What did you expect would happen, people would start buying vinyl records, but just look at them instead of playing them? Is there some iPhone vinyl add-on I'm not aware of?
This is a very impressive image that's in the same league as the famous Hubble deep field image. Both images confirm what was already known, but in a more direct and visual way.
It has taken resources of a universe, galaxy, sun, planet and moon during more than 10e9 years to make an 'easy' walk in the park possible.
The complete evolutionary path from nothingness to a planet full of humans easily walking in parks while realising they're doing that, is far more complex than the path that would expand the human or a successor species into space.
But it's not because the second path is cheaper and easier than the first that it's going to happen here.
You're right in that, unless one is involved in the process, everything remains speculative to the (even knowledgeable) outsider.
In the case I described no ADs were issued after the incident. So I guess it was more convenient to everyone involved that the manufacturer take the initial blame in the public statement, and to settle things differently behind the public scenes. After all it was a minor incident with no casualties or injuries.
My point is that public statements may, for diverse reasons, tell a different story than what actually happened.
The incident I witnessed happened elsewhere, years ago and under different circumstances. Current conditions almost guarantee a vastly more independent analysis.
You may believe official statements will tell the truth, but my experience is different.
Once upon a time, while getting ready to deboard, my wife said "Hey, look there !". Out of a side window I saw another aircraft descending at a much steeper angle than usual. As we both watched, the aircraft landed brutally, the nose gear collapsed, and there it was sliding over the tarmac toward us, turning sideways while debris was flying left and right. The plane came to a stop turned 90 degrees, some 500 meters away. Scary movie stuff.
I finally broke out of fascination and grabbed my camera just in time to capture the glide ramps being deployed and passengers sliding down.
The official explanation was that a collapsed nose landing gear was the cause of the incident, blaming the manufacturer, not the pilot.
Now, having seen hundreds of aircraft land, I know the difference between a normal landing in an expected configuration and a really bad landing in a weird one.
With control, airport and the airline owned by the state, all personnel being public servants, the airport and the airline in dire straits financially and everyone involved closing ranks, I found it hard to believe the official statement.
No, that's not true. Optics are designed so that you need to focus your lens on a virtual image that appears to be x meters away in exactly the same way as you would need to focus on a real image that actually is x meters away, where x is a design choice.
For each level of near- or farsightedness, a display could be specifically designed so that no additional correction would be necessary. But guess what, manufacturers will be addressing the middle ground only, and won't be catering to special needs, save for a limited range like +/- 2 diopters that can be easily obtained by moving a lens a few mm.
The email addresses I used contained 'datek' and later 'ameritrade' when Datek merged with Ameritrade. You can guess that I didn't use these email addresses for anything else, yet both were spammed. At the time I thought they were leaked by someone logging traffic at an ISP.
Despite the whitewashing that's going on, AMTD is going to take a BIG hit. These issues are not to be taken lightly.
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A barbell it is, indeed. Google image search turns up a lot of images that, while certainly more attractive, are not related to the shape of object I had in mind:) My apologies for blindly assuming that the english halter would have the same meaning as the dutch word halter, which sounds kind of english to me but probably has romance roots, as ChatHuant pointed out.
Of course it is rotating relative to an inertial frame; that's the point. But where does this single non-rotating inertial frame come from ? How is it linked to the universe ? Isn't it strange that this frame is not rotating, not relative to other frames, but in an universal, absolute, valid-everywhere-you-can-possibly-imagine-and-beyo nd sense ?
That's something that's been bugging me too for some time. Think of a halterlike object, enclosed in a dark sphere floating around in a lone spot of the universe, lightyears away from any massive object. Install a strain gauge in the center of that halter. You will be able to detect whether the halter is rotating.
But rotating, relative to what ? How does the universe affect the force measured ? By its mass, by gravity ? But how can a weak force like gravity, falling of by the square of distance and acting from a great distance, influence the relatively large centripetal force ?
Adding it all up, there must be an absolute inertial frame of reference for rotation. Where does that come from, and why is it oriented the way it is ?
Could anyone please point me to a readable text (slightly worn MS level) that explains this ?
(be it a CEO, CFO, politico) says he wants to "spend more time with his family", you know he's in deep shit, and is wriggling to get out before it hits the fan. It's not a pretty sight.
The first is clean, has a decent dynamic range but sounds hollow and powerless. The last was deliberately made as loud as I could given my limited means, without turning the volume to 11 and brutal clipping.
