Dell used to make some. They had a door on each side, and quick-release snaps on the drive bays so you could install anything without screws. Don't know what they're doing now though.
If you could buy a $500 computer now and a $500 computer in two years or a $1000 computer now which was 2x as fast as the $500 computer, which would YOU choose?
Knowing a bit about moore's "law" and the time value of money, the choice is obvious.
Ok, we get it mr. I-just-read-off-the-calculator-with-no-regard-for- significant-figures.
I could go into detail with regards to error, propogated error, and whatnot, but significant figures is a sufficient approximation, especially when you're talking about approximations anyway.
quick lesson on multiplication, and significant figures:
there was only one significant digit in "a million subscribers" so there should be only one significant digit in the answer. Unless one of the multiplicands has ZERO significant figures, but then the answer is nonsense anyway.
sorry to pick nits on your nitpick, but your nitpick was wrong.
What mechanism causes altruism? I submit to you that it is indeed self interest, whether the reason is religious --- "I want favor with God", spiritual --- "It makes me feel good to help people", ego --- "It makes me feel good to show i'm better than people.. by helping them."
Those all fit snugly in a free-market economy and without them, a purely laissez faire economy could be argued to be grossly immoral. On the other hand without them, it wouldn't be argued.
Wait.. gentoo even updates programs that you had to get the latest version of in a tarball from the developer's website? 'cause I hate how in the Ubuntu repositories, LyX seems to be perpetually a year or more old.
But they have all kinds of sharp angles and such rather than the smooth contours of an aerodynamically efficient vehicle, so the only reasonable explanation is that they're trying to make them look future-y. On a similar note, why does every freekin' concept car do the same thing? why don't they make them look like something people would actually want to drive?
All I know is I can tell when the fast food place thought it would be cute to save (money? effort? inventory space?) by hooking up the splenda line to the regular tap. Oh I can't taste the difference, but two sips of splenda and *bam* instant nausea.
Now that europe is unifying, I predict that their thinking about distance will be less parochial. The result will be a philosphy on cars not much different than the US.
I never understood this effect. I mean, "Hey people are watching our show! We have to change everything around then."
Then again, it's not confined to hollywood. Gerrymandering is the same thing: "Hey, we finally got a majority in the legislature! Lets fiddle with the districts.. even though the party we displaced did the same thing when they were in power and look where it got them."
she's more "girl next door" pretty. In the states, we've been spoiled with the likes of Lexa Doig and Jessica Alba, who are "movie star" pretty. But that is a good picture.
Courageous he may have been, I have no real information to judge that by. I'm just a little bit disappointed by the fact that we seem to have to mention how brave people are that are suffering this that or the other. as if the disease itself somehow diminishes them as a person. Either that or i've been watching too many Quenton Tarrantino movies and the "edgy" dialogy style is starting to rub off.
Also, I don't think it's particular brave for famous people who have <insert tragic disease> to come out in support of research for it. Now if Reeve had come out against stem cell research, that would've been news.
Why is everyone that suffers some hardship described as "courageous?" Isn't it enough that they suffer the hardship without having to have some kind of character building personal revelation as a result? The next time you see a similar patient described in such a way, think about the question, "Does he have a will to live or a fear of death?"
I believe that the Canon "RAW" format is in fact a lossless-compressed file. At least, the pro-sumer S50 saved 5 megapixel pictures in 4ish MB files. I don't know what the current tech or what SLRs are doing though.
which makes the algae about 10% efficient if your figures are correct.
I'm with you on the skepticism. I find it hard to believe that anything living could be 10% efficient at creating useful products from sunlight. Of course, I don't know anything about algae though.
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I think the redundant ones are pretty funny. for now....
Dell used to make some. They had a door on each side, and quick-release snaps on the drive bays so you could install anything without screws. Don't know what they're doing now though.
If you could buy a $500 computer now and a $500 computer in two years or a $1000 computer now which was 2x as fast as the $500 computer, which would YOU choose?
Knowing a bit about moore's "law" and the time value of money, the choice is obvious.
Ok, we get it mr. I-just-read-off-the-calculator-with-no-regard-for- significant-figures.
