The paper gives the planet's orbital period as 9.9 days. I don't know the maths, but I assume the closer a small body is to a large one the quicker it becomes tidally locked . What impact would tidal locking have on the habitability of the planet?
I think the most significant aspect of this is the fact that it frees Tokelau of a dependence on an external resource.
There is no airport or airstrip in Tokelau, nor are there any docks. 2 or 3 boats a month visit the islands, usually departing from Apia in Samoa. Upon arrival in the islands, passengers and cargo are offloaded on to smaller vessels before being taken ashore. As the article mentions tropical storms are a real concern in this part of the Pacific (not to mention tsunami) and shipping can be disrupted because of these natural disasters and for other reasons (mechanical failure, search and rescue obligations, medical evacuations). The difficulty, expense and reliability of supply are no longer matters that need to be considered.
What I don't understand (and this could be due to my complete ignorance regarding the workings of diesel engines) is why they still need to ship in fuel for the cars. The tropical islands of the Pacific do not want for coconut trees and the extraction of coconut oil is a straightforward process with not too much capital investment required. Surely it should be possible to use it as a replacement for diesel or at least convert it into biodiesel, unless of course the cars have petrol engines.
I was in Moscow in May last year. I went on a boat trip along the Moskva River and passed a Buran in Gorky Park. I immediately altered my plans for the following day so as to include a visit.
The next day, May 28th 2009, as I walked towards the Buran I was mortified to see guys with hammers, shovels and brushes starting to demolish it.
I wasn't able to get right up to it to take photos because some uniformed guard insisted that taking photographs was forbidden, but you can see one of the surreptitious snaps I took here - http://www.samoa.co.uk/images/proc0023.jpg
If you look carefully, in the image linked to above, at the nose section where the tiles have been stripped away, you will see that the tiles were actually mounted on wooden lathes.
There are no showers where I work. There is a gym, but I'm not going to fork out GBP40 a month so I can have a shower.
Bath or shower before you leave home in the morning and apply deoderant. Wash face and arms when you arrive at work. Cool down before changing into your work clothes, half and hour usually does it for me, that's enough time to go through e-mails and plan work for the day. Fortunately I seem to be able to get away without wearing a suit so I can take clean clothes in a ruck sack every day, without creasing being an issue.
I cover 13 miles each way in about 45 minutes, from north-west London to Docklands and have had a few spills in two years, but the nastiest was a driver opening a door as I went past. I now make certain that I own the lane I am cycling in if there are any parked cars.
Also I have found it better not to make eye contact with motorists. Once they think you've seen them they will take all sorts of libertities. This does not mean don't look where you're going, just don't make it clear to motorists, unless you are pulling out to go round something in which case you need to exaggerate your intentions and of course signal. Also, adhere to traffic signals and road markings, the motorists in your vicinity will feel better disposed towards you.
Mother early 70s, father late 60s. Mother never used a computer in her life. Father last used a computer when it was essential you knew octal. They have been using NT4.0 on a Celeron for 2 years now. They have had 1 blue screen and 1 virus in two years. I get perhaps one application support call every couple of months.
When they initally requested a PC I thought about installing Linux on it, but discarded that thought PDQ; reasons below.
Their requirements are limited: Office, printing, e-mail and browsing and an occaisional bespoke app. Stability will not be an issue on such a simple NT4.0 machine.
They live in a rather under-populated part of Wales. If something goes wrong with their PC and they need to get help, the nearest places offering support are a rather poor quality independent retailer with no experience of Linux and Dixons!
Once a week they travel to a sixth form college that runs computer courses for the general public. Needless to say these are aimed at Windows users and cover the use of Office applications. If they have problems with their PC their tutor is familiar with Windows and can offer advice. If they were using Linux there would be no such courses to help them. An interesting additional side-effect is that these courses have become part of their social life and they look upon them as a form of entertainment as well as a source of education.
