The compression they're referring to is the method stupid execs use to make their CDs louder than every other CD in a person's library. They distort the soundwave so that the entire song is loud, but it removes the clarity and quality of the sounds that are supposed to be loud. See this video for a demonstration of "The loudness war"
Honda Insights are not "fully" hybrid. They do not have the capability to completely decouple the gasoline engine from the electric motor. This means that the gasoline engine is always running in a Honda Insight. Also, the gasoline engines used in hybrid vehicles are of the Atkinson variety, which are far more efficient than your typical 4-stroke, but only in a small range of RPM. This, however, is accomodated with the Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT).
Live a life on the seas and shoot cannonballs into the RIAA's, Sony's, BMG's, et al headquarters?
There, fixed that for you. We have to remember to target more of our hatred at the record companies themselves, rather than the RIAA, otherwise the record companies get off scot free.
The Art of Assembly Programming is another great (online) book to read, which, IRRC, is almost completely about PC achitectures in the first 20 chapters or so, which help to explain some of the quirks in programming languages, esp. ASM, in later chapters.
Perhaps you should have read the wikipedia article you linked to? You can think of a catalytic converter as a storage tank for Oxygen. Most everything it does has something to do with its ability to attract Oxygen. For example, it reduces NOx emmissions by removing the Oxygen from the Nitrogen to store the oxygen, and passes the Nitrogen out the tail pipe.
"...and take partially burned carbon monoxide and finish burning it." To the best of my knowledge, a chemical reaction that "burns" must include a hydrocarbon. Carbon monoxide does not contain any hydrocarbons. It does not burn. In fact, it's a direct byproduct of the combustion process. What the catalytic converter does to reduce CO emmissions is it attaches an extra oxygen (remember, it's a storage tank for oxygen) to the molecule, making it CO2, an arguably less harmful gas.
Furthermore, the catalytic converter oxidizes (read: burns) the hydrocarbons, attaching oxygen to the carbon to make CO2, and oxygen to the hydrogen to make H20.
I'm not an expert, either, but I have heard that that's true. What I've heard is that artists have to pay the labels back for the cost of producing, packaging, distributing, and marketing their albums (arguably could easily reach millions of dollars for all this). I've also heard that it takes two to three platinum albums for the artist to finally break even and start making money from CD sales.
The reason I say "I've heard" is because I don't always believe everything I read, and especially what people tell me, because it really bugs me when people start spouting off like they know something when really they only "heard" something from somewhere else.
It seems to me that if the administration really were dictatorial in nature, you'd have to wait until they were out of power and their regime had failed, in order to begin with the ridicule.
Dictatorships don't typically happen overnight. You are correct: the current administration is not a dictatorship, but it's trying to head in that direction. It's trying to circumvent the checks and balances, it's doing things without Congress' permission, and it's not being held accountable for anything it has done wrong, legally or ethically.
The Bush administration hasn't succeeded yet in eliminating free speech, but it's trying. When Bush was running for his first presidential election in 2000, he said on TV, "there ought to be limits to freedom" in response to a political site aimed at him. I agree, there should be limits on freedom, but within reason. For example, you shouldn't be able to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theatre when there isn't one, and for the most part, you can't, it's been made illegal (IANAL). But to say that you shouldn't be able to satirize a political candidate is pure idiocy.
Which leads pretty much instantly to the reasonable conclusion that you're not ridiculing Bush because he's a dictator, but rather because you have neither evidence of a dictatorship nor any other reasonable argument against him...
He's not a dicator, he's President of the Executive branch of the United States of America, and he has a strong desire to be a dictator. He has said in an interview that "This job would be easier if it was a dictatorship--and I was the dictator." No man who has a desire to be the leader of this country should be saying these things nor even thinking these things.
and are therefore reduced to cheap and unsubstantiated smears.
The things I have said are neither cheap nor unsubstantiated, and one could hardly call them smears. These are legitimate concerns about the words and actions of our President, which, by such words and actions, appears to want to be a dictator, and who has made significant headway towards that goal, more than any other person in America's past.
They're coming for environmentalists? (um.... no. oh, and spiking trees is terrorism, as loggers get maimed even when trees aren't spiked. making their lives more dangerous is truly unnecessary)
Terrorism != (does not equal) crime. Spiking trees is a crime, not terrorism. IANAL, but I do believe it would be along the lines of Attempted Murder, Premeditated Murder, Manslaughter, etc.
