Let's re-evaluate your statement with the key information that you omitted in your post: * 334kJ/kg for water to melt it * 418kJ/kg for water to raise from 0C to 100C * 2257 J/g is the heat of vaporization of water

You'll notice that the heat of vaporization is an order of magnitude larger than your other metrics. Thus, it is much much harder to boil water than to melt it!

Here's another way of asking that question:

With this revelation will the government support me putting a 17-year old idiot behind bars for killing a loved one of mine with distracted driving?

With the prevalence of cell phones today (for those counting, that would be ALL drivers on the road) and the average persons ignorance (it'll never happen to me), a deadly accident isn't a matter of if, it's a matter of when.

Here's how I do it: http://osxdaily.com/2014/02/16...

Timtowtdi of course

Can't innovate man. The tech is covered by patents.

You're not allowed to build your own Siri from scratch.

Give me a break, "they do what they do in India Russia and China because it's the right thing to do."

They follow the law over there while trying to make a buck, same as we do here.

Don't blame our people for obeying the law.

April 28, 2003 12:16 PM PDT
Apple unveils music store
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The songs cost 99 cents each to download, with no subscription fee, and include the most liberal copying rights of any online service to date. Jobs has been an outspoken opponent of so-called digital rights management (DRM) in the past, arguing that limitations on digital music will undermine the market for legitimate content.

I'm not sure if this is true...IIRC I started buying music from Amazon because it's music did not carry DRM while Apple's still did.

That was my point. It made sense back in 2001, but not any more. In fact they need a fast ARM chip just to decrypt the iTunes database now, and the encryption serves no purpose other than blocking interoperability.

I have a PMP that you load music onto like an external hard drive. It also has an internal database that it keeps updated, so that it's used in the same manner as the ipod. (Philips GoGear Vibe, so it's not a pricey one by any stretch).

When you've finished changing the files you just unplug from the PC, the device automatically takes about 15 seconds to scan the files on it and rebuild its database, and that's it.

It also supports MTP.

I had an older Sandisk model that ran of a AAA cell about 9 years ago that operated in the same way. You never had to navigate the filesystem to play media - it was just there to make syncs easier.

Playlists don't, and never have, copied files or required sole access to them. All of the common playlist formats are basically just text files with a list of filenames - you can open & edit them in Notepad!

There will be. Unfortunately, those who would take over our computers do not share our lack of imagination.

That's not a "dirty secret". Having a single component that launches all daemons is a laudable improvement over the adhoc, multiple methods that had grown up in Unix like OSs.

Linux has political problems between Linus and the systemd team, and systemd may be overreaching. None of which is relevant to OSXs entirely different component launchd.

And if anyone thinks there's any copying going on here, take note of the direction - OSX launchd dates back to 2005. Linux systemd to 2010.

It's probably completely bogus. The sea ice isn't far from normal for this time of year, and higher than in other recent years. It's higher than in 2005, not quite as high as 2006.