I could see that you might not be able to perceive differences closer than that, but I think the deal with the show was that they were jumping over a pretty good range of frequencies- not just 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, but 1, 5, 10, 20, and so on. I agree that, whatever the magic frequency that may make this happen to a person, nearby frequencies may produce a similar but lesser result. My overall point was that the show jumped around on the scale way too much for them to have busted the myth.
I watched the episode where you guys tested the bit about certain low-frequency sounds causing a person's bowels to loosen, making them soil themselves. On the show you had a guy in diapers stand between several speakers and you exposed him to several low-range frequencies. But you only exposed him to integer frequencies- 4hz, 5hz, whatever. If you exposed him to such a small set of possible frequencies, even over the range you chose, that would seem to make it highly unlikely that, if the myth were true, you would have found the exact frequency to make your guinea pig soil himself. On the show the myth was declared busted. Because you did not test the continous band of frequencies, instead stepping from one selected frequency to the next, I ask you this: Did you, in fact, not bust the myth in that case?
Well, technically I suppose it would be a death pyramid, but I still wouldn't want to stick my hand in front of it. Fried a penny in under 30 seconds. Strangely enough, it wouldn't make so much as a mark on an old hard drive casing.
My apologies- I know i'm probably violating some sort of unwritten rule by linking to my own site. I don't mean to be flame bait. This Slashdot story inspired me, so my summer project was to build a death ray. Anyway, here it is.
I'm having a major fight with temptation about the Singing Buck, which K-mart has for $120 and is supposed to go on sale for $100 even. I had them get the Mr Microphone part out and held it up to my pda. It was nice getting to see the buck read Andromeda Strain to me in the middle of K-mart.
...is an aggregate measure of vulnerability time. How many days/weeks/months of total time will I experience between a vulnerability becoming public knowledge and the patch becoming available? How many for the Mozilla browsers? Even if there are 10 times as many vulnerabilities in the Mozilla browsers, if they get patched 100 times as fast, I would think the user would still be safer with some flavor of Mozilla than with IE.
I remember the very brief period when the supermarket scanners would call out not just the price, but also the name of each item. That, as I recall, did not last very long.
No one will use or stand for a device that makes an annoying noise every single time you use it.
No, he is very much not trying to change his ways. The purpose of a corporation is to make money and, as the head of the Microsoft corporation, his purpose is to make money. If he's trying to expand to a new market, it isn't that he's trying to leave the dark side. He's simply trying to make money.
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G-String Theory?
Well, at least you don't have to lift the console itself this time around....
Capacitance counts.
I could see that you might not be able to perceive differences closer than that, but I think the deal with the show was that they were jumping over a pretty good range of frequencies- not just 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, but 1, 5, 10, 20, and so on. I agree that, whatever the magic frequency that may make this happen to a person, nearby frequencies may produce a similar but lesser result. My overall point was that the show jumped around on the scale way too much for them to have busted the myth.
I watched the episode where you guys tested the bit about certain low-frequency sounds causing a person's bowels to loosen, making them soil themselves. On the show you had a guy in diapers stand between several speakers and you exposed him to several low-range frequencies. But you only exposed him to integer frequencies- 4hz, 5hz, whatever. If you exposed him to such a small set of possible frequencies, even over the range you chose, that would seem to make it highly unlikely that, if the myth were true, you would have found the exact frequency to make your guinea pig soil himself. On the show the myth was declared busted. Because you did not test the continous band of frequencies, instead stepping from one selected frequency to the next, I ask you this: Did you, in fact, not bust the myth in that case?
I thought that said "Rome couldn't be snacked in a day."
I for one welcome our fearless, near-immortal, rodent overlords.
(that wouldn't be Frankie and Benjie mouse, by an chance, would it?)
#4: No Mental.
#6: Robot with Mental inside.
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I think that's the most poorly worded and redundant story intro i've ever seen on Slashdot.
Well, technically I suppose it would be a death pyramid, but I still wouldn't want to stick my hand in front of it. Fried a penny in under 30 seconds. Strangely enough, it wouldn't make so much as a mark on an old hard drive casing.
My apologies- I know i'm probably violating some sort of unwritten rule by linking to my own site. I don't mean to be flame bait. This Slashdot story inspired me, so my summer project was to build a death ray. Anyway, here it is.
I'm having a major fight with temptation about the Singing Buck, which K-mart has for $120 and is supposed to go on sale for $100 even. I had them get the Mr Microphone part out and held it up to my pda. It was nice getting to see the buck read Andromeda Strain to me in the middle of K-mart.
Microsoft might use synergy!
One ping only...
Otisburg!
A browser that embraces bloat!
Is there a way to combine multi-part messages in Thunderbird yet? (yes, insert porn joke here) That's the only reason I still run OE.
...is an aggregate measure of vulnerability time. How many days/weeks/months of total time will I experience between a vulnerability becoming public knowledge and the patch becoming available? How many for the Mozilla browsers? Even if there are 10 times as many vulnerabilities in the Mozilla browsers, if they get patched 100 times as fast, I would think the user would still be safer with some flavor of Mozilla than with IE.
I imagine it would be more along the lines of Depends, maxi-pads, laxatives, and other embarassing stuff.
I remember the very brief period when the supermarket scanners would call out not just the price, but also the name of each item. That, as I recall, did not last very long.
No one will use or stand for a device that makes an annoying noise every single time you use it.
My cousin died of an Orange Lazarus...
...at least one of these mice will end up at the home of a certain brown mouse and grey cat?
...emulating the Vectrex in just 40gb!
It's just down the road from the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
...that each child will have to carry their own information in a frisbee glued to their backs.
No, he is very much not trying to change his ways. The purpose of a corporation is to make money and, as the head of the Microsoft corporation, his purpose is to make money. If he's trying to expand to a new market, it isn't that he's trying to leave the dark side. He's simply trying to make money.