Dude, that site's awesome. I just spent the last 45 minutes reading it. Especially the graphics of the wing, with the real representations of the speed of the airflow above and below the wing.
This paragraph sums it up nicely:
"This may come as a shock to many readers, because all sorts of standard references claim that the air is somehow required to pass above and below the wing in the same amount of time. I have seen this erroneous statement in elementary-school textbooks, advanced physics textbooks, encyclopedias, and well-regarded pilot training handbooks. Bear with me for a moment, and I'll convince you that figure 3.3 tells the true story."
Thanks for a reference site about this. I'm not a pilot, or model plane enthusiast or any of that sort. Just a geek who craves good info. Now I can bug the hell out of my wife about airflow around airplane wings.;^)
Last year I was talking to a small-plane pilot about this. I of course had seen the 'educational' shows that explain about the wing shape, air pressure, and such. The pilot mentioned that that was just part of it.
Then I asked about the stunt planes, the barn-stormers who fly upside-down. He said for those planes, the wings are symetrical top-and-bottom. No "greater air pressure on the underside" or nothing, because if that was the case, when they went upside-down, they would plow into the ground. For them, it is all pilot skills keeping the plane flying level.
I certainly don't know the full details, but it is an interesting topic.
"You invite hundreds of anonymous strangers to randomly walk through your house, with no supervision, and now you want to cry foul because someone ate all your poridge, broke your chair, and slept in your bed? Stop crying and grow up."
Why would you need the "magic glass" to see the planets orbits?
The ancients of all cultures saw the major planets without any telescopes. The European concept of the planets revolving around the Earth went to great lengths to plot their "orbits", which were so greatly convoluted. Once someone studied them, and decided to plot the orbits of Earth and the other planets, the orbits were quite easily drawn. Not quite circular, but basically round, with no outward curves.
He could tell this just plotting points on paper, from observations of the positions of the planets in the sky, going back thousands of years. People new where the planets were in the sky, and how to plot where they would be in the future, and where they must have been in the past. The relative positions of the planets to Earth were known. Just the actual reason why they were in those positions needed to be found, that reason being that they didn't revovle around the Earth.
"And "Cats and Dogs" was mismarketed and not the good."
My five-year old would disagree with that. Actually, she wouldn't understand the first claim, but the last part would definitely get you taken off her list of tea party invites.
He's dead Jim. I can't do anything for him. Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a puppeteer (as he ducks his two heads under one foreleg, and kicks Jim with his rear leg).
"Nothing like an increased load to bring a "mature" power supply to its demise. "
Or just moving the system from one end of your desk to the other. I've had many old power supplies die after just a minor event. Call it "feng shui" or whetever, but they have gotten used to the energy in that spot, and don't want to be disturbed.
No, don't you understand? Now ", albiet a bit speculative," is to be considered a noun, in and of itself. It means "half-assed attempt to scare everyone whose life is controlled by fear of government conspiracies, as it relates to the government controlling everyone's life."
So you see, the noun ", albiet a bit speculative," is much shorter and easier to write while trying to play Quake II and watch a bootleg copy of Attack of the Clones simultaneously.
Actually, there is one instance where it is perfectly acceptaple to refer to a person as "it". If someone has a baby, the most common question is, "Is it a boy or a girl?" Even if you meet someone with a baby while at the mall, and you can't tell if the baby is a boy or a girl, the same question can be asked.
And as far as cats and dogs, many people generally get the sex wrong most of the time, even if they have been told repeatedly which sex the animal is. I always refer to each of my friends cats as "she", even though I know at least one is a male. I just don't care enough to remember which one is which. But then again, it would seem silly refering to one of them as an "it".
I was planning on pointing out that for years the Mafia built and controlled Las Vegas. They are not the type to abide by anyone's wishes but their own. They may put their money where their mouth is, but they also put their guns where their money is.
Also, I was planning to say that there is little to no native wildlife to worry about. Sure, there are a few cactuses ('cacti' looks so idiotic) and lizards left, but most everything has already been transmorgified into the perfect vacation spot. Why do any environmental impact studies when there isn't any environment left?
As I say, I was planning on posting this response to your post, but then I saw your sig. Since I know you are obviously boycotting Slashdot right now, there is no point in saying any of this. It will just be ignored.
"oh.. and by the way.. Anikan skywaker.. is actually Darth Vader."
I had to explain this to two people when Phantom Menace came out. That the little boy grows up to be Darth Vader, not Luke. "Oh, I thought that 'Luke' was like a nickname or something." And they were not complete idiots either, just half-morons I guess.
I could understand they didn't pick up on who Darth Sidious was. Even with the dimpled chin thing.
