As shown by follow-up observations performed with ground-based telescopes, it was a very distant event, and soon it looked like this was the farthest GRB ever observed. A team of international astronomers led by Swift Italian Team and CIBO, using the AMICI prism with the Italian Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, was able to compute its redshift at about 8.1, corresponding to a distance of more than 80 Gpc, when the universe was only slightly more than 600 million years old (Figure 2).
Initially, the star would have been very metal*-poor (only a little lithium left over from the big bang.)
Given that star went supernova only 630My post-big bang, it is reasonable to assume it had a minimum mass of 3-4 Msun, and a maximum of probably 10-15 Msun. Those numbers suggest that it did fuse right to nickel.
The interesting thing (what the parent was probably refering to) is not really the final metallicity (which is merely a function of the star's mass) but the initial metalliticy, which cannot.
*To an astronomer, anything heavier than helium is a metal
2) AT&T's customer service sucks. DNA from a big telco. Monopoly mindset. Nuff said!
Because Verizon (nee Bell Atlantic) is so much less of a big telco then the current AT&T (nee Southwest Bell)? Both are spinoffs of Ma Bell who gobbled up as many of their smaller siblings as the could.
Generally speaking, you can see as far back as the CMB. You can get some details from the anisotropies in the CMB, which reveal information prior to the CMB, but a great deal of the pre-CMB research is theoretical, not observational.
I worked for NASA, more or less, on an instrument data processing system. My company was a sub-contractor to a company that was contracted to provide a solution when the original contract fell through in providing the system. My company was acquired by another company that was acquired by another company.
Over the three years on that project, the PM changed twice.
Much of the source code was ported from F77 to F90 to C. It was then ported from whatever hardware it started in to IRIX then Linux. Very few people understood what it did, only that it "worked".
Every other day there was a meeting to discuss something, either at the other building, or at the remote office.
We used clearcase instead of something sane, like cvs.
Individually, any one of those would not be too bad, but put them all together and you have a mess that doesn't really work.
I think having the ad for the device on a page that generates negative press for the item would almost certainly generate more click-through traffic than a random ad would on the same page.
Even if it didn't result in a sale of the advertised item, it is still traffic to the seller where the result might be sale of a different item.
e.g. Kindle sucks, but I go to read Amazon's kindle spiel, since I see the ad right there, but then decide to buy the latest Star Wars/Harry Potter/whatever book since I was going to anyway and now I just happen to be on Amazon. Win for Amazon (as seller), win for Google (as referer).
The rates collected and the processing fees if any should be negotiated between the participating states, not in Washington.
Sorry, Washington has to be in that mix.
US Constitution, Article I, section 10:
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
And the defense should respond with the Chewbacca defense:
Defense Attorney: Ladies and Gentleman of the Jury, do you know else used Linux? Chewbacca. Now what does Chewbecca, a Wookie from the planet Kashyyyk, have to do with my client using Linux? I don't know, and I'm sure you don't either. But the fact of the matter is that you must acquit, because the Wookie Chewbacca used Linux while fight the Empire. Thank you.
I was able to get a surplus Sparc5 for around $150 back in 2000. I couldn't pass.
The power supplies in those were amazing -- it took an actual outage -- not a spike or flicker in the line -- to bring one down.
I too did many projects on those. Most of our labs upgraded to Ultra 10s my senior year, but your could still find Sparc5s in the smaller labs, and the occasional Sparc2.
They own OSF1/Digital Unix/Tru64/Whatever-its-called-this-year as well. HP wants to kill it, but they keep extending support for it, probably because they know that their customers will jump to AIX or Linux before HPUX
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As shown by follow-up observations performed with ground-based telescopes, it was a very distant event, and soon it looked like this was the farthest GRB ever observed. A team of international astronomers led by Swift Italian Team and CIBO, using the AMICI prism with the Italian Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, was able to compute its redshift at about 8.1, corresponding to a distance of more than 80 Gpc, when the universe was only slightly more than 600 million years old (Figure 2).
