There are also old non-SI ones myria- my 10^4 and myrio- mo 10^-4
- and for even more edification check out http://wapedia.mobi/en/Myriametre which includes the amusing bronto, groucho, and proposals for this lot : 10^27 xona X 10^30 weka W 10^33 vunda V 10^36 uda U 10^39 treda TD 10^42 sorta S 10^45 rinta R 10^48 quexa Q 10^51 pepta PP 10^54 ocha O 10^57 nena N 10^60 minga MI 10^63 luma L
10-^27 xonto x 10-^30 wekto w 10-^33 vunkto v 10-^36 unto u 10-^39 trekto td 10-^42 sotro s 10-^45 rimto r 10-^48 quekto q 10-^51 pekro pk 10-^54 otro o 10-^57 nekto nk 10-^60 mikto mi 10-^63 lunto l
If enough webpages keep on copying this list, it'll probably get picked up and used and eventually become accepted!
You never see EM-sensitive people complain about the sun because it changes intensity very slowly. If it flashed on and off at a rate an epilepsy sufferer had a problem with I bet you'd find they'd complain about it! (even a flashing sunset, too weak to give a tan, would be a problem)
That's the suspected issue with digital radio transmissions - even if the field strength is too weak to cause direct heating effects we still can't be 100% sure than a small minority of people may or may not be sensitive to the pulsed radiowaves which aren't steady in power envelope/time like good old analogue was, or pseudo-randomly changing smoothly like AM in sympathy with natural waveforms like the modulating speech/music.
If you live next to a cellsite you're getting constant exposure to the pulsed stuff all night long as you sleep. Frankly, until we get a lot more evidence in about it, I believe you'd be foolishly unscientific to just dismiss the potential risk and hope for the best. That would be similar to saying electric lights were totally harmless when they were first introduced, oblivious to what we'd later find out about strobes and epileptic fits.
An open mind is more scientific. We all believe in science here, right?
If this caught on I reckon a fair few of us would take chalk (or a spray can) with us and mark out the problem areas as and when we found them - to warn others where NOT to stand to avoid such intrusive devices.
It sounds like it's enough to scare people as badly as creeping up to them and shouting "boo!" - so a few lawsuits after heart attacks should hopefully take care of it.
True... most days the TV news can be summed up as : "and here are the newest, most innovative, original and spectacular ways people have died suddenly today". Bonus points for extra "it could happen to YOU too!" factor.:o)
I guess I don't see the word "towed" very often - for some reason I speed-read that as "towel anti-air gun"... which got my Douglas Adams influenced synapses firing, I can tell you:o)
I had to click "Read the rest of this comment... " and got the extra half of the last word! FFS, can't/. work out a more intelligent way to work out whether "Read the rest of this comment... " is worth doing?
(my "Comment Byte Limit" is set to 1024k, the max available).
All that extra bandwidth eaten up for half a word!!
And how come I could sign up again with a new ID and get karma of 0, yet I've been stuck on -1 for years now?!! Is this the best you 'intelligent' geeks can do? Can't we -1 sufferers be upgraded to 0 again after a certain time?
Don't tell me it's easy to get karma, I can't be bothered to revisit several times a day and pounce on new stories. I see the same old sigs time and time again and wonder why these people can't get a life.
Rant over. Not expecting any replies, but I feel better.
So, once they know they can't rely upon asking him to delete his camera's memory, this just means that everyone gets searched more thoroughly and any other wifi-enabled devices will get close "attention" too. Great.
SMS text messages don't get transmitted on a momentary use of a 'traffic channel' (a timeslot of 1/8 of the capacity of a GSM frequency pair, as usually used for one voice call). A GSM cell basestation is always transmitting on at least one physical frequency pairing, and what's known as the BCCH (Broadcast Control Channel) is one datastream using one of the 8 timeslots on that frequency. This datastream deals with a number of important functions, and I believe it also carries SMS (almost as an afterthought) in the low amount of capacity left over.
Put your mobile phone next to a radio or speakers so that you can hear the interference, and compare the time it takes to send a short or long text message.
You're effectively paying for use of a "scarce resource". At Christmas/New Year the whole system here gets horribly backlogged due to demand, with messages taking hours to get through, even though there are plenty of voice channels spare. Yes, it doesn't actually cost much (if anything!), but as usual they charge because they can. I find I can get a message to my friends within a 10 second voice call, much cheaper than a txt msg.
There has to be a serious effort to call upon leaders of the relevant religons to denounce actions such as this. Unless those leaders actively discourage their followers from such atrocricies they are equally guilty.
Unfortunately, thinking like that can lead to war. Can't win, can we?
Consider 'shit hot', obviously shit never gets hot enough (no matter how good the curry) to be a great description of heat, so that must be another 'very'.:o)
in other words, rather than jam the radio waves, they put in a 'pico-cell' that all the phones in the theatre connect to (as it's the strongest signal) and that cell disables calls other than emergency ones. Very clever.
Does it need to be connected by the phone companies or does it impersonate a regular cellphone to connect up 999 calls?
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Unless it's Arthur C Clarke, remember.
There are also old non-SI ones myria- my 10^4 and myrio- mo 10^-4
- and for even more edification check out http://wapedia.mobi/en/Myriametre
which includes the amusing bronto, groucho, and proposals for this lot :
10^27 xona X
10^30 weka W
10^33 vunda V
10^36 uda U
10^39 treda TD
10^42 sorta S
10^45 rinta R
10^48 quexa Q
10^51 pepta PP
10^54 ocha O
10^57 nena N
10^60 minga MI
10^63 luma L
10-^27 xonto x
10-^30 wekto w
10-^33 vunkto v
10-^36 unto u
10-^39 trekto td
10-^42 sotro s
10-^45 rimto r
10-^48 quekto q
10-^51 pekro pk
10-^54 otro o
10-^57 nekto nk
10-^60 mikto mi
10-^63 lunto l
If enough webpages keep on copying this list, it'll probably get picked up and used and eventually become accepted!
