The phrase "TV-quality" is always amusing to me. Digital television is just starting to roll now in Holland (or maybe I'm just now starting to notice it) and the one feature that is supposed to sell it is the great quality of the picture. But that's not really the problem with television. Everyone I know has cable tv, which is good enough for me. The problem is there's never anything on. So saying that you could make a TV-quality video of your life is like saying your life sucks.
The reason to implement diesel locomotives that way is it eliminates the clutch. Imagine engineering a clutch that can transfer the power needed to get a train up to speed. The electric motor has maximum torque at 0 rpm so it doesn't need a clutch.
I've read an insightful comment on Slashdot a while back about the distinction between fact and theory. Using gravity as an example. I don't believe I'll be very succesful in looking it up for a link, so I'll paraphrase from memory. Gravity is a fact. Things fall. There is also a theory on gravity that describes the underlying mechanisms. On the other hand: Evolution is a fact. Species change. There is also a theory on evolution that describes the underlying mechanisms.
Well, first I was gonna pop this guy hanging from the street light, and I realized, y'know, he's just working out. I mean, how would I feel if somebody come runnin' in the gym and bust me in my ass while I'm on the treadmill? Then I saw this snarling beast guy, and I noticed he had a tissue in his hand, and I'm realizing, y'know, he's not snarling, he's sneezing. Y'know, ain't no real threat there. Then I saw little Tiffany. I'm thinking, y'know, eight-year-old white girl, middle of the ghetto, bunch of monsters, this time of night with quantum physics books? She about to start some shit, Zed. She's about eight years old, those books are WAY too advanced for her. If you ask me, I'd say she's up to something. And to be honest, I'd appreciate it if you eased up off my back about it.
In your first example you use 3 digits of pi, so you'll end up with at most 3 digits of significance in your outcome. So I really don't see any difference between the two examples; between 34.7 and 35.0. If you increase your accuracy of pi to 3.142, your outcome will consistantly be between 34.72 and 35.03.
I got there before the slashdotting. I can almost see my house in the picture. I live about 12 km away from where the picture was taken from (by bike, so probably about 10 km as the photon flies). Actually my house is tucked away behind some taller building, but you can easily count the windows on the new Ministry of Education that is just a bit farther down the road.
It doesn't turn the plants into amplifiers, it uses parts of the plants as speaker cones: they've built a system that shakes plants. I wouldn't think the frequency response and dynamic range of a shaking plant would be very impressive.
How do you multiply temperatures in Fahrenheit? In Kelvins I can understand; the Kelvin scale has a zero point that is actually meaningful. 2 * 2400 Degrees fahrenheit is less than 2 * 1590 K. By the way, all this would have been totally meaningless to me without Google calculator. I don't mind miles so much, they're a bit more than 1,5 km but a tad less than 2 km; 'bout 3 feet to a meter; 2 pounds to a kg. But what the fuck is a degree Fahrenheit?
I've been working on something like this with friends. Posted on it before here.
We we're actually planning to launch people across the British Channel, because we thought it would be a hell of a ride. Research was limited to some rough calculations on the back of a beer coaster. Turns out that using a trebuchet isn't economically feasible for these kinds of things.
Umberto Eco goes into this at rather more length than I really cared for in The Island of the Day Before. (I'm not sure about the English title, I read it in Dutch and I'm too lazy to look it up right now) There is some discussion about the infinity of the universe and the implication of an infinite number of worlds. Would there also be an infinite number of Jesuses to go and save all those worlds? Or is it the same Jesus going to each of the infinite number of worlds? Or is Earth unique in being saved? Or...
I'm at work, so I haven't checked the audio. I think I could determine the region of origin of a Dutch speaker pretty well as long as he was speaking "Van den Broek English". Most Europeans and all Dutchmen should know what I'm talking about. It's a horrible mix of decent grammar and vocabulary with a pronunciation composed of entirely Dutch phonemes. As Harry Enfield said: "Hello, mij neem is Frans van Bergen Henegem from de Emsterdem polies fors. And dis is mij kolliek Hans, hoe - ei em proud to see - is also mij lovver."
If all your computer does is control a thermostat I guess it only makes sense to get rid of everything on it except for a single dial. But then you'd probably be better of with a regular old bimetal/mercury switch thermostat. I want to do spectrum analysis, audio editing, play Grand Theft Auto and read my mail. I need more controls than Time and Power and more feedback than *ding*.
Former Dutch prime minister Wim Kok was unable to obtain the domain wimkok.nl, because it was already owned by a bicycle store of the same name. I don't know who is older, but the bicycle store just registered for the domain first.
I guess they devided the measured power by the power predicted by their computer model and thus arrived at a ratio. They then decided to present this ratio in dBs. They might also have presented the measured and predicted powers in dBs SPL, but then again, they might not have.
The whole mechanism is currently known as a "speaker."
You mean a driver. The term speaker usually refers to a speaker system; a cabinet with a driver or drivers and filters.
Just to see if any old word would make a difference I tried [speaker bracelet asdf], as asdf is any old word. It then returns results 1-3 of about 16, without the "we ommitted similar results message" you sometimes get. Plus 3 of those sponsored links on the right. Which is pretty wierd as well, I thought.
These things were issued eight years ago, I've moved to a different city three times since then. I don't even remember how many times I've switched bonus cards with friends. How can they trace anyone reliably with a bonus card?
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The phrase "TV-quality" is always amusing to me. Digital television is just starting to roll now in Holland (or maybe I'm just now starting to notice it) and the one feature that is supposed to sell it is the great quality of the picture. But that's not really the problem with television. Everyone I know has cable tv, which is good enough for me. The problem is there's never anything on.
