We say 365 days. We observe 365.25. The tropical year (equinoxes+solstices) is closer to 365 solar days, 5 hours 49 minutes 19 seconds The sidereal year is 1.0000385 tropical years (365.256363004 ) (20m24.5128s longer than tropical year)
There are these things called computers and they work over discrete values -1 and 0 to create a completely deterministic outcome.
If you take a CD, all copies are identical as the data is stored in frames lasting 1/75th of a second. If you then read the identical data, and apply a transform to it given the same parameters, using deterministic computers, you'll arrive at the same output. I don't think rand() is used anywhere in DSP, because it would result in incompressible noise...
And FWIW, just because you have downloaded a copy of a CD, it does not make it illegal. If you have the original disc, or rights to it, you can possess a copy of it electronically. It does not need to be made by you.
Nah, my parents will always be my parents, and I love them. But I'm hellaciously independent and can't stand their oversight/judgement. Their time to control me was up until I was 18. Then they have to let me be me, and hope to god they did a good enough job. I think they did, as I turned out ok (well, I am on slashdot..) but my in large we are proud of each other. I just can't deal with my mom 'liking' every post and taking every phone call when I indicate disappointment. FYI I'm 34, and bought my house 10 years ago.
Having my parents join completely changed my use of FB, and to some extent real life. as now every possible drunken shenanigans picture might get a comment from my mom.
Now I can have my overbearing over protective mom follow me and judge me all the time? Brilliant!
Oh and don't dare not friend them, or unfriendly them. That just makes it worse.
No, you just don't get it. You (and the others, I'm not attacking you personally) need to ask why you are so maligned against BitCoin? Why are you 'missing it'
You're looking at the birthing stages of a new currency which will be a bigger disruptive technology than Linux. Is it because you don't understand what it means? Sure it is mostly junk right now, but the unique traits of this currency are extraordinary and represent the only real break from central governments monetary control.
Yes there are problems with it. However I never hear the biggest one discussed: that the barrier to starting an alternative currency is just changing a few lines of code and starting y our own P2P network.
BitCoin may flop, or it may be huge, but for you to write it off in its first year of publicity is just foolish. You're basically making the statement "Facebook? That'll never catch on!" The truth is that it remains to be seen.
Well I'm glad you're engaging me in this debate, rather than writing me off, so first, thank you.
I don't know why you put such faith in Climatologists. Lets look at the IPCC predictions from the 1990s Are they close to accurate? Well they were, but they are falling. And when compared to the CO2 data (the last chart), the correlation with CO2 is breaking down.
I do have contempt for climatologists because its not actual science. Mythbusters does small scale and then full scale. Climatologists cannot run an experiment on any scale. The small scale lacks real-world complexity and the large scale is impossible to do. Still I hope one day we do develop a model which is able to come close to approximating reality. They get to make predictions with impunity, and 20 years later we get to test the result. But even then, I am betting you find some way to ignore the predictions of the 1990s, which have not come true. So given that IPCC failed to make a prediction that is valid in 2011 (and actually, they are diverging from reality at this point) how do you get to treat them as gospel? Obviously with a falling correlation, their model is leaving something out. But what is it? Do we continue to believe in a model that is failing? I'd have given them credit up to 2007, but now, we know the model is wrong.
You're looking for something concrete and testable on Slashdot? Who is the crazy one now? LOL.
I'm not as far off as you think. 1. I don't believe their capacity varies. What they do is transport the heat via circulation to different areas (Europe is warm due to heat collected in the Caribbean) and depths. Thermal energy is stored and released. 2. No, it doesn't have to go negative. Assume temporarily everything starts is in balance but at capacity. Drop the sun's output and you'll get some additional capacity. Now ramp it up to the other side of balanced. You'll eliminate the capacity and hit a point where it can't be absorbed anymore. This causes a "delay" in experiencing the warming. 3. You missed the point. It's not about driving a speaker, it's about modulation. Frequency modulation to amplitude modulation. A fast signal to create a slow one. 4. Everything is a circuit. Everything is a cycle. Electrical circuits have feedback. Climate modelers are always worried about feedback. Never heard the term climate feedback? Things like albedo. Hell, AGW theory is based on CO2 feedback.
With 75% of the Earth's surface being water, and water having a high specific heat, they act as giant heat capacitors. And as any one knows, in a fluctuating (AC) current capacitors smooth the wave form, and delay it a bit. I say the same is happening with the oceans. They are still reacting to changes from long ago. Also, the oceans are big enough to modulate all these smaller 11 year cycles into a much slower trend, much like how an FM signal is converted to drive a speaker.
It is not that sun shine = hot Clearly that works on an almost instant time scale. Rather it is sun shine gets collected in a huge capacitor ans released over time. The reason why the sun is attributable is because without the sun, there is nothing being delivered to the system. the oceans act as a low pass filter and capacitor.
