From what I heard, OS X uses certain low level functions that control processor speed/voltage within the OS itself versus what conventionally would be done through a BIOS on a normal PC. Apple uses EFI... I know that.
Just reading about some of the "dangers" if using a Mac to run Linux... main reason being, you have a likeliness of damaging the CPU if all you run are intensive tasks under Linux. Apple wrote drivers that deal with this stuff under Windows.
Is this true? If so, can anyone provide some references (as my googling was fruitless)? I'm currently doing exactly that after installing rEFIt on a Macbook Pro 5,3...
Please lets vote Turnbull in, enough is enough (already)
If a Double Dissolution happens Turnbull (or another Lib, I doubt Turnbull could run) that might just happen, so long as no-one utters the words "work choices" they should get in.
"Australia is the only [first world country] without a Space Agency, which impacts on many aspects of ordinary life"
Totally! I'm Australian and I'm *sick* of this not having a space agency! Every day, someone's all like "Can you launch this into orbit mate?" and I'm all bloody like "Nah, ya see, we don't have a space agency mate!", so they go "Throw another shrimp on the barbie then mate!".
And then I ride my Kangaroo home, because my bloody spaceship is still in the bloody hangar. Strewth.
The problem with scientists is, they are not geologists. Uhh.... geologists ARE scientists. Some scientists ARE geologists. It is true however some people like rocks and aren't scientists.
Most academic disciplines have a set of jargon and a language register that takes a while to learn and understand. I reckon there needs to be some sort of scale so everyone can get what they want out of the page. Maybe multiple copies written for different targets? After all, I understand German better than I do my 3M1 lecturer (the point being there's a 'German' wikipedia, but no 'maths' wikipedia).
Perhaps a 'wikipedia for kids', 'wikipedia for adults' and a 'collection of dense, unreadable wikipedia articles for the discerning scientist' could be justified? Even a "zoom-in" button (like that on google maps), so you can set your desired level?
I also think that physicists should be forced to write two copies of their journal articles - a layman's and a physicist's copy. Reading some journal articles really makes it seem like they're putting up 'smoke and mirrors' so only people already in the club can read it. Science and effective communication shouldn't be mutually exclusive.
Hmm. Well x = 13256278887989457651018865901401704640. In hex: 9f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0. I converted that to ASCII but just got ")×N5½lV5hOE".
It sure wasn't worth breaking your copyright to get that. You can keep it.
25000hp and most of it is used to push air in front of, and around the train. I wonder how much it would cost to build a vaccuum tunnel to run very high speed train in at a fraction of the power required by the TGV...
Keeping the vacuum running would be much more expensive. You'd need a lot of pumps constantly running to remove any air that comes in. And that's probably gonna be a larger volume of air than that in front of the train.
Then there's the issue of people exploding and not being able to breathe.
You're right, but it'd be a bit bitchy if Google pulled the plug on a country out of spite - they probably wouldn't win any friends with the bad press either. Also, I have no idea how much ad revenue Belgium produces but I imagine Google wants all of it.
Each time I play SSB I spend far too long choosing character, then panic and choose yoshi. I agree, it would be cool to be able to play as Sonic, or Knuckles, or Tails, or Doctor Robotnic, Sonic's girlfriend, or that bee thing, or as the palm tree from Green Hill Zone act 1, or Cloud, Gambit, Ryu + Ken + Akuma + Dan, the NPC character in the first little village that will one day become your nemesis, the Androgynous blob on level 2, etc, you get the point. I think everyone has a fave character they'd like to play as - but when do you call enough enough? Maybe all those 'natsukashii' nostalgic characters could be linked to their corresponding virtual machine games - or just have an online character shop.
EA are great at flogging sequels off. FIFA 2006 is the 13th (not to mention another 13 odd games outside the yearly releases) in the FIFA series. How could they not have the formula right by now?
Right you are, I missed two (Serenity and the Day the Earth Stood still) from the list. My parsing was getting very lazy by that point. Both great movies however. I also managed to mis-type 'Alien' as 'Aliens', although I blame the person who came up with the titles. I also have to say I agree, Blade Runner isn't really a 'space' movie, but neither is Contact, and Blade Runner's plot involves off world colonies.
Blade Runner (well if Contact is on the list, why not this?)
Star Wars 6
Star Wars 3
Planet of the Apes (1968 version)
Yes, i've gone against convention and used digits not roman numerals for the Star Wars films. I'd be interested to see are larger list - Star Wars/Trek domaination makes it seem more like a top 5.
1. Microsoft IE = 85.45 %
2. Mozilla Firefox = 11.51 %
3. Apple Safari = 1.75 %
4. Netscape = 0.26 %
5. Opera = 0.77 %
I always thought that 'a' came before 'm'. Even if you got rid of 'Microsoft', 'Mozilla' and 'Apple', you'd still have 'i-nternet explorer' before 'f-irefox', unless you dropped 'internet' as well, and changed 'safari' to 'Konqueror'. You could then change 'Firefox' with ' bat', 'explorer' with 'ant', 'safari' with 'cat', 'netscape' with 'dog' and 'opera' with 'egg'. Then it'd be alphabetical and all the words would be one syllable.
Hurricane Wilma was (at its peak), the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin. In all probability, Wilma Flintstone is the most desirable woman who ever lived. Coincidence? No. They both have large electromagnetic fields, which causes dielectric stress (Energetically speaking).
Now when you get pissed off at a game and throw your controller across the room you'll see you character zoom across the screen. They better make replacement controllers cheap.
