For the same reason its illegal to fuck your children (or do anything else that illegal): At one point, society felt disgusted about it. Enough so that laws are created to punish it.
I for one thing hope they dont. They are the one of the most arrogant piles of shit in the web, and could really need a downer. (got i hate the " I payed money to post, and money for my avatar, and money to use the search, so we are all better than the rest of the internet" thing they have going)
That whole "give away so much that they cannot use all the Data" might have worked back when all was done by humans.
Nowdays, you just buy some more computers to do the datamining and cross-referencing. Dont worry, there are thousands of PHDs working at google to make 1984 a reality.
(Dont believe me? Take a look what googles CEO says here : http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c3e49548-088e-11dc-b11e-00 0b5df10621.html . In short, a quote: "The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as 'What shall I do tomorrow?' and 'What job shall I take?'")
Thanks for the explanation. I was vaguely aware of that 2-stage model, but didnt remember the exact numbers, so i put it conservatively.
Interestingly, its in some way similar to the stuff i am doing, although on a much bigger scale (here its experiments on synchrotrons, where we also trigger stuff by the electron bunch...)
I got a cell-phone with SMS capability a deacade ago. Back then, phone companies didnt realize those as cash-cows yet, and so in the basic plan an SMS cost about 3 cent ($ exchange rate from back then). And that was at a time were you were paying nearly 1$/min for phone calls.
As time progressed, calls became cheaper and cheaper, while SMS more and more expensive...
No, it isnt. From a user perspective, it doesnt matter shit if a byte is 8 bit. That solves the whole "base 10" crisis you seem to have.
Next, gather your brain for some thought: you have a CPU that runs at some Ghz, and memory busses/network cards that run at megabyte/s.
Now guess what kind of "mega" those aspects used from the beginning of time? Yes, SI. Just for some strage reason, for memory and disks people thought that 1024 is close enought to 1000 as not to matter. Too bad now we are at 10^9 vs 2^30, where the relative differences arent ignorable anymore (8.5% is quite abit..)
Now the next problem with the binary idiociy in storage space is the plethora of bastardisations: People doing megabytes as 1000 kiB, or Gbyte as 1000 MiB, or 1000000 kiB, which all gives different results, of course...
Well, a 24/7 PS3 (or folding@home high end computer) can take as much energy than all the rest combined, _if_ you dont use AC and dont heat electrically.
Quick caluclation: PS3= ca 200W. 2.5 kWh/day, ca 850 kWh/ year. con be everything from 50-300$, depending on your local energy costs.
That story is the _best_ argument FOR public funding. Wolfram only announces this (rather small) price to get publicity for his NKS bullshit, and sell more books. So in fact, the whole procedure will actually create a net loss in knowledge and intelligence (people that will work on it get dumber, and dont create useful knowledge in the meantime).
Earth only has 12000km diameter. Sun has 1.4 million km diameter. For earth to give shade, it would have to be closer than AU*(r_earth/r_sun), which is much closer than the lagrange point. Simply put: you would get a dark spot on the sun, but no complete cover.
Wow. Somebody at./ who actually knows his stuff outside linux/OS.
Ok, i admit i trolled a bit with the "no interesting lines" part, (although i still have the oppinion that currently, infrared it much more interesting. Who cares about another star if one extrasolar planet after the other pops up?). And yes, adaptive optics arent a cure-for-all. But considering the sheer amount of light gathering capacity you can put up for a few 100 millions, its still a viable alternative.
Not to say that UV isnt useful, but the athmosphere is equally opaque to the not-so-near IR, and as there is only one Space Telescope to be launched, i prefer it to be the more useful one.
While difficult, its much cheaper and easier to get hubble-style resolution in the optical range from ground. Dont forget that "hugely expensive" for a ground telescope is compareable to "dirt-cheap" for a space-based one.
All 4 of the VLT telescopes were (IIRC) cheaper than a single hubble service mission. And OWL should be compareable to a modern space-telescope, too, for a fraction of the price (dont forget: its a tradeoff: better seeing vs "have to design a mirrror that can withstand the acceleraion and fits the launch vehicle).
Also, i think the huge bias on that single octave of electromagnetic radiation is out of proportion. There arent even that many useful lines in it
Back when i was in the (german) army, i was in the IT department of an reconnaisance/listening post.
They had a shredder in the basement that was twenty years old, but still more sophisticated: It first crosscut the paper, and after that there was a stage that was connected with the water-tap. It wet the pieces and mixed them down. The end result was some plaster-like grey pile in a bucket.
Are you living in the last millenium? You can get an el-cheapo (and you dont need better for that usage) 5-port gigabit switch for $30, and a gigabit card for $10. But its unlikely you would need them, because nearly every MB of the last few years has build-in Gbit. You dont really need cat6 for short distances either, cat5e will run fine.
