While your conclusion is of course correct, the more usual way of arriving at it is to imagine a control volume around the fridge. Now, you know that power enters the control volume thru the power cord that goes from "outside", into the control volume where the fridge is.
At this point, it does not matter what the fridge is doing, it could be makeing ice or frying dead rats. If power enters the control volume, and power is not being removed, the temperature inside the control volume is going up.
The same concept solves the old problem of "When the hummingbird is hovering inside a glass bell jar, does the whole thing weigh less then when the hummingbird sits on the perch?
No, because the hummingbird cannot exert forces outside the surface of the bell jar (the control volume in this case)
As far as the FA goes, I suspect that the person that came up with this AC scheme does not pay for ice.
Nice that the author is admitting his bias up front
It is, actually. I wish the MSM people were requiered to do the same. What's the problem with him admitting bias up front? Would he be a "better person" if he hid his bias, pretended it did not exist?
makes the obvious skewing in the rest of this 'test' marginally easier to swallow.
What obvious skewing? Are you just trying to
poison the well
or do you have any actual counter-argument to the results of his tests?
Well, for those suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome, anything Bush does must be BAAAAD, even if he isn't actually doing it.
Don't waste your time and raise your bloodpressure by getting angry at BDS victims. Work to defeat them, certainly, but don't take it personally or you will get ulcers.
But while linux may be ridiculously stable and open source....try getting any ported game to run as fast on it as it runs on windows.
The experience of others differ from yours:
I'm curious, has anyone benchmarked, on the same computer, say UT2003 or Quake 3 Windows vs. Linux? If so, was there a major performance difference?
leonscape
The UT2003 was faster for me under linux, and the Internet lag times where lower. But to be honest their wasn't that much in it. Never tried it with Quake3.
trey85stang ive done my machine... with a Radeon 9000, Americas army... under linux i got 7 fps... tried it under windows.. it got 40+.
however.. that was the only game that had that much of a performace decrease.. the rest of the games i play are equally under windows or linux.
LavaDevil94
ive played sof2 under linux with winex, and on a windows machine, both with identical specs, and on my linux box, everything was about 7fps faster.
nightwulf I don't have any specific fps measurement, but EverQuest runs in linux just as well as it did in win98se. As an added bonus, it actually crashes less frequently.
Regards,
nightwulf
from here: www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/33/2004/0 2/3/134576
Complaints about paperless voting ignore that the input to the voting process is fataly flawed.
What is needed is for the voter to show some ID when they show up to vote. The system now is rife with fraud, dead voters, voting dogs, cats, hamsters, illegal aliens, etc. etc.
Absentee Ballots are another giant loophole. Fix the voting input process. Then we can worry that the "input" was recorded correctly.
Where are you writing it? On a whiteboard in your cube, or on a card in your wallet?
Is the username with the password?
Did you munge the password you wrote down by some scheme known only to you? (example: first character of password is off by one position [ a becomes b], last character is off by the number of characters in the pw)
Is your choice between a simple pw like "kitten" which you remember, or "z0rtvoid-numrut" which you write down..
I do write down pw's, after having forgotten a root pw twice and having to edit a shadow pw file.
Good luck to anyone finding my written pws
to find out how to use them, though.
Under OS X, installation consists of downloading the application, and optionally extracting it from an archive. That's it, nothing more.
Interesting. Perhaps someday OS X will catch up with Synaptic
(based on apt) package manager for Linux, where all you have to do is click a checkbox for the program you want, and click "Apply".
All deps are taken care of, the program is downloaded and installed automagically.
Updating your system is even easier: "Mark All Updates", and "Apply"
To set all this up on a Fedora system, refer to the Stanton Finley guide.
More on topic, the Apple desktop is no threat to Linux, and never will be.
Apple provides a turn-key solution which some people find appealing. Linux provides more power, flexibility, runs on a wider choice of hardware, and comes with better support at a lower cost.
Heatsink fins are limited by
fin efficiency
. Consider two fins. Both are the same width and thickness. One fin is 1 cm long. The other fin is 100 cm long. The 100 cm fin will not have 100 times the ability to get rid of heat, because the heat has a hard time getting to the end of the fin.
