Unlike you, these guys know what they are doing. They also know that yes, these things have existed. Millions of atoms of these elements were probably created in upper atmosphere during time it took for you to write that little ignorant scaremongering rant. Nobody was there to observe, though, and that is what they want to do.
Amazingly enough, they've also managed to understand the little-known elusive fact you seem to be missing, that DOOM and Event Horizon are fiction, not even science fiction but just plain old fantasy.
The asteroid belt is really quite sparse, not at all what most people would expect after watching/reading bit too much scifi.
Very unlikely that it will even even get to see any of the rocks if it's not intentionally directed to fly by one of the big ones to get pretty pictures, much less get hit by them.
I right an app in SWT it looks one way on Windows and another way on Gnome (usually a complete mess on one).
As it should. Well, apart from the mess part but that sounds like incompetence instead of anything specific to SWT...
You know, users on Windows are expecting it to look like Windows, and users on Gnome sure as hell don't want it to look like Windows. Or if they want, they'll switch to a Windows GTK theme (yuck) and get all their apps uglified instead of just one.
This only seems to concern documentation, not ads, so the problems described on the FSF page are not quite as bad - full page of credits on ad may be bad, but full page of credits among hundreds of other pages of documentation isn't nearly as big deal.
Anyway this seems to be rather stupid move, XFree86 seems to have enough problems (infighting, resulting diverting and forks...) already without any license trouble. If it ends up incompatible, all the more reason to concentrate on those, if the XFree86 folks want to shoot themselves to foot and slowly bleed to death, it's their choice - very stupid one but it's their nevertheless.
Well XSLT may be bit hard to write, but it only needs to be done once - when you have the stylesheet you can transform bazillion source documents without ever touching it again.
Of course they need to implement it internally with some kind of kludge too if underlying architecture doesn't support it, but as long as it's transparent to user, who cares.
Nope, Fedora boots just fine without a floppy drive.
Though he makes it sound it was complaining about a floppy controller, not the drive... and the error was "something like blah blah blah" so he didn't copy it but tried to later remember and might have got it totally wrong.
Given that human history doesn't even go back 100,000 years
Well, homo sapiens has been around for 200 000 years. And even in the current form at least 50 000.
I don't think one can really consider that as true terraforming. I think when people talk about terraforming they are talking something very short (on the order of a 100 years maximum).
Terraforming as a word doesn't imply any specific timescale, some people may be talking about impossibly low numbers but then again, they're not talking about reality but magictech from "scifi" stories that hardly ever have the science part included. Though, of course they like to talk about fast version - they would like to to be around and see it.
You're right that we can't reverse the changes we've wreaking upon Earth, but then again, causing global warming on Mars would not need to be reversed because it'd be the good thing there.
I think scientific efforts on Mars are a big waste of money until more advanced forms of propulsion and energy generation are developed, and that these Mars missions don't contribute to their development in the slightest.
Of course they do. They act as a constant reminder about how slow and expensive the current technology is and serve as a nice pressure into making it better.
There isn't slightest interest in developing advanced forms of propulsion if it's not going to be used for something, if old-style space missions are demolished, the futuretech you're waiting for will never become a reality.
Terraforming doesn't need to be fast, if Mars becomes gradually warmer and moister during the next 100000 years because we dump greenhouse gases and CO2 producing genetic engineered bacteria there, it's terraforming.
Global warming is "terraforming", we do have some primitive planetary level capabilities, but they take lot of time to cause anything noticeable.
And that's probably how it'll stay, we won't be slapping hyperspace engines on Moon anytime soon and cruise to center of the galaxy with it.
I don't doubt they're bit better, but it's not because of silver.
The dansdata toothpaste test is the real eye-opener in that - yeah, it doesn't last long, but it proves that thermal resistance of them all is pretty much the same. Same thing with the ceramique test - works fine though there's not trice of silver in there.
So whatever is the reason these things work bit better, it's in the other properties, suspension fluid, it's viscocity, that the particles are very small, doesn't dry, doesn't creep. But not what - if any - metal is used in it.
Well, that was after assembling the system from scratch, reinstalling windows, etc. That takes plenty of time already, so the slight bit more that comes on top of it isn't nearly as big as it seems "alone".
And no, I don't really consider my free time worth much anything. I doubt many students would (hey that twenty bucks buys me a crate of beer), nor anyone who is unemployed - people who use the "time is money" argument generally generalize that from themselves and forget that not everyone is working, and indeed some people have almost too much time.
And hey, it's fun too. Nothing nicer than combining benefit and fun.
Silver is used because it has the highest thermal conductivity of any metal at 417 W/(mK). However, since its too expensive to use as a heat sink, its just used in the putty between.
