*sheesh!* Kids now days![Ryiah (1324299) that you replied to, not you]
Hell, compared to the first computers I experienced at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in 1975 and 1976, these 'laptops' would almost be considered 'handhelds' since you did not need a forklift and 20 engineers to move them around.
Nine minutes of ads would be great. That's what you got in 1969 on a one hour show.
My memory is a little fuzzy from the late 1960's and all of the 1970's, but nine minutes per hour in 1969 sounds a little bit high. I'm not looking for an argument or debate here, just if you know where to find this info, I would truly appreciate a link. Really!:-)
My fuzzy memory is only coming up with around seven minutes per hour, but again, I readily admit my fuzzy memory may be off base here.
To be honest, the only thing I truly remember from TV of 1969 with any clarity, is the Apollo 11 moon landing: Springfield, MO...at my maternal Grandparent's house, all of us five kids, my Grandparents, and Mom and Dad sitting in the den focused on the B&W 19" Quasar(tm) TV, as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin approached the landing site and touched down. Then after some discourse between the Moon and Earth, Neil stepped out on the Moon and bounced around. I was enraptured....multiple geekasms!!! Then Walter Cronkite* broke the spell, and told us what we had just seen...just in case we did not get it the first time, 'live'. Geekasms cease, and my pocket protector slid back down into the confines of my pocket....sigh
Unfortunately**, I can remember TV and commercials farther back than 1969, and the ratio of adverts to programming has increased exponentially. I can rember half-hour shows being preceded with "a word from our sponsors', then a 45 second to 60 second ad, then the program would play 29 minutes...uninterrupted....rinse, and repeat. Then it went to 30-45 second ad's, every '15' minutes....then 2 minutes every 10 minutes....then 2-3 minutes every 5 minutes.
I gave up on TV two months after getting my(then only available retail for 3 months...w00t!!!) ATI All In Wonder Radeon 7500, 64 MB's VRAM, 8x AGP, video/capture card. After two months of 'playing' and 'familiarization', I set up to record "Trippin' the Rift" I recorded 3 episodes, pausing REC at ad break, then resume REC at end of ad break. 3 'half hour' episodes should be 90 minutes.
The average for the three shows ended up being:(hours:minutes:seconds) 18:42= programming, 11:58 advert's.
I quit watching TV then, but the ATI card helped me use 'medium' graphics settings in Battlefield 1942!!!!(IT WAS A p3 800 MHz, 512 MB PC 133 DRAM PC)
By 2039, the show will be 9 minutes long and you'll have 51 minutes of ads. And fast-forward will be illegal.
Hear! Hear! That's only assuming that the RIAA/MPAA chip is not required to be implanted at birth, you brave fool!;-)
I'm probably preaching to the choir here, so I shall depart. [puts on Wizard hat and cape...enacts arcane rituals, then departs in a puff of smoke]
Cough! Cough! *looks around: new basement.... Sweet!...new Dungeon!*
* Walter Cronkite was very trusted, and had much 'media influence'. [disclaimer] I also readily drank Walter's koolaide without question, nor regret that to this day.
**Tongue_in_cheek...I am old enough to realise that I probably won't see all of the amazing things we will achieve, but I am truly grateful for what I have seen!!!\ It's a positive thing!...Like 'Johnny 5'...need more input!
I'm not familiar with how copyright law in the US works, but it seems that virtually all US-based streaming media sites do this. E.g. most American TV stations websites have streaming video, but if you try and access it outside America, you get a "sorry, cannot display this content to IPs outside the US" message. Same with services like Hulu.
IMHO, it has less to do with copyright law, and more to do with USA advertiser's dollars, and their perceived markets as targeted by the adverts. Why fund content with advertising fees(targeted to your market) for those outside of your market?
Short sighted? You bet! *I am not justifying this mindset, nor agree with it-just offering an explanation for you*
They seem to be missing out on a global market potential in this digital/internet age. The internet has already 'shrunk' the globe, and could shrink it further in regards to business.(this is where US IP laws and reg.'s/trade treaties do come into play)
Some will wake up, some will not, and some cannot(some legitimately, and some by choice).
The technology snowball is accelerating down the hill, and gaining mass. Some businesses will adapt, some will get snowballed.
