"...our brains can distinguish an organ and harmonica playing middle C from a soprano singing the same note..."
If you had a magic filter that blocked every frequency above and below middle C and only passed middle C, then middle C would sound the same no matter what the source. It's the other frequencies, their "ratio of vibrations per time interval" relation to the fundamental freqency, and their relative amplitudes, as well as differences in attack and decay, which vary from source to source and give each its own "sound". Read up on timbre, harmonics, and overtones.
I didn't say that they travel at the speed of light, i.e., "c", how fast light travels in a vacuum, I said at the same rate light travels through the same atmosphere as those other, different frequency EM radiations which may be higher or lower in frequency than visible light. Even if different frequencies of EM travel though the same medium at diferent rates I'm sure that a graph of speed versus frequency, for any given medium, is a slope, not an otherwise straight line with a hump right where the frequencies to which our eyes are sensitive are.
The big point here is that light is a subset of "radio waves", radio waves being just another name for electromagnetic radiation.
As far as I know the clear channels are still on the same freqs and still operating at 50k, but you can't pick them up like before because AM radios are such junk now and there's so much more stuff going on in the electromagnetic spectrum than there was 40 years ago that the noise floor is much, much higher.
--WBZ--you're bringing back some old memories--Bruce Bradley and "mogody", Dick Summer and the nightlight show--and when they faded there was WNBC, WOWO, 3WE, Knoxville, and others that would play one or two good songs and then fade before you ever found out who they were.
If they're defining the markup as "added value" then we're already deep into Orwell country even before we get to the part about being fined and taxed to compensate the victims of a crime of which you haven't been convicted by due process of law and of which you haven't been given any chance to prove your innocence.
The rules for your hard line, often referred to as a land line, may not all that similar.
A cell phone is, and is intended to be, a radio transmitter and receiver, and it was probably simpler to just extend the existing rules and regulations governing transmitters and receivers instead of writing up a special batch just for cell phones. It has to do with using airwaves (electromagnetic spectrum) that are administered by the FCC acting as stewards for the public, whose property that spectrum is, and with the inescapability that there is no way to guarantee that your transmission might not be picked up by someone other than who you intended and that the unintended receipients are entitled to a reasonable expectation of not being offended over airwaves of which they are just as much the owner as are you. There are also rules about not making use of or passing on to others anything you hear in a transmission of which you weren't the intended receipient.
The classic model of a telephone communication system (a land line)does not involve use of the airwaves or anyone except the intended receipient of the communication being in receipt of the communication, so there's no obligation to unauthorized receipients to respect their tender sensibilities. Of course the fact that telephone wires traverse public lands and could radiate at unacceptable levels if not properly installed and maintained gives various governments a certain amount of leverage over their use.
Before you do practically anything else (you might shower and dress respectably first), you need the advice and counsel of someone who knows what the law is, not people who think they might have an idea what it is. You need the advice and counsel of someone who knows what the law is and whose only obligation is to look out for your best interests. Show them any contract and other paperwork you have related to your position. Find out exactly what your obligations and vulnerabilities are. Get their opinion on going to the media anonymously or otherwise.
Did I mention that you're already running late on finding a damn good lawyer to keep the powers that be from throwing you to the wolves and labeling you a terrorist hacker?
Without a good lawyer you're currently swimming with the sharks whilst wearing a raw steak bathing suit.
"What about the other rule changes God made when he wrote the Mormom book? Did he re instate any of the old rules?"
You mean besides that multiple wives thing? Oh, wait. The Mormons who wanted the benefits of statehood decided that He really didn't mean it after all.
That's like saying I make it a point to avoid people who are desperate to give me large amounts of money absolutely free. Who needs a solution for a non-existant problem?
That no karma bonus checkbox in the preferences must be a somewhat recent addition. It didn't used to be there and no one bothered to inform me when it was added. I still say the page you use to submit comments should have a checkbox for adding the bonus point on a case by case basis instead of the present system where the addition of the point is by default unless the poster de-selects it each time.
