Let's say it has a half-life of around 100 million years then. But how are they formed? I thought only heavy naturally occuring elements were formed in high energy situations like supernovae, but this is would be a relatively speaking short timeframe.
So how are minerals with a "short" half-life formed on Earth? Wouldn't it require a quite immense energy to fuse these atoms? I suppose the Earth has to have the energies necessary, but... What's this talk about supernovae being required to fuse atoms heavier than iron (unlike typical star fusion that I believe can go as far as this) all about in that case?
Well, I think I'd at least start collecting evidence that would hold up in court rather than trying to send people scary letters and cross my fingers that would do. RIAA's consistent abuse of the legal system is what I think stings me the most. Organizations set up to protect a business can and do survive without succumbing to such strategies.
But then again... Maybe I would on the other hand want to be a successful lawyer enough to fall for these things, I'm not saying I'm perfect. If I were a lawyer, I'd want to be successful, and it's obviously a reasonably successful strategy for them, or else they wouldn't keep doing it. It depends on how much of a jerk I'd be willing to become.
Some say "art" is "something that took skill to produce an aesthetic result". So thinking of it as that and aesthetics being in the eye of the beholder, I guess it's subjective if something is art or not.
And using that "definition", photography can be called art by the one watching it if he/she think skill was well used for the result, but maybe not otherwise.
I think it's because VB.NET is maturing and people seeing it being superior to VB 6 as a language in most applications. VB.NET is only similar to VB 6 in the syntax, not very much so otherwise. It should really have had a more different name to not confuse. It's about two different languages, with two entirely different object models. The older is barely even object-oriented, the latter supports everything you can expect from inheritance to interfaces and even lambda expressions and delegates.
VB.NET was born in 2002 as part of a quite early and bugged first release of Visual Studio.NET. Visual Studio.NET 2003 made it slightly better, and IMHO, with 2005 and especially 2008 things have finally started to settle a bit.
But that's just a theory... And it doesn't explain the sudden burst in 2004 (??) to drop down again even during the very same year. *shrug*
This might have something to do with this PowerShell thing: ccontrolling the O/S through the use of VB scripts. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't VBScript (or JScript at the user's choice) used for the Windows Script Host whereas PowerShell uses its own scripting language that integrates with the.NET platform?
You can also write "cmdlets" for PowerShell in any.NET language such as C# or Visual Basic, but that's seems more about writing commands for the shell than writing shell scripts.
Yes, I probably should have added a 10^100 years or so disclaimer to "in time". Hehe. But I actually didn't realize that was because of the CMB, never considered that. I just thought they radiated slow enough. So I guess I learnt something there too, hehe.
These particle jets aren't emitted from the actual "depths" of a black hole, but as the article says, ejected due to twisted magnetic fields perpendicular to its accretion disk. Once you get closer, space bends even the magnetic fields inwards, and everything else. And what goes that far is later emitted as Hawking radiation, the only form of energy theorized to be emitted from a black hole, in time believed to "evaporate" the black hole itself.
You know, we're going through all this, and we're still not anywhere near closer to coming up with a machine that does anti-gravity, alter the strong force or increase the weak. So go invent your own universe where the laws of physics are cheaper to alter.;)
But since this isn't about copyright infringement (right?? I'm still a bit confused), EMI has earned money on the customer already, so I'd say they have made their money when they sold their music to the customer that put it in an online storage. *shrug*
I don't even understand how they can say this. If there isn't a copyright infringement going on here (I'd understand that), then what's the problem? By saying this, they're illegalizing the entire online music business? Some holding EMI's own music, like iTunes.
Or is this about some obscure difference between online storage and online storage?
On the Apollo 17 page -> The First EVA -> Flag Deployment and ALSEP Off-Load:
118:51:20 Cernan: Oh, you won't believe it. 118:51:25 Schmitt: You did it again.
[Jack is guessing that Gene hit the wrong gravimeter button.]
118:51:26 Cernan: No!! There goes a fender. 118:51:28 Schmitt: Oh, shoot! --- 118:52:06 Cernan: And I hate to say it, but I'm going to have to take some time to try...I'm going to have to try to get that fender back on. 118:52:13 Parker: Okay. Was it the rear fender, Geno? 118:52:17 Cernan: Yeah. Caught it with my hammer, and it just popped right off. (Pause) --- 118:52:35 Cernan: Jack, is the tape under my seat, do you remember?