They are wiretapping private citizen's domestic telephone conversations. ok. fine. no, its not really fine. but unless they do something with the wiretapped conversations, so what? Are they going to come arrest me if I say, "Bush is a pig!!!!!" no. Are they going to arrest me if I say, "I've just put a bomb in the whitehouse!!!!" no. but they might check the whitehouse for bombs just in case.
First of all, you are correct in asserting that "wiretapping private citizen's domestic telephone conversations" isn't ok, and I applaud you for that assertion. However, if they were tapping your phone (how would you know if they were?) and you said "I've just put a bomb in the whitehouse!!!!", I guarantee you they would be "coming" for you. Even if you said it in a joking or hypothetical manner. They would be coming for you, and they would be interrogating you as to the location and configuration of the "alleged" bomb. I'm actually afraid of quoting that part of your post, and that is chilling.
And its not like the NSA hasn't been listening in on domestic Telephone conversations ever since Ma Bell was a virgin.
No, the government has not been "listening in on domestic Telephone conversations ever since Ma Bell was a virgin." The government had to ask telphone companies for the ability to conduct wiretaps, it wasn't already built into their network when they designed it.
I've never done hard drugs, nor committed any crime beyond a traffic ticket. I'm safe, just like so many other people. I didn't have to work to be this way. I didn't have to hide a portion of my personality or my sexuality, or my political preference, or anything. I'm safe.
How do you know you're safe? You don't know what criterion the government is using to identify suspected terrorists. Neither did the American couple that tried to pay down their credit card debt with a legitimate $9000 check that were subsequently suspected of funding terrorism. Nor did the American citizen who also happend to be a lawyer and a Muslim that was detained because he had the same name as a suspected terrorist.
No indeed, they aren't coming. They are here. trying to keep your lousy ass safe. And they aren't going away.
Apparently you have misunderstood the reference to Communists in this poem. Perhaps I have as well, but the understanding that I have come to makes more sense. The way I see it is this refers to the Red Scare in which McCarthy oppressed the American people under the guise of "The Communists have infiltrated America." Therefore, McCarthy and his cohorts "came after" the people they suspected of being "Communists".
The president has claimed that he has the power to declare any living being, American citizen or not, an "enemy combatant". He has further claimed that enemy combatants are neither covered by United States civil law, nor the Geneva conventions, and he has exercised his power to secretly detain them, without charge, indefinitely. Once detained, he has denied these people rights to an attorney, the right to a trial, and even the right to see the evidence against them.
Don't forget that the only reason Congress gave GWB the power to declare Enemy Combatants is because he promised them that he wouldn't use it against American citizens..but then the first two Enemy Combatants he declared were American citizens. Oh well, this administration hasn't been accountable for anything else it's done.
Dance Dance Revolution is one of the best games for a mix of skill levels. In DDR, if one of you is surviving the song, then you both survive and go on to the next stage. So, if you're a more seasoned DDR player, then you can keep her alive and she can continue having fun. Likewise, if you want to push yourself on a particular song and you know she can beat it on light, then you can put yours on heavy and have a go at it without the fear of failing it in the middle of the song.
Why would you just buy a power meter? It wouldn't be difficult to take a power socket, mount it on a project box, put a cheap ammeter in there so that it connects in series, then plug anything you want into it to measure current. Power (Watts) = Volts (in the U.S, ~120v) * Current. What's wrong with making this a DIY project and doing a little math along the way?
Cross-platform development begins with designing it from the ground up with the idea of porting it in mind. From what you said, you had the idea of porting it from the beginning. You should have designed it to be easily portable. Now someone gets to have a bitch of a time porting it because you didn't care enough to figure it out in the beginning. Woohoo.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, the Van Allen belts do not encompass the entirety of the Earth. They are (mostly) located above 45 Latitude N and S. All the moon missions were routed to avoid the heaviest portions of the Van Allen belts, i.e. the fringes.
I have never gone to the parties either, as much as I'd love to. I don't know where I got that misunderstanding, but looking at some pictures, you appear to be correct.
