I'm gonna have to counter that. "Selling out their soul?" How do you think Google can pay for their operation cost and make money if they're not going to have ad? They actually made it their point not to include flashy graphic ads already! How much more do you want? Persoanlly, I don't mind about those text ad. Speaking of selling out soul (I don't want to start a flame... but here goes), how about Slashdot? We have big flashy ads, but I don't hear people complaining. As for pagerank and advertisers trying to beat it. For one, blogs bomb it by accident sometimes, but that could be easily remedied in the future (create a "gray list" of blog sites, and user get to say whether they want blog result or not). As for advertiser, I don't think they're quite successful at Google bombing Google (they just make the webpage they're google bombing with on the black list... BANG, no more lousy advertisers, remember SearchKing.com lawsuit?). As for your argument how other search engine got neglected, how about Google when they start out? They got where they are now through their reputation alone, doesn't that count for something?
I would agree, but you must understand one thing. Compare to other company, Google is doing very well. I won't say Google is perfect (I would bet there are some website google didn't find), but at least they try to be. Secondly, the Personalized feature isn't mandatory, you can use it if you want or not.
I think the reason is that that phrase is used by other website with better link/connection (not link farm) with other websites, plus they might have updated quite frequently. I don't think Hamlet/Shakespeare website get updated a lot. Add another term such as Hamlet or Shakespeare gives you a good result on top.
There could be a possibility that the only way they can search for geography is through IP. And perhaps Canada and US shared so many IPs that Google can't distinguish it. You can't look at physical geography. You need to look at Internet "geography".
Maybe they did list you under Polar region. Canada is pretty close to the pole (I think part of Canada is in the pole...). Maybe they include Canada because Polar region encompass so little population or internet, that they decided maybe including Canada can boost that number up. Then again, there's Russia... I don't see Russia... is it in Europe or is it in Asia?
Read more carefully, the key note is that WHEN the pressure/density of gas is constant, the speed of sound in a gas is proportional to the square root of the absolute tempreature.
Actually, a different type of engine (PDE, pulse detonation engine) might be good for military for vehicle that doesn't need that high velocity but require a very long range. Bascially instead of burning the fuel (combusting it), it creates thousands of "bomb" per seconds to propell the vehicle. PDE have a ridiculously high fuel efficiency (80~90%) compare to other jet engine (~30% or even lower). So for military, especailly for surveillance, long range weapon, PDE might be a better choice then scramjet.
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Human could withstand roughly 9G vertical (for a short period) in a flight suit without passing out. Astronaut can withstand around 13G since they're literally lying down. So with the right equipment, 9G vertical and 13G horizontal, of course, it'll be no where close to being comfortable.
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Actually if you count acceleration in a horizontal sense, earth provides 1G, 1G horizontal, the passenger will felt around 1.3G of force on them, which is not much. (Some people might get a thrill out of it "WEEEE!")
ramjet and scramjet are essentially the same, they both compress air by their own velocity (unlike normal jet engine, which compress air with the engine's own turbofan, which cause a waste in energy). The only difference is that... Ramjet has a combustion chamber that slow the air down before combusting it. It's designed so that the fuel/air combo is combusted at subsonic speed. Scramjet does not have a special combustion chamber, the fuel was combusted with air traveling the supersonic speed (hence the problem of the fuel being blown out the engine before it can be burned). So I think ramjet would also make a similar puffy smoke trail as scramjet.
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The reason is that they're not testing the airframe at all (it's built to be as simple and light as possible), they're just testing whether the engine can even light or not. That was their past problem, scramjet in past can't operate past mach 6.
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You're right, scramjet didn't accerlerate to mach 7, the only thing they're testing is that CAN scramjet operate when the air flowing through it is at mach 7. Because in the past, the major problem with scramjet is that when it approaches mach 6, the speed of the airflow literally snuff out the engine. Now they seems to be able to keep the scram jey burning at mach 7 (now they just need that thrust).
Thank for pointing that out (no I'm not being sarcastic, I'm make those mistakes a lot.) but either way, what I meant to say was. "It was literally LIKE looking for a grain of pepper in a sea of salt."
since among fasubbers, they have a decree that if an Anime is licensed in state (or whatever country they're doing the translation for)
Not anymore. That was prehaps the reason why fansubbing was tolerated up til 1995 or so.
I know some fansub groups still follow that decree.
they'll stop all work and cease distribution
Today that idea's a joke. Yes, the fansubbers themselves will cease work/distribution. But once the files have been released onto the internet, P2Pers will keep distributing as long as it's popular.
Well, fansubbers weren't at fault here, most still have a statement asking all who have their work to stop distribution.
Also, that "rule" made more sense back when anime was rarely licensed for America. Today there are many titles that obviously have a US release written into their business plan from the start (none moreso than "Big O" volume 2)
I don't think Big O or other anime that was intended to be released here was fansubbed...
