If God does not lie about his creation, then how come it appears to have all the evidence of great age?
The Noachian flood has too many problems to be an acceptable answer. This is the wrong venue to discuss them all (try talk.origins), but I'll name one - a flood of the scale you would need to handle the amount of water required would show a distinct amount of hydrologic sorting (heavy items like rocks moved less than light items like sand). That hydrologic sorting is evident nowhere. If you invoke another miracle to explain it's lack, then you're saying that God lied to cover up the evidence.
Simple: you can not get to infinite. It's not possible. If you used all the energy in the universe, including converting all the rest of the mass of the universe (excluding yourself and the pole) to energy, you still have a finite amount of energy. Infinite is not a quantity you can reach. Sorry.
No. The problem is that the mass goes up as the speed nears the speed of light, and will be infinite at the speed of light. It takes an infinite amount of energy to accelerate an infinite mass, and you cannot have an infinite amount of energy. Therefore, you will never reach the speed of light.
The X-rays from a black hole are from some other mechanism; perhaps atoms banging into each other (which is how x-rays are created on earth).
Trip time to geosynch orbit is 23000/186000 =.12 seconds, so round trip transit time is about a quarter of a second. UoSAT12 isn't that high, so the trip time is shorter.
TCP/IP was developed in a time when ping times were on the order of 10000 ms from coast to coast with non-robust network paths, so it's not a huge surprise it works to a satellite.
The error you're seeing is more probably EPE - estimated position error. It's related to the geometry of the satellites being used in the position calculation. Some geometries (satellites more lined up) lend themselves to larger uncertanties in the position calculations, and the EPE figure shows you those uncertainties.
SA was turned off at 0000Z last night (actually a little earlier, I think - apparently around 2340Z). I went out a little later and noticed a distinct lowering in the wandering of the least significant digits of my location. When I get the opportunity, I intend on firing up some SAWatch and do some extended viewing of the position uncertainty.
Altitude meters are based on air pressure, which varies (see any local news weather report). And, while in some circumstances you may be on the ground, you probably don't know exactly how much above sea level the ground you're on is. So, you still need to calculate your position in 3 dimensions.
In order to solve the complete location equations, you need 4 inputs to handle the 4 dimensions (7 dimension if you want to get really technical - 3 trivia points for somebody who can name the other three dimensions). If you have an accurate clock (it needs to be really accurate, since each nanosecond of time uncertainty translates into about a foot of position uncertainty), you can forgo getting the time from the satellites, reducing the number of satellites you need by one. If you can pin your altitude directly, that's another variable resolved. Under that circumstance, yes, you could get away with two satellites. However:
Highly accurate clocks are expensive and fragile. It's probably a whole lot cheaper to use the satellite clocks.
There are lots of satellites available. My Garmin 12XL usually reports seeing 9 at a time.
The amount of math you have to do is pretty much the same, meaning you still need the same amount of CPU horsepower. (note bene: the Garmin 12XL has the equivalent of a 386 in it).
Under that circumstance, why struggle reducing the number of satellites used?
That was more or less the maximum error. The calculated position would be within 100 meters of the actual position 95% of the time, according to the published specification. It would also be within 30 meters 50% of the time.
Yes. I routinely drive around with a laptop in the car running Street Atlas and my GPS feeding positions into it. Much amusement. Yeah, it's Windows.
You can get the data for yourself from the government, or by looking for APRS maps (a ham radio application). The format of APRS is published, so the data should be transportable. Start with TAPR - they have a very good set of APRS files.
The GPS units themselves output the data in a format called NMEA. You can get some info here, though I don't know if the GPS spec is published for free through this site. I have seen it on line, though, so it wouldn't be hard to find. Another good site would be here.
In addition to everything else, I suspect they use regional jamming. There have been a number of Notice to Airmen and Notice to Seamen posted in the past couple of years saying that GPS will be unreliable in fairly restricted areas, like off the coast of Maine.
The court (in this case the NY Court of Appeals, affirmed by the Supreme Court since they refused to hear the case) essentially recognized an ISP as a common carrier. This is nothing but good news for all of us.
In your example, it would have been illegal for her to give you the orignal while she kept the backup. Otherwise, you're exactly right. If she kept the copy and gave you a copy, then she's engaged in illegal distribution.
That's fine. But by god, if they think for one second that I will sit by and tolerate their futile attempts to halt piracy at the expense of restricting my right to make use of my legal music, they are wrong.
Unfortunately for your analysis, the RIAA is not preventing you from using your music. They are preventing mp3.com from being the agent of your use, because mp3.com is not licensed as a music distributor. Like it or not, the record companies control the distribution, and mp3.com was doing distribution without the record company's permission. Of course they were going to get sat on.
I paid for a license to use software, (listen to music, read a book, whatever) and I own something that should be bit-for-bit (dot-for-dot, word-for-word...) identical, so if I get that, *however* I get that, it shouldn't be a violation of that license.
It isn't. However, MP3.COM does not have a license to redistribute the music, and that's the difference.
No, they absolutely are NOT exempt. They either work out a blanket payment or pay per play. Either way, the radio station holds a license to retransmit the record. Check ASCAP or BMI.
