I pay (almost) all of my bills with my online bank and just get e-bills. Then there is no paper -> OCR -> file issue. It's just website -> file. Saves you a big investment too!
I'm affraid I have to disagree with your point of view. In a democracy, accurate polls are essential and an ideal that always deserves effort. Specific controls to reduce fraud and disenfranchisement (denial of a vote) weather explicit or though increased opportinity costs is always a worthy cause. Because the very foundation of the law, of the constituion, of the form of government is that there is no method of keeping government honest and representative of the people than to allow them to pick their leaders in a fair and honest way.
First of all, collisions are highly unlikey in space if they don't happen in the sun's depth, how much intrestelar space must one cross before they get to a sun's depth of hydrogen? Secondly, after a collision, the speed would be unchanged in the center of mass frame--still almost c. Thridly, how would you detect these things? They travel at almost c and have near zero interaction cross-sections.
So, if I go to Thailand and buy Microsoft * and Adobe *, I own it all? I can't believe that.
If true, why wouldn't every company spin off a subsidiary that would make and sell cracked software to the orignal company and then *surprise* not have any money when the license owners goes after it -- and every board member and executive happens to live in Cuba.
The primary energy sourse (only for our purposes) of a cosmic particle is kinetic. Any energy used to make a black hole would be kinetic and would survive the reaction (conservation, as you point out). At that point, it will have a stunningly small cross section and will not have "elastic" interactions -- the only thing it could do (besides evaporate, but we're assuming here that it just might be that there is no such thing as Hawking radiation) the only thing it could do now is suck up a few atoms and continue to fly though the earth at near c-- there is no slowing it down given the KE that this thing would have. The argument is spurious.
BTW, CERN will create many black holes -- that's not the argument. The argument is weather Hawking radiation will allow them to evaporate or if some (about 200/year) might hang out and at some point start to grow and then eat the earth.
Sorry, I must not have been communicating clearly. I understand all the physics (I worked as a physicist for several years) and I know that it's most likely (by a huge fraction) that Hawking radiation exists. All I was trying to point out is exactly the scenario you clearly described above is a possible course, and I'm not sure that people understand that we're "all in" to use a "sports" analogy.
However, I'm not sure why you think the atom with a black hole nucleus wouldn't have the electrons fall in. Tunneling alone would allow for it, but all the s orbitals have positive probability of being in any finite space near the nucleus. The question is, can you empty the s-orbitals fast enough, or does it just stay mildly ionized all the time.
you also have to realize that the black hole would start with approx escape velocity, so the atom would have that after the "reaction." it would probably ionize and slow down, but how many electorns get pulled off in that?
Again, I'm not sure how you get this, "Well, the mass accrued depends on its velocity, but, worst case scenario, it turns into a full-on macroscopic black hole well after the sun explodes." or how this process works, "At some point, the lowered density brings the schwartzchild radius below the radius of the object, and it, at that point, is no longer a black hole." Do you have a write up of this that you can point me to?
It doesn't mutch matter what speed the particle the high energy particle hits, in the center of mass frame, it's moving at almost c. The resulting particle will be moving at almost c. My concern isn't a black hole growing, it's the slight possibility that there is no such thing as Hawking radiation. It's theoretical only at the point (not observed) and there are problems in the theory that aren't entirely worked out.
Ah, yes, except that all of those would have been at near light speed (since the particle was at near light speed to have enough KE to create a black hole). and so the reaction cross-section could collapse down to an even more infinitesimal size -- CERN will make several hundred black holes/year with initial velocity that is less than the escape velocity.
Right, the problem with that argument is cosmic particle with reasonable fraction of 1 J of energy -> black hole within a ppm of the speed of light -> no reaction probability and no chance of slowing down.
CERN makes some black holes that don't have escape velocity and if the exceedlingly small probability that Hawking radiation doesn't exist, they will stick around.
Can you clarify something. While I realize that the event horizon is small enough that it should react with probability near zero, I'm not sure where you would ge the double mass with probability one, or even E(mass|pass) = 2 E(mass|pre-pass).
