The first comment to the blog entry pretty much torpedoes the whole idea:
You might want to check out section 1008 of the Audio Home Recording Act :
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.
Sounds to me like that's the "mix tape exception" to copyright law.
I don't care who's running the party, but what is it with the language? The author of the article hits on something that really bugs me. Fuck this, fuck that, motherfuckin' giant kicked my motherfuckin' ass. All this spewing out of the mouth of some kid who isn't even old enough to see a Samuel L. Jackson movie. I'm 45, spent 10 years in the Navy and even I don't use language like that. Hey, I'm not some overly sensitive, touchy feely guy, but, holy crap! Maybe somebody who is a quarter of my age can fill me in...
I think that everyone is just thinking way too hard about this. A multiple choice test is simply practical for tests of this sort. They lend themselves to rapid processing and eliminate the "that's what I meant" issue that comes from essay questions, among other things.
I have no lost love for organized religion but name me another one that charges you money to learn the church doctrine. And I'm not talking about a collection plate. Name another religion that was started by a guy that came out and said "Starting my own religion would be a good way to make money".
Not an exact fit, but how about the Mormons? They have some interesting ideas when it comes to church access and money.
As usual, Slashdot, the story submitter and the authors of the story got it wrong. A quick read of the OPSEC order pretty clearly shows that it doesn't require what the story claims. I know that it's all cool to dog on the military, but if you're going to do it, at least get after them for what's really wrong. This is just a big exaggeration.
Temperature has some effect, but above the thermal layer depth, the speed of sound is fairly constant - around 4800fps - because the decreasing temperature is offset by the increasing pressure. Below the layer, pressure affects the sound and tends to cause the sound "rays" to bend up to areas of lower pressure.
The boundary reflections are kind of interesting - if you have a sharp enough sonic layer depth, sound that gets through the layer can be trapped in a "channel" formed by the sonic layer depth on the top and a layer of extreme pressure below. The sound can travel for hundreds of miles with very little attenuation. In the US Navy, we called it the deep sound channel. Subs avoided it like the plague.
Given that sound waves curve in areas of different density (just like light), the receiver must accurately know the acoustic conditions and path between itself and the source else the location is suspect, no?
Only beyond a certain distance. Unless these are really high powered sonar devices, they'll be transmitting via direct path. It takes a ton of power or really odd sea conditions to use convergence zone or bottom bounce modes. And if they are on opposite sides of the sonic layer depth, it probably won't work anyway, unless they're very close.
Actually, it is the union contracts that are sucking them dry - the old contracts that they signed that provide rather fabulous health care and retirement benefits. It's not the current contract that is killing the Big Three. They're suffering because they have billions of dollars worth of pension and health care obligations from retirees - people who are contributing nothing to the company now.
It's a two way street, of course. GM, Ford and Chrysler agreed to the contracts, so it's a little disingenuous to criticize just the unions. But it's also fair to say that Honda, Toyota, et al don't have the same contractual baggage that the domestic companies are carrying. Apples and oranges.
You've got a couple of problems to deal with. The first is power consumption - two 2GB modules will consume a crazy amount of power. It's quite surprising just how much power a couple of modules require. The second is space. Current DRAM components are too large to fit 2GB worth on a single SODIMM. Take a look at the space on a DDR2 UDIMM and you'll see that there's almost no extra room on one of them.
2GB SODIMMs are built - I've worked on some creative designs that stacked DRAM components to achieve the necessary density, but the modules aren't suited for laptops because they're too thick and a notebook can't provide the necessary cooling.
It seems to me that you're a year or two ahead of technology, I'm afraid.
Single points of failure exist all over the place in naval vessels - and probably in every other piece of military equipment. For example, on the guided missile frigate in which I served, the entire propulsion system required electricity to operate. One afternoon, while we were operating with NATO ships in a Norwegian fjord, an engineman scheduled maintenance on one of the diesel generator. Three were online. The ship can run on two, although we always had three up. He brought down one generator, leaving two running. Then, instead of starting up another generator (we had four), he accidentally turned one of the remaining two off. The electrical system couldn't power the ship with one generator, so it shut down. When it shut down, the ship shut down. Everything. If it didn't have a battery in it, it shut off.