All of their friends are using Windows. They have on occaision picked up tips from them. If they were using Linux they would have no such local peer support.
My father does work for the local national park and other environmentally active organisations. These organisations develop their own software for certain projects - erosion monitoring, biodiversity monitoring and footpath maintenance - and it is, without fail, only available to run under Windows.
The local newsagents stock a plethora of Windows orientated magazines aimed at all levels of PC user, but not a single Linux title.
A thread related to a similar issue on our web site, the use of the Samoan tattoo by people other than Samoans, shows that even amongst the peoples involved there may not necessarily be a consensus regarding whether use by other cultures is appropriate.
For many of the South Pacific Islands there are very few natural resources. Increasingly there are attempts to find ways to protect symbols of identity, cultural practice or biological significance, possibly with a view to licensing them, as a way of supplementing meagre national incomes. Amongst some of the more tangible examples are the licensing of an Australian company to study Tongan DNA and potential licensing fees deriving from research of ethnobotany and traditional medicines.
The governments of the Pacific region are attempting to draft legislation to protect the traditional knowledge and expressions of culture unique to this region. We have in the past seen big business use the legal system to steal rights from the peoples of the Pacific. Perhaps this will go some way to redress the balance.
My only experience of obtaining static IPs is over
here in the UK, where things are always expensive.
However the ISP I use provide routed ADSL with
13 static IPs for GBP99 a month. It works out far
cheaper than what I was paying for my old ISDN
connection, which provided just the single static
IP address and meant I had to implement NAT
myself.
It is possible to have v.cheap internet access but
if there are certain features you require that
impact the bottom line of the ISP, you have to
expect to be charged a premium for them.
I suspect that even with IPv6 ISPs will continue
to prefer to offer dynamic addresses. From what I
have read IPv6 address ranges will not be free and
so minimising the number of required IPs will help
keep down costs.
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Would those be the hills that have had their summits levelled by mountaintop removal coal mining?
The paper gives the planet's orbital period as 9.9 days. I don't know the maths, but I assume the closer a small body is to a large one the quicker it becomes tidally locked . What impact would tidal locking have on the habitability of the planet?
The summary seems to have been screwed up by some sort of comment glitch. It should read:
"low crosstalk (<11dB) and wide bandwidths (>100nm)"
Supposedly this is the capture of the hacked broadcast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc60XPCXrh8
I think the most significant aspect of this is the fact that it frees Tokelau of a dependence on an external resource.
There is no airport or airstrip in Tokelau, nor are there any docks. 2 or 3 boats a month visit the islands, usually departing from Apia in Samoa. Upon arrival in the islands, passengers and cargo are offloaded on to smaller vessels before being taken ashore. As the article mentions tropical storms are a real concern in this part of the Pacific (not to mention tsunami) and shipping can be disrupted because of these natural disasters and for other reasons (mechanical failure, search and rescue obligations, medical evacuations). The difficulty, expense and reliability of supply are no longer matters that need to be considered.
What I don't understand (and this could be due to my complete ignorance regarding the workings of diesel engines) is why they still need to ship in fuel for the cars. The tropical islands of the Pacific do not want for coconut trees and the extraction of coconut oil is a straightforward process with not too much capital investment required. Surely it should be possible to use it as a replacement for diesel or at least convert it into biodiesel, unless of course the cars have petrol engines.
I was in Moscow in May last year. I went on a boat trip along the Moskva River and passed a Buran in Gorky Park. I immediately altered my plans for the following day so as to include a visit.
The next day, May 28th 2009, as I walked towards the Buran I was mortified to see guys with hammers, shovels and brushes starting to demolish it.
I wasn't able to get right up to it to take photos because some uniformed guard insisted that taking photographs was forbidden, but you can see one of the surreptitious snaps I took here - http://www.samoa.co.uk/images/proc0023.jpg
If you look carefully, in the image linked to above, at the nose section where the tiles have been stripped away, you will see that the tiles were actually mounted on wooden lathes.
