never mind patriotism, producing these laptops in bulk for richer countries would probably help tweak the process so that they could be produced as cheaply as planned or at least better than they are now. That way it could allow for a lot more of the rest of the world to get these cheaply as well.
under current law copyright infringement *is* a crime, should it be that way? perhaps not, but legally it is. You can argue the legality of distributing data in the form of music/art etc. all you want, it doesn't alter the fact that two actions although exactly the same are treated differently because of whether or not anyone thought of taking advantage of the offer. that's the idiotic part that doesn't make any sense what so ever. Either it's a crime and the two actions treated equally [because they are] or it isn't a crime and the argument about all of this is mute anyway.
in this case the only difference between it being a crime or not is whether anyone found your files to download. same exact action, one being a crime and one not, does that make any sense? no, no it doesn't.
the human body is roughly at 310 kelvin while the rest of the room is typically much cooler than this. given a good way to conduct heat from one end to the other, the temp difference could be on the order of 15 degrees not 5 making it about 5% still not that much but probaly good enough for a wrist watch or a pocket calculator. then again, if there was a way for the cell phone not to be using full power constantly, there's no reason why you couldn't use the extra power to charge a Ni/Cd battery and use the battery for higher power levels [ie when you're using it] or use the hot air expelled with every breath as the air you breathe out is quite warm, given a high surface area of hollow fibers that are made of [thermoelectric] material to make use of considerably larger amounts of that waste heat, the drawback being that you would look pretty silly with this device and it would likely be quite a hinderance just to get a few extra watts for "free"
guns are pretty effective but have you ever tried thermite? 3,000 degrees of molten hot metal cures any data security problems as well as putting on quite a show at the same time:)
I was specifically referring to human evolution, and that no definitive proof has been produced that we have evolved from apes.
actually, to be precise, you specifically are ignorant of any evidence, that is not the same as there not being any evidence. Case in point, the apes have 48 chromosomes, we have 46, why? could we have lost 2? no, not really, as it turns out, two pairs of chromosomes fused to form a pair of larger chromosomes, which specifically forms chromosome 2 in the human genome. how do we know this? after we sequenced the human genome, we found that chromosome two contained genetic material unmistakably similar to the two ape chromosomes which fused during human evolution. We also found telemeric repeats diving the two now fused chromosomes. these repeats are otherwise found on the ends of chromosomes. The only way they could possibly be found where they are is if two chromosomes had fused in the evolutionary past. See? the theory of evolution made a prediction which was later tested and ultimately confirmed. And there's intelligent design sitting there with a dumb look on its face with no idea of what just happened.
heh.. just for the heck of it: mass of twinkie: ~35 grams, mass of sun =2*10^30 kg, mass of blackhole: 18*10^9 sol therefore, 18*10^9*2*10^30/35g*1000g/kg~= 10^42 twinkies.
oxidation is defined as removing electrons or hydrogen from a molseule. in the case of hydrogen, the first step in the reaction of hydrogen and an oxidizer [doesnt need to be oxygen] is to "remove" electrons from hydrogen to generate protons, all of this is a formality as protons are never found naked [in water they are H3O+ for example] but it is useful in the concept of the reaction. 4H+ + O2 + 4e- 2H2O basically there's a net transfer of electrons from one atom to another [that isn't even technically true, electron density is shared in the molecules formed] again, it's just a formality. ionization by contrast, either removes or adds electrons to a molecule/atom causing it to be charged + or -. eg. plasma is ionized
if each component costs x dollars and the total cost is nx for n components, the fewer compoenents the cheaper it is and since you only add as many as you need, it may very well turn out to be cheaper for those who don't need the extra components.
Any domain names searched via NSI's whois are being immediately purchased by the registrar, thereby preventing a registrant from purchasing the domain at any other registrar.
flood them with requests and/or search elsewhere. they can't buy what hasn't been searched through them.
If you have something you don't want them to find, encrypt it. Hide it. Do something other than leaving it in plain sight of a simple search.
exactly, what self respecting terrorist is going to have their data in plain sight? In this case, you end up searching everyone but the people who would actually be a threat as they know better than to have any of their sensitive data in plain sight.
It seems to me that Microsoft is strong-arming PC manufacturers to offer Vista only, so I'm surprised that number isn't higher.
