Can we please stop calling people who engage in copyright infringement pirates?
Real pirates are scum who need to be wiped off the planet. Copyright infringers are breaking one or more laws in certain jurisdictions, and their moral status is more of a gray area.
Well if you're operating heat pumps with a COP of 1, yes.
I would expect a little better than that, though. In fact I'm surprised at the boast that they get a COP of 4 (1/4 kW to cool each kW produced). Perhaps the outdoor temperature doesn't allow for much beyond that.
He may well be so, but where I live the only service that has managed to do anything for my wife's back pain is the local Chiropractor. I don't necessarily buy the BS behind it, but the actual procedure (basically crunching bones back into place) works much better than massage in this case.
Of course it wouldn't be the first time someone discovered a technique that works and retrospectively invented some oobie-doobie theory in an attempt to explain it.
Seeing as Microsoft have all but given up on the corporate desktop with Windows Vista/7 I suspect we will see more of this.
And I think it's a good thing.
Not that more Macs are being purchased, but that corporations are stepping out of this Microsoft monoculture. Now if they can just avoid the Apple monoculture during this transition we may yet see more corporations with Linux desktops. I know where I work we give newcomers the option of Linux/Mac/Windows, and the response probabilities are roughly descending in that order.
That's what bugs me about Bitcoin. Perfectly good CPUs and GPUs that people are willing to run at full pelt are wasted. Instead of contributing something useful to society (like with F@H as you mentioned), these processors are participating in nothing more than a lottery.
Last week a beautiful sight passed over my house, visible to the naked eye - a bright yellow dot, followed about half a degree by a much smaller, white dot.
Moving in perfect unison.
My memory of that spectacle is not going to fade any time soon, though sadly not so for any chance of my beholding it again.
Thank you for the explanation. I do have a couple of questions:
Unless shining directly onto a solid object the laser won't form as much a point as a beam that tails off as it leaves the atmosphere. How much of this beam is used for reference? I guess my question can be rephrased, what/shape/ does the adaptive optics see in the sodium beam?
Another question, given the 1 milliarcsecond resolution of the VLT (apparently sufficient to resolve two car headlights on the moon), is there any chance someone will use it to look for equipment from the Apollo missions?
I'm not aware of any plans for anything special to happen to Fukushima on 3rd of November this year.
Look, if you're going to go with month-before-day, at least have the decency to put the year first. 2011/3/11 or 11/3/2011 would do. M/DD/YYYY is just stupid.
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Can we please stop calling people who engage in copyright infringement pirates?
Real pirates are scum who need to be wiped off the planet.
Copyright infringers are breaking one or more laws in certain jurisdictions, and their moral status is more of a gray area.
Well if you're operating heat pumps with a COP of 1, yes.
I would expect a little better than that, though. In fact I'm surprised at the boast that they get a COP of 4 (1/4 kW to cool each kW produced). Perhaps the outdoor temperature doesn't allow for much beyond that.
He may well be so, but where I live the only service that has managed to do anything for my wife's back pain is the local Chiropractor. I don't necessarily buy the BS behind it, but the actual procedure (basically crunching bones back into place) works much better than massage in this case.
Of course it wouldn't be the first time someone discovered a technique that works and retrospectively invented some oobie-doobie theory in an attempt to explain it.
Yes Apple are evil, but:
Seeing as Microsoft have all but given up on the corporate desktop with Windows Vista/7 I suspect we will see more of this.
And I think it's a good thing.
Not that more Macs are being purchased, but that corporations are stepping out of this Microsoft monoculture. Now if they can just avoid the Apple monoculture during this transition we may yet see more corporations with Linux desktops. I know where I work we give newcomers the option of Linux/Mac/Windows, and the response probabilities are roughly descending in that order.
My point wasn't so much about what you directly get in return, but the potential benefits to society, through better understanding of protein folding.
That's what bugs me about Bitcoin. Perfectly good CPUs and GPUs that people are willing to run at full pelt are wasted. Instead of contributing something useful to society (like with F@H as you mentioned), these processors are participating in nothing more than a lottery.
All those wasted CPU/GPU cycles that could have gone towards something actually useful, like F@H.
Does anyone here still think patents for anything other than physical apparatus are a good idea?
If so, shame on you.
The AT-ATs are awesome machines, though they did not debut on the big screen in 1977. They first appeared in 1980, in The Empire Strikes Back.
"The new Unity interface is broken..."
Well they're off to a good start. Honestly why anyone would want to use such an interface on anything larger than a netbook is beyond me.
Last week a beautiful sight passed over my house, visible to the naked eye - a bright yellow dot, followed about half a degree by a much smaller, white dot.
Moving in perfect unison.
My memory of that spectacle is not going to fade any time soon, though sadly not so for any chance of my beholding it again.
What, no takeaways? I guess we'll just have to cook at home again :(
Debian doesn't - it uses Iceweasel :P
I hope you understand why the Debian team often have to backport patches to "unsupported" software.
I would have thought such a title more fitting for an operation near Mercury.
Thank you for the explanation. I do have a couple of questions:
Unless shining directly onto a solid object the laser won't form as much a point as a beam that tails off as it leaves the atmosphere. How much of this beam is used for reference? I guess my question can be rephrased, what /shape/ does the adaptive optics see in the sodium beam?
Another question, given the 1 milliarcsecond resolution of the VLT (apparently sufficient to resolve two car headlights on the moon), is there any chance someone will use it to look for equipment from the Apollo missions?
Damn, you beat me to that comment!
One need look no further than the KDE and GNOME projects to see de-evolution in action.
... or just didn't want to piss off Apple for some reason.
If an electron is just a wave I might have expected it to be more, well, wavy.
Or is this "shape" representing a distribution of its possible locations?
So now every Firefox user is going to need to install URL-4-Evar right after they install Status-4-Evar.
...(it runs on everything)...
Not for long I'm afraid.
...taking us back to the days of LILO, and the reason a lot of people migrated to GRUB 0.x in the first place.
What you said makes sense, until you consider the possibility that they may be doing the exact same thing.
Two civilizations, 20 ly apart, listening for each other and finding silence because each is too polite to risk interrupting the other :)
Ah, the Zaurus. I still use my SL-5600 for night time reading.
I'm not aware of any plans for anything special to happen to Fukushima on 3rd of November this year.
Look, if you're going to go with month-before-day, at least have the decency to put the year first. 2011/3/11 or 11/3/2011 would do. M/DD/YYYY is just stupid.