Yeah, but my friends were going to see it so I thought I'd go with them. I knew it wouldn't be good, but I didn't realise just how godawful it really could be.
The reason the media can't report the Mercali Scale value is that it would require a fairly extensive knowledge of the local geography, since the value can vary widely in a relatively small area. For instance, river sediment will have a higher Mercali value than nearby bedrock outcroppings. The Richter scale, on the other hand, is only a single value so it is a good general indicator of what the quake would feel like.
So yes, Richter scale plus distance to epicenter is probably the best way to report quakes.
The Mercali scale measures localised effects, whereas the Richter scale measures the actual amount of energy released. For example, every year there is at least one 8.0 Richter scale earthquake in the world, which is a set amount of energy released from the shiftng plates. If the 8.0 happens in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the Mercali Scale intensity in Dallas would be "I" (roman numeral 1).
Read it again. Fraudulently alters is only one in a list of actions in the offence. Section 333 says nothing about fraudulently altering a bill. It basically says that if you alter a bill or note of debt issued by the Fed or bank to make it unfit to be reissued you can be convicted.
Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire, the Alpha Centauri expansion pack is exceedingly rare and it's only 3 or so years old. I have never played it but only because I can't get my hands on a copy of it. Ebay always comes up dry and local video game stores never have used copies of it. I don't know why there were so few copies made, but demand for the game still far outstrips supply.
Get a pound or so of finely divided iron, a bunsen burner, and a fan. Turn the fan on "high" and point it towards the burner and release the powdered iron. Guaranteed excitement!
The Longitudinal Labour Force File fiasco of a couple of years ago. Of course, it has since been dismantled (or else put in the hands of a government body beyond the reach of the Privacy Commissioner) but I would not put it past the federal government to try this again under a different guise.
Because the Liberal government in power now would like nothing more than to get their hands on offshore mineral deposits. It is purely political. They want the federal government to give them the OK to drill off of the coast and they think that this will help.
A lot of people were employed to do almost nothing during the dot com boom.
Excellent point. I can personally attest to the fact that there were some people that came in to work every day and did absolutely nothing productive the entire day. I should know; I was one of them. As long as it LOOKED like I was hard at work, I was doing a great job. Useless tasks were assigned to me, which I completed with haste (so that I could take my 1 1/2 hour lunch and surf the Net all day). I ended up being one of the last people working there, after several rounds of layoffs, simply because I made less money than most of the other people there. I think you get the idea about what the purpose of the venture was;)
I think I have gotten about 3 pieces of spam the entire 2 years. This is about on par with the amount I've gotten in my ISP accounts. Now, my Yahoo accounts on the other hand...
Why is this? Simply because my Hotmail account is the address I give to people and sites I trust (this one for example) that I'm sure won't share it with spammers. My Yahoo acccounts serve the opposite purpose. Whenever I register to some shady looking website that just seems to want to collect names it goes to the Yahoo accounts.
I've said this before: People that sign up for Hotmail and get barraged with spam are either 1) using an easy to guess address or 2) using a numbered extension suggested to them by Hotmail eg Cindy1234567@hotmail.com. It goes to figured that every numbered extension before that is a valid address. Do you think spammers don't realize this?
Anyway, I know that/. is just running this story because it singles out Hotmail, which is owned by MS. If it was Yahoo then the story never would have been posted. On a completely unrelated note, I just saw an ad for VS.NET; I'm thinking of picking up a copy today:-)
Well by that definition all stars would be quark stars. The difference is that the quarks in quark stars are not bound together to form neutrons or protons.
Quite an unusual state of matter indeed.
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It is possible to tie a particular supernova remnant (and this is the only way ultra-dense stellar remnants are created) to an event witnessed in the past; indeed this is often done. Supernovae occur so infrequently in our galaxy (one every 100 to 500 years or so) that it is often possible to do so. For instance, it is very well known that the Crab Nebula is the remnant of the supernova witnessed by Chinese astronomers in 1054 AD.
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Check your Windows folder out. Do a Find Files for Brilliant Digital and BDE (Caution: I believe you may find some files from a Borland app that have BDE in them too). Look in your registry too; there's a whole thwack of Brilliant Digital entries in there too.
Use Grokster. Cydoor can be disabled with tool available on the web and still allow Cydoor infected apps to run. I would look it up but I'm sure someone with your considerable computer prwowess can find it.
So...ahh...if you didn't get all of these files, does this make you a moron too?
Yesm it is safe to assume they didn't know about this one. The main obstacle to cataloguing NEOs is a lack of funding from institutions and governments.
Ther are a lot of undetected NEOs out there and in order to have a chance at finding and plotting the orbits of most of them, governments are going to have to put resources into monitoring. This, of course, won't fly well with the "my tax dollars" whiners because they will only see it as a waste of money. I doubt they would see it that way if a 1km asteroid smacked the earth though;).
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I can't wait to see it.
Yeah, but my friends were going to see it so I thought I'd go with them. I knew it wouldn't be good, but I didn't realise just how godawful it really could be.
Austin Powers 3. I actually paid to go see it too. That's $10 and 2 hours of my life I'll never get back.
Your little impersonation trolls are neither clever nor amusing, and they add nothing to the discussion of this important subject.