Tricks I used, in order:
Avoid outlier events in the individual tracks. Occasionally there are a few notes that are way above the average volume of the track. I manually hunt them, and turn them down a notch.
Apply time jitter to desynchronize hits from different tracks on the beat.
Adjust individual tracks dynamically in the mix to shift the focus from one track to another while maintaining a consistent total volume. I use a low pass filter instead of / in addition to the volume for fades. This works psychologically: a bright sound seems louder than a dark one, even if the volume is at the same level.
Use a gentle non-clipping multiband compressor to further bring the final mix together.
Manually find the 20-50 peaks left that are 3dB over the average, and scale (not clip) them carefully using an audio editor.
Use a wave shaper - an extremely soft clipper with transfer function looks like part of an inverted half parabola - to dramatically increase the perceived loudness and make everything sound fuller while not adding any harsh distortion.
Convert to 16-bits and mp3.
PS:
in Mercury One, find the inside joke. (hint: it's at eleven)
in TPotH, the muddy mix at 2:39 is meant to invoke memories of an amateur band playing.
First, there's currently a very big fuzz in Europe over small particulate matter (PM10 or less). The EU has imposed stringent limits on the amount allowed in the air instantly and averaged over a year. Ironically, the improved combustion of modern diesels now causes the emission of dangerous PM instead of the ugly but slightly less dangerous black soot of yore. Particulate filters have little effect on small PM, and other techniques will be required to meet the upcoming EURO-V norm that limits the amount of PM allowed to 5mg/km.
Secondly, diesel has a higher carbon content than gasoline by volume. Instead of a MPG rating the emission of CO2 per mile should be measured. The higher production costs and weight of a diesel engine over a similarly rated gasoline engine also reflect a higher embedded energy cost. If everything is accounted for, the energetic advantage of a diesel becomes minor in vehicular applications.
Finally, the shaking and rattling of a diesel engine, while vastly improved over the last 20 years, is still very noticable both on the inside and outside of the vehicle. Not classy:(
Sell me a pure electric vehicle that's practical, affordable and durable.
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Robust ? A dyslexic typo ? Unpaid ? Best answers available ? Your BS detector needs recalibration.
Global Temperatures This Decade Will Be The Warmest On Record...
...And It Will Be Exploited By Those Who Fail To Understand The Reasons For The Rise:
http://bobtisdale.blogspot.com/2009/11/global-temperatures-this-decade-will-be.html
What did you expect would happen, people would start buying vinyl records, but just look at them instead of playing them? Is there some iPhone vinyl add-on I'm not aware of?
Maybe from the author of Digital Needle ?
[dr]ecent. Fixed that regex for you.
Mine is 123455. I have appended a checksum digit to make sure I don't enter a wrong password by mistake.
This is a very impressive image that's in the same league as the famous Hubble deep field image. Both images confirm what was already known, but in a more direct and visual way.
I live in DECIMAL-POINT IS COMMA land, you insensitive clod !
The smell also needs to be compared. A flourescent bulb smells like wheat, a florescent bulb like roses, while this smells like fish.
It has taken resources of a universe, galaxy, sun, planet and moon during more than 10e9 years to make an 'easy' walk in the park possible.
The complete evolutionary path from nothingness to a planet full of humans easily walking in parks while realising they're doing that, is far more complex than the path that would expand the human or a successor species into space.
But it's not because the second path is cheaper and easier than the first that it's going to happen here.
bellow?
You're right in that, unless one is involved in the process, everything remains speculative to the (even knowledgeable) outsider.
In the case I described no ADs were issued after the incident. So I guess it was more convenient to everyone involved that the manufacturer take the initial blame in the public statement, and to settle things differently behind the public scenes. After all it was a minor incident with no casualties or injuries.
My point is that public statements may, for diverse reasons, tell a different story than what actually happened.
The incident I witnessed happened elsewhere, years ago and under different circumstances.
Current conditions almost guarantee a vastly more independent analysis.
You may believe official statements will tell the truth, but my experience is different.
Once upon a time, while getting ready to deboard, my wife said "Hey, look there !". Out of a side window I saw another aircraft descending at a much steeper angle than usual. As we both watched, the aircraft landed brutally, the nose gear collapsed, and there it was sliding over the tarmac toward us, turning sideways while debris was flying left and right. The plane came to a stop turned 90 degrees, some 500 meters away. Scary movie stuff.
