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After Googling for a minute I stumbled across a few ideas for how this aircraft is going to operate. It seem that by changing the aerodynamics of the aircraft, they'll be able to reduce the sonic boom. Northrop Grumman modified an F-5E supersonic fighter jet to give it a pelican shaped nose and it reduced the sonic boom characteristics by 1/3 without reducing engine efficiency.
For a decent description of what a sonic boom is and some pretty kick-ass pictures, give this a shot. joe
In a retail environment, both the "more like this" and the "music taste test" can be efficiently presented on in-store terminals, or on a retail website. The same technique could be applied to many other situations, such as automatically recommending songs from a personal collection as a playlist, or anywhere that commonalities between pieces of music can be useful.
Now, call me a cynic but i see a very high possibility for corruption in the retail market. When the public gets a taste for their product, the recording industry can just use it for more marketing. All they have to do is insert what they want the public to think is going to be "the next big thing" and someone will bite, causing a trend. Maybe I should find my tinfoil hat?
I have to agree with the parent poster. I know kids (well, youth) do some messed up shit. I'm one of those kids. I've had my share of mistakes and my share of SERIOUS fuck-ups. My family wasn't in the position of tending to my every action because, quite frankly, they were too busy keeping a roof over our heads. I think that all 3 of us children turned out alright. I learned from the mistakes of those around me. I know that some people aren't quite as virtuous but that's a chance a parent has to take. It's called the School of Hard Knocks. If a child doesn't learn his or her own lessons when they're younger, then they won't be insightful enough to learn when they're old enough. It's not that the child wants FULL freedom or FULL privacy, but it's up to the parent to know where to draw the line and to see whether they should draw the line or not. The parent isn't an omniprescent being to sheild the child from every danger.
Like the wise Jeff Foxworthy said: "Let's em pull it over on 'emselves a time or two. They'll learn."
Shit, as an American, you're preaching to the choir buddy. I'm glad that someone has the cojones to stand up to them. Maybe the EU won't be bought out. Wishful thinking as it may be, we can only hope. I'm a Windows user but the DRM/Spyware "functions" of the OS are getting a little hard to handle. Just my.02.
*snip* There is a limit to how small something can get before you just start losing it./*snip*
It's simple, put it in a rubberized case that fits on a keychain. That takes care of the losing it factor, as well as it getting scratched. It'll also add marketability as well, seeing as how a market could develop with a 1cm^2 audio storage media. Sure beats a big assed clunky CD case.
I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but it seems as if the Chinese government is looking to develop a more cost effective way of travelling in space as well.
*snip*Here the satellite probes solar energetic particles, plasma in solar wind, and the interaction between the solar wind and the moon and between the tail of the magnetic field of the earth and the moon.*/snip*
I'm no rocket scientist but there's a few here. Care to take a stab at this?
But the thing is, SOMEONE with the financial power to put the Unix codebase to use might want to put SCO to the test. These guys can mod me d0wn as -1 Redundant if they want but this question hasn't been answered. Longhorn has been in the Alpha stages for a little while now but what would a little *nix code that's legally owned by a certain company hurt? at least they don't have to GPL their source.
Am I alone in the feeling that SCO's just looking to be annoying enough to get a buyout? I mean, seriously. They've become a thorn in the side of IBM; no buyout. Why not move to another prospect with as big or even bigger pockets: Hollywood!
The Sun cut loose with three severe flares in less than 24 hours through Monday morning, bringing to nine the number of major eruptions in less than two weeks.
Scientists have never witnessed a string of activity like this.
Colorful aurora are expected to grace the skies at high latitudes and possibly into lower portions of the United States and Europe over the next two or three nights. Satellites and power grids could once again be put at risk.
Early Monday, Paal Brekke, deputy project manager of the SOHO spacecraft, was still digesting the significance of the three additional outbursts on top of two back-to-back monster flares Oct. 28 and 29.
A major solar eruption early on Nov. 3, 2003, flung a cloud of expanding, hot gas into space. The myriad white spots are protons ahead of the storm slamming into the spacecraft's imager. Credit: NASA/ESA/SOHO
A space storm can only achieve full potential if its magnetic field is oriented south, opposite to that of Earth's protective magnetosphere which always points north.
"I think the last week will go into the history books as one of the most dramatic periods of solar activity we have seen in modern time," Brekke told SPACE.com.
None of the latest eruptions was aimed directly at Earth, but glancing blows are expected.
