By my calculations, a black hole with a radius of 100000 light years would require a mass of approximately 3 * 10^17 solar masses or about 5 orders of magnitude more mass than is present even in this monster galaxy. And of course, all that mass would have to be present within the 100000 light years, this galaxy is much more spread out than that. So no, it's pretty unlikely to have a galaxy sized black hole (and that's even assuming that I did my math right).
Their analysis doesn't work because a patent suit filed in district X is not likely to be the same as a patent suit filed in district Y. If I have an open and shut case, I'll probably file my suit wherever it is most convenient or cheapest for me to do so. If I have a case that I feel I may or may not win, I'll shop around for the district that balances my chances of winning with the additional expenses. If I intend to make my entire enterprise out of suing other people for patent infringement, I'll set up my business in such a way that the expenses are minimized in the district that gives my the best chance of winning.
In other words, a district with a reputation for being friendly to patent trolls will attract patent trolls and the win loss record of that district will change as a result. It's like finding out that a nearby highway is the safest road in America, and as a result everyone starts driving 100mph down it. It messes with the statistics.
Requires them to? They could keep the technology under wraps as a Trade Secret, only disclosing the details to those who are willing to sign NDA's for it. This is, incidentally how software companies worked for literally decades and how many companies still work today. You won't find a patent application for the Coca-Cola recipe for instance.
Yes, textbooks are dangerously biased so lets set the elementary aged kids loose to learn everything from the internet. Seriously? There's so much noise that gets thrown around the web that most adults have trouble identifying what is and isn't real (if I had a dollar for every email I get telling me that cleaner X is going to kill my pets and babies I wouldn't have to worry about the mortgage). Letting someone run free to learn on the internet is like saying "go find information that you agree with", that's all that 99% of people are ever going to do.
I realize you specifically call out primary sources, but do you really think that such sources aren't just as politically bent as modern sources. I guarantee you that you can find primary sources that describe the Kent State incident as everything from a horrible accident, to an violent demonstration, to murder of innocent college students. There's no way that a young kid is going to be able to sift through it and find the facts of the situation, that's why we pay professional historians to gather the facts in the first place.
I wouldn't, not unless they drastically changed their attitude when it comes to emulators and roms. As it is now, I can play NES, SNES, Genisis, Gameboy, and Gameboy Advanced games on my phone. The games I like (RPG and strategy) play very well, are very inexpensive (just a few dollars for each emulator) and for the most part are games that are so far out of print that I don't even feel guilty pirating them as they aren't available anywhere else anyway.
There's rules about what financial advisers can and can't advertise with. Basically, everything they put out to the customers usually has to be put through their broker dealer's compliance department. "Offering the same warning they did more than a decade ago" just means reminding them that if you're using Facebook or Twitter to communicate with your clients you better be putting it through compliance first.
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We all know EMACS is a great OS, but what it really needs is a text editor.
I just put an SSD into my new laptop and I can say with confidence that I will never buy a computer without at least an SSD boot drive. Less than 30 seconds from cold boot to having programs opened on the desktop, many programs open in less than a second. It is a massive performance boost.
Bills are hundreds, sometimes thousands of pages of legalese, constructed by dozens of staffers over the course of several months. Bills don't get written on the senate floor, they get written literally in back room offices by people at least one, and usually two levels removed from the actual representatives, and then summaries are made and distributed. The 'debates' on the floor are seldom more than grandstanding their views, as opposed to anyone trying to convince each other of anything.
So, while I agree with you in principle, there probably is little to no reason for him to pay attention in that situation.
Two dozen lawsuits is not the same as two dozen injuries. If you figure 99% of injuries aren't going to be severe enough to warrant a lawsuit and some x% of people are going to respect what the museum is doing and not file a lawsuit even when they could the numbers don't look as good. Not that I disagree with you, need to stop taking the fun out of childhood, else we'll have a whole generation who never really grow up into proper adults.
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(a) humans are not designed (due to insufficient and error prone DNA repair systems in their genome) to endure long term space voyages or planetary habitation outside of the magnetosphere of the Earth (where high radiation doses are a constant threat);
Humans aren't designed for a lot of things we do on a regular basis. It is our technology that allows us to live in many of the environments we call home, I bet more than 50% of people on the planet would die within a year if you put us back in the stone age. And even stone age technology (simple tools, simple shelter, and fire) is still a big step up from what the human body alone is capable of. My point is that what the human body is and isn't designed for is irrelevant, it's what we can design and build to support us.