I finally broke out of fascination and grabbed my camera just in time to capture the glide ramps being deployed and passengers sliding down.
The official explanation was that a collapsed nose landing gear was the cause of the incident, blaming the manufacturer, not the pilot.
Now, having seen hundreds of aircraft land, I know the difference between a normal landing in an expected configuration and a really bad landing in a weird one.
With control, airport and the airline owned by the state, all personnel being public servants, the airport and the airline in dire straits financially and everyone involved closing ranks, I found it hard to believe the official statement.
liging, lighing, lighting, lightning, lightening... some are, some are not.
No, that's not true. Optics are designed so that you need to focus your lens on a virtual image that appears to be x meters away in exactly the same way as you would need to focus on a real image that actually is x meters away, where x is a design choice.
For each level of near- or farsightedness, a display could be specifically designed so that no additional correction would be necessary. But guess what, manufacturers will be addressing the middle ground only, and won't be catering to special needs, save for a limited range like +/- 2 diopters that can be easily obtained by moving a lens a few mm.
Guess that's like carbon dioxine scaremongering.
And now you even have a Palmer-like character, Obama, running for president. It's getting harder every day to decouple reality from fiction.
involved in the cleaning ?
Despite the whitewashing that's going on, AMTD is going to take a BIG hit. These issues are not to be taken lightly.
From the FAQ:
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Don't laugh: I'm running the latest version of Opera on an almost 10 year old Libretto 110CT with 32 MB RAM running Windows 98SE.
It works quite well, and a lot better than most browsers on portable devices.
Thank you, Opera !
A barbell it is, indeed. Google image search turns up a lot of images that, while certainly more attractive, are not related to the shape of object I had in mind :) My apologies for blindly assuming that the english halter would have the same meaning as the dutch word halter, which sounds kind of english to me but probably has romance roots, as ChatHuant pointed out.
o nd sense ?
Of course it is rotating relative to an inertial frame; that's the point. But where does this single non-rotating inertial frame come from ? How is it linked to the universe ? Isn't it strange that this frame is not rotating, not relative to other frames, but in an universal, absolute, valid-everywhere-you-can-possibly-imagine-and-bey
That's something that's been bugging me too for some time. Think of a halterlike object, enclosed in a dark sphere floating around in a lone spot of the universe, lightyears away from any massive object. Install a strain gauge in the center of that halter. You will be able to detect whether the halter is rotating.
But rotating, relative to what ? How does the universe affect the force measured ? By its mass, by gravity ? But how can a weak force like gravity, falling of by the square of distance and acting from a great distance, influence the relatively large centripetal force ?
Adding it all up, there must be an absolute inertial frame of reference for rotation. Where does that come from, and why is it oriented the way it is ?
Could anyone please point me to a readable text (slightly worn MS level) that explains this ?
(be it a CEO, CFO, politico) says he wants to "spend more time with his family", you know he's in deep shit, and is wriggling to get out before it hits the fan. It's not a pretty sight.
Just compare the evolution from Mercury Zero+Mercury One (a naive rework of Beethovens first symphony) to The Poems of the Heart (an experiment to mix rock/metal and techno).
The first is clean, has a decent dynamic range but sounds hollow and powerless. The last was deliberately made as loud as I could given my limited means, without turning the volume to 11 and brutal clipping.
Tricks I used, in order:
PS:
Diesel, while more efficient, is not a panacea:
:(
First, there's currently a very big fuzz in Europe over small particulate matter (PM10 or less). The EU has imposed stringent limits on the amount allowed in the air instantly and averaged over a year. Ironically, the improved combustion of modern diesels now causes the emission of dangerous PM instead of the ugly but slightly less dangerous black soot of yore. Particulate filters have little effect on small PM, and other techniques will be required to meet the upcoming EURO-V norm that limits the amount of PM allowed to 5mg/km.
Secondly, diesel has a higher carbon content than gasoline by volume. Instead of a MPG rating the emission of CO2 per mile should be measured. The higher production costs and weight of a diesel engine over a similarly rated gasoline engine also reflect a higher embedded energy cost. If everything is accounted for, the energetic advantage of a diesel becomes minor in vehicular applications.
Finally, the shaking and rattling of a diesel engine, while vastly improved over the last 20 years, is still very noticable both on the inside and outside of the vehicle. Not classy
Sell me a pure electric vehicle that's practical, affordable and durable.