Just because you find it 'hard to believe' doesn't mean it isn't true. Salt water is denser than fresh water, so the point is that the influx of a lot of cold, fresh water suddenly means that what used to be 'warm surface water' is no longer on the surface.
Out of curiosity, does running two processors side by side really help with heat dissipation?
Yes, a lot. I can't remember off the top of my head what the relationship is between clock speed and power disipation, but it is not linear. At least quadratic, probably worse. So a single core at 4GHz will consume much more power and generate much more heat than two 2GHz cores.
Its common knowledge. That doesn't mean its true though, but you can google that for yourself. The first link I hit is suggestive. Even the CIA factbook acknowledges that the USA is the largest per-capita (and absolute) emitter of carbon dioxide.
The USA has the highest per-capita pollution levels in the world. Its only because its such a sparasely populated country that its citizens are not drowning in smog and waste.
Hmm, I'm not sure that is true either. Hitler only invated Russia when he did becuase he thought the Western front was just a matter of time and he was bored fighting there. That was a bad misjudgement, but if, for example, he had won the battle of Britain and invaded England, freeing up a whole theatre of troops, then surely it would have been just a matter of time before the Soviets fell.
The Soviets won mostly because they were prepared to sacrifice astronomical numbers of people. A unified Europe under Hitler could have done the same if necessary.
Japan attacked the USA because they misjudged, and only expected a limited response. If Germany had won Britain, then the remaining British troops in exile in South-East Asia + the Australians and other commonwealth forces would not have been enough to prevent the Japanese from taking Australia. Plenty of resources there (including as much uranium as you would ever need), but it would have taken some time to develop.
And don't forget the German navy. Not terribly useful in a land battle against the Soviets. If the German navy was free to support Japan against the USA, would have changed the balance quite considerably.
Something I've always wanted to know though, how long would Hitler have gone before he declared war on Japan himself? I find it hard to believe he would have settled for peaceful coexistence.
Not at all, there is indeed some evidence that some US diplomats^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hspies knew what was going to happen, but surely not the scope, and probably not the exact date and time.
While it is definitely untrue that Roosevelt purposedly let the Japanese raid Pearl Harbor, it is also untrue that it was a complete surprise.
Welcome to the real world. The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait wasn't a complete surprise either, nor was Argentina's invasion of the Falklands, and those are just a couple of cases that spring to mind.
What you are describing is formal proof, not controlled experimentation. The notion of proving a mathematical theorem is unrelated to the notion of testing a physical theory by performing an experiment. I have no doubt if you look hard enough you can find isolated examples of the latter streching back a long way, but I stress isolated. It took a surprisingly long time to come up with the procedure of testing a hypothesis by performing an experiment, rather than just philosophizing about it.
Anyway, the ancient Greeks knew the earth was round and even had a ballpark estimate of the radius IIRC. But this was in contrast to the attitudes of other greeks. Aristotle, IIRC, said something along the lines of it being futile to try to figure out how the world works by observing it, the only way is to deduce everything by pure reasoning. Indeed, that notion was only really killed off with quantum mechanics (and possibly not even then, for some radical philosophers).
I'm not sure I agree with Wikipedia's defintion of science, BTW. I would want to add something about prediction and verifiability.
but the idea of, "I think that if I do x, y will result" followed by doing so and changing x until y DID result happened over and over and over before 1500.
Probably not as much as you think, actually. The idea of actually testing an idea by performing a controlled experiment really dates from around Galileo's time, not much before.
Of course, trial-and-error experimentation existed forever, if you include evolution then LITERALLY forever;) but that form of experimentation is to science as a million monkeys are to computer programming.
Hrmf. WTF are you even talking about? Something like this tried in the USA would result in a ton of out-of-work Congress folks.
Of course. Following on from the mass departures that followed the DMCA, CDA, PATRIOT, the broadcast flag, and no doubt will happen again after PATRIOT2.
Your numbers imply you are using the british definition of billion, ie. 10^12. But 2 x 10^13 sounds way too high for the number of SMS messages sent in Britain per year, it corresponds to an average of over 30 SMS messages for every man, woman and child in the country per day. Did you mean 2x10^10 messages instead?
There wern't any scientists in 1500, not in the modern sense anyway. The scientific method dates from a century or two later.
Scientists said going to the Moon would never happen.
Which scientists? When? Names and dates please.
Scientists said that we could never be able to eradicate Smallpox.
Again, which scientists? When?
Scientists say a lot of things aren't possible. Doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
No, actual scientists rarely say something is impossible (unless it actually is:-), they might say something is very difficult, and they might be very skeptical about your chances of succeeding. But that is a completely different thing.
don't forget too that for a while now ASIO and ASIS have had the right to break into any computer in Australia and add/delete/modify data at will.
Want to silence a dissident? Easy, just get ASIO to plant some kiddie porn on their computer, or change their tax records and get them for tax evasion.
No, its just a historical accident in naming. The Liberal Party were always the conservatives in Australia. The *actual* liberal party is the Labour party, although as with most western democracies, both sides have shifted towards the centre-right in recent years.
Actually, I'm not entirely sure these cases would be fought in an Australian court. Clearly, a case based on the Australian law that implements the FTA would be fought in an Aussie court, but if it came down to an argument as to whether the law actually implements the FTA correctly, then it would be up to some kind of tribunal run by both governments (ie. really run by the USA with some token puppets from Australia). That is, IIUC, the FTA trumps the law anyway.
Yeah, and most likely, it will never become public domain now. It is quite likely a lot of post-1922 newspapers will simply vanish, because even making a copy for private use is an infringement, no way could a museum (for example) do this systematically.
I believe a lot of old films have already been lost, because tracking the current copyright holder is too expensive or simply cannot be done, but without their permission it is illegal to copy the old & decaying prints onto new media.
