> Going all the way back to Windows 3.1, even > my worst Windows installs always end up with > more things functioning than with the best > Linux installs.
So the only program you use is Solitaire and Calculator, must be because there weren't any other programs installed.
> I don't know what went wrong, but it absolutely > refuses to accept my disc 3's.
So you skipped the 'check cd test' and got bitten by a badly burned disc 3....
> Immediately upon loading Gnome, it tells me I have > some updates to download. 166 of them.
And how is this any different to booting win2000. First you have to install IE6, then SP4 (129 mb) and then 42 other security related updates, having to reboot 7 times in the process. Oh and if you're not behind a hardware firewall 2 or 3 worms install themselves before you have updated to IE6.
> Oh, you say Fedora Core 2 doesn't work with Nvidia > graphic cards by default, unless you change a few > settings and recompile the kernel?
Hmm, strange I'm using FC 2 right now with a nVidia graphics card, without changing any settings, and without recompiling the kernel.
Using part of the memory as a RAM-disk is just plain silly. Let the OS deal with the disk caching, if it makes a big difference, there's something wrong with your disk caching.
- Where are cows fed to cows? - Where are cows going mad? + Hmm same answer, coincidence?
- Where are those mad cows being eaten? - Where are human getting sick? + Hmm same answer, coincidence?
I know it's not absolute proof, but still something to think about. By the way, in case you're wondering, what if people ate other people, would the same happen? The answer is yes, it is known from the folklore of kanabalistic tribes, that if you eat too many brains, you go mad...
The same thing was known in kanabalistic tribes, if you eat to many brains, you go crazy.
Those prions are nothing special, they have always been there, but not in enough quantity to do any (as far as we know) harm. Those species at the end of the food chain receive some more prions through their diet, but still not in hazardess quantities.
When we started feeding cows to cows(yes, money makes prople do strange things), we created a loop in the food chain, in effect stretching the food chain infinitly. The species in the loop (cows) and those at the end of the food chain developed a new disease because of the overdose of prions.
Actually RISC is a bad name for what it stand for, it should have been SISC (Simplified Instruction Set Computer), since the key difference between the two are the complexity of the instructions and not the quantity.
A CISC instruction could do things like: take the value in register BP, add 4, get the value from the memory at the address you just computed, add the value in the register AX, and put the result back at the same memory location. Execution would take several clock-ticks.
To do the same in RISC, you would need several instructions (add 4, get from memory, add ax, store to memory). The execution of the individual instructions would take one tick each, so the sequence would take several. But on average RISC was a bit faster.
CISC was invented in a time that the memory was small, in the CISC way you could store larger programs in the same amount of memory.
RISC was invented when memory-size was not limited anymore, and looked to displace CISC in the long run.
CISC was still around when the memory bandwidth became a limiting factor. And since fewer instructions needed to be fetched from memory, more bandwidth was left for other data traffic. RISC lost some of it's speed advantage.
Modern CISC processors, get CISC instructions from memory, chop them up in smaller instructions, and executes those smaller instructions really fast. So in fact they can be seen as RISC processors, posing as CISC processors, ie the best of both worlds.
So CISC is a way of compressing RISC instructions, so they take up less memory/bandwidth.
This Friday, Saterday and next week wednesday will be the deciding stages. This friday and saterday stages end with a Category 1 climb (the kind of stages Lance always uses to attack). Not sure wether Lance is gonna 'need' the uphill TT next week.
In KDE you can do the exact same thing. Except left click opens in the same windows, and middle click opens in a new window. Browsing the internet works exactly the same way.
7 stream totaling les than 2 MB/s should be a problem, for a single drive. 5 250 GB harddrives in a raid 5 array shouldn't have a problem with it either.
You say it would take a thousend megawatts to charge a car in one minute.
Well let's calculate:
1 x 10^9 watt x 60 seconds = 6 x 10^10 Joule Your average car (at it's top efficiency) would need about 6000 liter of fuel to produce the same amount of (useable) energy.
Something doesn't compute.
So you're off by at least a factor 100 (if a car can hold that many batteries), now we're down to about 10 megawatts. Not beyond the realm of possibilities.
