I doubt a 15 million year old universe would have been little more than atomic soup. Water may have existed, but not as we know it. It takes more than 15 million years for a star to form and blow up, where would you have gotten enough heavy elements for a planet to arise?:)
That's not quite accurate. Heavier radioactive elements would have come from supernovas, which only occur in stars much more massive than our own. The more massive the star, the higher its luminosity and the shorter its lifespan. Some of the most massive stars we've found will spend (or have spent) less than 100,000 years on the main sequence before expanding into supergiants and exploding as supernovae. So there's plenty of time for nucelosynthesis over that 15 million year span.
Or leftover dust from the stellar disc that's more prevalent in the outer areas. The orbit gradually degrades until it reaches a clearer area closer in.
That, and the results of both of our effective planet detecting schemes - transit and doppler - skew proportionately towards these hot worlds, as for both methods a shorter period will give a stronger signal and therefore be more likely to be detected. So just like with the hot jupiters detected by the doppler method, they are probably actually a minuscule fraction of the planets out there but happen to be the easiest to detect. So even though they are rare, we are guaranteed to see them, and then muse about their rarity.
It's just like scientists to be racist and not be willing to detect the black planets.
No, He's saying he values employees who understand how the technology, that their job is based on interacting with, actually works, and can derive answers to their own questions instead of him doing their job for them.
Which is just great until they start deriving the wrong answers. And since they don't ask any questions to confirm, they wind up either being useless (doing something tangential to what they were supposed to be doing), or worse than useless (irreparably screwing up their work and possibly their coworkers' as well). Not asking enough questions is a much greater concern than asking too many.
Not to mention such things as speaking in tongues, miraculous healings, the prophecies of Jesus all coming true in a single person. There is a lot of indication that there is more than what we can measure. It's the height of arrogance to suggest otherwise, that we are all-knowing.
The fact that the people disagreeing with you don't know everything is not in any way an implication that you know anything.
The recent rise in zombie fiction has actually reintroduced something far more Gauntlet-like into the FPS world... but it's too far, cos zombies don't shoot at you...
Neither did most things in Gauntlet except for the demons and the lobbers. Even the Sorcerers got up close and personal.
Perhaps a "Francis needs food, badly!" followed by "I HATE FOOD!" would be more to your liking?
Sometimes a person can be both gracious and just. Nobody is perfect and will make mistakes in their career. So if we would not like to be publically humiliated, why call on Microsoft to publically humiliate Orth? So what if it's a PR disaster. Things happen.
If you're just upset about Microsoft's always on DRM, then buy a Wii U or PS4.
Therein lies the reason for the firing. Consider the timing here: It begins with a great deal of uncertainty and rumors regarding a possible 'always online' requirement for the upcoming generation of consoles. Sony comes out and states that they won't be implementing it, which turns all the speculation squarely at Microsoft. Microsoft remains silent on the subject, and then all of a sudden one of their employees shoots his mouth off with some highly scornful Twitter posts about gamers that are concerned about this issue.
The next thing you hear is the sound of thousands of pencils crossing "XBOX 720" off the list of desired consoles for this generation. And Microsoft knows this. That's why he got canned.
Microsoft's problem now is that they're still remaining silent on the issue even after the firing. That makes it look like they're firing him not because they disagree with what he said, but instead because he revealed/confirmed something that Microsoft would much rather keep under wraps. With all the negative PR that this whole mess is generating, wouldn't Microsoft want to publicly contradict what he said if it wasn't true?
We see this everywhere, it's not about salaries as much as it's about the need for corporate prices to come down. Lower salaries are a byproduct of having to sell to cash poor customers.
And cash poor customers are a byproduct of lower salaries. Does the phrase "downward spiral" mean anything to you?
Of course, the big question, is why is America so against the notion of gambling? Is this just another morality issue, or because they're not getting taxes?
It's more due to lobbying by existing brick and mortar casinos. The law was passed in 2006 just before congressional adjournment, tacked onto a bill that otherwise dealt with shipping and port security. It specifically prohibits things like internet poker while still allowing long distance transactions on other forms of gambling that the brick and mortars had already established, such as horse racing. So it's about as moral as any other business that uses its lobbyists to legislate away its competition.
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I doubt a 15 million year old universe would have been little more than atomic soup. Water may have existed, but not as we know it. It takes more than 15 million years for a star to form and blow up, where would you have gotten enough heavy elements for a planet to arise? :)
That's not quite accurate. Heavier radioactive elements would have come from supernovas, which only occur in stars much more massive than our own. The more massive the star, the higher its luminosity and the shorter its lifespan. Some of the most massive stars we've found will spend (or have spent) less than 100,000 years on the main sequence before expanding into supergiants and exploding as supernovae. So there's plenty of time for nucelosynthesis over that 15 million year span.
That's the mass threshold for deuterium fusion. No fusion = planet, deuterium fusion = brown dwarf, hydrogen fusion = main sequence star.
So at 11 Jovian masses, the planet is close, but not quite big enough to reach brown dwarf status.
