Whilst OSM is very good for free data, there are still pockets of areas where the coverage is very poor indeed. I had to map out half of my uncle's town as it just wasn't there on OSM (about 9 months ago). At every stage, it's getting better, but the more 'big players' that start to switch to it, the more momentum it will get and the better the coverage will be as more contributors flow in.
This is especially the case as parts of the OSM dataset are about to be wiped out due to the forthcoming remapping.
One burning question: will we be able to get audible turn-by-turn directions if Apple moves to OSM?
You can bet that if they do offer turn-by-turn directions then it'll only be available in the iPhone 5 when it gets released. Just to force everyone to upgrade again - the same way that Siri is technically capable of working on the iPhone 3/4 but is only available on the 4s.
"The Act will mean ISPs will have to send warning letters to alleged illegal file downloaders, as well as potentially cutting users off." (emphasis mine)
My wondering is this. It's been stated many many times that a major problem with this is the lack of proof - ie, the 'alleged' illegal filesharers. If you could find out the (home) IP address of the heads of the BPI (British equivalent of RIAA) and then send notification to BT that you have detected that IP address illegally downloading a copy of your book/movie/song/poem (no proof required) then potentially BT will have to send warnings to them. If enough people do this, then by these rules BT would have to disconnect the user (the heads of the BPI's home internet connection) from the internet.
Sure, it's not going to stop the problem, but it will at least annoy them with the blatant abuse of power that they are wanting over the telecommunications industry.
You are correct in your calculations. That also assume perfect optics, so the actual value will be lower than this. However, if you'd RTFA you'd see that the lens is much larger than 4mm.
But expect a whole host of replies agreeing that 41MP in a phone is ridiculous.
Good to know - thanks. The first time I'd heard of the use of 'bricked' was with the iPhone, so I retract that part. The rest of my argument stands (in that bloggers have a propensity overuse terms that they don't understand just to sound cool and hip.
'Bricked' is a term that originated with iPhones (failed jailbreaks etc). iPhone's are made by Apple therefore 'cool'. Ergo 'Bricked' is a cool term (by association). Therefore bloggers want to use it as much as possible (so they seem cool by association and 'with it'). Hence they use it as much as possible - even if they don't understand what it means and use it incorrectly.
Much like the massive over-use of the word 'epic' nowadays to mean anything slightly-above-average.
The installation of Chrome is one of the reasons that I hate it.
You are given no choice as to where it installs. It doesn't install to a system-wide location, but installs (as you say) in user-writable profile space. That means that if you want to run chrome on your computer and you have many users, you need to install it for every user and it will be a separate place on the file-system with each separate installation. And separate settings in the user part of the registry. You *can't* do a system-wide installation (even if you want to!). It's just absolutely idiotic.
I appreciate what they're trying to do, but really, each person has their own caffeine profile and has to find where it works and where it doesn't.
Very true. Whilst they can probably accurately model the caffeine absorption into the bloodstream, there are two factors that the app cannot know.
Amount of caffeine per coffee. Whilst this is predictable with instant coffee, different coffee beans differ in the amount of caffeine in them. Percolators are not bad but if you drink espresso based drinks then the amount of caffeine per shot can vary by a factor of 8 (fineness of the grind, tamping, how the shot is pulled etc).
Each person metabolises caffeine at a different rate. Young people and teenagers can take up to 72 hours to metabolise caffeine whereas adults can do it in anywhere between (about) 2-3 hours and 10 hours. This is why some people can't get a decent night's sleep if they have a coffee after about lunchtime, whereas some are fine.
I like the idea of this app (for kicks) but without those two factors it's not going to be very accurate
I notice not many people here are saying we should do away with intrusive pat-downs and feel ups altogether. At least here in the US, we used to have something called the 4th Amendment, which protects against unreasonable search & seizure.
They security officers do not have the right to search you. If you make the metal detector beep, they still do not have the right to search you. They do, however, have the right to not admit you to the rest of the airport or onto the plane unless you assuage their fears by allowing a pad-down search. If you really take objection to the security at the airports, get in a car, train or ferry. Air travel is by no means the only way to get there.
