Eggs dont turn back to liquid when you cool them...
Absolutely true. I was just trying to make fun of the very bad headline. The headline was "Science: A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated", which is not at all interesting.
Also eggs cooking is the water coming out.
Now that is plain b-s. As I said, what happens is that when you add energy (heat) to the proteins, they re-fold and turns into a more stable substance, transforming from a liquid to a firm state.
Just to clearify this so that people dont believe your disinformation. If you boil and egg, in water, with the eggshell intact, you still think you will boil the water away from the "egg", making it firm ? You are utterly wrong, and not informative at all. Even a simple google reveals this, look here or here.
I think you missed the "AND" in my statement. AND means that you have two statemens, and that that both should be fulfilled. In my case, I said that i think there are few people who cannot do this, and have noone around doing it for them (friend, gf/bf, parent, child, neighbour etc).
Sure there are people going to "CompUSA" and pays for it, but i'd say they are around a percent or two of all total PC owners. Dont you ?
Ok, i didn't mention laptop owners, because i dont think there are that many laptop owners that plugs their TV tuner in when they are at starbucks anyway... But sure, there are probably a couple of people who'd like to watch tv on their laptops, point taken.
prefer an outboard piece of equipment instead of cracking open their case and dropping in a daughter board.
Ok, exactly _how_ hard is it to open your case. Compared to all the trouble involved in getting new devices to work, setup programs etc. A really bad argument. I guess there might be a percentage or two of the population that cannot, and have noone to help them "cracking open their case...", but are those people likely to buy a TV-tuner anyway ? I have a BT878, just as the parent, and it works great.
Overall a Watt of heat disipation costs around 3.5-4 Watts of total usage.
I heat my home with electricity. Instead of spending watts on a radiator, i run my PCs all day (and all night) long. I wonder how efficient modern CPUs are compared to a standard radiator... anyone knows ?
Harddrive magnets are great. In fact, they are rather expensive, and quite strong!
Even better, if you have a broken CD/DVD-player, you can extract the electric motor. It's a high-quality product. A lot of people convert them into small, high-performing engines on R/C aircraft. This is one example
This is the danger of ext3 journaling (and possibly others as well). It makes people beleive that just because the filesystem passed as "clean" during boot, no corruption occured. Try a full fsck after a year or so of running (with a number of power failures/OOPS'es), and you will probably find a number of ext3 fs corruptions not detected by the "fast" fscking.
As far as reiserfs is conserned, bring me quota and i'll consider it. Until then, it's ext3 with full fsck's at boot.
Yep, totally agree. Do you remember the LaCie 1.6GB FW-drive released to market a few weeks back. This is nothing but four IDE drives in a raid configuration, and it's not redundancy raid...
I really wonder what the expected lifetime is on such a device. Sure you can replace the broken drive, but you should probably get the same model to replace the broken with, AND if one has gone down.. how long 'til the next one goes ?
Its probably great for things like offsite backups, you run it an hour here, and hour there, but it sure dont seem like a reliable solution to store valuable data on.
I know that this is not entirely correct, but this is the way it "feels" like for me, personally.
UNIX is the actual operating system (which Linux has made a very powerful and capable clone of). It could be OS X, Solaris, AIX, *BSD or whatever. Fine, now I have my UNIX station, what am I going to do with it ?
Of course, I'm going to run GNU software on it. That's the whole point of running UNIX, the GNU software. Killer apps like the X server(s), Emacs, ftp/web/dns servers and virtually any other software you could ever imagine. I'm running UNIX (or clones) to run the GNU software.
I think this poll i rubbish, mostly because I got 50 %. But let me explain...
I dont live in the US. I haven't heard of most of the companies in the poll at all, and those I've heard of (paypal, msn etc) have never crossed my mind to use. If i would have received any of those mails, of course it would have been fraud.
What I'm trying to say is, if my bank, with secure connection and proper URL, send me an email telling me to do something, i'd probably look into it. If the bank is called "usbank.com", I wouldn't click on it.
Basically, how on EARTH am I going to be able to determine whether they are frauds or not, if I'm marked incorrect when stating "usbank.com" isnt fraud?
If you disregard any messages you dont recognize, and are cautious with the rest, you are fine.
Hm.. Do-no-mite guy.. that made me think of McGyver, wouldn't he make a perfect Frodo ? Using all kinds of wierd stuff (waybread, ropes, ugly buddies, knives) to get his mission done.
You cant really mean that it's OK to hack/crack stuff if you cloak it as "excellent investigative journalism" ?
Journalists get far too much slack already, ranting arould like fools saying they are doing a "great job for society" when they take paparazzi photos of officials and private persons so they can sell more newspapers.
What the kids SHOULD have done was to contact the principles office and ask for permission. They could very well have been given such a permission if being supervised, and everything would be fine.
