You're right about the spelling but wrong about the physics. There's no inherent need to burn large amounts of propellant during a gravity assist maneuver - just a little bit for "aiming", so that one comes out of it with exactly the right position and velocity. Almost all the acceleration is due to gravity, which you won't even notice if you're inside the spacecraft; see also parabolic flight, microgravity in orbit etc... So it's entirely correct to say that a spacecraft/vehicle/occupant does not experience any acceleration in its own frame [of reference] (in a relativistic sense).
Well duh, you need alternative intelligence to tease out the alternative facts. I can be a "private spy". All I'd need to do is sit in front of my computer and pull stories out of my ass that align with alt-right conspiracy theories.
Seriously, I read this headline as: "Trump refuses to believe ears and eyes, tries to obtain new ones."
Well, that wouldn't be too hard to verify. A lot of eSports revolve around extreme time constrains - hence the big market for low-latency HID (in the broad sense). If lefties are overrepresented there as well, it must have something to do with the organisation of their brains, since they won't make "unfamiliar moves" with a keyboard and mouse. Conversely, if lefties are not overrepresented in eSports, then the "unfamiliar moves" would seem to have more merit. I speculate the answer will be "a little bit of both, depending on which sports you look at." Either way, you'd have some data about the contributions of both effects to each sport, which should make for an interesting read.
I know! I've repeatedly called New Scientist "the tabloid of pop sci", and this story once again confirms my low esteem of it (albeit for other reasons than the usual).
To add insult to injury, slashdot almost never sources a science story from a decent outlet (e.g. Scientific American).
Oops, my bad for using the words in a general/literal sense while the term is indeed commonly used in a more specific sense in astrophysics. Though I find it somewhat ironic that you went through great pedantic lengths explaining said specific meaning ("the region from which light could have reached you within the lifetime of the universe" would have been more than sufficient, thank you very much) WITHOUT SUGGESTING A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE (that is layman-friendly). Any attempts at constructive criticism? "The visible universe" comes to mind, except that a big portion of the thing is known from observations at non-visible wavelengths. "The electromagnetically radiative universe" gets a bit complicated and still doesn't cut it, among others because some parts of it have only been observed by gravitational lensing or by absorption of light from objects behind it. "The part of the universe we knew for sure to be there, until now" is accurate, but gets a bit long, and there's the philosophical issue of applying "for sure" to empirical science. I'm throwing my hands in the air and going with "the entity formerly known a the universe". Feel free to make suggestions, which will be held against the same pedantic standards:-P
Samsung has never been any good at all at writing OSes; even their Android implementations are always fucked up.
Samsung has never been any good at writing anything at all, with the possible exception of a simple controller algorithm, like for a washer or a "dumb" TV. The company has huge enduring issues with software in general and security in particular.
As a brand, I love Samsung for hardware that is fairly high-quality for the price, and it's one of my go-to brands for simple appliances, yet I steer widely clear of them for anything where a nontrivial piece of software plays a critical role.
My understanding is that the story is about finally "seeing" half of the hidden baryonic mass that was inferred to exist from other data. That suggests that there is still a more baryonic mass that we only infer exists; it remains hidden.
Nah, you are part of the other half - and so am I. The other half (not the subject of this story) is simply known as "the observable universe".
You can be forgiven for making this mistake because the title is phrased incorrectly; the second sentence of the summary just finally does a better job at explaining what's up.
Personally, I feel writing "Half the universe’s missing matter..." instead of "The missing half of the universe’s matter..." is a far worse grammatical transgression than the "just been finally found". One the author should receive a stern dressing-down over.:-P
OMG, us americans are the dumbest people on earth.
No, only the conservatives/libertarians are. Most of my American friends would soundly agree with me, using less flattering language than mine (at least in private).
I feel sad for you if your feeling of national identity is tied to the braindead way in which SSNs are used in the US. There are things to be proud of about the country, but the ID/SSN situation surely isn't one of them.
People shouldn't be forcibly subjected to this for zero gain in any critical way.
See, I feel that's a rather otherworldly argument to make in a society where you get nowhere without ID.
There's lots wrong with the system, but an ID card with crypto isn't going to fix anything, just make things worse.
What you have now it the equivalent of a very important password that is low-complexity, can't be changed, and is re-used pretty much everywhere. I'm sure there's a logical explanation of how this came into being, but right now, I can't see how a cryptographically sound authentication system (or really anything at all) could be worse.