"and (I'm pretty sure) eat a higher percentage of their body weight in plant matter than elephants do"
Adult male elephant weighs 7 tons and eats 300kg of food per day (4.3%)
Goat eats 4.5% of its bodyweight (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_percent_of_body_weight_does_a_goat_eat_in_grass_per_day)
No, the reason that they're endangered is because they have ivory and got hunted to the brink of extinction. That combined with the fact that they are pushed away from human habitation so areas they can live are being reduced.
Tell that to Kruger park. It's big enough to sustainable support about 8,000 elephants (carrying capacity) but has over 20,000 now and rising dramatically.
upset the balance of nature some other way etc. - it's a gamble with very many variables...
The normal way that they upset the balance of nature is trampling lots of the ecosystem and eating so much of everything that it wipes out food/habitat for pretty much everything. If left to grow beyond a small number, they are detrimental to the ecosystem. And that's in areas where they are native. It could probably rid Australia of the acacias though (they love them)
Kruger park has a massive over-population of elephants. It has a carrying-capacity (the number that the land-mass can sustainably support without being detrimental to the ecosystem) of about 8,000 elephants and now has over 20,000 (and still rising) causing major problem (both ecologically and politically as to how to reduce the numbers without resulting to a mass-cull).
Contraception is not exactly feasible on a large-scale (it's been tried successfully on small reserves such as Makalali) but the problem of finding and contracepting all/most of the animals in the wild and making sure that you've not contracepted the same animal twice in one period (major health issues for the animal) is almost impossible.
Personally I don't think a store should legally be able to sell anything that's been opened and returned as a new product.
They can't. At least not in the UK. If it's not new then they can't sell it as new. They can sell it as 'used' or 'refurbished' but aren't allowed to sell it as new.
It's not so much the 'stealing' of momentum that's required in this case, but the deflection of the path of motion by the gravitational well. Encounters with planets do both but the standard slingshot only normally uses the momentum gain as most missions have been in the plane of the ecliptic
Not to be picky, but I don't believe gravitational slingshots work that way. They are basically elastic collisions (mediated by gravity) with a planet, and therefore only give you an increase in velocity if you "recoil" in the direction of motion of the planet. In a nutshell, you borrow a tiny bit of a planet's or moon's forward momentum to come out travelling at twice its speed relative to the Sun.
Yes, they can do that. It is essentially an elastic collision as you say, but it doesn't have to result in the gained momentum being in the same direction as the planet's motion. Extrapolating your analogy, if you had an elastic collision between the probe and a high-latitude region of the planet (rather than at the equator) then your resulting trajectory would have a 'vertical' (meaning perpendicular to the ecliptic) component. This can be done by having your encounter with the planet you are using to gain the gravitational assist happen at a high inclination. Take a look at Voyager 2. From a quick wiki search, it's currently travelling on a trajectory 30 below the ecliptic after it's encounter with Neptune and Triton.
If you outsourced it to India then the guys who did the work wouldn't be able to apply anyway as you need to be a British citizen to get the clearance for those jobs.
The starting salary for the GC10 position is £25,446.
The starting salary for the GC9 position is £31,152.
Ha!
$35-40k? With maths like that, sincerely doubt that 'you solved it':
£25,446 = $39,963
£31,152 = $48,924
(Using current exchange rates). Or are you one of those people who finds it easier to just lie and make up figures to prove a point and hope that no-one checks the facts themselves?
Last I heard, the voyagers are about 100-110 AUs from the sun. Is the summary incorrect or do you only need to be 40 AUs from the sun to make these measurments? In which case, why is it news now and not in the 80s/90s when they reached this distance?
It's an interesting question, but regardless of whether anyone can theoretically crack the authorisation to upload commands to the Voyagers, I believe that it's only NASA's deep space network that can actually send the signals that far to be received by the probes.
Unfortunately not. Milky way's escape velocity is approx 525km/s (wikipedia) and voyager and our solar system are moving at approx 18km/s (Monty Python Song). Unless it happens to get flung out of the galaxy by the impending collision with Andromeda in 3-5 billion years it's not going to be leaving the Milky way anytime soon. It'll just float around in the vicinity of the solar system and go around the Milky way.
