The Voorwerp and galaxy are both 650 million light years away from Earth, and they are about 200,000 light years away from each other.
I think this is the timeline ( I do a bit of galaxyzoo now and then):
So ( about 650 million ) + ( some millions ) of years ago the galaxy had a big ole black hole in the middle, which was gobbling up matter in the galaxy. The matter fell into the hole like water down a drain, spinning round the hole as it fell in. All this spinning matter creates enormous magnetic fields that create jets at the poles of the spinning matter. The matter in these jets blasted off at sub-light speeds and became the voorwerp cloud in space. There should be a cloud on the opposite side of the galaxy, but I havent seen any mention of this, so it entirely possible that the cloud was there anyway and was not shot out of the galaxy.
So we now have a galaxy and a cloud of gas nearby.
Then ( about 650 million ) + ( a few million ) years ago the galaxy is a Quasar, the black hole in the middle is powering a massive outpouring of light, the whole of the middle of the galaxy is glowing, and that light is running off into space and causing the voorwerp cloud to glow. Pressure from the light is also causing the cloud to collapse and start forming stars.
So we have a really bright galaxy (Quasar) and a glowing gas cloud.
Then ( about 650 million ) + ( about 200,000 ) years ago the black hole stops gobbling matter and can no longer power the Quasar. The galaxy stops glowing, but its massive light outpouring is still travelling through space and is still causing the Voorwerp cloud to glow.
Then ( about 650 million ) years ago is the picture we see today:
A Galaxy looking pretty normal.
A cloud of gas that is glowing as it is still illuminated by light that took 200,000 years to get from the galaxy to the cloud.
We see stars in the cloud that are no older than a few millions of years old, as the Quasar started up, light pressure caused the gas cloud to collapse into stars and has now shut down again.
In the future the cloud will stop glowing as the wave of Quasar light passes through it and is gone. There will still be stars that we can view. The Voorwerp will become a dwarf galaxy orbiting the ex-quasar galaxy.
From the above time line, we infer these facts:
The galaxy is not glowing like a quasar, but the voorwerp 2000,000 light years away is under full illumination from the Quasar. So the Quasar has gone from full blast to completly shut down in 200,000 years.
The stars in the voorwerp are only a couple of million years old, so the Voorwerp was only illuminated by the Quasar for a few million years.
Notes:
The sun is about 4 billion years old.
The green colour mentioned in the article is simply the fact that hot oxygen emits radiation at a specific wavelength that is not actually green, but has to be represented as a colour in telescope images for us to view. This wavelength just happens to be represented as green by Hubble. It was Blue in the galaxyzoo image (supplied by the Sloan automatic survey scope).
This never gets mentioned, but Hanny had a hairstyle and guitar that made her like a bloke in her avatar image on galaxyzoo.
Break it down:
"Information Technology". Does Apple produce technology that is specifically for the storage, retrieval, manipulation, etc of information?
On the face of it, yes they do. But look deeper. They dont produce programming languages, databases, algorithms, spreadsheet tools, etc. Most of what they do produce that might count is actually bought in (e.g. Webkit).
'd want car with two seats but a lot of luggage space, with just enough torque to get around UK B-roads at a sensible pace, that was priced at cost plus a sensible margin, and weighed less than 1000kg.
Daihatsu sirion? 1 litre version has a Kerb weight of 890kg, and being front wheel drive can deal with B roads as well as many rear-wheel drive cars.
Yeah, but are they continuously compiling themselves in the background in an attempt to make themselves look better at the expense of every other thing the user might want to be doing?
I haven't really got the hang of this whole whore metaphor thing have I?
There's plenty of exploits. Its just that the risks are enormous, as the systems are monitored, and security logs are audited, and the guys doing the auditing and monitoring don't take prisoners.
My understanding is that the mass of a black hole is the frozen gravity field that existed just as the event horizon formed.
I really don't get the physics, but I don't see any particular reason the matter/energy that created the singularity has to remain 'in the hole' once spacetime has been distorted so much that time has stopped. Its like gravity has got stuck trying to get out of the hole, so we dont need the original mass any more.
Im a pen clicker. It drives me mad too. I fiddle with whatever comes to hand. I often drop things when 'twirling', which can make an almighty racket when its a ruler, coat hanger or office chair.
My solutions:
Use capped pens like fibre tips.
Never take a loud pen into a meeting.
Keep a 'silent' toy handy, like plasticine or a stress ball or piece of string.
Maybe clicky colleagues could be given stress balls and told to use them instead of pens./P
All you've done is replace the correct technical language with a bunch of made up names for things on the screen.
When dealing with Mothers on Computers, you have to tell them where it is and what it looks like, then give it a name (which they will have forgotten next time round).
So use language like: "At the bottom of your screen is a bar with the word 'start' on it, and a clock on the right. Can you see it?..... OK That bar is called the Task Bar.. Now find a running man icon on the Task Bar and click on the icon."
