here at MIT, we have a fabled set of mailing lists which everyone uses for passing unwanted stuff around -- not just tech: furniture, books, etc. it's called reuse - http://web.mit.edu/reuse/
it's really a good system!
In my experience, it's the case fans that are the culprit for most of the noise. I have several Vantec Tornados cooling my rig, and sometimes I wish that I didn't overclock everything so that I could run a much quieter fan. My powersupply, on the other hand, is quite quiet.
The planet has approximately 7.5 times the mass of the Earth, double its radius, and orbits its parent star once every two days.
g_newplanet = G(7.5M_Earth)/4(r_Earth^2), where g is the gravitational field strength and G is the gravitational constant. This is less than 2g_earth.
Seems close enough for life. Although I'm not sure why a stronger gravitational field would necessarily be a huge constraint on the development of life.
And to preempt the trolls, my little convenient formula is good enough. Relativistic effects can be ignored.
Calculators can be a valuable tool, even once you're barely past the basics: they can be a tool for exploration, and they can help kids focus on understanding important concepts rather than suffering through tedious calculations. In a simple, first-year, single variable calculus class, why would you ask a student to approximate a definite integral of some function that has no elementary antiderivative, when they can just as easily learn what's going on by graphing the function and using the integration function on their calculators?
"Just because something hurts or kills doesn't make it bad and just because something feels good or prolongs life doesn't make it good."
If you don't believe that human life is intrinsically valuable, and if you don't think that our cognizance and rationality are unique characteristics, then there is something fundamentally flawed about your point of view. Human life is uniquely valuable and we ought to make efforts to improve it. READ: It is not okay to acquiesce supinely while individuals needlessly die, especially when techniques are available to prevent such a thing from happening. Prolonging and improving human life is good. Ending it prematurely is bad. Simple? Sure. Deontologically sound? Definitely.
"short term good"? This has the potential to eradicate several crippling diseases and increase the quality of life of an innumerable number of people. You're going to have to give a better reason against gene therapy than "you're acting as god." You're personal religious opinions are not welcome in a diverse global arena, which is (or ought to be) tailored toward the pursuit of the greater good. You only serve to alienate those of us who may not subscribe to the notion that scientific progress runs counter to moral norms (a concept whose ontological coherence is debatable).
On a related note, this kind of attitude is precisely why scientific progress often stagnates. Irrational fear hinders societal good. Messing up a few times, as cold and calculating as this might sound, may be necessary in order to develop effective medicines and therapies and pinpoint options that do not work. The individuals who sign up for clinical trials are aware of the risks, and those who do should be applauded for their selfless contribution to the good of humanity.
Regardless of your personal beliefs, gene therapy is one of the most promising developments in medicine. It has the potential to revolutionize our perceptions of the human body.
An 800MHz overclock on stock cooling is absolutely incredible...
But it kind of makes me wonder why AMD doesn't make the default core speed on the proc higher.
GNOME sucks, KDE sucks, Windows sucks, OS X sucks.
I don't think a decent desktop evironment exists. Just like there is no decent OS, no decent programming language.
Meh, I've used just about everything that exists (including mainframe stuff and everything in between) we're all using crap. And I mean that seriously.
What should a good desktop environment be like? What would you prefer?
If you say everything is crap (and you claim to have seen everything), I wonder what your conception of "good" really is? And if everything is crap, how can you make judgments of what is good and bad if you haven't experienced any good desktop environments? What is your point of reference?
If your standard is perfection, you're not going to get it. Computing is about compromise because no one system fits the needs of everyone. You're not helping the quality of discussion at/., and you're hindering your ability to make reasonable judgments. So, for your own personal satisfaction, and for the sake of discoursive quality, you should change your standards because they are fundamentally untenable.
On a separate note, I think GNOME is improving significantly. It's getting lighter and more efficient, and while there is still a significant amount of bloat, it's improving. Keep up the good work!
At the secondary level, private/parochial schools often can fix the problems that plague public schools; the reduced sizes, more individualized attention, and a greater breadth of course choices allow students to choose a curriculum suited to their interests and ambitions. Unfortunately, most Americans probably can't send their children to a private institution. This is why school vouchers need to be issued. By providing access to private schools for the marginalized, disenfranchised middle class of America, the government directly incentivises excellence; I'm willing to believe that most parents with children in the public school system aren't happy with the way things operate. A competitive marketplace forms, and just like an economic system, pressures would force public schools to change the way they operate in order to address the concerns and desires of their constituencies.
Having discussed this issue at length outside of/., I'd like to preclude a few common responses:
1. Separation of church and state would be violated if the government provided vouchers to parochial schools.
Two responses: First, the religious influence of parochial schools are often superficial. The singing of religious hymns hardly constitutes a declaration of faith or external pressure. Theological classes don't proselytize; religious texts, like other documents, can be historically significant, and classes about them carry secular educational value. Second, I'd urge people to reject the semantic bullshit about how mentioning any deity is inherently exclusionary. Not only does it infringe upon the rights of the religious, but the harms that occur from such discourse are far outweighed by the educational advantages.
