In Australia these days it's probably harder to find a region-locked DVD player than a region-free one - as a consequence of just about everything coming out 6 months later and costing twice as much here as it does in the US or UK, everyone who knows anything about these things won't buy anything but region-free.
And when you get right down to it, there's not that many DVD players out there that can't be made region-free by entering a code via the remote or flashing the firmware or some such thing...
I doubt however, that anyone can beat what must be a record of some sort: the detection of the 10 watt (mostly) non-directional radio transmitter atop the Huygens probe while falling into the atmosphere of Titan by the Very Long Baseline Array when nearly 1 billion miles away.
Yeah, but this is a World Record - anything to do with an interplanetary space probe is an Out-Of-This-World Record...
The earth's surface is 2/3 water, not the earth's mass. This site says that the hydrosphere makes up 0.04% of the earth's mass.
you're telling me that the water won't get thrown out away from the center thereby slowing it back down?
I'm not completely sure on this one, but I don't think that's how it works. The oceans are still being held quite strongly in their basins by gravity, which is many times stronger than the centripetal force the rotation of the earth imparts on the oceans...
Yup, Médecins Sans Frontières are at the top of my donations list. Mainly because they go to all the places no-one else wants to go, and do the crap work that no-one else wants to do.
s'funny, I used to spend hours playing Descent, and it never caused me any problems at all. Neither did Half Life (haven't tried HL2), Halo, Wolf3D, Doom, Quake or UT.
But I can't play more than about 20 minutes or so of Timesplitters 2 without feeling deathly ill for hours afterwards...
If the method is wrong, then our model of the Earth's interior will most likely be wrong. If that's the case, as we continue to gather more data in greater detail, it will become increasingly obvious that the data doesn't fit the model. Once we reach that point, we will either adjust the current model, or create a completely new model, that the data fits the model once again.
In other words, it'll be business as usual for the scientific method...
I must admit, I have been known to kill off the freecell.exe process in the Windows Task Manager just to keep a good winning streak going. And I have also on occasion edited the winmine.ini file on a friends computer to make sure they knew just how damn good at Minesweeper I was...
Its a memory card, its not like there is an address and phone number on it.
Surely I'm not the only one to put my name and phone number on my various memory cards, just in case something like this happens? Not that it'll guarantee I'll ever see them again if I lose them, but at least whoever finds them would have the chance to ring me up to have a laugh or try and blackmail me or whatever...
Only if there's robots out there having nightmares... "1's and 0's everywhere... and I thought I saw a 2!" -- Bender, "The Honking" (Futurama season 3).
GM still hasnt remembered how to send power to the rear wheels so it looks like Ford is the only one carrying the performance torch for a while, at least in regards to having a V8 and RWD
Not in Australia... high-performance V8 versions of our standard RWD family sedans from both Ford and GM-owned Holden are more popular than ever these days. The rest of the world is starting to notice too - the Holden Monaro (a 2-door version of the standard Commodore family sedan) is being exported to the US and sold as the new Pontiac GTO.
It was an interview with the guy in one of the bonus features, rather than part of the commentary. The story (as I recall it) went something like, he was walking down the street with the ipod in his pocket and passed two guys walking in the opposite direction. The two guys then turned around and started following him. He walked faster, they walked faster. He started running, they started running after him. From there on he basically sprinted until he got to the motel, losing them somewhere along the way.
Sure, it's possible that they might not have wanted to rob him, but given the fact that he was walking through a major city in the middle of the night carrying some extremely valuable material, you really can't blame the guy for a) considering it as a distinct possibility, and b) not hanging around to find out for sure before he bolted.
Of course, if I'd actually taken the time to RTFA I would've seen the bit that said:
The procedure is unlikely to help in finding the European Space Agency's lost Beagle 2 lander or the similarly doomed Mars Polar Lander from 1999, the researchers said.
"It would be extremely difficult to find a lander for which the location is uncertain," Malin scientists said in a statement.
They actually know where the Spirit lander is... Surely at this point in time it'd be more useful to try and look for Beagle? Or is NASA not going to do that because it's not one of their missions...?
