And of course if the device/service can tell speed, it can tell position, how long at each stop, etc., and it need not be limited to teenagers, as this article describes: http://boortz.com/nuze/200306/06092003.html
Another thing Neal Boortz has done (it may have been a couple years ago, I haven't heard about it lately) was help write and get a bill introduced into the Georgia legislature that (recalling only generally the gist of the bill) any crime commited by a teenager driving a car that results in someone's death, that teen cannot be tried as a juvenile, but must be tried as an adult. If a teen wants the adult privelege of driving a car, he or she most take the adult respolsibilities as well. There has been at least one teen vehicular homicide case where the teen was being tried as a juvenile.
Boortz has also been in favor of raising the minimum age to get a driver's license, due to the high rate of deaths among teenage drivers (see from the article under the the "related stories and links" section, Teen Driving Death Rate Soaring, and has often criticized parents of teens for buying them cars.
Other(s) commented on the ease of getting a driver's license in the USA. I've heard how some other (European) countries have much stricter driving tests, costing (the US equivalent of) hundreds of dollars, and taking hours (not counting the time standing in line, historically one of the biggest parts of getting a US license), much of which is driving on real roads in real, stressful situations such as rush hour traffic on freeways.
Is there talk about strengthening what it takes to get a driver's license in the US? Not that I've heard, in fact I've heard just the opposite, that some in California want to give licenses to illegal aliens.
For a longer and healthy, injury-free life, one's best bet is to stay off the public roads. Meanwhile, lobby to demand higher standards among the driving population.
I was kind of suprised that the consumer products company got to keep the HP name, and they renamed the instrument company.
I agree, it's especially disappointing, since HP made its good reputation in its original product line of test equipment (and perhaps a few other notable places such as handheld calculators), but not really surprising from a marketing point of view. The larger public got to know HP from its printers, and it would have been more of a marketing problem to have to "throw away" the brand name of such a popular product line.
I still use a lot of Agilent stuff, and still often call it HP out of habit.
In the electronics industry I have a hard time keeping track of what company does what anymore. Just for Motorola as an example, they spun off their non-microprocessor parts to On Semi, and now their processors are made by Freescale (this is the death of a legacy, I can still recall the Motorola 6800 architechture from college circa 1977). This has happened with many companies over the decades, but it seems to be accelerating.
Or maybe I'm just getting old...
This site concentrates on the technical recording and reproduction quality of the cards, but it seems to me that the (audio-wise) higher quality cards also have better drivers and customer support.
I dunno specifically what "work" you use these for, but regardless of what it is, I'd recommend any "semi-pro" card (staring around $150) over any consumer card, for almost ANY "work" or business application where spending a little more money from the start can be justified. (if you're using it for non-audio purposes, I strongly recommend a real data aquisition card instead) Such cards usually don't have features you won't use or wouldn't want to use on the soundcard anyway (cheap onboard mic preamp, MIDI interface, music synthesis/soundfont playback), and any such features would generally be better off as external (good quality balanced mic into a separete balanced-input mic preamp, then into the line-input of the card) anyway.
I ended up using a "semi-pro" card for recording LP's, because every off-the-shelf soundcard I used had some sort of low-level tone or noises audible even over the crackles, pops and clicks of LP's.
Even more ridiculous, there's no such thing as an "RMS watt." This was an invention of home stereo industry watchdogs in the 1970's in an attempt to standardize audio amplifier ratings, when various outrageously-overinflated "peak instantaneous" power ratings were (and often still are) used in ads. The idea was good, but the use of the term "watts RMS" makes every knowledgable EE cringe. It's a bastardization of other units used in Electrical Engineering: RMS voltage multiplied by RMS current gives AVERAGE power. The RMS voltage (or current) is the DC voltage (or current) required to make a resistor give off the same heat (power) as the AC voltage (or current) in question across (or through) that resistor.
Even though it can be mathematically calculated, there is no technical use or application for RMS power: this term ONLY shows up in consumer audio amplifier power ratings.
Products of the audio industry has always been ripe for BS, as they are a blind item, where the majority of buyers have virtually no technical knowledge.
Many people customize their resume to be specific to a job they are trying to get. How is that any different.
