Do you realize how many otherwise learned comments are tossing around the figure of 2 BILLION transistors on this CPU? Huh? Did anyone stop to wonder how many square mm 2 BILLION transistors would take up? I figure it would at least cover an entire ATX motherboard at extremely high density, and probably dissipate at least 50 kW of power.
Er, well, actually, BP doesn't stand for British Petroleum any more. It officially stands only for BP. In fact, they have tried to make people think BP stands for Beyond Petroleum. OK, this sounds like an academic point, but actually it illustrates the very practical point that all these corps from whatever country are international and indistinguishable nowadays.
Yes. Corruption is the most universal constant there is. The U.S. - corrupt. Mexico, Argentina, Canada, Australia, Europe, Russia, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel, India, China, Japan, ad nauseum - all corrupt. All the countries I haven't mentioned - pretty much all struggle with corruption. The Third Reich was corrupt. Fascist Italy. The Soviet Union. Napoleon's Empire. The Roman Empire. The Aztecs. The Egyptian Dynasties.
1) Mint 12 gives you MATE, which is a repackaged Gnome2 with the signal advantage that it can be installed together with Gnome3 and they do not conflict with each other. So Mint gives you a choice of which one to log in under.
2) Mint 12 has gone to a lot of trouble with extensions for Gnome3 to mitigate the pain. It's only to get better.
Yeah, keep bleating "4 legs good, 2 legs bad." You can swallow the bullshit if you want, but the system is coming around to a better understanding of arteriosclerosis, aka atherosclerosis. For example, see Inflammation and atherosclerosis, Inflammation in atherosclerosis, and a lot of other research. Your "high LDL, low HDL" blood content has a correlation with arteriosclerosis, but which is the cause and which the response? Eh?
Pay special attention to findings like:
... certain treatments that reduce coronary risk also limit inflammation. In the case of lipid lowering with statins, this anti-inflammatory effect does not appear to correlate with reduction in low-density lipoprotein levels.
You are also seeing conventional medicine slowly (much too slowly) come around to an understanding what a wonderful food the egg is, how the phobia about butter and the fad for margarine have not been a good thing, and other truths you would probably label as quackery.
Deposits of cholesterol are the body's response to arterial pathology, not the cause of it.
I don't think that's how it works. The AC is going positive to negative and back to positive 60 times a second. Both the positive and the negative current flow cause the muscle to contract. It's not as if half the cycle causes contraction and the other half causes relaxation. And there is nowhere near enough time as the current crosses zero so rapidly for the muscle to even begin relaxing.
One thing about which there is no possible disagreement: 50-60 Hz AC is far more likely to cause lethal ventricular fibrillation if contacted even briefly, than either DC or any other frequency of AC. Essentially nobody spontaneously recovers from VF ever. It takes cardioversion with appropriate equipment to recover.
You're guessing wrong. AC at around 50-60 Hz is the worst possible form of electrical current for causing ventricular fibrillation, which is essentially 100% loss of consciousness within seconds and 100% fatal within minutes if not met rapidly with intervention in the form of both removal from contact and cardioversion equipment. Microamps of 60 Hz AC directly through the heart for one second will kill you if there is no one to save you. Milliamps through the torso for one second can do the same.
It takes much more DC than that to induce fibrillation, and it is going to be hit or miss with ANY amount of current. Most of the time, brief contact with enough DC passing through it will spasm the heart until the contact is broken, but you have a good chance the heart will restart on its own within seconds of breaking contact unless it literally gets fried. If you stay connected to enough DC, then yeah, the continuing spasm in the heart keeps the circulation at zero for the duration and you will be a goner, but it's nowhere near as likely this will happen as it is that AC will kill you by inducing VF.
And I'm not at all convinced that AC is easier to let go of than a similar amount of DC. With the current going positive to negative and back to positive 60 times per second, it's not like the muscle has any chance whatsoever to relax. Both positive and negative current cause it to contract in a spasm. It's gonna stay gripping the wire if there is enough current.