For quite a while I checked the box each time to prevent the addition of the extra point, except for the few times when I forgot. That's how I discovered that I was more likely to be modded down (usually in ways that indicated an apparent agenda or lack of understanding on the part of the moderator) if I posted at +1 than if I posted at +2. I don't understand why the extra point makes me less of a target instead of more of one, but then there are many things that go on here that don't make sense.
"Why was this post modded "overrated" before it had been rated?"
It was rated. The poster didn't turn off his (her) +1 good karma bonus point, thereby expressing his (her) opinion that his (her) post deserved to be rated at +2 right out of the gate. (Of course this is probably really because you have to opt out of the extra point manually each time you think it unjustified instead of going to the trouble of adding it if you think it justified.)
If your cable company undertakes to provide the signal from your local television broadcasts with the commercials removed, or to provide the viewer with any assistance in removing or skipping the commercials, your cable company will be looking at spending the next 100 years fighting lawsuits and possibly criminal charges. The National Association of Broadcasters has just as much political clout as the cable companies.
I think this is going to be aimed not at AOL internet service subscribers but at AOL Time Warner's Time-Warner cable television subscribers. TW cable is running ads right now with video of flying pigs and a voiceover that says "What if your cable company were hard at work right now to change the way you watch television forever?". And I'm sure they are, changing it so that you have to submit a credit card number and thumbprint or retina scan before you get to watch anything, and you can be sure that your viewing experience will include some very targeted advertising once they know exactly which member of the household watches exactly what exactly when.
I've got an Abit BX6 that was working just fine a month before it suddenly started dying earlier and earlier in the boot process until it wouldn't boot at all. I've got a Soyo BX board I bought used that seemed to work fine when I first got it and was dead as a doornail a day later. Just because something was working is no guarantee that it still is working. The best way to screw yourself over when troubleshooting is to make assumptions.
You could try temporarily swapping that RAM to another board and other RAM to that board and see if the problem migrates or not, but under the circumstances I wouldn't be surprised if the real problem was a mobo with capacitor disease, although it seems more common in BX or psuedoBX boards.
Let them (the right wingers--or the left wingers for that matter) get that pesky ol' Constitution and Bill of Rights out of the way, and then see if you still feel the same way.
If not converted to visible light, then perhaps mechanical vibration or electromagnetic radiation at frequencies in some part of the spectrum other than the infrared are a couple of things that come to mind. Maybe it gets converted into matter. I don't know (it's been 25 years since I read anything on why LEDs do what they do), that's why I asked.
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If you had a magic filter that blocked every frequency above and below middle C and only passed middle C, then middle C would sound the same no matter what the source. It's the other frequencies, their "ratio of vibrations per time interval" relation to the fundamental freqency, and their relative amplitudes, as well as differences in attack and decay, which vary from source to source and give each its own "sound". Read up on timbre, harmonics, and overtones.
The big point here is that light is a subset of "radio waves", radio waves being just another name for electromagnetic radiation.
Funny, I was wondering when Jon Katz became such a gun nut :-)
Anyone remember Fibber McGee?
--WBZ--you're bringing back some old memories--Bruce Bradley and "mogody", Dick Summer and the nightlight show--and when they faded there was WNBC, WOWO, 3WE, Knoxville, and others that would play one or two good songs and then fade before you ever found out who they were.
Uh, same rate at which light does? Light being EM within a particular frequency band.
If they're defining the markup as "added value" then we're already deep into Orwell country even before we get to the part about being fined and taxed to compensate the victims of a crime of which you haven't been convicted by due process of law and of which you haven't been given any chance to prove your innocence.
No, they wait until you go to buy insurance for that car and then they make you pay for "uninsured motorists coverage".
Is an additional $450 per student per year not enough to finance a migration away from not all proprietary software but just from MS?
Wow, credible and fraudulent. Now there's a combination you don't see every day.
Do you really want to give a spammer a guaranteed good mailing address?
A cell phone is, and is intended to be, a radio transmitter and receiver, and it was probably simpler to just extend the existing rules and regulations governing transmitters and receivers instead of writing up a special batch just for cell phones. It has to do with using airwaves (electromagnetic spectrum) that are administered by the FCC acting as stewards for the public, whose property that spectrum is, and with the inescapability that there is no way to guarantee that your transmission might not be picked up by someone other than who you intended and that the unintended receipients are entitled to a reasonable expectation of not being offended over airwaves of which they are just as much the owner as are you. There are also rules about not making use of or passing on to others anything you hear in a transmission of which you weren't the intended receipient.
