There is no sound in space. To pretend that there is, the density, temperature, and atmospheric pressure would make it vary greatly. So really this is just made up bullshit.
Um, no. There really was sound in the early universe, which was much denser than the universe today. Perhaps you should educate yourself a little before you start calling stuff "made up bullshit".
Wish I had some mod points to mod parent up. It's bang on.
AMS confirmed (to much higher precision) the excess already observed by PAMELA and Fermi. This is interesting. It is also a long way from even an indirect detection of dark matter. Meanwhile, there is no evidence for SUSY. None. Nada.
I developed a newer version of RC4 called RC64, uses a 64K (65536 or 256 ^ 2) key. The randomisation process is very complex and the algo was only just slightly slower than RC4, which is very fast anyway. A graphical representation of the 64K key visualized pure white-noise when the key was viewed in grey-scale. They need to start using mine me thinks:) Oh, and in a 50MB file full of the same repeated char, the password was not even hinted at and no 4 bytes were the same.
Well, I'm convinced! Where can I invest in your company?
Do you also complain about people buying Ferraris being performance-posers?
Of course not. Ferraris are toys too. Nothing at all wrong with toys. And an $85,000 car that can't go more than 200 miles without stopping for an hour is, likewise, a toy, not a useful general-purpose vehicle. The only difference is that Ferrari owners don't pat themselves on the back about how environmentally responsible they are by owning one.
Well, as for me, I have a $10,000 Honda Civic, which I drive about 8,000 miles a year. At 30 mpg, that comes to a little over $1000 a year in gas, assuming $4 per gallon. I'll probably replace the Honda when it is around 10 years old, which makes the total cost (excluding maintenance, which is likely to be way cheaper than on the Tesla), on the order of $20,000. I can therefore do this for about 40 years before I recoup just the purchase price of an 85kw Tesla Model S. Gas would have to go up to more than $260 a gallon to make the Tesla break even on cost. And I accomplish more environmentally by living close enough to my workplace to commute by bicycle.
Cruise control was never set to 54 mph as claimed in the article, nor did he limp along at 45 mph. Broder in fact drove at speeds from 65 mph to 81 mph for a majority of the trip and at an average cabin temperature setting of 72 F.
At the point in time that he claims to have turned the temperature down, he in fact turned the temperature up to 74 F.
The charge time on his second stop was 47 mins, going from -5 miles (reserve power) to 209 miles of Ideal or 185 miles of EPA Rated Range, not 58 mins as stated in the graphic attached to his article. Had Broder not deliberately turned off the Supercharger at 47 mins and actually spent 58 mins Supercharging, it would have been virtually impossible to run out of energy for the remainder of his stated journey.
Let me get this straight: I can't drive 65 or turn up the heat without having to worry about getting stranded? It takes an hour to refill the thing, and I have to do it three times to drive 600 miles?
Why the fuck would I ever want to buy one of these cars?
Wouldn't those flares also make for large variations in radiative output? Imagine what would happen to us if Sun suddenly decided to increase (or decrease) its output by 50 percent for a few weeks or months.
One attractive feature of red dwarf stars, it would seem to me, is that they have much longer lifetimes than sun-like stars. More time for complex life to evolve!
This then suggests a simple fix for global warming - we just need to move Earth into a slightly higher orbit. A few hundred well-placed nuclear bombs ought to do it.
I find it interesting that the people who are most likely to demand unthinking adherence to the idea of "American exceptionalism" are the same people who are most likely to equate "patriotism" with being violently anti-government. Which, exactly, are they insisting upon: blind allegiance, or virulent paranoia? I get so confused.
It's inertia. It's not wasted. It'll create a force when the pedal decelerates. Since you always want the pedal spinning, this isn't so bad for cruising. It's only bad for transients, which this would help smooth out.
Well, just make the crank out of osmium then. Add some weights to the pedals. Problem solved.
All of us balance our own checkbook at the end of every single month, and try our best to live within our means.
Why can't America?
Because countries aren't people, and different economic rules apply. "All of us" can't declare war, mint currency, prosecute crimes, or ratify international treaties, either.
The sad fact of the budget debate is that retarded comparisons like this actually resonate with people. Inbred, mouthbreathing hicks, sure, but enough about Congress; their constituencies are even scarier.
Mod parent up, please.
The number one thing you need to survive the coming apocalypse (which isn't actually coming) is a community that works together. Stock rice and beans, but instead of stockpiling ammo, get to know your neighbor. You won't have to shoot them, then.