The faster the airflow over the heatsink, the shorter the fin must be before it becomes inefficient.
If online stores are not going to make it clear what my shipping/other charges are going to be before I go to the checkout with the shopping cart, then yes, I am going to go to checkout to see what those costs are before making a decision.
If merchants are paying money to be told this kind of information, then the state of retail knowledge is worse than expected.
Here are some more nuggets of cough*obvious*cough info for merchants, free.
Make your web site work with all browsers. You are in the business of selling some sort of product, not making a fashion statement
Don't block the customer from entering your site with a flash intro
Given a choice between plain+functional.vs. artsy crap, go with the former
When you do decide to update your site, make it easier, not a visual mess (I'm looking at you, NewEgg)
Don't pop up windows while I am trying to concentrate on shopping
I'm sure there are lots more. It's amazing how many shopping sites pester and distract the customer, driving them away before they can give you money!
Oh, and while I've got your attention, NewEgg, don't try to cover up your massive screwup of your website by putting a banner at the top telling me my browser, Firefox, is not "modern". I've given you thousands of dollars. I will probably give you thousands more. But it will not be for that clusterfuck of a website upgrade. It will be because your products, prices, and service.
You can only build a machine cheaper if your time is worthless.
A common error in economics.
Your time is only worth something if someone is PAYING you for it.
Unless you have other paying work you could or want to be doing instead of building a computer, the time you spend on the computer is worth exactly zero in money terms.
Oh, and if you use Fedora Core 3, and follow
Stanton Finley's
setup guide, you end up with a great OS, that was both free and Free, (you don't have to steal it.)
Use the setup guide to install apt and Synaptic, and you will have a system which is insanely easy to update and install software on.
It makes sense from a customer satisfaction point of view to give customers what they want.
If people want to give real money to buy imaginary items, they should be able to do so. I wouldn't do it, because I don't see what value I would be getting, but if others feel differently, more power to them.
I am surprised that Sony is doing this, though, because they have a tendency to shoot themselves in the foot with propriatery standards and a sometimes control-freakish mentality which makes some of their hardware less desireable than it would otherwise be.
It's almost like someone with a different (non-Sony) mindset approved this decision.
(1)- At some level, police have rights and privledges that you do not.
(2)- At some level, police have the ability to harm you.
(3)- At some level, police are unfair and arbitrary.
Well, yes, unfortunately, so is life.
Your points 1 and 2 are obvious. These points are also unfortunately necesary for cops to do their jobs.
Cops are going to have a disproportionately excessive amount of contact with people who want to kill them. It will be only human nature (or would that be Pavlov) for them to eventually view every civilan on the street as someone who potentially wants to kill them.
You are under less stress than cops. Your logical CHOICE of behaviour, when in the proximity of cops, is to be non-threatening, respectful, move slowly, and keep your hands in view.
Understand that long term conditioning of constant threat to any living creature will make that creature very highly strung and instantly ready to respond to any threat. Cops, unfortunatly, become used to a dangerous environment, and they do not always behave as "cuddly" as they should.
They are human, not perfect. Give them a break. Their job is a lot shittier than yours.
I have never been a cop. I know some. I would not trade jobs with them. Getting free food at McDonalds, $100K a year, and the ability to speed all the time is just not worth having to scrape human remains off of the road way with a shovel.
Grad students will do all the work. Profs will take all the credit and most of the money.
The result will be whatever the bias of the profs is. A prof who believes that technology is overused will prove just that. A prof who feels that more tech is good will prove just that.
If you doubt this, I suggest you get into grad school and work as a research assistant kissing your thesis advisors butt for 2 to 6 years, just so you can get your damn degree and get out.
Oh, ya, I've been there and done that.
"Research" Grants are a business and way of life like any other. You survive by getting big grants as often as neccesary, and you provide the answers your sponsers want to hear.
Walmart is practically Mother Teresa by comparison.
This is another example of the lack of compatability that is preventing Linux from being successful on the Desktop.
Lacking the broad compatibility of Windows to run any executable at any time without pestering the user, Linux will slowly fall out of favor as the more "user friendly" Windows proves yet again that everthing "just works".
Developers must get their act together to make Firefox compatible with these soon -to-be mainstream methods of allowing users to update their PCs without worrying their little heads over such arcane details as "what does this application do?"
