Oh, I'm quite sure that there will be a whole range of models. As the technology develops, appearance, behaviour, musculature (internal and external) will all be modifiable - some by hardware kits, some by software. There would probably also be a hacking community so that if you want the "Official" (and probably DRM'd) Katie Holmes edition, then you can hack it so that you can add Tom Cruise into the mix, if you're into dwarf fucking. Of course, you'll need the correct hardware additions, but WTF, it's only plastic and software. Silicone and silicon, if you like.
Third, and maybe this is just observational voodoo, but I swear that manhandling the flexible polymer battery too much degrades battery life.
I've never knowingly seen an iPhone, so I've no way to know if it's voodoo or not, but it doesn't sound unreasonable to anticipate that handling a flexible device that depends on the area of sheets maintained at a small but necessary spacing would affect the capacity of that device.
(I probably have seen an iPhone, but as far as I know they look identical to other phones - black slabs - so how would you know you were looking at an xPhone without actually looking for logos. Or having the phone's owner screaming in your face "look at my iWanker toy" ; I tend not to waste my time knowing wankers like that.
That would only be important to people who consider reproduction to be important. To those of us who don't give a shit about reproduction, a discussion about reproduction is unimportant.
Actually, not really, before the angiosperms fucked up the atmosphere after the big impact it was very different in O2 content and the big sauropods had very different lung setup.
Sauropods were indeed dinosaurs which are not particularly closely related to birds - at least, not compared to theropod dinosaurs. However, avian dinosaurs and sauropod dinosaurs are more closely related to each other than either are to mammals, turtles, crocodiles, lizards, snakes, any of the amphibians, and let's use lungfish as an outgroup.
I forget what the character count allowed in the "signature line" is, but it's not really designed for detailed phylogenetic discussions.
I've been using this signature for years - maybe approaching a decade - and you're the first person who knows their dinosaurs well enough to call me on that point.
Ummm, why are you blaming the angiosperms for a change in the atmosphere composition. They were doing their big spread in the early- to mid-Cretaceous (when there was a modest increase in oxygenation, which is probably associated with the "KL oscillations" that you'll see in your well library; particularly clearly on resistivity logs), but the much larger change in oxygenation at the K-Pg boundary wasn't associated with any particularly marked changes in terrestrial plants. There were big changes in the marine life, including plants ; but none of them were angiosperms. any atmospheric changes down to angiosperms were 30 or 40 million years before the Chixulub impact (and it remains an open question whether that had any great impact on the life of the time).
If the US has higher health and safety standards than other countries (and having worked with a number of American companies and seen their appallingly low standards of health and safety, I seriously doubt that is true), then surely the correct thing to do is to help other countries to raise their standards of health and safety. that way fewer people die or are injured.
This is not black and white, and quite the opposite.
Which part of "some jurisdictions" wasn't clear. It is possible (because I don't know American law) that in American law the obligations on a publisher are as you describe. But that does not matter. Even if "our New Overlords" are based in America (something I don't know), then if I am reading material on their website in the UK, then the libel laws of the UK apply to the people who publish that material in the UK. The text is rendered into a legible form in the UK, and that is what counts, under UK law.
It is rational for the lawyers of our New Overlords to understand the threat profile that they are exposed to. That may include deciding that I don't know UK libel law adequately - entirely possible, as there have been changes in the last few years, and I don't know if there is precedent on the changes - or it may involve geo-blocking to refuse service requests from the UK.
Even if we both agree that it is insane to have such variation in laws between nations, I really doubt that the USA is going to agree to come under the jurisdiction of international law over this matter, considering the lack of interest that the USA traditionally show to obeying international laws in other respects (e.g. torture of prisoners). (Incidentally, I think the changes I mentioned in UK libel laws were at least in part to bring the UK's laws into line with European libel laws. But IANAL, thankfully.)
She drove from Belgium to Croatia. She had to cross into 4 countries. With 5 different languages.
Just how far out of it do you have to be?
