Considering how very small the patch of sky Kepler is watching actually is, if we find 100 "habitable" planets in it, and then extrapolate that across the rest of the sky, the number of potential habitable planets would be huge. Of course, right now there are only around 54 or so habitable zone candidates, out of 1000 "planet" candidates, and all of them are still waiting for confirmation. Still, if even half of those are valid, then that indicates a massive number of qualifying planets in the galaxy.
Have you ever been at the station when there was a really slow moving old lady at the front of the line, trying to get into the train, but moving at a snail's pace, holding up the whole line, and then still being in the doorway when it starts trying to close? Remember the loud buzzer that sounds to signal people to get out of the doors, that she's too deaf to hear, and ignores as she slowly continues toddling her way into the car, holding up the train, and still nobody else has managed to even get in?
I've been behind her several times. It's weird, almost every time I go to Toronto (the nearest place I've had to ride the subway), she's there in line in front of me. She's a really nice lady, but oh so very slow moving, and she won't accept help.
This proposed system would ensure that I would only ever be behind her once, because when the high-speed train and moving tram were not able to un-dock because she was still toddling along in the gap between them, they would either end up crashing and killing everyone, or they would separate anyways and either tear her in half, or drop her between the tracks and grind her into paste on the ground.
From the context and surrounding grammar/sentence structure, I'm going to hazard a guess that "sales arguments" is a local dialect version of "sales pitch" or "advertizement" (ie: an argument for why you should buy something from them). Sort of like how in some parts of the U.S. you sit on a couch, and in others you sit on a chesterfield, despite it being the same object.
Personally, I don't have any examples, all I can really remember about Wal-mart ads is bright blue and yellow. Also, I live in a much less religious region than most, and our local advertizements for absolutely everyone tend to be focused on "we charge less than those other guys".
I use connectBot - the very first release of it I downloaded didn't properly handle the keyboard dock, and I had to get the "development release" from the developer's website ( http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/ ), but that was several months ago, and the fix should be in the main branch by now. The only down side is that it's a terminal connection only, and doesn't do file transfers.
Well, my TF101's dock lasts around 5.5 hours with a USB drive plugged into it the whole time (and 6 to 7 without). Honestly, it's the first time a portable device's battery has really impressed me.
The keyboard's battery doesn't provide a fully proportional increase in battery life. First, it has to power the keyboard itself and any indicators on it, second it also needs to power the USB and other ports that are added to the mix.
The way the keyboard dock's extra battery works, is that aside from powering it's own functions, every time the main tablet's charge goes below a certain level (94% on the TF101), the keyboard's battery is used to recharge the main tablet, unless the keyboard battery is below 4% charge, in which case the USB ports are disabled, and battery power is used only for running the keyboard itself. This isn't the most efficient means of powering things, and reduces the amount of functional time the Wh from the dock are going to provide, but it does mean that the keyboard battery will drain almost completely before the main tablet's battery even starts to empty out.
Incidentally, to achieve maximum battery life, it is best to disconnect the keyboard once it's charge reaches 0%, as it will then be a drain on the resources of the main tablet. That means you've got (from their estimates, which were very accurate for the TF101), 6 hours of guaranteed keyboard use, probably another hour or so with keyboard still functioning and not draining regular power, and then a further 12 hours if you disconnect the keyboard (or likely 10 to 11 hours if you leave it on).
Well, TFA says 12 hours without dock, and 18 with the keyboard attached. Since they also claimed 9.5 hours without and 16 with dock for the first model, and mine actually does manage that level of battery life on a regular basis, there's a good chance that it's accurate.
Incidentally, the 16 hour battery life on mine involved actively using the tablet for the whole period, web surfing, playing angry birds and a few other games, downloading and watching a movie, transfering 600MB of music files via USB thumb drive and playing music for several hours, editing a spreadsheet, and doing programming on my server via ssh.
Asus sold 1.5 million of the first Transformer in 2011.
Added on to this point is that Asus was sold out of the first Transformer for the first six months after it was released - stores that got them in stock ran out within days, and online retailers were severely into back-order. (My own order was placed as back-order number 3754 for that product, with that reseller. Had I been willing to do without the keyboard, I would have only been back-order number 2000 or so in a different list.) If Asus had been able to produce more than 1.5 million units, they would have sold them.
All in all, I would say the product was worthwhile and profitable for them to produce, and their corporate shareholders were well served. From market interest and past example, they will likely spend the first few months of the new Transformer also sold out and back-ordered.
