Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 5]
Discussion
glazbagun said:
How do they bend the conical tube in a saxophone or tuba without altering the dimensions or just plain crusling/pinching it?
Brass instruments were on a Discovery Channel's How It's Made episode some time ago but they are constantly repeated.I think the trick was to fill the tube with sand (or for some operations ball bearings) before bending to stop it kinking.
Dr Jekyll said:
As a very general rule. Is it true that first borns tend to be more driven than their younger siblings, even as adults?
I'm not saying all first borns seem to be more driven, but maybe 75/25 in my experience.
Can't speak for anyone else, but I'm the eldest of 2 and I'm a lazy sod and my younger sister is incredibly hardworking. I'm not saying all first borns seem to be more driven, but maybe 75/25 in my experience.
Maybe I am one of your 25%
Dr Jekyll said:
As a very general rule. Is it true that first borns tend to be more driven than their younger siblings, even as adults?
I'm not saying all first borns seem to be more driven, but maybe 75/25 in my experience.
Not sure how you could survey "drive" externally. My younger sibling was never as ambitious as me but they're the one with a mortgage and a family and all I have is a career, debt and a string of happy landlords so who's the more driven? You'd also need to isolate drivers such as neccesity and opportunity.I'm not saying all first borns seem to be more driven, but maybe 75/25 in my experience.
Anecdotally I'm not sure I could put a number on the mix of my driven friends, but they seem to have such a broad mix of motivations I can't see sibling order being significant.
I do find it interesting when some people "make it" and (if anything) change up a gear, while others put their feet up and start to coast.
Edited by glazbagun on Friday 21st August 15:55
Fastchas said:
I watched 'Se7en' again recently.
As with other films & books, the freak and his gruesome acts of violence is the manifestation of the writer's imagination.
Got me thinking - has any criminal, living or dead, actually done any crimes like the ones you see in movies?
Who would be the closest one to say, Spacey in Se7en or Hannibal in Silence of the Lambs etc.
I'm guessing someone like Fred West or Dahmer but are there worse?
As mentioned Ed Gein was certainly weird and it's stretching it to call him a serial killer, he murdered two women, all the other stuff As with other films & books, the freak and his gruesome acts of violence is the manifestation of the writer's imagination.
Got me thinking - has any criminal, living or dead, actually done any crimes like the ones you see in movies?
Who would be the closest one to say, Spacey in Se7en or Hannibal in Silence of the Lambs etc.
I'm guessing someone like Fred West or Dahmer but are there worse?
was digging up recent corpses.
Certainly it's true that one or two killers taunted the police due to their poor attempts to catch him, Zodiac Killer for one,
but the idea of an intelligent, savant serial killer leaving cryptic messages, deliberate false forensics, ciphers,
and [ most wearisome of all ] killing people in the gruesome manner that characters in greek mythology or
Shakespeare plays were dispatched is pure fictional horse-wash much beloved of book authors and scriptwriters
Edited by Big-Bo-Beep on Friday 21st August 18:33
Dr Jekyll said:
As a very general rule. Is it true that first borns tend to be more driven than their younger siblings, even as adults?
I'm not saying all first borns seem to be more driven, but maybe 75/25 in my experience.
Yes, I think so.I'm not saying all first borns seem to be more driven, but maybe 75/25 in my experience.
The first one you devote 100% of your time to and do everything you can to keep them on the 'curve'.
If the second one comes along within five years of the first, you still need to devote time to the first so the second one doesn't get as much.
Whereas with the first you worry if they're not walking by the time the chart says they should, it's pain in the arse when the second one does to the point that you're kicking their legs from under them.
Plus, if the first is a girl, they tend to act as a third parent which can be as handy as it is unwise. But sometimes, 'handy' rules over wise. Particularly when F1 is on.
Not that I'm speaking from experience or anything.
Big-Bo-Beep said:
Fastchas said:
I watched 'Se7en' again recently.
As with other films & books, the freak and his gruesome acts of violence is the manifestation of the writer's imagination.
Got me thinking - has any criminal, living or dead, actually done any crimes like the ones you see in movies?
Who would be the closest one to say, Spacey in Se7en or Hannibal in Silence of the Lambs etc.
I'm guessing someone like Fred West or Dahmer but are there worse?
As mentioned Ed Gein was certainly weird and it's stretching it to call him a serial killer, he murdered two women, all the other stuff As with other films & books, the freak and his gruesome acts of violence is the manifestation of the writer's imagination.
Got me thinking - has any criminal, living or dead, actually done any crimes like the ones you see in movies?
Who would be the closest one to say, Spacey in Se7en or Hannibal in Silence of the Lambs etc.
I'm guessing someone like Fred West or Dahmer but are there worse?
was digging up recent corpses.
Certainly it's true that one or two killers taunted the police due to their poor attempts to catch him, Zodiac Killer for one,
but the idea of an intelligent, savant serial killer leaving cryptic messages, deliberate false forensics, ciphers,
and [ most wearisome of all ] killing people in the gruesome manner that characters in greek mythology or
Shakespeare plays were dispatched is pure fictional horse-wash much beloved of book authors and scriptwriters
StevieBee said:
Dr Jekyll said:
As a very general rule. Is it true that first borns tend to be more driven than their younger siblings, even as adults?
I'm not saying all first borns seem to be more driven, but maybe 75/25 in my experience.
Yes, I think so.I'm not saying all first borns seem to be more driven, but maybe 75/25 in my experience.
The first one you devote 100% of your time to and do everything you can to keep them on the 'curve'.
If the second one comes along within five years of the first, you still need to devote time to the first so the second one doesn't get as much.
Whereas with the first you worry if they're not walking by the time the chart says they should, it's pain in the arse when the second one does to the point that you're kicking their legs from under them.