Yea, I have a G5 DP 1.8 and a TiBook (550). The way I figured, Microsoft lost like a $100 bucks on me when I bought it, and i'm not buying anything more from them:-)
I just bought a console, and I thought long before I made my purchase. The thing that tipped the thing in the XBox's favor was the modding possiblities. I had it "flashed" instantly, and inserted a 120GB disk. That gave me features like:
DVD/SVCD/VCD/XVid/DivX playback Games on HD Built-in FTP server SMB Support (play directly from my fileserver)
Compare that to the PS2 which requires hardware modification to play "non-retail" games and VCD/SVCD, and no network and no HDD.
Before modding, its the PS2 that wins. After modding, PS2 is just pointless.. Sorry sony, but i sold my soul to Microsoft *GAH*:)
Ok, the subject is disgusting, but the fact that they HAVE a goatse entry indicates they have lots of articles:-)
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This is a task-oriented job-- each server is a task.
Nice way of putting it, thats what I tried to say but obviously didn't get through to to all readers.
I also came to a second conclusion. Expose requires me to use the mouse to click on the window I want to activate. The mouse is SLOW and requires me to move my right hand away from the keyboard and then back again.
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Of course this is a matter of taste, but i dont agree with you. Expose for me is pretty useless. OK, we can highlight a few applications, but that's not my problem.
My PROBLEM is that i dont want to mess around finding my apps. Expose is simply too slow to use, i cannot find everything with a single click.
On my Gnome workstation i have 11 virtual desktops, one for each server i'm maintaining, plus some for mail, comms and web. I know that by pressing CTRL + i instantly move to a desktop with all my windows positioned they way I want them. Desktop Manager does the same for me on OS X
My problem with Expose is that I'm not trying to find ONE application, but a whole bunch. I dont want to find "Word" or "Netscape". I want to find everything "Mailserver-related", "Primary Nameserver-related" etc. Simply put, i want to find more than one window/application, expose cant do that, Desktop Manager does.
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Absolutely true. I was just trying to make fun of the very bad headline. The headline was "Science: A Liquid That Turns Solid When Heated", which is not at all interesting.
Also eggs cooking is the water coming out.
Now that is plain b-s. As I said, what happens is that when you add energy (heat) to the proteins, they re-fold and turns into a more stable substance, transforming from a liquid to a firm state.
Just to clearify this so that people dont believe your disinformation. If you boil and egg, in water, with the eggshell intact, you still think you will boil the water away from the "egg", making it firm ? You are utterly wrong, and not informative at all. Even a simple google reveals this, look here or here.
Go back to your cave, troll.
Whats wierd about it ?. Ever heard of a thing called an "egg" ?
Proteins tend to change form when you heat them, and even when cooled down, they remain the same (the proteins have re-folded).
A percentage or two?! There are LOADS more
I think you missed the "AND" in my statement. AND means that you have two statemens, and that that both should be fulfilled. In my case, I said that i think there are few people who cannot do this, and have noone around doing it for them (friend, gf/bf, parent, child, neighbour etc).
Sure there are people going to "CompUSA" and pays for it, but i'd say they are around a percent or two of all total PC owners. Dont you ?
Ok, i didn't mention laptop owners, because i dont think there are that many laptop owners that plugs their TV tuner in when they are at starbucks anyway...
But sure, there are probably a couple of people who'd like to watch tv on their laptops, point taken.
Agreed. I mean.. look at this quote:
prefer an outboard piece of equipment instead of cracking open their case and dropping in a daughter board.
Ok, exactly _how_ hard is it to open your case. Compared to all the trouble involved in getting new devices to work, setup programs etc. A really bad argument. I guess there might be a percentage or two of the population that cannot, and have noone to help them "cracking open their case...", but are those people likely to buy a TV-tuner anyway ? I have a BT878, just as the parent, and it works great.
Overall a Watt of heat disipation costs around 3.5-4 Watts of total usage.
I heat my home with electricity. Instead of spending watts on a radiator, i run my PCs all day (and all night) long. I wonder how efficient modern CPUs are compared to a standard radiator... anyone knows ?
Harddrive magnets are great. In fact, they are rather expensive, and quite strong!
Even better, if you have a broken CD/DVD-player, you can extract the electric motor. It's a high-quality product. A lot of people convert them into small, high-performing engines on R/C aircraft. This is one example
This is the danger of ext3 journaling (and possibly others as well). It makes people beleive that just because the filesystem passed as "clean" during boot, no corruption occured. Try a full fsck after a year or so of running (with a number of power failures/OOPS'es), and you will probably find a number of ext3 fs corruptions not detected by the "fast" fscking.
As far as reiserfs is conserned, bring me quota and i'll consider it. Until then, it's ext3 with full fsck's at boot.
Yep, totally agree. Do you remember the LaCie 1.6GB FW-drive released to market a few weeks back. This is nothing but four IDE drives in a raid configuration, and it's not redundancy raid...
