Not all stars become a black hole, some just go poof and die.
I know, but the ones that just go poof and die - I thought - would only produce elements up to carbon or so. Though, yes, I suppose you are right that the possiblity that heavier elements could be on the outside of the H/He shell explosion is possible.
Once light crosses the event horizon, it cannot escape. As matter approaches the event horizon and accelerates, it becomes excited and emits energy in the EM spectrum. The faster it goes, the higher the frequency (from IR to visible to X-ray). A large black hole would be able to attract large amounts of matter, and that matter would accelerate very quickly, and thus would shine (in the X-Ray range) very brightly.
In fact, you said it perfectly yourself without realizing it. Light is escapeing from the vicinity of the black hole, not the black hole itself.
OK, this question just occured to me. I'm sure there is an obvious answer that I am overlooking.
How do/did the heaviest elements, which are/were formed in the largest stars, escape from those stars that ultimately become/became neutron stars and black holes? I know that elements are flung out from the star via super novae, but wouldn't the heaviest elements be at the core of the star that remains? how would they get out? Shouldn't they all be trapped in the stellar remnants?
actually, they (Be, Inc.) intended it to be pronounced Be Oh Ess, like Mac OS; of course, running it all together caused people to think it is pronounced Beeoss. Anyway, the final line would then be Bee|Oh|Ess|Ma|Duld.
If Microsoft runs an online service Isn't that a pretty big 'if' at this point, still?
then the browser (modified, perhaps) will be all that will be required to run Office on any computer I somehow doubt that M$ are going to put out an online version of Office that is accessible through Firefox/Seamonkey/Safari/Opera/Konqueror/etc. At the very least online Office would require the latest and greatest version of IE. If they do go the WebApp route, I wouldn't be surprised to find Redmond charging for special client-side software to access the online apps. They could easily get business to buy into it, too, by saying that it makes the WebApp service more secure.
Any computer will have a browser (and connectivity), therefore MS Office will be omnipresent. You won't need to carry it around on a flash driver. I see part of the attraction of this project is that it's not just a portable office suite, but also you get to keep your files. All of the proposed online Office ideas I've heard (including an online OO.o) usually have files saved on a remote server accessed over the Internet as a feature. I personally, and I think many others besides (especially many businesses and professionals), would prefer to keep their files stored locally.
RTFA. In fact, just RTFA summary on this page. They do not want M$ to open the source to windows, just provide open documentation so that other companies can make compatible software. This has always been one of the more insidious things things that M$ does. They keep the Windows API closed so as to keep competing software always a couple of steps behind what M$ puts out.
Then, when their software becomes dominant, it can stay dominant by virtue of their closed file formats in which everyone's files are saved, making it even more difficult for competing software to keep pace. But that's really not what this article is about. Sorry for getting OT.
500 is a little low. DirecTV outsourced this to another company, that company could have hundred of people manning the phones. The typical telmarketing call doesn't last that long, so once could easily exceed that 500 mark by lunch time. The point? That could very easily be a simple abberation in how strictly they follow the rules. If management (of either company) pays attention, they should be able to catch the abuse by day's end. Certainly, they would in a week, at which point, you'd have several thousand possible complaints logged.
Qunatity of calls, I think, is the wrong way to look at it. The decision to levy fines for violating the DNC list should be based on a pattern of behavior. A company that consistently violates the list, even if they have a very small call volume, needs to be fined just as much as DirecTV is. For those opperations that are very large (like DirecTV) scale up the fine appropriately.
It will be interesting to see how long it will take the free software world to come up with something similar
Well, Hurd is a microkernel, so OSS already has that covered...the Mach kernel in OSX is opensource and a microkernel. Is it written in Objective C (which would be strongly typed, right?) or is it just the GUI that is ObjC?
The BeOS had a microkernel, written in a mix of C and C++; the Haiku project is rewriting it from scratch in C++, which can be strongly typed, if you are willing to put in the effort; I'm hoping that they are.
Seems like the OSS world is ahead of the curve in a lot of ways.
umm...yeah, you see, in the middle of the american heartland, in the south, southwest, and west, 30 foot wide roads are pretty common place. However, in places that are really cramped for space (New England and old England, for example) you have roads that are noticably less wide. Some one way roads in my neck of the woods (Boston) are barely wide enough to accomodate 1-way traffic. The street on which I live, on which it is permitted to park on both sides of the street mind you, is about 12 feet across. There are even some "roads" in Boston's oldest neighborhoods that really are just narrow alleys that could never accomodate a car.
