Don't the archeologists pin the origin of our species in Africa too? Don't Christians, Jews and Muslims (probably others) place it there too? Just seems logical and should not be a shock.
the period of time from which the position of the Sun in the sky at a given, fixed Mercury longitude returns to that same position is 176 Earth days.
It's okay, you can say "Mercury's day is 176 Earth days long." I mean, unless you want to replace "Earth day" with the same long-winded macro you used for "Mercury day"....
To be fair Earth's solar day and sidereal day are four minutes apart, so we Earthlings might easily think "one rotation" is synonymous to a day. Not true, but close enough. But it's not even close on Mercury, where a solar day is exactly three sidereal days. Depending where you are on the surface, a single solar day might have more than one sunrise.
Another interesting property of Mercury is that it has a very miniscule axial tilt (<0.1 degrees), which means at the poles, the sun -- appearing three times larger than on Earth -- will always be halfway above the horizon and the temperature would stay relatively constant. Constant temperatures, possible water ice, Mars-level gravity...all interesting things. If we ever become the space-faring species we should be, we may very well have a place there.
Actually, if one person bought the $.99 ebook, he'd be ahead. I didn't see any correlation between book sales and ebook distribution proven in the article.
Yes, that is a true point. $0.99 is more than $0 for the eBooks. From the post it sounds like it cost him money to have the eBooks up, so he would be "less behind" if he had made something to offset what he paid out.
The guy missed out - he could have made a fortune by charging a couple of bucks for it.
Even.99 cents would have been more profitable.
That depends on if the same amount of people would have bought the eBook for $0.99 vs. free. After that recent $0.99 story went up, I told my friend who I helped with some books and he hosts my only eBook on his account. He reduced the price of almost everything to $0.99 and the only effect (as of yesterday anyway) the only sales increase was the paperbacks in bookstores and none of us think that is related. His free stories are popular and one does okay as a re-edited pay version on Kindle. I don't know enough about marketing world to make sense of it.
“Mark Zuckerberg has kind of equated anonymity with a lack of authenticity, almost a cowardice,” said Poole. “I would say that’s totally wrong. I think anonymity is authenticity. It allows you to share in a completely unvarnished, unfiltered, raw way. I think that’s something that’s extremely valuable. In the case of content creation, it just allows you to play in ways that you may not have otherwise. We believe in content over creator.”
Maybe Zuckerberg never heard of pen names when he was busy with more important things in school? His FB policy was always a bit of a puzzle to me, but not one big enough to look into until I saw this on/.
A right, by definition, does not require action on the part of another.
You have every right to remove what you've posted to your own servers - but once you post to someone else's server, you've relinquished control of that information, permanently.
How about information gathered about you that you don't want out there and did not post? Like residences, incomes, vehicle registrations and other.
Rock is an insulator, not a heat sink. Heat sinks conduct heat well, like metals. When you get your processor really cold during lunar night, encase it in rock after, then you're rockin'
The title does not seem to go with the article. It sounds like Google is adding more functionality to Microsoft Office, free of charge. What am I missing?
What in the world does this have to do with Jack Weppler?
Could be something his ex thought about him?;)
More on topic, I am glad they gave the error 200 info in TFA. I was about to mention that a friend had a girl problem. One thing about the ordeal was how responsive the Google URL removal tool was. Just about the only thing he had nice to say about anything related to the issue.
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Don't the archeologists pin the origin of our species in Africa too? Don't Christians, Jews and Muslims (probably others) place it there too? Just seems logical and should not be a shock.
the period of time from which the position of the Sun in the sky at a given, fixed Mercury longitude returns to that same position is 176 Earth days.
It's okay, you can say "Mercury's day is 176 Earth days long." I mean, unless you want to replace "Earth day" with the same long-winded macro you used for "Mercury day"....
To be fair Earth's solar day and sidereal day are four minutes apart, so we Earthlings might easily think "one rotation" is synonymous to a day. Not true, but close enough. But it's not even close on Mercury, where a solar day is exactly three sidereal days. Depending where you are on the surface, a single solar day might have more than one sunrise.
Another interesting property of Mercury is that it has a very miniscule axial tilt (<0.1 degrees), which means at the poles, the sun -- appearing three times larger than on Earth -- will always be halfway above the horizon and the temperature would stay relatively constant. Constant temperatures, possible water ice, Mars-level gravity...all interesting things. If we ever become the space-faring species we should be, we may very well have a place there.
