If you look closely at the picture in the first link, you can see what appear to be tracks.. perhaps some sort of Martian tank? I can't believe nobody at NASA noticed those.. or maybe they're just hoping we won't notice.
The other obvious answer is that they're faking the whole thing. Obviously there can't be tire tracks on Mars.. that picture was taken on Earth!
PSU's don't just kick out their MAX rated power all the time. A power supply has something called a regulator which maintains a constant (approximate) voltage. When a device draws power, the regulator supplies more current to maintain the proper voltage. Thus, if your system is only demanding 150W of power, that's all it gets. If your system WAS using 150W, and your PSU was drawing 500W, you'd either start blowing components, or you'd have a massive space heater. That extra 350W doesn't just disappear into the ether.
There are some inherent losses in any power supply, but simply changing the rated output won't noticably affect how much energy you're using.. maybe a slight bit more to charge larger caps, but that's just momentary.
Hell we could blast the batteries to the moon and leave them there , we cant just vacuum up the atmosphere
In related news, a recent study has found that it requires 5 times as much fuel to launch used batteries into space than it would have to just use an internal combustion engine in the first place.
And this just in.. despite rumors to the contrary, apparantly Shirley's Diner is serving free lunch today!
Arghh.. I hate trying to decipher Japanese appliances. Almost all of the appliances sold where I live are imported from Japan.. so, when trying to figure out how to operate my AC (while I do enjoy the fact that it's remote controlled) not only did I have to get used to using celsius, but I had to figure out the difference between arrows in a circle and arrows in a square. I guess it should be patently obvious what the difference is, but it makes no sense to me. The only thing I know for sure is that the snowflake makes it cold. Good snowflake.
(No, the instruction manual doesn't help. "Please to make you happy air with much joy." They might be able to translate the words, but translating the meaning is a whole nother ballgame).
I haven't seen a video card with a single output in years. Almost anything newer than a GeForce2 or Radeon (original) has two outputs.. I think my ATI AIW has 4.
The biggest thing about widescreen is breaking users of the habit many have of maximizing and subsequently minimizing *every* window they use and instead simply sizing the window down and leaving everything open.
I think OS's are partly at fault here as well. The only resizing that's 1-button quick & easy is maximize and minimize. Having a button that say automatically sent a window to the left half of the screen, maximized from top to bottom would be outstanting. The other problem, in Windows at least, is that there's less border on maximized applications, since you can't drag one edge of the window to resize it when maximized, which also prevents accidental resizes. It's too easy to miss a scroll bar, and once again you're spending time getting the window back where you wanted it. Additionally (again, in Windows), it's not possible to accidentally move a maximized window. I'd like to see my "max half width" button do the same thing. That's one benefit of two displays -- you can maximize a window on each display. Now if they'd just implement cloning the taskbar without having to clone the displays, or at least unique taskbars for each window. This "one or the other," or "stretched across both displays," stuff is for the birds.. especially if your displays aren't the same size/resolution.
Aside from the writeup containing a blatant misrepresentation of the facts (not that that should be surprising on/.):
When the trustee was a computer, there was no difference between the two test groups."
TFA:
In addition, when trustees were replaced by a computer, the oxytocin effect was no longer seen on the investors.
Further, the speculations of Dr. Damasio border on paranoia:
Some may worry about the prospect that political operators will generously spray the crowd with oxytocin at rallies of their candidates. -Dr Antonio Damasio, University of Iowa College of Medicine
Honestly, who shows up to political rallies? Not generally people who need to be convinced of the candidate's trustworthyness.
I'd be far more concerned with realistic abuses like date rape, or door-to-door "salesmen," scamming old people out of their money.
Too much of an obstacle to the (American) general market. Most drivers in this country don't know what a clutch *is*, let alone how to work one.
Come on now.. I'm sure the majority of the driving public is aware that there are both standard and automatic transmissions. To that extent, their knowledge of the workings of a clutch is probably no more or less than their knowledge of the workings of an engine.
There are benefits to both AT and MT, but the oft quoted example of MTs getting better milage, for example, is usually negated by the fact that most of us don't use a shift pattern that takes advantage of that potential. Further, many ATs now have 5 gears and pseudo-manual shifting.. And it's not like you're really shifting the gears in an MT anyway -- you can thank the synchronizers for doing that for you. AT really makes the most sense for almost any driver. The only reason they still make MT is to satisfy an increasingly small portion of drivers who enjoy them (myself included).
Add that to the average American's irrational prejudice against electric cars in general, and you've got a non-starter (if you'll pardon the slight pun.)