Last, but not least, there are no routers for gigabit ethernet. S
You should watch out, for real. Your tone was so over-polite it practically seemed to ooze sarcasm. I was seriously thinking you were trolling, so i was a bit harsher than usual.
Think of the time differences. This rocket stages will _miss_ the next star in 40.000 years. They wont even get _close_ (i.e. a few AU) to one the next millions of years.
Also: " The core implodes at velocities reaching 70,000 km/s (0.23c),[40] resulting in a rapid increase in temperature and density. Through photodissociation, gamma rays decompose the iron into helium nuclei and free neutrons. The conditions also cause electrons and protons to merge through inverse beta decay, producing neutrons and electron neutrinos. About 1046 joules of gravitational energy are converted into a ten-second burst of neutrinos.[41] These carry away energy from the core and accelerate the collapse, while some neutrinos are absorbed by the star's outer layers and begin the supernova explosion.[42]
The inner core eventually reaches a density comparable to that of an atomic nucleus, where the collapse is halted. The infalling matter then rebounds, producing a shock wave that propagates outward. This expanding shock can stall in the outer core as energy is lost through the dissociation of heavy elements. However, through a process that is not clearly understood, the shock reabsorbs 1044 Joules[a] (1 foe) of energy, producing an explosion.[43]"
You might have stumbled upon this part of the article while getting to the part you quoted. 10^44 joule ->explosion, 10^46 joule -> neutrino burst. ->only 1% is visible.
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For the same reason its illegal to fuck your children (or do anything else that illegal):
At one point, society felt disgusted about it. Enough so that laws are created to punish it.
I for one thing hope they dont.
They are the one of the most arrogant piles of shit in the web, and could really need a downer.
(got i hate the " I payed money to post, and money for my avatar, and money to use the search, so we are all better than the rest of the internet" thing they have going)
I dont get your point.
His PC obviously has either a disk or memory error, or somebody trying to hack him.
Restarting the explorer is trivial vs a busted stack...
That whole "give away so much that they cannot use all the Data" might have worked back when all was done by humans.
0 0b5df10621.html . In short, a quote: "The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as 'What shall I do tomorrow?' and 'What job shall I take?'")
Nowdays, you just buy some more computers to do the datamining and cross-referencing. Dont worry, there are thousands of PHDs working at google to make 1984 a reality.
(Dont believe me? Take a look what googles CEO says here : http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c3e49548-088e-11dc-b11e-0
I heard it was pretty crappy, but some people hated hyperion and endymion, too.
How does it relate to those, in style and content?
Thanks for the explanation.
I was vaguely aware of that 2-stage model, but didnt remember the exact numbers, so i put it conservatively.
Interestingly, its in some way similar to the stuff i am doing, although on a much bigger scale (here its experiments on synchrotrons, where we also trigger stuff by the electron bunch...)
If they didnt discard the unwanted stuff, you would have to put 3 or 4 additional zeros to that number...
Help me a bit...
What "most reactice liquid known to man" are you talking about?
(just for my info, as i have made, among other things, ice-cream with LN2 and never felt any ill effects...)
Reductio ad absordum:
Lets say i am a cop, and i have never been shot at. Does that mean i _shouldnt_ drive around in an M1 Abrams with 5 Apaches giving air coverage?
Getting reactionary, and losing all sense of proportion is a really nice door to facisms...
Easy.
Its expensive because it makes money.
I got a cell-phone with SMS capability a deacade ago.
Back then, phone companies didnt realize those as cash-cows yet, and so in the basic plan an SMS cost about 3 cent ($ exchange rate from back then). And that was at a time were you were paying nearly 1$/min for phone calls.
As time progressed, calls became cheaper and cheaper, while SMS more and more expensive...
No, it isnt.
From a user perspective, it doesnt matter shit if a byte is 8 bit. That solves the whole "base 10" crisis you seem to have.
Next, gather your brain for some thought: you have a CPU that runs at some Ghz, and memory busses/network cards that run at megabyte/s.
Now guess what kind of "mega" those aspects used from the beginning of time? Yes, SI.
Just for some strage reason, for memory and disks people thought that 1024 is close enought to 1000 as not to matter.
Too bad now we are at 10^9 vs 2^30, where the relative differences arent ignorable anymore (8.5% is quite abit..)
Now the next problem with the binary idiociy in storage space is the plethora of bastardisations: People doing megabytes as 1000 kiB, or Gbyte as 1000 MiB, or 1000000 kiB, which all gives different results, of course...
Well, a 24/7 PS3 (or folding@home high end computer) can take as much energy than all the rest combined, _if_ you dont use AC and dont heat electrically.
