JaKiri

They're not big on mice, are they?

The one where they burnt the mice?

Classic Windows Desktop++ Grey's my kind of colour.

Another explanation could be that hte pyramid is the easiest large structure to build, of course.

Black is 100% absorbtion, 'clear' (colourless) is 100% transmission. At least in it's 'perfect' case.

Quantum Mechanics++

'Fire' was one of the greek elements (Fire, earth, air, water). It's not the same concept of element that exists in chemistry, which is a chemical with a unique number of protons. Fire is now understood to be an exothermic oxidation reaction (at least conventional fire).

It's to do with the frequencies of standing waves. However, we have more than 7 colours and more than 7 notes in each octive; ABCDEFG is all very well, but don't forget the semitone differences. You're correctt in saying that it's all just light though, it's just of a much differing wavelength. Oh, and 'colour' is just an arbitrary system applied by our brains to distinguish between different visable frequencies of light.

Shouldn't you be going round insulting everyone, Mr Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged?

No. It's not a maximal/minimal turning point if f'(x) doesn't equal zero, and the kind that it is is determined by f''(x) (+ve for min, -ve for max. Oh, and 0 for point of inflection).

Use ProCorporate. It's not in there. XP is designed for the kind of things I do, whilst 2k is the NT upgrade and designed (obviously) for larger (office) networks.

Not really. And his sister sure likes grey! (if my desktop is something to go by)

f''(x) = + for min, - for max.

I thought my post summed up nicely my response to the suggestion that MacOS IX or X are anywhere near as good to Windows XP Professional. Having used all three, I have concluded that XP Professional is the second most stable Operating System I have ever used (Behind RISC OS (specifically version 3.11) on the Acorn A4000 - an OS that only crashed once, and that was when I allocated all the RAM to be used as a virtual hard drive and then ran Dune 2 [sEE KIDS! IT'S NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO CRASH AN ACORN!]). On the other hand, I found MacOS IX and X to be incomplete and about as stable as a fish riding a unicycle (what OS comes without a disk defragmenter, for god's sake? Especially one with an HDD as small as in the iMac; if hard drive space is at a premium it's a vital app, surely?). Why support an OS with less compatability and less stability? What else do you want in an OS?

I'll get my supercooled helium out of the basement.

So, only costing millions rather than billions then.

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Apply that to both sides (replacing x's with y's for the :int:dy ofc) (remember that y^0 = 1)

Don't ask. Just don't ask.

It's a bit of a cheat

The trouble with chemistry is that quite a lot of it (below degree level at least) is fluffing along with 'simple' models. The trouble is it's all based on the Schrodinger Wave Equation, which isn't very nice at any level.

No. [edit] y = x^2 dy/dx = 2x 1 dy = 2x dx :int: 1 dy = :int: 2x dx y = x^2 + c c = 0 in this case. :int: d(f(x))/dx doesn't mean anything, as there's only one dx command, which goes with the differentiation. :int: f'(x) has no meaning; how can you integrate the rate of change of something when you haven't got a variable that's changing?

You spin something around very fast and hit it into something else. That's the basic element of them. (You spin them around very fast by having them in a magnetic field of the correct size that the radial acceleration moves them round in a circle)

No, in all cases 'dx' means 'with respect to x', ie. in differenciation d(f(x))/dx means 'the differenciation of the function f(x) with respect to x', as opposed to dy or dz, say. d(f(x))/dy = 0, because f(x) doesn't change as y changes. It's just being precise what you mean.

It was about him being on a group that studied the possibility of expanding the internet to commercial as well as scientific or military uses. Something like that. Just like the Bill Gates 640k quote (IN THE MID EIGHTIES, THAT WAS ALL YOU NEEDED. NOTE HE SAID 'all that anyone needs IS 640k' (or whatever) NOT WILL NEED, YOU IDIOTS.) it's been blown out of proportion by idiots. In fact, there wasn't any proportion to begin with.