I once met a man who had been 40 miles off route. He had been hill walking, with a map and a compass. But he thought that the white end of his compass needle pointed north, not the red end. And the landscape he followed more-or less matched what he expected to within about 15 degrees of orientation (our magnetic declination at the time was just over 7 degrees ; it's barely over 3 degrees now). It wasn't until he had gone along two lakes (when the map showed that he should only have gone along one lake), and hadn't crossed either the road or railway line that he realised that something must be wrong. When he reached a third lake, he decided to try to re-trace his route. During that, I met him (I'd seen him earlier in the day with my binoculars and had wondered WTF he was doing), worked out what was wrong, put him outside a meal and a brew, then escorted him back to tarmaced road. I found out later that the local police had noticed his car parked up oddly and when he got back there they were thinking about launching a S&R operation for him.
You don't need to be stupid to end up in that sort of situation. A depressingly large number of people don't recognise when they're getting into trouble, and keep on digging themselves in deeper. Otherwise perfectly sane ans sensible people. Calling them stupid doesn't help.
(My lost man was an experienced hill walker, fit and well equipped. I put in a 10 hour working day making a geological map while he was on his meander through the countryside ; we were both solo.)
Two poles, a couple of lengths of rope, a combination padlock, and a sign painted on a bit of wood. Run the chain across the access road, from pole to pole. Connect the ends in the middle of the road with the padlock and the sign. Paint the sign saying "NOT A PUBLIC ROAD \n GOES NOWHERE BUT MR X's YARD \n If you want to see Mr X, combination in reverse of sign." Or words to that effect.
There's no need to be a dick to people who are simply misinformed.
A standard rant : it may be common to refer to this technology as "GPS", but that is wrong. It is sold as "satellite navigation" because that is a better description of what it is and what it does. There is a system that tells you your location - that is the GPS. There is a system that stores map data. And there is a system that uses the map data to calculate routing instructions to get between two locations on the map (one of which is typically the location returned by the GPS subsystem.
Here, the errors are either in the map data (you did get a system that uses OSM data, and keep it up to date? That way, you can correct the map.), or less likely an error in the route-calculating algorithm. Most likely it is the map data that is wrong, because that changes more often than either routing algorithms or the GPS system.
My wife and I actually refer to the free-standing satellite navigation machine as the "Deranged Idiot" as it's first version (since replaced by a pub quiz prize) had some seriously out of date map data - it showed roads as open which had been blocked off to prevent rat-running since before any GPS satellites were launched. The deranged company that sold the hardware would not accept map error information unless I' had signed up for a 2-year contract of their £30/ month speed camera database - which didn't even cover the country I was in, and didn't cover the northern half of the country it was designed in.
None of which affected the functionality of either the route-finding algorithm, or the GPS location-finding function of that aspect of the system. So here's some shit advertising for Road Angel - makers of the Deranged Idiot line of satellite navigation systems. Avoid them.
A rain forest is called a rain forest because it basically rains there every day at least once.
No it's not. Some rainforest areas have considerable dry seasons. And considerable wet seasons too. The terminology is (loosely) based on annual rainfall.
How would a policy of censorship or content deletion improve this situation
Because in some jurisdictions (e.g. the one I'm reading from), publishing libel is almost impossible to defend, and very expensive to even try to defend. So rationally, the lawyers of the new owners (sorry, in deference to long tradition, "our New Overlords") need to at least be aware of the threat profile of their new acquisition. What they then choose to do about it is then their choice, but they should at least be aware of the threat.
They may have evidence as to who paid for the device, and/ or it's communications connection. Whether that is the person who was using it at the time that $SUSPICIOUS_COMMUNICATION$ is a question that they still have to address.
I hate to burst your bubble, but Hong Kong does belong to China [wikipedia.org] since 1 July 1997.
Hong Kong was LEASED to the UK as part of war reparations after the British government sent it's army in to support their drug-running citizens.
The Chinese refused Britain's requests to extend the lease when it expired. As was their right, under the contract they agreed to - at gunboat point - 150 years previously. They were under no obligation to take Britain's opinion into account, or any opinions of the inhabitants.
Did people not READ the fucking contract, or delude themselves into believing that the state of the world was different to what they wanted to believe it was?
Shouldn't people be engaging the PARKING BRAKE when parking the vehicle. You know - the one that utilises a straight mechanical linkage to the brake shoes, without any input from the vehicle. As if (shock! horror!) it were the DRIVER's personal responsibility?
Wouldn't that be ballistic?
Automatics are freaky. Having to tuck your left foot under the driver's seat to avoid trying to operate the clutch - very weird.