Timothy's put-downs have been getting a lot of undeserved attention recently. For starters, I don't care what others say about Timothy. He's still nasty, two-faced, and he intends to dig a grave in which to bury liberty and freedom. Now stay with me a moment here; I am making a point. Specifically, if my own experience has taught me anything, it's that he thinks that he's a tribune of the oppressed. However, his endeavors are so lewd that they are easily taken up and assimilated by spiteful, fork-tongued authoritarians, whose intellectual level corresponds to the material offered. On the other hand, I admit I have a tendency to become a bit insensitive whenever I rebuke Timothy for trying to lay all of society open to the predations of organized criminality. While I am desirous of mending this tiny personality flaw, Timothy has made it known that he fully intends to emphasize the negative in our lives instead of accentuating the positive. If those words don't scare you, nothing will. If they are not a clear warning, I don't know what could be. Let me conclude by saying that we who want to deal summarily with unscrupulous snobs will not rest until we do.
from what I've seen, in certain field, publishing on arXiv is like handing a note "from your mother" written in your own scrawly handwriting and signed "Mom" to your teacher.
Really? I'm not sure what fields you're referring to. ArXiv was founded primarily to disseminate preprints in High Energy Physics. In that field, nobody treats it as the equivalent of a peer-reviewed journal, but it is where most people I know in the field actually get and read the literature. Hardly anybody looks papers up in the journals any more.
For what it's worth, arXiv does filter out the outright crackpots, which is why viXra exits. Shop and compare.
Elsevier's ethical standards are such that, in all likelihood, they got hacked because somebody forgot to refill the firewall's kitten tears hopper or empty its puppy grinder promptly.
What the fuck is with the science press in Britain / Australia about the word "boffins"? Why does every single science article, without fail, have to have some supposedly clever pun or alliteration around the word? (Extra points for using the word astro-boffins.)
I've gotten to the point that if I see the word "boffins" in a science article, I immediately click away. Please make it stop!
Note the wording:
Include Online Search Results =/= Search Online Also
They can still search and give amazon et al your searches, but they just won't show you the results.
Do you have a shred of evidence that this is actually how the privacy settings work?
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, we want it 1.21 GW/day units, e.g., how many bolts of lighting per day.
What's that in Libraries of Congress?
There is no sound in space. To pretend that there is, the density, temperature, and atmospheric pressure would make it vary greatly. So really this is just made up bullshit.
Um, no. There really was sound in the early universe, which was much denser than the universe today. Perhaps you should educate yourself a little before you start calling stuff "made up bullshit".
Wish I had some mod points to mod parent up. It's bang on.
AMS confirmed (to much higher precision) the excess already observed by PAMELA and Fermi. This is interesting. It is also a long way from even an indirect detection of dark matter. Meanwhile, there is no evidence for SUSY. None. Nada.
I developed a newer version of RC4 called RC64, uses a 64K (65536 or 256 ^ 2) key. The randomisation process is very complex and the algo was only just slightly slower than RC4, which is very fast anyway. A graphical representation of the 64K key visualized pure white-noise when the key was viewed in grey-scale. They need to start using mine me thinks :) Oh, and in a 50MB file full of the same repeated char, the password was not even hinted at and no 4 bytes were the same.
Well, I'm convinced! Where can I invest in your company?
Do you also complain about people buying Ferraris being performance-posers?
Of course not. Ferraris are toys too. Nothing at all wrong with toys. And an $85,000 car that can't go more than 200 miles without stopping for an hour is, likewise, a toy, not a useful general-purpose vehicle. The only difference is that Ferrari owners don't pat themselves on the back about how environmentally responsible they are by owning one.
Well, as for me, I have a $10,000 Honda Civic, which I drive about 8,000 miles a year. At 30 mpg, that comes to a little over $1000 a year in gas, assuming $4 per gallon. I'll probably replace the Honda when it is around 10 years old, which makes the total cost (excluding maintenance, which is likely to be way cheaper than on the Tesla), on the order of $20,000. I can therefore do this for about 40 years before I recoup just the purchase price of an 85kw Tesla Model S. Gas would have to go up to more than $260 a gallon to make the Tesla break even on cost. And I accomplish more environmentally by living close enough to my workplace to commute by bicycle.
The Tesla is an expensive toy for enviro-posers.
Cruise control was never set to 54 mph as claimed in the article, nor did he limp along at 45 mph. Broder in fact drove at speeds from 65 mph to 81 mph for a majority of the trip and at an average cabin temperature setting of 72 F.
At the point in time that he claims to have turned the temperature down, he in fact turned the temperature up to 74 F.
The charge time on his second stop was 47 mins, going from -5 miles (reserve power) to 209 miles of Ideal or 185 miles of EPA Rated Range, not 58 mins as stated in the graphic attached to his article. Had Broder not deliberately turned off the Supercharger at 47 mins and actually spent 58 mins Supercharging, it would have been virtually impossible to run out of energy for the remainder of his stated journey.
