Um, no actually, how I found that out was in a BBC documentary series called The Planets. They had an episode on extrasolar planet detection, and two french scientists had found a way to access the chemistry of a planet by using the light of the star. At the time I thought it may be hard to do with the atmosphere there, and when I heard this, I figured what else could it be? Hubble wouldn't be capable of taking a direct photo of it, but is very good a spectroscopy.
Why have them do the smashing carefully? If you want to learn about how real crowds act they have to be rough. Just through stuff everywhere in random directions, don't bother cutting it up. This would emulate the average drunk soccer hulligan....
Is there any fuel that can be used in a closed loop that has a better efficiency than hydrogen and oxygen? I want to be able to plug my car into a power point to charge it up, not fill it with gas. Thanks,
The good thing about hydrogen/oxygen is that it is easily rechargeable. You can hook it up in a closed loop, with the fuel cell taking 2H2 and O2, and converting it to 2 H2O. You can then take the resultant water to a storage tank, then during charging electrolsys splits the water back into Hydrogen and Oxygen. I'm not sure of any other fuel cell system that can do this.
I'm about to begin constructing an electric car, and instead of using batteries which are heavy and expensive, I've been thinking about building a hydrogen fuel cell. Anyone know of some good web pages about that? Thanks,
bah 7 cents a megabyte is cheap. How about 18.9 cents a megabyte, with a 3 GB flat rate limit, for all transfers in Australia. 3GB's over the line, total of both directions, then 18.9 cents a megabyte after that, in both directions.
Yes, but what it proved was that the technique of detecting life worked. If you detect another world with similiar lifesigns, you can assume that carbon/water based life exists there.
That would prove that it is a planet. There is also a new technique that uses the light of the star, to access the chemistry of a planet's atmosphere. This would be a most effective use for the Hubble Space telescope which is free of earth's atmospheric mess. With the spectrographic technique the Cassini space craft was able to prove that Earth has life. This is the same technique they want to try with extrasolar planets.
It definately seems to make a difference for me. I'm using Kmail, konqueror, and compiling FlightGear, all while playing mp3's with xmms. No slow downs at all. Applications seem to open faster too.
With my Ogg Vorbis files recorded at VBR average 190kb/sec in high quality mode, I can here know difference between CD and those files. But my sound system isn't very good so that could be part of it.
What is needed is a group of open source artists. They don't need to be attached to any given project, but as a team, they would move from project to project to work on artistic stuff on each. Musicians, sound people, and graphical artists would be needed. If such a team could be formed it would be a boon for open source development.
No they weren't. That's just an urban legend. They are still in the archives, although some of the plans that weren't necessary were disposed of, they are stil on microfilm and digitial media AFAIK.
What Linus needs to find is a crack team of kernel breakers. People with varieties of hardware. They need to build an automated testing tool that would automatically put the release kernel through thousands of iterations of tests, to ensure that nothing is wrong. What they need is a GNU/Autotest for testing kernels in a peer-to-peer SETI@home style, on non essential machines.
I want support for ATAPI/IDE CD Burners. The SCSI emulation solution isn't the best solution I don't think. That's the extent of my wishlist. I'll be happy with whatever else Linus gives us in his infinite wisdom. Anyone else got a wishlist for 2.5.x?
Anyone know where I can get upgrade packages for Mandrake? I have to use Mandrake for some of my machines, but always get sick of not being able to easily upgrade to new versions like I can in Debian. Thanks,
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Um, no actually, how I found that out was in a BBC documentary series called The Planets. They had an episode on extrasolar planet detection, and two french scientists had found a way to access the chemistry of a planet by using the light of the star. At the time I thought it may be hard to do with the atmosphere there, and when I heard this, I figured what else could it be? Hubble wouldn't be capable of taking a direct photo of it, but is very good a spectroscopy.
Why have them do the smashing carefully? If you want to learn about how real crowds act they have to be rough. Just through stuff everywhere in random directions, don't bother cutting it up. This would emulate the average drunk soccer hulligan....