Airpressure above the balloon is higher than below the balloon.
Think of a cube (1m x 1m x 1m) of some very light material submerged in water. The waterpressure from the sides (left vs right, from vs rear) cancel each other out. The waterpressure on top of the cube is lower than below the cube. The difference in pressure * the surface area = the force pushing it upwards.
He3 produces 20,000,000 times as much energy as coal. Redoing your calculations with those numbers, bringing back a pound of He3 could cost as much as 1,600,000 dollars to be economically viable!
You may or may not be aware of this fact, but the best coffee is made with boiling (100 C) water. In most countries coffee is consumed HOT.
I suggest you try this, travel to Europe, Italy for example (they make bloody good coffee over there), order a cup of coffee, spill it on your lap (by accident ofcourse) and sue the owner of the coffeeshop. I'll personally come over to Italy and laugh you out of court...
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10^12 / 1920 (pixels horizontally) / 1080 (pixels vertically) / 3 (bytes per pixel) / 25 (frames per second) / 60 (seconds per minute) = 107 minutes.
So this new holographic disc can hold 1 hours and 47 minutes of uncompressed HDTV video. You would still need 6 discs for the entire trilogy...
> Going all the way back to Windows 3.1, even
> my worst Windows installs always end up with
> more things functioning than with the best
> Linux installs.
So the only program you use is Solitaire and Calculator, must be because there weren't any other programs installed.
> I don't know what went wrong, but it absolutely
> refuses to accept my disc 3's.
So you skipped the 'check cd test' and got bitten by a badly burned disc 3....
> Immediately upon loading Gnome, it tells me I have
> some updates to download. 166 of them.
And how is this any different to booting win2000. First you have to install IE6, then SP4 (129 mb) and then 42 other security related updates, having to reboot 7 times in the process. Oh and if you're not behind a hardware firewall 2 or 3 worms install themselves before you have updated to IE6.
> Oh, you say Fedora Core 2 doesn't work with Nvidia
> graphic cards by default, unless you change a few
> settings and recompile the kernel?
Hmm, strange I'm using FC 2 right now with a nVidia graphics card, without changing any settings, and without recompiling the kernel.
There are sections that are mined with a single mine (> 20 tons). Some years ago one of them was set off by lightning .....
Using part of the memory as a RAM-disk is just plain silly. Let the OS deal with the disk caching, if it makes a big difference, there's something wrong with your disk caching.
Multiply by 8, since each BIT requires several transisters. There are 16 trillion bits in 2 TB.
- Where are cows fed to cows?
- Where are cows going mad?
+ Hmm same answer, coincidence?
- Where are those mad cows being eaten?
- Where are human getting sick?
+ Hmm same answer, coincidence?
I know it's not absolute proof, but still something to think about.
By the way, in case you're wondering, what if people ate other people, would the same happen? The answer is yes, it is known from the folklore of kanabalistic tribes, that if you eat too many brains, you go mad...
The same thing was known in kanabalistic tribes, if you eat to many brains, you go crazy.
Those prions are nothing special, they have always been there, but not in enough quantity to do any (as far as we know) harm. Those species at the end of the food chain receive some more prions through their diet, but still not in hazardess quantities.
When we started feeding cows to cows(yes, money makes prople do strange things), we created a loop in the food chain, in effect stretching the food chain infinitly. The species in the loop (cows) and those at the end of the food chain developed a new disease because of the overdose of prions.
Actually RISC is a bad name for what it stand for, it should have been SISC (Simplified Instruction Set Computer), since the key difference between the two are the complexity of the instructions and not the quantity.
A CISC instruction could do things like: take the value in register BP, add 4, get the value from the memory at the address you just computed, add the value in the register AX, and put the result back at the same memory location. Execution would take several clock-ticks.
To do the same in RISC, you would need several instructions (add 4, get from memory, add ax, store to memory). The execution of the individual instructions would take one tick each, so the sequence would take several. But on average RISC was a bit faster.
CISC was invented in a time that the memory was small, in the CISC way you could store larger programs in the same amount of memory.
