I find this little personal observation interesting. In the SF bay area, there are 3 major music, stores which have more than one location (Yes, I am intentionally excluding the SF Virgin Megastore). They are Tower, Amoeba, and Rasputin. Most of the time if there is something odd, eclectic, esoteric music I'm looking for, I will occasionaly search in Tower, but most of the time I will find what I'm looking for at either Amoeba, or Rasputin. Amoeba and Rasputin have a HUGE Indie and Used stock and usually a much more helpful staff. Also, if one look at the number of customers in these stores, compared to Tower, they are almost always full. Sure, Tower get's busy on the weekends, but Amoeba and Rasputin seem to be busy all the time. These places are where those who are actually looking for "new" or "Different" music shop. Sure, they also carry the modern, popular stuff, but their real treasure is in the things you wont find at Tower. Also, the CD prices are usually less than Tower's.
Wake up RIAA and MPAA. Embrace change, and don't rely on cookie cutter formulas for music anymore!
If you're wondering what kind of technical issues there are when considering the H2 supply, visit www.airproducts.com for more information on various delivery methods and specifications for different uses.
The site is most informative. Especially about information regarding highly reactive and flamable gases.
The article states that, "This act will be retroactive, so that crimes commited several decades ago can be prosecuted".
I hope Jobs and Woz are scared doo-doo-less. They used to build little Blue Boxes. These sent tones into the phone network and were able to make long distance calls for free and look up unlisted numbers. This law would make the research (sic.), which brought the two founders of Apple computer together, a crime punishable by life in prison!
If I recall correctly, the Shuttle suits were plagued with problems the first few times they were used. Also I seem to recall NASA sending up the old Apollo suits as emergency backups to use if the Shuttle bay doors had to be manually shut.
Hey!
I qualified my comments by stating that there are logical reasons for NOT designing a new suit. Not the least of which is that in a microgravity environment mobility isn't as important as dexterity. My understanding is that the arms, and the gloves in particular, were one of the upgrades made to the current suit. That, and small upgrades to the life support systems as well.
While the ideas about a skin tight suit are interesting while impractical, they do show that some people have IMAGINATIONS. Without which none of our spaceflight would even be possible.
Also, what the hell is with Ford anyway. The Ford Focus WRC is cleaning up in World Rally. But does Ford market the GT or WRC cars in America? NO!
So while the American makes are getting their keesters wiped by the imports here in the states, the Focus's of Europe can take their Turbocharged Cosworth 2.0's with AWD and blow them away!
I want to know what marketing idiot thought this was a good idea. Not only would the performance boost do wonders for what is a Gutless wonder already. It could do it for much less than the price of a comperable car (RSX, etc)
As I was reading the various posts on this thread, I was struck by an interesting similarity.
Regress back to the 15th and 16th centuries. All written material was created by people who could write (scribes). Commissioned by people who could pay (Royalty). In a language that that is now dead (Latin).
There were attempts to produce written works in a country's (European) native language, but these were expensive, (scribes) and consequently not available to the general (peasant) population.
Enter the Printing Press (Gutenberg) and lo, thow can have a book printed in a national language, for a miniscule cost. Books of knowledge exploded onto the scene. The general populace was no longer handicaped by a lack of readily available research. No longer would the knowledge that had been so closely garded (encrypted?) by the Latin speaking world be inaccessable to the masses.
Sklyarov and other cryptologists are merely carrying on the Gutenberg tradition of making knowledge available to the masses.
Then again, what would Gutenberg have thought of Romance Novels?
Ps. Until money grepping legislation like the dmca (it doesn't deserve an acronym) is removed, digital books will never catch on. I see Books (paper and ink) staying around for a long time.
the fact that by it's very nature, research is to find out new things. Shouldn't it be expected that these new ideas are often modified before becoming "Fact". Most science deals with "Theory" which at it's core is merely a model that appears to fit the observed results.
Unfortunatly society at large is unable to grasp that rather unsolid concept. Society needs concrete things like, "this is a car, it's made out of steel".