Finally, a place with enough hours in the day!
Actually, if one person bought the $.99 ebook, he'd be ahead. I didn't see any correlation between book sales and ebook distribution proven in the article.
Yes, that is a true point. $0.99 is more than $0 for the eBooks. From the post it sounds like it cost him money to have the eBooks up, so he would be "less behind" if he had made something to offset what he paid out.
The guy missed out - he could have made a fortune by charging a couple of bucks for it.
Even .99 cents would have been more profitable.
That depends on if the same amount of people would have bought the eBook for $0.99 vs. free. After that recent $0.99 story went up, I told my friend who I helped with some books and he hosts my only eBook on his account. He reduced the price of almost everything to $0.99 and the only effect (as of yesterday anyway) the only sales increase was the paperbacks in bookstores and none of us think that is related. His free stories are popular and one does okay as a re-edited pay version on Kindle. I don't know enough about marketing world to make sense of it.
Maybe Zuckerberg never heard of pen names when he was busy with more important things in school? His FB policy was always a bit of a puzzle to me, but not one big enough to look into until I saw this on /.
Would be nice if we could do that here in the USA with data the government demands, does not protect and exempts itself from any wrongdoing.
Just because it's on the Internet doesn't make it special.
What if someone out there knows your home address, and published it in a newpaper. Could you sue them or the paper for publishing it?
Take the emotionally charged Internet topic out, and lay it simply -- should you be able to forcibly censor someone from stating a fact? I don't.
What about an unlisted phone number that was required for a property registration?
A right, by definition, does not require action on the part of another.
You have every right to remove what you've posted to your own servers - but once you post to someone else's server, you've relinquished control of that information, permanently.
How about information gathered about you that you don't want out there and did not post? Like residences, incomes, vehicle registrations and other.
It is running better than what came with the 3G, which is a very low hurdle.
Then I am way ahead with my iPhone 3G that is current with 4.2.1, sticking it to the 'korporazionz!' by not using any of the stuff you mention.
That explains why they keep shooting down our probes. The Great Galactic Ghoul is just a myth.
Rock is an insulator, not a heat sink. Heat sinks conduct heat well, like metals. When you get your processor really cold during lunar night, encase it in rock after, then you're rockin'
The vacuum of space on the far side of the moon is the perfect overclocking environment for half the month.
which they feel could be used as a base by astronauts on future manned missions to moon.
What makes them think the moon's crawlspace is not already in use?
The title does not seem to go with the article. It sounds like Google is adding more functionality to Microsoft Office, free of charge. What am I missing?
A little radiation never hurt anybody.
True, but a lot of it will burn you to a crisp!
Moderation is the key to all fun, god and clean or bad and nasty.
e=mc^2 tells me nothing, its a concept, but it means nothing w/o understanding how many people died from a few pounds of nuclear mineral
A little radiation never hurt anybody.
How many Library of Congresses is that? I just have no perspective without it being expressed in LOC units.
I for one welcome our new Borg overlords.
Isn't 'singularity' more appropriate? Is there a proper plural of the Singularity?
> Last year the institute began selling a Java phone application for securely storing passwords.
Oh, look, they sell something that makes the problem go away. Surprise, surprise.
If the problem is replicated by others, then their program is quite valuable.
Buying used satellites is just buying someone else's problems. Unless it is a cool classic satellite with tail fins.
Or maybe some people know the computer wont be fixed by yelling at it. A kick is usually more effective.
I never compute within reach of a loaded shotgun just for that reason.
As a Windows user who has tried several times to switch, I can assure you that much cursing was indeed involved.
Just from my experience today, I made up for those slackers who didn't admit to cursing aloud and for the ones telling the truth.
They already have a cloud city featured in the movie Avatar. Now it is going to be 'cloud computing city'. What is next? 3D cloud computing city?*
*Stupid /. will not let me write in Chinese!
What in the world does this have to do with Jack Weppler?
Could be something his ex thought about him? ;)
More on topic, I am glad they gave the error 200 info in TFA. I was about to mention that a friend had a girl problem. One thing about the ordeal was how responsive the Google URL removal tool was. Just about the only thing he had nice to say about anything related to the issue.