"There are huge budget battles going on in Tallahassee right now because there isn't enough money even to run the schools, much less..."
Blah blah blah. Talk is cheap from people who use logic fallacies like this.
Fair persons, be on the lookout for people who say all money should be dedicated to this, or all police power should be devoted to that.
Yes, rape and murder should be curtailed. But does that mean cops shouldn't try to catch speeders or burglars or petty 7-11 thiefs? Should they all skip the crack dealers because they're too busy looking for rapists and murderers? No. Of course not.
I guarantee that people who use this logic fallacy don't bring it up when projects in their liking are up for depate, even if "the schools need money."
In the end, it's actually pretty hypocritical.
Let's stop fixing potholes. Those people could be building schools.
I've been to France, I've been to England, I've been to Japan. If they didn't have the rail systems they had, I honestly have no idea what I would have done. If you arrange before you go, Japan will give you unlimited 1st class "green car" travel anywhere in the country for a week for $300. The trip from Hiroshima back to Tokyo to leave was itself about $150. 500 miles in under 5 hours. You do the math. I come back and I am so frustrated that I can't hop on a train (I live in tampa) and go to orlando or miami for the weekend. My options are drive 4 hours (miami) or 2.5 hours (orlando) or fly. Neither is acceptable as a casual means of transportation.
I am looking forward to this so much, I really am. I am so callous as to the workings of gov't. that I will be delighted to no end if this actually comes about. I will use it frequently, as I have hometown friends who now live in either one. Amtrak is an embarassment. I've said before that if we bring in a handful of engineers from the major train countries I mentioned before, and give them a reasonable budget, and stand back, this country would be set up like it should be.
"Because of its almost immediate popularity, the glass armonica seemed destined for permanence. But by the 1820s, it was nearly a forgotten instrument. "
So that means ClearChannel every-station-everywhere-sounds-alike(tm) Radio *wasn't* the first to overplay something to death!
But they're making up for it in sheer numbers. How many people are fu**ing dead tired of hearing the spiderman movie theme song? "They say that a hero can save us..." GOD that thing is a dead horse.
"His logical fallacy is , of course, thinking that the US has a monopoly on this kind of thing."
Actually, his problem is that he's British. Brits think of America as Americans think of Canada, the only difference being we Americans don't deserve to be thought of in such a manner.
This would mean the system would need to be connected to the net. So I suppose they would refuse to play the media on a non-connected computer. Laptops and RiO-esque devices would be out the window. That's one reason I think this won't work. Also, aren't there laws against sending info back to home-base without user consent? Anybody who's tried it in the past has been severely criticized. I think this is simply Sony testing th waters...
My complaint was not that I have to see ads. I apologize for not making that clear. I totally understand and respect that model. But also, they have to respect that once I see an ad, if I choose to skip it because it doesn't interest me, I should have that right. It's just wasting their bandwidth and my time if it's not something I'm interested in pursuing.
I can't even get in to see the article, because it appears to use flash to show ads, and I refuse to install flash. Flash lets them send images all over my screen that I can't close, and make sounds that I can't silence.
As I said in the letter I wrote to salon, "I'm sorry, but you'll have to treat me like a human with rights and let me close the ads that I so choose."
So, I just don't get to see the article, and I tell everybody I know that
Salon treats you like a monkey in a cage, beating you over the head with ads. If you think you don't want to see an ad, they know better, because you're just a monkey.
I hope you'e being serious:) That is a profound layman's report on location from one of the most amazing coup-topples in recent history. I wouldn't be too surprised if it makes it in to some history book.
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*sighhhh*
My key points all along have been "large distances", "to a single person", and "without a large dish" at the sender or the reciever.
I can appreciate a zeal for physics:) But please read fully before you reply.
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"Ok...I'm inclined to think you were born yesterday."
Sounds like a challenge. Lets begin, shall we?:P
"Ever been to even the most basic children's museum? Then you've seen the two parabolic reflectors that transmit a whisper clearly across a crowded, noisy room."
That will work if they intend the recipients to have a 6 foot dish to collect the DIFFUSED waves.
"Ever cupped your hands around your mouth to shout to someone far away? You must have looked pretty stupid, if, as everyone knows, you can't focus sound."
