Small? There's a software collection I run (and used to be in charge of the porting efforts to OS X for) that's about 2.5 million lines of code. Of that, 800,000 are FORTRAN (the rest is C, Java, C++, and Tcl, primarily).
I definitely wouldn't call 800,000 lines of code "small".
Google doesn't pay per view, Google pays per click. If you can make some kind of guess as to his clickthrough rate then you can guess at how much money he made.
But that payment rate also depends on the kind of ad clicked on. Sometimes I get 3 cents a click, sometimes I get 75 cents a click. Over the past month and a half I've averaged just under 17.5 cents per click.
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If you read the ESO press release you'll see that in addition to imaging it they've also taken spectra of it. The H-band spectrum they shows is similar to other sub-stellar objects, and it also shows fairly strong water absorption bands. This means that it's has to be fairly light. Evolutionary models have been run that predict that this object is about 5 times the mass of Jupiter.
Don't worry, most astronomers don't base their predictions on one image of something, they always follow it up with either multi-wavelength studies or spectral analysis, or both.
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turn something sitting on your desk upside down, and see what it says... good odds it says 'Made in China'.
Yeah, that's what interferometry is. You take the light from two (or more) telescopes and combine it electronically to form an image that has the resolution of a telescope that's as large as the separation distance between your two telescopes. Like someone else said here, it's done mostly for radio astronomy, but some places are doing it with optical (VLT and Keck). It's just that it's a hell of a lot of work to get it working in the optical -- the smaller your wavelength the more difficult it gets, and optical is a lot shorter than radio.
One of the advantages to interferometry is that you get extremely good resolution, allowing you to see finer details than if you were just using a single telescope. One of the disadvantages is that you have a narrow field-of-view, so it's not very good for finding things that you don't know are there. It'd be like watching an auto race through a straw -- if you know where the car you want to watch is, you can find it, but if you don't, then all you might see occasionally is a blur of red through your straw.
Actually, what you're talking about is interferometry, which is next to useless for detecting moving objects. The problem with interferometry is that it gives you a very narrow field-of-view, which is exactly the opposite of what you want for detecting moving objects.
What the parent poster is talking about is having multiple telescopes looking at the sky independently of one another. Smaller telescopes are better because they're cheaper and they generally have a wider field-of-view. Some projects that are doing things like this are eSTAR and Pan-STARRS.
Actually, what you're talking about is interferometry, which is next to useless for detecting moving objects. The problem with interferometry is that it gives you a very narrow field-of-view, which is exactly the opposite of what you want for detecting moving objects.
What the parent poster is talking about is having multiple telescopes looking at the sky independantly of one another. Smaller telescopes are better because they're cheaper and they generally have a wider field-of-view. Some projects that are doing things like this are eSTAR and Pan-STARRS.
Oh really? Where does it say that rings have to be made of matter? It is entirely conceivable that ring can be used as a synonym for belt, particularly in this instance. Sure, radiation belts are typically called "belts" but there's no reason why they can't be called "rings".
You might as well be a pedant and say that because they're not made of gold and don't have diamonds in them and they don't fit on your finger and they're not solid the things around Saturn aren't rings. Technically they're a loose conglomerate of chunks of matter orbiting a planet at a lower altitude than that planet's Roche limit, but that's a bit of a mouthful.
I got mine back in February. The cheque was dated 20 February. The letter that came with it was dated February 2004 and was slightly specific to Hawaii -- it started off "Dear Hawaii Music Purchaser" and was "signed" by the Attorney General of Hawaii, Mark J. Bennett.
Uh, what? Did you happen to read what that page says? It says that it opened half-way, then closed up a bit, and they don't know what it'll do next. They know it hasn't fully bloomed yet.
I've gone to Linux Today, clicked around a whole lot, and I've yet to see any Windows ads. Gateway ads, AOL ads, Centrino ads, but no Windows ads. Where are they?
I want to know if this guy has even got in touch with Linux Today in regards to this "controversy." He doesn't mention anything about talking to them, asking them rationally to do something about the Windows ads. It just looks like he's flying off the handle irrationally, and that really detracts from the point he's trying to make.
Uh. Just what is the PSP supposed to be backwards compatible with? The PS2? PSX? I don't know about you, but I haven't seen any PSX or PS2 games that come on those mini-CDs the PSP is going to be using.
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Small? There's a software collection I run (and used to be in charge of the porting efforts to OS X for) that's about 2.5 million lines of code. Of that, 800,000 are FORTRAN (the rest is C, Java, C++, and Tcl, primarily).
I definitely wouldn't call 800,000 lines of code "small".
