This is really exciting! Although PocketPC OS devices have been able to do terminal services for a while now, which is quite fun to do-- especially when combined with a compactflash wifi card.. although over GSM its not bad too bad either:)
I understand using background radiation to measure the age of the universe, and I understand the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram and its use to determine a star's age.. but... what is it that they do to determine the age of said planet? Its only 5,600 light years away, so at best you could assume it was 5,600 years old right?
I'm confused. (And how did they figure out that light year thing too eh?)
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Sooo this explains what happened to the video game scene on the macintosh! They copied that floppy and now there are no more games.
"There are tons of games for the Mac...War Craft 3.... photoshop"
Take a look at this - http://www.icomamerica.com/brochures/IC-7800_pre-r elease.pdf Ok so its not just a radio, its a transciever for amateur radio operators, but omg look at this thing, 7" TFT display, usb and VGA out (you can operate the radio with keyboard/mouse/monitor WITHOUT the pc!) - compact flash slot to store settings and digital transmissions, DUAL recievers, the list goes on and on.
In any case, expect to pay $5000 and be a licences amateur radio operator to enjoy it. I just wanted to link to the brochure because if you've never seen a radio like this, you NEED to-- you owe it to your inner geek:)
This is pretty cool, but AOL had already introduced a device years ago called the AOL Mobile Communicator.
The device costs $99.95 and the service is $29.95 a month, which is in addition to the monthly AOL membership fee. The service is only available to AOL members.
This one also did AOL E-mail so I guess its fair to say it wasn't an "IM Only" device- but its major selling point IMO was that it did AIM before you could get AIM on cellphones. I think you can still buy it from them!
Coolest thing about the plaque is the illustration with the numbers 4 and 5 on it-- the position of the sun with respect to nearby pulsars and the center of the galaxy.
You can see this illustration (or something very similar) for yourself by firing up Celestia, turning "draw constellations" on, then setting your orientation to earth or sun and zooming out to galaxy level or so-- Cool eh? It draws lines from each of the constellations to the center of the view and looks strikingly similar to the plaque's illustration:) I would even venture to say that it is the same illustration that is on the plaque but I can't confirm this- can anyone else?
Ahhhhhh ok ok. But now we have decided we live in "flat space" as opposed to "curved space"-- its not accurate to say the universe is flat and liken it to the earth as being flat because we are talking about the space that the earth even exists in! The earth can be round, flat whatever-- its the space, is the space flat, round, etc.
I can only understand flatness of space vs curvature of space when I think about how gravity is the bending of space/time and I think of a flat surface representing space and the dip in the area where mass is.
So your saying that a photon paths do not converge because the path of the photon is going in a direction that goes on forever. You can go "north" forever and never reach the same point because you don't "loop back around" like on earth - which is round.
But if you could shrink the universe to the size of a rubick's cube and you plotted where mass was after the big bang, wouldn't it look spherical like the earth? Its not bound by that sphere as it is ever expanding and its possible to move beyond the edge of the plot of mass..
I guess I'm just trying to get more understanding of what you mean when you say "by flat, we refer to geometry"
Still hard to understand.. I guess its like-- if I think that the earth is flat, I understand that it is cube-like it is 3 dimensional but if you go to the left you will never reach the far right side of the cube.
So in space if you go to the left you'll never come back around on the right side-- makes sense to me!:) Still strange that they choose to describe it as flat though.
The density of the universe also determines its geometry. If the density of the universe exceeds the critical density, then the geometry of space is closed and positively curved like the surface of a sphere. This implies that photon paths diverge slowly and eventually return back to a point. If the density of the universe is less than the critical density, then the geometry of space is open, negatively curved like the surface of a saddle. If the density of the universe exactly equals the critical density, then the geometry of the universe is flat like a sheet of paper. Thus, there is a direct link between the geometry of the universe and its fate.
The simplest version of the inflationary theory, an extension of the Big Bang theory, predicts that the density of the universe is very close to the critical density, and that the geometry of the universe is flat, like a sheet of paper.
