cd are $15 each because most of them don't sell at all. when a cd goes platinum, it not only pays for itself, it also helps pay for the past and future marketing of all those terrible cds no one bought.
Um, Just to be completely clear, Chechnya has been fighting for Independence from Russia for about a decade. There are many militant and milita groups, official and not, operating in Chechnya. Some are more extreme than others, but even the most moderate want independence.
Russia doesn't want Chechnya to become independent for two main reasons. 1. If Chechnya seperates, other republics will try to follow. 2. Russia has ties to the Chechnyan oil industry.
While some Chechnyan rebels have used terrorist tactics in Russia, Russian policies are hardly better. For example the Russian policy of kidnapping, torturing and killing suspected rebels spawned the 'black widow' phenomena, where female relatives carried out suicide attacks.
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yes, i agree. i would not bet against general relativity in this case. it has had much stranger predictions than waves, which in this case are even anagalous to waves found in electrodynamics.
i think the only real question is if LIGO will be able to seperate gravitational waves from background noise within 6 years. since i've wasted money on worse things than a bet in favor of LIGO, i'm almost definitely putting money down.
in the book he remembered growing up, seeing birds and so forth. unless i don't remember correctly, the replicants weren't pre-programed with memories, so this would prevent him from possibly being a replicant.
"We have no such tangible proof of life outside our planet."
However we do have tangible proof that life exists somewhere in the universe, if you concede that the earth is not unique a priori. Then we can likewise calculate the odds using Drake's equation.
I was hoping for a giant death-star picture of the moon.. where's the crater?
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bleh
"In Universe in the Nutshell, Hawking puts the odds at macroscopic time travel being possible at less than 10^(10^60) to one against."
Well aren't all of us traveling through time right now?
not because the nobel committee was scared, but because the photoelectric effect was easier to test experimentally and it's explaination had a more immediate application.
well it doesn't matter what os you're using, vsync and anisotropic filtering have gotta be off.
as for esr, that's got nothing to do with what operating system you're using either. there are tons of in-game commands [changing texture detail, # of polygons, lightning methods, etc] that make quake run smoother and esreality's forums are probably the best place to find them.
quake 3 should get a perfect 125 fps on a p4 1.7 Ghz. quake 1 should get a perfect 77 fps [with fuhquake.net + better graphics than counterstrike.. actually you can play counterstrike levels if you somehow wanted to] and quake 2 should get, i don't remember.
i've played q3 for 3 years on a p3 733mhz with a tnt2 and 384mb of ram. i get around 100 fps constant, which is perfectly fine.
since it doesn't seem to be working for him he's doing something wrong. he probably needs to change settings on his vidio card. (1) turn 'anisotropic filtering' off / set 'texture anisotropic setting' to 0 x. (2) turn 'vertical sync' off (3) set option for 'mipmap detail' to best performance (4) set 'hardware acceleration' to full (5) in the quake 3 system window lower the resolution to 1024x768, 800x600 or 640x480 (i've always used 640x480). (6) in the quake 3 system window choose 'normal' or 'fast' (7) if that's not good enough go to www.esreality.com and read how other people do it, there are tons of tricks.
first of all, would you use a monitor that only had a 50hz refresh rate? this is worse.
secondly, doom 3 isn't capped at 60 fps. the system fps is capped at 60 fps, you can still display with as many fps as you want.
doom 3 isn't capped at 30 fps at all. the SYSTEM fps in doom 3 is capped at 60 fps. this has nothing (at all) to do with how many fps your graphics card and monitor will display. in doom 3 the system fps will control player collisions, damage and physics, but it has nothing to do with how many frames per second you display.
here's the other question: why don't humans have as much trouble with go as computers do, since the game tree is 10^120 times larger than chess?
while the obvious guess is that we use a completely different organizational structure than computers, this isn't exactly a complete explanation.
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storing 15 days of solar power is a lot easier on the moon than earth. superconductivity can be used for just about anything in an environment that cold.
since there is no atmosphere on the moon, things can only be heated by direct radiation since there isn't convective heating like on earth. during the day you can shield against radiative heating, at night it's not a problem. without radiative heating things on the moon drop to nearly 5 kelvin, which is low enough to take adavantage of superconductivity in many situations (the best organic superconductors are good to around 50 kelvin iirc), power storage probably being one example.
Look, just because someone has problems in high school or at some other point isn't an excuse for supporting policies that ruin the rest of their life. You should also note both that not going to college is not necessarily a 'choice' and that even if one were to make that choice it once again is not an excuse for supporting policies that ruin the rest of their life. When did you come to the conclusion that it was either necessary or useful for the entire US population to go to college?
Since this is probably too altruistic for you to understand perhaps it would be more beneficial for you to think of it in terms of minimizing degenerative social problems, increasing domestic productivity, decreasing urban crime, etc. Be creative! Have a field day with it! Tell us what you can come up with, or you might get a poor grade and be a loser for the rest of your life.
Creating a 25 tesla magnetic field is not a big deal in itself. People have been using ~ 40 tesla, pulsed magnetic fields to study superconductors for years. There are also techniques to generate 1000 tesla fields (first reference i googled: http://www.intas.be/catalog/94-3569.htm). They last about a millisecond. How? Well basically, by using explosives.
While i only skimmed this article, the peice they are probably leaving out is that they are creating 25 tesla magnetic fields over a large area or for a significant amount of time (more than a second or two). This is really useful and takes tons of energy, so it's an achievement worth mentioning.
What i don't understand is why the existence of those other magnets is overlooked, especially since the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory collaborates with lots of people who use them.
