Actually, bears are pretty bright. A documentary I saw a few years ago showed that some of them at Yellowstone have learned that you can pop the back window of a minivan off in a single piece by striking a single sharp blow at the top of the window frame. Then they'd crawl through the opening they had made into the car and eat whatever drew them to that vehicle in the first place. They'd do several cars a night that way. While the interiors of the cars were pretty much trashed, some of the cars that were "bear-glarized" in this fashion had very little external damage. (Okay, so there was this one poor food-filled Geo Metro that some big-ass male sort-of put on like a sweatshirt, but besides that one, most of the exteriors were surprisingly unharmed by this trick.)
Basically, to the bears that knew this technique, cars are essentially just metal and glass Tupperware containers, and are about as difficult to get into.
"It appears to be sony specific (i.e. no toslink)"
Nope, it's straight SPDIF toslink. I'm using an Edirol UA-1D USB to toslink adapter to transfer iTunes playlists to MD from my 12" Powerbook. The automatic track incrementing function is flaky, but it totally plug and play otherwise under OS X 1.2.6. They also claim it's Panther compatible.
A large spacecraft design must account for fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, vibration and resonance on many time scales, avionics and other control, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, combustion dynamics, hydraulics, cryogenics, and biomedical issues. (Thanks to an anonymous poster on Slashdot for pointing this out.) (Emphasis mine.)
If they're using Slashdot as a source for information, how can we possibly take them seriously?:-D
Well, if'n yew were a Redneck, yud no that stampin' on yer food is sometimes the only way to kill it. That way, yew save a doller on dinner and can go see a piture in the the-ay-ter.
Actually what I said was that I thought today's bands were seldom more creative than their LP-era counterparts. Not that they were any less creative. I think the "creativity quotient" (as if I could measure that!) may be about the same. It's just that 4 great songs equal about 1/2 of an LP, and about 1/4 of a CD. And, as you mentioned, there is the record company's control of things. A record company pays the same for a piece of plastic with 16 songs on it as for a piece of plastic with 8 songs on it, and probably encourages their artists to come up with more "product", regardless of the quality of that "product".
"When it became just a bunch of songs thrown onto a CD as a delivery mechanism, the idea of the album lost its meaning."
Actually, I think you may be onto something here. I think the "delivery mechanism" of CDs is half of the problem. Since there's so much space to store music on a CD, there's a tendency to use it all. Thus, in the LP days, you got maybe 5-10 songs and a half hour listen out of an album. Maybe half those songs were good, on average. Presently, you get 12-17 songs on a CD, and over an hour of listening. But IMO bands today are seldom more creative than their LP-era counterparts, so there are still only 4-5 good songs on the disc, only now 4-5 good songs constitutes a good deal less than half of the album. This leaves a marketing opportunity for those willing and able to sell grumpy (or discerning) listeners music in song increments rather than CD increments.
The worst programming job I ever had involved maintaining 60 KLOC of Fortran that had been hacked together by about 5 different guys, each of whom used EQUIVALENCE statements to alias all of the variables into mnemonics in their native languages. It was completely uncommented except for a single line, about halfway through the big plate o' spaghetti that this thing was, which read:
C C OKEY DOKEY, SMOKEY! C
Oh, yeah, and need I mention that this was for a mission-critical system?
"So not only will you get carjacked in the future but they will make you give them your wallet as well."
Yeah, I sorta like the natural "firewalling" that occurs between my wallet and my car keys and my mobile phone.;-) And his idea about using a phone as a credit card. Every credit card I've ever owned in my life added up don't equal the weight of my moble phone - Why the hell would I want to do that trade?
Yeah, no kidding. Bert Rutan has not one, but 3 aircraft designs displayed at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. These are the around-the-world Voyager,, and the experimental homebuilts VariEze, and Quickie.
In addition to Long Valley Caldera, there are other geologists who believe that Mt. Rainier in Washington might be due for an upcoming cataclysmic eruption - Apparently, this mountain is quite active, and has been responsible for some really nasty fast moving pyroclastic flows in the past - Some which have made it as far away as Tacoma. There was a NOVA episode about this. One of many interesting sites on this is here.
They better be very careful how they book that revenue - Playing games with announced revenue figures took out Enron, MCI/Worldcom, and has the SEC talking to piles of other companies.
The paper's going to be in Physics Review E, not Physics Review Letters, which is where your link led. Check out the first two sentences of the article:
Physical Review E has announced the publication of an article by a team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Purdue University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the Russian Academy of Science (RAS) stating that they have replicated and extended previous experimental results that indicated the occurrence of nuclear fusion using a novel approach for plasma confinement.
