The Carpeted Man wins the general election by a whopping 6.88x10^89 votes! It was surely a shrewd maneuver to choose a Van de Graaff generator as his running mate!
It's true that school was a long time ago, so I may in fact be incorrect. Aren't thermal equilibrium and temperature inextricably linked? The 2nd law does speak to this, though, in that if you bring two systems together not in thermal equilibrium, they will tend towards it because the state in which they're in equilibrium has more entropy.
Hmm...I guess that does make sense. Next time: more think, less post.
It is often referred to as the 0th Law of Thermodynamics that states that thermal energy flows down a gradient. It pretty much defines what temperature means. The Second Law does not involve systems in equilibrium.
Statements like this make the physicist in me cry out in pain.
Oh, I don't think for a second that QM and GR are similar, but I don't think it's an absurd idea to posit that the same physics governs actions of small bodies as actions of large bodies. QM and GR are mathematical models that are our best way of understanding and predicting behavior of radically different systems, but there's nothing that says there isn't a more fundamental theory that encompasses and is compatible with both regimes. Such would be a Grand Unified Theory.
I was merely suggesting that the underlying forces between all interactions may be manifestations of something more fundamental than the forces we currently observe and can describe.
I didn't realize light shared wave-particle duality with semi trucks.
It does have a wavelength, albeit a ridiculously small one. One of the wonderful things about physics is that it is equally true for large things as small things. A particle's de Broglie wavelength is given as h/p, where h is Planck's constant and p is the momentum of the particle (or any object, really).
And yes, I am conveniently ignoring incompatibilities between QM and GR. I'm assuming that the same laws govern planets as electrons and that we just haven't figured out compatible mathematical modeling yet.
Even if this can protect islands from tsunamis, I fail to see the point. Tsunamis are pretty uncommon and most of the coastline that it is designed to protect will be underwater in 50 years anyway.
Telnet is actually very useful. As a mail admin I've used it to test SMTP and POP servers. As a network admin I've used it to log into routers and managed switches. Telnet is a useful protocol, and while MS' telnet.exe isn't even close to the best telnet client, to say it isn't useful is to flat-out ignore all the many things that can be configured or tested fastest and with the fewest free variables using telnet.
Programs like telnet are useful, have a minimal footprint, and there is no strong argument for removing them.
As for PowerShell, I've used it and I think it's ugly, slow, and found using it to be just plain annoying.
Think what awful things could happen if someone wrote on the bottom of one of these duckies, "I seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle."
Yes we all know about third-party apps that do what should already be included with the system to begin with. But to say third-party alternatives exist for download ignores the entire point I was making, which was that they should be there already. For example, how hard would it be to include wget?
Leaner can be better and I'm all for not having all kinds of pointless apps in my OS installation, but I hope they think about what's necessary a little harder than they did when deciding to remove the telnet client from the default install of Vista.
How about putting in some more useful utilities and maybe a truly powerful CLI that can rival bash?
Most of use [sic] don't come across POST beeps very often these days-but I still get them sometimes when hit too many keys before my computer is ready to accept input. It always makes me a tad nostalgic.
Water moving across a membrane doesn't happen regardless of concentrations. You definitely need a difference in solute concentrations and you could think of it as water moving from an area of higher water concentration (lower solute concentration) to an area of low concentration (high solute concentration).
I thought they were pretty much a passive organization that just lists domains and companies that are either irresponsible or actively take part in spam- or malware-related activity. It feels a little disingenuous to claim that they pressured a provider to drop a client.
KY is pretty mediocre lube and it tastes awful. Check out Good Vibrations for a selection of other lubes.
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1 eV is approximately 10^(-20) K. For LHC to approach the caloric value of a soda (diet or regular, the difference is about one order of magnitude) it would need to generate particle beams with zetta-eV, i.e., 10^(21)
There are some very important points to note here about what's wrong with this statement.
K is the symbol for Kelvin, not calories (or Calories). eV is energy, Kelvin is temperature.
It is close to meaningless to compare the energy in chemical bonds that is released when burned (calories) to the energy of a single particle in an accelerator. Electromagnetic bonds are not broken in particle accelerators.
The energies of subatomic particles (binding, rest, or kinetic) are NEVER measured in calories.
It makes me angry that this was modded Informative.
Oh, the difference in calories between regular and diet sodas is closer to two orders of magnitude. That at least wasn't nonsensical, but just wrong.
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You mean like the Millerites, who believed that the Second Coming would happen by March 21, 1844? After that date passed, it was recalculated to end on April 18. That day passed as well, and the end of the world was projected for October 22, 1844. Needless to say, it didn't happen and this day became known as the Great Disappointment. The ideological descendants of the Millerites became the Seventh-Day Adventists.
How about Markus Hess, whose exploits (and the tracking thereof) back in 1986 were the basis of Cliff Stoll's book The Cuckoo's Egg? He broke into multiple military computers and sold stolen information to the KGB. I think he deserves at least an honorable mention.
There aren't currently any laws on the books mandating or protecting net neutrality, are there? I don't think it's technically illegal to throttle traffic the way they're doing it, though it is ethically wrong.
I could be wrong here.
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MOANFFOVMPTESMMTTS is not really the best acronym for anyone. Did they blow their acronymic wad with WIMPs and MACHOs and RAMBOs and whatnot?