6 billion*1000MB= 6 trillionMB. That's not a 6TB array, it's a 6exabyte array. Hardly feasible.
The reason the media can't report the Mercali Scale value is that it would require a fairly extensive knowledge of the local geography, since the value can vary widely in a relatively small area. For instance, river sediment will have a higher Mercali value than nearby bedrock outcroppings. The Richter scale, on the other hand, is only a single value so it is a good general indicator of what the quake would feel like.
So yes, Richter scale plus distance to epicenter is probably the best way to report quakes.
I'll believe it when I see it.
The Mercali scale measures localised effects, whereas the Richter scale measures the actual amount of energy released. For example, every year there is at least one 8.0 Richter scale earthquake in the world, which is a set amount of energy released from the shiftng plates. If the 8.0 happens in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the Mercali Scale intensity in Dallas would be "I" (roman numeral 1).
A good reference can be found here.
Read it again. Fraudulently alters is only one in a list of actions in the offence. Section 333 says nothing about fraudulently altering a bill. It basically says that if you alter a bill or note of debt issued by the Fed or bank to make it unfit to be reissued you can be convicted.
Have you signed the petition?
I don't think so.
Shut The Fuck UP!
Alpha Centauri: Alien Crossfire, the Alpha Centauri expansion pack is exceedingly rare and it's only 3 or so years old. I have never played it but only because I can't get my hands on a copy of it. Ebay always comes up dry and local video game stores never have used copies of it. I don't know why there were so few copies made, but demand for the game still far outstrips supply.
Get a pound or so of finely divided iron, a bunsen burner, and a fan. Turn the fan on "high" and point it towards the burner and release the powdered iron. Guaranteed excitement!
The Longitudinal Labour Force File fiasco of a couple of years ago. Of course, it has since been dismantled (or else put in the hands of a government body beyond the reach of the Privacy Commissioner) but I would not put it past the federal government to try this again under a different guise.
Here's a little more info.
Can you find me a warezed copy of Neverwinter Nights?
Because the Liberal government in power now would like nothing more than to get their hands on offshore mineral deposits. It is purely political. They want the federal government to give them the OK to drill off of the coast and they think that this will help.
A lot of people were employed to do almost nothing during the dot com boom.
;)
Excellent point. I can personally attest to the fact that there were some people that came in to work every day and did absolutely nothing productive the entire day. I should know; I was one of them. As long as it LOOKED like I was hard at work, I was doing a great job. Useless tasks were assigned to me, which I completed with haste (so that I could take my 1 1/2 hour lunch and surf the Net all day). I ended up being one of the last people working there, after several rounds of layoffs, simply because I made less money than most of the other people there. I think you get the idea about what the purpose of the venture was
I think I have gotten about 3 pieces of spam the entire 2 years. This is about on par with the amount I've gotten in my ISP accounts. Now, my Yahoo accounts on the other hand...
/. is just running this story because it singles out Hotmail, which is owned by MS. If it was Yahoo then the story never would have been posted. On a completely unrelated note, I just saw an ad for VS.NET; I'm thinking of picking up a copy today :-)
Why is this? Simply because my Hotmail account is the address I give to people and sites I trust (this one for example) that I'm sure won't share it with spammers. My Yahoo acccounts serve the opposite purpose. Whenever I register to some shady looking website that just seems to want to collect names it goes to the Yahoo accounts.
I've said this before: People that sign up for Hotmail and get barraged with spam are either 1) using an easy to guess address or 2) using a numbered extension suggested to them by Hotmail eg Cindy1234567@hotmail.com. It goes to figured that every numbered extension before that is a valid address. Do you think spammers don't realize this?
Anyway, I know that
War is Peace
Ignorance is Strength
Freedom is Slavery
Well by that definition all stars would be quark stars. The difference is that the quarks in quark stars are not bound together to form neutrons or protons.
Quite an unusual state of matter indeed.
It is possible to tie a particular supernova remnant (and this is the only way ultra-dense stellar remnants are created) to an event witnessed in the past; indeed this is often done. Supernovae occur so infrequently in our galaxy (one every 100 to 500 years or so) that it is often possible to do so. For instance, it is very well known that the Crab Nebula is the remnant of the supernova witnessed by Chinese astronomers in 1054 AD.
That the professor is a time traveller?
Check your Windows folder out. Do a Find Files for Brilliant Digital and BDE (Caution: I believe you may find some files from a Borland app that have BDE in them too). Look in your registry too; there's a whole thwack of Brilliant Digital entries in there too.
Use Grokster. Cydoor can be disabled with tool available on the web and still allow Cydoor infected apps to run. I would look it up but I'm sure someone with your considerable computer prwowess can find it.
So...ahh...if you didn't get all of these files, does this make you a moron too?
Yesm it is safe to assume they didn't know about this one. The main obstacle to cataloguing NEOs is a lack of funding from institutions and governments.
;).
Ther are a lot of undetected NEOs out there and in order to have a chance at finding and plotting the orbits of most of them, governments are going to have to put resources into monitoring. This, of course, won't fly well with the "my tax dollars" whiners because they will only see it as a waste of money. I doubt they would see it that way if a 1km asteroid smacked the earth though