The age of the universe is now known to unprecedented accuracy: 13.73 billion years old, +/- 120 million. This is precision, not accuracy. The result will be judged accurate when there are lots of duplicate experiments getting the same result. Just to clarify, this is latest in a long line of research that estimates the universe to around that age. This is not a new result, just one of the most precise results. Its accuracy is as good as you can hope from anything that happened before humans even existed. It might be wrong, but that is highly unlikely, unless all the methodologies that have come to this conclusion shared a standar model challenging flaw.
Actually, I originally did write that we should save the space for those who cause the death of thousands and live safely at home, I guess my subconscious still got the message through;)
Putting a gun to my face is a far cry for a phone scam. I was just making a point that only money was lost, and to remember that perspective. And why can't I treat this as someone simply stealing an almost negligible amount of money a couple million times?
Could a factor be that bad copies of movies from camcorders are making the Movie theaters seem better? I know that I can download any movie I want, but often I insist on going to a theater to see a particular movie if I feel the extra quality is worth it. I know I didn't feel that way before P2P. To be frank I hated theaters before because the constant sound/video issues. But compared to a cam it is quite good. HD at home is better though.
As a fellow Pidgin user, I'm having trouble imagining a reason why this is good news for Pidgin users. Maybe someone could tell me why this is good for Pidgin users other than we can hope compatibly will be (almost) perfect?
He should go to jail, but to be honest all he took was money. There are certain murderous criminals that have caused the death of thousands who still have their job, and money. Just saying, seeing as we have a finite amount of prison space, lets save it for people for whom it is dangerous to be around. Taking everything this guy has is a good start.
I highly doubt the gamer market will be very high on the uptake of not being able to upgrade their video card. You can add a video card of your choice, and you can even set it up in a hybrid crossfire configuration with compatible cards, with good results. As a gamer on a budget this definitely grabs my attention.
You could, but you could counter argue that there are only a few really great games on it, and its success must have other important contributing factors (price, novelty, branding and its competition).
I can't say what is actually needed, but the rule of thumb is that the source should have as little compression as possible. In which case you could fill a 30gb HDDVD with 1 min of video if you want. However with a transfer rate of 4.36MB/sec for HDDVD@1x, you get about 2 hours of media for 30GB. This would imply that most HDDVDs actually completely fill their disks, since movies in excess of 2 hours are common.
Fighting from the sofa is one thing, having bombs exploding nearby is quite different.
So true, how many times have I wondered if the US would be so willing to fight so many wars if we had to have it on our soil. And mind you not just one attack, but a war at least a year long. The kind where you would have to listen to the news to decide if you were evacuating the city that day because the enemy is approaching. In the US we have no idea of what war is like. And to be clear, neither do I, but I at least know that Call of Duty 4 is not a documentary.
An IQ of 159 would imply you are smarter than 99.99% of the population. It would be practically impossible to get a group of people in your intelligence group to study. If you think IQ is a factor in the study, it won't apply to you.
I don't have any evidence for this, but I have two ideas that may explain it:
1. I suspect that being that close to the sun, there will be one color that is overpowering the others. 2. The heat from the sun may have made the surface pretty uniform, there may not be any real coloration to speak of on the surface.
Just my guesses, maybe a more knowledgeable slashdotter can give a more complete answer.
Thank you for your answer, unfortunately I still don't get why you couldn't pick an angle to escape the Earth that would get you to the Sun. I guess I just don't get orbits, but I will spend some time thinking about it. I don't see why you need to slow down to get close to the sun, I would want to hit it as fast as possible (I'm not a patient man). I do understand that if you leave the earth you're still moving like heck relative to the sun, I should probably meditate on that for a while. Thanks again.
Perhaps you could clarify something for me. After you break earth's orbit, why would it take any extra energy to get to the sun? (This is assuming of course that the garbage is pointed at the sun and timed so it wouldn't get close enough to Venus and Mercury to divert it's course. Why would getting away from the sun be easier than going towards it?