You realize that the three rules of robotics are fictional, right?
Have you got a source for this?
Google doesn't pay per view, Google pays per click. If you can make some kind of guess as to his clickthrough rate then you can guess at how much money he made.
But that payment rate also depends on the kind of ad clicked on. Sometimes I get 3 cents a click, sometimes I get 75 cents a click. Over the past month and a half I've averaged just under 17.5 cents per click.
I just have a bookmark in my toolbar whose URL is "javascript:void(location.hostname = %22slashdot.org%22);"
I hear there's one in Hawaii too.
What email address does Apple get to use? Or Real? Or Microsoft?
So if your power goes out, how is ADSL supposed to help you?
But what's an oogle?
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If you read the ESO press release you'll see that in addition to imaging it they've also taken spectra of it. The H-band spectrum they shows is similar to other sub-stellar objects, and it also shows fairly strong water absorption bands. This means that it's has to be fairly light. Evolutionary models have been run that predict that this object is about 5 times the mass of Jupiter.
Don't worry, most astronomers don't base their predictions on one image of something, they always follow it up with either multi-wavelength studies or spectral analysis, or both.
Aha! Mine says 'Made in Taiwan'! Gotcha there!
Sounds like pen on paper.
Yeah, that's what interferometry is. You take the light from two (or more) telescopes and combine it electronically to form an image that has the resolution of a telescope that's as large as the separation distance between your two telescopes. Like someone else said here, it's done mostly for radio astronomy, but some places are doing it with optical (VLT and Keck). It's just that it's a hell of a lot of work to get it working in the optical -- the smaller your wavelength the more difficult it gets, and optical is a lot shorter than radio.
One of the advantages to interferometry is that you get extremely good resolution, allowing you to see finer details than if you were just using a single telescope. One of the disadvantages is that you have a narrow field-of-view, so it's not very good for finding things that you don't know are there. It'd be like watching an auto race through a straw -- if you know where the car you want to watch is, you can find it, but if you don't, then all you might see occasionally is a blur of red through your straw.
Actually, what you're talking about is interferometry, which is next to useless for detecting moving objects. The problem with interferometry is that it gives you a very narrow field-of-view, which is exactly the opposite of what you want for detecting moving objects.
What the parent poster is talking about is having multiple telescopes looking at the sky independently of one another. Smaller telescopes are better because they're cheaper and they generally have a wider field-of-view. Some projects that are doing things like this are eSTAR and Pan-STARRS.
Actually, what you're talking about is interferometry, which is next to useless for detecting moving objects. The problem with interferometry is that it gives you a very narrow field-of-view, which is exactly the opposite of what you want for detecting moving objects.
What the parent poster is talking about is having multiple telescopes looking at the sky independantly of one another. Smaller telescopes are better because they're cheaper and they generally have a wider field-of-view. Some projects that are doing things like this are eSTAR and Pan-STARRS.
There already are a number of groups that do this. One of them is Spaceguard. There are a few others in the works (eSTAR, Pan-STARRS).
Here's a tip: Star Trek isn't real.
Oh really? Where does it say that rings have to be made of matter? It is entirely conceivable that ring can be used as a synonym for belt, particularly in this instance. Sure, radiation belts are typically called "belts" but there's no reason why they can't be called "rings".
You might as well be a pedant and say that because they're not made of gold and don't have diamonds in them and they don't fit on your finger and they're not solid the things around Saturn aren't rings. Technically they're a loose conglomerate of chunks of matter orbiting a planet at a lower altitude than that planet's Roche limit, but that's a bit of a mouthful.
I got mine back in February. The cheque was dated 20 February. The letter that came with it was dated February 2004 and was slightly specific to Hawaii -- it started off "Dear Hawaii Music Purchaser" and was "signed" by the Attorney General of Hawaii, Mark J. Bennett.
Uh, what? Did you happen to read what that page says? It says that it opened half-way, then closed up a bit, and they don't know what it'll do next. They know it hasn't fully bloomed yet.
I've gone to Linux Today, clicked around a whole lot, and I've yet to see any Windows ads. Gateway ads, AOL ads, Centrino ads, but no Windows ads. Where are they?
I want to know if this guy has even got in touch with Linux Today in regards to this "controversy." He doesn't mention anything about talking to them, asking them rationally to do something about the Windows ads. It just looks like he's flying off the handle irrationally, and that really detracts from the point he's trying to make.
Uh. Just what is the PSP supposed to be backwards compatible with? The PS2? PSX? I don't know about you, but I haven't seen any PSX or PS2 games that come on those mini-CDs the PSP is going to be using.