I haven't seen this prejudice you speak of. Even in the current barely-functional iteration of current electric car technology, the Prius is selling as fast/faster than they manufacure them. What I have seen is a prejudice against high gas prices. Even my non-nerdy friends constantly discuss if/when hydrogen powered vehicles will be widely available.
All you Johnny-come-latelys are probably going to rave on with fanboy adoration of Google (the company that can do no wrong)!!! To top it all off, you lot apparently know nothing about Microsoft's language transtlation project which is slated to be deployed as part of Longhorny in 2010.
Who talks like that? The only 2 possible answers I could come up with, were the English, and (the way it sounded to me) drag queens.
As anyone who has ever lived in the country knows, those cows weren't killed by rockets. No, sir, that was good old fashioned cow tippin' what killed them cows. Killed 'em but good.
As a devout fan of relay-based computers, I can truly sympathize with MS. I've been shaking my fist at those newfangled manufactureres with the fancy pants "solid state" components for the past 40 years now. What with their transistors, diodes, integrates circuits and what have you, they're turning electronics into disposible components! Makin' a laughing stock out of it! In my day, if a computer didn't have Hi-Fi on the side of it, it was just a calculator.
That's not entirely true. There is 60Hz PAL, but no 50Hz NTSC... Standard PAL and most of the alternates (Which most countries use) is 25FPS, which is why it's the recording method of choice for bootlegging movies, which I believe are 24.94FPS or thereabouts.
If you don't have a trial with evidence, all you are doing is creating cycles of revenge, with no resolution. With a justice system, wrongs can be righted, and then we are done with the matter.
You're right. It's wrong to, say, shoot the guy who allegedly raped your daughter without giving him due process. If he's not given the same rights you would expect if you were wrongly accused of a crime, then we're no better than them. That's what the justice system is for.
But there is no justice system when it comes to international scams. Vigilantism was acceptable back in the era of westward US expansion, because there was no real alternative. Once law enforcement became feasible, vigilantism was phased out. The same thing is happening here.
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The Pentium is reaching it's breaking point and the baton is being passed onto Cyrix. Can Cyrix follow through on its early lead?
I've got $50 on "No." Any takers?
They're still working on putting out a chip based on LongRun2
They shoulda called it LongShot2
If you look closely at the picture in the first link, you can see what appear to be tracks.. perhaps some sort of Martian tank? I can't believe nobody at NASA noticed those.. or maybe they're just hoping we won't notice.
The other obvious answer is that they're faking the whole thing. Obviously there can't be tire tracks on Mars.. that picture was taken on Earth!
I'm still waiting for Billy Graham's Bible Blaster.
"Convert the heathens!"
Oh, to have mod points when I need them...
Mmmmmmmmmmmm spinning lollipops in transparent polycarbonate shells..
*drool*
What the?
PSU's don't just kick out their MAX rated power all the time. A power supply has something called a regulator which maintains a constant (approximate) voltage. When a device draws power, the regulator supplies more current to maintain the proper voltage. Thus, if your system is only demanding 150W of power, that's all it gets. If your system WAS using 150W, and your PSU was drawing 500W, you'd either start blowing components, or you'd have a massive space heater. That extra 350W doesn't just disappear into the ether.
There are some inherent losses in any power supply, but simply changing the rated output won't noticably affect how much energy you're using.. maybe a slight bit more to charge larger caps, but that's just momentary.
Hell we could blast the batteries to the moon and leave them there , we cant just vacuum up the atmosphere
In related news, a recent study has found that it requires 5 times as much fuel to launch used batteries into space than it would have to just use an internal combustion engine in the first place.
And this just in.. despite rumors to the contrary, apparantly Shirley's Diner is serving free lunch today!
Arghh.. I hate trying to decipher Japanese appliances. Almost all of the appliances sold where I live are imported from Japan.. so, when trying to figure out how to operate my AC (while I do enjoy the fact that it's remote controlled) not only did I have to get used to using celsius, but I had to figure out the difference between arrows in a circle and arrows in a square. I guess it should be patently obvious what the difference is, but it makes no sense to me. The only thing I know for sure is that the snowflake makes it cold. Good snowflake.
(No, the instruction manual doesn't help. "Please to make you happy air with much joy." They might be able to translate the words, but translating the meaning is a whole nother ballgame).
I haven't seen a video card with a single output in years. Almost anything newer than a GeForce2 or Radeon (original) has two outputs.. I think my ATI AIW has 4.
or at least unique taskbars for each window.
Oops, meant unique taskbars for each display.
The biggest thing about widescreen is breaking users of the habit many have of maximizing and subsequently minimizing *every* window they use and instead simply sizing the window down and leaving everything open.