All theories that sound reasonable on paper but are utterly divorced from reality. Only useful for keeping people dumb, just like in the totalitarian dystopias you so decry.
If you ever step out of your mom's basement (real or allegorical) into the scary, scary world, you'll notice that the US de facto already has this. In most of the country, you can't get anywhere without a car and you can't drive without a driver's license. And folks without one readily get a state ID because in most of the US, you literally can't even do as much as buy a beer without either. Also note that a lot of western European nations have national IDd, and are politically further away from totalitarianism than Ameristan, with (among other things) protection of personal privacy that still has some semblance of meaning. Do you really honestly believe the fact that there's formally no national ID is much of a hindrance to US government services intent on tracking their citizes?
On a more anecdotal note, I subjectively felt/feel far freer in Western European countries with state ID than in the USA; among many other things, I got ID-ed almost an order of magnitude more often in the latter country. Sure, I could in theory have refused and suffer the consequences, but that "in theory" is exactly why the US is so backward - you conservatives/libertarians/whatever should really get your feet on the ground and start talking in real life terms instead of lofty theoretical concepts that are hollow and being circumvented right under your firmly airborne noses.
And don't even get me started on SSNs; when I read this story, I rolled my eyes so hard that it was almost audible. Assuming you don't dedicate your life to paranoidly protecting your SSN, its security is an illusion. You know as well as I that your SSN is pretty much everywhere, and identity theft rates are only as "low" as they are because most criminals find it easier to rob people at gunpoint than to jump through a few loops in order to steal the ID of someone who more often than not will turn out to have more liabilities than assets.
I guess you grew up with it and you'll never understand how utterly bizarre it is to foreigners that there exists a simple 9-digit number that has such huge power over a lot of aspects of your life that it may be your biggest secret, YET YOU HAVE TO FILL IT INTO SOME FORM OR SPEAK IT OUT ON THE PHONE ON A MONTHLY BASIS. Hello? Is this thing on?
Folks, that question has a multiple hour answer if you're enough of a guru to give it. The common answers do not demonstrate a sufficient understanding of how your computer works to land you a job in the tech industry.
Forget "multiple hour"! If you're asking for "as much depth, detail and specificity" as possible, you're basically asking for roughly half a year worth of university-level lecturing.
If you'd ask me that question, I would go blank for about 10 seconds, then tell you the above and ask you whether there's one specific aspect of the process in particular you'd like to hear about, or whether you'd want me to give a bird's eye view without many details.
The stuff that actually affects society is done in industry, not academia. Nevertheless the people who work in the industrial labs all graduated from university labs so the academic R&D dollars are not actually wasted.
Pray tell, what kind of university trained you as a chemist without, apparently, giving you any kind of primer on fundamental research versus applied research, and their distinctive but mutually beneficial roles in society?
Sorry sir, Citizens United (the SCrOTUS verdict, not the organization) has created a precedent that pretty much anything can be redefined as "speech". This is merely the logical next step the liberal hippy communist SJWs have been warning you about.
Also, that sentence from Comcast's court complaint you're quoting is going to be my "exhibit A" in arguing why lawyers should never ever be allowed to smoke pot, even if they're in inhumane pain and it's the last analgesic on earth.
To be fair, AmiMoJo generally doesn't strike me as the misogynistic type - quite the contrary. My best guess is that he (or she) really got ticked off by the lack of formatting in your message; one tends to get that sort of thing with nerds (the target audience of this site, even though it's not prominently advertised as such anymore). Since the problem persists in your more recent posts, just in case you don't know:
- Slashdot will ignore normal line breaks, but if put <br> somewhere in your text, it will act as a "soft return".
- If you start a paragraph of text with <p> and end it with </p>, you get an effect like "hard returns" between paragraphs.
- More generally, you're supposed to use an (anemic) subset of HTML for posting on slashdot. It got so anemic because it used to be a popular sport to exploit any and all HTML features to annoy others.
- Anyhow, when in doubt, you can use the "preview" function to see if your post is properly formatted.
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You're right about the spelling but wrong about the physics. There's no inherent need to burn large amounts of propellant during a gravity assist maneuver - just a little bit for "aiming", so that one comes out of it with exactly the right position and velocity. Almost all the acceleration is due to gravity, which you won't even notice if you're inside the spacecraft; see also parabolic flight, microgravity in orbit etc... So it's entirely correct to say that a spacecraft/vehicle/occupant does not experience any acceleration in its own frame [of reference] (in a relativistic sense).
So? GP didn't claim "sol" was English, and did demonstrate how it was used as a base for an adjective...
