Okay, agreed on the probability of the varying obliquity of the planet over time (ala Milankovitch styled wobbles for Mars)
Referencing the discussion and diagrams on Page 3 & 4 of the Google preview of Michael Carr's book, even though there's no real way to project backward past 10Mya (according to the book). I'll assume that there would be significant wobbles before that, just that we can't really predict the nature of them.
This should be one of those "back to the drawing board" moments for Mars climatology. How can you explain a change ice remaining so far south and then disappearing in the last 500 million years? A "Milankovitch styled wobble" might be one explanation, or perhaps good old fashioned solar forcing. But Earth is closer and would be subject to the same flux in any solar forcing.
The premise of the show was brilliant, the first season was great, and then I surmised that ALL of the characters might as well be Cylons. They weren't, but what if all the characters I enjoyed watching were? The show took on a new and less dramatic meaning, and I quit watching the show.
The "Who's a Cylon?" question just ran out of steam for me.
The Caprica series will most likely have guest appearances or more by the actors who played the Cylons, only this time you might assume they're the humans the Cylon models were based upon. I get that as part of the appeal. I wish 'em the best, as good SciFi that's _not_ been turned into a soap opera is hard to come by, as noticed here: http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/special-reports/other-reports/e3id1035c8742af5f4e733f9d304726b671
If all you need is a fully sized keyboard that you use for writing only, then the original Alphasmart is for you.
One of the versions (the "Dana") is what my wife has written the larger part of her last three or four manuscripts on. Runs on 3 rechargeable AAA batteries, and it's instant on, instant save, instant off. The originals were used in schools, but the company was bought by Palm, and the new versions became too expensive for kids.
The problem is, how do you find and train an individual that will die on schedule?
All it takes is a fuel tank sensor glitch to send you back six months and one trained astronaut who would then die on the way to Mars.
Unless you have a whole crew of them, with death dates planned out years in advance...
Now THERE'S a SciFi story for ya.
I think this goes without saying. The Chinese government just HAS to be freaked out over how many "country bumpkins" now have access to the greater parts of China. The original "War Of The Worlds" radio broadcast was one of the first mass media trolls in America, and an American late night TV host once caused an actual shortage of toilet paper simply because he said there was one. I'm sure this shows some prejudice on the part of Chinese officials, but it's not really all that surprising.
Great, but... If I were to tell this to someone, is there a real world money example(s) to illustrate this procedure?
Say, the item I use is 1/12th the amount of major imagery in a product. Where's the breakover for fees if:
1)A not intended for profit item that somehow accidentally earns a few hundred bucks 2)Part of a presentation in a business that I would normally pay between $5 and $200 (at iStockPhoto for example) but otherwise never sees the light of day 3)Part of a menu at a restaurant 4)Part of a large ad campaign.
Feel free to give a wide range of examples, or link to ones similar to these suggested ones.
If I'm to convince others to want to use images with this new label, I'd like to know how to explain this to potential clients.
No need for a seed vault there. I've left several old couches scattered around the country with enough Marijuana seeds to take care of the reseeding problem...
It's a great theory that fell out of favor back when Walter Alvarez http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Alvarez found the smoking crater we now call Chicxulub and got all the applause. Back then, there were only a few contrary types that dare maintain that the Deccan Traps made a stronger argument. The Deccan Traps, it was argued, occurred over quite a long span of time; lots of average degassing numbers were thrown out and everyone liked the catastrophic version of the impact crater. That, and the kickass artwork with the dinosaurs looking over their shoulder at their impending doom... Here's the upshot: The theory of the traps can be extended to include other extinctions. The Siberian Traps occurred around the same time as the mass extinction that brought ABOUT the dinosaurs. And while folks are looking for that cometary impact, it's _possible _ that the same "hotspot" that created the Siberian Traps stayed in generally the same place, and later awoke to spew out the Deccan Traps. If that's the case, the hotspot in question is off the southwest coast of India, where there are volcanic sea mounts today.
Shows Opportunity's current view. At the edge of Victoria, ready to dive in to her goodness. Note the darkening from dust on the right side of each image making up the composite panorama.
Dust storms on Mars are a known risk. If the dust storms were this bad on the planet when the rovers first landed, the rovers may not have been able to last past the original 90 day mission. Everyone at NASA/JPL will tell you that luck has played a significant role in the current longevity of the rovers due to the lack of dust storms to date and the various cleaning events.
The current rover design can't be used when investigating Mars outside equatorial regions, either.
It's been a great run for both rovers, and it's great to see them provide atmospheric data on opacity of the atmosphere (tau) -- measuring that which may ultimately kill them.
Cassini doesn't have to lug around the weight of an RTG on the surface of a planet.