So that made it so nobody next to the person could hear it? Yes, shocking truth. For any real distances to be considered, it does just make you look stupid. And you admitted it. Whee!
"Ever seen an amphitheatre? They're designed specifically to focus sound to the listening audience."
You dont know the difference between directing and focusing, do you?
"Those great big flaps of flesh that stick out of your head, that just happen to be rougly cone-shaped and connected to your auditory canal? What do you think those are there for?"
See above...
"Sound is a wave" true "and can be focused." buzzzz!
"Everything exhibits both wave and particle properties"
You need to read past chapter one of whatever book you're reading:)
From what I understand, you can't direct sound like you can direct light. Here's why:
When you emit light, you are emitting particles. Those particles can be focused or diffused. With laser, all the particles are in near-perfect alignment. They're all going straight, as opposed to a flashlight, where the photons spread in a cone-shape fashion. But the point is, you are "creating" the medium in which your signal is being sent, and you can control the path it takes.
You cannot focus sound. There is no such thing as a sound laser. Sound is vibrations transmitted from one air particle to another, until it reaches your ear. All particle dynamics can be simplified to an image of many pyramids. You push on one particle, it pushes on two in the desired direction. They push 3. Those 3 push 4, which push 5, ad nauseam. Hypersonics can lessen the diffusion by transmitting the signal so fast that it has little time to diffuse, but if you think you can send a message from 50 feet away and only get one reciever in a crowd, I'm inclined to disagree.
Ok, take that idea and make it so that the nearer you are to people, they show up on your GBA as if you were in the game... couldn't triangulate them so the GBA would have to pick a random point somewhere around your character with a distance/radius that it can calculate through signal strength, like lojack.
point 1) The word is centrifugal, which means away from an axis. Centripetal is towards the axis, which doesnt happen on anything spinning. Think of a centrifuge. Or see dictionary.com.
point 2) I realize it's going to need to be continuously spun but with a flywheel it's insanely easier once it's started. It appeared to me that this was the intent, as nobody gave the required information for any other situation, such as for what duration it would need to keep spinning once winding stopped, etc. But now I see what you were saying. You were saying that if you wanted to get it started and leave it, it would need to be spinning very fast. True enough.
(not to you alone) People, stop trying to look smart by saying centripetal!:-P
"I would rather meet up with five dozen AOL or Yahoo! kitty-oriented or crochet related chat room people than the dorks and dweebs posing as the intellectual and technological highbrow in person."
tsk tsk tsk.... someone's jealous that he's not intellectual or technologically highbrow....:) awww
I think it's a great idea. Ill post more on my experience later.
"flywheels storing enough energy to power a cellphone would have to be spinning very very fast (way faster than the fastest hard drives)."
Huh? How do you figure that the flywheel would have to spin any faster than a hand currently has to wind it? Even entertaining the possibility of gear ratios, which it sounds like you, for some reason, think are required, the reviewer said it felt like 100rpm to get the light glowing. Simple math shows that even a 10:1 gear ratio would only be spinning at 1000rpm if the handle was still turned at 100, be it 10 times harder to get up to speed. This is significantly *slower* than a slow 5400rpm hard drive.
The problem is that dynamos take alot of power. Your flywheel would have to be very large and heavy, on a scale anywhere from the size of a CD to the size of a bicycle tire, and I already said heavy didn't I? It's just not applicable to this device. It's already moderately awkwardly large, so the clockwork idea just wont cut it.
Slashdot has reviews of this strange new technology known as a Dynamo?! Wow! Now we no longer have to wonder if these results of witchcraft actually work.
Slashdot Mirror
"There are huge budget battles going on in Tallahassee right now because there isn't enough money even to run the schools, much less ..."
Blah blah blah. Talk is cheap from people who use logic fallacies like this.
Fair persons, be on the lookout for people who say all money should be dedicated to this, or all police power should be devoted to that.
Yes, rape and murder should be curtailed. But does that mean cops shouldn't try to catch speeders or burglars or petty 7-11 thiefs? Should they all skip the crack dealers because they're too busy looking for rapists and murderers? No. Of course not.
I guarantee that people who use this logic fallacy don't bring it up when projects in their liking are up for depate, even if "the schools need money."
In the end, it's actually pretty hypocritical.
Let's stop fixing potholes. Those people could be building schools.
