...I've had experience with two Acer laptops, and in both cases I've been very disappointed. Certainly, they're very cheap, but you don't get anything more than you pay for. The build quality is very low -- hold up the laptop by one corner, and the whole thing flexes and creaks. Not a lot of thought has gone into important issues such as thermal and noise management, and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone.
As others have already remarked, it's unclear why a company with a strong brand like Ferrari would chose to pair with such a weak manufacturer. IMHO, Ferrari can only lose by association with such a poor-quality product.
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Why say 'burglarized' when there's a perfectly good English word 'burgled'?
In my department, we bend over backwards to encourage US students to study graduate-level physics. But they're all too greedy -- they want a high-paying job, which physics isn't. If it wasn't for the Chinese and Indians, we'd have problems meeting our recruitment levels.
This situation persists at the postdoc level. And when a country starts paying more for postdocs than the US, then the US can kiss goodbye to its science lead as all of the productive scientists leave for better pastures.
Never once have I seen a problem with foreign students displacing US citizens. It just doesn't happen -- because the 'natives' are just not interested in doing physics.
The "Salem Hypothesis" (named after Bruce Salem) is a name for a correlation that has been observed amongst scientists, between subscribing to creationism and working in an engineering discipline. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_hypothesis)
I seem to recall hearing that US spy planes have a special 'eraser' built into onboard HDDs, that behave like arc welders. Turn it on, and within less than a second the platters are completely slagged.
As someone else has pointed out, it is legal in Germany for police to monitor phone calls, when they get appropriate authorization from a judge. Contrast this with the United States, where the administration is trying to award retroactive immunity to itself and telcos for years of illegal phone surveillance.
Boy, you really don't know shit. If you put the Earth in Neptune's orbit, it would certainly have a higher potential energy -- but it would have *less* kinetic energy, and orbit more slowly. For systems in orbit, the orbital velocity varies as 1/sqrt(r) -- the wider the orbit, the slower the motion.
So, in binary system, if orbital energy is lost due to gravitational radiation, the orbits get closer, and the velocities go up. This is a straightforward example of the virial theorem, which also predicts that a self-gravitating gaseous sphere will heat up as it radiates energy away.
If the neutron stars lose energy due to gravitational radiation, their orbital speed will increase, not slow down. Try learning some physics before you post.
5. Fortran + CUDA -- then, my son, and only then, you have graduated from the CS level ("implement an OO model for a Coke vending machine", or "write a point-and-drool interface") to the Real Programmer level ("write a parallel hydro code for simulating thermonuclear bombs").
You Americans and your soft education system. Where I went to University, I didn't get given a single grade for three years. Then, I sat eight 3-hour exams within the space of 12 days, testing *everything* I had learned (about physics) over the previous three years. That's not the sort of thing you can cram for.
This modular shite, where students learn for the exam and then forget, is worthless. At the end of my degree, I had the whole syllabus in my head at once. This experience -- of grokking the whole of physics as a gestalt, rather than digesting bite-sized and apparently unrelated chunks, as one would in a modular course -- has proven an invaluable experience throughout my post-University life.
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Ah yes, the same expository clarity that brought us notions such as the Trinity and the Immaculate Conception.
Whoosh!
...I've had experience with two Acer laptops, and in both cases I've been very disappointed. Certainly, they're very cheap, but you don't get anything more than you pay for. The build quality is very low -- hold up the laptop by one corner, and the whole thing flexes and creaks. Not a lot of thought has gone into important issues such as thermal and noise management, and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone.
As others have already remarked, it's unclear why a company with a strong brand like Ferrari would chose to pair with such a weak manufacturer. IMHO, Ferrari can only lose by association with such a poor-quality product.
Why say 'burglarized' when there's a perfectly good English word 'burgled'?
In my department, we bend over backwards to encourage US students to study graduate-level physics. But they're all too greedy -- they want a high-paying job, which physics isn't. If it wasn't for the Chinese and Indians, we'd have problems meeting our recruitment levels.
This situation persists at the postdoc level. And when a country starts paying more for postdocs than the US, then the US can kiss goodbye to its science lead as all of the productive scientists leave for better pastures.
Never once have I seen a problem with foreign students displacing US citizens. It just doesn't happen -- because the 'natives' are just not interested in doing physics.
I was being ironic, you insensitive clod!
Or, you could learn to grok irony.
Surely you could just reposition the large dick growing from your forehead?
And let's not forget all of the other valuable stuff the Peace Corps does. Like serve as a cover for CIA agents that agitate and help set up coups.
I wonder if this will have any effect on MythTV?
The "Salem Hypothesis" (named after Bruce Salem) is a name for a correlation that has been observed amongst scientists, between subscribing to creationism and working in an engineering discipline. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_hypothesis)
I seem to recall hearing that US spy planes have a special 'eraser' built into onboard HDDs, that behave like arc welders. Turn it on, and within less than a second the platters are completely slagged.
So who shat on your cornflakes this morning, sunshine?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz5cl131KTk
Hurrah! Have a banana, my simian friend!
As someone else has pointed out, it is legal in Germany for police to monitor phone calls, when they get appropriate authorization from a judge. Contrast this with the United States, where the administration is trying to award retroactive immunity to itself and telcos for years of illegal phone surveillance.
Boy, you really don't know shit. If you put the Earth in Neptune's orbit, it would certainly have a higher potential energy -- but it would have *less* kinetic energy, and orbit more slowly. For systems in orbit, the orbital velocity varies as 1/sqrt(r) -- the wider the orbit, the slower the motion.
So, in binary system, if orbital energy is lost due to gravitational radiation, the orbits get closer, and the velocities go up. This is a straightforward example of the virial theorem, which also predicts that a self-gravitating gaseous sphere will heat up as it radiates energy away.
If the neutron stars lose energy due to gravitational radiation, their orbital speed will increase, not slow down. Try learning some physics before you post.
5. Fortran + CUDA -- then, my son, and only then, you have graduated from the CS level ("implement an OO model for a Coke vending machine", or "write a point-and-drool interface") to the Real Programmer level ("write a parallel hydro code for simulating thermonuclear bombs").
You Americans and your soft education system. Where I went to University, I didn't get given a single grade for three years. Then, I sat eight 3-hour exams within the space of 12 days, testing *everything* I had learned (about physics) over the previous three years. That's not the sort of thing you can cram for.
This modular shite, where students learn for the exam and then forget, is worthless. At the end of my degree, I had the whole syllabus in my head at once. This experience -- of grokking the whole of physics as a gestalt, rather than digesting bite-sized and apparently unrelated chunks, as one would in a modular course -- has proven an invaluable experience throughout my post-University life.
FNORD! FNORD!
Well said, you fat bastard!
If an application can bring down the machine, then I don't want any part of that
Aardpig is feeling sore coz his 200+ days uptime Linux workstation got powered off when the storm-induced blackout went on longer than his APC did...
In England, they use 'earthed'. And yep, they're native speakers...
Slashdot user ignorantly uses an apostrophe in a plural!