You actually have to pay that tax in Germany even if you don't any TV or radio. They consider that if you've got a computer, you're able to use it as a TV or radio. This still holds even if it's in your basement, not powered and not connected to the Internet.
The one thing that pisses me off more than Jew haters are the people who consistently play the antisemitism card. If I don't agree with one bonehead decision from Israel, it's because it's a bonehead decision. If I think Avigdor Lieberman is an asshole, it really is because he's an asshole. I couldn't care less about religion.
As a total astrophysics noob, I have the feeling that dark matter and energy are just excuses to get our incomplete models fit with our incomplete observation of the universe. Do you think they could be a modern ether and could be discarded completely if a better model were to be found?
We're not sure pi is normal. So it is believed that the complete works of Shakespeare in Klingon are hidden in pi, but you'll probably need a whole library to describe its location.
Sorry to insist, but "Peak oil" really means "We are so fucked!".
Agreed, it means that we've never been producing so much oil. This fact gives us a false sense of security. It also means that we'll never produce more oil and that it will keep getting scarcer and scarcer. Take a look at our dependance to oil. It's liquid, it's easy to transport, it's easy to burn, it has a huge energy density and it's damn cheap. It also happens to be used in a lot of stuff around us that we consider essential. Any other energy source just sucks in comparison.
We're all lazy fat kids that have been fed with fries and cakes all their life, and we now understand that we'll have to eat mostly carrots and salad if we don't want to run into trouble soon. Even though we understand this fact, we're still not ready to accept it. Let's wait till we're obese, have diabetes and heart problems so that we can finally accept it!
I challenge you to present me one published paper where a climate scientist tells me what I can and can't do. Or even where they merely suggest restrictions of what a person can do.
It's possible to take decent moon pictures with any camera. 320mm equivalent is more than enough to get some serious details (craters and stuf..). your problem is probably some serious over-exposure, where the moon is a completely motion-blurred washed-out white disc. Get to Manual mode, choose f/8, 1/400s, ISO 800 and see what you get. The auto focus might have problems, so just focus close to infinity and adjust it with magnified live-view (if available). It works best when the moon is half lit, so that the surface's texture is shown by the low directional light. Motion blur, over-exposure or under-exposure are all easily manageable by playing with shutter-speed, aperture and sensitivity. If you don't know what they are and what they do, let google help you.
is somewhere between 42.5N and 49N. This range pretty much includes all Europe (except Portugal/Spain/Italy/Balkans), Russia, Mongolia, and Northern parts of China & Japan.
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Heat can be converted to other forms of energy.
Kelvin's statement of the 2nd law of thermodynamics is:
No process is possible in which the sole result is the absorption of heat from a reservoir and its complete conversion into work.
You need some low-temperature energy sink. Which is too bad when your high-temperature energy reservoir is the earth itself, and there's nowhere left to reject your heat.
Also, efficiencies decrease when the temperatures of both energy reservoir and sink increase.
It all depends if those jobs make sense, where they are located and if they'll still be there in a few years. High frequency trading has a very low specific job density, but is it useful?
In order to detect acceleration, you only need a pendulum, a glass of water or a faceplant against the spaceship hull. The pain you'll feel isn't relative to the frame of reference.
Nice way to pull a "theorem" out of your ass and try to impress mods. Take logarithm as an example : log' is positive and log'' is negative. Do you see logarithm "stabilizing at some level"?
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You actually have to pay that tax in Germany even if you don't any TV or radio.
They consider that if you've got a computer, you're able to use it as a TV or radio.
This still holds even if it's in your basement, not powered and not connected to the Internet.
The one thing that pisses me off more than Jew haters are the people who consistently play the antisemitism card.
If I don't agree with one bonehead decision from Israel, it's because it's a bonehead decision.
If I think Avigdor Lieberman is an asshole, it really is because he's an asshole.
I couldn't care less about religion.
Also, the solar panels on the picture don't produce electricity but hot water.
As a total astrophysics noob, I have the feeling that dark matter and energy are just excuses to get our incomplete models fit with our incomplete observation of the universe.
Do you think they could be a modern ether and could be discarded completely if a better model were to be found?
Good question.
I suppose you'll find this article interesting :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number
We're not sure pi is normal.