2. Public schools/teachers are hurt by voucher systems.
Tough. These institutions have been failing us, and competitive pressures are the way to solve them. We as a society should be able weigh harms without squirming about the people who will be affected; I'm willing to ruin some lives for the greater good of society.
Just my two cents.
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here at MIT, we have a fabled set of mailing lists which everyone uses for passing unwanted stuff around -- not just tech: furniture, books, etc. it's called reuse - http://web.mit.edu/reuse/ it's really a good system!
In my experience, it's the case fans that are the culprit for most of the noise. I have several Vantec Tornados cooling my rig, and sometimes I wish that I didn't overclock everything so that I could run a much quieter fan. My powersupply, on the other hand, is quite quiet.
Is "smapping" an activity that my mother would approve of?
I beg the /. powers to proofread what they post. In this case, we have a missing apostrophe in the title.
Show us that you care about this website's quality!
g_newplanet = G(7.5M_Earth)/4(r_Earth^2), where g is the gravitational field strength and G is the gravitational constant. This is less than 2g_earth.
Seems close enough for life. Although I'm not sure why a stronger gravitational field would necessarily be a huge constraint on the development of life.
And to preempt the trolls, my little convenient formula is good enough. Relativistic effects can be ignored.
Now my hardware will force me to support CMT on my computer? This is as bad as DRM.
Calculators can be a valuable tool, even once you're barely past the basics: they can be a tool for exploration, and they can help kids focus on understanding important concepts rather than suffering through tedious calculations. In a simple, first-year, single variable calculus class, why would you ask a student to approximate a definite integral of some function that has no elementary antiderivative, when they can just as easily learn what's going on by graphing the function and using the integration function on their calculators?
"Just because something hurts or kills doesn't make it bad and just because something feels good or prolongs life doesn't make it good."
If you don't believe that human life is intrinsically valuable, and if you don't think that our cognizance and rationality are unique characteristics, then there is something fundamentally flawed about your point of view. Human life is uniquely valuable and we ought to make efforts to improve it. READ: It is not okay to acquiesce supinely while individuals needlessly die, especially when techniques are available to prevent such a thing from happening. Prolonging and improving human life is good. Ending it prematurely is bad. Simple? Sure. Deontologically sound? Definitely.
"short term good"? This has the potential to eradicate several crippling diseases and increase the quality of life of an innumerable number of people. You're going to have to give a better reason against gene therapy than "you're acting as god." You're personal religious opinions are not welcome in a diverse global arena, which is (or ought to be) tailored toward the pursuit of the greater good. You only serve to alienate those of us who may not subscribe to the notion that scientific progress runs counter to moral norms (a concept whose ontological coherence is debatable).
On a related note, this kind of attitude is precisely why scientific progress often stagnates. Irrational fear hinders societal good. Messing up a few times, as cold and calculating as this might sound, may be necessary in order to develop effective medicines and therapies and pinpoint options that do not work. The individuals who sign up for clinical trials are aware of the risks, and those who do should be applauded for their selfless contribution to the good of humanity.
Regardless of your personal beliefs, gene therapy is one of the most promising developments in medicine. It has the potential to revolutionize our perceptions of the human body.
An 800MHz overclock on stock cooling is absolutely incredible... But it kind of makes me wonder why AMD doesn't make the default core speed on the proc higher.
If you say everything is crap (and you claim to have seen everything), I wonder what your conception of "good" really is? And if everything is crap, how can you make judgments of what is good and bad if you haven't experienced any good desktop environments? What is your point of reference?
If your standard is perfection, you're not going to get it. Computing is about compromise because no one system fits the needs of everyone. You're not helping the quality of discussion at
On a separate note, I think GNOME is improving significantly. It's getting lighter and more efficient, and while there is still a significant amount of bloat, it's improving. Keep up the good work!
At the secondary level, private/parochial schools often can fix the problems that plague public schools; the reduced sizes, more individualized attention, and a greater breadth of course choices allow students to choose a curriculum suited to their interests and ambitions. Unfortunately, most Americans probably can't send their children to a private institution. This is why school vouchers need to be issued. By providing access to private schools for the marginalized, disenfranchised middle class of America, the government directly incentivises excellence; I'm willing to believe that most parents with children in the public school system aren't happy with the way things operate. A competitive marketplace forms, and just like an economic system, pressures would force public schools to change the way they operate in order to address the concerns and desires of their constituencies. Having discussed this issue at length outside of /., I'd like to preclude a few common responses:
1. Separation of church and state would be violated if the government provided vouchers to parochial schools.
Two responses: First, the religious influence of parochial schools are often superficial. The singing of religious hymns hardly constitutes a declaration of faith or external pressure. Theological classes don't proselytize; religious texts, like other documents, can be historically significant, and classes about them carry secular educational value. Second, I'd urge people to reject the semantic bullshit about how mentioning any deity is inherently exclusionary. Not only does it infringe upon the rights of the religious, but the harms that occur from such discourse are far outweighed by the educational advantages.
2. Public schools/teachers are hurt by voucher systems.
Tough. These institutions have been failing us, and competitive pressures are the way to solve them. We as a society should be able weigh harms without squirming about the people who will be affected; I'm willing to ruin some lives for the greater good of society.
Just my two cents.