mm of mercury, I thought inches of mercury was a more commonly used unit.
Anyway, does anybody see the irony of measuring air pressure in a weightless environment in how high (in mm) the pressure would push mercury into a tube that has the top sealed off from the air.
I really hate it when a single article uses 4 units (mercury, mm, pounds, inch) to express pressure (force per area). - Mercury has the same mass everywhere, but it doesn't weigh the same everywhere, especially on the ISS where it weights practically nothing. - mm, wow a standard unit, I'm impressed, but it was used in combination with mercury, while normally inches are used in combination with mercury. - Pounds, what pounds, deprecated unit, and again it's a measure of weight. - Inch, again a deprecated unit, but at least it's used to measure an area, not the height of mercury.
1 atm (standardized sea level pressure) = 1.01325 Bar = 1013.25 mBar = 1013.25 hPa = 101325 Pa = 101325 N/m2 = (approx) 29.92 inches of mercury = 759.968 mm of mercury = (approx) 14.7 pounds per square inch
> "If it's a hoax Kelley is the obvious candidate," says Neal. > But he adds that Rudolph bought many alchemical texts that > are far cruder forgeries than the Voynich manuscript. > "Rudolph was easily fooled. If the Voynich was a hoax by > Kelley, it looks a bit like overkill," Neal says.
Good on you Rudolph, at least one of the forgeries that fooled you, was a good one.
> The last time we even came close to "supporting" Saddam was while Iran and Iraq were at war.
You mean the US supported one side of a war, that was none of their business. In doing so they helped Saddam become the cruel dictator everybody knows today. To 'rectify' the situation the US fought two more wars to get rid of him.
Can you imagine where all that arab hatred against the US comes from? I can.
And how do you explain that I have a AMD 486-DX4-100 still running a firewall, a K6-233 still running a fileserver, and a Duron-800 that is still used as my daily workstation. Sounds to me you've had a streak of bad luck or you're combining those AMD procs with some really crappy MB's.
If somebody asks me for advise for a budget computer, I answer Athlon 2500+ (Barton core) with a decent MB and decent memory.
If somebody asks me for advise on a high perfomance computer, the answer is exactly the same. Why pay 3 to 5 times more for only 25% extra performance!
> Electric cars are also at least as polluting as any other fuel, because the > energy has to be generated somehow.
Car engines have really lousy efficiency compared to power plants. If a car engines runs at anything not close to full throttle, it's even less efficient. If the car engines runs at an rpm not close to the maximum torque, it's even less efficient. But if you choose to ignore that, you're absolutely right.
> The greater the mass of the battery, so the more energy is required to > accelerate it to a given speed
Well I'll just quote you to show that this is a non-statement: "Regenerative braking is standard now - so the energy you expended while accelerating can be recovered when you slow down"
> and then do a system-wide deployment of the fix to some 2000+ clients. I like to think > that as long as Microsoft keeps making, er, crappy software, and as long as we still > have crackers writing virii and trojans, I don't have to worry about losing my job.
Shouldn't that be: "As long as windows keeps providing us with fixes to the exploits, I'll be ok. And as long as we can sweep the other problems under the rug, I don't have to worry about losing my job"
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The instructian set is extremely poor and a complete mess. But it's not really holding back modern processors. It doesn't matter anymore that the instructions are arcane, the processor translates them into simple instructions, and executes those simple instructions very fast.
You kan get kikked out of the KDE Developers Anonymous for talking like that. You write 'ski' with a k, while it obviously should be written with a k, other spelling errors: sourke, krakk, kwikk, kritikizing, kikked, kondukt.
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Maybe it's 8.3 cm x 8.3 cm x 3.1 cm, they clearly made a mistake. http://www.aaaprice.com/saypmp3pl.html even claims it weights 9 lbs while one of the 'Supplied Accessories' is a neck strap.
