I certainly hope this is a hoax, but business will do anything to grab a buck.
It (Pepsi) probably is (Geiko). After all (McDonalds), I can't (Ford) (Sonic) see (Microsoft) how ANYBODY (Home Depot) would want (SBC DSL) this (Subway) kind of (Cingular) crap (Wal-Mart) on their (Budweiser) friggin' (Nokia) GRAVES.
C'mon, people. Yell about the MPAA all week until they have a movie you want to watch and then you don't even ask why the "special edition" features aren't on the "regular" edition. SUCKERS!
No, no, no, you've got it all wrong.
See, here on Slashdot, different things are hated at different times of the week. For example, the MPAA is hated on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, but not Tuesdays. And since today is a Tuesday, there you have it -- Slashdot doesn't hate the MPAA today!
Slashdot follows a similar schedule with the RIAA. I don't remember for sure what it is, but I think it's something like M-Th-SAalike, T-W-F-Su dislike. Anybody know for sure what Slashdot's RIAA schedule is?
Say for example that the ads take up the bottom 15% of the screen. Would the solution then be to alter one's television to only show the top 85% of the screen? You could choose between stretching the remaining image to fit the screen, just blacking out the ads, or even replacing the ads with anything you want. (Personally, I could go for a Zombocom banner)
I doubt it would be hard to hack TV card drivers so that they would do this. How difficult and expensive would it be to do this to a normal TV?
According to the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
As a licensed skydiver, I will say that the Worst-Case Scenario Survival handbook is full of shit. They have a section on how to survive if your parachute doesn't open; part of what they tell you to do is signal to other jumpers in the air that your parachute won't open, dock on them, and hold on to them until landing. First of all, everybody else will have deployed by the time you realize you're in trouble, and even if there were people with you, you wouldn't have time to dock onto them, get a good grip on them, and let them pull. It would take a VERY good grip on them too -- the deceleration of them pulling with the added weight of you hanging on would make holding on a bit difficult.
What they don't tell you is what you are taught over and over and over again during your student training -- if your parachute doesn't work, pull your friggin' reserve!
It is blatantly obvious to me that whoever wrote that book never took a lick of skydiving training. They have NO business telling people what to do in a situation like that. Their advice wouldn't help you; it would more than likely kill you. Look at this book as nothing more than a humor book...you're putting yourself in danger if you take it seriously.
His velocity will probably be about 200 km/h when his chute gets pulled. Why 200 km/h? That's the terminal velocity due to wind resistance at the height (1000ft) where his chute gets pulled.
1000 feet? Let's hope he pulls higher than that. At 1000 feet, terminal velocity is around 120 mph, which means that you have about five seconds until impact. If you take into consideration that some parachutes are packed or designed to snivel on opening, 1000 feet may even be too low for him. He could use his reserve, which according to FAA TSO guidelines must open within 300 feet, but an opening that quick would damage the reserve.
Generally, when jumps from this high are made, they pull at 10000-15000 feet. I've pulled this high before (I pulled right after I got out of the airplane) -- the view is INCREDIBLE.
Wouldn't the parachute only open once he slows down due to terminal velocity--something I'm sure parachutes are subject to?
The parachute will open at just about any speed as long as he is falling. It'll open at as little as 10-20 mph, and if he wants it to, it'll open at 500-600 mph. He'd have to be brain-dead to open at this speed though...since kinetic energy depends on the square of velocity, he would be putting an incredible strain on the parachute (which likely wouldn't survive opening at this speed) and himself.
To (greatly) simplify things, assume that one bit of information can be stored in one electron, and that no overhead is added for filesystems and the like.
The mass of an electron is 9.11e-31 kg. As a sample mp3 to use for comparison, take the Beatles' "Hello Goodbye." My rip of this is 5,494,880 bytes in length. This translates to 5494880*8 = 43959040 bits of data. So, using the simplified one-bit-one-electron method, Hello Goodbye has a mass of 43959040 * 9.11e-31 = 4.0044e-23 kg.
How much does a CD weigh? Assume one half ounce. In reality, they weigh less, but this will be close enough for comparison purposes. 1/2 ounce is 1/32 of a pound. Since pound is a unit of force and not mass, you can use F=m*a to convert this to the equivalent mass unit in the English system, which is the slug. 1/32 = m * (32.2 feet/s^2) yields a mass of 9.705e-4 slugs for a CD. A slug is equal to 14.5939 kg, so 9.705e-4 slugs is equal to.014163 kg.
Now you can compare directly. The MP3 weighs 4.0044e-23 kg, and the CD weighs.014163 kg. Simple division indicates that the CD is about 3.537e20 times heavier than the mp3.
Note: I'm a Computer Engineer. I'm not an English Major. Do not reply just to critique my spelling.
Being an ECEN (Electrical/Computer Engineering) major myself, my comment on this is that if you're going to be an engineer, your past coursework and personal knowledge should have been sufficient enough to teach you proper spelling and grammar. If nothing else, take courses in college to improve your English.
