Couldn't have worded it better myself.
To me, the Beatles -- although I respect their accomplishments as they did something right, looking at their sales -- are just a band. They made some good songs, definitely, but they aren't the holier than others as some make them seem.
And like BitZtream says, they were a product of the times. Not the other way around. If they wouldn't have existed, maybe that gap would've been filled by Elvis, Aretha Franklin, The Monkees, whoever.
I like to hear their music on the radio every now and then, but to me, their music isn't worth buying (or acquiring in a different way) an album.
One thing I wonder though. Since the Beatles are so clearly a boyband, would the likes of "Color Me Badd" or "New Kids On The Block" be idolized like this aswell in 40 years?
You do know that it actually is possible to have fun without a computer on at all? Especially with friends over, you just have a party. And kids, even nowadays are easy to entertain by giving them (depending on the age ofcourse) a stack of paper and some crayons. I don't even own a game console, and *gasp* still get on pretty well, and parties really aren't boring orso. Infact, my experience is that parties without game consoles are more fun than parties with.
Having a material direct heat in 1 direction doesn't necessarily result in a perpetuum mobile. If said material only conducts heat from point 1 to point 2 if t1 > t2, and doesn't direct any heat in any direction if t1 t2, then it wouldn't break any law of thermodynamics.
kimvette, you can have a direct-drive hybrid where the powerhouse (typically internal combustion engine) is physically connected to the wheels, but with an electromotor connected to the drivetrain that assists when driving slowly, and charges the batteries when breaking, so that would still give you the option of having a manual transmission system in place.
MichaelSmith, there is absolutely no reason to leave out (or include for that matter) a compressor in a hybrid car. Infact, most engines have a higher efficiency with some compression added. If you have a disconnected engine (where all the engine does is to charge the batteries without physical connection to the drivetrain) you want an engine that has the highest efficiency possible (for personal use, that would typically be "supplied energy" / "fuel energy density", but for racing the weight of the engine is probably more important). That could very well be a specific engine that performs optimal with a compressor at a very thin RPM range.
Nope, I'm a Dutchy, I'm not going to clean your mess over there, that's your own duty. I'd advice though, to try and go the peaceful route first, setting up some sort of internet mob voting group or so, trying to get one of the other parties in power, something a bit more left and social.
Besides, apart from blowing up the old baily and the house of parliament, the final "riot" mob was rather peaceful:)
Well, don't be so lightly touched man, I'm from the Netherlands, we don't have a D.A. here either, but I can't be arsed to look up how exactly law is upheld in every country I make a comment on, and how court is ran. I sometimes watch Law & Order, so I know the term D.A. to be someone working for "the people" aka, the government, and is the one responsible to provide the proof that suspect John Doe is the actual person to have committed the crime. You probably have something similar over there, perhaps a person, perhaps a committee, or whatever, I don't care, but something or someone has to present the evidence in court. Fill in the blanks.
Yeah, I know the UK is legally in a sorry state at the moment, I can only hope that the next voting round will bring some relief for you lot there, or perhaps wait for the fifth of november:)
And about the drunk shout-outs, I actually meant that if a bloke near you is drunk, and very annoying and looking for a fight or whatever, and you in your frustration blurt out something like "I'm gonna cut your throat if you don't get the fuck away from me", so saying it sober, but in a state of severe frustration. Doesn't mean you'd mean it, or actually would be capable of doing that, so shouldn't be grounds for the police to arrest you. Perhaps warn you and say something along the lines of "That's not a very nice thing to say, watch your language" but that should be it.
Ehmm, no offense, but what happened to the Burden of Proof, which the D.A. should present to within certainty show that you were about to commit a felony?
I mean, I'm sure you once shouted something akin to "I'm gonna kill you" to some drunk idiot on a Saturday night. Not a nice thing to say, granted but that doesn't make you immediately want to kill that person. Frustration has a tendency to make you say things you don't mean and/or would never do, that's why in most western countries it's very rare for someone to be trialled for something they did not (yet) commit.
