The only exhaust from an A/C is warm, damp air. The only greenhouse gasses are going to come from the power generation, the the individual units. The refrigerant inside may be an ozone-layer hazard, but as long as the unit isn't damaged it stays inside. And, even if there were some greenhouse gas coming out, it would not contribute much of anything to the heat island effect. Greenhouse gasses only cause heating when they get aloft and create an infrared impermeable layer that prevents heat from escaping into space. It's a global effect, not a local one.
The heat island around cities comes from the types surfaces you find a city - black pavement and black tar roofs. Those things heat up fast during the day, keeping the nearby air hotter than it should be. And they cool off slowly at night, holding the air temp up well into the night.
It's more common than you think. Out here in the East Bay, there is a theater that pretty much always runs a couple of shows per week of the most popular movie on the IMAX screen. So far this year I've seen LOTR, Spiderman and AOTC in "IMAX".
IIRC they scale the movie so that it spans the whole screen horizontally, leaving a black band at the top and bottom. Sort of like TV letterboxing.
Well, if I had that much storage space, to hell with MP3 - I'd store everything as 16/44.1 stereo WAV files. And, you're off by quite a bit on the video estimate. DVD-quality video averages closer to 30 MB/min. So you're really only going to get about 550 hours of video, and far less if you want HDTV-quality.
Oh dear god - the music from Gameboy Tetris. I hope there is special spot in hell reserved for the bastard that wrote that tune. One summer during college I worked at the factory that built all the Nintendo in-store displays. I must have built a couple of thousand of these couter top Gameboy displays. They had a modded Gameboy that drove a black and white monitor in addition to the LCD, and amplified speakers. Of course, they all had to be tested before shipping, with the only cart they shipped out with - Tetris. Imagine the Tetris theme spewing from 4 Gameboys, out of sync with each other, and at higher than normal volume, for 8 hours a day. It's enough to drive you up the freaking wall.
If the cute doesn't open, the crater he makes will be the same size if jumps from 25 miles or 10,000 feet. That's how terminal velocity works. Sure he'll break Mach 1 in the thin air aloft, but as he gets to into progressivly thicker air he'll be slowed to the same 55 m/s as any other skydiver. As long as he doesn't tuck into a ball or go head first, that is.
Unless your "victim" has something more sophisticated than a fax machine, like say a PC with a fax modem or a fax server. In that case you're just tying up a phone line.
And, why bother with the construction paper? Just a FAX modem, an all-black TIFF file and some know-how and you can do the same job in a much more reliable way (the tape seams tend to fray and split after 15 or so passses). And, it'll be more impressive to your cow-orkers.
I always figured that their development methodology invloved a room full of an infinite number of monkeys typing into Notepad. Learn something new everyday.
That's why there are compatibilty libraries. KDE1 apps will work just fine under KDE3 as long as you have the compatibilty libraries installed.
Re:Reasonable Interface?! Have you used Blender?
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Easy-to-learn and Easy-to-use are two very different concepts, but they are often confused. Take, for example, the controls of a modern fighter jet - it takes over a year of intensive training, and hundreds upon hundreds of hours of practice to learn to use the system effectively, but once learned using it becomes second nature. It's easy-to-use not easy-to-learn.
Blender is like that too - it's a highly specialized program that requires some intellectual investment from the user, and rewards the user by being functional and flexable.
10 months to a year, 10 days to the month, 10 hours to the day. 10 minutes to the hour, 10 seconds to the minute. Might as well force pi to be 3 while you're at it. Or how about 10?
Can you really trust running on the same computer to tell you when it's calling home? All these personal firewalls depend on an OS provided API to capture outgoing packets and alert you when something suspicious is happening. What if in the next service pack or "urgent security update" Microsoft decides that it's vitally important that Internet Explorer reports every single URL you visit. What stops them from replumbing the network stack so that Zone Alarm and TPF et al, never see that outgoing traffic. Nothing. You'd only be able to detect this with an external firewall, preferably one running on a trustworth platform, as the same dirty trick could be used to hide such "phone home" traffic from other machines as well.
Well, more to the point, stable means different things to developers and users. When developers talk about a "stable release" or a "stable branch" of the code, what they really mean is that development has reached a point where all new development is for bug fixes, and new features and major development has moved on to an "unstable" branch. In a perfect world software that is stable in the development sense would also be stable in the reliability sense, but nothing can really guarantee that.
All Red Hat code names so far have been connected by a double meaning. This page documents the connections found so far. The link between 'Valhalla' and 'Limbo' should be clear. The link between Valhalla and Skipjack hasn't been posted here yet, though ISTR that they are both islands.
Then they talk trash about you through their mouthpieces in the press Then they buy congressmen to try and legislate you out of existence Then they start showing up at your trade shows Then ????? Then Profit?
It's all about synchronization. As you increase the speed and/or the length of a parallel bus it gets harder and harder to keep all of those parallel signal paths syncronized. Eventially, a point of dimishing returns is hit, where the problems associated with driving a high speed serial bus are cheaper to overcome than the problems of a high speed parallel bus.
At some point in the future, someone may figure out a clever way of keeping a THz-level parallel bus in sync inexpensively. Until then, serial seems to be the way to go. Even the successor to PCI might be a serial bus.
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The only exhaust from an A/C is warm, damp air. The only greenhouse gasses are going to come from the power generation, the the individual units. The refrigerant inside may be an ozone-layer hazard, but as long as the unit isn't damaged it stays inside. And, even if there were some greenhouse gas coming out, it would not contribute much of anything to the heat island effect. Greenhouse gasses only cause heating when they get aloft and create an infrared impermeable layer that prevents heat from escaping into space. It's a global effect, not a local one.
