there used to be audiobook companies that would record four mono tracks to double the amount of book they could fit on each tape--they'd either sell you a dedicated player, or you could buy an adapter cable that would route left or right to both ears. (it was still available in most radio shacks as of a couple years ago.)
walkmen ate tapes all the time. there were very few models that bothered with detecting a stopped take-up reel. IME, it usually turned out the problem was a millimeter or so of plastic had broken off inside and would get wedged in the reel when the player was at the right angle--digging up the 00 screwdriver and disassembling the cassette was the only permanent solution. occasionally i had to transplant a tape to a different shell if the damage to was too severe.
science "advisor" to Walter Cronkite during the Apollo missions
that's an odd one to throw in. in context, i have to assume that (you think that) that's a bad thing, but in isolation, i'd tend to assume it would be quite the resume booster. details?
i just finished up the midsummer stuff a couple days ago. (i'm on track for the 310% drake (speaking of travel) come hallow's end.) i already had the "all-bonfires" achievements credited from last year, but i still had to do northrend twice (once before the reset, once after), eastern kingdoms, and outland to get enough blossoms to get the pet (not needed, just wanted) and finish the outfit. it was kind of fun making the full trip from booty bay to silvermoon, stopping at almost every zone along the way.
have you done the midsummer achievements yet (or the lunar festival ones back in february)? there's nothing like a grand tour of all four continents to remind you how big the World really is.
reminds me of an old pilot joke: air-traffic control says "come to 4,000 feet and hold". the pilot (an old-school type) says "can i get that in inches"? ATC: "come to 48,000 inches and hold." (for those of you not in the know, he meant "inches of mercury", i.e. altitude expressed as air pressure.)
Yet I've not seen any criticism of Lewis' allegory in their correspondence.
you haven't been reading the right sources. try this search and read the first few links.
that said, anyone who's read the silmarillion and missed the obvious paradise lost influence in the ainulindale is a moron. moreover, the whole world is massively influenced by the medieval "everything was perfect, then there was the Fall, now it's all going to pieces" worldview. (concisely expressed in the phrase "arda marred", as seen in, iirc, the last few sentences of the silmarillion.)
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hmm, that, i'm not so sure about. memory bits get hit randomly, and there's no reason a flip couldn't change the sense of a test, or move some value from positive to negative, or something. not everything's a string. still, the odds of anything other than a random crash or obvious data corruption happening are pretty remote.
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neutrino? i think the odds of a neutrino hitting a transistor are about the same as the odds of a 1000-bed hospital's patients all going into spontaneous remission from everything simultaneously, then living to 120. photons or cosmic rays or something maybe, but neutrinos have a 50-50 chance of getting from here to alpha centauri through solid lead.
It also helped a lot that Germany was a conglomerate of various kingdoms, each of which had different units. On markets near the border between, say, Prussia and Hanover people were sick of converting the Prussian ell (pound, mile etc) into their Hanoverian counterparts, which were usually not quite similar. There is no such pressure in the US. Canada and Mexico are probably too dependent on the US to have an influence.
yeah, that's the part that never really gets coverage in america--it wasn't so much about metric taking over from imperial, when it comes to that, the whole anglosphere were late to the game, america's just the last of the last. the real advantage was standardizing the rest of the world, most of which was still using units that might vary from village to village. just look at how many definitions of league there were.
my take is that imperial, in modern usage, is mostly harmless, since it's been fully standardized, and is often better scaled for regular-life usage. (all the usual arguments--fahrenheit ranges over temperate weather, feet can be cut in thirds, liquid measure actually corresponds to cooking usage, etc.) science is another matter, but there's no reason that a system designed for handling thirty orders of magnitude simultaneously should be forced on people who only need three.
reminds me a bit of a short story where a couple aliens stuck on earth decide to bootstrap us to a tech level that will let them get home. they start by producing a "instant diamond cutter" machine that's actually a transmutation/replication box in disguise--while it will in fact produce finished gems from raw diamonds, it will also produce them from anything else you shove in the input.
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there used to be audiobook companies that would record four mono tracks to double the amount of book they could fit on each tape--they'd either sell you a dedicated player, or you could buy an adapter cable that would route left or right to both ears. (it was still available in most radio shacks as of a couple years ago.)
walkmen ate tapes all the time. there were very few models that bothered with detecting a stopped take-up reel. IME, it usually turned out the problem was a millimeter or so of plastic had broken off inside and would get wedged in the reel when the player was at the right angle--digging up the 00 screwdriver and disassembling the cassette was the only permanent solution. occasionally i had to transplant a tape to a different shell if the damage to was too severe.
the chicken had to get laid before the egg could
will it be a phantom?
