No, its not, unless one intends to make that disclaimer any time they're talking about it with someone else. Thats how religion starts -- people choosing to ignore the scientific explanation (or not knowing it), making something up that comforts them and then telling it to someone else who grants it more substance that its worth.
From a neurological standpoint, its not some great mystery what happens during those times. The feelings and visions people have are not a mystery. Some of the details are argued, but the neurophysiology of near death is not a big black box of unknown. (And near death is important... those impressions happen as the brain is still functioning but not processing external input and differentiating it properly from internal feedback.... the brain is very good at taking familiar fragments and assembling them in ways that make sense. Its same way optical illusions can make you think you see patterns that aren't there or you can have someone waking you up integrated into a dream at a point chronologically well before you woke up. All those senses get mixed up both in time and in origin and your brain is very good at taking disjointed input and making a logical flowing "story" out of it. You wouldn't be able to function if it didn't.
Go read the scientific literature on what happens in your brain when you dream, particularly at the moment immediately after awakening when your short term memory starts to reassemble the disjointed firings of parts of your brain into a coherent story.
Um, no. Its easy to do even with some aluminum foil or mylar film up to 40 or so, and with a real good reflector and VERY clear skies, its been done up to almost 50 degrees.
No, you cool from radiative cooling, and very quickly. Get in the sun, you bake, get in the shade and you'll radiate all your heat away. Radiative cooling is so effective, you can freeze water on a cool night with a solar oven as the reflector works in reverse.
One, how are they going to keep the astronaut warm/cool in it.
Two, they talk about how its safer if it gets punctured because the hole can just be patched without affecting the rest of the suit. How are you going to puncture it in a way that doesn't puncture, you know... you? Even if the suit doesn't depressurize, it can't be good for your cardiovascular system to have a gaping wound exposed to vacuum or micropressures.
It's that they make movie execs happy, but they scare away the customers.
Who're the most important in the success of a product? When your customer IS content producers?
The movie exec.
Remember the organizations creating these standards are creating them for profit -- it costs money to license BluRay technology. Their customers are the hardware and content producers, they (quite correctly) do not care in the slightest about the consumer, thats not their customer. What a consumer thinks is their customers' problem, not theirs. If there's backlash, the request to change it has to come from the manufacturers.
They told me it over the phone. The guys who came out and installed the fiber to my house told me. The installer who did the work in he house the next week told me. The paperwork told me, and so did the intarweb.
On top of that, I don't care, nor I imagine would very many people.
Now maybe there is and maybe there isn't GPL code in the iPhone, but this really stinks like the FSF saying "hey, they're getting a lot of attention, lets see if we can say something bad about them and people will pay attention to us!".
Its a very childish thing to do, and very unlike the FSF in my opinion.
Scooter Libby was in the news this week, too. Maybe they should claim he might have violated the GPL, too. Double helping of bandwagon jumping?
Cleaning out my garage a week or two ago I was going through an old box and ended up tossing a set of Slackware A floppies... That was such a refreshing change from downloading a boot disk and bootstrapping a system starting with compiling GCC.
I know its only peripherally related to the article, but man. V12 of Slackware? Time has flown, and things sure have changed.
Its not the farmers who should be pissed, its the managers.
If you think 3x is excessive, you haven't spent much time working in the real world. In the US, it would be pretty atypical for a management level employee to be only making 3x what grunt workers are making, especially for menial sort of labor at minimum wages.
Even in high paying positions like software, its not unusual for a department lead to make 2x what individual engineers are making.
Its very different outside of the US. Because there is largely no competition in any broadband market, there's no reason for them to do that.
The fine print kills you on all of them. Another good example. Verizon Wireless sells pseudo-3G internet access across the country. Its actually pretty nice -- almost everywhere you can get 500+kb/sec internet and a lot of laptops have it built-in these days.
