You're looking at something that's 290,000,000+ years old. Even a faint fuzzy is enough to appreciate the fact that light had to travel a somewhat lengthy distance to get to one's eye. I think a major problem with amateur astronomy is the unrealistic expectations of many newcomers. Images from professional observatories (including space-based telescopes) show large images with significant detail - some consider this to be 'what you see through a telescope' and don't think too much about the nature of the telescope in question.
Educating people in what they're looking at and why it's so small goes a long way to improve their appreciation of the detail one can see through even a small telescope.:)
Magnitude 12.9 is quite visible to a 254mm (10 inch) newtonian (dobsonian) telescope that would cost you less than $600 if you picked one up second-hand. The trick is familiarising yourself with the night sky to be sure you're looking at the correct dim dot.;) For thousands of dollars (and a lot of patience) you can discover them yourself using a computer controlled mount and a modest amount of aperture: Dave Grennan *discovered* a supernova from the outskirts of Dublin city using a 14 inch Cassegrain scope. http://www.science.ie/science-news/supernova.html
Many of us own cutting edge hardware - it's just that the hardware we own is limited to certain types of astronomy and is thus priced at a level where a professional or amateur can realistically afford it. For around £70000 you can have a cutting-edge imaging set-up capable of imaging supernovae in other galaxies. For less than £10000 it's possible to get hardware capable of photographing impact events on Jupiter in reasonable detail. If you pick up pre-owned gear you can get it significantly cheaper.
Given the choice between a sports car and something that lets me look back in time at the astoundingly beautiful universe we reside in I don't think the car is very exciting.
As an amateur astronomer I think the general mindset is that one cannot make a discovery of any significance without owning cutting edge hardware. Telescopes produce such mind-bending quantities of data that there is much opportunity for someone with some patience and an inquiring mind to add to the knowledge-base.
Surely also a brilliant argument of the power of publicly available data.
If you have a shirt or car-sticker that clearly states that you're recording does that cover you or will the cops just see that as perverting the course of 'justice'?
The ace in the hole for net neutrality is the latest crop of cheap TVs with built-in Netflix and other online services. My in-laws just purchased one a few months ago and they use Netflix constantly. These are dye-in-the-wool, Ann Coulter-reading, FOXNews-watching Republicans. I mentioned to my father-in-law about net neutrality being a big issue. He had never heard of it. When I explained the ramifications for their Netflix usage, his response was to immediately support it. It will be interesting to see this shake out. This is another chance where we can see if FOX and Rush can convince more people to act against their own self interest in support of some bastardization of "freedom."
To paraphrase the Wako Kid: What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter?" You've got to remember that these are just simple Republicans. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons."
It's a wonderful reminder to the companies attempting to shut down such services that it's almost completely impossible.
I think the fact that they can say, "we're back" less than a month after a court 'killed' the service is going to be very disappointing to the RIAA/MPAA and other international equivalents.
Their legal representation probably just threw an impromptu party though.
It's an amazing program which anyone with an interest in astronomy should have. You can also determine when amazing astronomic events will take place. For instance, if one looks up at the western sky from the UK on September 9th 2040, one might see this: http://bit.ly/bfEDKj
It's a pity that the church is not as enlightened in its view of contraceptives where the scientific evidence is clear.
Catholicism's approach to science seems to be, 'We accept it unless it competes with our interpretation of the bible.'
I cannot say for sure that your first point is invalid but I would contend that if children were not indoctrinated, faith* would supersede religion quite quickly.
* A considerably less malevolent affair that rarely demands that the believer spread said belief.
I would think that the ability to run linux *again* might be of more interest here on/. Having to crack a console to get functionality back sounds like a joke but I suspect few are laughing.
To get back to the topic at hand, given John Carmac's view of the PS3 architecture, it's likely that porting emulators for the more modern consoles (i.e., those that require 3D accelleration) may be a lot more trouble than it was for, say, the original Xbox.
John: I never liked the Cell architecture. You can get high peak numbers out of it, but software development time matters a lot, and not having caches and virtual memory makes development take a lot longer, especially for the majority of applications that don't fit neatly into the DMA pipeline model.
I'm not following you here. I use my N900 to guide my telescope, trigger my SLR camera (via IR), as a portable starmap (Orrery, Stellarium), as a SSH/VNC client, as a motion-capture camera... It can do all of these things pretty well simultaneously.
It also dual boots Android and can be overclocked to 900Mhz+ with no stability issues.
If you mean powerful in terms of processor power, that's all good and well but how much of that power are you personally able to use? What good is having a turbo in a car that's only ever used to take the kids to school*? I can appreciate aesthetic but not when it limits productivity.
