That's unfair I think. To say that the police should only focus on serious crime until serious crime disappears doesn't really seem logical. You get a diminishing returns. For example, put two detectives on a murder case and you'll do better than if you put one. Put 7,000,000 detectives on a murder case, and it probably won't be solved more quickly, at least enough so as to justify the cost and effort.
Put seven million detectives on a murder case, and you'll likely find that one of them is the murderer.
Maybe someone who knows what they're talking about can answer this question I have about melting ice and flooding.
Since so much of ice sits underwater, and water expands when frozen, wouldn't it make sense that melting icebergs would actually shrink the oceans, or at least keep them the same size? I know there's a lot of ice on top of land masses melting as well, but what about all the ice in the water?
Thermal expansion. The volume difference between water at 1C and water at 3C may be small, but when you multiply it by three miles of ocean depth, you get a significant change in the water level.
Didn't one of Akamai's executives (a founder maybe?) die in the September 11 attacks? Did that have any effect on Akamai's stock performance?
One of the founders, the CTO, was on American Airlines flight 11, which hit the WTC. No mention of what happened to the stock, but it sure hit company morale hard.
you spend $200/month on food? assuming that your roommate spends a like amount, how on earth do you eat? my wife & i easily spend more than that living in new jersey in the vicinity of trenton and princeton.
When I was in college, I spent around $60-$70 a month on food. The trick is to buy cheap: store-brand soda at $1.50 for a twelve-pack, the cheapest bread ($0.88 for a 20-oz loaf), cheap store-brand frozen vegetables (use in soup, it hides the texture and flavor). Potatoes are always cheap, and are reasonable nutritious. A pound of cheap ground beef is good for three or four meals, and isn't too expensive.
It isn't exactly the super glue, it is the cyanoacrylate fumes released from heating the glue. It turns the finger prints white, then they can be photographed.
The reason they don't have a human doing this work, is because it is a dangerous assignment, investigating a suspecious package. Normally the robot would just destroy the package, finger prints and all. Now they can make images of the prints before destroying the package.
I suspect that the other reason is that cyanoacrylate fumes aren't exactly healthy to breathe.
Hydrogen burns with a light-blue, almost transparent flame, and no smoke. The flames on the Hindenburg were red and orange, and produced enormous billowing clouds of smoke. Doesn't sound like a hydrogen fire to me.
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I'm running Win98 with a gig of RAM no problem. There's a setting you need to change in (IIRC) system.ini to let it work.
Also, fusion is not the wonderous clean energy source it's made out to be, because any type of fusion that's realistically possible outside of a star also produces neutrons, which activate the reactor materials leading to significant amounts of radioactive waste. That said, the waste problem is not so severe as with fission plants because generally isotopes with short halflifes are produced.
Would it be possible to shield the reactor with water? IIRC, neutrons + water tends to produce deuterium and tritium, which can be fed back into the reactor.
These days, an equivalent car, with an equivalent engine, would probably get around 50-75mpg. And no-one, outside a small enthusiast community, would buy one.
There's this wonderful security device known as an "air gap". Put one of those between the modem and the phone cord, and another between the power cord and the plug, and I guarentee you that the computer won't get any spyware.
what i find the most disturbing is the fact that some of these online worlds have higher gdp's than bulgaria. while bulgaria may not have that many people or money, its still a REAL country, not an imaginary one. I cant believe people spend *that* much money on this stuff.
The "GDP larger than Bulgaria's" number comes from figuring out how much money would be made if everyone in the game sold everything they got over the course of one year. The actual amount of money changing hands is much smaller.
if you use the anti-vibration mounts @ http://www.quietpc.com/uk/harddrive.php#hdrubbermo unts the noise vanishes, or you can get the heatpipe cooler @ http://www.quietpc.com/uk/harddrive.php#zm2hc1
Or you can do what I did, and replace the metal mounting bracket with a cardboard one. Amazing noise reduction there, and the total expense was $0.
There are plenty of useful, easy-to-use 3D input devices. Look up spacemouse, wand, or PINCH gloves. The problem is that all of them need to be calibrated for your workspace, and none of them is cheap.
Haven't you noticed ay degregation in the quality of results recently? What I could phrase as a simple search a year ago now needs lots of exclude and include factors. Many searches are OK, but a (quickly growing) amount of searches take me 3-4 goes to succeed.
No, I haven't. Occasionally, I'll need to add a word or two of context to get the right results (eg. "Paris Hilton" hotel), but that's always been the case.
I don't know what google you're using, but on mine (clicking your link), IE is on third place.
What Google are you using? For me, clicking on that link brings up Opera, Mozilla, Safari, Netscape, Lynx, Galeon, "WaSP campaign", "Viewable by any browser campaign", Amaya.
The same search without the quotes gives Mozilla, Opera, Safari, Lynx, Galeon, "Viewable by any browser", evolt.
A bit lik Google these days then. Not that Google gets paid, just cripled... by kelkoo, pricewatch, et al, who destroyed what was an efficient search engine.
Crippled? Destroyed? How? I don't have any trouble finding what I want on Google.
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If we were to go to war with North Korea, I'm sure they'd be willing and able to do things like take out a carrier task force with a nuke.
OK, so what are doing wrong here?
The phrase you want is "preaching to the choir".
That's unfair I think. To say that the police should only focus on serious crime until serious crime disappears doesn't really seem logical. You get a diminishing returns. For example, put two detectives on a murder case and you'll do better than if you put one. Put 7,000,000 detectives on a murder case, and it probably won't be solved more quickly, at least enough so as to justify the cost and effort.
Put seven million detectives on a murder case, and you'll likely find that one of them is the murderer.
Maybe someone who knows what they're talking about can answer this question I have about melting ice and flooding.