And a solution to send garbage safely would be to aim it a bit high or low (perpendicular to orbit of Earth). The slingshot would almost never send it back towards the orbit. As a space geek I'm just curious.
Unfortunately being able to understand all the pieces and being able to appreciate the consequences are not the same. A 6 year old can learn chess, but the ability to understand plan ahead takes much longer. I'm not saying what the kid did is ok, he should have known better. What I'm saying is that the kid probably WILL know better, at 14 most people can barely get a grip of their own feelings, and have the judgment of, well, a freshman in High School. Obviously the man or woman you are going to be starts to show at this age, but it scares me how so many people, (the US in particular) seem to think that teenagers are little adults. Mature judgment takes a little longer to develop, otherwise the drinking age wouldn't be 21 right?
Ok, you made up the tracking number. I hope you made everything else up cause it showed it up in Google (as part of this thread). I personally hope you didn't, I would love to see a follow up article where you had to get a new identity because you gave your old one away...
Warning: From sources I'm too lazy too look up, I hear a very small percentage of people are not susceptible to the HIV virus. Granted the odds are low, but if some resistant bastard takes your money, well that would just suck. Of course if if they all did it...
For the record, I am typing this with Vista and Syncing my iPod with iTunes. So it does work with iTunes, but get this: if a video is playing off my SATA drives in iTunes, it stutters. As far as I can tell this is a Vista + nForce4 + iTunes problem, and no one is taking responsibility to fix it.
Just my 2 cents, but why compile something for heat? A lot of the electricity used doesn't go towards the heat (modern CPUs are designed to produce as little heat as possible). It's not clear if you are just compiling Gentoo again and again, but if you are, please use F@H instead, at least the electricity that isn't being turned into heat goes towards, hopefully, research. Also, can I recommend a Xbox360 for heat? It produces a ton and if you play a game like Guitar Hero you generate a lot of heat yourself, when my friends are over I have to open a window to cool down.
This will be like when the internet hit and we all learned that everyone likes porn. For a while people were "perverts", now it's understood because everyone does it. Facebook will teach us what people are really like, and once the lid comes off, we will know that everyone is a inappropriate for work, and it won't matter. However I feel sorry for the people who will be fired in the mean time. Wait long enough though and all those people in management will have their college activities posted. Everyone will be Paris Hilton and it won't matter.
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Wow, I bet with a personality like that you get all the guys.
Great Scott!!
Actually, I originally did write that we should save the space for those who cause the death of thousands and live safely at home, I guess my subconscious still got the message through ;)
Putting a gun to my face is a far cry for a phone scam. I was just making a point that only money was lost, and to remember that perspective. And why can't I treat this as someone simply stealing an almost negligible amount of money a couple million times?
Could a factor be that bad copies of movies from camcorders are making the Movie theaters seem better? I know that I can download any movie I want, but often I insist on going to a theater to see a particular movie if I feel the extra quality is worth it. I know I didn't feel that way before P2P. To be frank I hated theaters before because the constant sound/video issues. But compared to a cam it is quite good. HD at home is better though.
As a fellow Pidgin user, I'm having trouble imagining a reason why this is good news for Pidgin users. Maybe someone could tell me why this is good for Pidgin users other than we can hope compatibly will be (almost) perfect?
He should go to jail, but to be honest all he took was money. There are certain murderous criminals that have caused the death of thousands who still have their job, and money. Just saying, seeing as we have a finite amount of prison space, lets save it for people for whom it is dangerous to be around. Taking everything this guy has is a good start.
You could, but you could counter argue that there are only a few really great games on it, and its success must have other important contributing factors (price, novelty, branding and its competition).
I can't say what is actually needed, but the rule of thumb is that the source should have as little compression as possible. In which case you could fill a 30gb HDDVD with 1 min of video if you want. However with a transfer rate of 4.36MB/sec for HDDVD@1x, you get about 2 hours of media for 30GB. This would imply that most HDDVDs actually completely fill their disks, since movies in excess of 2 hours are common.