On a side note, the reason why many fansubber deviate from their original doctrine is that many anime, unintended to be dubbed to US, was extremely badly dubbed by companies here. (to name a few... "CardCaptors" "Sailor Moon" etc.) Mostly because the cultural differences (affection between people of same sex is not considered gay, it's normal for siblings to marry each other... lots of other stuff and cultural differences)
P.S. I know about these from a friend who's in a fansub group that still followed the unwritten rule.
I'm not against the long time period of copyright for written work and songs, I'm against it when it's applied to software. Anyone here can name 10 softwares written 15 years ago that still works on moderm P4 computers?
That and in a lot of other countries, mostly in Asia, the operating system of choice is still Windows, pirated. The funniest one? Phillipine wants to stop piracy, asked Microsoft for help. Microsoft went over and asked to use their computer, what did they find? Pirated windows, office...
Unfortunately since I already posted, I can't mod you up. But I will agree with you in full. In retrospect, we have been trying to defend an action that illegal, unethical, and in-moral. Just that the tactic by the RIAA and government in their attempt to circumvent this was so drastic, unjust, and unpopular that we defend piracy just for the sake of being disobedient. On the other side of the coin, the cost of the song is somewhat ridiculous as the current pricing goes. Mac music store does not work with other MP3 players, other format has so much crippling for the amount I pay for them, I rather buy tickets ($15 ~ $50) to see a quality play ("Phantom of the Opera" gotta find a time to watch that).
Bush is religious, therefore Republican need to act somewhat religious, so PORN is evil in their eyes.
I'm religious, but porn's not my problem so I could care less if its made illegal. As for you, find some other form of entertainment or at least, get married, then you can get some actions.
Public health and safety are also directly threatened by business models that tempt children toward piracy and pornography and then use them as "human shields" against law enforcement.
Eh... what? Someone need a lesson in logical thinking. What business models is this, it sounds like he's implying that the RIAA and MPAA are tempting children towards piracy and pornography.
We have the largest jail, yes, but the reason that most other countries, mostly in Asia/Middle East/Africa and maybe in Europe, don't have a lot of prison is that instead of getting a jail sentence, they kill them. So let's compare graveyard... wait, we can't, no one documents execution in countries where the solution is to kill them off.
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I'm gonna have to counter that. "Selling out their soul?" How do you think Google can pay for their operation cost and make money if they're not going to have ad? They actually made it their point not to include flashy graphic ads already! How much more do you want? Persoanlly, I don't mind about those text ad. Speaking of selling out soul (I don't want to start a flame... but here goes), how about Slashdot? We have big flashy ads, but I don't hear people complaining. As for pagerank and advertisers trying to beat it. For one, blogs bomb it by accident sometimes, but that could be easily remedied in the future (create a "gray list" of blog sites, and user get to say whether they want blog result or not). As for advertiser, I don't think they're quite successful at Google bombing Google (they just make the webpage they're google bombing with on the black list... BANG, no more lousy advertisers, remember SearchKing.com lawsuit?).
As for your argument how other search engine got neglected, how about Google when they start out? They got where they are now through their reputation alone, doesn't that count for something?
I would agree, but you must understand one thing.
Compare to other company, Google is doing very well.
I won't say Google is perfect (I would bet there are some website google didn't find), but at least they try to be. Secondly, the Personalized feature isn't mandatory, you can use it if you want or not.
I think the reason is that that phrase is used by other website with better link/connection (not link farm) with other websites, plus they might have updated quite frequently. I don't think Hamlet/Shakespeare website get updated a lot. Add another term such as Hamlet or Shakespeare gives you a good result on top.
There could be a possibility that the only way they can search for geography is through IP. And perhaps Canada and US shared so many IPs that Google can't distinguish it.
You can't look at physical geography. You need to look at Internet "geography".
Maybe they did list you under Polar region. Canada is pretty close to the pole (I think part of Canada is in the pole...). Maybe they include Canada because Polar region encompass so little population or internet, that they decided maybe including Canada can boost that number up. Then again, there's Russia... I don't see Russia... is it in Europe or is it in Asia?
Read more carefully, the key note is that WHEN the pressure/density of gas is constant, the speed of sound in a gas is proportional to the square root of the absolute tempreature.
That's a CNN screwup, but I think what they meant to say is "..., as an air breathing vehicle..."
They never put hydrogen as a gas in there. Even the rockets powering the space shuttle uses liquid hydrogen, which is actually very dense and heavy.
Actually, a different type of engine (PDE, pulse detonation engine) might be good for military for vehicle that doesn't need that high velocity but require a very long range. Bascially instead of burning the fuel (combusting it), it creates thousands of "bomb" per seconds to propell the vehicle. PDE have a ridiculously high fuel efficiency (80~90%) compare to other jet engine (~30% or even lower). So for military, especailly for surveillance, long range weapon, PDE might be a better choice then scramjet.