While I treat StartsWithABang's constant Slashvertising for his advert server with the disdain it deserves, I think he does actually know his astrophysics. A pity he got laid off from his paying work and needs to whore himself to Forbes to put food on the table.
The problem with neutrino telescopy is that we don't have a neutrino-opaque material. So all our neutrino telescopes are whole-sky telescopes. The first generations of neutrino telescopes (e.g., the Homestake experiment that you refer to) had no direction sensitivity at all, but purely returned counts of neutrinos over the interval since the last purging.
When Cherenkov detectors came in, the cone of Cherenkov radiation would give you the orientation of travel, but not the direction of travel. For example, the Super-Kamiokande detector counted a pulse of 11 neutrinos from SN1987A with an accuracy of about +/-28deg, of which the first two pointed to the LCM (or it's antipode) with an accuracy of 18deg +/-18deg and 15deg +/- 27deg (the rest of the burst was "consistent with isotropy" ; the trigger time of the photomultipliers is about 50ns, which restricts the directional accuracy).
I can't be bothered to track down the accuracy of, say, ANTARES or ICE-CUBE ; but they'll be in the literature. On the basis that you try to half the imprecision with each new generation of equipment (otherwise it's not worthwhile building ore re-building), you'd expect precisions of around 7-10deg (one and ah half to two fist-widths at arms length), which is getting to the point of potentially being useful for pointing survey telescopes.
So, while we knew there were neutrinos coming into the detectors before SN1987A, observers had no way of knowing whether they were from the Sun, a supernova, or backwash form an alien's anti-gravity drive. The "SK eleven" (sounds like a bank robbery gang) were the first detections that astronomers could point at and say "we think these neutrinos came from there, for these reasons".
That's the science bit (and a little defence of StartWithAnAdvert's science, if not of his writing skills) ; for my own interest... WTF is the current SN monitor system?
Well, unsurprinsingly, there is a paper on Arxiv. Oh, it's just from last week!
It is also important to determine the SN direction using the neutrino signal: the direction information can guide optical instruments toward the SN explosion and enable observation of the onset of radiation. Among the neutrino detectors operating at present, Super-Kamiokande (SK) is the only detector able to determine the SN direction using neutrino events.
Well, I'll take their word for it.
When the SN burst has less than 60 events, the golden warning will not be generated.
Oh, Japanese English! sorry, "Engrish!" It must be authentic!
The pointing accuracy estimated by the e
nsemble study is found to be 3.1 â¼ 3.8â--¦ (4.3 â¼5.9â--¦) at 68.2% coverage for the Wilson (NK1) model at 10 kpc, where the range covers various neutrino oscillation scenarios.
Well bugger me! My wild-arsed guess above wasn't too bad!
And the final question... how do I receive neutrino burst alerts? That is something I'm working on finding the answer to. but I deserve a pint!
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Oh, I'm quite sure that there will be a whole range of models. As the technology develops, appearance, behaviour, musculature (internal and external) will all be modifiable - some by hardware kits, some by software. There would probably also be a hacking community so that if you want the "Official" (and probably DRM'd) Katie Holmes edition, then you can hack it so that you can add Tom Cruise into the mix, if you're into dwarf fucking. Of course, you'll need the correct hardware additions, but WTF, it's only plastic and software. Silicone and silicon, if you like.
None in the future. The past is the past.
I've never knowingly seen an iPhone, so I've no way to know if it's voodoo or not, but it doesn't sound unreasonable to anticipate that handling a flexible device that depends on the area of sheets maintained at a small but necessary spacing would affect the capacity of that device.
(I probably have seen an iPhone, but as far as I know they look identical to other phones - black slabs - so how would you know you were looking at an xPhone without actually looking for logos. Or having the phone's owner screaming in your face "look at my iWanker toy" ; I tend not to waste my time knowing wankers like that.
I am almost tempted to link to that famous email service, goatse.cx
That would only be important to people who consider reproduction to be important. To those of us who don't give a shit about reproduction, a discussion about reproduction is unimportant.
FTFY
That would shift the bottleneck to engine power, and the deliverability of that power. That costs serious coin for any working vessel,
Sauropods were indeed dinosaurs which are not particularly closely related to birds - at least, not compared to theropod dinosaurs. However, avian dinosaurs and sauropod dinosaurs are more closely related to each other than either are to mammals, turtles, crocodiles, lizards, snakes, any of the amphibians, and let's use lungfish as an outgroup.
