If someone ran out of a bank with 50,000 and into a crowd of 100 people, do you not think that the police should be able to question all 100 people? Search them?
I seriously doubt that the power requirements of the entire human race would come anywhere close to putting a dent in the amount of power represented by the motion of air in the atmosphere. I think you overestimate just how significant you/we really are.
The same is true of any software that is dual-licensed like this. If you obtain the software under the GPL, then the derivative works that you create from that must also be GPL. You can't get QT under the GPL, and then change your mind later and release your product as closed source software.
0.15 G is pretty insignificant. 0.15 G is equivalent to accelerating in a car that goes from zero to 60 in 18 1/3 seconds:
60mph / 0.15G
= 60mph / 0.15 * 21.82 mph/s
= 60mph / 3.27 mph/s
= 18.33s
One of the things thats always bothered me when I use OS X is the way that the maximize button behaves. I can see how its behaviour under OS X makes sense in a certain way (Only enlarging to be 'big enough'), but I maximize a window to hide the clutter behind it as well as to see some more content in the foreground window.
If it's enlarged to be "big enough", then expanding any more won't, by definition, show you any more content. Additionally, if you want to hide all of the other apps, that's what "Hide Others" is for.
Well, good for the UK. Pornography wastes huge globs of time and ruins many marriages
As to wasting time, all forms of entertainment are wastes of time in exactly the same manner as pornography. Additionally, if porn ruins your marriage, then, in all honesty, your marriage was already in trouble to begin with.
As an aside, is an excellent illustration of the value of a real computing science degree (assuming you take it at an institution where they actually expect you to learn math, numerical methods, etc).
Isn't Newton-Raphson iteration taught in high school calculus?
That statement makes no sense. Watts is a measurement of power (i.e. energy over time) burning a fixed amount of fuel will produce a fixed amount of energy not a fixed amount of power. You might get 500 MW from 1 kg of hydrogen for a split second in an explosion, but that really isn't significant; nor is it useful.
So, very roughly, one shower in the morning is enough water to cover your energy needs for the rest of your life.
Unless you're talking about nuclear reactions... Bull.
Since they're hijacking the plane mid-flight, the regular pilots handle the takeoff part of the flight.
Since they never intend to land the plane, they don't need to know how to land.
Ignoring takeoff and landing or dealing with dangerous weather, flying any plane is pretty simple; especially when your aim is to hit a massive building.
These restrictions will not eliminate exploding airplanes. They may lessen the chance very slightly, but there is a point of diminishing returns--one which we passed long ago. At this point, adding more security restrictions is bordering on totally pointless.
Even with the current rules, I can still get all sorts of dangerous things onto airplanes without trying. If I can do it, then so can a determined terrorist.
There's no wondering involved. The whole "airport-security-beef-up" is just for show. Period.
Unless they require every single person to fly naked, and bag-less as well as submit to CT and MRI scans, there will always be a way to get dangerous materials onto airplanes.
When I was in college, there were groups going around telling women that "you may just not know you were raped." They had a clear goal of blurring the line between the words "rape" and "regret".
No, they had a clear goal of making women understand that having a guy cornering them in their room and not letting them out until they "give it up" isn't something they should be expected to live with, or that waking up in a frat house with no clothes on and no memory of last night, isn't just something that "just happens".
Were you there, why do you automatically disbelieve that the GP saw what he said he saw? And there were indeed such groups at my college. They made absurd claims such as "If you've had a single drink of alcohol (and are female), you are unable to consent to sex."
By your reasoning, we should assume that any person who claims they were robbed or assaulted is lying just because some people lie about it, or live in fear that we could be sent to jail by having someone pointing a finger at us and saying "he stole from me" if we don't defend the reputation of accused thieves.
Nice straw-man. No, that was not his reasoning. If you followed his reasoning, you would get: "It is nieve[sic] to believe that every person who claims to have been robbed or assaulted was really robbed or assaulted." Which is an objectively true statement.
You do realize that Windows XP was just a decimal point OS upgrade to Windows 2000? Are you claiming that Windows XP Pro was a free upgrade to Windows 2000?
While I generally agree with you, I felt the need to correct some minor factual errors:
OSX 10.5 will be the first Mac OS that will truly support Intel architecture, so I am sure that this will give it a performance edge that 10.4 doesn't have, which was kludged to support Intel architecture.
This is not true, OSX 10.4 was not "kludged to support Intel architecture", OSX has always run on Intel (all the way back to before it was even called "OSX"), they simply didn't release the Intel builds to the general public.
In fact, its the same thing OSX is doing to render their UI in OpenGL to take advantage of 3D rendering, although something tells me that Microsoft is the first to make it an exclusive operation of the GPU while OSX still relies on software OpenGL rendering consuming CPU power
OSX only uses the software GL as a fallback. If your GPU is up to the task, then it's all done in the GPU.
But, I get better entertainment value from a PC because it supports better quality sound output (true surround support), HD support...
What, exactly, do you mean by "true surround support" or "HD support"?
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I seriously doubt that the power requirements of the entire human race would come anywhere close to putting a dent in the amount of power represented by the motion of air in the atmosphere. I think you overestimate just how significant you/we really are.
The same is true of any software that is dual-licensed like this. If you obtain the software under the GPL, then the derivative works that you create from that must also be GPL. You can't get QT under the GPL, and then change your mind later and release your product as closed source software.
copyright != trademark
Stop using your logic! You're not being a good little zombie who "thinks of the children, blah blah blah". :)
0.15 G is pretty insignificant. 0.15 G is equivalent to accelerating in a car that goes from zero to 60 in 18 1/3 seconds: 60mph / 0.15G = 60mph / 0.15 * 21.82 mph/s = 60mph / 3.27 mph/s = 18.33s
As to wasting time, all forms of entertainment are wastes of time in exactly the same manner as pornography. Additionally, if porn ruins your marriage, then, in all honesty, your marriage was already in trouble to begin with.
Yes, but God is a very convenient excuse because it has a built-in "I don't have to explain it, it's magic" component.
Isn't Newton-Raphson iteration taught in high school calculus?
MacOSX doesn't use a fixed swap size, it grows and shrinks as needed.
Let's see:
Ignoring takeoff and landing or dealing with dangerous weather, flying any plane is pretty simple; especially when your aim is to hit a massive building.
These restrictions will not eliminate exploding airplanes. They may lessen the chance very slightly, but there is a point of diminishing returns--one which we passed long ago. At this point, adding more security restrictions is bordering on totally pointless. Even with the current rules, I can still get all sorts of dangerous things onto airplanes without trying. If I can do it, then so can a determined terrorist.
There's no wondering involved. The whole "airport-security-beef-up" is just for show. Period. Unless they require every single person to fly naked, and bag-less as well as submit to CT and MRI scans, there will always be a way to get dangerous materials onto airplanes.
It could be argued that smoking pot falls under "the pursuit of happiness".
... then the insurance should be free.
OK, but that says nothing to my main point: Windows XP is a paid decimal point upgrade to Windows 2000
This is not true, OSX 10.4 was not "kludged to support Intel architecture", OSX has always run on Intel (all the way back to before it was even called "OSX"), they simply didn't release the Intel builds to the general public.
OSX only uses the software GL as a fallback. If your GPU is up to the task, then it's all done in the GPU.
What, exactly, do you mean by "true surround support" or "HD support"?
Where, in TFA, does it mention making coherent white light?
Oh, everyone knows that. Just make a black laser and reverse the current from the power source.