Funny thing is on FutureMark's 3DMark03 benchmark, is that my computer which has an Athlon 1600+ and a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card, scored consistantly higher in the sound tests against other computers with an Athlon 1600+ and a SB Audigy 1. The kind of graphics card did not matter, I have a Radeon 8500LE. Also I was able to do all three sound tests and none of the Audigy 1 cards could do the last test, which involves 60 sounds.
One of my geology professors made the case that the a meteor impact did not kill off the dinosaurs. What is claimed which is backed up by evidence was that the impact in Mexico was only large enough to have only had regional effects. In other words no global firestorms and no clouds of dust obscuring the sun and cooling the earth. The iridium layer may have been deposited by the meteor, but it also could have been deposited by massive volcanism that was occuring in India at the end of the Cretaceous. The evidence also shows that the number of dinosaur species were declining at the end of the Cretaceous and the number of mammal species were increasing. For that matter insects did not appear to undergo any sort of mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous. What is even more interesting is that dinosaurs could have survived after the end of the Cretaceous in rain forests. However, it is difficult to prove either way because fossils do not generally form in rain forests. Additionally at the end of the Cretaceous global temperatures were cooling even before the impact which would have resulted in less good habitat for the dinosuars..
Well the presence of Helium 3 is at least one reason to mine the moon. It's not like there are any minerals worth mining on the moon. Most of the crust of the moon is made up of anorthosite. Anorthosite is made up mainly of the mineral anorthite which is just a silicate mineral with calcium and aluminum. The concentration of calcium and aluminum are relatively low in anorthosite as compared to other minerals with calcium or aluminum. I think it is safe to say that trying to mine calcium and aluminum from the moon is a pretty bad idea.
Maybe he would be better off buying an Xserve RAID unit with fourteen drives from Apple and use RAID 5 on the RAID array. Additionally a rack, and either an Xserve with a matching Fibre Channel card. This would result in a computer with at least 1.68 TB of storage and a resonable amount of protection for the data on these drives. He could also buy a Gigabit ethernet card and a Gigabit ethernet switch and NFS mount the RAID array from his Linux machine. Of course in this would result in a system that is significantly more expensive than the system mentioned here and it would no longer use semi-normal parts, but it would be much more reliable and it wouldn't look like this.
I wonder is there anyone else who thinks that behavior like this is basically public corruption? It seems to me that influence buying fits the basic definition of corruption. Is there any chance that this would make a stronger impression on people if it was called corruption? To me at least corruption seems like a stronger word and puts this in the same category as other types of corruption, like ballot box stuffing or voter harassment.
There is another fun thing about first generation half height Seagate Barracuda drives: the voice coil magnets. The magnets in those half height 'cudas are easily the strongest permanent magnets I have ever seen in a hard drive or not originally from a hard drive. Don't worry the 'cuda was already dead when I took it apart. I killed the 'cuda by inserting the power plug in upside down. The drive was already experiencing bad blocks, the idiot former owner put it in a computer with no air circulation.
Cluster Bombs and Napalm are the only effective weapons against individual soldiers, which is really the only thing that North Korea and China have in abundance. Of course there are international agreements about not using Napalm. Cluster Bombs while heavily used in Afganistan have nasty explosive leftovers and maim their victims pretty badly.
eBay, man eBay. Just search in the Mac section for case. However as neat as this sounds you are probably looking at about $120 for a case without a power supply, but with all of the important bits like the drive brackets, which from Apple can be surprisingly expensive. You would still have to get the standoffs out and I'm not sure what the best method for doing so would be. Also the original standoffs are significanly taller than standard PC case standoffs, which is another problem you would have to solve.
Just curious, but what are you doing reading the People's Daily from China? I mean aside from the fact that it injects commentary with news with quotes like "Israel's coalition governments are chronically unstable and plagued by internal fighting." The People's Daily has editorial pieces like this with section headers in the editorial like "Guiding People with Correct Opinion." The source for this article seems just a little absurd. And I'm not even going to comment on this.
The problem with building a Gigabit G4 and probably every other AGP G4 is that the chips on the bottom of the motherboard touch the case and use the case as a heat sink. When you use a standard ATX case those chips on the bottom contact nothing and are not properly cooled. This works for a while but you are going to end up with a fried motherboad eventually.
Or like me through your own stupidity you could allow your bank account to be closed. (I didn't have any activity on the account for three months.) PayPal hasn't noticed/cared and there appears to be no way to remove the closed account.
Then I have to ask the question why isn't beryllium or lithium? It would seem to me the worst a cosmic ray all of the radioactive isotopes of lithium or beryllium atom give off alpha or beta radiation and that can be blocked by the polyethelyne. The only things that cosmic rays could split both Li or Be into is Helium, Hydrogen, and for beryllium Lithium. Granted lithium really isn't a good structural material and pure beryllium is toxic, but thats also what polyethelyne is for.
