PreviousGuy wrote:
"So, why isn't the "event horizon" (a distance from the actual point of the hole) a sphere extending the same radius in all directions?"
You replied:
"You can't "see" the event horizon. The event horizon is where light can no longer escape and by definition puts out no light. All you would see is a
black hole in space -- hence the name "black hole." If you see something fall into a black hole, you would't see it actually hit the event horizon; it
would merely keep falling in more and more slowly.
In any case, the event horizon tends to be quite small. If you collapsed the Earth, for example, into a black hole, the event horizon would have a
radius of just one inch. Only a supermassive black hole of millions or billions of solar masses (the kind you have at the center of big galaxies like
the Milky Way) will have large event horizons."
But the question is still a good one if you forgive the incorrect phrase of "see".
Does a black hole exert it's force equally in all directions? I would imagine with such force that peturbations would be minor at best. If it is rotating, does the even horizon have an egg-like curvature as opposed to a beach-ball?
This is stuff I've never thought about but would sure like to know now that someone brought it up.
"This trend toward greater integration of the media into the market system has been accelerated by the loosening of rules limiting media concentration, cross-ownership, and control by non-media companies*. There has also been an abandonment of restrictions -- previously quite feeble anyway -- on radio-TV commercials, entertainment-mayhem programming, and "fairness doctrine" threats, opening the door to the unrestrained commercial use of the airwaves."
* The Reagan administration strengthened the control of existing holders of television-station licenses by increasnig their term from three to five years, and its FCC made renewals essentially automatic. The FCC also greatly facilitated speculation and trading in television properties by a rule change reducing the required holding period before sale of a newly acquired property from three years to one year.
The reagan era FCC and Department of Justice also refused to challenge mergers and takeover bids that would signifaantly increase the concentration of power (GE-RCA) or media concentration (Capital Cities-ABC). Furthermore, beginning April 2, 1985, media owners could own as many as twelve televison stations, as long as their total audience didn't exceed 25 percent of the nation's televison households; and they could also hold twelve AM and twelve FM stations, as in the 1953 "7-7-7 rule" was replaced with a "12-12-12 rule." See Herbert H. Howard, "Group and Cross-Media Ownership of Televion Stations: 1985" (Washington: National Association of Broadcasters 1985).
Do the words MSNBC mean anything to you? (the original poster, not the AC)
"This is off topic, but who knew cnn was owned by time warner? I would like to see some tree type organizational structure that details how these
mega corporations are tied together."
I'm working on it. Expect to see something about it November 1st or so (sorry, can't say any more than that for fear of getting Slashdotted before I'm prepped). But for the moment, you might want to check Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent". A bit old but it still gives numbers that will make you say "hmmmmm."
I purchased a Sony MZ-R70 MiniDisc player (wouldn't if I'd seen this, TBH). While there, the salesperson was asking me about ATRAC3. I told him I didn't have a clue (I don't).
Just good to know that they can't get their heads out of their collective poop-chute to realize that we'll buy their stuff if they just bend to the market, not the other way around.
I want so badly to argue this point but I...really can't. I have a half-dozen titles (all of Lain, some Evangelion, Macross, a few assorted movies) and you're pretty much correct. I can say that you find some great stories though. I'll agree with the previous poster who said "anime is not afraid to take cultural and subject-matter related risks ". Some examples are Grave of the Fireflies (not nearly as jingoistic as dozens of American movies I can cite), Ghost in the Shell (cybernetics seems to be a taboo here in the states, it's always freakish instead of our evolution).
Lain is wonderful but very, very tedious. Ghost in the Shell is a classic of course and I'm almost ashamed to admit my affection for Maison Ikokku. =)
"When we see stories about quantum leaps in computer technology, why are companies so slow to actually produce, implement, and sell it?"
Technical matters aside, I guess that'd be like releasing your sophmore album when everyone is still grooving to the first one. I think people have a limit - a measurable one - to how quickly they'll bounce to the Next Best Thing.
So what I'm saying is there might very well be market disincentives for doing such things. IANAE (I Am Not An Economist) and I can't prove it, just taking a wild swing.
"First off, I'd like to ask just how much credibility does one have who writes "to" as "2" and "be" as "b"."
About as much credibility as Salvador Dali, a man who never painted a scene *I* recognized...
"Obviously, this is just another disgruntled musician denouncing the very agency which protects him. Just look at what he did with his title, he became "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince" just to show his disdain for the RIAA. Yet he fails to realize that without them, he would have no fame or fortune."
Heh. With friends like these, who needs enemies? Have you even read Courtney Love's breakdown of the numbers? I think he shows a lot of courage by speaking up. Normally it's the people that know what side their bread is buttered on that keep their traps shut. Do you think three kids in a VW that call themselves the Turnipheads are going to get this coverage?
