I was taught english (imperial) in grade school. Learned metric in highschool and college. Being a scientist I solely use metric for pretty much everything except gas and distances. (mpg, mph, etc) It's really frustrating trying to talk to people and having to convert in my head so everyone knows what the hell you are talking about. I recently found some OLD chemicals in our lab that are all in imperial. So I've gotten a little better with dry ounces vs. grams but the liquid measurements are really frustrating. I wish we'd just switch over to full metric already. It's as stupid as driving on the left side of the road in this day and age. SI units ftw!
Seriously? You wiki link to a dodge? Minus the glaringly obvious choices of Aries the astrology sign, Aries the constellation, Ares the fraking GOD, or the tiny tidbit that there is, in fact, another rocket named Aries. Your wikifu is weak young one.
Oh how I wish I could get RCN... My gf had a connection better than mine for 1/3 the cost with rcn with no bullshit. I live further in the city and they don't have coverage there yet. Comcast is actively stopping them from spreading out and it's quite infuriating since they have a monopoly in my area. No fios, dsl blows, and comcast rapes us. I pay almost 80 bucks for basic cable (which I never really watch) and mid tier internet (8 down, 2 up). I have a huge hdtv but the hd channels I get over antenna I can't get through the cable (WTF?!) if I'm plugged into the cable box. So I either don't get hd channels (they charge $7 extra per month for a special hd box to decode what my tv already does on its own) or I don't get all the channels I pay for and no on demand. Not to mention they compress the hd channels so the picture is better over the air than over cable. If I drop the cable it's about half the price, but then they tack on the raping fee so it's about $5 less than I'd be paying now. Plus the torrent "throttling" (rst packets, ie. fraud), plus the shitty customer service, plus the dropped signals, plus the lack of informing customers when repairs are going to occur, plus the new bullshit bandwidth caps. It's enough to make a person crazy with rage.
Seriously. It's about fucking time more artists started putting out flac downloads. I'm getting a little sick and tired of only being able to download mid to low level bitrate mp3s at full cd prices.
Oh and fuck apple losses and mp4. If you've ever had the "joy" of trying to get them to play, transcode, or burn to a cd on a non-macOS you know why flac is such a godsend. Good compression, full lossless, open format, and supported by most programs.
Close, it's pronounced sow-een. AI makes long E sound (usually). MH makes a W sound (depending on certain circumstances). Gaelic is rather ridiculous with its exceptions, but if you think about it so is English...
And it isn't "Irish" it's Gaelic. (Our southern friends don't speak "Mexican," they speak Spanish)
So if we (the US) finally convert over to IPV6 does that mean I won't have to mess with port forwarding in the router and the firewall and like 80 other programs just to be able to play a game online? (I haven't been able to just play a game online since the original starcraft)
Because of limited memory bandwidth and memory-management schemes that are poorly suited to supercomputers, the performance of these machines would level off or even decline with more cores.
So increase the bandwidth on the memory to something more suited to supercomputers then. Design and make a supercomputer for supercomputer purposes. You are scientists using supercomputers, not kids begging mom for a new laptop on christmas. Make it happen.
This is just heat pipe tech with a pump on it. Even with the pump you will still need a fan anyways (like all desktop watercooling). Air doesn't exactly circulate well in an enclosed laptop without a fan. Regardless of whether you circulate the fluid or not, if there is no air flow (or phase change cooler, or a constant fresh source of cold fluid) to facilitate heat exchange the heatpipe isn't going to do a damn thing after the first few minutes. So you're going to have the usual power usage from the fan, plus the extra energy for a water pump. And since it will most likely be on a laptop with a power munching graphics card and processor, I'd say battery life would be about... 10 minutes? Kind of blows the point of having a laptop doesn't it?
The cicadas this year ate the tender tips of a lot of oak trees - that is where the acorns form.
This seems a bit odd to me. I'm not an entomologist but IIRC adult cicadas do not eat tips of trees. They don't eat at all in fact since they have no mandibles (part of the main reason I'm not afraid of handling them). The larval stage burrows into the ground feeds off of the roots and only emerges to molt. Maybe their growth in the tree bark merely damages the xylem and/or phloem and cuts off nutrients to the areas that would grow the acorns. Since we just had that huge influx of cicadas it would explain the severe lack of acorns this season.
Should have sold the discs instead of throwing them out.
Personally I "threw out" all of my jewel cases (really in mom's basement, read: my old bedroom) and kept all the liners and discs. I have two suitcase looking things from meritline with hanging folders to put all them in. Very neat and organized. Takes up limited space (especially considering I have about 1000 cds) and keeps my hard copies available in case my drives crash.
