Why use this method when there were more efficient methods that don't require electricity OR a compressor? See, for a vortex tube cooler to work well, it needs a relatively high pressure gas supply (a few atmospheres). I don't see how you're going to get that without electricity? I'd RTFA to see if this is discussed, but it's become "premium content".
As for the existing methods, there are gas absorption refridgerators. These also require no electricity and have no moving parts. All they need is a heat source (fire).
There was a saying that if the Russians had not participated in the ISS.
You left off part of that sentence. It should read, "... then we wouldn't have rich assholes up there performing pretend experiments and advertising their companies on government property that cost billions to build."
As far as I am concerned, the person who ordered the hits, Jay Echouafni should be in jail and the hacker should get help to find something more worthwhile to do with his time.
So, should an amateur boxer who beats the crap out of people for a living not be charged with aggravated assault because he was doing it for money? I agree that the person who ordered the hits should do time, but I also think the guy who carried out the orders should too.
Turning IDN off in Firefox is mighty a stupid solution. Stupid on a planetary scale. A problem should be fixed, not circumvented by removing the functionality.
If you were driving down the highway and you discovered that running your air conditioner caused your brakes to stop working, would you keep running your A/C until you got to a repair station, or would you turn it off?
Besides, most people probably rarely, if ever, use IDN. So it's more like disabling the child safety locks in your car. Who's ever used those?
I don't think it's the original disk, just a copy of the original source. What makes it special is that it's signed by an actual Finn. Who knew they really existed? I thought Tolkien invented them or something.
It's my opinion that European governments tax gasoline so much not to discourage use, but because it has such an inelastic demand. People need fuel. They're not just going to stop going to work or to the store because the price of gas doubles. European governments are simply trying to maximize their revenue. In short:
1. price of gas doubles,
2. use drops by less than half
3....
4. profit!
It's kind of like cigarette taxes in the US. If their goal was really to decrease tobacco use, they would ban cigarette advertising and promotional givaways and buy-one-get-one-free deals that are so popular right not. But since they're really just trying to make a quick buck, they still allow tobacco companies to advertise (with some restrictions), and they have a huge tax on cigarettes because smokers are addicted and they will continue to pay whatever they have to to get their nicotine.
Unfortunately, this won't work for most Americans. There are no bike paths leading where you want to go in most cities. You can ride in the street, but this is very dangerous, and most bicyclists can't keep up with cars even on a 20 mph street (because most motorists drive 30-35). Riding on the sidewalk is illegal in most places. And then there's the issue of weather. You can't ride a bike when it's pouring down rain or when it's below freezing (which it is most mornings in the Winter here in Ohio). People who propose using bikes to get around often forget that cars not only get us from Point A to Point B, they also shield us from the elements. And finally, people sweat when they exercise. I don't think it would be acceptable for most people to show up at work drenched in sweat.
Yes, because excessive fuel consumption was clearly responsible for the hurricane. Wait, no it wasn't. The hurricane was responsible for a $0.50/gal gasoline price increase. But all of this must somehow be Bush's fault because I'm a Democrat.
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Will these be controlled by an evil diamond nanotube cartel in order to drive up their prices 1000-fold? And then will they bribe their way out of an anti-trust case?
Why is it that scientists are quick to publish results they don't understand?
So other scientists in the field are made aware of the discovery, and can begin searching for the solution. What if you were a scientist--and I can tell by your post that you're not--and you discovered a new phenomenon that you didn't understand? If you never published because you couldn't figure it out, then it might remain a mystery. If you publish your discovery sans explanation, someone else might figure it out. Plus, you get to claim "First Post!" rights. What if Penzias and Wilson had never published about that strange noise picked up by their antenna which turned out to be the cosmic microwave background radiation because they didn't know what it was?
I'm not entirely sure that this is the case. The news item currently at the top of opengl.org is:
Full performance OpenGL under Windows Vista Aero - Contact your hardware and software manufacturers
Microsoft's current plan for OpenGL on Windows Vista is to layer OpenGL over Direct3D in order to use OpenGL with a composited desktop to obtain the Aeroglass experience. If an an application runs using an OpenGL ICD - the desktop compositor will switch off - significantly degrading the user experience.
This is only a first technical beta of Vista, so this is a problem that can be solved. Write to your preferred software developer, hardware developer and video card manufacturer (e.g. 3Dlabs, ATI, Intel, Matrox, NVIDIA, SIS HP, Dell, Leenovo) and tell them to bring this up with Microsoft. Hardware and software vendors do listen to the developers. This will be the most effective action you can take. Don't be passive - send those emails and keep the topic in the foreground
OpenGL under Windows works like this:
you pick a graphics mode, which may be provided by MS (software) or by the hardware manufacturer (accelerated).