Vista is the new MS OS, every new release gave people something to upgrade for and this time they expected the same to be true here, after all it's been 6 years since XP and people might have had an interest in upgrading to the new OS. except for one little snag, the new OS didn't really offer much worth upgrading relative to previous MS releases. People are holding back more than they did with XP just like they did with ME. That's not good for hardware manufacturers, they need people to upgrade their computers every so often and one of the reasons for upgrading is getting the new MS OS as well as some shiny new hardware that hopefully does more. Again, that's not what happened, Vista uses a lot more resources than XP and frankly gets in the way for a lot of people. For now at least, it's preferable for most people to just buy a new computer with XP installed rather than Vista. It does exactly what they want, they are familiar with it and it is arguably much more responsive.
well if it's going to attack liek that it would need higher privilages- that is it needs to exploit another flaw to exploit this one. That being said, it appears that pretty much any OS that has that particular method used [seperate partition + virus] would be affected. No doubt delivered in the same way it has always been, users downloading a new program. you can patch the OS all you want, you still can't patch the user.
the side facing the sun is really lit up but the other side is not, on that side because there is no air, it would be complete and utter darkness save for the stars in the sky. you might want to bring a flashlight.
you aren't paying attention. this is an alpha release, it actually warns you that it isn't that good [yet]. google has been indexing since 1998, wikia has been online for er a day or so? why not wait until they've been at least in beta before calling it a failure hmmm?
wasn't there an airliner shot down over USSR airspace a few years ago? I can't seem to remember how it was shot down, but if it was a missile- that would be an example of it happening.
What percentage of voters are affected by Social Networking sites?
I think a better question would be how many voters are affected by social networking sites and I'm guessing that it isn't a number the canidates should be ignoring if they want to get elected. myspace alone has about 100 million users and even if 2% were affected, that's 2 million people there. if you were a politician, would you want to be ignoring that many people online?
no, you *are* a troll. several linux distros are ready to use out of the box, kubuntu for example has kate and open office all ready out of the box. nano on the commandline with abioword, gedit, kedit and several others in synaptic. well isn't that conveniant... you don't even need to open a web browser to install something! no hunting around the web, no need to shell out how much ever MS is asking for office these days, no product key/disk to keep track of.. isnt that fucking amazing? can windows do that too?? oh wait...
carbon monoxide can be used as a feed stock for a number of chemical reactions that don't just produce fuels. Imagine producing plastics using the process, it is that much less petroleum being used for that purpose, that much CO2 that doesn't get put back into the air. right now it isn't as economical as using petroleum but that could change if we really deplete the reserves. a big possibility of using carbon monoxide is for making alcohols, of which ethanol can be used to make butadiene and ethylene, already this reaction is being used in certain countries rather than petroleum.
I think you're a tad confused... atomic number sin't atomic mass. hydrogen's molecular weight is 2 because there are two hydrogen atoms bound chemically to form H2, Neon's mass is 20. what you forget about the densities of gases is that elements are not the only gases with a lower molecular weight [which many times means a lower density than air] NH3 has a mass of 17, methane is 16, air is a mixture of gases, although it acts like a gas with an average molecular weight of around 28. most gases with a molecular weight less than 28 and at temperatures relatively far away from their boiling points [van der waals effects increase the densit of a gas at low temps] will generally float in air. gases that are close to the density of air but lighter, are not as useful because it requires a lot more gas to lift the same weight. Neon would require at least 4x the lifting gas to lift about the same weight as hydrogen and helium do. ammonia is generally a gas at room temp as long as it isn't around water as it dissolves readily- because of its lightnesss [17 amu] it wqould require about 2x the lifting gas to be as effective as hydrogen or helium.
