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December 23

Realtek Issue

Dear all,

I have managed to get Realtek HD Audio Manager onto my machine. However, the reverb effects and other effects are entirely missing from the programme and I don't know how to get them back. Do any of you have any idea what the problem is here, and do any of you know how to get these effects back where they belong onto my machine? My audio driver version number is 6.0.1.8287, with the ALC269 audio codec. The installation was conducted on the 15th of December 2019. I am running Windows 10, version 10.0.18362, build 18362, and it is the Home Edition. My processor is an intel i7 model, with a clock speed of 1.80GHz. I have 8GB of memory and 900GB of storage.

Can anyone help me, here?

Thank you, 109.180.39.127 (talk) 19:14, 23 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You should've probably asked this at the Computing desk. What do you mean by reverb effects? Did you have it set to automatically reverb all sounds? Maybe you're missing the option because you haven't installed the full program or maybe Windows 10 only supports a limited version of it. Did you check that there isn't another piece of software by Realtek that does this sort of thing? 89.172.16.124 (talk) 22:44, 24 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I know, what I’ve got lacks certain effects. Realtek should normally have the option to choose one of several reverb effects, such as arena, underwater and more. It should also allow me to raise or lower the pitch of sounds by one or two semitones. These effects apply to all audio that is currently being generated, therefore effects are applied live. As far as I know, I have the full Realtek Audio thingy, I deliberately picket the one with the largest file size out of the options I had. Any suggestions? Pablothepenguin (talk) 20:23, 25 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah that's what I meant. Unfortunately I haven't had Realtek Audio installed for many years now. It might be that they dropped this functionality. Maybe try installing the driver from your motherboard manufacturer website? See [1] 89.172.85.141 (talk) 18:02, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I went to Medion, my motherboard manufacturer, and downloaded the audio driver, however the effects were still missing. Is there any way to get them back? 109.180.39.127 (talk) 20:23, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

December 28

Power plugs with retractable pins

Are there power plugs with retractable pins so that instead of pulling out from socket you have to retract/fold the pins? Thanks. 212.180.235.46 (talk) 18:55, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've got one that is built like that because it supports a bunch of different sockets. I wouldn't think it's a common setup. It's one extra point of failure. 89.172.85.141 (talk) 02:31, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Folding plugs are more common among portable devices, as sitting on a standard plug in your back pocket is unpleasant. I have a cell phone charger and a portable backup light/flashlight with folding plugs. I've not seen retractable plugs. NonmalignedNations (talk) 15:29, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A more interesting question might be why there are none (if there are, they're well hidden). The force to retract a pin is often large (the contact force on the pin generates friction) and so the easiest way to provide this is to make the whole body of the plug a handle. We don't have many where this force is big enough to become a problem (where we do, those use rotation of the whole plug as a bayonet lock, or else a threaded clamp handle) and so individual insertion / retraction would be useful.

There's also an issue where connection order is often an issue (Earth / Ground makes first and disconnects last) so individual movements would need interlocks). Andy Dingley (talk) 16:36, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

December 29

Semi-prohibitive question

Hi, I was sifting through Google some photos of the 1972 European Cup final between Ajax and Internazionale. Well, I was unable to glimpse in the pictures, photos of any luminous scoreboard in the "de Kuip" stadium in Rotterdam. Is it possible that it was assembled a few years later? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.41.100.198 (talk) 14:01, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Judging by the Scoreboard article LED scoreboards weren't in common use until the 1980s. A scoreboard from 1972 would've used lightbulbs. This might not stand out well in pictures from that time if the stadium had it. 93.136.90.120 (talk) 19:36, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film) - Fact vs Fiction

Were there differances between the 1959 film version of The Diary of Anne Frank and it's real life story? 86.129.17.60 (talk) 18:54, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Of course, starting with the 20-year-old actress playing someone who ages from 13 to 15 during the story. At least the 30-year-old they tried to cast backed out. Rmhermen (talk) 20:00, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You'd be hard pressed to find any movie which is totally faithful to its source subject material. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:42, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

See Film adaptation. The section on elision is particularly instructive.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 10:45, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Also note that the film was based on the play, and not directly adapted from the diary. I remember that we studied the play in high school English class, and there was an accompanying text in the textbook mentioning some of the changes from the diary. These included changing the chronology of some events, combining a couple of characters who visit from the outside into one, and similar types of minor changes. All to increase the dramatic tension and help in staging, without betraying the original story. Xuxl (talk) 13:13, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

December 30

Hello I have a question about my Samsung blu ray player

My Samsung blu ray model number is BDJ4500R: https://www.samsung.com/ca/audio-video/blu-ray-player-j4500r/ Is it region free? I would like to know so I watch some DVDs from Britain. Thank you. 204.239.8.205 (talk) 20:47, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I navigated a few links away from the page you cited and downloaded your user manual. The player is not region free; it says that the region is displayed on the rear panel of the player, if indeed you do own one of these players. Elizium23 (talk) 20:51, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for helping me. Can you tell me what region this player is please and if it would play discs from Britain? 204.239.8.205 (talk) 21:00, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No, because I cannot see your player's rear panel. Only you can tell us which region it is. "Region B" for Blu-ray discs is Europe, etc. If it's not Region B then you can't play a British Blu-ray disc. ("Region 2" for DVD video.) Elizium23 (talk) 21:03, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Additionally if the player has both a letter and a number (examples) it's coded both for BDs and DVDs. If it doesn't have a number it may be coded for BluRays but region free for DVDs (accepting all region DVDs). Many BluRay players that play back MKVs and similar formats are coded like that. There are also legitimate free or commercial programs that let you rip a DVD and make it region-free but that may be illegal in your jurisdiction. 93.136.90.120 (talk) 19:22, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Collins dictionary

