there's the idea that evolution happens in periodic "bursts". methinks massive radiation might have somthing to do with it due to a flip-over of the earth's magnetic field.
how does this correlate with the various religions, and their predictions? people these days are always ranting about the "comming apocolypse", ect ect and the myan calander is set here to expire pretty soon.... in fact, alot of things end in the next few years. i'm not a "it's the end of the world!" type of person, but it seems like a hell of a coincidence. i can't imagine what would let people predict somthing like this, but if animals can "feel" an earthquake minutes before hand, a couple people over several thousand years might be able to "feel" the earth's magnetic field changing slooooowly.(and document it)
i'm just curious, but i've heard that vinyl sounds better than CD, and it's probably true; it's an analog recording. my question is, at what point in time did the quality of (consumer, not professional) record players eclipse that of the consumer CD player w/digital out? will my dad's 1978 hi-end consumer sony (or whatever brand) record player with a new needle sound better than my 1990 cd player with digital out? it's always been my assumption that an off the shelf consumer CD player with digital out will sound better than 99 out of 100 consumer record players, and as a result, the CD actually sounds better to the majority of the population.
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is "cheers" used in informal letters for the most part? or is it for both formal and informal letters? i'm guessing it's not very often used in speech, at least when i spent three days in london, i never heard anyone say it.
i'm guessing there's some sort of a variable resistor somewhere, that decreases the speed. somthing upstream of the variable resistor would know how much the speed would be decreased, and the read head would be adjusted accordingly. i doubt there'd be any extra moving parts in a throttled hard drive than a normal one.
i was hoping this would be like a stairwell, where you had to angle the guy around the corner to get to the next set of stairs.... or maybe knock him upwards so he "grinds" on the hand rail.... that'd be pretty sweet. still, a really fun game, even if it does render horrendously slowly on a meager K6-2 300. the slow mo sure is entertaining, though.
iiiiinteresting. so is this supported internally (the drive itself does this), or is it somthing the board has to support? it seems like most people who would end up buying this wouldn't have support for speed throttling, negating this feature. or can all laptop drives speed throttle?
yeah, but a 7200 rpm drive eats roughly double the power (and produces more heat, too) than a 4800 rpm laptop drive. there's a reason drive makers prefer 4800 rpm drives for battery life...
yeah, in theroy, the bulb is about $400, and lasts somewhere on the order of 1000-5000 hours. if you can limit your computer time to 5 hours a day, the life of the bulb is somthing like 4 years.
until the price of the bulb comes down signifigantly, these will generally be restricted to low use applications, primarily, the media room, and the office meeting room.
so i'm confused..... if ethonol is 110 octane..... why do you need 15% gas? why can't you run @ 100% ethanol? or is there a certian need for the lubrication properties of gas in the cylinder? or is it purely political? i'm checking e85fuel.com as i type...
concrete roads, while initially more expensive, last 10 times as long, especially when subjected to semi trucks. most of the highways in cities and choke points that they can't really do maintinence except every decade or two are done in concrete, at least here in texas. the big long streches of highway are still asphalt, which is considerably quieter.
they only get 50 mpg @ 70mph because wind resistance increases exponentially, especially above 40 mph. they're areodynamic for a reason. cruising around town @ 35 mph in top gear, you'll get well over 50mph.
except that gas (as in hydrogen, not petrol) tanks don't "rupture" - they simply create a small leak which the gas escapes through, without "blowing up". in fact, propane and other such gas tanks have been specifically engineered to only allow a small crack, and not a sudden burst, making them considerably more safe than a gasoline tank. Hydrogen rises away from the scene and thus does not burn in pools around the victim of a car crash. the concept of hydrogen exploding and burning comes from the hindenburg crashing and burning. this is a result of the fact that the hindenburg was painted in rocket fuel. hydrogen as a fuel is at least several times safer and cleaner.
...except that your at a physical disadvantage to the people who drive SUVs in a safety sense.
i agree, in the same fashion that a motorcyclist is at a physical disadvantage to the people who drives cars, SUVs, and semi trucks. i'd like to see motorcycles be the only allowed vehicle per person in southern/warmer states, and a single sedan/truck per house for bad weather/hauling supplies.