1) You could also get a much more powerful desktop workstation for that, yet laptops and tablets still sell. Perhaps because they're targeted at different markets and uses.
2) Android is a real OS. It runs on more than half of the smartphones out there, and nearly all of the non-ipad tablets. It has the advantage of running properly on ARM chips (which require less power and produce less heat), without losing 90% of it's application base like Win8 for ARM does. (Win8 can be run on ARM systems, but the majority of Win8 compatible applications won't, as they require x86 architecture.) The application base available for Android is very large, with a marketplace that is much more developer friendly (and thus has more content) than the apple equivalent for iOS.
3) The top model only sells to obsessive geeks (like me. I admit it - I have the top model of the first generation) and is of no interest to the majority of buyers, who would purchase the lower end model (less memory and storage), for a much lower price.
I use mine frequently, but then it's a first generation ASUS Transformer, with the keyboard add-on. I use it for looking up docs while working on things away from a computer, for reading e-books, as a GPS unit in the car, and when I'm in the server room, I use it to ssh into the servers to test settings. If I didn't have the keyboard, that last use would be nearly impossible, and I'd probably use the tablet less than a quarter of the amount that I do.
Not so. That was more along the lines of saying that toy soldiers can totally sit on top of your monitor when you're using Linux, even though they're part of Windows, therefore Windows and Linux are compatible.
Ability of system X to accept something that is not actually related to or requiring of system Y (and in some cases is not actually supported by system Y, as not all religions allow for loving your neighbors) does not in any way imply that systems X and Y are compatible.
Just like "love your enemies" is perfectly compatible with science, but it isn't part of science or can be proven or disproven by science
It is also perfectly possible without the crutch of religion. Since it religion isn't required for it, it has no place in a discussion of whether or not science and religion are compatible. Stop going off topic.
Well, if you need to shoot down a satellite, I suppose launching a missile from something that's already going at 13000mph is easier than launching it from the ground. The only other use I can think of would be as an in-between stage for developing an actual orbit-capable airplane. The need to launch the plane with a rocket kinda negates the benefit of that, but this would be more of a concept testing for the engine, with "making it practical to use" left as work for other people.
If Oil is only possible as an organic byproduct, then you have just discovered proof positive of life on Titan. Congratulations - you should call a press conference right away!
Methane, Large sources of easily available water, or Oil. One of those three are the most likely.
Considering the focus on geology, it's also possible they've found a surface deposit of some rare earths minerals (such as those which are currently exported only by China), though you're right, methane is probably the most likely, and while geologists studying Mars might find it interesting, it's not nearly as significant to the rest of the human race.
Added to all of that is the problem that there was not just a single attack, there was a long series of them stretched out over multiple months, all of which made use of exactly the same flaw, which remained unpatched through the entire time period.
They may have been able to excuse the first attack as "Oh, we didn't know about it, we're fixing it now!", but the ones that followed? One, or even two months later? That's like having your first car stolen because you left it unlocked, and responding by parking your other car(s) out in the same unmonitored parking lot with the doors unlocked and the windows open. Their insurance might be at least partly on the hook for the first one, but the ones after that where they _knew_ about the problem, and deliberately did nothing to fix it? I strongly suspect that "Driving Drunk" is a very very apt analogy to what Sony's IT department management was doing there.
As for the EULA, the only possible way around that would be if Sony (mistakenly) made promises about their own behavior in their EULA, regarding data security or even "We won't give your personal data to spammers", which these breaches could be ruled as a violation of, thus nullifying the EULA. Having never actually read Sony's EULA for these services, I have no idea if it actually says that. You can bet however, that once they came back online, the EULA was updated to include immunity to prosecution (or persecution) for data breaches.
Agreed. Adobe's PDF reader is the worst one currently available on nearly every system I've seen it on. How can they so totally screw up the viewer for a technology they're the primary creator/developer of?
What kind of knowledge was gained from this exercise?
Well, for one, the high school students in question now have an excellent grasp of just how fast exponential increases really can get. You'd think that toilet paper is pretty thin, right? And folding it in half doesn't really make a noteworthy increase in thickness, it's still really thin - but do it again, and you've got 8 sheets thickness, then 16, then 32, 64, 128, and so on, until you've got 2^13 sheets thickness of toilet paper, just from folding it in half, and suddenly it's not so thin. For people who've been doing advanced math most of their lives, that's not much of a realization, but for kids who are just learning about things like that, it's an eye opener.
Would have worked better for that if they'd used the TP with diploma-print on it.
