But still powerfully weak. While I'm sure the bass output from it is strong, that thing just doesn't have the sheer wattage or box design, or even a speaker worth a damn. Its minimally interesting only because the guy made a purty looking box, but for real home theatre you are better off with something ported and tuned for low frequencies (however low you consider "low").
Translation: "I'm gonna spout off about how lame this guy's project is to feel superior because I didn't bother to read the freaking Ebay description, where I would have found out that he did all of the things I'm suggesting."
Um, yeah, you sure told him.
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When reading those Q&A things, I started thinking up some on my own.
Q: I would like to see if your Death Star subwoofer would go well with the Alliance tweeter I built, but I live in the US, so it's too far away.
A: The US is too remote to make an effective demonstration, but don't worry, we'll deal with your treble friends soon enough.
Pillsbury (who own Haagen-Daz) were trying to drive Ben & Jerry's out of the premium ice cream market by refusing to sell products to stores giving freezer space to Ben & Jerry's.
This doesn't just happen with the big guy vs. the little guy. There was a guy I used to work with who managed a pizza place. They had a refrigerator case from Coke (big Coke logo on the side for advertising) in the store. He did keep a few Pepsi products in the case because some of their customers preferred them. When the Coke rep was in one day, he told them that they can't keep any Pepsi products in there. The manager said, "Fine, have your guys come pick up your case. I will call Pepsi, and I don't think they will have a problem giving us a case and letting us keep a few Coke products in there." The Coke rep backed down because they didn't want to lose the free advertising.
"It's *very* hard on engine parts, which is why you can't just bolt on a turbocharger to any old existing motor and expect it to last very long."
Well, I just read the wikipedia entry about superchargers and turbochargers, and they said this:
Boosting has made something of a comeback in recent years due largely to the increased quality of the alloys and machining of modern engines. Boosting used to be an effective way to dramatically shorten an engine's life but, today, there is considerable overdesign possible with modern materials and boosting is no longer a serious reliability concern.
So it's not as damaging these days because of better quality engines that can handle the pressure. Also, there are different sizes of turbos, so for a small engine that wasn't originally intended to have a turbo, it could probably handle a small turbo that doesn't provide too much boost.
SUVs are wicked stupid. This is one case where I'm glad to see the price of gas going up. How long do you think the soccer moms will keep them once it costs $100 twice a week to fill the thing with gas?
I think they might perceive the problem when their fuel costs get higher than their payments on the beast. Until then, probably not.
OK, Mr. pthisis, I'm getting kinda bothered by your repeated mis-characterisation of case law. Please read the full document that contains the ruling and the two dissenting opinions. The dissenting opinions give the actual case law backing for why this is wrong, which I think holds more credibility from multiple career judges than your amateur opinion.
Contrary to your assertions, here is some of the historical background, as detailed in the dissenting opinions. The founding fathers were trying to set up the 5th amendment to directly counter the kind of assumption by government that they had been seeing from the monarchy. It was strictly to be used for direct public use (roads, schools, etc.). That was gradually extended somewhat through some of that case law, which is where the "blight" factor comes in. Basically, if an area is deemed really really bad, such that it is a mess and a high crime area, etc. then they could condemn it and buy for a revitalization type work, which may be contracted out.
This new decision is not a reaffirming, as you say, but crossing a very bad line in further extending and broadening the justification of taking land. Instead of any actual blight, where the land is in really bad shape and desperately in need of improvements, the new rule they have condoned is that ANY proposed improvement, even places that are perfectly fine, is grounds for taking land and giving it to a developer.
So, your information is incorrect. I encourage everyone to read the full decision and dissenting opinions so that they can be better informed than being misled by you.
MySQL's policy is they only give you the non-gpl-licensed version if you pay them for it.
I don't think that addresses the point. What are the conditions of the non-gpl license that people can pay for? It would probably not include re-distribution permission, right? SCO is re-distributing it, so that would have to be either in the terms of the license they use for it, or from direct permission of the copyright holders. "Pay" doesn't directly authorize re-distribution.
