See, the problem is, it could never give off more energy than it takes in. [...] It smashes two nucleii together with enough force to leave a strong force bond.
And the resulting atom has less mass of the two single nuclei, and the difference is emitted as energy, as E=mc2 states. Once properly started, it gives off way more energy than it takes in. The Sun is powered by this energy source.
Rocks are expelled by high-energy events like erupting volcanoes and asteroid impacts. It doesn't happen every day, and the numbers are quite sparse, but rocks from the Moon and from Mars have been positively identified on the Earth's soil.
If this is the case, you're driving way too fast for the conditions. You should be able to react to anything happening on the road quickly enough to avoid death and destruction.
That's impossible. For any speed, even as slow as 5 mph, there is a range of events that you cannot react fast enough, given the normal reaction time between 0.5 and 1 second. If something happens too close to your car, you cannot deal with it.
The same is true for yellow traffic lights: it doesn't matter if the yellow is very long or very short, there is a speed at which it's difficult to decide wether to speed up or brake.
It's actually (according to the BBC and eso.org) 5x the size of Jupiter, or about half the size of our sun
Remember that when astronomers talk about "size", they are actually talking about mass. Our sun is 1000x the mass of Jupiter, so this planet is still 200x smaller.
The minimum mass to call a big planet a "star" is about 70 times Jupiter (that's the minimum mass to start nuclear fusion).
The text is about 1,5 GB. Images, for just the English version, are 14 GB. There's an additional image repository, the "commons", whose images are shared across all languages, and that's another 11 GB or so.
If two people have very different definitions of a controversial subject, like "terrorists" vs. "freedom fighters" for a single guerilla group, which becomes "definitive"? Who decides whether unproven scientific theories, like early versions of string theory, are "science", or "pseudoscience"
Wikipedia has the Neutral point of view rule. Here's how those topics would be dealt with:
terrorist vs. freedom fighter: those are definition. The Wikipedia article should first list the facts, what those people are doing, what they are trying to obtain, if there was an earlier reason, etc. Then proceed to say what certain people call them terrorists, and why different people call them freedom fighters.
science vs. pseudoscience: this is trickier if the editor is not versed in the subject. The example you made (early string theory) would be better defined as a conjecture. The wikipedia article on Scientific theory gives good guidelines on how to judge something.
As many others know, you know exactly nothing about what you are talking about.
Dude, you don't know anything either. P4's hyperthreading is a two-threads implementation of Simultaneous multithreading. Niagara is an 8-way multiprocessor on a chip, and each processor has four-way simultaneous multithreading, exactly like the P4, just with more threads.
Regarding the amount of concurrent threads, it's basically equivalent to a 16-way Xeon server with hyperthreading enabled, but with much faster inter-processor communication (since it's all inside the same core), and of course much lower cost, heat dissipation, etc.
Hyper Threading is an engineering solution to try and fix the problem created by Intel's marketing department-- when the company let them design the Pentium 4 to scale on Megahertz and not on performance. After that fiasco, Intel got its butt handed to it on just about all benchmarks by the Athlon. Intel management then panicked, and Intel's engineers salvaged the long processor pipeline with "Hyper Threading".
You have a very narrow view of the world. There are other chip companies than Intel and AMD, you know. And SMT (Simultaneous multithreading) was invented long before the P4. Intel just changed the name.
I've yet to see a Windows installation program that says "I see you have Linux in this partition. Would you like me to install elsewhere on this disk and give you an option menu at boot up?"
My windows2000 upgrade from win98 detected the Linux partition and added a bootloader with the choice between the two.
Wp is confirmably biased - just try "correcting" factual inaccuracies in a political reference. I have tried. With backup statements, direct quotes, etc. They definitely have an agenda.
It would be nice to have a couple of links to your edits - not the articles, but the edit history itself, so we can check the story. Political debates can get hot, but I've never seen a wikipedia article with a clear bias.
Apart from the fact that addressing wikipedia with "they", let alone "they have an agenda", shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how wikipedia works.
Because these new moons are very small, and moreover they are very close to a large and bright planet like Saturn, that would outshine it in any telescope field of view.
Competition in the browser market is always good. Firefox is gaining momentum because it's better than the main competitor (IE). When (and if) Microsoft will improve IE to a Firefox-like level, the Mozilla community will be forced to release an even better browser. And so on.
MMX is an integer-only implementation of SIMD. It was also problematic because it didn't have its own registers, but re-used the floating point ones of the CPU. SSE is a floating-point implementation of SIMD with its own registers.
Diskless clients (that are almost cpu-less and ram-less too) have been around for ages, they are usually called X-terminals in the Unix world. They are basically a network card together with a video card and a keyboard/mouse controller. I would be surprised if Microsoft systems are even 1% of the installed base.
That's not a bug, it's a feature request. It's one thing to require bug fixes, a developer usually feels obliged to deliver. New features are an entirely different game.
First of all, the nations you cited easily amount to not more than 5% of the world population, so the 95% quote is correct.
Second, in most of the nations you cited the general population was heavily against the war. The Spanish first minister has already been booted out for this.
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See, the problem is, it could never give off more energy than it takes in.
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It smashes two nucleii together with enough force to leave a strong force bond.
And the resulting atom has less mass of the two single nuclei, and the difference is emitted as energy, as E=mc2 states.
Once properly started, it gives off way more energy than it takes in. The Sun is powered by this energy source.
Rocks are expelled by high-energy events like erupting volcanoes and asteroid impacts. It doesn't happen every day, and the numbers are quite sparse, but rocks from the Moon and from Mars have been positively identified on the Earth's soil.
we'd risk cooling the Earth to such a degree that the core would solidify
Bullshit. Volcanoes cool the Earth mantle much more than anything we might come up to.