Silver putty might barely have 2% of that number, and regular zinc-oxide putty about 1%. Both are too lousy numbers to really matter. The fact is that all of those compounds have very low thermal conductivities and are crap compared to any solid metal.
Even if we had non-existent magictech goop that does indeed have thermal conductivity of pure silver, it wouldn't matter because properly applied there's very, very, very, very little of the stuff between core and hsf, and because the heatsink would then be limiting factor.
Viscocity and granularity of the compound (so that it creeps everywhere and the excess flows out) are much more important than whether it has 5 or 10 W/mK thermal conductivity. Of course those tend to be pretty good on the expensive silver putties too, and are the real reason why they might perform bit better than your standard white goo.
There may be some difference, but it's not because of silver. AS is very finely granulated and quite fluid so it seeps into smaller cracks than more sticky goos. And extra leaks out better, too.
Either that, or you, or whoever put that previous paste there didn't know what they were doing and just managed to got it right next time by luck.
You can't overclock a cpu on a pc or a server that has any real use what-so-ever.
You're wrong.
Moderately overclocked systems are not useless. Sure, you shouldn't use overclocked CPU in a mission critical server (doh), but they make perfectly fine real-world desktops, I'm typing this on one and it's stable as a rock. It's predecessor(s) were as well. The speed difference is nothing staggering, and maybe it only saved twenty bucks from the next speed grade, but so what?
This is not black and white so that something's either at stock speed or so much over the limits it's extremely unstable, you go for a speed that's stable under full load - and you test that it really is stable, or bit under that to be sure.
Of course overclocked to the extreme rig with LN2 cooling or something equally stupid doesn't have any use what-so-ever - but they're intended to, people do that as a hobby, or to compete with eachother.
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Unlike you, these guys know what they are doing. They also know that yes, these things have existed. Millions of atoms of these elements were probably created in upper atmosphere during time it took for you to write that little ignorant scaremongering rant. Nobody was there to observe, though, and that is what they want to do.
Amazingly enough, they've also managed to understand the little-known elusive fact you seem to be missing, that DOOM and Event Horizon are fiction, not even science fiction but just plain old fantasy.
The asteroid belt is really quite sparse, not at all what most people would expect after watching/reading bit too much scifi.
Very unlikely that it will even even get to see any of the rocks if it's not intentionally directed to fly by one of the big ones to get pretty pictures, much less get hit by them.
Why would you be at any more disadvantage when coding Java without tools vs. C?
What are those "tricky bits" that need an IDE?
I right an app in SWT it looks one way on Windows and another way on Gnome (usually a complete mess on one).
As it should. Well, apart from the mess part but that sounds like incompetence instead of anything specific to SWT...
You know, users on Windows are expecting it to look like Windows, and users on Gnome sure as hell don't want it to look like Windows. Or if they want, they'll switch to a Windows GTK theme (yuck) and get all their apps uglified instead of just one.
This only seems to concern documentation, not ads, so the problems described on the FSF page are not quite as bad - full page of credits on ad may be bad, but full page of credits among hundreds of other pages of documentation isn't nearly as big deal.
Anyway this seems to be rather stupid move, XFree86 seems to have enough problems (infighting, resulting diverting and forks...) already without any license trouble. If it ends up incompatible, all the more reason to concentrate on those, if the XFree86 folks want to shoot themselves to foot and slowly bleed to death, it's their choice - very stupid one but it's their nevertheless.
Well XSLT may be bit hard to write, but it only needs to be done once - when you have the stylesheet you can transform bazillion source documents without ever touching it again.
Yeah, I'm still waiting for that full-size Lego replica of Death Star.
VAST areas should considered totally uninhabitable only because few parasite-ridden mosquitos also happen to share them with humans?
Humans have been afflicted by malaria for at least 8000 years, are you claiming there was significant overpopulation back then?
Hell, it's been around long enough to cause significant natural selection for sickle cell anemia mutation!
Too bad that it's not the other way away.
Running Windows on top of Linux without VMWare etc. would be damn nice at times, but guess windoze is too inflexible for that to ever happen.
Huh? He corrected someone who obviously doesn't know this.
Yeah, that's always a good option too.
Of course they need to implement it internally with some kind of kludge too if underlying architecture doesn't support it, but as long as it's transparent to user, who cares.
I don't think its worthy to mention he had his jumpers wrong... everyone makes a jumper mistake and it is fairly easy to diagnose.
Well, that's kind of the point. It's easy (and fast) to diagnose. It's the first thing you check if hard drive or CD-ROM isn't working.
This guy spent two hours wondering about it, and needed God to intervene before getting it right.
Because people writing free software generally write it for themselves.
Retards don't write software.
It's as simple as that.
Nope, Fedora boots just fine without a floppy drive.
Though he makes it sound it was complaining about a floppy controller, not the drive... and the error was "something like blah blah blah" so he didn't copy it but tried to later remember and might have got it totally wrong.
