A mean temperature that is about the same as that of the interior of Antarctica, and extremes that almost dip low enough condense oxygen (at 1 Atm) and high enough to boil water (at 1 Atm).
Yet, once we add an atmosphere (Earth), we end up with much more reasonable temperatures. Minimum of 184K, mean of about 288K and max of about 330K.
See, the US also has a little problem of accidental shootings by police, which is almost unheard of in the western world. There was an incident where this happened in the UK in a train station and is still being discussed.
You can describe it in a lot of way, but calling it an "accidental shooting by police" is like calling the bombing of Hiroshima "a minor bombing raid".
Not only wasn't it an accident - the guy was shot seven times in the head; once might be an accident, seven times sure as hell isn't, there was also an active attempt at covering it up as 'necessary' - not something you do if it was accidental.
There were plenty of very unfortunate fuck-ups in the situation, but none of them were 'accidental'.
If you pay attention to a given dot while holding your gaze still fixed at the central white point (not as hard as it sounds), you can clearly still see the colors changing.
I agree, I can still see the colours change, when the ring starts moving.
However - to me the apparent speed of change is slowed significantly.
If I move my focus to one patch of the ring, that patch seems to change colour slowly, moving or not. Change the focus, and the previously calm area is now moving rapidly (in my peripheral vision), moving or not.
Once the ring is moving though, my entire peripheral vision behaves as if the speed of colour change has slowed significantly.
Like you, i haven't read the paper attached, so they may have similar findings. I just thought it interesting to share my own experience
They never do it with any of the hard sciences. You'll never see a report on the Space Station where after they've talked with a guy from NASA they go "and now we must talk to Barry, who thinks space is just a carpet painted by God!"
Of course, the definitive evidence for the Moon landings isThe fact that the USSR conceded the fact that the US had landed on the Moon and made no attempt to claim otherwise.
Depending on the price I assume? Might be cheaper for you to go with 8 GB iPod Touches instead, since Skype for iPod now supports video. But since we don't know the price yet, it's sort of difficult to say for certain.
If they started released 3, 4, or 5[TB] drives at reasonable prices we wouldn't keep buying up these 1 & 2[TB] drives like they're going out of style.
Since the issue with drives that size isn't about production ability as much as it is about the computers' ability to handle them properly, this just isn't true.
Why bother selling something that will result in all the margins being eaten up by support calls, RMAs and constant bitching and complaining about something you have no control over?
The outcome would hopefully be something more alike what El Al uses. It's a lot less invasive, doesn't subject random people to completely ineffectual "security" measures and they take threats seriously instead of telling you to dump your potential liquid explosive in the same bag as 200 other people have dropped theirs (right next to a massive queue of people).
The ridiculousness of the watch list will never be fixed, as long as it's only a small fraction of people who are inconvenienced.
I'm waiting for the day someone gets a hold of every airline's list of frequent fliers with more than 300 miles/month and gets them added to the list. When that happens, the airlines are going to go apeshit, the entire industry collapse and the economy take a massive hit. And then we'll know if it's there as actual security or just a show to make people feel safer.
Yes... won't plug in to virtually any SATA connectors, apart from the mini-SATA connectors. Just like mini-USB doesn't connect with virtually any USB connectors (apart from mini-USB), right?
And it's not like mini-SATA is a new connection either.
Yes... won't plug in to virtually any SATA connectors, apart from the mini-SATA connectors. Just like mini-USB doesn't connect with virtually any USB connectors (apart from mini-USB), right?
And it's not like mini-SATA is a new connection either.
Until you have enough courage in your convictions to associate your name with your facile death sentence then I shall ignore your opinions as the inconsequential brutish yammerings of a disturbed mind.
I'll second this, merely because it looks extremely hollow coming from someone hiding behind an anonymous nickname rather than their actual name.
Right, so you still haven't pointed out anything you can do with.Mac or MobileMe or whatever that you can't replicate with other services.
One thing that your 99$/year buys you, that I haven't seen replicated with any free services: live support.
MobileMe has live chat-support, and should you be in a situation where you haven't managed to get things working, usually because of a pebkac issue, you can call Apple's phone support, and they'll work with the chat support to get you up and running.
So... who do I call, when I can't get gmail to work on my computer? My free dropbox account? Remote desktop service?
What you're paying for probably isn't the 20 GB of online storage, the website or email. But it's going to pay for the support you'll be getting.