*sigh* I see similar posts frequently. Okay, here's how its done:
You have to bypass the Heisenberg Compensaters to create an inertial sump, then reverse the polarity on the Warp Field Generators, then combine the streams(yes, this time you do!) and reroute the output to the deflector dish to emit a focused tachyon pulse that has to be synchronized and modulated with the inertia compensator's artificial gravity generator, pipe your Tor proxy through that and Lynx then flies at near light speeds down the 'tubes'!
*disclaimer:you can exceed ISP 'bandwidth' caps in milliseconds this way, so type FAST!* [end sarcasm]
I feel your pain. Tor is handy, but is far from 'the Silver Bullet' it is claimed to be.
I also see streaming something like Pandora over Tor as problematic at best.
Okay, to take it even further out of context to humour you: Define impact for this inane discussion.
If you are defining impact as the 'ouch' factor of getting hit in the head with a water balloon compared to an ice balloon, then it still does not matter to me.[1]
Assuming a water balloon consisting as a balloon containing one gallon(US) of water= 8 pounds @ 231 cubic inches(assuming 'standard conditions' as established for US weights and Measures), and further assuming an ice balloon made from a water balloon containing one gallon of water(as above), then frozen...the only change would be the cubic inches, as water expands when it freezes. At a drop of 8 feet(as suggested by the post I replied to), the increased surface area due to the expanded cubic inch volume, thus increased aerodynamic drag, would be immaterial to the reasonable calculations of kinetic energy for this experiment.
[1] Back to the ouch factor. My skull has been documented in accidents/mishaps to exceed all OSHA requirements and testing spec.'s for a construction site hardhat....many times during my life. (I can recall off the top of my head[haha]: two baseball bats being broken in two over my head...not even a headache either time (Louisville Slugger(tm) #32, and the same but #34), three pool sticks, knocked 28 feet airborne by a fast swinging steel pipe(got 16 'stitches' above my left eyebrow on that)...again, not even a headache. The same week, was kicked in the forehead with both hind hooves by an 800 lb. filly..going through a metal barnwall, two supporting 2x4's, and knocking over a stack of 30 bales of hay stored in the barn. Again, not even a headache...just two ruptured sutures. I have routinely broken cement blocks with my head at martial arts competitions/belt qualifications.
I might not even notice the 'ice balloon' falling from 8 feet, as that would be insanely anticlimactic for a lot of 'hard object head impact' incidents I have experienced without any fractures, lumps, bumps, or even headaches. You would just end up with a cracked ice balloon, most likely. At worse, I might require two or three sutures...after several hundred, what's a few more?
I would probably be more annoyed by the water balloon bursting on me, truth be known.
Again, what's your point here? I still remain unimpressed, and wonder what your trying to achieve here. (hint: see my sig)
The 'Laws' of Thermodynamics are just holding up progress....I say we repeal them! *apply sarcasm filter for above*
I think you are spot on here, but I would like to introduce two points here:
1. Typically DARPA research is often aimed at stretching, if not breaking boundaries.
It's not always aimed at achieving that specific goal, as it is more about branching into many paths.(both with technology as well as ways of thinking/approaching problems) Remember how scientific research works...disproving something, as well as demonstrating that 'it can be done, but is not the best choice here' are both valuable contributions to the body of scientific knowledge. Knowing what does not work is just as valuable as knowledge of what does work relative of 'just getting it done'. (I see the inestimable value of challenging and testing both to further improve and refine our knowledge to improve our lives...no arguments from me here) The achieving of the stated goal is worthwhile, noteworthy, extremely 'lofty', and important in their own right, but more 'icing on the cake', as all of the spawned tangents can frequently overshadow the original project with numerous useful stuff.
2. DARPA research projects trickle down into the DOD, then to the military. Many of these, or aforementioned tangents end up as useful things available to civilians. (GPS is a good example-many more are used by us almost daily)
Maybe this will advance heat removal tech, or a practical way to utilize the heat removed to convert it to useful energy, or both for the win! Maybe something completely different to solve some/all of these problems to reaching these goals will surface.
I work at a state university, and in the 'break room' we use is a poster about 'Alchemy' as a humorous comparison to what we refer to as modern science today. I often wish I could live long enough to see the time that future scientists regard our current science, as we currently regard Alchemy and other 'Sciences' during medieval days/Dark Ages.
'twould be a wondrous world to experience, I expect, having come along for the ride. *sigh* I should not complain, as I have witnessed many tech marvels in my lifetime so far!(I am 51, and a NASA brat...hopefully a few more decades to go yet!)
