The Iraqi military anounced they have a new plane on how to find the US troops in Iraq after reading how they can use GPS phones. Iraqi officials report they had no clue about this or ever thought it possible till it was reported when people flipped out over something and went nuts telling the world the flaw in GPS phones.
Maybe some of us just arn't so great at some things. Besides most people would much prefer an engineer who is good at engineering then a engineer that is good at grammar. Few people give a rats ass as long as it's clear enough what one ment. also this isn't somehting important. This is a fucking forum on a website. If it was something important it would be perfectly written. Besides, Engineering transends english and grammer. Being a perfect little english major wouldn't help me much if i got a job in a country that doesn't speak my language. But my engineering knowledge would be just fine
""So, what's the Software Engineering Exam in Texas like? Hard? Do they test in C or pseudocode or what?""
Well this is much of why such a test wouldn't work well. In compsci how things are done are always changing, and there is infinite ways to properly do things.
In engineering there are just new things added on, but the correct way to do things rarely changes. Also the methods are the same. Pen and Paper math doesn't change and the formulas used are the same. About the only way you could do soemthing for compsci is to have people learn every language and have a defined only way of doing things for everything. Have fun with that
"" What about all the people who didn't take a PE exam but whose college degree says Computer Engineering? If I lived in Texas, I'd still call myself an engineer for precisely that reason...and if they didn't like it, tough, I'd switch states.""
EIT/FE -> PE is all just more licensing. Having a Engineering degree is basicly your first license. PE is just more on top of that. In some ways it's like a double check to see you know what your doing. Since people from all schools then take the same exam it shows that if Person A went to a hard ass engineering school, (take any Big Ten engineering school for example) and person B goes to some easy as engineering school (insert school no one has heard off for example). Well on face value Person A has a GPA of 2.7 and person B has a 3.7 . Person B seams better qualified. But when they take the PE exam person B fails and Person A passes. why because person A worked their asses off in hell to get a degree and fought to pass. While person B strolled through and was never challenged. This is why where you go to school matters. But this way there is something companies and the like can look at and see who knows there stuff without depending on a GPA that is only representive of a few things at one school. The ave GPA for my major at my school is a 2.72 does that mean we are all dumb? no it means we have one of the hardest programs in the country.
""As my Software Engineering professor pointed out, programming is the only life-or-death profession which is unregulated. How do you feel about your antilock breaks? Or any of the other millions of embedded systems which you rely on not blowing you up everyday. It is to our advantage that most of these systems are programmed by computer engineers (that's me!).""
Your state all though not completely wrong is highly optimistic. The reality of it is that most devise such as ABS or things that are basicly designed by engineers and have some code in them, the code was written by the engineer that made the devise. If a part was made by a Mechanical engineer that person is the best person to code it since he/she understands the devise and functions mroe then anyone. A programmer can't be effectively brought in and told to make it work. I've seen it tried, it just doesn't work. If say the device ran some imbedded OS , there is a good chance the OS was written by a Programmer. But that was an OS that was ment for anything. But for the application at hand the parts that make it work for it's purpose was most likely done by the ME, CompE, EE.
What so many miss is that for things like control code for devises depend very little on programming knowledge but a whole lot on Engineering knowledge or mechanicals, FEA, dynamics etc..
"" No, programmers are not engineers. Software engineers, however, should be and are engineers.""
The question is though, how does one become a software engineer. I have never heard of here being such a degree or feild. Just programmers calling themselves software engineers.
""I'm studying to be an engineer now, and I must agree with those above who state that a 'code monkey' is not an engineer. I respect those who choose to work in computer-oriented fields, but they are not engineers. An engineer is more than the definition of the word -- we go through extremely rigorous training and must pass lengthy accreditation probation periods before being given the official title.""
Correct.
This is something that needs to be extanded past texas. For those of us that are engineers or will be seeing those who call themselves engineers and in fact are not is just sickning. Granted I thought it was ilegal for people such as programmers to call themselves programmers all along.
