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Paul

itunes uses too much processing power. Now itunes wouldn't be such a big problem if the computer my fiend owns was better than a Pent4 2.4Ghz system with 2gigs of ram. I reformatted this system to do nothing else other than hold media for the ipod. And I only have a few select codecs for playing ...

Paul

Prokaryotic cells, such as bacteria, are relatively simple and have no nuclei.

It is believed they evolved first then absorbed other prokaryotes and became eukaryotes - complex cells that have nuclei and structures like the energy-producing mitochondria.

Article , more background

OK, I was ...

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Birds, Palz, Mercury - since you all asked - here's my fuller opinion on 'systems winding up', and why I find the idea of evolution so implausible.

Sorry for the ressurection, but I just came along the following two paragraphs while reading The God Delusion . I would recommend that book to ...

Paul

Probably the board thing... without doing any research, I'm guessing he was probably pulling in close to $100 million a year salary, and got frequent and large bonuses and stock options on top of that... but yeah, it is rather sickening.

Paul

I'd imagine there's also power loss involved in bending those rays, so strong enough rays could overwhelm the cloaking field and pierce through. You might be able to cloak from ground radar, but an AEW&C might see right through it.

It's a passive technique, so power shouldn't really matter ...

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You only have a certificate of title to a car. the actual title belongs to the state. The car manufacturers ship the MSO to the state when the car leaves the assembly line. It was never yours, even if you paid cash.

You used to own property/cars by Allodial title . This has changed sometime in the ...

Paul

That does not imply a lack of ownership.

It does imply a lack of complete and total ownership.

So, since there are laws prohibiting murder, I guess that means we don't have complete and total ownership over any item that could potentially be used as a murder weapon, since we no longer have the ...

Paul

I suppose if you walk down a street and get mugged it's your own fault for walking down that street...

But in the real world, the mugger should be arrested.

Paul

9/11 was no suprise, we've been asking for it for years, screwing those countries over and over and over.

We made Osama rich... if he really cared about his people so much, you'd think he would use the wealth we were giving him to help them... those countries are screwed over by their own corrupt ...

Paul

I'm far too lazy to search for myself. Please enlighten me as to why I don't own the car I purchased myself. Cash purchase, not on a payment plan.

I rent, but I suppose if I bought a house I would own it, too, and the land on which it stood.

Slavery is illegal, so certainly no one else owns my ...

Paul

As a US army/navy/air force person, you used to have a right under the Geneva Convention to be treated fairly. But bush **** that up, so if you are captured by the enemy then it's most likely you'll be tortured, because the US has been torturing its captives in violation of an international ...

Paul

Funny stuff, but where exactly doe this come from?:

15: Private citizens do not need a gun for self-protection because the police are there to protect them, even though the Supreme Court says the police are not responsible for their protection.

It seems like a decision worth knowing about.

Paul

Fetal dog chia pets???

Paul

Seems it doesn't work in the emergency, either!

Paul

Dang, that thing is massive! Nice pictures, too!

Paul

I read somewhere they made stepping on ants illegal in Germany... would you be allowed to have a pet anteater?

I've never actually heard of a pet anteater before, anyway, though.

Paul

THREE: "...however, if designed perfectly, a Dual core CPU could use one core to communicate solely with the GPU, and the other core to punch out the raw math. this function will soon be replaced by a PPU, but games have to support that, otherwise its useless." Having each CPU core do different ...

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Interestingly, seems like they were going to have Mohammed in there, but that got censored by Comedy Central, so they did Jesus instead. And, what do you know, it aired.

At least, that's what this seems to indicate... I haven't seen it.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/13/southpark.muhammad ...

Paul

Cuda, Fern...you guys do understand this is Bush's 2nd term and he can't be voted back in? Seems to me we should all be wondering who is going to be the next president and how they will handle things. Might just be you'll be wishing for the good 'ole glory days of GWB.

Yup, but he is trying to ...

Paul

mm, not often you actually get flipped a bird!

Paul

Oh, a real-world problem, huh?