[sarcastic humour] Gov't. funding? Bah! That would likely win you a multi-billion dollar contract to: 1. install it to control the electrical power grid! 2. Fail to meet the deadline, and ask for bailout bucks to fix the unforeseen bugs/security holes* 3. ???? 4. Profit! (Gov't. contracts require that extra step to go from '????' to 'Profit!'...red tape, you know)
*leave the backdoors intact, and sell them to the Chinese hackers and Bin Laden, patent this method, and then sue Diebold for bonus profits!
Think big!...Don't sell yourself short!
With all of that on your resume, you could find yourself in a position to be posted as Infrastrucure Czar, and have the ability to be bought my thousands of Corporations! [/sarcastic humour]
BTW, I not only spewed vodka out of my nose when I read your comment, I also shamelessly giggled like a schoolgirl while doing so! Yes, funny can hurt, but it's worth it!
Don't give that robot a weapon, as it usually will shoot you or others in your party, or bystanders...thus starting a fight with the whole town(especially likely in New Reno), etc......or give him a gauss rifle and set his combat mode to berserk. Good fun!
Well, being 'decades past'*, I would think you are safe...he was more into little boys I hear.
But on a side note: After seeing picures of him in recent years, I have often wondered if we would ever know if he came back as a zombie, or was still his same self. He already looked like a zombie some years back!
*I'm also decades past. I remember seeing him on TV when he was in single digit age as part of 'the Jackson Five', back when...never have cared for his music at all.
What's your point? The kinetic energy will be the same for both: equal velocities and equal mass= equal kinetic energy.
No experiment required, as it is a well known area of physics. Kinetic Energy= 1/2 of the mass, multiplied by the velocity squared.
This is Junior High School stuff.
Your attempt to strike back at me because you did not care for what I said is a pathetic excuse for a rebuttal, out of context, and leaves me truly and totally unimpressed. Better luck next time. Oh, and have a nice day.
Ah, but they simulated a 'bird impact resistant'(FAA spec) windsreen with 12 panes of ordinary glass stacked together. Still dubious, as it is not the same things being compared. I don't see this as valid 'proof' until they redo it with FAA certified windscreens that meet spec.'s for being bird impact resistant.
I never stated that a frozen chicken would not do more damage. I only said that under the testing parameters they used, thawed or frozen made no real difference...both 'holed' the windscreen.
0.068 hogshead, assuming one 4 lb. leghorn=2.25 cups by volume(diced), 16 cups to the gallon...we get 7 leghorns per gallon, and 63 gallons/hogshead*, or 442 leghorns/hogshead...thus 3 leghorns would be 0.068 % of a hogshead
I don't know how many hectares you could get out of 0.068 of a hogshead of Leghorns, though. YMMV. That advanced physics is a little outside of my field...I used to raise Easter Egger chickens instead of Leghorns.
*It can get confusing though...at least to me. USA's current definition of a hogshead being 63 gallons (US) of wine. I can never remember when converting Leghorns to hogsheads if it is: 1. How many Leghorns it takes to drink a hogshead of wine.... 2. How many Leghorns it takes to make 63 gallons of wine.... 3. How many dead Leghorns(diced for consistency) it takes to pack into a hogshead....(after drinking the wine!) 4. How many live Leghorns you can stuff in a hogshead...(again, after drinking the wine!) 5. How many leghorns can you stuff in a hogshead full of wine. (not even considered)
I started to go with #4, but then reminded me of an incident I witnessed in Breezewood, PA back in the mid 1980's.
A tractor-trailer hauling a full load of live turkeys from the farm to the processor jackknifed trying to stop at a 'tee intersection', overturned the whole kit and kaboodle, the trailer burst open and released hundreds if turkeys in a restaurant's parking lot the and I-70 W, US Route 30, and I-76/70W intersection.(He was coming from Wash., D.C./Baltimore, MD direction...westbound on I-70, which after coming down Town Hill, you end up facing a deadend, looking at a traffic light, gaurdrails, and a restaurant and parking lot...with hot, worn, substandard braking power. A certain recipe for disaster, but PennDOT feels they have sufficient warning signs posted.)
