I brought the latest Natalie Imbruglia album, White Lillies Island, in the UK a few months ago. I always listen to my CD's on my computer, and use the CD's in my car. However, the CD's often get a bit of a hard time, and many of them have some little scratches. I have used and abused many a CD over my years, and have plenty of experience being able to tell how 'damaged' the CD is just from looking at the back of it.
The new CD, however, is already broken on two tracks! It has some tiny marks on it, which present no problems whatsoever to a normal CD, but completely hammer this CD. My Sony car stereo gives up and ejects the CD after 10 seconds of struggling.
I am absolutely appalled that the recording industries, that heavily pushed the durability feature of CD's when they forced the standard on us, are now crippling one of the features of the medium.
Couple that with the fact that part of my work requires me to try and digitally copy CD's into an electronic radio station playout system, and I have to say that this new system is not welcome to me at all.
Given particular radii, the following g force would be felt when spinning at 7,814 m/s.
1km ------ 61,000 g
31.1km --- 1,963 g
207.5km -- 294 g
389km ---- 157 g
Don't forget, this is the radius figure! For the amount of track laid, you need to multiply the radius by approx. 6!
Not sure I'll be riding the spinning maglev to space! Not that it would not look very cool when released...
Oh, don't forget that at sea level, that means the spinning object is travelling at mach 23, and may get a little bit toasty in that thick air at that speed...
(Wow, doing those calcs brought me back a couple of years to Physics lessons...)
Can anyone forsee a downturn in the rate of spam? Many things recently have been receeding on the Net. Can we expect the same thing to happen any time soon to spam?
Does anyone have any figures for how effective spam is? Have any/.ers foolishly (or not?) replied to something decidedly not pork and not beef that arrived in their mail?
I would like to see the back of it all, because there are only so many times that your boss will believe that the dirty emails dropping into your mailbox every hour is spam;-)
I remember, as a young lad, wondering how anyone ever came up with the cheats that were published monthly in my favorite ZX Spectrum (and later Commodore Amiga) magazine. I just assumed that somewhere, someone would get the infomation out of the programmers by sleeping with the despectacled geeks.
Oh, how innocent I was when I was younger...
Having used the net for many years, I have met a few Americans that have asked me what it is like to use online store, look for information (cinema times, etc) on the global internet. I forget that a lot of stuff is in the states. The simple mechanism that let me forget this is the.co.uk extension used by all companies in the UK. If I reach a website with a.co.uk everything is instantly clear.
I would not ever want to be without the.co.uk extension that marks a website I visit as being in the uk. I don't know how you have managed over there so long without it, having to compete for.com with the rest of the world. I have often wanted to go a page in the US, and never been entirely sure that I got to one that was there. I think the quicker companies adopt a.us extension, the better for you.
Embrace the country you live in! Send it forth on your email addresses and webpages. Shout it loud and be proud.
Slashdot Mirror
I brought the latest Natalie Imbruglia album, White Lillies Island, in the UK a few months ago. I always listen to my CD's on my computer, and use the CD's in my car. However, the CD's often get a bit of a hard time, and many of them have some little scratches. I have used and abused many a CD over my years, and have plenty of experience being able to tell how 'damaged' the CD is just from looking at the back of it.
The new CD, however, is already broken on two tracks! It has some tiny marks on it, which present no problems whatsoever to a normal CD, but completely hammer this CD. My Sony car stereo gives up and ejects the CD after 10 seconds of struggling.
I am absolutely appalled that the recording industries, that heavily pushed the durability feature of CD's when they forced the standard on us, are now crippling one of the features of the medium.
Couple that with the fact that part of my work requires me to try and digitally copy CD's into an electronic radio station playout system, and I have to say that this new system is not welcome to me at all.
Ermm, maybe if we wanted to look pancake like.
Given particular radii, the following g force would be felt when spinning at 7,814 m/s.
1km ------ 61,000 g
31.1km --- 1,963 g
207.5km -- 294 g
389km ---- 157 g
Don't forget, this is the radius figure! For the amount of track laid, you need to multiply the radius by approx. 6!
Not sure I'll be riding the spinning maglev to space! Not that it would not look very cool when released...
Oh, don't forget that at sea level, that means the spinning object is travelling at mach 23, and may get a little bit toasty in that thick air at that speed...
(Wow, doing those calcs brought me back a couple of years to Physics lessons...)
Lew
Does anyone have any figures for how effective spam is? Have any
I would like to see the back of it all, because there are only so many times that your boss will believe that the dirty emails dropping into your mailbox every hour is spam ;-)
I remember, as a young lad, wondering how anyone ever came up with the cheats that were published monthly in my favorite ZX Spectrum (and later Commodore Amiga) magazine. I just assumed that somewhere, someone would get the infomation out of the programmers by sleeping with the despectacled geeks. Oh, how innocent I was when I was younger...
Having used the net for many years, I have met a few Americans that have asked me what it is like to use online store, look for information (cinema times, etc) on the global internet. I forget that a lot of stuff is in the states. The simple mechanism that let me forget this is the .co.uk extension used by all companies in the UK. If I reach a website with a .co.uk everything is instantly clear. .co.uk extension that marks a website I visit as being in the uk. I don't know how you have managed over there so long without it, having to compete for .com with the rest of the world. I have often wanted to go a page in the US, and never been entirely sure that I got to one that was there. I think the quicker companies adopt a .us extension, the better for you.
I would not ever want to be without the
Embrace the country you live in! Send it forth on your email addresses and webpages. Shout it loud and be proud.