Ironically, they shouldn't. If the global temperature measurements are correct then this should be suppressing any warming signal. The Sun maybe hitting a minimum, so temperatures should be dropping (or at least the rate-of-change). They appear to be rising anyway, meaning it's more serious if anything.
It's a dev's model I'm guessing. Want to dig around the internals, use it on a local network or the like? It's a very useful lightweight computer in its own right, paying $600+ to be free of a contract could be worth it in the long run if you don't need it for the phone component. Yes, of course you could just buy an iPod touch for that, but I'm betting there's at least a few people who have a practical/financial use for this, even at that initial cost.
Feynman was renowned for crossing disciplines - aside from physics he would sit in on biology classes (and once asked a library if they had a "map of a cat" to aid his studies), learned the bongos to a respectable level, taught himself to paint semi-professionally and learned a great deal about locksmithing and safe design while working at Los Alamos. Yes, he was a physics specialist, but an inquiring mind will always find distractions, and sometimes those distractions will lead to interesting developments in one field or another.
Indeed. I own a square foot of a Scottish distillery (it was a marketing gimmick) and they pay me rent in whisky. I have to pick it up in person - partly to save them money, and because I suspect they like getting visitors. I've twice made the 250 mile trip (car->ferry->hike) and they've been delighted to see me.
Either Alaska are trying to make things difficult on purpose, or they're getting a little lonely.
If it really is voluntary I don't have a problem - say I provided a public access computer in a bar, I'm responsible for what is accessed through it regardless of whether I ask people to sign disclaimers and the like, I'd like to be able to restrict access to porn and so on. I don't want to censor those sites (ie actually prevent them "broadcasting"), I want to prevent my systems from accessing them by using a blacklist such as the one mentioned in the story.
Now, if I go home and use my own systems then I'm happy to bear full responsibility for unfiltered access, so I don't use a blacklist.
There's a difference between censoring and voluntary filtering. You could argue that virus protection software is "censorship" because it prevents the free speech of the virus writers, but it's really just a filtering mechanism.
Of course, since BT have opened everybody's routers to outside access by default (all customers are "automatically opted-in" apparently, and it's tricky to opt-out of), we start hitting some very weird problems over my responsibilities for "my" internet access.
Astronomers work in powers of ten - if it's more than a tenth and less than ten times it's "the same size". You're the same size as your car on the scale of 500 miles. Slightly more formally, the scale of the visible ejecta in the video is of the same magnitude as the Sun. (Personally I'd say it covers a volume about 1/3 that of the Sun from the looks of it)
Long story short, no. This is an explosion of almost pure hydrogen, with some traces of helium and assorted impurities. The explosion that makes the matter for planets involves destroying an entire star in one go, and the interesting stuff like carbon, silicon, oxygen and the likes are all in the core of a star. If I take you apart, atom by atom, I have all the stuff I need to build a human. If you burp....well....it makes a bit of noise at least. The Sun just burped. That's all.
Bear in mind that a really big burp, aimed at us, will cause a very big problem indeed.
Similar in technique to this: http://iwl.me/ - give it a few paragraphs of your own writing and you'll get a comparison to some famous person or other.
Just wait until somebody comes up with an App 2.0 that recreates the webtop (see what I did there, web based desktop?!). Then you can have your OS running on an App (2.0) in a webtop on a browser in an OS! And anybody who is able to use the normal OS directly will be a 1337 hax0r. Rumours of a text-only interface to a computer will persist amongst those over 35 years old.
I specifically put it in quotes because you're absolutely right, as is AC above referring to 'posting it to the internet', that's pretty much all it means. Ideally posting it to multiple servers in multiple locations, backing up back and forth between them occasionally. If there is a difference between the Internet and the Cloud it's that - multiple redundancies - if people are going to start bandying a new term around we might as well make it mean something. I have folders on both my netbook and desktop synched via Ubuntu One, so not only do they synchronise with each other, but I can access the latest version via a web interface from any computer on the internet - that's something extra to "just posting it to the internet". Synchronised local and remote backups is the difference, if any.
