Dave

Sounds like a good idea to me.

Ouch. It's possible to get some really good prices if you look around; just take into account the fact that if you get items shipped from multiple places, then you're going to have to pay postage and packing multiple times.

I think it all boils down to the fact that it's not really feasible on the forums to a certain degree. We've got the homework help section, and I think that inevitably this is about as ideal a solution as is feasibly possible.

Don't like MathType, can't set the equations out how I want them Gone back to using LaTeX, much better quality images as well.

Can't say that's happened to me

Yes, that book does suck tremendously

Indeed, just depends how you're taught it.

Andromeda Strain is one of my favourites.

I just leave it running overnight. Took me about 6 hrs to compile all the packages from stage1 to a running system. KDE is a bit of a beast though Took the best part of a day.

I stand corrected. (I don't use it myself)

...but funny

Perhaps, but being a stupid person, I like to be able to set my compiler flags to optimize for my P4

If that's the question, it's a badly worded one. For one, the density and hence mass of the atmosphere is definately not constant.

I'm fairly sure you can create groups of people using vB; perhaps we could start something of a mailing list on here where it's overseen by mentors.

Perhaps some sort of test (made by someone who basically knows what they're talking about) to check the mentors know what they're talking about in a particular field of study.

[math]\sum_{x=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{x^2} = \frac{\pi^2}{6}[/math]

Indeed, there's a lot of strange ratios and things that involve phi generally. (as a brief overview, if you work out Fn/Fn-1 where F is a term in the Fibonacci sequence, then phi is equal to the limit of this ratio as n tends to infinity.)

From wolfram: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TauFunction.html Although I have no idea as to how to solve the problem

Would also be useful to have some limits on the product (i.e. r=1 to infinity)

If I'm not very much mistaken, that's the formula for the solution to a differential equation using an integrating factor. The integral is very general, there's no specific way of solving it.

It just shows that no matter how many precautions you take (and I presume they take quite a few), you can't always stop this thing. Of course some of the small companies are not going to bother; potentially it's a lot more profit for them.

I have no idea. I presume it wouldn't be a very easy thing to try and determine though

It would have been up sooner, but the server SFN runs on is being a pain.

I would say that unless you're in a desperate hurry, wait a couple of months for the new AMD's and see how they go. They look set to be pretty damn fast, but as mossoi pointed out, they're quite pricey atm. Of course, using linux, the fact that I use a distribution in which I compile everything means I have the ability to tune compiler flags, so I can get some pretty good performance out of one

To be fair, fans don't consume a hell of a lot of power. These are my machine specs (or at least the major ones): Asus P4P800 Motherboard (which I'd recommend, it's an excellent mobo) P4 3.00GHz (800MHz fsb model) 512Mb PC3200 RAM (go for the dual channel stuff, it's a lot faster) 120GB SATA drive (which I use for doze) 80GB ATA drive (which I use for linux) Radeon 9800 Pro (which I use for some kickass graphics ) It's all in a very nice chieftec case with 4 silent case fans (2 intake, 2 exhaust), all running on a good quality (and that's important) 340W PSU that came with the case. All runs fine, no stability issues, and the CPU is at a more-or-less constant 25 degrees celcius, apart from when it gets really processor intensive.