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Well part of the reason for the DVI port is for those people who have so much money that they want to use two flat panel displays.
Yeah unless carbon dating is far enough in the past and properly calibrated by figuring out the amount of radioactive carbon in the environment at the time you can get some pretty wild and useless values.
One method of dating the fossil is by using isotopic dating. However, you can really only use isotopic dating if there is a layer of volcanic ash or a lava flow near the fossil. Otherwise at that age there are no other methods to date a fossil of that age and environment. At those ages what is done generally is that the ashfall below the fossil is dated and the ashfall above the fossil is dated. You then have range of ages and when it comes to getting a chronological age that is about the best you can do with isotopic dating. Otherwise at that timeframe and environment you can use biozones of pollen to narrow it down further. In which you identify the shape of the individual pollen grains and when the pollen shows up in the fossil record you can get a relative date, but not an exact date. I'm not totally sure, but since this fossil is from the late Cretaceous and in the Western US ashfalls from volcanoes were not uncommon and you can probably narrow it down to within a million years pretty easily using ashfalls.
Or you could just let the VCR automatically set itself. PBS stations in the US send out the time in their signal on one of the scan lines you don't normally see. There aren't too many places in the US that don't have PBS stations. PBS stations for those not in the US are public broadcasting stations that are non-profit, mostly commercial free and supported by the government and also by grants from corporations and by donations from the public.
Make sure that if you do get a scanner see if the scanner uses white LEDs instead of a florescent light. LED scanners almost certainly use less power than florescent light scanners. I can't comment on their image quality, but that doesn't sound like a big concern. In any case the LED scanners are much lighter, much thinner, and I'm not sure but they may be more durable.
I believe that spy satellites are generally in polar orbits. That way one satellite can cover the entire world and you just send up more spy satellites since you want to cover all of the world at one time. Besides the space for geosynchronous orbits is limited and is better utilized for things that need to be pointed at the same spot all the time like weather satellites and most kinds of communications satellites.
Detaining people without trial and ignoring the courts is a time honored practice in the US. Lincoln did it during the Civil War to secessionist politicians from Maryland.
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Funny thing is on FutureMark's 3DMark03 benchmark, is that my computer which has an Athlon 1600+ and a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card, scored consistantly higher in the sound tests against other computers with an Athlon 1600+ and a SB Audigy 1. The kind of graphics card did not matter, I have a Radeon 8500LE. Also I was able to do all three sound tests and none of the Audigy 1 cards could do the last test, which involves 60 sounds.
It would probably look something like this.
One of my geology professors made the case that the a meteor impact did not kill off the dinosaurs. What is claimed which is backed up by evidence was that the impact in Mexico was only large enough to have only had regional effects. In other words no global firestorms and no clouds of dust obscuring the sun and cooling the earth. The iridium layer may have been deposited by the meteor, but it also could have been deposited by massive volcanism that was occuring in India at the end of the Cretaceous. The evidence also shows that the number of dinosaur species were declining at the end of the Cretaceous and the number of mammal species were increasing. For that matter insects did not appear to undergo any sort of mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous. What is even more interesting is that dinosaurs could have survived after the end of the Cretaceous in rain forests. However, it is difficult to prove either way because fossils do not generally form in rain forests. Additionally at the end of the Cretaceous global temperatures were cooling even before the impact which would have resulted in less good habitat for the dinosuars..
Well the presence of Helium 3 is at least one reason to mine the moon. It's not like there are any minerals worth mining on the moon. Most of the crust of the moon is made up of anorthosite. Anorthosite is made up mainly of the mineral anorthite which is just a silicate mineral with calcium and aluminum. The concentration of calcium and aluminum are relatively low in anorthosite as compared to other minerals with calcium or aluminum. I think it is safe to say that trying to mine calcium and aluminum from the moon is a pretty bad idea.
Maybe he would be better off buying an Xserve RAID unit with fourteen drives from Apple and use RAID 5 on the RAID array. Additionally a rack, and either an Xserve with a matching Fibre Channel card. This would result in a computer with at least 1.68 TB of storage and a resonable amount of protection for the data on these drives. He could also buy a Gigabit ethernet card and a Gigabit ethernet switch and NFS mount the RAID array from his Linux machine. Of course in this would result in a system that is significantly more expensive than the system mentioned here and it would no longer use semi-normal parts, but it would be much more reliable and it wouldn't look like this.
Yeah well I live in Minnesota and there is one inch of snow left on the ground and even that is busy being melted.
Great, the next "In Soviet Russia..."
I wonder is there anyone else who thinks that behavior like this is basically public corruption? It seems to me that influence buying fits the basic definition of corruption. Is there any chance that this would make a stronger impression on people if it was called corruption? To me at least corruption seems like a stronger word and puts this in the same category as other types of corruption, like ballot box stuffing or voter harassment.