So saying that you could make a TV-quality video of your life is like saying your life sucks.
The reason to implement diesel locomotives that way is it eliminates the clutch. Imagine engineering a clutch that can transfer the power needed to get a train up to speed. The electric motor has maximum torque at 0 rpm so it doesn't need a clutch.
I've read an insightful comment on Slashdot a while back about the distinction between fact and theory. Using gravity as an example. I don't believe I'll be very succesful in looking it up for a link, so I'll paraphrase from memory.
Gravity is a fact. Things fall. There is also a theory on gravity that describes the underlying mechanisms.
On the other hand:
Evolution is a fact. Species change. There is also a theory on evolution that describes the underlying mechanisms.
Click... and if you didn't know that, better click here as well.
Well, first I was gonna pop this guy hanging from the street light, and I realized, y'know, he's just working out. I mean, how would I feel if somebody come runnin' in the gym and bust me in my ass while I'm on the treadmill? Then I saw this snarling beast guy, and I noticed he had a tissue in his hand, and I'm realizing, y'know, he's not snarling, he's sneezing. Y'know, ain't no real threat there. Then I saw little Tiffany. I'm thinking, y'know, eight-year-old white girl, middle of the ghetto, bunch of monsters, this time of night with quantum physics books? She about to start some shit, Zed. She's about eight years old, those books are WAY too advanced for her. If you ask me, I'd say she's up to something. And to be honest, I'd appreciate it if you eased up off my back about it.
In your first example you use 3 digits of pi, so you'll end up with at most 3 digits of significance in your outcome. So I really don't see any difference between the two examples; between 34.7 and 35.0. If you increase your accuracy of pi to 3.142, your outcome will consistantly be between 34.72 and 35.03.
There was an IQ test on television last night here in Holland. I thought that was pretty ironic.
And that is up another 4% in the last 18 months.
You'll find you cannot send the building over a network in 15 minutes either.
I got there before the slashdotting. I can almost see my house in the picture. I live about 12 km away from where the picture was taken from (by bike, so probably about 10 km as the photon flies). Actually my house is tucked away behind some taller building, but you can easily count the windows on the new Ministry of Education that is just a bit farther down the road.
But what about Home Star?
It doesn't turn the plants into amplifiers, it uses parts of the plants as speaker cones: they've built a system that shakes plants.
I wouldn't think the frequency response and dynamic range of a shaking plant would be very impressive.
How do you multiply temperatures in Fahrenheit? In Kelvins I can understand; the Kelvin scale has a zero point that is actually meaningful. 2 * 2400 Degrees fahrenheit is less than 2 * 1590 K.
By the way, all this would have been totally meaningless to me without Google calculator. I don't mind miles so much, they're a bit more than 1,5 km but a tad less than 2 km; 'bout 3 feet to a meter; 2 pounds to a kg. But what the fuck is a degree Fahrenheit?
A Watt-second is called a Joule.
I never thought I'd see a resonance cascade, let alone create one.
I've been working on something like this with friends. Posted on it before here.
We we're actually planning to launch people across the British Channel, because we thought it would be a hell of a ride. Research was limited to some rough calculations on the back of a beer coaster. Turns out that using a trebuchet isn't economically feasible for these kinds of things.
Umberto Eco goes into this at rather more length than I really cared for in The Island of the Day Before. (I'm not sure about the English title, I read it in Dutch and I'm too lazy to look it up right now)
There is some discussion about the infinity of the universe and the implication of an infinite number of worlds. Would there also be an infinite number of Jesuses to go and save all those worlds? Or is it the same Jesus going to each of the infinite number of worlds? Or is Earth unique in being saved? Or...
I'm at work, so I haven't checked the audio. I think I could determine the region of origin of a Dutch speaker pretty well as long as he was speaking "Van den Broek English". Most Europeans and all Dutchmen should know what I'm talking about. It's a horrible mix of decent grammar and vocabulary with a pronunciation composed of entirely Dutch phonemes.
As Harry Enfield said: "Hello, mij neem is Frans van Bergen Henegem from de Emsterdem polies fors. And dis is mij kolliek Hans, hoe - ei em proud to see - is also mij lovver."
If all your computer does is control a thermostat I guess it only makes sense to get rid of everything on it except for a single dial. But then you'd probably be better of with a regular old bimetal/mercury switch thermostat.
I want to do spectrum analysis, audio editing, play Grand Theft Auto and read my mail. I need more controls than Time and Power and more feedback than *ding*.
Former Dutch prime minister Wim Kok was unable to obtain the domain wimkok.nl, because it was already owned by a bicycle store of the same name. I don't know who is older, but the bicycle store just registered for the domain first.
I guess they devided the measured power by the power predicted by their computer model and thus arrived at a ratio. They then decided to present this ratio in dBs.
They might also have presented the measured and predicted powers in dBs SPL, but then again, they might not have.
No, actually it's called paralepsis.
The whole mechanism is currently known as a "speaker."
You mean a driver. The term speaker usually refers to a speaker system; a cabinet with a driver or drivers and filters.
Just to see if any old word would make a difference I tried [speaker bracelet asdf], as asdf is any old word. It then returns results 1-3 of about 16, without the "we ommitted similar results message" you sometimes get. Plus 3 of those sponsored links on the right. Which is pretty wierd as well, I thought.
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These things were issued eight years ago, I've moved to a different city three times since then. I don't even remember how many times I've switched bonus cards with friends. How can they trace anyone reliably with a bonus card?