The EPA also approves about twelve refrigerants for use in automobiles. You know how many the automotive industry approves? two. R-12 and R-134a. You will never find a shop anywhere in the world that will charge your A/C with anything but R-12 or R-134a. Just because the EPA approves something for automotive use doesn't mean the industry will. Afterall, the EPA most likely aren't experts in the field of automotive airconditioning.
Aautllcy, I bvielee taht the rrpeot was taht you can slrbcame the letetrs of a word, lianevg the frist and last leretts incatt, and you can stlil read most wodrs. Afetr raeidng taht, I wrote a plgiun for trilalin taht does jsut that. This is its opuutt.
Perhaps not realistically, but at least theoretically, doesn't the DMCA encourage lazy/passive copyright protection schemes that as time passes will become increasingly easy to hack? Doesn't it give companies a false sense of security what it comes to protecting their valuable copyrighted material?
Perhaps not realistically, but at least theoretically, doesn't the PATRIOT Act encourge lazy/passive security protection schemes that as time passes will become increasingly easy to circumvent? Doesn't it give the general public a false sense of security when it comes to protecting their valuable lives and liberties?
A few years ago (2002), my family and I flew across country to North Carolina. Now understand that my dad was a police officer for 25 years, and had the officer's star badge in his wallet. When his wallet passed through the x-ray machine, the "security" screener (I use the term loosely) called out "Where's the cop? Where's the cop?" My dad steps forward and identifies himself quietly, and the screener proceeds to give him the full screening treatment. You know, pat down, wand waving, remove your shoes, etc. All this just because of the bad image these screeners have (and for good reason). Now, if there really was a terrorist in the near vicinity, don't you think it was a major breach of security to identify the cop in the crowd, someone who is well trained and capable of thwarting a terrorist attack?
Afterwards, we were sitting in the terminal, and my dad and I thought up a few dozen different ways to breach the supposed security of this screening station i.e. a knife made of obsidian could be far sharper than any metal knife could be, and undetectable to metal detectors and x-ray machines. Airport security, what a crock!
No, the ultimate limitation on dive length is nitrogen saturation. The longer and deeper you stay under, the more saturated you become with nitrogen, which is a narcotic. How difficult do you think it would be to continue your dive under extreme narcosis?
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The compression they're referring to is the method stupid execs use to make their CDs louder than every other CD in a person's library. They distort the soundwave so that the entire song is loud, but it removes the clarity and quality of the sounds that are supposed to be loud. See this video for a demonstration of "The loudness war"
Somebody is about to find the question to life, the universe, and everything!
Honda Insights are not "fully" hybrid. They do not have the capability to completely decouple the gasoline engine from the electric motor. This means that the gasoline engine is always running in a Honda Insight. Also, the gasoline engines used in hybrid vehicles are of the Atkinson variety, which are far more efficient than your typical 4-stroke, but only in a small range of RPM. This, however, is accomodated with the Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT).
Live a life on the seas and shoot cannonballs into the RIAA's, Sony's, BMG's, et al headquarters?
There, fixed that for you. We have to remember to target more of our hatred at the record companies themselves, rather than the RIAA, otherwise the record companies get off scot free.
Just wait 'til we bring global warming there. We'll finally have an ocean planet in our solar system!
The Art of Assembly Programming is another great (online) book to read, which, IRRC, is almost completely about PC achitectures in the first 20 chapters or so, which help to explain some of the quirks in programming languages, esp. ASM, in later chapters.
Perhaps you should have read the wikipedia article you linked to? You can think of a catalytic converter as a storage tank for Oxygen. Most everything it does has something to do with its ability to attract Oxygen. For example, it reduces NOx emmissions by removing the Oxygen from the Nitrogen to store the oxygen, and passes the Nitrogen out the tail pipe.
"...and take partially burned carbon monoxide and finish burning it."
To the best of my knowledge, a chemical reaction that "burns" must include a hydrocarbon. Carbon monoxide does not contain any hydrocarbons. It does not burn. In fact, it's a direct byproduct of the combustion process. What the catalytic converter does to reduce CO emmissions is it attaches an extra oxygen (remember, it's a storage tank for oxygen) to the molecule, making it CO2, an arguably less harmful gas.
Furthermore, the catalytic converter oxidizes (read: burns) the hydrocarbons, attaching oxygen to the carbon to make CO2, and oxygen to the hydrogen to make H20.