Engineers go to school and work their asses off to get engineering degree's. The earn a degree in engineering. I can't get that degree and go out and call my self a scientist or a buisness major. That would be plain un ethical. It simply doesn't matter if your company lets you put engineer in your title if your not one. Unless you have a degree that ends with engineering, or your a licesened train operator your are not a engineer. Doing otherwise is miss-representing yourself. Calling yourself a programmer or a computer scientist will help you more then calling yourself an engineer. By calling yourself an engineer your bring disrespect upon yourself. People know that programmers are not engineers. So calling yourself one just makes you look stupid to these people.
Programming has very little to do with engineering. Engineering revolves around design, thermodynamics, strenght of materials, phyics...
Software revolves around layout. Architect is a much better term for a programmer, but even then it would only fit for those who do the design work, not just write the code others tell them to right. But even still you arn't a certifide architect.
If you want to call yourself an engineer go get an engineering degree. pass some engineering liscening exams. Stop trying to cheapen other's hard end degree's because your not happy with your job title.
Personaly I think there sold be more done to prosicute those who miss-represent themselves. This shouldn't even be an issue. If you hold a Compsci degree your not an engineer, how this can be more obivious I don't know.
Also engineers have to do lots of coding. Whether it be making some sort of model or maybe control code for a machine. These engineers don't call themselves programmers. They call themselves engineers because that's what they are. Some of us make things that look very nice but I wouldn't profess to be an engineering artist.
Now some may say, "but comp sci is part of my schools engineering program" Well yeah, it's there because of comp engineering is there. And comp sci needs comp engr. Also it would be silly to make the two very far apart. But even at that you still get a comp sci degree.
If you are a compsci major and you call yourself an engineer all your doing is asking yourself for a life of disrespect by others. Engineers don't have a problem with comp sci people, but soon as you try to call yourself an engineer it's over.
" Voyager 10's on it's way to perpetual motion.... until it slams into something/someone. Matter 'o' factly, last I checked, it's getting faster."
No it's speed limited. It's loosing energy to space, it gets tugs of gravity from everything in every direction, it's experiancing drag from trace hydrogen. For any given point in space there is a finite speed it can go due to achiving a force equalibrium with all around it (IE like your car when it can't go any faster since the forces against it == the force it exserts). It may be at it for where it's at. If not in time it will hit such a point were it will slow and speed up as the various forces mess with it. Depending on what is around it it could slow down a bunch, or speed up.
" So? If you spin a wheel in space, it'll rotate forever. Same concept, perpetual motion, but it isn't a machine because there is no energy conversion - part of the definition of a machine is (afaik) that it converts energy."
Well not quit, now yes if you spin a wheel in space it will probably spin for a hella long time. But forever is no garentee, or even possible. Space is not perfect. It's not absolute zero and it's not a perfect vacuum. It runs slightly above abs zero and has plently of trace hydrogen. Plus the anoying Planet and Star Partials floating around. Anyways. Those things will cause some enegry losses. Well just the fact your wheel when you start will be warmer then space it's going to throw off energy. Also it will always be influnced by gravity. Not much and probably not the earths but it's always near some other mass so it will expericance gravity. Actully it will experiance Earth's gravity no matter where it is in the universe, just very faintly. I suppose if you had a massless wheel that might avoid the gravity issue, but then again a impossible loophole is pointless. Also there is radiation going on causing transfer of energy all over the place. At any rate you could go on forever finding ways it will loose energy thus speed. Heck it's going to crash into something eventully.
"" Didn't they try this on Full Metal Challengs [fullmetalchallenge.com]. I mean launch a small car, one team using a catapult, the other a trebuchet?""
That sight seams toast. Anyways I belive it was junkyard wars. One team built a huge trebuchet and the other basicly a sling shot. The sling shot sucked but the car did go some place. The trebuchet, well lets just say if you were going to watch the end of an episode of Junkyardwars and Get a huge laugh, this is the one.
Because the little green men in outerspace are seeing Hitler opening the olympics as their first images of us. So the throw Meteors the size of hilters car back at us.