I'm scared by teleportation.. I mean, teleporters murder people! Ok, Ok.. there aren't "teleporters" yet, but the way the ones in Star Trek work, disassembling your molecular structure, transmitting it or information about it to another location to be reassembled, thats death! Once you are disassembled you're never coming back!
The thing that is reassembled on the other side is just a copy of you with the last memory being disasembled, but appearing just fine in another place. It'll report back that the transportation was fine-- but you-- you'll be gone forever.
Mabye your soul will magically appear wherever your atoms are reconstructed or something... but the current technology they are working on is complete destruction, and then on the other side they use information about the destructed item to reconstruct it or make it appear as if it had been teleported, but its just a copy.
Noone will know if teleporting kills you or not because the only person who will know you have died will be yourself...Not that I think people will overlook this fact when we have computers powerful enough to copy structures as complicated as a person.. Right?
Check out MainSail Village - PricewaterHouseCoopers now defunct (thanks economy) international training facility's on site housing for MCS trainees turned luxury suite's hotel (or Apartment if you want) - "developed to a level of quality you would expect from a dynamic and sophisticated company such as PricewaterhouseCoopers."
The virus overwrites/destroys mp3 files... could this have been an experiment, orchestrated by the RIAA, of a potential mp3-pesticide!?::ducks black helicopter:: Beside the legalities involved, whats to stop the recording industry from propogating viruses/trojans that just outright destroy MP3 collections -perhaps propogating through wrapster/gnutella/irc/email/webpages/etc..
Pretty scary... I heard on CNNHN that some european photo archives had lost alot of data due to the trojan overwriting jpg files... I wonder how many people had their.mp3 collections toasted:).
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This is really exciting! Although PocketPC OS devices have been able to do terminal services for a while now, which is quite fun to do-- especially when combined with a compactflash wifi card.. although over GSM its not bad too bad either :)
Is is just me, or does this thing bear a strong resemblance to our good friend Johnny 5 from the movie Short Circuit?
Now I understand why such a thing would go as to track "the position of virtually everything in the solar system," input Stephanie!
Excellent! Mod this guy up!
I understand using background radiation to measure the age of the universe, and I understand the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram and its use to determine a star's age.. but... what is it that they do to determine the age of said planet? Its only 5,600 light years away, so at best you could assume it was 5,600 years old right?
I'm confused. (And how did they figure out that light year thing too eh?)
Sooo this explains what happened to the video game scene on the macintosh! They copied that floppy and now there are no more games.
"There are tons of games for the Mac...War Craft 3.... photoshop"
But blind people DO like to go to the movies.
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http://www.blindsidereviews.com/
http://www.cnn.com/2001/fyi/news/04/19/blind.re
here it is
Take a look at this - http://www.icomamerica.com/brochures/IC-7800_pre-r elease.pdf Ok so its not just a radio, its a transciever for amateur radio operators, but omg look at this thing, 7" TFT display, usb and VGA out (you can operate the radio with keyboard/mouse/monitor WITHOUT the pc!) - compact flash slot to store settings and digital transmissions, DUAL recievers, the list goes on and on.
:)
In any case, expect to pay $5000 and be a licences amateur radio operator to enjoy it. I just wanted to link to the brochure because if you've never seen a radio like this, you NEED to-- you owe it to your inner geek
HS/Link for life! Although Ymodem-G was my first love.. damn I remember using Xmodem.. who came up with all these names anyway? Kermit anyone?
This is pretty cool, but AOL had already introduced a device years ago called the AOL Mobile Communicator.
The device costs $99.95 and the service is $29.95 a month, which is in addition to the monthly AOL membership fee. The service is only available to AOL members.
This one also did AOL E-mail so I guess its fair to say it wasn't an "IM Only" device- but its major selling point IMO was that it did AIM before you could get AIM on cellphones. I think you can still buy it from them!
Coolest thing about the plaque is the illustration with the numbers 4 and 5 on it-- the position of the sun with respect to nearby pulsars and the center of the galaxy.
:) I would even venture to say that it is the same illustration that is on the plaque but I can't confirm this- can anyone else?