"there are plenty enough ignorant people living here to naively think a high-speed rail would benefit them despite their living in say, Tallahassee."
Okay, so you seriously think that never ever in the future existence of this state, will they extend the rail to the *state capital*?
Speaking of ignorant...
Dont they have some sports team up there? Wouldn't, say, a couple thousand people want to watch the games each weekend?
*sigh*
"Forethought doesn't mean thinking four times."
I've been to France, I've been to England, I've been to Japan. If they didn't have the rail systems they had, I honestly have no idea what I would have done. If you arrange before you go, Japan will give you unlimited 1st class "green car" travel anywhere in the country for a week for $300. The trip from Hiroshima back to Tokyo to leave was itself about $150. 500 miles in under 5 hours. You do the math. I come back and I am so frustrated that I can't hop on a train (I live in tampa) and go to orlando or miami for the weekend. My options are drive 4 hours (miami) or 2.5 hours (orlando) or fly. Neither is acceptable as a casual means of transportation.
I am looking forward to this so much, I really am. I am so callous as to the workings of gov't. that I will be delighted to no end if this actually comes about. I will use it frequently, as I have hometown friends who now live in either one. Amtrak is an embarassment. I've said before that if we bring in a handful of engineers from the major train countries I mentioned before, and give them a reasonable budget, and stand back, this country would be set up like it should be.
The time is now.
"Because of its almost immediate popularity, the glass armonica seemed destined for permanence. But by the 1820s, it was nearly a forgotten instrument. "
So that means ClearChannel every-station-everywhere-sounds-alike(tm) Radio *wasn't* the first to overplay something to death!
But they're making up for it in sheer numbers.
How many people are fu**ing dead tired of hearing the spiderman movie theme song? "They say that a hero can save us..." GOD that thing is a dead horse.
Hmm.. History really is interesting sometimes.
my first first post!
Please dont mod me too harshly..
I'll only do it the once, I promise!
"His logical fallacy is , of course, thinking that the US has a monopoly on this kind of thing."
Actually, his problem is that he's British. Brits think of America as Americans think of Canada, the only difference being we Americans don't deserve to be thought of in such a manner.
"You would need to either compromise the private key or find a weakness in the algorithm. Done correctly, that would take many years to do."
:P
Exactly, just like DVDs.
This would mean the system would need to be connected to the net. So I suppose they would refuse to play the media on a non-connected computer. Laptops and RiO-esque devices would be out the window. That's one reason I think this won't work. Also, aren't there laws against sending info back to home-base without user consent? Anybody who's tried it in the past has been severely criticized. I think this is simply Sony testing th waters...
What is "quering" ?
"USB was designed for simple, low throughput devices."
:P
Yeah, stick to ultra-fast devices like floppy drives.
Hmm......
My complaint was not that I have to see ads. I apologize for not making that clear. I totally understand and respect that model. But also, they have to respect that once I see an ad, if I choose to skip it because it doesn't interest me, I should have that right. It's just wasting their bandwidth and my time if it's not something I'm interested in pursuing.
I can't even get in to see the article, because it appears to use flash to show ads, and I refuse to install flash. Flash lets them send images all over my screen that I can't close, and make sounds that I can't silence.
As I said in the letter I wrote to salon, "I'm sorry, but you'll have to treat me like a human with rights and let me close the ads that I so choose."
So, I just don't get to see the article, and I tell everybody I know that
Salon treats you like a monkey in a cage, beating you over the head with ads. If you think you don't want to see an ad, they know better, because you're just a monkey.
I hope you'e being serious :) That is a profound layman's report on location from one of the most amazing coup-topples in recent history. I wouldn't be too surprised if it makes it in to some history book.
For example, compare
w ww.shadowkeeper.net/megan/html/lin.html
:)
http://www.shadowkeeper.net/megan/html/lin.html
to
http://web.archive.org/web/20010331050523/http://
ahh, memories
For good and three?
:P
huh?
*sighhhh*
:) But please read fully before you reply.
My key points all along have been "large distances", "to a single person", and "without a large dish" at the sender or the reciever.
I can appreciate a zeal for physics
"Ok...I'm inclined to think you were born yesterday."
:P
:)
Sounds like a challenge. Lets begin, shall we?