So it is believed that the complete works of Shakespeare in Klingon are hidden in pi, but you'll probably need a whole library to describe its location.
Yeah, that would never happen : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment.
Sorry to insist, but "Peak oil" really means "We are so fucked!".
Agreed, it means that we've never been producing so much oil. This fact gives us a false sense of security.
It also means that we'll never produce more oil and that it will keep getting scarcer and scarcer.
Take a look at our dependance to oil. It's liquid, it's easy to transport, it's easy to burn, it has a huge energy density and it's damn cheap.
It also happens to be used in a lot of stuff around us that we consider essential. Any other energy source just sucks in comparison.
We're all lazy fat kids that have been fed with fries and cakes all their life, and we now understand that we'll have to eat mostly carrots and salad if we don't want to run into trouble soon. Even though we understand this fact, we're still not ready to accept it. Let's wait till we're obese, have diabetes and heart problems so that we can finally accept it!
So yeah, we're fucked.
Bullshit.
It would be like saying that it's impossible to write a good book now because they all have been already written.
Here is a list I compiled for a previous post on ./
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314067/ Filantropica
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118843/ Black Cat White Cat
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287467/ Talk to her
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185616/ Waltz with Bashir
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091288/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091480/ Jean de Florette + Manon of the spring
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278500/ The importance of being Earnest
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369702/ The Sea Inside
Not much action, no blockbusters but darn good movies.
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg3/en/contents.html
There you go.
It's possible to take decent moon pictures with any camera.
320mm equivalent is more than enough to get some serious details (craters and stuf..).
your problem is probably some serious over-exposure, where the moon is a completely motion-blurred washed-out white disc.
Get to Manual mode, choose f/8, 1/400s, ISO 800 and see what you get. The auto focus might have problems, so just focus close to infinity and adjust it with magnified live-view (if available).
It works best when the moon is half lit, so that the surface's texture is shown by the low directional light.
Motion blur, over-exposure or under-exposure are all easily manageable by playing with shutter-speed, aperture and sensitivity. If you don't know what they are and what they do, let google help you.
Have fun!
http://www.rubyinside.com/upside-down-ruby-351.html
Even if you can check the code, how can you be sure it's the one that has been executed?
Why couldn't it just be the result of
?
Nikon FTW! Suck it, Canon!
BTW : Impressive picture.
Pardon my ignorance, but WTF is FF8?
All I could google was final fantasy 8.
For those not well-versed in US geography :
is somewhere between 42.5N and 49N.
This range pretty much includes all Europe (except Portugal/Spain/Italy/Balkans), Russia, Mongolia, and Northern parts of China & Japan.
100% True. :D
In your example, the energy use has been at least 1.3333333**X, though.
That said, an exponential-fit would give you much better results than a linear-fit for our energy use in the last 200 years.
GP's kinda right.
He didn't say that the energy consumption has risen exactly as 2.718281828**t.
Just that it has an exponential growth, as in (1+x)**t, with x>0
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Heat can be converted to other forms of energy.
Kelvin's statement of the 2nd law of thermodynamics is:
No process is possible in which the sole result is the absorption of heat from a reservoir and its complete conversion into work.
You need some low-temperature energy sink. Which is too bad when your high-temperature energy reservoir is the earth itself, and there's nowhere left to reject your heat.
Also, efficiencies decrease when the temperatures of both energy reservoir and sink increase.
Why is this modded Funny and not Insightful?
It all depends if those jobs make sense, where they are located and if they'll still be there in a few years.
High frequency trading has a very low specific job density, but is it useful?
That would be linked to the spaceship's acceleration.
Sorry, but you're wrong.
In order to detect acceleration, you only need a pendulum, a glass of water or a faceplant against the spaceship hull. The pain you'll feel isn't relative to the frame of reference.
time sudo ls -lAR / | grep -E '^[ld\-]+' | wc -l
It should give you the number of files on your filesystem and the time it took to "scan" them all.
Nice way to pull a "theorem" out of your ass and try to impress mods.
Take logarithm as an example :
log' is positive and log'' is negative.
Do you see logarithm "stabilizing at some level"?
Great, yet another Lightroom-wannabe-for-Linux that'll never get more than 20% of Lightroom features.