Let me make this clear. Until Linux is easy enough for someone to pick Ubuntu up off a shelf (which is complicated, since it's free) and get it working without issue on install (including their 3d acceleration, mind you):
I did just that. Well, almost. I downloaded the Ubuntu 6.06LTS DVD, and installed from that.
Everything worked. My PC is an Abit NF7-M with 512MB RAM, Athlon XP 2000+, and the only card I installed is a Belkin 802.11 wireless card I got at Wal-Mart. Everything worked "right out of the box," including the nForce video, audio and ethernet, and the Belkin wireless card. I would have had to install a driver from the Belkin CD with windows, but Ubuntu recognized it and worked right away! Everything works.
Google? Well if you want more than search, you are out of luck. There are no news options. I know Google has some sort of email service, but I can't apparently access it from the front page.
Looking at the Google front page, there are more things than the logo and the search box:
Web Images Video News Maps more
You can search news just by clicking the "News" link.
Clicking on "more >>" opens up a small list of items. Selecting "Even More" from that menu takes you to this page where everything that Google offers is available.
It's been my experience (VS.NET 2003) that if Intellisense doesn't work, it's because you've got a syntax error in your code and the parser can't make sense of it.
Of course they do. But I don't have an obligation to pay for it. Several families I know homeschool. Not for health reasons, but I think that a severe peanut allergy would be cause enough for parents to homeschool their allergic child. If anaphalaxis is only a sniff away, why would they put their child at risk?
Futhermore, why should my non-allergic child be barred from peanuts, a healthy snack that's been the #1 cash crop of my home state of Georgia?:)
Somebody a few comments back mentioned something on the order of 500A.
I just happen to have my 2005 NEC in front of me. Article 310, Conductors for General Wiring, has several tables that are of interest. Allowing for only 60 degree C operation (don't want to burn the people moving these cables:), we'd need a copper wire of at least 500 kcmil to handle the current (Table 310.17, Allowable Ampacities of Single-Insulated Conductors rated 0 Through 2000 Volts in Free Air Based On Ambient Air Temperatures of 30 degrees C).
Another problem would be ensuring proper terminations. That kind of power transfer does not work with poor terminations. The wires would have to be carefully bonded to the car, or the ohmic losses would destroy the terminals or even cause an explosion.
I was going through the local SuperWalmart a few weeks ago, and noted at least two CRT-based HD televisions. They were both in the 26-inch range, if I recall, and both were around $500. Froogle lists several, including the Toshiba 26HF66, Samsung TXP2675WHX/XAA and the Sansui HDTV2600 (A rebadged Orion, apparently, and I can't find a link for it).
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Hrm. But since Gauss' Law says that there can be no electric field on the inside of a conductor, whatever is on or in the inside layers won't feel any affect from a charge placed on an outside shell. Since there's no net charge on the inside layers, there's no field either.
Furthermore, charges aren't polarized-- fields are. Aren't you trying to set up some kind of polarized electric (or magnetic-- you say a material is polarizable, which seems to indicate magnetism) field?
Heck, for that matter, we originally didn't even have direct election of US Senators -- they were chosen by the state legislature too!
That's because the two houses of the United States Congress had different constituents-- the House of Representatives was to represent the People in Congress, while the Senate represented the States.
computers were not meant to be set up asymmetrically.
You mean to say that the TEST COMPUTER was not meant to be set up this way. Just as it's only by convention that computers use binary (they could use any imaginable base representation), it's only by convention that easily-obtainable computers use processors in groups that are integer powers of two. There's no physical reason why a computer could not be built that used an odd number of processors very well, it's just that the one used for the test was not meant for it.
There are specced, prebuilt and verified blocks of software which can be arranged to form more complex systems.
How's that different from a painter using store-bought paints, brushes and canvas instead of creating his own? Do sculptors make their own chisels? Do musicians build their own instruments?
you usually don't have time to do anything useful in the short time it takes to get where you're going.