The classic model of a telephone communication system (a land line)does not involve use of the airwaves or anyone except the intended receipient of the communication being in receipt of the communication, so there's no obligation to unauthorized receipients to respect their tender sensibilities. Of course the fact that telephone wires traverse public lands and could radiate at unacceptable levels if not properly installed and maintained gives various governments a certain amount of leverage over their use.
GET A LAWYER, NOW!
GET A LAWYER, NOW!
Before you do practically anything else (you might shower and dress respectably first), you need the advice and counsel of someone who knows what the law is, not people who think they might have an idea what it is. You need the advice and counsel of someone who knows what the law is and whose only obligation is to look out for your best interests. Show them any contract and other paperwork you have related to your position. Find out exactly what your obligations and vulnerabilities are. Get their opinion on going to the media anonymously or otherwise.
Did I mention that you're already running late on finding a damn good lawyer to keep the powers that be from throwing you to the wolves and labeling you a terrorist hacker?
Without a good lawyer you're currently swimming with the sharks whilst wearing a raw steak bathing suit.
You mean besides that multiple wives thing? Oh, wait. The Mormons who wanted the benefits of statehood decided that He really didn't mean it after all.
That's like saying I make it a point to avoid people who are desperate to give me large amounts of money absolutely free. Who needs a solution for a non-existant problem?
For quite a while I checked the box each time to prevent the addition of the extra point, except for the few times when I forgot. That's how I discovered that I was more likely to be modded down (usually in ways that indicated an apparent agenda or lack of understanding on the part of the moderator) if I posted at +1 than if I posted at +2. I don't understand why the extra point makes me less of a target instead of more of one, but then there are many things that go on here that don't make sense.
It was rated. The poster didn't turn off his (her) +1 good karma bonus point, thereby expressing his (her) opinion that his (her) post deserved to be rated at +2 right out of the gate. (Of course this is probably really because you have to opt out of the extra point manually each time you think it unjustified instead of going to the trouble of adding it if you think it justified.)
If your cable company undertakes to provide the signal from your local television broadcasts with the commercials removed, or to provide the viewer with any assistance in removing or skipping the commercials, your cable company will be looking at spending the next 100 years fighting lawsuits and possibly criminal charges. The National Association of Broadcasters has just as much political clout as the cable companies.
I think this is going to be aimed not at AOL internet service subscribers but at AOL Time Warner's Time-Warner cable television subscribers. TW cable is running ads right now with video of flying pigs and a voiceover that says "What if your cable company were hard at work right now to change the way you watch television forever?". And I'm sure they are, changing it so that you have to submit a credit card number and thumbprint or retina scan before you get to watch anything, and you can be sure that your viewing experience will include some very targeted advertising once they know exactly which member of the household watches exactly what exactly when.
I've got an Abit BX6 that was working just fine a month before it suddenly started dying earlier and earlier in the boot process until it wouldn't boot at all. I've got a Soyo BX board I bought used that seemed to work fine when I first got it and was dead as a doornail a day later. Just because something was working is no guarantee that it still is working. The best way to screw yourself over when troubleshooting is to make assumptions.
You could try temporarily swapping that RAM to another board and other RAM to that board and see if the problem migrates or not, but under the circumstances I wouldn't be surprised if the real problem was a mobo with capacitor disease, although it seems more common in BX or psuedoBX boards.
Sell it all and wait to see what the consumer returns.
No doubt someone will be along to mod you down any moment.
Let them (the right wingers--or the left wingers for that matter) get that pesky ol' Constitution and Bill of Rights out of the way, and then see if you still feel the same way.
If not converted to visible light, then perhaps mechanical vibration or electromagnetic radiation at frequencies in some part of the spectrum other than the infrared are a couple of things that come to mind. Maybe it gets converted into matter. I don't know (it's been 25 years since I read anything on why LEDs do what they do), that's why I asked.