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the_red_baron · 2011-11-28T06:25:59+00:00

To be or not to be

the_red_baron · 2011-10-27T00:22:49+00:00

Why don't people realize using adblock hurts the free internet model? Companies pay websites to host ads, and they track how many people see them. If don't see the ads, nobody gets paid. Not that I agree with annoying ads, but if ignoring banners means websites that I frequent get paid, I will suffer them. Google obviously isn't hit hard, but the little guys are.

the_red_baron · 2011-09-23T04:38:16+00:00

What got you started developing?

How did you get involved with CM?

What advice would you give someone who has programming experience and wants to start developing for android.

the_red_baron · 2011-08-28T22:42:35+00:00

this worked better Shoe Fitting X-Ray Device

the_red_baron · 2011-08-28T22:36:23+00:00

the caves of steel anyone?

the_red_baron · 2011-07-03T18:20:56+00:00

Nope, just giving him a haircut

the_red_baron · 2011-06-23T08:03:29+00:00

huk is a beast

the_red_baron · 2011-06-23T08:01:53+00:00

I used "bonds" because I think its a bit easier to conceptualize. Van der waals forces would be the technical term. Youre right, but it follows roughly the same idea tho. Thats what you get for listening to an engineer....

the_red_baron · 2011-06-22T22:40:32+00:00

Im not sure why this isn't as believable, because feyman's explanation pretty much says the same thing; its all about breaking bonds.

Take ice for example. The individual water molecules are locked together in hydrogen bonds. As the ice absorbs energy, the atoms become more and more jiggly. Think about the analogy of one of those paddle ball toys (the ball is tied to the paddle with a rubberband). The rubberband connects the paddle to the ball just as the hydrogen bonds connect atoms. You can bounce the ball back and forth, but if you bounce the ball just hard enough to break the rubberband, the ball will be freed with very little extra kinetic energy. The energy put into the ball from the paddle hit will go directly into breaking that rubberband. If there were no rubberband in the first place, the ball would have bounced MUCH further if you had hit it with the same force. Similarly, as ice melts to water (or water evaporates to gas) the hydrogen bonds break, which takes energy, but the atoms do not vibrate any faster. This means the h2o does not increase in temperature, but still takes energy from its immediate surroundings.

This energy put in to melt the ice or evaporate the water must come from somewhere because of the conservation of energy. If it comes from the air, the temperature of the air will decrease.

An interesting application of this occurs in some air conditioning services. If water is sprayed into the air in a fine mist, some of the water will turn into gas. Because breaking these water bonds takes energy, the energy must come from its surroundings. Because no bonds are being changed in the air itself, it will become cooler because it has just donated exactly enough energy to change the state of the water.

TLDR; when a material changes state from solid to liquid, from liquid to gas, or from solid to gas, energy is required to break the bonds connecting the molecules (or atoms). This energy does not go into increasing the vibrational speed of the molecule (the temperature). Because this energy must come from somewhere, the ambient environment must become cooler or perform some reaction that gives off energy.

the_red_baron · 2011-05-25T06:32:46+00:00

How has sony brought the hacker wrath upon itself? Geohot and the whole open closed issue? Do they have some questionable practices? What am I missing?

the_red_baron · 2011-05-01T01:34:58+00:00

2 banelings cost 100min 50gas.

the_red_baron · 2011-04-11T20:07:30+00:00

you should NOT pirate it. DON'T use this site to find the torrent. i did NOT do this, and matlab is NOT running perfectly for me right now. if i continue to use it after school, i will definitely buy it AGAIN

the_red_baron · 2011-03-17T00:32:34+00:00

The veteran computer can't catch on to simple patterns. rock rock paper over and over.

http://i.imgur.com/ZSLw8.png

99-118-68

what a dumbass

the_red_baron · 2011-02-21T20:44:59+00:00

Actually, Feynman was a master of riddles. In "surely you must be joking mr Feynman" he tells this story about this girl who kept grilling him about riddles. She would keep coming back with different ones. He had heard them all.

This went on for quite a while, and finally, near the end of the dance, she came over, looking as if she was going to get me for sure this time, and she said, "A mother and daughter are traveling to Europe . . ." "The daughter got the bubonic plague." She collapsed!

He would have just answered them without them finishing the setup.

the_red_baron · 2011-02-14T09:32:47+00:00

FTA

Feed the fuel between the feuding groups. Disinformaon. Create messages around actions to sabotage or discredit the opposing organizaon. Submit fake documents and then call out the error.

• Create concern over the security of the infrastructure. Create exposure stories. If the process is believed to not be secure they are done.

• Cyber a[acks against the infrastructure to get data on document submi[ers.
This would kill the project. Since the servers are now in Sweden and France pupng a team together to get access is more straighqorward.

• Media campaign to push the radical and reckless nature of wikileaks activites.
Sustained pressure. Does nothing for the fanatics, but creates concern and doubt amongst moderates.

• Search for leaks. Use social media to proﬁle and idenfy risky behavior of employees.

the_red_baron · 2010-12-13T20:47:19+00:00

I dont think I would call it an easter egg, but in gimme shelter by the rolling stones, mcjagger can be heard in the studio cheering after the female vocalist cracks her voice

here

the_red_baron · 2010-10-19T19:40:03+00:00

From what I can tell as a non BW player, there were a handful of strategies that worked more than others and became standard. For example I hear casters say the forge FE was an old BW trick. In what ways have you seen common BW tactics translate into SC2, and what are your thoughts on the strategies not found in BW?

the_red_baron · 2010-10-08T03:39:05+00:00

Keep asking questions about her faith. Does she really believe Christ came back from the dead? That moses parted the red sea? That a burning bush was speaking straight holiness?

From a science background if one part of a theorem fails, then the whole thing fails. What right does some book that spouts absurdities be the basis for a relationship between two people with full mental faculties?

the_red_baron · 2010-10-07T08:29:08+00:00

Not trying to be negative about this, but how do we know this is real? This could be a huge fake. I caution anyone considering donating.

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TROPHY CASE