I'm left handed, but interestingly enough I am completely incapable of using a mouse with my left hand. I've been doing the righthanded thing ever since I've been but a wee lad, so my neurons are wired for it at this point. Doesn't mean I can catch a ball or write with my right hand, though.
Yeah, they are only an extremely distant third to Dell and Compaq. Their Power5-based servers are proving to be extremely profitable. And the IBM CPU based game consoles coming up will help matters greatly.
You can get loads of good, free radio at shoutcast.com or icecast. The games, come on. Aren't those just mostly annoying little flash games and the like? Also, are the videos you mention mostly just news. Because those you can easily get anywhere. To each his own, but I really can't see spending that much money for just content that is easily accessible gratis elsewhere.
By not cancelling your account when you request it.;-) Have you ever heard stories of people trying to deal with their "customer service" people, who are paid based on how many customers they retain?
Beats the hell out of me. Their main push now seems to be packaging AOL along with broadband for a ridiculous fee on top of what you pay to your ISP. They are signing up very few new dialup subscribers, as most people these days know enough to not pay $25/month when they could be paying less than half of that for a superior service.
Yeah. Thunderbird takes a bit to boot up on my computer, and I don't have a slow hard drive either. The memory usage is 20 megabytes, which is a little excessive for an email program, I'd say.
Actually, starting sentences with "but" is not imperfect grammar. Sure, it is informal, nonacademic grammar, and you probably shouldn't use it on an English paper. But (sic), it is natural language, and thus should not necessarily be excluded from writing.
I'd be a lot more inclined to laugh if this weren't so serious. The financial security of our country is at serious risk given the astonishing rate of decline in the dollar since the election. With the Chinese selling off dollars like hotcakes, costs of toys made in the Orient, such as DVD players, PDAs, and iPods, will be just a little higher this year and the trend will only continue.
Declining dollar != inflation. They are two totally different things. For a fast growing economy (like China's), a cheap currency is usually very desirable.
A declining dollar theoretically will actually strengthen the economy because it makes domestic produces more competitive in the world market. Previously, the dollar was overvalued, which meant that US products were overpriced abroad and imports were cheap for US citizens. Now the opposite is true. This probably won't help our economy, though, as the dollar might experience a small crash beyond it's current correction. That will increase import prices too much. That can cause supply shock inflation, which would force the Fed to tighten up the money supply and reduce growth.
In the Somethingawful.com vs. Fark.com Photoshop contest a while back, why did you rule in favor of Fark, despite the fact that Farkers displayed extremely poor aptitude at Photoshop and made wide use of annoying cliches like Admiral Ackbar?
I assume you also have touched a cup of microwaved H2o and had it instantly boil over on your hand.
It's an interesting apparent contridiction because the water seems already hot enough to boil, yet it does't until the container is moved.
Anyone care to explain why this is?
To vaporize, water needs something to form a steam bubble around. Coffee grounds, sugar, or ridges on a metal pot will work for this. But, if you heat up pure water in a smooth ceramic cup in the microwave, there isn't anything to induce it to form steam. Thus, when you spoon that instant coffee in, it explodes.
And anyways, if you learned your basic geology, you'd know that above every subduction zone is a large range of volcanoes that eject a large amount of the melted magma that goes down in the subduction zone- can you imagine a mount st. helen's type eruption, except with radioactive dust spewing out?
Material takes millions of years to go from oceanic crust to pyroclastics spewing out of a volcano. The radioactivity would have decayed to innocuous levels by then anyway. I'm not saying that burying waste in a subduction zone is a good idea at all, though.
Perhaps you should go back to fourth grade science class. Do you experience G forces on a plane? No. So why would it occur on this scramjet when it is not accelerating?
110 thousand feet is almost space. The atmospheric density is about that of Mars. It couldn't go much higher than that, and the only reason it can travel that high is because this aircraft moves so fast. It can shove a lot of air in moving at 7000 mph.
Yes. There is an upper limit. No hard and fast one, but you cannot scale it up so the exhaust hits relativistic velocities. In ion engines, particles are accelerated by electrostatic potential. They have more in common technologically with a HEPA filter than a sci-fi ion engine.
Human hearing isn't nearly acute enough to notice it. Tell me, when you listen to a CD, do you hear square wave-like tones? You probably don't.
Kind of like how MP3s or OGG works. At a high bitrate, they are indistinguisable from uncompressed CD audio, at least for most people. Yet they throw away the majority of audio data.
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China's currency is undervalued by 20% or more compared to the dollar, so imported products cost huge amounts. That still is pretty steep, though.
It's most likely you, though, because you are reading these comments.
So, is your idea of a political success someone that does not get elected?
;-)
I'd define it as somebody who reached a higher office than school board.
The end of left handed surfing!
I'm left handed, but interestingly enough I am completely incapable of using a mouse with my left hand. I've been doing the righthanded thing ever since I've been but a wee lad, so my neurons are wired for it at this point. Doesn't mean I can catch a ball or write with my right hand, though.