Is there any fuel that can be used in a closed loop that has a better efficiency than hydrogen and oxygen? I want to be able to plug my car into a power point to charge it up, not fill it with gas. Thanks,
David
Um, no. That would be a methane fuel cell system. :-P
The good thing about hydrogen/oxygen is that it is easily rechargeable. You can hook it up in a closed loop, with the fuel cell taking 2H2 and O2, and converting it to 2 H2O. You can then take the resultant water to a storage tank, then during charging electrolsys splits the water back into Hydrogen and Oxygen. I'm not sure of any other fuel cell system that can do this.
David
I'm about to begin constructing an electric car, and instead of using batteries which are heavy and expensive, I've been thinking about building a hydrogen fuel cell. Anyone know of some good web pages about that? Thanks,
David
No it wouldn't. Because a massive invasion force wouldn't have an atmosphere. They would be in a ship, or a fleet of ships.
bah 7 cents a megabyte is cheap. How about 18.9 cents a megabyte, with a 3 GB flat rate limit, for all transfers in Australia. 3GB's over the line, total of both directions, then 18.9 cents a megabyte after that, in both directions.
Just put it on Gnutella. Tell everyone what the filename is and they can search for it.
Yes, but what it proved was that the technique of detecting life worked. If you detect another world with similiar lifesigns, you can assume that carbon/water based life exists there.
That would prove that it is a planet. There is also a new technique that uses the light of the star, to access the chemistry of a planet's atmosphere. This would be a most effective use for the Hubble Space telescope which is free of earth's atmospheric mess. With the spectrographic technique the Cassini space craft was able to prove that Earth has life. This is the same technique they want to try with extrasolar planets.
It definately seems to make a difference for me. I'm using Kmail, konqueror, and compiling FlightGear, all while playing mp3's with xmms. No slow downs at all. Applications seem to open faster too.
David
With my Ogg Vorbis files recorded at VBR average 190kb/sec in high quality mode, I can here know difference between CD and those files. But my sound system isn't very good so that could be part of it.
Here's a version for 2.4.16 instead of pre1:
m l/ preempt-kernel/v2.4/preempt-kernel-rml-2.4.16-1.pa tch
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/r
Try the Free Lossless Audio Codec. It isn't as compressive as MP3 or OGG, but will help.
http://flac.sf.net
David
Or even better get NVidia to work with them to create a card that can both raytrace and use standard OpenGL/DirectX graphics.
David
Except for the fact that the drivers are still closed source, but most people can live with that.
is a realtime raytracing chip. That would be cool, especially if it did radiosity and photon mapping.
What is needed is a group of open source artists. They don't need to be attached to any given project, but as a team, they would move from project to project to work on artistic stuff on each. Musicians, sound people, and graphical artists would be needed. If such a team could be formed it would be a boon for open source development.
No they weren't. That's just an urban legend. They are still in the archives, although some of the plans that weren't necessary were disposed of, they are stil on microfilm and digitial media AFAIK.
David
What Linus needs to find is a crack team of kernel breakers. People with varieties of hardware. They need to build an automated testing tool that would automatically put the release kernel through thousands of iterations of tests, to ensure that nothing is wrong. What they need is a GNU/Autotest for testing kernels in a peer-to-peer SETI@home style, on non essential machines.
David
The themesong is perfect for the mood of the series.
I want support for ATAPI/IDE CD Burners. The SCSI emulation solution isn't the best solution I don't think. That's the extent of my wishlist. I'll be happy with whatever else Linus gives us in his infinite wisdom. Anyone else got a wishlist for 2.5.x?
Anyone know where I can get upgrade packages for Mandrake? I have to use Mandrake for some of my machines, but always get sick of not being able to easily upgrade to new versions like I can in Debian. Thanks,
David
I'm a storm chaser, and an amateur astronomer, and I use PNG to save all my images. It's much better than JPEG in terms of quality.
David