LEDs have an extremely sharp current vs voltage knee, and tend to run away thermally. You have to feed them using current regulation, not voltage regulation. That regulation would be wastefully lossy if done using linear regulators, so we're looking at switching regulators. Ta da - the current is gonna have to be AC at the regulation point anyway. There would be a saving, because any design worth its salt would use high frequency AC, not 60 Hz, but the saving wouldn't be as great as you might think.
The native voltage of a white LED junction is around 3.5v. You feed them from as little as 4 volts without limiting the current and they will instantly burn out. Or if you drop it down to 3v they will practically go out.
You're questioning the right things. Statins are a money making hoax. Oh, they accomplish what they set out to do, but the effect is beside the point. The body makes its own cholesterol. If it didn't, we would all die. You can't have a working brain and nervous system without cholesterol. Arteriosclerosis is caused by inflammation of arteries, not too much cholesterol.
Eskimos traditionally gorged on fat and ate practically no fruit and vegetables. And heart attacks were almost unknown. Japanese eat a lot of fat and are well known for living to a very old age. My grandfather loved red meat and heaps of fat, and gravy on everything. English style cooking. One of his favorite things to eat was gravy sopped up with pieces of bread. He also liked to make a super simple meal out of bread and milk. He lived actively to over 80 before modern medicine, and his heart was fine. We used to watch him go outside in shirtsleeves in a Vermont winter and shovel snow at over age 70, and he would run in the lawn with the kids in the summer. He had a lot in his favor, though. He was an MD (a real GP who went to homes to see patients) and later taught physiology at University. He used to run about on his daily travels when *NOBODY* ran - for his health and because he just had a zest for life.
RTGs aren't nuclear reactors. They rely on the decay heat of the Plutonium 238 to generate electricity. There is no fission reaction taking place in an RTG.Of course, that's not to say that Plutonium isn't nasty in and of itself.
Actually, it *is* grammatically truly a kind of nuclear reactor.
Actually, while the picture conjured up by "nuclear reactor" is ludicrously inappropriate to this device, the term per se is not actually incorrect usage. The Pu-239 undergoes alpha decay in the device, which is, after all, a nuclear reaction.
'The often-quoted idea that "nuclear reactions" are confined to induced processes is incorrect. "Radioactive decays" are a subgroup of "nuclear reactions" that are spontaneous rather than induced.'
Please produce data that shows travel by high speed rail is more efficient in terms of liters per passenger per kilometer, and less polluting, than travel by efficient automobiles such as compact hybrids, diesels, and the like.
Excellent points. I just think you're much too kind to your parent. Your parent's idea that there is a cost associated with having "too many" choices does not hold water. First, there can never be "too many" choices. Next, the idea that it fragments developer resources is absurd. The guys working on KDE (or Xfce, or...) would not be working on Gnome if there was no KDE. They would just not be working on a DE at all. The open source, malleable world is not like the ghetto of Windows or Mac. It is much more rewarding to enthusiasm and individuality. It's not like Microsoft, where they would have to take guys off of Gnome to put them on KDE.
I happen to think the Gnome developers have exactly the wrong set of priorities and exactly the wrong view of usability. But that's less important precisely because there are also KDE, Xfce, and... - and now because there is MGSE as well. If, on the other hand, I think Microsoft's head is up their ass, I have no recourse whatsoever.
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Shhhh. You're giving them ideas.
Do you realize how many otherwise learned comments are tossing around the figure of 2 BILLION transistors on this CPU? Huh? Did anyone stop to wonder how many square mm 2 BILLION transistors would take up? I figure it would at least cover an entire ATX motherboard at extremely high density, and probably dissipate at least 50 kW of power.
It's MILLION, folks.
eH? Two BILLION? That's a whale of a processor.
So in other words you don't have any issue with the SUBSTANCE of what he says, that you feel it worthwhile to bring up.