Also it's a universal thing. Everyone knows how big a WV bug is. If you said it's the size of a Honda Accord few would know how big that is. Also VW bugs are nice and round, much like what the Meteor will look like. Saying it's the size of a common object is much more useful to people then saying it was 32 m^3 meteor or 4500 gallon rock or something crazy.
Now what would be fun is to launch a VW bug into space and watch it fall back. Wonder how they would describe it's size.
... Just sit back and wait and see what MS does. If you just take it for what it says now there isn't much of anything to go nuts over. Yes maybe something will come up that makes it Evil, though with something like this what one considers evil others consider good. If It turns out to be just as MS says it is going to be, what do you have to fear? You don't like the paying? sure that might not be so great, but then again this is most likely going to apply to major windows apps. You know the kind written by companies that people go out and buy. So adding a few cents to the price won't matter to anyone. I don't think anyone is going to go and pay to have there Hello World app 'Next-Generation Secure Computing Base' certified.
If your afraid of how it works or don't like it don't use it, don't use windows. With just what MS has said most all of what people go on about has no bases and is just stuff from tin foil hat people. Yes MS has done bad things. Maybe they will with this. But give them a chance with it, let them screw up before you chastise them.
>> Canon Powershot G3 doesnt have pokemon, so to be honest, im not interested in it for that reason alone.
ah but if one takes a picture of a Pokemon with the canon Powershot G3 then it would have Pokemon. Though many may consider the Powershot not having Pokemen to be a good thing over the Gameboy.
I would be curious to see a comparison like this of a Apple iBook with a G3, and the Canon Powershot G3.
my vision is fine. Also i like the space of 1600x1200 it's just the matter that for most people it's way to damn small. This is why for windows XP, maybe 2k (i just don't know about it) MS re-adjusted the size of things so people could use a 17" at 1024x786 comfortably, before then it made things to small. Most people i know have 15 or 17 inch monitors, all of them run at 800x600 or 1024x768. I'm sure some people run 17's at higher, but they are very much a minority.
what's the point of 1600x1200 on a 15 inch screen? Your only going to run it at 800x600 unless you want to be straining your eyes all the time. at most someone might run it at 1024x768.
I ran my 17 inch monitor at 1024 like most people. Now I have a 21 and run it at 1600x1200, i'm thinking of lowering it because it's almost to small.
>> Yep, Clinton was a class act, you're right he was a draft-dodging, cocain snorting, alcohol drinking, intern fuckin, moron!
don't know about the cocain smoking but anyways. Even if he was all these, it doesn't matter.
Clinton will still go down in history as one of the best presidents the United States had. The US and the world is a much better place for what he did. The things you mention have jack shit to do with what he did as president. Are you saying those who drink alcohol are bad? theres a lot of bad people then. Draft dodging? so your saying doing what you beilive in is wrong? some may not like it if he did it, but he felt one way. Others did to, it's his right to do such. And far as the intern. Get it threw your fucking head, it was his personal life, it had no effect on the US. The republicans are the one's who assamed america. They showed the world how no one can have a personal life or privacy. They showed how you can be put on trial for things that arn't even ilegal. Clinton had his faults, but they were nothing that anyone else doesn't have. To hold him to such standards would be hipicritical for nearly every american.
The saddest thing is those who say clinton was so awful turn a blind eye to Regan who sold missles to Iran and should be in prision, along with Oliver North who they get their news from. And Nixon got away from his shit on a helecoptor ride away from his resignation.
>>If I'm not mistaken, vapor-phase cooling is just an ordinary refrigeration cycle.
Yep, sat through 2 thermo classes and some other supporting classes on doing this. If you set it up right you could do it with no compressor, just using natural convection loop. But that system wouldn't be very customizable.
I'm just waiting for the folks ar intel and AMD to run nano tubes through the core and pass fluid through it.
I was in Greece and turkey a few years ago. They talked a lot about how so many temples were destroyed in relitivly modern times, like 300 years ago, when people tore them apart to get the lead to make bullets. At the acropolyse (sp?) in athens you can look down at the remains of temples, some of them were fine till people needed bullets, now they are no more. Then there is also many doing really stupid things. They stored gun powered in the main building up there, (don't want to mess up name) any ways it got struck by lightning and destroyed the place. If not for that it would still be looking good today and not a ruine.
