Don't hold me to this, but I think the answer can be found at the beach, of all places.
Sometimes lightning strikes at the beach, and the heat from the strike will cause the sand to turn into glass around the bolt. If you could find such a "petrified lightning bolt", you would know the size of that bolt. Find enough of them, and you would have a general idea about the circumfrence of lightning bolts.
Now - I doubt you have to go scour every beach/desert/[sandy place] nearby, trying to find petrified lightning bolts - I'd vager a dollar that either the state's museums of science, universities and/or metereological weather stations have some lying around, either for research or just for show. Either way, it can't really hurt to ask around.
Won't someone please think about the Amish? Those poor people. No electricity, no computers and now no Internet, because that will be routed through powerlines! If we don't do something quickly, they will be left behind the rest of civilization! We MUST do something about their terrible situation. Rise up and call for legislation!
The point is that the two channels aren't "crossbared", but the connection to them is.
How to explain it...
uhm... the crossbar allows the north bridge (IGP) to allocate memory in both channels at the same time, thereby reducing the latency, since it can write/read to/from them simultaniously.
"Fear: When you see B8 00 4C CD 21 and know what it means"
I guess I don't know fear, cause I sure as hell can't figure out what "B8 00 4C CD 21" means. Using various hex-text converters, it translates to "," which I'm QUITE sure isn't the definition of being scared.
"As is, government takes my money to give to drug addicts and homeless people who can afford beer, cigarettes, and cable tv."
Uhm... last I checked, you needed a home to have cable tv, and if you have a home, you are not homeless... or did I miss some crucial part of my education?
But - it's nice to know, that if your house is ruined in a disaster, the insurance company goes bankrupt and can't help you, your company goes bankrupt and you're out of work and a home, that you don't want help from the government, because it's your own fault. You could have lived somewhere else, you could have worked somewhere else and you could have used a different insurance company.
Or is that somehow different?
Or what if your daughter/son gets addicted to heroin and loses his/her home - do you want to kick them out into the streets everytime they come to the hospital for help? Because it's obviously their own fault, and yours because you didn't teach them not to do drugs.
It's called a society - "a system in which people live together in organized communities", not Loundrys-System - "a system in which people don't give a shit about others".
"In which nation would you prefer to have spent time in before WWII?"
How much earlier than WWII? 1 year? 10 years? 100 years? 1,000 years?
You can't live in the past dumbass. The question wasn't if the US had "ever been", but if it still is.
Personally I'd rather live in Denmark.
Even though we have some hefty taxes compared to much of the world it's still a great place if you ask me.
"Safety"
- Compared to the US, Denmark has a very low crimerate.
- If you get injured or sick, you can get admitted a hospital, even if you don't have any money what so ever. Just like in the US... uhm... I mean...
"Freedom"
- We have freedom of speach, religion, political views, sexual orientation etc. (legally and morraly, though most people are prejudists).
- No, we don't have the right to bare arms - well... we do, just not weapons:-)
"Quality of life"
- Now that's a tough one. What is "quality of life"?
- If it means access to any education/career, if you have the brains for it, then we have a high quality of life.
- If it means not having to worry about making ends meet, if you get unemployed, then we have a high quality of life. We have a good social support system.
- If it means you don't have to worry about, wether your kids can get a good education, then we have a high quality of life. Education is free in Denmark.
- If it means you don't have to worry about getting sick or injured, because you can't afford the hospital bill, then we have a high quality of life. Hospital admisions and doctors visits are free, and most perscription drugs come with alot of government funding.
But that doesn't mean that Denmark is a better place to live than the US, Canada, Italy, Japan, China, India, Angola, Australia or whereever, it just means that I'd rather not have to live without these benifits of being a danish citizen living in Denmark.
"Of course, he's merely an electrochemist and not a *ahem* real physicist, so his experiments can be discounted."
yup, and the swiss patent office clerk who had astronomy as a hobby should be discounted as well right?
In case you missed my point, the patent office clerk was Albert Einstein.
page two of the interview:
http://www.stomped.com/published/jcal978014381_1 _2.html
"Stomped: What can we expect from you in the year 2001 in terms of the games you are
developing?
Dr. Zeschuk: MDK2 Armageddon for PS2 and Neverwinter Nights (PC, MacOs, BeOs[-- right THERE!!!], Linux) are BioWare's current projects that will be released in 2001. I'm confident both will have a huge impact on the gaming community. The Star Wars RPG isn't due for a little while yet, but it will definitely be a humdinger."
But I guess it's too much trouble actually reading stuff eh?
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It wouldn't be sucked out, it would be held in place by the same "magical force" that prevents you from sucking water up into a skyscraper (you have to pump it up - no, not the song silly!)
GRAVITY -- the thing that keeps you down to earth.
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Don't hold me to this, but I think the answer can be found at the beach, of all places.
Sometimes lightning strikes at the beach, and the heat from the strike will cause the sand to turn into glass around the bolt. If you could find such a "petrified lightning bolt", you would know the size of that bolt. Find enough of them, and you would have a general idea about the circumfrence of lightning bolts.