Fruit bats (Megachiroptera) don't eat insects. However, all species of Microchiroptera are insetivorous, so releasing lots of them would do the job. Plus they are cute and fluffy.
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Whilst OSM is very good for free data, there are still pockets of areas where the coverage is very poor indeed. I had to map out half of my uncle's town as it just wasn't there on OSM (about 9 months ago). At every stage, it's getting better, but the more 'big players' that start to switch to it, the more momentum it will get and the better the coverage will be as more contributors flow in.
This is especially the case as parts of the OSM dataset are about to be wiped out due to the forthcoming remapping.
One burning question: will we be able to get audible turn-by-turn directions if Apple moves to OSM?
You can bet that if they do offer turn-by-turn directions then it'll only be available in the iPhone 5 when it gets released. Just to force everyone to upgrade again - the same way that Siri is technically capable of working on the iPhone 3/4 but is only available on the 4s.
"The Act will mean ISPs will have to send warning letters to alleged illegal file downloaders, as well as potentially cutting users off." (emphasis mine)
My wondering is this. It's been stated many many times that a major problem with this is the lack of proof - ie, the 'alleged' illegal filesharers. If you could find out the (home) IP address of the heads of the BPI (British equivalent of RIAA) and then send notification to BT that you have detected that IP address illegally downloading a copy of your book/movie/song/poem (no proof required) then potentially BT will have to send warnings to them. If enough people do this, then by these rules BT would have to disconnect the user (the heads of the BPI's home internet connection) from the internet.
Sure, it's not going to stop the problem, but it will at least annoy them with the blatant abuse of power that they are wanting over the telecommunications industry.
Is there some modern variant of Godwin's law that applies whenever you mention Steve Jobs or Apple in an unrelated conversation?
You are correct in your calculations. That also assume perfect optics, so the actual value will be lower than this. However, if you'd RTFA you'd see that the lens is much larger than 4mm.
But expect a whole host of replies agreeing that 41MP in a phone is ridiculous.
"It's been around since pre-iPhone"
Good to know - thanks. The first time I'd heard of the use of 'bricked' was with the iPhone, so I retract that part. The rest of my argument stands (in that bloggers have a propensity overuse terms that they don't understand just to sound cool and hip.
'Bricked' is a term that originated with iPhones (failed jailbreaks etc). iPhone's are made by Apple therefore 'cool'. Ergo 'Bricked' is a cool term (by association). Therefore bloggers want to use it as much as possible (so they seem cool by association and 'with it'). Hence they use it as much as possible - even if they don't understand what it means and use it incorrectly. Much like the massive over-use of the word 'epic' nowadays to mean anything slightly-above-average.
The installation of Chrome is one of the reasons that I hate it. You are given no choice as to where it installs. It doesn't install to a system-wide location, but installs (as you say) in user-writable profile space. That means that if you want to run chrome on your computer and you have many users, you need to install it for every user and it will be a separate place on the file-system with each separate installation. And separate settings in the user part of the registry. You *can't* do a system-wide installation (even if you want to!). It's just absolutely idiotic.
I appreciate what they're trying to do, but really, each person has their own caffeine profile and has to find where it works and where it doesn't.
Very true. Whilst they can probably accurately model the caffeine absorption into the bloodstream, there are two factors that the app cannot know.
I like the idea of this app (for kicks) but without those two factors it's not going to be very accurate
I notice not many people here are saying we should do away with intrusive pat-downs and feel ups altogether. At least here in the US, we used to have something called the 4th Amendment, which protects against unreasonable search & seizure.
They security officers do not have the right to search you. If you make the metal detector beep, they still do not have the right to search you. They do, however, have the right to not admit you to the rest of the airport or onto the plane unless you assuage their fears by allowing a pad-down search. If you really take objection to the security at the airports, get in a car, train or ferry. Air travel is by no means the only way to get there.
I prefer the Italian: avere la botte piena e la moglie ubriaca ("to have the barrel full and the wife drunk")
"and (I'm pretty sure) eat a higher percentage of their body weight in plant matter than elephants do"
Adult male elephant weighs 7 tons and eats 300kg of food per day (4.3%) Goat eats 4.5% of its bodyweight (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_percent_of_body_weight_does_a_goat_eat_in_grass_per_day)
No, the reason that they're endangered is because they have ivory and got hunted to the brink of extinction. That combined with the fact that they are pushed away from human habitation so areas they can live are being reduced.