According to the text from OpenGL.org, most OGL applications (which use ICD) will indead run through the DirectX layer. If MS is making hardware manufacturers go through DirectX, then I think this will be a big problem. If you are at all concerned with this issue, then I suggest you read up on the history of OpenGL on Windows.
Of course its a marketing ploy, and a good one if you ask me. (Downloading right now...) [boldface added]
Well, if I could download it, I might agree with you. But all I get is a screen saying that their servers are too busy. I already have Fedora Core 4 and WinXP installed on my computer, so when I saw that screen, I lost my momentary interest in Linspire. I imagine most people with WinXP and/or any Linux distro installed feel the same: *yawn*.
They recommend trying between 11:00pm and 5:00am Eastern Time.
Well, it's about 12:10 am Eastern time here, and this is what I get when I try to download:
Looking for "Freespire" (a free copy of Linspire)?
You've come to the right place...
Currently all of our servers are busy.
Thanks for your interest in Linspire's Limited special offer.
Our servers are trying to deal with the massive number of customers that are interested in getting their free copy of Linspire OS. Please be patient, and come back later while we deal with all of our incoming requests.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
The Linspire Team.
Could their servers really be this busy at 9:10 pm PST on a Friday, or is this just a clever marketing move. "Sure, you can have it for free...oh, sorry, we just ran out. Would you like to buy the retail boxed version instead?"
What is the mechanism by which genes fade? I suggest that you take a basic biology class.
Individuals with less well adapted genes don't reproduce and the genes die out. As the number of these genes in the gene pool decreases, it can be thought of as "fading away". Maybe you should take a biology class.
And the fact that Neanderthals had different mtDNA doesn't mean that they're related. You have different mtDNA than your own father. Besides, the study only compared the DNA of two individuals.
No, it's not easy to know. That's why researchers have been debating this question since the discovery of the first Neanderthal. The idea that it was the result of murder has the problem that the Neandertals were much stronger than modern humans. I've heard them described as having the musculature of modern bodybuilders (the males, anyway). Neanderthals ate mostly meat, so they obviously had the ability to kill animals. And modern humans at the time didn't have much more advanced weaponry than spears.
There are several theories why they died out including environmental changes. And it's not entirely certain that Neanderthals didn't interbreed with modern humans to some extent. It's been theorized that the red hair gene came from Neanderthals.
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Why use this method when there were more efficient methods that don't require electricity OR a compressor? See, for a vortex tube cooler to work well, it needs a relatively high pressure gas supply (a few atmospheres). I don't see how you're going to get that without electricity? I'd RTFA to see if this is discussed, but it's become "premium content".
As for the existing methods, there are gas absorption refridgerators. These also require no electricity and have no moving parts. All they need is a heat source (fire).
I'm gonna stop using condoms too while I'm at it.
What does making water balloons have to do with preventing a computer infection? I don't get it.
There was a saying that if the Russians had not participated in the ISS.
You left off part of that sentence. It should read, "... then we wouldn't have rich assholes up there performing pretend experiments and advertising their companies on government property that cost billions to build."
As far as I am concerned, the person who ordered the hits, Jay Echouafni should be in jail and the hacker should get help to find something more worthwhile to do with his time.
So, should an amateur boxer who beats the crap out of people for a living not be charged with aggravated assault because he was doing it for money? I agree that the person who ordered the hits should do time, but I also think the guy who carried out the orders should too.
The only advantage I see to this is that it doesn't look like you're talking to your computer.
Turning IDN off in Firefox is mighty a stupid solution. Stupid on a planetary scale. A problem should be fixed, not circumvented by removing the functionality.
If you were driving down the highway and you discovered that running your air conditioner caused your brakes to stop working, would you keep running your A/C until you got to a repair station, or would you turn it off?
Besides, most people probably rarely, if ever, use IDN. So it's more like disabling the child safety locks in your car. Who's ever used those?
The Daily Probe had a story about this a while ago. (Read the first headline.)
No, you're thinking of Al Gore. Yeah, I know. That joke is so 2000.
In other news, Duke Nuk'em Forever, the successor to Duke Nuk'em 3D, released in 1996, will be ready any day now.
"[P]of the reason..."
See how creative the Slashdot editors are today?
I don't think it's the original disk, just a copy of the original source. What makes it special is that it's signed by an actual Finn. Who knew they really existed? I thought Tolkien invented them or something.
For voice-over-ip, you would have the application and the telephone address/number of the person/company to be dialed.
Wow, there's just no way you could include this information in a plain text document. I guess we'll all have to keep using MS Office.
