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I'm attempting to get a rough estimate on how the shape of an electromagnet pole will affect the field produced. Most of the poles you see in labs are tapered, and not simply cylindrical - I'm wondering how this affects the field. After all, there has to be a reason why they would do such a...

yeaaaahhh... this Noone1982 guy posted this, but I'm getting emails for it. In fact, ZapperZ gave me a warning for it, and didn't reply to my message stating it wasn't me. Would a moderator please resolve this?

I didn't read the book, but i remember that was said by the eccentric billionaire in Contact.

I saw him give a seminar at my university and I found his ideas to be interesting... can someone provide more details on how his ideas fizzled?

yeah, sounds great in principle... but then we're stuck with nancy pelosi.

In so far as consistency is concerned, this stands out as one of the better trilogies, imho. All three films were incredibly well made, which is rare in a trilogy (matrix comes to mind). Formulaic, yes. It's a good formula though.

I'm a little surprised to see Savage ahead of Boortz. While Savage is a volatile character and it's hilarious to hear him fly off the handle, Boortz is actually capable of holding an intelligent conversation.lalbatross, will you please explain your second statement? Church business promoted...

Not sure if this is suited for this forum or for programming... I figured more people here would have experience with SBML. Does anyone know of a good visual editor to create non linear models? I'm using Jdesigner but that only has gui support for garden variety uni-uni, uni-bi, etc...

I am doing some work using static variables - and they apparently aren't static. void function ( arguments ) { static float Y_kn[101][7]; if (first time through) { initialize Y_kn return; } use Y_kn to make some calculations } this function is called many...

So I'm using freopen to redirect output from stdout to a file... How do I redirect it back to the screen? relevant code: FILE *stream = freopen("data.txt", "w", stdout); /* print stuff */ How the heck do I get the output stream to point to the console again?

Thank you to wonk and Zz for providing some shred of insight in this otherwise convoluted rant.

How do you know it's not? ;)

The other advantage of a credit card is limited fraud liability. Moreover, if a crook gets ahold of your credit card, all s/he can do is damage your name. If they get ahold of your debit card, you're cleaned out.

What about opportunities in other nations? I'd be willing to immigrate to China :)

Terminator 2, Aliens are the best for my money. Minority Report was an excellent movie, despite Tom Cruise.