Yep. In fact, in the Netherlands (for example), if you do anything other than stand back and watch as someone breaks in, you are more likely to be hauled off to jail than they are.
Not coincidentally, and quite amazingly considering it is the second most populous country in the world (after Bangladesh), Holland has a very low rate of property crime (except for bicycles - but that is really a special case in Holland!), and violent property crime is almost unheard of. Well, at least that was my impression as a foreigner who lived there for 2 years.
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Just because you find it 'hard to believe' doesn't mean it isn't true. Salt water is denser than fresh water, so the point is that the influx of a lot of cold, fresh water suddenly means that what used to be 'warm surface water' is no longer on the surface.
Well, the number of leap seconds occurring due to other factors is a lot more than one per thousand years, so yes, it probably is too small to detect.
Yes, a lot. I can't remember off the top of my head what the relationship is between clock speed and power disipation, but it is not linear. At least quadratic, probably worse. So a single core at 4GHz will consume much more power and generate much more heat than two 2GHz cores.
Umm, exactly what do you think causes heat if it is not power dissipation in the silicon???
Its common knowledge. That doesn't mean its true though, but you can google that for yourself. The first link I hit is suggestive. Even the CIA factbook acknowledges that the USA is the largest per-capita (and absolute) emitter of carbon dioxide.
The USA has the highest per-capita pollution levels in the world. Its only because its such a sparasely populated country that its citizens are not drowning in smog and waste.
The Soviets won mostly because they were prepared to sacrifice astronomical numbers of people. A unified Europe under Hitler could have done the same if necessary.
Japan attacked the USA because they misjudged, and only expected a limited response. If Germany had won Britain, then the remaining British troops in exile in South-East Asia + the Australians and other commonwealth forces would not have been enough to prevent the Japanese from taking Australia. Plenty of resources there (including as much uranium as you would ever need), but it would have taken some time to develop.
And don't forget the German navy. Not terribly useful in a land battle against the Soviets. If the German navy was free to support Japan against the USA, would have changed the balance quite considerably.
Something I've always wanted to know though, how long would Hitler have gone before he declared war on Japan himself? I find it hard to believe he would have settled for peaceful coexistence.
While it is definitely untrue that Roosevelt purposedly let the Japanese raid Pearl Harbor, it is also untrue that it was a complete surprise.
Welcome to the real world. The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait wasn't a complete surprise either, nor was Argentina's invasion of the Falklands, and those are just a couple of cases that spring to mind.
Anyway, the ancient Greeks knew the earth was round and even had a ballpark estimate of the radius IIRC. But this was in contrast to the attitudes of other greeks. Aristotle, IIRC, said something along the lines of it being futile to try to figure out how the world works by observing it, the only way is to deduce everything by pure reasoning. Indeed, that notion was only really killed off with quantum mechanics (and possibly not even then, for some radical philosophers).
I'm not sure I agree with Wikipedia's defintion of science, BTW. I would want to add something about prediction and verifiability.
Probably not as much as you think, actually. The idea of actually testing an idea by performing a controlled experiment really dates from around Galileo's time, not much before.
Of course, trial-and-error experimentation existed forever, if you include evolution then LITERALLY forever ;) but that form of experimentation is to science as a million monkeys are to computer programming.
Of course. Following on from the mass departures that followed the DMCA, CDA, PATRIOT, the broadcast flag, and no doubt will happen again after PATRIOT2.
Your numbers imply you are using the british definition of billion, ie. 10^12. But 2 x 10^13 sounds way too high for the number of SMS messages sent in Britain per year, it corresponds to an average of over 30 SMS messages for every man, woman and child in the country per day. Did you mean 2x10^10 messages instead?
There wern't any scientists in 1500, not in the modern sense anyway. The scientific method dates from a century or two later.
Scientists said going to the Moon would never happen.
Which scientists? When? Names and dates please.
Scientists said that we could never be able to eradicate Smallpox.
Again, which scientists? When?
Scientists say a lot of things aren't possible. Doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
No, actual scientists rarely say something is impossible (unless it actually is :-), they might say something is very difficult, and they might be very skeptical about your chances of succeeding. But that is a completely different thing.
maybe, but in Germany, the phrase is "handy", not "mobile phone".
Want to silence a dissident? Easy, just get ASIO to plant some kiddie porn on their computer, or change their tax records and get them for tax evasion.
No, its just a historical accident in naming. The Liberal Party were always the conservatives in Australia. The *actual* liberal party is the Labour party, although as with most western democracies, both sides have shifted towards the centre-right in recent years.
Actually, I'm not entirely sure these cases would be fought in an Australian court. Clearly, a case based on the Australian law that implements the FTA would be fought in an Aussie court, but if it came down to an argument as to whether the law actually implements the FTA correctly, then it would be up to some kind of tribunal run by both governments (ie. really run by the USA with some token puppets from Australia). That is, IIUC, the FTA trumps the law anyway.
- can't be f*cked looking up who wrote that. George Orwell, probably.
Quick question, did the USA really "prompt the formation of the League of Nations"? I thought they refused to join it?
I believe a lot of old films have already been lost, because tracking the current copyright holder is too expensive or simply cannot be done, but without their permission it is illegal to copy the old & decaying prints onto new media.
And what exactly do you think a dish is, if not a telescope?
Yes, I think so - they violated Belgium's neutrality and went around the top.
Umm, can't this be foiled simply by coating the missile with a reflective surface?
LOL!
Not coincidentally, and quite amazingly considering it is the second most populous country in the world (after Bangladesh), Holland has a very low rate of property crime (except for bicycles - but that is really a special case in Holland!), and violent property crime is almost unheard of. Well, at least that was my impression as a foreigner who lived there for 2 years.