If you knew your Archimedes, you would know that a floating object displaces a volume of water equal to its weight.
As a result, (and barring some minor non-ideal complications) floating ice that melts will still displace no more water than the ice itself did -- that is, the water level will not change at all. Similarly, freezing part of the water into a floating bit of ice will not change the water level either; it will continue to displace as much water as ice as it did as water. You can convert back and forth all day.
This, by the way, is science on the level my niece just learned in 2nd grade. Are you sure you're sufficiently educated to have an opinion on global warming?
Oh, BTW, ozone depletion is unrelated to global warming. The global temperature doesn't care whether the UV energy was absorbed at the surface or in the ozone layer. The threat is greenhouse gas production, not ozone depletion.
By email, phone, fax, telegram, or letter (or better, several of these), let them know what you think. These are the people who can give Verisign reasons to change their behavior.
Anyway, how does Solaris have any credibility on Intel? How many times has Sun talked about dropping x86 development? What happens when the strategy changes next week?
And pretty much everyone understates how much gas you actually have left.
Yes, but that's deliberate to protect the engine. Running a modern engine dry will damage it; getting people to buy refills early helps ensure people don't drive their engines into the ground, and thus spares dealers the headaches of dealing with as many idiots who think "still under warranty" means "I get free repairs for engine abuse".
First, although general lines are not, there are a few refitted power plants that use "high" temp superconductors for short (dozens of meter long), very high power lines. The losses to resistance and the cooling that would be required by the heat generated by the resistance are high enough in these short fat lines between generation and the grid that SC wires with liquid nitrogen coooling is a net gain on efficiency.
Second, real point was that there was no longer a theoretical barrier to there being 50 deg. C superconductors. If and when those are discovered, they'll radically change things, even if they turn out to be a bastard to work with mechanically.
Google is linking to Chilling Effects instead of hosting themselves because it minimizes their liability. They aren't providing links to potentially infringing sites, they're linking to a site that gives the addresses of places that are potentially infringing sites.
Chilling Effects might arguably itself be violating the DMCA, but they've volunteered for this duty, and are a bunch of lawyers, and don't have a lot of money to make themselves a potentially juicy target, while suing Google could bring in cash.
could it be that "stuff that could get us sued is evil", and "stuff that we get paid for is fine by us"
How about, "We will link anything until we get a credible threat that could shut down or seriously harm Google, and even then we'll do as little as we need to end the threat, and we'll subvert our own compliance as much as possible without restoring the threat."
Oh, yes, so horribly censored you have to actually click on a link and then copy & paste a link. How evil of them to impose a minor inconvenience to avoid lawsuits!
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What is it that they're saying? Stupid bullshit based on a lack of historical perspective, mostly.
I wonder does zip have better compression then say . . . gzip?
Probably not, given that zip and gzip use the exact same compression algorithm. In fact, the code used for gzip and the.zip support of the shareware program WinZip are both derivatives of the same source code, which was written for the Info-Zip program, a pkzip clone.
A theory that would make sense, except the North Koreans never ended their nuclear program, they just took the money. Clinton continued to pay them even though the CIA reported the programs were continuing. All NK did after they were cut off by Bush was admit they had continued their program in violation of the agreeement.
We do get the old Imperial measures right; we just don't use the new Imperial mesures. Your "Standard Imperial" wasn't invented until 1824, long after the U.S. gained its independence.
For example, there were (at least) two gallon sizes in the Empire in 1750 -- the 282 cubic inch beer gallon established by Elizabeth I, and the 231 cubic inch wine gallon established by Queen Anne.
The U.S. inherited both gallons, and eventually dropped the beer gallon entirely, keeping only the wine gallon.
On the other hand, the British, in 1824, dropped both, in favor of a new unit equal to ten pounds of water, which at 277.42 cubic inches was similar but not identical to the old beer gallon.
In any case, the U.S. has been legally metric for 110 years now. We merely have never tried to force people to stop using the old measures by arresting or fining them.
So, are the red/white/blue consoles supposed to denote solidarity with the Americans, British, French, Dutch, Russians, Czechs, Slovaks, Cubans, Panamanians, Australians, Norwegians, or what?
The British Empire is well know for its history of looting artifacts, like the "Elgin" Marbles and the contents of ancient Egyptian tombs. But what is less well known is its long history of stealing vowels to unnecessarly add to words like flavor and color. These vowels were seized from the Balkans by British soldiers marching across the penninsula to the Crimean War, and never returned.
Just look at a map. The looting of vowels has resulted in place names like Drnis, Brcko, Drvar, Vrbas, Knin, Krsko, Trzic, Trbovlje, Vrsac, and most tragically Krk. The consequence has been some of the bloodiest wars in history, as neighboring ethinc groups killed one another for just enough vowels to be able to pronounce the names of their children.
The madness must stop! The world must unite against the speakers of British English and force them to disgorge the vowels they have stolen. Returning the excess "u"s in the Linux source code is just one small step to addressing the root causes of violence in the Balkans.
The fossil record attests to numerous species that were more humanlike than chimps but not direct ancestors of modern man. The genus of Australopithecines and the Neanderthal (sub)species of Homo, for example.
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If you knew your Archimedes, you would know that a floating object displaces a volume of water equal to its weight.
As a result, (and barring some minor non-ideal complications) floating ice that melts will still displace no more water than the ice itself did -- that is, the water level will not change at all. Similarly, freezing part of the water into a floating bit of ice will not change the water level either; it will continue to displace as much water as ice as it did as water. You can convert back and forth all day.
This, by the way, is science on the level my niece just learned in 2nd grade. Are you sure you're sufficiently educated to have an opinion on global warming?