Sure, discoveries are fun and exciting, and as the article states, are an intrinsic part of the scientific process. The other part being a review by the scientists peers.
Don't forget Andrew Wiles and his Fermat's Theorem proof. When he announced it, everyone considered him a genius, but when there was a problem with his proof, everyone immediatly turned on him and called him an idiot. Of course, I'm refering to society at large. His fellow mathematicians still considered it a brilliant peice of work. In this situation, Wiles was able to fix the problem and complete the proof. What is even more amazing, is that this new proof was even more beautiful and elegant than the first. Not to mention that it was almost half the previous ones size. Do you think society cared? No. Very few papers put the story of the fixed proof, which was more important than the first, on the front page. Most put a headline and a reference to an inner page.
This is a problem with our media controlled society. People don't do research on their own and don't bother to follow the stories that are important. They sit there and are spoon fed the News and assume that if it wasn't included, then it wasn't important.
This problem will continue to hurt the research community. Unless the research community doesn't care. Which in that case, it doesn't matter and everyone is happy that the mindless drones are mullified.
Concrete take a long time to cure fully. It is an interesting fact that while the Hoover Dam was "Completed" in the 30's, the concrete that was poured to create it will not fully cure for another 40 years or so. Large pours would definatly benefit from a lower freezing point in the liquid used in the mixing of the concrete. Plus, in climates where road repairs can be necessary during the winter months, the concrete can be aloud to cure without worrying about it freezing and creating a weekness from the fractures that form as the water expands under freezing.
For a moment consider what happened in the ETO (European Theater of Operations). The B17 (another Boeing design) and the B24 (Consolidated) both entered the war in europe without much protection from a frontal attack. This was due to the same studies mentioned in the article. The assumption was that the closing speed of a frontal attack would be too great for a fighter to be able to aim reliably. This prooved to be correct at the onset of operations, but the Germans quickly learned that a rear quarter attack was pretty difficult. This gave the Germans motivation to perfect the frontal attack, which they did. This attack proved even more effective when the bombers began to fly in massive formations. All a fighter pilot had to do is get to the front of the bomber stream and fly straight down it. Picking one target, letting off a few rounds, then the next. Many bombers were shot down this way. The solution for the B17 and B24 was to impliment a nose or, in the case of the B17, a chin turret to cover the frontal attack. Incedentally , the Aiming device used for the B17's chin turret was a simplified version of the system pioneered in the development of the B29.
The chin turret was impossible to install in the B29 as it has all that plexi up front. Plus, just as in the B17, the front gunner was also the bombadier.
Back in the 60's the USAF was conducting considerable research on the effects of the human body at extremely high altitude.
I believe the project was called High Flight, and consisted of subjects (volunteers) being lifted by weather balloons to altitudes of over 100,000 feet.
The way the subjects (pilots?) returned to earth was to JUMP from the capsule and parachute to the recovery point. These men exceeded Mach 1 during their freefall. (Remember, the velocity of the speed of sound is lower the less dense the atmosphere is.)
Also, if my memory serves, they experienced up to 15 minutes of freefall before their chutes were opened.
You are speaking of the Pegasus project.
Pegasus one of those, "Carry the rocket up and launch it at high altitude" types. Pegasus, after several embarrassing failures, finally did put something into orbit.
Incidentally, the latest failure of Pegasus is the botched attempt to launch the "Hyper-X" scramjet test vehicle. Apparently the Pegasus launch vehicle malfunctioned destroying the Hyper-X vehicle before it could even ignite its high tech engines.
This Piggyback arrangement is also being used by several of the participants competing for the "X Prize". This is the 1 Million (US) reward for being the first "Privately Funded" craft to carry 3 humans to a sub-orbital flight with a minimum altitude of 50 miles.
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FYI, there will be a Warhammer 40K MMO. There is a story http://www.gamespot.com/news/6166560.html?sid=6166 560 here about it.
I find this little personal observation interesting. In the SF bay area, there are 3 major music, stores which have more than one location (Yes, I am intentionally excluding the SF Virgin Megastore).