"Instead of offering useless conjecture about what people are going to say, how about you give us a nice solid hypothesis about how much cooler it will be when, and how that relates to existing global warming projections." Well, what I do know is this. If you look at the IPCC predictions from the 90s, now 20 years ago, we are below the "low" estimate for heating. So how am I to produce a working model when the IPCC can't even do it themselves?
You miss the point of solar cycles. With 75% of the Earth's surface being water, and water having a high specific heat, they act as giant heat capacitors. And as any one knows, in a fluctuating (AC) current capacitors smooth the wave form, and delay it a bit. I say the same is happening with the oceans. They are still reacting to changes from long ago. Also, the oceans are big enough to modulate all these smaller 11 year cycles into a much slower trend, much like how an FM signal is converted to drive a speaker.
Not content that the Earth might cool despite ever increasing CO2, the AGW people will warn of "hidden warming" which is the concept of latent CO2 in the atmosphere which will be activated when the Sun comes back up to speed. They will claim we will very suddenly find ourselves in the same position had cooling not occurred.
But it will have occurred despite the CO2, meaning that the Sun, not CO2 is the driving force of climate, thus disproving the CO2 dominance theory of AGW proponents.
I personally am eager to see what the oceans do. It would be a major to discover that the oceans have been releasing the CO2 in response to an active Sun. The oceans could even revert to CO2 sinks if the cooling is severe enough. Interesting times are ahead...
Nothing. They can't stop it. Normally they stop competing currencies by seizure - the Liberty Dollar's backing silver, or the presses used to make the currency. Here, everyone has a press. You're just sending packets...
How do you know that governments or [other] nefarious entities are not running rogue nodes watching for transactions between known identities? The coin exchange chain is a gold mine of relationship data. You might be able to launder it through an exchange, but not as it is currently today.
It seems to me if the government starts raiding people with bitcoin holdings, that they would be able to go back up the chain. They will be able to identify every person that has exchanged bit coins with the person they raid. From there, they can raid the next person, and so on, with absolute certainty. Compare to cash, and after the exchange there is no per-bill or per-coin accountability. With enough information, they should be able to reconstruct the entirety of bit-coin history, like mitochondrial DNA allows us to find our female lineage. No?
Yes, it is ok to privatize everything. However there needs to be one conditions unlimited competition. Too often, the competition is either gobbled up or the barrier to entry is raised (thanks to lobbying)
I've always like the idea of for utilities services, that the service area is divided up and whomever services the population the best gets awarded a larger art of the pie, with a set 15-30% in contention each year. Example: DMV services. The state maintains the master database, but private enterprise can provide the same services. Every year a DMV office is up for whomever performs the best - lest wait time, lowest surcharge (on state fees) and they get to have an additional DMV office. Everyone wins. (The surcharge is supposedly less than the existing cost for the DMV running their own offices)
Do you think the cops are going to care if you are recording audio? My dash cam is configurable. My phone is configurable. Will my statement "I'm not recording audio" be taken for my word? Would it matter even if I did but cut out the audio when I posted it?
If the city's position is to be upheld, wouldn't that have the chilling effect of making all video surveillance tapes in admissible because they were recorded without your permission?
Lighting has no business in the interior... that's why hydrogen dirigibles are safe in lighting storms (until the air bladder leaks).
When you use electronics, you are already on the inside. And on a plane, you are never more than 10ft from avionics wiring. Mere inches if you have a window seat. So distance is a huge consideration. You simply don't have that that sensitive of equipment that close that often when not in a plane to notice.
Our jobs are secure. We are useful in the down economy. If our company goes under, we have many options. Now the unlearned labor (skilled labor - tradesmen, and unskilled labor - secretaries) are finding their jobs depend to a higher degree, on the economy.
Clearly, the real embarrassment here is that the DoD is using these vulnerabilities to kill Iranian centrifuges. I don't have a problem preventing Iran from having nukes, as I think they should not ever have them. However with the recent "cyber security" announcement that digital hacking can be considered an act of war, I wonder if we'd have come to the same conclusion if we were in missile range of Iran.
Releasing these hacks could have unintended consequences. Imagine if some hacker group used them for their own nefarious purposes... There could be floods, explosions. Real-world consequences. Not just some stolen passwords.
It isn't a right, and that is a problem. We should have a right to film all public workers anywhere. The only thing he came back with is a bill allowing people to record their property tax hearing. We need a "right" which will over rule any building or agency policy.
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We say 365 days.
We observe 365.25.
The tropical year (equinoxes+solstices) is closer to 365 solar days, 5 hours 49 minutes 19 seconds
The sidereal year is 1.0000385 tropical years (365.256363004 ) (20m24.5128s longer than tropical year)
So may times...