For example, at one point more than half the adult population smoked, even though this is definitely not normal behaviour for any animal.
Then I guess it WAS normal for humans at that time.
Again, if we go by your definition, then men can never engage in any normal behaviour, because they comprise slightly less than 50% of the population.
Males can be considered a "population". It depends on what you are studying. Sometimes you study just children, or just adults, or just people who live in Ohio, or whatever.
Similarly, it would be considered abnormal behaviour for a woman to be pregnant, because at any one time much less than 50% of the population is pregnant.
So which is it? You referred to people who smoke above, even though no one smokes every minute of every day. An overwhelming majority of women get pregnant at least once in their lives, so it's obviously not "abnormal".
Lots of people play musical instruments. This is normal behaviour. But it's not practiced by 50% of the population.
Yeah, probably less than 50%, but there are a lot of people that don't play as adults who had to take piano lessons or played in high school band, so it's probably not as low as you think. OK, call that not normal if it's a minority.
The majority of the population also watches a lot of television - but not watching television is also a normal behaviour for humans. Or would you try to claim that not watching TV is an unhealthy aberration?
See there? You went and put words into my mouth that I didn't say to set up a straw man to make my idea look bad. I never said anything was healthy/unhealthy. I was stating that things done by a small percentage of people would not be considered "normal". Yes, very few people don't watch any TV, so that would be an aberration. Aberration just means it differs from the norm. Extreme intelligence or artistic ability or sporting ability are also aberrations--they're not bad or unhealthy.
We know that homosexuality is determined in part by genetics, and in part by in utero development. For an example of the latter, for every male child that a woman gives birth to, there is an increase in the likelyhood that the child will be gay. Check it out.
And again, you go back to "we know" to state the findings of one study that you agree with that is contradicted by other studies. The factors are not all known, and studies have come up with differing findings, so I don't think it's as conclusive as you say.
Lets look at other physical traits - the majority of the population is not white - so what? Do we now get to label white people to be aberrations? The majority of the population of the world doesn't speak english. Is that aberrant behaviour. Or, to look at it another way - the majority of the world speaks more than one language. Are unilingual people aberrant?
I pointed out in bold where you're defining majority by what people are not, so there is no such thing as the normal race for the world population where everyone is a minority. And again, "aberrant" is not a bad thing.
Only about 10% of the population is left-handed. And yet being a lefty is part of normal human development. We've had gays, lesbians, and transgenders in the population throughout recorded history. To say its abnormal because they compose a minority of the population is to confuse average and normal, nothing more.
I've put these two together because I think it ties up our disagreement. I looked up the definition of the word normal, and we are focusing on two different definitions. I was going by "1. Conforming with, adhering to, or constituting a norm, standard, pattern, level, or type; typical", while you were focusing on "2. Functioning or occurring in a natural way; lacking observable abnormalities or deficiencies."
So things that are naturally occurring, but occur in a small percentage of a population would be normal by #2, but not by #1. OK?
You've made some interesting points. Yes, many church teachings are created by the church, rather than actually given by God in the Bible. I want to talk about some of the things you've brought up.
Pay attention to the myogeny in the remark about women with more than one or 2 earrings, or any other piercing, such as a nose piercing, etc., even though his own bible is full of accounts of women with pierced noses.
When I saw that about nose rings in the Bible, I was skeptical, but I just did a search, and found that you're right, and it's mentioned in a neutral or positive light--interesting, and I learned something. I hadn't noticed it when I had read it before because it's usually mentioned along with bracelets and such as gifts.
We know that homosexuality and lesbianism are normal behaviour in many mammals, including humans, and yet we have christians going around saying its an abomination.
The facts do not confirm what you have said "we know". In other words, you're trying to logically back up what you want to say, when the logic actually goes against it. For something to be "normal behavior" in a species, wouldn't that mean that it is practiced by at least half? If it is something done by a small percentage, then it would not be "normal behavior". I don't think we would logically say that suicide is "normal behavior" or that bulemia is "normal behavior". Those are considered aberrations because the majority of people do not do them.
