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Its galactic orbit is pretty similar to the Sun's, so its motion relative to the sun is not that large. Still, even if we assumed that only the sun moved, given the galactic speed of the sun, the change in distance would still only be 6 light years, or 1% of its current distance.

Ronald Fisher it is: mathematics of a lady tasting tea http://books.google.dk/books?i...

See the section "The Null Hypothesis"

It is evident that the null hypothesis must be exact, that is free from vagueness and ambiguity, because it must supply the basis of the “problem of distribution,” of which the test of significance is the solution. A null hypothesis may, indeed, contain arbitrary elements, and in more complicated cases often does so: as, for example, if it should assert that the death-rates of two groups of animals are equal, without specifying what these death-rates usually are. In such cases it is evidently the equality rather than any particular values of the death-rates that the experiment is designed to test, and possibly to disprove.

And what point did you hope to make?

Road wear follows the fourth power rule, meaning that wear per axle is roughly proportional to the fourth power of the axle load.

Phthalic anhydryde has got nothing to do with naphthalene, except that it was originally synthesised from it (it might still be, I don't know). Naphthalene sulphonate is closer, in that it isn't completely implausible that some of it could be transformed to naphthalene, but it is very unlikely that it is going to do that in any significant amount. They are not forms of naphthalene. They are both much more polar than naphthalene and thus easier for the body to excrete.

Using the first limit I found when searching for "water limit naphthalene", those 4000 pounds is able to pollute 13 billion liters of drinking water. If we take into account that it is not uniformly distributed acros Texas, that can easily be significant. And that is only one compound. I am not saying it is a problem, but saying "The main component by volume of fraccing fluid is water." as if that makes it harmless is not correct.

There's a more efficient way to spend your R&D budget: rehashing antenna designs known to suck.

Hell, it was called even before the issue cropped up in the wild: http://translate.google.dk/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=da&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.comon.dk%2Fnyheder%2FEr-iPhone-4-foedt-med-antenne-problemer-1.362104.html&sl=da&tl=en

This guy is an expert in antenna design from Aalborg University, and predicted this two weeks ago.

Very interesting - but if the design is fundamentally flawed, why couldn't Engadget replicate the problem on 2 from 3 iPhones? http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/some-iphone-4-models-see-signals-drop-to-0-when-held-left-handed/

This guy is an expert in antenna design from Aalborg University, and predicted this two weeks ago.

(user from Denmark, Europe)

Furthermore, the iPod Touch receives information about nearby wifi networks for local storage (offline usage).

When I'm walking around the area with my iPod Touch (without any internet access) it is still able to tell me where I am.

It seems like the local information received is in the range of about 2 kilometers (about 1.25 miles).

This is a GPX track from a bus ride a few weeks ago heading north, logged with my iPod Touch:
http://maps.google.dk/?q=http://stock.ter.dk/bustur_touch_2.gpx

At the northest point of the track the iPod Touch couldn't find the local position anymore. The iPod wasn't online at any time.

Unfortunately it seems like it flushes the local database whenever it gets online. If I travel away from my home I can see my position until I reach about two kilometers away. If I go online at my destination (e.g. a friend's house) and travel home I can only see my position for a few kilometers away from my earlier destination and nothing from that point before I reach my own home again. It really would be cool if it was possible to store more information locally.

I'm pretty sure the iPod use Google's database as well as the Google Street View vans have been around Denmark pretty thoroughly last year. All the positions seem to be snapped to roads as well where the cars were positioned when driving around.

On another node; several public means of transportation in the metropolitan area of Denmark is now fitted with some kind of Internet access - usually free access with commercials injected in the web pages. This helps being online in trains or the most frequent buses (however not that one I was on when I logged the above track).

But as the wifi geolocation service is based on the idea that an access point is stationary the results for positioning when riding a bus or train could usually put you at that station where the train (carrying the access point) just happened to be when the Google vans were driving around. I hope the self healing mechanisms in Google's (and Skyhook's) databases could "invalidate" these access points.

SuperFetch. Instead of looking blindly at "free physical memory", take a look at what SuperFetch uses and deduct that from the score, since it's essentially free ram - it's nondirty (aka clean) disk cache, and can thus be discarded right away if the system needs ram to service a memory request. And the up side is that SuperFetch speeds up application loading bigtime. I'd be pretty surprised if there aren't clones of it for linux already.