Plus, if the first is a girl, they tend to act as a third parent which can be as handy as it is unwise. But sometimes, 'handy' rules over wise. Particularly when F1 is on.
Not that I'm speaking from experience or anything.
I don't have kids and I'm currently fat, sat by the river in the sun drinking $17 glasses of cheap wine.
I think it may have some weight.
randomeddy said:
If you use the maps on your phone for directions it will need you to have data which you will have had to pay for in your contract etc.
If you use a sat nav you don't need to top it up/pay for anything, it just works. How come?
Because SatNav just receives a signal and the GPS chip in your phone does clever stuff. There's no need for a data network at all.If you use a sat nav you don't need to top it up/pay for anything, it just works. How come?
SCEtoAUX said:
randomeddy said:
If you use the maps on your phone for directions it will need you to have data which you will have had to pay for in your contract etc.
If you use a sat nav you don't need to top it up/pay for anything, it just works. How come?
Because SatNav just receives a signal and the GPS chip in your phone does clever stuff. There's no need for a data network at all.If you use a sat nav you don't need to top it up/pay for anything, it just works. How come?
They're not nearly as bad as they used to be though. I now use Waze and the data usage is negligible.
randomeddy said:
If you use the maps on your phone for directions it will need you to have data which you will have had to pay for in your contract etc.
If you use a sat nav you don't need to top it up/pay for anything, it just works. How come?
Google/Apple are tracking your every movement for their own purposes, but they also upload the map as you're using it- hence the lag when you zoom in sometimes, but also meaning they can tell you of speed cameras, traffic trouble, revise your ETA on the hop according to live information.If you use a sat nav you don't need to top it up/pay for anything, it just works. How come?
You can download an offline gps map for your phone, but it will take up storage on your phone and go out of date just like a lot of car ones do when you find yourself on a road that doesn't exist on your map.
GPS is just a bunch of crazily accurate clocks pinging off a signal and allowing a device to triangulate its own position, which is why a wristwatch can do it. You need map software for that position to mean something practical.
V8mate said:
No. It's because a standalone satnav has all the maps loaded into its memory. There used to be a very good mobile satnav app for Windows phones where you could download full maps for various regions.
They're not nearly as bad as they used to be though. I now use Waze and the data usage is negligible.
Quite. Plus your phone satnav is getting real time traffic updates. A standalone satnav is more like a road atlas.They're not nearly as bad as they used to be though. I now use Waze and the data usage is negligible.
Incidentally, Google Maps does allow you to download map data for an area, although obviously if will still use a small amount of data to report back your speed and position to the Google hivemind.
glazbagun said:
GPS is just a bunch of crazily accurate clocks pinging off a signal and allowing a device to triangulate its own position, which is why a wristwatch can do it. You need map software for that position to mean something practical.
Exactly so.Funniest / saddest explanation of GPS navigation I ever heard was when Stephen Fry went Off Piste on QI once and seemed to be under the impression that your GPS somehow asked the satellite to tell you your position, which was laughable. All the satellites do is broadcast their identifier and time, and your receiver does all the clever maths and physics calculations to triangulate your position and then look that up on a map.
Incidentally the calculations always resolve to two positions, but since one of them is in space it can be discarded.
Has an insurance company ever gone thru a car and checked if it actually has a remap or ECU chip after an accident ?
Do the police even do that in cases of serious accidents? I just can't see the police saying "This person left the road at a high speed/ran a red light hitting another car because they have an extra 20hp and that was the reason, not the high speed, not the driving without due care and attention, purely the extra 4% increase in engine power ".
I can understand them investigating if the driver said 'My brakes failed'!
(Narrator - the brakes did not fail).
Do the police even do that in cases of serious accidents? I just can't see the police saying "This person left the road at a high speed/ran a red light hitting another car because they have an extra 20hp and that was the reason, not the high speed, not the driving without due care and attention, purely the extra 4% increase in engine power ".
I can understand them investigating if the driver said 'My brakes failed'!
(Narrator - the brakes did not fail).
V8mate said:
SCEtoAUX said:
randomeddy said:
If you use the maps on your phone for directions it will need you to have data which you will have had to pay for in your contract etc.
If you use a sat nav you don't need to top it up/pay for anything, it just works. How come?
Because SatNav just receives a signal and the GPS chip in your phone does clever stuff. There's no need for a data network at all.If you use a sat nav you don't need to top it up/pay for anything, it just works. How come?
They're not nearly as bad as they used to be though. I now use Waze and the data usage is negligible.
SCEtoAUX said:
V8mate said:
SCEtoAUX said:
randomeddy said:
If you use the maps on your phone for directions it will need you to have data which you will have had to pay for in your contract etc.
If you use a sat nav you don't need to top it up/pay for anything, it just works. How come?
Because SatNav just receives a signal and the GPS chip in your phone does clever stuff. There's no need for a data network at all.If you use a sat nav you don't need to top it up/pay for anything, it just works. How come?
They're not nearly as bad as they used to be though. I now use Waze and the data usage is negligible.
Clockwork Cupcake said:
Quite. Plus your phone satnav is getting real time traffic updates. A standalone satnav is more like a road atlas.
Incidentally, Google Maps does allow you to download map data for an area, although obviously if will still use a small amount of data to report back your speed and position to the Google hivemind.
I can't remember if it was this thread or another, but stand-alone sat-navs can have real time traffic updates that work wherever you have an FM radio signal. I bought one a few years ago and everyone thought I was mad as I could have just used a phone. Except for having to type in an address after I had googled it, I found it much better to use and not dependant on data.Incidentally, Google Maps does allow you to download map data for an area, although obviously if will still use a small amount of data to report back your speed and position to the Google hivemind.
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