Plus, considering that it's natural, with none of the weird side effects that come with most pharmaceuticals, Capsaicin pills work as a supplement to standard medical treatments.
Natural schmatural. Everything that exists is natural, including stuff like hydrogen cyanide and polonium. I'm sure James Randi wouldn't accept just any pharmaceuticals as examples of supernatural phenomena.
I'm sure they'll find new properties of Capsaicin as time goes on. However, the corporate rub is that Capsaicin, like hemp, is a naturally occurring substance and therefore cannot be patented... unless (bite your tongue) they 'modify' the current laws.
'Modify' as in 'genetically modify'? I guess some variants could already have been patented.
That's not true at all. There are people (generally speaking) who learn by figuring things out for themselves, and there are people who learn by memorizing procedures. Those who figure things out for themselves will have no trouble going from Windows to any other OS, especially not another Windows OS. Those who memorize procedures will be just as confused going from Linux to anything else as they would be going from Windows to Linux. The weak link here is the people, it has nothing to do with the environment they use.
Though I'm the kind of person who likes to figure things out anyway, I've found that Linux actually encourages you to figure out stuff on your own. When I switched to Linux, after a week of using it I felt I've learned more about computers (in general, not just Linux) than in the preceding years of using DOS and Windows. The tools you use do make a difference (speaking as a physics teacher).
If you're going to nitpick, note that bandwidth is measured in Hertz. The marketroid term "bandwidth" refers to channel capacity, which is measured in bit/s.
The blue glow comes when a particle is emited near the speed of light through air and hits the water. It momentarily exceeds the speed of light through water (allowed since it is not exceeding the speed of light in a vacuum), but has to slow down. Slowing down ditches energy which must go somwhere, a blue photon in this case.
AFAIK, the particles don't have to slow down. As you said it's not exceeding c and there's no physical law forcing it to be slowed down to the local speed of light.
Cerenkov radiation is the optical/electromagnetic equivalent of a sonic boom, which is created by a plane traveling faster than the local speed of sound.
Of course, the energy in the light has to come from somewhere and the particle is slowed down eventually. However, there are many ways in which particles radiate by slowing down (e.g. synchrotron radiation from electrons in a circular particle accelerator) and the Cerenkov mechanism is a pretty special case compared to the others.
After a quick glance at your post including the sig, I see that you agree with the/. majority in that the Zune lives up to its color, and listening to one while cycling in the winter is a bad idea;)
Oh, a friend of mine had a rather rich father who bought such a thing for a 286. Don't know how they used it exactly, as a RAM drive, swap space or even some sort of main memory (I always thought the latter, but that seems extremely unlikely for a 286).
It was main memory, but back then we had the XMS/EMS hack instead of flat memory.
Heck, I remember RAM expansion cards for ISA slots. I'm sure this is faster, though I didn't get any meaningful boost when I tried this once. Nevertheless, if you're running headless system, it's better IMHO if you get some use of the display hardware, rather than no use. Even if it's a little slow. You shouldn't rely on swap as a memory expansion anyway, it's just a way to gracefully degrade performance when you hit the limit.
I think it's also nice to have swap on a different physical device/bus from your main hard drive. Maybe the swap isn't any faster, but at least it isn't slowing down any other hard drive usage.
Because there's really two sentences there (the narrator's sentence as well as Bill's) but actually putting two periods is redundant and I have no problem with the internal period in that case.
I wouldn't say it's redundant, since as you said, there are two sentences. However, language often sacrifices logical consistency for fluency and clarity. Having lots of punctuation marks is typographically ugly, and distracts from fluent reading. Frankly,.". looks like an anime character.
You obviously have trouble connecting the spelling and pronunciation of a word ('euthanasia' in this case) together, which could be a sign of dysph.asia.
People, if you're going to name a product with only two characters, please check that they don't form an emoticon first. Windows XP made me laugh enough already.
Australia is strange in reserving the word "pepper" for actual Piper nigrum.
In Finland, "pepper" translates to "pippuri" which is likewise reserved for Piper nigrum. Sweet peppers are called "paprika", and Capsicums are usually called "chili", or by the native name of the specific variant. Chili powder is often called "chilipippuri" though, but this is probably due to the association with black/white pepper.
I don't get this alleged superiority of "true" quad-cores vs. dual dual. I used to think that two discrete CPUs should outperform a dual-core, because the latter must share the external communication channels, other things being equal. Now I'm not so sure of it, because of things like shared cache and hypertransport, which may improve performance in certain situations, but it's not obvious. The difference between a dual dual and a quad is much more subtle. Would you prefer a "true" octal-core to your dual-quad contraption?