The most recent one before they were shutdown had tracking software that you couldn't not opt-out of.
Sure you could have opted out of it...just use Audiogalaxy Lite instead. Better UI, no spyware. (I'm not going to bother finding a link to it because it's not like you'd be able to download anything with it now)
However, I don't get it, if you don't want to pay those heavy overprized CDs, just turn you radio on and don't buy any CD, it's pretty easy.
The problem with this is that Clear Channel and the RIAA don't want you to listen to anything that isn't Top10 material. They want you to listen to Britney, N*Shit, etc. If you can handle listening to oldies stations (which I can), then fine, but don't expect to hear much if any high-quality contemporary stuff on the radio.
However BY FAR the most imporant reason in my mind is that when you ask a telemarketer/bulk mailer to quit, THEY WILL
Not all will. Discover never did do this, and I remember giving them the do-not-call-list speech quite a few times. (Needless to say, I won't be getting a Discover card any time soon.)
I was wondering how this would bode for CD's with a "secret track" on them? I'm talking about the CD's where on the last track, after the main song is finished, there is about 6 minutes of silence and then some more music or a clip of the band talking and hanging out. Do all these CD's infringe on the copyright?
I've seen CDs with the standard 15 songs on them, then a hidden track as track 99. Tracks 16-98 were a couple seconds each of silence. Does this mean that the CD violated the copyright 83 times?
Kind of a shame, because the LA Times has some good content too, and we've posted lot of links to them in the past, before they went registration-required
Just like you posted a lot of links to NY Times before they went registration-required? Oh wait...you still post a lot of links to them.
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I'm sure Disney has a few extra bucks to throw the farmers' way and an NDA to boot if they wanted to make this work.
Or they'll just do what they normally do and buy themselves a law.
Can someone please tell me why this is not the responsibility of Microsoft?
Because our current administration finds it unimaginable to restrict corporations.
I certainly hope this is a hoax, but business will do anything to grab a buck.
It (Pepsi) probably is (Geiko). After all (McDonalds), I can't (Ford) (Sonic) see (Microsoft) how ANYBODY (Home Depot) would want (SBC DSL) this (Subway) kind of (Cingular) crap (Wal-Mart) on their (Budweiser) friggin' (Nokia) GRAVES.
C'mon, people. Yell about the MPAA all week until they have a movie you want to watch and then you don't even ask why the "special edition" features aren't on the "regular" edition. SUCKERS!
No, no, no, you've got it all wrong.
See, here on Slashdot, different things are hated at different times of the week. For example, the MPAA is hated on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, but not Tuesdays. And since today is a Tuesday, there you have it -- Slashdot doesn't hate the MPAA today!
Slashdot follows a similar schedule with the RIAA. I don't remember for sure what it is, but I think it's something like M-Th-SAalike, T-W-F-Su dislike. Anybody know for sure what Slashdot's RIAA schedule is?
Say for example that the ads take up the bottom 15% of the screen. Would the solution then be to alter one's television to only show the top 85% of the screen? You could choose between stretching the remaining image to fit the screen, just blacking out the ads, or even replacing the ads with anything you want. (Personally, I could go for a Zombocom banner)
I doubt it would be hard to hack TV card drivers so that they would do this. How difficult and expensive would it be to do this to a normal TV?
A reserve that would blow up on a terminal deployment wouldn't be much of a reserve, now would it?
Guess not...my reserve deployment was a cutaway from a spinning malfunction, but it wasn't anywhere near terminal.
According to the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
As a licensed skydiver, I will say that the Worst-Case Scenario Survival handbook is full of shit. They have a section on how to survive if your parachute doesn't open; part of what they tell you to do is signal to other jumpers in the air that your parachute won't open, dock on them, and hold on to them until landing. First of all, everybody else will have deployed by the time you realize you're in trouble, and even if there were people with you, you wouldn't have time to dock onto them, get a good grip on them, and let them pull. It would take a VERY good grip on them too -- the deceleration of them pulling with the added weight of you hanging on would make holding on a bit difficult.
What they don't tell you is what you are taught over and over and over again during your student training -- if your parachute doesn't work, pull your friggin' reserve!
It is blatantly obvious to me that whoever wrote that book never took a lick of skydiving training. They have NO business telling people what to do in a situation like that. Their advice wouldn't help you; it would more than likely kill you. Look at this book as nothing more than a humor book...you're putting yourself in danger if you take it seriously.
His velocity will probably be about 200 km/h when his chute gets pulled. Why 200 km/h? That's the terminal velocity due to wind resistance at the height (1000ft) where his chute gets pulled.
1000 feet? Let's hope he pulls higher than that. At 1000 feet, terminal velocity is around 120 mph, which means that you have about five seconds until impact. If you take into consideration that some parachutes are packed or designed to snivel on opening, 1000 feet may even be too low for him. He could use his reserve, which according to FAA TSO guidelines must open within 300 feet, but an opening that quick would damage the reserve.
