It's nice to see Jim Gray has learned to apply himself since he was black-balled by the sporting public after his mean-spirited and inflamatory interview of Pete Rose at the World Series a few years ago.
He didn't come across as that bright at the time, but I guess he wasn't showing his true colors. And now he's won a Turing Award. Utterly amazing...
Note that in paragraph (a) under 125.1 reads "..when common carriage is not involved". This excludes the type of ticketed travel most people make use of.
Nevertheless, the parts about portable electronic devices are the same in both, IIRC.
Actually, IIRC, the Telezapper first plays the tri-tone that you get when you call a disconnected line (booo-dee-doop). Most autodialers 'know' not to add dead lines to their database, so over time, you get de-listed with the tele-spammers.
You can simulate this effect yourself for free by recording the tone ahead of your regular phone message. Google for sit.wav and you'll find a few live links that will let you d/l the tone. (SIT means status information tone, or some-such).
Actually, the Atmos movement is powered not by thermal changes, but by pressure changes. There is a sort of 'bellows' on the back that gets cycled by barometric changes, which in turn winds the mainspring. Being a product of Jaeger LeCoultre, one of the top watch houses in Europe, they are (a) expensive, and (b) beautiful. I love mine.
Don't laugh. A few years back, an audio engineer by the name of John Bicht designed and built what was regarded as the finest vinyl playback system of its time; The Versa Dynamics Turntable. (Though out of production, to this day some listeners say it is unequaled in sound quality.)
In his personal listening room, as a turntable 'stand', Bicht had a custom cut piece of tombstone grade granite, about 3x3x2.5 feet in size.
We find that granite has a specific gravity around 2.75. Water is 62 lb/ft, so 3 * 3 * 2.5 * 2.75 * 62 = 3836¼ pounds. Your 500 pound stand now seems pretty puny!
BTW, the primary advantage of such a massive stand is not merely for skip resistance. The primary benefit is the reduction of low-level feedback/vibration to the stylus via the table chassis, resulting in a cleaner, tighter, more focused sound.
I see I'm not the only camper whom this drove batty. I finally got fed up once, and emailed their top customer service executive about it. (What torqued me was that I wanted to pay with credit, but they HAD to get name/address to do it. I said `eff it` and spent my lunch money to get out of there without giving in).
The exec who replied said basically IIRC, that `the information is always optional, the associate in question must not have known that`. They promised to remind the regional ops people to in turn appraise the franchises about the `optionality` of the data-mining.
Of course now that I have read about the 90% quota thing, that kinda gives me a new slant on what they meant by `optional`. +
I honestly haven't seen a newsfeed worth a damn from any ISP (well Mindspring's used to be decent when I had dial up back in '97 - but that's a rare exception). Anyone that relies on USENET for work or pleasure should get a good 3rd party provider, there are several good ones. .
My experience with instantssl.com (aka comodo.com) was very good for the one $49 cert I got from them. Plus, they were very responsive when I goofed my initial cert request (doh!) and had to re-request. I can't see Thawte/Verisign beeing nearly so responsive.
BTW, their sysops are all in UK, so they operate way ahead of our schedule, which can help/or hurt depending when you realized you've effed up.
The pro's who planned your flight to Dallas complied with this very thought. Airline dispatchers (and pretty much everyone else in airline operations, including pilots, ATC, and meteorology) all use UTC as the standard, without exception. In this way, the absolute value of any T1 - T2 = the true elapsed time.
Unfortunately, this statement --> "CBDTPA on my computer is like a law requiring mandatory trigger locks on guns!"... is a poor analogy. A gun with a trigger lock, however inconvienient, is still fully functional, as a gun, once you get the lock off.
The CPDTPA, if enacted, is like mandating that all bullets be made from styrofoam, not lead and copper.
I agreed with everyone about mailing a real physical letter in lieu of faxes and emails. Typcially if you want results with "customer service" organizations, its the polite standard.
I had forgotten that with the anthrax contaminated letters, mail to goverment officials (Congressmen in partiular) is being handled carefully, slowly, and with a jaundiced eye.
My rep's website actually says to use email due to the above factors. Consider this folks before abandoning the idea of a terse, cogent email.
My OpenBSD order took 23 days to reach my home in the USA - then when it came, the CD set was missing! [Only the tee-shirt I ordered was enclosed]. In their defense, they answered my email quickly, and are sending out the CD to me right away. YMMV.
Moreover, the DAC (digital-to-analogue converter)in a CD player makes a ton of 'hash'; digital noise that can be heard in the RF band (and upper audio too). Its partly why CD sound is so bright and 'dirty' sounding. It also means CD players aren't good in airplanes.
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It's nice to see Jim Gray has learned to apply himself since he was black-balled by the sporting public after his mean-spirited and inflamatory interview of Pete Rose at the World Series a few years ago.
He didn't come across as that bright at the time, but I guess he wasn't showing his true colors. And now he's won a Turing Award. Utterly amazing...