My first thought was that you were excessively bitter or something, but then I remembered how I felt about it myself when I walked away from university without paying for the diploma I'd finished the requirements for, because having it and telling local employers I had it would have actively harmed my job prospects at the time. The local employers had already all been burned by the idiots who cheated their way through a comp.sci degree without ever actually touching a computer, you had a better chance getting hired for computer stuff in town if you were a homeless bum who dropped out of grade school than a graduate of CS from my university... Many years later I actually forked out the $25 for the paper because the they offered me the chance to come back and flunk cheaters out. It was worth it just for that, and they even paid me a little bit to do it.
Quick addendum - I'm not saying that deregulation doesn't lead to problems (I did say it's bad). It does lead to reduced safety, increased costs, politicians and inspectors getting their pockets lined to ignore safety issues, and more. I'm just saying that even if those things had not been problems, this still would have happened, and claiming otherwise is just pants-on-head retarded.
As more details emerge, one thing is becoming clear: This accident did not happen as a result of any tsunami. The tsunami merely kicked in the door of a rotten structure which swiftly collapsed. Cost cutting, poor safety, inadequate oversight, etc, etc; These are the real causes of the radiation leaks happening at Fukushima at present.Some very dirty laundry is being aired in very public view.
Wow, you're just full of crap today, aren't you?
This accident did happen as a result of a Tsunami. Giant freakin' wave of ocean water shredded the reactor buildings and destroyed the control equipment. Cost cutting, poor safety, inadequate oversight, etc, etc, are not to blame. All of the extra money thrown at the reactors, all of the additional safety features (which were by the way, far from poor), and all of the oversight in the world would not have stopped a nuclear plant that had just been through a NINE POINT FREAKIN' ZERO earthquake, followed by a TWELVE METER WAVE OF SALT-WATER SMASHING THE BUILDINGS from breaking. Seriously! Get a clue. Yes, deregulation for things like public utilities is bad - it never turns out well, but absolving the worst natural disaster in history of any guilt in the devastation it caused? You're delusional.
Slashdot Mirror
Say we find only 100 "habitable" planets...
Considering how very small the patch of sky Kepler is watching actually is, if we find 100 "habitable" planets in it, and then extrapolate that across the rest of the sky, the number of potential habitable planets would be huge. Of course, right now there are only around 54 or so habitable zone candidates, out of 1000 "planet" candidates, and all of them are still waiting for confirmation. Still, if even half of those are valid, then that indicates a massive number of qualifying planets in the galaxy.
For the interested, here's a link to a NASA graphic of Kepler's search zone:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/multimedia/images/kepler-target-in-the-milkyway.html
Have you ever been at the station when there was a really slow moving old lady at the front of the line, trying to get into the train, but moving at a snail's pace, holding up the whole line, and then still being in the doorway when it starts trying to close? Remember the loud buzzer that sounds to signal people to get out of the doors, that she's too deaf to hear, and ignores as she slowly continues toddling her way into the car, holding up the train, and still nobody else has managed to even get in?
I've been behind her several times. It's weird, almost every time I go to Toronto (the nearest place I've had to ride the subway), she's there in line in front of me. She's a really nice lady, but oh so very slow moving, and she won't accept help.
This proposed system would ensure that I would only ever be behind her once, because when the high-speed train and moving tram were not able to un-dock because she was still toddling along in the gap between them, they would either end up crashing and killing everyone, or they would separate anyways and either tear her in half, or drop her between the tracks and grind her into paste on the ground.
From the context and surrounding grammar/sentence structure, I'm going to hazard a guess that "sales arguments" is a local dialect version of "sales pitch" or "advertizement" (ie: an argument for why you should buy something from them). Sort of like how in some parts of the U.S. you sit on a couch, and in others you sit on a chesterfield, despite it being the same object.
Personally, I don't have any examples, all I can really remember about Wal-mart ads is bright blue and yellow. Also, I live in a much less religious region than most, and our local advertizements for absolutely everyone tend to be focused on "we charge less than those other guys".
I use connectBot - the very first release of it I downloaded didn't properly handle the keyboard dock, and I had to get the "development release" from the developer's website ( http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/ ), but that was several months ago, and the fix should be in the main branch by now. The only down side is that it's a terminal connection only, and doesn't do file transfers.
Well, my TF101's dock lasts around 5.5 hours with a USB drive plugged into it the whole time (and 6 to 7 without). Honestly, it's the first time a portable device's battery has really impressed me.