It depends on how much "customization" is done. Much such customization involves moving info around so the experience the company is looking for is the most prominent and is at the top of the resume.
On the other hand, if the applicant knows the hiring manager is a graduate of Auburn, ane he changes his resume to say he graduated from Auburn when he didn't (presuming he actually got a degree somewhere else, or worse, has no degree at all), then there's something wrong with it.
But even in the case where there's "nothing wrong with it", it doesn't quite compare with these "Bake offs" where the raw ingredients are performance data"
The Christian Science Monitor... certainly are not exclusively devoted to Christian Science, and indeed often have articles of good value on many aspects of the world, society, technology and life in general.
This jibes with what little I've known about it/them in the past decades, that the CSM is a respected news outlet.
I can understand a concern about the CSM's reporting on medicine, since, as another poster (apparently poor-karma tallbill) alluded to, Christian Scientist believe that one only needs the mind and faith to heal illness or medical conditions, and that submitting to modern medical services represents a lack of faith, thus some Christian Science believers and believers' children die who would be saved by going to any doctor or hospital (Christian Scientists believe such deaths are from a lack of faith, not a lack of appropriate medical care).
The real question here is whether and how much the CSM has an editorial slant dictated or influenced by Christian Science beliefs. In the case of the fusion article, it's hard to see how such a slant would change the article.
That is a page from the Religious Movements Homepage, which I've found to be a remarkably unbiased source of info on virtually all religious organizations (with a broad interpretation of what's religious):
Thank God (and any other related deities) this isn't actual traffic code. This little sequence apparently presumes direction 1 is red and direction 2 is green, and then changes them: light.green(1); light.red(2);
makes direction 1 green (thus BOTH diretions are green at the same time) before setting direction 2 to red. This gives new meaning to both gridlock and deadlock.
If there are many such stories on wikinews they might get sued by theonion, but seriously, I can imagine a few low-key satiric or urban-legend type stories sneaking by and hanging around for a while.
Oh, if you're going to Canada, you'll need to know this:
The ability to reverse aging or the ability to colonize other planets?
While that's a good point, people will continue to do research on what they find interesting as well as what pays money. I suspect space and/or interplanetart colonization would end up being more expensive, so we may well reverse, stop, or almost surely slow down aging before there are significant numbers of people in space.
If you're strongly for space colonization, look at it this way: overpopulation will cause a push for solutions, of which space colonination will be considered... uh... pie in the sky. Never mind.
Wait! You just said that folks at Oak Ridge have repeated experiements "which resulted in a nuclear reaction taking place."
This may be true (not just that he said it, but that they did it), but I would NOT call what they did "cold fusion."
Now you're saying you don't know if cold fusion is real. Which is it? If there's a repeatable experiment, then it's real.
The Oak Ridge claim is of a device that creates very high temperature in a very small space for a very small amount of time, but perhaps enough to support some form of "traditional" hot fusion. It may superficially resemble the "cold fusion" experiment in that they both use a flask of water on a lab bench, but they are very different. Cold fusion claims that fusion can happen at or near room temperature, the Oak Ridge experment does not. Here's the link (for the third time in this discussion, and only the second time by me):
what good is the technology when the power output difference is so small that they have to come up with better hardware to even measure the difference?
Then they can get more funding for research to make it more efficient and put out substantially more power than put into it, finally leading to economically viable energy generation by cold fusion.
Just like the "hot fusion" researchers have been doing for the last five decades. There are BILLIONS of dollars of research money at stake!
and no, it isn't just taking place in people's basements. folks at Oak Ridge and the russian academy of science have both repeated experiments involving ultrasound...
I first read about this (sonoluminescence - putting ultrasound into specially prepared water in a spherical beaker causes a small bubble in it to emit light) in the February, 1995 issue of Scientific American. In the column The Amateur Scientist, it tells how to do it. It is quite an interesting phenomenon with no good explanation of what causes it. It had been known decades earlier, but only recently had a method been developed to consistently generate it.
In the last year or two I read an online science article that speculates the light is caused by the bubble becoming so highly compressed and reaching such a high temperature (apparently during the peaks of the ultrasonic wave - the frequency is tuned to the resonant frequency of the beaker, which then focuses all the acoustic energy into a point in the center) that for a brief moment nuclear reactions take place. But last I read this is yet to be verified.
