Not to mention society seemed to get along just fine before the invention of the cell phone. Landlines work for 911 as well, you know. And if it's a pay phone you don't even need money...
There are many technologies that we have today and consider indispensable that we once got along perfectly fine without. So this isn't a very good argument.
There is a lot of hydrogen in hydrocarbons as well as carbon. So you generally get water when you burn them, and it's possible that some methods of burning them wouldn't create CO2 either.
For example, it might be energetically favorable to release all the hydrogen from hydrocarbons, combine it with oxygen and leave the remaining carbon in the form of graphite or maybe even carbon nanotubes.
If I knew more chemistry I could do the math and find out if this was true.
I don't like KDE because I've found the applications to be more prone to crashing, less featured and less elegant in their UI design than GNOME ones. I initially didn't like it because Qt wasn't Free, and that lasted for a year or two after they GPLed it just because their prior behavior left a bad taste in my mouth. But after that it's all been about quality.
Maybe I should try it again. With GNOME buddying up to Microsoft half because Miguel is a twit and half because of Novell I should consider taking a usability hit and try it out again.
So, it takes 4.1868 joules to heat one cubic centimeter of water (one gram of water) one degree centigrade. So 0.00160217 joules is enough to heat one gram of water 383 microdegrees.
So, yes, in one sense that's not very much energy.
But, if you're going to scale the mass up, you should scale the energy up. So, it's one proton that has that much energy. The gram of water has approximately 6.02*10^23 proton masses. If every proton mass in the gram of water had that much energy, it would be equivalent to that gram of water being heated by 2.3*10^20 degrees. This is 230 trillion trillion degrees (yes, that's two trillions).
I hope this gives you a sense of the scale involved here.
When you have a single proton with enough energy to make a measurable difference in the temperature of a gram of water, you are talking an amazingly huge amount of energy.
A poorly programmed game should never ever be able to cause a computer to lock up. Userspace things shouldn't be able to do that no matter how badly they're written.
It's possible that could be it. But that wouldn't explain why that program (which makes pretty trivial use of OpenGL) crashes the whole system when certain kinds of things happen on screen and Warzone 2100 (which makes a lot more rigorous use of it) doesn't crash the system at all.
Over time with various nVidia cards I've had crashes that are very distinctly related to the program using the card and not the environmental conditions of the card itself. So I think you must've just had extraordinarily good luck.
I think so too. I was just trying to play glaxian today and it crashes the NVidia drivers fairly hard. I hate having those things on my system. But I'm not willing to give up decent 3D performance.:-(
I'm seriously considering going for an ATI or Intel card for my next system if they're well supported enough by Open Source drivers at this point. They're slower, but not that much slower.
I'm not a registered Republican, nor am I in SC. I think it should be illegal how they force you to declare a party affiliation before you can vote in the primaries.
I may well vote for him. Unless Ron Paul wins the Republican primary, which I consider doubtful, I will likely vote for Stephen Colbert. People who actually want to be president generally shouldn't be allowed to be.
So basically one ASIC handles several wires and sort of teases out the original signal by looking for that signal in the noise on the other wires? That sounds pretty neat.
Of course, maybe that's not what's actually going on. As you point out, it's the original poster's guess as to how things work.:-)
Your post is labeled informative, but it is so filled with jargon that is missing any nice links to references that explain it that I find it quite unhelpful.
Why are the URLs hidden behind anonymouse? If I want to browse anonymously, I'm going to use Tor, I don't need some stupid anonymizing site that pops up little boxes over what I'm looking at.
It was Isaac Assimov who wrote the Foundation series books.:-) Arthur C. Clarke wrote 'Fountains of Paradise'. And what is amusing is that you linked to the right book but got it wrong in the text of the link.
I lawyers are somewhat neutral to a slight positive overall in preserving individual liberty. But I can think of very notable ways in which lawyers are definitely a strong negative. SLAPP suits, C&D letters, DMCA takedown notices, and patent law are definitely among them.
This particular case counts too, though I expect that this assertion on the part of this particular group of lawyers will be shot down pretty quickly. Or at least widely ignore and unenforceable.
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That wouldn't explain his hostility towards people who are on call nearly so well though.
You're just jealous because there are people who are that important and you're not one of them.
There are many technologies that we have today and consider indispensable that we once got along perfectly fine without. So this isn't a very good argument.
I was trying to be polite to the original poster and point out to them that they were sadly (and rather stupidly) mistaken without being inflammatory.
There is a lot of hydrogen in hydrocarbons as well as carbon. So you generally get water when you burn them, and it's possible that some methods of burning them wouldn't create CO2 either.
