WARNING: Following through on the screwdriver suggestion may shatter your hard drive platters while spinning at high speed causing little glass shards to go everywhere, including into your face. A friend of mine made this mistake once...
Uhm, all the other SI units are defined off physical things. A second is defined as so many oscillations of a cesium atom, a meter is defined as 1/299792458 light*second, a kelvin is 1/273 the triple point of water and an ampere is 6.25*10^25 electrons/second passing a given point on a circuit. All of these things are based off a particular physical "thing" - it'd be impossible to create a definition that wasn't!
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong or over generalizing, but planet vs stars: stars have fusion, planets dont. Hence, a gas giant like jupiter is a planet but a brown dwarf is a star (there is SOME fusion going on, or there was in the past).
Planet vs planetoid is another matter altogether... I'd love to know if theres been a 'real' standard proposed - regardless of whether pluto/charon are planets/moon or not.
I remember reading the article and that somewhere down the line it said that it was workstations that went down, not anything related to power generation capabilities or plant safety. Maybe someone can find a link to that article about that particular incident, but as I recall the facts of the article were far less, uh, scandalous than the headline.
I don't know about anyone else, but if its in real time then it should not be called "Sid Meier's Civilization." It could be called something else, but it would not belong in the civilization series.
Thats why all civilian aircraft with avionics operating in the world today have this thing called a transponder which continuously pulses its location out for ATC to see. This includes stealth bombers and so forth that are operating in civilian airspace.
Well, a lot of high schools teach the AP Calculus AB and BC courses, which are the equivalent of a first and second semester calculus course respectively at the college level. In my school of 2000 there are 3 sections (each of about 25 students) in AP calculus 1, and about 20 in AP calculus 2. Additionally, 2 students maxxed out with Cal2 in their junior year and are taking 3rd and 4th semester calculus at the local university. Total for all students in Calculus then would be about 4.85% of the school population. DE are covered in the cal2 course at my school, so about 1.1% of the student population would have use of mathematica by your reasoning. Still not very many, but still a far cry from 0.001%.
That said, a computer algebra system period is useful in learning calculus if you're at all of the curious sort. Taking AP Cal 1 I've used my 89 to answer all sorts of questions I have about why you can't do things. And its faster than looking up the answer in the back of the book usually.:)
Newton's law of universal gravitation: Fg = GMm/(r^2) where: Fg is the force of gravity M is the larger mass m is the smaller mass r is the distance between the center of hte two objects.
An object at the surface of the earth with a mass of 1 kg is subject to a gravitational force of 9.8N. At the moon, the gravitational force exerted by the earth on the 1kg mass, using newton's law of universal gravitation is 0.0026N.
So indeed, gravity and weight have a pretty big part to play in this. On the surface of the earth, an object would have to have an upward force of more than 9.8N/kg to produce and upward acceleration; as your distace from the surface of the earth increases, your gravitational attraction to the earth decreases. What is refering to here is that the ion engine is producing a small thrust, lets just say a few newtons/kilogram (no idea what it really is), so long as its thrust is greater than earth's pull of gravity, it'll keep accelerating (and that magnitude of acceleration will increase as it moves along).
Hope that makes sense and I confuse you (or inadvertantly make some obvious error).
Yup, just ask Oliver North about that one. Officers are responsible for the legallity of their actions - they went to a service academy for 4 years to learn about that stuff.
"So, natural selection can be proven. Evolution can not. "
Under the scientific process (and any system of logic), nothing can be proven true, things can only be proven false. A hypothesis is stated and then evidence that contradicts that hypothesis is sought. If no contradictions can be found, then the hypothesis can be assumed to be true.
An example: Hypothesis: if x is a real number, then the square root of x is a real number. This hypothesis can be proven false by showing that the square root of -1 falls out of the domain of real numbers and thus the hypothesis is false.
Now you can refine the hypothesis: Hypothesis: if x is a real number in the domain [0,inf), then the square root of x is a real number. A single counter example could prove this hypothesis false, however to prove it true, you would have to test every value of x between 0 and positive infinity to see if the hypothesis fails.