There is another fun thing about first generation half height Seagate Barracuda drives: the voice coil magnets. The magnets in those half height 'cudas are easily the strongest permanent magnets I have ever seen in a hard drive or not originally from a hard drive. Don't worry the 'cuda was already dead when I took it apart. I killed the 'cuda by inserting the power plug in upside down. The drive was already experiencing bad blocks, the idiot former owner put it in a computer with no air circulation.
Cluster Bombs and Napalm are the only effective weapons against individual soldiers, which is really the only thing that North Korea and China have in abundance. Of course there are international agreements about not using Napalm. Cluster Bombs while heavily used in Afganistan have nasty explosive leftovers and maim their victims pretty badly.
eBay, man eBay. Just search in the Mac section for case. However as neat as this sounds you are probably looking at about $120 for a case without a power supply, but with all of the important bits like the drive brackets, which from Apple can be surprisingly expensive. You would still have to get the standoffs out and I'm not sure what the best method for doing so would be. Also the original standoffs are significanly taller than standard PC case standoffs, which is another problem you would have to solve.
Just curious, but what are you doing reading the People's Daily from China? I mean aside from the fact that it injects commentary with news with quotes like "Israel's coalition governments are chronically unstable and plagued by internal fighting." The People's Daily has editorial pieces like this with section headers in the editorial like "Guiding People with Correct Opinion." The source for this article seems just a little absurd. And I'm not even going to comment on this.
The problem with building a Gigabit G4 and probably every other AGP G4 is that the chips on the bottom of the motherboard touch the case and use the case as a heat sink. When you use a standard ATX case those chips on the bottom contact nothing and are not properly cooled. This works for a while but you are going to end up with a fried motherboad eventually.
Or like me through your own stupidity you could allow your bank account to be closed. (I didn't have any activity on the account for three months.) PayPal hasn't noticed/cared and there appears to be no way to remove the closed account.
Yeah and symbolic links in MacOS X are blank documents when mounted as an AppleShare volume on a MacOS 9 machine. I've been bitten by this before.
Then I have to ask the question why isn't beryllium or lithium? It would seem to me the worst a cosmic ray all of the radioactive isotopes of lithium or beryllium atom give off alpha or beta radiation and that can be blocked by the polyethelyne. The only things that cosmic rays could split both Li or Be into is Helium, Hydrogen, and for beryllium Lithium. Granted lithium really isn't a good structural material and pure beryllium is toxic, but thats also what polyethelyne is for.
Well part of the reason for the DVI port is for those people who have so much money that they want to use two flat panel displays.
Are you sure it was water they used? It may have been fluorocarbons which in liquid form look like water and are nonconductive.
Yeah unless carbon dating is far enough in the past and properly calibrated by figuring out the amount of radioactive carbon in the environment at the time you can get some pretty wild and useless values.
One method of dating the fossil is by using isotopic dating. However, you can really only use isotopic dating if there is a layer of volcanic ash or a lava flow near the fossil. Otherwise at that age there are no other methods to date a fossil of that age and environment. At those ages what is done generally is that the ashfall below the fossil is dated and the ashfall above the fossil is dated. You then have range of ages and when it comes to getting a chronological age that is about the best you can do with isotopic dating. Otherwise at that timeframe and environment you can use biozones of pollen to narrow it down further. In which you identify the shape of the individual pollen grains and when the pollen shows up in the fossil record you can get a relative date, but not an exact date. I'm not totally sure, but since this fossil is from the late Cretaceous and in the Western US ashfalls from volcanoes were not uncommon and you can probably narrow it down to within a million years pretty easily using ashfalls.
Or you could just let the VCR automatically set itself. PBS stations in the US send out the time in their signal on one of the scan lines you don't normally see. There aren't too many places in the US that don't have PBS stations. PBS stations for those not in the US are public broadcasting stations that are non-profit, mostly commercial free and supported by the government and also by grants from corporations and by donations from the public.
Make sure that if you do get a scanner see if the scanner uses white LEDs instead of a florescent light. LED scanners almost certainly use less power than florescent light scanners. I can't comment on their image quality, but that doesn't sound like a big concern. In any case the LED scanners are much lighter, much thinner, and I'm not sure but they may be more durable.
I remember the minus worlds, but I could never or never tried to get there. What were they like aside from being a bug?
I believe that spy satellites are generally in polar orbits. That way one satellite can cover the entire world and you just send up more spy satellites since you want to cover all of the world at one time. Besides the space for geosynchronous orbits is limited and is better utilized for things that need to be pointed at the same spot all the time like weather satellites and most kinds of communications satellites.
Detaining people without trial and ignoring the courts is a time honored practice in the US. Lincoln did it during the Civil War to secessionist politicians from Maryland.