If you can get your hands on the Monkey Island Madness disk, it actually contains the soundtrack to the game in CD audio format, which can be listened to on any CD player (as long as you skip the first data track).
I discovered this while sitting at my computer one day, when the Monkey Island theme music started playing out of nowhere. Took me ages to work out what'd happened - I had the Monkey Island Madness CD in my CD-ROM, and had bumped the play button on the front of it, putting it into CD player mode. I probably would've noticed it straight away except the music didn't start playing for about 15 minutes, as the CD player worked its way silently through the first (data) track on the disc...
Also, does this method rely on the liquid nature of the mantle?
Not really, no, because the mantle isn't liquid. Technically it's a plastic solid - it's a solid for all practical intents and purpouses, but over long enough time scales, and under the sort of pressures and temperatures you get in the mantle, it can exhibit liquid-like properties, like flowing and convection and so on.
Would these acoustic waves propagate as effectively through solid rock (I guess not)?
Solid rock is much better for the propagation of seismic waves, because of its rigid crystal structure and higher density. Liquids can only propagate compressional waves, but solids can propagate both compressional and transverse waves. This is basically how we know that the mantle and inner core are solid, but the outer core is liquid...
Even more fun than that is moving the dot around the cat in faster and faster circles until the cat gets so dizzy from chasing it that it throws up on the carpet... (Warning: Do not try this with your cat. Or your carpet.)
Nope, Juan Pablo Montoya hit it during qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza last year. I'm reasonably sure that since then they've reached 19,000 regularly during races...
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In Australia these days it's probably harder to find a region-locked DVD player than a region-free one - as a consequence of just about everything coming out 6 months later and costing twice as much here as it does in the US or UK, everyone who knows anything about these things won't buy anything but region-free.
And when you get right down to it, there's not that many DVD players out there that can't be made region-free by entering a code via the remote or flashing the firmware or some such thing...
The market is already flooded with game designers, and most of them aren't very good.
Sounds like a good reason to start training up some decent ones then...
you always find it in the last place you look
Of course it's always in the last place you look - why would you keep looking once you've found it?
I doubt however, that anyone can beat what must be a record of some sort: the detection of the 10 watt (mostly) non-directional radio transmitter atop the Huygens probe while falling into the atmosphere of Titan by the Very Long Baseline Array when nearly 1 billion miles away.
Yeah, but this is a World Record - anything to do with an interplanetary space probe is an Out-Of-This-World Record...
Since the earth's mass is 2/3 water
The earth's surface is 2/3 water, not the earth's mass. This site says that the hydrosphere makes up 0.04% of the earth's mass.
you're telling me that the water won't get thrown out away from the center thereby slowing it back down?
I'm not completely sure on this one, but I don't think that's how it works. The oceans are still being held quite strongly in their basins by gravity, which is many times stronger than the centripetal force the rotation of the earth imparts on the oceans...
Yup, Médecins Sans Frontières are at the top of my donations list. Mainly because they go to all the places no-one else wants to go, and do the crap work that no-one else wants to do.
s'funny, I used to spend hours playing Descent, and it never caused me any problems at all. Neither did Half Life (haven't tried HL2), Halo, Wolf3D, Doom, Quake or UT.
But I can't play more than about 20 minutes or so of Timesplitters 2 without feeling deathly ill for hours afterwards...
But what if the method is wrong?
If the method is wrong, then our model of the Earth's interior will most likely be wrong. If that's the case, as we continue to gather more data in greater detail, it will become increasingly obvious that the data doesn't fit the model. Once we reach that point, we will either adjust the current model, or create a completely new model, that the data fits the model once again.
In other words, it'll be business as usual for the scientific method...
I must admit, I have been known to kill off the freecell.exe process in the Windows Task Manager just to keep a good winning streak going. And I have also on occasion edited the winmine.ini file on a friends computer to make sure they knew just how damn good at Minesweeper I was...
Its a memory card, its not like there is an address and phone number on it.
Surely I'm not the only one to put my name and phone number on my various memory cards, just in case something like this happens? Not that it'll guarantee I'll ever see them again if I lose them, but at least whoever finds them would have the chance to ring me up to have a laugh or try and blackmail me or whatever...