$1 for a non-full lossless digital track in my opinion is a ripoff. I would love to be able to legally download FLAC files, but none of the bands I listen to aside from nine inch nails actually supports it. Frankly, I'm getting really fed up by it too.
a troubling precedent for anyone who has ever registered with a website under a pseudonym.
This has nothing to do with registering under a pseudonym. This has to do with psychological stalking and trauma. Please pull your head out of your ass. I'm sure it's hard to breathe up there.
You'd rather continue the stereotype of war-mongering Americans?
Who said anything about war or weapons? Subs can be used for recon, science, rescue, etc. Cutting down drag can increase speed, engine efficiency, and decrease noise. Hard to find neat new sea critters when they hear you miles away. Hell, maybe even coat the propellers on large ships.
Liquid nitrogen (liquid density at the triple point is 0.707 g/mL) is the liquid produced industrially in large quantities by fractional distillation of liquid air
The cost of liquid nitrogen depends on the distance from related facilities and the price of energy; the actual cost tends to range between 0.10 and 0.50 USD/L.
both from wikipedia
The process of making liquid nitrogen consists of condensing atmospheric gases (principally nitrogen and oxygen), separating the liquefied gases, packaging and handling, and delivering the liquids. The most expensive part of this process is packaging and handling. This is reflected in the relative costs for "cylinder" and "bulk" gas prices. In the US, liquid nitrogen usually costs about $2/gallon when delivered in dewars and about $.50/gallon when delivered and pumped into a bulk storage tank. Prices tend to be higher the farther away from the condensing plant you are and outside the continental United States.
Talk about setting the bar low. What about skins for submersible craft. Stealth sub tech? I find it odd that, on/. of all places, the first thought to implement badass new technology is on sports...
And I'm still waiting for a copyright law that presents a decent and fair plan that both acknowledges new technologies and possibilities that they bring.
Poor people don't purchase cds. If they don't have a computer or can't use p2p they get a copied cd from their friends. Sneakernet. Who do you think seeds these downloads? Someone, somewhere had to buy the cd to begin with. If you ask me it's the exact opposite of what you say. It is robin hood in effect. (minus the fact that there is no money involved and no real harm)
The RIAA are the wrongdoers. The absurd copyright laws are the wrongdoers. The douchebag artists that still charge $17 (+tax and/or shipping) for a fucking cd (26 year old technology) are the wrongdoers. p2p users are not the wrong doers.
If the liquid nitrogen is in a closed system the apparatus would have to be either rather large or incredibly secured. Heat from the cpu would vaporize the nitrogen, that's a LOT of pressure. You don't want a closed system. Especially in a tiny netbook. Bright or not I'd imagine the TSA might suspect something if your laptop had a cloud of FOG around it...
In other nerdiness, liquid nitrogen is actually really easy to make and is inexpensive. The problem is storage. You need a really good (read expensive) refrigeration unit that can take a lot of pressure and all sorts of safety precautions. If you don't you can get a jug with a venting lid, but that doesn't last long. We had a professor get a 30 gallon venting jug and some liquid nitrogen and it lasted about a week. Poor bastard thought it would last all year... (You have to vent it or it will explode. You also have to vent the room or you'll suffocate.)
In shipping, there are several different types of tonnage, or in other words, different values for the same thing, with at best slightly different names. For example, Gross Register Tonnage, Net Tonnage, Gross Tonnage, Thames tonnage, Panama Canal tonnage, Net Register Tonnage, and who knows what else.
And let's not forget our british friend, the metric fuckton.
I assume you meant you are not required to buy music from iTunes, since iTunes is a free download. Personally I have played with iTunes on friends' computers and I hated it. When I got my 5th Gen iPod (only reason I got it was because it was the biggest storage on the market at the time) I never even installed iTunes. Winamp runs it natively perfectly and IMO is set up WAY better. You can also extract files from any mp3 player connected to the computer and have the metadata and file names written in a coherent manner. No asinine obfuscation of filenames to prevent you from sneaker netting media around with your friends. Oh and Amarok works just as well if you run linux (I dualboot Ubuntu and XP).
This has nothing to do with terms of service. It has to do with the RIAA's strategy to find 'infringers.' You have heard about the homeless people, people who don't own computers, and printer IP addresses being targeted for infringement haven't you?
A blanket of 50 John Doe notices of infringement based on IP addresses do not count as valid identification of infringement. It has been refuted many times already.
Or maybe you think that 'privacy' applies on private networks and land?
Yes, that's generally what the terms private and privacy mean.
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What do you mean by i7?
