QUESTION #1: Does anybody know where the term "Pushing the envelope" comes from?
QUESTION #2: What does ".int" stand for (full meaning) at the end of a web address and list one example where it is used.
QUESTION #3: How much does it cost to run a 30 second add during the tv show "Friends"? (estimated/rounded number).
The answers will be given in time... grasshoppa!
Andy's common trivia...
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canadaclimbergirl
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Okay Andy, here you go!
1. It comes from mathematics, specifically as it is used in aeroplane design. It was popularised by Tom Wolfe’s book of 1979, The Right Stuff, about test pilots and the early space programme. It’s an excellent example of the way that a bit of specialised jargon known only to a few practitioners can move into the general language.
2. the .int domain is used for registering organizations established by international treaties between or among national governments. One example might be the 'World Health Organization' www.who.int
3. The cost to purchase a 30-second advertisement in the U.S. during an episode of Friends, the most expensive prime-time show during which to purchase an ad, according to Advertising Age: $455,700
Did I pass Mr. Lemon?? 8)
1. It comes from mathematics, specifically as it is used in aeroplane design. It was popularised by Tom Wolfe’s book of 1979, The Right Stuff, about test pilots and the early space programme. It’s an excellent example of the way that a bit of specialised jargon known only to a few practitioners can move into the general language.
2. the .int domain is used for registering organizations established by international treaties between or among national governments. One example might be the 'World Health Organization' www.who.int
3. The cost to purchase a 30-second advertisement in the U.S. during an episode of Friends, the most expensive prime-time show during which to purchase an ad, according to Advertising Age: $455,700
Did I pass Mr. Lemon?? 8)
The phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~Jane Sellman
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andy_lemon
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Hey, way togo CCG!!! Question #1 was a little screwy but your on the right track...
Question #1 ANSWER Before a pilot takes off in a plane, there is an envelope in the cockpit. The envelope contains maximum numbers that are suggested by the manufactuer to not be exceded. So... when a pilot walks into the cockpit and sees the max speed is XXX and says, "I can go faster than that?~!?". He is getting ready to push the envelope.
Good job! I unfortanately can not award any beerzzz.
Question #1 ANSWER Before a pilot takes off in a plane, there is an envelope in the cockpit. The envelope contains maximum numbers that are suggested by the manufactuer to not be exceded. So... when a pilot walks into the cockpit and sees the max speed is XXX and says, "I can go faster than that?~!?". He is getting ready to push the envelope.
Good job! I unfortanately can not award any beerzzz.
Not a bitch.
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canadaclimbergirl
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hmmmm
Andy...this is what I know of 'pushing the envelope'
It comes from mathematics, specifically as it is used in aeroplane design. It was popularised by Tom Wolfe’s book of 1979, The Right Stuff, about test pilots and the early space programme. It’s an excellent example of the way that a bit of specialised jargon known only to a few practitioners can move into the general language.
In mathematics, an envelope is the enclosing boundary of a set or family of curves that is touched by every curve in the system. This usage is known from the latter part of the nineteenth century. It’s also used in electrical engineering for the curve that you get when you connect the successive peaks of a wave. This envelope curve encloses or envelops all the component curves.
In aeronautics, the envelope is the outer boundary of all the curves that describe the performance of the aircraft under various conditions of engine thrust, speed, altitude, atmospheric conditions, and the like. It is generally taken to be the known limits for the safe performance of the craft.
Test pilots have to test (or push) these limits to establish exactly what the plane is capable of doing, and where failure is likely to occur—to compare calculated performance limits with ones derived from experience. Test pilots called this pushing the edge of the envelope in the 1950s and 1960s, but this was soon shortened.
Following Tom Wolfe’s book and film, the phrase began to move out into the wider world; the first recorded use in the more general sense of going (or attempting to go) beyond the limits of what is known to be possible came in the late 1980s.
so yes......you were correct....and so was I.
Can I please have some BEvERages????
I can't stand being a 'Duck Butt'
Andy...this is what I know of 'pushing the envelope'
It comes from mathematics, specifically as it is used in aeroplane design. It was popularised by Tom Wolfe’s book of 1979, The Right Stuff, about test pilots and the early space programme. It’s an excellent example of the way that a bit of specialised jargon known only to a few practitioners can move into the general language.
In mathematics, an envelope is the enclosing boundary of a set or family of curves that is touched by every curve in the system. This usage is known from the latter part of the nineteenth century. It’s also used in electrical engineering for the curve that you get when you connect the successive peaks of a wave. This envelope curve encloses or envelops all the component curves.
In aeronautics, the envelope is the outer boundary of all the curves that describe the performance of the aircraft under various conditions of engine thrust, speed, altitude, atmospheric conditions, and the like. It is generally taken to be the known limits for the safe performance of the craft.
Test pilots have to test (or push) these limits to establish exactly what the plane is capable of doing, and where failure is likely to occur—to compare calculated performance limits with ones derived from experience. Test pilots called this pushing the edge of the envelope in the 1950s and 1960s, but this was soon shortened.
Following Tom Wolfe’s book and film, the phrase began to move out into the wider world; the first recorded use in the more general sense of going (or attempting to go) beyond the limits of what is known to be possible came in the late 1980s.
so yes......you were correct....and so was I.
Can I please have some BEvERages????
I can't stand being a 'Duck Butt'
The phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~Jane Sellman
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