I have been shocked by 110 maybe a half dozen times in my life. I can also attest that it didn't hurt much. Really it was more surprising than painful. In fact, the sensation I would have to say was not pain at all, but more accurately described as "an unpleasant feeling". You know you didn't like it and wouldn't want to do it again, but it didn't hurt like getting pricked by something sharp would. I suspect that the reason it doesn't "hurt" is because the nerves also use electrical impulses to transmit to the brain that something happened, and this just confuses the nerves and gives your brain an uninterpretable signal of what just happened.Perhaps if you did this to yourself enough times, the brain would learn to wire itself such that that feeling maps to "pain". I'm not willing to try the experiment myself because, as I mentioned, it feels "unpleasant".
I should point out that in all instances of being shocked, it was on my hand and both the live point and ground point were somewhere on my hand, so I have not had to endure electricity passing through my entire body, which is apparently much more deadly.
Well, if you have an encrypted drive you are required to give the law the key, whereas if you have a hole in your drive, they aren't getting your data. If you hold out on an encryption key, you can face additional charges. You probably also would be for putting a hole in your drive, but you might be able to get off on a technicality by saying you were doing a little physical data mining.
If you wrote a song, why should you ever have to give it up? I mean, I could see after you are dead and gone that your family shouldn't still get to benefit from it, since they didn't do anything other than be lucky enough to be related. But these guys are still alive, still play music and are still amazingly talented.
Yes, I know 99% of musicians don't ever make it big. 98% of musicians shouldn't be musicians at all. At least, not as a job. I am a musician, but I don't get paid for it. I don't solicit pay for being a musician either. I am not star quality. Neither are 98% of the people out there complaining that they don't get paid for their music. I don't begrudge Pink Floyd their millions because I recognize that their talent is basically one in a million. People who are one in a million at what they do deserve to get paid well.
It is not about the availability of digital downloads, but about the availability of single track digital downloads. Which is kind of pointless in Pink Floyd's case. I mean, every single song is good, and most of them are meant to be played as an album so why would you buy single tracks?
Run out of money? Yeah right. Ferrari's don't come free with your breakfast cereal, you know. David Gilmour has his own floating studio. Syd screwed himself over before Pink Floyd even hit it big.
Roger Waters is over the breakup. Why aren't you?
I spend a lot of time waffling back and forth over which is my favorite Pink Floyd album, and a lot of the time my current favorite is Momentary Lapse of Reason or the Division Bell. But then, I also think David Gilmour's About Face is one of the best albums ever.
45's are akin to a modern single track download from a track standpoint, but from a sound quality standpoint, a modern digital download is the opposite of the 45. The higher spin speed of the single offered higher fidelity as you traversed a longer linear distance in the same amount of time. Whereas a digital download sometimes, but not always is at a decreased bitrate from the original recording.
I have thus far not purchased Guitar Hero mostly because of the same reason I don't buy albums these days, a few good songs and a bunch of crap. A Pink Floyd version would be awesome, but then I don't know how well it could really be done in Guitar Hero. Most of David Gilmour's solos are not particularly fast paced, which is one of the things that guitar hero hinges on. All of Gilmour's work from a guitar player's point of view is just amazing. He does something interesting to EVERY SINGLE NOTE. Bend up, bend down, hammer on, pick rake, harmonic, etc. There is simply no way to try to emulate that by mashing buttons.
About 10 years ago, I learned all of the guitar parts on The Wall, Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon, The Final Cut and Animals, and that really felt like an accomplishment. I can't play it as well as David Gilmour, but I would feel like mashing buttons on guitar Hero would be a mockery.
Yep. If it hadn't been for the fact that albums had two sides, then both Tubular Bells and Thick as a Brick would have been one song. And Pink Floyd would probably have opted for a different track layout on Wish You Were Here, probably putting all the Shine On's together.
