Other than the post-modern preference to think that there is no deity who created, what objection is there to holding that as a theory?
what advantage has knowlege of the theory of evolution given us in terms of our day to day existence? The theories of quantum mechanics give us transisters, semiconductors. Newtonian physics gave us the framework for most of the physics that mechanical and civil engineering works on.
I'm not flaming, but am genuinely curious as to what benefit knowing that evolution is a theory has helped us.
electrical bonding is done in all steel reinforcement in the concrete for about 3m around a swimming pool.
In a prison I was involved in the design of, there was some discussion (subsequently dismissed) of introducing a "leaky wire" into the reinforcement to generate noise to prevent inmates using phones to plan crimes. The thing that scuttled it was the worry that the guards might need to use their own phones to call for help if their radios failed them
interesting concept. i don't think it would be steam that is distorting the vision line as much as the distortion from the hot air rising (as you commented later in your post).
i second that opinion. I own a pair of B&W 305 (they're a few years old now) but they kick anything I've auditioned at a bose dealership. to be honest, i only went shopping at the bose shop to confirm what i'd heard about their product being overpriced crap.
I realise this is not comparing apples to apples, but I have pumped mp3 (256kbit) through my NAD amp and B&W speakers and compared this against the high end sony cd player with the same track, and despite listening hard i could not hear differences.
I'll grant you that a $1000 setup will show up differences more clearly than a ghetto blaster for any musical medium.
i've yet to audition SACD and compare it against regular cd, but a great deal of what is touted as hifi is actually BS and a case of the emporer having no clothes. I'll reserve judgement as to how well SACD goes in terms of hifi performance til i have listened to it, but thought I'd chime in with my $0.02
We're all working on the premise that they will use the smallest lens possible. What if they manage to cram the phone electronics around the photo circuitry, have a decent sized lens (optical zoom could be hard to get), and have a lens cover to protect the vulnerable bits.
The form factor for a point and shoot is largely based around what is easy to carry and hold as a camera (and battery size).
I'm not a phone engineer but it can't be impossible to do
For the unwashed among us who surf at work behind corporate firewalls (someone else deals with this issue, hopefully), and who use a generic software firewall at home (zonealarm for instance), any pointers as to how we can do this sort of thing as well?
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I was wondering the same, but for scotch. The lower grade stuff is all but undrinkable (for lower grade, read anything that isn't single malt) to me. If I could run a bottle of johnny walker red through it and get anywhere near single malt taste, going through a cartridge for a bottle would be a cheap investment.
Europe has the length of history that allows enough time for people to develop massive chips to carry round on your shoulder if you are so disposed to bitterness. Human nature being the way it is, a number of people do carry those chips, and don't forgive. It has come from differnt societies which have largely remained discrete and not homogenised into what you could call a "european".
America did come from migrants (native americans excepted, they migrated thousands of years ago), but more or less, there is a singular american culture (or so it appears to outsiders who have to suffer the homogenised american culture of the big M, coke, levis, microsoft).
Considering where they have come from, and excepting the fringes which have always been nutty (the serbs, as I recally were annoyed at some offence back in the 1300s or so for goodness sake!), Europe is going well when it comes to cooperation. If you chose to cite WACO / the LA riots / KKK antics as evidence that all was not rosy with the states, you'd be equally taking the fringe and extrapolating too far.
The traffic engineering paper I took at university informed me that 90% (or thereabouts) of pavement wear comes from trucks, and that pavement would last a very very long time if heavy trucks did not use it.
I may well be wrong as I'm not practising as a traffic / pavement engineer, but your regular corolla / family sedan is not the culprit in wearing out roads
Ever thought about driving to the bus stop to get to and from work? Not meaning to troll, but whenever I've lived far enough away from a public transport line I've driven to the local stop, and taken it from there.
For me it is the cost of parking and the fact that public transport here (in Australia) works out cheaper for me (a week on the train / bus is cheaper than two days parking in the city).