Well, my string theories go to 12.
It's my opinion that European governments tax gasoline so much not to discourage use, but because it has such an inelastic demand. People need fuel. They're not just going to stop going to work or to the store because the price of gas doubles. European governments are simply trying to maximize their revenue. In short: ...
1. price of gas doubles,
2. use drops by less than half
3.
4. profit!
It's kind of like cigarette taxes in the US. If their goal was really to decrease tobacco use, they would ban cigarette advertising and promotional givaways and buy-one-get-one-free deals that are so popular right not. But since they're really just trying to make a quick buck, they still allow tobacco companies to advertise (with some restrictions), and they have a huge tax on cigarettes because smokers are addicted and they will continue to pay whatever they have to to get their nicotine.
Unfortunately, this won't work for most Americans. There are no bike paths leading where you want to go in most cities. You can ride in the street, but this is very dangerous, and most bicyclists can't keep up with cars even on a 20 mph street (because most motorists drive 30-35). Riding on the sidewalk is illegal in most places. And then there's the issue of weather. You can't ride a bike when it's pouring down rain or when it's below freezing (which it is most mornings in the Winter here in Ohio). People who propose using bikes to get around often forget that cars not only get us from Point A to Point B, they also shield us from the elements. And finally, people sweat when they exercise. I don't think it would be acceptable for most people to show up at work drenched in sweat.
Yes, because excessive fuel consumption was clearly responsible for the hurricane. Wait, no it wasn't. The hurricane was responsible for a $0.50/gal gasoline price increase. But all of this must somehow be Bush's fault because I'm a Democrat.
[/sarcasm]
Will these be controlled by an evil diamond nanotube cartel in order to drive up their prices 1000-fold? And then will they bribe their way out of an anti-trust case?
Why is it that scientists are quick to publish results they don't understand?
So other scientists in the field are made aware of the discovery, and can begin searching for the solution. What if you were a scientist--and I can tell by your post that you're not--and you discovered a new phenomenon that you didn't understand? If you never published because you couldn't figure it out, then it might remain a mystery. If you publish your discovery sans explanation, someone else might figure it out. Plus, you get to claim "First Post!" rights. What if Penzias and Wilson had never published about that strange noise picked up by their antenna which turned out to be the cosmic microwave background radiation because they didn't know what it was?
you pick a graphics mode, which may be provided by MS (software) or by the hardware manufacturer (accelerated).
According to the text from OpenGL.org, most OGL applications (which use ICD) will indead run through the DirectX layer. If MS is making hardware manufacturers go through DirectX, then I think this will be a big problem. If you are at all concerned with this issue, then I suggest you read up on the history of OpenGL on Windows.
Of course its a marketing ploy, and a good one if you ask me. (Downloading right now...)
[boldface added]
Well, if I could download it, I might agree with you. But all I get is a screen saying that their servers are too busy. I already have Fedora Core 4 and WinXP installed on my computer, so when I saw that screen, I lost my momentary interest in Linspire. I imagine most people with WinXP and/or any Linux distro installed feel the same: *yawn*.
Could their servers really be this busy at 9:10 pm PST on a Friday, or is this just a clever marketing move.
On another note, I've just decided to end all interogatives with a [finger quotes]question mark[/finger quotes] (?).
Well, it's about 12:10 am Eastern time here, and this is what I get when I try to download: Could their servers really be this busy at 9:10 pm PST on a Friday, or is this just a clever marketing move. "Sure, you can have it for free...oh, sorry, we just ran out. Would you like to buy the retail boxed version instead?"
What is the mechanism by which genes fade? I suggest that you take a basic biology class.
Individuals with less well adapted genes don't reproduce and the genes die out. As the number of these genes in the gene pool decreases, it can be thought of as "fading away". Maybe you should take a biology class.
And the fact that Neanderthals had different mtDNA doesn't mean that they're related. You have different mtDNA than your own father. Besides, the study only compared the DNA of two individuals.
I think it's fairly easy to know where they went.
No, it's not easy to know. That's why researchers have been debating this question since the discovery of the first Neanderthal. The idea that it was the result of murder has the problem that the Neandertals were much stronger than modern humans. I've heard them described as having the musculature of modern bodybuilders (the males, anyway). Neanderthals ate mostly meat, so they obviously had the ability to kill animals. And modern humans at the time didn't have much more advanced weaponry than spears.
There are several theories why they died out including environmental changes. And it's not entirely certain that Neanderthals didn't interbreed with modern humans to some extent. It's been theorized that the red hair gene came from Neanderthals.
But if your messages are encrypted, how is google going to scan them and send you targeted ads?