Now since we were talking about science, lets use an example using Newton's law of universal gravitation: Hypothesis: Fg = -GMm/(r^2) For every observation that was made in Newton's time and for centuries afterwards, no counter example could be found. Now, enter the early 20th century. Astronomers observing the orbit of Mercury noticed that its orbit was not consistant for the system containing only it, the sun and the other known planets in the solar system. In order to fulfill Newton's and Kepler's laws of planetary motion and gravity, it was postulated that an as of yet undiscovered planet existed between mercury and the sun (it was named Vulcan). No planet could be found. This was strong evidence that Newton's law of gravitation was wrong (and indeed it is). Einstein, using this information and quite a bit from other parts of physics hypothesized relativity which explains Mercury's behavior (amungst other things).
This is a good example of how science works, its merely an evolution of our current sum of knowledge and it is continually refined as we collect more data about our universe. Thus, science attempts to explain how our universe behaves, not why. The question of why is beyond the realm of science because no testable hypothesis can be made.
Its actually just a straight cubic function. f(x)=x^3; where x=warp factor and f(x)=coefficient of c that warp factor correlates with. Thus warp 1 = c, warp 2 = 8c, warp 3 = 27c, and so forth.
Continuing going way off topic, but that episode of Voyager contradicts quite a few of TOS episodes, most notably Balance of Terror. It also contradicts quite a few early TNG episodes, especially early ones.
Of course I like to think of SFB as a true star trek product. Its far more internally consistant than anything recent, and is a nice extension of TOS alone. (Also I note that all combat in SFB is at warp speeds, almost entirely because of the bridge commmands in BoT)
Actually, a lot of them do. Its this thing called hyperthreading that intel introduced that caused a lot of game developers to go ahead and make their games multithread friendly so that there'd be a speed increase on northwood-Cs. I have a friend (a very rich friend) that bought a dual Xeon 3.06 ghz box for his gaming system. Looking at task manager with UT2004 up shows that at least that game has multithreading support and will use all 4 virtual processors. So will Doom3... and I imagine any game using either of those game's engines will too.
Windows 2000 - NT5.0 Windows XP 2002 - NT5.1 Windows XP/Server 2003 - NT5.2
The parent's statement was pointing out that MS acknowledges that theres not as much of a difference between windows 2000 and windows XP as there was between windows NT 4.0 and windows 2000. Of course, the NT kernel is far better than the 9x so as far as a "consumer" OS it is a major jump, but from windows 2000 there aren't that many changes.
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Notepad is not Word is not QuarkXPress. You can complain that Quark doesn't have a spellchecker and you can't set anything on a page in a predictable manner in word and that Notepad doesn't have any image options until the cows come home as far as I'm concerned. I use text files out of notepad like postit notes, type up papers in word and use quark to make nifty looking posters and so forth. Although all the before mentioned programs deal with text, each is very different and the three should never come together in one app.
Of course he said within 1ghz of the speed. Which is funny considering that assuming he has an AMD processor between the speeds of 1.0ghz and 2.0ghz hes probably right. Of course not that that really means anything, it just means that the netburst architecture needs a lot more clock cycles than the athlons to get stuff done.
Counter-Strike (ugh), Unreal Tournament 2004, Battlfeild Vietnam, Splinter Cell, Far Cry, Battlefield 1942 mods, America's Army (its free!!!), RTCW:Enemy Territory (also free!) and Medal of Honor. Joint Operations is probably going to be pretty popular, but I haven't seen it at a LAN yet. Doom 3 will be pretty cool on tuesday, but last I heard it didn't have extensive multiplayer (well, nor does splinter cell - but it makes for in numbers in quality).
Likely this is a Socket A Baron-like chip where the modern high speed bartons/cripled clawhammers are moving to socket 754 while the Athlon 64s are moving up to socket 939 along with the FX-5x's moving down from socket 940 (and losing the ECC requirement). Thats what I gather from the roadmaps.
Now if only I hadn't purchased my Athlon 64 back in December... oh well, my computer still kicks ass.
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WARNING: Following through on the screwdriver suggestion may shatter your hard drive platters while spinning at high speed causing little glass shards to go everywhere, including into your face. A friend of mine made this mistake once...
e) Making no distinction between the AK-47 and AK-74 and noting that the odds of an M-16 being shot at an American structure are low.
