That's for THEM to know , and you to find out, milliseconds before your vehicle is disintegrated due to... [official explanation]unforseen clear air turbulence[/official explanation]
That's not as crazy as it sounds - Holden V8's with auto's start in "economy" mode by default - by going through a sequence like: Ign Off Select First Ign On Select Drive Ign off Select First Ign on... or something like that - then it will default to "Power" mode on startup - there's no other way to do it other than to push the little "Pwr/Econ" button every time when you start up.
It's rather complicated , but if it's based upon Kepler's stacking problem, it's only taken 300 years to get a proof sorted.
Google it thusly. Summary by some guy: Professor Thomas Hales of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced in 1999 that he had posted on the Internet the solution to a seemingly simple problem that has taxed the brains of some of the finest mathematicians for 300 years. If the proof is accepted as complete (which now seems likely), Kepler's Stacking Problem will have been solved through a combination of human ingenuity and the power of modern computers.
So it seems that yes, computers *are* ready to do proofs for us.
Evaporative coolers such as units from bonair are excellent in dry, hot climates. They constantly draw in dry hot air from outside, drop it by about 10 degrees C and duct it through your house to escape through open doors and windows.
Where I live at present (Mount Isa, Queensland), just about every house and business has at least a 6000cfm evaporative air conditioner. Humidity can often get below 30%, meaning that they work particularly well. In fact, they can theoretically cool to the dew point, which if you take note of the last 72 hr readings from Mount Isa can pull down to 10 degrees or so when it's dry.
They are of course completely fucking useless for about 3 weeks of the year when it's hot and humid and you get storms in the afternoon at 35 degrees and 90% humidity. You just sweat like a pig then, or retreat to the refrigerative airconditioner you normally keep in reserve in your bedroom.
Summary : Ammonia bonded to salt crystals in a closed system is driven off by the heat from a solar reflector, condensed to liquid via a coil of pipe in a drum of water and stored in pressure vessel in an insulated box. Remove the heat, and the ammonia liquid boils off and is recombined with the salt, and can freeze about 10lbs of ice in every 3-4 hour cycle.
This has the advantage over the evaporative system in that it can go to considerably below freezing. Other people are working on something that has a "hot end" that can be heated above a fire, and a "cold end" that can be later inserted into an icebox to produce the same general effect.
and during summer it's expected to go to 30 celsius for fuckin weeks again and no money for AC
You poor bastard.
Try working outside in the sun at 43 degrees on hot earthmoving equipment (with engines hot enough to melt your boots when you stand on them)
During summer I wished for "just" 30 degree weather every day.
(Annnnnnd I had to crawl on my stomach 5 miles to school every day! Uphill both ways! Down in the dust and the dirt and prickles and the bitey ants! And I *liked* it, because damnit, that was *good* compared to what some of the other kids went through!)
Also for CD's (and DVD's etc) the clear plastic layer acts as part of the focusing lens in the system, which makes it a hell of a lot easier for optical alignment. It also makes it easier to "see" through fingerprints/dust etc - the beam isn't completely focused until it passes through the plastic
580 tons? That's not that much you know - large mining trucks these days top out at 380 tons fully loaded , and they can do 50 km/hr on a level surface.
Or draglines - A Marion 8200 dragline weighs 4100t - and some people I know moved one about 150km in four weeks. It was a big and expensive operation though;-)
I have plenty of clue and I'm fully aware of DLL's/shared libraries and all the jazz that modern OS's do. Please note, however, the whole "BillG naked, pile of money and whores" thing. That *was* an attempt at humour - and who lets the mere truth get in the way of a good joke these days, hey?
Oh, sorry about that. Jeez, warn me before you leave another nanoelevator just lying around like that, ok? Maybe you want to keep it in a box or something.
I thought it was Rymplon (tm)? Quoth Douglas Adams: "Old Thrashbarg didn't know this, but they were made of Rymplon TM, a new synthetic fabric which was terrific for space travel because it looked its absolute best when it was all creased and sweaty."
Close Word and you'll probably gain 100MB:-) No, seriously. I don't know what the hell kinda easter egg's in Word - I know Excel had a flight sim , maybe Word's got a 5 minute video of BillG rolling naked in a pile of money and whores.
Its easy - 300 million people, containing say 0.05% crackpots. That's 150,000 crackpots, right there. Say 50 percent have internet access (for tinfoil hat research and random blog postings) , that's 75,000 crackpots from the USA on the internet.