The new core from intel. Nehalem processors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_3
I was taught english (imperial) in grade school. Learned metric in highschool and college. Being a scientist I solely use metric for pretty much everything except gas and distances. (mpg, mph, etc) It's really frustrating trying to talk to people and having to convert in my head so everyone knows what the hell you are talking about. I recently found some OLD chemicals in our lab that are all in imperial. So I've gotten a little better with dry ounces vs. grams but the liquid measurements are really frustrating. I wish we'd just switch over to full metric already. It's as stupid as driving on the left side of the road in this day and age. SI units ftw!
Seriously? You wiki link to a dodge? Minus the glaringly obvious choices of Aries the astrology sign, Aries the constellation, Ares the fraking GOD, or the tiny tidbit that there is, in fact, another rocket named Aries. Your wikifu is weak young one.
Oh how I wish I could get RCN... My gf had a connection better than mine for 1/3 the cost with rcn with no bullshit. I live further in the city and they don't have coverage there yet. Comcast is actively stopping them from spreading out and it's quite infuriating since they have a monopoly in my area. No fios, dsl blows, and comcast rapes us. I pay almost 80 bucks for basic cable (which I never really watch) and mid tier internet (8 down, 2 up). I have a huge hdtv but the hd channels I get over antenna I can't get through the cable (WTF?!) if I'm plugged into the cable box. So I either don't get hd channels (they charge $7 extra per month for a special hd box to decode what my tv already does on its own) or I don't get all the channels I pay for and no on demand. Not to mention they compress the hd channels so the picture is better over the air than over cable. If I drop the cable it's about half the price, but then they tack on the raping fee so it's about $5 less than I'd be paying now. Plus the torrent "throttling" (rst packets, ie. fraud), plus the shitty customer service, plus the dropped signals, plus the lack of informing customers when repairs are going to occur, plus the new bullshit bandwidth caps. It's enough to make a person crazy with rage.
Seriously. It's about fucking time more artists started putting out flac downloads. I'm getting a little sick and tired of only being able to download mid to low level bitrate mp3s at full cd prices.
Oh and fuck apple losses and mp4. If you've ever had the "joy" of trying to get them to play, transcode, or burn to a cd on a non-macOS you know why flac is such a godsend. Good compression, full lossless, open format, and supported by most programs.
Close, it's pronounced sow-een. AI makes long E sound (usually). MH makes a W sound (depending on certain circumstances). Gaelic is rather ridiculous with its exceptions, but if you think about it so is English...
And it isn't "Irish" it's Gaelic. (Our southern friends don't speak "Mexican," they speak Spanish)
So if we (the US) finally convert over to IPV6 does that mean I won't have to mess with port forwarding in the router and the firewall and like 80 other programs just to be able to play a game online? (I haven't been able to just play a game online since the original starcraft)
Because of limited memory bandwidth and memory-management schemes that are poorly suited to supercomputers, the performance of these machines would level off or even decline with more cores.
So increase the bandwidth on the memory to something more suited to supercomputers then. Design and make a supercomputer for supercomputer purposes. You are scientists using supercomputers, not kids begging mom for a new laptop on christmas. Make it happen.
This is just heat pipe tech with a pump on it. Even with the pump you will still need a fan anyways (like all desktop watercooling). Air doesn't exactly circulate well in an enclosed laptop without a fan. Regardless of whether you circulate the fluid or not, if there is no air flow (or phase change cooler, or a constant fresh source of cold fluid) to facilitate heat exchange the heatpipe isn't going to do a damn thing after the first few minutes. So you're going to have the usual power usage from the fan, plus the extra energy for a water pump. And since it will most likely be on a laptop with a power munching graphics card and processor, I'd say battery life would be about... 10 minutes? Kind of blows the point of having a laptop doesn't it?
The cicadas this year ate the tender tips of a lot of oak trees - that is where the acorns form.
This seems a bit odd to me. I'm not an entomologist but IIRC adult cicadas do not eat tips of trees. They don't eat at all in fact since they have no mandibles (part of the main reason I'm not afraid of handling them). The larval stage burrows into the ground feeds off of the roots and only emerges to molt. Maybe their growth in the tree bark merely damages the xylem and/or phloem and cuts off nutrients to the areas that would grow the acorns. Since we just had that huge influx of cicadas it would explain the severe lack of acorns this season.
Should have sold the discs instead of throwing them out.
Personally I "threw out" all of my jewel cases (really in mom's basement, read: my old bedroom) and kept all the liners and discs. I have two suitcase looking things from meritline with hanging folders to put all them in. Very neat and organized. Takes up limited space (especially considering I have about 1000 cds) and keeps my hard copies available in case my drives crash.