Truly spoken like somebody who never rides the bus (at least in the Atlanta). I absolutely abhorred the hour it took to get from the stop in my town to the nearest rail station. (MARTA bus 180, W. Broad Street/Campbellton Road instersection to the College Park rail station). Yes, the schedule says about forty minutes... Don't believe it. I could DRIVE from my house to Georgia Tech in the time it took to ride from the bus stop to the rail station-- not including walking to the stop, WAITING for the always-late bus, riding the train in, and walking to campus from the North Avenue station. Heaven help you if the driver needs to take a break...
Riding MARTA was so inconvenient that I only did it once or twice-- when the car was in the shop getting a new clutch.
It's my experience that there's PLENTY of time for "useful" activity on public transportation.
I was thinking: not too long ago I watched a Higglytown Heroes (hey, I'm a dad now...) episode where the hero was a garbage collector. His truck had a big arm that collected the trash from the curb and placed it in the truck.
The answer is of course, yes, they can be sued. Patents, as others have said, protect not only the PRODUCTION of the patented idea, but the sale and use of it as well.
There's been lots of concern over patented crop varieties for just such issues. Farmers normally save seeds from one year to plant the next. Farmers that use patented varieties have to abide by the licenses, which always stipulate that saving seeds is not allowed. The next door neighbor farm does not buy the patented seed, but due to the prevailing winds his fields cross-pollinate with the plants that are of the patented variety. He saves his seeds for next year and then becomes liable when his cross-pollinated crops contain the patented genes.
I never said I agree, but that's the way it works in the United States.
I've been a science fair judge for a few years here in Brevard County. One of the projects I saw (but didn't get to judge), was finding the effects of yohimbe on clams. The student had done a very good job, one variable and she even had a control group (don't get me started on the quality of most science fair projects!).
The results: feeding yohimbe to clams made them reproduce faster!
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I remember reading about this kind of thing when I was growing up-- it was "Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy."
http://www.amazon.com/Danny-Dunn-Invisible-Boy-Williams/dp/0671450689/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Dunn,_Invisible_Boy/
I did just that. Well, almost. I downloaded the Ubuntu 6.06LTS DVD, and installed from that.
Everything worked. My PC is an Abit NF7-M with 512MB RAM, Athlon XP 2000+, and the only card I installed is a Belkin 802.11 wireless card I got at Wal-Mart. Everything worked "right out of the box," including the nForce video, audio and ethernet, and the Belkin wireless card. I would have had to install a driver from the Belkin CD with windows, but Ubuntu recognized it and worked right away! Everything works.
Yes, we all know we can trust the IRS to give us accurage information.
Looking at the Google front page, there are more things than the logo and the search box:
Web Images Video News Maps more
You can search news just by clicking the "News" link.
Clicking on "more >>" opens up a small list of items. Selecting "Even More" from that menu takes you to this page where everything that Google offers is available.
It's been my experience (VS.NET 2003) that if Intellisense doesn't work, it's because you've got a syntax error in your code and the parser can't make sense of it.
Of course they do. But I don't have an obligation to pay for it. Several families I know homeschool. Not for health reasons, but I think that a severe peanut allergy would be cause enough for parents to homeschool their allergic child. If anaphalaxis is only a sniff away, why would they put their child at risk?
:)
Futhermore, why should my non-allergic child be barred from peanuts, a healthy snack that's been the #1 cash crop of my home state of Georgia?
Somebody a few comments back mentioned something on the order of 500A.
:), we'd need a copper wire of at least 500 kcmil to handle the current (Table 310.17, Allowable Ampacities of Single-Insulated Conductors rated 0 Through 2000 Volts in Free Air Based On Ambient Air Temperatures of 30 degrees C).
I just happen to have my 2005 NEC in front of me. Article 310, Conductors for General Wiring, has several tables that are of interest. Allowing for only 60 degree C operation (don't want to burn the people moving these cables
That's a very big cable, about an inch in diameter and about a pound and a half per foot (That's for THHN wire). Remember, you'd need TWO of them in the hookup to complete the circuit.