So when you scale the numbers for your country of choice (eg,.au 20 million... 5000 online crackpots) it's just a sad fact that as your population grows, the number of crackpots/freaks in the country becomes more noticeable (the number of crackpots in your general area increases, after all), even though their relative percentage to the population is stable.
This is especially true for the internet where any idiot can post a page with "OMG!! MARTIAN ARTIFACTS!!" and consequently get indexed by 50 search engines.
I hope there's a mute button - could be a little awkward....
Austin Powers: My God, Vanessa's got a fabulous body...and I bet she shags like a minx! How do I tell them that because of the unfreezing process I have no inner monologue? (pause) I hope I didn't say that out loud just now.
That'll be going on all the time if they become widespread:-)
Mgetty + a script to send rec'd faxes to an IMAP mailbox for storage and preview isn't hard - hell, it took me about an hour to whip up a shell script to do it. It's been running now for two years without any hassle, with the advantage that all our incoming faxes are available in storage.
(IMAP so that multiple people can have access to a central "fax" account)
Try to get an encoder with a "faster" option. Still perfectly easy to understand especially if you often get messages from people that go, "oh.....yeah....Hi....I'm looking for....um...you know....that gadget you guys were selling...it was um....let me think...um....oh....that's right the LART2004"
Well, I just use winamp with one of those DSP plugins with the little slider that affects the speed and not the pitch.... but an encoder that does it by default would be nice. A smart encoder with a 20 percent speed increase and pause compression (standard 1 sec pauses instead of variable length) would take a lot of hassle out of wading through voicemail.
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That's for THEM to know , and you to find out, milliseconds before your vehicle is disintegrated due to...
[official explanation]unforseen clear air turbulence[/official explanation]
That's not as crazy as it sounds - : ... or something like that - then it will default to "Power" mode on startup - there's no other way to do it other than to push the little "Pwr/Econ" button every time when you start up.
Holden V8's with auto's start in "economy" mode by default - by going through a sequence like
Ign Off
Select First
Ign On
Select Drive
Ign off
Select First
Ign on
It's rather complicated , but if it's based upon Kepler's stacking problem, it's only taken 300 years to get a proof sorted.
:
Google it thusly.
Summary by some guy
Professor Thomas Hales of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced in 1999 that he had posted on the Internet the solution to a seemingly simple problem that has taxed the brains of some of the finest mathematicians for 300 years. If the proof is accepted as complete (which now seems likely), Kepler's Stacking Problem will have been solved through a combination of human ingenuity and the power of modern computers.
So it seems that yes, computers *are* ready to do proofs for us.
All praise the power of modern computers!
Evaporative coolers such as units from bonair are excellent in dry, hot climates. They constantly draw in dry hot air from outside, drop it by about 10 degrees C and duct it through your house to escape through open doors and windows.
Where I live at present (Mount Isa, Queensland), just about every house and business has at least a 6000cfm evaporative air conditioner. Humidity can often get below 30%, meaning that they work particularly well. In fact, they can theoretically cool to the dew point, which if you take note of the last 72 hr readings from Mount Isa can pull down to 10 degrees or so when it's dry.
They are of course completely fucking useless for about 3 weeks of the year when it's hot and humid and you get storms in the afternoon at 35 degrees and 90% humidity. You just sweat like a pig then, or retreat to the refrigerative airconditioner you normally keep in reserve in your bedroom.
I want to see something along the scale of a Solar powered ammonia-cycle ice maker (pdf)
Summary : Ammonia bonded to salt crystals in a closed system is driven off by the heat from a solar reflector, condensed to liquid via a coil of pipe in a drum of water and stored in pressure vessel in an insulated box. Remove the heat, and the ammonia liquid boils off and is recombined with the salt, and can freeze about 10lbs of ice in every 3-4 hour cycle.
This has the advantage over the evaporative system in that it can go to considerably below freezing. Other people are working on something that has a "hot end" that can be heated above a fire, and a "cold end" that can be later inserted into an icebox to produce the same general effect.
and during summer it's expected to go to 30 celsius for fuckin weeks again and no money for AC
You poor bastard.
Try working outside in the sun at 43 degrees on hot earthmoving equipment (with engines hot enough to melt your boots when you stand on them)
During summer I wished for "just" 30 degree weather every day.
(Annnnnnd I had to crawl on my stomach 5 miles to school every day! Uphill both ways! Down in the dust and the dirt and prickles and the bitey ants! And I *liked* it, because damnit, that was *good* compared to what some of the other kids went through!)