If I remember correctly, they used aluminized layers alternating with iron oxide layers. aluminum can react with iron oxide in a thermite reaction. Iron oxide is the oxidizer and aluminum is the reducing agent, because of the violence of the reaction it is used in some cases to dispose of computer hardware to reduce/eliminate the risk of data recovery by unintended parties. That being true, it is certainly possible that the paint increased the risk of fire but the fact that the gas inside the balloon was very flammable didn't help anything. would the ship have caught fire if the outer coating wasn't flammable? probably eventually, all it takes is a tear in the skin of that ship to expose hydrogen to air and really at that point, it is only a matter of time before something causes ignition of the gas. OTOH, had the gas been helium, the only fire hazard would be the paint which if comprimised would be bad but likely a lot better than the whole ship catching fire.
helium is mainly obtained from natural gas fields [heloium apparently collects in these deposits] which means helium will probably be reasonably accessible for a while. now assuming we did run out of cheap Helium, we should be able to build airships that *ahem* use hydrogen or another light gas to replace Helium. the big limitation of course is the danger of fire although a series of gas bags situated toward the outside filled with Nitrogen or some other reasonably obtainable relatively inert gas should give a decent buffer zone to absorb impacts and lessen the dangers of fire.
the fact you can buy individual songs for 1$ a piece probably had a lot to do with the "demise" of cds because paying the 3$ for the songs that are worth buying rather than 20$ for 80% garbage on a breakable, DRM laden piece of plastic is a much better deal. laying all the blame on piracy for this little problem the RIAA companies have in selling their music is ignorant, The fact that the quality music these companies produce is mediocre, expensive and sold with very restrictive DRM did them in. They failed to adapt to new technology and now it is costing them, boo hoo.
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never mind patriotism, producing these laptops in bulk for richer countries would probably help tweak the process so that they could be produced as cheaply as planned or at least better than they are now. That way it could allow for a lot more of the rest of the world to get these cheaply as well.
under current law copyright infringement *is* a crime, should it be that way? perhaps not, but legally it is. You can argue the legality of distributing data in the form of music/art etc. all you want, it doesn't alter the fact that two actions although exactly the same are treated differently because of whether or not anyone thought of taking advantage of the offer. that's the idiotic part that doesn't make any sense what so ever. Either it's a crime and the two actions treated equally [because they are] or it isn't a crime and the argument about all of this is mute anyway.
in this case the only difference between it being a crime or not is whether anyone found your files to download. same exact action, one being a crime and one not, does that make any sense? no, no it doesn't.
the human body is roughly at 310 kelvin while the rest of the room is typically much cooler than this. given a good way to conduct heat from one end to the other, the temp difference could be on the order of 15 degrees not 5 making it about 5% still not that much but probaly good enough for a wrist watch or a pocket calculator. then again, if there was a way for the cell phone not to be using full power constantly, there's no reason why you couldn't use the extra power to charge a Ni/Cd battery and use the battery for higher power levels [ie when you're using it] or use the hot air expelled with every breath as the air you breathe out is quite warm, given a high surface area of hollow fibers that are made of [thermoelectric] material to make use of considerably larger amounts of that waste heat, the drawback being that you would look pretty silly with this device and it would likely be quite a hinderance just to get a few extra watts for "free"
guns are pretty effective but have you ever tried thermite? 3,000 degrees of molten hot metal cures any data security problems as well as putting on quite a show at the same time :)
1.028*10^42/(5*10^8)= 2.056*10^33 years
actually it's 1.8*10^10 not 1.8*10^9 (10^9=billion, 18 billion= 18*10^9=1.8*10^10)
2*10^30*1.8*10^10=3.6*10^40
3.6*10^40*10^3= 3.6*10^43
3.6*10^43/35=1.028*10^42
oxidation is defined as removing electrons or hydrogen from a molseule. in the case of hydrogen, the first step in the reaction of hydrogen and an oxidizer [doesnt need to be oxygen] is to "remove" electrons from hydrogen to generate protons, all of this is a formality as protons are never found naked [in water they are H3O+ for example] but it is useful in the concept of the reaction. 4H+ + O2 + 4e- 2H2O basically there's a net transfer of electrons from one atom to another [that isn't even technically true, electron density is shared in the molecules formed] again, it's just a formality. ionization by contrast, either removes or adds electrons to a molecule/atom causing it to be charged + or -. eg. plasma is ionized
if each component costs x dollars and the total cost is nx for n components, the fewer compoenents the cheaper it is and since you only add as many as you need, it may very well turn out to be cheaper for those who don't need the extra components.