Speaking of aesthetic - beauty is in the eye of the beholder and whilst I have the freedom to drastically change the N900's interface I don't believe the iPhone supports per-user optimisation.
I see far more power and far greater variation in 'shiny' in a device with a lower clock and less chrome.
* I really tried to avoid a car analogy but I fear slashdot demands it.:)
I agree for the most part but there's an issue here that many people aren't willing to deal with; some games do not have competition in that they provide a unique experience.
The question then comes down to buying the game and accepting the potentially harmful DRM, pirating it, or not playing it at all.
I've chosen not to play various games I'm very aware are great because I'm unwilling to deal with pirating them or installing DRM, this is very much driven by my own ethics and I'm aware that some companies will still claim that poor sales are the direct result of piracy rather than poor product. Still, there are a growing number - particularly in the under 20's - who only see the choice as buy or pirate.
Given the higher value of the pirated version combined with the lower price it's hard to see a change in mindset any time soon.
"about 0.3 yen a sheet/number of times of rewriting."
Correct me if I'm wrong but this cost assumes you don't need to keep a hard-copy, i.e., you're printing to said sheet 1000 times.
In other words, if you never keep a copy and always reuse the sheets you'll save cash... The ratio of sheets you wish to keep to sheets you consider disposable has to be high; why else would you print something if not for long-term reference?
I love this kind of weasel speak, it reminds me how myopic people can be when it suits them. Perhaps he should have said, "our unproven plan is vastly superior to their unproven plan"?
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This seems like an move to counter Apple by cornering the other end of the market.
Instead of terrible hardware with solid software Nokrosoft present solid hardware with terrible software.
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The illustration (in TFA) of 2011b was made with one of these (visually, of course):
http://www.pulsar-optical.co.uk/prod/telescopes/sky-watcher/dobsonians.html
(Please note I have no affiliation with the above company)
As for seeing it as a faint cloud: What more do you want? Consider the image taken of supernova 2010 IK:
http://cdn.thejournal.ie/media/2010/10/supernova1-478x377.jpg
You're looking at something that's 290,000,000+ years old. Even a faint fuzzy is enough to appreciate the fact that light had to travel a somewhat lengthy distance to get to one's eye. I think a major problem with amateur astronomy is the unrealistic expectations of many newcomers. Images from professional observatories (including space-based telescopes) show large images with significant detail - some consider this to be 'what you see through a telescope' and don't think too much about the nature of the telescope in question.
Educating people in what they're looking at and why it's so small goes a long way to improve their appreciation of the detail one can see through even a small telescope. :)
Magnitude 12.9 is quite visible to a 254mm (10 inch) newtonian (dobsonian) telescope that would cost you less than $600 if you picked one up second-hand. The trick is familiarising yourself with the night sky to be sure you're looking at the correct dim dot. ;)
For thousands of dollars (and a lot of patience) you can discover them yourself using a computer controlled mount and a modest amount of aperture: Dave Grennan *discovered* a supernova from the outskirts of Dublin city using a 14 inch Cassegrain scope. http://www.science.ie/science-news/supernova.html
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Limiting_magnitude#In_amateur_astronomy
Magnitude calculator: http://www.cruxis.com/scope/limitingmagnitude.htm
If only we could get more done about the horrible light pollution one wouldn't have to travel so far from urban areas.
Many of us own cutting edge hardware - it's just that the hardware we own is limited to certain types of astronomy and is thus priced at a level where a professional or amateur can realistically afford it. For around £70000 you can have a cutting-edge imaging set-up capable of imaging supernovae in other galaxies. For less than £10000 it's possible to get hardware capable of photographing impact events on Jupiter in reasonable detail. If you pick up pre-owned gear you can get it significantly cheaper.
Given the choice between a sports car and something that lets me look back in time at the astoundingly beautiful universe we reside in I don't think the car is very exciting.
As an amateur astronomer I think the general mindset is that one cannot make a discovery of any significance without owning cutting edge hardware. Telescopes produce such mind-bending quantities of data that there is much opportunity for someone with some patience and an inquiring mind to add to the knowledge-base.
Surely also a brilliant argument of the power of publicly available data.
Only the Vorlons and J.M. Straczynski say that.
If you have a shirt or car-sticker that clearly states that you're recording does that cover you or will the cops just see that as perverting the course of 'justice'?
The ace in the hole for net neutrality is the latest crop of cheap TVs with built-in Netflix and other online services. My in-laws just purchased one a few months ago and they use Netflix constantly. These are dye-in-the-wool, Ann Coulter-reading, FOXNews-watching Republicans. I mentioned to my father-in-law about net neutrality being a big issue. He had never heard of it. When I explained the ramifications for their Netflix usage, his response was to immediately support it. It will be interesting to see this shake out. This is another chance where we can see if FOX and Rush can convince more people to act against their own self interest in support of some bastardization of "freedom."
