Sir, I think you missed the point entirely. By hitting a country with a nuclear weapon you have high chances to hit any group of terrorists hidden in this area.
I suggest that we hit London with a preemptive nuclear strike followed by an attack on France which has all these biological "bad-smelling cheese" weapons...
what benchmarks they will use to determine this speed and how AMD will compare their processors to Intel's if their benchmarks are biased.
It also proves that Intel has a new strategy where processor speeds will be too close from a marketing approach (customers will not buy a 5,2 GHz if it is twice more expensive than a 4,8 Ghz).
I totally agree with you but for most of users upload is still a problem, outside of the US, Asia, and North Europe, upload is severly capped in most of the countries.
For information, my ISP provides me a 3Mb/256kb connection.
Klemm explained that as data is collected by Spirit, files are created and stored in the flash file system until a communications window opens -- an opportunity to transmit the data either directly to Earth or to one of the two orbiters circling the Red Planet. Then the files are transmitted. They are still held in the flash system until retrieved and error-corrected on Earth.
They should just have ticked the "autoaccept and minimize" checkbox .
'Uncanny physics of comic book superheroes'
Posted on Sunday, February 15 @ 16:20:59 EST by bjs
Can you teach a physics class with only comic books to illustrate the principles? University of Minnesota physics professor James Kakalios has been doing it since 1995, when he explained the principle of conservation of momentum by calculating the force of Spider-Man's web when it snagged the superhero's girlfriend as she plummeted from a great height. "Comic books get their science right more often than one would expect," said the gregarious Kakalios. "I was able to find examples in superhero comic books of the correct descriptions of basic physical principles for a wide range of topics, including classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and even quantum physics."
From the University of Minnesota:
Professor to describe 'uncanny physics of comic book superheroes'
Can you teach a physics class with only comic books to illustrate the principles? University of Minnesota physics professor James Kakalios has been doing it since 1995, when he explained the principle of conservation of momentum by calculating the force of Spider-Man's web when it snagged the superhero's girlfriend as she plummeted from a great height.
Kakalios will describe a freshman seminar class he teaches, "Physics of Comic Books," at 11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, during the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle. His talk is part of the symposium "Pop Physics: The Interface Between Hard Science and Popular Culture," one of two symposia in the Science, Entertainment and the Media category.
"Comic books get their science right more often than one would expect," said the gregarious Kakalios. "I was able to find examples in superhero comic books of the correct descriptions of basic physical principles for a wide range of topics, including classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and even quantum physics."
Take, for example, the strength of Superman. To leap a 30-story building in a single bound, Superman's leg muscles must produce nearly 6,000 pounds of force while jumping, Kakalios calculates. The Man of Steel was that strong because he was designed to resist Krypton's powerful gravity. But for a planet with an Earth-like surface to have so much stronger gravity, it would need neutron star material in its core--a highly unstable situation. No wonder the planet exploded. Other topics considered in Kakalios' class include:
# Is it possible to read minds as Prof. X of the X-Men does?
# If Spider-Man's webbing is as strong as real spider silk, could it support his weight as he swings between buildings?
# Can the mutant master of magnetism Magneto levitate people using the iron in their blood?
# If you could run as fast as the Flash, could you run up the side of a building or across the ocean, and how often would you need to eat?
"Once the physical concepts such as forces and motion, conservation of energy, electricity and magnetisms, and elementary quantum mechanics are introduced to answer these and other questions, their real-world applications to automobile airbags, cell phones, nanotechnology and black hole formation are explained," said Kakalios. "The students in this class ranged from engineering to history majors, and while not all were comic book fans, they all found it an engaging and entertaining way to learn critical thinking and basic physics concepts."
Well, actually we are mainly expanding overseas to cut the costs of production, but once everybody (middle and lower classes) will move in countries where there are jobs (oversea), the companies won't even have to pay transport as most of the customers will be in the countries oversea: even lower costs!
Well we all know that we are lucky that Microsoft did not try to steal GM's market, he would have been a winner in Forbes article:
The Bill Gates Car
At a recent COMDEX computer show, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated:
"If automotive technology had kept pace with computer technology over the past few decades," boasts Gates, "You would now be driving a V-32 instead of a V-8, and it would have a speed of 10,000 miles per hour. Or, you could have an economy car that weighs 30 pounds and gets a thousand miles with a gallon of gas. In either case, the sticker price of a new car would be less than $50."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever your car would crash twice a day;
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car;
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on;
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine;
5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT" but then you would have to buy more seats;
6. Macintosh would make a care that was powered by the sun, reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run of 5% of the roads;
7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car fault" warning light;
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt;
9. The airbag system would say, "Are you sure?" before going off;
10. Occasionally for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lift the door handle, turn the key, and grab hold of the radio antenna;
11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them or want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department;
12. Every time GM introduced a new model car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car;
13. You would press the "start" button to shut off the engine.
Maybe shutting down their site to be referenced by slashdot may be a good marketing move. I guess that once the site will be back (and once Slashdot will add an article about how orkut fixed their problems and got back online) they will have more customers.
