Oh and in case anyone feels like correcting me, let me do it myself. The Russians were the first to photograph the moon by sending the unmanned probe Luna 2 around it in 1959. Apologies.
The names on the far side of the moon (not the dark side, since it's only dark half the time) are Russian because the Russians were the first to photograph the far side. Nothing to do with rovers, everything to do with being the first ones to send men around the moon.
In fact, how would they operate the rovers if they were on the far side?
Agreed. Ars always puts a lot of time and effort into their reviews, and that always makes them better. Take the recent review of OmniWeb 5 beta. It's a really good in-depth review -- and of a beta product!
Uh, what? There are already points of light above the atmosphere, they're called stars. After countless years of study I believe that we do know the properties of light emitted by stars fairly well. They're point sources, after all. Well, most of them, at least.
Further, it's already possible to significantly reduce the effects of the atmosphere through something called adaptive optics. By watching a star (that we know is a point source) it is possible to use flexible mirrors and all sorts of contraptions to compensate for the turbulence in the atmosphere.
Further, the atmosphere is constantly changing, both temporally and spatially. It would do absolutely no good to take measurements above the atmosphere so that we can remove atmospheric effects below the atmosphere, simply because the atmosphere is changing. The effects at the summit of Mauna Kea are different from those on La Palma, and those are different from those in your back yard. Also, the effects in your back yard at 10:00pm are different from those in your back yard at 10:30pm, and those are different from those in your back yard at 11:00pm.
Further, why use the ISS? Why not use something that's designed to look at stars? I believe these would be known as "space telescopes". I think we've reached the level of technology where we can put a few of them in orbit.
Made cheaper? How is it cheaper if I have to call up Fedex or UPS to ship my bags before I fly? Shipping anything via cargo isn't cheap.
Made easier? How is it easier when I have to arrange to get someone to pick up my bags a day or so before I fly, then I have to go somewhere else at the end of my travelling day to pick up my luggage?
Man, what a load of rubbish. "Score: 3, Interesting" indeed.
They're modifying the colours because the spacecraft isn't actually on Mars, it's on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Or maybe Haleakala, where they did Lunar Rover testing. Either one, they're both pretty good places for faking either Moon or Mars landings.
iTMS do require that at least some songs be available individually, with the exception that tracks longer than 7 minutes can only be sold as part of an album. This is Apple's rule, you'd have to ask them why.
Then how did I buy Rhapsody In Blue (13:44 long) individually?
I think Napster must be sinking. I received spams from them offering several free tracks if I were to sign back up with them.
That's not a sign the company's sinking, that's just a sign they want your money. I got emails from Netflix offering $10 off the first month after I cancelled their service.
Steve Jobs stated when the iTunes music store was announced that the DRM would be hacked. The point was to provide a DRM solution that was not restrictive to honest users. That was delivered.
Amen. This iTunes DRM removal thing will probably never be as popular as any of the DeCSS stuff, simply because the DRM on AAC files from the iTMS isn't so restrictive. If you want to drop the DRM (but lose a bit of quality in the process), just burn the song to a music CD, then convert it back into a DRM-free MP3 or AAC.
I'm an iTMS user, and when I heard about this crack coming out, I shrugged my shoulders. Frankly, I couldn't care less if it was cracked, the crack gives me nothing. It's not like if it weren't cracked I couldn't listen to my songs (stealing a parallel from DVDs on Linux).
The last time I sold something on eBay I charged $7.50 for shipping and handling. I hadn't checked the actual price before, but I figured it'd come around $5 so I could make a couple of extra bucks.
My girlfriend and I have had a few games of Civ3 against each other. You could try out one of that series (including Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, of course).
The last job I had I made about that much ($40k Canadian) living in Victoria, a more expensive city to live in than Edmonton, and it was more than enough money to live on.
Is that from all instruments or just a subset? If all that's pretty impressive.