Initially, the star would have been very metal*-poor (only a little lithium left over from the big bang.)
Given that star went supernova only 630My post-big bang, it is reasonable to assume it had a minimum mass of 3-4 Msun, and a maximum of probably 10-15 Msun. Those numbers suggest that it did fuse right to nickel.
The interesting thing (what the parent was probably refering to) is not really the final metallicity (which is merely a function of the star's mass) but the initial metalliticy, which cannot.
*To an astronomer, anything heavier than helium is a metal
2) AT&T's customer service sucks. DNA from a big telco. Monopoly mindset. Nuff said!
Because Verizon (nee Bell Atlantic) is so much less of a big telco then the current AT&T (nee Southwest Bell)? Both are spinoffs of Ma Bell who gobbled up as many of their smaller siblings as the could.
That said, competition is a Good Thing.
Generally speaking, you can see as far back as the CMB. You can get some details from the anisotropies in the CMB, which reveal information prior to the CMB, but a great deal of the pre-CMB research is theoretical, not observational.
I think its more the "stupid genes" that allow one to believe numerology that he's trying to avoid.
I worked for NASA, more or less, on an instrument data processing system. My company was a sub-contractor to a company that was contracted to provide a solution when the original contract fell through in providing the system. My company was acquired by another company that was acquired by another company.
Over the three years on that project, the PM changed twice.
Much of the source code was ported from F77 to F90 to C. It was then ported from whatever hardware it started in to IRIX then Linux. Very few people understood what it did, only that it "worked".
Every other day there was a meeting to discuss something, either at the other building, or at the remote office.
We used clearcase instead of something sane, like cvs.
Individually, any one of those would not be too bad, but put them all together and you have a mess that doesn't really work.
In all seriousness, 12.7 MW seems rather small for a $6 billion price tag.
Peanut Butter is a gateway to harder things like jelly, followed closely by jam, and it all ends with deadly preserves.
I think having the ad for the device on a page that generates negative press for the item would almost certainly generate more click-through traffic than a random ad would on the same page.
Even if it didn't result in a sale of the advertised item, it is still traffic to the seller where the result might be sale of a different item.
e.g. Kindle sucks, but I go to read Amazon's kindle spiel, since I see the ad right there, but then decide to buy the latest Star Wars/Harry Potter/whatever book since I was going to anyway and now I just happen to be on Amazon. Win for Amazon (as seller), win for Google (as referer).
The rates collected and the processing fees if any should be negotiated between the participating states, not in Washington.
Sorry, Washington has to be in that mix.
US Constitution, Article I, section 10:
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Food is not taxed in most jurisdictions. Clothes are also tax-free in many places.
Not to mention the improved mileage...
Well, first you will have to find someone who knows MUMPS to create the back-end.
h . . .
I thought VW Beetles were a unit of volume. e.g. "It is large enough to fit 40 VW Beetles in it"
The National Association of Marlon Brando Look-Alikes?
Defense Attorney: Ladies and Gentleman of the Jury, do you know else used Linux? Chewbacca. Now what does Chewbecca, a Wookie from the planet Kashyyyk, have to do with my client using Linux? I don't know, and I'm sure you don't either. But the fact of the matter is that you must acquit, because the Wookie Chewbacca used Linux while fight the Empire. Thank you.
Explains a lot.
You, my friend, have never experienced the gloriousness that is AIX.
Doesn't matter one way or another. Most people are uninformed.
I don't know about the ants, but the worms survived
Mod parent up.
Yeah, 'cause there are so many "neo-libs" in Texas.
Austin?
The power supplies in those were amazing -- it took an actual outage -- not a spike or flicker in the line -- to bring one down.
I too did many projects on those. Most of our labs upgraded to Ultra 10s my senior year, but your could still find Sparc5s in the smaller labs, and the occasional Sparc2.
They own OSF1/Digital Unix/Tru64/Whatever-its-called-this-year as well. HP wants to kill it, but they keep extending support for it, probably because they know that their customers will jump to AIX or Linux before HPUX