Since when have cash registers told cashiers what coins to give back? They say "give back 47 cents" and it's up to the cashier to figure out which coins to give out. They don't say "give a quarter, two dimes, and two pennies".
Actually, grad students at the University of Hawaii are privileged in that UH gets telescope time on every telescope on the mountain for free, either 10 or 15% of all allocated time. This puts UH staff and students in an enviable position where they do not have to go through stricter reviews in order to get telescope time on some of the best telescopes in the world.
Some (if not most) of the telescopes on Mauna Kea are oversubscribed, which means that for every night of available observing time they have more than one night of applications. More clearly stated, when applications roll in the total number of nights applied for might be, say, 150 nights in a six-month period when there might only be 100 nights available.
That's for regular applicants. Remember that UH gets 10 to 15% of the time straight off the top. There are some telescopes on Mauna Kea where the UH observers don't know what to do with their time!
And for what it's worth, there aren't that many jobs available for moon hunters. It's an extremely small field and, in my opinion, an extremely uninteresting one from any kind of theoretical point of view. All you do is get a big telescope with a wide field camera, point it just off the side of Jupiter, take a bunch of pictures, and see if anything moved. There's little innovation or new ideas involved, which is why something like this was left to a grad student.
And it's not like you need to have a PhD to get published. As an undergrad student I was published twice and had posters involving my work presented at two or three conferences. And some of that work was using possibly the most famous telescope of all -- the Hubble Space Telescope.
Not to degrade Mr. Sheppard's discovery, but it's not that big a deal, really.
Your analogy is faulty. First, the censoring done by the Catholic Church would have been done on the original works of art. Nobody is talking about permanently removing nudity from films. Secondly, if you have a copy of a work of art you can do whatever you want with that copy. If the artist wants such strict control over their work then they shouldn't release it to the public to be enjoyed.
If you've got a print of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in your house, you have ever right to paste fig leaves over the naughty bits.
True, but last time I was up there the free tours available to the public don't really show you very much. The closest you get to seeing one of their telescopes is inside a cage on the dome floor. To really get a tour you need to either work there or know someone who does. That tour's much more interesting. =)
Plus, public tours are only available during the day when nothing exciting is going on. Well, unless you consider engineering exciting. It's only after twilight when things start getting exciting. And then when they start sitting on a source things get boring again, and that's when you start hoping things will break so there's something for you to do at 3 in the morning so you don't fall asleep.
The bulk of what little light brown dwarves emit is emitted in the infrared, making them practically invisible without a very expensive (and new) telescope.
Actually, Jupiter and Saturn are too small to be considered brown dwarfs. The upper mass limit for brown dwarf is about 0.08 solar masses, or about 80 Jupiter masses. The lower limit is a little squishy, but most astronomers who study brown dwarfs would not include Jupiter in the brown dwarf category. The lower limit is probably something like 10 Jupiter masses.
Canadian consumers taxed by an American organisation? Tell me sir, how does that work?
You mean to say that there's a levy on blank audio recording media collected by the Canadian Private Copying Collective. From the CPCC's website:
"In Canada, private copying is legal and does not infringe copyright. It is because, in exchange, copyright holders in recorded music have a right to receive compensation in the form of royalties for private copying."
Do you expect to see Saturn's rings face-on? The view of the rings changes from year to year, as you've implied. However, at no point do we ever see the rings directly face-on. At most we'd see them tipped about 28 degrees towards us, not the 90 you'd expect if they were directly face-on.
If $80 million is a relatively small loss, then I'd like them to lose an even relatively smaller amount (say, 1% of that $80 million) into my bank account.
Last time I checked I was running every single one of my applications on my computer, except for, as you noted, information-access applications that need real-time information (like news sources, currency converters, etc). There is not one single application that I run that is not an information-access application that runs over the web.
Photoshop isn't web-enabled. My games aren't web-enabled. Illustrator isn't web-enabled.