"Instead of speaking out against the RIAA, he needs to grow up and realize just how much they've done for him."
I think that maturity is taking in life experiences and acting on them with integrity. What do you think?
(1) Just because Slashdot posts a "please help" blurb doesn't mean that I'm into that cause. IMHO, the EFF doesn't cast a wide enough net. But that's another debate...
(2) They could do a lot more than just post a "please help". Maybe a "click here for our Handy Dandy CongressPerson eMailer Tool" or similar. This is my point entirely.
I can just imagine the bucket drummer I passed last night saying:
A dollar is a good gesture, but its only that -- a gesture. That doesn't pay bills, keep food on the table, or make it worth the hassle for the artist to keep on creating."
I imagine a lot of these people make music because they love it. But hey, maybe we've been marketed so hard for so long we've lost sight of that. I agree to pay $1 to any artist listed in this service for any song I download and keep for a week. This means that if I downloaded 8 *great* songs - a mark that has only been hit a few times in a single album (IMHO, read; Crystal Method's "Vegas", Boston's "Boston" and Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms") then they'd make 8 bucks. Quite a bit more than they'd get from a label.
I disagree with a previous/. reader who said that people primarly tip to look good. Look good to who? When I tip a street performer, who the heck to I look good to? Another guy walking past at the same time? I can't speak for others, but when I tip it's because I appreciate the effort and the break in my day. I appreciate the sounds. And that's why I'll support this service.
I'm a huge fan of Slashdot but they really come up short when it comes to rallying the troops. When is the last time you saw a "What You Can Do" link on any DMCA/UCITA/whatever story.
Entertaining? Yes.
Funny? Yes.
Effectual? Not really.
All you get is one long, shrill whine.
Here's to hoping that/. eventually realizes the power they hold.
"If Kaplan rules in favor of the defendants, does that mean that the aggressors will be forced to pay the legal fees of the defense? If not, this whole thing is a lose-lose situation."
I disagree strongly. Cases such as this are only heard when the law is broken, so if the creators of DeCSS should come out on top, this is a major prescedent. This is why the EFF took the case - people doing similar works will be able to cite this case to bolster their own.
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"So, why isn't the "event horizon" (a distance from the actual point of the hole) a sphere extending the same radius in all directions?"
You replied:
"You can't "see" the event horizon. The event horizon is where light can no longer escape and by definition puts out no light. All you would see is a black hole in space -- hence the name "black hole." If you see something fall into a black hole, you would't see it actually hit the event horizon; it would merely keep falling in more and more slowly. In any case, the event horizon tends to be quite small. If you collapsed the Earth, for example, into a black hole, the event horizon would have a radius of just one inch. Only a supermassive black hole of millions or billions of solar masses (the kind you have at the center of big galaxies like the Milky Way) will have large event horizons."
But the question is still a good one if you forgive the incorrect phrase of "see".
Does a black hole exert it's force equally in all directions? I would imagine with such force that peturbations would be minor at best. If it is rotating, does the even horizon have an egg-like curvature as opposed to a beach-ball?
This is stuff I've never thought about but would sure like to know now that someone brought it up.
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Oh great. Now Kaplan is going to impound the HOWTO. Nice going!
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And Ken... Stop jerking off. - Real Genius
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What would be even better is to find a post from someone raving about how fast their Hayes 1200 is.
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I remember seeing this actually done to a spider with no apparent ill effects. Well, the spider was pretty cheezed off, but...
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"This trend toward greater integration of the media into the market system has been accelerated by the loosening of rules limiting media concentration, cross-ownership, and control by non-media companies*. There has also been an abandonment of restrictions -- previously quite feeble anyway -- on radio-TV commercials, entertainment-mayhem programming, and "fairness doctrine" threats, opening the door to the unrestrained commercial use of the airwaves."
- Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
Manufacturing Consent © 1988
* The Reagan administration strengthened the control of existing holders of television-station licenses by increasnig their term from three to five years, and its FCC made renewals essentially automatic. The FCC also greatly facilitated speculation and trading in television properties by a rule change reducing the required holding period before sale of a newly acquired property from three years to one year.
The reagan era FCC and Department of Justice also refused to challenge mergers and takeover bids that would signifaantly increase the concentration of power (GE-RCA) or media concentration (Capital Cities-ABC). Furthermore, beginning April 2, 1985, media owners could own as many as twelve televison stations, as long as their total audience didn't exceed 25 percent of the nation's televison households; and they could also hold twelve AM and twelve FM stations, as in the 1953 "7-7-7 rule" was replaced with a "12-12-12 rule." See Herbert H. Howard, "Group and Cross-Media Ownership of Televion Stations: 1985" (Washington: National Association of Broadcasters 1985).
Do the words MSNBC mean anything to you? (the original poster, not the AC)
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I'm working on it. Expect to see something about it November 1st or so (sorry, can't say any more than that for fear of getting Slashdotted before I'm prepped). But for the moment, you might want to check Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent". A bit old but it still gives numbers that will make you say "hmmmmm."