Sure, it might not be for you. You can set up your own services on your own, or use a mix of free services that can do the same thing - hell, there might even be a single free services that does it all. But if it's free of charge you're bound to pay through ads or complete lack of support.
That might work for you and me - but I'd rather not have to field the calls from friends and family, when they can't figure out how to sync their gmail calendar entries onto their dropbox account so it can be uploaded to some other thing that doesn't support gmail for whatever reason.
The record among men is held by Garry Kasparov, who became world champion in 1985, when he was 22.
To be honest, that comparison is just stupid.
The article has already established that best female chess player isn't as good as the best male chess player, yet somehow it's supposed to be more impressive winning the "female world championship"?
That's like saying "The new Danish national champion is only 16 years old. The youngest world champion was 22."
I have the same issue with any kind of competition where men and women can compete on equal terms. Scrabble, card games, Trivial Pursuit, Rubik's cube, lottery, bingo etc.
It is because the form is actually just an online interface to a paper form. The warning tells you to look at the preview of the printed application to check for problems.
It is obviously not just an interface to the paper form. The paper form allows you 150 words. Not 1,000 characters or something similar. If you write in tiny tiny letters, you're still only allowed to use 150 words, even if you could fit 500 in the space allotted.
Now, obviously we also need to take the MPAA into consideration. Again, using 2008 numbers: Ticket sales grossed about $10 billion. And since quite a lot of people seem to claim (and no, I have no source handy) that home video sales is about the same as ticket sales, then we're looking at around $20 billion in 2008.
Apple's revenue for 2008 in the Americas was $14.5 billion. Granted, that's a larger geographical area than RIAA's numbers, but then again Apple is a relatively small company in the IT landscape.
So, the movie and music industry combined gets up to around $35 billion in 2008 in the US.
IBM (world wide) - $103 billion Apple (Americas) - $14.5 billion Google (world wide) - $21.8 billion Microsoft (world wide?) - $60.4 billion Oracle (world wide?) - 22.4 billion Dell (world wide?) - 61 billion
Seriously - why the fuck are the IT giants just turning their back on the complete and utter gang rape on things like the Internet, when most of their products would die off the moment it stops working the way it should.
Just buy out the fuckers, boot the executives, lawyers, assistants etc. from their penthouse offices (literally boot them out over the balcony) and just kill off these massively debilitating parasites.
Interesting. I guess that means that every single time the US Government has mentioned Wikileaks at press conferences they have themselves published all the documents available at Wikileaks?
I mean - mentioning the name of a website while talking, that's pretty much the same as linking in writing.
I guess Wikileaks is off the hook for publishing the documents then...
This ability is presumably a side effect of other valuable mental skills, such as the ability to read facial expression and identify similar looking faces.
True or not, this hypothesis does bring another experiment to my mind - at what point do people suffering from prosopagnosia not consider a face a face anymore? I.e. the same experiment but conducted with people who cannot recognize faces.
People insist on antibiotics, but antibiotics are no better than placebos on viral infections, and placebos don't cause antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria to evolve.
Well, sure, you say that now, but just you wait until we get placebo-resistant strains of bacteria! What'll you do then?!?;)
Should an accomplice in a murder go unpunished because he didn't KNOW that his partner would kill someone.
You get a call from a friend, who asks you if you have time to drop him off at his ex-girlfriend's place, wait while he picks up his TV and drive him back. You have time, and he says he'll pay for gas, and you just have to wait in the car - he doesn't want to have a scene in front of others.
Do you do it for him?
Now, what you didn't know, is that he brought a gun (with a silencer), shot the ex-girlfriend and stole her TV to make it look like a robbery gone bad. Congratulation, you're now an accessory to robbery and murder, AND you were the get-away driver. Welcome to the electric chair.
Okay, that may be a bit far out. How about this then? He's the one with the car. You call him at 1 AM on a Friday evening, just after he's shot his girlfriend and loaded the TV into his car. You're drunk and need a ride home. He's in the neighbourhood, picks you up 5 minutes later, and 30 minutes after that you're stopped by the police.
Since you're in the car with stolen goods, a murderer and a murder weapon, you are about to face hell as an accomplice. Congratulations and welcome to the electric chair.
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Does the Moon qualify as being in the habitable zone, when you look at it in isolation? With an equator temperature of 100K to 390K and a mean of 220K, I would say no.