Another problem would be ensuring proper terminations. That kind of power transfer does not work with poor terminations. The wires would have to be carefully bonded to the car, or the ohmic losses would destroy the terminals or even cause an explosion.
I was going through the local SuperWalmart a few weeks ago, and noted at least two CRT-based HD televisions. They were both in the 26-inch range, if I recall, and both were around $500. Froogle lists several, including the Toshiba 26HF66, Samsung TXP2675WHX/XAA and the Sansui HDTV2600 (A rebadged Orion, apparently, and I can't find a link for it).
Hrm. But since Gauss' Law says that there can be no electric field on the inside of a conductor, whatever is on or in the inside layers won't feel any affect from a charge placed on an outside shell. Since there's no net charge on the inside layers, there's no field either.
Furthermore, charges aren't polarized-- fields are. Aren't you trying to set up some kind of polarized electric (or magnetic-- you say a material is polarizable, which seems to indicate magnetism) field?
That's because the two houses of the United States Congress had different constituents-- the House of Representatives was to represent the People in Congress, while the Senate represented the States.
Uh, it's called the United States Congress, not Parliament.
It's made up of the 435-member House of Representatives and the 100-member Senate.
No, you're thinking of trademarks.
You mean to say that the TEST COMPUTER was not meant to be set up this way. Just as it's only by convention that computers use binary (they could use any imaginable base representation), it's only by convention that easily-obtainable computers use processors in groups that are integer powers of two. There's no physical reason why a computer could not be built that used an odd number of processors very well, it's just that the one used for the test was not meant for it.
You must be new around here :). Slashcode is notorious for killing links like that. I think it's part of the Lameness Filter that taco put in.
How's that different from a painter using store-bought paints, brushes and canvas instead of creating his own? Do sculptors make their own chisels? Do musicians build their own instruments?
Truly spoken like somebody who never rides the bus (at least in the Atlanta). I absolutely abhorred the hour it took to get from the stop in my town to the nearest rail station. (MARTA bus 180, W. Broad Street/Campbellton Road instersection to the College Park rail station). Yes, the schedule says about forty minutes... Don't believe it. I could DRIVE from my house to Georgia Tech in the time it took to ride from the bus stop to the rail station-- not including walking to the stop, WAITING for the always-late bus, riding the train in, and walking to campus from the North Avenue station. Heaven help you if the driver needs to take a break...
Riding MARTA was so inconvenient that I only did it once or twice-- when the car was in the shop getting a new clutch.
It's my experience that there's PLENTY of time for "useful" activity on public transportation.
Thanks for making mew spew my drink all over... :)
I was thinking: not too long ago I watched a Higglytown Heroes (hey, I'm a dad now...) episode where the hero was a garbage collector. His truck had a big arm that collected the trash from the curb and placed it in the truck.
They wash their clothes in a dishwasher? That is suspicious!
The answer is of course, yes, they can be sued. Patents, as others have said, protect not only the PRODUCTION of the patented idea, but the sale and use of it as well.
There's been lots of concern over patented crop varieties for just such issues. Farmers normally save seeds from one year to plant the next. Farmers that use patented varieties have to abide by the licenses, which always stipulate that saving seeds is not allowed. The next door neighbor farm does not buy the patented seed, but due to the prevailing winds his fields cross-pollinate with the plants that are of the patented variety. He saves his seeds for next year and then becomes liable when his cross-pollinated crops contain the patented genes.
I never said I agree, but that's the way it works in the United States.
Actually, Alanis is a Canuck!
I've been a science fair judge for a few years here in Brevard County. One of the projects I saw (but didn't get to judge), was finding the effects of yohimbe on clams. The student had done a very good job, one variable and she even had a control group (don't get me started on the quality of most science fair projects!).
The results: feeding yohimbe to clams made them reproduce faster!
Duh-- no replay feature. I should read more carefully!
The earliest game I can think of with the "God's-Eye View" perspective is Zaxxon. I can't believe nobody's mentioned it yet.
So, John "Maddog" Hall is speaking twice?
He must be really, really good!