Actually, if you had spent the money on faster processors when you got the system, what upgrade could you do now?
If you had gotten dual 1GHz P-IIIs rather than 800MHz, and you could now only upgrade to 1.2GHz, it wouldn't be worth the money in terms of performance increase, just to gain a 20% boost. You got a 50% boost only because you went cheap on the original CPUs. You would have been able to get a 100% boost if you had gone cheaper and gotten 600MHz originally.
I'm more impressed with the fact that the board supports 2GB of RAM, which you have now, up from the original 1GB.
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"I've even been known to go buy a book I read from a library if I liked it well enough."
OK, who knows that you went and bought a book, just because you liked it so much when you borrowed it from the library? Do your friends know every detail of your life?;^)
But about your last statement: "...I don't think I've ever heard an author complain about libraries having their book...."
Not for about 100 years anyway. Around 1900 book publishers actually printed in their books that the purchaser agrees not to lend or sell the book to anyone. They wanted everyone to buy their own new copy of the book.
Same with phonograph records. Go to eBay, to the Music/Recorded/Records/78s section. Look at a few of the images of old records, and around the bottom of the label it states this.
The Supreme Court of course ruled it illegal/unconstitutional and came up with the "First Sale" doctrine.
Yeah, I used to take short naps when I was sleepy.
Ever notice how hard it is to keep a costant speed while taking 10-second naps while driving? Every other time I would wake up, I was only doing 15mph. Of course that would have been better than rear-ending someone while still doing 30mph.
Now I drink Mountain Dew continuously during the day, so I can stay awake. And as far as caffeine-induced insomnia goes, I can fall asleep 10 minutes after finishing off a can or bottle of Coke or Mountain Dew. Which is why I have some with me while driving.
Actually, I always thought he was on Styx too. But when I made this account last year, I researched it a little, just to be accurate. And imagine my surprise when I learned the truth.
The harder part is telling people my email address, which is charon. I know the 'ch' has the 'k' sound, but if I say it that way, everyone thinks I say 'karen'. Oh, the downfall of the classical education in America.
Good to hear from you.
PS. Just checked out 'syrinx' with Google, and the bottom link was to a page on pantheon.org. Cool background. I wonder how many others here on/. use obscure mythical refernces for their login name.
Your 18 year old daughter could only sue for a camera in the living room if she could prove you installed it to videotape her wild teen orgies every weekend when you and the wife are out of town, so you could have a video tape to watch the next time you and the wife are having sex. Otherwise, it doesn't meet the 'lewd and lasivious' requirement.
And by the way, you are a sick twisted individual, secretly videotaping your daughter's wild teen orgies like that.;^)
Actually, I wasn't trolling at all, just writing about my impression of the poetry campaign. And please don't put Dr Suess at the same level as this Christophe Bruno fellow.
"When Google writes an automated art recognition system (hopefully they'll sell you a license), " OK, this one took me a while to get. I forgot about the opening line of my original post. Good one.
And I doubt that Shakespeare had an agent named Bob. But your comparison aside, what if a similar "poem" had seemed racist. What if it had the dreaded 'N' word? Google would disable it, at least to prevent a lawsuit. If they then contact the person writing the poetry, and find that it is a black man trying to fight racism by shining a light on it, they could re-enable it. Nothing about what editors and publishers consider to be profitable, but what Google considers to be appropriate and non-sue-able, as well as profitable and beneficial to their Adwords service.
Yeah, the word vagina may not offend you, but it does offend some people. Particularly those who wish all the vaginas could be removed and stored in the closet, far from view or touch. But as I stated in another response, it isn't just the word "vagina", it is "hemi-vagina". It still doesn't offend me, but not everyone is as open minded as myself. Some would see it as a message to cut up women, which obviously would only offend a small number of people.
And I should have read the whole page, but I thougt it would as over-done as the top. How was I to know it mainly consisted of two charts, and commentary on the relative worth of sex over Jesus. But when I finally got through the "Google doesn't like my poetry" section, and saw that I was only half done with the page, I decided to to write my post on my impressions up to that point.
Anyway, glad to see that you agree that companies have the right to some self-determination, automated or otherwise.
And if your dreams include peeing into the wind, I won't stand in your way. But I won't stand behind you either.
Man, that first sentence almost got me. Good thing I read the rest before responding.;^)
And for the record, pardon the pun, YES, I do "support music companies' right to limit their CD's as they see fit".
I also support the right of Ford to put the accelerator in the trunk, as a means to lower the chance of a high-speed crash.
And I support McDonald's right to serve their hot coffee in a glass glass, rather than a foam cup, and then when their customers say, "Ouch, that's hot!" the whole crew can look at them, and say "No shit Sherlock. It's hot coffee."
