This brings up a good point. At the two stations (one FM and one TV) that I support the only alert that get automatically inserted are tornado warnings for our county - incase the operators had to run for cover. Everything else is interpreted by a live operator and the appropriate information is included in our broadcast.
This system is not now and never was a secret. You can go to any TV or radio station and talk to any broadcast engineer, announcer, master control operator or station manager. They all can explain the basics of how the system works.
If the emergency radios don't work... We used to joke that the controllers would climb to the top of the tower and wave fire extinguishers to warn the planes away.
I used to DJ (school dances and weddings not techno). I had to pay royalties for "performances" that were open to the general public (like school dances). The cost was biased on admission price and the capacity of the venue. I didn't have to pay for invitation only events like weddings. In exchange for this I could buy compilation CDs biased on the release date for radio airplay. That way I didn't have to by the 9-14 crap songs to get the one song that was playing on the radio. A lot of DJs don't pay the fees but the penalties can be substantial if you get caught.
No nitrogen involved as it is too expensive to use in the quantities required
I don't know if Disney uses nitrogen or not, but it is possible to generate compressed nitrogen in fairly large quantities. My step-dad works on a natural gas drilling rig. When they hit a gas pocket they switch from compressed air drilling to nitrogen drilling to reduce the risk of a down-hole fire. They do this with a special compressor that outputs 98%+ pure nitrogen gas at more than 3000 CFM at several hundred PSI.
I knew someone who died from a water overdose. I worked as an orderly in a locked psych unit while I was in college. We had one patient that was diagnosed with Psychogenic polydipsia. He was brought in after he passed out from an electrolyte imbalance. He spent several months with us while we treated him with anti-psychotics. A few months after he was released he quit taking his meds and drank himself to death.
You are right that it would be much cooler if the robot could find its way without the map, but for the purposes of the military it is plenty good that it reads a map and only does obstacle avoidance in real time. This is the way that a tomahawk cruse missile works and it works pretty well. One of the first things that the military does in a conflict is update the maps and reconnaissance for the area.
This also would great as a civilian technology. If I could drive my car to the interstate and hit an autopilot button so the car would follow a preplanned course and alert me if it saw a problem - that would rock. I wouldn't care if it only ran the speed limit if I could read a book and the car handled the bulk of the driving.
Dresden. Hiroshima. Sudan. If you need any more examples of the US and it's allies targetting civilians if they believe it's justified then simply check out Chomsky:
London, Paris, Stalingrad. Look at what the Japanese did in China. Before that the Romans, the Huns, Napoleon, every British King VS the Scotts - That is just the way that war used to work.
In fact if you look at the Palestinians against the Jews (and the Jews against the Palestinians), Haiti, El Salvador, Somalia, Bosnia - it still seems to work that way in most places.
Start a relationship with your local bands. I have a friend that is a musician who would give anything to have the possibility of hitting a bigger audience then what is in the bar on a Saturday night.
Broadcasting of copyrighted material is allowed as a fair-use
That's not true. Radio and TV stations have to pay royalties to play music. There are several licensing groups but the biggest are ASCAP and BMI.
Anywhere that there is a public performance of copyright music you must pay royalties to the licensing bodies for the songs that you use. This includes background music in stores, music in bars and clubs, elevators, etc.
First of all "Modern Marvels" is on History not on TLC. Second, I think that you need to watch that episode again. They use a laser to measure the fries, but they use high-speed knives to cut them.
On the other hand the footage of a potato-and-water jet going in one side of cutting die and french fries coming out the other side is pretty cool.
I think that there is a good chance that even before Sept 11 the passengers would have beat the crap out of someone holding a knife to a flight attendants throat. I know I would have.
why we didn't invest in solar cell research, produce a decent/cheep cell, and build huge arrays in southern Arizona
There are two (related) problems with that theory.
1. Solar cells are inefficient. Only a small amount of the sun's energy is converted to electricity. The rest is waste heat adsorbed by the panels.
2. The efficiency of solar cells drops quickly when the panels get dirty. It would take quite a bit of energy to keep the panels clean.
Between these two problems a panel farm is not going to be worth the cost to set it up.
You're not going to load much code off the back of the bankcard. The information density is fairly low. Besides, even the most incompetent programmer is going to do input verification and bounds checking.
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This brings up a good point. At the two stations (one FM and one TV) that I support the only alert that get automatically inserted are tornado warnings for our county - incase the operators had to run for cover. Everything else is interpreted by a live operator and the appropriate information is included in our broadcast.
This system is not now and never was a secret. You can go to any TV or radio station and talk to any broadcast engineer, announcer, master control operator or station manager. They all can explain the basics of how the system works.