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From what I heard, OS X uses certain low level functions that control processor speed/voltage within the OS itself versus what conventionally would be done through a BIOS on a normal PC. Apple uses EFI... I know that. Just reading about some of the "dangers" if using a Mac to run Linux... main reason being, you have a likeliness of damaging the CPU if all you run are intensive tasks under Linux. Apple wrote drivers that deal with this stuff under Windows.
Is this true? If so, can anyone provide some references (as my googling was fruitless)? I'm currently doing exactly that after installing rEFIt on a Macbook Pro 5,3...
If a Double Dissolution happens Turnbull (or another Lib, I doubt Turnbull could run) that might just happen, so long as no-one utters the words "work choices" they should get in.
Last time I checked, Turnbull's popularity was at record low: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/28/2638114.htm. It's going to take more that just not uttering "Work Choices"...
Totally! I'm Australian and I'm *sick* of this not having a space agency! Every day, someone's all like "Can you launch this into orbit mate?" and I'm all bloody like "Nah, ya see, we don't have a space agency mate!", so they go "Throw another shrimp on the barbie then mate!". And then I ride my Kangaroo home, because my bloody spaceship is still in the bloody hangar. Strewth.
I believe Kurtis Blow already holds the patent to commercial breaks
Ha - I read "How about we put Justin Timberlake in a soundproof, airtight room and forget to back him up". Either way sounds like a good idea
Most academic disciplines have a set of jargon and a language register that takes a while to learn and understand. I reckon there needs to be some sort of scale so everyone can get what they want out of the page. Maybe multiple copies written for different targets? After all, I understand German better than I do my 3M1 lecturer (the point being there's a 'German' wikipedia, but no 'maths' wikipedia).
Perhaps a 'wikipedia for kids', 'wikipedia for adults' and a 'collection of dense, unreadable wikipedia articles for the discerning scientist' could be justified? Even a "zoom-in" button (like that on google maps), so you can set your desired level?
I also think that physicists should be forced to write two copies of their journal articles - a layman's and a physicist's copy. Reading some journal articles really makes it seem like they're putting up 'smoke and mirrors' so only people already in the club can read it. Science and effective communication shouldn't be mutually exclusive.
Oh. I'm an idiot. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0. Haha very funny.
Hmm. Well x = 13256278887989457651018865901401704640. In hex: 9f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0. I converted that to ASCII but just got ")×N5½lV5hOE". It sure wasn't worth breaking your copyright to get that. You can keep it.
Keeping the vacuum running would be much more expensive. You'd need a lot of pumps constantly running to remove any air that comes in. And that's probably gonna be a larger volume of air than that in front of the train.
Then there's the issue of people exploding and not being able to breathe.
You're right, but it'd be a bit bitchy if Google pulled the plug on a country out of spite - they probably wouldn't win any friends with the bad press either. Also, I have no idea how much ad revenue Belgium produces but I imagine Google wants all of it.
Each time I play SSB I spend far too long choosing character, then panic and choose yoshi. I agree, it would be cool to be able to play as Sonic, or Knuckles, or Tails, or Doctor Robotnic, Sonic's girlfriend, or that bee thing, or as the palm tree from Green Hill Zone act 1, or Cloud, Gambit, Ryu + Ken + Akuma + Dan, the NPC character in the first little village that will one day become your nemesis, the Androgynous blob on level 2, etc, you get the point. I think everyone has a fave character they'd like to play as - but when do you call enough enough? Maybe all those 'natsukashii' nostalgic characters could be linked to their corresponding virtual machine games - or just have an online character shop.
EA are great at flogging sequels off. FIFA 2006 is the 13th (not to mention another 13 odd games outside the yearly releases) in the FIFA series. How could they not have the formula right by now?
Right you are, I missed two (Serenity and the Day the Earth Stood still) from the list. My parsing was getting very lazy by that point. Both great movies however. I also managed to mis-type 'Alien' as 'Aliens', although I blame the person who came up with the titles. I also have to say I agree, Blade Runner isn't really a 'space' movie, but neither is Contact, and Blade Runner's plot involves off world colonies.
- Star Wars 4
- Star wars 5
- Alien
- Aliens (the sequel to Aliens)
- 2001: A Space Oddysey
- Blade Runner (well if Contact is on the list, why not this?)
- Star Wars 6
- Star Wars 3
- Planet of the Apes (1968 version)
Yes, i've gone against convention and used digits not roman numerals for the Star Wars films. I'd be interested to see are larger list - Star Wars/Trek domaination makes it seem more like a top 5.Silly jumps? Like that one Fonzi did in Happy Days?
Hurricane Wilma was (at its peak), the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin. In all probability, Wilma Flintstone is the most desirable woman who ever lived. Coincidence? No. They both have large electromagnetic fields, which causes dielectric stress (Energetically speaking).
All you need is a cardboard cutout of Rosanne.
Tron (1982). WarGames (1983). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/">Hackers (1995). Angelina Jolie was a geek. Ryan Phillipe was a geek. Not to mention Keanu Reeves. When geeks aren't busy proving fermat's last theorem, they're out saving the world from corporate scum. PS. I have no idea what that last link is about, it's the fruit of random googling.
For those of you interested - Asimov's three laws don't quite work.
'Times New Roman' is so 27BC. It'd only take one line of css to get something with class. Like 'Comic Sans MS'. Everyone loves 'Comic Sans MS'.
Now when you get pissed off at a game and throw your controller across the room you'll see you character zoom across the screen. They better make replacement controllers cheap.
Content providers can't dictate how to watch a show - there's no law saying you have to watch commercials, or pay attention to them. Yet.