Tell that to Kruger park. It's big enough to sustainable support about 8,000 elephants (carrying capacity) but has over 20,000 now and rising dramatically.
upset the balance of nature some other way etc. - it's a gamble with very many variables...
The normal way that they upset the balance of nature is trampling lots of the ecosystem and eating so much of everything that it wipes out food/habitat for pretty much everything. If left to grow beyond a small number, they are detrimental to the ecosystem. And that's in areas where they are native. It could probably rid Australia of the acacias though (they love them)
+5 insightful? Funny I could understand.
Kruger park has a massive over-population of elephants. It has a carrying-capacity (the number that the land-mass can sustainably support without being detrimental to the ecosystem) of about 8,000 elephants and now has over 20,000 (and still rising) causing major problem (both ecologically and politically as to how to reduce the numbers without resulting to a mass-cull).
Contraception is not exactly feasible on a large-scale (it's been tried successfully on small reserves such as Makalali) but the problem of finding and contracepting all/most of the animals in the wild and making sure that you've not contracepted the same animal twice in one period (major health issues for the animal) is almost impossible.
Personally I don't think a store should legally be able to sell anything that's been opened and returned as a new product.
They can't. At least not in the UK. If it's not new then they can't sell it as new. They can sell it as 'used' or 'refurbished' but aren't allowed to sell it as new.
It's not so much the 'stealing' of momentum that's required in this case, but the deflection of the path of motion by the gravitational well. Encounters with planets do both but the standard slingshot only normally uses the momentum gain as most missions have been in the plane of the ecliptic
Not to be picky, but I don't believe gravitational slingshots work that way. They are basically elastic collisions (mediated by gravity) with a planet, and therefore only give you an increase in velocity if you "recoil" in the direction of motion of the planet. In a nutshell, you borrow a tiny bit of a planet's or moon's forward momentum to come out travelling at twice its speed relative to the Sun.
Yes, they can do that. It is essentially an elastic collision as you say, but it doesn't have to result in the gained momentum being in the same direction as the planet's motion. Extrapolating your analogy, if you had an elastic collision between the probe and a high-latitude region of the planet (rather than at the equator) then your resulting trajectory would have a 'vertical' (meaning perpendicular to the ecliptic) component. This can be done by having your encounter with the planet you are using to gain the gravitational assist happen at a high inclination. Take a look at Voyager 2. From a quick wiki search, it's currently travelling on a trajectory 30 below the ecliptic after it's encounter with Neptune and Triton.
If you outsourced it to India then the guys who did the work wouldn't be able to apply anyway as you need to be a British citizen to get the clearance for those jobs.
The starting salary for the GC10 position is £25,446. The starting salary for the GC9 position is £31,152.
Ha!
$35-40k? With maths like that, sincerely doubt that 'you solved it':
£25,446 = $39,963
£31,152 = $48,924
(Using current exchange rates). Or are you one of those people who finds it easier to just lie and make up figures to prove a point and hope that no-one checks the facts themselves?
Last I heard, the voyagers are about 100-110 AUs from the sun. Is the summary incorrect or do you only need to be 40 AUs from the sun to make these measurments? In which case, why is it news now and not in the 80s/90s when they reached this distance?
It's an interesting question, but regardless of whether anyone can theoretically crack the authorisation to upload commands to the Voyagers, I believe that it's only NASA's deep space network that can actually send the signals that far to be received by the probes.
Unfortunately not. Milky way's escape velocity is approx 525km/s (wikipedia) and voyager and our solar system are moving at approx 18km/s (Monty Python Song). Unless it happens to get flung out of the galaxy by the impending collision with Andromeda in 3-5 billion years it's not going to be leaving the Milky way anytime soon. It'll just float around in the vicinity of the solar system and go around the Milky way.
Fruit bats (Megachiroptera) don't eat insects. However, all species of Microchiroptera are insetivorous, so releasing lots of them would do the job. Plus they are cute and fluffy.