This approach, called bubble fusion, and the new experimental results are being published in an extensively peer-reviewed article titled "Additional Evidence of Nuclear Emissions During Acoustic Cavitation," which is scheduled to be posted on Physical Review E's Web site and published in its journal this month.
Nevertheless, like you, I feel that the arrival of a press release before the paper appears is something of a red flag - Especially in this particular subfield of physics.
The liquid is deuterated acetone. AFAIK, this is essentially nail polish remover doped with deuterium. Probably as brain-rotting as normal nail polish remover, only a bit more dense.
As a separate point, I don't entirely buy the "less radioactive waste" argument of this press release or the fusion community in general - I used to work in a physics lab, and one of the PhDs there made what I thought was an excellent point - In order for fusion to be commercially viable, ultimately the reaction has to turn a generator somehow, probably via heat generated by fast neutrons. He couldn't see how fast neutrons from a fusion reaction could be any less nasty than fast neutrons generated by a conventional fission reaction.
Am I off in the weeds here, or is this correct? Anyone out there with nuclear physics experience care to weigh in with an opinion?
Dogs won't ever bring home some sleaze bag as their S.O. or;
Cost you massive amounts of money to go to the college of their choice, and;
They're always happy to see you.
Others I'm sure can add to this list. Some people want to care for another living thing, but may not be that interested in children. IMHO this is waaay better than people having children and then deciding that they're not interested in having them.
Yeah, as someone pointed out earlier, a dash goes a long way to helping URL readability. Another one with a similar problem in the past was experts-exchange.com. (A really useful IT-code-hardware tip site, BTW) They used to go by the domain name of expertsexchange.com, which has just a wee bit different connotation.:-)
My wife has a phone message from him - (Preserved for ever, I may add!) Years ago she wanted to use Wintermute in the name of her software startup, and approached his publisher. We were very surprised some weeks later to get a call from The Man Himself, giving us verbal permission to use the name. He also suggested that since he picked the name to be somewhat "creepy", maybe we should consider what kind of image we wanted for the company!
Pepperbergs' work appeared recently on the Animal Planet cable channel. Alex the parrot is really brilliant - He can identify colors, shapes, food types, materials - He responds (and asks for things) in English, which only makes him seem smarter.
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Actually, bears are pretty bright. A documentary I saw a few years ago showed that some of them at Yellowstone have learned that you can pop the back window of a minivan off in a single piece by striking a single sharp blow at the top of the window frame. Then they'd crawl through the opening they had made into the car and eat whatever drew them to that vehicle in the first place. They'd do several cars a night that way. While the interiors of the cars were pretty much trashed, some of the cars that were "bear-glarized" in this fashion had very little external damage. (Okay, so there was this one poor food-filled Geo Metro that some big-ass male sort-of put on like a sweatshirt, but besides that one, most of the exteriors were surprisingly unharmed by this trick.)
Basically, to the bears that knew this technique, cars are essentially just metal and glass Tupperware containers, and are about as difficult to get into.
Apogee makes gold CD-Rs that are used in high-end digital audio. Might be worth a look...
smcavoy on MD recorder's optical input:
"It appears to be sony specific (i.e. no toslink)"
Nope, it's straight SPDIF toslink. I'm using an Edirol UA-1D USB to toslink adapter to transfer iTunes playlists to MD from my 12" Powerbook. The automatic track incrementing function is flaky, but it totally plug and play otherwise under OS X 1.2.6. They also claim it's Panther compatible.
...My favorite sentence, found halfway down this page:
:-D
A large spacecraft design must account for fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, vibration and resonance on many time scales, avionics and other control, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, combustion dynamics, hydraulics, cryogenics, and biomedical issues. (Thanks to an anonymous poster on Slashdot for pointing this out.) (Emphasis mine.)
If they're using Slashdot as a source for information, how can we possibly take them seriously?
Sounds like Battlebots: Lunar Edition. What cable channel is that on? I'll watch it! ;)
Well, if'n yew were a Redneck, yud no that stampin' on yer food is sometimes the only way to kill it. That way, yew save a doller on dinner and can go see a piture in the the-ay-ter.
And, if you do write him, ask him about his band.
Actually what I said was that I thought today's bands were seldom more creative than their LP-era counterparts. Not that they were any less creative. I think the "creativity quotient" (as if I could measure that!) may be about the same. It's just that 4 great songs equal about 1/2 of an LP, and about 1/4 of a CD. And, as you mentioned, there is the record company's control of things. A record company pays the same for a piece of plastic with 16 songs on it as for a piece of plastic with 8 songs on it, and probably encourages their artists to come up with more "product", regardless of the quality of that "product".
gcaseye6677 complains:
"When it became just a bunch of songs thrown onto a CD as a delivery mechanism, the idea of the album lost its meaning."
