I speak a bit of French, but struggle to understand it spoken at full speed by natural speakers. I imagine it is similar for people who only speak a bit of English.
This doesn't make me pity the labels. It makes me wonder why they don't do a better job. As I understand it, we basically pay the labels to filter through all the music and find the good stuff for us. For that, they get a cut of our money.
While predicting the tastes of the public is certainly not an exact science, I can't help but feel screwed. We pay them to find good music and then we pay them much more because it's really hard?
I came across a stream for a Korean channel a few months ago and watched a couple of their televised Warcraft III games. It was really just like watching sport. Most of the telecast was spent watching the game action, but they would regularly cut to the competitors' poker faces. They also had live stats about the game and flashy little animated updates etc etc...
I don't speak Korean, so I'm not sure what the commentary was like, but it seemed what you'd expect from any football game. Maybe three guys, one doing a play by play and the others making comments every now and then. One thing I did find interesting was how 'into' the game the commentators got. At critical moments they would just go nuts like they were 8 year olds at a birthday party.
This article appeared on slashdot, and was largely misunderstood at the time. I'm not surprised that after a few months it is being referred to with even more venom and misinformation.
The article did comment on technologies like SMS and IM allowing word of mouth reviews to spread between friends quickly. It was never suggested by the industry figure interviewed that the technologies be illegal, or even that the public were doing anything wrong. It was used as part of an explanation for the different trends in box office takings for modern movies. Blockbusters relied very heavily on opening weekend takings and dropped of dramatically if they weren't well liked. Conversely, smaller high quality movies could build up an increased public interest.
Not meaning any disrespect to the poster, but I really hate seeing this brand of pseudo-propaganda; whether it's a troll or not. It makes me question alot of the things I read here, particularly reagarding the widely disliked parties like RIAA, MPAA, SCO and Microsoft.
When Aragorn took his tumble into the river and was assumed dead in Two Towers, I took it to mean that he wouldn't be taking the Paths of the Dead and assumed dead in RotK. The article mentions the beginning of this scene in the movie.
Knowing this, is there any reason the river scene was added to the two towers except as a lapse of judgement?
You cannot do it by measuring the dimensions of the magnetron cavities, because the calculation of the frequency based on dimensions assumes the thing you are trying to work out - the speed of light. Frequency counters that go up to 2.5GHz are a bit difficult to come by in most homes. One possibility might be to extract some energy from the cavity using a suitable antenna and mix it with the clock signal from a 2.4 or 2.53GHz motherboard, then try and pick up the resulting beat signal using a short wave or VHF radio. However, I'm not at all sure how to get the signal out of the P4.
So I understand you are nitpicking at the details of what is a cool demonstration. What I don't understand is why you would accept the marked clock rating of a crystal, but not a microwave.
I really liked the experiment - it demonstrates a couple of phenomena - standing waves, microwave operation, calculates "c" and, I think most importantly, shows physics isn't just something in a lab.
It should be pointed out that Einstein in addition to helping at the start of QM (the photoelectric effect and brownian motion)
I wouldn't say that the discovery of the photoelectric effect helped establish quantum mechanics any more than Newton's laws helped establish special relativity. The structure of the atom and energy levels and behaviour of electrons is a focal point of QM. However, the three processes of photon absorbtion, emission and stimulated emission described by Einstein were based on the Bohr model.
The revolutionary new pavement defect detecting system has also made waves with its bold choice of transportation. Pavement management services were originally going to use a 1997 Mitsubishi Pajero, however after consulting with the team's driver James Smith, they decided to go with an older model Holden Jackaroo.
"My experience with Mitsubishis is limited. I have been a Holden driver since 1993 and I have considerable experience driving their vehicles," Smith said. "In any case, I don't think that I would have undertaken a task like this, where a car is on the road, using anything but a familiar vehicle."
Chromatic dispersion (Different wavelengths traveling at different speeds) and modal dispersion (Different modes traveling at different speeds.) are two different mechanisms.
While eliminating modal dispersion won't eliminate chromatic dispersion, IIRC, modal dispersion is a MUCH larger effect than chromatic dispersion. (From what I recall from three years ago, it was an order of magnitude more - I'd have to dig up my old notebooks from my optics class.)
Also, there's no way to reverse modal dispersion, while chromatic dispersion can be reversed by using fiber of two different materials - One that causes longer wavelengths to travel faster, and a second one that causes longer wavelengths to travel slower, reversing the effects of dispersion in the first section of fiber.
I think you're right, modal dispersion has a much larger affect on propagation, but it can be eliminated - by using single mode fibre.
Actually, in reality the light travels in the same speed, but certain modes travel longer distances due to the way they bounce within the waveguide
I believe that chromatic dispersion occurs independantly of the path through the fibre the different modes take. Depending on the free spectral range and fibre length, this dispersion may or may not be significant.
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I speak a bit of French, but struggle to understand it spoken at full speed by natural speakers. I imagine it is similar for people who only speak a bit of English.
It might just be a Queensland thing.
This doesn't make me pity the labels. It makes me wonder why they don't do a better job. As I understand it, we basically pay the labels to filter through all the music and find the good stuff for us. For that, they get a cut of our money.
While predicting the tastes of the public is certainly not an exact science, I can't help but feel screwed. We pay them to find good music and then we pay them much more because it's really hard?
I came across a stream for a Korean channel a few months ago and watched a couple of their televised Warcraft III games. It was really just like watching sport. Most of the telecast was spent watching the game action, but they would regularly cut to the competitors' poker faces. They also had live stats about the game and flashy little animated updates etc etc...
I don't speak Korean, so I'm not sure what the commentary was like, but it seemed what you'd expect from any football game. Maybe three guys, one doing a play by play and the others making comments every now and then. One thing I did find interesting was how 'into' the game the commentators got. At critical moments they would just go nuts like they were 8 year olds at a birthday party.
This article appeared on slashdot, and was largely misunderstood at the time. I'm not surprised that after a few months it is being referred to with even more venom and misinformation.
The article did comment on technologies like SMS and IM allowing word of mouth reviews to spread between friends quickly. It was never suggested by the industry figure interviewed that the technologies be illegal, or even that the public were doing anything wrong. It was used as part of an explanation for the different trends in box office takings for modern movies. Blockbusters relied very heavily on opening weekend takings and dropped of dramatically if they weren't well liked. Conversely, smaller high quality movies could build up an increased public interest.
Not meaning any disrespect to the poster, but I really hate seeing this brand of pseudo-propaganda; whether it's a troll or not. It makes me question alot of the things I read here, particularly reagarding the widely disliked parties like RIAA, MPAA, SCO and Microsoft.
When Aragorn took his tumble into the river and was assumed dead in Two Towers, I took it to mean that he wouldn't be taking the Paths of the Dead and assumed dead in RotK. The article mentions the beginning of this scene in the movie. Knowing this, is there any reason the river scene was added to the two towers except as a lapse of judgement?
The revolutionary new pavement defect detecting system has also made waves with its bold choice of transportation. Pavement management services were originally going to use a 1997 Mitsubishi Pajero, however after consulting with the team's driver James Smith, they decided to go with an older model Holden Jackaroo.
"My experience with Mitsubishis is limited. I have been a Holden driver since 1993 and I have considerable experience driving their vehicles," Smith said. "In any case, I don't think that I would have undertaken a task like this, where a car is on the road, using anything but a familiar vehicle."