The heat island around cities comes from the types surfaces you find a city - black pavement and black tar roofs. Those things heat up fast during the day, keeping the nearby air hotter than it should be. And they cool off slowly at night, holding the air temp up well into the night.
It's the Regal Hacienda Crossing 20 in Dublin. It's right off of I-580 just east of the the I-580 & I-680 interchange.
It's more common than you think. Out here in the East Bay, there is a theater that pretty much always runs a couple of shows per week of the most popular movie on the IMAX screen. So far this year I've seen LOTR, Spiderman and AOTC in "IMAX".
IIRC they scale the movie so that it spans the whole screen horizontally, leaving a black band at the top and bottom. Sort of like TV letterboxing.
Well, if I had that much storage space, to hell with MP3 - I'd store everything as 16/44.1 stereo WAV files. And, you're off by quite a bit on the video estimate. DVD-quality video averages closer to 30 MB/min. So you're really only going to get about 550 hours of video, and far less if you want HDTV-quality.
Oh dear god - the music from Gameboy Tetris. I hope there is special spot in hell reserved for the bastard that wrote that tune. One summer during college I worked at the factory that built all the Nintendo in-store displays. I must have built a couple of thousand of these couter top Gameboy displays. They had a modded Gameboy that drove a black and white monitor in addition to the LCD, and amplified speakers. Of course, they all had to be tested before shipping, with the only cart they shipped out with - Tetris. Imagine the Tetris theme spewing from 4 Gameboys, out of sync with each other, and at higher than normal volume, for 8 hours a day. It's enough to drive you up the freaking wall.
If the cute doesn't open, the crater he makes will be the same size if jumps from 25 miles or 10,000 feet. That's how terminal velocity works. Sure he'll break Mach 1 in the thin air aloft, but as he gets to into progressivly thicker air he'll be slowed to the same 55 m/s as any other skydiver. As long as he doesn't tuck into a ball or go head first, that is.
Personally I'd rather have this one:
3:14pm up 321 days, 22:23, 124 users, load average: 0.84, 0.37, 0.56
So, did you not read the article? Or did you just fail to notice the nice bar graphs in the result section?
I Believe The Robots Are Our Future
Unless your "victim" has something more sophisticated than a fax machine, like say a PC with a fax modem or a fax server. In that case you're just tying up a phone line.
And, why bother with the construction paper? Just a FAX modem, an all-black TIFF file and some know-how and you can do the same job in a much more reliable way (the tape seams tend to fray and split after 15 or so passses). And, it'll be more impressive to your cow-orkers.
This will be a huge setback to such diverse fields as watch making, and watch repair.
I always figured that their development methodology invloved a room full of an infinite number of monkeys typing into Notepad. Learn something new everyday.
That's why there are compatibilty libraries. KDE1 apps will work just fine under KDE3 as long as you have the compatibilty libraries installed.
Easy-to-learn and Easy-to-use are two very different concepts, but they are often confused. Take, for example, the controls of a modern fighter jet - it takes over a year of intensive training, and hundreds upon hundreds of hours of practice to learn to use the system effectively, but once learned using it becomes second nature. It's easy-to-use not easy-to-learn.
Blender is like that too - it's a highly specialized program that requires some intellectual investment from the user, and rewards the user by being functional and flexable.
Why would the weekend have to be contiguous. Three on, one off, four on, two off sounds pretty good to me.
10 months to a year, 10 days to the month, 10 hours to the day. 10 minutes to the hour, 10 seconds to the minute. Might as well force pi to be 3 while you're at it. Or how about 10?
I hope that DVD sized images become more widespread. (Kudos to the distributions that use them now.)
I also hope that soon DVD(+/-)RW drives are available at a price comparable that of CD-RW drives.
Can you really trust running on the same computer to tell you when it's calling home? All these personal firewalls depend on an OS provided API to capture outgoing packets and alert you when something suspicious is happening. What if in the next service pack or "urgent security update" Microsoft decides that it's vitally important that Internet Explorer reports every single URL you visit. What stops them from replumbing the network stack so that Zone Alarm and TPF et al, never see that outgoing traffic. Nothing. You'd only be able to detect this with an external firewall, preferably one running on a trustworth platform, as the same dirty trick could be used to hide such "phone home" traffic from other machines as well.
Well, more to the point, stable means different things to developers and users. When developers talk about a "stable release" or a "stable branch" of the code, what they really mean is that development has reached a point where all new development is for bug fixes, and new features and major development has moved on to an "unstable" branch. In a perfect world software that is stable in the development sense would also be stable in the reliability sense, but nothing can really guarantee that.
All Red Hat code names so far have been connected by a double meaning. This page documents the connections found so far. The link between 'Valhalla' and 'Limbo' should be clear. The link between Valhalla and Skipjack hasn't been posted here yet, though ISTR that they are both islands.
Then they talk trash about you through their mouthpieces in the press
Then they buy congressmen to try and legislate you out of existence
Then they start showing up at your trade shows
Then ?????
Then Profit?
No.
It's all about synchronization. As you increase the speed and/or the length of a parallel bus it gets harder and harder to keep all of those parallel signal paths syncronized. Eventially, a point of dimishing returns is hit, where the problems associated with driving a high speed serial bus are cheaper to overcome than the problems of a high speed parallel bus.
At some point in the future, someone may figure out a clever way of keeping a THz-level parallel bus in sync inexpensively. Until then, serial seems to be the way to go. Even the successor to PCI might be a serial bus.
What do you mean "little"? I want to see a full size Lego Dyson Sphere.
Gotta think big.
Unless, of course, Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-Disney) is successful in his quest to make such machines illegal.