Topographically, yes, most animals and humans are donuts via the alimentary tract. However, for the purposes of fluid dynamic modeling, most animals & humans are better approximated as a sphere than a toroid, unless we're talking the Goatse Man or a RamJet Fish.
You do realize that lighter-than-air vehicles been to be replenished regularly with more helium/hydrogen, so it's not like it's a free means of elevation.
The smaller it gets, the less space you have for battery capacity. Plus, that reduces the amount of space you have for the user input/output interface. Not to mention it would be tough to read any displayed text from the unit.
> why not just build the entire music player into the headsets? Why two pieces...
For the same reason headphones with integrated FM radios don't sell like hotcakes. Bulky, hard to upgrade, short battery life, expensive for manufacturers to offer choices of headset/player option, etc etc.
> Well, until now, you had two options: electric heaters > that keep a large amount of water hot at all times, or > natural gas heaters that heat up water on-demand.
Um, that's the other way around, chief. NG heaters heat and keep a large amount of hot water, electric heaters heat up water on demand.
I've used on-demand electric hot water in Europe, and it's only really practical in low flow situations. "Showers" should be more accurately called "mild sprinklings". I'd be interested in a combination system that had both a electric on demand heater and a small NG tank heater. The smaller tank would mean a lower ongoing waste due to the hot water just sitting around plus it would be able to keep up with peak demand usage.
Mod up. I know people who have worked call centers. If the call volume is currently lower than anticipated, then agents can opt to have take voluntary time off for the rest of the shift, unpaid. There is no slack time, no one sits around with nothing to do.
One benefit of the current long hold time system is that some callers on hold will figure things out themselves, and drop out of the queue. Other less-determined callers will drop out. It's a system that rewards tenacious callers with tough problems, for better or worse.
Lastly, I've noticed more than once when calling for cust support that about 1 out of 10 times, the agent at the other end will "accidently" disconnect me. Is this an attempt to work through the queue faster? Argh.
Ok, I can see the value of what you're suggesting when put in terms of a one-time-only far out marketing gimmick. Sort of like BNL's "Make Your Own Audio CD kit" where they start you off with the mp3s on a USB, and you can make your own BNL mix on the included blank CD.
But then how do you top this one in the future? Release the raw studio tracks and let the buyer edit together the vocal, instrumental, backing tracks themselves.:)
> Heh. I suppose what would've been an even better gimmick would be if they > had released this USB drive in a package that includes a blank CD with > artwork specific to this album. Then you could record it yourself...
Or you could just buy the audio CD for $20 retail, and skip the "pine for a blank CD to be included with the USB music key so that I can burn the mp3s onto the blank audio CD" step entirely.
They would prefer to have the iffy color fidelity of LCD monitors, the lower dynamic range, lousy ghosting issues and smaller viewing angle of LCD monitors over two t-i-n-y little wires that most people can stare at a Trinitron for a decade and never notice?
Any hints for what company these designers work for?
The first two thirds of your post correctly noted that when products use unlicensed freqs, interference may occur. The risk of intereference is the chance they take in using an unregulated freq.
But then you went on to decry, "Now I find it STUPID that this system wasn't tested before rolling out. I can't believe that if it was tested that they would miss such a problem."
Do you feel it should have been tested to see if it interfers with retail inventory and point of sale devices? Pray tell, if indeed you had the foresight to demand that ALL your consumer entertainment devices not interfer with equipment not normally found in the living rooms of most people, which other devices should it be tested against specifically?
Too thick? Hardly; 6 inches thick is all you'd need. You've never been to SeaWorld?:) Here's the dialog from the movie. I think it's safe to assume that they swapped the formula for several sheets of 6in plexi.
SCOTTY: I notice you're still working with polymers.
NICHOLS (mystified): Still? What else would I be working with?
SCOTTY: Ah, what else indeed? Let me put it another way: how thick would a piece of your plexiglass need to be at 60 feet by 10 feet to withstand the pressure of 18,000 cubic feet of water?
NICHOLS: That's easy: 6 inches. We carry stuff that big in stock.
SCOTTY: Yes, I noticed. Now suppose -- just suppose -- I could show you a way to manufacture a wall that would do the same job but was only an inch thick. would that be worth something to you, eh?
NICHOLS:... Are you joking?
BONES: He never jokes... Perhaps the professor could use your computer.
NICHOLS: Please...