Basic social introspection is trivially useful, and is used for more effective governance, as long as politics don't interfere.
When has politics not interfered with governance?
We'd be able to fly as long as gravity doesn't interfere.
Or leftover dust from the stellar disc that's more prevalent in the outer areas. The orbit gradually degrades until it reaches a clearer area closer in.
That, and the results of both of our effective planet detecting schemes - transit and doppler - skew proportionately towards these hot worlds, as for both methods a shorter period will give a stronger signal and therefore be more likely to be detected. So just like with the hot jupiters detected by the doppler method, they are probably actually a minuscule fraction of the planets out there but happen to be the easiest to detect. So even though they are rare, we are guaranteed to see them, and then muse about their rarity.
It's just like scientists to be racist and not be willing to detect the black planets.
No it isn't.
No, He's saying he values employees who understand how the technology, that their job is based on interacting with, actually works, and can derive answers to their own questions instead of him doing their job for them.
Which is just great until they start deriving the wrong answers. And since they don't ask any questions to confirm, they wind up either being useless (doing something tangential to what they were supposed to be doing), or worse than useless (irreparably screwing up their work and possibly their coworkers' as well). Not asking enough questions is a much greater concern than asking too many.
How does one steal milliseconds from a country's central banking system?
I guess time really is money.
Not to mention such things as speaking in tongues, miraculous healings, the prophecies of Jesus all coming true in a single person. There is a lot of indication that there is more than what we can measure. It's the height of arrogance to suggest otherwise, that we are all-knowing.
The fact that the people disagreeing with you don't know everything is not in any way an implication that you know anything.
The recent rise in zombie fiction has actually reintroduced something far more Gauntlet-like into the FPS world... but it's too far, cos zombies don't shoot at you...
Neither did most things in Gauntlet except for the demons and the lobbers. Even the Sorcerers got up close and personal.
Perhaps a "Francis needs food, badly!" followed by "I HATE FOOD!" would be more to your liking?
What happened to KPH?
Have you ever been hit by a rolling dumpster going downhill at 8KPH? It ain't pretty.
I believe the technical term here is "minivan".
You must construct additional pylons to access that link.
Down to 7.7 million at the end of the second quarter according to Eurogamer this morning.
Does anyone else find someone in Microsofts' employ using the term 'innovation' to be rather....ironic?.
Since about 1997. No doubt there are others who can go earlier than that.
Why would mathematicians want to be Imaginary?
To make reality more complex.
The problem here is that Klink's usual threats don't quite work...
"But Colonel, we _are_ the Russian Front."
And that, boys and girls, is how CowboyNeal wound up with a recording contract. The end.
Actually it is on the East Coast....
of Lake Michigan.
Based on what I've seen and the places I've worked over the years, all of that is nowhere near as easy as it sounds.
Sometimes a person can be both gracious and just. Nobody is perfect and will make mistakes in their career. So if we would not like to be publically humiliated, why call on Microsoft to publically humiliate Orth? So what if it's a PR disaster. Things happen.
If you're just upset about Microsoft's always on DRM, then buy a Wii U or PS4.
Therein lies the reason for the firing. Consider the timing here: It begins with a great deal of uncertainty and rumors regarding a possible 'always online' requirement for the upcoming generation of consoles. Sony comes out and states that they won't be implementing it, which turns all the speculation squarely at Microsoft. Microsoft remains silent on the subject, and then all of a sudden one of their employees shoots his mouth off with some highly scornful Twitter posts about gamers that are concerned about this issue.
The next thing you hear is the sound of thousands of pencils crossing "XBOX 720" off the list of desired consoles for this generation. And Microsoft knows this. That's why he got canned.
Microsoft's problem now is that they're still remaining silent on the issue even after the firing. That makes it look like they're firing him not because they disagree with what he said, but instead because he revealed/confirmed something that Microsoft would much rather keep under wraps. With all the negative PR that this whole mess is generating, wouldn't Microsoft want to publicly contradict what he said if it wasn't true?
You lost me...
Look, I'm going to tell you something... and I don't want you to take it personally... but you're not a very good Slashdot commenter, are you?
Only if a certain percentage of their solar system's mass or above is made up of ethanol.
At least on the weekends....
Chairs like that have been around for years.
Simply put, customers already are voting with their wallets.
How's that working out for you?
We see this everywhere, it's not about salaries as much as it's about the need for corporate prices to come down. Lower salaries are a byproduct of having to sell to cash poor customers.
And cash poor customers are a byproduct of lower salaries. Does the phrase "downward spiral" mean anything to you?
Of course, the big question, is why is America so against the notion of gambling? Is this just another morality issue, or because they're not getting taxes?
It's more due to lobbying by existing brick and mortar casinos. The law was passed in 2006 just before congressional adjournment, tacked onto a bill that otherwise dealt with shipping and port security. It specifically prohibits things like internet poker while still allowing long distance transactions on other forms of gambling that the brick and mortars had already established, such as horse racing. So it's about as moral as any other business that uses its lobbyists to legislate away its competition.