After writing the above (I'd rather just correct it than rewrite it) I did some online research: Nuclear reactions are NOT suspected as the source of light, but it is believed that the setups to make sonoluminescence can momentarily achieve the temperature (a million degrees) and pressure required for fusion.
there's cost e.g. in lost revenue, but really, they just blast them off using the remaining fuel to a higher orbit.. so that is not too expensive to do. Not much else is done with them, they are just moved out of the geo[syncrhonous|stationary] orbit slots to eventually disentigrate on reentry when their orbit gets too out of whack.
Hold on, if they send it to a HIGHER orbit, how does it ever get to re-entry? If I understand correctly, such high (geo, 22,000 miles high) orbits are 'stable' (at least don't deteriorate into lower orbits) for years, decades, or longer, unlke LEO (within a few hundred miles of the Earth's sutface) where thin atmopheric drag eventually deteriorates an orbit.
Your message implies not just that all these various things are true, but also that they are related, and there's a person or group behind them, orchestrating them. That's what I mean by conspiracy theory.
Grissom'll be analysing forensic evidense when suddenly he'll look at the camera and say "i love bugs,
At this point I though this was going to be a Volkswagen Beetle product placement.
but that doesn't mean i like getting bitten by them. get raid!".
TV programs considered less "valuable" than movies
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Frankly I'm amazed that movies caught on before TV since there's so much more TV, and they tend to be smaller files than movies.
As the subject says... TV programs have traditionally been "free" over the airwaves. Cable has changed that only slightly - you pay a monthly fee, but other than PPV, any incremental TV watching you do is "free" (or it seems that way - it's like an all-you-can-eat buffet diner, encouraging you to consume as much as you can to get your money's worth). To see a movie you have to pay to enter a cinema or pay to rent/buy the tape or DVD. So pirating a movie gives you the idea that you're getting 'something for nothing' whereas with pirating TV you're getting 'nothing for nothing' (and not just Seinfeld).
In a way, it makes movies more 'respected' as IP than TV, as evidenced by comments here that "it came over the airwaves to my TV, why can't I download it?" I don't see as much justification for copying movies.
The answer to that question is the increasing reach of The Long Arm Of Copyright Law (that got even longer thanks to Mickey Mouse), which states that the creator of an artistic work as all rights to how that work may be copied and disseminated. Many think it ain't right, and many are just ignoring it or are just plain ignorant of it altogether. But it's the law, and whether it's right or wrong, until the law is changed (not likely in my lifetime), the people who do this (UL or DL unauthorized copies of TV or movies) are breaking the law.
Any evidence for this conspiracy theory?
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Advertising is only the surface of the mind-control....
... making people slow, tired and STUPID.
... making people slow, tired and STUPID.
... making people slow, tired and STUPID.
... making people slow, tired and STUPID.
... you are slow, tired and STUPID.
Okay, maybe it sounds plausible, but as my subject says, do you have any evidence for this conspiracy theory?
Oh, yeah, right, they're suppressing the evidence too.
and from looking at TFP, it looks easy enough to do those "coil" layouts on a regular printed circuit board. TFAseems to have given away the rest: Use a rare-earth magnet encased in titanium for strength at the very high RPM's generated by a dental drill.
That soldering job (the six wires coming off the board) looks horrible. My worst SMT soldering looks better than that.
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And of course if the device/service can tell speed, it can tell position, how long at each stop, etc., and it need not be limited to teenagers, as this article describes:
http://boortz.com/nuze/200306/06092003.html
Another thing Neal Boortz has done (it may have been a couple years ago, I haven't heard about it lately) was help write and get a bill introduced into the Georgia legislature that (recalling only generally the gist of the bill) any crime commited by a teenager driving a car that results in someone's death, that teen cannot be tried as a juvenile, but must be tried as an adult. If a teen wants the adult privelege of driving a car, he or she most take the adult respolsibilities as well. There has been at least one teen vehicular homicide case where the teen was being tried as a juvenile.