Looks like the specs are a bit messed up. 8.3" x 8.3" x 3.1" (21cm x 21 cm x 7.9cm) is about about 0.9 gallon (3.5 liters). And this huge volume is supposed to weight only 2.2 ounces (60/70 grams or so, depending on the kind of ounce).
Some other sources state the same dimensions, but a very different weight. http://www.aaaprice.com/saypmp3pl.html for example claims this portable weights in at a wopping 9 lbs. I tried, but I can't seem to find the correct weight.
"But there are disadvantages to being a one-man show. It's hard to imagine Microsoft coming home drunk one night from a party and accidentally uploading its entire source code, as Meyer did a few years back. "I woke up the next morning and found an e-mail from a friend alerting me to what I'd done. My heart stopped. I had basically given away 12 years of work. I thought my life was over." He was able to remove the files before anyone could spread them around, but to this day he feels like he dodged a bullet. "I don't drink anymore," he says."
- 50$ per month for your internet connection is 600$ per year - finding, downloading, checking, burning takes a lot of time. I for one value my free time. - VCD quality is a lot worse than VHS.
Not quite there yet, but a mini-itx mainboard with a hauppauge pvr 350 in a cute small case almost does the trick. Just the decoding on the 350 doesn't work yet...
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mm of mercury, I thought inches of mercury was a more commonly used unit.
Anyway, does anybody see the irony of measuring air pressure in a weightless environment in how high (in mm) the pressure would push mercury into a tube that has the top sealed off from the air.
I really hate it when a single article uses 4 units (mercury, mm, pounds, inch) to express pressure (force per area).
- Mercury has the same mass everywhere, but it doesn't weigh the same everywhere, especially on the ISS where it weights practically nothing.
- mm, wow a standard unit, I'm impressed, but it was used in combination with mercury, while normally inches are used in combination with mercury.
- Pounds, what pounds, deprecated unit, and again it's a measure of weight.
- Inch, again a deprecated unit, but at least it's used to measure an area, not the height of mercury.
1 atm (standardized sea level pressure)
= 1.01325 Bar
= 1013.25 mBar
= 1013.25 hPa
= 101325 Pa
= 101325 N/m2
= (approx) 29.92 inches of mercury
= 759.968 mm of mercury
= (approx) 14.7 pounds per square inch
> "If it's a hoax Kelley is the obvious candidate," says Neal.
> But he adds that Rudolph bought many alchemical texts that
> are far cruder forgeries than the Voynich manuscript.
> "Rudolph was easily fooled. If the Voynich was a hoax by
> Kelley, it looks a bit like overkill," Neal says.
Good on you Rudolph, at least one of the forgeries that
fooled you, was a good one.
Well, if you want to overclock a VW beetle, do it right. Stuff a 8.2 liter Caddillac engine in the back and burn some rubber:
http://www.500cid.com/mts/Rides/joe/index.htm
> Why, only today did I learn that flammable and inflammable meant the same thing!
Probably because inflammable mean opposite things in different versions of english.
> The last time we even came close to "supporting" Saddam was while Iran and Iraq were at war.
You mean the US supported one side of a war, that was none of their business. In doing so they helped Saddam become the cruel dictator everybody knows today.
To 'rectify' the situation the US fought two more wars to get rid of him.
Can you imagine where all that arab hatred against the US comes from? I can.
And how do you explain that I have a AMD 486-DX4-100 still running a firewall, a K6-233 still running a fileserver, and a Duron-800 that is still used as my daily workstation. Sounds to me you've had a streak of bad luck or you're combining those AMD procs with some really crappy MB's.
If somebody asks me for advise for a budget computer, I answer Athlon 2500+ (Barton core) with a decent MB and decent memory.
If somebody asks me for advise on a high perfomance computer, the answer is exactly the same. Why pay 3 to 5 times more for only 25% extra performance!
If you're not using IE, run IEradicator to remove it from your system.
> Electric cars are also at least as polluting as any other fuel, because the
> energy has to be generated somehow.