If it sounds like a heavy handed rant, I'm sorry. It just seems something is mighty wrong with this "logic" and surprising that it came up on someplace like slashdot. But than again, a lot of illogic goes on around here. --
They want to use someone with no sysadmin/network experience to design, implement, and maintain their network? Just give the person a book and let them loose? Are they hiring, I'm qualified for that job!
And I'm sure they'd hire you, too, if they didn't have to pay you.
Yep, I also was very upset at the design of the Motorola phone I had. We were using a Nokia 8260--awesome little phone that is rugged, looong talk time and has a great interface. We got a good deal on a Motorola V60 flip phone($20) to renew our contract, and hated so many things about it that we switched back over to the Nokia and still use it.
Commence list of horrible things on the Motorola V60:
* Number one worst thing about that phone was the "battery meter". I put that in quotes because it did anything but indicate anything about the status of charge left in the battery. It is a very tiny picture of a battery with only three little bars in it. I wanted to see how long the standby time would go, so I kept an eye on it as a couple days of time went by with no charging, and it still read full! While still reading full, my wife got a call from her dad and talked for about an hour and a half, at which point the call ended because our phone was dead and had shut itself off. I had found in the menu a more detailed battery readout with 6 blocks of resolution, but a friend of mine who also had a V60 said that it will only fill 2, 4, or 6 blocks, so it's just a deceiving representation of the 3-block display on the main screen. Even fresh off an overnight charge it still never got the 4+ hours of talk time our Nokia 8260 had.
* As mentioned above, the volume buttons on the outside of the phone are always active, so they easily get bumped, which makes your phone beep.
* Pushing those volume buttons is how you change the ring volume, including switching it to vibrate or silent. You just step through the volume levels like this: 6 5 4 3 2 1 vibrate nothing. The decent volume to be able to hear it ring is all the way up on 6. So to switch to silent, you have to start pushing the volume down, which emits a BEEP each time as it demonstrates the volume associated with each level.
* If I have the phone in my pocket on vibrate, the volume buttons can easily get bumped, changing that setting to either ring audibly(Gee, now why would you have wanted it on SILENT?) or to get bumped down to no ring at all, so you miss calls.
* Phone book issues. On the Nokia, from the main screen, you can just start hitting the down or up arrows, and it jumps to scrolling through your phone book--very handy. Also, on the Nokia, you can scroll through those as fast as you can hit the button. On the Motorola, it has an annoying delay so that if you are hitting the down button fast, it is only receiving about one out of three of those. You have to [press] *wait* [press] *wait* ad nauseam. And let me tell ya, that gets old quick.
* Text messaging. Most messages consist of letters, spaces, and periods, right? The Nokia designers were smart enough to make all those available on the keypad when you are typing by making the 1 type a period. On the Mot, you have to go to the punctuation menu and then select to insert the period.
Most people I talk with who have tried both brands have experienced the same thing. They really preferred the Nokia interface over the Motorola one. Sorry Mot, but you fail it! I mean, how many annoying things can you fit in such a small package?
About the jamming, I think this is one of the things where Pro hits Con in the laser vs. inkjet department. As you say, I don't remember if I have ever seen an inkjet printer jam, but laser printers jam all the freaking time. This is due to the complexity of the paper path in the machine. Inkjets generally send the paper through one loop. Inkjet is a single process(squirt the ink), so it's simpler and more compact. Lasers run the paper through a little maze inside them and flip it back and forth a few times as it goes past the toner cartridge, fuser, etc.
Technically, a laser printer could also be built with a straight line paper path that would not jam, but the printer itself would then have to put all the laser components side by side, so you would end up with a printer a few inches high and a few feet long. That's not very business friendly for table space.