Boortz has also been in favor of raising the minimum age to get a driver's license, due to the high rate of deaths among teenage drivers (see from the article under the the "related stories and links" section, Teen Driving Death Rate Soaring, and has often criticized parents of teens for buying them cars.
Other(s) commented on the ease of getting a driver's license in the USA. I've heard how some other (European) countries have much stricter driving tests, costing (the US equivalent of) hundreds of dollars, and taking hours (not counting the time standing in line, historically one of the biggest parts of getting a US license), much of which is driving on real roads in real, stressful situations such as rush hour traffic on freeways.
Is there talk about strengthening what it takes to get a driver's license in the US? Not that I've heard, in fact I've heard just the opposite, that some in California want to give licenses to illegal aliens.
For a longer and healthy, injury-free life, one's best bet is to stay off the public roads. Meanwhile, lobby to demand higher standards among the driving population.
I was kind of suprised that the consumer products company got to keep the HP name, and they renamed the instrument company.
I agree, it's especially disappointing, since HP made its good reputation in its original product line of test equipment (and perhaps a few other notable places such as handheld calculators), but not really surprising from a marketing point of view. The larger public got to know HP from its printers, and it would have been more of a marketing problem to have to "throw away" the brand name of such a popular product line.
I still use a lot of Agilent stuff, and still often call it HP out of habit.
In the electronics industry I have a hard time keeping track of what company does what anymore. Just for Motorola as an example, they spun off their non-microprocessor parts to On Semi, and now their processors are made by Freescale (this is the death of a legacy, I can still recall the Motorola 6800 architechture from college circa 1977). This has happened with many companies over the decades, but it seems to be accelerating.
Or maybe I'm just getting old...
For soundcard and related reviews that are a lot less biased than the magazine reviews, there's this site run by a virtual aquaintance from Usenet:
http://pcavtech.com/
This site concentrates on the technical recording and reproduction quality of the cards, but it seems to me that the (audio-wise) higher quality cards also have better drivers and customer support.
I dunno specifically what "work" you use these for, but regardless of what it is, I'd recommend any "semi-pro" card (staring around $150) over any consumer card, for almost ANY "work" or business application where spending a little more money from the start can be justified. (if you're using it for non-audio purposes, I strongly recommend a real data aquisition card instead) Such cards usually don't have features you won't use or wouldn't want to use on the soundcard anyway (cheap onboard mic preamp, MIDI interface, music synthesis/soundfont playback), and any such features would generally be better off as external (good quality balanced mic into a separete balanced-input mic preamp, then into the line-input of the card) anyway.
I ended up using a "semi-pro" card for recording LP's, because every off-the-shelf soundcard I used had some sort of low-level tone or noises audible even over the crackles, pops and clicks of LP's.
"... PMPO 120 Watts (10W RMS, 1ms @ KHz)"
Even more ridiculous, there's no such thing as an "RMS watt." This was an invention of home stereo industry watchdogs in the 1970's in an attempt to standardize audio amplifier ratings, when various outrageously-overinflated "peak instantaneous" power ratings were (and often still are) used in ads. The idea was good, but the use of the term "watts RMS" makes every knowledgable EE cringe. It's a bastardization of other units used in Electrical Engineering: RMS voltage multiplied by RMS current gives AVERAGE power. The RMS voltage (or current) is the DC voltage (or current) required to make a resistor give off the same heat (power) as the AC voltage (or current) in question across (or through) that resistor.
Even though it can be mathematically calculated, there is no technical use or application for RMS power: this term ONLY shows up in consumer audio amplifier power ratings.
Products of the audio industry has always been ripe for BS, as they are a blind item, where the majority of buyers have virtually no technical knowledge.
Is it where you cook the test data???
Many people customize their resume to be specific to a job they are trying to get. How is that any different.
It depends on how much "customization" is done. Much such customization involves moving info around so the experience the company is looking for is the most prominent and is at the top of the resume.
On the other hand, if the applicant knows the hiring manager is a graduate of Auburn, ane he changes his resume to say he graduated from Auburn when he didn't (presuming he actually got a degree somewhere else, or worse, has no degree at all), then there's something wrong with it.