Turkeys were everywhere, running around in a panic in all different directions...turkeys in evasive mode everywhere you looked! LOL! Traffic was stopping, fender-benders occurring left and right as some tried avoiding hitting turkeys, many more were stopping and trying to capture a/some turkey/s...pandemonium reigned, a three ring circus run amok! ROFLMAO! Then, I noticed one guy carrying a turkey under each arm, and a third clamped in his hands. He got to his car trunk, clamped the turkey between his legs and one hand while opening the trunk. The trunk springs open, and five turkeys jump out and scatter in different directions at a high rate of speed. Meanwhile, the guy loses two of the three turkeys he just captured trying to get the three in and not losing the five escaping. ROFLCOPTER and ribcramps...damned near pissed myself laughing so hard.
So, I decided then to use #3, since after all...my Leghorn wrangling skills may be somewhat impaired after drinking the 63 gallons of wine to make room for the Leghorns, if I had used #4.
Using the same protocols as the 'official' testing, they found that thawed chickens busted windscreens as effectively as thawed chickens.(episode 9, IIRC...it's on youtube.com)
The same principles apply when using a steel cutting tool that cuts the steel with a stream of water. Yes, they use water, not ice to cut the steel.
Physics: learn it, use it, benefit from it. (hint: application of kinetic energy would be a starting point to understanding this)
A water jet cutter is a tool capable of slicing into metal or other materials using a jet of water at high velocity and pressure,[...]Water jet cuts are not typically limited by the thickness of the material, and are capable of cutting materials over eighteen inches (45 cm) thick.
In an issue of Meat & Poultry magazine, editors quoted from "Feathers," the publication of the California Poultry Industry Federation, telling the following story:
The US Federal Aviation Administration has a unique device for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. The device is a gun that launches a dead chicken at a plane's windshield at approximately the speed the plane flies.
The theory is that if the windshield doesn't crack from the carcass impact, it'll survive a real collision with a bird during flight.
It seems the British were very interested in this and wanted to test a windshield on a brand new, speedy locomotive they're developing.
They borrowed FAA's chicken launcher, loaded the chicken and fired.
The ballistic chicken shattered the windshield, broke the engineer's chair and embedded itself in the back wall of the engine's cab. The British were stunned and asked the FAA to recheck the test to see if everything was done correctly.
The FAA reviewed the test thoroughly and had one recommendation:
"Use a thawed chicken."
Note:(from the NASA Chicken Gun wiki link above)
The 1970s test of the British High Speed Train windscreens used the Farnborough chicken gun and expertise, not NASA based expertise, busting the Mythbusters myth relating to NASA telling the British "defrost the chickens first".
Very well done, sir! I would tip my hat to you but for two reasons: 1. I refuse to wear a hat unless it's a warm one during winter.(it was 100+ F[38+ C.] here in Oklahoma today, so no hat in sight) 2. Your User Name lists you as a Colonel, and I only ever made it to Corporal...**twice, and still came out as a Private, First Class[PFC]!
So, I hereby salute you, proper-like, Colonel, sir.
I am curious what comes about with their claimed Java patents, but I am personally getting tired of this circus. Daryl and company reminds me more and more of a regional, severe cockroach infestation every day, just laughing at the exterminators since they have somewhere else to move to/change company names, etc. This is a prime example of where corporations are not 'real' individuals/people, even though US law treats them as such at other times.
It seems like evidence that corporations have undue influence in politics here. (how much does a congressman or senator cost now days?)
I wonder how this will play out, and what effect it will have on cases like this whole SCO circus in the future.(I imagine it will not affect this specific case)
Sorry for the ranting, but an intelligent discussion seems to be a rare thing on/. anymore, so I had to try!
**US Army claimed I did/could not respect Authority; I claimed that respect is earned, and thus could not respect assholes and idiots...rank be-damned. They 'won' the argument, but I came out having learned a lot.
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*sheesh!* Kids now days![Ryiah (1324299) that you replied to, not you]
Hell, compared to the first computers I experienced at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in 1975 and 1976, these 'laptops' would almost be considered 'handhelds' since you did not need a forklift and 20 engineers to move them around.
...it can be used for sms-based virusses that can spread very fast.
A blackhat could have a field day with this on Twitter!
Nine minutes of ads would be great. That's what you got in 1969 on a one hour show.
My memory is a little fuzzy from the late 1960's and all of the 1970's, but nine minutes per hour in 1969 sounds a little bit high. :-)
I'm not looking for an argument or debate here, just if you know where to find this info, I would truly appreciate a link. Really!
My fuzzy memory is only coming up with around seven minutes per hour, but again, I readily admit my fuzzy memory may be off base here.