Wouldn't it be more efficient to rely on soy for protein? Even the most efficient methods of growing meat are always going to be less efficient than just eating the plants directly, and the continued survival of the worlds vegan population indicates that there are no major health problems with such a diet.
Opera Mini (not mobile) was approved because Opera Mini isn't really a web browser as much as it is a web accelerator service. Because of that additional functionality, it doesn't just duplicate the already present Safari and was therefor much more likely to be approved. I would be willing to bet that Opera Mobile wouldn't have made it through the approval process.
The TOS for developing apps for the app store clearly states that Firefox would not be approved, why would they devote significant amounts of time developing a port that satisfies Apple's requirements if it is highly likely that at the end of months of work it would be rejected. If those lines were dropped from the TOS, a Firefox port would be much, much more likely.
According to Salary.com, median pay for a small jet co-pilot is right around $80k, only the bottom 10% make less than $55k. And that's both small jet and co-pilot. For a large jet, captain position the median is about $115k and the 10% mark is $90k.
Or you could, you know, not install programs from random websites that you've never heard of before today. Oh, and without doing even the most basic research to check if they're legitimate. Sadly, I know at least 2 people that have fallen for these scams. Scams which the non-online equivalent would be billboards along the highway that say "Let us into your home while you're at work so we can make sure no one's robbing it!".
Second, it took until the 3rd line of your post for me to realize that, for a while I thought you were making some clever, insightful comment about our inhuman political overlords.
Am I the only one to realize that the 'Spaghetti slide' is supposed to be unintelligible? The presentation in question was about how complex a modern, asymmetrical war can be. Each bubble is a single aspect, and each edge is a relationship between two aspects. It's meant to show the overwhelming complexity of the war in Afghanistan, and it does a damn good job of doing that.
Well, the mantra of communism is "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." That's... pretty much exactly how open source works. Everyone sees the benefits regardless of how much work they put into it, whether that be designing the architecture the system, writing code, submitting bug reports, or even just submitting crash reports.
Except, you know, the quote given in the summary and article isn't what he said. What he actually said was "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." To me, that's quite a bit different from the quoted "internet users shouldn't worry about privacy unless they have something to hide." At worst, I would take his actual quote to mean that trying to hide illegal and/or amoral acts is impossible in the internet age, at least if such acts are done on the internet.
Yeah, but am I the only one here who thinks that a lot of those tasks could have been done with machinery orders of magnitude simpler and cheaper than this robot? Seriously, half their examples of 'real world' usage were moving things from one conveyor to the other, with no sorting or filtering required. Some of their examples (like placing the chocolates in the correct locations in the box) were impressive, but it just felt to me like they were showing off when much simpler designs could have been used.
The only tracking that they're doing is tracking where the crimes took place. Go look at the site, all that's there is a timeline, with a Google map, street view, and text blurb for each attack. It isn't like they've followed the guy on the subway and found out where he lives, they're simply organizing all the data that was doubtlessly available from other sources into a single, easy to follow graphical representation.
Yes, because on cosmic scales, 50 years is an eternity! I know if I were a highly advanced alien species, I'd spend all my time pointing transmitters at random planets in the night sky, especially ones which I haven't seen any activity from and which failed to respond to my last transmissions a mere 200 years ago.
You've got to realize that SETI depends on aliens actively trying to make contact. Even a highly advanced civilization would be unlikely to devote the resources necessary to flood the cosmos with signals that are detectable all the time and everywhere. It's more likely that they A) send signals in bursts, in which case 50 years really isn't that long to be searching or B) wait till they detect signals coming in (which would presumably be easier for them than it is for us), which means that the only civilizations we're likely to contact at this point are ones with 30 light years.
SETI should be, in my opinion, more interested in searching the asteroid belts for Von Neumann probes than listening for radio signals. Besides being more likely (again, just in my opinion) it would have the added benefit of providing actual communication with an alien intelligence (assuming a strong AI powered probe) verses shouting at each other and waiting 50 or more years for a response.
If a site is available for free and is ad supported, the customers (that is, the ones buying the product) are the advertisers, the users are the product.
I'd put even money on them having been sent threatening mail from otherwise respectable Christians in the past. It just happens so often that no one really makes a big deal out of it. As an example, the guy who started FSM has a collection of threatening, angry letters posted on his site.