[This is a roll of very ordinary, gray duct tape.]
118:52:38 Schmitt: Yes. 118:52:39 Cernan: I may need it. Okay. Lithium hydroxide canister to middle. --- 118:52:49 Cernan: Man, you're wobbling around like a...How are you doing? 118:52:53 Schmitt: Oh, fine. It's just...It's work going out here! 118:52:56 Cernan: Yeah, I'll bet it is. Just take it easy. 118:52:58 Schmitt: I am. 118:52:59 Cernan: I'm going to be a little bit behind you (on the timeline) if I have to work on that fender, anyway. 118:53:01 Parker: Yeah, you can walk a bit more slowly than you're walking, Jack. 118:53:03 Schmitt: Okay, more and more...(Hearing Bob) What's that? 118:53:08 Parker: I said that you can walk more slowly than you started out, anyway. --- 118:54:10 Cernan: Well, if it wasn't for that fender, I'd be ready to go. Makes me sort of mad! (Long Pause) 118:54:33 Parker: I say there, Jack, that looks like a big rock there beyond you. 118:54:40 Cernan: That's the one we were talking about. Earlier. 118:54:43 Parker: We believe you now. (Pause)
.... and so on. Actually, the raw transcripts are more fun to read IMHO.;)
I agree, that was what surprised me the most and I was also surprised the article didn't mention that, because to me that's not what I would have expected in this case.
Microsoft is currently pushing a lot for web services, and Yahoo has a number of high profile web services, the most well-known perhaps being Flickr, Kelkoo, and del.icio.us. Yahoo! Mail also actually has a lot of users as well. They also either run or own other web services, and the combined list of MS + Yahoo web services would be quite formidable.;) So I think this is just a rather natural step for Microsoft to simply increase their online market share. It does seem a bit "unfocused" to me, but that hold true even before this, with Microsoft's own Live services alone. I guess it's just Microsoft's business idea.:-p
They may not understand how science works, but when faced with an article like this, can you really blame them? Everything looks hard when we don't understand it completely and it's barely out the doors of the universities.
We teach basic theories on atomic nuclei where I live to 15 year olds, and most don't have too big trouble comprehending it. We have all those text books with pretty drawings, all explained in a concise way with a reasonably easy to understand language. All this would have been unthinkable the day papers on the atomic nucleus were starting to be published.
I'd say -- just give it time. While what you say now may be true, religion is at a standstill (pretty much per definition; it is about relying on ancient religious texts), while science is constantly in movement.
I've seen the history on religious believers (I forget the website now though), and in modern countries, it was following a similar trend where I can recall, even in USA. That non-theistic belief systems are gaining on the theistic ones. I can really only see that trend continuing unless something dramatic happens, for example, a major religious conflict with christianity vs islam, where people feel a need to reinforce their faith in the old religions. But otherwise, in a general sense, I think the progress is pretty much irreversible. That's why some groups are now supporting "new" ideas with "intelligent design" and all this. It's new ways they struggle to maintain their grip on people and not have non-theistic ideas threaten them. Earlier, these tactics weren't even necessary.
To support the ongoing cost of maintaining the servers (as well as keep putting bread on the table), they released additional "chapters" which are self-contained and similar in size to the original. Not free, just different. The GW chapters are usually called "expansions" in the traditional MMO funding though. And yes, even if you bought WOW, you still have to buy its expansions for the extra dungeons.
I agree, I had a Maxtor disk that ran at something like 50-60 C and wondered when it was going to fail, never really treated it as my safest drive. And lo and behold, after ~3-4 years the first warnings on bad sectors started cropping up, and a year later Windows panicked and told me to immediately back it up if I hadn't already because I guess the number of SMART errors were building up.
On the other hand, I had a Samsung disk that ran at 40 C tops, in a worse drive bay too! The Maxtor one had free air passage in the middle bay (no drives nearby), where the Samsung was side-by-side with the metal casing.
So I'm thinking there can be some measurable differences between drive brands, and a study of this, along with perhaps relationship with brand failure rates would be most interesting!
The thing is, the only reason most people run Windows is so they can run legacy Windows applications. A Windows that can't run Windows apps? Did you read the full article?