I forget what the character count allowed in the "signature line" is, but it's not really designed for detailed phylogenetic discussions.
I've been using this signature for years - maybe approaching a decade - and you're the first person who knows their dinosaurs well enough to call me on that point.
Ummm, why are you blaming the angiosperms for a change in the atmosphere composition. They were doing their big spread in the early- to mid-Cretaceous (when there was a modest increase in oxygenation, which is probably associated with the "KL oscillations" that you'll see in your well library; particularly clearly on resistivity logs), but the much larger change in oxygenation at the K-Pg boundary wasn't associated with any particularly marked changes in terrestrial plants. There were big changes in the marine life, including plants ; but none of them were angiosperms. any atmospheric changes down to angiosperms were 30 or 40 million years before the Chixulub impact (and it remains an open question whether that had any great impact on the life of the time).
Or do you actually care about people?
Which part of "some jurisdictions" wasn't clear. It is possible (because I don't know American law) that in American law the obligations on a publisher are as you describe. But that does not matter. Even if "our New Overlords" are based in America (something I don't know), then if I am reading material on their website in the UK, then the libel laws of the UK apply to the people who publish that material in the UK. The text is rendered into a legible form in the UK, and that is what counts, under UK law.
It is rational for the lawyers of our New Overlords to understand the threat profile that they are exposed to. That may include deciding that I don't know UK libel law adequately - entirely possible, as there have been changes in the last few years, and I don't know if there is precedent on the changes - or it may involve geo-blocking to refuse service requests from the UK.
Even if we both agree that it is insane to have such variation in laws between nations, I really doubt that the USA is going to agree to come under the jurisdiction of international law over this matter, considering the lack of interest that the USA traditionally show to obeying international laws in other respects (e.g. torture of prisoners). (Incidentally, I think the changes I mentioned in UK libel laws were at least in part to bring the UK's laws into line with European libel laws. But IANAL, thankfully.)
That's no reason to behave Americanly. Stand up and be proud of your Mexican heritage!
The weather was fine (by Scottish standards), with about 2/8 to 4/8 cloud cover.
I once met a man who had been 40 miles off route. He had been hill walking, with a map and a compass. But he thought that the white end of his compass needle pointed north, not the red end. And the landscape he followed more-or less matched what he expected to within about 15 degrees of orientation (our magnetic declination at the time was just over 7 degrees ; it's barely over 3 degrees now). It wasn't until he had gone along two lakes (when the map showed that he should only have gone along one lake), and hadn't crossed either the road or railway line that he realised that something must be wrong. When he reached a third lake, he decided to try to re-trace his route. During that, I met him (I'd seen him earlier in the day with my binoculars and had wondered WTF he was doing), worked out what was wrong, put him outside a meal and a brew, then escorted him back to tarmaced road. I found out later that the local police had noticed his car parked up oddly and when he got back there they were thinking about launching a S&R operation for him.
You don't need to be stupid to end up in that sort of situation. A depressingly large number of people don't recognise when they're getting into trouble, and keep on digging themselves in deeper. Otherwise perfectly sane ans sensible people. Calling them stupid doesn't help.
(My lost man was an experienced hill walker, fit and well equipped. I put in a 10 hour working day making a geological map while he was on his meander through the countryside ; we were both solo.)
Two poles, a couple of lengths of rope, a combination padlock, and a sign painted on a bit of wood. Run the chain across the access road, from pole to pole. Connect the ends in the middle of the road with the padlock and the sign. Paint the sign saying "NOT A PUBLIC ROAD \n GOES NOWHERE BUT MR X's YARD \n If you want to see Mr X, combination in reverse of sign." Or words to that effect.
There's no need to be a dick to people who are simply misinformed.
A standard rant : it may be common to refer to this technology as "GPS", but that is wrong. It is sold as "satellite navigation" because that is a better description of what it is and what it does. There is a system that tells you your location - that is the GPS. There is a system that stores map data. And there is a system that uses the map data to calculate routing instructions to get between two locations on the map (one of which is typically the location returned by the GPS subsystem.
