I haven't seen the free neutron included in a periodic table, but I have seen it included on a table of isotopes. An example can be seen on the Wikipedia page on free neutrons.
Please note the word "embedded". Fair enough, but does a consumer really care what the hardware platform is? Consumers are interested in the capabilities of the device and what it looks like. Some (at least here) might care if it's software is open source. This device is smaller than any MythTV system I've seen (though only just compared to Mac Mini's used as frontends), but it's not really first in any way a consumer will care about.
yeah I hate shoddy products - which is why I stick to MS products even though I know Linux quite well and regularly try compeditors in other apps. I want an OS that isn't in my face - I want it to run tasks without me having to KNOW i am running an OS... MS is the least shoddy there (Mac may be better - i can't get hold of it).
I am not one of the 90% who use 10% of MS Office. I miss tonns of features when I've had to use other ones - yeah they are good for plebs that write notes and call them docs - but OO is always plaything catchup. Visio is WAAY more useful than any other product I've tried. but I'm used to the enterprise version with network & NDS discovery etc.
But the Office products can be so aggravating. Outlook annoys me daily. Word and Excel both do things I find incredibly stupid. I admit the alternatives aren't great either, but every time some Microsoft product wastes an hour of my time I hate them a little bit more. Because they are big enough so that they could have fixed these problems if they cared about their users.
"has put paid to the theory that New Zealand's rich bird fauna had evolved there because they had no competition from land mammals"
I don't really see how... one small mouse, even if there was 1 million of them, wouldn't really have made much difference to birds; it'd only be preditors that made a big difference Rats are a huge problem for native New Zealand birds now because they eat the birds' eggs.
The Haast Eagle (the largest eagle that ever lived, the largest bird capable of flight and the largest an animal could physically get and still lift itself on wings) might well have had a range of 2,000 Km. If reports of giant eagles of similar size in other countries are to be believed, then it must have had the range as they certainly never evolved anywhere else.
The Haast Eagle is believed to have evolved less than 2 million years ago. This fossil is from 16 mya. So, no it wasn't carried by a Haast Eagle from Australia. Besides that, a bird the size of the Haast Eagle would need to be able to feed during a trip of 2,000 Km which is not possible between Australia and New Zealand.
The purpose of the law (in the USA anyway) is to stop the government from performing illegal searches, if the government can still use illegally obtained evidence then there's no incentive to obey the law.
Of course there is, if you try those crimes separately. An illegal search of a house might be breaking and entering, or trespass or maybe burglary. An officer could go to jail for that search. Don't you think that's a fairly significant deterrent?
That's a pretty unusual case though. For one thing, the survivors of the crash knew for a fact that the search had been called off. Rescue was unlikely due to the extremely remote location and the fact that crash site would be hard to spot since the plane was white (against snow). The strongest survivors made numerous short trips to prepares themselves for hiking out and to figure out how to go about it and where to go. In the end it was almost two months before they made the final attempt.
And how do you power the cells at night. Most sources say that you get on average 5 hours of solar power a day (taking into account reduced power at morning and night)
That 170W/m^2 already accounts for night time; it's an average over 24 hours. The peak can be as high as 1KW/m^2 on the equator.
We need to reserve judgement on all 3 consoles for at least a year (maybe more, or maybe less for the 360) before seeing who the winners/losers are.
I don't think we do. I'm a hardcore PC gamer, never owned a console in my life, and even I'm thinking of buying a Wii. I think it's pretty clear that the Wii is going to be a huge success, the 360 will/is doing pretty well, and the PS3 will be a disappointment (sales wise, at least). I may be wrong, but I really think the writing is already on the wall.
Actually, basically everyone with a DSLR without dust removal has complained about this.
Maybe you've heard a lot of complaints from the people you know, or you've read a lot of complaints on the net, but unless you've done a statistically valid survey this is just hyperbole.
