How about the verdict? Is that a good aspect to think is incorrect?
So you think the verdict is incorrect, because you think the verdict is incorrect. There's a word for this kind of logic but it's escaping me right now...
So are you saying that the judge should have just disregarded the law and based his decision on what he thinks people would want? I think that's a great idea. Every case should be decided that way. Hey, why do we even need written laws in the first place? Damn politicians.
When did I say they were incapable of error? It was a short post and I can't find that statement or implication anywhere.
Let me phrase my post another way: What particular aspect(s) of the judge's decision do you think were incorrect? Feel free to be as specific as you like about his arguments, facts, etc.
Have any of you guys been able to find the decision? Because I haven't.
I love how a judge can spend hours or days poring over law and evidence, in addition to a lifetime of legal study and service, only to have people read two sentences in a Yahoo news article and declare him wrong without a doubt.
why is it that with this generation's phones, I can record a simple clip to voice-activate dialing a particular number, but i can't enter a voice-activated dialing mode where i speak the numbers to the phone? (eg. "dial: 8, 6, 7, 5, 3, 0, 9" )
Newer Samsung phones let you dial like this. My brother's does it and it works just fine.
It _is_ pretty scary to think about a paper thin ribbon of material falling on your head. It would probably get in your hair and necessitate a shower and a vigorous shampooing.
When you have hundreds of thousands of people committing crimes, and you try to stem the flow. There's going to be oddities like this, bureaucratic mixups, etc.
What the RIAA is doing may or may not be good business sense, but what were they supposed to do? Give people 10 years more notice? "C'mon, people, we're _really, really_ going to start holding you liable soon... stop downloading... we're serious..."
I guess I'm not up on the law enough to understand how putting a copyrighted piece up for the public to partake in for free, has to do with 'free association'.
Welp, the $150k number is a bit high, but nobody didn't know this was illegal.
Everybody screams when the RIAA goes after the _services_ because "they can be used for legitimate purposes", so now the RIAA goes after individuals that knowingly broke the law, and everyone acts all shocked. Uhhh, sorry, I know you weren't expecting to get caught, let me shed a tear for you.
These days, cars are so complex that to even think about servicing one, you need a Ph.D.
I hear people say this, and I wonder if they've ever even seen a modern engine.
Granted, I can't fix a broken engine computer. Luckily, engine computers are solid state devices that almost never break. Other than that, what can't you fix about a new car? You can still change water pumps, do brake pads and rotors, change clutches, replace power steering pumps, alternators, ball joints, etc, etc, etc, same things you would have done on a 60's car.
Of course, instead of rebuilding a carb, you swap out an injector, though I've never had one go bad. And instead of doing timing/replacing points/caps/etc., you do... nothing. Other than some past VW and GM design flaws, solid state electronic ignitions don't tend to go bad, being solid state.
more press than offing a bunch of morons who put rear spoilers on front-wheel-drive cars.
Side note, and this is only tangentially related to the current thread.
Rear spoilers are not there to improve tractive acceleration. No production car in the world has a problem with tractive acceleration at speeds where a spoiler is useful. Spoilers are there to keep weight on the rear wheels for lateral acceleration, which is required no matter what the drive wheels are.
In fact, most FWD cars are lighter in the rear than RWD cars so you could argue that they need more downforce to keep the rears in line in hard cornering. Of course in reality, no street sized spoiler is effective at speeds below ~100mph, but to imply that it's somehow stupider for FWD doesn't make sense.
I guess you're right in that they value profit above taking a stance, but for whatever reason they reacted to this long before there was an uproar.
I was trying to google a site that explains the issue, but the first half dozen hits were redneck sites calling for a ban on Walmart for what they did to this brave Southern patriot!
There was a fiasco here in South Carolina having to do with a certain barbecue seller and his racist, anti-semitic ways. Walmart was the FIRST retailer to stop selling his product, thus making it a news story and forcing all the other retailers in the state to do the same. They did it before it became a story, because it was the right thing to do.
Right... 194 dB is what you get when you go back and forth between 0 and 2atm. Now, if your wave is centered about a pressure greater than 1 atm, then you can achieve higher levels, thus my question about starting out with a pressurized vehicles.
I supposed you could accomplish the pressurization by running the speakers in a regime not centered about their middle position... i.e., you close the doors, then the speakers all immediately move inwards pressurizing the vehicle, then start oscillating about that point. Not sure if these vehicles are sealed well enough to make that happen, though.
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I think they're up to 177, but your point still stands... 17 more dB is a long way to go.
To clarify the first post, 194 dB is what you get when your sound pressure wave goes from atmospheric (14.7 psi) down to the lowest possible pressure (0 psi). Think about that... the speaker cones are actually fighting to pull a vacuum inside the vehicle. Not exactly something the speakers in your living room have to deal with!
You definitely wouldn't want to be sitting in there... I think your eardrums would be woggling back and forth quite a bit. Uhhh... once.
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These guys have to be starting to bump into limiting returns... the maximmum possible dB in free air is 194 IIRC. I wonder if it would be legal to pressurize the vehicle to achieve higher max dB's...
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Nothing but water and concentrated food-in-a-pill for you, eh? Wouldn't want to put anything into your body that somehow alters your mental state.
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How about the verdict? Is that a good aspect to think is incorrect?
So you think the verdict is incorrect, because you think the verdict is incorrect. There's a word for this kind of logic but it's escaping me right now...
So are you saying that the judge should have just disregarded the law and based his decision on what he thinks people would want? I think that's a great idea. Every case should be decided that way. Hey, why do we even need written laws in the first place? Damn politicians.
Gracias! I hadn't been able to find it on the court's web site anywhere.
When did I say they were incapable of error? It was a short post and I can't find that statement or implication anywhere.