To paraphrase the Wako Kid: What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter?" You've got to remember that these are just simple Republicans. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons."
...and what about the environmental impact of all that needless shipping and packaging?
It's a wonderful reminder to the companies attempting to shut down such services that it's almost completely impossible.
I think the fact that they can say, "we're back" less than a month after a court 'killed' the service is going to be very disappointing to the RIAA/MPAA and other international equivalents.
Their legal representation probably just threw an impromptu party though.
Sorry I don't have any karma to give to you.
It's an amazing program which anyone with an interest in astronomy should have. You can also determine when amazing astronomic events will take place. For instance, if one looks up at the western sky from the UK on September 9th 2040, one might see this: http://bit.ly/bfEDKj
It's a pity that the church is not as enlightened in its view of contraceptives where the scientific evidence is clear.
Catholicism's approach to science seems to be, 'We accept it unless it competes with our interpretation of the bible.'
I cannot say for sure that your first point is invalid but I would contend that if children were not indoctrinated, faith* would supersede religion quite quickly.
* A considerably less malevolent affair that rarely demands that the believer spread said belief.
I would think that the ability to run linux *again* might be of more interest here on /.
Having to crack a console to get functionality back sounds like a joke but I suspect few are laughing.
To get back to the topic at hand, given John Carmac's view of the PS3 architecture, it's likely that porting emulators for the more modern consoles (i.e., those that require 3D accelleration) may be a lot more trouble than it was for, say, the original Xbox.
John: I never liked the Cell architecture. You can get high peak numbers out of it, but software development time matters a lot, and not having caches and virtual memory makes development take a lot longer, especially for the majority of applications that don't fit neatly into the DMA pipeline model.
From http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ps3-playstation-3-linux-john-carmack,10035.html
I've tried several times now...
Forty-seven million times?
This is an interesting and worthwhile view if you're interested in the complexities of fusion:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606#
It's very interesting that the tokamak design is considered a dead-end by the speaker.
It's named ''Shutter and supports triggering on Canon, Olympus and Nikon dSLR cameras. Sadly, I'm unaware of an android equivalent.
You're not supposed to get your software from Ovi (which is worthless), but from Debian (which is the biggest OS distribution in existence).
Indeed, a quick check shows 22932 packages and not one fart-button in sight. ;)
I'm not following you here.
I use my N900 to guide my telescope, trigger my SLR camera (via IR), as a portable starmap (Orrery, Stellarium), as a SSH/VNC client, as a motion-capture camera... It can do all of these things pretty well simultaneously.
It also dual boots Android and can be overclocked to 900Mhz+ with no stability issues.
If you mean powerful in terms of processor power, that's all good and well but how much of that power are you personally able to use? What good is having a turbo in a car that's only ever used to take the kids to school*? I can appreciate aesthetic but not when it limits productivity.
Speaking of aesthetic - beauty is in the eye of the beholder and whilst I have the freedom to drastically change the N900's interface I don't believe the iPhone supports per-user optimisation.
I see far more power and far greater variation in 'shiny' in a device with a lower clock and less chrome.
* I really tried to avoid a car analogy but I fear slashdot demands it. :)
how about R'lyeh OS?
Will there be an O'R'lyeh book on coding for the OS? What will they put on the cover?
I agree for the most part but there's an issue here that many people aren't willing to deal with; some games do not have competition in that they provide a unique experience.
The question then comes down to buying the game and accepting the potentially harmful DRM, pirating it, or not playing it at all.
I've chosen not to play various games I'm very aware are great because I'm unwilling to deal with pirating them or installing DRM, this is very much driven by my own ethics and I'm aware that some companies will still claim that poor sales are the direct result of piracy rather than poor product. Still, there are a growing number - particularly in the under 20's - who only see the choice as buy or pirate.
Given the higher value of the pirated version combined with the lower price it's hard to see a change in mindset any time soon.
Has he just uncovered himself as a member of Anonymous?
Ha! Your wall cannot defeat the power of love:
http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF077-Bunny_Pit.jpg
"about 0.3 yen a sheet/number of times of rewriting."
Correct me if I'm wrong but this cost assumes you don't need to keep a hard-copy, i.e., you're printing to said sheet 1000 times.
In other words, if you never keep a copy and always reuse the sheets you'll save cash... The ratio of sheets you wish to keep to sheets you consider disposable has to be high; why else would you print something if not for long-term reference?
Also, staples?
"No proven plan".
I love this kind of weasel speak, it reminds me how myopic people can be when it suits them. Perhaps he should have said, "our unproven plan is vastly superior to their unproven plan"?