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Ok thanks, that makes my confusion all the more pleasant.
You're too kind.
Please consider being even more helpful.
What's with the intrusive new ugly "Reply to this" and "Parent" buttons here?
Horrible. Is there any way to go back to the old appearance?
You never see EM-sensitive people complain about the sun because it changes intensity very slowly. If it flashed on and off at a rate an epilepsy sufferer had a problem with I bet you'd find they'd complain about it! (even a flashing sunset, too weak to give a tan, would be a problem)
That's the suspected issue with digital radio transmissions - even if the field strength is too weak to cause direct heating effects we still can't be 100% sure than a small minority of people may or may not be sensitive to the pulsed radiowaves which aren't steady in power envelope/time like good old analogue was, or pseudo-randomly changing smoothly like AM in sympathy with natural waveforms like the modulating speech/music.
If you live next to a cellsite you're getting constant exposure to the pulsed stuff all night long as you sleep. Frankly, until we get a lot more evidence in about it, I believe you'd be foolishly unscientific to just dismiss the potential risk and hope for the best. That would be similar to saying electric lights were totally harmless when they were first introduced, oblivious to what we'd later find out about strobes and epileptic fits.
An open mind is more scientific. We all believe in science here, right?
If this caught on I reckon a fair few of us would take chalk (or a spray can) with us and mark out the problem areas as and when we found them - to warn others where NOT to stand to avoid such intrusive devices.
It sounds like it's enough to scare people as badly as creeping up to them and shouting "boo!" - so a few lawsuits after heart attacks should hopefully take care of it.
I have to wonder how you court that, and was the net effect that it was your fault? ;o)
True... most days the TV news can be summed up as : "and here are the newest, most innovative, original and spectacular ways people have died suddenly today". :o)
Bonus points for extra "it could happen to YOU too!" factor.
I guess I don't see the word "towed" very often - for some reason I speed-read that as "towel anti-air gun"... which got my Douglas Adams influenced synapses firing, I can tell you :o)
You see all that in real life and it doesn't seem to put anyone off. You can squint if you like!
SquiNt, I said.
I had to click "Read the rest of this comment... " and got the extra half of the last word! FFS, can't /. work out a more intelligent way to work out whether "Read the rest of this comment... " is worth doing?
(my "Comment Byte Limit" is set to 1024k, the max available).
All that extra bandwidth eaten up for half a word!!
And how come I could sign up again with a new ID and get karma of 0, yet I've been stuck on -1 for years now?!! Is this the best you 'intelligent' geeks can do? Can't we -1 sufferers be upgraded to 0 again after a certain time?
Don't tell me it's easy to get karma, I can't be bothered to revisit several times a day and pounce on new stories. I see the same old sigs time and time again and wonder why these people can't get a life.
Rant over. Not expecting any replies, but I feel better.
So, once they know they can't rely upon asking him to delete his camera's memory, this just means that everyone gets searched more thoroughly and any other wifi-enabled devices will get close "attention" too. Great.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=enfiel d+%2B+gates
SMS text messages don't get transmitted on a momentary use of a 'traffic channel' (a timeslot of 1/8 of the capacity of a GSM frequency pair, as usually used for one voice call). A GSM cell basestation is always transmitting on at least one physical frequency pairing, and what's known as the BCCH (Broadcast Control Channel) is one datastream using one of the 8 timeslots on that frequency. This datastream deals with a number of important functions, and I believe it also carries SMS (almost as an afterthought) in the low amount of capacity left over.
Put your mobile phone next to a radio or speakers so that you can hear the interference, and compare the time it takes to send a short or long text message.
You're effectively paying for use of a "scarce resource". At Christmas/New Year the whole system here gets horribly backlogged due to demand, with messages taking hours to get through, even though there are plenty of voice channels spare. Yes, it doesn't actually cost much (if anything!), but as usual they charge because they can. I find I can get a message to my friends within a 10 second voice call, much cheaper than a txt msg.
So why did you search for it, if you KNEW it was there? ;o)
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I've given up caring about kharma
me too :o)
Just in case you wanted a "you're not the only one" reply!
There has to be a serious effort to call upon leaders of the relevant religons to denounce actions such as this. Unless those leaders actively discourage their followers from such atrocricies they are equally guilty.
Unfortunately, thinking like that can lead to war. Can't win, can we?
thanks for following that porn stuff with "Your grandma already uses Linux on the desktop"... now there's a mental image I'd rather not have had.
*shudder*
... catorce..
Since when did 14 directly follow 1,2,3, Bono?
It should be smart enough to detect when it's chopping things at 99.9% and just include the extra 0.1%... and be done with it. Much easier.
nice one /.
I had to click "Read the rest of this comment..."
just for "s up your life as well."
Sheesh! Fit it all onto one page when there's very little extra to come!
>I'd give my left arm for another right arm in place of my current left arm.
Wouldn't it be a bit awkward with the elbow and palm facing the wrong way?
Go on, mod me down, I really couldn't care.
Shit in this case must mean 'very'.
:o)
Consider 'shit hot', obviously shit never gets hot enough (no matter how good the curry) to be a great description of heat, so that must be another 'very'.
in other words, rather than jam the radio waves, they put in a 'pico-cell' that all the phones in the theatre connect to (as it's the strongest signal) and that cell disables calls other than emergency ones. Very clever.
Does it need to be connected by the phone companies or does it impersonate a regular cellphone to connect up 999 calls?