Do they have a copyright on the blank loop? If not I think I should hurry up and copyright it
I think it depends on the length of silence. I seem to remember a lawsuit brought by one "composer" of silence against another. The only difference between the two was the length. Forgot who they were and who one. Anybody know?
Another problem I've heard about these was that when one of the locos was under a bridge idling, waiting for a block to clear (I think), it actually burned a hole in the asphalt road and it leaked into its ezhaust. I may have to find that again in one of my locomotive compendiums.
As far as the noise went, I know that most cities prohibited their use and they spent most of their time in the vast expanse of the sparsly populated Midwest.
the price and quality are what I consider paying for. I still haven't bought a LCD flat panel monitor because I haven't seen any that have the resolution at the price I want to pay. If that means I wait 4 years; so be it. It doesn't really matter the time of year. It may be after Christmas or it could be in early October. So really, when to buy technology products is when you feel it is justified no matter when somebody else says it's a good time to buy.
Somewhere along the way, modern industrial culture lost the ability or the desire to build anything that isn't a of crap. If anyone can explain why that is exactly
Because somewhere along the line everything started going to the lowest bidder instead of the better builder. Also, the modern train of thought is something akin to: "As long as I make my buck, I don't care who I screw as long as I don't get sued." I'm sure everybody here can come up with several companies that have adopted this philosophy are. And the consumers' mindset is something like, "I don't have a million dollars, but I sure would love to make my neighbors think I do; so, I'll buy this really cheap piece of crap that looks a lot nicer than what they have!" The sad part of this is that small companies that build quality products tend to get bought out by the larger companies wanting only the quality name or just simply go bankrupt because nobody buys their parts.
The way I see it the measurement system you use should be as individualistic as the OS you run. Just because everybody else is using SI units doesn't mean I should give up my Engineering units! It's almost like trying to convince your boss at work to use Linux instead of Windows. Sure I like to run Linux (and do on most of my personal computers), but I still have to use Windows at work. Similarly, I prefer making all of my engineering calculations (mainly heat, fluid, and mass transfer calculations) in SI units and my boss (Lebaneese?) understands things in SI, but my complete understanding of measurements are in English! So you really need to understand and be able to work with both units equally well just like you should be able to use several OS's equally well.
Didn't MSNBC have the same sort of problem? They were running some version of *nix. Then when M$ noticed, they were forced to switch to IIS on NT and had the same problems with the server going up and down.
I know this has almost nothing to do with the topic, but I'm a MechE. I find it to be more fun, because while the CompE's are designing the guidance controls, I'm busy designing more weapons to take out the targets the CivE's across the street are building. Meanwhile, the Industrial Engineers are still trying to find a confortable seat in said target while the ChemE's are sniffing their concotions. And the CS students, well, they are sitting in front of their computers playing Doom, Diablo,... wishing they could blow something up.
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I think it depends on the length of silence. I seem to remember a lawsuit brought by one "composer" of silence against another. The only difference between the two was the length. Forgot who they were and who one. Anybody know?
Go off every time that pizza boy your wife is cheating with tries to leave when you come home from work early as in Loverboy?
Another problem I've heard about these was that when one of the locos was under a bridge idling, waiting for a block to clear (I think), it actually burned a hole in the asphalt road and it leaked into its ezhaust. I may have to find that again in one of my locomotive compendiums.
As far as the noise went, I know that most cities prohibited their use and they spent most of their time in the vast expanse of the sparsly populated Midwest.
the price and quality are what I consider paying for. I still haven't bought a LCD flat panel monitor because I haven't seen any that have the resolution at the price I want to pay. If that means I wait 4 years; so be it. It doesn't really matter the time of year. It may be after Christmas or it could be in early October. So really, when to buy technology products is when you feel it is justified no matter when somebody else says it's a good time to buy.
Because somewhere along the line everything started going to the lowest bidder instead of the better builder. Also, the modern train of thought is something akin to: "As long as I make my buck, I don't care who I screw as long as I don't get sued." I'm sure everybody here can come up with several companies that have adopted this philosophy are. And the consumers' mindset is something like, "I don't have a million dollars, but I sure would love to make my neighbors think I do; so, I'll buy this really cheap piece of crap that looks a lot nicer than what they have!" The sad part of this is that small companies that build quality products tend to get bought out by the larger companies wanting only the quality name or just simply go bankrupt because nobody buys their parts.
The way I see it the measurement system you use should be as individualistic as the OS you run. Just because everybody else is using SI units doesn't mean I should give up my Engineering units! It's almost like trying to convince your boss at work to use Linux instead of Windows. Sure I like to run Linux (and do on most of my personal computers), but I still have to use Windows at work. Similarly, I prefer making all of my engineering calculations (mainly heat, fluid, and mass transfer calculations) in SI units and my boss (Lebaneese?) understands things in SI, but my complete understanding of measurements are in English! So you really need to understand and be able to work with both units equally well just like you should be able to use several OS's equally well.
Didn't MSNBC have the same sort of problem? They were running some version of *nix. Then when M$ noticed, they were forced to switch to IIS on NT and had the same problems with the server going up and down.
I know this has almost nothing to do with the topic, but I'm a MechE. I find it to be more fun, because while the CompE's are designing the guidance controls, I'm busy designing more weapons to take out the targets the CivE's across the street are building. Meanwhile, the Industrial Engineers are still trying to find a confortable seat in said target while the ChemE's are sniffing their concotions. And the CS students, well, they are sitting in front of their computers playing Doom, Diablo, ... wishing they could blow something up.