I'm not an expert, either, but I have heard that that's true. What I've heard is that artists have to pay the labels back for the cost of producing, packaging, distributing, and marketing their albums (arguably could easily reach millions of dollars for all this). I've also heard that it takes two to three platinum albums for the artist to finally break even and start making money from CD sales.
The reason I say "I've heard" is because I don't always believe everything I read, and especially what people tell me, because it really bugs me when people start spouting off like they know something when really they only "heard" something from somewhere else.
It seems to me that if the administration really were dictatorial in nature, you'd have to wait until they were out of power and their regime had failed, in order to begin with the ridicule.
Dictatorships don't typically happen overnight. You are correct: the current administration is not a dictatorship, but it's trying to head in that direction. It's trying to circumvent the checks and balances, it's doing things without Congress' permission, and it's not being held accountable for anything it has done wrong, legally or ethically.
The Bush administration hasn't succeeded yet in eliminating free speech, but it's trying. When Bush was running for his first presidential election in 2000, he said on TV, "there ought to be limits to freedom" in response to a political site aimed at him. I agree, there should be limits on freedom, but within reason. For example, you shouldn't be able to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theatre when there isn't one, and for the most part, you can't, it's been made illegal (IANAL). But to say that you shouldn't be able to satirize a political candidate is pure idiocy.
Which leads pretty much instantly to the reasonable conclusion that you're not ridiculing Bush because he's a dictator, but rather because you have neither evidence of a dictatorship nor any other reasonable argument against him...
He's not a dicator, he's President of the Executive branch of the United States of America, and he has a strong desire to be a dictator. He has said in an interview that "This job would be easier if it was a dictatorship--and I was the dictator." No man who has a desire to be the leader of this country should be saying these things nor even thinking these things.
and are therefore reduced to cheap and unsubstantiated smears.
The things I have said are neither cheap nor unsubstantiated, and one could hardly call them smears. These are legitimate concerns about the words and actions of our President, which, by such words and actions, appears to want to be a dictator, and who has made significant headway towards that goal, more than any other person in America's past.
They're coming for environmentalists? (um.... no. oh, and spiking trees is terrorism, as loggers get maimed even when trees aren't spiked. making their lives more dangerous is truly unnecessary)
Terrorism != (does not equal) crime. Spiking trees is a crime, not terrorism. IANAL, but I do believe it would be along the lines of Attempted Murder, Premeditated Murder, Manslaughter, etc.
They are wiretapping private citizen's domestic telephone conversations. ok. fine. no, its not really fine. but unless they do something with the wiretapped conversations, so what? Are they going to come arrest me if I say, "Bush is a pig!!!!!" no. Are they going to arrest me if I say, "I've just put a bomb in the whitehouse!!!!" no. but they might check the whitehouse for bombs just in case.
First of all, you are correct in asserting that "wiretapping private citizen's domestic telephone conversations" isn't ok, and I applaud you for that assertion. However, if they were tapping your phone (how would you know if they were?) and you said "I've just put a bomb in the whitehouse!!!!", I guarantee you they would be "coming" for you. Even if you said it in a joking or hypothetical manner. They would be coming for you, and they would be interrogating you as to the location and configuration of the "alleged" bomb. I'm actually afraid of quoting that part of your post, and that is chilling.
And its not like the NSA hasn't been listening in on domestic Telephone conversations ever since Ma Bell was a virgin.
No, the government has not been "listening in on domestic Telephone conversations ever since Ma Bell was a virgin." The government had to ask telphone companies for the ability to conduct wiretaps, it wasn't already built into their network when they designed it.
I've never done hard drugs, nor committed any crime beyond a traffic ticket. I'm safe, just like so many other people. I didn't have to work to be this way. I didn't have to hide a portion of my personality or my sexuality, or my political preference, or anything. I'm safe.
How do you know you're safe? You don't know what criterion the government is using to identify suspected terrorists. Neither did the American couple that tried to pay down their credit card debt with a legitimate $9000 check that were subsequently suspected of funding terrorism. Nor did the American citizen who also happend to be a lawyer and a Muslim that was detained because he had the same name as a suspected terrorist.
No indeed, they aren't coming. They are here. trying to keep your lousy ass safe. And they aren't going away.
I feel safer already...