I could go into detail with regards to error, propogated error, and whatnot, but significant figures is a sufficient approximation, especially when you're talking about approximations anyway.
quick lesson on multiplication, and significant figures:
there was only one significant digit in "a million subscribers" so there should be only one significant digit in the answer. Unless one of the multiplicands has ZERO significant figures, but then the answer is nonsense anyway.
sorry to pick nits on your nitpick, but your nitpick was wrong.
What mechanism causes altruism? I submit to you that it is indeed self interest, whether the reason is religious --- "I want favor with God", spiritual --- "It makes me feel good to help people", ego --- "It makes me feel good to show i'm better than people.. by helping them."
Those all fit snugly in a free-market economy and without them, a purely laissez faire economy could be argued to be grossly immoral. On the other hand without them, it wouldn't be argued.
Wait.. gentoo even updates programs that you had to get the latest version of in a tarball from the developer's website? 'cause I hate how in the Ubuntu repositories, LyX seems to be perpetually a year or more old.
then ALL cars should look like hybrids.
But they have all kinds of sharp angles and such rather than the smooth contours of an aerodynamically efficient vehicle, so the only reasonable explanation is that they're trying to make them look future-y. On a similar note, why does every freekin' concept car do the same thing? why don't they make them look like something people would actually want to drive?
Do they make them for boats that can go underwater? Then they could be "submarine" patents...
All I know is I can tell when the fast food place thought it would be cute to save (money? effort? inventory space?) by hooking up the splenda line to the regular tap. Oh I can't taste the difference, but two sips of splenda and *bam* instant nausea.
Now that europe is unifying, I predict that their thinking about distance will be less parochial. The result will be a philosphy on cars not much different than the US.
there are PEOPLE who can't pass the Turing test.
slow but steady only wins races when fast isn't also steady.
It's not their fault really. They probably just have one of the 50% of all doctors who graduated in the bottom half of their class.
I never understood this effect. I mean, "Hey people are watching our show! We have to change everything around then."
Then again, it's not confined to hollywood. Gerrymandering is the same thing: "Hey, we finally got a majority in the legislature! Lets fiddle with the districts.. even though the party we displaced did the same thing when they were in power and look where it got them."
she's more "girl next door" pretty. In the states, we've been spoiled with the likes of Lexa Doig and Jessica Alba, who are "movie star" pretty. But that is a good picture.
uhh.. headphones?
Retcon.
They won't be able to crack my one-time pad.
Courageous he may have been, I have no real information to judge that by. I'm just a little bit disappointed by the fact that we seem to have to mention how brave people are that are suffering this that or the other. as if the disease itself somehow diminishes them as a person. Either that or i've been watching too many Quenton Tarrantino movies and the "edgy" dialogy style is starting to rub off.
Also, I don't think it's particular brave for famous people who have <insert tragic disease> to come out in support of research for it. Now if Reeve had come out against stem cell research, that would've been news.
um.. you realize that a "DC-DC" converter is really a DC-AC-DC converter, right?
unless you just want to regulate voltage, but then you won't be getting 96% efficiency except in certain extreme cases.
Why is everyone that suffers some hardship described as "courageous?" Isn't it enough that they suffer the hardship without having to have some kind of character building personal revelation as a result? The next time you see a similar patient described in such a way, think about the question, "Does he have a will to live or a fear of death?"
Does the answer to that question really matter?
I believe that the Canon "RAW" format is in fact a lossless-compressed file. At least, the pro-sumer S50 saved 5 megapixel pictures in 4ish MB files. I don't know what the current tech or what SLRs are doing though.
actually you need more pressure than *anywhere* on jupiter. Since jupiter is clearly not a star.
-- And to protect Mother Earth, each copy contains a certain percentage of recycled paper.
-- And what percent is that?
-- Zero. Zero's a percent!
Thank you Mr. Groening.
(2,000 acre)*(400 (W / (m^2))) * (1 year) = 1.021×10^17 joules
area * average insolation * 1 year = energy
which makes the algae about 10% efficient if your figures are correct.
I'm with you on the skepticism. I find it hard to believe that anything living could be 10% efficient at creating useful products from sunlight. Of course, I don't know anything about algae though.