Also for rebar I continualy laughed at how the two most advertised things on bill boards in both countries were Re-bar and Hand guns. I have never seen a add for re-bar any where else in the world. And seeing girls in swimsuites modeling hand guns was interesting to, maybe they have that in Texas.
Indeed, this is a very good example and something I think about a fair bit. Take a car, you just keap replacing bits over time, is it the same car 20 years later. If you restore a 1932 ford coupe but only used a bit of the body/frame and some drivetrain is it a 32 ford?
Take another example, the human body. You are constantly replacing cells in your body. The only cells I know of that don't get replaced, or not completely are nervous system stuff, such as your spine. And you bones are in a state of flux adding and loosing material. But the better chunk of your body is probably replaced every few years. Are you really as old as your birthday then?
I think for the axe thing I would go with it is the same axe. It's sorta a spirit thing. The handle gets replaced and the axe head gives the spirit of the axe to it and it becomes part of the axe, when the axe head gets replaced the handle gives the axes spirit to it. (No i'm not some spirit beliving person, but you get what i'm saying) now if all the parts were replaced at once, it would just be a differance axe, not history/spirit of the axe has been transfered.
This is like your body, the new cells are brought up to speed from the old cells. You don't have a new body, its just the same body, even if new parts. After all you still have the same mind, but the parts that make it work arn't the same. The new parts are just as much of you as the old. You are in what you are and you mind, not what you are made of.
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The Iraqi military anounced they have a new plane on how to find the US troops in Iraq after reading how they can use GPS phones. Iraqi officials report they had no clue about this or ever thought it possible till it was reported when people flipped out over something and went nuts telling the world the flaw in GPS phones.
Maybe some of us just arn't so great at some things. Besides most people would much prefer an engineer who is good at engineering then a engineer that is good at grammar. Few people give a rats ass as long as it's clear enough what one ment. also this isn't somehting important. This is a fucking forum on a website. If it was something important it would be perfectly written. Besides, Engineering transends english and grammer. Being a perfect little english major wouldn't help me much if i got a job in a country that doesn't speak my language. But my engineering knowledge would be just fine
""So, what's the Software Engineering Exam in Texas like? Hard? Do they test in C or pseudocode or what?""
Well this is much of why such a test wouldn't work well. In compsci how things are done are always changing, and there is infinite ways to properly do things.
In engineering there are just new things added on, but the correct way to do things rarely changes. Also the methods are the same. Pen and Paper math doesn't change and the formulas used are the same.
About the only way you could do soemthing for compsci is to have people learn every language and have a defined only way of doing things for everything. Have fun with that
Sorry, i think when i read it i sorta miss read ya. I thought you said software engineer (thats me!)
Glad to see your not crazy.
"" What about all the people who didn't take a PE exam but whose college degree says Computer Engineering? If I lived in Texas, I'd still call myself an engineer for precisely that reason...and if they didn't like it, tough, I'd switch states.""
EIT/FE -> PE is all just more licensing. Having a Engineering degree is basicly your first license. PE is just more on top of that. In some ways it's like a double check to see you know what your doing. Since people from all schools then take the same exam it shows that if Person A went to a hard ass engineering school, (take any Big Ten engineering school for example) and person B goes to some easy as engineering school (insert school no one has heard off for example). Well on face value Person A has a GPA of 2.7 and person B has a 3.7 . Person B seams better qualified. But when they take the PE exam person B fails and Person A passes. why because person A worked their asses off in hell to get a degree and fought to pass. While person B strolled through and was never challenged. This is why where you go to school matters. But this way there is something companies and the like can look at and see who knows there stuff without depending on a GPA that is only representive of a few things at one school. The ave GPA for my major at my school is a 2.72 does that mean we are all dumb? no it means we have one of the hardest programs in the country.