The real trick is to post everything directly to "The Cloud". Yes, yes, I hate the term as much as the average/.-er, but in this case it's extraordinarily useful. Destroying the device doesn't destroy the data, and you also have a record of the destruction. There's a good reason for decent systems to keep off-site (ideally off-continent) records.
I've been running UNR on a 1001p for a year and a bit now and it's fairly flawless. Respectably quick for a wee machine like that, odd-but-nice navigation, and stable with one exception: if it's running under the effects-laden UNR interface then X will sometimes fall over. It's happened maybe 20 times since I've had it - unsure as to the source, but my first total guess would be something between the nVidia driver and Ubuntu. The wireless took a bit of fiddling to get working too, but no huge hassle, just a couple of installations. I'm hoping that the combination of a newer OS than I'm running plus an in-house build will sort both issues out.
If you're not a fan of the Unity interface (and I get the impression I'm in the minority by liking it) you can easily just boot into good-old-gnome, but given the screen size I never bother. Battery life is a solid 6 hours without being particularly careful (wireless on, screen bright, playing videos with the sound on), dropping to about 4 hours after a year and three months of daily use.
Cracking machine for the money, and Ubuntu sits very nicely on top. My initial review of it is here: Asus 1001p review [blogspot.com]
I've been running UNR on a 1001p for a year and a bit now and it's fairly flawless. Respectably quick for a wee machine like that, odd-but-nice navigation, and stable with one exception: if it's running under the effects-laden UNR interface then X will sometimes fall over. It's happened maybe 20 times since I've had it - unsure as to the source, but my first total guess would be something between the nVidia driver and Ubuntu. The wireless took a bit of fiddling to get working too, but no huge hassle, just a couple of installations. I'm hoping that the combination of a newer OS than I'm running plus an in-house build will sort both issues out.
If you're not a fan of the Unity interface (and I get the impression I'm in the minority by liking it) you can easily just boot into good-old-gnome, but given the screen size I never bother. Battery life is a solid 6 hours without being particularly careful (wireless on, screen bright, playing videos with the sound on), dropping to about 4 hours after a year and three months of daily use.
Cracking machine for the money, and Ubuntu sits very nicely on top. My initial review of it is here: Asus 1001p review
If you can get a bracelet to produce a 1.3 Tesla field I think hawking them as alternative medicine will be the last thing on your mind. And if you did the lawsuits would soon start rolling in from people who've had their hands ripped off by passing cars.
Quite possibly. The Daleks aren't owned by the BBC / Doctor Who, Terry Nation's estate owns them and leases them back to the BBC. Doctor Who is working under a tighter budget than in previous years, so they may well have decided their money is better spent elsewhere. I can't blame them either, Moffat has a habit of coming up with cool new baddies.
I think that was steelfood's point - that yes, this explanation, however outlandish, is simpler than assuming humanoid alien life capable of interstellar/planetary travel.
I take much the same approach on the "fake" moon landing pictures. If we presume the apparent photographic problems like rocks overlapping film crosshairs are actually there, then assuming that some of the photos were doctored is realistic - it doesn't mean that the entire event involving thousands of people and enormous amounts of hardware were fake. Faking the photos is easy, faking an entire moon mission is difficult. Therefore if the photos are faked it's more likely that just the photos were faked.
Because (in the UK at least) people will often take whatever degree course they can get on to. It's not that they want to learn the subject, or use it in later life, they simply want a degree in anything.I've known somebody on a CS course who dropped out because they couldn't grasp the concept of a while loop - CS was their second choice, they wanted to do English Lit but the course was booked out, and they *had* to be at this particular University because "it's the best one to find a rich husband at". I kid you not, it's a very sad situation.
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I don't have mod points to "+1 Agree" with. That's what this "reply" is for.
Ironically, they shouldn't. If the global temperature measurements are correct then this should be suppressing any warming signal. The Sun maybe hitting a minimum, so temperatures should be dropping (or at least the rate-of-change). They appear to be rising anyway, meaning it's more serious if anything.