Also for CD's (and DVD's etc) the clear plastic layer acts as part of the focusing lens in the system, which makes it a hell of a lot easier for optical alignment. It also makes it easier to "see" through fingerprints/dust etc - the beam isn't completely focused until it passes through the plastic
580 tons? That's not that much you know - large mining trucks these days top out at 380 tons fully loaded , and they can do 50 km/hr on a level surface.
;-)
Or draglines - A Marion 8200 dragline weighs 4100t - and some people I know moved one about 150km in four weeks. It was a big and expensive operation though
50 million stoners in the US & we can't vote out the War on (some) Drugs? WTF?
;-)
Cheech: "man, I know there's something I was supposed to be doing today... what *was* it?"
Chong: "I dunno man, pass the bong."
Cheech: "Ah fuck it - if it was important I'd remember... man, I'm feeling hungry - you up for pizza?"
And so yet another chance for the stoner revolution dies
Your glass, no matter how obscenely pure, would still melt.
to keep up with market demand for DOS-based embedded solutions built on FAT32 platforms. ..... because you can't buy 2GB drives anymore :-)
Jesus! Can anyone read the parent post without wincing?
:-)
water
satellite
forecast
beach (biatch?)
I know, english is probably not your second language
There's the decon guys at the checkpoints in and out of the place - I'm sure if there was anything nasty she'd get a shower.
;-)
Oh, alright then maybe a shower just in case
Especially with the amount of Widescreen Digital and High definition content being broadcast in areas of Australia.
:-(
Not the areas I'm in - I'll see it in 2008, most likely
I have plenty of clue and I'm fully aware of DLL's/shared libraries and all the jazz that modern OS's do. Please note, however, the whole "BillG naked, pile of money and whores" thing. That *was* an attempt at humour - and who lets the mere truth get in the way of a good joke these days, hey?
Will You Ride This Nano-Elevator?
Sure! Where is it?
(Nano-*crunch*)
Oh, sorry about that. Jeez, warn me before you leave another nanoelevator just lying around like that, ok? Maybe you want to keep it in a box or something.
I thought it was Rymplon (tm)?
Quoth Douglas Adams: "Old Thrashbarg didn't know this, but they were made of Rymplon TM, a new synthetic fabric which was terrific for space travel because it looked its absolute best when it was all creased and sweaty."
Close Word and you'll probably gain 100MB :-)
No, seriously.
I don't know what the hell kinda easter egg's in Word - I know Excel had a flight sim , maybe Word's got a 5 minute video of BillG rolling naked in a pile of money and whores.
about an hour and a half ;-)
Mostly with the loading of the recovery console. Fuck is that thing slow or what?
Surprisingly few seeing that, contrary to popular slashdot belief, web servers don't actually burn.
Its easy - 300 million people, containing say 0.05% crackpots.
.au 20 million ... 5000 online crackpots) it's just a sad fact that as your population grows, the number of crackpots/freaks in the country becomes more noticeable (the number of crackpots in your general area increases, after all), even though their relative percentage to the population is stable.
That's 150,000 crackpots, right there.
Say 50 percent have internet access (for tinfoil hat research and random blog postings) , that's 75,000 crackpots from the USA on the internet.
So when you scale the numbers for your country of choice (eg,
This is especially true for the internet where any idiot can post a page with "OMG!! MARTIAN ARTIFACTS!!" and consequently get indexed by 50 search engines.
I hope there's a mute button - could be a little awkward....
:-)
Austin Powers: My God, Vanessa's got a fabulous body...and I bet she shags like a minx! How do I tell them that because of the unfreezing process I have no inner monologue? (pause) I hope I didn't say that out loud just now.
That'll be going on all the time if they become widespread
Is that your inner monologue talking there ;-)
Mgetty + a script to send rec'd faxes to an IMAP mailbox for storage and preview isn't hard - hell, it took me about an hour to whip up a shell script to do it. It's been running now for two years without any hassle, with the advantage that all our incoming faxes are available in storage.
(IMAP so that multiple people can have access to a central "fax" account)
Try to get an encoder with a "faster" option. ....Hi....I'm looking for....um...you know....that gadget you guys were selling...it was um....let me think...um....oh....that's right the LART2004"
Still perfectly easy to understand especially if you often get messages from people that go, "oh.....yeah
Well, I just use winamp with one of those DSP plugins with the little slider that affects the speed and not the pitch.... but an encoder that does it by default would be nice.
A smart encoder with a 20 percent speed increase and pause compression (standard 1 sec pauses instead of variable length) would take a lot of hassle out of wading through voicemail.