Er, well, actually, BP doesn't stand for British Petroleum any more. It officially stands only for BP. In fact, they have tried to make people think BP stands for Beyond Petroleum. OK, this sounds like an academic point, but actually it illustrates the very practical point that all these corps from whatever country are international and indistinguishable nowadays.
Linux is for lazy bums. BSD forever :-)
Yes. Corruption is the most universal constant there is. The U.S. - corrupt. Mexico, Argentina, Canada, Australia, Europe, Russia, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel, India, China, Japan, ad nauseum - all corrupt. All the countries I haven't mentioned - pretty much all struggle with corruption. The Third Reich was corrupt. Fascist Italy. The Soviet Union. Napoleon's Empire. The Roman Empire. The Aztecs. The Egyptian Dynasties.
Don't be an ass, coward. Mint 12 also comes with MATE, a repackaged Gnome2 that does not conflict with Gnome3. They give you a choice.
Both of you cowards are S-T-U-P-I-D.
1) Mint 12 gives you MATE, which is a repackaged Gnome2 with the signal advantage that it can be installed together with Gnome3 and they do not conflict with each other. So Mint gives you a choice of which one to log in under.
2) Mint 12 has gone to a lot of trouble with extensions for Gnome3 to mitigate the pain. It's only to get better.
Yeah, keep bleating "4 legs good, 2 legs bad." You can swallow the bullshit if you want, but the system is coming around to a better understanding of arteriosclerosis, aka atherosclerosis. For example, see Inflammation and atherosclerosis, Inflammation in atherosclerosis, and a lot of other research. Your "high LDL, low HDL" blood content has a correlation with arteriosclerosis, but which is the cause and which the response? Eh?
Pay special attention to findings like:
You are also seeing conventional medicine slowly (much too slowly) come around to an understanding what a wonderful food the egg is, how the phobia about butter and the fad for margarine have not been a good thing, and other truths you would probably label as quackery.
Deposits of cholesterol are the body's response to arterial pathology, not the cause of it.
I don't think that's how it works. The AC is going positive to negative and back to positive 60 times a second. Both the positive and the negative current flow cause the muscle to contract. It's not as if half the cycle causes contraction and the other half causes relaxation. And there is nowhere near enough time as the current crosses zero so rapidly for the muscle to even begin relaxing.
One thing about which there is no possible disagreement: 50-60 Hz AC is far more likely to cause lethal ventricular fibrillation if contacted even briefly, than either DC or any other frequency of AC. Essentially nobody spontaneously recovers from VF ever. It takes cardioversion with appropriate equipment to recover.
You're guessing wrong. AC at around 50-60 Hz is the worst possible form of electrical current for causing ventricular fibrillation, which is essentially 100% loss of consciousness within seconds and 100% fatal within minutes if not met rapidly with intervention in the form of both removal from contact and cardioversion equipment. Microamps of 60 Hz AC directly through the heart for one second will kill you if there is no one to save you. Milliamps through the torso for one second can do the same.
It takes much more DC than that to induce fibrillation, and it is going to be hit or miss with ANY amount of current. Most of the time, brief contact with enough DC passing through it will spasm the heart until the contact is broken, but you have a good chance the heart will restart on its own within seconds of breaking contact unless it literally gets fried. If you stay connected to enough DC, then yeah, the continuing spasm in the heart keeps the circulation at zero for the duration and you will be a goner, but it's nowhere near as likely this will happen as it is that AC will kill you by inducing VF.
And I'm not at all convinced that AC is easier to let go of than a similar amount of DC. With the current going positive to negative and back to positive 60 times per second, it's not like the muscle has any chance whatsoever to relax. Both positive and negative current cause it to contract in a spasm. It's gonna stay gripping the wire if there is enough current.
LEDs have an extremely sharp current vs voltage knee, and tend to run away thermally. You have to feed them using current regulation, not voltage regulation. That regulation would be wastefully lossy if done using linear regulators, so we're looking at switching regulators. Ta da - the current is gonna have to be AC at the regulation point anyway. There would be a saving, because any design worth its salt would use high frequency AC, not 60 Hz, but the saving wouldn't be as great as you might think.