It's for all instruments. The pipeline (called ORAC-DR can reduce data from IRCAM (infrared camera that was used on UKIRT until 2002), CGS4 (spectrometer on UKIRT), UIST (imaging spectrometer with IFU on UKIRT), UFTI (infrared camera on UKIRT), Michelle (mid-infrared imaging spectrometer on UKIRT and Gemini) SCUBA (submillimetre array on JCMT), IRIS2 (imaging spectrometer on the Anglo-Australian Telescope), INGRID (infrared camera on the William Herschel Telescope), ISAAC (imaging spectrometer for the European Southern Observatory), and partially for GMOS (multi-object spectrograph and imager on Gemini), NIRI (imaging spectrometer on Gemini), and heterodyne instruments on JCMT.
Whew. That's a lot.
I support the UKIRT instruments, and wrote a lot of the code for IRIS2 and the heterodyne instruments on JCMT. The joy of it lies in the fact that data reduction for the vast majority of instruments is similar. For the most part, an infrared camera is an infrared camera is an infrared camera. New instruments only require a few tweaks. IRIS2 support only took a couple of weeks to get going, and now they have a fully functional data reduction pipeline for their imaging data that performs in realtime.
Another joy lies in the infrastructure. Once you've written all kinds of file handling, calibration, and configuration code there's no need to write it all again from scratch just because you get a new instrument.
But what's to stop some employee of a bar from entering in your name as being thrown out of their bar three times in a week? Then effectively you could be banned from all the bars that participate in this scheme, just because someone didn't like you. That sounds really fair to me.
Of course, it all depends on where you work. I'm a Canadian working in the US, and I get 21 days of vacation a year, and I can carry over up to 15 to the next year. I get the same amount of sick leave a year, and I can carry over all of it to the next year (I currently have 260 hours -- 32.5 days -- of sick leave). This is in addition to the 13 or 14 (depending on year) public holidays I get off each year. Everybody here gets that, regardless of how long they've worked here.
So yeah, the US might be screwy, but there are places to work here that aren't as bad as you say. The last place I worked for in Canada I only got two weeks of vacation. When I moved down here that doubled.
I don't mean to sound antagonistic, but you don't get it, do you? You don't understand the ideas and concepts by "standards", do you?
No, you most definitely should not make sites that are Firebird-compliant. Make sites that are STANDARDS-compliant. It's by designing for a specific browser that we got into this morass of browser-specific tags and browser incompatibilities.
Use the standards that exist, and test using Firebird and IE and Opera and Galeon and Safari. But don't design with a specific browser in mind.
Soon they'll try the ultimate, using the recent MIT laser cooling technique to bring down the temperature to below 1 kelvins. Now thats when the ambient cosmic background radiation will become a pain.
SCUBA (Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array) on JCMT maintains a temperature of about 60mK using a liquid helium dilution refrigerator. It is probably the continuously coldest place that we know of in the universe, since it maintains 60mK for weeks on end.
So no, you don't need laser cooling techniques to get down to these low temperatures for astronomical detectors.
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The International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center deals with naming asteroids, not the International Astronomical Federation. As far as I'm aware, there's no such thing as the IAF.
Oh and in case anyone feels like correcting me, let me do it myself. The Russians were the first to photograph the moon by sending the unmanned probe Luna 2 around it in 1959. Apologies.
The names on the far side of the moon (not the dark side, since it's only dark half the time) are Russian because the Russians were the first to photograph the far side. Nothing to do with rovers, everything to do with being the first ones to send men around the moon.
In fact, how would they operate the rovers if they were on the far side?
Agreed. Ars always puts a lot of time and effort into their reviews, and that always makes them better. Take the recent review of OmniWeb 5 beta. It's a really good in-depth review -- and of a beta product!
Uh, what? There are already points of light above the atmosphere, they're called stars. After countless years of study I believe that we do know the properties of light emitted by stars fairly well. They're point sources, after all. Well, most of them, at least.
Further, it's already possible to significantly reduce the effects of the atmosphere through something called adaptive optics. By watching a star (that we know is a point source) it is possible to use flexible mirrors and all sorts of contraptions to compensate for the turbulence in the atmosphere.
Further, the atmosphere is constantly changing, both temporally and spatially. It would do absolutely no good to take measurements above the atmosphere so that we can remove atmospheric effects below the atmosphere, simply because the atmosphere is changing. The effects at the summit of Mauna Kea are different from those on La Palma, and those are different from those in your back yard. Also, the effects in your back yard at 10:00pm are different from those in your back yard at 10:30pm, and those are different from those in your back yard at 11:00pm.