A somewhat better photo of the nose section can be found here - http://www.samoa.co.uk/images/proc0024.jpg
A little bit of Googling and it turns out that the Buran in Gorky Park was actually a simulator.
The OP was correct, it was a carnival ride.
There are no showers where I work. There is a gym, but I'm not going to fork out GBP40 a month so I can have a shower.
Bath or shower before you leave home in the morning and apply deoderant. Wash face and arms when you arrive at work. Cool down before changing into your work clothes, half and hour usually does it for me, that's enough time to go through e-mails and plan work for the day. Fortunately I seem to be able to get away without wearing a suit so I can take clean clothes in a ruck sack every day, without creasing being an issue.
I cover 13 miles each way in about 45 minutes, from north-west London to Docklands and have had a few spills in two years, but the nastiest was a driver opening a door as I went past. I now make certain that I own the lane I am cycling in if there are any parked cars.
Also I have found it better not to make eye contact with motorists. Once they think you've seen them they will take all sorts of libertities. This does not mean don't look where you're going, just don't make it clear to motorists, unless you are pulling out to go round something in which case you need to exaggerate your intentions and of course signal. Also, adhere to traffic signals and road markings, the motorists in your vicinity will feel better disposed towards you.
I seem to recall a similar debate over the U.S.'s attempt to push the use of CDMA at the expense of of GSM in Iraq.
The words pot and kettle come to mind
Mother early 70s, father late 60s. Mother never used a computer in her life. Father last used a computer when it was essential you knew octal. They have been using NT4.0 on a Celeron for 2 years now. They have had 1 blue screen and 1 virus in two years. I get perhaps one application support call every couple of months.
When they initally requested a PC I thought about installing Linux on it, but discarded that thought PDQ; reasons below.
Their requirements are limited: Office, printing, e-mail and browsing and an occaisional bespoke app. Stability will not be an issue on such a simple NT4.0 machine.
They live in a rather under-populated part of Wales. If something goes wrong with their PC and they need to get help, the nearest places offering support are a rather poor quality independent retailer with no experience of Linux and Dixons!
Once a week they travel to a sixth form college that runs computer courses for the general public. Needless to say these are aimed at Windows users and cover the use of Office applications. If they have problems with their PC their tutor is familiar with Windows and can offer advice. If they were using Linux there would be no such courses to help them. An interesting additional side-effect is that these courses have become part of their social life and they look upon them as a form of entertainment as well as a source of education.
All of their friends are using Windows. They have on occaision picked up tips from them. If they were using Linux they would have no such local peer support.
My father does work for the local national park and other environmentally active organisations. These organisations develop their own software for certain projects - erosion monitoring, biodiversity monitoring and footpath maintenance - and it is, without fail, only available to run under Windows.
The local newsagents stock a plethora of Windows orientated magazines aimed at all levels of PC user, but not a single Linux title.
For many of the South Pacific Islands there are very few natural resources. Increasingly there are attempts to find ways to protect symbols of identity, cultural practice or biological significance, possibly with a view to licensing them, as a way of supplementing meagre national incomes. Amongst some of the more tangible examples are the licensing of an Australian company to study Tongan DNA and potential licensing fees deriving from research of ethnobotany and traditional medicines.
The governments of the Pacific region are attempting to draft legislation to protect the traditional knowledge and expressions of culture unique to this region. We have in the past seen big business use the legal system to steal rights from the peoples of the Pacific. Perhaps this will go some way to redress the balance.
It is possible to have v.cheap internet access but if there are certain features you require that impact the bottom line of the ISP, you have to expect to be charged a premium for them.
I suspect that even with IPv6 ISPs will continue to prefer to offer dynamic addresses. From what I have read IPv6 address ranges will not be free and so minimising the number of required IPs will help keep down costs.
Tim Sansom
http://www.samoa.co.uk/whereis.html