He gestures, and Scotty sits at a nearby Macintosh. He surveys the machine quizzically, clears his throat, and in a loud voice says:
SCOTTY: Computer --
Bones steps in quickly, picks up the "Mouse" and shoves it into Scotty's hand. Scotty looks at the mouse, baffled, then puts it to his lips like a mike.
SCOTTY: (continuing) Hello? Computer...?
NICHOLS (bewildered): Just use the keyboard...
SCOTTY: The keyboard... How quaint.
Then, preparing his fingers like a concert pianist, he plunges to work furiously. An awesome series of figures and graphics are appearing. PULL BACK to reveal Scotty, now master of the keyboard, while Nichols watches in awe, next to Bones. with a flourish, Scotty hits a last command, and a wondrous three dimensional graphic appears.
NICHOLS (wide-eyed): Transparent aluminum?
SCOTTY: That's the ticket, laddie.
NICHOLS:... But it would take years just to figure out the dynamics of this matrix...!
BONES: You'll be rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
SCOTTY: So, is it worth something? Or should I just punch "clear"...
NICHOLS: No! (then) No... What did you have in mind...?
BONES: A moment alone, please. (continuing) You know, if we give him the formula, we'll be altering the future.
SCOTTY: Why? how do you know he didn't invent the thing!
You're talking about the tank onboard the Bird of Prey? That's regular plexiglass, not transparent aluminium. Scott bartered the formula for transparent aluminium for a batch of regular plexiglass. There's no way that the folks in 20th century could have cranked out sheets of transparent aluminium the same day they received the formula.
What I want to know is how Sulu got a hold of a Huey chopper so easily. Rent-a-Whirly?:)
Huh, why was this marked flamebait? Parent opened the door on this one.
If the interior light was so important to you, it may have behooved you to check on the specs online regarding whether in fact that very model had an interior light.
Replace "hard drive storage" with "space in my home", and you'll see that it's not a matter of getting enough space to store all your stuff, it's a matter of deciding what's important to you that needs to be kept.
Where it's electronic bits or physical items, some things are more important to you than others. Take a long hard look at what things you absolutely need, and toss the rest. Will your life be that must worse if you didn't have "______" within easy reach at any given moment? Probably not. And you'll feel better knowing that the things you do keep are the important ones.
And don't think of it as parting with things you'd rather have kept. Think of it as making room for more new stuff.
Honestly, are you keeping the table because there's an emotinaly attachment to it, or do you regularly have 10 guests around the table on a nightly basis?
I mean, it's a 6x6' table, plus you'll need to leave about 3' of freespace around the perimeter for people to get in and out of chairs, so you're talking about a 12x12'=144 sq ft chunk of space devoted to this table, or 16% of your total living space.
The mic needs to be as close to your ears as possible. The circuit needs to 'hear' exactly what you're hearing in order to construct the exact anti-sound to cancel it out. In noice-cancelling headsets, the mics are inside the cups, near your ears.
"The Right Stuff" by Tom Wolf talks about how the early US astronauts resented at being just a passenger inside a tin can. They wanted to ability to fly a bird back home on their own, not be chute dropped strapped on their backs.
I have a feeling there's still a lot of that mentality that's preventing the use of capsule style space vehicles in the US.
Several other qualified people have pointed out that having so many outlets in a room, just in case, is a bad idea. But this juxtaposition struck me as incredible.
> "and if possible maybe set up some of them to be uninterruptable"
Where, pray tell, would you keep the diesel generator and fuel tank that will power some of your house on demand?
> "you can just put in a cheap thermostat now"
It seems that you would be willing to spend thousands of dollars beyond what is standard on the electrical system materials (not to mention the cost of labor and expertise for someone qualified to do the work), but you're not willing to drop less than $200 on a top of the line stand-alone thermostat, which would pay for itself in reduced heating and cooling bills in less than 3 years. Guh.
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Topographically, yes, most animals and humans are donuts via the alimentary tract. However, for the purposes of fluid dynamic modeling, most animals & humans are better approximated as a sphere than a toroid, unless we're talking the Goatse Man or a RamJet Fish.
You do realize that lighter-than-air vehicles been to be replenished regularly with more helium/hydrogen, so it's not like it's a free means of elevation.
In other words, [wait for it...] there's no such things as a free launch.
Genius! You rock. I'll have to remember this trick.
ObSimpsonsQuote:
MARGE: Children can be so cruel...
BART: We can? Hu-hahaha!
