So at sea level there's sound, at ten thousand feet there's sound, in space there's no sound. At what altitude does it suddenly cut off then, Einstein? 50 thousand feet? 15,027 metres and 23.20126 cm?
A. N. Volobuev and A. P. Tolstonogov published a paper in the Journal of Engineering Physics and Thermophysics in 2003 in which they calculate the minimum atmospheric pressure necessary to propagate sound. They wrote that on Earth the pressure drops below this threshold at about 95km above sea level.
High center of gravity, vulnerable and complex means of locomotion...
You mean, like a human? Lots of engineering is subconsciously based on biology; either our own or that observed in nature.
Yep... and you'll notice they don't train humans to walk into battle fully upright anymore. They used to, back when the rules of war meant marching your troops in rank and file straight toward the enemy. That was a tactic left over from the days before firearms, and of course, what happened is exactly what you'd expect: lots of men getting shot and falling over.
I guarantee you if the Army could figure out an efficient way to make a walking tank, we'd have one.
Perhaps, but it would be low to the ground and would have some armor over the "legs".
I'm surprised he didn't mention the AT-ATs. One of the commenters on the blog did.
These things are ridiculous! High center of gravity, vulnerable and complex means of locomotion... and ask Pink Five pointed out, "they only have guns in the front, right? So just, like, don't fly in FRONT of them!"
And I always wondered why a single speeder was able to destroy one once it was toppled, but for some reason it's invincible while upright??
Apparently the design for the original Cylon basestar and the Viper had some strong design similarities to stuff made at Industrial Light and Magic, and the actual production shared some of the same special effects crew that jumped ship after Episode IV:ANH was released.
Reportedly, in the first film Ridley Scott wanted an ending in which the alien bites off Ripley's head in the shuttle, sits down, and does the final log entry in her voice.
Thank the gods this didn't come to pass - it would have ruined the film for me!:)
It's a pity that they don't come out at night and tear Ridley Scott in twain. ...
I respect what he did in Alien, but his recent works are the biggest loads of shite around. I wish he'd left the Alien series well enough alone.
You're kidding, right? You do know that after the first film, Ridley had nothing to do with the Alien series?
I'll hazard a guess that the movie will be yet another ad for America's army. There will be strategic deaths to ensure that the soldiers want revenge, but all in all they'll survive because they're so fucking good.
Um... are you referring to Black Hawk Down, in which the people who died/survived in the film are the ones who died/survived in real life?
Hooper: "Always some white boy gotta invoke the holy trilogy. Bust this: Those movies are about how the white man keeps the brother man down, even in a galaxy far, far away. Check this shit: You got cracker farm boy Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy, blond hair, blue eyes. And then you got Darth Vader, the blackest brother in the galaxy, Nubian god!"
Banky: "What's a Nubian?"
Hooper: "Shut the fuck up! Now... Vader, he's a spiritual brother, y'know, down with the force and all that good shit. Then this cracker, Skywalker, gets his hands on a light saber and the boy decides he's gonna run the fuckin' universe - gets a whole klan of whites together. And they go and bust up Vader's hood, the Death Star. Now what the fuck do you call that?"
Banky: "Intergalactic civil war?"
Hooper:"Gentrification! They gonna drive out the black element to make the galaxy quote-unquote, 'safe' for white folks. And Jedi's the most insulting installment! Because Vader's beautiful black visage is sullied when he pulls off his mask to reveal a feeble, crusty, old white man! They tryin' to tell us that deep inside, we all wants to be white!"
You DO have the right to publish your opinion. You're right, though, that you don't have the right to force your views upon others or make someone else publish them.
But I'm not going to waste my breath arguing the point - history and standard English usage are clear on the meaning of the term. If you think censorship is only done by government, well hey. What can I say? You're just wrong, sorry.
I get a bit disturbed the continued mis-use of the word "censorship" Censorship is something governments do. Facebook telling you that you cannot post something offensive is not censorship.
This is a popular myth, that only governments can censor. The truth is, ANYONE can censor, given the power to control someone else's expression; the only difference is that the government is bound by the First Amendment.