It is true that it has already begun, but we can still limit our (potential) exposure. The problem is that if Hawking radiation doesn't exist (which it probably does), or if it breaks down for ectreemly small black holes, then the black holes generated at CERN that do not have escape velocity would move at non-relativistic speeds through the earth, this would be the first time this is happening. (all the cosmic ones would travel at almost exactly speed=c potentially causing an infinitesimal cross section to go exponentially closer to zero).
They could probably do that for quite a while (again, given the slim chance that the exist) without reacting and without detection. But, then one day one could react with an iron nucleus and then the next one over... The probability of these reactions would be proportional to the number in the earth's mantle.
I guess, if CERN offered a good chance at eternal life, then you can balance one slim possibility with infinite payoff against one with -infinite payoff, but I don't think this is the case.
Don't forget that if you get a feromagnetic piece of metal above it's critical temperature, it's not freomagnetic anymore and everything is gone. I never understand why this isn't the most popular method of getting rid of these things, a nice big kiln set to some high temp cone out to do it. The bonfire method suggested elsewhere in this thread is safe because of this too. So long as you don't breathe near the fire.
Perhaps in the future, we will have to link our DVDs to a player (think of your exact player=region) and then you won't complain so much. And I'll stop watching moves all together.
Great question. In the case of instruments I've used to measure radiation backgrou it comes from measurements deep in caves that shield almost all cosmic radiation and have very low terrestrial radiation levels to get a true "dark" level. As far as knowning how good your subtraction algorithm is, you can use statistics to make claims about the performance of estimates.
My CFLs are on instantly and the suplier said they only go to 90-95% instandly, but I can't tell. But the real reason that I love them is that I hate changing bulbs.
Can you please explain how it is that paying $130 for the full version of OS X relative to $250-$400 for functioning versions of Vista means that the person buying OS X is being gouged?
The way you carve out the most from your market is by segmenting it and making different people pay different prices for the same thing. Some companies can do this well, but you have to have a segementation scheme.
Here is the wikipedia arciel It's not clear which allows for two processors (might just be the business ones). And the aqua rip off is only available on the upgraded home version. The "game performance tweaker" will also only be available for the top edition.
You may recall this slashdot article which outlines how all the versions will be crippled relative to ultimate. I also recall that the transparency will only be activated in the higher up versions.
The biggest deal is that the ability to rip a DVD is only in the home upgraded version, and the ability to use non-M$ networking protocols is only in the pro.
Starter is a joke and will only run 3 pieces of software at once. This version of Vista is like an "upgrade" back to Windows 3.1.
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I pay (almost) all of my bills with my online bank and just get e-bills. Then there is no paper -> OCR -> file issue. It's just website -> file. Saves you a big investment too!
I'm affraid I have to disagree with your point of view. In a democracy, accurate polls are essential and an ideal that always deserves effort. Specific controls to reduce fraud and disenfranchisement (denial of a vote) weather explicit or though increased opportinity costs is always a worthy cause. Because the very foundation of the law, of the constituion, of the form of government is that there is no method of keeping government honest and representative of the people than to allow them to pick their leaders in a fair and honest way.
You disagree that the speed of center of mass will change? If so, please explain why?
First of all, collisions are highly unlikey in space if they don't happen in the sun's depth, how much intrestelar space must one cross before they get to a sun's depth of hydrogen? Secondly, after a collision, the speed would be unchanged in the center of mass frame--still almost c. Thridly, how would you detect these things? They travel at almost c and have near zero interaction cross-sections.
right, but you can't decrypt a hash. The only decript on the list is AES, and core2 is faster.
The performance is identical to slighly Opteron with Core2 decrypting much faster for AES / MD5 / SHA2. Remind me why I care about the others?
If true, why wouldn't every company spin off a subsidiary that would make and sell cracked software to the orignal company and then *surprise* not have any money when the license owners goes after it -- and every board member and executive happens to live in Cuba.