You can see this illustration (or something very similar) for yourself by firing up Celestia, turning "draw constellations" on, then setting your orientation to earth or sun and zooming out to galaxy level or so-- Cool eh? It draws lines from each of the constellations to the center of the view and looks strikingly similar to the plaque's illustration
Allright I FINALLY have it.
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Thanks y'all.
Ahhhhhh ok ok. But now we have decided we live in "flat space" as opposed to "curved space"-- its not accurate to say the universe is flat and liken it to the earth as being flat because we are talking about the space that the earth even exists in! The earth can be round, flat whatever-- its the space, is the space flat, round, etc.
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I can only understand flatness of space vs curvature of space when I think about how gravity is the bending of space/time and I think of a flat surface representing space and the dip in the area where mass is.
I think I got it-- thanks everyone,
So your saying that a photon paths do not converge because the path of the photon is going in a direction that goes on forever. You can go "north" forever and never reach the same point because you don't "loop back around" like on earth - which is round.
But if you could shrink the universe to the size of a rubick's cube and you plotted where mass was after the big bang, wouldn't it look spherical like the earth? Its not bound by that sphere as it is ever expanding and its possible to move beyond the edge of the plot of mass..
I guess I'm just trying to get more understanding of what you mean when you say "by flat, we refer to geometry"
Still hard to understand.. I guess its like-- if I think that the earth is flat, I understand that it is cube-like it is 3 dimensional but if you go to the left you will never reach the far right side of the cube.
:) Still strange that they choose to describe it as flat though.
So in space if you go to the left you'll never come back around on the right side-- makes sense to me!
The density of the universe also determines its geometry. If the density of the universe exceeds the critical density, then the geometry of space is closed and positively curved like the surface of a sphere. This implies that photon paths diverge slowly and eventually return back to a point. If the density of the universe is less than the critical density, then the geometry of space is open, negatively curved like the surface of a saddle. If the density of the universe exactly equals the critical density, then the geometry of the universe is flat like a sheet of paper. Thus, there is a direct link between the geometry of the universe and its fate.
The simplest version of the inflationary theory, an extension of the Big Bang theory, predicts that the density of the universe is very close to the critical density, and that the geometry of the universe is flat, like a sheet of paper.
From http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101shape.html
Am I to believe they mean flat as in, the universe is flat like the surface of my desk? Or is it the whole curvature, non curvature thing?
I'm having problems finding the answers to this question and I know one of you can help me. Reply for great justice!
I'm scared by teleportation.. I mean, teleporters murder people! Ok, Ok.. there aren't "teleporters" yet, but the way the ones in Star Trek work, disassembling your molecular structure, transmitting it or information about it to another location to be reassembled, thats death! Once you are disassembled you're never coming back!
..Not that I think people will overlook this fact when we have computers powerful enough to copy structures as complicated as a person.. Right?
The thing that is reassembled on the other side is just a copy of you with the last memory being disasembled, but appearing just fine in another place. It'll report back that the transportation was fine-- but you-- you'll be gone forever.
Mabye your soul will magically appear wherever your atoms are reconstructed or something... but the current technology they are working on is complete destruction, and then on the other side they use information about the destructed item to reconstruct it or make it appear as if it had been teleported, but its just a copy.
Noone will know if teleporting kills you or not because the only person who will know you have died will be yourself.
Heres a snap from a model rocket pointed downwards whilest in flight from a Kodak DC20.
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In-Flight
This looks similar to the Kite photography that was on
From Steve's Digicams website
The more productive we are at work, the better the economy gets. Keep this mind and your friends might just keep their jobs. :)
Check out MainSail Village - PricewaterHouseCoopers now defunct (thanks economy) international training facility's on site housing for MCS trainees turned luxury suite's hotel (or Apartment if you want) - "developed to a level of quality you would expect from a dynamic and sophisticated company such as PricewaterhouseCoopers."
You know it's hightech.. check it out!
Pretty scary... I heard on CNNHN that some european photo archives had lost alot of data due to the trojan overwriting jpg files... I wonder how many people had their .mp3 collections toasted :).