When it comes to comparing terms translations into the languages on the site, does this dictionary use professors of those languages, in addition to standard English-speaking British professors? How exactly does it work? Thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.41.100.198 (talk) 21:31, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, IP user. I don't see anything on https://www.collinsdictionary.com/ which talks about who they employ, or how they work, but the site has a "Contact Us" section so you could ask them. I wonder why you think there are any professors involved? Some of the lexicographers might happen to also be academics, but probably not many of them. --ColinFine (talk) 10:12, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This 2017 article names Helen Newstead as their "head of language content". Her linkedin page says that she has an Master of Arts in Spanish studies and a postgraduate certificate in "online language learning" from Edinburgh University. So not a professor. Alansplodge (talk) 18:55, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

December 31

You don't notice what you don't notice

Curious whether there's a name for this fallacy. Say you're a Sneetch, and you think you can tell intuitively whether another Sneetch is a star-bellied Sneetch or a non-star-bellied Sneetch, even though everyone's wearing a shirt and you can't see whether they have a star. Sometimes you guess someone is star-bellied, then later you find out that they in fact are. But much of the time, you don't even find out for sure, and just become more confident in your nonscientific judgement of it, since your judgement is rarely disproven. Temerarius (talk) 00:06, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Does intuition stand up to scientific rigor? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:58, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmation bias? Mitch Ames (talk) 03:14, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Temerarius: What you named "you don't notice what you don't notice" is not a fallacy itself, but rather just a state of unnoticed lack of knowledge, common in beginners in all areas of knowlegde. Some detailed examples can be found e.g. at Quora “You don’t know what you don’t know”, what does that even mean?.

What you describe as a result of the state is an example of Inductive reasoning: you get some specific, detailed observation (a sample of verified guesses, all of which appear correct) and make a general conclusion (all guesses are correct).

The unnoticed fallacy in this reasoning is described in Inductive reasoning#Generalization and linked as a hasty generalization and a biased sample there. --CiaPan (talk) 09:24, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The concept of Confirmation bias probably applies to this scenario. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.30.195} 90.204.182.54 (talk) 16:03, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Also related to the taxicab problem/taxicab fallacy. (And is anyone else really grossed out by the phrase "star-bellied Sneetch"?) 93.136.90.120 (talk) 19:26, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Dr. Seuss wasn't.[2] ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:35, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Falling windmills

A junk windmill that was supposed to power up our entire neighborhood fell and did a lot of damage. It fell away from my apartment, which was good even though I doubt it would do damage from that far away. I doubt this is a one-off thing. So, I've been Googling. I can't find cases of windmills falling and damaging buildings and cars (the one here took out a billboard and fell on a parked car). Perhaps it is because most people aren't dumb enough to put one on top of an apartment or retail building. Are there references of similar situations that I just can't find? 135.84.167.41 (talk) 13:44, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Windmills are rarely placed on or near buildings because the disturbed airflow around a building is hard to extract useful wind energy from. Also it's known that such airflow often involves resonances which can put cyclic bending forces into the turbine mast, leading to failures. So it's just a bad idea and no-one does it.

In the euphoria of 2000 (and in London, again around 2012) there was a brief fashion for erecting urban windmills. These were mostly of the vertical axis design. The Gorlov helical design was favoured, as this reduces the cyclical loading problem, especially in urban wind conditions. And yet they have still been a great disappointment.

Most "worked" (but a £50,000 asset generating £5 / month was one example) and didn't fall down. But economic breakeven was almost unheard of, and reliability was generally awful. I know one locally which hasn't turned in five years and is mostly enjoyed by its roosting starlings.

It's rare for them to fail. Either by the mast failing, or by them shedding blades. I know of one urban turbine (5kW horizontal axis) which shed its blades, but that was during a severe storm and it may have been hit by other debris. It's such an undesirable accident that maintenance works hard to avoid this ever happening, and a dubious turbine will probably be removed before it's dangerous. An accident is probably predictable, and so would have more to do with lack of maintenance (i.e. removing it before real hazard) than inherent risk of windmills. But as they're just not a success as turbines, and they're now clearly yesterday's embarassing bad idea, we're going to see many more removed in the future, or left until they do become dangerous. Some are pretty well known for shedding small parts in high winds. At present though? It's still a pretty rare event. The riskiest size are probably 5-10kW machines on remote farms, where the wind can (sometimes) just get to crazy levels. People in those areas generally recognise that.

Was your example the one in the Bronx? AIUI, that one was still being erected and wasn't yet regarded as commissioned and installed. It's not clear to me why it failed, but there are several possibilities. Firstly, if it was allowed to free-spin and it had a wind of >20mph on it, then it _might_ overspeed (The control system should have set the blade pitch to avoid this, but it wouldn't be the first where the control system wasn't yet in service, and the blades were left in the wrong state. You don't ever erect wind turbines in Winter with no control system!) Also the mast failed at the base. Now maybe the head loads went excessive and that will then always destroy the mast, or maybe the mast mount simply failed because someone didn't mount it properly - you'd have to check the wreckage. Maybe it was an airflow problem, and strong wind in one direction just set up the wrong resonance. But still, this is a rare accident. Andy Dingley (talk) 14:54, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A bit out of date but Factcheck: How often do wind turbines break? (2015), but it's UK focussed and by Greenpeace who may not be entirely motiveless.

I also found on YouTube; Germany: Wind turbine blade flies crushing lorry on the autobahn and GIANT wind turbine collapses in Northern Ireland.

Alansplodge (talk) 19:02, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Those are large turbines though, maybe 2MW, so several hundred times the power we're talking about here. Andy Dingley (talk) 19:25, 31 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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 == The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film) - Fact vs Fiction ==