Perhaps the shuttle system specification states that the date should be treated that way. It might the ground based systems that are wrong. It might be that neither system is wrong and it is the specifications for each system that are inconsistent.
You (and many other posters) are assuming it's a bug in the shuttle code. But maybe it's supposed to treat year end rollover that way. The shuttle code is written to a spec and if the spec says that's how it should behave then either the spec is wrong or the ground based systems are wrong.
The daylight saving time is embedded in millions of devices/systems. An example would be the elevator system in my office building. It's used to control access times for secured floors. There is no patch for this, the control system will have to be completely replaced.
Our phone system has the change encoded. It will require a full software upgrade to fix this.
Or, you could just change the time on those systems twice a year. It's not that difficult a problem. I also think you're overestimating how many systems actually know about daylight saving time. Since the use of DST is not consistent between countries and even within countries, most devices with embedded clocks don't adjust for it at all.
But would Yahoo (and Microsoft) be releasing these new tools if it weren't for Google Maps? I think not. Google Maps may not be the best of the bunch anymore, but it's hard to argue that it's not the most influential and it's still very good. So calling it "indifferent" is a bit odd.
Is the new recipe for success to do one thing unbelievably well and several other things indifferently?
Indifferently? I hardly call Google Maps, GMail, Sketch-Up, or Google Earth doing things indifferently. They're all better than average applications, IMO, and certainly Maps and GMail have sparked major changes in competitor's products. Just because they're not dominating market share doesn't mean they're not doing well.
Truecrypt is a nice idea, except that if the interrogators find truecrypt on your harddisk, they may automatically assume you have a hidden volume inside your encrypted volume.
But they can't prove it. If you've got your bank account details (or other sensitive but not illegal data) stored in the outer volume you've got plausible deniability even if they do suspect a hidden volume.
Unless the size and/or position of the advertising area was frequently changed it'd be rather easy to write a filter that would simply blank that area out.
It seems to me it would be very easy to collect info on windows vm drivers and then just refuse to install/use them. Windows will only work inside a vm if the vm is able to install drivers in windows for the vms virtual hardware.
That can easily be avoided by having the VM emulate real devices. In fact this is already done to a degree - VMWare, for example, has emulated real network devices in the past.
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I haven't seen the free neutron included in a periodic table, but I have seen it included on a table of isotopes. An example can be seen on the Wikipedia page on free neutrons.
Soccor Balls are not dodecahedra. They're truncated icosahedra.
I don't really see how... one small mouse, even if there was 1 million of them, wouldn't really have made much difference to birds; it'd only be preditors that made a big difference Rats are a huge problem for native New Zealand birds now because they eat the birds' eggs.
Biodiesel and ethanol.
I'm sure there is stuff around that will play them. Start here. As a last resort you could always use UAE.
That's a pretty unusual case though. For one thing, the survivors of the crash knew for a fact that the search had been called off. Rescue was unlikely due to the extremely remote location and the fact that crash site would be hard to spot since the plane was white (against snow). The strongest survivors made numerous short trips to prepares themselves for hiking out and to figure out how to go about it and where to go. In the end it was almost two months before they made the final attempt.
Perhaps the shuttle system specification states that the date should be treated that way. It might the ground based systems that are wrong. It might be that neither system is wrong and it is the specifications for each system that are inconsistent.
You (and many other posters) are assuming it's a bug in the shuttle code. But maybe it's supposed to treat year end rollover that way. The shuttle code is written to a spec and if the spec says that's how it should behave then either the spec is wrong or the ground based systems are wrong.
But would Yahoo (and Microsoft) be releasing these new tools if it weren't for Google Maps? I think not. Google Maps may not be the best of the bunch anymore, but it's hard to argue that it's not the most influential and it's still very good. So calling it "indifferent" is a bit odd.
Nothing means shit in those circumstances.
Unless the size and/or position of the advertising area was frequently changed it'd be rather easy to write a filter that would simply blank that area out.