In tropical countries you will often find old colonial buildings (without a/c) that are quite comfortable even when it is very hot outside. They make use of special design features such as high ceilings, ventilation in the right places, stone floors etc. to keep the climate inside comfortable.
your statement that 'things with dimples' tend to fly farther is not really true. An aeroplane doesn't have many dimples does it? A golf ball flies further when it is rotating (in the right direction) since the air velocity at the top is higher than at the bottom (creating a pressure difference). The dimples serve to increase the roughness which increases the amount of air being acelerated/decelerated. It is exactly the same effect as a flettner rotor
the strips on those suits are basically designed to 'trip' the flow so that it becomes turbulent (instead of laminar). Turbulent flow has more momentum which results in less pressure drag. The disadvantage of turbulent flow over laminar flow is that it gives more viscous drag.
Dimples in a golf ball are designed to increase the roughness so the amount of air being held to the surface of the ball is greater when the ball rotates. Higher air velocity (at the top) and lower velocity (at the bottom) create a pressure difference which gives lift.
Sneakemail works similar in some respects although the email addressess they give you aren't as nice. One advantage is that they forward email to your real address.
But the casual equation between "open source" and "zero revenue" suggests that on another level you don't really know what you're talking about.
But that support is curiously inconsistent, spotty in ways which suggests that Sun is confused in the way it thinks about and executes its open-source strategy.
Hmmm, not really diplomatic, sounds rather pedantic I guess. By writing a letter in this fashion it appears like esr is more interested in showing how smart he is instead of supporting the open source cause. He may have a point but I think the letter could have been much more effective if more carefully worded, in this way it may even be contra-productive...
I'm not sure whether the learning process is more intuitive or not, since you have to know how to read in order to tell time on digital watches and can do without that on an analog watch.
However it may be, I think that analog watches are definitely easier to read, you can tell time with just a glance, there are 2 distinct hands on a big round dial. With a digital watch the space is cluttered by the numbers and you have to be sure that you read each number right. Ease of reading is also the reason why many gauges and meters in cars, planes etc are still analog. (even though digital gauges which are a lot cheaper are used increasingly) Have you ever wondered why those crt's in planes display *analog* gauges rather than just some numbers?
In Holland where traditionally there aren't a lot of roundabouts they suddenly sprang up all over the place. A lot of intersections got converted into roundabouts too. This (and the fact that it's possible to find roundabouts with only one exits apart from the ongoin road i.e. a junction) raised the suspicion that road-construction companies were bribing local officials into deciding that intersections needed to be converted into roundabouts. The term 'roundabout - mafia' was quickly coined.
I suspect that the email harvesters don't really care about the person behind the email address, all they want is lots of valid email addresses which they can sell to spammers.
In a sense I agree with your point that people want excuses. Having said that I think it's probably healthier for kids to go and play outside than to sit in front of a screen and play violent/sexually oriented games all day.
Hitler instigated an incredible amount of evil things, not just 'some horrific things' To name just a few things that were bad for Germany itself (I leave it up to you to consider the evils done to other contries):
the destruction of German cities (ever seen pictures of German cities flattened at the end of ww2?)
Families torn apart
brutal killing of millions on solely racial grounds
country divided up
Territory lost (Prussia, Sudetenland etc.)
Lives of countless soldiers lost
German confidence shaken to it's core So you see that to a German the 'good' done by Hitler is grossly insignificant compared to the evils done. I don't think the words 'good' and 'Hitler' belong in the same sentence. (I just used them I know)
That quibble aside, yes I agree with you. Taken to its logical conclusion, the best way to listen to great music is hearing great musicians play it live. So get out there and support them, dammit!
While I think that no hifi system can compete with the experience of a band playing live I think that in terms of sound quality live isn't necessarily better. Bands often play so loud that it kind of overloads your ears to the point where you don't really pick up the subtilities of the sounds. On top of that you've got to deal with limitations in p/a systems, mic spillage, room acoustics etc.
The quality of your laptop soundcard may very well have something to do with the difference you hear.
I find it difficult to believe that you can hear the difference between say a good 224kbps encoded mp3 and an uncompressed file if you're not using a high end soundcard>amplifier>speaker/headphone chain.
