Common misconception of non business people. When doing a tender, you specify exactly what you are looking for and those that meet these exact specs for the lowest cost will get the bid.
...but I have had this theory for something over a year now.
I imagine the big bang as the inflation of a point shape baloon with the 3 dimensional space of the universe projected to the baloons surface.
So yes: when you start walking forward on the baloons surface you will reapear where you started. I even thought about a way to prove it:
Survey the sky and record objects parameters such as size, distance, velocity and direction. Look deep and long enough and in theory - since you are always looking back to yourself - you should find same patterns - or at least very similar ones, as the space the light travels through to reach the instrument travels though, varies depending on the direction one looks in.
I even managed to make the pancacke land in the pan long before ever hearing of - let alone: understanding - this formula. Yet I applyed it just the same.
...the US was first on the moon. Just like Christopher Columbus was first to the US - but he didn't stay. It where the pilgrims that repeated the trip and stayed.
Compresion artefacts and other anoying MPEG-2 en- and decoding problems like the chroma bug and the interlace upsampling problem result from inpropper implementation of standards and wrongly set flags of interlaced and progressiv content on DVDs.
In general it is possible to en- and decode movies in a way that results in a perfect reproduction of the film versions. Just downscaled in resolution to fit on a DVD (usually 480i or 480p).
This is also what distinguishes an expensive DVD player from the cheaper models: A better implementation of adopted standards leading to better image quality when reversion the MPEG-2 encoding done to fit the movie on the DVD medium.
As digital displays that can deliver 480p in it's full glory are getting bigger and more common the artifacts resulting from inferior decoding chips are becomming to get painfully vissible. What would normaly have been ignored on an analog TV (240i) is now more and more often magnified to become obvious even to the non-experts.
The Sage/Faroudja FLI2200 chip for decoding and de-interlacing does a pretty good job and I recommend to everyone that is looking to get a new DVD player to make damn sure that it got at least this chip.
(1) If you want a point and click telescope for 1000 bucks you will end up spending 3/4 of the money on point and click hardware and 1/4 on apperture. I went for apperture.
(2) There are 7 objects that take little to no effort to find with your telescope manualy:
Sun (ALWAYS use a filter here!!!)
Moon
Venus
Jupiter
Saturn
Mars
Mercury
With my 135 mm opening telescope I can see sunspots, Moon craters, the phases of Venus, the cloud bands of Jupiter and his 4 biggest moons, and the rings of Saturn. Mars will be back later this year and I have not seen it through my telescope yet.
(3) To find anything with your telescope that you can not see with your naked eye you will need 3 things:
Dark sky (The light of 1/4 Moon is enough to make observation pointless, zero ambient light, and transparent sky)
Star charts
patience, patience, patience
I own my telescope for 6 months now and have been out a couple of times, the only thing I managed to spot that I could not see with my naked eye was the Orion nebular and the Andromeda Galaxy. Trust me - this is a perfect time sink. Prepare to be disappointed.
(4) Prepare to be amazed and exited. This is a wonderfull hobby.
Please do not forget that with age, sight deminishes. This basically rules out deep sky (galaxies, nebular) observation. This means you will want moderate aperature and more focal length instead because this will be better for observing the objects that your father can enjoy: the planets, the moon and the sun. And since you wont need a computer to locate these you can dump more money on the telescope and mounting and less in computer stuff.
PS: The link to the pictures in an earlier post are wonderfull but do not expect to see this with your telescope and your naked eye. Under excellent conditions Jupiter will be more like a small white ball with very faint beige bands.
Your missing the point. He used it on the state off the union adresses to have an easy test for the algorythm. It spit out the right words so he knew it would work in cases where the result will be far from certain.
Cost of a space elevator: 17 billion dollar
Cost of a shuttle launch:.5 billion dollar
Project implementation timeframe: 20 to 30 years
Cost per year = 17 / 25 =.68 billion dollar = 1.36 shuttle launches per year
...smaller than ~40 nm worthless due to thermal noise that makes processor signals indistinguishable from background noise generated by the processor heating up during operation.
I have no reason to suspect that a 10k ton TNT explosion has any difference in appearance and destructive force then a 10k ton nuke.
While this might seem simplistic, shouldn't some kind of elevated radiation levels be findable arround Port Chicago to make the nuke theorie plausibel?
With the words of Siegmund Freud: "Sometimes a table is just a table." Move one guys - nothing to see here.
"This is a sign that companies are literally scraping the bottom of the barrel, not the bleeding edge of the Next Great Thing."
It's 3.3 Billion $US in earnings. If these are the leftovers you frown upon because it is not an US trend, you are absolutely snotnosed.
Testing complete for http://www.google.com. Result:
Reported as inaccessible in China
Oh shit - I knew it... this must me new though cause yesterday I worked.
Slashdot Mirror
Common misconception of non business people. When doing a tender, you specify exactly what you are looking for and those that meet these exact specs for the lowest cost will get the bid.
I imagine the big bang as the inflation of a point shape baloon with the 3 dimensional space of the universe projected to the baloons surface.