For grocery shopping, I'll agree that it makes sense to take the car, but there is no need to have a large car to drive the kids to school (cite the proliferation of SUVs that NEVER go near dirt, and are driven by soccer mums to move kids to school).
THere are always going to be those who live a long way from public transport lines (I have no idea what messed up city planner would put suburbs with 10 miles to shops, but that is pretty messed up), but for those who could make it work, there is no reason why a bus or train trip can't work for you at least some of the time.
IANAL, or an electrical engineer, but it would not be that hard to put your little GPS unit / antenna for said GPS unit inside a metal box / farraday cage and no jamming would be needed.
Do the FCC / assorted government / state department care about the electromagnetic emissions you have inside your car? I always thought there was a lower bound on what you were allowed to do with radio before the FCC cared (and if you have it right next to your GPS then it should be enough to drown it out)
good comments. Only caveat is re using brake fluid on tyres. Take a lot of care to not get it on paint, as it will do BAD things to paintwork.
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sounds lots like the hewlett packard calculators, I haven't had need to use the lastest versions of these, but the older HP caculators definitely had that ability (the higher level ones had all manner of high level programming that i never really saw use for in a calculator, but somebody plainly got happy being able to program to their hearts content).
this was back in the day when it wasn't an uncommon event for a cd writer to create the occasional coaster. no data of interest was destroyed, and certainly no music cd.
Was the sense of fun missed in the tone of my original posting? Of course I knew that it was likely that the cd would become unusable from one mechanism or another, and chose a suitably useless disc accordingly. It is the tendency to ask "I wonder what if..." that has led to many discoveries over the years, or asking "why does this happen like that?" and working through hypotheses that could explain the observed behaviour.
when i was a student, and as students are want to do, I asked lots of questions. one of them, literally was "I wonder what would happen if i dropped a cd into a microwave for a few seconds?"
I was most impressed by the small scale sparkling and fireworks.
That would be great. I don't think (full of regret to have to say it) that it would ever happen, but imagine how much better our society would be if being able to discuss the ins and outs of quantum mechanics or philosophy rather than what happened last night on the reality TV show du jour.
I'll grant you that quantum mechanics has as much application to every day life (transisters that people don't see embedded excluded and all that stuff) as philosophy but at least it would get the masses thinking rather than just observing.
betting on the lack of good taste that the "common man" has.
I'd love to have a hard core science channel on free to air (as opposed to cable / pay TV), but will have to make do with the occasional paper copy of new scientist or scientific american.
A lot of Sony gear is high priced crap for what it does, but some of their high end hifi is presentable (or at least it was when i was in the market for it in 2000).
I agree that ATRAC is a really annoying format. It may be technically superior but it doesn't add value to my music experience. Musically i have no objections, but then i have no objection to high quality MP3 either.
It would have been no great impost for Sony to allow for a firmware flash to allow the older units to accomodate the newere versions of atrac, but no. That's one thing that has bugged me no end. I have a MD stereo unit, and it largely sits idle as my portable music is now on MP3 (on a sony MP3 discman mostly), and if i want illegal copies of music it is easier to do it to a CDR
The things taht I write by hand at work tends to be equations, numbers and formulae. I produce literally lever arch folders full of hand written calcs (with loads of output from analysis programs as well), and I can't see any technology being able to reproduce the speed that I can jot down thoughts / sketches coming around any time soon.
Plus, I need my calcs to be archivable and readable for at least 70 years (or however long the building remains standing), and it would be a brave man who would put money on whatever tech was used still working in 70 years. i know there are issues re paper and ink degrading but I don't think that would happen with pencil and paper in that time scale.
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Other than the post-modern preference to think that there is no deity who created, what objection is there to holding that as a theory?
what advantage has knowlege of the theory of evolution given us in terms of our day to day existence? The theories of quantum mechanics give us transisters, semiconductors. Newtonian physics gave us the framework for most of the physics that mechanical and civil engineering works on.