But if you say you can hear the difference, well, I'm not going to argue with it...
it depends on the type of scale you used. You most likely weighed yourself since most scales for home use use springs and not counterweights. A spring type scale measures force and not mass, the conversion to mass is done for you by the scale and is usually not adjustable for variations in gravity. The error is probably quite small though, especially relative to the scale's own inacuracies in measuring force. Counterweight type scales (like you may find at grocery stores) measure real mass.
If you're computer literate you probably know that some sites work (or at least partially) with IE only.
I generally work with mozilla but I have to do some things like online banking via IE.
IE is still faster too, not all that much but it consistenly loads/renders pages faster than Moz. I've got a 100Mbit connection so download speed is not really a factor when comparing loading/rendering performance.
I've "surfed" a motorized surfboard back in '91 or '92. It had the engine with jet at the back, the control (using a line with throttle control from front) was similar to this design.
The ride was alright I guess, not all that fast and really heavy compared to a real surfboard. The weight and limited power of the engine plus the fact that the jet inlet comes above the waterline easily limited the board a lot with regards to radical moves potential. I think I would have gotten bored with it quite fast.
I didn't try it in waves but I wouldn't want to wipe out with a board that heavy (does it have a leesh?? - would it tear off your foot?). Similarly how do you duck-dive a board like this? It would save you a lot of paddling though but I think this thing is not really intended for waves.
I don't really like motorized watersports equipment, they pollute the environment. The joy of the beauty of an area such as a beach, lake, river can easily be spoiled for a lot of people by the presence of one loud jet-ski.
Although I dislike Microsoft I can see their point.
How would you like it if you were a car manufacturer and suddenly a government would start producing cars and competing with you using taxpayer money?
Naturally I believe a government is free to do so if they want to. Furthermore I am sympathetic to the idea of providing citizens with a free os to ensure freedom of information etc.
However I can understand Microsoft's reaction from a business point of view.
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In tropical countries you will often find old colonial buildings (without a/c) that are quite comfortable even when it is very hot outside. They make use of special design features such as high ceilings, ventilation in the right places, stone floors etc. to keep the climate inside comfortable.
maybe they're run by the same people that ran abu ghraib?
your statement that 'things with dimples' tend to fly farther is not really true. An aeroplane doesn't have many dimples does it? A golf ball flies further when it is rotating (in the right direction) since the air velocity at the top is higher than at the bottom (creating a pressure difference). The dimples serve to increase the roughness which increases the amount of air being acelerated/decelerated. It is exactly the same effect as a flettner rotor
the strips on those suits are basically designed to 'trip' the flow so that it becomes turbulent (instead of laminar). Turbulent flow has more momentum which results in less pressure drag. The disadvantage of turbulent flow over laminar flow is that it gives more viscous drag.
Dimples in a golf ball are designed to increase the roughness so the amount of air being held to the surface of the ball is greater when the ball rotates. Higher air velocity (at the top) and lower velocity (at the bottom) create a pressure difference which gives lift.
don't worry, in 30 years we will start running out of fossil fuels and nobody will be able to power all those computers.
Sneakemail works similar in some respects although the email addressess they give you aren't as nice. One advantage is that they forward email to your real address.
Yeah totally agree, he may have a good point, however his attitude is not very helpful.
from the letter:
But the casual equation between "open source" and "zero revenue" suggests that on another level you don't really know what you're talking about.
But that support is curiously inconsistent, spotty in ways which suggests that Sun is confused in the way it thinks about and executes its open-source strategy.
Hmmm, not really diplomatic, sounds rather pedantic I guess. By writing a letter in this fashion it appears like esr is more interested in showing how smart he is instead of supporting the open source cause. He may have a point but I think the letter could have been much more effective if more carefully worded, in this way it may even be contra-productive...
I think that what you call dock is usually referred to as a berth.
I'm not sure whether the learning process is more intuitive or not, since you have to know how to read in order to tell time on digital watches and can do without that on an analog watch.
However it may be, I think that analog watches are definitely easier to read, you can tell time with just a glance, there are 2 distinct hands on a big round dial. With a digital watch the space is cluttered by the numbers and you have to be sure that you read each number right. Ease of reading is also the reason why many gauges and meters in cars, planes etc are still analog. (even though digital gauges which are a lot cheaper are used increasingly) Have you ever wondered why those crt's in planes display *analog* gauges rather than just some numbers?