Until Linux can match Windows in this kind of ease of use, I'll have to stop using FC3 and Firefox and upgrade to XP and IE.
Note to mods: This post contains sarcasm. Do not eat.
I realize that most criminals are stupid, but this is just silly. This guy is accused of selling stuff from museum inventory, but then attesting that the items are still present.
The items alledged to be sold are obviously very rare, some must be on-off pieces, and anything made for the govt. is going to have a serial # on it.
A museum curator is going to have a record of each object, its serial #, description, photos, restoration record, provenance, etc. etc... That's what curators DO!
So while it's fun to grab a pitchfork and torch and join the mob, let's step back a bit and see how the evidence plays out here.
Those keyboards may be clean, but you are causing
long-term electrostatic damage to the chips inside the keyboard.
Any high speed air stream (such as from a blow-gun) will create a high voltage static field in the object you blow the air onto. Another example of this is how winds in our atmosphere cause lightning.
If you have disconnected the keyboard from the PC, then you will eventually only kill the keyboard. IF the keyboard is still connected, then you are damaging chips on the motherboard of the PC.
The safe solution is to use an
ionizing air gun
which will neutralize any charge.
ORBS, in turns, blacklisted their mail server as an open relay, and then had the unbelievable nerve to tell my girlfriend that they would lift the ban in exchange for a "donation" so that they could continue to run their service.
What makes you think that's not a crime? Sounds like classic criminal extortion to me.
I'll reword it so you understand:
Nice pizza place you got here. Give us 250 clams and we will refrain from blocking your doorway, preventing customers from coming in.
I assume that you and ORBS are in different states, so that might make the feds even more interested.
The amusing irony, of course, is that if US police did behave like the NKVD(Gestapo? Amateurs.)
for example, we would be saved from having to listen to this wingnuts paranoid ranting.
In addition, the trains would run on time, there would be no homeless (these would be in labor camps), and we would be standing in line to buy toilet paper.
I suppose anarchists are like canarys in coal mines: as long as you hear them twittering and flapping around in their self-imposed cages, freedom of speech is safe.
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At this point, it does not matter what the fridge is doing, it could be makeing ice or frying dead rats. If power enters the control volume, and power is not being removed, the temperature inside the control volume is going up.
The same concept solves the old problem of "When the hummingbird is hovering inside a glass bell jar, does the whole thing weigh less then when the hummingbird sits on the perch?
No, because the hummingbird cannot exert forces outside the surface of the bell jar (the control volume in this case)
As far as the FA goes, I suspect that the person that came up with this AC scheme does not pay for ice.
It is, actually. I wish the MSM people were requiered to do the same. What's the problem with him admitting bias up front? Would he be a "better person" if he hid his bias, pretended it did not exist?
makes the obvious skewing in the rest of this 'test' marginally easier to swallow.
What obvious skewing? Are you just trying to poison the well or do you have any actual counter-argument to the results of his tests?
Don't waste your time and raise your bloodpressure by getting angry at BDS victims. Work to defeat them, certainly, but don't take it personally or you will get ulcers.
The experience of others differ from yours:
I'm curious, has anyone benchmarked, on the same computer, say UT2003 or Quake 3 Windows vs. Linux? If so, was there a major performance difference? leonscape
The UT2003 was faster for me under linux, and the Internet lag times where lower. But to be honest their wasn't that much in it. Never tried it with Quake3. trey85stang ive done my machine... with a Radeon 9000, Americas army... under linux i got 7 fps... tried it under windows.. it got 40+. however.. that was the only game that had that much of a performace decrease.. the rest of the games i play are equally under windows or linux. LavaDevil94
ive played sof2 under linux with winex, and on a windows machine, both with identical specs, and on my linux box, everything was about 7fps faster. nightwulf I don't have any specific fps measurement, but EverQuest runs in linux just as well as it did in win98se. As an added bonus, it actually crashes less frequently. Regards, nightwulf
from here: www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/33/2004/0 2/3/134576
Not a link to avoid needless clicky slashdotting.
Neg Mod away...
I would prefer to prove you wrong.
This guy is using hyperbole to make a point, and you and the mods that + you prove his point. His article made me, and many others LOL.