So true, how many times have I wondered if the US would be so willing to fight so many wars if we had to have it on our soil. And mind you not just one attack, but a war at least a year long. The kind where you would have to listen to the news to decide if you were evacuating the city that day because the enemy is approaching. In the US we have no idea of what war is like. And to be clear, neither do I, but I at least know that Call of Duty 4 is not a documentary.
An IQ of 159 would imply you are smarter than 99.99% of the population. It would be practically impossible to get a group of people in your intelligence group to study. If you think IQ is a factor in the study, it won't apply to you.
I don't have any evidence for this, but I have two ideas that may explain it:
1. I suspect that being that close to the sun, there will be one color that is overpowering the others.
2. The heat from the sun may have made the surface pretty uniform, there may not be any real coloration to speak of on the surface.
Just my guesses, maybe a more knowledgeable slashdotter can give a more complete answer.
I am still missing point 9.
Thank you for your answer, unfortunately I still don't get why you couldn't pick an angle to escape the Earth that would get you to the Sun. I guess I just don't get orbits, but I will spend some time thinking about it. I don't see why you need to slow down to get close to the sun, I would want to hit it as fast as possible (I'm not a patient man). I do understand that if you leave the earth you're still moving like heck relative to the sun, I should probably meditate on that for a while. Thanks again.
Perhaps you could clarify something for me. After you break earth's orbit, why would it take any extra energy to get to the sun? (This is assuming of course that the garbage is pointed at the sun and timed so it wouldn't get close enough to Venus and Mercury to divert it's course. Why would getting away from the sun be easier than going towards it?
And a solution to send garbage safely would be to aim it a bit high or low (perpendicular to orbit of Earth). The slingshot would almost never send it back towards the orbit. As a space geek I'm just curious.
Unfortunately being able to understand all the pieces and being able to appreciate the consequences are not the same. A 6 year old can learn chess, but the ability to understand plan ahead takes much longer. I'm not saying what the kid did is ok, he should have known better. What I'm saying is that the kid probably WILL know better, at 14 most people can barely get a grip of their own feelings, and have the judgment of, well, a freshman in High School. Obviously the man or woman you are going to be starts to show at this age, but it scares me how so many people, (the US in particular) seem to think that teenagers are little adults. Mature judgment takes a little longer to develop, otherwise the drinking age wouldn't be 21 right?
Ok, you made up the tracking number. I hope you made everything else up cause it showed it up in Google (as part of this thread). I personally hope you didn't, I would love to see a follow up article where you had to get a new identity because you gave your old one away...
Warning: From sources I'm too lazy too look up, I hear a very small percentage of people are not susceptible to the HIV virus. Granted the odds are low, but if some resistant bastard takes your money, well that would just suck. Of course if if they all did it...
The risk is we might create a super lawyer which would be unstoppable. Not even fictional Nazi super-science is that evil.
For the record, I am typing this with Vista and Syncing my iPod with iTunes. So it does work with iTunes, but get this: if a video is playing off my SATA drives in iTunes, it stutters. As far as I can tell this is a Vista + nForce4 + iTunes problem, and no one is taking responsibility to fix it.
Wow, my mistake, thank you for clearing that up.
Just my 2 cents, but why compile something for heat? A lot of the electricity used doesn't go towards the heat (modern CPUs are designed to produce as little heat as possible). It's not clear if you are just compiling Gentoo again and again, but if you are, please use F@H instead, at least the electricity that isn't being turned into heat goes towards, hopefully, research. Also, can I recommend a Xbox360 for heat? It produces a ton and if you play a game like Guitar Hero you generate a lot of heat yourself, when my friends are over I have to open a window to cool down.
This will be like when the internet hit and we all learned that everyone likes porn. For a while people were "perverts", now it's understood because everyone does it. Facebook will teach us what people are really like, and once the lid comes off, we will know that everyone is a inappropriate for work, and it won't matter. However I feel sorry for the people who will be fired in the mean time. Wait long enough though and all those people in management will have their college activities posted. Everyone will be Paris Hilton and it won't matter.