You got the equations right--thank you. Momentum = mass*velocity Force = mass*acceleration
The one that some people are dancing around but not bringing up is the one for kinetic energy. This is the one that my physics teacher explained is the amount of "hurt" you will experience if it has to be suddenly stopped by running into something stationary. The equation for kinetic engergy is: KE = 1/2 m*v^2 So the amount of energy in that moving vehicle is dependent on the square of the speed of the car.
It's called "The curious incident of the dog in the night time" I like the title already. It's from a Sherlock Holmes story called Silver Blaze. Is that a significant reference to the story?
By the way, I don't know if anyone would even care here, so I'll turn off my bonus for this one. That line from the Sherlock Holmes story came about like this. Silver Blaze was the name of a heavily favored race horse. During the night, someone had snuck in and stolen the horse. Holmes had asked someone if the dog(which was chained outside) had barked during the night and was answered that the dog hadn't barked at all that night.
So when he and Watson are leaving, he comments: "There is still the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime." "But the dog did nothing in the nighttime." "Yes, that is the curious incident."
As he explained later, that indicated that whoever stole the horse was not a stranger, but someone the dog knew and wasn't bothered by. More generally, that would relate to the lack of something usual sometimes being just as important as the presence of something unusual--kind of related to Asperger's in a round-about way.
The ages of the kids as actors should not be that big an issue to filming because the main characters rotate somewhat through the series as Aslan indicates that certain of them will not be coming back again. Here are the main characters in each of the books:
Lion Witch Wardrobe -Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy
Prince Caspian -Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy
Voyage of the Dawn Treader -Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace Scrubb(cousin)
Silver Chair -Eustace, Jill Pole
Last Battle -Eustace, Jill
Those are the stories in the main chronology. There are two flashback books--Magician's nephew and Horse and His Boy. Magician's nephew takes place way before any of the others, so the characters(Digory and Polly) do not have to be represented as children again.
For Horse and His Boy, it does have Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy in it as minor characters as it takes place in a time period contained within Lion Witch and the Wardrobe. In the IMDB listing for the LWW, they have already indicated that they have separate adult actors playing the four main characters during that time period where they have ruled in Narnia for years and years before returning home through the wardrobe.
So the Lord MacDonald guy appointed Ronald McDonald, the mascot with red hair, to be his body guard.
You're right that you're still not getting it. You need to think outside the fast food conglomeration box. Didn't it strike you as strange that the person they named had a middle inital? The red-headed clown hawking cheeseburgers doesn't have a middle name that I've ever heard of. The Donald clan is referring to a real person named Ronald W. McDonald, in an ironic representation that the McDonald's restaurant was not original with that name.
Okay, that is some very funny stuff......but I don't get how it relates to copywrite for McDonald and McMunchies.
Gack. A. The word is copyright because it's about the right to copy. and B. This is a trademark, not a copyright.
Please note that the long form is "mathematics" not "mathematic." The US form is odd in that way. Even in the States the subject is "physics" not "physic."
I think the confusion on this(and why I support the US spelling) is that mathematics is a singular noun. Therefore when it is shortened, there is no reason to put an s on the end of it again. The s is part of the name, rather than a plural marker.
Hint: more English speakers shorten "mathematics" to "maths" than shorten it to "math."
Help me out on this. Is that a British thing? I'm in the US, and I've almost never seen "maths" used. Physics, math, and English are all normal names for those school subjects in the US at least.
Traditional EE couses spend too much time on things like power-line transmission that we computer guys don't care about...
That was a difficulty for me from the school that I went to. It was in a region of the country that was more industrial/manufacturing, rather than computer oriented, so most of the EE degree was focused on power electronics. And that meant that "transistors" were mostly BJT's used as amplifiers, with a much smaller time being given to MOS devices used as switches.
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"I'm gonna spout off about how lame this guy's project is to feel superior because I didn't bother to read the freaking Ebay description, where I would have found out that he did all of the things I'm suggesting."
Um, yeah, you sure told him.
When reading those Q&A things, I started thinking up some on my own.
Q: I would like to see if your Death Star subwoofer would go well with the Alliance tweeter I built, but I live in the US, so it's too far away.