By road here, they could mean a series of very narrow one way roads and well-paved footpaths. Or maybe everyone in the underground city was supposed to be riding a vespa (a very logical idea, I'd think), or something similar, in which case all of one's roads could essentially be well-paved footpaths. In fact, in such a situation, electric scooters would be the ideal vehicle (low-power requirements, non-polluting, not very loud).
While I do understand and appreciate that the Hubble is getting old and is becoming obsolete, there is no real replacement for it in orbit yet, and the replacement won't be in orbit until perhaps after a time when the Hubble has stopped working. To continue with your car analogy, what is happening to the Hubble is sort of like deciding that one's car is getting old, and in a few years you'll have the money and other resources to buy a new car, so why bother with the expense of having the old changed and other regular maintenance.
At least when the Hubble finally stops working, I'll still be able to take the subway. Or something like that.;)
I sure am glad that such a waste of valuable resources like the Hubble is going to be scrapped soon. The sooner we stop doing such useless things with it like valuable research that will directly result in more efficient space travel, the better.
Your comment implies that publishers have realized the good that libraries do for them. They have not. Publishers would love to find a way to abolish free, public libraries if they could.
well, to be fair, you were travelling to an entirely different state.
however, assuming that you lived in Salem, NH (a fair assumption, since you were commuting to Boston), you could drive about 26 minutes to reach Lowell, MA and get on the commuter rail. One could also drive to Haverhill, MA (about 8 miles from Salem, NH) and hop on the commuter rail there as well.
Google makes Taiwan a province of China in order to appease China and avoid being denied access to China's markets.
So does every other company that does business in China. Oh, and also, so does every country, even the democracy-lovin' USA. Well, not every country, but any country that wants to have normalized relations with China does.
Yet another attempt to distribute my hard earned wealth among those too lazy or incompetent to work work themselves. Just what I wanted!
Yeah! just like those lazy aerospace engineers at NASA, and all those lazy-ass soldiers and sailors in Iraq. Damn gubmint comin' in and sealin' all mah money!
were[sic] a White House political staffer [was] arrested in the West Wing and lead[sic] out in handcufss[sic]
So, you would rather that he not have been arrested?
As bad as the USA is (and don't get me started, I hate G.W. Shrub as much or more than anyone else on/.), we do change regimes every 4 to 8 years, and the current Republican dominated gov't is not going to be such for much longer if current trends continue unabated. The UN is just as corrupt as the US, if not more, with a lot less accountability. I would rather the Internet (which is working fine right now) stay put. If political pressures become great enough, maybe NATO can take control.
I'm still waiting for Mr O'Reilly to make all his books available for free.
You obviously do not understand what the true intention of the Google Library Project is. That's ok, though, as a lot of people don't. It is not an attempt to put the full test of every book on line so that you can access the full text for free. It is an attempt to make a fully searchable database of every book. It's main beneficiary will not be cheap bastards who think everything should be free, but rather scholars doing research: they'll have, ostensibly, only one database that they will have to search. The people who actually have the most to lose from this are companies that currently provide database services of this sort (like ABI/Inform) to university libraries.
As such, O'Reilly is not in any way being a hypocritic if he supports Google's efforts in this particular enterprise.
They are a quasi-Christian band, and I believe that they were signed to a Christian music label which was acquired by Sony, so chances are that they did not actually have much leverage at all into what they could or could not demand from Sony.
but there is TuneTracker which runs on BeOS. I don't think BeOS plays with RAID very well, however, so it might not work for you b/c of that; on the other hand, TuneTracker seems to do everything that you require and then some.
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Not all stars become a black hole, some just go poof and die.
I know, but the ones that just go poof and die - I thought - would only produce elements up to carbon or so. Though, yes, I suppose you are right that the possiblity that heavier elements could be on the outside of the H/He shell explosion is possible.
