's good to check it out in its environment to see if interference is a problem.
At my previous office my wireless headset was "totes awes" (as I believe the yoof of today are wont to espouse) but, in my new residence, it tends to sound like I'm in a snake pit, with a noticeable background hissssssssss.
I did have some headphones that were wired OR wireless - but not terribly good quality, hence they broke when I sat on them - but that's what I would go for in the future if the budget allowed.
this one[^] is the nly one I found with a quick google - but apparently not yet available. Being bluetooth interference tends to be lower, and you can use it with your phone, which gives you a huge cool bonus on the bus.
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I know this is an old debate, but as someone working a lot on the phone at work, I declined the offer of having a source of wave emission that close to my brain.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Hi Pete,
This excommunicate really likes the LogiTech G930's. USB, Full over-the-ears, sound quality very good. Fold-down microphone auto-on when lowered [^].
cheers, Bill
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.” Jorge Luis Borges
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If you're really not bothered by cost you can have a look at this one[^].
Comes with detachable USB-DAC.
Sadly not available as yet. 
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If you are more concern about the clarity of the microphone then try Samson USB Microphone[^] (And if you are OK with spending few extra $$$ then get the 'pop filter' ~$20.00), And for headset just get any USB / Bluetooth enabled headset.
Oh and since now you have a studio, don't forget to share the link of your Podcast. 
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Rutvik Dave wrote: Oh and since now you have a studio, don't forget to share the link of your Podcast.
It's not for that. I'm now an author for Pluralsight and I'm writing a course for them on using the new Intel RealSense (Perceptual Computing) SDK. I need the headset for my demonstration of voice, face and gesture recognition.
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We are using THIS USB CONTROLLED POWER STRIP[^] to control a household appliance. (We are simulating a power outage)
According to the specs, the device can handle 8 amps.
Our appliance can draw that much at one time.
This device was about the only thing I found from searching the internet (at which, I am admittedly, NOT the world's leading expert)
Boss told me to go find one that can do 16.
I suppose 19.9 would be the ideal.
Anyway, I welcome suggestions from those who have knowledge and experience with other similar devices.
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You already have a 8 amp source that you can control with a USB port; use it to control a larger relay. You'll have to build a box, probably, and buy a large relay (called a contactor, often), but they're readily available. Any electrical supply house can provide you with a box, power cord, an outlet for your appliance and a contactor. An ideal solution would be an inexpensive single phase motor starter. Connect your appliance to the contactor or starter, connect the coil to your power strip, and use the USB port to switch it on and off. The advantage of using a starter rather than a contactor is that the starter usually comes with an overcurrent protection circuit built in, and usually sports a couple of auxilliary contacts you can use to turn indicator lights on and off for status monitoring. But you pay for that, of course.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I can imagine the look on his face as your telling him all this: He'd be staring at you, not moving, maybe the eyebrows raise a bit here and there. You finish and the stare lingers for a heartbeat before he turns back to his computer and types
https://google.com?q=18.9V+USE+Power+Stri<blink>_
cheers
Chris Maunder
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You forgot to mention the trickle of drool from one side of the OP's mouth.
But that's okay. It will all become clear next lesson when we discuss thyristors triggered by Josephson junction-based super-conducting qubits. The obvious advantages far outweigh any cost considerations. The step from there to relay logic and ladder programming is quite simple, after all.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Does anyone use relay logic and ladder programming anymore?
Heck, do today's kids even know the meaning of these terms?
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Yes, I have to once in a while. It's a bit fun if you have the time to study it.
Will Rogers never met me.
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It's very much alive and well. I never saw it in my life until our company took over management of the tribe's water and sewer operations. Everything in those businesses is run by relays and programming is documented on ladder diagrams. It's baffling until you learn to view it as a pseudoschematic of a logic circuit.
Will Rogers never met me.
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A company called Steeplechase Systems developed a complete replacement for Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) using a PC as the controller and using a flowchart to describe the operations. The flowchart directly compiles to code.... no need to code in faaaarkking Embedded C or any such crap.
They were based in Ann Arbor, MI and were trying to sell them to automobile manufacturers who have huge assembly lines controlled by hundreds of PLCs.
The sensors and actuators and have to be there but the logic of operating the latter is abstracted into a program. The relays through which signals cascaded were replaced in the 1960s by PLCs and in the late 1990s by software.
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You sound like all my old Maths professors: "The step from there to relay logic and ladder programming is quite simple, after all. The proof is left as an exercise for the reader"
cheers
Chris Maunder
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How do you manage to get any?
I'm very curious as to how you mentally discipline yourself. Put another way, convince yourself...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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When I first started as a contractor back in 1847 I steadfastly refused to take any time off; reasoning that time off == money lost. The most I would do was a week and then only if at least one of the days was a public holiday that I didn't get paid for anyway.
But then I realized that time off == better work. Besides, I got to the point where I had an annual budget which aimed to work at least 44 weeks in any year; more if possible but I would be okay at 44.
So started to take more time off; first 2 weeks, then 3 then 4 at a time and it made no real difference. I still made the money I wanted to and had some great vacations.
Moral of this tale: take time off: it will make you a better worker. 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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