Funny to think, that if the FA was bashing MS in the same terms, people complaining about it would get - mods, but quite rightly told to get a life.
The FA makes good points. Your whining about the hyperbole has apparently made you unable, or unwilling, to address them.
Complaints about paperless voting ignore that the input to the voting process is fataly flawed.
What is needed is for the voter to show some ID when they show up to vote. The system now is rife with fraud, dead voters, voting dogs, cats, hamsters, illegal aliens, etc. etc.
Absentee Ballots are another giant loophole. Fix the voting input process. Then we can worry that the "input" was recorded correctly.
Is the username with the password?
Did you munge the password you wrote down by some scheme known only to you? (example: first character of password is off by one position [ a becomes b], last character is off by the number of characters in the pw)
Is your choice between a simple pw like "kitten" which you remember, or "z0rtvoid-numrut" which you write down..
I do write down pw's, after having forgotten a root pw twice and having to edit a shadow pw file.
Good luck to anyone finding my written pws to find out how to use them, though.
Interesting. Perhaps someday OS X will catch up with Synaptic (based on apt) package manager for Linux, where all you have to do is click a checkbox for the program you want, and click "Apply".
All deps are taken care of, the program is downloaded and installed automagically.
Updating your system is even easier: "Mark All Updates", and "Apply"
To set all this up on a Fedora system, refer to the Stanton Finley guide.
More on topic, the Apple desktop is no threat to Linux, and never will be. Apple provides a turn-key solution which some people find appealing. Linux provides more power, flexibility, runs on a wider choice of hardware, and comes with better support at a lower cost.
Could?
See post subject.
Is?
No.
Even a blind pig will find a truffle once in a while.
Even a page-view troll like Dvorak will occasionally hit the correct mark.
Heatsink fins are limited by fin efficiency . Consider two fins. Both are the same width and thickness. One fin is 1 cm long. The other fin is 100 cm long. The 100 cm fin will not have 100 times the ability to get rid of heat, because the heat has a hard time getting to the end of the fin.
The faster the airflow over the heatsink, the shorter the fin must be before it becomes inefficient.
Press "h" on the keyboard to see the raw html of html email, including all the headers.
It is very easy to spot fake emails once pine strips off all the glitzy fluff, and you look at the header of any emails that pass initial inspection.
If merchants are paying money to be told this kind of information, then the state of retail knowledge is worse than expected.
Here are some more nuggets of cough*obvious*cough info for merchants, free.
Make your web site work with all browsers. You are in the business of selling some sort of product, not making a fashion statement
Don't block the customer from entering your site with a flash intro
Given a choice between plain+functional .vs. artsy crap, go with the former
When you do decide to update your site, make it easier, not a visual mess (I'm looking at you, NewEgg)
Don't pop up windows while I am trying to concentrate on shopping
I'm sure there are lots more. It's amazing how many shopping sites pester and distract the customer, driving them away before they can give you money!
Oh, and while I've got your attention, NewEgg, don't try to cover up your massive screwup of your website by putting a banner at the top telling me my browser, Firefox, is not "modern". I've given you thousands of dollars. I will probably give you thousands more. But it will not be for that clusterfuck of a website upgrade. It will be because your products, prices, and service.
A common error in economics.
Your time is only worth something if someone is PAYING you for it.
Unless you have other paying work you could or want to be doing instead of building a computer, the time you spend on the computer is worth exactly zero in money terms.
Oh, and if you use Fedora Core 3, and follow Stanton Finley's setup guide, you end up with a great OS, that was both free and Free, (you don't have to steal it.)
Use the setup guide to install apt and Synaptic, and you will have a system which is insanely easy to update and install software on.
Shot of shark underwater with a face like Bill Gates:
Swimming..
Music: taaa-tum ...
Bill notices food and makes a turn:
Music: taa-tum taa -tum ta-tum ta-tum
Ocean churning:
Water turns red:
Profit!
If people want to give real money to buy imaginary items, they should be able to do so. I wouldn't do it, because I don't see what value I would be getting, but if others feel differently, more power to them.
I am surprised that Sony is doing this, though, because they have a tendency to shoot themselves in the foot with propriatery standards and a sometimes control-freakish mentality which makes some of their hardware less desireable than it would otherwise be.