Once light crosses the event horizon, it cannot escape. As matter approaches the event horizon and accelerates, it becomes excited and emits energy in the EM spectrum. The faster it goes, the higher the frequency (from IR to visible to X-ray). A large black hole would be able to attract large amounts of matter, and that matter would accelerate very quickly, and thus would shine (in the X-Ray range) very brightly.
In fact, you said it perfectly yourself without realizing it. Light is escapeing from the vicinity of the black hole, not the black hole itself.
OK, this question just occured to me. I'm sure there is an obvious answer that I am overlooking.
How do/did the heaviest elements, which are/were formed in the largest stars, escape from those stars that ultimately become/became neutron stars and black holes? I know that elements are flung out from the star via super novae, but wouldn't the heaviest elements be at the core of the star that remains? how would they get out? Shouldn't they all be trapped in the stellar remnants?
actually, they (Be, Inc.) intended it to be pronounced Be Oh Ess, like Mac OS; of course, running it all together caused people to think it is pronounced Beeoss. Anyway, the final line would then be Bee|Oh|Ess|Ma|Duld.
If Microsoft runs an online service
Isn't that a pretty big 'if' at this point, still?
then the browser (modified, perhaps) will be all that will be required to run Office on any computer
I somehow doubt that M$ are going to put out an online version of Office that is accessible through Firefox/Seamonkey/Safari/Opera/Konqueror/etc. At the very least online Office would require the latest and greatest version of IE. If they do go the WebApp route, I wouldn't be surprised to find Redmond charging for special client-side software to access the online apps. They could easily get business to buy into it, too, by saying that it makes the WebApp service more secure.
Any computer will have a browser (and connectivity), therefore MS Office will be omnipresent. You won't need to carry it around on a flash driver.
I see part of the attraction of this project is that it's not just a portable office suite, but also you get to keep your files. All of the proposed online Office ideas I've heard (including an online OO.o) usually have files saved on a remote server accessed over the Internet as a feature. I personally, and I think many others besides (especially many businesses and professionals), would prefer to keep their files stored locally.
RTFA. In fact, just RTFA summary on this page. They do not want M$ to open the source to windows, just provide open documentation so that other companies can make compatible software. This has always been one of the more insidious things things that M$ does. They keep the Windows API closed so as to keep competing software always a couple of steps behind what M$ puts out.
Then, when their software becomes dominant, it can stay dominant by virtue of their closed file formats in which everyone's files are saved, making it even more difficult for competing software to keep pace. But that's really not what this article is about. Sorry for getting OT.
500 is a little low. DirecTV outsourced this to another company, that company could have hundred of people manning the phones. The typical telmarketing call doesn't last that long, so once could easily exceed that 500 mark by lunch time. The point? That could very easily be a simple abberation in how strictly they follow the rules. If management (of either company) pays attention, they should be able to catch the abuse by day's end. Certainly, they would in a week, at which point, you'd have several thousand possible complaints logged.
Qunatity of calls, I think, is the wrong way to look at it. The decision to levy fines for violating the DNC list should be based on a pattern of behavior. A company that consistently violates the list, even if they have a very small call volume, needs to be fined just as much as DirecTV is. For those opperations that are very large (like DirecTV) scale up the fine appropriately.
Sarcasm is NOT the same as irony
Actually, sarcasm IS irony. Specically, it is a type of verbal irony.
Remember there is no gravity.. it is just God pushing you down.
-- Quoted from someone on Digg
Cool. I didn't know trent reznor hung out on digg.
It will be interesting to see how long it will take the free software world to come up with something similar
Well, Hurd is a microkernel, so OSS already has that covered...the Mach kernel in OSX is opensource and a microkernel. Is it written in Objective C (which would be strongly typed, right?) or is it just the GUI that is ObjC?
The BeOS had a microkernel, written in a mix of C and C++; the Haiku project is rewriting it from scratch in C++, which can be strongly typed, if you are willing to put in the effort; I'm hoping that they are.
Seems like the OSS world is ahead of the curve in a lot of ways.
60 miles of 30 foot wide road covers 218 acres.
umm...yeah, you see, in the middle of the american heartland, in the south, southwest, and west, 30 foot wide roads are pretty common place. However, in places that are really cramped for space (New England and old England, for example) you have roads that are noticably less wide. Some one way roads in my neck of the woods (Boston) are barely wide enough to accomodate 1-way traffic. The street on which I live, on which it is permitted to park on both sides of the street mind you, is about 12 feet across. There are even some "roads" in Boston's oldest neighborhoods that really are just narrow alleys that could never accomodate a car.