[sound of punch]
LISA: Ow! Bart!
Masking tape is AWFUL for cable management. After a few weeks or months, masking tape leaves behind a nasty gummy residue.
Zip-ties are ok if you can find reusable zip-ties. Velcro wrap or twist-ties are very good.
The smaller it gets, the less space you have for battery capacity. Plus, that reduces the amount of space you have for the user input/output interface. Not to mention it would be tough to read any displayed text from the unit.
> why not just build the entire music player into the headsets? Why two pieces ...
For the same reason headphones with integrated FM radios don't sell like hotcakes. Bulky, hard to upgrade, short battery life, expensive for manufacturers to offer choices of headset/player option, etc etc.
Tom
> Well, until now, you had two options: electric heaters
> that keep a large amount of water hot at all times, or
> natural gas heaters that heat up water on-demand.
Um, that's the other way around, chief. NG heaters heat and keep a large amount of hot water, electric heaters heat up water on demand.
I've used on-demand electric hot water in Europe, and it's only really practical in low flow situations. "Showers" should be more accurately called "mild sprinklings". I'd be interested in a combination system that had both a electric on demand heater and a small NG tank heater. The smaller tank would mean a lower ongoing waste due to the hot water just sitting around plus it would be able to keep up with peak demand usage.
Tom
Mod up. I know people who have worked call centers. If the call volume is currently lower than anticipated, then agents can opt to have take voluntary time off for the rest of the shift, unpaid. There is no slack time, no one sits around with nothing to do.
One benefit of the current long hold time system is that some callers on hold will figure things out themselves, and drop out of the queue. Other less-determined callers will drop out. It's a system that rewards tenacious callers with tough problems, for better or worse.
Lastly, I've noticed more than once when calling for cust support that about 1 out of 10 times, the agent at the other end will "accidently" disconnect me. Is this an attempt to work through the queue faster? Argh.
Tom
Ok, I can see the value of what you're suggesting when put in terms of a one-time-only far out marketing gimmick. Sort of like BNL's "Make Your Own Audio CD kit" where they start you off with the mp3s on a USB, and you can make your own BNL mix on the included blank CD.
:)
But then how do you top this one in the future? Release the raw studio tracks and let the buyer edit together the vocal, instrumental, backing tracks themselves.
Tom
> Heh. I suppose what would've been an even better gimmick would be if they
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> had released this USB drive in a package that includes a blank CD with
> artwork specific to this album. Then you could record it yourself...
Or you could just buy the audio CD for $20 retail, and skip the "pine for a blank CD to be included with the USB music key so that I can burn the mp3s onto the blank audio CD" step entirely.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00
I think this is a cool progressive step for a mainstream band. Kudos to them.
Tom
Best. Musical. Evar.
Or is that a Space Rock Opera?
Then I laugh at your "graphic designers".
They would prefer to have the iffy color fidelity of LCD monitors, the lower dynamic range, lousy ghosting issues and smaller viewing angle of LCD monitors over two t-i-n-y little wires that most people can stare at a Trinitron for a decade and never notice?
Any hints for what company these designers work for?
The first two thirds of your post correctly noted that when products use unlicensed freqs, interference may occur. The risk of intereference is the chance they take in using an unregulated freq.
But then you went on to decry, "Now I find it STUPID that this system wasn't tested before rolling out. I can't believe that if it was tested that they would miss such a problem."
Do you feel it should have been tested to see if it interfers with retail inventory and point of sale devices? Pray tell, if indeed you had the foresight to demand that ALL your consumer entertainment devices not interfer with equipment not normally found in the living rooms of most people, which other devices should it be tested against specifically?
I love the chuckle/throw-up-in-own-mouth/smirk he does as the camera pulls out. What a job!
Too thick? Hardly; 6 inches thick is all you'd need. You've never been to SeaWorld? :) Here's the dialog from the movie. I think it's safe to assume that they swapped the formula for several sheets of 6in plexi.
... Are you joking?
... But it would take years just to figure out the dynamics of this matrix...!
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SCOTTY: I notice you're still working with polymers.
NICHOLS (mystified): Still? What else would I be working with?
SCOTTY: Ah, what else indeed? Let me put it another way: how thick would a piece of your plexiglass need to be at 60 feet by 10 feet to withstand the pressure of 18,000 cubic feet of water?
NICHOLS: That's easy: 6 inches. We carry stuff that big in stock.