RISC was invented when memory-size was not limited anymore, and looked to displace CISC in the long run.
CISC was still around when the memory bandwidth became a limiting factor. And since fewer instructions needed to be fetched from memory, more bandwidth was left for other data traffic. RISC lost some of it's speed advantage.
Modern CISC processors, get CISC instructions from memory, chop them up in smaller instructions, and executes those smaller instructions really fast. So in fact they can be seen as RISC processors, posing as CISC processors, ie the best of both worlds.
So CISC is a way of compressing RISC instructions, so they take up less memory/bandwidth.
There is nothing high-tech about NASCAR, carburetted engines are a thing from the past.
This Friday, Saterday and next week wednesday will be the deciding stages. This friday and saterday stages end with a Category 1 climb (the kind of stages Lance always uses to attack). Not sure wether Lance is gonna 'need' the uphill TT next week.
Na and Cl are both nasty chemicals, but I eat NaCl every day.
- 0.88 seconds is not well within the margin of error that the human drivers would introduce.
- If you would put all 20 current f1 drivers in exactly the same car, 15 of them would qualify within 0.5 of a second.
- 0.88 seconds advantage every 73 laps (Indianapolis) would accumulate to 64,24 seconds (almost a lap).
In KDE you can do the exact same thing. Except left click opens in the same windows, and middle click opens in a new window. Browsing the internet works exactly the same way.
How many bits per color are stored on a DVD. Yep, only 6, so I guess it's good enough.
You don't even need another machine, just download the iso's, download a bootimage, write a diskette, boot, point to iso directory, install.
7 stream totaling les than 2 MB/s should be a problem, for a single drive.
5 250 GB harddrives in a raid 5 array shouldn't have a problem with it either.
You say it would take a thousend megawatts to charge a car in one minute.
Well let's calculate:
1 x 10^9 watt x 60 seconds = 6 x 10^10 Joule
Your average car (at it's top efficiency) would need about 6000 liter of fuel to produce the same amount of (useable) energy.
Something doesn't compute.
So you're off by at least a factor 100 (if a car can hold that many batteries), now we're down to about 10 megawatts. Not beyond the realm of possibilities.
Slashdot will probably post a dupe 365 days from now.
Well, since there are only two audio channels on your cd's, reencoding your entire cd collection won't do much good.
Airpressure above the balloon is higher than below the balloon.
Think of a cube (1m x 1m x 1m) of some very light material submerged in water. The waterpressure from the sides (left vs right, from vs rear) cancel each other out. The waterpressure on top of the cube is lower than below the cube. The difference in pressure * the surface area = the force pushing it upwards.
He3 produces 20,000,000 times as much energy as coal. Redoing your calculations with those numbers, bringing back a pound of He3 could cost as much as 1,600,000 dollars to be economically viable!
You're absolutely correct, He3 yields about 20,000,000 times as much energy as coal. Oh well, only of by a factor of 20,000 :)
Fusing 1 kg of He3 yields 20,000,000 times the energy as burning 1 kg of coal.
Atomic mass:
H : 1.007825
D : 2.014102
He3 : 3.016029
He4 : 4.002603
Atomic mass loss per kilogram He3: ((D + He3) - (H + He4)) / He3 = (5.030131 - 5.010428) / 3.016029 = 0.0065327
Energie per kilogram He3 : 0.0065327 * c^2 = 5.88 * 10^14 J (is about the 19 Megawatt years quoted in the article.
Energie per kilogram coal is about 29 * 10^6 J.
5.88 * 10^14 / 29 * 10^6 = 20 * 10^6
So 1 kilogram of He3 produces about the same energie as 20,000,000 kilograms of coal.
Oh well, being wrong by a factor of 20,000 is not too bad for slashdot.
You may or may not be aware of this fact, but the best coffee is made with boiling (100 C) water. In most countries coffee is consumed HOT.
I suggest you try this, travel to Europe, Italy for example (they make bloody good coffee over there), order a cup of coffee, spill it on your lap (by accident ofcourse) and sue the owner of the coffeeshop. I'll personally come over to Italy and laugh you out of court...