It's a dev's model I'm guessing. Want to dig around the internals, use it on a local network or the like? It's a very useful lightweight computer in its own right, paying $600+ to be free of a contract could be worth it in the long run if you don't need it for the phone component. Yes, of course you could just buy an iPod touch for that, but I'm betting there's at least a few people who have a practical/financial use for this, even at that initial cost.
So if I buy some of your tulips for $10 there will be somebody else who will buy them from me for $100? Clever!
Think it'll work with houses too?
Feynman was renowned for crossing disciplines - aside from physics he would sit in on biology classes (and once asked a library if they had a "map of a cat" to aid his studies), learned the bongos to a respectable level, taught himself to paint semi-professionally and learned a great deal about locksmithing and safe design while working at Los Alamos. Yes, he was a physics specialist, but an inquiring mind will always find distractions, and sometimes those distractions will lead to interesting developments in one field or another.
Indeed. I own a square foot of a Scottish distillery (it was a marketing gimmick) and they pay me rent in whisky. I have to pick it up in person - partly to save them money, and because I suspect they like getting visitors. I've twice made the 250 mile trip (car->ferry->hike) and they've been delighted to see me.
Either Alaska are trying to make things difficult on purpose, or they're getting a little lonely.
If it really is voluntary I don't have a problem - say I provided a public access computer in a bar, I'm responsible for what is accessed through it regardless of whether I ask people to sign disclaimers and the like, I'd like to be able to restrict access to porn and so on. I don't want to censor those sites (ie actually prevent them "broadcasting"), I want to prevent my systems from accessing them by using a blacklist such as the one mentioned in the story.
Now, if I go home and use my own systems then I'm happy to bear full responsibility for unfiltered access, so I don't use a blacklist.
There's a difference between censoring and voluntary filtering. You could argue that virus protection software is "censorship" because it prevents the free speech of the virus writers, but it's really just a filtering mechanism.
Of course, since BT have opened everybody's routers to outside access by default (all customers are "automatically opted-in" apparently, and it's tricky to opt-out of), we start hitting some very weird problems over my responsibilities for "my" internet access.
Absolutely - sorry about this, but for once it's apt...
1: Reply to ad
2: Phone FBI/MI6/ETC
3: ???
4: Profit!!!
Seriously, that's how it works for once.
Astronomers work in powers of ten - if it's more than a tenth and less than ten times it's "the same size". You're the same size as your car on the scale of 500 miles. Slightly more formally, the scale of the visible ejecta in the video is of the same magnitude as the Sun. (Personally I'd say it covers a volume about 1/3 that of the Sun from the looks of it)
Long story short, no. This is an explosion of almost pure hydrogen, with some traces of helium and assorted impurities. The explosion that makes the matter for planets involves destroying an entire star in one go, and the interesting stuff like carbon, silicon, oxygen and the likes are all in the core of a star. If I take you apart, atom by atom, I have all the stuff I need to build a human. If you burp....well....it makes a bit of noise at least. The Sun just burped. That's all. Bear in mind that a really big burp, aimed at us, will cause a very big problem indeed.
Dear Guardian,
Please define "hacker" before I read your article and the associated advertisements. No, no, it's OK, I'll wait.
Either that or they sold something useful to the biggest geeks in the world and then took it away, but that would be daft.
Similar in technique to this: http://iwl.me/ - give it a few paragraphs of your own writing and you'll get a comparison to some famous person or other.
Just wait until somebody comes up with an App 2.0 that recreates the webtop (see what I did there, web based desktop?!). Then you can have your OS running on an App (2.0) in a webtop on a browser in an OS! And anybody who is able to use the normal OS directly will be a 1337 hax0r. Rumours of a text-only interface to a computer will persist amongst those over 35 years old.
I specifically put it in quotes because you're absolutely right, as is AC above referring to 'posting it to the internet', that's pretty much all it means. Ideally posting it to multiple servers in multiple locations, backing up back and forth between them occasionally. If there is a difference between the Internet and the Cloud it's that - multiple redundancies - if people are going to start bandying a new term around we might as well make it mean something. I have folders on both my netbook and desktop synched via Ubuntu One, so not only do they synchronise with each other, but I can access the latest version via a web interface from any computer on the internet - that's something extra to "just posting it to the internet". Synchronised local and remote backups is the difference, if any.