This should allow the majority of legacy applications to run perfectly, while still retaining native performance for applications compiled specifically with the Windows 7 platform in mind. Anyway, the whole thing is unreferenced, so he could just as well be making 100% of it up.
Oh come on, do you really expect every article to specify the distributions it is referring to when the characteristic is something shared by almost all of the major ones. Definitely, in these cases. Whether you misunderstand what Linux is or not will decide if you blame the right person or not. Since this guy claims the Linux OS has this software integrated, I can only assume he says the Linux developers are somehow "immune" from the bundling complaints. Or is he just selectively misunderstanding things?
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Let's say it has a half-life of around 100 million years then. But how are they formed? I thought only heavy naturally occuring elements were formed in high energy situations like supernovae, but this is would be a relatively speaking short timeframe.
So how are minerals with a "short" half-life formed on Earth? Wouldn't it require a quite immense energy to fuse these atoms? I suppose the Earth has to have the energies necessary, but... What's this talk about supernovae being required to fuse atoms heavier than iron (unlike typical star fusion that I believe can go as far as this) all about in that case?
Well, I think I'd at least start collecting evidence that would hold up in court rather than trying to send people scary letters and cross my fingers that would do. RIAA's consistent abuse of the legal system is what I think stings me the most. Organizations set up to protect a business can and do survive without succumbing to such strategies.
But then again... Maybe I would on the other hand want to be a successful lawyer enough to fall for these things, I'm not saying I'm perfect. If I were a lawyer, I'd want to be successful, and it's obviously a reasonably successful strategy for them, or else they wouldn't keep doing it. It depends on how much of a jerk I'd be willing to become.
So is a PC version planned to eventually be released for this GTA incarnation too?
I just checked Wikipedia, but only the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions were listed.
Some say "art" is "something that took skill to produce an aesthetic result". So thinking of it as that and aesthetics being in the eye of the beholder, I guess it's subjective if something is art or not.
And using that "definition", photography can be called art by the one watching it if he/she think skill was well used for the result, but maybe not otherwise.
I think it's because VB .NET is maturing and people seeing it being superior to VB 6 as a language in most applications. VB .NET is only similar to VB 6 in the syntax, not very much so otherwise. It should really have had a more different name to not confuse. It's about two different languages, with two entirely different object models. The older is barely even object-oriented, the latter supports everything you can expect from inheritance to interfaces and even lambda expressions and delegates.
.NET was born in 2002 as part of a quite early and bugged first release of Visual Studio .NET. Visual Studio .NET 2003 made it slightly better, and IMHO, with 2005 and especially 2008 things have finally started to settle a bit.
VB
But that's just a theory... And it doesn't explain the sudden burst in 2004 (??) to drop down again even during the very same year. *shrug*
You can also write "cmdlets" for PowerShell in any
Yes, I probably should have added a 10^100 years or so disclaimer to "in time". Hehe. But I actually didn't realize that was because of the CMB, never considered that. I just thought they radiated slow enough. So I guess I learnt something there too, hehe.
These particle jets aren't emitted from the actual "depths" of a black hole, but as the article says, ejected due to twisted magnetic fields perpendicular to its accretion disk. Once you get closer, space bends even the magnetic fields inwards, and everything else. And what goes that far is later emitted as Hawking radiation, the only form of energy theorized to be emitted from a black hole, in time believed to "evaporate" the black hole itself.
But since this isn't about copyright infringement (right?? I'm still a bit confused), EMI has earned money on the customer already, so I'd say they have made their money when they sold their music to the customer that put it in an online storage. *shrug*
I don't even understand how they can say this. If there isn't a copyright infringement going on here (I'd understand that), then what's the problem? By saying this, they're illegalizing the entire online music business? Some holding EMI's own music, like iTunes.
Or is this about some obscure difference between online storage and online storage?
On the Apollo 17 page -> The First EVA -> Flag Deployment and ALSEP Off-Load:
118:51:20 Cernan: Oh, you won't believe it.
118:51:25 Schmitt: You did it again.
[Jack is guessing that Gene hit the wrong gravimeter button.]
118:51:26 Cernan: No!! There goes a fender.
118:51:28 Schmitt: Oh, shoot!
---
118:52:06 Cernan: And I hate to say it, but I'm going to have to take some time to try...I'm going to have to try to get that fender back on.
