I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Operating system distro Mandrake was found dead in it's Paris siege this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss it - even if you didn't enjoy their work, there's no denying their contributions to the free software movement. Truly a French icon.
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I respectfully disagree on this.
Reread Niquist and Shannon. Sampling higher than twice the cut off frequency of the lowest lowpass filter in the chain (the ears) will only get you components that will get filterered by said LP. The rest is only bullshit they sell you with your 10.000 $ stereo to make you feel good about being such an idiot.
Same for the people claiming vinyl/lamp amps and other medieval technologies are "warmer" (yet another bullshit buzzword). A very long time ago an engineer simulated the shitty sound of lamp amps on an all-digital system with a very cheep DSP. The double blind tests revealed none was better than the other. The system didn't sell. He added dummy lamps. The system sold very well for a very high price IIRC
escape backpostrophe is a necessity when typing foreign language (like French) LaTEX documents. How would I be able to write accents graves without it ? Agreed, I am transitioning to docbook and they use sgml entities for that (think à an the likes)
Actually I am an electronics engineer, currently(*) teaching theorical electricity at the university. I do know that P=UI (actually P=UI*cos(phi)). In many languages, possibly also in English, which is not my mothertongue, current means electrical energy.
Why? Because as a computing platform, the X-Box isn't that impressive, especially for $200. The graphics are nice, indeed, but you can buy a P4 tower from Dell for $400 [dell.com] these days,
Maybe people don't want to shell out 400 bucks when 200 will do.
Maybe people who buy that as a media player want to actually hear the media instead of the CPU/PSU/HDD fan.
Maybe people don't want a monster beige tower in their living room, but just a moderately big black and green box.
Maybe people don't want to pay for 300+ Watt current when 100 Watt will do.
(I forget the law that tells us that the gravity of a spherical body is the same as if all the mass was contained at one point in the center.)
IAAEETA (I Am An Electrical Engineering Teaching Assistant). As Newton's fourth law has just the same form as Coulomb's law, we can safely assume that a gravitational field can be calculated just the same way as an electrical field.
The law I will invoke here is one of the four Maxwell Laws : div D = rho with rho the electric density and D the electric field.
If you integrate it you get \int divD.dS=Q_inside.
As long as you are outside the sun's radius, Q_inside is a constant (in our case something like the solar mass, or 4/3 pi r^3 rho - volume*density). the lhs on the other hand will be taken as a sphere (the sun is spherical so it is safe to assume that its field is radial, for isotropy reasons. Integrating over a sphere is a no brainer). The lhs will become 4pi r^2 * D (4pi r^2 is the surface of a sphere with radius r).
Eliminating the superfluous constants and bringing every known one to the rhs we get D=(R^3*rho)/(3r^2)
So indeed you are right in saying that. Replace D with whatever letter suist you, IANAPTA (I am not a physics teaching assistant)
IIRC photovoltaic cells cost more energy to produce than they can ever produce in their economic lifetime. So they are only in use in places where another source is unavailable (satellite) or impractical (superflat pocket calculator) Is it still the case ?
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If you sell flour or sugar in little bags, in a back alley, pretending it's cocaine, you WILL get in jail for selling cocaine, even though it wasn't.
They certainly use it to power their missile guidance systems.
What more proofs do we need ?
We must attack ! Remember The Maine^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H9/11 !
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Operating system distro Mandrake was found dead in it's Paris siege this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss it - even if you didn't enjoy their work, there's no denying their contributions to the free software movement. Truly a French icon.
I respectfully disagree on this.
Reread Niquist and Shannon. Sampling higher than twice the cut off frequency of the lowest lowpass filter in the chain (the ears) will only get you components that will get filterered by said LP. The rest is only bullshit they sell you with your 10.000 $ stereo to make you feel good about being such an idiot.
Same for the people claiming vinyl/lamp amps and other medieval technologies are "warmer" (yet another bullshit buzzword). A very long time ago an engineer simulated the shitty sound of lamp amps on an all-digital system with a very cheep DSP. The double blind tests revealed none was better than the other. The system didn't sell. He added dummy lamps. The system sold very well for a very high price IIRC
RPGing will land you in the lake of fire
Incidently, posting in this thread rendered your mod point useless in it. Spoiled kid, you don't know haw lucky you are.
escape backpostrophe is a necessity when typing foreign language (like French) LaTEX documents. How would I be able to write accents graves without it ? Agreed, I am transitioning to docbook and they use sgml entities for that (think à an the likes)
As for the , isn't that the currency in SC4 ?
You could also point out that Genf is Geneva
1. Aliens can be drunk too.
2. Aliens are benevolent. You don't want them to spoil Starvin' Marvin's crops, do you ?
Actually I am an electronics engineer, currently(*) teaching theorical electricity at the university. I do know that P=UI (actually P=UI*cos(phi)). In many languages, possibly also in English, which is not my mothertongue, current means electrical energy.
So indeed this was a nice troll
Yeah. And don't forget that your so called "genitals" are circumvention devices illegal under the DMCA
Maybe people who buy that as a media player want to actually hear the media instead of the CPU/PSU/HDD fan.
Maybe people don't want a monster beige tower in their living room, but just a moderately big black and green box.
Maybe people don't want to pay for 300+ Watt current when 100 Watt will do.
Except zi frenches youze zi youro naouwe !
The law I will invoke here is one of the four Maxwell Laws : div D = rho with rho the electric density and D the electric field.
If you integrate it you get \int divD.dS=Q_inside.
As long as you are outside the sun's radius, Q_inside is a constant (in our case something like the solar mass, or 4/3 pi r^3 rho - volume*density). the lhs on the other hand will be taken as a sphere (the sun is spherical so it is safe to assume that its field is radial, for isotropy reasons. Integrating over a sphere is a no brainer). The lhs will become 4pi r^2 * D (4pi r^2 is the surface of a sphere with radius r).
Eliminating the superfluous constants and bringing every known one to the rhs we get D=(R^3*rho)/(3r^2)
So indeed you are right in saying that. Replace D with whatever letter suist you, IANAPTA (I am not a physics teaching assistant)
give a fake adress that will bounce AND check the five upper boxes, to maximize the amount of spam that wil bounce to them.
Alternatively, you can give support@real.com as an address, so support becomes unmanageable.
Well, just start your www.booble.com business
IIRC photovoltaic cells cost more energy to produce than they can ever produce in their economic lifetime. So they are only in use in places where another source is unavailable (satellite) or impractical (superflat pocket calculator) Is it still the case ?
If you can get the same bang while paying less, you can get a better bang by paying the same