Maybe VLC is better in playing video with low CPU load, but that doesn't really concern me much, having a semi-recent processor. It definitely plays more file formats out of the box, which is really nice I admit, but ergonomically, it's (in my opinion) too unpolished. For example I love the way you can use your keyboard to make small/medium/big jumps in Windows Media Player using [SHIFT]+[R.Arrow], [R.Arrow] and [CTRL]+[R.Arrow] respectively. I love the fact that you don't have to open a seperate window for the playlist, and you can add a whole season of show X from the explorer window by right-clicking.
There are a few more nuisances in VLC on the usage front, but those are the major ones, and that's enough for me to prefer WMP, even though that means I have to go out of my way to install a few codecs here and there.
Ofcourse that doesn't mean I don't have any gripes with Windows Media Player. I do, but just less than with VLC, and I also have VLC installed, because there are some things WMP even with the right codecs just refuses to play which doesn't seem to bother VLC that much. I just don't have it set up as the default player.
When air comes in contact with vaporized water, the air cools (by means of evaporative cooling which works pretty much due to the mist vaporizing extracting heat from the air, check up on swamp coolers / mist coolers). Cooler air becomes denser thus making this air heavier, creating a downdraft. This is a well known phenomenon. Back before airconditioning became common, desert homes used to hang wet towels or cloths in a specially constructed tower in their home. This created this cool downdraft that cooled the house.
You can try this yourself by hanging a couple of wet towels on the clothing lines, and lying underneath them. You will feel a cool breeze coming from above.
it's not the throughput that makes your computer feel that much responsive. It's the latency (or lack thereof). Access times of harddrives are easily a factor or 100 higher than of SSD's
Please read up on the science first before stating assumptions.
ETFE shrinks within range of high heat. First a hole will be punctured due to the heat, and then the material will shrink away from the flame. Therefor it will not melt that quickly. Should you find yourself beneath a fire so fierce that it literally engulfs the roof structure with searing heat that the plastic doesn't have time to shrink away from the flame, I doubt the molten plastic (if it even reaches the ground before it evaporates) will matter much to your charcoaled remains.
I'm not sure how they claim the 290km/h winds, but I'm pretty sure that's within the orientation of the superstructure, meaning that it's calculated as wind blowing over a dome. Domes are pretty much the strongest types of structures out there, not only in deflecting weight to its support base, but also in deflecting wind from all directions over and around the structure. That wind speed won't surprise me. Flying debris on the other hand, no idea if they took that in account.
A tire inflated to 1psi (0.007N/mm^2) isn't much stiffer than it would be non-pressurized. It's the tires superstructure that helps it keep its shape. Try inflating a partyballoon to 1psi above atm.
The thing is, something this scale cannot be compared to something you can lift by hand. You need exact calculations to be even able to imagine if it's possible. You state that you get somewhere around 7.5 million metric tonnes force upwards due to the pressure differential. I haven't done the math, and can't be arsed to do it really, but assuming you're right, that's 75 USS Nimitz class aircraft carriers. That's a lot, a damn lot. Especially when using a honeycomb structure which is one of the strongest lattice structures out there per weight (if not the strongest but I'm not entirely sure about that). Also, they could fill the ETFE panel balloons with helium, giving extra lift.
In that same article:
"Another key use of ETFE is for the covering of electrical wiring used in high stress, low fume toxicity and high reliability situations. Aircraft wiring is a primary example."
So it's probably not that toxic if a film that thin starts to burn in (what is then) open air.
A couple of buildings in the Beijing olympic park (Bird's nest, water cube) uses ETFE as roof and/or wall covering. It's pretty much as they state, very light, very clear (if you want it to) and it shrinks in close proximity of severe heat, like fires, so it'll retreat itself away from a flame, so it doesn't light up in a fire.
Yes, but that's only after we went from government funded health-care to private healthcare insurance.
We had a good thing going, and then a couple of politics decided that everything needed to be privatized, resulting in higher energy costs, higher TV costs, higher public transportation costs, and yes, higher health-care costs.
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Couldn't have worded it better myself.
To me, the Beatles -- although I respect their accomplishments as they did something right, looking at their sales -- are just a band. They made some good songs, definitely, but they aren't the holier than others as some make them seem.
And like BitZtream says, they were a product of the times. Not the other way around. If they wouldn't have existed, maybe that gap would've been filled by Elvis, Aretha Franklin, The Monkees, whoever.