In Holland where traditionally there aren't a lot of roundabouts they suddenly sprang up all over the place. A lot of intersections got converted into roundabouts too. This (and the fact that it's possible to find roundabouts with only one exits apart from the ongoin road i.e. a junction) raised the suspicion that road-construction companies were bribing local officials into deciding that intersections needed to be converted into roundabouts. The term 'roundabout - mafia' was quickly coined.
I suspect that the email harvesters don't really care about the person behind the email address, all they want is lots of valid email addresses which they can sell to spammers.
In a sense I agree with your point that people want excuses. Having said that I think it's probably healthier for kids to go and play outside than to sit in front of a screen and play violent/sexually oriented games all day.
the destruction of German cities (ever seen pictures of German cities flattened at the end of ww2?)
Families torn apart
brutal killing of millions on solely racial grounds
country divided up
Territory lost (Prussia, Sudetenland etc.)
Lives of countless soldiers lost
German confidence shaken to it's core
So you see that to a German the 'good' done by Hitler is grossly insignificant compared to the evils done. I don't think the words 'good' and 'Hitler' belong in the same sentence. (I just used them I know)
That quibble aside, yes I agree with you. Taken to its logical conclusion, the best way to listen to great music is hearing great musicians play it live. So get out there and support them, dammit!
While I think that no hifi system can compete with the experience of a band playing live I think that in terms of sound quality live isn't necessarily better. Bands often play so loud that it kind of overloads your ears to the point where you don't really pick up the subtilities of the sounds. On top of that you've got to deal with limitations in p/a systems, mic spillage, room acoustics etc.
The quality of your laptop soundcard may very well have something to do with the difference you hear.
I find it difficult to believe that you can hear the difference between say a good 224kbps encoded mp3 and an uncompressed file if you're not using a high end soundcard>amplifier>speaker/headphone chain.
But if you say you can hear the difference, well, I'm not going to argue with it...
nice analysis
you probably mean the Me-262
reminds of something called "dos shell" aka dos-hell.
it depends on the type of scale you used. You most likely weighed yourself since most scales for home use use springs and not counterweights. A spring type scale measures force and not mass, the conversion to mass is done for you by the scale and is usually not adjustable for variations in gravity. The error is probably quite small though, especially relative to the scale's own inacuracies in measuring force. Counterweight type scales (like you may find at grocery stores) measure real mass.
If you're computer literate you probably know that some sites work (or at least partially) with IE only.
I generally work with mozilla but I have to do some things like online banking via IE.
IE is still faster too, not all that much but it consistenly loads/renders pages faster than Moz. I've got a 100Mbit connection so download speed is not really a factor when comparing loading/rendering performance.
hmm, I only really liked justice but even on that album the recording/mixing wasn't that great, for instance you can hardly hear the bass.
I've "surfed" a motorized surfboard back in '91 or '92. It had the engine with jet at the back, the control (using a line with throttle control from front) was similar to this design.
The ride was alright I guess, not all that fast and really heavy compared to a real surfboard. The weight and limited power of the engine plus the fact that the jet inlet comes above the waterline easily limited the board a lot with regards to radical moves potential. I think I would have gotten bored with it quite fast.
I didn't try it in waves but I wouldn't want to wipe out with a board that heavy (does it have a leesh?? - would it tear off your foot?). Similarly how do you duck-dive a board like this? It would save you a lot of paddling though but I think this thing is not really intended for waves.
I don't really like motorized watersports equipment, they pollute the environment. The joy of the beauty of an area such as a beach, lake, river can easily be spoiled for a lot of people by the presence of one loud jet-ski.
since:
taleban == terrorism
and
taleban == drug-dealing
it logically follows that:
drug-dealing == terrorism
(I'm joking btw...)
Although I dislike Microsoft I can see their point.
How would you like it if you were a car manufacturer and suddenly a government would start producing cars and competing with you using taxpayer money?
Naturally I believe a government is free to do so if they want to. Furthermore I am sympathetic to the idea of providing citizens with a free os to ensure freedom of information etc.
However I can understand Microsoft's reaction from a business point of view.