The trainset used for the speed run was a perfectly normal one that was modified, but with simple changes done in the shop.
A few new parts were added (like the aerodynamic skirts), but the wheels, transformer and gearing changes were just variations from the setup that provides best performance at 300 km/h. That train was later brought back into service.
In other words, it's like if an F1 car was going to go very, very fast on a straight track, there would be wheel and gear changes, but no more changes than would be done for any track change. It just so happens that the TGV always travels on the same track, so SNCF never has to change it.
Also, the track was not severly damaged by the run. It was quite tame, actually.
The long term zero-gravity exposure is what makes space interesting, so why not use it? The only place I can think of (although I have the feeling I'm about to hear of plenty of good ones, shooting my argument to hell) for gravity in space is on extra-planetary missions where much of the trip is spent waiting to get to where you are going.
When you are in orbit, zero gravity stuff is what you do.
Voiceware's stuff here is really quite good. You just never hear the good TTS on desktops because the licenses are expensive, and only telcos can afford them.
You actually hear the voices all the time over the phone (recordings and such), but you just think it's prerecorded, and then spliced. I think part of GM's OnStar service may use TTS.
While that may have been posted to be funny, you are really just proving my point. A lot of people would use copy and paste for this project, but this is still not really using the computer for its purpose. You are still doing the work, just manually copying your original work. The only thing that seperates computer "gurus" from the rest is this mindset.
I am a human. I am not well suited to doing simple things to data more than once. I am using a computer, a device that is.
The first thing anyone should learn with a computer is how to code using a very, very simple language. I used MS QuickBASIC.
If you first use the computer to use applications, then you will forever think the computer is a device for word processing, viewing web pages, and the like. As you learn more applications, you will think that the computer can do more, say allow you to layout pages, but you will miss the main point of the computer.
The computer is a tool. If the first thing you learn to do is code, you will see that the computer is a tool for processing input, and generating output. That's all it does, but it does it very, very well.
I have been in a classroom environment where we were told to make a change to a single spot in an entire web site (~70 pages). Out of 20 people in the room, 19 of them opened FrontPage, made the change, and repeated. I wrote a script and finished in 5% of the time. They used the computer for what they thought it was for, applications, and I used it for its real purpose, processing data.
He's full of it. The ground moves more than that, or I wouldn't have to use a very, very expensive pneumatic table for optics. And if the ground moves, you'd move too, right?
This type of A La Carte programming has been available on TVRO (big-dish satellite) for a long time now. It's very, very cheap.
TVRO is a great way to get quite a number of channels, and many you can't get anywhere else. The only thing you can't get with it is local stuff, and you can get that over the air for free. TVRO isn't dead yet.
It's called EME, or Moonbounce. Usually done on 2 meter (144MHz), but it's been done recently on microwave. (And yes, it is just bounced off the surface). See one of the more recent QST magazines for details.
There is no point to doing this, unless you want to drop the bit rate, or just want ogg for political reasons.
When you encoded into MP3 (or any lossy format, for that matter) the quality went away for good. Re-encoding it will just re-encode the low quality stream, introducing the new Vorbis (OGG Audio) artifacts on top of the MP3 ones. If you re-encode your library, the audio quality will get worse, period, although the drop will me minimal, and you might squeeze a little more compression out of it.
To answer your question, though, dbPowerAmp should do the trick.
I thought VM/370 was in the class of operating systems called VM/ESA. Hmm. guess you learn something new every day. Slashdot is informative (at least that's what I say to justify the time spent on it...).
To be more complete, a Part 15 device is a secondary (or tertiary, if there is already a secondary) user of the entire radio frequency spectrum. That means that they can use the RF spectrum, as long as they don't cause harmful interference to a user with higher priority.
That means that if your device is hurting my ham radio operations on 146.880 MHz, then I sic the FCC on you, but if I interfere with you, I have primary user rights, so you're outta luck.
The primary, secondary, etc. system is just a pecking order for RF users. You can interfere with those with higer priority all you want, but Part 15 is always at the bottom.
An Air France A320 (a new design) was doing a low-altitude fly-by at an airshow when the aircraft descended into terrain.
The pilot, since convicted of manslaughter, claims the aircraft reported AGL (above ground level) altitude to be 100', while video shows the aircraft was closer to 30'. There is significant evidence to support this story, such as the apparent swapping of DFDRs and the issuing of Operational Engineering Bulletins to correct problems as explained by the captain of the aircraft.
The captain claims that the throttle by wire system would not respond to increased command, so he retracted them to idle, then advanced them to Takeoff/Go Around (full). The aircraft had crashed by that point, killing 3 aboard.
XML can be whatever you want it to. XML does have standarads, but just standards for wrapping data with control codes, not what the control codes mean.
While StarOffice may use an XML word processing format, it won't be what MSFT will use.
Not to be picky, but this is Slashdot. Picky is what we do here. The rocket for the lunar Apollo missions was the Saturn V series booster, not the Apollo V.
The Saturn series was used after the Lunar Apollo four times (correct me if I'm wrong). Three were Apollo CSMs (one to ASTP, two to Skylab), and one, a Saturn INT-21 (a modified Saturn V) boosted Skylab, which really was a good scientific experiment, to orbit.
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The trainset used for the speed run was a perfectly normal one that was modified, but with simple changes done in the shop.
A few new parts were added (like the aerodynamic skirts), but the wheels, transformer and gearing changes were just variations from the setup that provides best performance at 300 km/h. That train was later brought back into service.
In other words, it's like if an F1 car was going to go very, very fast on a straight track, there would be wheel and gear changes, but no more changes than would be done for any track change. It just so happens that the TGV always travels on the same track, so SNCF never has to change it.
Also, the track was not severly damaged by the run. It was quite tame, actually.