well if it's going to attack liek that it would need higher privilages- that is it needs to exploit another flaw to exploit this one. That being said, it appears that pretty much any OS that has that particular method used [seperate partition + virus] would be affected. No doubt delivered in the same way it has always been, users downloading a new program. you can patch the OS all you want, you still can't patch the user.
the side facing the sun is really lit up but the other side is not, on that side because there is no air, it would be complete and utter darkness save for the stars in the sky. you might want to bring a flashlight.
you aren't paying attention. this is an alpha release, it actually warns you that it isn't that good [yet]. google has been indexing since 1998, wikia has been online for er a day or so? why not wait until they've been at least in beta before calling it a failure hmmm?
wasn't there an airliner shot down over USSR airspace a few years ago? I can't seem to remember how it was shot down, but if it was a missile- that would be an example of it happening.
no, you *are* a troll. several linux distros are ready to use out of the box, kubuntu for example has kate and open office all ready out of the box. nano on the commandline with abioword, gedit, kedit and several others in synaptic. well isn't that conveniant... you don't even need to open a web browser to install something! no hunting around the web, no need to shell out how much ever MS is asking for office these days, no product key/disk to keep track of.. isnt that fucking amazing? can windows do that too?? oh wait...
carbon monoxide can be used as a feed stock for a number of chemical reactions that don't just produce fuels. Imagine producing plastics using the process, it is that much less petroleum being used for that purpose, that much CO2 that doesn't get put back into the air. right now it isn't as economical as using petroleum but that could change if we really deplete the reserves. a big possibility of using carbon monoxide is for making alcohols, of which ethanol can be used to make butadiene and ethylene, already this reaction is being used in certain countries rather than petroleum.
I think you're a tad confused... atomic number sin't atomic mass. hydrogen's molecular weight is 2 because there are two hydrogen atoms bound chemically to form H2, Neon's mass is 20. what you forget about the densities of gases is that elements are not the only gases with a lower molecular weight [which many times means a lower density than air] NH3 has a mass of 17, methane is 16, air is a mixture of gases, although it acts like a gas with an average molecular weight of around 28. most gases with a molecular weight less than 28 and at temperatures relatively far away from their boiling points [van der waals effects increase the densit of a gas at low temps] will generally float in air. gases that are close to the density of air but lighter, are not as useful because it requires a lot more gas to lift the same weight. Neon would require at least 4x the lifting gas to lift about the same weight as hydrogen and helium do. ammonia is generally a gas at room temp as long as it isn't around water as it dissolves readily- because of its lightnesss [17 amu] it wqould require about 2x the lifting gas to be as effective as hydrogen or helium.
If I remember correctly, they used aluminized layers alternating with iron oxide layers. aluminum can react with iron oxide in a thermite reaction. Iron oxide is the oxidizer and aluminum is the reducing agent, because of the violence of the reaction it is used in some cases to dispose of computer hardware to reduce/eliminate the risk of data recovery by unintended parties. That being true, it is certainly possible that the paint increased the risk of fire but the fact that the gas inside the balloon was very flammable didn't help anything. would the ship have caught fire if the outer coating wasn't flammable? probably eventually, all it takes is a tear in the skin of that ship to expose hydrogen to air and really at that point, it is only a matter of time before something causes ignition of the gas. OTOH, had the gas been helium, the only fire hazard would be the paint which if comprimised would be bad but likely a lot better than the whole ship catching fire.
helium is mainly obtained from natural gas fields [heloium apparently collects in these deposits] which means helium will probably be reasonably accessible for a while. now assuming we did run out of cheap Helium, we should be able to build airships that *ahem* use hydrogen or another light gas to replace Helium. the big limitation of course is the danger of fire although a series of gas bags situated toward the outside filled with Nitrogen or some other reasonably obtainable relatively inert gas should give a decent buffer zone to absorb impacts and lessen the dangers of fire.
the fact you can buy individual songs for 1$ a piece probably had a lot to do with the "demise" of cds because paying the 3$ for the songs that are worth buying rather than 20$ for 80% garbage on a breakable, DRM laden piece of plastic is a much better deal. laying all the blame on piracy for this little problem the RIAA companies have in selling their music is ignorant, The fact that the quality music these companies produce is mediocre, expensive and sold with very restrictive DRM did them in. They failed to adapt to new technology and now it is costing them, boo hoo.