$1 for a non-full lossless digital track in my opinion is a ripoff. I would love to be able to legally download FLAC files, but none of the bands I listen to aside from nine inch nails actually supports it. Frankly, I'm getting really fed up by it too.
a troubling precedent for anyone who has ever registered with a website under a pseudonym.
This has nothing to do with registering under a pseudonym. This has to do with psychological stalking and trauma. Please pull your head out of your ass. I'm sure it's hard to breathe up there.
You'd rather continue the stereotype of war-mongering Americans?
Who said anything about war or weapons? Subs can be used for recon, science, rescue, etc. Cutting down drag can increase speed, engine efficiency, and decrease noise. Hard to find neat new sea critters when they hear you miles away. Hell, maybe even coat the propellers on large ships.
Liquid nitrogen (liquid density at the triple point is 0.707 g/mL) is the liquid produced industrially in large quantities by fractional distillation of liquid air
The cost of liquid nitrogen depends on the distance from related facilities and the price of energy; the actual cost tends to range between 0.10 and 0.50 USD/L.
both from wikipedia
The process of making liquid nitrogen consists of condensing atmospheric gases (principally nitrogen and oxygen), separating the liquefied gases, packaging and handling, and delivering the liquids. The most expensive part of this process is packaging and handling. This is reflected in the relative costs for "cylinder" and "bulk" gas prices. In the US, liquid nitrogen usually costs about $2/gallon when delivered in dewars and about $.50/gallon when delivered and pumped into a bulk storage tank. Prices tend to be higher the farther away from the condensing plant you are and outside the continental United States.
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Talk about setting the bar low. What about skins for submersible craft. Stealth sub tech? I find it odd that, on /. of all places, the first thought to implement badass new technology is on sports...
And I'm still waiting for a copyright law that presents a decent and fair plan that both acknowledges new technologies and possibilities that they bring.
Poor people don't purchase cds. If they don't have a computer or can't use p2p they get a copied cd from their friends. Sneakernet. Who do you think seeds these downloads? Someone, somewhere had to buy the cd to begin with. If you ask me it's the exact opposite of what you say. It is robin hood in effect. (minus the fact that there is no money involved and no real harm)
The RIAA are the wrongdoers. The absurd copyright laws are the wrongdoers. The douchebag artists that still charge $17 (+tax and/or shipping) for a fucking cd (26 year old technology) are the wrongdoers. p2p users are not the wrong doers.
If the liquid nitrogen is in a closed system the apparatus would have to be either rather large or incredibly secured. Heat from the cpu would vaporize the nitrogen, that's a LOT of pressure. You don't want a closed system. Especially in a tiny netbook. Bright or not I'd imagine the TSA might suspect something if your laptop had a cloud of FOG around it...
In other nerdiness, liquid nitrogen is actually really easy to make and is inexpensive. The problem is storage. You need a really good (read expensive) refrigeration unit that can take a lot of pressure and all sorts of safety precautions. If you don't you can get a jug with a venting lid, but that doesn't last long. We had a professor get a 30 gallon venting jug and some liquid nitrogen and it lasted about a week. Poor bastard thought it would last all year... (You have to vent it or it will explode. You also have to vent the room or you'll suffocate.)
WOOSH!
(hint: not the sound of liquid nitrogen being poured over you)
In shipping, there are several different types of tonnage, or in other words, different values for the same thing, with at best slightly different names. For example, Gross Register Tonnage, Net Tonnage, Gross Tonnage, Thames tonnage, Panama Canal tonnage, Net Register Tonnage, and who knows what else.
And let's not forget our british friend, the metric fuckton.
I assume you meant you are not required to buy music from iTunes, since iTunes is a free download. Personally I have played with iTunes on friends' computers and I hated it. When I got my 5th Gen iPod (only reason I got it was because it was the biggest storage on the market at the time) I never even installed iTunes. Winamp runs it natively perfectly and IMO is set up WAY better. You can also extract files from any mp3 player connected to the computer and have the metadata and file names written in a coherent manner. No asinine obfuscation of filenames to prevent you from sneaker netting media around with your friends. Oh and Amarok works just as well if you run linux (I dualboot Ubuntu and XP).
This sounds more like high school than execs and CEOs... Sounds like you guys lost credibility a long time ago.
Correct. He didn't. It was Borat (Sasha Baron Cohen).
The adult entertainment industry would disagree with you there...
This has nothing to do with terms of service. It has to do with the RIAA's strategy to find 'infringers.' You have heard about the homeless people, people who don't own computers, and printer IP addresses being targeted for infringement haven't you?
A blanket of 50 John Doe notices of infringement based on IP addresses do not count as valid identification of infringement. It has been refuted many times already.
Or maybe you think that 'privacy' applies on private networks and land?
Yes, that's generally what the terms private and privacy mean.