If this is the case, you're driving way too fast for the conditions. You should be able to react to anything happening on the road quickly enough to avoid death and destruction.
That's impossible. For any speed, even as slow as 5 mph, there is a range of events that you cannot react fast enough, given the normal reaction time between 0.5 and 1 second. If something happens too close to your car, you cannot deal with it.
The same is true for yellow traffic lights: it doesn't matter if the yellow is very long or very short, there is a speed at which it's difficult to decide wether to speed up or brake.
It's actually (according to the BBC and eso.org) 5x the size of Jupiter, or about half the size of our sun
Remember that when astronomers talk about "size", they are actually talking about mass. Our sun is 1000x the mass of Jupiter, so this planet is still 200x smaller.
The minimum mass to call a big planet a "star" is about 70 times Jupiter (that's the minimum mass to start nuclear fusion).
In the EU it's actually 2 years minimum warranty.
I use PtQT, and it's pretty good. Can be a bitch to compile, though.
The text is about 1,5 GB. Images, for just the English version, are 14 GB. There's an additional image repository, the "commons", whose images are shared across all languages, and that's another 11 GB or so.
A DVD is already too small. To fit into a DVD, wikipedia must scale down or remove the images.
If two people have very different definitions of a controversial subject, like "terrorists" vs. "freedom fighters" for a single guerilla group, which becomes "definitive"? Who decides whether unproven scientific theories, like early versions of string theory, are "science", or "pseudoscience"
Wikipedia has the Neutral point of view rule. Here's how those topics would be dealt with:
terrorist vs. freedom fighter: those are definition. The Wikipedia article should first list the facts, what those people are doing, what they are trying to obtain, if there was an earlier reason, etc. Then proceed to say what certain people call them terrorists, and why different people call them freedom fighters.
science vs. pseudoscience: this is trickier if the editor is not versed in the subject. The example you made (early string theory) would be better defined as a conjecture. The wikipedia article on Scientific theory gives good guidelines on how to judge something.
As many others know, you know exactly nothing about what you are talking about.
Dude, you don't know anything either. P4's hyperthreading is a two-threads implementation of Simultaneous multithreading. Niagara is an 8-way multiprocessor on a chip, and each processor has four-way simultaneous multithreading, exactly like the P4, just with more threads.
Regarding the amount of concurrent threads, it's basically equivalent to a 16-way Xeon server with hyperthreading enabled, but with much faster inter-processor communication (since it's all inside the same core), and of course much lower cost, heat dissipation, etc.
Hyper Threading is an engineering solution to try and fix the problem created by Intel's marketing department-- when the company let them design the Pentium 4 to scale on Megahertz and not on performance. After that fiasco, Intel got its butt handed to it on just about all benchmarks by the Athlon. Intel management then panicked, and Intel's engineers salvaged the long processor pipeline with "Hyper Threading".
You have a very narrow view of the world. There are other chip companies than Intel and AMD, you know. And SMT (Simultaneous multithreading) was invented long before the P4. Intel just changed the name.
I've yet to see a Windows installation program that says "I see you have Linux in this partition. Would you like me to install elsewhere on this disk and give you an option menu at boot up?"
My windows2000 upgrade from win98 detected the Linux partition and added a bootloader with the choice between the two.
The very page you linked says that the list should not be taken as an authoritative definition of genocide.
So if you think that Soviet genocides are missing from the page, just add them.
Wp is confirmably biased - just try "correcting" factual inaccuracies in a political reference. I have tried. With backup statements, direct quotes, etc. They definitely have an agenda.
It would be nice to have a couple of links to your edits - not the articles, but the edit history itself, so we can check the story. Political debates can get hot, but I've never seen a wikipedia article with a clear bias.
Apart from the fact that addressing wikipedia with "they", let alone "they have an agenda", shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how wikipedia works.
Because these new moons are very small, and moreover they are very close to a large and bright planet like Saturn, that would outshine it in any telescope field of view.
although buttons for NE, NW, SE, and SW panning would be nice
Drag your mouse on the map. Or double-click anywhere to center that point.
Competition in the browser market is always good. Firefox is gaining momentum because it's better than the main competitor (IE). When (and if) Microsoft will improve IE to a Firefox-like level, the Mozilla community will be forced to release an even better browser. And so on.
MMX is an integer-only implementation of SIMD. It was also problematic because it didn't have its own registers, but re-used the floating point ones of the CPU. SSE is a floating-point implementation of SIMD with its own registers.
Working out the numbers:
60 * 1000 / 3600 / 9.8 = 1.7 g
Quite high, but tolerable for a limited time.
Wouldn't it be far wiser to build solar panels in orbit, use them to power Microwaves, and avoid the attenuation in the atmosphere?
Atmospheric attenuation is generally estimated at 0.28 magnitudes, or about 30%. It's quite a loss, but not drastic.
Diskless clients (that are almost cpu-less and ram-less too) have been around for ages, they are usually called X-terminals in the Unix world. They are basically a network card together with a video card and a keyboard/mouse controller. I would be surprised if Microsoft systems are even 1% of the installed base.
That's not a bug, it's a feature request. It's one thing to require bug fixes, a developer usually feels obliged to deliver. New features are an entirely different game.
First of all, the nations you cited easily amount to not more than 5% of the world population, so the 95% quote is correct.
Second, in most of the nations you cited the general population was heavily against the war. The Spanish first minister has already been booted out for this.
That's exactly what I was saying.