Grover's algorithm
on a quantum computer, Grover can go over, under, around, and through all at the same time?
i wanted to name my WoW gnome fire mage 'linacontrapositive", but it wouldn't fit, so i had to go with "linaconverse"
clearly you've never worked in government
science "advisor" to Walter Cronkite during the Apollo missions
that's an odd one to throw in. in context, i have to assume that (you think that) that's a bad thing, but in isolation, i'd tend to assume it would be quite the resume booster. details?
"Once rockets go up
"Who cares how they're writ down?
That's not my department!"
Says Werner von Braun
um, i think you mean "don't turn yourself in".
It just means that NASA re-shot the moon landing using HD on the Hollywood back lot.
And the only question remaining is: does Buzz Aldrin shoot first in the new version?
Buzz always shoots first.
i don't know what you were using two decades ago, but z/x/c/v worked fine on my mac plus.
i just finished up the midsummer stuff a couple days ago. (i'm on track for the 310% drake (speaking of travel) come hallow's end.) i already had the "all-bonfires" achievements credited from last year, but i still had to do northrend twice (once before the reset, once after), eastern kingdoms, and outland to get enough blossoms to get the pet (not needed, just wanted) and finish the outfit. it was kind of fun making the full trip from booty bay to silvermoon, stopping at almost every zone along the way.
have you done the midsummer achievements yet (or the lunar festival ones back in february)? there's nothing like a grand tour of all four continents to remind you how big the World really is.
transportation to bind locations
speaking of which, where's the engineering teleport for wrath? we should be able to beam into fizzcrank airstrip or k3.
I thought Buzz Aldrin's plan involved rapping with Snoop Dog and Soulja Boy.
If wifi,bluetooth and am/fm waves are so similar, there must be plenty of energy floating around us. Why can't we just recover that energy?
nokia's working on it
reminds me of an old pilot joke: air-traffic control says "come to 4,000 feet and hold". the pilot (an old-school type) says "can i get that in inches"? ATC: "come to 48,000 inches and hold." (for those of you not in the know, he meant "inches of mercury", i.e. altitude expressed as air pressure.)
upvoted for the awesome dept tag. nice to see someone else likes the hobbit cartoon!
Yet I've not seen any criticism of Lewis' allegory in their correspondence.
you haven't been reading the right sources. try this search and read the first few links.
that said, anyone who's read the silmarillion and missed the obvious paradise lost influence in the ainulindale is a moron. moreover, the whole world is massively influenced by the medieval "everything was perfect, then there was the Fall, now it's all going to pieces" worldview. (concisely expressed in the phrase "arda marred", as seen in, iirc, the last few sentences of the silmarillion.)
hmm, that, i'm not so sure about. memory bits get hit randomly, and there's no reason a flip couldn't change the sense of a test, or move some value from positive to negative, or something. not everything's a string. still, the odds of anything other than a random crash or obvious data corruption happening are pretty remote.
neutrino? i think the odds of a neutrino hitting a transistor are about the same as the odds of a 1000-bed hospital's patients all going into spontaneous remission from everything simultaneously, then living to 120. photons or cosmic rays or something maybe, but neutrinos have a 50-50 chance of getting from here to alpha centauri through solid lead.
It also helped a lot that Germany was a conglomerate of various kingdoms, each of which had different units. On markets near the border between, say, Prussia and Hanover people were sick of converting the Prussian ell (pound, mile etc) into their Hanoverian counterparts, which were usually not quite similar. There is no such pressure in the US. Canada and Mexico are probably too dependent on the US to have an influence.
yeah, that's the part that never really gets coverage in america--it wasn't so much about metric taking over from imperial, when it comes to that, the whole anglosphere were late to the game, america's just the last of the last. the real advantage was standardizing the rest of the world, most of which was still using units that might vary from village to village. just look at how many definitions of league there were.
my take is that imperial, in modern usage, is mostly harmless, since it's been fully standardized, and is often better scaled for regular-life usage. (all the usual arguments--fahrenheit ranges over temperate weather, feet can be cut in thirds, liquid measure actually corresponds to cooking usage, etc.) science is another matter, but there's no reason that a system designed for handling thirty orders of magnitude simultaneously should be forced on people who only need three.
reminds me a bit of a short story where a couple aliens stuck on earth decide to bootstrap us to a tech level that will let them get home. they start by producing a "instant diamond cutter" machine that's actually a transmutation/replication box in disguise--while it will in fact produce finished gems from raw diamonds, it will also produce them from anything else you shove in the input.
they don't, that's the bohr model. read up on electron clouds. (and before you ask, they don't actually spin either.)