Of course, that doesn't stop them - the First Amendment doesn't make exceptions for obscenity or incitement to panic (think "yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater"), but those things have been interpreted by the courts as unprotected speech.
My favorite definition, from Dr. Laurence J. Peters: "A censor is someone who knows more than he thinks you should know."
I have to disagree in this case. The amount effort that went into the photo deserves some recognition.
I don't see anything in the copyright laws about the amount of effort being a criterion for protection. I do see a requirement of it being an original work.
Essentially, this guy is copying something, not creating anything new. Just because it was a lot of work doesn't mean it's not copying.
Look at NASA - they take a huge volume of photographs (also paid for with tax dollars) which are all in the public domain!
Actually, there are settings for visual effects that you don't notice are there and don't miss if they are removed. Drop shadows in particular, along with antialiasing around square windows are insignificant details that probably took a team of developers a long time to produce.
Reminds me of the old Eudora 3 setting that you could uncheck: "Waste cycles drawing trendy 3D junk"
Sadly, this betrays an attitude that seems to be common among FOSS developers. I'm sure it was funny to the developer, and at the time I considered it pretty cheeky. Now, though, I think the fact that Qualcomm allowed that message to make it into a shipping product is pretty shameful.
I think you are the one that doesn't understand how rights work. The constitution starts with the assumption that God has granted humans certain rights.
You're thinking of the Declaration of Independence. The U.S. Constitution does not mention God or a creator.
The manufacturers and studios could have been sitting on a gold mine if they had done the following:
- Picked a single standard with the best features of HD-DVD and Blu-ray - Picked a "switchover" date when every new player sold would play both HD and SD DVDs, and output both HD and SD signals - Started packaging movie release with both an HD and SD disk in the box.
That way, those with SD televisions could still watch HD content - sell the content now, with the benefit down the road if the user buys an HD set.
Everybody's happy because there's a single new video format that anyone can watch on any new player and set.
Instead, they decided to bet on being able to sell marginally improved quality at a premium price. Fail.
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You're thinking of Mac OS 8 - the clones were killed 2 years before Mac OS 9 came out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clones#Jobs_ends_the_official_program
> It's pronounced how it's spelled. Oh-in col-fer
No, it's spelt 'Eoin Colfer', but it's pronounced 'Throatwobbler Mangrove'.
A. N. Volobuev and A. P. Tolstonogov published a paper in the Journal of Engineering Physics and Thermophysics in 2003 in which they calculate the minimum atmospheric pressure necessary to propagate sound. They wrote that on Earth the pressure drops below this threshold at about 95km above sea level.
Distinctive Features of the Propagation of Sound Waves in a Perfect Gas at Low Pressure
Jobs probably just told him "You don't matter as much as you think you do, anyway."
Yep... and you'll notice they don't train humans to walk into battle fully upright anymore. They used to, back when the rules of war meant marching your troops in rank and file straight toward the enemy. That was a tactic left over from the days before firearms, and of course, what happened is exactly what you'd expect: lots of men getting shot and falling over.
Perhaps, but it would be low to the ground and would have some armor over the "legs".
I'm surprised he didn't mention the AT-ATs. One of the commenters on the blog did.
These things are ridiculous! High center of gravity, vulnerable and complex means of locomotion... and ask Pink Five pointed out, "they only have guns in the front, right? So just, like, don't fly in FRONT of them!"
And I always wondered why a single speeder was able to destroy one once it was toppled, but for some reason it's invincible while upright??
Notably John Dykstra.
No, you misunderstood...
I feel very sorry for this poor sensitive keyboard - feeling pressured by Microsoft's hardware demos.
Not that it's the only one who feels pressured by MS, mind you!
Check your math. I think you'll find that 0.0279271 is 27 times 0.00102579!
> 6) Let her do things her way, even if suboptimal.
I've never understood why people feel that marriage (or even just cohabitation) is a license to "fix" the habits of the other person...
> I always assumed that the Aliens were sentient.
Reportedly, in the first film Ridley Scott wanted an ending in which the alien bites off Ripley's head in the shuttle, sits down, and does the final log entry in her voice.