I think OS's are partly at fault here as well. The only resizing that's 1-button quick & easy is maximize and minimize. Having a button that say automatically sent a window to the left half of the screen, maximized from top to bottom would be outstanting. The other problem, in Windows at least, is that there's less border on maximized applications, since you can't drag one edge of the window to resize it when maximized, which also prevents accidental resizes. It's too easy to miss a scroll bar, and once again you're spending time getting the window back where you wanted it. Additionally (again, in Windows), it's not possible to accidentally move a maximized window. I'd like to see my "max half width" button do the same thing. That's one benefit of two displays -- you can maximize a window on each display. Now if they'd just implement cloning the taskbar without having to clone the displays, or at least unique taskbars for each window. This "one or the other," or "stretched across both displays," stuff is for the birds.. especially if your displays aren't the same size/resolution.
They'll cover your desktops and walls the way printouts, memos, yellow-stickies, posters and memoes already do.
I can't wait for that day to come.. I'll never have to get my radiation straight from the sun again.
Same thing can be said about a woman with no teeth.
A woman with no teeth never goes back?
TFA:
Further, the speculations of Dr. Damasio border on paranoia:
Honestly, who shows up to political rallies? Not generally people who need to be convinced of the candidate's trustworthyness.
I'd be far more concerned with realistic abuses like date rape, or door-to-door "salesmen," scamming old people out of their money.
SpaceAdmiral (869318)...
I can only surmise that you must have forgotten the password to your more aptly named five digit UID.
Too much of an obstacle to the (American) general market. Most drivers in this country don't know what a clutch *is*, let alone how to work one.
Come on now.. I'm sure the majority of the driving public is aware that there are both standard and automatic transmissions. To that extent, their knowledge of the workings of a clutch is probably no more or less than their knowledge of the workings of an engine.
There are benefits to both AT and MT, but the oft quoted example of MTs getting better milage, for example, is usually negated by the fact that most of us don't use a shift pattern that takes advantage of that potential. Further, many ATs now have 5 gears and pseudo-manual shifting.. And it's not like you're really shifting the gears in an MT anyway -- you can thank the synchronizers for doing that for you. AT really makes the most sense for almost any driver. The only reason they still make MT is to satisfy an increasingly small portion of drivers who enjoy them (myself included).
Add that to the average American's irrational prejudice against electric cars in general, and you've got a non-starter (if you'll pardon the slight pun.)
I haven't seen this prejudice you speak of. Even in the current barely-functional iteration of current electric car technology, the Prius is selling as fast/faster than they manufacure them. What I have seen is a prejudice against high gas prices. Even my non-nerdy friends constantly discuss if/when hydrogen powered vehicles will be widely available.
I think I speak for all of us when I say:
What?!?
All you Johnny-come-latelys are probably going to rave on with fanboy adoration of Google (the company that can do no wrong)!!! To top it all off, you lot apparently know nothing about Microsoft's language transtlation project which is slated to be deployed as part of Longhorny in 2010.
Who talks like that? The only 2 possible answers I could come up with, were the English, and (the way it sounded to me) drag queens.
In Soviet Russia Babelfish says "Google does not have that -nibyd6 on my amazing abilities of transfer!"
As anyone who has ever lived in the country knows, those cows weren't killed by rockets. No, sir, that was good old fashioned cow tippin' what killed them cows. Killed 'em but good.
As a devout fan of relay-based computers, I can truly sympathize with MS. I've been shaking my fist at those newfangled manufactureres with the fancy pants "solid state" components for the past 40 years now. What with their transistors, diodes, integrates circuits and what have you, they're turning electronics into disposible components! Makin' a laughing stock out of it! In my day, if a computer didn't have Hi-Fi on the side of it, it was just a calculator.
That's not entirely true. There is 60Hz PAL, but no 50Hz NTSC... Standard PAL and most of the alternates (Which most countries use) is 25FPS, which is why it's the recording method of choice for bootlegging movies, which I believe are 24.94FPS or thereabouts.
* Offer not valid in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Syria, Lebanon or Canada.
Or countries with letters in their names.
If you don't have a trial with evidence, all you are doing is creating cycles of revenge, with no resolution. With a justice system, wrongs can be righted, and then we are done with the matter.
You're right. It's wrong to, say, shoot the guy who allegedly raped your daughter without giving him due process. If he's not given the same rights you would expect if you were wrongly accused of a crime, then we're no better than them. That's what the justice system is for.
But there is no justice system when it comes to international scams. Vigilantism was acceptable back in the era of westward US expansion, because there was no real alternative. Once law enforcement became feasible, vigilantism was phased out. The same thing is happening here.