By road here, they could mean a series of very narrow one way roads and well-paved footpaths. Or maybe everyone in the underground city was supposed to be riding a vespa (a very logical idea, I'd think), or something similar, in which case all of one's roads could essentially be well-paved footpaths. In fact, in such a situation, electric scooters would be the ideal vehicle (low-power requirements, non-polluting, not very loud).
While I do understand and appreciate that the Hubble is getting old and is becoming obsolete, there is no real replacement for it in orbit yet, and the replacement won't be in orbit until perhaps after a time when the Hubble has stopped working. To continue with your car analogy, what is happening to the Hubble is sort of like deciding that one's car is getting old, and in a few years you'll have the money and other resources to buy a new car, so why bother with the expense of having the old changed and other regular maintenance.
;)
At least when the Hubble finally stops working, I'll still be able to take the subway. Or something like that.
I sure am glad that such a waste of valuable resources like the Hubble is going to be scrapped soon. The sooner we stop doing such useless things with it like valuable research that will directly result in more efficient space travel, the better.
Your comment implies that publishers have realized the good that libraries do for them. They have not. Publishers would love to find a way to abolish free, public libraries if they could.
mass transit is rubbish from NH to Boston
well, to be fair, you were travelling to an entirely different state.
however, assuming that you lived in Salem, NH (a fair assumption, since you were commuting to Boston), you could drive about 26 minutes to reach Lowell, MA and get on the commuter rail. One could also drive to Haverhill, MA (about 8 miles from Salem, NH) and hop on the commuter rail there as well.
this is going to take a lot of bandwidth to be at all usable.
Maybe this is why Google was buying up all that unused fiber?
Google makes Taiwan a province of China in order to appease China and avoid being denied access to China's markets.
So does every other company that does business in China. Oh, and also, so does every country, even the democracy-lovin' USA. Well, not every country, but any country that wants to have normalized relations with China does.
Ummm...not without ASCAP being paid off first. You think the RIAA is bad, just wait 'til you run into the thuggish tactics of ASCAP.
Yet another attempt to distribute my hard earned wealth among those too lazy or incompetent to work work themselves. Just what I wanted!
Yeah! just like those lazy aerospace engineers at NASA, and all those lazy-ass soldiers and sailors in Iraq. Damn gubmint comin' in and sealin' all mah money!
were[sic] a White House political staffer [was] arrested in the West Wing and lead[sic] out in handcufss[sic]
/.), we do change regimes every 4 to 8 years, and the current Republican dominated gov't is not going to be such for much longer if current trends continue unabated. The UN is just as corrupt as the US, if not more, with a lot less accountability. I would rather the Internet (which is working fine right now) stay put. If political pressures become great enough, maybe NATO can take control.
So, you would rather that he not have been arrested?
As bad as the USA is (and don't get me started, I hate G.W. Shrub as much or more than anyone else on
yes, because Sony has never overpromised and underdelivered on a game console before.
I'm still waiting for Mr O'Reilly to make all his books available for free.
You obviously do not understand what the true intention of the Google Library Project is. That's ok, though, as a lot of people don't. It is not an attempt to put the full test of every book on line so that you can access the full text for free. It is an attempt to make a fully searchable database of every book. It's main beneficiary will not be cheap bastards who think everything should be free, but rather scholars doing research: they'll have, ostensibly, only one database that they will have to search. The people who actually have the most to lose from this are companies that currently provide database services of this sort (like ABI/Inform) to university libraries.
As such, O'Reilly is not in any way being a hypocritic if he supports Google's efforts in this particular enterprise.
I thought The Monarch's nemesis was Dr. Venture.
[DRTFA]
They are a quasi-Christian band, and I believe that they were signed to a Christian music label which was acquired by Sony, so chances are that they did not actually have much leverage at all into what they could or could not demand from Sony.
but there is TuneTracker which runs on BeOS. I don't think BeOS plays with RAID very well, however, so it might not work for you b/c of that; on the other hand, TuneTracker seems to do everything that you require and then some.