I'm not flaming, but am genuinely curious as to what benefit knowing that evolution is a theory has helped us.
electrical bonding is done in all steel reinforcement in the concrete for about 3m around a swimming pool.
In a prison I was involved in the design of, there was some discussion (subsequently dismissed) of introducing a "leaky wire" into the reinforcement to generate noise to prevent inmates using phones to plan crimes. The thing that scuttled it was the worry that the guards might need to use their own phones to call for help if their radios failed them
interesting concept. i don't think it would be steam that is distorting the vision line as much as the distortion from the hot air rising (as you commented later in your post).
Great idea though.
i second that opinion. I own a pair of B&W 305 (they're a few years old now) but they kick anything I've auditioned at a bose dealership. to be honest, i only went shopping at the bose shop to confirm what i'd heard about their product being overpriced crap.
I realise this is not comparing apples to apples, but I have pumped mp3 (256kbit) through my NAD amp and B&W speakers and compared this against the high end sony cd player with the same track, and despite listening hard i could not hear differences.
I'll grant you that a $1000 setup will show up differences more clearly than a ghetto blaster for any musical medium.
i've yet to audition SACD and compare it against regular cd, but a great deal of what is touted as hifi is actually BS and a case of the emporer having no clothes. I'll reserve judgement as to how well SACD goes in terms of hifi performance til i have listened to it, but thought I'd chime in with my $0.02
What are the other six tools in your arsenal? I'd be curious, to get a more complete sweep of my PC.
Cheers.
We're all working on the premise that they will use the smallest lens possible. What if they manage to cram the phone electronics around the photo circuitry, have a decent sized lens (optical zoom could be hard to get), and have a lens cover to protect the vulnerable bits.
The form factor for a point and shoot is largely based around what is easy to carry and hold as a camera (and battery size).
I'm not a phone engineer but it can't be impossible to do
For the unwashed among us who surf at work behind corporate firewalls (someone else deals with this issue, hopefully), and who use a generic software firewall at home (zonealarm for instance), any pointers as to how we can do this sort of thing as well?
I was wondering the same, but for scotch. The lower grade stuff is all but undrinkable (for lower grade, read anything that isn't single malt) to me. If I could run a bottle of johnny walker red through it and get anywhere near single malt taste, going through a cartridge for a bottle would be a cheap investment.
I'm not living in Europe, Japan or the USA.
Europe has the length of history that allows enough time for people to develop massive chips to carry round on your shoulder if you are so disposed to bitterness. Human nature being the way it is, a number of people do carry those chips, and don't forgive. It has come from differnt societies which have largely remained discrete and not homogenised into what you could call a "european".
America did come from migrants (native americans excepted, they migrated thousands of years ago), but more or less, there is a singular american culture (or so it appears to outsiders who have to suffer the homogenised american culture of the big M, coke, levis, microsoft).
Considering where they have come from, and excepting the fringes which have always been nutty (the serbs, as I recally were annoyed at some offence back in the 1300s or so for goodness sake!), Europe is going well when it comes to cooperation. If you chose to cite WACO / the LA riots / KKK antics as evidence that all was not rosy with the states, you'd be equally taking the fringe and extrapolating too far.
The traffic engineering paper I took at university informed me that 90% (or thereabouts) of pavement wear comes from trucks, and that pavement would last a very very long time if heavy trucks did not use it.
I may well be wrong as I'm not practising as a traffic / pavement engineer, but your regular corolla / family sedan is not the culprit in wearing out roads
Ever thought about driving to the bus stop to get to and from work? Not meaning to troll, but whenever I've lived far enough away from a public transport line I've driven to the local stop, and taken it from there.
For me it is the cost of parking and the fact that public transport here (in Australia) works out cheaper for me (a week on the train / bus is cheaper than two days parking in the city).
For grocery shopping, I'll agree that it makes sense to take the car, but there is no need to have a large car to drive the kids to school (cite the proliferation of SUVs that NEVER go near dirt, and are driven by soccer mums to move kids to school).
