The number 360 isn't arbitrary. It stems from mesopotamia and the need to represent numbers as fractions. People needed a number that could be divided by 2, 3, 4, 10, 12, etc easily in one's head yet big enough to provide small fractions.
From wikipedia:
"The number 360 as the number of 'degrees' (i.e. smallest practical sub-arcs) in a circle, and hence the unit of a degree as a sub-arc of 1360 of the circle, was probably adopted because it approximates the number of days in a year. Its use is often said to originate from the methods of the ancient Babylonians. Ancient astronomers noticed that the stars in the sky, which circle the celestial pole every day, seem to advance in that circle by approximately one-360th of a circle, i.e. one degree, each day. Primitive calendars, such as the Persian Calendar used 360 days for a year. Its application to measuring angles in geometry can possibly be traced to Thales who popularized geometry among the Greeks and lived in Anatolia (modern western Turkey) among people who had dealings with Egypt and Babylon.
Another motivation for choosing the number 360 is that it is readily divisible: 360 has 24 divisors (including 1 and 360), including every number from 1 to 10 except 7. For the number of degrees in a circle to be divisible by every number from 1 to 10, there would need to be 2520 degrees in a circle, which is a much less convenient number.
You sound like a real stand-up guy! Can you help me get some money out of a frozen account in Nigeria? It belonged to my late uncle, General Mugembe and I just need $5000 to pay the fees to unlock it. Thank you
For email accounts they need to require a deposit. You get it back when you cancel your account but you must wait x number of days minimum. If they find out the account was used for spamming or phishing then you lose the account deposit. Make it something like $20 which would make opening thousands of accounts financially unviable.
There is a better use of all of this untapped genius:
"Enter your solution to the Riemann hypothesis" "Please submit a new prime number" "What is a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict?" "Show a correct equation that joins the electro-weak and strong forces with gravity."
Organizations can't "do nothing" because they have to justify their existence. They are like living organisms. Bureaucracies have to constantly expand their roles and/or budgets, parking police have to go out of their way to write tickets, anti-terrorism agencies and consultants have to see boogey men everywhere to justify big military budgets, etc. For instance, if everyone parked legally the parking cops would get accused of not doing their jobs and eventually let go.
Human society is based on cleaning up after the fact, not preventing anything. Police show up after the murder, people see their doctor after the heart attack, we worry about the environment after we trash it, the mentally ill get taken care of after someone gets hurt...
Why do musicians deserve special treatment so they can live off something they made 70 yrs ago (or their estate)? Let them save for their senior years like the rest of us. People like The Who and Paul McCartny are especially repugnant in the way they keep grubbing for money they don't need. I don't see them passing the wealth along to their session musicians or others who made their work possible. And these promises by the companies to pass on the extra income to the musicians is pure bullshit. It is like the promise by theaters to lower ticket prices if they got to show ads. We got ads and higher ticket prices anyway.
We've already made extensions of copyright law in the US to satisfy the Disney Corp, not the nation as a whole. It is time to rollback copyright periods, not extend them.
"Again, maybe you should use this as a clue to the fact that those figures of "lost sales" may not be realistic?"
I love how companies and their politicians are able to read our minds and assume we would've bought the product instead of copying it. Who is to say the person could afford it, or would want it enough to buy it in the first place? From what I've seen people constantly exchange, out of curiosity, audio tracks they never would've justified buying if they had to. My lack of purchases in the last few years says much more about the quality of the music industry than about my respect for copyright laws.
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The number 360 isn't arbitrary. It stems from mesopotamia and the need to represent numbers as fractions. People needed a number that could be divided by 2, 3, 4, 10, 12, etc easily in one's head yet big enough to provide small fractions.
From wikipedia:
"The number 360 as the number of 'degrees' (i.e. smallest practical sub-arcs) in a circle, and hence the unit of a degree as a sub-arc of 1360 of the circle, was probably adopted because it approximates the number of days in a year. Its use is often said to originate from the methods of the ancient Babylonians. Ancient astronomers noticed that the stars in the sky, which circle the celestial pole every day, seem to advance in that circle by approximately one-360th of a circle, i.e. one degree, each day. Primitive calendars, such as the Persian Calendar used 360 days for a year. Its application to measuring angles in geometry can possibly be traced to Thales who popularized geometry among the Greeks and lived in Anatolia (modern western Turkey) among people who had dealings with Egypt and Babylon.
