If you are spinning the disk drive, that's probbably sucking more power then the Crosue or K6-2+, and maybe generating more heat too.
I don't know what you remember about your conservation of energy, but any energy that goes into your computer comes out as heat. (Exceptions: the monitor & speakers make heat somewhere other than inside the computer, though not as much as they themselves have to disipate.)
do you really need PCI for a 56k modem, I think not
No, certainly it would be better to use different bus interfaces for each device, so that none of them have more bandwidth available to them than they can need. You still need a faster modem, though to keep your ISA slot busy (idle bandwidth makes devil's work!).
I'm not sure what advantage putting the mp3 on the cd affords you. I mean, it's easy enough to get mp3s from the cd. Why do you want that redundancy of information? Audio compression is still improving, and giving a copy of yesterday's best encoding is not that big a help.
There are plenty of other places to get music than napster. If I'm a daily user of napster I will find alternatives (such as gnutella, or just irc/web/ftp) and will not snap back to napster the instant they're back up again. That will hurt them incalculably.
Would you try to use a new program without reading the manual/man page?
What are users manuals? I mean seriously, very few electronic devices or software utilities I have read the manual to ever. Some utilities I read the man pages to figure out the more obscure parameters to, after months of normal use..
Apple is also a trademark of Apple computers, inc. They wouldn't have a legal ground to stand for when suing, for instance the Apple Grocery Store. or whatever. HOWEVER, historically in DNS-space, such concerns are typically ignored, since there is only ONE www.apple.com, usually only the THREAT of legal action will scare NSI or whoever into reneging on your contract.
Any ways, my point is, this has absolutely nothing to do with the phrase "Prior Art", which really only means anything in terms of patents.
Flourescence is light that's emitted during the absorbsion of some other (usually invisible) wavelength. The way this works, is a particle is just sitting there, and gets smacked with a sufficiently high energy photon. It gets kicked into an 'excited state', and it's electrons hop up to higher energy levels. When they fall back down, they emit a photon, the frequency of which is deteremined by the particle in question. I guess some heat is probably generated if the input photon is higher energy than the one coming out.
Nuclear reactions release a lot of energy as gamma radiation (which, like microwaves, will be absorbed and converted into heat by many materials). So, yes, the sun is obviously damned hot, and may be incandescing as well, but.. it seems possible to me that that could be negligable compared to the visible light energy emitted from flourescence. But I really don't know, which is why I'm asking here (also, anyone who does know feel free to correct any errors I made in my above explanation)
I think the song was actually an educational ditty from like the 50's before They Might Be Giants popularized it.
Is it actually accurate? Is most of the light from the sun caused by incandesence? It seems likely to me that if you have a big ball of plasma, creating and bombarding itself with high energy photons (gamma radiation from fusion) that you'll get some significant ammount of flouresence taking place, but then, I'm no heliologist.
I haven't seen Screamers, but that's also loosely based on a Philip K Dick story (Second Variety). Maybe there's something in that we can argue about too? (The ending of the short story seemed pretty unambiguous, except for not specifiying what would happen next (thuough it strongly suggested the elimination of all human civilisation as we know it).
Given that at any point in a programme your decision tree of what you might want to do is not enormous, the goal of UI design is not to allow you to dump as many bits of information into the computer, but instead to allow the user to use less information to convey what (s)he wants the programme to do.
We have recorded more of our culture than any before us. However, most of what is recorded is that it's all skewed and weird, exaggerated and contrived. Between fiction, documentaries, and parodic documentaries (I've got a whole stack of printed copies of The Onion), who can say what will be believed.
Leaving the same text in multiple languages makes it fairly easy to reconstruct the syntax and vocabulary of then-long-dead languages.
The reason to choose the bible, I expect, is not one of cultural relevance, or religious bigotry, but merely the fact that it's already been translated into more languages than any other document on the planet.
The predictions I have heard suggest that within a century there will be less than 20 languages spoken worldwide - languages are dying out very quickly. For languages that have written forms, we can at least try to preserve them for the future. I think that other items of cultural significance will be probably be all too present archaelogically, but having all these languages in one place will be invaluable to future historical linguists as the rosetta stone was to the historical linguists and archaeologists of the past.
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If you are spinning the disk drive, that's probbably sucking more power then the Crosue or K6-2+, and maybe generating more heat too.
I don't know what you remember about your conservation of energy, but any energy that goes into your computer comes out as heat. (Exceptions: the monitor & speakers make heat somewhere other than inside the computer, though not as much as they themselves have to disipate.)
do you really need PCI for a 56k modem, I think not
No, certainly it would be better to use different bus interfaces for each device, so that none of them have more bandwidth available to them than they can need. You still need a faster modem, though to keep your ISA slot busy (idle bandwidth makes devil's work!).
I'd rather BigCompany, Inc. keep it's designs private than me having to research their patents to know what I am allowed to invent on my own.