By the way, did anyone else grow up using the terms "glass glass" and "plastic glass" to differentiate the two? I mean, "foam cup" and "ceramic mug" both make sense, but I can't type "glass glass" without thinking how idiotic it actually looks, even though it is correct.
That is why I said that "at worst" it is a "verbal attack".
Look at some of the very innocently written comments that the militant feminists say attack women, or the militant african-americans say attack minorities, or the militant anyone says attack their group.
bicornuate-bicervical uterus one-eyed hemi-vagina
The last word, hemi-vagina, could easily be construed as meaning to cut women apart, since "hemi-" means "half". So the word means to cut a woman's vagina in half. And since the vagina is the core of a woman, it really is saying to cut women in half, they are only worth half anyway. This isn't my interpretation, but it is a possible interpretation. And don't even ask what "one-eyed" means, or could mean.
And as a possible attack on dogs, no "paw" doesn't have bad connotations, but "muzzle" surely can bring to mind a poor, helpless dog with a man-made cage over it's face, preventing it from eating or communicating with it's fellow dogs. While "muzzle" is the correct word for a dog's snout, it's also the word for the harness that goes over it, and so someone from PETA may be offended by the reference.
More importantly though, the "poem" didn't just say vagina, it said hemi-vagina, as I stated above. So in a poem about a dog, the word "tail" isn't bad, but that same person from PETA might be upset about the term "bob-tail", which refers to the custom of cutting off a dog's tail for asthetic purposes.
Again, it isn't something that everyone would be offended by, or even a have a mental connection between, but some will.
(As a disclaimer, I referred to PETA simply because the prior post mentioned dogs. This is not meant as a opinion piece about the values, beliefs, or actions of the organization or its members.)
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Post your address, and I'll send you a motherboard. PCI was out with 486's. What, you think it's a Pentium only connection?
Dude, that site's awesome. I just spent the last 45 minutes reading it. Especially the graphics of the wing, with the real representations of the speed of the airflow above and below the wing.
;^)
This paragraph sums it up nicely:
"This may come as a shock to many readers, because all sorts of standard references claim that the air is somehow required to pass above and below the wing in the same amount of time. I have seen this erroneous statement in elementary-school textbooks, advanced physics textbooks, encyclopedias, and well-regarded pilot training handbooks. Bear with me for a moment, and I'll convince you that figure 3.3 tells the true story."
Thanks for a reference site about this. I'm not a pilot, or model plane enthusiast or any of that sort. Just a geek who craves good info. Now I can bug the hell out of my wife about airflow around airplane wings.
Like in "Look Who's Talking."
As John Travolta and the baby are looking at a well-endowed woman...
"Hey, Mikey. Are you thinking the same thing I'm thinking?"
"Yeah, lunch."
And Travolta's in his 40s now. shame shame.
No sense asking what company you work for, but that's pretty cool of your boss.
But what city are you in? Just wondering if it might catch on in other places.
Last year I was talking to a small-plane pilot about this. I of course had seen the 'educational' shows that explain about the wing shape, air pressure, and such. The pilot mentioned that that was just part of it.
Then I asked about the stunt planes, the barn-stormers who fly upside-down. He said for those planes, the wings are symetrical top-and-bottom. No "greater air pressure on the underside" or nothing, because if that was the case, when they went upside-down, they would plow into the ground. For them, it is all pilot skills keeping the plane flying level.
I certainly don't know the full details, but it is an interesting topic.
Sounds more like he was saying:
"You invite hundreds of anonymous strangers to randomly walk through your house, with no supervision, and now you want to cry foul because someone ate all your poridge, broke your chair, and slept in your bed? Stop crying and grow up."
Why would you need the "magic glass" to see the planets orbits?
The ancients of all cultures saw the major planets without any telescopes. The European concept of the planets revolving around the Earth went to great lengths to plot their "orbits", which were so greatly convoluted. Once someone studied them, and decided to plot the orbits of Earth and the other planets, the orbits were quite easily drawn. Not quite circular, but basically round, with no outward curves.
He could tell this just plotting points on paper, from observations of the positions of the planets in the sky, going back thousands of years. People new where the planets were in the sky, and how to plot where they would be in the future, and where they must have been in the past. The relative positions of the planets to Earth were known. Just the actual reason why they were in those positions needed to be found, that reason being that they didn't revovle around the Earth.
"And "Cats and Dogs" was mismarketed and not the good."
My five-year old would disagree with that. Actually, she wouldn't understand the first claim, but the last part would definitely get you taken off her list of tea party invites.
