Our BMWs had this feature for at least 6 years now, maybe even before. They use an equalizer that depends on speed; no realtime feedback on outside noise. But it's good enough for most purposes.
That said, you're completely right. While compression is not so bad for casual listening on the bad speakers at my computer, much of the new stuff just doesn't sound right on my HK/Quadral equipment in the living room. And let me not start about the difference to old audiophile LP recordings. (I'm still using my 15-year old Thorens and an AKG pick-up for that, and I am really satisfied.)
Your URL leads to a domain parking page. Google search for Wikistick didn't bring results on the first page either. AFAIK, full Wikipedia (text and images) is too large for a USB stick.
The text that I cited said "for all practical purposes". To get your thermometer radiating its own energy away will need quite some time. In the context of the discussion of humans exposed to space, heat loss doesn't matter at all and will not be the cause of death.
Contrary to imagery in the public media (as in such films as Outland, Total Recall, and Sunshine), a short term exposure to vacuum of up to 30 seconds is unlikely to cause permanent physical damage.[2] Thanks to the containing tension of the skin, the body will not explode, though swelling may occur. Due to the lack of a medium to allow conduction or convection, loss of heat is by radiation and evaporation only, which would take place in a relatively slow process. Therefore, there is no danger of immediately freezing.
You're right that you considered radiative heat loss, my fault. My thermodynamics is also from University undergrad studies many years ago, and thus isn't up to answering the issue that you brought forward.
If you would have followed the link that I posted, you would have seen that this is not a text of mine but a citation from a NASA scientist.
As he describes there, one would be unconscious within 10 seconds and would die within two minutes. This is known from experiments and accidents, not from estimations.
But death won't be due to freezing, what the GP asked and why I posted the citation.
Read the link that I posted and where I cited this text from. It's not from me, it's from a NASA scientist.
It also handles the issue of boiling due to low pressure.
The blood would not boil, and there is not enough unbound water in the rest of your body to cause real harm. Actually, a NASA technician survived in vacuum for 30 seconds. The last thing he remembers is his saliva boiling.
The cosmic background radiation will neither cool the body, nor does it provide a heat dissipation [sp?] method. Therefore it's not relevant to the topic that I cited.
You miss one important point. There is no air in space that would dissipate the heat. Therefore heat loss in atmosphere and heat loss in space are not comparable.
Read the link that I posted and where I cited this text from. It's not from me, it's from a NASA scientist.
A couple of recent Hollywood films showed people instantly freezing solid when exposed to vacuum. In one of these, the scientist character mentioned that the temperature was "minus 273"-- that is, absolute zero.
But in a practical sense, space doesn't really have a temperature-- you can't measure a temperature on a vacuum, something that isn't there. The residual molecules that do exist aren't enough to have much of any effect. Space isn't "cold," it isn't "hot", it really isn't anything.
What space is, though, is a very good insulator. (In fact, vacuum is the secret behind thermos bottles.) Astronauts tend to have more problem with overheating than keeping warm.
If you were exposed to space without a spacesuit, your skin would most feel slightly cool, due to water evaporating off you skin, leading to a small amount of evaporative cooling. But you wouldn't freeze solid!
Uuh, DoE uses supercomputers mostly for other tasks. Almost all of them (and surely all of the top TOP500 list) are used for stockpile stewardship (i.e., nuclear weapons simulation).
The DoE has $4 billion p.a. for such tasks; not counting money from military budgets.
You seem to assume that aristocracy is tied to money and is somehow dampered by strong estate taxes. I don't think so.
For once, money was never a defining trait of aristocracy (as any Jane Austen book will tell, and she reports quite succinctly about the heredity problems of UK aristocrats, too), but influence, political power, and being the upper class in society.
Second, from somebody with your nick name I would have expected that you know that the fall of the Vanderbilt empires (and others of that time) are not caused by estate taxes, but by changes in means of production (i.e., the technical relations of production) where they were not successful to adapt to.
Concerning your last question, the answer is very easy: In Germany, where I live.
Aristocrats -- you mean, like, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Stanford, Carnegie, Ford, Flagler, and all the other robber barons? Or do you mean their modern equivalent -- the Bush family estate, Kennedies, the persons who control Haliburton?
They might not have "von" or "de" or other aristocratic parts in their name, but they are aristocrats for all that matters. Remember the duck test: When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
To have an effect, the water barrier must be several meters thick.