""As my Software Engineering professor pointed out, programming is the only life-or-death profession which is unregulated. How do you feel about your antilock breaks? Or any of the other millions of embedded systems which you rely on not blowing you up everyday. It is to our advantage that most of these systems are programmed by computer engineers (that's me!).""
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Your state all though not completely wrong is highly optimistic. The reality of it is that most devise such as ABS or things that are basicly designed by engineers and have some code in them, the code was written by the engineer that made the devise. If a part was made by a Mechanical engineer that person is the best person to code it since he/she understands the devise and functions mroe then anyone. A programmer can't be effectively brought in and told to make it work. I've seen it tried, it just doesn't work. If say the device ran some imbedded OS , there is a good chance the OS was written by a Programmer. But that was an OS that was ment for anything. But for the application at hand the parts that make it work for it's purpose was most likely done by the ME, CompE, EE
What so many miss is that for things like control code for devises depend very little on programming knowledge but a whole lot on Engineering knowledge or mechanicals, FEA, dynamics etc..
"" No, programmers are not engineers. Software engineers, however, should be and are engineers.""
The question is though, how does one become a software engineer. I have never heard of here being such a degree or feild. Just programmers calling themselves software engineers.
""I'm studying to be an engineer now, and I must agree with those above who state that a 'code monkey' is not an engineer. I respect those who choose to work in computer-oriented fields, but they are not engineers. An engineer is more than the definition of the word -- we go through extremely rigorous training and must pass lengthy accreditation probation periods before being given the official title.""
Correct.
This is something that needs to be extanded past texas. For those of us that are engineers or will be seeing those who call themselves engineers and in fact are not is just sickning. Granted I thought it was ilegal for people such as programmers to call themselves programmers all along.
Engineers go to school and work their asses off to get engineering degree's. The earn a degree in engineering. I can't get that degree and go out and call my self a scientist or a buisness major. That would be plain un ethical. It simply doesn't matter if your company lets you put engineer in your title if your not one. Unless you have a degree that ends with engineering, or your a licesened train operator your are not a engineer. Doing otherwise is miss-representing yourself. Calling yourself a programmer or a computer scientist will help you more then calling yourself an engineer. By calling yourself an engineer your bring disrespect upon yourself. People know that programmers are not engineers. So calling yourself one just makes you look stupid to these people.
Programming has very little to do with engineering. Engineering revolves around design, thermodynamics, strenght of materials, phyics...
Software revolves around layout. Architect is a much better term for a programmer, but even then it would only fit for those who do the design work, not just write the code others tell them to right. But even still you arn't a certifide architect.
If you want to call yourself an engineer go get an engineering degree. pass some engineering liscening exams. Stop trying to cheapen other's hard end degree's because your not happy with your job title.
Personaly I think there sold be more done to prosicute those who miss-represent themselves. This shouldn't even be an issue. If you hold a Compsci degree your not an engineer, how this can be more obivious I don't know.
Also engineers have to do lots of coding. Whether it be making some sort of model or maybe control code for a machine. These engineers don't call themselves programmers. They call themselves engineers because that's what they are. Some of us make things that look very nice but I wouldn't profess to be an engineering artist.
Now some may say, "but comp sci is part of my schools engineering program" Well yeah, it's there because of comp engineering is there. And comp sci needs comp engr. Also it would be silly to make the two very far apart. But even at that you still get a comp sci degree.
If you are a compsci major and you call yourself an engineer all your doing is asking yourself for a life of disrespect by others. Engineers don't have a problem with comp sci people, but soon as you try to call yourself an engineer it's over.
" Voyager 10's on it's way to perpetual motion.... until it slams into something/someone.
Matter 'o' factly, last I checked, it's getting faster."
No it's speed limited. It's loosing energy to space, it gets tugs of gravity from everything in every direction, it's experiancing drag from trace hydrogen. For any given point in space there is a finite speed it can go due to achiving a force equalibrium with all around it (IE like your car when it can't go any faster since the forces against it == the force it exserts). It may be at it for where it's at. If not in time it will hit such a point were it will slow and speed up as the various forces mess with it. Depending on what is around it it could slow down a bunch, or speed up.