Yeah, in that case you'll have to consider inefficiencies, also... but that should be good as a rough approximation.

Paul

Wind resistance is 1/2*rho*v^2*A

where rho is the air density, v is the speed, and A is the frontal area.

This gives you a constant force opposing it at 50 MPH. But to find the HP, you need a power. However, thinking about the units is useful here.

Power = Force x Distance / Time

You have a ...

Paul

When you step back a ways they kind of look like they've switched positions...

Paul

Taking an hour really isn't necessary to accelerate safely. The Blackbird could get from NewYork to London in under an hour. Mach 5 flight would really be advantagious in trans-Pacific flights which can take up to 14 hours. (That's real time) So ,yeah, it WOULD help. Even it was only to cut that ...

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Also, here's a video (3 MB .mov) I took of a project for school where we added a small wing to the front of a speedboat to try to induce a down pitching moment, and put it in a wind tunnel with a smoke stream.

As you can see, we actually curved the airfoil the opposite way than normal, so that it ...

Paul

It probably depends how your orientation matrices are defined...

In Event Horizon, I use position as <x, y, z>, and then orientation in terms of angles around the axes. Here's the code I use:

glLoadIdentity();
glRotatef( -sys->pitch, 1, 0, 0 );
glRotatef( -sys->roll, 0, 0, 1 );
glRotatef( -sys ...

Paul

Also, here's a video (3 MB .mov) I took of a project for school where we added a small wing to the front of a speedboat to try to induce a down pitching moment, and put it in a wind tunnel with a smoke stream.

As you can see, we actually curved the airfoil the opposite way than normal, so that it ...

Paul

Just for fun, I would be interested in trying to keep the plane from taking off but don't see how it could happen.

In the original scenario, the conveyer could be built and a real plane put on it, then the problem could be acted out and the plane would take off.

The hypothetical scenario of ...

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Another great idea: go to your local grocery store, and buy several cans...no, CRATES of Spam meat. Let it sit overnight at room temperature. Just before you put them in the box, punch some holes in the top of each can. Make sure to make them just big enough to expose the meat inside to the air ...

Paul

Bet51987 wrote:On a side note, I feel sorry for Mars. We messed up this planet enough with global warming and now we have our sights on another to mess up. Sad.

Bee

Not really anything to mess up there... it's just a rock.

Paul

As an aerospace engineer, I can tell you that lift is proportional to the square of the relative wind speed. If the air is not flowing over the wing, the relative speed is 0, 0 squared is still 0, and anything proportional to that is also 0.

Now, if the airplane is powerful enough (like some jet ...

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I told one I knew a shady arms dealer in the area, and that he might be of assistance to use in our collective bilking in of the local government... never heard back.

Paul

And the phishers are getting good... almost got me a couple weeks ago with a good eBay scam!

Paul

New version adds a few nice things: EH 0.6.6

• Fixed backdrop location display
• Fixed collision code
• Added menu interface
• Shield spots change color with shield strength
• Added Saturn, reshaped Sol
• Planets can have rings
• Improved mouse control model
• Multi-threaded

Split into ...

Paul

Diedel wrote:Did it have chicken's influenza (or whatever it is called in English)?

Bird flu...

Paul

I heard about the presentation, but I'd never seen the video... this game looks like it should be awesome when it comes out!

Paul

I have tracks 2-14 from the CD that came bundled with my 6400.

Paul

Duper wrote:
Isaac wrote: "breakthrough technology" -gillette.com

Why on earth does anyone need 5 blades on one razor???

Five? Five is for pansies...

10-bladed razor

Yeah, just a spoof, but just you wait...

Paul

One thing to note, though, is that everyone was given local access... it wasn't a remote exploit.

Paul

I didn't run it, so I don't know what every problem you're having is, but I did notice this:

if(taxStatus = S && income < 10000)
taxAmount = income * taxRate1;
else
taxAmount = income * taxRate2;
if(taxStatus = M && income < 20000)

You need to have \"==\" instead of \"=\" in your if ...

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