Yeah, a lot of the DJs can't stand to listen to the single track either. I would say that over 95% of the time I hear Happiest Days of our Lives prior to Another Brick in the Wall Part 2. Also, they often will play two or three cuts from DSotM consecutively, because it just seems right. Also, they usually play Foreplay before Long Time (Boston), Feeling That Way/Anytime (Journey), Waitin' for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago (ZZ Top), Hard To Say I'm Sorry/Get Away (Chicago), Eruption/You Really Got Me (Van Halen) and I could probably think of a few more given time (and a radio).
Let's not forget the incredible 4 part Anthem of And You And I by Yes. There was a lot of really great album rock back in the day. I couldn't really see buying any of it as single tracks.
The local news here said that some of them were in fact laying on the ground dying, and then died shortly later.
Oddly enough, just about two minutes before hearing this news story I passed what looked to me like a dead hawk or related raptor by the side of the road which did not appear to have been hit by a car or anything so traumatic. My initial thought was that it had maybe gotten electrocuted by the overhead wires and fell down. Then the next story on the news was about the blackbirds. Of course, that was another species, and 400 miles away, but it was quite an odd coincidence.
I am skeptical that you can suck down air from an area of low pressure into one of high pressure. Physics says this is not possible. Also, with high winds it would be possible for surface temperatures on the body to cool down rapidly, but pulling the heat of of the deeper body tissue would take quite some time as air is not a very good conductor of heat. Now, if it was very humid air, then it might occur faster because water is a better conductor than air and also has more energy capacity than air. Of course, there is almost no moisture content in the upper troposhere, and the lower troposhere is of course at ground level.
Yay! More industrially produced corn!:/
Incorrect. While corn contains a lot of nutrients, humans are unable to get much nutrition out of it. Our inferior single stomach is not very good at breaking down the tough cellulose of raw corn. Cooking it breaks down the cellulose but also causes other nutrients to be destroyed. For best results in obtaining the nutrients available in raw corn, you should feed it to a cow and then eat the cow.
I would estimate that my carry on is about 12 X 20. As Carry-Ons go, it is one of the smaller of the ones that I see. However, it won't fit in the overhead bins of the regional jets which is what I end up flying on most of the time. They make me check it. Fortunately, I haven't been charged for checking it, since they check it at the gate. Of course, I haven't flown in 2 years and things seem to have gotten a lot worse in that time. I probably will never fly again, at least not unless my company makes me.
If my ticket costs less because you are paying $100 more for baggage, I say, "Bring it On"!
What if your ticket costs the same as it did before the baggage fee, and yet now there is a baggage fee?
Also, these days, the planes they fly are getting smaller, so small that if you show up with a standard sized carry on, they make you check it.
I have also been double charged by the hotel and the booking site. Most annoying, but at least in my case, the hotel removed the doubled charge. However, in another incident, I was charge an "environmental charge" for smoking in my room. I informed them that I have never smoked in my life and I wanted the charge removed. They refused. I spoke to the manager. They refused to remove the charge. So I called American Express and told them to remove X amount from my bill from the hotel. Thank goodness the credit cards at least will look after the consumers interests.
Wouldn't it be illegal to tax someone for "personal copying" considering that you are allowed by law to make a personal copy?
If you don't make a copy of anything onto your memory stick, where do you go to apply for your refund of the tax?
Why would it be inefficient?
No belt slip, you can direct drive them.
Because you had to use belts to drive the not perfectly efficient alternator to charge up the not perfectly efficient battery and not perfectly efficiently store the energy until you need to use it to drive the motors for the AC or resistors for the heater. Not to mention you already have a big powerful engine there generating lots of excess power that could be used to run a small compressor, whereas an electric compressor of similar power would need quite a large and heavy additional motor. And since you already have a big hot engine generating lots of excess heat, it seems natural to try to use that energy instead of having another large box of heater coils to generate yet more heat.