I'm glad someone got my cartoon reference
The Carpeted Man wins the general election by a whopping 6.88x10^89 votes! It was surely a shrewd maneuver to choose a Van de Graaff generator as his running mate!
This is one for the record books, folks.
It's true that school was a long time ago, so I may in fact be incorrect. Aren't thermal equilibrium and temperature inextricably linked? The 2nd law does speak to this, though, in that if you bring two systems together not in thermal equilibrium, they will tend towards it because the state in which they're in equilibrium has more entropy.
Hmm...I guess that does make sense. Next time: more think, less post.
It is often referred to as the 0th Law of Thermodynamics that states that thermal energy flows down a gradient. It pretty much defines what temperature means. The Second Law does not involve systems in equilibrium.
Statements like this make the physicist in me cry out in pain.
Please stop misusing the word "circa." It should only be used to give approximate dates. It would have been just as easy to write "Google in 2001."
Oh, and while we're at it, that's my lawn you're standing on.
Oh, I don't think for a second that QM and GR are similar, but I don't think it's an absurd idea to posit that the same physics governs actions of small bodies as actions of large bodies. QM and GR are mathematical models that are our best way of understanding and predicting behavior of radically different systems, but there's nothing that says there isn't a more fundamental theory that encompasses and is compatible with both regimes. Such would be a Grand Unified Theory.
I was merely suggesting that the underlying forces between all interactions may be manifestations of something more fundamental than the forces we currently observe and can describe.
Peekaboo!
Aw crap.
I didn't realize light shared wave-particle duality with semi trucks.
It does have a wavelength, albeit a ridiculously small one. One of the wonderful things about physics is that it is equally true for large things as small things. A particle's de Broglie wavelength is given as h/p, where h is Planck's constant and p is the momentum of the particle (or any object, really).
And yes, I am conveniently ignoring incompatibilities between QM and GR. I'm assuming that the same laws govern planets as electrons and that we just haven't figured out compatible mathematical modeling yet.
Even if this can protect islands from tsunamis, I fail to see the point. Tsunamis are pretty uncommon and most of the coastline that it is designed to protect will be underwater in 50 years anyway.
Telnet is actually very useful. As a mail admin I've used it to test SMTP and POP servers. As a network admin I've used it to log into routers and managed switches. Telnet is a useful protocol, and while MS' telnet.exe isn't even close to the best telnet client, to say it isn't useful is to flat-out ignore all the many things that can be configured or tested fastest and with the fewest free variables using telnet.
Programs like telnet are useful, have a minimal footprint, and there is no strong argument for removing them.
As for PowerShell, I've used it and I think it's ugly, slow, and found using it to be just plain annoying.
Think what awful things could happen if someone wrote on the bottom of one of these duckies, "I seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle."
Yes we all know about third-party apps that do what should already be included with the system to begin with. But to say third-party alternatives exist for download ignores the entire point I was making, which was that they should be there already. For example, how hard would it be to include wget?
Leaner can be better and I'm all for not having all kinds of pointless apps in my OS installation, but I hope they think about what's necessary a little harder than they did when deciding to remove the telnet client from the default install of Vista.
How about putting in some more useful utilities and maybe a truly powerful CLI that can rival bash?
Most of use [sic] don't come across POST beeps very often these days-but I still get them sometimes when hit too many keys before my computer is ready to accept input. It always makes me a tad nostalgic.
Not POST beeps. His keyboard buffer is full.
I think what they meant to say was 3.42 R
Doesn't everybody use Rankine?
Water moving across a membrane doesn't happen regardless of concentrations. You definitely need a difference in solute concentrations and you could think of it as water moving from an area of higher water concentration (lower solute concentration) to an area of low concentration (high solute concentration).
I thought they were pretty much a passive organization that just lists domains and companies that are either irresponsible or actively take part in spam- or malware-related activity. It feels a little disingenuous to claim that they pressured a provider to drop a client.
KY is pretty mediocre lube and it tastes awful. Check out Good Vibrations for a selection of other lubes.
1 eV is approximately 10^(-20) K. For LHC to approach the caloric value of a soda (diet or regular, the difference is about one order of magnitude) it would need to generate particle beams with zetta-eV, i.e., 10^(21)
There are some very important points to note here about what's wrong with this statement.
It makes me angry that this was modded Informative.
Oh, the difference in calories between regular and diet sodas is closer to two orders of magnitude. That at least wasn't nonsensical, but just wrong.
You mean like the Millerites, who believed that the Second Coming would happen by March 21, 1844? After that date passed, it was recalculated to end on April 18. That day passed as well, and the end of the world was projected for October 22, 1844. Needless to say, it didn't happen and this day became known as the Great Disappointment. The ideological descendants of the Millerites became the Seventh-Day Adventists.
How about Markus Hess, whose exploits (and the tracking thereof) back in 1986 were the basis of Cliff Stoll's book The Cuckoo's Egg? He broke into multiple military computers and sold stolen information to the KGB. I think he deserves at least an honorable mention.
I love The Wizard. It's so...bad.
There aren't currently any laws on the books mandating or protecting net neutrality, are there? I don't think it's technically illegal to throttle traffic the way they're doing it, though it is ethically wrong.
I could be wrong here.
Proton mass is .938 GeV, counting said binding energy