Let me get this straight: I can't drive 65 or turn up the heat without having to worry about getting stranded? It takes an hour to refill the thing, and I have to do it three times to drive 600 miles?
Why the fuck would I ever want to buy one of these cars?
... to put the series of tubes.
Should be: English, programmer! do you speak it?
Wouldn't those flares also make for large variations in radiative output? Imagine what would happen to us if Sun suddenly decided to increase (or decrease) its output by 50 percent for a few weeks or months.
Apparently, yes: see arXiv.1111.2872.
One attractive feature of red dwarf stars, it would seem to me, is that they have much longer lifetimes than sun-like stars. More time for complex life to evolve!
We're on the ragged edge of survival! The preppers are right!
Grab those guns, stock up on the freeze dried.
What are you going to do, shoot the Sun?
This then suggests a simple fix for global warming - we just need to move Earth into a slightly higher orbit. A few hundred well-placed nuclear bombs ought to do it.
Let me guess: you fell for this too.
http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2013/01/17/donald-trump-buys-shares-of-boeing-a-great-company/
Wish I had some mod points to mod you up, dude.
I find it interesting that the people who are most likely to demand unthinking adherence to the idea of "American exceptionalism" are the same people who are most likely to equate "patriotism" with being violently anti-government. Which, exactly, are they insisting upon: blind allegiance, or virulent paranoia? I get so confused.
It's inertia. It's not wasted. It'll create a force when the pedal decelerates. Since you always want the pedal spinning, this isn't so bad for cruising. It's only bad for transients, which this would help smooth out.
Well, just make the crank out of osmium then. Add some weights to the pedals. Problem solved.
All of us balance our own checkbook at the end of every single month, and try our best to live within our means.
Why can't America?
Because countries aren't people, and different economic rules apply. "All of us" can't declare war, mint currency, prosecute crimes, or ratify international treaties, either.
The sad fact of the budget debate is that retarded comparisons like this actually resonate with people. Inbred, mouthbreathing hicks, sure, but enough about Congress; their constituencies are even scarier.
They should advertise more on the internet.
Mod parent up, please. The number one thing you need to survive the coming apocalypse (which isn't actually coming) is a community that works together. Stock rice and beans, but instead of stockpiling ammo, get to know your neighbor. You won't have to shoot them, then.
Timothy's put-downs have been getting a lot of undeserved attention recently. For starters, I don't care what others say about Timothy. He's still nasty, two-faced, and he intends to dig a grave in which to bury liberty and freedom. Now stay with me a moment here; I am making a point. Specifically, if my own experience has taught me anything, it's that he thinks that he's a tribune of the oppressed. However, his endeavors are so lewd that they are easily taken up and assimilated by spiteful, fork-tongued authoritarians, whose intellectual level corresponds to the material offered. On the other hand, I admit I have a tendency to become a bit insensitive whenever I rebuke Timothy for trying to lay all of society open to the predations of organized criminality. While I am desirous of mending this tiny personality flaw, Timothy has made it known that he fully intends to emphasize the negative in our lives instead of accentuating the positive. If those words don't scare you, nothing will. If they are not a clear warning, I don't know what could be. Let me conclude by saying that we who want to deal summarily with unscrupulous snobs will not rest until we do.
I reviewed a paper for Physical Review D a bit ago and got paid nothing.
They should give out "I refereed for PRD and all I got was this lousy T-shirt" T-shirts.
from what I've seen, in certain field, publishing on arXiv is like handing a note "from your mother" written in your own scrawly handwriting and signed "Mom" to your teacher.
Really? I'm not sure what fields you're referring to. ArXiv was founded primarily to disseminate preprints in High Energy Physics. In that field, nobody treats it as the equivalent of a peer-reviewed journal, but it is where most people I know in the field actually get and read the literature. Hardly anybody looks papers up in the journals any more.
For what it's worth, arXiv does filter out the outright crackpots, which is why viXra exits. Shop and compare.
Elsevier's ethical standards are such that, in all likelihood, they got hacked because somebody forgot to refill the firewall's kitten tears hopper or empty its puppy grinder promptly.
Somebody please mod parent "Extra Awesome".
What the fuck is with the science press in Britain / Australia about the word "boffins"? Why does every single science article, without fail, have to have some supposedly clever pun or alliteration around the word? (Extra points for using the word astro-boffins.)
I've gotten to the point that if I see the word "boffins" in a science article, I immediately click away. Please make it stop!
Note the wording: Include Online Search Results =/= Search Online Also They can still search and give amazon et al your searches, but they just won't show you the results.
Do you have a shred of evidence that this is actually how the privacy settings work?