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By my calculations, a black hole with a radius of 100000 light years would require a mass of approximately 3 * 10^17 solar masses or about 5 orders of magnitude more mass than is present even in this monster galaxy. And of course, all that mass would have to be present within the 100000 light years, this galaxy is much more spread out than that. So no, it's pretty unlikely to have a galaxy sized black hole (and that's even assuming that I did my math right).
Their analysis doesn't work because a patent suit filed in district X is not likely to be the same as a patent suit filed in district Y. If I have an open and shut case, I'll probably file my suit wherever it is most convenient or cheapest for me to do so. If I have a case that I feel I may or may not win, I'll shop around for the district that balances my chances of winning with the additional expenses. If I intend to make my entire enterprise out of suing other people for patent infringement, I'll set up my business in such a way that the expenses are minimized in the district that gives my the best chance of winning.
In other words, a district with a reputation for being friendly to patent trolls will attract patent trolls and the win loss record of that district will change as a result. It's like finding out that a nearby highway is the safest road in America, and as a result everyone starts driving 100mph down it. It messes with the statistics.
Requires them to? They could keep the technology under wraps as a Trade Secret, only disclosing the details to those who are willing to sign NDA's for it. This is, incidentally how software companies worked for literally decades and how many companies still work today. You won't find a patent application for the Coca-Cola recipe for instance.
Yes, textbooks are dangerously biased so lets set the elementary aged kids loose to learn everything from the internet. Seriously? There's so much noise that gets thrown around the web that most adults have trouble identifying what is and isn't real (if I had a dollar for every email I get telling me that cleaner X is going to kill my pets and babies I wouldn't have to worry about the mortgage). Letting someone run free to learn on the internet is like saying "go find information that you agree with", that's all that 99% of people are ever going to do.
I realize you specifically call out primary sources, but do you really think that such sources aren't just as politically bent as modern sources. I guarantee you that you can find primary sources that describe the Kent State incident as everything from a horrible accident, to an violent demonstration, to murder of innocent college students. There's no way that a young kid is going to be able to sift through it and find the facts of the situation, that's why we pay professional historians to gather the facts in the first place.
I wouldn't, not unless they drastically changed their attitude when it comes to emulators and roms. As it is now, I can play NES, SNES, Genisis, Gameboy, and Gameboy Advanced games on my phone. The games I like (RPG and strategy) play very well, are very inexpensive (just a few dollars for each emulator) and for the most part are games that are so far out of print that I don't even feel guilty pirating them as they aren't available anywhere else anyway.
There's rules about what financial advisers can and can't advertise with. Basically, everything they put out to the customers usually has to be put through their broker dealer's compliance department. "Offering the same warning they did more than a decade ago" just means reminding them that if you're using Facebook or Twitter to communicate with your clients you better be putting it through compliance first.
We all know EMACS is a great OS, but what it really needs is a text editor.
I just put an SSD into my new laptop and I can say with confidence that I will never buy a computer without at least an SSD boot drive. Less than 30 seconds from cold boot to having programs opened on the desktop, many programs open in less than a second. It is a massive performance boost.
Bills are hundreds, sometimes thousands of pages of legalese, constructed by dozens of staffers over the course of several months. Bills don't get written on the senate floor, they get written literally in back room offices by people at least one, and usually two levels removed from the actual representatives, and then summaries are made and distributed. The 'debates' on the floor are seldom more than grandstanding their views, as opposed to anyone trying to convince each other of anything.
So, while I agree with you in principle, there probably is little to no reason for him to pay attention in that situation.
Two dozen lawsuits is not the same as two dozen injuries. If you figure 99% of injuries aren't going to be severe enough to warrant a lawsuit and some x% of people are going to respect what the museum is doing and not file a lawsuit even when they could the numbers don't look as good. Not that I disagree with you, need to stop taking the fun out of childhood, else we'll have a whole generation who never really grow up into proper adults.
(a) humans are not designed (due to insufficient and error prone DNA repair systems in their genome) to endure long term space voyages or planetary habitation outside of the magnetosphere of the Earth (where high radiation doses are a constant threat);
Humans aren't designed for a lot of things we do on a regular basis. It is our technology that allows us to live in many of the environments we call home, I bet more than 50% of people on the planet would die within a year if you put us back in the stone age. And even stone age technology (simple tools, simple shelter, and fire) is still a big step up from what the human body alone is capable of. My point is that what the human body is and isn't designed for is irrelevant, it's what we can design and build to support us.