The native voltage of a white LED junction is around 3.5v. You feed them from as little as 4 volts without limiting the current and they will instantly burn out. Or if you drop it down to 3v they will practically go out.
Most power steering is hydraulic, not pneumatic. Most power brakes are pneumatic.
You're questioning the right things. Statins are a money making hoax. Oh, they accomplish what they set out to do, but the effect is beside the point. The body makes its own cholesterol. If it didn't, we would all die. You can't have a working brain and nervous system without cholesterol. Arteriosclerosis is caused by inflammation of arteries, not too much cholesterol.
Eskimos traditionally gorged on fat and ate practically no fruit and vegetables. And heart attacks were almost unknown. Japanese eat a lot of fat and are well known for living to a very old age. My grandfather loved red meat and heaps of fat, and gravy on everything. English style cooking. One of his favorite things to eat was gravy sopped up with pieces of bread. He also liked to make a super simple meal out of bread and milk. He lived actively to over 80 before modern medicine, and his heart was fine. We used to watch him go outside in shirtsleeves in a Vermont winter and shovel snow at over age 70, and he would run in the lawn with the kids in the summer. He had a lot in his favor, though. He was an MD (a real GP who went to homes to see patients) and later taught physiology at University. He used to run about on his daily travels when *NOBODY* ran - for his health and because he just had a zest for life.
This is a Radioisotope Thermal Generator (RTG) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator (wikipedia). It produces heat via radioactive decay. It is not in any way, shape, or form, a "reactor."
Actually, it *is* grammatically truly a kind of nuclear reactor.
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2547780&cid=38193156
RTGs aren't nuclear reactors. They rely on the decay heat of the Plutonium 238 to generate electricity. There is no fission reaction taking place in an RTG.Of course, that's not to say that Plutonium isn't nasty in and of itself.
Actually, it *is* grammatically truly a kind of nuclear reactor.
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2547780&cid=38193156
Actually, while the picture conjured up by "nuclear reactor" is ludicrously inappropriate to this device, the term per se is not actually incorrect usage. The Pu-239 undergoes alpha decay in the device, which is, after all, a nuclear reaction.
'The often-quoted idea that "nuclear reactions" are confined to induced processes is incorrect. "Radioactive decays" are a subgroup of "nuclear reactions" that are spontaneous rather than induced.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reaction
The half life of Pu-238 is 87.7 years. The unit from Apollo 13 should still be generating most of its original thermal output.
Winning an election does not protect filthy politicians who ignore the constitution. They are stil enemies of the Nation.
Don't bring in a straw man. You said "sure". So show it.
Please produce data that shows travel by high speed rail is more efficient in terms of liters per passenger per kilometer, and less polluting, than travel by efficient automobiles such as compact hybrids, diesels, and the like.
Or do you just assume that on faith?
Your world sure is little, and you're welcome to it.
Excellent points. I just think you're much too kind to your parent. Your parent's idea that there is a cost associated with having "too many" choices does not hold water. First, there can never be "too many" choices. Next, the idea that it fragments developer resources is absurd. The guys working on KDE (or Xfce, or ...) would not be working on Gnome if there was no KDE. They would just not be working on a DE at all. The open source, malleable world is not like the ghetto of Windows or Mac. It is much more rewarding to enthusiasm and individuality. It's not like Microsoft, where they would have to take guys off of Gnome to put them on KDE.
I happen to think the Gnome developers have exactly the wrong set of priorities and exactly the wrong view of usability. But that's less important precisely because there are also KDE, Xfce, and ... - and now because there is MGSE as well. If, on the other hand, I think Microsoft's head is up their ass, I have no recourse whatsoever.
Due process, goddammit. Do - you - understand - it? (apologies to Pulp Fiction)