There are these things called computers and they work over discrete values -1 and 0 to create a completely deterministic outcome.
If you take a CD, all copies are identical as the data is stored in frames lasting 1/75th of a second. If you then read the identical data, and apply a transform to it given the same parameters, using deterministic computers, you'll arrive at the same output. I don't think rand() is used anywhere in DSP, because it would result in incompressible noise...
And FWIW, just because you have downloaded a copy of a CD, it does not make it illegal. If you have the original disc, or rights to it, you can possess a copy of it electronically. It does not need to be made by you.
Nah, my parents will always be my parents, and I love them. But I'm hellaciously independent and can't stand their oversight/judgement. Their time to control me was up until I was 18. Then they have to let me be me, and hope to god they did a good enough job. I think they did, as I turned out ok (well, I am on slashdot..) but my in large we are proud of each other. I just can't deal with my mom 'liking' every post and taking every phone call when I indicate disappointment. FYI I'm 34, and bought my house 10 years ago.
Having my parents join completely changed my use of FB, and to some extent real life. as now every possible drunken shenanigans picture might get a comment from my mom.
Now I can have my overbearing over protective mom follow me and judge me all the time? Brilliant!
Oh and don't dare not friend them, or unfriendly them. That just makes it worse.
No, you just don't get it. You (and the others, I'm not attacking you personally) need to ask why you are so maligned against BitCoin? Why are you 'missing it'
You're looking at the birthing stages of a new currency which will be a bigger disruptive technology than Linux. Is it because you don't understand what it means? Sure it is mostly junk right now, but the unique traits of this currency are extraordinary and represent the only real break from central governments monetary control.
Yes there are problems with it. However I never hear the biggest one discussed: that the barrier to starting an alternative currency is just changing a few lines of code and starting y our own P2P network.
BitCoin may flop, or it may be huge, but for you to write it off in its first year of publicity is just foolish. You're basically making the statement "Facebook? That'll never catch on!" The truth is that it remains to be seen.
Better yet how much for them to mine bitcoins for you. They can pay themselves with 30% of the mining...
Well I'm glad you're engaging me in this debate, rather than writing me off, so first, thank you.
I don't know why you put such faith in Climatologists. Lets look at the IPCC predictions from the 1990s Are they close to accurate? Well they were, but they are falling. And when compared to the CO2 data (the last chart), the correlation with CO2 is breaking down.
I do have contempt for climatologists because its not actual science. Mythbusters does small scale and then full scale. Climatologists cannot run an experiment on any scale. The small scale lacks real-world complexity and the large scale is impossible to do. Still I hope one day we do develop a model which is able to come close to approximating reality. They get to make predictions with impunity, and 20 years later we get to test the result. But even then, I am betting you find some way to ignore the predictions of the 1990s, which have not come true. So given that IPCC failed to make a prediction that is valid in 2011 (and actually, they are diverging from reality at this point) how do you get to treat them as gospel? Obviously with a falling correlation, their model is leaving something out. But what is it? Do we continue to believe in a model that is failing? I'd have given them credit up to 2007, but now, we know the model is wrong.
You're looking for something concrete and testable on Slashdot? Who is the crazy one now? LOL.
I'm not as far off as you think.
1. I don't believe their capacity varies. What they do is transport the heat via circulation to different areas (Europe is warm due to heat collected in the Caribbean) and depths. Thermal energy is stored and released.
2. No, it doesn't have to go negative. Assume temporarily everything starts is in balance but at capacity. Drop the sun's output and you'll get some additional capacity. Now ramp it up to the other side of balanced. You'll eliminate the capacity and hit a point where it can't be absorbed anymore. This causes a "delay" in experiencing the warming.
3. You missed the point. It's not about driving a speaker, it's about modulation. Frequency modulation to amplitude modulation. A fast signal to create a slow one.
4. Everything is a circuit. Everything is a cycle. Electrical circuits have feedback. Climate modelers are always worried about feedback. Never heard the term climate feedback? Things like albedo. Hell, AGW theory is based on CO2 feedback.
You missed the point.
With 75% of the Earth's surface being water, and water having a high specific heat, they act as giant heat capacitors. And as any one knows, in a fluctuating (AC) current capacitors smooth the wave form, and delay it a bit. I say the same is happening with the oceans. They are still reacting to changes from long ago. Also, the oceans are big enough to modulate all these smaller 11 year cycles into a much slower trend, much like how an FM signal is converted to drive a speaker.
It is not that sun shine = hot Clearly that works on an almost instant time scale. Rather it is sun shine gets collected in a huge capacitor ans released over time. The reason why the sun is attributable is because without the sun, there is nothing being delivered to the system. the oceans act as a low pass filter and capacitor.