Car engines have really lousy efficiency compared to power plants. If a car engines runs at anything not close to full throttle, it's even less efficient. If the car engines runs at an rpm not close to the maximum torque, it's even less efficient. But if you choose to ignore that, you're absolutely right.
> The greater the mass of the battery, so the more energy is required to
> accelerate it to a given speed
Well I'll just quote you to show that this is a non-statement:
"Regenerative braking is standard now - so the energy you expended while accelerating can be recovered when you slow down"
The difference is not the 4x speed increase. The difference is 10x-30x power decrease.
Alt-F2
by the way Alt-F2 starts a web browser showing the URL
> and then do a system-wide deployment of the fix to some 2000+ clients. I like to think
> that as long as Microsoft keeps making, er, crappy software, and as long as we still
> have crackers writing virii and trojans, I don't have to worry about losing my job.
Shouldn't that be: "As long as windows keeps providing us with fixes to the exploits, I'll be ok. And as long as we can sweep the other problems under the rug, I don't have to worry about losing my job"
The instructian set is extremely poor and a complete mess. But it's not really holding back modern processors. It doesn't matter anymore that the instructions are arcane, the processor translates them into simple instructions, and executes those simple instructions very fast.
You kan get kikked out of the KDE Developers Anonymous for talking like that. You write 'ski' with a k, while it obviously should be written with a k, other spelling errors: sourke, krakk, kwikk, kritikizing, kikked, kondukt.
Exit KDE
....
....
edit ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals
change:
[Desktops]
Number=4
into
[Desktops]
Number=32
restart KDE, voila.
Maybe it's 8.3 cm x 8.3 cm x 3.1 cm, they clearly made a mistake.
http://www.aaaprice.com/saypmp3pl.html even claims it weights 9 lbs while one of the 'Supplied Accessories' is a neck strap.
Looks like the specs are a bit messed up. 8.3" x 8.3" x 3.1" (21cm x 21 cm x 7.9cm) is about about 0.9 gallon (3.5 liters). And this huge volume is supposed to weight only 2.2 ounces (60/70 grams or so, depending on the kind of ounce).
Some other sources state the same dimensions, but a very different weight. http://www.aaaprice.com/saypmp3pl.html for example claims this portable weights in at a wopping 9 lbs. I tried, but I can't seem to find the correct weight.
Well actually 'make xconfig' uses the Qt libraries. So 'make xconfig' is just as much KDE as 'make gconfig' is Gnome.
LED's can not be 4 times as efficient as fluorescents, since fluorescents are 80% efficient.
1. odds: 48.65%
2. even: 48.65%
3. zero: 2.7%
4. profit
I'm probably posting too late, so nobody will read this, but it has to be said.
There is only one country in the world were someone can build a 3100 lbs car the size of a shopping cart and call it practical and economical.
How is it possible that such a small car weights 2000 lbs (without the batteries)?
"But there are disadvantages to being a one-man show. It's hard to imagine Microsoft coming home drunk one night from a party and accidentally uploading its entire source code, as Meyer did a few years back. "I woke up the next morning and found an e-mail from a friend alerting me to what I'd done. My heart stopped. I had basically given away 12 years of work. I thought my life was over." He was able to remove the files before anyone could spread them around, but to this day he feels like he dodged a bullet. "I don't drink anymore," he says."
> I really wish that there was a distribution of the GNU OS that used a non-Linux kernel
GNU/Debian/HURD, GNU/Debian/BSD
Hmm, aren't you forgetting something:
- 50$ per month for your internet connection is 600$ per year
- finding, downloading, checking, burning takes a lot of time. I for one value my free time.
- VCD quality is a lot worse than VHS.
Not quite there yet, but a mini-itx mainboard with a hauppauge pvr 350 in a cute small case almost does the trick. Just the decoding on the 350 doesn't work yet...
The mpeg chip only helps for decoding mpeg, the encoding process still needs the processor a lot.