Oh, BTW, ozone depletion is unrelated to global warming. The global temperature doesn't care whether the UV energy was absorbed at the surface or in the ozone layer. The threat is greenhouse gas production, not ozone depletion.
By email, phone, fax, telegram, or letter (or better, several of these), let them know what you think. These are the people who can give Verisign reasons to change their behavior.
Anyway, how does Solaris have any credibility on Intel? How many times has Sun talked about dropping x86 development? What happens when the strategy changes next week?
Um? The end stage and ultimate goal of Marxist communism is a property-less anarchy. See Marx's Communist Manifesto for details.
And pretty much everyone understates how much gas you actually have left.
Yes, but that's deliberate to protect the engine. Running a modern engine dry will damage it; getting people to buy refills early helps ensure people don't drive their engines into the ground, and thus spares dealers the headaches of dealing with as many idiots who think "still under warranty" means "I get free repairs for engine abuse".
You know, if you guys had been nicer to your colonies, you'd have a friendly country straddling the Equator to build the thing in.
Why bother building a platform? Nature's already built a bunch, *and* several are near the Equator already.
Where? Ecuador, where the Andes intersect the Equator. It's the natural place to launch rockets from.
The USA topic/icon. Canada's a protectorate allowed to play at having its own foreign and defense policies, not a soverign country of its own.
First, although general lines are not, there are a few refitted power plants that use "high" temp superconductors for short (dozens of meter long), very high power lines. The losses to resistance and the cooling that would be required by the heat generated by the resistance are high enough in these short fat lines between generation and the grid that SC wires with liquid nitrogen coooling is a net gain on efficiency.
Second, real point was that there was no longer a theoretical barrier to there being 50 deg. C superconductors. If and when those are discovered, they'll radically change things, even if they turn out to be a bastard to work with mechanically.
Google is linking to Chilling Effects instead of hosting themselves because it minimizes their liability. They aren't providing links to potentially infringing sites, they're linking to a site that gives the addresses of places that are potentially infringing sites.
Chilling Effects might arguably itself be violating the DMCA, but they've volunteered for this duty, and are a bunch of lawyers, and don't have a lot of money to make themselves a potentially juicy target, while suing Google could bring in cash.
could it be that "stuff that could get us sued is evil", and "stuff that we get paid for is fine by us"
How about, "We will link anything until we get a credible threat that could shut down or seriously harm Google, and even then we'll do as little as we need to end the threat, and we'll subvert our own compliance as much as possible without restoring the threat."
Oh, yes, so horribly censored you have to actually click on a link and then copy & paste a link. How evil of them to impose a minor inconvenience to avoid lawsuits!
What is it that they're saying? Stupid bullshit based on a lack of historical perspective, mostly.
Last I checked, I was using rechargable NiMH AAs and AAAs.
(looks)
Yep, still am.
I wonder does zip have better compression then say . . . gzip?
.zip support of the shareware program WinZip are both derivatives of the same source code, which was written for the Info-Zip program, a pkzip clone.
Probably not, given that zip and gzip use the exact same compression algorithm. In fact, the code used for gzip and the
A theory that would make sense, except the North Koreans never ended their nuclear program, they just took the money. Clinton continued to pay them even though the CIA reported the programs were continuing. All NK did after they were cut off by Bush was admit they had continued their program in violation of the agreeement.
Clear and unambiguous? Yep:
In 1994 we paid North Korea to stop nuclear development.
In 1996 the CIA reported that North Korea had resumed nuclear development.
For the next four years, we continued sending the North Koreans money.
Yes, the message from Clinton was clear and unambiguous. "If you don't make a political problem for me, I'll keep paying you."
Then they're drinking bad coffee. Good coffee is delicious.
We do get the old Imperial measures right; we just don't use the new Imperial mesures. Your "Standard Imperial" wasn't invented until 1824, long after the U.S. gained its independence.
For example, there were (at least) two gallon sizes in the Empire in 1750 -- the 282 cubic inch beer gallon established by Elizabeth I, and the 231 cubic inch wine gallon established by Queen Anne.
The U.S. inherited both gallons, and eventually dropped the beer gallon entirely, keeping only the wine gallon.
On the other hand, the British, in 1824, dropped both, in favor of a new unit equal to ten pounds of water, which at 277.42 cubic inches was similar but not identical to the old beer gallon.
In any case, the U.S. has been legally metric for 110 years now. We merely have never tried to force people to stop using the old measures by arresting or fining them.
Okay.
1. Go to your nearest Apple store.
[six hours later]
Hmm. They're closed.
And the bionic superment of the future use Rankine!
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Sorry, "mail" comes from Old French. Try yet again.
So, are the red/white/blue consoles supposed to denote solidarity with the Americans, British, French, Dutch, Russians, Czechs, Slovaks, Cubans, Panamanians, Australians, Norwegians, or what?
The British Empire is well know for its history of looting artifacts, like the "Elgin" Marbles and the contents of ancient Egyptian tombs. But what is less well known is its long history of stealing vowels to unnecessarly add to words like flavor and color. These vowels were seized from the Balkans by British soldiers marching across the penninsula to the Crimean War, and never returned.
Just look at a map. The looting of vowels has resulted in place names like Drnis, Brcko, Drvar, Vrbas, Knin, Krsko, Trzic, Trbovlje, Vrsac, and most tragically Krk. The consequence has been some of the bloodiest wars in history, as neighboring ethinc groups killed one another for just enough vowels to be able to pronounce the names of their children.
The madness must stop! The world must unite against the speakers of British English and force them to disgorge the vowels they have stolen. Returning the excess "u"s in the Linux source code is just one small step to addressing the root causes of violence in the Balkans.
The fossil record attests to numerous species that were more humanlike than chimps but not direct ancestors of modern man. The genus of Australopithecines and the Neanderthal (sub)species of Homo, for example.