There is no reason to speed in the first place, let alone do it in someone elses vehicle.
Horse hockey. There are perfectly legitimate reasons to speed, in any car. Avoiding an accident is a classic example that I had to go through, in a rental car even. (The truck I was legally passing on the freeway decided to change lanes left and push me into the center divider. I couldn't slow down fast enough to get out of it, so I stomped on the gas and shot out ahead of him. Then, I looked down and discovered I was going 90. According to YOUR rules, I should have ridden the car into the divider, destroying the rental car and risking the lives of myself and my passengers. You'll pardon me if I consider you to be full of shit.)
GPS units are subject to a technical problem that happens occasionally - the unit changes which satellites it uses to generate a position solution, the new position is different than the old one, the system jumps to the new position, and then the MPH computation shows a dramatic speed. I one time recorded a maximum speed, while WALKING, of 215 miles per hour (my Garmin 12XL records maximum speed as a separately resetable item). Given that GPS systems are subject to this kind of error, that probably makes them useless in a court of law, and that would go double for the car rental company.
This now brings up the question of dejanews archiving usenetposts. Even if they are public, a copyright automatically attaches.
This was argued extensively when DejaNews first surfaced. The resolution was that (1) Usenet posts are 'published for distribution' by intent - you wouldn't have put it into Usenet if you didn't want it distributed in a public manner; (2) Usenet distribution takes a number of forms, some of which are time-delayed (for a while there was Usenet distribution by backup tape to sites that didn't have network connectivity, for one extreme example), DejaNews is just another distribution mechanism; (3) You can exempt yourself with the X-No-Archive header; (4) your copyright still holds, you just gave Usenet permission to distribute.
Well, since the Star Trek shows were basically stories about what amounts to the 23th century military, the complaint boils down to an issue with the Navy wearing uniforms while on board the ship.
According to this article on The Register, MSN did indeed alter the article to make it a little less Microsoft-antonistic, but apparently got caught on it and altered it back.
The automotive industry has always been under direct control from the oil industry. The internal combustion engine is over 100 years old, but we have yet to find a better design?
Run a comparison of the energy density (available energy / pound) of gasoline vs. any comparible other fule, please.
Obviously there are alterior motives to staying with the current design. Ulterior motives like known technologies, new technologies don't benefit enough to make up for the enormous cost of changing over, etc.
There have been several inventors who have either disappeared or lost their life because they invented a more efficient engine.
Documentation, please.
Alternative fuels will not be utilized until the world is in a state of crisis (run out of oil, overwhelming pollution). Only in times of desperation, will true change be brought.
Probably true, but not necessarily for the reasons you cite.
Interesting, but it sounds like it has not yet been demonstrated. Stealth aircraft work by reducing the radar return back to the originating radar station (by scattering it in other directions). This is the equivalent of having a single radar station with a huge network of receiving stations, trying to receive the scattered radar pulses. It might work.
Quite easily. RIAA is an industry representation organization. It charges membership dues sufficient to pay for its expenses: office space, staff, office equipment and supplies, operational expenses (lobbying, lawyers, power, etc). It does what it does on behalf of its membership, which DOES consist of profit-making organizations. The RIAA itself is not profit-oriented.
Most companies are members of at least one such organization, even if it's only the local Chamber of Commerce. Yes, the organizations exist to help their membership make money, but the organization doesn't make money itself.
In the case mentioned in this article there isn't even an issue of free speech involved. Someone has donated work to the university and the university has decided that work is now inappropriate.
Except that the speech on the site was indeed political speech: the University is part of the state government, therefore discussions about the University, even bitch sessions, are political speech. Also note that more than political speech is protected under the first amendment.
I don't remember when, exactly, but a couple of years ago there was a huge stink: Microsoft was going to figure out a way to insert themselves into every monetary transaction that happened in the U.S. Then they would charge to provide a service to make those transactions happen. Even if they only charged something like $0.0001 per transaction, there are so many transactions per day that the resulting cash flow would be huge. Everybody railed at the thought, but since there wasn't anything immediately obvious, the issue fell off the radar.
Now, it looks like Microsoft may have figured out a way to actually do it.
Ideally, instead of voting sites up or down, why not just let everybody host their own list? Instead of "voting" for the privelege of allowing your kids to view a site, just let them. And vice versa.
The problem here is that you'd have to go to every site first, to rate it for your kid. At least with the voting mechanism, you get some indication from those who went to the sites ahead of you.
I have had intentions of getting into HAM, but I can't due to the fact my antennas would not be appreciated in my apartment complex, but an Internetwork of VHF sites allowing the un fettered broadcasting of "revolutionary" material and un-edited news.