Human could withstand roughly 9G vertical (for a short period) in a flight suit without passing out. Astronaut can withstand around 13G since they're literally lying down. So with the right equipment, 9G vertical and 13G horizontal, of course, it'll be no where close to being comfortable.
Actually if you count acceleration in a horizontal sense, earth provides 1G, 1G horizontal, the passenger will felt around 1.3G of force on them, which is not much. (Some people might get a thrill out of it "WEEEE!")
I think Concorde already use ramjet.
ramjet and scramjet are essentially the same, they both compress air by their own velocity (unlike normal jet engine, which compress air with the engine's own turbofan, which cause a waste in energy).
The only difference is that...
Ramjet has a combustion chamber that slow the air down before combusting it. It's designed so that the fuel/air combo is combusted at subsonic speed.
Scramjet does not have a special combustion chamber, the fuel was combusted with air traveling the supersonic speed (hence the problem of the fuel being blown out the engine before it can be burned).
So I think ramjet would also make a similar puffy smoke trail as scramjet.
The reason is that they're not testing the airframe at all (it's built to be as simple and light as possible), they're just testing whether the engine can even light or not. That was their past problem, scramjet in past can't operate past mach 6.
You're right, scramjet didn't accerlerate to mach 7, the only thing they're testing is that CAN scramjet operate when the air flowing through it is at mach 7. Because in the past, the major problem with scramjet is that when it approaches mach 6, the speed of the airflow literally snuff out the engine. Now they seems to be able to keep the scram jey burning at mach 7 (now they just need that thrust).
Thank for pointing that out (no I'm not being sarcastic, I'm make those mistakes a lot.) but either way, what I meant to say was.
"It was literally LIKE looking for a grain of pepper in a sea of salt."
since among fasubbers, they have a decree that if an Anime is licensed in state (or whatever country they're doing the translation for)
Not anymore. That was prehaps the reason why fansubbing was tolerated up til 1995 or so.
I know some fansub groups still follow that decree.
they'll stop all work and cease distribution
Today that idea's a joke. Yes, the fansubbers themselves will cease work/distribution. But once the files have been released onto the internet, P2Pers will keep distributing as long as it's popular.
Well, fansubbers weren't at fault here, most still have a statement asking all who have their work to stop distribution.
Also, that "rule" made more sense back when anime was rarely licensed for America. Today there are many titles that obviously have a US release written into their business plan from the start (none moreso than "Big O" volume 2)
I don't think Big O or other anime that was intended to be released here was fansubbed...
On a side note, the reason why many fansubber deviate from their original doctrine is that many anime, unintended to be dubbed to US, was extremely badly dubbed by companies here. (to name a few... "CardCaptors" "Sailor Moon" etc.) Mostly because the cultural differences (affection between people of same sex is not considered gay, it's normal for siblings to marry each other... lots of other stuff and cultural differences)
P.S. I know about these from a friend who's in a fansub group that still followed the unwritten rule.
I bet you're not one of the following.
1. Author
2. Artist
3. Programmer
4. Painter
Without copyright, I will bet pretty soon, there won't be much of a career as author, artist, nor painter.
I'm not against the long time period of copyright for written work and songs, I'm against it when it's applied to software. Anyone here can name 10 softwares written 15 years ago that still works on moderm P4 computers?
That and in a lot of other countries, mostly in Asia, the operating system of choice is still Windows, pirated. The funniest one? Phillipine wants to stop piracy, asked Microsoft for help. Microsoft went over and asked to use their computer, what did they find? Pirated windows, office...
Unfortunately since I already posted, I can't mod you up. But I will agree with you in full. In retrospect, we have been trying to defend an action that illegal, unethical, and in-moral. Just that the tactic by the RIAA and government in their attempt to circumvent this was so drastic, unjust, and unpopular that we defend piracy just for the sake of being disobedient. On the other side of the coin, the cost of the song is somewhat ridiculous as the current pricing goes. Mac music store does not work with other MP3 players, other format has so much crippling for the amount I pay for them, I rather buy tickets ($15 ~ $50) to see a quality play ("Phantom of the Opera" gotta find a time to watch that).
Bush is religious, therefore Republican need to act somewhat religious, so PORN is evil in their eyes.
I'm religious, but porn's not my problem so I could care less if its made illegal.
As for you, find some other form of entertainment or at least, get married, then you can get some actions.
Public health and safety are also directly threatened by business models that tempt children toward piracy and pornography and then use them as "human shields" against law enforcement.
Eh... what? Someone need a lesson in logical thinking.
What business models is this, it sounds like he's implying that the RIAA and MPAA are tempting children towards piracy and pornography.
To make the answer short.
The author.
We have the largest jail, yes, but the reason that most other countries, mostly in Asia/Middle East/Africa and maybe in Europe, don't have a lot of prison is that instead of getting a jail sentence, they kill them. So let's compare graveyard... wait, we can't, no one documents execution in countries where the solution is to kill them off.
Um... he didn't change face, he merely welcome the fact that he didn't need to do anything for things to go his way.