[TriLUG] official Linux on a laptop for under $500?

[Mike Fieschko]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 09:53:28 -0500
"Brian Henning" <brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:

> > I have a HOT flash for you. HEAT is Radiation, by definition.
> 
> And I have a COLD HOSE for you.
> 
> Wrong.  HEAT, by definition, is the kinetic energy of a molecule. 
> RADIATION is a method by which heat is transferred without contact or
> immersion in a fluid (example: the sun heats the earth via radiation).
>  Other methods of 
> transferral of heat are CONVECTION (fluid movement) and CONDUCTION
> (surfaces in contact).  In fact, the heat added to your lap by your
> laptop is NOT radiation, by definition; it is conduction.
> 
> *zap!*
> 
> ~Brian, your friendly law-of-thermodynamics enforcement officer

Very good, especially since this year is the centenary of Einstein's
paper supporting the kinetic theory of heat.

Of course, the solution was only good for speherical chickens in a
vacuum.  Too bad, also, that Boltzmann committed suicide the next year.

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