Yeah. Apple is in the wrong on this one. They shouldn't go around suing people for ex post facto trademark infringement.
Do Dell computers use Dellium 4 CPUs and Dell RAM?
No, they pretty much just assemble the computers from components. Pretty much the same components that any decent quality manufacturer uses.
Yeah, they are only an extremely distant third to Dell and Compaq. Their Power5-based servers are proving to be extremely profitable. And the IBM CPU based game consoles coming up will help matters greatly.
IBM PCs have the same insides as Dells or Compaqs.
You can get loads of good, free radio at shoutcast.com or icecast. The games, come on. Aren't those just mostly annoying little flash games and the like? Also, are the videos you mention mostly just news. Because those you can easily get anywhere. To each his own, but I really can't see spending that much money for just content that is easily accessible gratis elsewhere.
By not cancelling your account when you request it. ;-) Have you ever heard stories of people trying to deal with their "customer service" people, who are paid based on how many customers they retain?
Beats the hell out of me. Their main push now seems to be packaging AOL along with broadband for a ridiculous fee on top of what you pay to your ISP. They are signing up very few new dialup subscribers, as most people these days know enough to not pay $25/month when they could be paying less than half of that for a superior service.
Yeah. Thunderbird takes a bit to boot up on my computer, and I don't have a slow hard drive either. The memory usage is 20 megabytes, which is a little excessive for an email program, I'd say.
Nevertheless, it still is a lovely email client.
Actually, starting sentences with "but" is not imperfect grammar. Sure, it is informal, nonacademic grammar, and you probably shouldn't use it on an English paper. But (sic), it is natural language, and thus should not necessarily be excluded from writing.
I'd be a lot more inclined to laugh if this weren't so serious. The financial security of our country is at serious risk given the astonishing rate of decline in the dollar since the election. With the Chinese selling off dollars like hotcakes, costs of toys made in the Orient, such as DVD players, PDAs, and iPods, will be just a little higher this year and the trend will only continue.
Declining dollar != inflation. They are two totally different things. For a fast growing economy (like China's), a cheap currency is usually very desirable.
A declining dollar theoretically will actually strengthen the economy because it makes domestic produces more competitive in the world market. Previously, the dollar was overvalued, which meant that US products were overpriced abroad and imports were cheap for US citizens. Now the opposite is true. This probably won't help our economy, though, as the dollar might experience a small crash beyond it's current correction. That will increase import prices too much. That can cause supply shock inflation, which would force the Fed to tighten up the money supply and reduce growth.
Or people with good grammar conventions.
Give me a break. Is every other SA photoshop a fucking "It's a Trap!" witless gag?
In the Somethingawful.com vs. Fark.com Photoshop contest a while back, why did you rule in favor of Fark, despite the fact that Farkers displayed extremely poor aptitude at Photoshop and made wide use of annoying cliches like Admiral Ackbar?
I assume you also have touched a cup of microwaved H2o and had it instantly boil over on your hand.
It's an interesting apparent contridiction because the water seems already hot enough to boil, yet it does't until the container is moved.
Anyone care to explain why this is?
To vaporize, water needs something to form a steam bubble around. Coffee grounds, sugar, or ridges on a metal pot will work for this. But, if you heat up pure water in a smooth ceramic cup in the microwave, there isn't anything to induce it to form steam. Thus, when you spoon that instant coffee in, it explodes.
Yeah, but one of these cars uses a huge bank of batteries. It would be a job to exchange them.
I think if you drank a liter of vodka you will have greater problems than headache and nausea.
Vodka can cause hangovers, but good vodka is the least worst offender of all varieties of alcohol with regards to the next morning.
And anyways, if you learned your basic geology, you'd know that above every subduction zone is a large range of volcanoes that eject a large amount of the melted magma that goes down in the subduction zone- can you imagine a mount st. helen's type eruption, except with radioactive dust spewing out?
Material takes millions of years to go from oceanic crust to pyroclastics spewing out of a volcano. The radioactivity would have decayed to innocuous levels by then anyway. I'm not saying that burying waste in a subduction zone is a good idea at all, though.
Perhaps you should go back to fourth grade science class. Do you experience G forces on a plane? No. So why would it occur on this scramjet when it is not accelerating?
Inertial forces occur only during acceleration.
110 thousand feet is almost space. The atmospheric density is about that of Mars. It couldn't go much higher than that, and the only reason it can travel that high is because this aircraft moves so fast. It can shove a lot of air in moving at 7000 mph.
Yes. There is an upper limit. No hard and fast one, but you cannot scale it up so the exhaust hits relativistic velocities. In ion engines, particles are accelerated by electrostatic potential. They have more in common technologically with a HEPA filter than a sci-fi ion engine.
Human hearing isn't nearly acute enough to notice it. Tell me, when you listen to a CD, do you hear square wave-like tones? You probably don't.
Kind of like how MP3s or OGG works. At a high bitrate, they are indistinguisable from uncompressed CD audio, at least for most people. Yet they throw away the majority of audio data.