CAREFUL with this! I was cleaning my laptop keyboard with isopropyl alcohol, and it worked great. So I started to clean the palm rest area, and it instantly marred the finish. (It's a Dell XPS m1210.)
I don't really care that my lappy doesn't look new anymore, but the other guy might.
OTOH anybody with access to OpenOffice or ms excel (thats somewhere above 95% of users) already have the tools to develop for VBA. On the other, other, other hand, anyone with a computer either has Python already, or can download a one-click installer version of it for free, so that's not really much of an advantage for VBA.
seriously, "iron infused plastic and gold electronics"? way way too much masturbating. How much weight do the gold electronics really add? At over $800/oz, I doubt it's making a significant contribution to this $150 keyboard's weight.
There are many, many critically important things in the world that even the brightest lay person could not possibly grasp at anything beyond the most vague, general level, within five minutes, even with the most talented lecturer (such as Feynman himself was).
I suspect that he wasn't speaking universally when he said that, but I wasn't there.
Yeah, let's make a "careful examination" of your original post:
I was careful to talk about 'his average student'. I've no doubt that there are true, budding auteur-geniuses among the media studies students. But the majority, in my experience, are not destined to make great art. You were "careful" to talk about "his average student". You claim to have "experience" with "the majority" of them.
Is that true, or were you talking out your ass? Or did I take you out of context?
You certainly have a right to hold an opinion. But anyone else has a right to make you look silly if you can't adequately support it.
I failed MIT's differential equations course three times, yet earned an A at the state school. Did diff eq change sometime in the three intervening years, or the 35 miles from one school to the next? No, the field of differential equations hasn't changed, but there is a lot more to diff eq than what any school can fit into a single semester. No two courses are going to teach the same subset of the subject. It is absolutely possible for one intro to diff eq class to be far easier than another one.
No. There's no resource that can explain to an ignorant person exactly why a given piece of art is significant, without effort on the ignorant person's part.
Say I'm a mathematician...can I give you a "primer" on why the Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem is significant, if you've never bothered to look at math beyond the stuff you slept through in high school?
Now, art is not math. Reasonable and educated people can and do disagree about what is good art. But they do so based on their knowledge of the social, political, or other frameworks within which the art was created. If you don't have any knowledge about the circumstances around a particular work, then you simply have no standing to assess it, beyond "it's (not) pretty."
There's no "primer" that can give you that knowledge You have to spend a lot of time studying the topic. Just like math or anything else.
Temperature is not heat. Once you've got a 6000K plasma (probably not all that costly in terms of energy due to low mass), the amount of energy it takes to maintain that temperature can be quite low. I'm sure the mechanism is very well-insulated thermally.
Temperature isn't the whole story. Regular tungsten-filament incandescent bulbs operate at about 3600K, but it's a tiny filament, and encased in glass, so it's not much of a hazard.
A 6000K plasma may even be safer, depending on the density of the plasma.
Parent is right--you might as well say that putting a teakettle on your gas range makes the flame get colder. It doesn't. It's just dissipating (part of) the heat through something useful instead of out into the environment at large.
If the teleporter is a wormhole of some kind, imagine what impact it will make on networking in general. Communication between continents would be both faster and cheaper, and resources like water would easily be transported away from where it's needed to the rich people who need to wash their Hummers and water their six-acre lawns cheaply. Fixed that for you.
If I charge mine and leave it in suspend (to RAM--not hibernate) overnight, it comes back with 99% juice. Sounds like two weeks isn't out of line, although I'd hate to be without my lappy that long.
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Yeah, you guessed it...it doesn't save that many syllables each time I say "lappy" instead of "laptop", but I make it up in volume.
CAREFUL with this! I was cleaning my laptop keyboard with isopropyl alcohol, and it worked great. So I started to clean the palm rest area, and it instantly marred the finish. (It's a Dell XPS m1210.)
I don't really care that my lappy doesn't look new anymore, but the other guy might.
Operate it in a vacuum.
Or a Bat-signal.
That review is a crock.
Sounds like you need to be looking at storage options, not grid-tie.
And a big difference between that and "making great software for no money that someone else will control, while you pay for servers and bandwidth".
Are you sure there is a voltage gradient across a superconducting transmission line?
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There are many, many critically important things in the world that even the brightest lay person could not possibly grasp at anything beyond the most vague, general level, within five minutes, even with the most talented lecturer (such as Feynman himself was).
I suspect that he wasn't speaking universally when he said that, but I wasn't there.
Is that true, or were you talking out your ass? Or did I take you out of context?
You certainly have a right to hold an opinion. But anyone else has a right to make you look silly if you can't adequately support it.
You clearly have an excellent command of the English language. However, you were in fact being a dick.
No. There's no resource that can explain to an ignorant person exactly why a given piece of art is significant, without effort on the ignorant person's part.
Say I'm a mathematician...can I give you a "primer" on why the Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem is significant, if you've never bothered to look at math beyond the stuff you slept through in high school?
Now, art is not math. Reasonable and educated people can and do disagree about what is good art. But they do so based on their knowledge of the social, political, or other frameworks within which the art was created. If you don't have any knowledge about the circumstances around a particular work, then you simply have no standing to assess it, beyond "it's (not) pretty."
There's no "primer" that can give you that knowledge You have to spend a lot of time studying the topic. Just like math or anything else.
Temperature is not heat. Once you've got a 6000K plasma (probably not all that costly in terms of energy due to low mass), the amount of energy it takes to maintain that temperature can be quite low. I'm sure the mechanism is very well-insulated thermally.
Temperature isn't the whole story. Regular tungsten-filament incandescent bulbs operate at about 3600K, but it's a tiny filament, and encased in glass, so it's not much of a hazard.
A 6000K plasma may even be safer, depending on the density of the plasma.
Parent is right--you might as well say that putting a teakettle on your gas range makes the flame get colder. It doesn't. It's just dissipating (part of) the heat through something useful instead of out into the environment at large.
Voice control might be just the ticket, if we don't actually have to use our voice.
For Slashdot, that's quite an accomplishment.
That's about half a Volkswagen, right?
Mall ninja, is that you?
If I charge mine and leave it in suspend (to RAM--not hibernate) overnight, it comes back with 99% juice. Sounds like two weeks isn't out of line, although I'd hate to be without my lappy that long.