I don't know what's worse, that you actually posted this and probably believe it's true, or that you got modded up as being insightful.
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Please note that a demo is not a game. Plus, what happens when WindowsUser gets tired of playing UT2003? They play Tux Racer? PHAAHAHAHAH, right. No, they reinstall Windows.
If you're trying to sway over users from Windows, games are -not- the way to do it.
Any H2O molecule is a water molecule, regardless of its state. When I was doing analysis of data looking at a young stellar object, there were definite water absorbtion bands in the spectrum. The temperature of this object was something like 80K, which is well below the freezing point of water, and yet, when it came time to write up the paper, I referred to it as water.
Everybody in the astronomical world does the same. They might call it "water ice"**, but it's always water.
* If you're not, then I weep for the educational system. If you are, then I weep for whoever modded your comment up as "insightful".
** And "ice" doesn't necessarily refer to water ice either. Another example of ice found out there would be methane ice.
This water isn't reflecting red light (well, it probably is, but that's not what the astronomers were looking at in this study). The image you see in the story is an artist's rendition. All observations of this dying star were made with the VLBA, which does observations in radio wavelengths.
Again, not red, radio.
And I hope you're aware that the previous poster was making a joke. It's funny, see?
Nice, except that you didn't. A Maglev train is magnetically levitational, and you can't get this by building a track out of wood. Unless you've found some way to make wood magnetic and didn't mention it on your "building of the monorail" pages.
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Since when have cash registers told cashiers what coins to give back? They say "give back 47 cents" and it's up to the cashier to figure out which coins to give out. They don't say "give a quarter, two dimes, and two pennies".
Actually, grad students at the University of Hawaii are privileged in that UH gets telescope time on every telescope on the mountain for free, either 10 or 15% of all allocated time. This puts UH staff and students in an enviable position where they do not have to go through stricter reviews in order to get telescope time on some of the best telescopes in the world.
Some (if not most) of the telescopes on Mauna Kea are oversubscribed, which means that for every night of available observing time they have more than one night of applications. More clearly stated, when applications roll in the total number of nights applied for might be, say, 150 nights in a six-month period when there might only be 100 nights available.
That's for regular applicants. Remember that UH gets 10 to 15% of the time straight off the top. There are some telescopes on Mauna Kea where the UH observers don't know what to do with their time!
And for what it's worth, there aren't that many jobs available for moon hunters. It's an extremely small field and, in my opinion, an extremely uninteresting one from any kind of theoretical point of view. All you do is get a big telescope with a wide field camera, point it just off the side of Jupiter, take a bunch of pictures, and see if anything moved. There's little innovation or new ideas involved, which is why something like this was left to a grad student.
And it's not like you need to have a PhD to get published. As an undergrad student I was published twice and had posters involving my work presented at two or three conferences. And some of that work was using possibly the most famous telescope of all -- the Hubble Space Telescope.
Not to degrade Mr. Sheppard's discovery, but it's not that big a deal, really.
I thought April Fools jokes were supposed to stop at noon.
If by "active" you mean in the last 40 to 100 million years, then yes, Mars is volcanically active.
However, most of us are living in the present, where 40 to 100 million years of volcanic inactivity means that Mars is volcanically inactive.
Then buy Canadian diamonds if you're so worried about the ethics behind diamond mining.
There are always alternatives.
Looks like there was just an earthquake in Pasadena.
Oh wait...
You mean exactly like the one they reviewed?
Did you even read the article?
Your analogy is faulty. First, the censoring done by the Catholic Church would have been done on the original works of art. Nobody is talking about permanently removing nudity from films. Secondly, if you have a copy of a work of art you can do whatever you want with that copy. If the artist wants such strict control over their work then they shouldn't release it to the public to be enjoyed.
If you've got a print of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in your house, you have ever right to paste fig leaves over the naughty bits.
So according to that SBC must owe Slashdot about $50,000!