By the numbers
The flares this week began with an X8 event at 12:25 p.m. ET Sunday. On this scale, all X-storms are severe, and the number indicates the degree of severity. An X3 flare erupted at 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
Reports of the third flare are preliminary. It left the Sun at 4:55 a.m. Monday and is estimated to be an X4. The trio of outbursts comes within a week of the unprecedented, back-to-back severe flares rated X17 and X10.
The first four flares in this long, amazing series date back to Oct. 22 and were ranked less than X2.
All flares of this magnitude are capable of disrupting communications systems and power grids and harming satellites. Two Japanese satellite failures and a power outage in Sweden were blamed on the first six storms.
The new flares were accompanied by coronal mass ejections of charged particles that take anywhere from 18 hours to two or three days to reach Earth. These CMEs represent the brunt of the storm unleashed by a flare.
A storm's precise strength, however, cannot be known until about 30 minutes before it strikes and depends on the orientation of its magnetic field. If that field is southward -- opposite the direction of Earth's north-pointing magnetic field -- then the potential is greatest for accelerating the local particles that can then damage satellites and fuel aurora. More aurora
Scientists said the eruptions will generate increased auroras, the colorful Northern and Southern Lights excited by fast-moving particles, beginning midday Monday and into Tuesday and beyond. The lights shine because particles excite gas molecules in the atmosphere.
The chance of severe geomagnetic storming -- the root of auroras -- at middle latitudes is 30 percent Monday and 50 percent Tuesday, according to NOAA's Space Environment Center. The precise extent of the aurora at any moment can't be predicted, but it can be seen in real time with SPACE.com's Aurora Cam.
The fist flare Sunday was generated by Sunspot 486, which was the site of last week's major storms. The one late Sunday came from Sunspot 488, which is huge but has not been a major player until now. Monday's flare also leapt from Sunspot 488.
Both sunspots are about to rotate off the right side of the Sun's face, so their associated CMEs were not aimed squarely at Earth. However, these clouds of hot gas expand as they race into space at up to 5 million mph, so at least some effect at Earth is predicted.
Sunspots are dark, cooler regions of the solar surface. They are areas of pent-up magnetic activity, caps on upwelling matter and energy that can blow at any moment.
No scientist can recall nine X-class flares ever occurring in a 12-day period. More major flares are possible this week, forecasters said.
Funniest thing happened to me: I was on a thousand mile road trip and Mapquest got me lost in West Virginia. Needless to say, the tune of Dueling Banjo's and some choice scenes from Deliverance was all I needed to get to Ohio without a pee break.
Purely speculation, but what are the chances of SCO selling M$ their source code along with this trail of FUD? It'll be a double-edged sword for M$, they get to give Linux a bad name through litigation (though indirectly) AND get to seed some UNIX source into the new Longhorn OS (Which could be why the release date was pushed back). Maybe it's just b/s conspiracy theory?
Like a creative writer who spends too much time selecting the "right" word processor and focusing on page layout, I can't help but wonder whether some "music creators" (and their listeners) would be better served if they concentrated more on the muse of music and less on the toolset of the recording engineer.
The exact thing you pointed out is why I stick to only a few pieces of software. I use Reason 2.0 and Cubase SX for my main production programs. Any new synths I need, I can download them in the form of VSTi's (Virtual Studio Technology instruments. There's always going to be a huge learning curve for something as complex as music making. You don't think the hardware producers make all that snazzy music with just a Drum Machine and a Synth, do you? Those "composers" don't just pull music out of their ass..
P.S. I know there's Engineers for that, but they don't know exactly the pad or the bass drop you're looking for.
I'm TOTALLY agreeing with the judge on this one. Why make a distinction between Not For Profits and Commercial callers? That's just like them making the decision of who we can and can't talk to. I want to be able to tell everyone that's calling me out of a list to just PISS OFF.
In such situations, the correct thing to do is really to deal the legislation, so that the citizens can sort themselves into groups based on their views and make coherent presentations of their concerns.
What the EFF are you going on about? If they hear from just a FEW representatives, then they can't feel the actual gravity of the situation at hand. Isn't that what your elected official is there for? To bring the insights of their district to the table? My hat goes off to anyone who actually spoke out to your MEP.
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After Googling for a minute I stumbled across a few ideas for how this aircraft is going to operate. It seem that by changing the aerodynamics of the aircraft, they'll be able to reduce the sonic boom. Northrop Grumman modified an F-5E supersonic fighter jet to give it a pelican shaped nose and it reduced the sonic boom characteristics by 1/3 without reducing engine efficiency.
For a decent description of what a sonic boom is and some pretty kick-ass pictures, give this a shot.
joe
From the article.