So yes: when you start walking forward on the baloons surface you will reapear where you started. I even thought about a way to prove it:
Survey the sky and record objects parameters such as size, distance, velocity and direction. Look deep and long enough and in theory - since you are always looking back to yourself - you should find same patterns - or at least very similar ones, as the space the light travels through to reach the instrument travels though, varies depending on the direction one looks in.
I even managed to make the pancacke land in the pan long before ever hearing of - let alone: understanding - this formula. Yet I applyed it just the same.
...the US was first on the moon. Just like Christopher Columbus was first to the US - but he didn't stay. It where the pilgrims that repeated the trip and stayed.
In general it is possible to en- and decode movies in a way that results in a perfect reproduction of the film versions. Just downscaled in resolution to fit on a DVD (usually 480i or 480p).
This is also what distinguishes an expensive DVD player from the cheaper models: A better implementation of adopted standards leading to better image quality when reversion the MPEG-2 encoding done to fit the movie on the DVD medium.
As digital displays that can deliver 480p in it's full glory are getting bigger and more common the artifacts resulting from inferior decoding chips are becomming to get painfully vissible. What would normaly have been ignored on an analog TV (240i) is now more and more often magnified to become obvious even to the non-experts.
The Sage/Faroudja FLI2200 chip for decoding and de-interlacing does a pretty good job and I recommend to everyone that is looking to get a new DVD player to make damn sure that it got at least this chip.
Not necessarily - maybe the other 97% are buying less music, because they download it from the internet instead ;-)
(2) There are 7 objects that take little to no effort to find with your telescope manualy:
Sun (ALWAYS use a filter here!!!)
Moon
Venus
Jupiter
Saturn
Mars
Mercury
With my 135 mm opening telescope I can see sunspots, Moon craters, the phases of Venus, the cloud bands of Jupiter and his 4 biggest moons, and the rings of Saturn. Mars will be back later this year and I have not seen it through my telescope yet.
(3) To find anything with your telescope that you can not see with your naked eye you will need 3 things:
Dark sky (The light of 1/4 Moon is enough to make observation pointless, zero ambient light, and transparent sky)
Star charts
patience, patience, patience
I own my telescope for 6 months now and have been out a couple of times, the only thing I managed to spot that I could not see with my naked eye was the Orion nebular and the Andromeda Galaxy. Trust me - this is a perfect time sink. Prepare to be disappointed.
(4) Prepare to be amazed and exited. This is a wonderfull hobby.
Please do not forget that with age, sight deminishes. This basically rules out deep sky (galaxies, nebular) observation. This means you will want moderate aperature and more focal length instead because this will be better for observing the objects that your father can enjoy: the planets, the moon and the sun. And since you wont need a computer to locate these you can dump more money on the telescope and mounting and less in computer stuff.
I own a Vixen - GP E R135S and love it. Next I will probably go for the Celestron Nexstar 11 GPS.
PS: The link to the pictures in an earlier post are wonderfull but do not expect to see this with your telescope and your naked eye. Under excellent conditions Jupiter will be more like a small white ball with very faint beige bands.
This question is for the 40+ crowd out there:
What would you say to your 27 year old selfs?
Your missing the point. He used it on the state off the union adresses to have an easy test for the algorythm. It spit out the right words so he knew it would work in cases where the result will be far from certain.
Cost of a space elevator: 17 billion dollar Cost of a shuttle launch: .5 billion dollar
Project implementation timeframe: 20 to 30 years
Cost per year = 17 / 25 = .68 billion dollar = 1.36 shuttle launches per year
Misspost. Sorry.
...solving the one about hicups is the one I cared about the least. By far.
...solving the one about hicups is the one I cared about the least. By far.
...but how would it make you feel if the Chinese would beat us to it?
My thoughts are with the families of the austronauts.
English subtitles in an English movie = good for people with hearing disabilities or those that are just learning English.
Anyway - this thing almost went for $6.7 Million US but got pulled becuase people assumed that it was operational, which it wasn't.
Seems this inspired the competition ;-)
...damn copy cats.
Check this paper out for details: End of Moore's law: thermal (noise) death of integration in micro and nano electronics
This might also bring totaly new prospects to the approach applied in Transmeta's Crusoe.
Nuclear energy comes from elements bread in stars and geothermal energy comes from the decay of radioactive material.
In the end its all from the sun. If not from ours then from one that exploded long ago.
I have no reason to suspect that a 10k ton TNT explosion has any difference in appearance and destructive force then a 10k ton nuke. While this might seem simplistic, shouldn't some kind of elevated radiation levels be findable arround Port Chicago to make the nuke theorie plausibel? With the words of Siegmund Freud: "Sometimes a table is just a table." Move one guys - nothing to see here.
"This is a sign that companies are literally scraping the bottom of the barrel, not the bleeding edge of the Next Great Thing." It's 3.3 Billion $US in earnings. If these are the leftovers you frown upon because it is not an US trend, you are absolutely snotnosed.
Testing complete for http://www.google.com. Result: Reported as inaccessible in China Oh shit - I knew it... this must me new though cause yesterday I worked.
... but double check those URLs and HTML tags!
couldn't resist.
Want to charge? Then get your act together. I coudn't deliver that to my customers...
....the life out of the software industry.