For example, it might be energetically favorable to release all the hydrogen from hydrocarbons, combine it with oxygen and leave the remaining carbon in the form of graphite or maybe even carbon nanotubes.
If I knew more chemistry I could do the math and find out if this was true.
Wouldn't you have to live in New York, near Wall Street for that?
I don't like KDE because I've found the applications to be more prone to crashing, less featured and less elegant in their UI design than GNOME ones. I initially didn't like it because Qt wasn't Free, and that lasted for a year or two after they GPLed it just because their prior behavior left a bad taste in my mouth. But after that it's all been about quality.
Maybe I should try it again. With GNOME buddying up to Microsoft half because Miguel is a twit and half because of Novell I should consider taking a usability hit and try it out again.
*chuckle* I find your username to be very apropos. :-)
So, it takes 4.1868 joules to heat one cubic centimeter of water (one gram of water) one degree centigrade. So 0.00160217 joules is enough to heat one gram of water 383 microdegrees.
So, yes, in one sense that's not very much energy.
But, if you're going to scale the mass up, you should scale the energy up. So, it's one proton that has that much energy. The gram of water has approximately 6.02*10^23 proton masses. If every proton mass in the gram of water had that much energy, it would be equivalent to that gram of water being heated by 2.3*10^20 degrees. This is 230 trillion trillion degrees (yes, that's two trillions).
I hope this gives you a sense of the scale involved here.
When you have a single proton with enough energy to make a measurable difference in the temperature of a gram of water, you are talking an amazingly huge amount of energy.
You're wrong, and you demonstrate a marked inability to read the summary and/or follow the link in the summary that proves you wrong.
A poorly programmed game should never ever be able to cause a computer to lock up. Userspace things shouldn't be able to do that no matter how badly they're written.
It's possible that could be it. But that wouldn't explain why that program (which makes pretty trivial use of OpenGL) crashes the whole system when certain kinds of things happen on screen and Warzone 2100 (which makes a lot more rigorous use of it) doesn't crash the system at all.
Over time with various nVidia cards I've had crashes that are very distinctly related to the program using the card and not the environmental conditions of the card itself. So I think you must've just had extraordinarily good luck.
I think so too. I was just trying to play glaxian today and it crashes the NVidia drivers fairly hard. I hate having those things on my system. But I'm not willing to give up decent 3D performance. :-(
I'm seriously considering going for an ATI or Intel card for my next system if they're well supported enough by Open Source drivers at this point. They're slower, but not that much slower.
I'm not a registered Republican, nor am I in SC. I think it should be illegal how they force you to declare a party affiliation before you can vote in the primaries.
If you can't follow link and figure it out, Oh, well. It's trivial to discover, it's not like I hide it at all.
It's a meme that's been around a long time. As someone else pointed out, it was featured in Arthur C. Clarke's Songs of Distant Earth.
I think it says a lot more about the quality of the candidates running.
It's kind of amusing that you fling names and labels around while not being willing to say who you are.
I may well vote for him. Unless Ron Paul wins the Republican primary, which I consider doubtful, I will likely vote for Stephen Colbert. People who actually want to be president generally shouldn't be allowed to be.
I also think No Starch Press makes some good books.
It's not only 'just' a comic, it's one of the better webcomics out there IMHO.
So basically one ASIC handles several wires and sort of teases out the original signal by looking for that signal in the noise on the other wires? That sounds pretty neat.
Of course, maybe that's not what's actually going on. As you point out, it's the original poster's guess as to how things work. :-)
Your post is labeled informative, but it is so filled with jargon that is missing any nice links to references that explain it that I find it quite unhelpful.
Why are the URLs hidden behind anonymouse? If I want to browse anonymously, I'm going to use Tor, I don't need some stupid anonymizing site that pops up little boxes over what I'm looking at.
The real url to the store is this: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/electronics-industry-analyst-group-dismisses-greenpeace-claims-on-iphone-313411.php. I suspect the submitter of doing this one purpose.
It was Isaac Assimov who wrote the Foundation series books. :-) Arthur C. Clarke wrote 'Fountains of Paradise'. And what is amusing is that you linked to the right book but got it wrong in the text of the link.
I lawyers are somewhat neutral to a slight positive overall in preserving individual liberty. But I can think of very notable ways in which lawyers are definitely a strong negative. SLAPP suits, C&D letters, DMCA takedown notices, and patent law are definitely among them.
This particular case counts too, though I expect that this assertion on the part of this particular group of lawyers will be shot down pretty quickly. Or at least widely ignore and unenforceable.