Well, can't say that I agree with your coding statement. Writing HTML isn't the same as programming, but on some level, I do think it is coding. In writing a web page you're coding the page for display in a browser. Whether you call it a mark up, or text formating language, I do think it is coding (at least if you're doing it "by hand").
And as for LaTeX...I agree fully. I think HTML is (and will continue to be) a real mess. It certainly seems to me that LaTeX could've easily been extended for handling web documents, and then we wouldn't have to worry nearly so much about making sure the page comes out right in every frigging browser in existence...the type setting engine would make sure that things came out right.
Marcy et al have detected all their planets spectroscopically. That is, they look for subtle changes in the doppler shift of the central star in the system. So far, none of the planets detected have been observed in any images (that I know of).
As for interferometry, this technique has been used by radio telescopes for decades, but doing this kind of thing with optical telescopes is still in the experimental stages. But basically your information is correct.
I think you're wrong on this one. IIRC, the discovery of multiple planets around a neutron star was retracted. They made a mistake in their analysis and failed to properly take into account the motion of the Earth....
In fact, the tip off in the neutron star case was that one of the "orbits" they discovered was remarkably similar to the size of the Earth's orbit. After making the proper corrections, the evidence for the planets disappeared.
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I only have one question. What happens when you put your money in the machine, and you don't get your CD? Will we have geeks rocking the vending machines and getting caught underneath?
Unfortunately, your vision of the "real world" seems to parallel a certain cable television program far more closely than reality.
You did get one thing right though. Microsoft is all about money, and that's the problem. If MS can get away with foisting poor products on it's customers while continuing to make money, it's darn well going to do it. And that is exactly what it has been doing, in addition to doing everything it can to keep any potential competitors out of the market. Where's the incentive to put out a quality product? With almost no competition and loads of people stupid enough to put up with poor software, poor support (how many times have people called MS tech support to report a bug and paid MS for the service?), and the MS upgrade cycle, MS will continue to make record profits. And as long as the bottom line is not in danger, there's no reason to change it's business tactics.
So where does that leave us? Well, since Microsoft has blocked nearly every commercial route to the market, the free software community is the only way to put MS in check. Personally, I think the commercial software industry has been out in la-la land for so long, that when people finally start to get a dose of the reality (free software, with paid support), it's the free software community that's percieved as being strange. that's perceived as being strange, when, in fact, the commercial software world is the one not based in reality. At least, I haven't heard Microsoft claim it's prices are high to cover piracy in a while, that's one of the silliest things I've ever heard.
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Well, can't say that I agree with your coding statement. Writing HTML isn't the same as programming, but on some level, I do think it is coding. In writing a web page you're coding the page for display in a browser. Whether you call it a mark up, or text formating language, I do think it is coding (at least if you're doing it "by hand").
And as for LaTeX...I agree fully. I think HTML is (and will continue to be) a real mess. It certainly seems to me that LaTeX could've easily been extended for handling web documents, and then we wouldn't have to worry nearly so much about making sure the page comes out right in every frigging browser in existence...the type setting engine would make sure that things came out right.
Marcy et al have detected all their planets spectroscopically. That is, they look for subtle changes in the doppler shift of the central star in the system. So far, none of the planets detected have been observed in any images (that I know of).
As for interferometry, this technique has been used by radio telescopes for decades, but doing this kind of thing with optical telescopes is still in the experimental stages. But basically your information is correct.
I think you're wrong on this one. IIRC, the discovery of multiple planets around a neutron star was retracted. They made a mistake in their analysis and failed to properly take into account the motion of the Earth....
In fact, the tip off in the neutron star case was that one of the "orbits" they discovered was remarkably similar to the size of the Earth's orbit. After making the proper corrections, the evidence for the planets disappeared.
I only have one question. What happens when you put your money in the machine, and you don't get your CD? Will we have geeks rocking the vending machines and getting caught underneath?
Unfortunately, your vision of the "real world" seems to parallel a certain cable television program far more closely than reality.
You did get one thing right though. Microsoft is all about money, and that's the problem. If MS can get away with foisting poor products on it's customers while continuing to make money, it's darn well going to do it. And that is exactly what it has been doing, in addition to doing everything it can to keep any potential competitors out of the market. Where's the incentive to put out a quality product? With almost no competition and loads of people stupid enough to put up with poor software, poor support (how many times have people called MS tech support to report a bug and paid MS for the service?), and the MS upgrade cycle, MS will continue to make record profits. And as long as the bottom line is not in danger, there's no reason to change it's business tactics.
So where does that leave us? Well, since Microsoft has blocked nearly every commercial route to the market, the free software community is the only way to put MS in check. Personally, I think the commercial software industry has been out in la-la land for so long, that when people finally start to get a dose of the reality (free software, with paid support), it's the free software community that's percieved as being strange. that's perceived as being strange, when, in fact, the commercial software world is the one not based in reality. At least, I haven't heard Microsoft claim it's prices are high to cover piracy in a while, that's one of the silliest things I've ever heard.