You'd probably be better off looking elsewhere besides the ham bands for this:
Broadcasting is not allowed in the ham bands. The FCC has this annoying tendency of fining people multiple thousands of dollars for doing it.
The vast majority of your audience doesn't have equipment capable of receiving these frequencies. Try micropower FM instead.
You're just using phone lines and not using radio.
Beware the appearance of old-fart-ism. You're saying that if it can't be done with radio, it shouldn't be done. That approach has done remarkably well -- what's the average age of ham radio operators these days? 50?
You ought to change a bit, and say "If it can involve ham radio, we should do it using ham radio." Don't exclude new technologies.
Does your view of ham radio involve computers? (I used packet radio to communicate via the International Space Station the other day, on 2 meters. Still ham radio as far as I'm concerned.) Where's the dividing line? Some guys just reported working each other on the 1.2 gig band, using computers and radios running at 5 watts, via the moon. This would not have been possible without computer technology. Was it ham radio? (I know some people who claim it wasn't, for reasons which escape me.)
The point of ham radio is to try and do new and interesting things on that medium, not make cell phones.
Tell me the cell phones where you can press one button, make a random call, and talk to somebody across the country or around the world. Doesn't sound like any cell phone I know about.
What if monkeys flew out of my butt? If you can get away from the earth and test this presumption, that would be one thing.
As it turns out, this proposal is testable. The speed of light is controlled by two fundamental variables - the permissivity and permittability of free space (I think I've got these names right). These variables control other things as well, such as the binding energy between electrons and the nucleus of an atom. We can measure that binding energy by looking at atomic absorption and emission lines in spectra of far-off stars. Those lines are the same as we see on earth, therefore we conclude that the fundamental variables have the same value there as here, therefore we can conclude the speed of light is the same there as here.
Therefore we conclude the objection about a varying speed of light is bogus and can be discarded, along with all the predictions it makes.
I can feel warm air coming off the base, but most of the heatsink is below room temperature.
The only way the heatsink can be below room temperature is if there is active cooling involved. (There might well be, but I've not seen it on Orb-type heatsinks.) The reason metal feels cold is that it conducts the heat away from your skin faster than air does. Your nerves mis-read this as "cooler".
I realize this is dramatically off topic, but in the early days of portable transistor radios (early '60s - ancient history), one measure of the quality of the radio was the number of transistors used. This lasted exactly as long as it took for some sly company to start mounting dead transistors in the radio (not even bothering to connect them to the rest of the circuits), just so they could up the transistor count and therefore be counted as a "higher quality" radio.
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Horse hockey. There are perfectly legitimate reasons to speed, in any car. Avoiding an accident is a classic example that I had to go through, in a rental car even. (The truck I was legally passing on the freeway decided to change lanes left and push me into the center divider. I couldn't slow down fast enough to get out of it, so I stomped on the gas and shot out ahead of him. Then, I looked down and discovered I was going 90. According to YOUR rules, I should have ridden the car into the divider, destroying the rental car and risking the lives of myself and my passengers. You'll pardon me if I consider you to be full of shit.)
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GPS units are subject to a technical problem that happens occasionally - the unit changes which satellites it uses to generate a position solution, the new position is different than the old one, the system jumps to the new position, and then the MPH computation shows a dramatic speed. I one time recorded a maximum speed, while WALKING, of 215 miles per hour (my Garmin 12XL records maximum speed as a separately resetable item). Given that GPS systems are subject to this kind of error, that probably makes them useless in a court of law, and that would go double for the car rental company.
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Please post the evidence that leads you to this conclusion. Thanks.
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This was argued extensively when DejaNews first surfaced. The resolution was that (1) Usenet posts are 'published for distribution' by intent - you wouldn't have put it into Usenet if you didn't want it distributed in a public manner; (2) Usenet distribution takes a number of forms, some of which are time-delayed (for a while there was Usenet distribution by backup tape to sites that didn't have network connectivity, for one extreme example), DejaNews is just another distribution mechanism; (3) You can exempt yourself with the X-No-Archive header; (4) your copyright still holds, you just gave Usenet permission to distribute.
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Well, since the Star Trek shows were basically stories about what amounts to the 23th century military, the complaint boils down to an issue with the Navy wearing uniforms while on board the ship.
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"The first story to explicitly state the Three Laws was "Runaround", which appeared in the March 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction."
That's well before Robbie the Robot.
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According to this article on The Register, MSN did indeed alter the article to make it a little less Microsoft-antonistic, but apparently got caught on it and altered it back.
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The extra footage has been on the laserdisk edition for ages.
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Can't create carbon out of nothing. The only way the CO2 gets created is by the yeast consuming stuff with carbon in it.
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Run a comparison of the energy density (available energy / pound) of gasoline vs. any comparible other fule, please.