I'm not sure what advantage putting the mp3 on the cd affords you. I mean, it's easy enough to get mp3s from the cd. Why do you want that redundancy of information? Audio compression is still improving, and giving a copy of yesterday's best encoding is not that big a help.
There are plenty of other places to get music than napster. If I'm a daily user of napster I will find alternatives (such as gnutella, or just irc/web/ftp) and will not snap back to napster the instant they're back up again. That will hurt them incalculably.
I am like 100% certain that by "supersonic" they mean faster than the speed of sound in air. Sound travels about 5x as fast in water.
Now, I'm not saying the rest of this proposition suddenly is reasonable or anything. But THIS particualar problem is not one, though.
Would you try to use a new program without reading the manual/man page?
What are users manuals? I mean seriously, very few electronic devices or software utilities I have read the manual to ever. Some utilities I read the man pages to figure out the more obscure parameters to, after months of normal use..
What do you think the profit margins are on a $250 radeon vs a $100 rage whatever?
If you show the radeon in the demo, you're effectively announcing the card and your intentions with it, and demoing it, and all that.
Apple is also a trademark of Apple computers, inc. They wouldn't have a legal ground to stand for when suing, for instance the Apple Grocery Store. or whatever. HOWEVER, historically in DNS-space, such concerns are typically ignored, since there is only ONE www.apple.com, usually only the THREAT of legal action will scare NSI or whoever into reneging on your contract.
Any ways, my point is, this has absolutely nothing to do with the phrase "Prior Art", which really only means anything in terms of patents.
Flourescence is light that's emitted during the absorbsion of some other (usually invisible) wavelength. The way this works, is a particle is just sitting there, and gets smacked with a sufficiently high energy photon. It gets kicked into an 'excited state', and it's electrons hop up to higher energy levels. When they fall back down, they emit a photon, the frequency of which is deteremined by the particle in question. I guess some heat is probably generated if the input photon is higher energy than the one coming out.
.. it seems possible to me that that could be negligable compared to the visible light energy emitted from flourescence. But I really don't know, which is why I'm asking here (also, anyone who does know feel free to correct any errors I made in my above explanation)
Nuclear reactions release a lot of energy as gamma radiation (which, like microwaves, will be absorbed and converted into heat by many materials). So, yes, the sun is obviously damned hot, and may be incandescing as well, but
I think the song was actually an educational ditty from like the 50's before They Might Be Giants popularized it.
Is it actually accurate? Is most of the light from the sun caused by incandesence? It seems likely to me that if you have a big ball of plasma, creating and bombarding itself with high energy photons (gamma radiation from fusion) that you'll get some significant ammount of flouresence taking place, but then, I'm no heliologist.
You nitwit. Prior Art is only even a meaningful term for patents. This is a trademark issue, and a misapplication of that.
Then you could avert SOME currently non-existent ways of accidently going to a GNU site.
no it wouldn't. Your router doesn't care about DNS at all.
Second Variety is not an entire book, it's just like a 30 page short story or so.
topsoil's okay, but asphalt's way better.
Everyone knew Deckard wasn't human. The real question is whether Titanic's Jack Dawson was a replicant.
I haven't seen Screamers, but that's also loosely based on a Philip K Dick story (Second Variety). Maybe there's something in that we can argue about too? (The ending of the short story seemed pretty unambiguous, except for not specifiying what would happen next (thuough it strongly suggested the elimination of all human civilisation as we know it).
That's not much of a cheat in that it doesn't help you with the game, unless you REALLY gotta pee.
Given that at any point in a programme your decision tree of what you might want to do is not enormous, the goal of UI design is not to allow you to dump as many bits of information into the computer, but instead to allow the user to use less information to convey what (s)he wants the programme to do.
. I've seen some MP3 players that look downright weird
You should see what the Sonique team is working on NOW. =)
We have recorded more of our culture than any before us. However, most of what is recorded is that it's all skewed and weird, exaggerated and contrived. Between fiction, documentaries, and parodic documentaries (I've got a whole stack of printed copies of The Onion), who can say what will be believed.
Leaving the same text in multiple languages makes it fairly easy to reconstruct the syntax and vocabulary of then-long-dead languages.
The reason to choose the bible, I expect, is not one of cultural relevance, or religious bigotry, but merely the fact that it's already been translated into more languages than any other document on the planet.
The predictions I have heard suggest that within a century there will be less than 20 languages spoken worldwide - languages are dying out very quickly. For languages that have written forms, we can at least try to preserve them for the future. I think that other items of cultural significance will be probably be all too present archaelogically, but having all these languages in one place will be invaluable to future historical linguists as the rosetta stone was to the historical linguists and archaeologists of the past.
Be that as it may, it still is more safe to drop earth microbes into environments less like the one those microbes adapted to.