THere are always going to be those who live a long way from public transport lines (I have no idea what messed up city planner would put suburbs with 10 miles to shops, but that is pretty messed up), but for those who could make it work, there is no reason why a bus or train trip can't work for you at least some of the time.
IANAL, or an electrical engineer, but it would not be that hard to put your little GPS unit / antenna for said GPS unit inside a metal box / farraday cage and no jamming would be needed.
Do the FCC / assorted government / state department care about the electromagnetic emissions you have inside your car? I always thought there was a lower bound on what you were allowed to do with radio before the FCC cared (and if you have it right next to your GPS then it should be enough to drown it out)
Fun, prime numbers, in the same sentence without some means of not connecting them in a positve light?
What manner of masochism is this page peddling in the name of fun?
good comments. Only caveat is re using brake fluid on tyres. Take a lot of care to not get it on paint, as it will do BAD things to paintwork.
sounds lots like the hewlett packard calculators, I haven't had need to use the lastest versions of these, but the older HP caculators definitely had that ability (the higher level ones had all manner of high level programming that i never really saw use for in a calculator, but somebody plainly got happy being able to program to their hearts content).
this was back in the day when it wasn't an uncommon event for a cd writer to create the occasional coaster. no data of interest was destroyed, and certainly no music cd.
Was the sense of fun missed in the tone of my original posting? Of course I knew that it was likely that the cd would become unusable from one mechanism or another, and chose a suitably useless disc accordingly. It is the tendency to ask "I wonder what if..." that has led to many discoveries over the years, or asking "why does this happen like that?" and working through hypotheses that could explain the observed behaviour.
O well.
when i was a student, and as students are want to do, I asked lots of questions. one of them, literally was "I wonder what would happen if i dropped a cd into a microwave for a few seconds?"
I was most impressed by the small scale sparkling and fireworks.
Not accidental, but fun none the less.
That would be great. I don't think (full of regret to have to say it) that it would ever happen, but imagine how much better our society would be if being able to discuss the ins and outs of quantum mechanics or philosophy rather than what happened last night on the reality TV show du jour.
I'll grant you that quantum mechanics has as much application to every day life (transisters that people don't see embedded excluded and all that stuff) as philosophy but at least it would get the masses thinking rather than just observing.
betting on the lack of good taste that the "common man" has.
I'd love to have a hard core science channel on free to air (as opposed to cable / pay TV), but will have to make do with the occasional paper copy of new scientist or scientific american.
A lot of Sony gear is high priced crap for what it does, but some of their high end hifi is presentable (or at least it was when i was in the market for it in 2000).
I agree that ATRAC is a really annoying format. It may be technically superior but it doesn't add value to my music experience. Musically i have no objections, but then i have no objection to high quality MP3 either.
It would have been no great impost for Sony to allow for a firmware flash to allow the older units to accomodate the newere versions of atrac, but no. That's one thing that has bugged me no end. I have a MD stereo unit, and it largely sits idle as my portable music is now on MP3 (on a sony MP3 discman mostly), and if i want illegal copies of music it is easier to do it to a CDR
but, you should put your gun safety course before getting your gun.
The things taht I write by hand at work tends to be equations, numbers and formulae. I produce literally lever arch folders full of hand written calcs (with loads of output from analysis programs as well), and I can't see any technology being able to reproduce the speed that I can jot down thoughts / sketches coming around any time soon.
Plus, I need my calcs to be archivable and readable for at least 70 years (or however long the building remains standing), and it would be a brave man who would put money on whatever tech was used still working in 70 years. i know there are issues re paper and ink degrading but I don't think that would happen with pencil and paper in that time scale.
Correction. When a unit is named after a person, like the Newton (unit of force), the Kelvin, or the Gauss, the Volt, the Tesla, or the Farad.
You are spot on re the 'degrees Kelvin' thing though.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/units.html
Australia, in its rush to become the 51st state manages to get silly payouts in civil cases as well.
*sigh*