"Instead of offering useless conjecture about what people are going to say, how about you give us a nice solid hypothesis about how much cooler it will be when, and how that relates to existing global warming projections." Well, what I do know is this. If you look at the IPCC predictions from the 90s, now 20 years ago, we are below the "low" estimate for heating. So how am I to produce a working model when the IPCC can't even do it themselves?
You miss the point of solar cycles. With 75% of the Earth's surface being water, and water having a high specific heat, they act as giant heat capacitors. And as any one knows, in a fluctuating (AC) current capacitors smooth the wave form, and delay it a bit. I say the same is happening with the oceans. They are still reacting to changes from long ago. Also, the oceans are big enough to modulate all these smaller 11 year cycles into a much slower trend, much like how an FM signal is converted to drive a speaker.
Not content that the Earth might cool despite ever increasing CO2, the AGW people will warn of "hidden warming" which is the concept of latent CO2 in the atmosphere which will be activated when the Sun comes back up to speed. They will claim we will very suddenly find ourselves in the same position had cooling not occurred.
But it will have occurred despite the CO2, meaning that the Sun, not CO2 is the driving force of climate, thus disproving the CO2 dominance theory of AGW proponents.
I personally am eager to see what the oceans do. It would be a major to discover that the oceans have been releasing the CO2 in response to an active Sun. The oceans could even revert to CO2 sinks if the cooling is severe enough. Interesting times are ahead...
Nothing. They can't stop it. Normally they stop competing currencies by seizure - the Liberty Dollar's backing silver, or the presses used to make the currency. Here, everyone has a press. You're just sending packets...
How do you know that governments or [other] nefarious entities are not running rogue nodes watching for transactions between known identities? The coin exchange chain is a gold mine of relationship data. You might be able to launder it through an exchange, but not as it is currently today.
It seems to me if the government starts raiding people with bitcoin holdings, that they would be able to go back up the chain. They will be able to identify every person that has exchanged bit coins with the person they raid. From there, they can raid the next person, and so on, with absolute certainty. Compare to cash, and after the exchange there is no per-bill or per-coin accountability. With enough information, they should be able to reconstruct the entirety of bit-coin history, like mitochondrial DNA allows us to find our female lineage. No?
Yes, it is ok to privatize everything. However there needs to be one conditions unlimited competition. Too often, the competition is either gobbled up or the barrier to entry is raised (thanks to lobbying)
I've always like the idea of for utilities services, that the service area is divided up and whomever services the population the best gets awarded a larger art of the pie, with a set 15-30% in contention each year. Example: DMV services. The state maintains the master database, but private enterprise can provide the same services. Every year a DMV office is up for whomever performs the best - lest wait time, lowest surcharge (on state fees) and they get to have an additional DMV office. Everyone wins. (The surcharge is supposedly less than the existing cost for the DMV running their own offices)
Do you think the cops are going to care if you are recording audio?
My dash cam is configurable. My phone is configurable. Will my statement "I'm not recording audio" be taken for my word? Would it matter even if I did but cut out the audio when I posted it?
If the city's position is to be upheld, wouldn't that have the chilling effect of making all video surveillance tapes in admissible because they were recorded without your permission?
Lighting has no business in the interior... that's why hydrogen dirigibles are safe in lighting storms (until the air bladder leaks).
When you use electronics, you are already on the inside. And on a plane, you are never more than 10ft from avionics wiring. Mere inches if you have a window seat. So distance is a huge consideration. You simply don't have that that sensitive of equipment that close that often when not in a plane to notice.
So, the only "open standards" to do what the want is either HTML5 (likely, embraced and extended) or the lesser known QML from Nokia.
Seems like Nokia should supply the hardware. Poor Elop, betrayed by his ex coworkers.
How's that for anti-intellectualism?
Our jobs are secure. We are useful in the down economy. If our company goes under, we have many options. Now the unlearned labor (skilled labor - tradesmen, and unskilled labor - secretaries) are finding their jobs depend to a higher degree, on the economy.
Clearly, the real embarrassment here is that the DoD is using these vulnerabilities to kill Iranian centrifuges. I don't have a problem preventing Iran from having nukes, as I think they should not ever have them. However with the recent "cyber security" announcement that digital hacking can be considered an act of war, I wonder if we'd have come to the same conclusion if we were in missile range of Iran.
Releasing these hacks could have unintended consequences. Imagine if some hacker group used them for their own nefarious purposes... There could be floods, explosions. Real-world consequences. Not just some stolen passwords.
I suggest we outlaw cash too. Bitcoin is at least traceable, cash is not. Clearly, we should outlaw cash first.
I contacted my representative on this issue.
It isn't a right, and that is a problem. We should have a right to film all public workers anywhere. The only thing he came back with is a bill allowing people to record their property tax hearing. We need a "right" which will over rule any building or agency policy.