I really wonder what the expected lifetime is on such a device. Sure you can replace the broken drive, but you should probably get the same model to replace the broken with, AND if one has gone down.. how long 'til the next one goes ?
Its probably great for things like offsite backups, you run it an hour here, and hour there, but it sure dont seem like a reliable solution to store valuable data on.
I know that this is not entirely correct, but this is the way it "feels" like for me, personally.
UNIX is the actual operating system (which Linux has made a very powerful and capable clone of). It could be OS X, Solaris, AIX, *BSD or whatever. Fine, now I have my UNIX station, what am I going to do with it ?
Of course, I'm going to run GNU software on it. That's the whole point of running UNIX, the GNU software. Killer apps like the X server(s), Emacs, ftp/web/dns servers and virtually any other software you could ever imagine. I'm running UNIX (or clones) to run the GNU software.
I'm curious, does anyone else share this view ?
I think this poll i rubbish, mostly because I got 50 %. But let me explain...
I dont live in the US. I haven't heard of most of the companies in the poll at all, and those I've heard of (paypal, msn etc) have never crossed my mind to use. If i would have received any of those mails, of course it would have been fraud.
What I'm trying to say is, if my bank, with secure connection and proper URL, send me an email telling me to do something, i'd probably look into it. If the bank is called "usbank.com", I wouldn't click on it.
Basically, how on EARTH am I going to be able to determine whether they are frauds or not, if I'm marked incorrect when stating "usbank.com" isnt fraud?
If you disregard any messages you dont recognize, and are cautious with the rest, you are fine.
Hm.. Do-no-mite guy.. that made me think of McGyver, wouldn't he make a perfect Frodo ? Using all kinds of wierd stuff (waybread, ropes, ugly buddies, knives) to get his mission done.
Talking of apple, have a look at the comment they make on the Apple Wireless keyboard.
It is now available with any new CPU purchase.
OK, if the IDSA wants me to think highly of them, they could atleast try to figure out the difference between a CPU and a computer...
You cant really mean that it's OK to hack/crack stuff if you cloak it as "excellent investigative journalism" ?
Journalists get far too much slack already, ranting arould like fools saying they are doing a "great job for society" when they take paparazzi photos of officials and private persons so they can sell more newspapers.
What the kids SHOULD have done was to contact the principles office and ask for permission. They could very well have been given such a permission if being supervised, and everything would be fine.
Yea, I have a G5 DP 1.8 and a TiBook (550). The way I figured, Microsoft lost like a $100 bucks on me when I bought it, and i'm not buying anything more from them :-)
If only apple would release a console!
For me the games are just one part of the story.
:)
I just bought a console, and I thought long before I made my purchase. The thing that tipped the thing in the XBox's favor was the modding possiblities. I had it "flashed" instantly, and inserted a 120GB disk. That gave me features like:
DVD/SVCD/VCD/XVid/DivX playback
Games on HD
Built-in FTP server
SMB Support (play directly from my fileserver)
Compare that to the PS2 which requires hardware modification to play "non-retail" games and VCD/SVCD, and no network and no HDD.
Before modding, its the PS2 that wins. After modding, PS2 is just pointless.. Sorry sony, but i sold my soul to Microsoft *GAH*
What happens if he gets fired ? I'd be interested in seing that debate :-)
S(t)FU ! :P
1:download
2:burn
3:rip
Or even better, we could start eliminating kids that are likely to code such appliations in the future!
:-)
I bet RIAA would be in favor of that as well
Nah, no funding problems. They have sponsored entries, like this one ;-)
:-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse
Ok, the subject is disgusting, but the fact that they HAVE a goatse entry indicates they have lots of articles
This is a task-oriented job-- each server is a task.
Nice way of putting it, thats what I tried to say but obviously didn't get through to to all readers.
I also came to a second conclusion. Expose requires me to use the mouse to click on the window I want to activate. The mouse is SLOW and requires me to move my right hand away from the keyboard and then back again.
Of course this is a matter of taste, but i dont agree with you. Expose for me is pretty useless. OK, we can highlight a few applications, but that's not my problem.
My PROBLEM is that i dont want to mess around finding my apps. Expose is simply too slow to use, i cannot find everything with a single click.
On my Gnome workstation i have 11 virtual desktops, one for each server i'm maintaining, plus some for mail, comms and web. I know that by pressing CTRL + i instantly move to a desktop with all my windows positioned they way I want them. Desktop Manager does the same for me on OS X
My problem with Expose is that I'm not trying to find ONE application, but a whole bunch. I dont want to find "Word" or "Netscape". I want to find everything "Mailserver-related", "Primary Nameserver-related" etc. Simply put, i want to find more than one window/application, expose cant do that, Desktop Manager does.
Yep, i had some things confused. First i wrote 2.N for SunOS instead of 5.N (my bad).
Then, i did not know about the "jump" they made in 98.
Versioning numbers can be seen here.
using MKFS instead of FSCK can also be a blast.. ;-)