They are Tower, Amoeba, and Rasputin. Most of the time if there is something odd, eclectic, esoteric music I'm looking for, I will occasionaly search in Tower, but most of the time I will find what I'm looking for at either Amoeba, or Rasputin. Amoeba and Rasputin have a HUGE Indie and Used stock and usually a much more helpful staff. Also, if one look at the number of customers in these stores, compared to Tower, they are almost always full. Sure, Tower get's busy on the weekends, but Amoeba and Rasputin seem to be busy all the time. These places are where those who are actually looking for "new" or "Different" music shop. Sure, they also carry the modern, popular stuff, but their real treasure is in the things you wont find at Tower.
Also, the CD prices are usually less than Tower's.
Wake up RIAA and MPAA. Embrace change, and don't rely on cookie cutter formulas for music anymore!
"Hey look! Osama's skin is bubbling! Come to think of it, it is getting rather warm here, kind of like the inside of a microwave oven."
Yeah right, the thing would never be used for evil. And monkeys might fly from my posterior!
Tip-o-the-hat to Mr. Michael Myers...
If you're wondering what kind of technical issues there are when considering the H2 supply, visit www.airproducts.com for more information on various delivery methods and specifications for different uses. The site is most informative. Especially about information regarding highly reactive and flamable gases.
The article states that, "This act will be retroactive, so that crimes commited several decades ago can be prosecuted".
I hope Jobs and Woz are scared doo-doo-less. They used to build little Blue Boxes. These sent tones into the phone network and were able to make long distance calls for free and look up unlisted numbers. This law would make the research (sic.), which brought the two founders of Apple computer together, a crime punishable by life in prison!
If I recall correctly, the Shuttle suits were plagued with problems the first few times they were used. Also I seem to recall NASA sending up the old Apollo suits as emergency backups to use if the Shuttle bay doors had to be manually shut.
Hey!
I qualified my comments by stating that there are logical reasons for NOT designing a new suit. Not the least of which is that in a microgravity environment mobility isn't as important as dexterity. My understanding is that the arms, and the gloves in particular, were one of the upgrades made to the current suit. That, and small upgrades to the life support systems as well.
While the ideas about a skin tight suit are interesting while impractical, they do show that some people have IMAGINATIONS. Without which none of our spaceflight would even be possible.
Just you wait until I get my Subaru WRX.
The best price/performance of its class.
Also, what the hell is with Ford anyway. The Ford Focus WRC is cleaning up in World Rally. But does Ford market the GT or WRC cars in America? NO!
So while the American makes are getting their keesters wiped by the imports here in the states, the Focus's of Europe can take their Turbocharged Cosworth 2.0's with AWD and blow them away!
I want to know what marketing idiot thought this was a good idea. Not only would the performance boost do wonders for what is a Gutless wonder already. It could do it for much less than the price of a comperable car (RSX, etc)
As I was reading the various posts on this thread, I was struck by an interesting similarity.
Regress back to the 15th and 16th centuries. All written material was created by people who could write (scribes). Commissioned by people who could pay (Royalty). In a language that that is now dead (Latin).
There were attempts to produce written works in a country's (European) native language, but these were expensive, (scribes) and consequently not available to the general (peasant) population.
Enter the Printing Press (Gutenberg) and lo, thow can have a book printed in a national language, for a miniscule cost. Books of knowledge exploded onto the scene. The general populace was no longer handicaped by a lack of readily available research. No longer would the knowledge that had been so closely garded (encrypted?) by the Latin speaking world be inaccessable to the masses.
Sklyarov and other cryptologists are merely carrying on the Gutenberg tradition of making knowledge available to the masses.
Then again, what would Gutenberg have thought of Romance Novels?
Ps. Until money grepping legislation like the dmca (it doesn't deserve an acronym) is removed, digital books will never catch on. I see Books (paper and ink) staying around for a long time.
the fact that by it's very nature, research is to find out new things. Shouldn't it be expected that these new ideas are often modified before becoming "Fact". Most science deals with "Theory" which at it's core is merely a model that appears to fit the observed results.
