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Well the first question would be what part of chemistry / physics interests you? This would help you decide what you should go for Cheers, Ryan Jones

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Lets not debate MS policy and lets just say it sucks, lickily I use Linux anyway! Cheers, Ryan Jones

Well MS products generally suck - and seeing as it does not work on Linux nor anything lower than 2000 I believe it's not worth downloading You pay for an OS and they drop support there should be laws against it! Cheers, Ryan Jones

C programs can do anything you need given sufficient knowledge, well almost but there are some things you can't do but would be of no concern to the average programmer and involve writing code in ASM. Pick something simple to start with and then develop it - you'll learn a lot and pick up ideas for other programs along the way Good luck! Ryan Jones

As far as I remmeber they are FAR more stable in solution Cheers, Ryan Jones

Its actually quite interesting! Depending on their job these can be called trawlers too. The way most work is simple (The example below is how Google's bots work) 1) Start on a page scan the page's source for links. These are then added to a temp table for later use. (Google also downloads caches images and some file types for easy loading). 2) Grab the links to any media on the page and add them to a record archive. If these already exist then the count is incrimented. 3) Next load the temporary table and then repeat the process for each of the found links. I left out about googles rating system because it makes things far more complex. Do they move as I explained above they follow links and by doing so move out in an ever widening grid. Do they stop this is a bit harder. If they originbate from a small company then they are limited by how far they can spread the net because this is quite memory intensive, for something like google the net size is all but limitless. So they only stop by memory limitations Hope I helped explain it a bit better if you have any questions I'll do my best to explain what I wrote above... hope it makes sence Cheers, Ryan Jones

I copied it from the alkenes link, I really will not ever be able to spell it - my spelling is bad enough for smaller words! Thanks for the help though - I like it when the rules are clearly defined, makes it easier to remember Cheers, Ryan Jones

Ah - so in these kinds of reactions the Hydrogen will take preference too the Carbon with the most number of Hydrogens already attatched too it and thus force the halogen to be on the Carbon with the least number of Hydrogens? Cheers' date=' Ryan Jones [b']Edit:[/b] A little research turns out that its called Markovnikov's rule

2 choices but which one? Hi everyone! I recently came upon a question in an old textbook I found in school. It asked about the reacion of [ce]HBr[/ce] and [ce]C3H6[/ce]. I know the product of this reaction would be a haloalkane called bromopropane ([ce]C3H7Br[/ce]) but to my question - which would it be: 1-bromopropane or 2-bromopropane? I can find no good definate answer too this so I look to you for advice Also as a little extra why would it form that one an not the other, is there some difference in the structure that makes one more preferable than the other? Note: This is not a homework question its something I found during research and caught my interest! Cheers, Ryan Jones Edit: Changed HCl too HBr - thanks for pointing that out insane_alien.

HeHeHe thats true... luckily they decay in a very short amount of time then! Cheers, Ryan Jones

So they do retain their strength then? Does anyone know anything about their conductivity? Cheers, Ryan Jones

Thats the way I started out - I found it quite easy but from helping others learn I found that its best not to start that way for most peple - too much uts them off But if it works go for it! Cheers, Ryan Jones

Ah primordial black holes... I read in an article once that there is a chance these things could be passing through you at any moment - smaller than an atom. Something this small would have little effect on the environment though - if it were a few hundred thousand times bigger then maybe Cheers, Ryan Jones

Well I'd like too see that! I think they would have applications in webware interfaces and the such presuming they retain their conductive properties after being reacted. Maybe in neuron mimic processing units too? Cheers, Ryan Jones

GCC is more for the advanced user, Dev-C++ fits for basic too advanced (Features for all). I really reccomend Dev-C++ for basic users and maybe for advanced users but GCC may be more too their liking Cheers, Ryan Jones

WOA! Thanks for the thorough decscription of it Martin! I will also look at the links you posted - should provide me with additional information for my personal research I think I understand the problems a bit more clearly now... do they just output rubbish answers when combined? As I remember it normally outputs something with an infinity in it, something you clearly don't want in most cases. Cheers & thanks as always, Ryan Jones

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organometallic_compounds A little information not much... I also remember some news here about these: http://www.sciencedaily.com/directory/Science/Chemistry Was a while ago mind you Ryan Jones

Unfortunatly I am not that good at maths either so the maths too me would be useless right now Although I am fine with some areas of maths some kill me outright If anyone can explain this I would much appreciate it - the book does not really cover this aspect of the history unfortunatly. Cheers, Ryan Jones

General Relativity + Quantum Mechanics = Error Buy Why? Hi all! I've been reading an interesting book on string theory and I read that one of the reasons it was developed was to resolve the conflicts between merging general relativity and quantum mechanics but my question is what makes these two so incompatible in the first place? My thought on this was that it had to do with relativity dealing with large and exact while quantum mechanics deals with small and probabilistic, in other words they are contradictory in some sence. If that the reason or is it something deeper that blocks their intergration? Cheers, Ryan Jones

Air does not conduct electricity very well so it must be a pretty high initial value. Cheers, Ryan Jones