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I have been shocked by 110 maybe a half dozen times in my life. I can also attest that it didn't hurt much. Really it was more surprising than painful. In fact, the sensation I would have to say was not pain at all, but more accurately described as "an unpleasant feeling". You know you didn't like it and wouldn't want to do it again, but it didn't hurt like getting pricked by something sharp would. I suspect that the reason it doesn't "hurt" is because the nerves also use electrical impulses to transmit to the brain that something happened, and this just confuses the nerves and gives your brain an uninterpretable signal of what just happened.Perhaps if you did this to yourself enough times, the brain would learn to wire itself such that that feeling maps to "pain". I'm not willing to try the experiment myself because, as I mentioned, it feels "unpleasant".
I should point out that in all instances of being shocked, it was on my hand and both the live point and ground point were somewhere on my hand, so I have not had to endure electricity passing through my entire body, which is apparently much more deadly.
Well, if you have an encrypted drive you are required to give the law the key, whereas if you have a hole in your drive, they aren't getting your data. If you hold out on an encryption key, you can face additional charges. You probably also would be for putting a hole in your drive, but you might be able to get off on a technicality by saying you were doing a little physical data mining.
If you wrote a song, why should you ever have to give it up? I mean, I could see after you are dead and gone that your family shouldn't still get to benefit from it, since they didn't do anything other than be lucky enough to be related. But these guys are still alive, still play music and are still amazingly talented.
Yes, I know 99% of musicians don't ever make it big. 98% of musicians shouldn't be musicians at all. At least, not as a job. I am a musician, but I don't get paid for it. I don't solicit pay for being a musician either. I am not star quality. Neither are 98% of the people out there complaining that they don't get paid for their music. I don't begrudge Pink Floyd their millions because I recognize that their talent is basically one in a million. People who are one in a million at what they do deserve to get paid well.
It is not about the availability of digital downloads, but about the availability of single track digital downloads. Which is kind of pointless in Pink Floyd's case. I mean, every single song is good, and most of them are meant to be played as an album so why would you buy single tracks?
One would think so, and yet there has not been a next "Dark Side of the Moon" or a next "The Wall" in any generation since those two came out.
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Run out of money? Yeah right. Ferrari's don't come free with your breakfast cereal, you know. David Gilmour has his own floating studio. Syd screwed himself over before Pink Floyd even hit it big.
Roger Waters is over the breakup. Why aren't you?
I spend a lot of time waffling back and forth over which is my favorite Pink Floyd album, and a lot of the time my current favorite is Momentary Lapse of Reason or the Division Bell. But then, I also think David Gilmour's About Face is one of the best albums ever.
45's are akin to a modern single track download from a track standpoint, but from a sound quality standpoint, a modern digital download is the opposite of the 45. The higher spin speed of the single offered higher fidelity as you traversed a longer linear distance in the same amount of time. Whereas a digital download sometimes, but not always is at a decreased bitrate from the original recording.
I have thus far not purchased Guitar Hero mostly because of the same reason I don't buy albums these days, a few good songs and a bunch of crap. A Pink Floyd version would be awesome, but then I don't know how well it could really be done in Guitar Hero. Most of David Gilmour's solos are not particularly fast paced, which is one of the things that guitar hero hinges on. All of Gilmour's work from a guitar player's point of view is just amazing. He does something interesting to EVERY SINGLE NOTE. Bend up, bend down, hammer on, pick rake, harmonic, etc. There is simply no way to try to emulate that by mashing buttons.
About 10 years ago, I learned all of the guitar parts on The Wall, Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon, The Final Cut and Animals, and that really felt like an accomplishment. I can't play it as well as David Gilmour, but I would feel like mashing buttons on guitar Hero would be a mockery.
Yep. If it hadn't been for the fact that albums had two sides, then both Tubular Bells and Thick as a Brick would have been one song. And Pink Floyd would probably have opted for a different track layout on Wish You Were Here, probably putting all the Shine On's together.