Yeah, but Amazon is eeeeevil and patent-hungry and BN is the white knight of buying books online!
True, but last time I was up there the free tours available to the public don't really show you very much. The closest you get to seeing one of their telescopes is inside a cage on the dome floor. To really get a tour you need to either work there or know someone who does. That tour's much more interesting. =)
Plus, public tours are only available during the day when nothing exciting is going on. Well, unless you consider engineering exciting. It's only after twilight when things start getting exciting. And then when they start sitting on a source things get boring again, and that's when you start hoping things will break so there's something for you to do at 3 in the morning so you don't fall asleep.
Really? Then how is it that a 23-year old, 3.8 metre telescope (which is cheap and old and small by today's standards) is able to not only detect brown dwarfs, but determine what kind of weather patterns their atmospheres have?
Actually, Jupiter and Saturn are too small to be considered brown dwarfs. The upper mass limit for brown dwarf is about 0.08 solar masses, or about 80 Jupiter masses. The lower limit is a little squishy, but most astronomers who study brown dwarfs would not include Jupiter in the brown dwarf category. The lower limit is probably something like 10 Jupiter masses.
Keep reading the site. You don't need a receipt to make a claim.
Canadian consumers taxed by an American organisation? Tell me sir, how does that work?
You mean to say that there's a levy on blank audio recording media collected by the Canadian Private Copying Collective. From the CPCC's website:
"In Canada, private copying is legal and does not infringe copyright. It is because, in exchange, copyright holders in recorded music have a right to receive compensation in the form of royalties for private copying."
Do you expect to see Saturn's rings face-on? The view of the rings changes from year to year, as you've implied. However, at no point do we ever see the rings directly face-on. At most we'd see them tipped about 28 degrees towards us, not the 90 you'd expect if they were directly face-on.
If $80 million is a relatively small loss, then I'd like them to lose an even relatively smaller amount (say, 1% of that $80 million) into my bank account.
What in the hell are you talking about?
Last time I checked I was running every single one of my applications on my computer, except for, as you noted, information-access applications that need real-time information (like news sources, currency converters, etc). There is not one single application that I run that is not an information-access application that runs over the web.
Photoshop isn't web-enabled. My games aren't web-enabled. Illustrator isn't web-enabled.
I don't know what's worse, that you actually posted this and probably believe it's true, or that you got modded up as being insightful.
Please note that a demo is not a game. Plus, what happens when WindowsUser gets tired of playing UT2003? They play Tux Racer? PHAAHAHAHAH, right. No, they reinstall Windows.
If you're trying to sway over users from Windows, games are -not- the way to do it.
Maybe this is a reference to a vaporware CPU offering from Intel?
I hope you're trying to be funny.*
Any H2O molecule is a water molecule, regardless of its state. When I was doing analysis of data looking at a young stellar object, there were definite water absorbtion bands in the spectrum. The temperature of this object was something like 80K, which is well below the freezing point of water, and yet, when it came time to write up the paper, I referred to it as water.
Everybody in the astronomical world does the same. They might call it "water ice"**, but it's always water.
* If you're not, then I weep for the educational system. If you are, then I weep for whoever modded your comment up as "insightful".
** And "ice" doesn't necessarily refer to water ice either. Another example of ice found out there would be methane ice.
This water isn't reflecting red light (well, it probably is, but that's not what the astronomers were looking at in this study). The image you see in the story is an artist's rendition. All observations of this dying star were made with the VLBA, which does observations in radio wavelengths.
Again, not red, radio.
And I hope you're aware that the previous poster was making a joke. It's funny, see?
Nice, except that you didn't. A Maglev train is magnetically levitational, and you can't get this by building a track out of wood. Unless you've found some way to make wood magnetic and didn't mention it on your "building of the monorail" pages.
So you're complaining that it's not going to be realeased for BeOS. That's not surprising, you know, considering BeOS is a dead operating system.
What's next, you're going to complain that LA isn't available for the Commodore 64?