My PDA of choice is a Palm Z22. It's a bare bones PDA and PalmOS is great on it. But a phone has much more functionality than my Z22 and that functionality is highly asynchronous in nature. So phones, like laptops, need a real OS.
Windows is fine for a desktop machine, but Palm is designed with PDAs in mind from the beginning
It doesn't matter what the OS was originally designed to do 10 years ago. What matters is where the OS is at now. Judging from real world experience, rather than irrelevant ideals, PalmOS ceased to be up to the task of managing a complex PDA a few years back.
Philip Glass has stuff on iTunes. So does Michael Nyman. So does William Bolcom. So does Milton Babbitt. So do Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Michael Tilson Thomas and Pierre Boulez along with a whole host of other contemporary composers.
Artistic integrity - my ass. Prententious bullshit - maybe.
This device won't work. I won't bother giving my reasons. Can someone tell me how I can convert this knowledge into some kind of bet on a market that will make me money? It seems I ought to be able to use this knowledge somehow.
However, even in the conditions of Jupiter's core, the cross-section for various fusion reactions is not zero. It's just really, really small.
That's kinda meaningless. I'm sure that from time to time nuclei in my immediate vicinity decide to tunnel close enough for fusion. But once something's that small, you simply ignore it.
Better would be to say that the diminishing effect of nuclear fusion, below a certain mass of object, is no longer able to stabilize the size and temperature of an object.
Hmmm...I thought that's what they were saying.
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...you gotta type 'sync' three times before it works.
2,000 lbs is not a pressure; there's no area. It's weight.
No it's not. It's a unit of mass. If you want a unit of weight I suggest the pound-force.
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...99% of whosewritings would make a 5 year old's grasp of number theory seem advanced. People who have proved FLT (the easy way), that 0.999... recurring is less than 1, that there are countably many reals and so on. But the author of Divine Proportions is one of those unusual crackpots who's obsessed with an idea but hasn't allowed that to completely compromise their mathematics. These people don't deserve to be beaten down along with the others. I think that having no review of this book would have been better than this review.
I never saw a lion go and kill all of the antelopes. It would starve.
Weird, you've clearly heard of evolution, you point out that if a lion killed all of the antelopes it would starve, and yet you don't put 2 and 2 together. It's very sad. People like you learn to throw around words like 'evolution' but never actually get to the point where you can think about these things.
You know as well as me that the judge's decision will be overturned. There is absolutely no way that the American legal-political system, as it currently exists, could possibly agree, for an extended period of time, that there has been wrongdoing by both the executive and just about every telecom company. What's more, when the decision is overturned we'll be worse off than before because the legality of the status quo as of the day before yesterday will be enshrined as legal precedent and so the government will move on to push the boundaries even further.
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I expect that I'll have a machine M1 that can emulate a mchine M2 that can emulate a machine M3... that can emulate a machine Mn that can run them. I could just pack my Psion 3mx in the box - it runs all but the three or so graphics ones.
Actually it's not a big deal, the source code for Frotz is freely available and I have copies of all of the required data for each game. My only concern is that the scratch 'n' sniff card that came with Leather Goddesses might no longer work.
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...retirement. I have a big plastic box and within it are original boxes for each of the 35 Infocom text adventure games that were released. What more could I want?
I'll take your order for a Wii or PS3 right now. Just send me a $250 deposit, a $250 handling charge, and $50 to cover packaging and shipping, and I guarantee that as soon as I buy one in a store I'll send it to you. But that's not all. If you order by responding to this email within 45 minutes I'll send you a special bonus gift guaranteed to be worth at least $19.95. Hurry now while stocks last!
let us know where sunspots occur in relation to each other.
Yes. Despite being arbitrary, it gives a useful way to say where sunspots are relative to each other. Ie. the absolute longitude is arbitrary, but the differences are not, making them useful. But to talk about a single sunspot's longitude is completely and utterly pointless. What's not to laugh at?
people seem to like trivia.
People like these kinds of trivia because they have been misled into thinking they are meaningful facts.
Yesterday I learned what the French call pop science. "Vulgarisation scientifique." I think I'll use the literal translation in English from now on.
Not the Faraday effect. That's a rotation of the polarization of EM radiation as it travels through a medium. The Faraday effect can be used, however, to determine the magnetic field in the Sun's corona. It can also tell us about the density of electrons in the corona if we know the polarization of the radiation when it starts out on its journey towards us.
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My PDA of choice is a Palm Z22. It's a bare bones PDA and PalmOS is great on it. But a phone has much more functionality than my Z22 and that functionality is highly asynchronous in nature. So phones, like laptops, need a real OS.
Read the article. "recognize themselves in a mirror" is an incredible leap from what actually took place.
Creative financial advisor sought.
Artistic integrity - my ass. Prententious bullshit - maybe.
...my NSLU2.
This device won't work. I won't bother giving my reasons. Can someone tell me how I can convert this knowledge into some kind of bet on a market that will make me money? It seems I ought to be able to use this knowledge somehow.
...a lattice of pentagons.
...you gotta type 'sync' three times before it works.
...99% of whose writings would make a 5 year old's grasp of number theory seem advanced. People who have proved FLT (the easy way), that 0.999... recurring is less than 1, that there are countably many reals and so on. But the author of Divine Proportions is one of those unusual crackpots who's obsessed with an idea but hasn't allowed that to completely compromise their mathematics. These people don't deserve to be beaten down along with the others. I think that having no review of this book would have been better than this review.
Would that be literal tubes or metaphorical tubes?
...the content of this book here. The core idea is sound and it looks like it has application to computer graphics.
I personally think that the thalamus is like a coathook. You can hang whatever metaphor you feel like on it.
You know as well as me that the judge's decision will be overturned. There is absolutely no way that the American legal-political system, as it currently exists, could possibly agree, for an extended period of time, that there has been wrongdoing by both the executive and just about every telecom company. What's more, when the decision is overturned we'll be worse off than before because the legality of the status quo as of the day before yesterday will be enshrined as legal precedent and so the government will move on to push the boundaries even further.
Actually it's not a big deal, the source code for Frotz is freely available and I have copies of all of the required data for each game. My only concern is that the scratch 'n' sniff card that came with Leather Goddesses might no longer work.
...retirement. I have a big plastic box and within it are original boxes for each of the 35 Infocom text adventure games that were released. What more could I want?
The story seems to say this like it's a good thing.
I'll take your order for a Wii or PS3 right now. Just send me a $250 deposit, a $250 handling charge, and $50 to cover packaging and shipping, and I guarantee that as soon as I buy one in a store I'll send it to you. But that's not all. If you order by responding to this email within 45 minutes I'll send you a special bonus gift guaranteed to be worth at least $19.95. Hurry now while stocks last!
Yesterday I learned what the French call pop science. "Vulgarisation scientifique." I think I'll use the literal translation in English from now on.
Not the Faraday effect. That's a rotation of the polarization of EM radiation as it travels through a medium. The Faraday effect can be used, however, to determine the magnetic field in the Sun's corona. It can also tell us about the density of electrons in the corona if we know the polarization of the radiation when it starts out on its journey towards us.