That's OK, the first time I heard someone pronounce it with a hard "G", I had no idea what they meant.

Outside of common (mis-)usage, there isn't any doubt about the correct pronunciation, as it is specificied in the 1987 document defining the format. It's "Jif", as in "jiffy".

If someone tells you their name is spelled Qwerty, and it's pronounced "Fred", then it's pronounced "Fred"

I was running FF 7 when it was released for a few days, but there seems to be a really bad memory leak issue with it and I had to go back to 6.0 which works fine. I am running it under Windows 7 (64bit).

depending on single-phase or 3-phase service

Residential service is single-phase. At least in the US.

There is a hardware product (google "Caller ID Manager") that costs about $100 which can enable white-list filtering on her phone.

Sadly, it appears to have been discontinued.

Hydrogen peroxide powered rocket packs fly for around 30 seconds, because they have a specific impulse of around 125, meaning that one pound of propellant can make 125 pound-seconds of thrust, meaning that it takes about two pounds of propellant for every second you are in the air. Mass ratios are low for anything strapped to a human, so the exponential nature of the rocket equation can be safely ignored.

A pretty hot (both literally and figuratively) bipropellant rocket could manage about twice the specific impulse, and you could carry somewhat heavier tanks, but two minutes of flight on a rocket pack is probably about the upper limit with conventional propellants.

However, an actual jet pack that used atmospheric oxygen could have an Isp ten times higher, allowing theoretical flights of fifteen minutes or so. Here, it really is a matter of technical development, since jet engines have thrust to weight ratios too low to make it practical. There is movement on this technical front, but it will still take a while.

John Carmack

Firefly will start airing on Universal HD (in HD obviously) on September 24th @ 9PM ET (SERENITY - PART 1 & 2).

More importantly, Universal HD also airs the new Battlestar Galactica in HD on Sunday's at 8PM ET and 11PM ET.

http://www.universalhd.com/

George C.

That is rediculous. Do you think ATI (who paid $6M for exclusive marketing rights) would tolerate HL2 being delayed for NVIDIA's benefit?

And as for the generic DX9 favoring ATI cards inference. While it is true that the DX9 minimum spec is more aligned with ATI's hardware rather than the higher precision NVIDIA hardware, the source code has exposed a good deal of the custom, ATI-written shader code that is in HL2.

Your understanding was paid for by $6M and in cases like these it was money well spent.