Since so much of ice sits underwater, and water expands when frozen, wouldn't it make sense that melting icebergs would actually shrink the oceans, or at least keep them the same size? I know there's a lot of ice on top of land masses melting as well, but what about all the ice in the water?
Thermal expansion. The volume difference between water at 1C and water at 3C may be small, but when you multiply it by three miles of ocean depth, you get a significant change in the water level.
Didn't one of Akamai's executives (a founder maybe?) die in the September 11 attacks? Did that have any effect on Akamai's stock performance?
One of the founders, the CTO, was on American Airlines flight 11, which hit the WTC. No mention of what happened to the stock, but it sure hit company morale hard.
you spend $200/month on food? assuming that your roommate spends a like amount, how on earth do you eat? my wife & i easily spend more than that living in new jersey in the vicinity of trenton and princeton.
When I was in college, I spent around $60-$70 a month on food. The trick is to buy cheap: store-brand soda at $1.50 for a twelve-pack, the cheapest bread ($0.88 for a 20-oz loaf), cheap store-brand frozen vegetables (use in soup, it hides the texture and flavor). Potatoes are always cheap, and are reasonable nutritious. A pound of cheap ground beef is good for three or four meals, and isn't too expensive.
It isn't exactly the super glue, it is the cyanoacrylate fumes released from heating the glue. It turns the finger prints white, then they can be photographed.
The reason they don't have a human doing this work, is because it is a dangerous assignment, investigating a suspecious package. Normally the robot would just destroy the package, finger prints and all. Now they can make images of the prints before destroying the package.
I suspect that the other reason is that cyanoacrylate fumes aren't exactly healthy to breathe.
Why not just hook them to the lines from the old meters?
The old meters were probably straight mechanical, so no power lines to hook into.
Hydrogen burns with a light-blue, almost transparent flame, and no smoke. The flames on the Hindenburg were red and orange, and produced enormous billowing clouds of smoke. Doesn't sound like a hydrogen fire to me.
I'm running Win98 with a gig of RAM no problem. There's a setting you need to change in (IIRC) system.ini to let it work.
Also, fusion is not the wonderous clean energy source it's made out to be, because any type of fusion that's realistically possible outside of a star also produces neutrons, which activate the reactor materials leading to significant amounts of radioactive waste. That said, the waste problem is not so severe as with fission plants because generally isotopes with short halflifes are produced.
Would it be possible to shield the reactor with water? IIRC, neutrons + water tends to produce deuterium and tritium, which can be fed back into the reactor.
These days, an equivalent car, with an equivalent engine, would probably get around 50-75mpg. And no-one, outside a small enthusiast community, would buy one.
I'll dispute that.
My last car, chosen for safety and fuel economy, was a 1986 Toyota Camry. Street gas milage: 31 mpg.
My current car, chosen by the same criteria, is a Honda Civic. Street gas milage: 32 mpg.
It seems to me that, outside of special cases like hybrid-electrics, that fuel economy has pretty much leveled off.
it's alot easier to type "fireplace" than draw it.
It's easier to sketch the part than to remember that the guy who created the drawing called it a "3/8ths Gripley"
"April Fools' jokes" only applies to jokes.
There's this wonderful security device known as an "air gap". Put one of those between the modem and the phone cord, and another between the power cord and the plug, and I guarentee you that the computer won't get any spyware.
Yes, that is rather bad.
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what i find the most disturbing is the fact that some of these online worlds have higher gdp's than bulgaria. while bulgaria may not have that many people or money, its still a REAL country, not an imaginary one. I cant believe people spend *that* much money on this stuff.
The "GDP larger than Bulgaria's" number comes from figuring out how much money would be made if everyone in the game sold everything they got over the course of one year. The actual amount of money changing hands is much smaller.
Temperatures before: /dev/hda: 35c /dev/hdb: 31c
/dev/hda: 35c /dev/hdb: 32c
Temperatures after:
One degree warmer on one of the two drives? I doubt that's significant.
Am I in the minority? I like to hear my harddrives churning away, it's an non-invasive audio feedback.
I like the sound of the hard drive seeking. I don't like the whine of the bearings, particularly when it's amplified by the computer case.
if you use the anti-vibration mounts @ http://www.quietpc.com/uk/harddrive.php#hdrubbermo unts the noise vanishes, or you can get the heatpipe cooler @ http://www.quietpc.com/uk/harddrive.php#zm2hc1
Or you can do what I did, and replace the metal mounting bracket with a cardboard one. Amazing noise reduction there, and the total expense was $0.
There are plenty of useful, easy-to-use 3D input devices. Look up spacemouse, wand, or PINCH gloves. The problem is that all of them need to be calibrated for your workspace, and none of them is cheap.
Haven't you noticed ay degregation in the quality of results recently? What I could phrase as a simple search a year ago now needs lots of exclude and include factors. Many searches are OK, but a (quickly growing) amount of searches take me 3-4 goes to succeed.
No, I haven't. Occasionally, I'll need to add a word or two of context to get the right results (eg. "Paris Hilton" hotel), but that's always been the case.
I don't know what google you're using, but on mine (clicking your link), IE is on third place.
What Google are you using? For me, clicking on that link brings up Opera, Mozilla, Safari, Netscape, Lynx, Galeon, "WaSP campaign", "Viewable by any browser campaign", Amaya.
The same search without the quotes gives Mozilla, Opera, Safari, Lynx, Galeon, "Viewable by any browser", evolt.
A bit lik Google these days then. Not that Google gets paid, just cripled... by kelkoo, pricewatch, et al, who destroyed what was an efficient search engine.
Crippled? Destroyed? How? I don't have any trouble finding what I want on Google.