To be honest, the only thing I truly remember from TV of 1969 with any clarity, is the Apollo 11 moon landing:
Springfield, MO...at my maternal Grandparent's house, all of us five kids, my Grandparents, and Mom and Dad sitting in the den focused on the B&W 19" Quasar(tm) TV, as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin approached the landing site and touched down. Then after some discourse between the Moon and Earth, Neil stepped out on the Moon and bounced around.
I was enraptured....multiple geekasms!!!
Then Walter Cronkite* broke the spell, and told us what we had just seen...just in case we did not get it the first time, 'live'.
Geekasms cease, and my pocket protector slid back down into the confines of my pocket....sigh
Unfortunately**, I can remember TV and commercials farther back than 1969, and the ratio of adverts to programming has increased exponentially.
I can rember half-hour shows being preceded with "a word from our sponsors', then a 45 second to 60 second ad, then the program would play 29 minutes...uninterrupted....rinse, and repeat.
Then it went to 30-45 second ad's, every '15' minutes....then 2 minutes every 10 minutes....then 2-3 minutes every 5 minutes.
I gave up on TV two months after getting my(then only available retail for 3 months...w00t!!!) ATI All In Wonder Radeon 7500, 64 MB's VRAM, 8x AGP, video/capture card.
After two months of 'playing' and 'familiarization', I set up to record "Trippin' the Rift"
I recorded 3 episodes, pausing REC at ad break, then resume REC at end of ad break.
3 'half hour' episodes should be 90 minutes.
The average for the three shows ended up being:(hours:minutes:seconds)
18:42= programming, 11:58 advert's.
I quit watching TV then, but the ATI card helped me use 'medium' graphics settings in Battlefield 1942!!!!(IT WAS A p3 800 MHz, 512 MB PC 133 DRAM PC)
By 2039, the show will be 9 minutes long and you'll have 51 minutes of ads. And fast-forward will be illegal.
Hear! Hear! ;-)
That's only assuming that the RIAA/MPAA chip is not required to be implanted at birth, you brave fool!
I'm probably preaching to the choir here, so I shall depart. [puts on Wizard hat and cape...enacts arcane rituals, then departs in a puff of smoke]
Cough! Cough!
*looks around: new basement.... Sweet!...new Dungeon!*
* Walter Cronkite was very trusted, and had much 'media influence'.
[disclaimer] I also readily drank Walter's koolaide without question, nor regret that to this day.
**Tongue_in_cheek...I am old enough to realise that I probably won't see all of the amazing things we will achieve, but I am truly grateful for what I have seen!!!\
It's a positive thing!...Like 'Johnny 5'...need more input!
I'm not familiar with how copyright law in the US works, but it seems that virtually all US-based streaming media sites do this. E.g. most American TV stations websites have streaming video, but if you try and access it outside America, you get a "sorry, cannot display this content to IPs outside the US" message. Same with services like Hulu.
IMHO, it has less to do with copyright law, and more to do with USA advertiser's dollars, and their perceived markets as targeted by the adverts.
Why fund content with advertising fees(targeted to your market) for those outside of your market?
Short sighted? You bet!
*I am not justifying this mindset, nor agree with it-just offering an explanation for you*
They seem to be missing out on a global market potential in this digital/internet age. The internet has already 'shrunk' the globe, and could shrink it further in regards to business.(this is where US IP laws and reg.'s/trade treaties do come into play)
Some will wake up, some will not, and some cannot(some legitimately, and some by choice).
The technology snowball is accelerating down the hill, and gaining mass. Some businesses will adapt, some will get snowballed.
*sigh*
I see similar posts frequently.
Okay, here's how its done:
You have to bypass the Heisenberg Compensaters to create an inertial sump, then reverse the polarity on the Warp Field Generators, then combine the streams(yes, this time you do!) and reroute the output to the deflector dish to emit a focused tachyon pulse that has to be synchronized and modulated with the inertia compensator's artificial gravity generator, pipe your Tor proxy through that and Lynx then flies at near light speeds down the 'tubes'!
*disclaimer:you can exceed ISP 'bandwidth' caps in milliseconds this way, so type FAST!*
[end sarcasm]
I feel your pain.
Tor is handy, but is far from 'the Silver Bullet' it is claimed to be.
I also see streaming something like Pandora over Tor as problematic at best.
