I disagree. Polish is the art of making less seem more. It's a time-intensive process and isn't really one geeks do very well - it's that indefinable quality that makes good closed-source software feel good. Don't get me wrong, I'm used to gnome and KDE, and they're impressive efforts, but they've not had hundreds of focus groups full of arts students and old ladies.
Yes, in a heater, everything is designed to generate heat. In a computer, the components are inefficient, resulting in the generation of... oh... never mind.
Buried right at the end, it says that if the engine is allowed to actually accelerate, it consumes energy from the cavity, so this is NOT a perpetual motion device or some other bollocks. You can't get out more kinetic energy than the cost you put in - at best, this would be like using momentum from laser light.
However, it talks about hovering. There's nothing intrinsically unscientifically sound about two black boxes that exert a force on each other despite being physically disconnected (think maglev), effectively hovering one on the other - the transmission of force just doesn't happen via a physical carrier. I, for one, look forward to my hoverboard.
THe point of turing-completeness is that all languages which are, it, are interchangeable. That doesn't mean you wouldn't see an appalling loss of simplicity and increase in memory consumption.
Worst case scenario: a brainfuck VHDL/verilog/whatever interpreter that simulates an entire modern CPU + memory.
The CO2 probably won't be the same. Shipping the trash off can technically release much less CO2 than burning it - after all, plastics (and cellulose) are great locked-up reservoirs of carbon. Either we bury that solid form somewhere and let the planet recycle it in a million years, or put it all into the atmosphere. This would be like burning all the oil used to make those plastics.
Before this was enacted, in order to obtain the same detailed information, you would have needed a very complex stalkbot that spidered facebook constantly. Now, it's all there for you. Doing such a task manually would have been a full-time job.
the exchange rates make 700 billion isk to be more than $100,000 [1]. from a replacement currency pack, 23 500-monopoly bills cost 4 dollars [2] (not to mention wasteage from having excess other currency). this would be like using social engineering to steal the high-value paper money from 25,000 boards, yielding almost 600,000 bills worth 300 million monopoly dollars. That's a few hotels, or 3000 m^2 of money. [3]
Agreed, and insightful point, but remember that the cold climate caveat only applies when the house is heated solely by electricity. As far as generating heat goes, gas/oil/geothermal are much more efficient in terms of money per joule heat than electricity. It also increases the total entropy of the universe less.
in conclusion, gas-supplied houses with electric hobs will hasten the inevitable heat death.
This is actually a good sign - microsoft aren't stupid. If they thought they were a total monopoly they'd have just said "fuck off" - so they're actually trying to avoid an all-out war which could damage them.
No, he's not trolling. A lot of cedega users pay to play games on linux, paying transgaming to actually freakin' code something that works. Instead, most of the developer time gets funnelled into other projects like this, which do sweet-FA to improve the state of linux gaming. You'd see more long-term benefit giving the money to the wine project, as they already exceed cedega in many areas.
Poor credit ratings aren't always a mark of fiscal irresponsibility - At least here in the UK, a simple credit limit check performed by a company (for example, upon buying a mobile phone) will cause your credit rating to go down.
Sustainable use policy, they don't exactly advertise it. It's the sort of thing you discover after you've entered into a contract, and only because you didn't pick up on warning flags like "limit" or "cap".
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I disagree. Polish is the art of making less seem more. It's a time-intensive process and isn't really one geeks do very well - it's that indefinable quality that makes good closed-source software feel good. Don't get me wrong, I'm used to gnome and KDE, and they're impressive efforts, but they've not had hundreds of focus groups full of arts students and old ladies.
Yes, in a heater, everything is designed to generate heat. In a computer, the components are inefficient, resulting in the generation of ... oh ... never mind.
so I can just go ahread and add pembo13.com to a list of personal domains run by child molestors?
if you loved Transport Tycoon, check out openttd, at http://www.openttd.com/. The usual random spraffing of OSS patches, multiplayer, etc.