" So? If you spin a wheel in space, it'll rotate forever. Same concept, perpetual motion, but it isn't a machine because there is no energy conversion - part of the definition of a machine is (afaik) that it converts energy."
Well not quit, now yes if you spin a wheel in space it will probably spin for a hella long time. But forever is no garentee, or even possible. Space is not perfect. It's not absolute zero and it's not a perfect vacuum. It runs slightly above abs zero and has plently of trace hydrogen. Plus the anoying Planet and Star Partials floating around. Anyways. Those things will cause some enegry losses. Well just the fact your wheel when you start will be warmer then space it's going to throw off energy. Also it will always be influnced by gravity. Not much and probably not the earths but it's always near some other mass so it will expericance gravity. Actully it will experiance Earth's gravity no matter where it is in the universe, just very faintly. I suppose if you had a massless wheel that might avoid the gravity issue, but then again a impossible loophole is pointless. Also there is radiation going on causing transfer of energy all over the place. At any rate you could go on forever finding ways it will loose energy thus speed. Heck it's going to crash into something eventully.
So no, your wheel will not spin forever.
"" Didn't they try this on Full Metal Challengs [fullmetalchallenge.com]. I mean launch a small car, one team using a catapult, the other a trebuchet?""
That sight seams toast. Anyways I belive it was junkyard wars. One team built a huge trebuchet and the other basicly a sling shot. The sling shot sucked but the car did go some place. The trebuchet, well lets just say if you were going to watch the end of an episode of Junkyardwars and Get a huge laugh, this is the one.
"So why do astronomers always compare the size of meteors to Volkswagen bugs?"
So why do Computer People always make Car Analogies?
Because the little green men in outerspace are seeing Hitler opening the olympics as their first images of us. So the throw Meteors the size of hilters car back at us.
Also it's a universal thing. Everyone knows how big a WV bug is. If you said it's the size of a Honda Accord few would know how big that is. Also VW bugs are nice and round, much like what the Meteor will look like. Saying it's the size of a common object is much more useful to people then saying it was 32 m^3 meteor or 4500 gallon rock or something crazy.
Now what would be fun is to launch a VW bug into space and watch it fall back. Wonder how they would describe it's size.
... Just sit back and wait and see what MS does. If you just take it for what it says now there isn't much of anything to go nuts over. Yes maybe something will come up that makes it Evil, though with something like this what one considers evil others consider good. If It turns out to be just as MS says it is going to be, what do you have to fear? You don't like the paying? sure that might not be so great, but then again this is most likely going to apply to major windows apps. You know the kind written by companies that people go out and buy. So adding a few cents to the price won't matter to anyone. I don't think anyone is going to go and pay to have there Hello World app 'Next-Generation Secure Computing Base' certified.
If your afraid of how it works or don't like it don't use it, don't use windows. With just what MS has said most all of what people go on about has no bases and is just stuff from tin foil hat people. Yes MS has done bad things. Maybe they will with this. But give them a chance with it, let them screw up before you chastise them.
" Thats like trying to bottle and sell sewage water."
What about Mt. Dew now?
>> Canon Powershot G3 doesnt have pokemon, so to be honest, im not interested in it for that reason alone.
ah but if one takes a picture of a Pokemon with the canon Powershot G3 then it would have Pokemon. Though many may consider the Powershot not having Pokemen to be a good thing over the Gameboy.
I would be curious to see a comparison like this of a Apple iBook with a G3, and the Canon Powershot G3.
>> I don't believe windows come with a zip utility. send to -> compress folder. Super simple.
Older versions of windows didn't have it but that does matter since choosing to not be up to date isn't a fault of windows.
my vision is fine. Also i like the space of 1600x1200 it's just the matter that for most people it's way to damn small. This is why for windows XP, maybe 2k (i just don't know about it) MS re-adjusted the size of things so people could use a 17" at 1024x786 comfortably, before then it made things to small. Most people i know have 15 or 17 inch monitors, all of them run at 800x600 or 1024x768. I'm sure some people run 17's at higher, but they are very much a minority.
>>That is pretty pathetic!