Okay, to take it even further out of context to humour you:
Define impact for this inane discussion.
If you are defining impact as the 'ouch' factor of getting hit in the head with a water balloon compared to an ice balloon, then it still does not matter to me.[1]
Assuming a water balloon consisting as a balloon containing one gallon(US) of water= 8 pounds @ 231 cubic inches(assuming 'standard conditions' as established for US weights and Measures), and further assuming an ice balloon made from a water balloon containing one gallon of water(as above), then frozen...the only change would be the cubic inches, as water expands when it freezes.
At a drop of 8 feet(as suggested by the post I replied to), the increased surface area due to the expanded cubic inch volume, thus increased aerodynamic drag, would be immaterial to the reasonable calculations of kinetic energy for this experiment.
[1]
Back to the ouch factor.
My skull has been documented in accidents/mishaps to exceed all OSHA requirements and testing spec.'s for a construction site hardhat....many times during my life.
(I can recall off the top of my head[haha]:
two baseball bats being broken in two over my head...not even a headache either time (Louisville Slugger(tm) #32, and the same but #34), three pool sticks, knocked 28 feet airborne by a fast swinging steel pipe(got 16 'stitches' above my left eyebrow on that)...again, not even a headache. The same week, was kicked in the forehead with both hind hooves by an 800 lb. filly..going through a metal barnwall, two supporting 2x4's, and knocking over a stack of 30 bales of hay stored in the barn. Again, not even a headache...just two ruptured sutures. I have routinely broken cement blocks with my head at martial arts competitions/belt qualifications.
I might not even notice the 'ice balloon' falling from 8 feet, as that would be insanely anticlimactic for a lot of 'hard object head impact' incidents I have experienced without any fractures, lumps, bumps, or even headaches. You would just end up with a cracked ice balloon, most likely. At worse, I might require two or three sutures...after several hundred, what's a few more?
I would probably be more annoyed by the water balloon bursting on me, truth be known.
Again, what's your point here?
I still remain unimpressed, and wonder what your trying to achieve here. (hint: see my sig)
The 'Laws' of Thermodynamics are just holding up progress....I say we repeal them!
*apply sarcasm filter for above*
I think you are spot on here, but I would like to introduce two points here:
1. Typically DARPA research is often aimed at stretching, if not breaking boundaries.
It's not always aimed at achieving that specific goal, as it is more about branching into many paths.(both with technology as well as ways of thinking/approaching problems)
Remember how scientific research works...disproving something, as well as demonstrating that 'it can be done, but is not the best choice here' are both valuable contributions to the body of scientific knowledge.
Knowing what does not work is just as valuable as knowledge of what does work relative of 'just getting it done'. (I see the inestimable value of challenging and testing both to further improve and refine our knowledge to improve our lives...no arguments from me here)
The achieving of the stated goal is worthwhile, noteworthy, extremely 'lofty', and important in their own right, but more 'icing on the cake', as all of the spawned tangents can frequently overshadow the original project with numerous useful stuff.
2. DARPA research projects trickle down into the DOD, then to the military.
Many of these, or aforementioned tangents end up as useful things available to civilians. (GPS is a good example-many more are used by us almost daily)
Maybe this will advance heat removal tech, or a practical way to utilize the heat removed to convert it to useful energy, or both for the win!
Maybe something completely different to solve some/all of these problems to reaching these goals will surface.
I work at a state university, and in the 'break room' we use is a poster about 'Alchemy' as a humorous comparison to what we refer to as modern science today.
I often wish I could live long enough to see the time that future scientists regard our current science, as we currently regard Alchemy and other 'Sciences' during medieval days/Dark Ages.
'twould be a wondrous world to experience, I expect, having come along for the ride. *sigh*
I should not complain, as I have witnessed many tech marvels in my lifetime so far!(I am 51, and a NASA brat...hopefully a few more decades to go yet!)
*drawing diagrams and writing equations on blackboard, puts down chalk, and posts on /. while looking over shoulder at camera, grinning maniacally*
'And I'm working on a BeoCoyote Supercluster to finally catch that Roadrunner!
Acme's new Multicore Coyote(tm) chips RULE!!!!!
It will work this time!
signed,
Wile E. Coyote, Super-Genius
P.S. 'Meep! Meep!' my ass!'
[sarcastic humour]
Gov't. funding? Bah!
That would likely win you a multi-billion dollar contract to:
1. install it to control the electrical power grid!