I agree, I'm not an expert. Someone needs to run the numbers.
you are simply moving the pollution from your car to the power station
an oft-repeated fallacy. Larger = more efficient. Why do you think hardly anyone has bread-making machines at home?
And now maxtor is owned by seagate - so you've only recommended one manufacturer :)
Quantum sold their hard drive division to Maxtor in 2000.
And I wouldn't exactly call that informative ...
Since this is an inappropriate mod thread I expect to become interesting.
No, because hovering doesn't involve moving through a gravitational gradient.
Everyone hovers at 1G, it's just that we have to use bones and leg meat and so on to fill the space between our arse and the planet.
However, it talks about hovering. There's nothing intrinsically unscientifically sound about two black boxes that exert a force on each other despite being physically disconnected (think maglev), effectively hovering one on the other - the transmission of force just doesn't happen via a physical carrier. I, for one, look forward to my hoverboard.
I'd say it was the semantics - it's an endothermic* phase change. Either that or he's got confused between sys and surr.
* absorbs heat from the surroundings. Yes, really. This is why ice makes warm beer turn into cold beer.
THe point of turing-completeness is that all languages which are, it, are interchangeable. That doesn't mean you wouldn't see an appalling loss of simplicity and increase in memory consumption.
Worst case scenario: a brainfuck VHDL/verilog/whatever interpreter that simulates an entire modern CPU + memory.
The CO2 probably won't be the same. Shipping the trash off can technically release much less CO2 than burning it - after all, plastics (and cellulose) are great locked-up reservoirs of carbon. Either we bury that solid form somewhere and let the planet recycle it in a million years, or put it all into the atmosphere. This would be like burning all the oil used to make those plastics.
Actually, it is trivial to contrive a set of options such that only people you personally vet can see your profile.
Before this was enacted, in order to obtain the same detailed information, you would have needed a very complex stalkbot that spidered facebook constantly. Now, it's all there for you. Doing such a task manually would have been a full-time job.
the exchange rates make 700 billion isk to be more than $100,000 [1]. from a replacement currency pack, 23 500-monopoly bills cost 4 dollars [2] (not to mention wasteage from having excess other currency). this would be like using social engineering to steal the high-value paper money from 25,000 boards, yielding almost 600,000 bills worth 300 million monopoly dollars. That's a few hotels, or 3000 m^2 of money. [3]
g ame=eve&serverid=79&x=28&y=14#c ts_id/631
1. http://www.gamepal.com/buycurrency.php?gameid=15&
2. http://www.unclesgames.com/product_info.php/produ
3. Yes, all my calculations are approximate. However the results are almost certainly an underestimation.
Agreed, and insightful point, but remember that the cold climate caveat only applies when the house is heated solely by electricity. As far as generating heat goes, gas/oil/geothermal are much more efficient in terms of money per joule heat than electricity. It also increases the total entropy of the universe less.
in conclusion, gas-supplied houses with electric hobs will hasten the inevitable heat death.
This is actually a good sign - microsoft aren't stupid. If they thought they were a total monopoly they'd have just said "fuck off" - so they're actually trying to avoid an all-out war which could damage them.
That's like reading fermat's margin note ... just frustrating.
Bzzt, wrong. He's talking about the bundle of wires going from the PSU to the motherboard. Try looking inside a case some time, nub.
No, he's not trolling. A lot of cedega users pay to play games on linux, paying transgaming to actually freakin' code something that works. Instead, most of the developer time gets funnelled into other projects like this, which do sweet-FA to improve the state of linux gaming. You'd see more long-term benefit giving the money to the wine project, as they already exceed cedega in many areas.
Poor credit ratings aren't always a mark of fiscal irresponsibility - At least here in the UK, a simple credit limit check performed by a company (for example, upon buying a mobile phone) will cause your credit rating to go down.
Sustainable use policy, they don't exactly advertise it. It's the sort of thing you discover after you've entered into a contract, and only because you didn't pick up on warning flags like "limit" or "cap".