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Hobbe : I have downloded the file, but can't fint the README.txt Link

creati : Creative has done video players for awhile now. If anything Ipod took the Idea. I don't see anything wrong with the navigation pad either. It does not steal anything from Ipod. Different design. Maybe Creative made it touch because it makes navigation good? Link

Yuri : Electricity in our country cost about 10 cents per kilowatt hour. But i'm pay little more for supporting computer ( athlon 1700 , 17" ) - about $6-8 monthly for computer . May be network adapter eating about $3 ? :) May be this calculations not exact ? P.S.:i'm sorry for my some layter like spam comments , but i realy need just one link to my site for trust. thank you, i'm inspired to calculating energy ) P.P.S: sorry for my bad english. Link

jim : You've got to be true to your teeth or they'll be false to you! Groan!!! Thanks for the review on your site, Jim Link

Victor : OK, Francis has embarassed me by entrapping my hapless mind with his captcha. Now it's my turn.

"Entropy is conserved" - actually, the second law of thermodynamics clearly tells us that the entropy of a closed system increases. Entropy can be seen as a measure of disorder and systems tend to a greater state of disorder.

I am sure you must have been thinking of the first law of thermodynamics, which has to do with the conservation of mass and matter, to which Eisntein ammended E=MCsquared.

On entropy, for example, heat will flow from a hot surface to a cold, and in the process increase the entropy of the system. Heat will not spontanously flow from a cold surface to a hot surface, unless energy is applied (e.g. through an AC compressor) which in turn increases entropy even further.

So by this law of incresing entropy, the universe will continue to expand and burn itself out into a dim, dilute soup of subatomic particles. The particles that make us, Caesar and will be floating in all directions through space a few billion years from now. How's that for a cheery outcome!

Anyhow, this is how my chem eng education comes in handy to me nowadays Link

teresa : Keep taking the valium Fran. Those are some deep thoughts you're having! T x Link

jim : Keeping on topic, Fran, have a read of this...

How long does a man live after all?
A thousand days or only one?
One week or a few centuries?
How long does a man spend living or dying
and what do we mean when we say gone forever?

Adrift in such preoccupations, we seek clarification.
We can go to the philosophers
but they will weary of our questions.
We can go to the priests and rabbis
but they might be busy with administrations.

So, how long does a man live after all?
And how much does he live while he lives?
We fret and ask so many questions -
then when it comes to us
the answer is so simple after all.

A man lives for as long as we carry him inside us,
for as long as we carry the harvest of his dreams,
for as long as we ourselves live,
holding memories in common, a man lives.

His lover will carry his scent, his touch:
his children will carry the weight of his love.
One friend will carry his arguements,
another will hum his favourite tunes,
another will still share his terrors.

And the days will pass with baffled faces,
then the weeks, then the months,
then there will be a day when no question is asked,
and the knots of grief will loosen in the stomach
and the puffed faces will calm.
And on that day he will not have ceased
but will have ceased to be separated by death.

How long does a man live after all?
A man lives so may different lengths of time.
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Teresa : Hate to break it to you Fran but Dustin didn't make it out of the semi-final! I know how devastated you'll be but at least we got a some entertainment value out of it as we broke our hearts laughing at his performance last night. A turkey in every sense of the word!! Still he seemed to fit right in with the Eurovision entries of today. Ah well there's always next yr and sure 'whats another yr' as Johnny would say? Link

Teresa : Just like most things you do Fran, have to say it's pretty impressive! Hope the nerve function improves a bit. T x Link

Monk : YEah that's grosse Link

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