I like to hear their music on the radio every now and then, but to me, their music isn't worth buying (or acquiring in a different way) an album.
One thing I wonder though. Since the Beatles are so clearly a boyband, would the likes of "Color Me Badd" or "New Kids On The Block" be idolized like this aswell in 40 years?
I'd like to see the math on that...
Not quite. No idea what layout it is, but it ain't Dvorak. That would be ",aoe" instead of "wasd"
No, because then the other company would be that underdog, and you'd buy from them.
You do know that it actually is possible to have fun without a computer on at all? Especially with friends over, you just have a party. And kids, even nowadays are easy to entertain by giving them (depending on the age ofcourse) a stack of paper and some crayons. I don't even own a game console, and *gasp* still get on pretty well, and parties really aren't boring orso. Infact, my experience is that parties without game consoles are more fun than parties with.
Having a material direct heat in 1 direction doesn't necessarily result in a perpetuum mobile. If said material only conducts heat from point 1 to point 2 if t1 > t2, and doesn't direct any heat in any direction if t1 t2, then it wouldn't break any law of thermodynamics.
kimvette, you can have a direct-drive hybrid where the powerhouse (typically internal combustion engine) is physically connected to the wheels, but with an electromotor connected to the drivetrain that assists when driving slowly, and charges the batteries when breaking, so that would still give you the option of having a manual transmission system in place.
MichaelSmith, there is absolutely no reason to leave out (or include for that matter) a compressor in a hybrid car. Infact, most engines have a higher efficiency with some compression added. If you have a disconnected engine (where all the engine does is to charge the batteries without physical connection to the drivetrain) you want an engine that has the highest efficiency possible (for personal use, that would typically be "supplied energy" / "fuel energy density", but for racing the weight of the engine is probably more important). That could very well be a specific engine that performs optimal with a compressor at a very thin RPM range.
Nope, I'm a Dutchy, I'm not going to clean your mess over there, that's your own duty. I'd advice though, to try and go the peaceful route first, setting up some sort of internet mob voting group or so, trying to get one of the other parties in power, something a bit more left and social. :)
Besides, apart from blowing up the old baily and the house of parliament, the final "riot" mob was rather peaceful
Well, don't be so lightly touched man, I'm from the Netherlands, we don't have a D.A. here either, but I can't be arsed to look up how exactly law is upheld in every country I make a comment on, and how court is ran. I sometimes watch Law & Order, so I know the term D.A. to be someone working for "the people" aka, the government, and is the one responsible to provide the proof that suspect John Doe is the actual person to have committed the crime. You probably have something similar over there, perhaps a person, perhaps a committee, or whatever, I don't care, but something or someone has to present the evidence in court. Fill in the blanks.
Yeah, I know the UK is legally in a sorry state at the moment, I can only hope that the next voting round will bring some relief for you lot there, or perhaps wait for the fifth of november :)
And about the drunk shout-outs, I actually meant that if a bloke near you is drunk, and very annoying and looking for a fight or whatever, and you in your frustration blurt out something like "I'm gonna cut your throat if you don't get the fuck away from me", so saying it sober, but in a state of severe frustration. Doesn't mean you'd mean it, or actually would be capable of doing that, so shouldn't be grounds for the police to arrest you. Perhaps warn you and say something along the lines of "That's not a very nice thing to say, watch your language" but that should be it.
Ehmm, no offense, but what happened to the Burden of Proof, which the D.A. should present to within certainty show that you were about to commit a felony?
I mean, I'm sure you once shouted something akin to "I'm gonna kill you" to some drunk idiot on a Saturday night. Not a nice thing to say, granted but that doesn't make you immediately want to kill that person. Frustration has a tendency to make you say things you don't mean and/or would never do, that's why in most western countries it's very rare for someone to be trialled for something they did not (yet) commit.
Speak for yourself.
Maybe VLC is better in playing video with low CPU load, but that doesn't really concern me much, having a semi-recent processor. It definitely plays more file formats out of the box, which is really nice I admit, but ergonomically, it's (in my opinion) too unpolished. For example I love the way you can use your keyboard to make small/medium/big jumps in Windows Media Player using [SHIFT]+[R.Arrow], [R.Arrow] and [CTRL]+[R.Arrow] respectively. I love the fact that you don't have to open a seperate window for the playlist, and you can add a whole season of show X from the explorer window by right-clicking.