We don't know how to build such a ship, and we don't know how to accelerate it if we could build it. You just have too look at the effort that is needed to attach a small new module to the ISS to see our current state of technology. It is way beyond anything that is needed for this requirement.
Loads has been published about the radiation problem of interplanetary missions; I recommend a Google search.
The big problem for human survival on interplanetary missions is radiation, not vacuum. With our current technology, all astronauts will die when they are sent to
Mars, due to lethal radiation where no practical design exists how we can shield it effectively. The current proposals ($n$ meter water, very thick metal shields) are all not feasible.
And, contrary to your opinion, neither any submarine experience, nor ISS or Mir did contribute anything for the solution of that problem. The GP seems to know more about these issues than you; if you can think only of vacuum as the problem to solve.
Have you ever been to Geneva? Or to Brussels? There is a reason why the EU officials have chosen these places; they have an extremely high standard of living. (And they are f*ckingly expensive.) If I could spend the money, I would live rather in Geneva than in London.
Yeah, but they don't have Candy Dulfer on sax. The last 3-hour Prince concert where I was in 2005 (the "A night with prince tour"), and especially the 3-hour aftershow party, where I was lucky to get a place, was really much better than the 80-minutes gig of Clapton a few years before.
I've got news for you: The Heise appeal was struck down, months ago. While it is true that the Landgericht Hamburg is the most brain-damaged court in these lawsuits, it's by far not the only one. As Tobias Haar wrote in a recent i'X: There is a defintive slope between north and south; with the northern courts being more likely to rule against forum providers.
And, according to Heise's own reports, the "likeliness to be reversed" is quite low, since one appelation court ruled already against them.
That the topic is hotly debated in Germany doesn't mean that the judges will follow common sense.
If you consider the current commentators on the far left, I would better not want to know what you consider right. A fascist agenda (as in, Mussolini fascism -- wait, you are already almost there) seems to be middle of the road, then.
Looking from Europe, your post is either a troll or a perfect example what's going wrong in the USA. The worst thing is that one cannot decide the difference, with all the craziness in US politics in the last years. Thanks for illustrating that.
Probably that's because Paris Hilton is in the business of creating free press stories about herself. -- And she's very successful at that, if you think about it; she earns quite some money from her activities, more than I get as the CEO of an IT consulting company. One may not like here, but as a businesswoman, she's successful.
Whereas the NCAA is in another business, namely providing tightly controlled access to member-generated media content. (I really think that's their business, not the sports stuff. After all, they earn most of their money with it.)
Leave the details of arranging all your 0's and 1's, stripe sizes, etc. to your RAID controller, while your operating system sees only what it needs to - a simple logical drive.
And you get bitten in your a** when your disk drive fails and you didn't pay attention to set up the management and monitoring facilities. (Your realize that they are mostly not available out of the box on typical Linux distributions, whereas mdadm/Nagios is?) Or you start to cry when your RAID controller fails and you realize that you cannot simply attach the disks to another system as you could with software RAID.
I'm designing PB-sized storage systems for my customers, and let me tell you -- it ain't so easy as you make it sound. There is a place for hardware RAID and there is a place for software RAID. (Well, come to think of it -- anytime when there is really need for hardware RAID facilities, I buy EMC or NetApp. The rest is low-level and unimportant stuff and can be handled with software RAID just as well. But I confess that that's only a valid approach for companies; too expensive for SOHO and private environments.)
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That said, you're completely right. While compression is not so bad for casual listening on the bad speakers at my computer, much of the new stuff just doesn't sound right on my HK/Quadral equipment in the living room. And let me not start about the difference to old audiophile LP recordings. (I'm still using my 15-year old Thorens and an AKG pick-up for that, and I am really satisfied.)
Not that Aldi, Lidl, or Schlecker, et.al. treat their employees with any respect. That WM is even worse, says a lot about it.
Flamebait, it should be. But sadly, no mod points today.
Your URL leads to a domain parking page. Google search for Wikistick didn't bring results on the first page either. AFAIK, full Wikipedia (text and images) is too large for a USB stick.
What did you want to tell us?
This is shown by the accident in 1966 when a NASA technician was exposed to vacuum due to an accident. He was exposed for ca. 30 seconds and lost consciousness after ca. 10 seconds. Please see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_adaptation_to_s pace#Unprotected_effects:
You are right, though, that my reaction with the lethal environment was not coherent; not my best post, admitted. ;-)
You're right that you considered radiative heat loss, my fault. My thermodynamics is also from University undergrad studies many years ago, and thus isn't up to answering the issue that you brought forward.