Apparently you have misunderstood the reference to Communists in this poem. Perhaps I have as well, but the understanding that I have come to makes more sense. The way I see it is this refers to the Red Scare in which McCarthy oppressed the American people under the guise of "The Communists have infiltrated America." Therefore, McCarthy and his cohorts "came after" the people they suspected of being "Communists".
Don't forget that the only reason Congress gave GWB the power to declare Enemy Combatants is because he promised them that he wouldn't use it against American citizens..but then the first two Enemy Combatants he declared were American citizens. Oh well, this administration hasn't been accountable for anything else it's done.
Dance Dance Revolution is one of the best games for a mix of skill levels. In DDR, if one of you is surviving the song, then you both survive and go on to the next stage. So, if you're a more seasoned DDR player, then you can keep her alive and she can continue having fun. Likewise, if you want to push yourself on a particular song and you know she can beat it on light, then you can put yours on heavy and have a go at it without the fear of failing it in the middle of the song.
Why would you just buy a power meter? It wouldn't be difficult to take a power socket, mount it on a project box, put a cheap ammeter in there so that it connects in series, then plug anything you want into it to measure current. Power (Watts) = Volts (in the U.S, ~120v) * Current. What's wrong with making this a DIY project and doing a little math along the way?
Or, as an alternative, you could just launch it into geosynchronous orbit and have an infinite amount of time in view...
Cross-platform development begins with designing it from the ground up with the idea of porting it in mind. From what you said, you had the idea of porting it from the beginning. You should have designed it to be easily portable. Now someone gets to have a bitch of a time porting it because you didn't care enough to figure it out in the beginning. Woohoo.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, the Van Allen belts do not encompass the entirety of the Earth. They are (mostly) located above 45 Latitude N and S. All the moon missions were routed to avoid the heaviest portions of the Van Allen belts, i.e. the fringes.
I thought TRON was the top embedded OS?
I have never gone to the parties either, as much as I'd love to. I don't know where I got that misunderstanding, but looking at some pictures, you appear to be correct.
The EPA also approves about twelve refrigerants for use in automobiles. You know how many the automotive industry approves? two. R-12 and R-134a. You will never find a shop anywhere in the world that will charge your A/C with anything but R-12 or R-134a. Just because the EPA approves something for automotive use doesn't mean the industry will. Afterall, the EPA most likely aren't experts in the field of automotive airconditioning.
How about one of the biggest assembly parties in the world, held yearly in a football stadium in Helsinki?
So what exactly is a "Digital Video Disc stream" and how do you output it onto your retina?
Aautllcy, I bvielee taht the rrpeot was taht you can slrbcame the letetrs of a word, lianevg the frist and last leretts incatt, and you can stlil read most wodrs. Afetr raeidng taht, I wrote a plgiun for trilalin taht does jsut that. This is its opuutt.
Perhaps not realistically, but at least theoretically, doesn't the DMCA encourage lazy/passive copyright protection schemes that as time passes will become increasingly easy to hack? Doesn't it give companies a false sense of security what it comes to protecting their valuable copyrighted material?
Perhaps not realistically, but at least theoretically, doesn't the PATRIOT Act encourge lazy/passive security protection schemes that as time passes will become increasingly easy to circumvent? Doesn't it give the general public a false sense of security when it comes to protecting their valuable lives and liberties?
A few years ago (2002), my family and I flew across country to North Carolina. Now understand that my dad was a police officer for 25 years, and had the officer's star badge in his wallet. When his wallet passed through the x-ray machine, the "security" screener (I use the term loosely) called out "Where's the cop? Where's the cop?" My dad steps forward and identifies himself quietly, and the screener proceeds to give him the full screening treatment. You know, pat down, wand waving, remove your shoes, etc. All this just because of the bad image these screeners have (and for good reason). Now, if there really was a terrorist in the near vicinity, don't you think it was a major breach of security to identify the cop in the crowd, someone who is well trained and capable of thwarting a terrorist attack?
Afterwards, we were sitting in the terminal, and my dad and I thought up a few dozen different ways to breach the supposed security of this screening station i.e. a knife made of obsidian could be far sharper than any metal knife could be, and undetectable to metal detectors and x-ray machines. Airport security, what a crock!
No, the ultimate limitation on dive length is nitrogen saturation. The longer and deeper you stay under, the more saturated you become with nitrogen, which is a narcotic. How difficult do you think it would be to continue your dive under extreme narcosis?