"Ever been to even the most basic children's museum? Then you've seen the two parabolic reflectors that transmit a whisper clearly across a crowded, noisy room."
That will work if they intend the recipients to have a 6 foot dish to collect the DIFFUSED waves.
"Ever cupped your hands around your mouth to shout to someone far away? You must have looked pretty stupid, if, as everyone knows, you can't focus sound."
So that made it so nobody next to the person could hear it? Yes, shocking truth. For any real distances to be considered, it does just make you look stupid. And you admitted it. Whee!
"Ever seen an amphitheatre? They're designed specifically to focus sound to the listening audience."
You dont know the difference between directing and focusing, do you?
"Those great big flaps of flesh that stick out of your head, that just happen to be rougly cone-shaped and connected to your auditory canal? What do you think those are there for?"
See above...
"Sound is a wave"
true
"and can be focused."
buzzzz!
"Everything exhibits both wave and particle properties"
You need to read past chapter one of whatever book you're reading
From what I understand, you can't direct sound like you can direct light. Here's why:
When you emit light, you are emitting particles. Those particles can be focused or diffused. With laser, all the particles are in near-perfect alignment. They're all going straight, as opposed to a flashlight, where the photons spread in a cone-shape fashion. But the point is, you are "creating" the medium in which your signal is being sent, and you can control the path it takes.
You cannot focus sound. There is no such thing as a sound laser. Sound is vibrations transmitted from one air particle to another, until it reaches your ear. All particle dynamics can be simplified to an image of many pyramids. You push on one particle, it pushes on two in the desired direction. They push 3. Those 3 push 4, which push 5, ad nauseam. Hypersonics can lessen the diffusion by transmitting the signal so fast that it has little time to diffuse, but if you think you can send a message from 50 feet away and only get one reciever in a crowd, I'm inclined to disagree.
Ok, take that idea and make it so that the nearer you are to people, they show up on your GBA as if you were in the game... couldn't triangulate them so the GBA would have to pick a random point somewhere around your character with a distance/radius that it can calculate through signal strength, like lojack.
I can see it now....
point 1) The word is centrifugal, which means away from an axis. Centripetal is towards the axis, which doesnt happen on anything spinning. Think of a centrifuge. Or see dictionary.com.
:-P
point 2) I realize it's going to need to be continuously spun but with a flywheel it's insanely easier once it's started. It appeared to me that this was the intent, as nobody gave the required information for any other situation, such as for what duration it would need to keep spinning once winding stopped, etc. But now I see what you were saying. You were saying that if you wanted to get it started and leave it, it would need to be spinning very fast. True enough.
(not to you alone) People, stop trying to look smart by saying centripetal!
the end
"I would rather meet up with five dozen AOL or Yahoo! kitty-oriented or crochet related chat room people than the dorks and dweebs posing as the intellectual and technological highbrow in person."
:) awww
tsk tsk tsk.... someone's jealous that he's not intellectual or technologically highbrow....
I think it's a great idea. Ill post more on my experience later.
"The gyroscopic effects of a spinning flywheel in your phone would be interesting to observe."
:-P
:-P
true enough, but it would be so much easier just to balance your phone on-end on your dashboard when it's charging
or maybe have it walk a piece of string
"flywheels storing enough energy to power a cellphone would have to be spinning very very fast (way faster than the fastest hard drives)."
Huh? How do you figure that the flywheel would have to spin any faster than a hand currently has to wind it? Even entertaining the possibility of gear ratios, which it sounds like you, for some reason, think are required, the reviewer said it felt like 100rpm to get the light glowing. Simple math shows that even a 10:1 gear ratio would only be spinning at 1000rpm if the handle was still turned at 100, be it 10 times harder to get up to speed. This is significantly *slower* than a slow 5400rpm hard drive.
The problem is that dynamos take alot of power. Your flywheel would have to be very large and heavy, on a scale anywhere from the size of a CD to the size of a bicycle tire, and I already said heavy didn't I? It's just not applicable to this device. It's already moderately awkwardly large, so the clockwork idea just wont cut it.
Slashdot has reviews of this strange new technology known as a Dynamo?! Wow! Now we no longer have to wonder if these results of witchcraft actually work.
:P
I wondered myself, since it's brand new technology
What is so amazing about this again?