A mean temperature that is about the same as that of the interior of Antarctica, and extremes that almost dip low enough condense oxygen (at 1 Atm) and high enough to boil water (at 1 Atm).
Yet, once we add an atmosphere (Earth), we end up with much more reasonable temperatures. Minimum of 184K, mean of about 288K and max of about 330K.
I'm fairly certain you're talking about the death of Jearn Charles de Menezes.
You can describe it in a lot of way, but calling it an "accidental shooting by police" is like calling the bombing of Hiroshima "a minor bombing raid".
Not only wasn't it an accident - the guy was shot seven times in the head; once might be an accident, seven times sure as hell isn't, there was also an active attempt at covering it up as 'necessary' - not something you do if it was accidental.
There were plenty of very unfortunate fuck-ups in the situation, but none of them were 'accidental'.
I agree, I can still see the colours change, when the ring starts moving.
However - to me the apparent speed of change is slowed significantly.
If I move my focus to one patch of the ring, that patch seems to change colour slowly, moving or not. Change the focus, and the previously calm area is now moving rapidly (in my peripheral vision), moving or not.
Once the ring is moving though, my entire peripheral vision behaves as if the speed of colour change has slowed significantly.
Like you, i haven't read the paper attached, so they may have similar findings. I just thought it interesting to share my own experience
To paraphrase Dara Ó Briain:
They never do it with any of the hard sciences. You'll never see a report on the Space Station where after they've talked with a guy from NASA they go "and now we must talk to Barry, who thinks space is just a carpet painted by God!"
Well, it's really a triple Eclipse, because the crew was watching Edward trying to look smug.
Buy an unlocked phone and get a subscription that doesn't include data? Why would that be such a difficult thing to figure otu?
Depending on the price I assume? Might be cheaper for you to go with 8 GB iPod Touches instead, since Skype for iPod now supports video. But since we don't know the price yet, it's sort of difficult to say for certain.
Because razy lacism sells adds.
Since the issue with drives that size isn't about production ability as much as it is about the computers' ability to handle them properly, this just isn't true.
Why bother selling something that will result in all the margins being eaten up by support calls, RMAs and constant bitching and complaining about something you have no control over?
As opposed to forcing you to buy a 30$ charger and a 15$ charger cable from every single handset producer?
The outcome would hopefully be something more alike what El Al uses. It's a lot less invasive, doesn't subject random people to completely ineffectual "security" measures and they take threats seriously instead of telling you to dump your potential liquid explosive in the same bag as 200 other people have dropped theirs (right next to a massive queue of people).
They have security, not security theatre.
Seriously - this is an excellent thing.
The ridiculousness of the watch list will never be fixed, as long as it's only a small fraction of people who are inconvenienced.
I'm waiting for the day someone gets a hold of every airline's list of frequent fliers with more than 300 miles/month and gets them added to the list. When that happens, the airlines are going to go apeshit, the entire industry collapse and the economy take a massive hit. And then we'll know if it's there as actual security or just a show to make people feel safer.
Are you entirely sure about that?
Intel themselves writes this in their product brief:
Yes ... won't plug in to virtually any SATA connectors, apart from the mini-SATA connectors. Just like mini-USB doesn't connect with virtually any USB connectors (apart from mini-USB), right?
And it's not like mini-SATA is a new connection either.
September 21, 2009 08:00 AM Eastern Time ; SATA-IO to Develop Specification for Mini Interface Connector mSATA Extends Benefits of SATA Interface for Small Form Factor Applications
Obviously Intel is trying their best to screw over people by dreaming up some completely non-standard and completely new interface for their tiny SSDs
Yes ... won't plug in to virtually any SATA connectors, apart from the mini-SATA connectors. Just like mini-USB doesn't connect with virtually any USB connectors (apart from mini-USB), right?
And it's not like mini-SATA is a new connection either.
September 21, 2009 08:00 AM Eastern Time ; SATA-IO to Develop Specification for Mini Interface Connector mSATA Extends Benefits of SATA Interface for Small Form Factor Applications
Obviously Intel is trying their best to screw over people by dreaming up some completely non-standard and completely new interface for their tiny SSDs
I'll second this, merely because it looks extremely hollow coming from someone hiding behind an anonymous nickname rather than their actual name.
One thing that your 99$/year buys you, that I haven't seen replicated with any free services: live support.
