If you are not sure what to get, may I suggest a bit of lipsum?
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Seems appropriate.
Re:HVAC Heating, Ventilation, & Air Conditioni
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DIY HVAC
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· Score: 5, Funny
> for non-eXtreme geeks like myself, HVAC stands for Heating, Ventilation, & Air Conditioning.
And for the rest of us, it stands for High Voltage AC. Though that's usually fairly darwinistic as a DIY-project.
It is my opinion that Cooley and Tukey's paper on the Fast Fourier Transform is one of the greatest most influential CS papers written in the past century.
The (re)discovery of the FFT was a major achievement in itself, and was the algorithm that popularized divide-and-conquer strategies for solving computational problems.
But Im sure they all pay good to send some emails when they get back to basecamp.
I climbed the highest mountain in the Americas last year. There was e-mail access at Base Camp,
20 miles into the mountains, at 14400 feet.
Solar-powered PC and satelite phone.
Outgoing e-mail cost $4 per 250 bytes of text. Incoming e-mail was available with prior agreement.
Consider that rate for a moment. I am certain you can expect even more spectacular rates here.
(I'd also make damn sure to keep the incoming address away from spam-lists, but that is another matter).
>Suppose, say, a Chinese dissident site sets up >there, and starts making trouble.
I seem to recall the exile government of Tibet is hosted by HavenCo. I do not suppose this qualifies as a "Chinese dissident site"?
>All China has to do is conduct naval exercises >in the region, carefully staying outside of >British waters, and have a little accident with >a missile.
For some odd reason I would presume that eyebrows be raised if China moved their navy across half the globe to have this little "accident".
Unless you *are* the government, you cannot really get anything safer from (government or otherwise) physical intrusion, since Sealand (apparently) will go down in flames before allowing unauthorised access.
Check your facts before posting, next time, maybe? *plonk*
>Never use cotton in cold/wet conditions. >It is very poor at keeping heat in when >wet. And it is slow to dry.
Hailing from a chilly climate and spending a lot of time in the mountains, I would like to make a correction to that.
My 100% cotton anorak is an *EXCELLENT* garment in bad weather. The only requirement is that the weather is sufficiently cold that it does NOT get wet. Same goes for my cotton pants and gaiters.
Since I've used this at temperatures down to -40 and altitudes upwards of 22000 ft., I'll cheerfully state that I believe it to be excellent against cold.
Other than that, I am not impressed by the idea of a battery-heated jacket; properly clothed and staying in motion cold ought not really be a problem unless it is very extreme, in which case the batteries will take a solid performance hit. In either case one's extremities (toes, fingers, nose) will be the body parts most vulnerable to cold.
Finally, chemical heat-pads are quite excellent for a quick burst of heating (+50 deg C or so, for half an hour, reusable).
Re:Why not new Nobel Prizes? Math Prize and more..
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Nobel Prizes Awarded
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· Score: 2, Informative
It may be worth noting that Norway recently set up a rather large fund for an international mathematics prize, in memory of mathematician Niels Henrik Abel. Information here.
You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at your, so-called patents, you and all your silly English lawwwwwwyerrs.
>If you show that the conjecture is undecidable, you haven't proven or disproven it - so do you >still get the million $$?:)
Uhm, if you show that it is undecidable, you have at least shown which way it goes, since there cannot be any counter-examples. Example; assuming Fermat's Last Theorem had been undecidable, it would have been true, but there would have been no way to prove it....... wouldn't that indirectly mean that you have proved it to be true?
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Seems appropriate.
> for non-eXtreme geeks like myself, HVAC stands for Heating, Ventilation, & Air Conditioning.
And for the rest of us, it stands for High Voltage AC. Though that's usually fairly darwinistic as a DIY-project.
The (re)discovery of the FFT was a major achievement in itself, and was the algorithm that popularized divide-and-conquer strategies for solving computational problems.
See also; How the FFT gained acceptance for more information about this groundbreaking work.
But Im sure they all pay good to send some emails when they get back to basecamp.
I climbed the highest mountain in the Americas last year. There was e-mail access at Base Camp, 20 miles into the mountains, at 14400 feet. Solar-powered PC and satelite phone.
Outgoing e-mail cost $4 per 250 bytes of text. Incoming e-mail was available with prior agreement.
Consider that rate for a moment. I am certain you can expect even more spectacular rates here.
(I'd also make damn sure to keep the incoming address away from spam-lists, but that is another matter).
>Suppose, say, a Chinese dissident site sets up
>there, and starts making trouble.
I seem to recall the exile government of Tibet is
hosted by HavenCo. I do not suppose this qualifies
as a "Chinese dissident site"?
>All China has to do is conduct naval exercises
>in the region, carefully staying outside of
>British waters, and have a little accident with
>a missile.
For some odd reason I would presume that eyebrows
be raised if China moved their navy across half
the globe to have this little "accident".
Unless you *are* the government, you cannot
really get anything safer from (government or
otherwise) physical intrusion, since Sealand
(apparently) will go down in flames before
allowing unauthorised access.
Check your facts before posting, next time, maybe?
*plonk*
>Never use cotton in cold/wet conditions.
>It is very poor at keeping heat in when
>wet. And it is slow to dry.
Hailing from a chilly climate and spending a lot of time in the mountains, I would like to make a correction to that.
My 100% cotton anorak is an *EXCELLENT* garment in bad weather. The only requirement is that the weather is sufficiently cold that it does NOT get wet. Same goes for my cotton pants and gaiters.
Since I've used this at temperatures down to -40 and altitudes upwards of 22000 ft., I'll cheerfully state that I believe it to be excellent against cold.
Other than that, I am not impressed by the idea of a battery-heated jacket; properly clothed and staying in motion cold ought not really be a problem unless it is very extreme, in which case the batteries will take a solid performance hit. In either case one's extremities (toes, fingers, nose) will be the body parts most vulnerable to cold.
Finally, chemical heat-pads are quite excellent for a quick burst of heating (+50 deg C or so, for half an hour, reusable).
It may be worth noting that Norway recently set up a rather large fund for an international mathematics prize, in memory of mathematician Niels Henrik Abel. Information here.
You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at your, so-called patents, you and all your silly English lawwwwwwyerrs.
Totto
Uhm, if you show that it is undecidable, you have at least shown which way it goes, since there cannot be any counter-examples. ... wouldn't that indirectly mean that you have proved it to be true?
Example; assuming Fermat's Last Theorem had been undecidable, it would have been true, but there would have been no way to prove it....
- Totto