If Mother then says "I see a bar that says 'power' and 'volume' and it has a glowing green light on it, and I've pressed 'power' and Ooooh, its gone". Then you know you are in trouble.
... From what little I understand about these attacks, if linux variants had been major targets, they probably would have been taken down as well...
Apparently by your own admission already we've gone from a definitely to a probably.
Security is not absolute, it is relative to the security of other potential targets. To not become a victim, a potential target needs to be higher risk, harder work, and lower return than other potential victims.
By running a Non-Windows OS, you make the risk higher, and the work harder.
The work is harder in several ways:
The attacker has to expend resources learning your OS and its variants, instead of just targeting Windows.
The attack window is smaller, the attacker has to spend longer waiting for a zero-day exploit to arrive, then has a shorter window in which to exploit it.
Within the company, the IT will not homogenous, once you've taken the Secretaries Linux desktop, the LDAP server may well be Solaris or BSD, making the research a bigger task.
The risks are also higher, as security tools like nmap and msec come ready installed on Linux systems, and honeypots on the internal network are essentially free to set up.
Defenders of Windows often raise the Straw Man "If Linux becomes dominant it will be targeted" without seeing the corollary "Its better to be on Linux whilst Windows is dominant".
Except its not a fox, its a dog. Foxes have a known history of abusing henhouse market share, dogs and google dont, whereas Steve Ballmer can often be found with feathers in his teeth.
I think this would have gone better if we had started with a car analogy.
But GIMP? Hell, I don't even know where to start whenever I load it. I've installed it dozens of times thinking I must be missing something that makes it easier to use but it's just not worth my time.
Have you tried File->Open to open an image. Then Use the menu bar across the top to get to the tools, or I use shortcuts shift-R=rotate shift-C=crop shift-T=scale C=clone shift-ctrl-S=saveAs. Theres a handy area with all the tools in it if you like icons.
I do my photo editing and icon design on it, and its trivial to do the basics in spot editing, resizing and noise filtering. I expect most of your problems are "it doesn't work like photoshop", so maybe if you stop trying to relate everything to photoshop it might be a bit easier. Or you could get photoshop and the necessary plugins like noise ninja and just be happy not using GIMP.
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But Jo Sixpack and your Mother are not going to upgrade the desktop either. They are about as relevant as a Somalian in this market.
The Voorwerp and galaxy are both 650 million light years away from Earth, and they are about 200,000 light years away from each other.
I think this is the timeline ( I do a bit of galaxyzoo now and then):
So ( about 650 million ) + ( some millions ) of years ago the galaxy had a big ole black hole in the middle, which was gobbling up matter in the galaxy. The matter fell into the hole like water down a drain, spinning round the hole as it fell in. All this spinning matter creates enormous magnetic fields that create jets at the poles of the spinning matter. The matter in these jets blasted off at sub-light speeds and became the voorwerp cloud in space. There should be a cloud on the opposite side of the galaxy, but I havent seen any mention of this, so it entirely possible that the cloud was there anyway and was not shot out of the galaxy.
So we now have a galaxy and a cloud of gas nearby.
Then ( about 650 million ) + ( a few million ) years ago the galaxy is a Quasar, the black hole in the middle is powering a massive outpouring of light, the whole of the middle of the galaxy is glowing, and that light is running off into space and causing the voorwerp cloud to glow. Pressure from the light is also causing the cloud to collapse and start forming stars.
So we have a really bright galaxy (Quasar) and a glowing gas cloud.
Then ( about 650 million ) + ( about 200,000 ) years ago the black hole stops gobbling matter and can no longer power the Quasar. The galaxy stops glowing, but its massive light outpouring is still travelling through space and is still causing the Voorwerp cloud to glow.
Then ( about 650 million ) years ago is the picture we see today:
In the future the cloud will stop glowing as the wave of Quasar light passes through it and is gone. There will still be stars that we can view. The Voorwerp will become a dwarf galaxy orbiting the ex-quasar galaxy.
From the above time line, we infer these facts:
Notes:
Break it down: "Information Technology". Does Apple produce technology that is specifically for the storage, retrieval, manipulation, etc of information? On the face of it, yes they do. But look deeper. They dont produce programming languages, databases, algorithms, spreadsheet tools, etc. Most of what they do produce that might count is actually bought in (e.g. Webkit).
I successfully used their website.
It was so successful that I went to easyjet and booked a flight instead. No hassle involved at all.
'd want car with two seats but a lot of luggage space, with just enough torque to get around UK B-roads at a sensible pace, that was priced at cost plus a sensible margin, and weighed less than 1000kg.
Daihatsu sirion? 1 litre version has a Kerb weight of 890kg, and being front wheel drive can deal with B roads as well as many rear-wheel drive cars.