118:52:13 Parker: Okay. Was it the rear fender, Geno?
118:52:17 Cernan: Yeah. Caught it with my hammer, and it just popped right off. (Pause)
---
118:52:35 Cernan: Jack, is the tape under my seat, do you remember?
[This is a roll of very ordinary, gray duct tape.]
118:52:38 Schmitt: Yes.
118:52:39 Cernan: I may need it. Okay. Lithium hydroxide canister to middle.
---
118:52:49 Cernan: Man, you're wobbling around like a...How are you doing?
118:52:53 Schmitt: Oh, fine. It's just...It's work going out here!
118:52:56 Cernan: Yeah, I'll bet it is. Just take it easy.
118:52:58 Schmitt: I am.
118:52:59 Cernan: I'm going to be a little bit behind you (on the timeline) if I have to work on that fender, anyway.
118:53:01 Parker: Yeah, you can walk a bit more slowly than you're walking, Jack.
118:53:03 Schmitt: Okay, more and more...(Hearing Bob) What's that?
118:53:08 Parker: I said that you can walk more slowly than you started out, anyway.
---
118:54:10 Cernan: Well, if it wasn't for that fender, I'd be ready to go. Makes me sort of mad! (Long Pause)
118:54:33 Parker: I say there, Jack, that looks like a big rock there beyond you.
118:54:40 Cernan: That's the one we were talking about. Earlier.
118:54:43 Parker: We believe you now. (Pause)
The Lunar Surface Journal over here: (more specifically on the Apollo 17 page of course)
:)
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/frame.html
Craploads of imagery from all surface missions, full transcripts, and audio.
You'd still at least have to comply to Swedish laws, an example of a notable one to Americans being that on the topic of hate speech.
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Are you looking for any new kernel features in particular?
Even if it's the scientific American public?
I agree, that was what surprised me the most and I was also surprised the article didn't mention that, because to me that's not what I would have expected in this case.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.4387
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0802.4387v2
Microsoft is currently pushing a lot for web services, and Yahoo has a number of high profile web services, the most well-known perhaps being Flickr, Kelkoo, and del.icio.us. Yahoo! Mail also actually has a lot of users as well. They also either run or own other web services, and the combined list of MS + Yahoo web services would be quite formidable. ;) So I think this is just a rather natural step for Microsoft to simply increase their online market share. It does seem a bit "unfocused" to me, but that hold true even before this, with Microsoft's own Live services alone. I guess it's just Microsoft's business idea. :-p
Yes, I'm personally a normally calm guy, but I too have adrenaline rushes that haven't left my body for a while, even after having stopped playing.
We teach basic theories on atomic nuclei where I live to 15 year olds, and most don't have too big trouble comprehending it. We have all those text books with pretty drawings, all explained in a concise way with a reasonably easy to understand language. All this would have been unthinkable the day papers on the atomic nucleus were starting to be published.
I'd say -- just give it time. While what you say now may be true, religion is at a standstill (pretty much per definition; it is about relying on ancient religious texts), while science is constantly in movement.
I've seen the history on religious believers (I forget the website now though), and in modern countries, it was following a similar trend where I can recall, even in USA. That non-theistic belief systems are gaining on the theistic ones. I can really only see that trend continuing unless something dramatic happens, for example, a major religious conflict with christianity vs islam, where people feel a need to reinforce their faith in the old religions. But otherwise, in a general sense, I think the progress is pretty much irreversible. That's why some groups are now supporting "new" ideas with "intelligent design" and all this. It's new ways they struggle to maintain their grip on people and not have non-theistic ideas threaten them. Earlier, these tactics weren't even necessary.
I agree, I had a Maxtor disk that ran at something like 50-60 C and wondered when it was going to fail, never really treated it as my safest drive. And lo and behold, after ~3-4 years the first warnings on bad sectors started cropping up, and a year later Windows panicked and told me to immediately back it up if I hadn't already because I guess the number of SMART errors were building up.
On the other hand, I had a Samsung disk that ran at 40 C tops, in a worse drive bay too! The Maxtor one had free air passage in the middle bay (no drives nearby), where the Samsung was side-by-side with the metal casing.
So I'm thinking there can be some measurable differences between drive brands, and a study of this, along with perhaps relationship with brand failure rates would be most interesting!