It's almost like someone with a different (non-Sony) mindset approved this decision.
(1)- At some level, police have rights and privledges that you do not.
(2)- At some level, police have the ability to harm you.
(3)- At some level, police are unfair and arbitrary.
Well, yes, unfortunately, so is life.
Your points 1 and 2 are obvious. These points are also unfortunately necesary for cops to do their jobs.
Cops are going to have a disproportionately excessive amount of contact with people who want to kill them. It will be only human nature (or would that be Pavlov) for them to eventually view every civilan on the street as someone who potentially wants to kill them.
You are under less stress than cops. Your logical CHOICE of behaviour, when in the proximity of cops, is to be non-threatening, respectful, move slowly, and keep your hands in view.
Understand that long term conditioning of constant threat to any living creature will make that creature very highly strung and instantly ready to respond to any threat. Cops, unfortunatly, become used to a dangerous environment, and they do not always behave as "cuddly" as they should.
They are human, not perfect. Give them a break. Their job is a lot shittier than yours.
I have never been a cop. I know some. I would not trade jobs with them. Getting free food at McDonalds, $100K a year, and the ability to speed all the time is just not worth having to scrape human remains off of the road way with a shovel.
I somtimes travel a road which goes thru a shopping mall.
The road is 2 miles long.
The whole thing is POSTED at FIVE MILES PER HOUR!!!
This speed limit has absolutely no relationship to reality. A jogger goes faster than 5 mph.
And to address your trollish point, it is speed differences, not absolute speeds, which cause traffic accidents on the road.
Grad students will do all the work. Profs will take all the credit and most of the money.
The result will be whatever the bias of the profs is. A prof who believes that technology is overused will prove just that. A prof who feels that more tech is good will prove just that.
If you doubt this, I suggest you get into grad school and work as a research assistant kissing your thesis advisors butt for 2 to 6 years, just so you can get your damn degree and get out.
Oh, ya, I've been there and done that.
"Research" Grants are a business and way of life like any other. You survive by getting big grants as often as neccesary, and you provide the answers your sponsers want to hear.
Walmart is practically Mother Teresa by comparison.
I often read books that are over 30 years old, in paperback on acid paper which is going brittle..
The interface still works great if you are careful turning the pages.
Lacking the broad compatibility of Windows to run any executable at any time without pestering the user, Linux will slowly fall out of favor as the more "user friendly" Windows proves yet again that everthing "just works".
Developers must get their act together to make Firefox compatible with these soon -to-be mainstream methods of allowing users to update their PCs without worrying their little heads over such arcane details as "what does this application do?"
Until Linux can match Windows in this kind of ease of use, I'll have to stop using FC3 and Firefox and upgrade to XP and IE.
Note to mods: This post contains sarcasm. Do not eat.
I have used Xpdf exclusively for a long time. In what way is Adobe reader superior to Xpdf?
The items alledged to be sold are obviously very rare, some must be on-off pieces, and anything made for the govt. is going to have a serial # on it.
A museum curator is going to have a record of each object, its serial #, description, photos, restoration record, provenance, etc. etc... That's what curators DO!
So while it's fun to grab a pitchfork and torch and join the mob, let's step back a bit and see how the evidence plays out here.
Any high speed air stream (such as from a blow-gun) will create a high voltage static field in the object you blow the air onto. Another example of this is how winds in our atmosphere cause lightning.
If you have disconnected the keyboard from the PC, then you will eventually only kill the keyboard. IF the keyboard is still connected, then you are damaging chips on the motherboard of the PC.
The safe solution is to use an ionizing air gun which will neutralize any charge.
What makes you think that's not a crime? Sounds like classic criminal extortion to me.
I'll reword it so you understand:
Nice pizza place you got here. Give us 250 clams and we will refrain from blocking your doorway, preventing customers from coming in.
I assume that you and ORBS are in different states, so that might make the feds even more interested.
In addition, the trains would run on time, there would be no homeless (these would be in labor camps), and we would be standing in line to buy toilet paper.
I suppose anarchists are like canarys in coal mines: as long as you hear them twittering and flapping around in their self-imposed cages, freedom of speech is safe.