But even in the case where there's "nothing wrong with it", it doesn't quite compare with these "Bake offs" where the raw ingredients are performance data"
The Christian Science Monitor ... certainly are not exclusively devoted to Christian Science, and indeed often have articles of good value on many aspects of the world, society, technology and life in general.
h rissci.html
This jibes with what little I've known about it/them in the past decades, that the CSM is a respected news outlet.
I can understand a concern about the CSM's reporting on medicine, since, as another poster (apparently poor-karma tallbill) alluded to, Christian Scientist believe that one only needs the mind and faith to heal illness or medical conditions, and that submitting to modern medical services represents a lack of faith, thus some Christian Science believers and believers' children die who would be saved by going to any doctor or hospital (Christian Scientists believe such deaths are from a lack of faith, not a lack of appropriate medical care).
The real question here is whether and how much the CSM has an editorial slant dictated or influenced by Christian Science beliefs. In the case of the fusion article, it's hard to see how such a slant would change the article.
For more on Christian Science and the Christian Science Monitor:
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/c
That is a page from the Religious Movements Homepage, which I've found to be a remarkably unbiased source of info on virtually all religious organizations (with a broad interpretation of what's religious):
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/
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Thank God (and any other related deities) this isn't actual traffic code. This little sequence apparently presumes direction 1 is red and direction 2 is green, and then changes them:
light.green(1);
light.red(2);
makes direction 1 green (thus BOTH diretions are green at the same time) before setting direction 2 to red. This gives new meaning to both gridlock and deadlock.
such as this one (click any for the "story"):
T =PERSONALITIES = 456969 - sending-back-bush-dodgers.html
http://www.cattletoday.com/forum/about8716.html
http://www.kgoam810.com/viewentry.asp?ID=320060&P
http://www.islam.com/reply.asp?id=456969&ct=15&mn
http://kerryblog.blogspot.com/2004/11/canada-busy
If there are many such stories on wikinews they might get sued by theonion, but seriously, I can imagine a few low-key satiric or urban-legend type stories sneaking by and hanging around for a while.
Oh, if you're going to Canada, you'll need to know this:
http://www.welkshow.com/floren.html
The ability to reverse aging or the ability to colonize other planets?
... uh ... pie in the sky. Never mind.
While that's a good point, people will continue to do research on what they find interesting as well as what pays money. I suspect space and/or interplanetart colonization would end up being more expensive, so we may well reverse, stop, or almost surely slow down aging before there are significant numbers of people in space.
If you're strongly for space colonization, look at it this way: overpopulation will cause a push for solutions, of which space colonination will be considered
Wait! You just said that folks at Oak Ridge have repeated experiements "which resulted in a nuclear reaction taking place."
This may be true (not just that he said it, but that they did it), but I would NOT call what they did "cold fusion."
Now you're saying you don't know if cold fusion is real. Which is it? If there's a repeatable experiment, then it's real.
The Oak Ridge claim is of a device that creates very high temperature in a very small space for a very small amount of time, but perhaps enough to support some form of "traditional" hot fusion. It may superficially resemble the "cold fusion" experiment in that they both use a flask of water on a lab bench, but they are very different. Cold fusion claims that fusion can happen at or near room temperature, the Oak Ridge experment does not. Here's the link (for the third time in this discussion, and only the second time by me):
http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/15/4/8
If there's not, then we continue our long twenty year wait of skepticism...
Of course Pons covered it up and cold fusion went from foolishness to fraud.
I've wondered if Pons and/or Fleischman, before their infamous press conference, had made any significant investments in palladium.
what good is the technology when the power output difference is so small that they have to come up with better hardware to even measure the difference?
Then they can get more funding for research to make it more efficient and put out substantially more power than put into it, finally leading to economically viable energy generation by cold fusion.
Just like the "hot fusion" researchers have been doing for the last five decades. There are BILLIONS of dollars of research money at stake!
and no, it isn't just taking place in people's basements. folks at Oak Ridge and the russian academy of science have both repeated experiments involving ultrasound ...
I first read about this (sonoluminescence - putting ultrasound into specially prepared water in a spherical beaker causes a small bubble in it to emit light) in the February, 1995 issue of Scientific American. In the column The Amateur Scientist, it tells how to do it. It is quite an interesting phenomenon with no good explanation of what causes it. It had been known decades earlier, but only recently had a method been developed to consistently generate it.