Yeah, a lot of the DJs can't stand to listen to the single track either. I would say that over 95% of the time I hear Happiest Days of our Lives prior to Another Brick in the Wall Part 2. Also, they often will play two or three cuts from DSotM consecutively, because it just seems right. Also, they usually play Foreplay before Long Time (Boston), Feeling That Way/Anytime (Journey), Waitin' for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago (ZZ Top), Hard To Say I'm Sorry/Get Away (Chicago), Eruption/You Really Got Me (Van Halen) and I could probably think of a few more given time (and a radio).
Let's not forget the incredible 4 part Anthem of And You And I by Yes. There was a lot of really great album rock back in the day. I couldn't really see buying any of it as single tracks.
When I listen to PF, it is on my original CDs. I even have some LPs, but I haven't had my record player hooked up in a long time.
The local news here said that some of them were in fact laying on the ground dying, and then died shortly later.
Oddly enough, just about two minutes before hearing this news story I passed what looked to me like a dead hawk or related raptor by the side of the road which did not appear to have been hit by a car or anything so traumatic. My initial thought was that it had maybe gotten electrocuted by the overhead wires and fell down.
Then the next story on the news was about the blackbirds. Of course, that was another species, and 400 miles away, but it was quite an odd coincidence.
I am skeptical that you can suck down air from an area of low pressure into one of high pressure. Physics says this is not possible. Also, with high winds it would be possible for surface temperatures on the body to cool down rapidly, but pulling the heat of of the deeper body tissue would take quite some time as air is not a very good conductor of heat. Now, if it was very humid air, then it might occur faster because water is a better conductor than air and also has more energy capacity than air. Of course, there is almost no moisture content in the upper troposhere, and the lower troposhere is of course at ground level.
Yay! More industrially produced corn! :/
Incorrect. While corn contains a lot of nutrients, humans are unable to get much nutrition out of it. Our inferior single stomach is not very good at breaking down the tough cellulose of raw corn. Cooking it breaks down the cellulose but also causes other nutrients to be destroyed. For best results in obtaining the nutrients available in raw corn, you should feed it to a cow and then eat the cow.
I would estimate that my carry on is about 12 X 20. As Carry-Ons go, it is one of the smaller of the ones that I see. However, it won't fit in the overhead bins of the regional jets which is what I end up flying on most of the time. They make me check it. Fortunately, I haven't been charged for checking it, since they check it at the gate. Of course, I haven't flown in 2 years and things seem to have gotten a lot worse in that time. I probably will never fly again, at least not unless my company makes me.
If my ticket costs less because you are paying $100 more for baggage, I say, "Bring it On"!
What if your ticket costs the same as it did before the baggage fee, and yet now there is a baggage fee?
Also, these days, the planes they fly are getting smaller, so small that if you show up with a standard sized carry on, they make you check it.
I have also been double charged by the hotel and the booking site. Most annoying, but at least in my case, the hotel removed the doubled charge. However, in another incident, I was charge an "environmental charge" for smoking in my room. I informed them that I have never smoked in my life and I wanted the charge removed. They refused. I spoke to the manager. They refused to remove the charge. So I called American Express and told them to remove X amount from my bill from the hotel. Thank goodness the credit cards at least will look after the consumers interests.
Wouldn't it be illegal to tax someone for "personal copying" considering that you are allowed by law to make a personal copy?
If you don't make a copy of anything onto your memory stick, where do you go to apply for your refund of the tax?
Why would it be inefficient? No belt slip, you can direct drive them.
Because you had to use belts to drive the not perfectly efficient alternator to charge up the not perfectly efficient battery and not perfectly efficiently store the energy until you need to use it to drive the motors for the AC or resistors for the heater. Not to mention you already have a big powerful engine there generating lots of excess power that could be used to run a small compressor, whereas an electric compressor of similar power would need quite a large and heavy additional motor. And since you already have a big hot engine generating lots of excess heat, it seems natural to try to use that energy instead of having another large box of heater coils to generate yet more heat.