Uhm, all the other SI units are defined off physical things. A second is defined as so many oscillations of a cesium atom, a meter is defined as 1/299792458 light*second, a kelvin is 1/273 the triple point of water and an ampere is 6.25*10^25 electrons/second passing a given point on a circuit. All of these things are based off a particular physical "thing" - it'd be impossible to create a definition that wasn't!
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong or over generalizing, but planet vs stars: stars have fusion, planets dont. Hence, a gas giant like jupiter is a planet but a brown dwarf is a star (there is SOME fusion going on, or there was in the past).
Planet vs planetoid is another matter altogether... I'd love to know if theres been a 'real' standard proposed - regardless of whether pluto/charon are planets/moon or not.
I remember reading the article and that somewhere down the line it said that it was workstations that went down, not anything related to power generation capabilities or plant safety. Maybe someone can find a link to that article about that particular incident, but as I recall the facts of the article were far less, uh, scandalous than the headline.
I don't know about anyone else, but if its in real time then it should not be called "Sid Meier's Civilization." It could be called something else, but it would not belong in the civilization series.
Thats why all civilian aircraft with avionics operating in the world today have this thing called a transponder which continuously pulses its location out for ATC to see. This includes stealth bombers and so forth that are operating in civilian airspace.
Well, a lot of high schools teach the AP Calculus AB and BC courses, which are the equivalent of a first and second semester calculus course respectively at the college level. In my school of 2000 there are 3 sections (each of about 25 students) in AP calculus 1, and about 20 in AP calculus 2. Additionally, 2 students maxxed out with Cal2 in their junior year and are taking 3rd and 4th semester calculus at the local university. Total for all students in Calculus then would be about 4.85% of the school population. DE are covered in the cal2 course at my school, so about 1.1% of the student population would have use of mathematica by your reasoning. Still not very many, but still a far cry from 0.001%.
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That said, a computer algebra system period is useful in learning calculus if you're at all of the curious sort. Taking AP Cal 1 I've used my 89 to answer all sorts of questions I have about why you can't do things. And its faster than looking up the answer in the back of the book usually.
Yes, PCI-X is but PCI-E, also known as PCI-Express is not.
Newton's law of universal gravitation: Fg = GMm/(r^2) where:
Fg is the force of gravity
M is the larger mass
m is the smaller mass
r is the distance between the center of hte two objects.
An object at the surface of the earth with a mass of 1 kg is subject to a gravitational force of 9.8N. At the moon, the gravitational force exerted by the earth on the 1kg mass, using newton's law of universal gravitation is 0.0026N.
So indeed, gravity and weight have a pretty big part to play in this. On the surface of the earth, an object would have to have an upward force of more than 9.8N/kg to produce and upward acceleration; as your distace from the surface of the earth increases, your gravitational attraction to the earth decreases. What is refering to here is that the ion engine is producing a small thrust, lets just say a few newtons/kilogram (no idea what it really is), so long as its thrust is greater than earth's pull of gravity, it'll keep accelerating (and that magnitude of acceleration will increase as it moves along).
Hope that makes sense and I confuse you (or inadvertantly make some obvious error).
Hey now, I'll take 15 billion for aerospace research instead of a day in Iraq any day of the week.
Yup, just ask Oliver North about that one. Officers are responsible for the legallity of their actions - they went to a service academy for 4 years to learn about that stuff.
"So, natural selection can be proven. Evolution can not. "
Under the scientific process (and any system of logic), nothing can be proven true, things can only be proven false. A hypothesis is stated and then evidence that contradicts that hypothesis is sought. If no contradictions can be found, then the hypothesis can be assumed to be true.
An example:
Hypothesis: if x is a real number, then the square root of x is a real number.
This hypothesis can be proven false by showing that the square root of -1 falls out of the domain of real numbers and thus the hypothesis is false.
Now you can refine the hypothesis:
Hypothesis: if x is a real number in the domain [0,inf), then the square root of x is a real number.
A single counter example could prove this hypothesis false, however to prove it true, you would have to test every value of x between 0 and positive infinity to see if the hypothesis fails.
Now since we were talking about science, lets use an example using Newton's law of universal gravitation:
Hypothesis: Fg = -GMm/(r^2)
For every observation that was made in Newton's time and for centuries afterwards, no counter example could be found.