Unfortunatly society at large is unable to grasp that rather unsolid concept. Society needs concrete things like, "this is a car, it's made out of steel".
Sure, discoveries are fun and exciting, and as the article states, are an intrinsic part of the scientific process. The other part being a review by the scientists peers.
Don't forget Andrew Wiles and his Fermat's Theorem proof. When he announced it, everyone considered him a genius, but when there was a problem with his proof, everyone immediatly turned on him and called him an idiot. Of course, I'm refering to society at large. His fellow mathematicians still considered it a brilliant peice of work. In this situation, Wiles was able to fix the problem and complete the proof. What is even more amazing, is that this new proof was even more beautiful and elegant than the first. Not to mention that it was almost half the previous ones size. Do you think society cared? No. Very few papers put the story of the fixed proof, which was more important than the first, on the front page. Most put a headline and a reference to an inner page.
This is a problem with our media controlled society. People don't do research on their own and don't bother to follow the stories that are important. They sit there and are spoon fed the News and assume that if it wasn't included, then it wasn't important.
This problem will continue to hurt the research community. Unless the research community doesn't care. Which in that case, it doesn't matter and everyone is happy that the mindless drones are mullified.
Concrete take a long time to cure fully. It is an interesting fact that while the Hoover Dam was "Completed" in the 30's, the concrete that was poured to create it will not fully cure for another 40 years or so. Large pours would definatly benefit from a lower freezing point in the liquid used in the mixing of the concrete. Plus, in climates where road repairs can be necessary during the winter months, the concrete can be aloud to cure without worrying about it freezing and creating a weekness from the fractures that form as the water expands under freezing.
For a moment consider what happened in the ETO (European Theater of Operations). The B17 (another Boeing design) and the B24 (Consolidated) both entered the war in europe without much protection from a frontal attack. This was due to the same studies mentioned in the article. The assumption was that the closing speed of a frontal attack would be too great for a fighter to be able to aim reliably. This prooved to be correct at the onset of operations, but the Germans quickly learned that a rear quarter attack was pretty difficult. This gave the Germans motivation to perfect the frontal attack, which they did. This attack proved even more effective when the bombers began to fly in massive formations. All a fighter pilot had to do is get to the front of the bomber stream and fly straight down it. Picking one target, letting off a few rounds, then the next. Many bombers were shot down this way. The solution for the B17 and B24 was to impliment a nose or, in the case of the B17, a chin turret to cover the frontal attack. Incedentally , the Aiming device used for the B17's chin turret was a simplified version of the system pioneered in the development of the B29.
The chin turret was impossible to install in the B29 as it has all that plexi up front. Plus, just as in the B17, the front gunner was also the bombadier.
Shucks! I guess you'll have to live on Deva now.
:-)
Back in the 60's the USAF was conducting considerable research on the effects of the human body at extremely high altitude.
I believe the project was called High Flight, and consisted of subjects (volunteers) being lifted by weather balloons to altitudes of over 100,000 feet.
The way the subjects (pilots?) returned to earth was to JUMP from the capsule and parachute to the recovery point. These men exceeded Mach 1 during their freefall. (Remember, the velocity of the speed of sound is lower the less dense the atmosphere is.)
Also, if my memory serves, they experienced up to 15 minutes of freefall before their chutes were opened.
You are speaking of the Pegasus project. Pegasus one of those, "Carry the rocket up and launch it at high altitude" types. Pegasus, after several embarrassing failures, finally did put something into orbit. Incidentally, the latest failure of Pegasus is the botched attempt to launch the "Hyper-X" scramjet test vehicle. Apparently the Pegasus launch vehicle malfunctioned destroying the Hyper-X vehicle before it could even ignite its high tech engines. This Piggyback arrangement is also being used by several of the participants competing for the "X Prize". This is the 1 Million (US) reward for being the first "Privately Funded" craft to carry 3 humans to a sub-orbital flight with a minimum altitude of 50 miles.