Ooooh, wait...
[Wrero wrote..] For what it's worth, here is the relivant FAR: 125.204 Portable electronic devices. (yada yada) [end snip]
However, the US majors and national airlines operate under FAR 121, not part 125, which is for charters, and the like.
Part 125 details are here.
Note that in paragraph (a) under 125.1 reads "..when common carriage is not involved". This excludes the type of ticketed travel most people make use of.
Nevertheless, the parts about portable electronic devices are the same in both, IIRC.
Actually, IIRC, the Telezapper first plays the tri-tone that you get when you call a disconnected line (booo-dee-doop). Most autodialers 'know' not to add dead lines to their database, so over time, you get de-listed with the tele-spammers.
You can simulate this effect yourself for free by recording the tone ahead of your regular phone message. Google for sit.wav and you'll find a few live links that will let you d/l the tone. (SIT means status information tone, or some-such).
--AceyMan
Actually, the Atmos movement is powered not by thermal changes, but by pressure changes. There is a sort of 'bellows' on the back that gets cycled by barometric changes, which in turn winds the mainspring. Being a product of Jaeger LeCoultre, one of the top watch houses in Europe, they are (a) expensive, and (b) beautiful. I love mine.
Yeah, great.
Four whiskeys later, and you've locked yourself out of your computer for the next 8 hours.
This would ruin pr0nsurfing as we know it....
Don't laugh. A few years back, an audio engineer by the name of John Bicht designed and built what was regarded as the finest vinyl playback system of its time; The Versa Dynamics Turntable. (Though out of production, to this day some listeners say it is unequaled in sound quality.)
In his personal listening room, as a turntable 'stand', Bicht had a custom cut piece of tombstone grade granite, about 3x3x2.5 feet in size.
We find that granite has a specific gravity around 2.75. Water is 62 lb/ft, so 3 * 3 * 2.5 * 2.75 * 62 = 3836¼ pounds. Your 500 pound stand now seems pretty puny!
BTW, the primary advantage of such a massive stand is not merely for skip resistance. The primary benefit is the reduction of low-level feedback/vibration to the stylus via the table chassis, resulting in a cleaner, tighter, more focused sound.
I see I'm not the only camper whom this drove batty. I finally got fed up once, and emailed their top customer service executive about it. (What torqued me was that I wanted to pay with credit, but they HAD to get name/address to do it. I said `eff it` and spent my lunch money to get out of there without giving in).
The exec who replied said basically IIRC, that `the information is always optional, the associate in question must not have known that`. They promised to remind the regional ops people to in turn appraise the franchises about the `optionality` of the data-mining.
Of course now that I have read about the 90% quota thing, that kinda gives me a new slant on what they meant by `optional`.
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I honestly haven't seen a newsfeed worth a damn from any ISP (well Mindspring's used to be decent when I had dial up back in '97 - but that's a rare exception). Anyone that relies on USENET for work or pleasure should get a good 3rd party provider, there are several good ones.
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My experience with instantssl.com (aka comodo.com) was very good for the one $49 cert I got from them. Plus, they were very responsive when I goofed my initial cert request (doh!) and had to re-request. I can't see Thawte/Verisign beeing nearly so responsive.
BTW, their sysops are all in UK, so they operate way ahead of our schedule, which can help/or hurt depending when you realized you've effed up.
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The pro's who planned your flight to Dallas complied with this very thought. Airline dispatchers (and pretty much everyone else in airline operations, including pilots, ATC, and meteorology) all use UTC as the standard, without exception. In this way, the absolute value of any T1 - T2 = the true elapsed time.
The rest of the world should be so smart...
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Unfortunately, this statement --> "CBDTPA on my computer is like a law requiring mandatory trigger locks on guns!" ... is a poor analogy. A gun with a trigger lock, however inconvienient, is still fully functional, as a gun, once you get the lock off.
The CPDTPA, if enacted, is like mandating that all bullets be made from styrofoam, not lead and copper.
I agreed with everyone about mailing a real physical letter in lieu of faxes and emails. Typcially if you want results with "customer service" organizations, its the polite standard.
I had forgotten that with the anthrax contaminated letters, mail to goverment officials (Congressmen in partiular) is being handled carefully, slowly, and with a jaundiced eye.
My rep's website actually says to use email due to the above factors. Consider this folks before abandoning the idea of a terse, cogent email.
Being out-of-stock kinda hurts the chances of me using bookpool :( But I'll add them to my list of book shopping sites for the future.
My OpenBSD order took 23 days to reach my home in the USA - then when it came, the CD set was missing! [Only the tee-shirt I ordered was enclosed]. In their defense, they answered my email quickly, and are sending out the CD to me right away. YMMV.
Moreover, the DAC (digital-to-analogue converter)in a CD player makes a ton of 'hash'; digital noise that can be heard in the RF band (and upper audio too). Its partly why CD sound is so bright and 'dirty' sounding. It also means CD players aren't good in airplanes.