A: The US is too remote to make an effective demonstration, but don't worry, we'll deal with your treble friends soon enough.
Well, I just read the wikipedia entry about superchargers and turbochargers, and they said this:
So it's not as damaging these days because of better quality engines that can handle the pressure. Also, there are different sizes of turbos, so for a small engine that wasn't originally intended to have a turbo, it could probably handle a small turbo that doesn't provide too much boost.
OK, Mr. pthisis, I'm getting kinda bothered by your repeated mis-characterisation of case law. Please read the full document that contains the ruling and the two dissenting opinions. The dissenting opinions give the actual case law backing for why this is wrong, which I think holds more credibility from multiple career judges than your amateur opinion.
Contrary to your assertions, here is some of the historical background, as detailed in the dissenting opinions. The founding fathers were trying to set up the 5th amendment to directly counter the kind of assumption by government that they had been seeing from the monarchy. It was strictly to be used for direct public use (roads, schools, etc.). That was gradually extended somewhat through some of that case law, which is where the "blight" factor comes in. Basically, if an area is deemed really really bad, such that it is a mess and a high crime area, etc. then they could condemn it and buy for a revitalization type work, which may be contracted out.
This new decision is not a reaffirming, as you say, but crossing a very bad line in further extending and broadening the justification of taking land. Instead of any actual blight, where the land is in really bad shape and desperately in need of improvements, the new rule they have condoned is that ANY proposed improvement, even places that are perfectly fine, is grounds for taking land and giving it to a developer.
So, your information is incorrect. I encourage everyone to read the full decision and dissenting opinions so that they can be better informed than being misled by you.
Rygar on the NES system had some really good music. It went on for a pretty decent time before repeating too, so it wasn't extremely repetitive.
So things that are naturally occurring, but occur in a small percentage of a population would be normal by #2, but not by #1. OK?
The facts do not confirm what you have said "we know". In other words, you're trying to logically back up what you want to say, when the logic actually goes against it. For something to be "normal behavior" in a species, wouldn't that mean that it is practiced by at least half? If it is something done by a small percentage, then it would not be "normal behavior". I don't think we would logically say that suicide is "normal behavior" or that bulemia is "normal behavior". Those are considered aberrations because the majority of people do not do them.
Yep, I also was very upset at the design of the Motorola phone I had. We were using a Nokia 8260--awesome little phone that is rugged, looong talk time and has a great interface. We got a good deal on a Motorola V60 flip phone($20) to renew our contract, and hated so many things about it that we switched back over to the Nokia and still use it.
Commence list of horrible things on the Motorola V60:
* Number one worst thing about that phone was the "battery meter". I put that in quotes because it did anything but indicate anything about the status of charge left in the battery. It is a very tiny picture of a battery with only three little bars in it. I wanted to see how long the standby time would go, so I kept an eye on it as a couple days of time went by with no charging, and it still read full! While still reading full, my wife got a call from her dad and talked for about an hour and a half, at which point the call ended because our phone was dead and had shut itself off. I had found in the menu a more detailed battery readout with 6 blocks of resolution, but a friend of mine who also had a V60 said that it will only fill 2, 4, or 6 blocks, so it's just a deceiving representation of the 3-block display on the main screen. Even fresh off an overnight charge it still never got the 4+ hours of talk time our Nokia 8260 had.
* As mentioned above, the volume buttons on the outside of the phone are always active, so they easily get bumped, which makes your phone beep.
* Pushing those volume buttons is how you change the ring volume, including switching it to vibrate or silent. You just step through the volume levels like this: 6 5 4 3 2 1 vibrate nothing. The decent volume to be able to hear it ring is all the way up on 6. So to switch to silent, you have to start pushing the volume down, which emits a BEEP each time as it demonstrates the volume associated with each level.
* If I have the phone in my pocket on vibrate, the volume buttons can easily get bumped, changing that setting to either ring audibly(Gee, now why would you have wanted it on SILENT?) or to get bumped down to no ring at all, so you miss calls.