The new Dell laptops can do 1600x1200!
what's the point of 1600x1200 on a 15 inch screen? Your only going to run it at 800x600 unless you want to be straining your eyes all the time. at most someone might run it at 1024x768.
I ran my 17 inch monitor at 1024 like most people. Now I have a 21 and run it at 1600x1200, i'm thinking of lowering it because it's almost to small.
>> Yep, Clinton was a class act, you're right he was a draft-dodging, cocain snorting, alcohol drinking, intern fuckin, moron!
don't know about the cocain smoking but anyways. Even if he was all these, it doesn't matter.
Clinton will still go down in history as one of the best presidents the United States had. The US and the world is a much better place for what he did. The things you mention have jack shit to do with what he did as president. Are you saying those who drink alcohol are bad? theres a lot of bad people then. Draft dodging? so your saying doing what you beilive in is wrong? some may not like it if he did it, but he felt one way. Others did to, it's his right to do such. And far as the intern. Get it threw your fucking head, it was his personal life, it had no effect on the US. The republicans are the one's who assamed america. They showed the world how no one can have a personal life or privacy. They showed how you can be put on trial for things that arn't even ilegal. Clinton had his faults, but they were nothing that anyone else doesn't have. To hold him to such standards would be hipicritical for nearly every american.
The saddest thing is those who say clinton was so awful turn a blind eye to Regan who sold missles to Iran and should be in prision, along with Oliver North who they get their news from. And Nixon got away from his shit on a helecoptor ride away from his resignation.
>>If I'm not mistaken, vapor-phase cooling is just an ordinary refrigeration cycle.
Yep, sat through 2 thermo classes and some other supporting classes on doing this. If you set it up right you could do it with no compressor, just using natural convection loop. But that system wouldn't be very customizable.
I'm just waiting for the folks ar intel and AMD to run nano tubes through the core and pass fluid through it.
>> at last my 486 becomes useful again!
I'm actully curios how much one could get out of one. Figure you could put a crapload of cooling on it, how much could you crank a 486?
>> I think they sound like Decepticons personally but maybe that's just too much time spent watching Transformers as a kid.
Glad to hear i'm not the only one who thought that.
I was in Greece and turkey a few years ago. They talked a lot about how so many temples were destroyed in relitivly modern times, like 300 years ago, when people tore them apart to get the lead to make bullets. At the acropolyse (sp?) in athens you can look down at the remains of temples, some of them were fine till people needed bullets, now they are no more. Then there is also many doing really stupid things. They stored gun powered in the main building up there, (don't want to mess up name) any ways it got struck by lightning and destroyed the place. If not for that it would still be looking good today and not a ruine.
Also for rebar I continualy laughed at how the two most advertised things on bill boards in both countries were Re-bar and Hand guns. I have never seen a add for re-bar any where else in the world. And seeing girls in swimsuites modeling hand guns was interesting to, maybe they have that in Texas.
Indeed, this is a very good example and something I think about a fair bit. Take a car, you just keap replacing bits over time, is it the same car 20 years later. If you restore a 1932 ford coupe but only used a bit of the body/frame and some drivetrain is it a 32 ford?
Take another example, the human body. You are constantly replacing cells in your body. The only cells I know of that don't get replaced, or not completely are nervous system stuff, such as your spine. And you bones are in a state of flux adding and loosing material. But the better chunk of your body is probably replaced every few years. Are you really as old as your birthday then?
I think for the axe thing I would go with it is the same axe. It's sorta a spirit thing. The handle gets replaced and the axe head gives the spirit of the axe to it and it becomes part of the axe, when the axe head gets replaced the handle gives the axes spirit to it. (No i'm not some spirit beliving person, but you get what i'm saying) now if all the parts were replaced at once, it would just be a differance axe, not history/spirit of the axe has been transfered.
This is like your body, the new cells are brought up to speed from the old cells. You don't have a new body, its just the same body, even if new parts. After all you still have the same mind, but the parts that make it work arn't the same. The new parts are just as much of you as the old. You are in what you are and you mind, not what you are made of.