There are a few more nuisances in VLC on the usage front, but those are the major ones, and that's enough for me to prefer WMP, even though that means I have to go out of my way to install a few codecs here and there.
Ofcourse that doesn't mean I don't have any gripes with Windows Media Player. I do, but just less than with VLC, and I also have VLC installed, because there are some things WMP even with the right codecs just refuses to play which doesn't seem to bother VLC that much. I just don't have it set up as the default player.
When air comes in contact with vaporized water, the air cools (by means of evaporative cooling which works pretty much due to the mist vaporizing extracting heat from the air, check up on swamp coolers / mist coolers). Cooler air becomes denser thus making this air heavier, creating a downdraft. This is a well known phenomenon. Back before airconditioning became common, desert homes used to hang wet towels or cloths in a specially constructed tower in their home. This created this cool downdraft that cooled the house.
You can try this yourself by hanging a couple of wet towels on the clothing lines, and lying underneath them. You will feel a cool breeze coming from above.
it's not the throughput that makes your computer feel that much responsive. It's the latency (or lack thereof). Access times of harddrives are easily a factor or 100 higher than of SSD's
Please read up on the science first before stating assumptions.
ETFE shrinks within range of high heat. First a hole will be punctured due to the heat, and then the material will shrink away from the flame. Therefor it will not melt that quickly. Should you find yourself beneath a fire so fierce that it literally engulfs the roof structure with searing heat that the plastic doesn't have time to shrink away from the flame, I doubt the molten plastic (if it even reaches the ground before it evaporates) will matter much to your charcoaled remains.
I'm not sure how they claim the 290km/h winds, but I'm pretty sure that's within the orientation of the superstructure, meaning that it's calculated as wind blowing over a dome. Domes are pretty much the strongest types of structures out there, not only in deflecting weight to its support base, but also in deflecting wind from all directions over and around the structure. That wind speed won't surprise me. Flying debris on the other hand, no idea if they took that in account.
A tire inflated to 1psi (0.007N/mm^2) isn't much stiffer than it would be non-pressurized. It's the tires superstructure that helps it keep its shape. Try inflating a partyballoon to 1psi above atm.
The thing is, something this scale cannot be compared to something you can lift by hand. You need exact calculations to be even able to imagine if it's possible. You state that you get somewhere around 7.5 million metric tonnes force upwards due to the pressure differential. I haven't done the math, and can't be arsed to do it really, but assuming you're right, that's 75 USS Nimitz class aircraft carriers. That's a lot, a damn lot. Especially when using a honeycomb structure which is one of the strongest lattice structures out there per weight (if not the strongest but I'm not entirely sure about that). Also, they could fill the ETFE panel balloons with helium, giving extra lift.
In that same article:
"Another key use of ETFE is for the covering of electrical wiring used in high stress, low fume toxicity and high reliability situations. Aircraft wiring is a primary example."
So it's probably not that toxic if a film that thin starts to burn in (what is then) open air.
A couple of buildings in the Beijing olympic park (Bird's nest, water cube) uses ETFE as roof and/or wall covering. It's pretty much as they state, very light, very clear (if you want it to) and it shrinks in close proximity of severe heat, like fires, so it'll retreat itself away from a flame, so it doesn't light up in a fire.
that's what he said aswell...
Plus, they can run as fast backwards as they can forwards, which just is awesome....
God, I don't want to have a VTOL car where a wing breaks off 3 days after warranty expires...
Not necessarily. There are more ways than 1 to heat something. Infra-red energy is only one of them.
I think I cloned my first plant on the age of 6. It's not that difficult. It's not at all like cloning fauna....
Yeah, and there's absolutely no chance that google won't exist in 15 years....
Yes, but that's only after we went from government funded health-care to private healthcare insurance.
We had a good thing going, and then a couple of politics decided that everything needed to be privatized, resulting in higher energy costs, higher TV costs, higher public transportation costs, and yes, higher health-care costs.
Or Microsoft charging you for havinh OpenOffice.org installed on your windows.