Here, the errors are either in the map data (you did get a system that uses OSM data, and keep it up to date? That way, you can correct the map.), or less likely an error in the route-calculating algorithm. Most likely it is the map data that is wrong, because that changes more often than either routing algorithms or the GPS system.
My wife and I actually refer to the free-standing satellite navigation machine as the "Deranged Idiot" as it's first version (since replaced by a pub quiz prize) had some seriously out of date map data - it showed roads as open which had been blocked off to prevent rat-running since before any GPS satellites were launched. The deranged company that sold the hardware would not accept map error information unless I' had signed up for a 2-year contract of their £30/ month speed camera database - which didn't even cover the country I was in, and didn't cover the northern half of the country it was designed in.
None of which affected the functionality of either the route-finding algorithm, or the GPS location-finding function of that aspect of the system. So here's some shit advertising for Road Angel - makers of the Deranged Idiot line of satellite navigation systems. Avoid them.
No half measures : https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...
No it's not. Some rainforest areas have considerable dry seasons. And considerable wet seasons too. The terminology is (loosely) based on annual rainfall.
Because in some jurisdictions (e.g. the one I'm reading from), publishing libel is almost impossible to defend, and very expensive to even try to defend. So rationally, the lawyers of the new owners (sorry, in deference to long tradition, "our New Overlords") need to at least be aware of the threat profile of their new acquisition. What they then choose to do about it is then their choice, but they should at least be aware of the threat.
Sorry, bigger budgets, and more potential to strip-search, grope and fine people. Of course they're going to go for it.
They may have evidence as to who paid for the device, and/ or it's communications connection. Whether that is the person who was using it at the time that $SUSPICIOUS_COMMUNICATION$ is a question that they still have to address.
Hint : answer is not affirmative.
Hong Kong was LEASED to the UK as part of war reparations after the British government sent it's army in to support their drug-running citizens.
The Chinese refused Britain's requests to extend the lease when it expired. As was their right, under the contract they agreed to - at gunboat point - 150 years previously. They were under no obligation to take Britain's opinion into account, or any opinions of the inhabitants.
Did people not READ the fucking contract, or delude themselves into believing that the state of the world was different to what they wanted to believe it was?
Wouldn't that be ballistic?
Automatics are freaky. Having to tuck your left foot under the driver's seat to avoid trying to operate the clutch - very weird.
For which question, you need climate scientists.
The problem with neutrino telescopy is that we don't have a neutrino-opaque material. So all our neutrino telescopes are whole-sky telescopes. The first generations of neutrino telescopes (e.g., the Homestake experiment that you refer to) had no direction sensitivity at all, but purely returned counts of neutrinos over the interval since the last purging.
When Cherenkov detectors came in, the cone of Cherenkov radiation would give you the orientation of travel, but not the direction of travel. For example, the Super-Kamiokande detector counted a pulse of 11 neutrinos from SN1987A with an accuracy of about +/-28deg, of which the first two pointed to the LCM (or it's antipode) with an accuracy of 18deg +/-18deg and 15deg +/- 27deg (the rest of the burst was "consistent with isotropy" ; the trigger time of the photomultipliers is about 50ns, which restricts the directional accuracy).
I can't be bothered to track down the accuracy of, say, ANTARES or ICE-CUBE ; but they'll be in the literature. On the basis that you try to half the imprecision with each new generation of equipment (otherwise it's not worthwhile building ore re-building), you'd expect precisions of around 7-10deg (one and ah half to two fist-widths at arms length), which is getting to the point of potentially being useful for pointing survey telescopes.
So, while we knew there were neutrinos coming into the detectors before SN1987A, observers had no way of knowing whether they were from the Sun, a supernova, or backwash form an alien's anti-gravity drive. The "SK eleven" (sounds like a bank robbery gang) were the first detections that astronomers could point at and say "we think these neutrinos came from there, for these reasons".
That's the science bit (and a little defence of StartWithAnAdvert's science, if not of his writing skills) ; for my own interest ... WTF is the current SN monitor system?
Well, unsurprinsingly, there is a paper on Arxiv. Oh, it's just from last week!
Well, I'll take their word for it.
Oh, Japanese English! sorry, "Engrish!" It must be authentic!
Well bugger me! My wild-arsed guess above wasn't too bad!
And the final question ... how do I receive neutrino burst alerts? That is something I'm working on finding the answer to. but I deserve a pint!
FTFY