While I don't have much love for GP, I fail to see anything wrong (leave alone offensive) in the post you replied to.
Well duh, you need alternative intelligence to tease out the alternative facts. I can be a "private spy". All I'd need to do is sit in front of my computer and pull stories out of my ass that align with alt-right conspiracy theories.
Seriously, I read this headline as: "Trump refuses to believe ears and eyes, tries to obtain new ones."
Bomb, Live Unit. Looks like it just went off.
Well, that wouldn't be too hard to verify. A lot of eSports revolve around extreme time constrains - hence the big market for low-latency HID (in the broad sense). If lefties are overrepresented there as well, it must have something to do with the organisation of their brains, since they won't make "unfamiliar moves" with a keyboard and mouse. Conversely, if lefties are not overrepresented in eSports, then the "unfamiliar moves" would seem to have more merit. I speculate the answer will be "a little bit of both, depending on which sports you look at." Either way, you'd have some data about the contributions of both effects to each sport, which should make for an interesting read.
I know! I've repeatedly called New Scientist "the tabloid of pop sci", and this story once again confirms my low esteem of it (albeit for other reasons than the usual).
To add insult to injury, slashdot almost never sources a science story from a decent outlet (e.g. Scientific American).
Oops, my bad for using the words in a general/literal sense while the term is indeed commonly used in a more specific sense in astrophysics. Though I find it somewhat ironic that you went through great pedantic lengths explaining said specific meaning ("the region from which light could have reached you within the lifetime of the universe" would have been more than sufficient, thank you very much) WITHOUT SUGGESTING A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE (that is layman-friendly). Any attempts at constructive criticism? "The visible universe" comes to mind, except that a big portion of the thing is known from observations at non-visible wavelengths. "The electromagnetically radiative universe" gets a bit complicated and still doesn't cut it, among others because some parts of it have only been observed by gravitational lensing or by absorption of light from objects behind it. "The part of the universe we knew for sure to be there, until now" is accurate, but gets a bit long, and there's the philosophical issue of applying "for sure" to empirical science. I'm throwing my hands in the air and going with "the entity formerly known a the universe". Feel free to make suggestions, which will be held against the same pedantic standards :-P
Why don't you start a movement to refuse all drugs and medical equipment that have been initially developed via venture capital?
You're gonna have to learn to be a bit more subtle in setting up a strawman if you want people to read further than your first sentence.
Samsung has never been any good at all at writing OSes; even their Android implementations are always fucked up.
Samsung has never been any good at writing anything at all, with the possible exception of a simple controller algorithm, like for a washer or a "dumb" TV. The company has huge enduring issues with software in general and security in particular.
As a brand, I love Samsung for hardware that is fairly high-quality for the price, and it's one of my go-to brands for simple appliances, yet I steer widely clear of them for anything where a nontrivial piece of software plays a critical role.
My understanding is that the story is about finally "seeing" half of the hidden baryonic mass that was inferred to exist from other data. That suggests that there is still a more baryonic mass that we only infer exists; it remains hidden.
Nah, you are part of the other half - and so am I. The other half (not the subject of this story) is simply known as "the observable universe".
You can be forgiven for making this mistake because the title is phrased incorrectly; the second sentence of the summary just finally does a better job at explaining what's up.
Personally, I feel writing "Half the universe’s missing matter..." instead of "The missing half of the universe’s matter..." is a far worse grammatical transgression than the "just been finally found". One the author should receive a stern dressing-down over. :-P
You must be new here.
OMG, us americans are the dumbest people on earth.
No, only the conservatives/libertarians are. Most of my American friends would soundly agree with me, using less flattering language than mine (at least in private).
I feel sad for you if your feeling of national identity is tied to the braindead way in which SSNs are used in the US. There are things to be proud of about the country, but the ID/SSN situation surely isn't one of them.
People shouldn't be forcibly subjected to this for zero gain in any critical way.
See, I feel that's a rather otherworldly argument to make in a society where you get nowhere without ID.
There's lots wrong with the system, but an ID card with crypto isn't going to fix anything, just make things worse.
What you have now it the equivalent of a very important password that is low-complexity, can't be changed, and is re-used pretty much everywhere . I'm sure there's a logical explanation of how this came into being, but right now, I can't see how a cryptographically sound authentication system (or really anything at all) could be worse.
All theories that sound reasonable on paper but are utterly divorced from reality. Only useful for keeping people dumb, just like in the totalitarian dystopias you so decry.