What worked? A few handheld radios, battle lanterns and that's about it. No radio, no radar, no sonar, no engines. The starter in the generator required high pressure air. Once the generator was started, we had to wait for the high pressure air compressors to recharge the air flasks. Then another generator was started - more recharging. Then the engines were started. After that, we could reload the combat suite software (which most definitely was NOT a Microsoft product).
That one point of failure put us out of action for an hour and left us completely vulnerable. And that's just one point. There are plenty of others. That's not particularly a bad design, but, rather, for maximum flexibility. There are a lot of configurations of equipment that can be made on a military ship and in battle, the commander does not want to find himself limited because somebody thought that one particular set was a bad idea. The downside is that there are plenty of "disallowed" configurations that can be made. And some of them are pretty simple - like every system on the ship being dependent upon a single power delivery point.
.../. for about a year. I see that nothing has changed. Why does the couple have to appear before the magistrate? Because the city wants to prosecute? Nope. Because the police department is pissed off and wants to make an example out of them? Nope. Because the officer is an ass and filed a complaint? Yep. It's just a "he said, she said" thing. Oh, and the couple appears to have sent the officer an inordinate number of emails, too.
Yeah, another completely misinterpreted summary, followed by pages of inane and mostly nontopical comments. I'm outta here again.
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It's not summer all year 'round in Canada...
...you fucking, ignorant asshole.
Well, that didn't take long. There has to be a corollary to Godwin's law in this.
...Harrison Ford's holding up pretty damn well.
Oh...what? Damn!
The first comment to the blog entry pretty much torpedoes the whole idea:
You might want to check out section 1008 of the Audio Home Recording Act :
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.
Sounds to me like that's the "mix tape exception" to copyright law.
I can't think of a paper adaptation except for having someone else help the voter.
An excellent solution.
Screw it. Are you fucking retarded?
Well, that didn't take very long.
I don't care who's running the party, but what is it with the language? The author of the article hits on something that really bugs me. Fuck this, fuck that, motherfuckin' giant kicked my motherfuckin' ass. All this spewing out of the mouth of some kid who isn't even old enough to see a Samuel L. Jackson movie. I'm 45, spent 10 years in the Navy and even I don't use language like that. Hey, I'm not some overly sensitive, touchy feely guy, but, holy crap! Maybe somebody who is a quarter of my age can fill me in...
If you're making that bet, I'll take a piece of it - naw, I'll take all of it. You're nuts.
I think that everyone is just thinking way too hard about this. A multiple choice test is simply practical for tests of this sort. They lend themselves to rapid processing and eliminate the "that's what I meant" issue that comes from essay questions, among other things.
That's not a hybrid system.
The diesel-electric drive of a locomotive is well suited to the load and speed requirements of a train. Not so much to a commercial truck.
I have no lost love for organized religion but name me another one that charges you money to learn the church doctrine. And I'm not talking about a collection plate. Name another religion that was started by a guy that came out and said "Starting my own religion would be a good way to make money".
Not an exact fit, but how about the Mormons? They have some interesting ideas when it comes to church access and money.
If you read that paragraph in the context of the document, it does not require what you think that it does.
As usual, Slashdot, the story submitter and the authors of the story got it wrong. A quick read of the OPSEC order pretty clearly shows that it doesn't require what the story claims. I know that it's all cool to dog on the military, but if you're going to do it, at least get after them for what's really wrong. This is just a big exaggeration.
Jere_Jones is absolutely right.
It's sad really how nobody remembers that the French were decisive in getting Americans gain their independence.
That's because everybody who was there is dead.
You can take my gun from me...oh, wait, wrong 2nd law...
Temperature has some effect, but above the thermal layer depth, the speed of sound is fairly constant - around 4800fps - because the decreasing temperature is offset by the increasing pressure. Below the layer, pressure affects the sound and tends to cause the sound "rays" to bend up to areas of lower pressure.