Quick caluclation: PS3= ca 200W. 2.5 kWh/day, ca 850 kWh/ year. con be everything from 50-300$, depending on your local energy costs.
That story is the _best_ argument FOR public funding.
Wolfram only announces this (rather small) price to get publicity for his NKS bullshit, and sell more books.
So in fact, the whole procedure will actually create a net loss in knowledge and intelligence (people that will work on it get dumber, and dont create useful knowledge in the meantime).
Yeah, and my car got overrun by a car after it was showered.
Clearly clean cats attract cars, as seen by this undisputable one example proof.
Sorry, to hear your loss, but people crapping out in a few months time happens a million time a year.
Geometry.
Earth only has 12000km diameter. Sun has 1.4 million km diameter.
For earth to give shade, it would have to be closer than AU*(r_earth/r_sun), which is much closer than the lagrange point.
Simply put: you would get a dark spot on the sun, but no complete cover.
Wow. Somebody at ./ who actually knows his stuff outside linux/OS.
Ok, i admit i trolled a bit with the "no interesting lines" part, (although i still have the oppinion that currently, infrared it much more interesting. Who cares about another star if one extrasolar planet after the other pops up?).
And yes, adaptive optics arent a cure-for-all. But considering the sheer amount of light gathering capacity you can put up for a few 100 millions, its still a viable alternative.
Not to say that UV isnt useful, but the athmosphere is equally opaque to the not-so-near IR, and as there is only one Space Telescope to be launched, i prefer it to be the more useful one.
While difficult, its much cheaper and easier to get hubble-style resolution in the optical range from ground.
Dont forget that "hugely expensive" for a ground telescope is compareable to "dirt-cheap" for a space-based one.
All 4 of the VLT telescopes were (IIRC) cheaper than a single hubble service mission. And OWL should be compareable to a modern space-telescope, too, for a fraction of the price (dont forget: its a tradeoff: better seeing vs "have to design a mirrror that can withstand the acceleraion and fits the launch vehicle).
Also, i think the huge bias on that single octave of electromagnetic radiation is out of proportion.
There arent even that many useful lines in it
Back when i was in the (german) army, i was in the IT department of an reconnaisance/listening post.
They had a shredder in the basement that was twenty years old, but still more sophisticated:
It first crosscut the paper, and after that there was a stage that was connected with the water-tap. It wet the pieces and mixed them down.
The end result was some plaster-like grey pile in a bucket.
Most of them were only ripped into pieces by hand, into a few douzend pieces at most.
You _could_ even try to reassemble them by hand, but the sheer mass makes that prohibitive, time-wise.
Are you living in the last millenium?
You can get an el-cheapo (and you dont need better for that usage) 5-port gigabit switch for $30, and a gigabit card for $10.
But its unlikely you would need them, because nearly every MB of the last few years has build-in Gbit.
You dont really need cat6 for short distances either, cat5e will run fine.
Last, but not least, there are no routers for gigabit ethernet.
S
You should watch out, for real.
Your tone was so over-polite it practically seemed to ooze sarcasm.
I was seriously thinking you were trolling, so i was a bit harsher than usual.
More likely, they will comments like yours and think:
"hey, how condecending those ignorant fools were throwing around idiotic analogies!".
Think of the time differences.
This rocket stages will _miss_ the next star in 40.000 years. They wont even get _close_ (i.e. a few AU) to one the next millions of years.
entropy is a bitch, and thats a long, long time.
Because the car hasnt a hoover-dam sized generator in it, and has to use "physical", i.e. pad-on-disk breaks to stop real quick.
Also:
"
The core implodes at velocities reaching 70,000 km/s (0.23c),[40] resulting in a rapid increase in temperature and density. Through photodissociation, gamma rays decompose the iron into helium nuclei and free neutrons. The conditions also cause electrons and protons to merge through inverse beta decay, producing neutrons and electron neutrinos. About 1046 joules of gravitational energy are converted into a ten-second burst of neutrinos.[41] These carry away energy from the core and accelerate the collapse, while some neutrinos are absorbed by the star's outer layers and begin the supernova explosion.[42]
The inner core eventually reaches a density comparable to that of an atomic nucleus, where the collapse is halted. The infalling matter then rebounds, producing a shock wave that propagates outward. This expanding shock can stall in the outer core as energy is lost through the dissociation of heavy elements. However, through a process that is not clearly understood, the shock reabsorbs 1044 Joules[a] (1 foe) of energy, producing an explosion.[43]"
You might have stumbled upon this part of the article while getting to the part you quoted. 10^44 joule ->explosion, 10^46 joule -> neutrino burst.
->only 1% is visible.