The real trick is to post everything directly to "The Cloud". Yes, yes, I hate the term as much as the average /.-er, but in this case it's extraordinarily useful. Destroying the device doesn't destroy the data, and you also have a record of the destruction. There's a good reason for decent systems to keep off-site (ideally off-continent) records.
Sigh...something bugged out. "My initial review of it is here: Asus 1001p review"
I've been running UNR on a 1001p for a year and a bit now and it's fairly flawless. Respectably quick for a wee machine like that, odd-but-nice navigation, and stable with one exception: if it's running under the effects-laden UNR interface then X will sometimes fall over. It's happened maybe 20 times since I've had it - unsure as to the source, but my first total guess would be something between the nVidia driver and Ubuntu. The wireless took a bit of fiddling to get working too, but no huge hassle, just a couple of installations. I'm hoping that the combination of a newer OS than I'm running plus an in-house build will sort both issues out. If you're not a fan of the Unity interface (and I get the impression I'm in the minority by liking it) you can easily just boot into good-old-gnome, but given the screen size I never bother. Battery life is a solid 6 hours without being particularly careful (wireless on, screen bright, playing videos with the sound on), dropping to about 4 hours after a year and three months of daily use. Cracking machine for the money, and Ubuntu sits very nicely on top. My initial review of it is here: Asus 1001p review [blogspot.com]
I've been running UNR on a 1001p for a year and a bit now and it's fairly flawless. Respectably quick for a wee machine like that, odd-but-nice navigation, and stable with one exception: if it's running under the effects-laden UNR interface then X will sometimes fall over. It's happened maybe 20 times since I've had it - unsure as to the source, but my first total guess would be something between the nVidia driver and Ubuntu. The wireless took a bit of fiddling to get working too, but no huge hassle, just a couple of installations. I'm hoping that the combination of a newer OS than I'm running plus an in-house build will sort both issues out.
If you're not a fan of the Unity interface (and I get the impression I'm in the minority by liking it) you can easily just boot into good-old-gnome, but given the screen size I never bother. Battery life is a solid 6 hours without being particularly careful (wireless on, screen bright, playing videos with the sound on), dropping to about 4 hours after a year and three months of daily use.
Cracking machine for the money, and Ubuntu sits very nicely on top. My initial review of it is here: Asus 1001p review
I heard it had a false nose-cone? And a spare made of gold for special occasions?
If you can get a bracelet to produce a 1.3 Tesla field I think hawking them as alternative medicine will be the last thing on your mind. And if you did the lawsuits would soon start rolling in from people who've had their hands ripped off by passing cars.
Running a GUI uses system resources. Shock. You seriously expect to run two biggish programs and not have the computer slow down?
Quite possibly. The Daleks aren't owned by the BBC / Doctor Who, Terry Nation's estate owns them and leases them back to the BBC. Doctor Who is working under a tighter budget than in previous years, so they may well have decided their money is better spent elsewhere. I can't blame them either, Moffat has a habit of coming up with cool new baddies.
I think that was steelfood's point - that yes, this explanation, however outlandish, is simpler than assuming humanoid alien life capable of interstellar/planetary travel.
I take much the same approach on the "fake" moon landing pictures. If we presume the apparent photographic problems like rocks overlapping film crosshairs are actually there, then assuming that some of the photos were doctored is realistic - it doesn't mean that the entire event involving thousands of people and enormous amounts of hardware were fake. Faking the photos is easy, faking an entire moon mission is difficult. Therefore if the photos are faked it's more likely that just the photos were faked.
Because (in the UK at least) people will often take whatever degree course they can get on to. It's not that they want to learn the subject, or use it in later life, they simply want a degree in anything.I've known somebody on a CS course who dropped out because they couldn't grasp the concept of a while loop - CS was their second choice, they wanted to do English Lit but the course was booked out, and they *had* to be at this particular University because "it's the best one to find a rich husband at". I kid you not, it's a very sad situation.