SCOTTY: Yes, I noticed. Now suppose -- just suppose -- I could show you a way to manufacture a wall that would do the same job but was only an inch thick. would that be worth something to you, eh?
NICHOLS:
BONES: He never jokes... Perhaps the professor could use your computer.
NICHOLS: Please...
He gestures, and Scotty sits at a nearby Macintosh. He surveys the machine quizzically, clears his throat, and in a loud voice says:
SCOTTY: Computer --
Bones steps in quickly, picks up the "Mouse" and shoves it into Scotty's hand. Scotty looks at the mouse, baffled, then puts it to his lips like a mike.
SCOTTY: (continuing) Hello? Computer...?
NICHOLS (bewildered): Just use the keyboard...
SCOTTY: The keyboard... How quaint.
Then, preparing his fingers like a concert pianist, he plunges to work furiously. An awesome series of figures and graphics are appearing. PULL BACK to reveal Scotty, now master of the keyboard, while Nichols watches in awe, next to Bones. with a flourish, Scotty hits a last command, and a wondrous three dimensional graphic appears.
NICHOLS (wide-eyed): Transparent aluminum?
SCOTTY: That's the ticket, laddie.
NICHOLS:
BONES: You'll be rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
SCOTTY: So, is it worth something? Or should I just punch "clear"...
NICHOLS: No! (then) No... What did you have in mind...?
BONES: A moment alone, please. (continuing) You know, if we give him the formula, we'll be altering the future.
SCOTTY: Why? how do you know he didn't invent the thing!
http://www.geocities.com/ussmunchkin7/Star_Trek_I
You're talking about the tank onboard the Bird of Prey? That's regular plexiglass, not transparent aluminium. Scott bartered the formula for transparent aluminium for a batch of regular plexiglass. There's no way that the folks in 20th century could have cranked out sheets of transparent aluminium the same day they received the formula.
:)
What I want to know is how Sulu got a hold of a Huey chopper so easily. Rent-a-Whirly?
Tom
Huh, why was this marked flamebait? Parent opened the door on this one.
If the interior light was so important to you, it may have behooved you to check on the specs online regarding whether in fact that very model had an interior light.
Replace "hard drive storage" with "space in my home", and you'll see that it's not a matter of getting enough space to store all your stuff, it's a matter of deciding what's important to you that needs to be kept.
Where it's electronic bits or physical items, some things are more important to you than others. Take a long hard look at what things you absolutely need, and toss the rest. Will your life be that must worse if you didn't have "______" within easy reach at any given moment? Probably not. And you'll feel better knowing that the things you do keep are the important ones.
And don't think of it as parting with things you'd rather have kept. Think of it as making room for more new stuff.
Good luck.
Tom
Mod this up.
Honestly, are you keeping the table because there's an emotinaly attachment to it, or do you regularly have 10 guests around the table on a nightly basis?
I mean, it's a 6x6' table, plus you'll need to leave about 3' of freespace around the perimeter for people to get in and out of chairs, so you're talking about a 12x12'=144 sq ft chunk of space devoted to this table, or 16% of your total living space.
The mic needs to be as close to your ears as possible. The circuit needs to 'hear' exactly what you're hearing in order to construct the exact anti-sound to cancel it out. In noice-cancelling headsets, the mics are inside the cups, near your ears.
> [me] Sure, thanks! {immediately runs it through handy shredder}
That just takes care of the one flyer. Better to run the goober through a woodchipper.
Better yet, follow the money trail and keep sticking them into the chipper.
"The Right Stuff" by Tom Wolf talks about how the early US astronauts resented at being just a passenger inside a tin can. They wanted to ability to fly a bird back home on their own, not be chute dropped strapped on their backs.
I have a feeling there's still a lot of that mentality that's preventing the use of capsule style space vehicles in the US.
Tom
Several other qualified people have pointed out that having so many outlets in a room, just in case, is a bad idea. But this juxtaposition struck me as incredible.
> "and if possible maybe set up some of them to be uninterruptable"
Where, pray tell, would you keep the diesel generator and fuel tank that will power some of your house on demand?
> "you can just put in a cheap thermostat now"
It seems that you would be willing to spend thousands of dollars beyond what is standard on the electrical system materials (not to mention the cost of labor and expertise for someone qualified to do the work), but you're not willing to drop less than $200 on a top of the line stand-alone thermostat, which would pay for itself in reduced heating and cooling bills in less than 3 years. Guh.
Tom