* Phone book issues. On the Nokia, from the main screen, you can just start hitting the down or up arrows, and it jumps to scrolling through your phone book--very handy. Also, on the Nokia, you can scroll through those as fast as you can hit the button. On the Motorola, it has an annoying delay so that if you are hitting the down button fast, it is only receiving about one out of three of those. You have to [press] *wait* [press] *wait* ad nauseam. And let me tell ya, that gets old quick.
* Text messaging. Most messages consist of letters, spaces, and periods, right? The Nokia designers were smart enough to make all those available on the keypad when you are typing by making the 1 type a period. On the Mot, you have to go to the punctuation menu and then select to insert the period.
Most people I talk with who have tried both brands have experienced the same thing. They really preferred the Nokia interface over the Motorola one. Sorry Mot, but you fail it! I mean, how many annoying things can you fit in such a small package?
About the jamming, I think this is one of the things where Pro hits Con in the laser vs. inkjet department. As you say, I don't remember if I have ever seen an inkjet printer jam, but laser printers jam all the freaking time. This is due to the complexity of the paper path in the machine. Inkjets generally send the paper through one loop. Inkjet is a single process(squirt the ink), so it's simpler and more compact. Lasers run the paper through a little maze inside them and flip it back and forth a few times as it goes past the toner cartridge, fuser, etc.
Technically, a laser printer could also be built with a straight line paper path that would not jam, but the printer itself would then have to put all the laser components side by side, so you would end up with a printer a few inches high and a few feet long. That's not very business friendly for table space.
You got the equations right--thank you.
Momentum = mass*velocity
Force = mass*acceleration
The one that some people are dancing around but not bringing up is the one for kinetic energy. This is the one that my physics teacher explained is the amount of "hurt" you will experience if it has to be suddenly stopped by running into something stationary. The equation for kinetic engergy is:
KE = 1/2 m*v^2
So the amount of energy in that moving vehicle is dependent on the square of the speed of the car.
It's called "The curious incident of the dog in the night time"
I like the title already. It's from a Sherlock Holmes story called Silver Blaze. Is that a significant reference to the story?
By the way, I don't know if anyone would even care here, so I'll turn off my bonus for this one. That line from the Sherlock Holmes story came about like this. Silver Blaze was the name of a heavily favored race horse. During the night, someone had snuck in and stolen the horse. Holmes had asked someone if the dog(which was chained outside) had barked during the night and was answered that the dog hadn't barked at all that night.
So when he and Watson are leaving, he comments:
"There is still the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime."
"But the dog did nothing in the nighttime."
"Yes, that is the curious incident."
As he explained later, that indicated that whoever stole the horse was not a stranger, but someone the dog knew and wasn't bothered by. More generally, that would relate to the lack of something usual sometimes being just as important as the presence of something unusual--kind of related to Asperger's in a round-about way.
The ages of the kids as actors should not be that big an issue to filming because the main characters rotate somewhat through the series as Aslan indicates that certain of them will not be coming back again. Here are the main characters in each of the books:
Lion Witch Wardrobe
-Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy
Prince Caspian
-Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
-Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace Scrubb(cousin)
Silver Chair
-Eustace, Jill Pole
Last Battle
-Eustace, Jill
Those are the stories in the main chronology. There are two flashback books--Magician's nephew and Horse and His Boy. Magician's nephew takes place way before any of the others, so the characters(Digory and Polly) do not have to be represented as children again.
For Horse and His Boy, it does have Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy in it as minor characters as it takes place in a time period contained within Lion Witch and the Wardrobe. In the IMDB listing for the LWW, they have already indicated that they have separate adult actors playing the four main characters during that time period where they have ruled in Narnia for years and years before returning home through the wardrobe.
"1. Breaks"
Actually, I think things being broken on your car is probably more likely to cause crashes.
Gack. A. The word is copyright because it's about the right to copy. and B. This is a trademark, not a copyright.