Hell, my daughter still cracks up over the post last month about Yoda facing the Count.
:)
"One, Two, Three. Three Jedi, ha ha ha."
Five year olds are so strange.
It's supposed to read:
He's dead Jim. I can't do anything for him.
Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a puppeteer (as he ducks his two heads under one foreleg, and kicks Jim with his rear leg).
"Nothing like an increased load to bring a "mature" power supply to its demise. "
Or just moving the system from one end of your desk to the other. I've had many old power supplies die after just a minor event. Call it "feng shui" or whetever, but they have gotten used to the energy in that spot, and don't want to be disturbed.
No, don't you understand? Now ", albiet a bit speculative," is to be considered a noun, in and of itself. It means "half-assed attempt to scare everyone whose life is controlled by fear of government conspiracies, as it relates to the government controlling everyone's life."
So you see, the noun ", albiet a bit speculative," is much shorter and easier to write while trying to play Quake II and watch a bootleg copy of Attack of the Clones simultaneously.
Actually, there is one instance where it is perfectly acceptaple to refer to a person as "it". If someone has a baby, the most common question is, "Is it a boy or a girl?" Even if you meet someone with a baby while at the mall, and you can't tell if the baby is a boy or a girl, the same question can be asked.
And as far as cats and dogs, many people generally get the sex wrong most of the time, even if they have been told repeatedly which sex the animal is. I always refer to each of my friends cats as "she", even though I know at least one is a male. I just don't care enough to remember which one is which. But then again, it would seem silly refering to one of them as an "it".
I was planning on pointing out that for years the Mafia built and controlled Las Vegas. They are not the type to abide by anyone's wishes but their own. They may put their money where their mouth is, but they also put their guns where their money is.
Also, I was planning to say that there is little to no native wildlife to worry about. Sure, there are a few cactuses ('cacti' looks so idiotic) and lizards left, but most everything has already been transmorgified into the perfect vacation spot. Why do any environmental impact studies when there isn't any environment left?
As I say, I was planning on posting this response to your post, but then I saw your sig. Since I know you are obviously boycotting Slashdot right now, there is no point in saying any of this. It will just be ignored.
Either they are clueless shitheads, or just shitheads with no sense of humor.
Funniest reply to a foot-in-mouth reply all day.
Too bad it got you karma-burned.
"oh.. and by the way.. Anikan skywaker.. is actually Darth Vader."
I had to explain this to two people when Phantom Menace came out. That the little boy grows up to be Darth Vader, not Luke. "Oh, I thought that 'Luke' was like a nickname or something." And they were not complete idiots either, just half-morons I guess.
I could understand they didn't pick up on who Darth Sidious was. Even with the dimpled chin thing.
But come on, Anakin is not Luke as a child.
Besides, I think Microsoft just bought that company yesterday.
:^)
Oh the shame.
Actually, if you had spent the money on faster processors when you got the system, what upgrade could you do now?
If you had gotten dual 1GHz P-IIIs rather than 800MHz, and you could now only upgrade to 1.2GHz, it wouldn't be worth the money in terms of performance increase, just to gain a 20% boost. You got a 50% boost only because you went cheap on the original CPUs. You would have been able to get a 100% boost if you had gone cheaper and gotten 600MHz originally.
I'm more impressed with the fact that the board supports 2GB of RAM, which you have now, up from the original 1GB.
"I've even been known to go buy a book I read from a library if I liked it well enough."
;^)
OK, who knows that you went and bought a book, just because you liked it so much when you borrowed it from the library? Do your friends know every detail of your life?
But about your last statement:
"...I don't think I've ever heard an author complain about libraries having their book...."
Not for about 100 years anyway. Around 1900 book publishers actually printed in their books that the purchaser agrees not to lend or sell the book to anyone. They wanted everyone to buy their own new copy of the book.
Same with phonograph records. Go to eBay, to the Music/Recorded/Records/78s section. Look at a few of the images of old records, and around the bottom of the label it states this.
The Supreme Court of course ruled it illegal/unconstitutional and came up with the "First Sale" doctrine.
Just my two cents worth.
Yeah, I used to take short naps when I was sleepy.
Ever notice how hard it is to keep a costant speed while taking 10-second naps while driving? Every other time I would wake up, I was only doing 15mph. Of course that would have been better than rear-ending someone while still doing 30mph.
Now I drink Mountain Dew continuously during the day, so I can stay awake. And as far as caffeine-induced insomnia goes, I can fall asleep 10 minutes after finishing off a can or bottle of Coke or Mountain Dew. Which is why I have some with me while driving.
Actually, I always thought he was on Styx too. But when I made this account last year, I researched it a little, just to be accurate. And imagine my surprise when I learned the truth.