Actually, I think you may be onto something here. I think the "delivery mechanism" of CDs is half of the problem. Since there's so much space to store music on a CD, there's a tendency to use it all. Thus, in the LP days, you got maybe 5-10 songs and a half hour listen out of an album. Maybe half those songs were good, on average. Presently, you get 12-17 songs on a CD, and over an hour of listening. But IMO bands today are seldom more creative than their LP-era counterparts, so there are still only 4-5 good songs on the disc, only now 4-5 good songs constitutes a good deal less than half of the album. This leaves a marketing opportunity for those willing and able to sell grumpy (or discerning) listeners music in song increments rather than CD increments.
Pfleming says:
;-) And his idea about using a phone as a credit card. Every credit card I've ever owned in my life added up don't equal the weight of my moble phone - Why the hell would I want to do that trade?
"So not only will you get carjacked in the future but they will make you give them your wallet as well."
Yeah, I sorta like the natural "firewalling" that occurs between my wallet and my car keys and my mobile phone.
You worked on a crab processing ship? My understanding was that occupation qualifies as: Most. Dangerous. Job. Ever.
Yeah, no kidding. Bert Rutan has not one, but 3 aircraft designs displayed at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. These are the around-the-world Voyager,, and the experimental homebuilts VariEze, and Quickie.
"Maybe so, but I still see that photo of the Untouchable caste guy (forgot what the new "correct" name is) neck-deep in sewage."
Hey! Untouchable Guy! Get out of there! I want my good American job back!...
In addition to Long Valley Caldera, there are other geologists who believe that Mt. Rainier in Washington might be due for an upcoming cataclysmic eruption - Apparently, this mountain is quite active, and has been responsible for some really nasty fast moving pyroclastic flows in the past - Some which have made it as far away as Tacoma. There was a NOVA episode about this. One of many interesting sites on this is here.
Yeah, I caught this as well - And here I thought ACs were unique to Slashdot! :-D
They better be very careful how they book that revenue - Playing games with announced revenue figures took out Enron, MCI/Worldcom, and has the SEC talking to piles of other companies.
The paper's going to be in Physics Review E, not Physics Review Letters, which is where your link led. Check out the first two sentences of the article:
Physical Review E has announced the publication of an article by a team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Purdue University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the Russian Academy of Science (RAS) stating that they have replicated and extended previous experimental results that indicated the occurrence of nuclear fusion using a novel approach for plasma confinement.
This approach, called bubble fusion, and the new experimental results are being published in an extensively peer-reviewed article titled "Additional Evidence of Nuclear Emissions During Acoustic Cavitation," which is scheduled to be posted on Physical Review E's Web site and published in its journal this month.
I did a search at the Physics Review E site, but it's not there yet.
Nevertheless, like you, I feel that the arrival of a press release before the paper appears is something of a red flag - Especially in this particular subfield of physics.
The liquid is deuterated acetone. AFAIK, this is essentially nail polish remover doped with deuterium. Probably as brain-rotting as normal nail polish remover, only a bit more dense.
As a separate point, I don't entirely buy the "less radioactive waste" argument of this press release or the fusion community in general - I used to work in a physics lab, and one of the PhDs there made what I thought was an excellent point - In order for fusion to be commercially viable, ultimately the reaction has to turn a generator somehow, probably via heat generated by fast neutrons. He couldn't see how fast neutrons from a fusion reaction could be any less nasty than fast neutrons generated by a conventional fission reaction.
Am I off in the weeds here, or is this correct? Anyone out there with nuclear physics experience care to weigh in with an opinion?
Others I'm sure can add to this list. Some people want to care for another living thing, but may not be that interested in children. IMHO this is waaay better than people having children and then deciding that they're not interested in having them.
Yeah, as someone pointed out earlier, a dash goes a long way to helping URL readability. Another one with a similar problem in the past was experts-exchange.com. (A really useful IT-code-hardware tip site, BTW) They used to go by the domain name of expertsexchange.com, which has just a wee bit different connotation. :-)
My wife has a phone message from him - (Preserved for ever, I may add!) Years ago she wanted to use Wintermute in the name of her software startup, and approached his publisher. We were very surprised some weeks later to get a call from The Man Himself, giving us verbal permission to use the name. He also suggested that since he picked the name to be somewhat "creepy", maybe we should consider what kind of image we wanted for the company!
Pepperbergs' work appeared recently on the Animal Planet cable channel. Alex the parrot is really brilliant - He can identify colors, shapes, food types, materials - He responds (and asks for things) in English, which only makes him seem smarter.
It's just Graboid antennae. All that airbag bouncing drew one to the landing site. Opportunity's safe, as long as it doesn't make too much noise.
Oh, wait, quick, somebody needs to tell JPL: Don't use the Rock Grinder!