Wouldn't it be more efficient to rely on soy for protein? Even the most efficient methods of growing meat are always going to be less efficient than just eating the plants directly, and the continued survival of the worlds vegan population indicates that there are no major health problems with such a diet.
Opera Mini (not mobile) was approved because Opera Mini isn't really a web browser as much as it is a web accelerator service. Because of that additional functionality, it doesn't just duplicate the already present Safari and was therefor much more likely to be approved. I would be willing to bet that Opera Mobile wouldn't have made it through the approval process.
The TOS for developing apps for the app store clearly states that Firefox would not be approved, why would they devote significant amounts of time developing a port that satisfies Apple's requirements if it is highly likely that at the end of months of work it would be rejected. If those lines were dropped from the TOS, a Firefox port would be much, much more likely.
According to Salary.com, median pay for a small jet co-pilot is right around $80k, only the bottom 10% make less than $55k. And that's both small jet and co-pilot. For a large jet, captain position the median is about $115k and the 10% mark is $90k.
Or you could, you know, not install programs from random websites that you've never heard of before today. Oh, and without doing even the most basic research to check if they're legitimate. Sadly, I know at least 2 people that have fallen for these scams. Scams which the non-online equivalent would be billboards along the highway that say "Let us into your home while you're at work so we can make sure no one's robbing it!".
First, I think you have the wrong thread.
Second, it took until the 3rd line of your post for me to realize that, for a while I thought you were making some clever, insightful comment about our inhuman political overlords.
Am I the only one to realize that the 'Spaghetti slide' is supposed to be unintelligible? The presentation in question was about how complex a modern, asymmetrical war can be. Each bubble is a single aspect, and each edge is a relationship between two aspects. It's meant to show the overwhelming complexity of the war in Afghanistan, and it does a damn good job of doing that.
Well, the mantra of communism is "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." That's... pretty much exactly how open source works. Everyone sees the benefits regardless of how much work they put into it, whether that be designing the architecture the system, writing code, submitting bug reports, or even just submitting crash reports.
Except, you know, the quote given in the summary and article isn't what he said. What he actually said was "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." To me, that's quite a bit different from the quoted "internet users shouldn't worry about privacy unless they have something to hide." At worst, I would take his actual quote to mean that trying to hide illegal and/or amoral acts is impossible in the internet age, at least if such acts are done on the internet.
Yeah, but am I the only one here who thinks that a lot of those tasks could have been done with machinery orders of magnitude simpler and cheaper than this robot? Seriously, half their examples of 'real world' usage were moving things from one conveyor to the other, with no sorting or filtering required. Some of their examples (like placing the chocolates in the correct locations in the box) were impressive, but it just felt to me like they were showing off when much simpler designs could have been used.
The only tracking that they're doing is tracking where the crimes took place. Go look at the site, all that's there is a timeline, with a Google map, street view, and text blurb for each attack. It isn't like they've followed the guy on the subway and found out where he lives, they're simply organizing all the data that was doubtlessly available from other sources into a single, easy to follow graphical representation.
Yes, because on cosmic scales, 50 years is an eternity! I know if I were a highly advanced alien species, I'd spend all my time pointing transmitters at random planets in the night sky, especially ones which I haven't seen any activity from and which failed to respond to my last transmissions a mere 200 years ago.
You've got to realize that SETI depends on aliens actively trying to make contact. Even a highly advanced civilization would be unlikely to devote the resources necessary to flood the cosmos with signals that are detectable all the time and everywhere. It's more likely that they A) send signals in bursts, in which case 50 years really isn't that long to be searching or B) wait till they detect signals coming in (which would presumably be easier for them than it is for us), which means that the only civilizations we're likely to contact at this point are ones with 30 light years.
SETI should be, in my opinion, more interested in searching the asteroid belts for Von Neumann probes than listening for radio signals. Besides being more likely (again, just in my opinion) it would have the added benefit of providing actual communication with an alien intelligence (assuming a strong AI powered probe) verses shouting at each other and waiting 50 or more years for a response.
If a site is available for free and is ad supported, the customers (that is, the ones buying the product) are the advertisers, the users are the product.
I'd put even money on them having been sent threatening mail from otherwise respectable Christians in the past. It just happens so often that no one really makes a big deal out of it. As an example, the guy who started FSM has a collection of threatening, angry letters posted on his site.
Or C:
The answer to the question will make me appear guilty.