The fine print though caps you at 5 gigabytes a month. Go over it and its a $250 fee per additional 5G. I know a few people who learned to read the contract carefully the hard way.
when you sign up for an account advertised as a 20mbit service, 20mbit is what you are entitled to. fine print doesn't trump that later on. Um... Yes it does. If you didn't read the contract thats not their problem.
Wishing that wasn't the way it works doesn't make it so.
It has nothing to do with Woz -- it has to do with the complexity of the system and the number of people who would possibly have any ability to use that information.
Parts are smaller, more delicate, and a screwdriver is no longer sufficient to safely service things like laptops *without experience*.
And its not just a computer thing -- I used to have a '68 Porsche 911... its service manual had full schematics for the car, and even had sections on how to do a four-wheel alignment in your garage. But like computers, cars have gotten massively more complicate and more precise. Its not as practical for someone to do that at home anymore and far less likely someone actually would. Result? They don't include that information anymore.
I'm not saying a C&D is reasonable in this case because I don't know anything about it, but its really not nearly the grand corporate conspiracy people seem to be suggesting it is on here. In 1977 there was a million computer users of which all were hackers or tinkerers. In 2007 there's three billion, which a tiny percentage are.
The average age expectancy has gone up because child mortality rates dropped, not because people are living longer. People who survived childhood have been living into their 80's at a minimum for centuries and there's little evidence that it changed much even before then.
Now the real question is, did you really not know that, or did you know it and were playing on the fact that many people don't to push your position in your reply?
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Mach 1 is the point where the ratio between an object's speed in a medium and the speed of sound in that medium hits 1:1.
The speed of sound on Mars is more like 245m/sec at ground level, so Mach 1 on Mars is the same. Approx 545mph.
FWIW, geothermal is nuclear. Thats what keeps the Earth hot at the core -- heat from all the uranium in the crust.
No, its not, unless one intends to make that disclaimer any time they're talking about it with someone else. Thats how religion starts -- people choosing to ignore the scientific explanation (or not knowing it), making something up that comforts them and then telling it to someone else who grants it more substance that its worth.
From a neurological standpoint, its not some great mystery what happens during those times. The feelings and visions people have are not a mystery. Some of the details are argued, but the neurophysiology of near death is not a big black box of unknown. (And near death is important... those impressions happen as the brain is still functioning but not processing external input and differentiating it properly from internal feedback.... the brain is very good at taking familiar fragments and assembling them in ways that make sense. Its same way optical illusions can make you think you see patterns that aren't there or you can have someone waking you up integrated into a dream at a point chronologically well before you woke up. All those senses get mixed up both in time and in origin and your brain is very good at taking disjointed input and making a logical flowing "story" out of it. You wouldn't be able to function if it didn't.
Go read the scientific literature on what happens in your brain when you dream, particularly at the moment immediately after awakening when your short term memory starts to reassemble the disjointed firings of parts of your brain into a coherent story.
What happened to you will make a lot more sense.
Um, no. Its easy to do even with some aluminum foil or mylar film up to 40 or so, and with a real good reflector and VERY clear skies, its been done up to almost 50 degrees.
Google is your friend.
No, you cool from radiative cooling, and very quickly. Get in the sun, you bake, get in the shade and you'll radiate all your heat away. Radiative cooling is so effective, you can freeze water on a cool night with a solar oven as the reflector works in reverse.
One, how are they going to keep the astronaut warm/cool in it.
Two, they talk about how its safer if it gets punctured because the hole can just be patched without affecting the rest of the suit. How are you going to puncture it in a way that doesn't puncture, you know... you? Even if the suit doesn't depressurize, it can't be good for your cardiovascular system to have a gaping wound exposed to vacuum or micropressures.
Who're the most important in the success of a product? When your customer IS content producers?
The movie exec.
Remember the organizations creating these standards are creating them for profit -- it costs money to license BluRay technology. Their customers are the hardware and content producers, they (quite correctly) do not care in the slightest about the consumer, thats not their customer. What a consumer thinks is their customers' problem, not theirs. If there's backlash, the request to change it has to come from the manufacturers.