As he describes there, one would be unconscious within 10 seconds and would die within two minutes. This is known from experiments and accidents, not from estimations.
But death won't be due to freezing, what the GP asked and why I posted the citation.
It also handles the issue of boiling due to low pressure.
The blood would not boil, and there is not enough unbound water in the rest of your body to cause real harm. Actually, a NASA technician survived in vacuum for 30 seconds. The last thing he remembers is his saliva boiling.
The cosmic background radiation will neither cool the body, nor does it provide a heat dissipation [sp?] method. Therefore it's not relevant to the topic that I cited.
Read the link that I posted and where I cited this text from. It's not from me, it's from a NASA scientist.
Would You Freeze?
No.
A couple of recent Hollywood films showed people instantly freezing solid when exposed to vacuum. In one of these, the scientist character mentioned that the temperature was "minus 273"-- that is, absolute zero.
But in a practical sense, space doesn't really have a temperature-- you can't measure a temperature on a vacuum, something that isn't there. The residual molecules that do exist aren't enough to have much of any effect. Space isn't "cold," it isn't "hot", it really isn't anything.
What space is, though, is a very good insulator. (In fact, vacuum is the secret behind thermos bottles.) Astronauts tend to have more problem with overheating than keeping warm.
If you were exposed to space without a spacesuit, your skin would most feel slightly cool, due to water evaporating off you skin, leading to a small amount of evaporative cooling. But you wouldn't freeze solid!
*PLONK*
The DoE has $4 billion p.a. for such tasks; not counting money from military budgets.
For once, money was never a defining trait of aristocracy (as any Jane Austen book will tell, and she reports quite succinctly about the heredity problems of UK aristocrats, too), but influence, political power, and being the upper class in society.
Second, from somebody with your nick name I would have expected that you know that the fall of the Vanderbilt empires (and others of that time) are not caused by estate taxes, but by changes in means of production (i.e., the technical relations of production) where they were not successful to adapt to.
Concerning your last question, the answer is very easy: In Germany, where I live.
They might not have "von" or "de" or other aristocratic parts in their name, but they are aristocrats for all that matters. Remember the duck test: When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
Loads has been published about the radiation problem of interplanetary missions; I recommend a Google search.
And, contrary to your opinion, neither any submarine experience, nor ISS or Mir did contribute anything for the solution of that problem. The GP seems to know more about these issues than you; if you can think only of vacuum as the problem to solve.
Have you ever been to Geneva? Or to Brussels? There is a reason why the EU officials have chosen these places; they have an extremely high standard of living. (And they are f*ckingly expensive.) If I could spend the money, I would live rather in Geneva than in London.
Yeah, but they don't have Candy Dulfer on sax. The last 3-hour Prince concert where I was in 2005 (the "A night with prince tour"), and especially the 3-hour aftershow party, where I was lucky to get a place, was really much better than the 80-minutes gig of Clapton a few years before.
I've got news for you: The Heise appeal was struck down, months ago. While it is true that the Landgericht Hamburg is the most brain-damaged court in these lawsuits, it's by far not the only one. As Tobias Haar wrote in a recent i'X: There is a defintive slope between north and south; with the northern courts being more likely to rule against forum providers. And, according to Heise's own reports, the "likeliness to be reversed" is quite low, since one appelation court ruled already against them. That the topic is hotly debated in Germany doesn't mean that the judges will follow common sense.
If you consider the current commentators on the far left, I would better not want to know what you consider right. A fascist agenda (as in, Mussolini fascism -- wait, you are already almost there) seems to be middle of the road, then. Looking from Europe, your post is either a troll or a perfect example what's going wrong in the USA. The worst thing is that one cannot decide the difference, with all the craziness in US politics in the last years. Thanks for illustrating that.
Whereas the NCAA is in another business, namely providing tightly controlled access to member-generated media content. (I really think that's their business, not the sports stuff. After all, they earn most of their money with it.)
Looking from an outside viewpoint (I'm not a US citizen, but lived there for a while), this was a perfectly accurate description of US TV.
I'm designing PB-sized storage systems for my customers, and let me tell you -- it ain't so easy as you make it sound. There is a place for hardware RAID and there is a place for software RAID. (Well, come to think of it -- anytime when there is really need for hardware RAID facilities, I buy EMC or NetApp. The rest is low-level and unimportant stuff and can be handled with software RAID just as well. But I confess that that's only a valid approach for companies; too expensive for SOHO and private environments.)