2. Fail to meet the deadline, and ask for bailout bucks to fix the unforeseen bugs/security holes*
3. ????
4. Profit!
(Gov't. contracts require that extra step to go from '????' to 'Profit!'...red tape, you know)
*leave the backdoors intact, and sell them to the Chinese hackers and Bin Laden, patent this method, and then sue Diebold for bonus profits!
Think big!...Don't sell yourself short!
With all of that on your resume, you could find yourself in a position to be posted as Infrastrucure Czar, and have the ability to be bought my thousands of Corporations!
[/sarcastic humour]
BTW, I not only spewed vodka out of my nose when I read your comment, I also shamelessly giggled like a schoolgirl while doing so!
Yes, funny can hurt, but it's worth it!
Don't give that robot a weapon, as it usually will shoot you or others in your party, or bystanders...thus starting a fight with the whole town(especially likely in New Reno), etc... ...or give him a gauss rifle and set his combat mode to berserk. Good fun!
Well, being 'decades past'*, I would think you are safe...he was more into little boys I hear.
But on a side note:
After seeing picures of him in recent years, I have often wondered if we would ever know if he came back as a zombie, or was still his same self. He already looked like a zombie some years back!
*I'm also decades past. I remember seeing him on TV when he was in single digit age as part of 'the Jackson Five', back when...never have cared for his music at all.
What's your point?
The kinetic energy will be the same for both: equal velocities and equal mass= equal kinetic energy.
No experiment required, as it is a well known area of physics.
Kinetic Energy= 1/2 of the mass, multiplied by the velocity squared.
This is Junior High School stuff.
Your attempt to strike back at me because you did not care for what I said is a pathetic excuse for a rebuttal, out of context, and leaves me truly and totally unimpressed.
Better luck next time.
Oh, and have a nice day.
GAH!, left off the closing tag for bold! Only the word 'simulated' should have been bold.
Sorry.
Ah, but they simulated a 'bird impact resistant'(FAA spec) windsreen with 12 panes of ordinary glass stacked together. Still dubious, as it is not the same things being compared.
I don't see this as valid 'proof' until they redo it with FAA certified windscreens that meet spec.'s for being bird impact resistant.
I never stated that a frozen chicken would not do more damage. I only said that under the testing parameters they used, thawed or frozen made no real difference...both 'holed' the windscreen.
D'oh!
Should have been
thawed chickens busted the windscreens as effecively as frozen chickens.
Good catch, and thanks for pointing out the fowl up!
0.068 hogshead, assuming one 4 lb. leghorn=2.25 cups by volume(diced), 16 cups to the gallon...we get 7 leghorns per gallon, and 63 gallons/hogshead*, or 442 leghorns/hogshead...thus 3 leghorns would be 0.068 % of a hogshead
I don't know how many hectares you could get out of 0.068 of a hogshead of Leghorns, though. YMMV.
That advanced physics is a little outside of my field...I used to raise Easter Egger chickens instead of Leghorns.
*It can get confusing though...at least to me. USA's current definition of a hogshead being 63 gallons (US) of wine.
I can never remember when converting Leghorns to hogsheads if it is:
1. How many Leghorns it takes to drink a hogshead of wine....
2. How many Leghorns it takes to make 63 gallons of wine....
3. How many dead Leghorns(diced for consistency) it takes to pack into a hogshead....(after drinking the wine!)
4. How many live Leghorns you can stuff in a hogshead...(again, after drinking the wine!)
5. How many leghorns can you stuff in a hogshead full of wine. (not even considered)
I started to go with #4, but then reminded me of an incident I witnessed in Breezewood, PA back in the mid 1980's.
A tractor-trailer hauling a full load of live turkeys from the farm to the processor jackknifed trying to stop at a 'tee intersection', overturned the whole kit and kaboodle, the trailer burst open and released hundreds if turkeys in a restaurant's parking lot the and I-70 W, US Route 30, and I-76/70W intersection.(He was coming from Wash., D.C./Baltimore, MD direction...westbound on I-70, which after coming down Town Hill, you end up facing a deadend, looking at a traffic light, gaurdrails, and a restaurant and parking lot...with hot, worn, substandard braking power. A certain recipe for disaster, but PennDOT feels they have sufficient warning signs posted.)
Turkeys were everywhere, running around in a panic in all different directions...turkeys in evasive mode everywhere you looked!