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[this is going to be a treat]...
Can you give us a few examples?
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http://www.cnn.com/feedback/
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Why do I have the very bad feeling that you've just started a religion. Gr.
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Just good to know that they can't get their heads out of their collective poop-chute to realize that we'll buy their stuff if they just bend to the market, not the other way around.
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"Zeese-a keeds ere-a ecteeng illegelly! Shuoold zee cuoorts deceede-a thet zeeur ecshuns ere-a legeetimete-a, zeen ve-a veell poorchese-a yuoor puleeticiuns und inteemidete-a yuoor feed prufeeders."
Cunsoome-a, shoot up, deee-a. Bork Bork Bork!
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I want so badly to argue this point but I ...really can't. I have a half-dozen titles (all of Lain, some Evangelion, Macross, a few assorted movies) and you're pretty much correct. I can say that you find some great stories though. I'll agree with the previous poster who said "anime is not afraid to take cultural and subject-matter related risks ". Some examples are Grave of the Fireflies (not nearly as jingoistic as dozens of American movies I can cite), Ghost in the Shell (cybernetics seems to be a taboo here in the states, it's always freakish instead of our evolution).
Lain is wonderful but very, very tedious. Ghost in the Shell is a classic of course and I'm almost ashamed to admit my affection for Maison Ikokku. =)
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Can someone confirm this? I sold all my Lain DVD's...
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Technical matters aside, I guess that'd be like releasing your sophmore album when everyone is still grooving to the first one. I think people have a limit - a measurable one - to how quickly they'll bounce to the Next Best Thing.
So what I'm saying is there might very well be market disincentives for doing such things. IANAE (I Am Not An Economist) and I can't prove it, just taking a wild swing.
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To Be Continued (with Be in the colors of BeOS)?
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NeXT?
Copeland OS? (from memory, that's right....right?)
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"First off, I'd like to ask just how much credibility does one have who writes "to" as "2" and "be" as "b"."
About as much credibility as Salvador Dali, a man who never painted a scene *I* recognized...
"Obviously, this is just another disgruntled musician denouncing the very agency which protects him. Just look at what he did with his title, he became "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince" just to show his disdain for the RIAA. Yet he fails to realize that without them, he would have no fame or fortune."
Heh. With friends like these, who needs enemies? Have you even read Courtney Love's breakdown of the numbers? I think he shows a lot of courage by speaking up. Normally it's the people that know what side their bread is buttered on that keep their traps shut. Do you think three kids in a VW that call themselves the Turnipheads are going to get this coverage?
"Instead of speaking out against the RIAA, he needs to grow up and realize just how much they've done for him."
I think that maturity is taking in life experiences and acting on them with integrity. What do you think?
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(1) Just because Slashdot posts a "please help" blurb doesn't mean that I'm into that cause. IMHO, the EFF doesn't cast a wide enough net. But that's another debate...
(2) They could do a lot more than just post a "please help". Maybe a "click here for our Handy Dandy CongressPerson eMailer Tool" or similar. This is my point entirely.
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I cringe reading this.
Sounds like the advice Clinton's lawyer gave him just before he said he "never had sexual relations with that woman".
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As in real life, I suspect there are a great many poseurs and anti-TheMan pretenders out there. You want alternate, you have alternate.
Now put up or shut your pie hole.
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A dollar is a good gesture, but its only that -- a gesture. That doesn't pay bills, keep food on the table, or make it worth the hassle for the artist to keep on creating."
I imagine a lot of these people make music because they love it. But hey, maybe we've been marketed so hard for so long we've lost sight of that. I agree to pay $1 to any artist listed in this service for any song I download and keep for a week. This means that if I downloaded 8 *great* songs - a mark that has only been hit a few times in a single album (IMHO, read; Crystal Method's "Vegas", Boston's "Boston" and Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms") then they'd make 8 bucks. Quite a bit more than they'd get from a label.
I disagree with a previous /. reader who said that people primarly tip to look good. Look good to who? When I tip a street performer, who the heck to I look good to? Another guy walking past at the same time? I can't speak for others, but when I tip it's because I appreciate the effort and the break in my day. I appreciate the sounds. And that's why I'll support this service.
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I will give a krispy one-dollar bill to any artist listed with this site every time I download a song I keep more than a week.
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Entertaining? Yes.
Funny? Yes.
Effectual? Not really.
All you get is one long, shrill whine.
Here's to hoping that /. eventually realizes the power they hold.
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Just curious, why?
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I disagree strongly. Cases such as this are only heard when the law is broken, so if the creators of DeCSS should come out on top, this is a major prescedent. This is why the EFF took the case - people doing similar works will be able to cite this case to bolster their own.
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