Actually Ethanol has a greater Octane rating than Standard Gasoline !
Sure, but we're talking about Butanol, not Ethanol. And while Butanol does have a reasonable RON octane rating, it has a less favorable MON octane rating.
If there's some simple GPIO/parallel/etc. interface (could always rig up something USB based...), it'd be great for controlling lights and other appliances via SMS, IRC, etc.
Sort of -- a few years ago I played around with ustream, and on my old Linux laptop (Slackware), Flash had no trouble at all streaming my webcam (two-way street). Despite the fact that Flash on Linux, uh, sucks, the fact that the V4L integration actually worked boggled my mind.
I did find it rather amusing that Flash would let me stream video from my laptop, but my machine was still too slow to play youtube videos (this was before youtube started supporting HTML5).
It's a feature. Say you get amnesia and all you remember is your email address. Now, thanks to Facebook, you have a means of finding out your name, and what you look like!
Imagine how much simpler the plot for The Bourne Identity would have been.
R2, with its humanlike hands and arms and stereo vision, is expected to perform some of the repetitive or more mundane functions inside the orbiting laboratory...
The PETR activists are gonna have a field day with this one...
You "thought" you knew? So you're admitting to having acquired knowledge which could have been taught at law school, yet you did not pay any law-school tuition? Thought-crime alert -- somebody sue this guy!
I'm guessing that people who drive the car I drive get more as well, simply because more people buy my car for the badge on the front than for the fact that it's a fun car to drive. Likewise, more people probably buy an iPhone for the fact that it's, well, an expensive, trendy device, than for the fact that it's a legitimately awesome piece of technology (especially when first introduced).
If I ever encounter a link which I'm curious about more from an academic perspective than anything else (e.g., a link from a possibly-legitimate-but-likely-spam email), I'll just wget it and then go through the page source and/or view it with a browser.
This anecdote is a little off-topic I guess, but as far as privacy goes, I suspect it's a pretty decent way of going about things.
Perhaps this is a duplicate post, but does anyone else find the version scheme for Debian (and Ubuntu) a little confusing? I use Debian on my laptop and encounter Ubuntu in my line of work; figuring out which version precedes/supersedes which is somewhat of a pain. Is there any a priori reason why Sarge is older or newer than Squeeze? What about a Koala vs. a Lynx?
Although the upgrade process itself was more difficult for, say, Slackware, figuring out when to upgrade was pretty easy -- "I'm running 10.0, and 10.1 just got released. I guess I can upgrade."
Here's a picture from TFA. Bottom right corner shows Amsterdam. And if you happen to find yourself in Amsterdam in need of such an app (i.e., you're probably not local), you think ya might want to do something more than dine, lodge, shop, sight see or drink?
I mean, we all know that the iPhone is not the phone for porn, but no "coffee shops" either? Geez Steve...far cry from your Reed college days, eh?
Although various Windows versions may well be less secure than their contemporary Mac versions, Windows was always more vulnerable simply because there was a bigger incentive to attack it (i.e., more users).
Seems that Apple is now paying the price for popularity.
Perhaps half of this is really the characteristic length (two way communication and all). I don't really know how RAM works, so with DDR it may even be half of that length, which puts it at about 2.5cm / 1 in. (roughly). I leave it for someone else to tell me why these numbers mean absolutely nothing (seriously, I'm not too proud to learn something here).
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Actually Ethanol has a greater Octane rating than Standard Gasoline !
Sure, but we're talking about Butanol, not Ethanol. And while Butanol does have a reasonable RON octane rating, it has a less favorable MON octane rating.
Butanol has almost the same energy density as gasoline, and burns with less air. Send me a few gallons, and after I rich out the mixture (no fancy computer-controlled mixture for me...), I'll report back!
It must be tricky to hide sensitive data in innocuous data streams. Of course, I'm sure it's possible...
If there's some simple GPIO/parallel/etc. interface (could always rig up something USB based...), it'd be great for controlling lights and other appliances via SMS, IRC, etc.
By itself, video is still a one way street.
Sort of -- a few years ago I played around with ustream, and on my old Linux laptop (Slackware), Flash had no trouble at all streaming my webcam (two-way street). Despite the fact that Flash on Linux, uh, sucks, the fact that the V4L integration actually worked boggled my mind.
