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My point was that before consumer-level computer processor speeds, memory sizes, and hard drive sizes got into the range of needing the 'giga' prefix, in other words, before the general public got involved, people using the prefix knew the proper pronunciation. As for the dictionary citation, if enough people misuse or mispronounce a word often enough long enough, then eventually the incorrect definition or pronunciation becomes accepted as "correct". Apparently that process is underway with regard to 'giga'. People who know it's pronounced with a 'j' sound pronounce it with a hard 'g' sound when dealing with the general public just to avoid the hassle of having to explain the etymology 500 times per day.
Or perhaps you feel I'm making a 'guy-gantic' mistake:-)
But those companies expected to get money from the users. Google can be used for free (kinda like a certain OS they talk about 'round here). If MS starts paying people to use the MS search engine, people will just lather, rinse, repeat until MS has no cash left.
Google manages to display your ad (or whoever's),and if it's something I'm interested in I'll check it out or ignore it if I'm not interested, while giving me good search results without beating my eyeballs bloody with people trying to sell me stuff.
Microsoft is constitutionally incapable of doing things that way. Google gives you search results, MS wants to give you a "user experience". I've already had all the Microsoft experiences I care for.
"If I'm on the jury, I would automatically acquit at that point."
In a real court, you wouldn't get the chance. The judge would either declare a mistrial or dismiss the charges, either with or without prejudice. Probably with.
Wrong decade. IBM didn't start designing the PC until 1980. Announced in August of '81, in stores October of "81.
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Has anyone ever pointed out to that person that the term used for cycles per second (as opposed to cycles per some other length of time) is the proper name Hertz, so that 1 cycle per second is 1 Hertz, and if you need a different term for singular and plural it would actually be Hertz and Hertzes? (If you're going to be wrong you might as well be accurate about it:-)
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GigaHertz, like giga-everything else, really does start with a "j" sound because it comes from the same root word as "gigantic". Back when microwave communications technicians were working those frequencies and computer people relied on ferrite beads strung on wires for memory there wasn't the present misunderstanding about this.
That high pitched noise from the television set is probably from the horizontal sweep section, which runs at about 15,750 Hz, which is near the upper limit of human hearing. Something made of metal, and probably no longer properly secured to the chassis, is expanding and contracting at that rate due to what's called magneto-striction and the expansion and contraction pushes and pulls at the surronding air, creating a sound wave.
"They are employees of the corporation that get paid by the right to listen to the music."
Employees or stockholders, either way, your problem won't be the RIAA or the MPAA, it'll be all the expense, accounting, and paperwork necessary to place a monetary value on that "pay" and figure out just which laws, rules, and regulations govern it. All of this just to pacify the IRS (and any state and municipal bodies which decide to get in on the act).
"Does my bike induce an electric current by passing through the electric fields from the power lines?"
Not so much induce as have induced in it. Your bicycle's steel frame, an electro-magnetic conductor, could have a current induced in it if it is in motion relative to a magnetic field( field stationary, bike moving, bike stationary, field moving). Because the field is expanding and collapsing at 60 cycles per second it would be in motion relative to your bike whether your bike is moving parallel to the power lines (going down the road) or not(stopped in the road), and so your bike would be acting as the secondary winding of an air core transformer and would have a current induced in it. But not much of one, because the strength of the field drops off as the square of the distance, and the bike's forward motion wouldn't make much difference in the already miniscule amount of current induced in the bike.
Well, actually, they came together because they each held patents that the others needed and that was the only way to make any money with them instead of blowing it all on lawyers suing each other. No altruism involved.
And of course once they merged they proceeded to try to screw other technology developers such as Edwin Armstrong.
Since those "graph paper doodles" need to look like something else when you shrink them down I'd say that hiring a doctor of fine arts to perform fooling of the eye was the best way to get a quality product quickly.
"There is only so much you can put on a 16x16 canvas."
I think that's kinda the point, doing so much with so little, especially considering that she was making squares look like curves. If you can create better looking icons than hers while subject to the same conditions and limitations I'm sure we'd all enjoy seeing them (ascii goatse.cx does NOT count)
"Of course if the miller was instructed to remove all metal not required, rather than just "digging a moat" around the track,..."
If you are referring to the picture at the bottom of the page, be aware that it is probably far from being the finished product. Also large areas of copper are often left on circuit boards to serve as part of the ground plane.