In the last year or two I read an online science article that speculates the light is caused by the bubble becoming so highly compressed and reaching such a high temperature (apparently during the peaks of the ultrasonic wave - the frequency is tuned to the resonant frequency of the beaker, which then focuses all the acoustic energy into a point in the center) that for a brief moment nuclear reactions take place. But last I read this is yet to be verified.
After writing the above (I'd rather just correct it than rewrite it) I did some online research: Nuclear reactions are NOT suspected as the source of light, but it is believed that the setups to make sonoluminescence can momentarily achieve the temperature (a million degrees) and pressure required for fusion.
Here are two relevant links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoluminescence Wiki article on Sonoluminescence
http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/15/4/8 "Bubble Fusion" claim at Oak Ridge
It's nothing like the Pons and Fleischmann style cold fusion and has NO relation to it.
Who cares about game show? I sure don't.
Okay, I haven't watched it often over the decade(s) it's been on, but it's just about the only sign of intelligent life on Television.
... for those who abuse this database.
... I can't find Flaws #0 through #9
there's cost e.g. in lost revenue, but really, they just blast them off using the remaining fuel to a higher orbit.. so that is not too expensive to do. Not much else is done with them, they are just moved out of the geo[syncrhonous|stationary] orbit slots to eventually disentigrate on reentry when their orbit gets too out of whack.
Hold on, if they send it to a HIGHER orbit, how does it ever get to re-entry? If I understand correctly, such high (geo, 22,000 miles high) orbits are 'stable' (at least don't deteriorate into lower orbits) for years, decades, or longer, unlke LEO (within a few hundred miles of the Earth's sutface) where thin atmopheric drag eventually deteriorates an orbit.
Your message implies not just that all these various things are true, but also that they are related, and there's a person or group behind them, orchestrating them. That's what I mean by conspiracy theory.
As described at this link:
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http://c64upgra.de/c-one/s_specs.htm
I recall the SID chip, it was the most powerful music/sound generator chip (built into a microconputer) at the time. Here's my story on it:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=
Grissom'll be analysing forensic evidense when suddenly he'll look at the camera and say "i love bugs,
At this point I though this was going to be a Volkswagen Beetle product placement.
but that doesn't mean i like getting bitten by them. get raid!".
From the /. story blurb:
Frankly I'm amazed that movies caught on before TV since there's so much more TV, and they tend to be smaller files than movies.
As the subject says... TV programs have traditionally been "free" over the airwaves. Cable has changed that only slightly - you pay a monthly fee, but other than PPV, any incremental TV watching you do is "free" (or it seems that way - it's like an all-you-can-eat buffet diner, encouraging you to consume as much as you can to get your money's worth). To see a movie you have to pay to enter a cinema or pay to rent/buy the tape or DVD. So pirating a movie gives you the idea that you're getting 'something for nothing' whereas with pirating TV you're getting 'nothing for nothing' (and not just Seinfeld).
In a way, it makes movies more 'respected' as IP than TV, as evidenced by comments here that "it came over the airwaves to my TV, why can't I download it?" I don't see as much justification for copying movies.
The answer to that question is the increasing reach of The Long Arm Of Copyright Law (that got even longer thanks to Mickey Mouse), which states that the creator of an artistic work as all rights to how that work may be copied and disseminated. Many think it ain't right, and many are just ignoring it or are just plain ignorant of it altogether. But it's the law, and whether it's right or wrong, until the law is changed (not likely in my lifetime), the people who do this (UL or DL unauthorized copies of TV or movies) are breaking the law.
Okay, maybe it sounds plausible, but as my subject says, do you have any evidence for this conspiracy theory?
Oh, yeah, right, they're suppressing the evidence too.
and from looking at TFP, it looks easy enough to do those "coil" layouts on a regular printed circuit board. TFAseems to have given away the rest: Use a rare-earth magnet encased in titanium for strength at the very high RPM's generated by a dental drill.
That soldering job (the six wires coming off the board) looks horrible. My worst SMT soldering looks better than that.