Thank the gods this didn't come to pass - it would have ruined the film for me! :)
You're kidding, right? You do know that after the first film, Ridley had nothing to do with the Alien series?
Um... are you referring to Black Hawk Down, in which the people who died/survived in the film are the ones who died/survived in real life?
Hooper: "Always some white boy gotta invoke the holy trilogy. Bust this: Those movies are about how the white man keeps the brother man down, even in a galaxy far, far away. Check this shit: You got cracker farm boy Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy, blond hair, blue eyes. And then you got Darth Vader, the blackest brother in the galaxy, Nubian god!"
Banky: "What's a Nubian?"
Hooper: "Shut the fuck up! Now... Vader, he's a spiritual brother, y'know, down with the force and all that good shit. Then this cracker, Skywalker, gets his hands on a light saber and the boy decides he's gonna run the fuckin' universe - gets a whole klan of whites together. And they go and bust up Vader's hood, the Death Star. Now what the fuck do you call that?"
Banky: "Intergalactic civil war?"
Hooper: "Gentrification! They gonna drive out the black element to make the galaxy quote-unquote, 'safe' for white folks. And Jedi's the most insulting installment! Because Vader's beautiful black visage is sullied when he pulls off his mask to reveal a feeble, crusty, old white man! They tryin' to tell us that deep inside, we all wants to be white!"
Banky: "...but isn't that true??"
Whew! That's a relief... I thought you said three million years.
Haven't you heard of W.A.S.T.E.?
You DO have the right to publish your opinion. You're right, though, that you don't have the right to force your views upon others or make someone else publish them.
But I'm not going to waste my breath arguing the point - history and standard English usage are clear on the meaning of the term. If you think censorship is only done by government, well hey. What can I say? You're just wrong, sorry.
This is a popular myth, that only governments can censor. The truth is, ANYONE can censor, given the power to control someone else's expression; the only difference is that the government is bound by the First Amendment.
Of course, that doesn't stop them - the First Amendment doesn't make exceptions for obscenity or incitement to panic (think "yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater"), but those things have been interpreted by the courts as unprotected speech.
My favorite definition, from Dr. Laurence J. Peters: "A censor is someone who knows more than he thinks you should know."
I don't see anything in the copyright laws about the amount of effort being a criterion for protection. I do see a requirement of it being an original work.
Essentially, this guy is copying something, not creating anything new. Just because it was a lot of work doesn't mean it's not copying.
Look at NASA - they take a huge volume of photographs (also paid for with tax dollars) which are all in the public domain!
OMG, even the Myth Busters are in on the conspiracy!!!
j/k.. :)
here is my favorite "moon landing hoax" video: http://www.dc8p.com/html/moonhoax.html
Yet, Captain Cook managed to find it by sailing West... just sayin'!
Reminds me of the old Eudora 3 setting that you could uncheck: "Waste cycles drawing trendy 3D junk"
Sadly, this betrays an attitude that seems to be common among FOSS developers. I'm sure it was funny to the developer, and at the time I considered it pretty cheeky. Now, though, I think the fact that Qualcomm allowed that message to make it into a shipping product is pretty shameful.
> Now, I've got a projector above my head that weighs less than a Neal Stephenson novel
That's still pretty heavy... unless it's The Big U
You're thinking of the Declaration of Independence. The U.S. Constitution does not mention God or a creator.
The manufacturers and studios could have been sitting on a gold mine if they had done the following:
- Picked a single standard with the best features of HD-DVD and Blu-ray
- Picked a "switchover" date when every new player sold would play both HD and SD DVDs, and output both HD and SD signals
- Started packaging movie release with both an HD and SD disk in the box.
That way, those with SD televisions could still watch HD content - sell the content now, with the benefit down the road if the user buys an HD set.
Everybody's happy because there's a single new video format that anyone can watch on any new player and set.
Instead, they decided to bet on being able to sell marginally improved quality at a premium price. Fail.
What about HyperCard???
Without HyperCard, there would be no Web as we know it today. We'd all be surfing Gopher!