In a retail environment, both the "more like this" and the "music taste test" can be efficiently presented on in-store terminals, or on a retail website. The same technique could be applied to many other situations, such as automatically recommending songs from a personal collection as a playlist, or anywhere that commonalities between pieces of music can be useful.
Now, call me a cynic but i see a very high possibility for corruption in the retail market. When the public gets a taste for their product, the recording industry can just use it for more marketing. All they have to do is insert what they want the public to think is going to be "the next big thing" and someone will bite, causing a trend. Maybe I should find my tinfoil hat?
I'm curious about something: sure radiation travels out in all directions, but isn't there a way to vector the blast?
I have to agree with the parent poster. I know kids (well, youth) do some messed up shit. I'm one of those kids. I've had my share of mistakes and my share of SERIOUS fuck-ups. My family wasn't in the position of tending to my every action because, quite frankly, they were too busy keeping a roof over our heads. I think that all 3 of us children turned out alright. I learned from the mistakes of those around me. I know that some people aren't quite as virtuous but that's a chance a parent has to take. It's called the School of Hard Knocks. If a child doesn't learn his or her own lessons when they're younger, then they won't be insightful enough to learn when they're old enough. It's not that the child wants FULL freedom or FULL privacy, but it's up to the parent to know where to draw the line and to see whether they should draw the line or not. The parent isn't an omniprescent being to sheild the child from every danger.
Like the wise Jeff Foxworthy said: "Let's em pull it over on 'emselves a time or two. They'll learn."
joe
Shit, as an American, you're preaching to the choir buddy. I'm glad that someone has the cojones to stand up to them. Maybe the EU won't be bought out. Wishful thinking as it may be, we can only hope. I'm a Windows user but the DRM/Spyware "functions" of the OS are getting a little hard to handle. Just my .02.
joe
*snip* There is a limit to how small something can get before you just start losing it. /*snip*
It's simple, put it in a rubberized case that fits on a keychain. That takes care of the losing it factor, as well as it getting scratched. It'll also add marketability as well, seeing as how a market could develop with a 1cm^2 audio storage media. Sure beats a big assed clunky CD case.
I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but it seems as if the Chinese government is looking to develop a more cost effective way of travelling in space as well.
*snip*Here the satellite probes solar energetic particles, plasma in solar wind, and the interaction between the solar wind and the moon and between the tail of the magnetic field of the earth and the moon.*/snip*
I'm no rocket scientist but there's a few here. Care to take a stab at this?
Sure wish i knew mexican :T
But the thing is, SOMEONE with the financial power to put the Unix codebase to use might want to put SCO to the test. These guys can mod me d0wn as -1 Redundant if they want but this question hasn't been answered. Longhorn has been in the Alpha stages for a little while now but what would a little *nix code that's legally owned by a certain company hurt? at least they don't have to GPL their source.
Am I alone in the feeling that SCO's just looking to be annoying enough to get a buyout? I mean, seriously. They've become a thorn in the side of IBM; no buyout. Why not move to another prospect with as big or even bigger pockets: Hollywood!
Not to kill the joke but, What kind of implications does this have on our weather patterns if any?
From the article:
The Sun cut loose with three severe flares in less than 24 hours through Monday morning, bringing to nine the number of major eruptions in less than two weeks.
Scientists have never witnessed a string of activity like this.
Colorful aurora are expected to grace the skies at high latitudes and possibly into lower portions of the United States and Europe over the next two or three nights. Satellites and power grids could once again be put at risk.
Early Monday, Paal Brekke, deputy project manager of the SOHO spacecraft, was still digesting the significance of the three additional outbursts on top of two back-to-back monster flares Oct. 28 and 29.
A major solar eruption early on Nov. 3, 2003, flung a cloud of expanding, hot gas into space. The myriad white spots are protons ahead of the storm slamming into the spacecraft's imager. Credit: NASA/ESA/SOHO
A space storm can only achieve full potential if its magnetic field is oriented south, opposite to that of Earth's protective magnetosphere which always points north.
"I think the last week will go into the history books as one of the most dramatic periods of solar activity we have seen in modern time," Brekke told SPACE.com.
None of the latest eruptions was aimed directly at Earth, but glancing blows are expected.
By the numbers
The flares this week began with an X8 event at 12:25 p.m. ET Sunday. On this scale, all X-storms are severe, and the number indicates the degree of severity. An X3 flare erupted at 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
Reports of the third flare are preliminary. It left the Sun at 4:55 a.m. Monday and is estimated to be an X4. The trio of outbursts comes within a week of the unprecedented, back-to-back severe flares rated X17 and X10.
The first four flares in this long, amazing series date back to Oct. 22 and were ranked less than X2.