It wasn't so much the media. People are always more willing to listen to first statements over later statements, bad news over good news, and simple answers over complex answers. Therefore, when the opponents of nuclear power, spread the simple bit of misinformation (knowingly or not) about plutonium, that was the bit that made the news. Anyone who tried to clean up the multiple errors had to fight that early impression, and was doomed to failure.
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A reasonable ruling. mp3.com is going to have a hard time overcoming this.
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More likely in this case, they would probably reconsider his employment. The government doesn't have much of a sense of humor.
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The Noachian flood has too many problems to be an acceptable answer. This is the wrong venue to discuss them all (try talk.origins), but I'll name one - a flood of the scale you would need to handle the amount of water required would show a distinct amount of hydrologic sorting (heavy items like rocks moved less than light items like sand). That hydrologic sorting is evident nowhere. If you invoke another miracle to explain it's lack, then you're saying that God lied to cover up the evidence.
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Simple: you can not get to infinite. It's not possible. If you used all the energy in the universe, including converting all the rest of the mass of the universe (excluding yourself and the pole) to energy, you still have a finite amount of energy. Infinite is not a quantity you can reach. Sorry.
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- Find a solid metal asteroid.
- Drill a hole down the length of it.
- Fill the hole with water.
- Plug the hole.
- Slowly heat the asteroid with solar mirrors.
- Eventually, the metal will be very plastic but not yet molten. At some point, the heat will reach the water.
- The water will boil, and the expanding steam will force the metal to expand like a balloon.
- If you were lucky, you'd end up with a very large metal ball-shaped shell. POOF! Space Station!
- Patch leaks.
- Pump full of atmosphere.
- Move in.
Yes, there's be lots of engineering challenges, but it's still a neat idea....phil
The X-rays from a black hole are from some other mechanism; perhaps atoms banging into each other (which is how x-rays are created on earth).
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He was talking about scanning paper documents, i.e. those printed before computers became widespread.
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The rest is left as an excercise for the reader.
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I wonder what UoSat-12's IP address is?
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Wasn't that a Segfault article?
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SA was turned off at 0000Z last night (actually a little earlier, I think - apparently around 2340Z). I went out a little later and noticed a distinct lowering in the wandering of the least significant digits of my location. When I get the opportunity, I intend on firing up some SAWatch and do some extended viewing of the position uncertainty.
...phil
In order to solve the complete location equations, you need 4 inputs to handle the 4 dimensions (7 dimension if you want to get really technical - 3 trivia points for somebody who can name the other three dimensions). If you have an accurate clock (it needs to be really accurate, since each nanosecond of time uncertainty translates into about a foot of position uncertainty), you can forgo getting the time from the satellites, reducing the number of satellites you need by one. If you can pin your altitude directly, that's another variable resolved. Under that circumstance, yes, you could get away with two satellites. However:
Under that circumstance, why struggle reducing the number of satellites used?
...phil
That was more or less the maximum error. The calculated position would be within 100 meters of the actual position 95% of the time, according to the published specification. It would also be within 30 meters 50% of the time.
...phil
You can get the data for yourself from the government, or by looking for APRS maps (a ham radio application). The format of APRS is published, so the data should be transportable. Start with TAPR - they have a very good set of APRS files.
The GPS units themselves output the data in a format called NMEA. You can get some info here, though I don't know if the GPS spec is published for free through this site. I have seen it on line, though, so it wouldn't be hard to find. Another good site would be here.
...phil
In addition to everything else, I suspect they use regional jamming. There have been a number of Notice to Airmen and Notice to Seamen posted in the past couple of years saying that GPS will be unreliable in fairly restricted areas, like off the coast of Maine.
...phil
The court (in this case the NY Court of Appeals, affirmed by the Supreme Court since they refused to hear the case) essentially recognized an ISP as a common carrier. This is nothing but good news for all of us.
...phil
Whenever you come across a site that wants a login ID, use that combo and let everybody know.
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In your example, it would have been illegal for her to give you the orignal while she kept the backup. Otherwise, you're exactly right. If she kept the copy and gave you a copy, then she's engaged in illegal distribution.
...phil
Unfortunately for your analysis, the RIAA is not preventing you from using your music. They are preventing mp3.com from being the agent of your use, because mp3.com is not licensed as a music distributor. Like it or not, the record companies control the distribution, and mp3.com was doing distribution without the record company's permission. Of course they were going to get sat on.
...phil
It isn't. However, MP3.COM does not have a license to redistribute the music, and that's the difference.
...phil
No, they absolutely are NOT exempt. They either work out a blanket payment or pay per play. Either way, the radio station holds a license to retransmit the record. Check ASCAP or BMI.
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Blanket statements like this are basically worthless. Your position doesn't help unless you can say WHY.
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It wasn't so much the media. People are always more willing to listen to first statements over later statements, bad news over good news, and simple answers over complex answers. Therefore, when the opponents of nuclear power, spread the simple bit of misinformation (knowingly or not) about plutonium, that was the bit that made the news. Anyone who tried to clean up the multiple errors had to fight that early impression, and was doomed to failure.
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Whoops. Time to invoke Godwin's Law.
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So the text can be distributed and read but not altered?
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