Let me phrase my post another way: What particular aspect(s) of the judge's decision do you think were incorrect? Feel free to be as specific as you like about his arguments, facts, etc.
Have any of you guys been able to find the decision? Because I haven't.
I love how a judge can spend hours or days poring over law and evidence, in addition to a lifetime of legal study and service, only to have people read two sentences in a Yahoo news article and declare him wrong without a doubt.
why is it that with this generation's phones, I can record a simple clip to voice-activate dialing a particular number, but i can't enter a voice-activated dialing mode where i speak the numbers to the phone? (eg. "dial: 8, 6, 7, 5, 3, 0, 9" )
Newer Samsung phones let you dial like this. My brother's does it and it works just fine.
I agree. I think people who take this attitude are just angry because they can only eavesdrop on half the conversation.
Ahhh, the ACLU. Classic bogeyman of the bible thumping right winger.
I heard if you even say the word God out loud in public the ACLU will come and beat you about the head with large chrome Darwin fishes!
1. Invent ridiculous, incorrect hypothesis about proposed system. 2. Make fun of NASA for having such a ridiculous invention. 3. ??? 4. Profit!
It _is_ pretty scary to think about a paper thin ribbon of material falling on your head. It would probably get in your hair and necessitate a shower and a vigorous shampooing.
When you have hundreds of thousands of people committing crimes, and you try to stem the flow. There's going to be oddities like this, bureaucratic mixups, etc.
What the RIAA is doing may or may not be good business sense, but what were they supposed to do? Give people 10 years more notice? "C'mon, people, we're _really, really_ going to start holding you liable soon... stop downloading... we're serious..."
I guess I'm not up on the law enough to understand how putting a copyrighted piece up for the public to partake in for free, has to do with 'free association'.
Welp, the $150k number is a bit high, but nobody didn't know this was illegal.
Everybody screams when the RIAA goes after the _services_ because "they can be used for legitimate purposes", so now the RIAA goes after individuals that knowingly broke the law, and everyone acts all shocked. Uhhh, sorry, I know you weren't expecting to get caught, let me shed a tear for you.
These days, cars are so complex that to even think about servicing one, you need a Ph.D.
I hear people say this, and I wonder if they've ever even seen a modern engine.
Granted, I can't fix a broken engine computer. Luckily, engine computers are solid state devices that almost never break. Other than that, what can't you fix about a new car? You can still change water pumps, do brake pads and rotors, change clutches, replace power steering pumps, alternators, ball joints, etc, etc, etc, same things you would have done on a 60's car.
Of course, instead of rebuilding a carb, you swap out an injector, though I've never had one go bad. And instead of doing timing/replacing points/caps/etc., you do... nothing. Other than some past VW and GM design flaws, solid state electronic ignitions don't tend to go bad, being solid state.
The shift here is that instead of identifying the _type_ of item like a traditional bar code, these will identify the _specific item_.
That might not sound very significant but it is.
more press than offing a bunch of morons who put rear spoilers on front-wheel-drive cars.
Side note, and this is only tangentially related to the current thread.
Rear spoilers are not there to improve tractive acceleration. No production car in the world has a problem with tractive acceleration at speeds where a spoiler is useful. Spoilers are there to keep weight on the rear wheels for lateral acceleration, which is required no matter what the drive wheels are.
In fact, most FWD cars are lighter in the rear than RWD cars so you could argue that they need more downforce to keep the rears in line in hard cornering. Of course in reality, no street sized spoiler is effective at speeds below ~100mph, but to imply that it's somehow stupider for FWD doesn't make sense.
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Might not there exist alternate business models that are fair to the artist and the consumer?
One would presume that these models would involve -some- form of restriction.
I'm super uncomfortable with the idea of considering Walmart a public utility for delivery of culture... ;)
A private company choosing not to sell something is NOT censorship. My local Best Buy doesn't carry german sheisse porn either.
I guess you're right in that they value profit above taking a stance, but for whatever reason they reacted to this long before there was an uproar.
I was trying to google a site that explains the issue, but the first half dozen hits were redneck sites calling for a ban on Walmart for what they did to this brave Southern patriot!
http://www.google.com/search?q=bessinger+walmart
There was a fiasco here in South Carolina having to do with a certain barbecue seller and his racist, anti-semitic ways. Walmart was the FIRST retailer to stop selling his product, thus making it a news story and forcing all the other retailers in the state to do the same. They did it before it became a story, because it was the right thing to do.
I shop there every chance I get, now.
This is only tangentially related to your post, but a horsepower is about 750 watts, so at 100% efficiency we're talking about 173 hp.
Right... 194 dB is what you get when you go back and forth between 0 and 2atm. Now, if your wave is centered about a pressure greater than 1 atm, then you can achieve higher levels, thus my question about starting out with a pressurized vehicles.
I supposed you could accomplish the pressurization by running the speakers in a regime not centered about their middle position... i.e., you close the doors, then the speakers all immediately move inwards pressurizing the vehicle, then start oscillating about that point. Not sure if these vehicles are sealed well enough to make that happen, though.
I think they're up to 177, but your point still stands... 17 more dB is a long way to go.
To clarify the first post, 194 dB is what you get when your sound pressure wave goes from atmospheric (14.7 psi) down to the lowest possible pressure (0 psi). Think about that... the speaker cones are actually fighting to pull a vacuum inside the vehicle. Not exactly something the speakers in your living room have to deal with!
You definitely wouldn't want to be sitting in there... I think your eardrums would be woggling back and forth quite a bit. Uhhh... once.
These guys have to be starting to bump into limiting returns... the maximmum possible dB in free air is 194 IIRC. I wonder if it would be legal to pressurize the vehicle to achieve higher max dB's...