The keyboard's battery doesn't provide a fully proportional increase in battery life. First, it has to power the keyboard itself and any indicators on it, second it also needs to power the USB and other ports that are added to the mix.
The way the keyboard dock's extra battery works, is that aside from powering it's own functions, every time the main tablet's charge goes below a certain level (94% on the TF101), the keyboard's battery is used to recharge the main tablet, unless the keyboard battery is below 4% charge, in which case the USB ports are disabled, and battery power is used only for running the keyboard itself. This isn't the most efficient means of powering things, and reduces the amount of functional time the Wh from the dock are going to provide, but it does mean that the keyboard battery will drain almost completely before the main tablet's battery even starts to empty out.
Incidentally, to achieve maximum battery life, it is best to disconnect the keyboard once it's charge reaches 0%, as it will then be a drain on the resources of the main tablet. That means you've got (from their estimates, which were very accurate for the TF101), 6 hours of guaranteed keyboard use, probably another hour or so with keyboard still functioning and not draining regular power, and then a further 12 hours if you disconnect the keyboard (or likely 10 to 11 hours if you leave it on).
Well, TFA says 12 hours without dock, and 18 with the keyboard attached. Since they also claimed 9.5 hours without and 16 with dock for the first model, and mine actually does manage that level of battery life on a regular basis, there's a good chance that it's accurate.
Incidentally, the 16 hour battery life on mine involved actively using the tablet for the whole period, web surfing, playing angry birds and a few other games, downloading and watching a movie, transfering 600MB of music files via USB thumb drive and playing music for several hours, editing a spreadsheet, and doing programming on my server via ssh.
Asus sold 1.5 million of the first Transformer in 2011.
Added on to this point is that Asus was sold out of the first Transformer for the first six months after it was released - stores that got them in stock ran out within days, and online retailers were severely into back-order. (My own order was placed as back-order number 3754 for that product, with that reseller. Had I been willing to do without the keyboard, I would have only been back-order number 2000 or so in a different list.) If Asus had been able to produce more than 1.5 million units, they would have sold them.
All in all, I would say the product was worthwhile and profitable for them to produce, and their corporate shareholders were well served. From market interest and past example, they will likely spend the first few months of the new Transformer also sold out and back-ordered.
1) You could also get a much more powerful desktop workstation for that, yet laptops and tablets still sell. Perhaps because they're targeted at different markets and uses.
2) Android is a real OS. It runs on more than half of the smartphones out there, and nearly all of the non-ipad tablets. It has the advantage of running properly on ARM chips (which require less power and produce less heat), without losing 90% of it's application base like Win8 for ARM does. (Win8 can be run on ARM systems, but the majority of Win8 compatible applications won't, as they require x86 architecture.) The application base available for Android is very large, with a marketplace that is much more developer friendly (and thus has more content) than the apple equivalent for iOS.
3) The top model only sells to obsessive geeks (like me. I admit it - I have the top model of the first generation) and is of no interest to the majority of buyers, who would purchase the lower end model (less memory and storage), for a much lower price.
I use mine frequently, but then it's a first generation ASUS Transformer, with the keyboard add-on. I use it for looking up docs while working on things away from a computer, for reading e-books, as a GPS unit in the car, and when I'm in the server room, I use it to ssh into the servers to test settings. If I didn't have the keyboard, that last use would be nearly impossible, and I'd probably use the tablet less than a quarter of the amount that I do.
Not so. That was more along the lines of saying that toy soldiers can totally sit on top of your monitor when you're using Linux, even though they're part of Windows, therefore Windows and Linux are compatible.
Ability of system X to accept something that is not actually related to or requiring of system Y (and in some cases is not actually supported by system Y, as not all religions allow for loving your neighbors) does not in any way imply that systems X and Y are compatible.
Just like "love your enemies" is perfectly compatible with science, but it isn't part of science or can be proven or disproven by science
It is also perfectly possible without the crutch of religion. Since it religion isn't required for it, it has no place in a discussion of whether or not science and religion are compatible. Stop going off topic.
where do you need to go that fast?
Well, if you need to shoot down a satellite, I suppose launching a missile from something that's already going at 13000mph is easier than launching it from the ground. The only other use I can think of would be as an in-between stage for developing an actual orbit-capable airplane. The need to launch the plane with a rocket kinda negates the benefit of that, but this would be more of a concept testing for the engine, with "making it practical to use" left as work for other people.
If Oil is only possible as an organic byproduct, then you have just discovered proof positive of life on Titan. Congratulations - you should call a press conference right away!