The boundary reflections are kind of interesting - if you have a sharp enough sonic layer depth, sound that gets through the layer can be trapped in a "channel" formed by the sonic layer depth on the top and a layer of extreme pressure below. The sound can travel for hundreds of miles with very little attenuation. In the US Navy, we called it the deep sound channel. Subs avoided it like the plague.
Given that sound waves curve in areas of different density (just like light), the receiver must accurately know the acoustic conditions and path between itself and the source else the location is suspect, no?
Only beyond a certain distance. Unless these are really high powered sonar devices, they'll be transmitting via direct path. It takes a ton of power or really odd sea conditions to use convergence zone or bottom bounce modes. And if they are on opposite sides of the sonic layer depth, it probably won't work anyway, unless they're very close.
What? A trick?
Actually, it is the union contracts that are sucking them dry - the old contracts that they signed that provide rather fabulous health care and retirement benefits. It's not the current contract that is killing the Big Three. They're suffering because they have billions of dollars worth of pension and health care obligations from retirees - people who are contributing nothing to the company now.
It's a two way street, of course. GM, Ford and Chrysler agreed to the contracts, so it's a little disingenuous to criticize just the unions. But it's also fair to say that Honda, Toyota, et al don't have the same contractual baggage that the domestic companies are carrying. Apples and oranges.
-h-
Oh crap, here I am replying to my own post. Where I said 2GB, please substitute 4GB instead. D'oh!
You've got a couple of problems to deal with. The first is power consumption - two 2GB modules will consume a crazy amount of power. It's quite surprising just how much power a couple of modules require. The second is space. Current DRAM components are too large to fit 2GB worth on a single SODIMM. Take a look at the space on a DDR2 UDIMM and you'll see that there's almost no extra room on one of them.
2GB SODIMMs are built - I've worked on some creative designs that stacked DRAM components to achieve the necessary density, but the modules aren't suited for laptops because they're too thick and a notebook can't provide the necessary cooling.
It seems to me that you're a year or two ahead of technology, I'm afraid.
-h-
Single points of failure exist all over the place in naval vessels - and probably in every other piece of military equipment. For example, on the guided missile frigate in which I served, the entire propulsion system required electricity to operate. One afternoon, while we were operating with NATO ships in a Norwegian fjord, an engineman scheduled maintenance on one of the diesel generator. Three were online. The ship can run on two, although we always had three up. He brought down one generator, leaving two running. Then, instead of starting up another generator (we had four), he accidentally turned one of the remaining two off. The electrical system couldn't power the ship with one generator, so it shut down. When it shut down, the ship shut down. Everything. If it didn't have a battery in it, it shut off.
What worked? A few handheld radios, battle lanterns and that's about it. No radio, no radar, no sonar, no engines. The starter in the generator required high pressure air. Once the generator was started, we had to wait for the high pressure air compressors to recharge the air flasks. Then another generator was started - more recharging. Then the engines were started. After that, we could reload the combat suite software (which most definitely was NOT a Microsoft product).
That one point of failure put us out of action for an hour and left us completely vulnerable. And that's just one point. There are plenty of others. That's not particularly a bad design, but, rather, for maximum flexibility. There are a lot of configurations of equipment that can be made on a military ship and in battle, the commander does not want to find himself limited because somebody thought that one particular set was a bad idea. The downside is that there are plenty of "disallowed" configurations that can be made. And some of them are pretty simple - like every system on the ship being dependent upon a single power delivery point.
... /. for about a year. I see that nothing has changed. Why does the couple have to appear before the magistrate? Because the city wants to prosecute? Nope. Because the police department is pissed off and wants to make an example out of them? Nope. Because the officer is an ass and filed a complaint? Yep. It's just a "he said, she said" thing. Oh, and the couple appears to have sent the officer an inordinate number of emails, too.
Yeah, another completely misinterpreted summary, followed by pages of inane and mostly nontopical comments. I'm outta here again.
-h-
Kentucky
Also, for what it's worth, Maine hasn't been a commonwealth since they split from Massachusetts in 1820.