They told me it over the phone. The guys who came out and installed the fiber to my house told me. The installer who did the work in he house the next week told me. The paperwork told me, and so did the intarweb.
On top of that, I don't care, nor I imagine would very many people.
So whats the story getting whipped up about?
For what its worth Microsoft is not the only company to get bit by the switchover to no-lead solder that Europe forced on manufacturers.
I'm glad they're going to refund my $140, though. I hope the one I recently got lasts longer than the last three.
Now maybe there is and maybe there isn't GPL code in the iPhone, but this really stinks like the FSF saying "hey, they're getting a lot of attention, lets see if we can say something bad about them and people will pay attention to us!".
Its a very childish thing to do, and very unlike the FSF in my opinion.
Scooter Libby was in the news this week, too. Maybe they should claim he might have violated the GPL, too. Double helping of bandwagon jumping?
Cleaning out my garage a week or two ago I was going through an old box and ended up tossing a set of Slackware A floppies... That was such a refreshing change from downloading a boot disk and bootstrapping a system starting with compiling GCC.
I know its only peripherally related to the article, but man. V12 of Slackware? Time has flown, and things sure have changed.
Sprawl-Mart is the dig on Wal-Mart.
See the similarity?
Oh wait, that Europe not Scorpions...
Nevermind.
Its not the farmers who should be pissed, its the managers.
If you think 3x is excessive, you haven't spent much time working in the real world. In the US, it would be pretty atypical for a management level employee to be only making 3x what grunt workers are making, especially for menial sort of labor at minimum wages.
Even in high paying positions like software, its not unusual for a department lead to make 2x what individual engineers are making.
Actually, I suspect you just have poor reading skills.
But thanks for your reply.
Its very different outside of the US. Because there is largely no competition in any broadband market, there's no reason for them to do that.
The fine print kills you on all of them. Another good example. Verizon Wireless sells pseudo-3G internet access across the country. Its actually pretty nice -- almost everywhere you can get 500+kb/sec internet and a lot of laptops have it built-in these days.
The fine print though caps you at 5 gigabytes a month. Go over it and its a $250 fee per additional 5G. I know a few people who learned to read the contract carefully the hard way.
Wishing that wasn't the way it works doesn't make it so.
All of those contracts clearly state "up to" a certain speed. No consumer service I've ever seen has a guaranteed speed claim.
There's probably not much the consumer can do except vote with their money and cancel the service.
This is why net neutrality laws are important -- because existing service contracts do NOT protect the consumer from this sort of action.
It has nothing to do with Woz -- it has to do with the complexity of the system and the number of people who would possibly have any ability to use that information.
Parts are smaller, more delicate, and a screwdriver is no longer sufficient to safely service things like laptops *without experience*.
And its not just a computer thing -- I used to have a '68 Porsche 911... its service manual had full schematics for the car, and even had sections on how to do a four-wheel alignment in your garage. But like computers, cars have gotten massively more complicate and more precise. Its not as practical for someone to do that at home anymore and far less likely someone actually would. Result? They don't include that information anymore.
I'm not saying a C&D is reasonable in this case because I don't know anything about it, but its really not nearly the grand corporate conspiracy people seem to be suggesting it is on here. In 1977 there was a million computer users of which all were hackers or tinkerers. In 2007 there's three billion, which a tiny percentage are.
Wait, you're saying it would actually be bad if I snorted coke, drove somewhere and shot someone with a shotgun?
There goes my afternoon.
Um... 25 was not mid life...
The average age expectancy has gone up because child mortality rates dropped, not because people are living longer. People who survived childhood have been living into their 80's at a minimum for centuries and there's little evidence that it changed much even before then.
Now the real question is, did you really not know that, or did you know it and were playing on the fact that many people don't to push your position in your reply?
Then you've never seen e-Ink before.
E-Ink doesn't ever use a backlight...
Plotlines in disguise.
Money
People make a lot of money writing books.