Another motivation for choosing the number 360 is that it is readily divisible: 360 has 24 divisors (including 1 and 360), including every number from 1 to 10 except 7. For the number of degrees in a circle to be divisible by every number from 1 to 10, there would need to be 2520 degrees in a circle, which is a much less convenient number.
Divisors of 360: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 24, 30, 36, 40, 45, 60, 72, 90, 120, 180, 360"
You sound like a real stand-up guy! Can you help me get some money out of a frozen account in Nigeria? It belonged to my late uncle, General Mugembe and I just need $5000 to pay the fees to unlock it. Thank you
I was just going to say "Damn the RIAA!" and "Switch to Linux!" until I read that comment.
Those are obviously implants.
I think this study proves that people who carry out studies like these have forgotten what life was like for them in their teens.
You may now have a Yahoo email account.
"I found his premise inaccessible"
That's nothing. I found the article itself inaccessible (slashdotted).
For email accounts they need to require a deposit. You get it back when you cancel your account but you must wait x number of days minimum. If they find out the account was used for spamming or phishing then you lose the account deposit. Make it something like $20 which would make opening thousands of accounts financially unviable.
There is a better use of all of this untapped genius:
"Enter your solution to the Riemann hypothesis"
"Please submit a new prime number"
"What is a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict?"
"Show a correct equation that joins the electro-weak and strong forces with gravity."
"The space station toilet physically resembles those used on Earth, except it has leg restraints and thigh bars..."
And in a related article, thousands of BDSM & scat fetishists rejoyced.
Customer service is highly regulated?
Obviously if you buy gasoline from the "James Brown Service Station" it is going to be hot gas. Ow! Hot gas!
The UK is starting to look like a nation run by Basil Fawlty.
Organizations can't "do nothing" because they have to justify their existence. They are like living organisms. Bureaucracies have to constantly expand their roles and/or budgets, parking police have to go out of their way to write tickets, anti-terrorism agencies and consultants have to see boogey men everywhere to justify big military budgets, etc. For instance, if everyone parked legally the parking cops would get accused of not doing their jobs and eventually let go.
If I had my way all of you perverts would be tied up and whipped for engaging in BDSM. Wait a minute...
Human society is based on cleaning up after the fact, not preventing anything. Police show up after the murder, people see their doctor after the heart attack, we worry about the environment after we trash it, the mentally ill get taken care of after someone gets hurt...
"whats to stop the owner resting the probe in the freezer cabinet before taking the temprature?"
I assume the temp gauge would be fixed in the tank itself, not carried around by hand by the gas station operator.
Why do musicians deserve special treatment so they can live off something they made 70 yrs ago (or their estate)? Let them save for their senior years like the rest of us. People like The Who and Paul McCartny are especially repugnant in the way they keep grubbing for money they don't need. I don't see them passing the wealth along to their session musicians or others who made their work possible. And these promises by the companies to pass on the extra income to the musicians is pure bullshit. It is like the promise by theaters to lower ticket prices if they got to show ads. We got ads and higher ticket prices anyway.
We've already made extensions of copyright law in the US to satisfy the Disney Corp, not the nation as a whole. It is time to rollback copyright periods, not extend them.
"Again, maybe you should use this as a clue to the fact that those figures of "lost sales" may not be realistic?"
I love how companies and their politicians are able to read our minds and assume we would've bought the product instead of copying it. Who is to say the person could afford it, or would want it enough to buy it in the first place? From what I've seen people constantly exchange, out of curiosity, audio tracks they never would've justified buying if they had to. My lack of purchases in the last few years says much more about the quality of the music industry than about my respect for copyright laws.
Finally, a lose-lose deal for the average citizen. Good job plutocrats!
Can't rest, heart will stop, can't rest, heart will stop...
The cops would become suspicious when they saw the extension cord for the growlight hidden inside of him.
Just working on it? I know many masters.
New pickup line: "Come on baby, stay the night and I'll make you smarter."
"He's like a real life, professional troll. He enjoys stirring up shit, and being in front of the camera"
Is Paris Hilton his soulmate then?
"So much so that any "piracy" that is being stamped out will mean more profit for the original manufacturer."
Actually they are losing profits by finally forcing my hand and driving me to buy a laser printer.