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What's your point? That MathML is not a preferred human-editable form of writing equations? I don't see anything wrong with that.
Now excuse me while I go back to writing Python instead of pure machine language.
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Like any technology, cancer doesn't officially exist until Microsoft innovates it.
Natural schmatural. Everything that exists is natural, including stuff like hydrogen cyanide and polonium. I'm sure James Randi wouldn't accept just any pharmaceuticals as examples of supernatural phenomena.
I'm sure they'll find new properties of Capsaicin as time goes on. However, the corporate rub is that Capsaicin, like hemp, is a naturally occurring substance and therefore cannot be patented... unless (bite your tongue) they 'modify' the current laws.'Modify' as in 'genetically modify'? I guess some variants could already have been patented.
Don't you mean: Who on Earth would ever need more than a Terrabyte?
Though I'm the kind of person who likes to figure things out anyway, I've found that Linux actually encourages you to figure out stuff on your own. When I switched to Linux, after a week of using it I felt I've learned more about computers (in general, not just Linux) than in the preceding years of using DOS and Windows. The tools you use do make a difference (speaking as a physics teacher).
If you're going to nitpick, note that bandwidth is measured in Hertz. The marketroid term "bandwidth" refers to channel capacity, which is measured in bit/s.
I think the beta cancels out the 2.0, therey giving Email 1.0.
Nitpick: you probably mean 2.6/2.8 and 2.0 B, or 26/28 and 20 dB.
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AFAIK, the particles don't have to slow down. As you said it's not exceeding c and there's no physical law forcing it to be slowed down to the local speed of light. Cerenkov radiation is the optical/electromagnetic equivalent of a sonic boom, which is created by a plane traveling faster than the local speed of sound.
Of course, the energy in the light has to come from somewhere and the particle is slowed down eventually. However, there are many ways in which particles radiate by slowing down (e.g. synchrotron radiation from electrons in a circular particle accelerator) and the Cerenkov mechanism is a pretty special case compared to the others.
As an American chemist once pointed out to his British colleague, "I work with arsoles."
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=sys-kernel/windows-7".
After a quick glance at your post including the sig, I see that you agree with the /. majority in that the Zune lives up to its color, and listening to one while cycling in the winter is a bad idea ;)
It was main memory, but back then we had the XMS/EMS hack instead of flat memory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_Memory_Specification#Expansion_boardsHeck, I remember RAM expansion cards for ISA slots. I'm sure this is faster, though I didn't get any meaningful boost when I tried this once. Nevertheless, if you're running headless system, it's better IMHO if you get some use of the display hardware, rather than no use. Even if it's a little slow. You shouldn't rely on swap as a memory expansion anyway, it's just a way to gracefully degrade performance when you hit the limit.
I think it's also nice to have swap on a different physical device/bus from your main hard drive. Maybe the swap isn't any faster, but at least it isn't slowing down any other hard drive usage.
"If I had a nickel for every quote misattributed to Mark Twain, I would buy all rights to his name and use it myself." -- Mark Twain
Because there's really two sentences there (the narrator's sentence as well as Bill's) but actually putting two periods is redundant and I have no problem with the internal period in that case.
I wouldn't say it's redundant, since as you said, there are two sentences. However, language often sacrifices logical consistency for fluency and clarity. Having lots of punctuation marks is typographically ugly, and distracts from fluent reading. Frankly, .". looks like an anime character.
You obviously have trouble connecting the spelling and pronunciation of a word ('euthanasia' in this case) together, which could be a sign of dysph.asia.
Or System V.
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In Finland, "pepper" translates to "pippuri" which is likewise reserved for Piper nigrum. Sweet peppers are called "paprika", and Capsicums are usually called "chili", or by the native name of the specific variant. Chili powder is often called "chilipippuri" though, but this is probably due to the association with black/white pepper.
There's nothing natural about these newfangled 'electric' guitars. Go play a zither you whippersnapper!
I say we go with Fortran, because it supports array programming natively without any of this bolt-on stuff like OpenMP.
I don't get this alleged superiority of "true" quad-cores vs. dual dual. I used to think that two discrete CPUs should outperform a dual-core, because the latter must share the external communication channels, other things being equal. Now I'm not so sure of it, because of things like shared cache and hypertransport, which may improve performance in certain situations, but it's not obvious. The difference between a dual dual and a quad is much more subtle. Would you prefer a "true" octal-core to your dual-quad contraption?