Why not have both systems, with this faux system as an "alert" that the property owner is aware of and actively counterracting breakins, possibly by an alarm system. In other words, why would one take the chance?
It forces you to paraphrase what the instructor is saying.
The whole point of a lecture is that you run the ideas through your brain. (Pen and paper forces this.) No electronic device will ever replace forcing your brain to process what you are hearing and seeing during a lecture.
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an odd number! Why was that gauge used? Well, because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates designed the US railroads. The first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. The people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing, because that was the spacing of wheel ruts in ancient English roads.
Who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since. Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match or risk destroying their wagon wheels. Because those chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
Therefore, the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with this?', you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' asses.)
Now, how does this apply to space travel?: When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory inUtah. The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass. And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important? Ancient horse's asses control almost everything...
Addendum: The average width of stone-age roadway ruts was about 4 feet 8 inches, the width of two horses' asses, as they pulled a sled. Thus, some of the major dimensions of our space vehicle components are based on stone-age technology!
You do great work with automated probes and observation of planets, moons, the sun, and beyond. Keep that up!
But, please, divest yourself of the 1960's "manned space-race" mentality. It wastes lives and $$$$$$. Your congressional charter gives you the mission "To reach for new heights and reveal the unknown." If a mission can be accomplished with probes, there is no reason to send humans. Only loft a human when it is necessary FOR THE MISSION.
Please, explore as you are intended to do, but quit insisting on sending a carcass along for the ride. It's holding you back.
The patent was filed in 1995, long before iTunes et al. existed, before most people even knew what an MP3 was.
The patent is truly innovative (for 1995).
The fact that it's only being enforced now doesn't necessarily mean they're patent trolls. It probably means that the patent sat forgotten in some large portfolio, unused for a long time, until these guys bought up a bundle for cheap and re-discovered this one.
This all looks like stuff from the "Spy Museum" in Washington DC. Very cool gadgetry there, and much more of it than this paltry slideshow has. Better-written commentary, too.
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So have a tall stool at your standing desk. Costs maybe $25 at Target. You can alternate standing and sitting to suit your comfort.
So does no one on this "news site for nerds" recall the keynote speech where Jobs introduced the iPhone?
The end of his sentence was, "...and we have patented the heck out of it."
That was a hint to others to not go out and simply copy their design. Apple is just following through on this years-ago promise. Samsung was warned...
Does the generic thief know this?
Why not have both systems, with this faux system as an "alert" that the property owner is aware of and actively counterracting breakins, possibly by an alarm system. In other words, why would one take the chance?
Pen and paper. Nothing beats it.
It forces you to paraphrase what the instructor is saying.
The whole point of a lecture is that you run the ideas through your brain. (Pen and paper forces this.) No electronic device will ever replace forcing your brain to process what you are hearing and seeing during a lecture.
Well, he is obviously innumerate, so he can be forgiven for thinking a numerical comparison is unnecessary...
Rocket design is stone-aged.
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an odd number! Why was that gauge used? Well, because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates designed the US railroads. The first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used. The people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing, because that was the spacing of wheel ruts in ancient English roads.
Who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since. Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match or risk destroying their wagon wheels. Because those chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.
Therefore, the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with this?', you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' asses.)
Now, how does this apply to space travel?: When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory inUtah. The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass. And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important? Ancient horse's asses control almost everything...
Addendum: The average width of stone-age roadway ruts was about 4 feet 8 inches, the width of two horses' asses, as they pulled a sled. Thus, some of the major dimensions of our space vehicle components are based on stone-age technology!
Mod this commenter up. A++++++! Will buy from again.
Crushed dynamic range and signal clipping are not a "style" or "part of the music itself". They are production errors. They are defects.
Is that in the Constitution or in the Bible? I forget.
whereas Vista is the devil I don't.
Apple is asserting its patent rights.
This is how the system works. Ask T. Edison.
FTA sounds like a default OR search, which gives you morehits with more search terms. Set the default to AND and much of the noise can be avoided.
I have never seen a case more in need of an expert witness than this one.
Use a simple mnemonic.
You type numbers on a computer with your fingers.
You type phone numbers with your thumb. Imagine you're doing that when you encounter phone numbers.
If you wanted efficiency, you'd get a Mac.
GIVE UP ON MANNED MISSIONS ALREADY!
You do great work with automated probes and observation of planets, moons, the sun, and beyond. Keep that up!
But, please, divest yourself of the 1960's "manned space-race" mentality. It wastes lives and $$$$$$. Your congressional charter gives you the mission "To reach for new heights and reveal the unknown." If a mission can be accomplished with probes, there is no reason to send humans. Only loft a human when it is necessary FOR THE MISSION.
Please, explore as you are intended to do, but quit insisting on sending a carcass along for the ride. It's holding you back.
The patent was filed in 1995, long before iTunes et al. existed, before most people even knew what an MP3 was.
The patent is truly innovative (for 1995).
The fact that it's only being enforced now doesn't necessarily mean they're patent trolls. It probably means that the patent sat forgotten in some large portfolio, unused for a long time, until these guys bought up a bundle for cheap and re-discovered this one.
We have them near the surface in the Americas, too.
Ultima IV was a great game, and for a kid great as it was turn-based. Endless exploration and discovery.
The Geneforge series is a very similar but modern one of the same type that is still around today. Try those.
You mean they've re-invented the Theremin?
This all looks like stuff from the "Spy Museum" in Washington DC. Very cool gadgetry there, and much more of it than this paltry slideshow has. Better-written commentary, too.
Go there!
They are not *energy* companies.
They are *extraction* companies.
BP has been buying up solar patents for years.
If he was crazy, he would have said something worthy of a slander suit by now. He hasn't. Crazies don't plan ahead.
His show is very carefully scripted. Crap, yes, but not the work of an actual lunatic.
peace. . .
Ka-click!
Ka-click!
Why is the Kindle's button so loud? Isn't it for "readers?"
$500M is about $1.40 per US citizen.