Worked for me I'm afraid (I.e. no bug) - I've tried slackware, ubuntu and debian sarge. I have no access to FC4, but perhaps this indicates a bug in FC4 rather than Gnome? Write a bug report.
Having a dialog box that says 'unimplemented' is a hint that someone can jump in and work on it. Proprietary software has to hide the fact that it also is incomplete so a lot of effort goes into avoiding that sort of thing.
Considering the different markets the two software (open source wants more developers, proprietary wants more money) this seems completely reasonable. A lot of people mistakenly thing that the most valuable thing an OS project can get is lots of users. In fact the most important thing an OS project can get is lots of developers, so projects that discourage non-developers and encourage developers tend to do the best. You are clearly in the non-developer class, so the projects in question don't really care that they've upset you.
Sorry, but what I said agrees exactly with what you've said. Can you explain why you think differently?
(I said:) "I think the original post was probably fairly close to the truth, assuming that the tyre walls aren't supporting much of the load (which, having seen people driving on flat tyres, seems reasonable)."
which lines up fairly well with your remark that "Crush strength of normal tire sidewalls is negligible by design. ", does it not?
Did you correct for the fact that your office chair isn't exactly at the pole? On the equator you can get a similar form of daylight savings by going for a walk each day, heading west, then returning at night. This will lengthen your day considerably, especially if everyone does this!
There are two obvious ways that weight can be transferred from the wheel to the ground - directly through the crush strength of the tyre walls, and indirectly through pressure transfer to the inner surface and upper surfaces then through tension to the wheel.
I'm not an industrial chemist, but I imagine there are ways and means to convert between various hydrocarbons fairly efficiently. I was thinking that there might be a simple way to synthesize a light aromatic from coal (which already contains aromatics in large quantities) using only modest amounts of hydrogen.
So to clarify: you said that existing fuels have a large portion of hydrogen (at least 2:1), and that switching to tar sands and coal would result in a shortage of hydrogen for the bulk demand (fuels). I suggested benzine as an example of a plausible (indeed was used in WWII) fuel with only half the hydrogen. I don't know if it is practical, benzine is a nasty toxin and might be hard to make; but there also might be other aromatic hydrocarbons with suitable ratios of H:C.
I think your point is an interesting one and should be mentioned more in discussions about peak oil.
Sorry, I thought you said that we'd have a shortage of Hydrogen, so methane, at 4:1 H:C would be a problem to make? I was suggesting using aromatics as a replacement for alkanes for fuel to reduce the need for hydrogen.
Regarding lack of hydrogen, would using something like benzine with its 1:1 ratio of H:C help? I know benzine is fairly toxic, but I expect that there are other aromatics that are relatively harmless yet still liquid at SLC (and STP).
You seem to have forgotten that the marginal cost of a movie is basically 0, whereas the marginal cost of some pants is a significant portion of the price. This means your analogy is basically worthless.
nifty. The one I saw was a lot simpler - a 6m length of pvc drain with a 6m straight length of copper pipe sitting inside (blocking might be a problem).
'The only "lost" heat is that which is carried by water out the drain and into the city's waste system.'
Incidently, I read a while ago about someone who built a heat-exchanger into their shower waste system to preheat the water to the hot water system. Apparently using only 6m of copper pipe inside the outgoing waste pipe he got 3kW or so heating, saving about 30% of the energy. (I'm not convinced that this is a good final implementation, but it's interesting that something so simple could be so effective) Perhaps using a heatpump the system could be made more efficient again.
Yes, exactly. Note that 2.54GHz is 12cm yet I can heat an egg, so it's not 1/2 the wavelength;) Certainly the ants are smaller than the holes in the front.
Yep! That's why they use foil now - at low speeds the foil centres the load until the fluid takes over. I think that for the kinds of loads that HDD platter present foil should last many more starts than a ball or roller bearing. I could be wrong though:)
I just had a look through digg and it lacks the one thing that makes me come back to slashdot - insightful comments. The comments were 50% juvenile drunken-louts-at-school level and the other 50% were people who didn't understand the question.
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Of course if you want nice weather too you could look in a place called Australia ;)
Worked for me I'm afraid (I.e. no bug) - I've tried slackware, ubuntu and debian sarge. I have no access to FC4, but perhaps this indicates a bug in FC4 rather than Gnome? Write a bug report.
Can you give a list of steps to reproduce? I have never observed what you claim.
Having a dialog box that says 'unimplemented' is a hint that someone can jump in and work on it. Proprietary software has to hide the fact that it also is incomplete so a lot of effort goes into avoiding that sort of thing.