All flares of this magnitude are capable of disrupting communications systems and power grids and harming satellites. Two Japanese satellite failures and a power outage in Sweden were blamed on the first six storms.
The new flares were accompanied by coronal mass ejections of charged particles that take anywhere from 18 hours to two or three days to reach Earth. These CMEs represent the brunt of the storm unleashed by a flare.
A storm's precise strength, however, cannot be known until about 30 minutes before it strikes and depends on the orientation of its magnetic field. If that field is southward -- opposite the direction of Earth's north-pointing magnetic field -- then the potential is greatest for accelerating the local particles that can then damage satellites and fuel aurora.
More aurora
Scientists said the eruptions will generate increased auroras, the colorful Northern and Southern Lights excited by fast-moving particles, beginning midday Monday and into Tuesday and beyond. The lights shine because particles excite gas molecules in the atmosphere.
The chance of severe geomagnetic storming -- the root of auroras -- at middle latitudes is 30 percent Monday and 50 percent Tuesday, according to NOAA's Space Environment Center. The precise extent of the aurora at any moment can't be predicted, but it can be seen in real time with SPACE.com's Aurora Cam.
The fist flare Sunday was generated by Sunspot 486, which was the site of last week's major storms. The one late Sunday came from Sunspot 488, which is huge but has not been a major player until now. Monday's flare also leapt from Sunspot 488.
Both sunspots are about to rotate off the right side of the Sun's face, so their associated CMEs were not aimed squarely at Earth. However, these clouds of hot gas expand as they race into space at up to 5 million mph, so at least some effect at Earth is predicted.
Sunspots are dark, cooler regions of the solar surface. They are areas of pent-up magnetic activity, caps on upwelling matter and energy that can blow at any moment.
No scientist can recall nine X-class flares ever occurring in a 12-day period. More major flares are possible this week, forecasters said.
Yes but it has implications, if they take action against spam, they must take action against kiddie porn, warez etc.
One step at a time, my friend. One step at a time.
yanno.. i was scammed like that too. i saw a GNAA link to yahoo and it took me to the goatse guy... i still have nightmares. oh the humanity ;\
Funniest thing happened to me: I was on a thousand mile road trip and Mapquest got me lost in West Virginia. Needless to say, the tune of Dueling Banjo's and some choice scenes from Deliverance was all I needed to get to Ohio without a pee break.
Purely speculation, but what are the chances of SCO selling M$ their source code along with this trail of FUD? It'll be a double-edged sword for M$, they get to give Linux a bad name through litigation (though indirectly) AND get to seed some UNIX source into the new Longhorn OS (Which could be why the release date was pushed back). Maybe it's just b/s conspiracy theory?
Like a creative writer who spends too much time selecting the "right" word processor and focusing on page layout, I can't help but wonder whether some "music creators" (and their listeners) would be better served if they concentrated more on the muse of music and less on the toolset of the recording engineer.
The exact thing you pointed out is why I stick to only a few pieces of software. I use Reason 2.0 and Cubase SX for my main production programs. Any new synths I need, I can download them in the form of VSTi's (Virtual Studio Technology instruments. There's always going to be a huge learning curve for something as complex as music making. You don't think the hardware producers make all that snazzy music with just a Drum Machine and a Synth, do you? Those "composers" don't just pull music out of their ass..
P.S. I know there's Engineers for that, but they don't know exactly the pad or the bass drop you're looking for.
DBG
Last time I checked, LSD doesn't make you stupid, just crazy.
"Sorry folks, Quicktime 6 only"
DAMN YOU SCUBA STEVE JOBS!!!!
on an unrelated note, i hate that caps lameness filter
"preumttaions"
ahhhh yes, you are a sneaky one
I'm TOTALLY agreeing with the judge on this one. Why make a distinction between Not For Profits and Commercial callers? That's just like them making the decision of who we can and can't talk to. I want to be able to tell everyone that's calling me out of a list to just PISS OFF.
Wasn't that the kid who kept stealin Freddy's bike on scooby doo?
Still many use Kazaa Lite K++ for file sharing, are they too in violation of the license agreement?
Yea, this is true.. but those jokers using K++ aren't tryin to sue everyone that's usin Kazaa. They'll be dealt with later.
In such situations, the correct thing to do is really to deal the legislation, so that the citizens can sort themselves into groups based on their views and make coherent presentations of their concerns.
What the EFF are you going on about? If they hear from just a FEW representatives, then they can't feel the actual gravity of the situation at hand. Isn't that what your elected official is there for? To bring the insights of their district to the table? My hat goes off to anyone who actually spoke out to your MEP.
don't worry... it'll pass :D