I did find it rather amusing that Flash would let me stream video from my laptop, but my machine was still too slow to play youtube videos (this was before youtube started supporting HTML5).
$ wump | tee book.txt
(Actually, I use zsh, which doesn't seem to understand the patent issue with this command.)
It's a feature. Say you get amnesia and all you remember is your email address. Now, thanks to Facebook, you have a means of finding out your name, and what you look like!
Imagine how much simpler the plot for The Bourne Identity would have been.
R2, with its humanlike hands and arms and stereo vision, is expected to perform some of the repetitive or more mundane functions inside the orbiting laboratory...
The PETR activists are gonna have a field day with this one...
If you're looking for a martini, a dapper suit / eyebrow arch isn't enough -- you should probably be packing a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_PPK#Overview">Walther PPK...
Tangentially related, a shaken martini is more watered down than a stirred one. Guess Bond's a sissy.
Everything I thought I knew about civil law...
You "thought" you knew? So you're admitting to having acquired knowledge which could have been taught at law school, yet you did not pay any law-school tuition? Thought-crime alert -- somebody sue this guy!
I'm guessing that people who drive the car I drive get more as well, simply because more people buy my car for the badge on the front than for the fact that it's a fun car to drive. Likewise, more people probably buy an iPhone for the fact that it's, well, an expensive, trendy device, than for the fact that it's a legitimately awesome piece of technology (especially when first introduced).
...detected an M-class flare...
So...can you live on it?
If I ever encounter a link which I'm curious about more from an academic perspective than anything else (e.g., a link from a possibly-legitimate-but-likely-spam email), I'll just wget it and then go through the page source and/or view it with a browser.
This anecdote is a little off-topic I guess, but as far as privacy goes, I suspect it's a pretty decent way of going about things.
Negative Kelvin is actually possible...
Perhaps this is a duplicate post, but does anyone else find the version scheme for Debian (and Ubuntu) a little confusing? I use Debian on my laptop and encounter Ubuntu in my line of work; figuring out which version precedes/supersedes which is somewhat of a pain. Is there any a priori reason why Sarge is older or newer than Squeeze? What about a Koala vs. a Lynx?
Although the upgrade process itself was more difficult for, say, Slackware, figuring out when to upgrade was pretty easy -- "I'm running 10.0, and 10.1 just got released. I guess I can upgrade."
Put a fork in it.
That's been available for, uh, quite some time.
Or, were you suggesting this instead? Afraid you've been beat to the punch in suggesting it...
There is evidence of Apple getting all it's technology by...stealing.
Says the guy stealing his internal grammar checker from Word '97 ;)
Here's a picture from TFA. Bottom right corner shows Amsterdam. And if you happen to find yourself in Amsterdam in need of such an app (i.e., you're probably not local), you think ya might want to do something more than dine, lodge, shop, sight see or drink?
I mean, we all know that the iPhone is not the phone for porn, but no "coffee shops" either? Geez Steve...far cry from your Reed college days, eh?
Although various Windows versions may well be less secure than their contemporary Mac versions, Windows was always more vulnerable simply because there was a bigger incentive to attack it (i.e., more users).
Seems that Apple is now paying the price for popularity.
...accounting for 4 million pounds of junk that befoul our atmosphere...
Uh...wouldn't said "junk" be falling to earth pretty soon after entering our atmosphere, what with drag and all?
For what it's worth:
c / (3 ghz) ~= 9.993 cm
Perhaps half of this is really the characteristic length (two way communication and all). I don't really know how RAM works, so with DDR it may even be half of that length, which puts it at about 2.5cm / 1 in. (roughly). I leave it for someone else to tell me why these numbers mean absolutely nothing (seriously, I'm not too proud to learn something here).
$ grep Tabs /usr/src/linux/Documentation/CodingStyle
Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters.
$
Google it!
Real life is in real 3D* and it's all around you every day.
Really? So everything happens at the same instant (or not at all)?
I want to make a movie and market it as being in 3D. In fine print, it'll say "2 spatial, one temporal."
Ah sorry, amend my previous figure...to $80,000/pound.
Dang, I knew the dollar was down against the pound, but that's just ridiculous.