If the emergency radios don't work ... We used to joke that the controllers would climb to the top of the tower and wave fire extinguishers to warn the planes away.
I though that was what hand lights were for.
This is the service I used.
Actually, this is closer to the Dilbert principle. Put the incompetent people in middle management where they can do the least harm.
I used to DJ (school dances and weddings not techno). I had to pay royalties for "performances" that were open to the general public (like school dances). The cost was biased on admission price and the capacity of the venue. I didn't have to pay for invitation only events like weddings. In exchange for this I could buy compilation CDs biased on the release date for radio airplay. That way I didn't have to by the 9-14 crap songs to get the one song that was playing on the radio. A lot of DJs don't pay the fees but the penalties can be substantial if you get caught.
I commenced to strip the insulation off using my teeth, and with my luck, timed it so that I was stripping the last wire off when someone called.
Glad to see that there was at least three of us.
UNLV
No nitrogen involved as it is too expensive to use in the quantities required
I don't know if Disney uses nitrogen or not, but it is possible to generate compressed nitrogen in fairly large quantities. My step-dad works on a natural gas drilling rig. When they hit a gas pocket they switch from compressed air drilling to nitrogen drilling to reduce the risk of a down-hole fire. They do this with a special compressor that outputs 98%+ pure nitrogen gas at more than 3000 CFM at several hundred PSI.
I knew someone who died from a water overdose. I worked as an orderly in a locked psych unit while I was in college. We had one patient that was diagnosed with Psychogenic polydipsia. He was brought in after he passed out from an electrolyte imbalance. He spent several months with us while we treated him with anti-psychotics. A few months after he was released he quit taking his meds and drank himself to death.
Here is the advice I follow about when to stop -
"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on." Dean Martin
You are right that it would be much cooler if the robot could find its way without the map, but for the purposes of the military it is plenty good that it reads a map and only does obstacle avoidance in real time. This is the way that a tomahawk cruse missile works and it works pretty well. One of the first things that the military does in a conflict is update the maps and reconnaissance for the area.
This also would great as a civilian technology. If I could drive my car to the interstate and hit an autopilot button so the car would follow a preplanned course and alert me if it saw a problem - that would rock. I wouldn't care if it only ran the speed limit if I could read a book and the car handled the bulk of the driving.
You might want to run that one through Snopes.
I don't think so. "x free" and "xfree" both come up with xfree.org as the first result.
No, I don't agree with you. I didn't say it was right to target civilians - I just said that it is the way it is done.
Dresden. Hiroshima. Sudan. If you need any more examples of the US and it's allies targetting civilians if they believe it's justified then simply check out Chomsky:
London, Paris, Stalingrad. Look at what the Japanese did in China. Before that the Romans, the Huns, Napoleon, every British King VS the Scotts - That is just the way that war used to work.
In fact if you look at the Palestinians against the Jews (and the Jews against the Palestinians), Haiti, El Salvador, Somalia, Bosnia - it still seems to work that way in most places.
Start a relationship with your local bands. I have a friend that is a musician who would give anything to have the possibility of hitting a bigger audience then what is in the bar on a Saturday night.
Broadcasting of copyrighted material is allowed as a fair-use
That's not true. Radio and TV stations have to pay royalties to play music. There are several licensing groups but the biggest are ASCAP and BMI.
Anywhere that there is a public performance of copyright music you must pay royalties to the licensing bodies for the songs that you use. This includes background music in stores, music in bars and clubs, elevators, etc.
Would it be so much better to have to hack your own brain?
First of all "Modern Marvels" is on History not on TLC. Second, I think that you need to watch that episode again. They use a laser to measure the fries, but they use high-speed knives to cut them.
On the other hand the footage of a potato-and-water jet going in one side of cutting die and french fries coming out the other side is pretty cool.
I think that there is a good chance that even before Sept 11 the passengers would have beat the crap out of someone holding a knife to a flight attendants throat. I know I would have.
why we didn't invest in solar cell research, produce a decent/cheep cell, and build huge arrays in southern Arizona
There are two (related) problems with that theory.
1. Solar cells are inefficient. Only a small amount of the sun's energy is converted to electricity. The rest is waste heat adsorbed by the panels.
2. The efficiency of solar cells drops quickly when the panels get dirty. It would take quite a bit of energy to keep the panels clean.
Between these two problems a panel farm is not going to be worth the cost to set it up.
Way to go - now I have a totally disgusting picture in my head.
You suck....;-)
You're not going to load much code off the back of the bankcard. The information density is fairly low. Besides, even the most incompetent programmer is going to do input verification and bounds checking.
A blunderbuss is more like a shotgun.