The DJ can be switched off in the PS2 version too. First thing I looked for in the Options menu...
How about Layne Beachley? Not only has she won the women's surfing world championship 6 times, she's won it 6 times in a row...
Hell, with the right number of nukes in just the right place, and you could have a whole new west coast...
You've got a three year old post-it stuck to your monitor? That's impressive - I have trouble getting mine to stay there for 3 days...
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Only if there's robots out there having nightmares...
"1's and 0's everywhere... and I thought I saw a 2!" -- Bender, "The Honking" (Futurama season 3).
GM still hasnt remembered how to send power to the rear wheels so it looks like Ford is the only one carrying the performance torch for a while, at least in regards to having a V8 and RWD
Not in Australia... high-performance V8 versions of our standard RWD family sedans from both Ford and GM-owned Holden are more popular than ever these days. The rest of the world is starting to notice too - the Holden Monaro (a 2-door version of the standard Commodore family sedan) is being exported to the US and sold as the new Pontiac GTO.
Check out Holden Special Vehicles, Ford Performance Vehicles, and the V8 Supercars race series. Can't say I personally find them particularly entertaining, but you can't deny their popularity...
You're right, you can't argue the facts at all.
You can if they're wrong.
It was an interview with the guy in one of the bonus features, rather than part of the commentary. The story (as I recall it) went something like, he was walking down the street with the ipod in his pocket and passed two guys walking in the opposite direction. The two guys then turned around and started following him. He walked faster, they walked faster. He started running, they started running after him. From there on he basically sprinted until he got to the motel, losing them somewhere along the way.
Sure, it's possible that they might not have wanted to rob him, but given the fact that he was walking through a major city in the middle of the night carrying some extremely valuable material, you really can't blame the guy for a) considering it as a distinct possibility, and b) not hanging around to find out for sure before he bolted.
Of course, if I'd actually taken the time to RTFA I would've seen the bit that said:
The procedure is unlikely to help in finding the European Space Agency's lost Beagle 2 lander or the similarly doomed Mars Polar Lander from 1999, the researchers said.
"It would be extremely difficult to find a lander for which the location is uncertain," Malin scientists said in a statement.
They actually know where the Spirit lander is... Surely at this point in time it'd be more useful to try and look for Beagle? Or is NASA not going to do that because it's not one of their missions...?
If you can get your hands on the Monkey Island Madness disk, it actually contains the soundtrack to the game in CD audio format, which can be listened to on any CD player (as long as you skip the first data track).
I discovered this while sitting at my computer one day, when the Monkey Island theme music started playing out of nowhere. Took me ages to work out what'd happened - I had the Monkey Island Madness CD in my CD-ROM, and had bumped the play button on the front of it, putting it into CD player mode. I probably would've noticed it straight away except the music didn't start playing for about 15 minutes, as the CD player worked its way silently through the first (data) track on the disc...
Also, does this method rely on the liquid nature of the mantle?
Not really, no, because the mantle isn't liquid. Technically it's a plastic solid - it's a solid for all practical intents and purpouses, but over long enough time scales, and under the sort of pressures and temperatures you get in the mantle, it can exhibit liquid-like properties, like flowing and convection and so on.
Would these acoustic waves propagate as effectively through solid rock (I guess not)?
Solid rock is much better for the propagation of seismic waves, because of its rigid crystal structure and higher density. Liquids can only propagate compressional waves, but solids can propagate both compressional and transverse waves. This is basically how we know that the mantle and inner core are solid, but the outer core is liquid...
Even more fun than that is moving the dot around the cat in faster and faster circles until the cat gets so dizzy from chasing it that it throws up on the carpet...
(Warning: Do not try this with your cat. Or your carpet.)
I thought 19,000 was a goal not yet achieved.
Nope, Juan Pablo Montoya hit it during qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza last year. I'm reasonably sure that since then they've reached 19,000 regularly during races...
13,000 rpm? The BMW V10 in the Williams F1 car goes above 19,000 rpm...