Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don_from_AZ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:36:12 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: <87tt22en37.fsf@comcast.net.invalid> References: <107070d$3hvho$1@dont-email.me> <107gjq8$3iasj$2@dont-email.me> <107gvbi$3lqmd$4@dont-email.me> <107j4lg$5ipa$2@dont-email.me> <107kcfp$d4vh$11@dont-email.me> <107lfgs$mgj0$2@dont-email.me> <107ofni$1c98g$6@dont-email.me> <68a08c08$0$28068$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <107q4lu$1o8s4$1@dont-email.me> <1080ihr$3f9p0$2@dont-email.me> <1080svs$3fk4r$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 02:36:13 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="50495c7c0bc37d09b897486f72093cd5"; logging-data="95640"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Cl9rESFWD3FaEvweI3NEyteRhNJhi1ZU=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DHbGLW8aST+BwG110rpgdliCGLk= sha1:PtLnkSme1TlOYG/elIfwgMuYAUE= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71700 rbowman writes: > On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:02:04 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > >> On 8/18/25 20:22, rbowman wrote: >>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 01:03:56 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:30:22 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 16/08/2025 14:47, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Le 16-08-2025, rbowman a écrit : >>>>>>> >>>>>>> You have a touching faith in The Science. >>>>>> >>>>>> That's the misunderstood answer to scientists from believers. They >>>>>> believe that science is a belief like any other religion, when it's >>>>>> not. >>>>>> >>>>> Unfortunately, for very many people it is exactly that. >>>> >>>> Doesn’t matter what people believe. The interesting thing about >>>> science is, it works whether you believe in it or not. >>> >>> Engineering works. In a technical university with fledgling engineers >>> and scientists that was a hot debate topic. >> >> And bumblebees keep on flying despite analysis to the contrary. > > We used Resnick & Halliday as the physics text. That was an obvious choice > since Resnick worked at RPI. One of the classic problems was calculating > terminal velocity using the coefficient of friction between the wheels and > surface. The Cf couldn't exceed 1 obviously. > > Not so obviously when the AA fuel dragsters started going through the > traps faster than they should have. High speed photography showed the > slicks doing very strange things. > > Then there are the current flow conventions... I believe that somewhere in a box in my garage I still have a copy of my Resnick & Halliday physics textbook from 1964. Gotta clean out that garage some day.... -- -Don_from_AZ-