BTW, CERN will create many black holes -- that's not the argument. The argument is weather Hawking radiation will allow them to evaporate or if some (about 200/year) might hang out and at some point start to grow and then eat the earth.
However, I'm not sure why you think the atom with a black hole nucleus wouldn't have the electrons fall in. Tunneling alone would allow for it, but all the s orbitals have positive probability of being in any finite space near the nucleus. The question is, can you empty the s-orbitals fast enough, or does it just stay mildly ionized all the time.
you also have to realize that the black hole would start with approx escape velocity, so the atom would have that after the "reaction." it would probably ionize and slow down, but how many electorns get pulled off in that?
It's just a shadow of a doubt.
Again, I'm not sure how you get this, "Well, the mass accrued depends on its velocity, but, worst case scenario, it turns into a full-on macroscopic black hole well after the sun explodes." or how this process works, "At some point, the lowered density brings the schwartzchild radius below the radius of the object, and it, at that point, is no longer a black hole." Do you have a write up of this that you can point me to?
It doesn't mutch matter what speed the particle the high energy particle hits, in the center of mass frame, it's moving at almost c. The resulting particle will be moving at almost c. My concern isn't a black hole growing, it's the slight possibility that there is no such thing as Hawking radiation. It's theoretical only at the point (not observed) and there are problems in the theory that aren't entirely worked out.
Ah, yes, except that all of those would have been at near light speed (since the particle was at near light speed to have enough KE to create a black hole). and so the reaction cross-section could collapse down to an even more infinitesimal size -- CERN will make several hundred black holes/year with initial velocity that is less than the escape velocity.
CERN makes some black holes that don't have escape velocity and if the exceedlingly small probability that Hawking radiation doesn't exist, they will stick around.
And why would it stop being a singularity?
They could probably do that for quite a while (again, given the slim chance that the exist) without reacting and without detection. But, then one day one could react with an iron nucleus and then the next one over... The probability of these reactions would be proportional to the number in the earth's mantle.
I guess, if CERN offered a good chance at eternal life, then you can balance one slim possibility with infinite payoff against one with -infinite payoff, but I don't think this is the case.
Don't forget that if you get a feromagnetic piece of metal above it's critical temperature, it's not freomagnetic anymore and everything is gone. I never understand why this isn't the most popular method of getting rid of these things, a nice big kiln set to some high temp cone out to do it. The bonfire method suggested elsewhere in this thread is safe because of this too. So long as you don't breathe near the fire.
Perhaps in the future, we will have to link our DVDs to a player (think of your exact player=region) and then you won't complain so much. And I'll stop watching moves all together.
Great question. In the case of instruments I've used to measure radiation backgrou it comes from measurements deep in caves that shield almost all cosmic radiation and have very low terrestrial radiation levels to get a true "dark" level. As far as knowning how good your subtraction algorithm is, you can use statistics to make claims about the performance of estimates.
It used to be that if you googled "broklyn bridge" you got an ebay link titled, "looking for Brooklyn Bridge? find it on eBay." Sadly, no more.
My CFLs are on instantly and the suplier said they only go to 90-95% instandly, but I can't tell. But the real reason that I love them is that I hate changing bulbs.
I can't without posting the entire license. So, I will give you a hand hodling link.
acording to wikipedia that is the scheme. The lower home edition will have less gaming options (I think that means fewer games will work on it).
The way you carve out the most from your market is by segmenting it and making different people pay different prices for the same thing. Some companies can do this well, but you have to have a segementation scheme.
Here is the wikipedia arciel It's not clear which allows for two processors (might just be the business ones). And the aqua rip off is only available on the upgraded home version. The "game performance tweaker" will also only be available for the top edition.
The biggest deal is that the ability to rip a DVD is only in the home upgraded version, and the ability to use non-M$ networking protocols is only in the pro.
Starter is a joke and will only run 3 pieces of software at once. This version of Vista is like an "upgrade" back to Windows 3.1.