Further, why use the ISS? Why not use something that's designed to look at stars? I believe these would be known as "space telescopes". I think we've reached the level of technology where we can put a few of them in orbit.
Not being able to spell does not mean that you're not able to read.
Made cheaper? How is it cheaper if I have to call up Fedex or UPS to ship my bags before I fly? Shipping anything via cargo isn't cheap.
Made easier? How is it easier when I have to arrange to get someone to pick up my bags a day or so before I fly, then I have to go somewhere else at the end of my travelling day to pick up my luggage?
Man, what a load of rubbish. "Score: 3, Interesting" indeed.
They're modifying the colours because the spacecraft isn't actually on Mars, it's on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Or maybe Haleakala, where they did Lunar Rover testing. Either one, they're both pretty good places for faking either Moon or Mars landings.
Then how did I buy Rhapsody In Blue (13:44 long) individually?
That's not a sign the company's sinking, that's just a sign they want your money. I got emails from Netflix offering $10 off the first month after I cancelled their service.
I'm an iTMS user, and when I heard about this crack coming out, I shrugged my shoulders. Frankly, I couldn't care less if it was cracked, the crack gives me nothing. It's not like if it weren't cracked I couldn't listen to my songs (stealing a parallel from DVDs on Linux).
...look for the following patents in the near future:
1) Women's names rhyming with female body parts.
2) Superman.
3) Entering a room in a wacky manner.
4) Nothing.
Also interesting.
The last time I sold something on eBay I charged $7.50 for shipping and handling. I hadn't checked the actual price before, but I figured it'd come around $5 so I could make a couple of extra bucks.
Shipping cost $10. Bah.
My girlfriend and I have had a few games of Civ3 against each other. You could try out one of that series (including Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, of course).
The last job I had I made about that much ($40k Canadian) living in Victoria, a more expensive city to live in than Edmonton, and it was more than enough money to live on.
Yep, Steve Jobs said in his presentation that iTMS has over 200 independant labels signed up.
Whew. That's a lot.
I support the UKIRT instruments, and wrote a lot of the code for IRIS2 and the heterodyne instruments on JCMT. The joy of it lies in the fact that data reduction for the vast majority of instruments is similar. For the most part, an infrared camera is an infrared camera is an infrared camera. New instruments only require a few tweaks. IRIS2 support only took a couple of weeks to get going, and now they have a fully functional data reduction pipeline for their imaging data that performs in realtime.
Another joy lies in the infrastructure. Once you've written all kinds of file handling, calibration, and configuration code there's no need to write it all again from scratch just because you get a new instrument.
Oh, and it's GPL.
But what's to stop some employee of a bar from entering in your name as being thrown out of their bar three times in a week? Then effectively you could be banned from all the bars that participate in this scheme, just because someone didn't like you. That sounds really fair to me.
Compaqs come with CD-ROMs.
Of course, it all depends on where you work. I'm a Canadian working in the US, and I get 21 days of vacation a year, and I can carry over up to 15 to the next year. I get the same amount of sick leave a year, and I can carry over all of it to the next year (I currently have 260 hours -- 32.5 days -- of sick leave). This is in addition to the 13 or 14 (depending on year) public holidays I get off each year. Everybody here gets that, regardless of how long they've worked here.
So yeah, the US might be screwy, but there are places to work here that aren't as bad as you say. The last place I worked for in Canada I only got two weeks of vacation. When I moved down here that doubled.
I don't mean to sound antagonistic, but you don't get it, do you? You don't understand the ideas and concepts by "standards", do you?
No, you most definitely should not make sites that are Firebird-compliant. Make sites that are STANDARDS-compliant. It's by designing for a specific browser that we got into this morass of browser-specific tags and browser incompatibilities.
Use the standards that exist, and test using Firebird and IE and Opera and Galeon and Safari. But don't design with a specific browser in mind.
SCUBA (Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array) on JCMT maintains a temperature of about 60mK using a liquid helium dilution refrigerator. It is probably the continuously coldest place that we know of in the universe, since it maintains 60mK for weeks on end.
So no, you don't need laser cooling techniques to get down to these low temperatures for astronomical detectors.