Well lets see, as a Mozilla (phoenix sounds good too) user I havent seen a popup in MONTHS. Makes me wonder what all you IE users are complaining about...
i agree... after using chimera (which has the same pop up blocking mechanism), and then using the university's winXP/IE6 computers.... the internet is a much more annoying place with popups. i didn't realize how many ads there were on some of these sites, and the frequency, as i'd been using pop-up killers since before they got popular.... the number of pop up ads really is absurd.
well erica, judging from your slash id (> 500,000), and relatively low number of comments (130), i can see part of the problem. as i understand it, frequency of posts and length of time as a member plays most heavily in the algorthm for choosing who gets mod points and who doesn't. personally, i've metamodded twice, and that was over a year ago. i get moderater access about once a week, sometimes only once a month. that's been happening for about 2 years now. it took me about a year before i got moderator access though. it might be a while before you see moderator access (other than on brak.slashdot.org, which you've probably figured out is just a temporary thing)
i think it has to be a natural sattelite to be a moon... but i'd certianly like to see a mile long space station. of course, by the time they're that big, they'll probably look like somthing fro 2001 a space oddessey, with artificial gravity & what not.
it seems that mars, venus, & mercury all have few or no moons, while on the other side of the asteroid belt, you have planets (sans pluto & really small planets) with moons in the teens to twenty in numbers. why is this?
is most of the space matter in our solar system stuck in the L4, L5 points, and thus doesn't find it's way into the inner regions of the solar system? or is it just that the enormous mass of the farther out planets seems to attract more mass & thus has a higher chance of a rock entering orbit (as a result of a larger margin of error for stable orbit due to the size of the planet). it just seems to be more than coincidental....
or is it just a possiblity that these planets have a particularly large asteroid in an unstable orbit just long enough to discover and document, before it a) leaves orbit or b) gets sucked into the atmosphere?
until my dad died a year ago, my dad would buy an 82'-86' boat of a caddilac every three years with 50-60k miles on it, and then drive it 240-370k miles, only changing the tires, oil, and regular maintinence. these things are TANKS. and not casual use, either. we did all of our camping in colorado and washington stat mountains, road trips, and hauling/towing with these puppies. plus they get 25 mpg @ 65 on the highway.
i have no idea about the newer caddies, since they're mostly front wheel drive, but i've never seen a properly maintienced caddy break before 300,000 miles.
oh yeah, and an 82-86 caddy is NOT expensive. you can buy one with $1200 cash, instead of the $2500 asking price. at least, that's how we bought our last 4 caddies, and my caddy.
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there's the idea that evolution happens in periodic "bursts". methinks massive radiation might have somthing to do with it due to a flip-over of the earth's magnetic field.
how does this correlate with the various religions, and their predictions? people these days are always ranting about the "comming apocolypse", ect ect and the myan calander is set here to expire pretty soon.... in fact, alot of things end in the next few years. i'm not a "it's the end of the world!" type of person, but it seems like a hell of a coincidence. i can't imagine what would let people predict somthing like this, but if animals can "feel" an earthquake minutes before hand, a couple people over several thousand years might be able to "feel" the earth's magnetic field changing slooooowly.(and document it)
i'm just curious, but i've heard that vinyl sounds better than CD, and it's probably true; it's an analog recording. my question is, at what point in time did the quality of (consumer, not professional) record players eclipse that of the consumer CD player w/digital out? will my dad's 1978 hi-end consumer sony (or whatever brand) record player with a new needle sound better than my 1990 cd player with digital out? it's always been my assumption that an off the shelf consumer CD player with digital out will sound better than 99 out of 100 consumer record players, and as a result, the CD actually sounds better to the majority of the population.
is "cheers" used in informal letters for the most part? or is it for both formal and informal letters? i'm guessing it's not very often used in speech, at least when i spent three days in london, i never heard anyone say it.
i'm guessing there's some sort of a variable resistor somewhere, that decreases the speed. somthing upstream of the variable resistor would know how much the speed would be decreased, and the read head would be adjusted accordingly. i doubt there'd be any extra moving parts in a throttled hard drive than a normal one.
i was hoping this would be like a stairwell, where you had to angle the guy around the corner to get to the next set of stairs.... or maybe knock him upwards so he "grinds" on the hand rail.... that'd be pretty sweet. still, a really fun game, even if it does render horrendously slowly on a meager K6-2 300. the slow mo sure is entertaining, though.
iiiiinteresting. so is this supported internally (the drive itself does this), or is it somthing the board has to support? it seems like most people who would end up buying this wouldn't have support for speed throttling, negating this feature. or can all laptop drives speed throttle?
ditto, i'm getting 49000-52000 no problem
full of fun new stuff for MacBeards to play with.
eh? what's a MacBeard? open source mac coders?
yeah, but a 7200 rpm drive eats roughly double the power (and produces more heat, too) than a 4800 rpm laptop drive. there's a reason drive makers prefer 4800 rpm drives for battery life...
yeah, in theroy, the bulb is about $400, and lasts somewhere on the order of 1000-5000 hours. if you can limit your computer time to 5 hours a day, the life of the bulb is somthing like 4 years.