Considering the different markets the two software (open source wants more developers, proprietary wants more money) this seems completely reasonable. A lot of people mistakenly thing that the most valuable thing an OS project can get is lots of users. In fact the most important thing an OS project can get is lots of developers, so projects that discourage non-developers and encourage developers tend to do the best. You are clearly in the non-developer class, so the projects in question don't really care that they've upset you.
Radium paint. It was a vial of Radium paint.
Sorry, but what I said agrees exactly with what you've said. Can you explain why you think differently?
:)
(I said:)
"I think the original post was probably fairly close to the truth, assuming that the tyre walls aren't supporting much of the load (which, having seen people driving on flat tyres, seems reasonable)."
which lines up fairly well with your remark that "Crush strength of normal tire sidewalls is negligible by design. ", does it not?
I like your description of prepackaged toes
Depends on the direction.
Did you correct for the fact that your office chair isn't exactly at the pole? On the equator you can get a similar form of daylight savings by going for a walk each day, heading west, then returning at night. This will lengthen your day considerably, especially if everyone does this!
There are two obvious ways that weight can be transferred from the wheel to the ground - directly through the crush strength of the tyre walls, and indirectly through pressure transfer to the inner surface and upper surfaces then through tension to the wheel.
p.s. haha.
You seem to be confused about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure vs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_(physics). I think the original post was probably fairly close to the truth, assuming that the tyre walls aren't supporting much of the load (which, having seen people driving on flat tyres, seems reasonable).
I'm not an industrial chemist, but I imagine there are ways and means to convert between various hydrocarbons fairly efficiently. I was thinking that there might be a simple way to synthesize a light aromatic from coal (which already contains aromatics in large quantities) using only modest amounts of hydrogen.
So to clarify: you said that existing fuels have a large portion of hydrogen (at least 2:1), and that switching to tar sands and coal would result in a shortage of hydrogen for the bulk demand (fuels). I suggested benzine as an example of a plausible (indeed was used in WWII) fuel with only half the hydrogen. I don't know if it is practical, benzine is a nasty toxin and might be hard to make; but there also might be other aromatic hydrocarbons with suitable ratios of H:C.
I think your point is an interesting one and should be mentioned more in discussions about peak oil.
Sorry, I thought you said that we'd have a shortage of Hydrogen, so methane, at 4:1 H:C would be a problem to make? I was suggesting using aromatics as a replacement for alkanes for fuel to reduce the need for hydrogen.
Regarding lack of hydrogen, would using something like benzine with its 1:1 ratio of H:C help? I know benzine is fairly toxic, but I expect that there are other aromatics that are relatively harmless yet still liquid at SLC (and STP).
You seem to have forgotten that the marginal cost of a movie is basically 0, whereas the marginal cost of some pants is a significant portion of the price. This means your analogy is basically worthless.
nifty. The one I saw was a lot simpler - a 6m length of pvc drain with a 6m straight length of copper pipe sitting inside (blocking might be a problem).
'The only "lost" heat is that which is carried by water out the drain and into the city's waste system.'
Incidently, I read a while ago about someone who built a heat-exchanger into their shower waste system to preheat the water to the hot water system. Apparently using only 6m of copper pipe inside the outgoing waste pipe he got 3kW or so heating, saving about 30% of the energy. (I'm not convinced that this is a good final implementation, but it's interesting that something so simple could be so effective) Perhaps using a heatpump the system could be made more efficient again.
Yes, exactly. Note that 2.54GHz is 12cm yet I can heat an egg, so it's not 1/2 the wavelength ;) Certainly the ants are smaller than the holes in the front.
Well, apart from heat pumps. And yes, you can get heat pump based water heaters :)
" Microwaves kill various germs too, don't they? "
No more than hot water. Perhaps you are thinking of UVC? I remember reading somewhere that microwave ovens don't even kill fire ants.
Ok, thanks!
I don't understand that common claim that "there is no way a hypnotist could get you to do anything you don't want to do."
Feynmann and others note that their mind refused to resist the commands. Can you explain this distinction better?
Yep! That's why they use foil now - at low speeds the foil centres the load until the fluid takes over. I think that for the kinds of loads that HDD platter present foil should last many more starts than a ball or roller bearing. I could be wrong though :)
I'll pay that! :-)
I just had a look through digg and it lacks the one thing that makes me come back to slashdot - insightful comments. The comments were 50% juvenile drunken-louts-at-school level and the other 50% were people who didn't understand the question.
You are absolutely correct, but the tranformer will ameliorate this somewhat, in particular killing the high frequency harmonics.