i have just got a XDA IIIs from a friend, and am in fact writing this post on it via my home wifi.
I used to have an original XDA, but it had a lot wrong with it. This one has fixed most of my gripes. For a start the phone is properly integrated, and of course wifi is an excellent addition.
I still have not got MMS working and have some issues with GPRS, but i love the thing. The only software issue i can find is that the internet browser cannot do landscape viewing, but Opera might solve that for me…
This site even looks reasonable on it, which was quite a pleasant surprise.
Monthly Archive for October, 2006
Also found on slashdot a while ago… Crunching the Numbers on a Hydrogen Economy. It is a really interesting read, looking at how the US is dealing with hydrogen as a fuel, and how it is unlikely to solve many problems
Found this on slashdot a while ago:
FDA Set To Approve Products from Cloned Cows
Seems like GM food is not the most important thing to worry about…
Following from my previous post about Mozilla Firefox and Debian, there has been a very thorough and good blog post about the whole thing. Facts about Debian and Mozilla® Firefox® explains the whole problem very clearly.
Definetely worth a read!
And I have stumbled across some incredible cakes for the event, including a Thorax Cake, and a Zombie Cake. Both are incredible.
The same site has some of the best pumpkin carvings I have ever seen
The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so “profound” that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.
Chemistry Bonus Question:
Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle’s Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.
One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.
As for how many souls are entering Hell, let’s look at the different Religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell.
With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle’s Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.
This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature an pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it?
If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, “it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you, and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct, leaving only Heaven - thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting “Oh my God.”
THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY “A”.