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because after 30 you may not have as much drive to push yourself, especially if you've already made it. also, you have teaching duties, a family, etc.
it's easier to work 10 hours a day if you're a graduate student.
and there have been plenty of ground breaking achievements by people over 30, just look at archimedes, gauss and poincare, to name 3.
cd are $15 each because most of them don't sell at all. when a cd goes platinum, it not only pays for itself, it also helps pay for the past and future marketing of all those terrible cds no one bought.
movies only make significant money in the box office for a month, bands make money from concerts for years.
Um, Just to be completely clear, Chechnya has been fighting for Independence from Russia for about a decade. There are many militant and milita groups, official and not, operating in Chechnya. Some are more extreme than others, but even the most moderate want independence.
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Russia doesn't want Chechnya to become independent for two main reasons.
1. If Chechnya seperates, other republics will try to follow.
2. Russia has ties to the Chechnyan oil industry.
While some Chechnyan rebels have used terrorist tactics in Russia, Russian policies are hardly better. For example the Russian policy of kidnapping, torturing and killing suspected rebels spawned the 'black widow' phenomena, where female relatives carried out suicide attacks.
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yes, i agree. i would not bet against general relativity in this case. it has had much stranger predictions than waves, which in this case are even anagalous to waves found in electrodynamics.
i think the only real question is if LIGO will be able to seperate gravitational waves from background noise within 6 years. since i've wasted money on worse things than a bet in favor of LIGO, i'm almost definitely putting money down.
in the book he remembered growing up, seeing birds and so forth. unless i don't remember correctly, the replicants weren't pre-programed with memories, so this would prevent him from possibly being a replicant.
My eyes, the goggles, they do nothing!
However we do have tangible proof that life exists somewhere in the universe, if you concede that the earth is not unique a priori. Then we can likewise calculate the odds using Drake's equation.
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"In Universe in the Nutshell, Hawking puts the odds at macroscopic time travel being possible at less than 10^(10^60) to one against." Well aren't all of us traveling through time right now?
what was it doing when the experiment ended?
they could charge only if someone wants to send more than a certain number of emails in a certain time period.
where cancelled means they pulled the plug on the server rack in the middle of the losers bracket final games, so the first 3 places were tied.
not because the nobel committee was scared, but because the photoelectric effect was easier to test experimentally and it's explaination had a more immediate application.
hey look, it's me being an asshole. oops.
well it doesn't matter what os you're using, vsync and anisotropic filtering have gotta be off.
as for esr, that's got nothing to do with what operating system you're using either. there are tons of in-game commands [changing texture detail, # of polygons, lightning methods, etc] that make quake run smoother and esreality's forums are probably the best place to find them.
quake 3 should get a perfect 125 fps on a p4 1.7 Ghz. quake 1 should get a perfect 77 fps [with fuhquake.net + better graphics than counterstrike.. actually you can play counterstrike levels if you somehow wanted to] and quake 2 should get, i don't remember.
i've played q3 for 3 years on a p3 733mhz with a tnt2 and 384mb of ram. i get around 100 fps constant, which is perfectly fine.
since it doesn't seem to be working for him he's doing something wrong. he probably needs to change settings on his vidio card.
(1) turn 'anisotropic filtering' off / set 'texture anisotropic setting' to 0 x.
(2) turn 'vertical sync' off
(3) set option for 'mipmap detail' to best performance
(4) set 'hardware acceleration' to full
(5) in the quake 3 system window lower the resolution to 1024x768, 800x600 or 640x480 (i've always used 640x480).
(6) in the quake 3 system window choose 'normal' or 'fast'
(7) if that's not good enough go to www.esreality.com and read how other people do it, there are tons of tricks.
first of all, would you use a monitor that only had a 50hz refresh rate? this is worse. secondly, doom 3 isn't capped at 60 fps. the system fps is capped at 60 fps, you can still display with as many fps as you want.
doom 3 isn't capped at 30 fps at all. the SYSTEM fps in doom 3 is capped at 60 fps. this has nothing (at all) to do with how many fps your graphics card and monitor will display. in doom 3 the system fps will control player collisions, damage and physics, but it has nothing to do with how many frames per second you display.
here's the other question: why don't humans have as much trouble with go as computers do, since the game tree is 10^120 times larger than chess? while the obvious guess is that we use a completely different organizational structure than computers, this isn't exactly a complete explanation.
storing 15 days of solar power is a lot easier on the moon than earth. superconductivity can be used for just about anything in an environment that cold.
since there is no atmosphere on the moon, things can only be heated by direct radiation since there isn't convective heating like on earth. during the day you can shield against radiative heating, at night it's not a problem. without radiative heating things on the moon drop to nearly 5 kelvin, which is low enough to take adavantage of superconductivity in many situations (the best organic superconductors are good to around 50 kelvin iirc), power storage probably being one example.
Since this is probably too altruistic for you to understand perhaps it would be more beneficial for you to think of it in terms of minimizing degenerative social problems, increasing domestic productivity, decreasing urban crime, etc. Be creative! Have a field day with it! Tell us what you can come up with, or you might get a poor grade and be a loser for the rest of your life.
of course, he had to be from the us. wow we're losers.
Creating a 25 tesla magnetic field is not a big deal in itself. People have been using ~ 40 tesla, pulsed magnetic fields to study superconductors for years. There are also techniques to generate 1000 tesla fields (first reference i googled: http://www.intas.be/catalog/94-3569.htm). They last about a millisecond. How? Well basically, by using explosives. While i only skimmed this article, the peice they are probably leaving out is that they are creating 25 tesla magnetic fields over a large area or for a significant amount of time (more than a second or two). This is really useful and takes tons of energy, so it's an achievement worth mentioning. What i don't understand is why the existence of those other magnets is overlooked, especially since the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory collaborates with lots of people who use them.
half life just ripped off the doom story line!!!