Should Obama install wind turbines too then?
Yeah, but are they continuously compiling themselves in the background in an attempt to make themselves look better at the expense of every other thing the user might want to be doing?
I haven't really got the hang of this whole whore metaphor thing have I?
Desktops? Do people still use those?
Oh yes, we need a desktop as somewhere to keep our scanner
along side the fax machine, filofax, 8 track, Brylcream, wireless set, Radium salts, coal scuttle, sundial, abacus, bronze axe and hammer stone.
There are just not a lot of exploits on Zsystems.
There's plenty of exploits. Its just that the risks are enormous, as the systems are monitored, and security logs are audited, and the guys doing the auditing and monitoring don't take prisoners.
Fungicide worked for me.
Somebody get a patent on 2 player games in 2d, where player 1 sees frame 1, and player 2 sees frame 2.
Typical art student "reasoning". It sounds reasonable but uses an unreasonable definition of reason.
A reasonable man applies reason to everything. All the greats in science and engineering applied reason to achieve what they did.
I've spoken you your girlfriend and she confirms your euphemism is indeed inadequate.
Steady on old boy!
My understanding is that the mass of a black hole is the frozen gravity field that existed just as the event horizon formed.
I really don't get the physics, but I don't see any particular reason the matter/energy that created the singularity has to remain 'in the hole' once spacetime has been distorted so much that time has stopped. Its like gravity has got stuck trying to get out of the hole, so we dont need the original mass any more.
Nokia can do that for themselves, they don't need Microsoft. They've probably also seen what happens to companies that try to partner with Redmond.
Why isn't there an expert system in the power management options app that will change these settings according to users' wishes?
There is in Mandriva/KDE. Maybe Ubuntu isnt that good?
Im a pen clicker. It drives me mad too. I fiddle with whatever comes to hand. I often drop things when 'twirling', which can make an almighty racket when its a ruler, coat hanger or office chair.
My solutions:
Maybe clicky colleagues could be given stress balls and told to use them instead of pens./P
All you've done is replace the correct technical language with a bunch of made up names for things on the screen.
When dealing with Mothers on Computers, you have to tell them where it is and what it looks like, then give it a name (which they will have forgotten next time round).
So use language like: "At the bottom of your screen is a bar with the word 'start' on it, and a clock on the right. Can you see it? ..... OK That bar is called the Task Bar.. Now find a running man icon on the Task Bar and click on the icon."
If Mother then says "I see a bar that says 'power' and 'volume' and it has a glowing green light on it, and I've pressed 'power' and Ooooh, its gone". Then you know you are in trouble.
... From what little I understand about these attacks, if linux variants had been major targets, they probably would have been taken down as well...
Apparently by your own admission already we've gone from a definitely to a probably.
Security is not absolute, it is relative to the security of other potential targets. To not become a victim, a potential target needs to be higher risk, harder work, and lower return than other potential victims.
By running a Non-Windows OS, you make the risk higher, and the work harder.
The work is harder in several ways:
The risks are also higher, as security tools like nmap and msec come ready installed on Linux systems, and honeypots on the internal network are essentially free to set up.
Defenders of Windows often raise the Straw Man "If Linux becomes dominant it will be targeted" without seeing the corollary "Its better to be on Linux whilst Windows is dominant".
So, it'll be like a normal game, only take ages to load, have terrible performance and be full of interstitial adverts?
Don't be ridiculous.
It will be a massive security hole too.
Software can be badly written on any platform, and in any language.
You are quite wrong. On several occasions Linux has intercepted my code typos, SQL injunctions and XSS vilneravilities.
Once it even prevented me from accidentally biting into a Marmite sandwich.
As well as the usual moon and planets, I'd go for the Pleiades, and Comets that might be around at that time, Messier 31 (Andromeda) and perhaps a binary star.
Check them out yourself before boring the kids, and also check out galaxy zoo.
Except its not a fox, its a dog. Foxes have a known history of abusing henhouse market share, dogs and google dont, whereas Steve Ballmer can often be found with feathers in his teeth.
I think this would have gone better if we had started with a car analogy.
But GIMP? Hell, I don't even know where to start whenever I load it. I've installed it dozens of times thinking I must be missing something that makes it easier to use but it's just not worth my time.
Have you tried File->Open to open an image. Then Use the menu bar across the top to get to the tools, or I use shortcuts shift-R=rotate shift-C=crop shift-T=scale C=clone shift-ctrl-S=saveAs. Theres a handy area with all the tools in it if you like icons.
I do my photo editing and icon design on it, and its trivial to do the basics in spot editing, resizing and noise filtering. I expect most of your problems are "it doesn't work like photoshop", so maybe if you stop trying to relate everything to photoshop it might be a bit easier. Or you could get photoshop and the necessary plugins like noise ninja and just be happy not using GIMP.