I don't think the GP meant to insult FF by associating it with OS/2, just suggesting caution that being "good" doesn't necessarily mean long-term success.
CO2 Lake overturn basically happens when the bottom of a lake becomes so saturated with CO2 that geological disturbances can cause the trapped CO2 to erupt and rise up to the surface. All of the documentaries so far mentioned point to the lakes having natural reservoirs that pump CO2 into them, and even then they take many many dozens of years building up their CO2 contents before they get to the point where they can erupt.
Do you think there's realistically any chance that we produce CO2 in such large quantities that we can get a body of water as large as an ocean to overturn?
I believe something like that was shown on BBC Science and Nature. The show title was "Killer Lakes".
The theory is indeed about having large amounts of CO2 trapped at the bottom of a body of water. When its disturbed, the CO2 escapes to the surface, and being quite a dense gas kills quite a number of O2-loving lifeforms through suffocation.
There's just one thing that bothers me, though. Why does a Hydrogen Bomb produce far more energy in the fusion phase than is put in during the fission phase? My only guess is that the extra energy is coming from the energy released by the nuclear bonds during the forceful disintegration of the atom. Any physics majors care to chime in? Err... Maybe because the mass change from H+H=He is higher than neutron+U235=>U236+more neutrons?
Not just a throwback -- the Pentium M actually identifies itself as a member of the P6 family!
Intel made a real gem back then, especially when we look back at the Pentium II + 440BX chipset. Makes one wonder why they ditched in favor of Netburst. The fact that the Pentium M today is able to outperform much newer designs on a clock-for-clock basis (and this despite having much lower memory/bus bandwidth) is a measure of how well made the P6 architecture was.
Let's wait till release before passing judgement on a product.
As for.Net, I beg to disagree with your comments. The.Net IDE is substantially robust, and not least because it automates many of the mundane tasks we have gotten used to (e.g. opening/maintaining a db connect, window class, etc.) allowing someone to focus on the real problems at hand.
By that they mean the crystalline structure of the minerals used to form the transistor are engineered to an extent, or at least different from the naturally occurring structure it would normally have.
Wouldn't that cause visual distortion at least around or near the A-pillar area? It might be safer to have an opaque area than a partially distorted field of view...
As you say it all depends on your needs. Personally I could use some more RAM and processing power.
I'm using my pc to encode TV sattelite feed into a stream that i can receive at work. (no tv there... do'h) At higher resolutions 3GHz is just about sufficient. 1GB RAM seems to be cutting it close too, with the other services running in the background.
DaVinci's car does not have a driver, and could only follow a set program. At least the SUV you mentioned could be steered or stopped. As you imagine a full-scale model might be troublesome...
The original claim that any eruption dwarfed our output must be crap.
No it isn't. Releasing a huge amount of CO2 over 10 years and a wide area is vastly different from releasing the same amount here and now because it is constantly being consumed (by plants and otherwise). A sudden increase in CO2, and in a confined area (as an eruption would provide) will be many times more damaging than the industrial revolution.
Ok. That might be a good point, but is the capacity significantly (50%+) higher?
Not just 50%, but several orders of magnitude higher.
GSM 56Kbps CDMA2000 2Mbps
how do you think the japanese stream live video on their phones?
the radiation level is 10x less than AMPS and GSM. while as you say the amount we get is already very small, but this isn't just cutting it in half, it's several orders lower.
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Then start your own movement... What Would Super User Do?
Check it out.
I don't think the GP meant to insult FF by associating it with OS/2, just suggesting caution that being "good" doesn't necessarily mean long-term success.
You can't puff smoke without first having the particulates in your lungs.
CO2 Lake overturn basically happens when the bottom of a lake becomes so saturated with CO2 that geological disturbances can cause the trapped CO2 to erupt and rise up to the surface. All of the documentaries so far mentioned point to the lakes having natural reservoirs that pump CO2 into them, and even then they take many many dozens of years building up their CO2 contents before they get to the point where they can erupt.
Do you think there's realistically any chance that we produce CO2 in such large quantities that we can get a body of water as large as an ocean to overturn?
I believe something like that was shown on BBC Science and Nature. The show title was "Killer Lakes".
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The theory is indeed about having large amounts of CO2 trapped at the bottom of a body of water. When its disturbed, the CO2 escapes to the surface, and being quite a dense gas kills quite a number of O2-loving lifeforms through suffocation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/killerl
That would be intentional.
There's just one thing that bothers me, though. Why does a Hydrogen Bomb produce far more energy in the fusion phase than is put in during the fission phase? My only guess is that the extra energy is coming from the energy released by the nuclear bonds during the forceful disintegration of the atom. Any physics majors care to chime in?
Err... Maybe because the mass change from H+H=He is higher than neutron+U235=>U236+more neutrons?
Not just a throwback -- the Pentium M actually identifies itself as a member of the P6 family!
Intel made a real gem back then, especially when we look back at the Pentium II + 440BX chipset. Makes one wonder why they ditched in favor of Netburst. The fact that the Pentium M today is able to outperform much newer designs on a clock-for-clock basis (and this despite having much lower memory/bus bandwidth) is a measure of how well made the P6 architecture was.
standards comply to you!
Seriously, when you have as much marketshare as microsoft, forget the w3c -- you ARE the standard.
Let's wait till release before passing judgement on a product.
.Net, I beg to disagree with your comments. The .Net IDE is substantially robust, and not least because it automates many of the mundane tasks we have gotten used to (e.g. opening/maintaining a db connect, window class, etc.) allowing someone to focus on the real problems at hand.
As for
By that they mean the crystalline structure of the minerals used to form the transistor are engineered to an extent, or at least different from the naturally occurring structure it would normally have.
...one of our old friends?
Pre-emptive mod: -1 Redundant (no i didnt bother reading any previous posts)
Wouldn't that cause visual distortion at least around or near the A-pillar area? It might be safer to have an opaque area than a partially distorted field of view...
All hail the whimsical, wonderfully tactile, d20. =)
From another angle, gaming might be tought of as a healthier alternative to the sheer mindlessness of the boob-tube.
As you say it all depends on your needs. Personally I could use some more RAM and processing power.
I'm using my pc to encode TV sattelite feed into a stream that i can receive at work. (no tv there... do'h) At higher resolutions 3GHz is just about sufficient. 1GB RAM seems to be cutting it close too, with the other services running in the background.
The modulation would just have to be very slow so they don't integrate the whole modulation over the "staring" period.
I take this to mean we'll be uploading our DNA via 56k?
I've always maintained that there's a big difference between driving fast and driving dangerously.
Different strokes for different folks =)
I can see DaVinci reaping the rewards of his invention right now!
DaVinci's car does not have a driver, and could only follow a set program. At least the SUV you mentioned could be steered or stopped. As you imagine a full-scale model might be troublesome...
and spending $400 on the newest video card isn't?
The original claim that any eruption dwarfed our output must be crap.
No it isn't. Releasing a huge amount of CO2 over 10 years and a wide area is vastly different from releasing the same amount here and now because it is constantly being consumed (by plants and otherwise). A sudden increase in CO2, and in a confined area (as an eruption would provide) will be many times more damaging than the industrial revolution.
Ok. That might be a good point, but is the capacity significantly (50%+) higher?
Not just 50%, but several orders of magnitude higher.
GSM 56Kbps
CDMA2000 2Mbps
how do you think the japanese stream live video on their phones?
the radiation level is 10x less than AMPS and GSM. while as you say the amount we get is already very small, but this isn't just cutting it in half, it's several orders lower.