Obviously there are alterior motives to staying with the current design. Ulterior motives like known technologies, new technologies don't benefit enough to make up for the enormous cost of changing over, etc.
There have been several inventors who have either disappeared or lost their life because they invented a more efficient engine.
Documentation, please.
Alternative fuels will not be utilized until the world is in a state of crisis (run out of oil, overwhelming pollution). Only in times of desperation, will true change be brought.
Probably true, but not necessarily for the reasons you cite.
...phil
Interesting, but it sounds like it has not yet been demonstrated. Stealth aircraft work by reducing the radar return back to the originating radar station (by scattering it in other directions). This is the equivalent of having a single radar station with a huge network of receiving stations, trying to receive the scattered radar pulses. It might work.
...phil
Quite easily. RIAA is an industry representation organization. It charges membership dues sufficient to pay for its expenses: office space, staff, office equipment and supplies, operational expenses (lobbying, lawyers, power, etc). It does what it does on behalf of its membership, which DOES consist of profit-making organizations. The RIAA itself is not profit-oriented.
Most companies are members of at least one such organization, even if it's only the local Chamber of Commerce. Yes, the organizations exist to help their membership make money, but the organization doesn't make money itself.
...phil
Except that the speech on the site was indeed political speech: the University is part of the state government, therefore discussions about the University, even bitch sessions, are political speech. Also note that more than political speech is protected under the first amendment.
...phil
Now, it looks like Microsoft may have figured out a way to actually do it.
...phil
Nope. Paid for by property taxes. Charged to the property owner - either you pay directly or if you rent it's part of your rent.
or broadcast TV
Not even close. Why do you think all those commercials are in there?
...phil
This is pretty typical. If the company wins in litigation, they will work out something less drastic.
...phil
The problem here is that you'd have to go to every site first, to rate it for your kid. At least with the voting mechanism, you get some indication from those who went to the sites ahead of you.
...phil
You'd probably be better off looking elsewhere besides the ham bands for this:
...phil
Beware the appearance of old-fart-ism. You're saying that if it can't be done with radio, it shouldn't be done. That approach has done remarkably well -- what's the average age of ham radio operators these days? 50?
You ought to change a bit, and say "If it can involve ham radio, we should do it using ham radio." Don't exclude new technologies.
Does your view of ham radio involve computers? (I used packet radio to communicate via the International Space Station the other day, on 2 meters. Still ham radio as far as I'm concerned.) Where's the dividing line? Some guys just reported working each other on the 1.2 gig band, using computers and radios running at 5 watts, via the moon. This would not have been possible without computer technology. Was it ham radio? (I know some people who claim it wasn't, for reasons which escape me.)
The point of ham radio is to try and do new and interesting things on that medium, not make cell phones.
Tell me the cell phones where you can press one button, make a random call, and talk to somebody across the country or around the world. Doesn't sound like any cell phone I know about.
...phil
What if monkeys flew out of my butt? If you can get away from the earth and test this presumption, that would be one thing.
As it turns out, this proposal is testable. The speed of light is controlled by two fundamental variables - the permissivity and permittability of free space (I think I've got these names right). These variables control other things as well, such as the binding energy between electrons and the nucleus of an atom. We can measure that binding energy by looking at atomic absorption and emission lines in spectra of far-off stars. Those lines are the same as we see on earth, therefore we conclude that the fundamental variables have the same value there as here, therefore we can conclude the speed of light is the same there as here.
Therefore we conclude the objection about a varying speed of light is bogus and can be discarded, along with all the predictions it makes.
...phil
When somebody talks about "restoring morality", it's usually to a state that they personally have in mind; screw what anybody else thinks.
Maybe Congress will start to repair the damage that Hubble has done in these eleven years now.
Damage? What damage has Hubble done? Shown that there's more to the universe than contained in the bible? From where I sit, that's a good thing.
...phil
That's fine, as long as religion, and the people driven by it, quit trying to tell other people how to run their lives.
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The only way the heatsink can be below room temperature is if there is active cooling involved. (There might well be, but I've not seen it on Orb-type heatsinks.) The reason metal feels cold is that it conducts the heat away from your skin faster than air does. Your nerves mis-read this as "cooler".
...phil
I realize this is dramatically off topic, but in the early days of portable transistor radios (early '60s - ancient history), one measure of the quality of the radio was the number of transistors used. This lasted exactly as long as it took for some sly company to start mounting dead transistors in the radio (not even bothering to connect them to the rest of the circuits), just so they could up the transistor count and therefore be counted as a "higher quality" radio.
...phil
nope. Just a simple digipeater (which lost its configuration, so it's responding to the call NOCALL only).
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