MobileMe has live chat-support, and should you be in a situation where you haven't managed to get things working, usually because of a pebkac issue, you can call Apple's phone support, and they'll work with the chat support to get you up and running.
So ... who do I call, when I can't get gmail to work on my computer? My free dropbox account? Remote desktop service?
What you're paying for probably isn't the 20 GB of online storage, the website or email. But it's going to pay for the support you'll be getting.
Sure, it might not be for you. You can set up your own services on your own, or use a mix of free services that can do the same thing - hell, there might even be a single free services that does it all. But if it's free of charge you're bound to pay through ads or complete lack of support.
That might work for you and me - but I'd rather not have to field the calls from friends and family, when they can't figure out how to sync their gmail calendar entries onto their dropbox account so it can be uploaded to some other thing that doesn't support gmail for whatever reason.
To be honest, that comparison is just stupid.
The article has already established that best female chess player isn't as good as the best male chess player, yet somehow it's supposed to be more impressive winning the "female world championship"?
That's like saying "The new Danish national champion is only 16 years old. The youngest world champion was 22."
I have the same issue with any kind of competition where men and women can compete on equal terms. Scrabble, card games, Trivial Pursuit, Rubik's cube, lottery, bingo etc.
It is obviously not just an interface to the paper form. The paper form allows you 150 words. Not 1,000 characters or something similar. If you write in tiny tiny letters, you're still only allowed to use 150 words, even if you could fit 500 in the space allotted.
According to the RIAA:
That gives us a 2008 estimate of 12 billion dollars in revenue for retail sale of music. Presumably for the RIAA, who "create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 85% of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in the United States". So a total of about $14.2 billion in revenue.
Now, obviously we also need to take the MPAA into consideration. Again, using 2008 numbers:
Ticket sales grossed about $10 billion. And since quite a lot of people seem to claim (and no, I have no source handy) that home video sales is about the same as ticket sales, then we're looking at around $20 billion in 2008.
Apple's revenue for 2008 in the Americas was $14.5 billion. Granted, that's a larger geographical area than RIAA's numbers, but then again Apple is a relatively small company in the IT landscape.
How about some of the bigger fish?
IBM reported revenue of $103.6 billion, and pre-tax profit of $16.7 billion.
So, the movie and music industry combined gets up to around $35 billion in 2008 in the US.
IBM (world wide) - $103 billion
Apple (Americas) - $14.5 billion
Google (world wide) - $21.8 billion
Microsoft (world wide?) - $60.4 billion
Oracle (world wide?) - 22.4 billion
Dell (world wide?) - 61 billion
Seriously - why the fuck are the IT giants just turning their back on the complete and utter gang rape on things like the Internet, when most of their products would die off the moment it stops working the way it should.
Just buy out the fuckers, boot the executives, lawyers, assistants etc. from their penthouse offices (literally boot them out over the balcony) and just kill off these massively debilitating parasites.
Interesting.
I guess that means that every single time the US Government has mentioned Wikileaks at press conferences they have themselves published all the documents available at Wikileaks?
I mean - mentioning the name of a website while talking, that's pretty much the same as linking in writing.
I guess Wikileaks is off the hook for publishing the documents then ...
True or not, this hypothesis does bring another experiment to my mind - at what point do people suffering from prosopagnosia not consider a face a face anymore? I.e. the same experiment but conducted with people who cannot recognize faces.
Well, sure, you say that now, but just you wait until we get placebo-resistant strains of bacteria! What'll you do then?!? ;)
You get a call from a friend, who asks you if you have time to drop him off at his ex-girlfriend's place, wait while he picks up his TV and drive him back. You have time, and he says he'll pay for gas, and you just have to wait in the car - he doesn't want to have a scene in front of others.
Do you do it for him?
Now, what you didn't know, is that he brought a gun (with a silencer), shot the ex-girlfriend and stole her TV to make it look like a robbery gone bad. Congratulation, you're now an accessory to robbery and murder, AND you were the get-away driver. Welcome to the electric chair.
Okay, that may be a bit far out. How about this then? He's the one with the car. You call him at 1 AM on a Friday evening, just after he's shot his girlfriend and loaded the TV into his car. You're drunk and need a ride home. He's in the neighbourhood, picks you up 5 minutes later, and 30 minutes after that you're stopped by the police.
Since you're in the car with stolen goods, a murderer and a murder weapon, you are about to face hell as an accomplice. Congratulations and welcome to the electric chair.
Isn't life wonderful?