Methane, Large sources of easily available water, or Oil. One of those three are the most likely.
Considering the focus on geology, it's also possible they've found a surface deposit of some rare earths minerals (such as those which are currently exported only by China), though you're right, methane is probably the most likely, and while geologists studying Mars might find it interesting, it's not nearly as significant to the rest of the human race.
Added to all of that is the problem that there was not just a single attack, there was a long series of them stretched out over multiple months, all of which made use of exactly the same flaw, which remained unpatched through the entire time period.
They may have been able to excuse the first attack as "Oh, we didn't know about it, we're fixing it now!", but the ones that followed? One, or even two months later? That's like having your first car stolen because you left it unlocked, and responding by parking your other car(s) out in the same unmonitored parking lot with the doors unlocked and the windows open. Their insurance might be at least partly on the hook for the first one, but the ones after that where they _knew_ about the problem, and deliberately did nothing to fix it? I strongly suspect that "Driving Drunk" is a very very apt analogy to what Sony's IT department management was doing there.
As for the EULA, the only possible way around that would be if Sony (mistakenly) made promises about their own behavior in their EULA, regarding data security or even "We won't give your personal data to spammers", which these breaches could be ruled as a violation of, thus nullifying the EULA. Having never actually read Sony's EULA for these services, I have no idea if it actually says that. You can bet however, that once they came back online, the EULA was updated to include immunity to prosecution (or persecution) for data breaches.
Agreed. Adobe's PDF reader is the worst one currently available on nearly every system I've seen it on. How can they so totally screw up the viewer for a technology they're the primary creator/developer of?
I use 2-ply.
What kind of knowledge was gained from this exercise?
Well, for one, the high school students in question now have an excellent grasp of just how fast exponential increases really can get. You'd think that toilet paper is pretty thin, right? And folding it in half doesn't really make a noteworthy increase in thickness, it's still really thin - but do it again, and you've got 8 sheets thickness, then 16, then 32, 64, 128, and so on, until you've got 2^13 sheets thickness of toilet paper, just from folding it in half, and suddenly it's not so thin. For people who've been doing advanced math most of their lives, that's not much of a realization, but for kids who are just learning about things like that, it's an eye opener.
Would have worked better for that if they'd used the TP with diploma-print on it.
My first thought was that you were excessively bitter or something, but then I remembered how I felt about it myself when I walked away from university without paying for the diploma I'd finished the requirements for, because having it and telling local employers I had it would have actively harmed my job prospects at the time. The local employers had already all been burned by the idiots who cheated their way through a comp.sci degree without ever actually touching a computer, you had a better chance getting hired for computer stuff in town if you were a homeless bum who dropped out of grade school than a graduate of CS from my university... Many years later I actually forked out the $25 for the paper because the they offered me the chance to come back and flunk cheaters out. It was worth it just for that, and they even paid me a little bit to do it.
The only woe I can attribute to them is that they're mildly annoying, hence the reason why I'd rather just forget about them.
Intragalactic Bowel Movements actually.
Let's not forget those Libertarians!
Actually, I think we'd all rather forget those Libertarians.
Quick addendum - I'm not saying that deregulation doesn't lead to problems (I did say it's bad). It does lead to reduced safety, increased costs, politicians and inspectors getting their pockets lined to ignore safety issues, and more. I'm just saying that even if those things had not been problems, this still would have happened, and claiming otherwise is just pants-on-head retarded.
As more details emerge, one thing is becoming clear: This accident did not happen as a result of any tsunami. The tsunami merely kicked in the door of a rotten structure which swiftly collapsed. Cost cutting, poor safety, inadequate oversight, etc, etc; These are the real causes of the radiation leaks happening at Fukushima at present.Some very dirty laundry is being aired in very public view.
Wow, you're just full of crap today, aren't you?
This accident did happen as a result of a Tsunami. Giant freakin' wave of ocean water shredded the reactor buildings and destroyed the control equipment. Cost cutting, poor safety, inadequate oversight, etc, etc, are not to blame. All of the extra money thrown at the reactors, all of the additional safety features (which were by the way, far from poor), and all of the oversight in the world would not have stopped a nuclear plant that had just been through a NINE POINT FREAKIN' ZERO earthquake, followed by a TWELVE METER WAVE OF SALT-WATER SMASHING THE BUILDINGS from breaking. Seriously! Get a clue. Yes, deregulation for things like public utilities is bad - it never turns out well, but absolving the worst natural disaster in history of any guilt in the devastation it caused? You're delusional.