Does anyone out there know if there are any truly printed printed circuit boards, i.e., unclad boards upon which the traces are laid down with some sort of copper "ink"?
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Or perhaps you feel I'm making a 'guy-gantic' mistake :-)
But those companies expected to get money from the users. Google can be used for free (kinda like a certain OS they talk about 'round here). If MS starts paying people to use the MS search engine, people will just lather, rinse, repeat until MS has no cash left.
Microsoft is constitutionally incapable of doing things that way. Google gives you search results, MS wants to give you a "user experience". I've already had all the Microsoft experiences I care for.
In a real court, you wouldn't get the chance. The judge would either declare a mistrial or dismiss the charges, either with or without prejudice. Probably with.
I just assumed that Steve Jobs hasn't popped up to say "April Fool's" yet because he's still laughing too hard at what he'd put over on everybody.
How could you miss "Private iBox"?
Wrong decade. IBM didn't start designing the PC until 1980. Announced in August of '81, in stores October of "81.
Has anyone ever pointed out to that person that the term used for cycles per second (as opposed to cycles per some other length of time) is the proper name Hertz, so that 1 cycle per second is 1 Hertz, and if you need a different term for singular and plural it would actually be Hertz and Hertzes? (If you're going to be wrong you might as well be accurate about it :-)
GigaHertz, like giga-everything else, really does start with a "j" sound because it comes from the same root word as "gigantic". Back when microwave communications technicians were working those frequencies and computer people relied on ferrite beads strung on wires for memory there wasn't the present misunderstanding about this.
But is that to the power of six four decimal or six four hex?
Please be precise enough to use "zero" when pronouncing "0".
"Decimal: 4729 - Four thousand seven hundred and twenty nine"
There is no "and" in "4729".
That high pitched noise from the television set is probably from the horizontal sweep section, which runs at about 15,750 Hz, which is near the upper limit of human hearing. Something made of metal, and probably no longer properly secured to the chassis, is expanding and contracting at that rate due to what's called magneto-striction and the expansion and contraction pushes and pulls at the surronding air, creating a sound wave.
Employees or stockholders, either way, your problem won't be the RIAA or the MPAA, it'll be all the expense, accounting, and paperwork necessary to place a monetary value on that "pay" and figure out just which laws, rules, and regulations govern it. All of this just to pacify the IRS (and any state and municipal bodies which decide to get in on the act).
Are you the owner of the vehicle which you are driving or a someone hired to drive it?
Or did you mean the idiot next to you at the stop light with a subwoofer where his spare tire ought to be?
If it's in Argentina, wouldn't that be Gaucho Neal?
Not so much induce as have induced in it. Your bicycle's steel frame, an electro-magnetic conductor, could have a current induced in it if it is in motion relative to a magnetic field( field stationary, bike moving, bike stationary, field moving). Because the field is expanding and collapsing at 60 cycles per second it would be in motion relative to your bike whether your bike is moving parallel to the power lines (going down the road) or not(stopped in the road), and so your bike would be acting as the secondary winding of an air core transformer and would have a current induced in it. But not much of one, because the strength of the field drops off as the square of the distance, and the bike's forward motion wouldn't make much difference in the already miniscule amount of current induced in the bike.
As far as I know it's my own original observation that in the case of the pun the misfortune involved is that of the audience.
Enough about the evil bit, where are the "naughty bits"?
If the musicians give you any 'feedback', just get out the pliers and tweak their knobs.
So in the interest of achieving a balancing number of useless responses it was also submitted to Ask Slashdot.
And of course once they merged they proceeded to try to screw other technology developers such as Edwin Armstrong.
Since those "graph paper doodles" need to look like something else when you shrink them down I'd say that hiring a doctor of fine arts to perform fooling of the eye was the best way to get a quality product quickly.
I think that's kinda the point, doing so much with so little, especially considering that she was making squares look like curves. If you can create better looking icons than hers while subject to the same conditions and limitations I'm sure we'd all enjoy seeing them (ascii goatse.cx does NOT count)
If you are referring to the picture at the bottom of the page, be aware that it is probably far from being the finished product. Also large areas of copper are often left on circuit boards to serve as part of the ground plane.
Does anyone out there know if there are any truly printed printed circuit boards, i.e., unclad boards upon which the traces are laid down with some sort of copper "ink"?
So if a telemarketer keeps their number from showing up on your CallerID screen you can have them arrested as a terrorist. Cool.