Long longs.
Probably it's implemented internally with 2 32 bit ints, and maybe it indeed is a bitch - but hey that's for compiler forks to worry with.
Moz 1.6, Linux.
.W { color: #FFFFFF }
Starts white, and CSS confirms _that_.
All text is in span class W, and css sayeth:
He doesn't.
What do you think he wrote this thing for?
Given that human history doesn't even go back 100,000 years
Well, homo sapiens has been around for 200 000 years. And even in the current form at least 50 000.
I don't think one can really consider that as true terraforming. I think when people talk about terraforming they are talking something very short (on the order of a 100 years maximum).
Terraforming as a word doesn't imply any specific timescale, some people may be talking about impossibly low numbers but then again, they're not talking about reality but magictech from "scifi" stories that hardly ever have the science part included. Though, of course they like to talk about fast version - they would like to to be around and see it.
You're right that we can't reverse the changes we've wreaking upon Earth, but then again, causing global warming on Mars would not need to be reversed because it'd be the good thing there.
I think scientific efforts on Mars are a big waste of money until more advanced forms of propulsion and energy generation are developed, and that these Mars missions don't contribute to their development in the slightest.
Of course they do. They act as a constant reminder about how slow and expensive the current technology is and serve as a nice pressure into making it better.
There isn't slightest interest in developing advanced forms of propulsion if it's not going to be used for something, if old-style space missions are demolished, the futuretech you're waiting for will never become a reality.
Terraforming doesn't need to be fast, if Mars becomes gradually warmer and moister during the next 100000 years because we dump greenhouse gases and CO2 producing genetic engineered bacteria there, it's terraforming.
Global warming is "terraforming", we do have some primitive planetary level capabilities, but they take lot of time to cause anything noticeable.
And that's probably how it'll stay, we won't be slapping hyperspace engines on Moon anytime soon and cruise to center of the galaxy with it.
I don't doubt they're bit better, but it's not because of silver.
The dansdata toothpaste test is the real eye-opener in that - yeah, it doesn't last long, but it proves that thermal resistance of them all is pretty much the same. Same thing with the ceramique test - works fine though there's not trice of silver in there.
So whatever is the reason these things work bit better, it's in the other properties, suspension fluid, it's viscocity, that the particles are very small, doesn't dry, doesn't creep. But not what - if any - metal is used in it.
Well, that was after assembling the system from scratch, reinstalling windows, etc. That takes plenty of time already, so the slight bit more that comes on top of it isn't nearly as big as it seems "alone".
And no, I don't really consider my free time worth much anything. I doubt many students would (hey that twenty bucks buys me a crate of beer), nor anyone who is unemployed - people who use the "time is money" argument generally generalize that from themselves and forget that not everyone is working, and indeed some people have almost too much time.
And hey, it's fun too. Nothing nicer than combining benefit and fun.
Silver is used because it has the highest thermal conductivity of any metal at 417 W/(mK). However, since its too expensive to use as a heat sink, its just used in the putty between.
Silver putty might barely have 2% of that number, and regular zinc-oxide putty about 1%. Both are too lousy numbers to really matter. The fact is that all of those compounds have very low thermal conductivities and are crap compared to any solid metal.
Even if we had non-existent magictech goop that does indeed have thermal conductivity of pure silver, it wouldn't matter because properly applied there's very, very, very, very little of the stuff between core and hsf, and because the heatsink would then be limiting factor.
Viscocity and granularity of the compound (so that it creeps everywhere and the excess flows out) are much more important than whether it has 5 or 10 W/mK thermal conductivity. Of course those tend to be pretty good on the expensive silver putties too, and are the real reason why they might perform bit better than your standard white goo.
There may be some difference, but it's not because of silver. AS is very finely granulated and quite fluid so it seeps into smaller cracks than more sticky goos. And extra leaks out better, too.
Either that, or you, or whoever put that previous paste there didn't know what they were doing and just managed to got it right next time by luck.
You can't overclock a cpu on a pc or a server that has any real use what-so-ever.
You're wrong.
Moderately overclocked systems are not useless. Sure, you shouldn't use overclocked CPU in a mission critical server (doh), but they make perfectly fine real-world desktops, I'm typing this on one and it's stable as a rock. It's predecessor(s) were as well. The speed difference is nothing staggering, and maybe it only saved twenty bucks from the next speed grade, but so what?
This is not black and white so that something's either at stock speed or so much over the limits it's extremely unstable, you go for a speed that's stable under full load - and you test that it really is stable, or bit under that to be sure.
Of course overclocked to the extreme rig with LN2 cooling or something equally stupid doesn't have any use what-so-ever - but they're intended to, people do that as a hobby, or to compete with eachother.