Now - I doubt you have to go scour every beach/desert/[sandy place] nearby, trying to find petrified lightning bolts - I'd vager a dollar that either the state's museums of science, universities and/or metereological weather stations have some lying around, either for research or just for show. Either way, it can't really hurt to ask around.
Won't someone please think about the Amish? Those poor people. No electricity, no computers and now no Internet, because that will be routed through powerlines! If we don't do something quickly, they will be left behind the rest of civilization! We MUST do something about their terrible situation. Rise up and call for legislation!
That would have to be my mother-in-law.
Oh - on the net. Still my mother-in-law.
I may be stupid, but isn't a knife WITHOUT a blade just a hilt? Isn't saying "a knife with a blade" kinda like saying "a bike with wheels"?
Why not have the standard language be chineese? It's spoken and written by more people than english, so that would make more sence.
Well, the strength and weakness of the Amiga is excactly that; it's not flexible.
With a PC I can put anything I like into it, and skip anything I don't need.
If I don't want a sound-card, I'm screwed with the Amiga, cause I can't get it without sound.
If I don't want a graphics card, because I already own a better one, it's the same problem.
The PCs stregth is its flexibility, since I can get pci-periphials for almost any use I want.
The point is that the two channels aren't "crossbared", but the connection to them is.
...
... the crossbar allows the north bridge (IGP) to allocate memory in both channels at the same time, thereby reducing the latency, since it can write/read to/from them simultaniously.
How to explain it
uhm
I hope that helps a bit.
"Fear: When you see B8 00 4C CD 21 and know what it means"
I guess I don't know fear, cause I sure as hell can't figure out what "B8 00 4C CD 21" means. Using various hex-text converters, it translates to "," which I'm QUITE sure isn't the definition of being scared.
Please enlighten this helpless idiot.
"As is, government takes my money to give to drug addicts and homeless people who can afford beer, cigarettes, and cable tv."
... last I checked, you needed a home to have cable tv, and if you have a home, you are not homeless ... or did I miss some crucial part of my education?
Uhm
But - it's nice to know, that if your house is ruined in a disaster, the insurance company goes bankrupt and can't help you, your company goes bankrupt and you're out of work and a home, that you don't want help from the government, because it's your own fault. You could have lived somewhere else, you could have worked somewhere else and you could have used a different insurance company.
Or is that somehow different?
Or what if your daughter/son gets addicted to heroin and loses his/her home - do you want to kick them out into the streets everytime they come to the hospital for help? Because it's obviously their own fault, and yours because you didn't teach them not to do drugs.
It's called a society - "a system in which people live together in organized communities", not Loundrys-System - "a system in which people don't give a shit about others".
"In which nation would you prefer to have spent time in before WWII?"
... uhm ... I mean ...
... we do, just not weapons :-)
:-)
How much earlier than WWII? 1 year? 10 years? 100 years? 1,000 years?
You can't live in the past dumbass. The question wasn't if the US had "ever been", but if it still is.
Personally I'd rather live in Denmark.
Even though we have some hefty taxes compared to much of the world it's still a great place if you ask me.
"Safety"
- Compared to the US, Denmark has a very low crimerate.
- If you get injured or sick, you can get admitted a hospital, even if you don't have any money what so ever. Just like in the US
"Freedom"
- We have freedom of speach, religion, political views, sexual orientation etc. (legally and morraly, though most people are prejudists).
- No, we don't have the right to bare arms - well
"Quality of life"
- Now that's a tough one. What is "quality of life"?
- If it means access to any education/career, if you have the brains for it, then we have a high quality of life.
- If it means not having to worry about making ends meet, if you get unemployed, then we have a high quality of life. We have a good social support system.
- If it means you don't have to worry about, wether your kids can get a good education, then we have a high quality of life. Education is free in Denmark.
- If it means you don't have to worry about getting sick or injured, because you can't afford the hospital bill, then we have a high quality of life. Hospital admisions and doctors visits are free, and most perscription drugs come with alot of government funding.
But that doesn't mean that Denmark is a better place to live than the US, Canada, Italy, Japan, China, India, Angola, Australia or whereever, it just means that I'd rather not have to live without these benifits of being a danish citizen living in Denmark.
So there
"Of course, he's merely an electrochemist and not a *ahem* real physicist, so his experiments can be discounted." yup, and the swiss patent office clerk who had astronomy as a hobby should be discounted as well right? In case you missed my point, the patent office clerk was Albert Einstein.
page two of the interview:1 _2 .html
http://www.stomped.com/published/jcal978014381_
"Stomped: What can we expect from you in the year 2001 in terms of the games you are
developing?
Dr. Zeschuk: MDK2 Armageddon for PS2 and Neverwinter Nights (PC, MacOs, BeOs[-- right THERE!!!], Linux) are BioWare's current projects that will be released in 2001. I'm confident both will have a huge impact on the gaming community. The Star Wars RPG isn't due for a little while yet, but it will definitely be a humdinger."
But I guess it's too much trouble actually reading stuff eh?
It wouldn't be sucked out, it would be held in place by the same "magical force" that prevents you from sucking water up into a skyscraper (you have to pump it up - no, not the song silly!) GRAVITY -- the thing that keeps you down to earth.