The energy lost in a irreversible bit flip is on the order of kT, so assuming that the server operates at 300 K, one megabyte consumes at least 3.5*10^-14 joule, which is equivalent to 3.9*10^-31 kg of relativistic mass, or about a third of the mass of one electron, so storage need to become quite a lot lighter before the bits used to purchase it weighs less then it.

The energy lost in a irreversible bit flip is on the order of kT, so assuming that the server operates at 300 K, one megabyte consumes at least 3.5*10^-14 joule, which is equivalent to 3.9*10^-31 kg of relativistic mass, or about a third of the mass of one electron, so storage need to become quite a lot lighter before the bits used to purchase it weighs less then it.

So why do we seem to have teenage girls blossoming so early? I'd wager that it is the use of hormones in cows that has artificially accelerated the aging process among humans.

No, it is better nutrition and a resulting earlier increase of leptin production.
Plente of google results. Best hit seems to be "Human Reproductive Biology" by Jones/Lopez (google view of book)

Unfortunately, that image has been very thoroughly debunked. Look at this picture from which yours originated. It's rather shocking.

[...] but we will need all sorts of rare minerals just like we do now, only with limitless energy we will develop all sorts of new exotic manufacturing processes.

Most of those rare minerals (well, all the elements, anyway)you can extract from sea water, it just take too much energy for it to be cost effective at present(googles results). that more or less leaves us with human creativity as the only scarce resource. I have a hard time imagining a war over human creativity, but I'm sure humans are creative enough to find a way to accomplish that...

"Downgrading" your license is possible, depending on the license.

... in other news scientist are using RFID embedded socks with RFID enabled dryers to solve one of the greatest mysteries of our time. Where do all the missing socks go?

Just to confirm my theory i decided to Google for "Windows is here to stay." and found this post at +5 insightful.

This is called "user does the link". Google it

noted physicist Dr. Franklin Felber will present

"Franklin Felber" has less than 40 hits on google. For that reason I very much doubt he is a noted physicist. By association, I am not going to take his claims seriously...

Notice the striking resemblance between Early Mickey Mouse and Oswald the lucky Rabbit

Notice the striking resemblance between Early Mickey Mouse and Oswald the lucky Rabbit

I appreciate all he's done for Gmail, but he can't take credit for their excellent spam filtering. That credit should go to Steve Linford and XBL from the Spamhaus project. As stated before, Gmail uses XBL to filter out spam. Needless to say - the XBL is pretty cool.

For a short period of time, Storebaeltsbroen held the record, until Akashi was built.

I actually crossed them both at the same day a few years ago. I wonder if that entitles me to a place in the Guiness book of records :)

Getting multimedia to work with Windows XP is still somewhat of a pain. Yes Windows Media Player does a fairly good job, but there are still tons of files/formats that just don't play right off the bat..

Annotated Links: http://www.google.dk/search?hl=da&q=windows+%2B%22 can't+play+divx%22&btnG=S%C3%B8g&meta=

Hi Sean,

I found this website with games for handicapped or disabled.

http://www.arcess.com/
They have some games available to test before buying.

http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/cat_i ndex_41.shtml
^^ I found it through this url (There are plenty more games here)

Also you might find this url of use
http://www.disabilities-online.com/
and
http://e-bility.com/links/games.php

Hope you can use these and
Scatter Joy :)

Oh, I searched google for "computer games for people with disabilities"

http://www.google.dk/search?hl=en&q=computer+games +for+people+with+disabilities&btnG=Google-s%C3%B8g ning&meta=
(So you can sift through the thousands of links, but still. Keep asking :)

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I think everybody has 50 invites .. I've been trying to use mine, but they keep refilling .. Furthermore I've been invited by the Gmail Team .. the result of signing up for further information 8 months ago ..

even this initiative has 291,820 invites available to share. ...

Anybody who doesn't have a gmail account by now, hasn't figured out how to write gmail account invite in google ..

>> gorilla wearing a tutu.

Google never cease to amaze me ...:
gorilla wearing a tutu.

I wouldn't call Firefox venerable .

impressive by reason of age

Mozilla and Netscape, yeah, but Firefox?

That's probably why Google has aggreed to making Firefox' startpage defaults to google.com.

Microsofts new "google killer" gives you about a million more hits than google does in a regular web search.

The site is gone, but I read the text from Googles cache.
I don't find it interesting though. What's next, comparing PS2 to Xbox by hammering them with a brick and see how much damage is made?

Appears to be ./'ed. Here is the google cache of the feature plan: http://www.google.dk/search?q=cache:POhBqYXvssAJ:d eveloper.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.2-feat ures.html+&hl=da&ie=UTF-8