until the price of the bulb comes down signifigantly, these will generally be restricted to low use applications, primarily, the media room, and the office meeting room.
so i'm confused..... if ethonol is 110 octane..... why do you need 15% gas? why can't you run @ 100% ethanol? or is there a certian need for the lubrication properties of gas in the cylinder? or is it purely political? i'm checking e85fuel.com as i type...
concrete roads, while initially more expensive, last 10 times as long, especially when subjected to semi trucks. most of the highways in cities and choke points that they can't really do maintinence except every decade or two are done in concrete, at least here in texas. the big long streches of highway are still asphalt, which is considerably quieter.
they only get 50 mpg @ 70mph because wind resistance increases exponentially, especially above 40 mph. they're areodynamic for a reason. cruising around town @ 35 mph in top gear, you'll get well over 50mph.
except that gas (as in hydrogen, not petrol) tanks don't "rupture" - they simply create a small leak which the gas escapes through, without "blowing up". in fact, propane and other such gas tanks have been specifically engineered to only allow a small crack, and not a sudden burst, making them considerably more safe than a gasoline tank. Hydrogen rises away from the scene and thus does not burn in pools around the victim of a car crash. the concept of hydrogen exploding and burning comes from the hindenburg crashing and burning. this is a result of the fact that the hindenburg was painted in rocket fuel. hydrogen as a fuel is at least several times safer and cleaner.
i agree, in the same fashion that a motorcyclist is at a physical disadvantage to the people who drives cars, SUVs, and semi trucks. i'd like to see motorcycles be the only allowed vehicle per person in southern/warmer states, and a single sedan/truck per house for bad weather/hauling supplies.
Well lets see, as a Mozilla (phoenix sounds good too) user I havent seen a popup in MONTHS. Makes me wonder what all you IE users are complaining about...
i agree... after using chimera (which has the same pop up blocking mechanism), and then using the university's winXP/IE6 computers.... the internet is a much more annoying place with popups. i didn't realize how many ads there were on some of these sites, and the frequency, as i'd been using pop-up killers since before they got popular.... the number of pop up ads really is absurd.
well erica, judging from your slash id (> 500,000), and relatively low number of comments (130), i can see part of the problem. as i understand it, frequency of posts and length of time as a member plays most heavily in the algorthm for choosing who gets mod points and who doesn't. personally, i've metamodded twice, and that was over a year ago. i get moderater access about once a week, sometimes only once a month. that's been happening for about 2 years now. it took me about a year before i got moderator access though. it might be a while before you see moderator access (other than on brak.slashdot.org, which you've probably figured out is just a temporary thing)
in other news, i also have THIRTY moderator points...
The L4, L5 points of what exactly? Of the solar system?
i was under the impression that the asteroid belt was largely influenced by the gravitation of the sun and jupiter
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but there are just a few more than two masses floating around out there.
last time i checked, jupiter was 1000x as large as earth, and at least 50x as large as the next largest contender.
i think it has to be a natural sattelite to be a moon... but i'd certianly like to see a mile long space station. of course, by the time they're that big, they'll probably look like somthing fro 2001 a space oddessey, with artificial gravity & what not.
actually, i heard that this new moon is mostly gaseous, primarily methane, with very little frozen water...
it seems that mars, venus, & mercury all have few or no moons, while on the other side of the asteroid belt, you have planets (sans pluto & really small planets) with moons in the teens to twenty in numbers. why is this?
is most of the space matter in our solar system stuck in the L4, L5 points, and thus doesn't find it's way into the inner regions of the solar system? or is it just that the enormous mass of the farther out planets seems to attract more mass & thus has a higher chance of a rock entering orbit (as a result of a larger margin of error for stable orbit due to the size of the planet). it just seems to be more than coincidental....
or is it just a possiblity that these planets have a particularly large asteroid in an unstable orbit just long enough to discover and document, before it a) leaves orbit or b) gets sucked into the atmosphere?
until my dad died a year ago, my dad would buy an 82'-86' boat of a caddilac every three years with 50-60k miles on it, and then drive it 240-370k miles, only changing the tires, oil, and regular maintinence. these things are TANKS. and not casual use, either. we did all of our camping in colorado and washington stat mountains, road trips, and hauling/towing with these puppies. plus they get 25 mpg @ 65 on the highway.
i have no idea about the newer caddies, since they're mostly front wheel drive, but i've never seen a properly maintienced caddy break before 300,000 miles.
oh yeah, and an 82-86 caddy is NOT expensive. you can buy one with $1200 cash, instead of the $2500 asking price. at least, that's how we bought our last 4 caddies, and my caddy.
how about shit a brick?
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