LOL!
Traffic was stopping, fender-benders occurring left and right as some tried avoiding hitting turkeys, many more were stopping and trying to capture a/some turkey/s...pandemonium reigned, a three ring circus run amok!
ROFLMAO!
Then, I noticed one guy carrying a turkey under each arm, and a third clamped in his hands. He got to his car trunk, clamped the turkey between his legs and one hand while opening the trunk.
The trunk springs open, and five turkeys jump out and scatter in different directions at a high rate of speed. Meanwhile, the guy loses two of the three turkeys he just captured trying to get the three in and not losing the five escaping.
ROFLCOPTER and ribcramps...damned near pissed myself laughing so hard.
So, I decided then to use #3, since after all...my Leghorn wrangling skills may be somewhat impaired after drinking the 63 gallons of wine to make room for the Leghorns, if I had used #4.
Please specify if you are looking for a hogshead of ale, wine, or tobacco.
None of the above. It is a hogshead of Leghorn chickens.
Energy into matter? I seem to remember something about this ...
Yes, if you ever watched Star Trek, you would have 'seen this in action' as the transporters, and replicators.
In reality, not so much.
Adam and Jamie tackled this one on Mythbusters.
Using the same protocols as the 'official' testing, they found that thawed chickens busted windscreens as effectively as thawed chickens.(episode 9, IIRC...it's on youtube.com)
The same principles apply when using a steel cutting tool that cuts the steel with a stream of water. Yes, they use water, not ice to cut the steel.
Physics: learn it, use it, benefit from it. (hint: application of kinetic energy would be a starting point to understanding this)
[citation needed]
Water Jet Cutter:
A water jet cutter is a tool capable of slicing into metal or other materials using a jet of water at high velocity and pressure,[...]Water jet cuts are not typically limited by the thickness of the material, and are capable of cutting materials over eighteen inches (45 cm) thick.
NASA Chicken Gun:
There is a longstanding urban legend about the gun being loaned to some other agency, who fired frozen chickens instead of thawed chickens.[1]
Urban Legend:
Note:(from the NASA Chicken Gun wiki link above)
The 1970s test of the British High Speed Train windscreens used the Farnborough chicken gun and expertise, not NASA based expertise, busting the Mythbusters myth relating to NASA telling the British "defrost the chickens first".
*pulls up to full service Hydrogen fueling station*
"Just put three Leghorns in the tank."
Or Shatner could decide to make another CD.
You sick, twisted bastard!
I don't know whether to run away screaming hysterically, or to salute your twistedness!
I think I'll just settle for another beer...eh?!
Kim Jong-il will 'love you long time, GI!'
Time to scrub my brain with bleach, now...
Karma be-damned, this could not be passed over!(good job)
Pretty much nobody here is warped enough to predict it right!
Your UID precludes me from asking if you are new here, but seriously?
Mhuwahahahahahahahahhah!
I can ask this:
Have you visited here lately...actually reading the comments?
Funny, man....very funny!
BTW, I agree with you on the rest of your comment, but that one sentence just jumped out at me.
Yeah, but you're overlooking Daryl's 'golden parachute' in your 'EVERYTHING!'
Very well done, sir!
I would tip my hat to you but for two reasons:
1. I refuse to wear a hat unless it's a warm one during winter.(it was 100+ F[38+ C.] here in Oklahoma today, so no hat in sight)
2. Your User Name lists you as a Colonel, and I only ever made it to Corporal...**twice, and still came out as a Private, First Class[PFC]!
So, I hereby salute you, proper-like, Colonel, sir.
I am curious what comes about with their claimed Java patents, but I am personally getting tired of this circus.
Daryl and company reminds me more and more of a regional, severe cockroach infestation every day, just laughing at the exterminators since they have somewhere else to move to/change company names, etc.
This is a prime example of where corporations are not 'real' individuals/people, even though US law treats them as such at other times.
It seems like evidence that corporations have undue influence in politics here. (how much does a congressman or senator cost now days?)
I wonder how this will play out, and what effect it will have on cases like this whole SCO circus in the future.(I imagine it will not affect this specific case)
Sorry for the ranting, but an intelligent discussion seems to be a rare thing on /. anymore, so I had to try!
**US Army claimed I did/could not respect Authority; I claimed that respect is earned, and thus could not respect assholes and idiots...rank be-damned. They 'won' the argument, but I came out having learned a lot.