Recent content by JSSheridan

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    A thought about time

    I'm not really interested in the metaphysical aspects of this or looking for flaws in my definition of what "exist" means. I'm asking about a tangible fact, and it applies to the bowl I ate my parfait out of as much as the next person or object. And light propagates through space over time.
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    A thought about time

    I'll start off with an analogy as a kind of thought experiment. I'm sitting in my home typing this post. Yesterday I was at my office 30 miles away, but I came back home at 5 yesterday. I only exist in one place at a time, so I am only here and not at my office. That's trivial, but I've never...
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    theoretical - sci-fi thing - power from black holes?

    I was reading a bit on black hole thermodynamics, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_thermodynamics, and in addition to mass, charge, and spin, they also have temperature and entropy. The smaller the mass of the black hole, the more radiation it emits, and if a black hole is greater than...
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    electric charge of a black hole

    I'm just not clear what nature of matter would exist in a singularity, if any.
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    electric charge of a black hole

    In the absence of protons and electrons, what gives the black hole a charge?
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    Unstable system

    What brand of RAM did you end up doing with?
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    Unstable system

    The memory has been running at 1333.
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    Unstable system

    First off, here's the parts list. Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3R OCZ GameXStream 850 Watt Intel Core i7-860 2.8 GHz Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 POWERCOLOR 1GB GDDR5 Radeon HD 5770 Western Digital 640GB HDD LITE-ON 24X DVD Writer Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium...
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    Memory issue

    Thanks
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    Memory issue

    I bought a matched pair of 1GB dimms, 2GB total, to add to my existing system which already had a matched pair of 1GB dimms, 2GB total, to give me 4GB installed. The old pair was crucial memory, and the new ones are kingston. Bios detects 4GB of memory during startup, but my OS, Windows XP...
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    What happens when there is a Time paradox?

    Isn't this assuming people do not possess free will?
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    2 perfect spheres, same diameter, same weight...one aluminum, one steel. How can you tell them apart?

    I didn't read the thread, but since they inner hollow would be larger for the steel sphere. If you tapped on them and compared their frequencies, the higher frequency would be the steel.
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    200 corpses rotting in a field

    I went to school at UT, and it's the perfect place to have this. The smell of the body farm blends in perfectly with the smell of the city.
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    Incoming Zombie Invasion - Weapon, car and celebrity of your choice

    Cricket bat Jaguar My loser flatmate