Generally, when jumps from this high are made, they pull at 10000-15000 feet. I've pulled this high before (I pulled right after I got out of the airplane) -- the view is INCREDIBLE.
Wouldn't the parachute only open once he slows down due to terminal velocity--something I'm sure parachutes are subject to?
The parachute will open at just about any speed as long as he is falling. It'll open at as little as 10-20 mph, and if he wants it to, it'll open at 500-600 mph. He'd have to be brain-dead to open at this speed though...since kinetic energy depends on the square of velocity, he would be putting an incredible strain on the parachute (which likely wouldn't survive opening at this speed) and himself.
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But, ironically since their robots.txt doesn't have exclusions, google had it in their cache...
So couldn't you just spoof your browser ID as that of a robot?
Don't even bother scanning your cat!
Hmmm...exacting revenge on junk faxers...might there actually be a good use for the goatse picture here?
The MP3 weighs 4.0044e-23 kg, and the CD weighs .014163 kg.
s/weighs/has a mass of/;
Oops.
I'm sure. How much does an mp3 weigh?
.014163 kg.
.014163 kg. Simple division indicates that the CD is about 3.537e20 times heavier than the mp3.
To (greatly) simplify things, assume that one bit of information can be stored in one electron, and that no overhead is added for filesystems and the like.
The mass of an electron is 9.11e-31 kg. As a sample mp3 to use for comparison, take the Beatles' "Hello Goodbye." My rip of this is 5,494,880 bytes in length. This translates to 5494880*8 = 43959040 bits of data. So, using the simplified one-bit-one-electron method, Hello Goodbye has a mass of 43959040 * 9.11e-31 = 4.0044e-23 kg.
How much does a CD weigh? Assume one half ounce. In reality, they weigh less, but this will be close enough for comparison purposes. 1/2 ounce is 1/32 of a pound. Since pound is a unit of force and not mass, you can use F=m*a to convert this to the equivalent mass unit in the English system, which is the slug. 1/32 = m * (32.2 feet/s^2) yields a mass of 9.705e-4 slugs for a CD. A slug is equal to 14.5939 kg, so 9.705e-4 slugs is equal to
Now you can compare directly. The MP3 weighs 4.0044e-23 kg, and the CD weighs
Does that answer your question?
Note: I'm a Computer Engineer. I'm not an English Major. Do not reply just to critique my spelling.
Being an ECEN (Electrical/Computer Engineering) major myself, my comment on this is that if you're going to be an engineer, your past coursework and personal knowledge should have been sufficient enough to teach you proper spelling and grammar. If nothing else, take courses in college to improve your English.
The most recent one before they were shutdown had tracking software that you couldn't not opt-out of.
Sure you could have opted out of it...just use Audiogalaxy Lite instead. Better UI, no spyware. (I'm not going to bother finding a link to it because it's not like you'd be able to download anything with it now)
It is already legal to record anything shown on TV for personal use so I don't see how this extra 'bit flag' could become a reality...
You think the MPAA cares about your legal rights? (Hint: they don't)
However, I don't get it, if you don't want to pay those heavy overprized CDs, just turn you radio on and don't buy any CD, it's pretty easy.
The problem with this is that Clear Channel and the RIAA don't want you to listen to anything that isn't Top10 material. They want you to listen to Britney, N*Shit, etc. If you can handle listening to oldies stations (which I can), then fine, but don't expect to hear much if any high-quality contemporary stuff on the radio.
My VCR is able to auto-set its clock based on XDS data that is sent along with closed caption information.
The Colorado No-call list can be joined here [coloradonocall.com] or by calling 1-888-249-9097.
An Oklahoma law just went into effect establishing the same thing. Does anybody know where to join this list? (oklahomanocall.com doesn't work)
However BY FAR the most imporant reason in my mind is that when you ask a telemarketer/bulk mailer to quit, THEY WILL
Not all will. Discover never did do this, and I remember giving them the do-not-call-list speech quite a few times. (Needless to say, I won't be getting a Discover card any time soon.)
How come they do not block Microsoft
Given all the porn spam I get, why the hell is Hotmail not listed under the Sex category?
Johnny Cage's "Four minutes thirty-three seconds of silence." Written in 1952.
I was wondering how this would bode for CD's with a "secret track" on them? I'm talking about the CD's where on the last track, after the main song is finished, there is about 6 minutes of silence and then some more music or a clip of the band talking and hanging out. Do all these CD's infringe on the copyright?
I've seen CDs with the standard 15 songs on them, then a hidden track as track 99. Tracks 16-98 were a couple seconds each of silence. Does this mean that the CD violated the copyright 83 times?
Kind of a shame, because the LA Times has some good content too, and we've posted lot of links to them in the past, before they went registration-required
Just like you posted a lot of links to NY Times before they went registration-required? Oh wait...you still post a lot of links to them.