/. use obscure mythical refernces for their login name.
The harder part is telling people my email address, which is charon. I know the 'ch' has the 'k' sound, but if I say it that way, everyone thinks I say 'karen'. Oh, the downfall of the classical education in America.
Good to hear from you.
PS. Just checked out 'syrinx' with Google, and the bottom link was to a page on pantheon.org. Cool background. I wonder how many others here on
Your 18 year old daughter could only sue for a camera in the living room if she could prove you installed it to videotape her wild teen orgies every weekend when you and the wife are out of town, so you could have a video tape to watch the next time you and the wife are having sex. Otherwise, it doesn't meet the 'lewd and lasivious' requirement.
;^)
And by the way, you are a sick twisted individual, secretly videotaping your daughter's wild teen orgies like that.
Actually, I wasn't trolling at all, just writing about my impression of the poetry campaign. And please don't put Dr Suess at the same level as this Christophe Bruno fellow.
"When Google writes an automated art recognition system (hopefully they'll sell you a license), "
OK, this one took me a while to get. I forgot about the opening line of my original post. Good one.
And I doubt that Shakespeare had an agent named Bob. But your comparison aside, what if a similar "poem" had seemed racist. What if it had the dreaded 'N' word? Google would disable it, at least to prevent a lawsuit. If they then contact the person writing the poetry, and find that it is a black man trying to fight racism by shining a light on it, they could re-enable it. Nothing about what editors and publishers consider to be profitable, but what Google considers to be appropriate and non-sue-able, as well as profitable and beneficial to their Adwords service.
Yeah, the word vagina may not offend you, but it does offend some people. Particularly those who wish all the vaginas could be removed and stored in the closet, far from view or touch. But as I stated in another response, it isn't just the word "vagina", it is "hemi-vagina". It still doesn't offend me, but not everyone is as open minded as myself. Some would see it as a message to cut up women, which obviously would only offend a small number of people.
And I should have read the whole page, but I thougt it would as over-done as the top. How was I to know it mainly consisted of two charts, and commentary on the relative worth of sex over Jesus. But when I finally got through the "Google doesn't like my poetry" section, and saw that I was only half done with the page, I decided to to write my post on my impressions up to that point.
Anyway, glad to see that you agree that companies have the right to some self-determination, automated or otherwise.
And if your dreams include peeing into the wind, I won't stand in your way. But I won't stand behind you either.
Man, that first sentence almost got me. Good thing I read the rest before responding. ;^)
And for the record, pardon the pun, YES, I do "support music companies' right to limit their CD's as they see fit".
I also support the right of Ford to put the accelerator in the trunk, as a means to lower the chance of a high-speed crash.
And I support McDonald's right to serve their hot coffee in a glass glass, rather than a foam cup, and then when their customers say, "Ouch, that's hot!" the whole crew can look at them, and say "No shit Sherlock. It's hot coffee."
By the way, did anyone else grow up using the terms "glass glass" and "plastic glass" to differentiate the two? I mean, "foam cup" and "ceramic mug" both make sense, but I can't type "glass glass" without thinking how idiotic it actually looks, even though it is correct.
That is why I said that "at worst" it is a "verbal attack".
Look at some of the very innocently written comments that the militant feminists say attack women, or the militant african-americans say attack minorities, or the militant anyone says attack their group.
bicornuate-bicervical uterus
one-eyed hemi-vagina
The last word, hemi-vagina, could easily be construed as meaning to cut women apart, since "hemi-" means "half". So the word means to cut a woman's vagina in half. And since the vagina is the core of a woman, it really is saying to cut women in half, they are only worth half anyway. This isn't my interpretation, but it is a possible interpretation. And don't even ask what "one-eyed" means, or could mean.
And as a possible attack on dogs, no "paw" doesn't have bad connotations, but "muzzle" surely can bring to mind a poor, helpless dog with a man-made cage over it's face, preventing it from eating or communicating with it's fellow dogs. While "muzzle" is the correct word for a dog's snout, it's also the word for the harness that goes over it, and so someone from PETA may be offended by the reference.
More importantly though, the "poem" didn't just say vagina, it said hemi-vagina, as I stated above. So in a poem about a dog, the word "tail" isn't bad, but that same person from PETA might be upset about the term "bob-tail", which refers to the custom of cutting off a dog's tail for asthetic purposes.
Again, it isn't something that everyone would be offended by, or even a have a mental connection between, but some will.
(As a disclaimer, I referred to PETA simply because the prior post mentioned dogs. This is not meant as a opinion piece about the values, beliefs, or actions of the organization or its members.)