Why?
The long term zero-gravity exposure is what makes space interesting, so why not use it? The only place I can think of (although I have the feeling I'm about to hear of plenty of good ones, shooting my argument to hell) for gravity in space is on extra-planetary missions where much of the trip is spent waiting to get to where you are going.
When you are in orbit, zero gravity stuff is what you do.
Voiceware's stuff here is really quite good. You just never hear the good TTS on desktops because the licenses are expensive, and only telcos can afford them.
You actually hear the voices all the time over the phone (recordings and such), but you just think it's prerecorded, and then spliced. I think part of GM's OnStar service may use TTS.
While that may have been posted to be funny, you are really just proving my point. A lot of people would use copy and paste for this project, but this is still not really using the computer for its purpose. You are still doing the work, just manually copying your original work. The only thing that seperates computer "gurus" from the rest is this mindset.
I am a human. I am not well suited to doing simple things to data more than once. I am using a computer, a device that is.
The first thing anyone should learn with a computer is how to code using a very, very simple language. I used MS QuickBASIC.
If you first use the computer to use applications, then you will forever think the computer is a device for word processing, viewing web pages, and the like. As you learn more applications, you will think that the computer can do more, say allow you to layout pages, but you will miss the main point of the computer.
The computer is a tool. If the first thing you learn to do is code, you will see that the computer is a tool for processing input, and generating output. That's all it does, but it does it very, very well.
I have been in a classroom environment where we were told to make a change to a single spot in an entire web site (~70 pages). Out of 20 people in the room, 19 of them opened FrontPage, made the change, and repeated. I wrote a script and finished in 5% of the time. They used the computer for what they thought it was for, applications, and I used it for its real purpose, processing data.
DivX is the MPEG4 codec.
DIVX is the DVD rental system.
The capital 'X' in DivX is to prevent confusion.
Good example are the Federation of American Scientists pages. Really ugly, but really informative. The uglyness doesn't stop me.
Good point.
I'm pretty sure I can stay steady with in a wavelength of my cell phone's 'light'.
He's full of it.
The ground moves more than that, or I wouldn't have to use a very, very expensive pneumatic table for optics. And if the ground moves, you'd move too, right?
You bad man. You very bad man.
Don't do this. The root servers would end up in a smoldering heap of goo if end users started using them.
This type of A La Carte programming has been available on TVRO (big-dish satellite) for a long time now. It's very, very cheap.
TVRO is a great way to get quite a number of channels, and many you can't get anywhere else. The only thing you can't get with it is local stuff, and you can get that over the air for free. TVRO isn't dead yet.
I'll bet that install come with almost every app you use under Linux, right?
No. I think they usually took off from Flordia ;-)
It's called EME, or Moonbounce. Usually done on 2 meter (144MHz), but it's been done recently on microwave. (And yes, it is just bounced off the surface). See one of the more recent QST magazines for details.
Nope. Final assembly is in Japan with a 0% American Parts distribution.
Yeah. The Toyota product I drive every day is a real piece of unreliable crap.
If TCP became a problem, I'd be happy to sell them a raft of these to take care of all their problems...
There is no point to doing this, unless you want to drop the bit rate, or just want ogg for political reasons.
When you encoded into MP3 (or any lossy format, for that matter) the quality went away for good. Re-encoding it will just re-encode the low quality stream, introducing the new Vorbis (OGG Audio) artifacts on top of the MP3 ones. If you re-encode your library, the audio quality will get worse, period, although the drop will me minimal, and you might squeeze a little more compression out of it.
To answer your question, though, dbPowerAmp should do the trick.
I thought VM/370 was in the class of operating systems called VM/ESA. Hmm. guess you learn something new every day. Slashdot is informative (at least that's what I say to justify the time spent on it...).
To be more complete, a Part 15 device is a secondary (or tertiary, if there is already a secondary) user of the entire radio frequency spectrum. That means that they can use the RF spectrum, as long as they don't cause harmful interference to a user with higher priority.
That means that if your device is hurting my ham radio operations on 146.880 MHz, then I sic the FCC on you, but if I interfere with you, I have primary user rights, so you're outta luck.
The primary, secondary, etc. system is just a pecking order for RF users. You can interfere with those with higer priority all you want, but Part 15 is always at the bottom.
Anybody can do this with Hercules/390 on Linux (as long as you just happen to have a copy of OS/390 or VM/ESA). Easy and free.
Makes for quite a demo.
So, by that logic, is my quad-pentium machine a 128-bit box?
An Air France A320 (a new design) was doing a low-altitude fly-by at an airshow when the aircraft descended into terrain.
The pilot, since convicted of manslaughter, claims the aircraft reported AGL (above ground level) altitude to be 100', while video shows the aircraft was closer to 30'. There is significant evidence to support this story, such as the apparent swapping of DFDRs and the issuing of Operational Engineering Bulletins to correct problems as explained by the captain of the aircraft.
The captain claims that the throttle by wire system would not respond to increased command, so he retracted them to idle, then advanced them to Takeoff/Go Around (full). The aircraft had crashed by that point, killing 3 aboard.
See this for more.
XML can be whatever you want it to. XML does have standarads, but just standards for wrapping data with control codes, not what the control codes mean.
While StarOffice may use an XML word processing format, it won't be what MSFT will use.
Not to be picky, but this is Slashdot. Picky is what we do here. The rocket for the lunar Apollo missions was the Saturn V series booster, not the Apollo V.
The Saturn series was used after the Lunar Apollo four times (correct me if I'm wrong). Three were Apollo CSMs (one to ASTP, two to Skylab), and one, a Saturn INT-21 (a modified Saturn V) boosted Skylab, which really was a good scientific experiment, to orbit.