Now, enter the early 20th century. Astronomers observing the orbit of Mercury noticed that its orbit was not consistant for the system containing only it, the sun and the other known planets in the solar system. In order to fulfill Newton's and Kepler's laws of planetary motion and gravity, it was postulated that an as of yet undiscovered planet existed between mercury and the sun (it was named Vulcan). No planet could be found. This was strong evidence that Newton's law of gravitation was wrong (and indeed it is). Einstein, using this information and quite a bit from other parts of physics hypothesized relativity which explains Mercury's behavior (amungst other things).
This is a good example of how science works, its merely an evolution of our current sum of knowledge and it is continually refined as we collect more data about our universe. Thus, science attempts to explain how our universe behaves, not why. The question of why is beyond the realm of science because no testable hypothesis can be made.
One thing, .edu is reserved for post secondary education institutions so your local school district can't get a .edu TLD.
Its actually just a straight cubic function.
f(x)=x^3; where x=warp factor and f(x)=coefficient of c that warp factor correlates with. Thus warp 1 = c, warp 2 = 8c, warp 3 = 27c, and so forth.
Reference is the Franz Joseph Technical manual.
Continuing going way off topic, but that episode of Voyager contradicts quite a few of TOS episodes, most notably Balance of Terror. It also contradicts quite a few early TNG episodes, especially early ones.
Of course I like to think of SFB as a true star trek product. Its far more internally consistant than anything recent, and is a nice extension of TOS alone. (Also I note that all combat in SFB is at warp speeds, almost entirely because of the bridge commmands in BoT)
Actually, a lot of them do. Its this thing called hyperthreading that intel introduced that caused a lot of game developers to go ahead and make their games multithread friendly so that there'd be a speed increase on northwood-Cs. I have a friend (a very rich friend) that bought a dual Xeon 3.06 ghz box for his gaming system. Looking at task manager with UT2004 up shows that at least that game has multithreading support and will use all 4 virtual processors. So will Doom3... and I imagine any game using either of those game's engines will too.
Windows 2000 - NT5.0
Windows XP 2002 - NT5.1
Windows XP/Server 2003 - NT5.2
The parent's statement was pointing out that MS acknowledges that theres not as much of a difference between windows 2000 and windows XP as there was between windows NT 4.0 and windows 2000. Of course, the NT kernel is far better than the 9x so as far as a "consumer" OS it is a major jump, but from windows 2000 there aren't that many changes.
Notepad is not Word is not QuarkXPress. You can complain that Quark doesn't have a spellchecker and you can't set anything on a page in a predictable manner in word and that Notepad doesn't have any image options until the cows come home as far as I'm concerned. I use text files out of notepad like postit notes, type up papers in word and use quark to make nifty looking posters and so forth. Although all the before mentioned programs deal with text, each is very different and the three should never come together in one app.
Of course he said within 1ghz of the speed. Which is funny considering that assuming he has an AMD processor between the speeds of 1.0ghz and 2.0ghz hes probably right. Of course not that that really means anything, it just means that the netburst architecture needs a lot more clock cycles than the athlons to get stuff done.
Counter-Strike (ugh), Unreal Tournament 2004, Battlfeild Vietnam, Splinter Cell, Far Cry, Battlefield 1942 mods, America's Army (its free!!!), RTCW:Enemy Territory (also free!) and Medal of Honor. Joint Operations is probably going to be pretty popular, but I haven't seen it at a LAN yet. Doom 3 will be pretty cool on tuesday, but last I heard it didn't have extensive multiplayer (well, nor does splinter cell - but it makes for in numbers in quality).
I prefer the radio play myself. I like media in its original form first. :P
DS9 covered this.. Homefront & Paradise Lost. But of course the good guys win.
Pffft, the Trills in DS9 are hotter than the vulcan girl or Uhura. :P
Likely this is a Socket A Baron-like chip where the modern high speed bartons/cripled clawhammers are moving to socket 754 while the Athlon 64s are moving up to socket 939 along with the FX-5x's moving down from socket 940 (and losing the ECC requirement). Thats what I gather from the roadmaps.
Now if only I hadn't purchased my Athlon 64 back in December... oh well, my computer still kicks ass.