If you ever step out of your mom's basement (real or allegorical) into the scary, scary world, you'll notice that the US de facto already has this. In most of the country, you can't get anywhere without a car and you can't drive without a driver's license. And folks without one readily get a state ID because in most of the US, you literally can't even do as much as buy a beer without either. Also note that a lot of western European nations have national IDd, and are politically further away from totalitarianism than Ameristan, with (among other things) protection of personal privacy that still has some semblance of meaning. Do you really honestly believe the fact that there's formally no national ID is much of a hindrance to US government services intent on tracking their citizes?
On a more anecdotal note, I subjectively felt/feel far freer in Western European countries with state ID than in the USA; among many other things, I got ID-ed almost an order of magnitude more often in the latter country. Sure, I could in theory have refused and suffer the consequences, but that "in theory" is exactly why the US is so backward - you conservatives/libertarians/whatever should really get your feet on the ground and start talking in real life terms instead of lofty theoretical concepts that are hollow and being circumvented right under your firmly airborne noses.
And don't even get me started on SSNs; when I read this story, I rolled my eyes so hard that it was almost audible. Assuming you don't dedicate your life to paranoidly protecting your SSN, its security is an illusion. You know as well as I that your SSN is pretty much everywhere, and identity theft rates are only as "low" as they are because most criminals find it easier to rob people at gunpoint than to jump through a few loops in order to steal the ID of someone who more often than not will turn out to have more liabilities than assets.
I guess you grew up with it and you'll never understand how utterly bizarre it is to foreigners that there exists a simple 9-digit number that has such huge power over a lot of aspects of your life that it may be your biggest secret, YET YOU HAVE TO FILL IT INTO SOME FORM OR SPEAK IT OUT ON THE PHONE ON A MONTHLY BASIS. Hello? Is this thing on?
Anger management issues?
You must be new here ;-D
I'm half-tempted to apply, but I just got out of Ameristan in an all-in effort to build a life abroad, so I'll have to skip the occasion.
I hope the teacher gave her a good grade for that. It's not just funny, it's a damn good example of effectively conveying a message.
Folks, that question has a multiple hour answer if you're enough of a guru to give it. The common answers do not demonstrate a sufficient understanding of how your computer works to land you a job in the tech industry.
Forget "multiple hour"! If you're asking for "as much depth, detail and specificity" as possible, you're basically asking for roughly half a year worth of university-level lecturing.
If you'd ask me that question, I would go blank for about 10 seconds, then tell you the above and ask you whether there's one specific aspect of the process in particular you'd like to hear about, or whether you'd want me to give a bird's eye view without many details.
That, or I just might answer "42"
Sounds like all you have to do is fire your recruiter (easy) and find one that actually does their job (somewhat less easy).
The stuff that actually affects society is done in industry, not academia. Nevertheless the people who work in the industrial labs all graduated from university labs so the academic R&D dollars are not actually wasted.
Pray tell, what kind of university trained you as a chemist without, apparently, giving you any kind of primer on fundamental research versus applied research, and their distinctive but mutually beneficial roles in society?
Sorry sir, Citizens United (the SCrOTUS verdict, not the organization) has created a precedent that pretty much anything can be redefined as "speech". This is merely the logical next step the liberal hippy communist SJWs have been warning you about.
Also, that sentence from Comcast's court complaint you're quoting is going to be my "exhibit A" in arguing why lawyers should never ever be allowed to smoke pot, even if they're in inhumane pain and it's the last analgesic on earth.
One of the main targets in the war on drugs could well become a drug to treat the scars of war.
I bet the journalist who came up with that sentence felt good about himself :)
To be fair, AmiMoJo generally doesn't strike me as the misogynistic type - quite the contrary. My best guess is that he (or she) really got ticked off by the lack of formatting in your message; one tends to get that sort of thing with nerds (the target audience of this site, even though it's not prominently advertised as such anymore). Since the problem persists in your more recent posts, just in case you don't know:
- Slashdot will ignore normal line breaks, but if put <br> somewhere in your text, it will act as a "soft return".
- If you start a paragraph of text with <p> and end it with </p>, you get an effect like "hard returns" between paragraphs.
- More generally, you're supposed to use an (anemic) subset of HTML for posting on slashdot. It got so anemic because it used to be a popular sport to exploit any and all HTML features to annoy others.
- Anyhow, when in doubt, you can use the "preview" function to see if your post is properly formatted.
Lighten up, Francis. It's a joke. You were supposed to answer "money".
Or to put it more concisely: whooosh!