Slashdot Mirror
Sir, I think you missed the point entirely. By hitting a country with a nuclear weapon you have high chances to hit any group of terrorists hidden in this area. I suggest that we hit London with a preemptive nuclear strike followed by an attack on France which has all these biological "bad-smelling cheese" weapons ...
Do you mean that they should implement popup windows that asks if the user is sure that he wants to modify this data :?
Nobody will notice that it is your app which is leaking memory under longhorn if it stays like the build 4053 =)
what benchmarks they will use to determine this speed and how AMD will compare their processors to Intel's if their benchmarks are biased. It also proves that Intel has a new strategy where processor speeds will be too close from a marketing approach (customers will not buy a 5,2 GHz if it is twice more expensive than a 4,8 Ghz).
Maybe we will see one day slashdot slashdotted by a DoS =/
I totally agree with you but for most of users upload is still a problem, outside of the US, Asia, and North Europe, upload is severly capped in most of the countries. For information, my ISP provides me a 3Mb/256kb connection.
Since they will develop some stripped versions of their OS(es) for EU, it should, now, fit on a flash memory.
They may get sued by EU commissions if the prices of both products are the same or too close.
Nah they just have been hit by an asteroid, and you will be crushed by the waves in some minutes. =)
Why was it modded as flamebait, this guy is telling the truth even if he is using blunt words
They should just have ticked the "autoaccept and minimize" checkbox .
well i don't know about these jokes, but my Beowulf cluster has a delay of (x machines) x 40 minutes
I can do all the above with my gang making the biggest Beowulf cluster of outlaws!
Sue us!
'Uncanny physics of comic book superheroes' Posted on Sunday, February 15 @ 16:20:59 EST by bjs
Can you teach a physics class with only comic books to illustrate the principles? University of Minnesota physics professor James Kakalios has been doing it since 1995, when he explained the principle of conservation of momentum by calculating the force of Spider-Man's web when it snagged the superhero's girlfriend as she plummeted from a great height. "Comic books get their science right more often than one would expect," said the gregarious Kakalios. "I was able to find examples in superhero comic books of the correct descriptions of basic physical principles for a wide range of topics, including classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and even quantum physics."
From the University of Minnesota:
Professor to describe 'uncanny physics of comic book superheroes'
Can you teach a physics class with only comic books to illustrate the principles? University of Minnesota physics professor James Kakalios has been doing it since 1995, when he explained the principle of conservation of momentum by calculating the force of Spider-Man's web when it snagged the superhero's girlfriend as she plummeted from a great height.
Kakalios will describe a freshman seminar class he teaches, "Physics of Comic Books," at 11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 15, during the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle. His talk is part of the symposium "Pop Physics: The Interface Between Hard Science and Popular Culture," one of two symposia in the Science, Entertainment and the Media category.
"Comic books get their science right more often than one would expect," said the gregarious Kakalios. "I was able to find examples in superhero comic books of the correct descriptions of basic physical principles for a wide range of topics, including classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and even quantum physics."
Take, for example, the strength of Superman. To leap a 30-story building in a single bound, Superman's leg muscles must produce nearly 6,000 pounds of force while jumping, Kakalios calculates. The Man of Steel was that strong because he was designed to resist Krypton's powerful gravity. But for a planet with an Earth-like surface to have so much stronger gravity, it would need neutron star material in its core--a highly unstable situation. No wonder the planet exploded. Other topics considered in Kakalios' class include:
# Is it possible to read minds as Prof. X of the X-Men does?
# If Spider-Man's webbing is as strong as real spider silk, could it support his weight as he swings between buildings?
# Can the mutant master of magnetism Magneto levitate people using the iron in their blood?
# If you could run as fast as the Flash, could you run up the side of a building or across the ocean, and how often would you need to eat?
"Once the physical concepts such as forces and motion, conservation of energy, electricity and magnetisms, and elementary quantum mechanics are introduced to answer these and other questions, their real-world applications to automobile airbags, cell phones, nanotechnology and black hole formation are explained," said Kakalios. "The students in this class ranged from engineering to history majors, and while not all were comic book fans, they all found it an engaging and entertaining way to learn critical thinking and basic physics concepts."
Thank you, I was refreshing in waiting for the next Beowulf joke.
Well, actually we are mainly expanding overseas to cut the costs of production, but once everybody (middle and lower classes) will move in countries where there are jobs (oversea), the companies won't even have to pay transport as most of the customers will be in the countries oversea: even lower costs!
"The conclusion: the smell of inevitability--the economy will survive, though your job, as it is currently, will likely not."
... I thought something bad was about to happen.
haha this is some funny stuff =)
Orkut Buyukkokten's pic
How orkut.com users want Orkut Buyukkokten to be
He seems to like PDAs: His projects
His publications
um ... lemme guess ... using Google maybe :D
You took a weird example ... ... ahum ... I hope you have chosen these words for the purpose to show it was broken :D
Interest: children and poster
It seems to work:
proof
Maybe shutting down their site to be referenced by slashdot may be a good marketing move. I guess that once the site will be back (and once Slashdot will add an article about how orkut fixed their problems and got back online) they will have more customers.