It's a tradeoff. More power, built in heat source (death by cold had been and remains a real fear on the current rover electronics) vs. weight, a known power lifespan, and the complaints about using nuclear fuel in a launch vehicle.
The "cleaning events" (particularly Oppy's) were the saving grace for the rovers. You can't plan on a Martian mission that relies on solar power to last more than three or four months due to the dust -- Plus, it's a waste of man power to have your human analysts sit around for months waiting to do their science until after a random wind gust gives you 50 more watt-hours of power.
Bigger rovers require a stronger power source, or else our exploration is going to be fairly limited to flat areas in equatorial regions. Not to mention dealing with the small sand dunes that nearly crippled Oppy.
We need rovers working off of RTGs! No more of this pansy solar panels that dictate that Spirit had to spend months in one spot facing toward the Sun just so it could generate enough power and internal heat just to stay alive! Even then they can only spend part of the time working and data broadcasts are limited when the power is low.
The RTG powered Cassini probe is doing a bang up job orbiting Saturn, and future Martian robots should, too. Enough mamby-pamby exploration with under powered exploration units. With nuclear power sources in these rovers, we could have gotten ten times the science in during the same amount of time.
Four pictures, two with people in them, and two photos without faces.
Sounds to me like at least two people chickened out from putting their own faces on there and substituted a vacation photo and a photo of an old painting instead. I'm guessing originally there were to have been more photos on the Vista Business DVD, but they feared the notoriety.
Notice how the names haven't come out yet? If this was planned as an anti-piracy thing, there would be no need for such random images. Does this Easter Egg even remotely smell official? Not to me.
(Pandora.com's) Westergreen: [] But there’s another piece of the story. Half of the money we pay to SoundExchange each month goes to the labels, and half goes directly to the artists. If these new rates do stick, then the only way webcasters will stay alive is to start striking direct licensing deals, at lower rates, with the major record labels. If those deals are struck, then all of that money goes directly to the label, and goes under the umbrella of traditional record deals, where only a very small percent ends up going to artists.
(TruthDig's) Sinnreich: So you believe that one of the strategic reasons the RIAA has for supporting these higher rates is so labels can offer a competitive lower rate directly to webcasters, which would mean more income overall for labels and less income for artists?
Westergren: That’s exactly right.
Sinnreich: That sounds pretty nefarious.
Westergren: It’s business. These are businesses that are struggling, and they’re trying to maximize revenue.
Sinnreich: Have you seen any evidence of labels making direct deals with webcasters?
Westergren: SoundExchange just announced that they’re happy to let the RIAA deal directly with webcasters. Labels, throughout this process, have also been soliciting deals on the side. And they’ve already signed some—[popular webcaster] Last.fm signed a couple.
Sinnreich: Some have argued that the labels might also negotiate lower rates in exchange for promotional concessions from webcasters—the kind of thing that’s sometimes referred to as “payola” in terrestrial broadcasting. Would Pandora consider such an arrangement?
Westergren: Pandora has never, ever taken money to play music, and we never will. Labels have certainly offered, and I don’t think that’s nefarious—it’s the same as buying a billboard, or an end-cap [a type of display] in a record store. I think that is undoubtedly part of the motivation for direct licensing deals, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a promotional element to many of those deals. And that’s just business.
So I'm guessing the copyright owner or even a consortium of owners can cut individual deals with individual internet stations thus cockblocking SoundExchange, but on internet stations they don't cut deals with, SoundExchange will be there.
Because the little VoIP box from Vtech works fairly well with the two portable phones that work with it. Here's the version I have. It's a dedicated system, so I'd like to reuse them (instead of buying 2 new portable phones) instead of tossing them out when Vonage gets gutted by Verizon.
Slashdot Mirror
Just have the cars that use no fuel to pay a higher license fee, say, $80/year. Let the state figure out where that money would have otherwise gone.
Okay, agreed on the probability of the varying obliquity of the planet over time (ala Milankovitch styled wobbles for Mars) Referencing the discussion and diagrams on Page 3 & 4 of the Google preview of Michael Carr's book, even though there's no real way to project backward past 10Mya (according to the book). I'll assume that there would be significant wobbles before that, just that we can't really predict the nature of them.
I was thinking in multiples of the whole, but of course.
What's the difference?
A factor of 8?
This should be one of those "back to the drawing board" moments for Mars climatology. How can you explain a change ice remaining so far south and then disappearing in the last 500 million years? A "Milankovitch styled wobble" might be one explanation, or perhaps good old fashioned solar forcing. But Earth is closer and would be subject to the same flux in any solar forcing.
> So a little less than 1 Mt St Helens then.
But what _if_ it HITS Mt St Helens?
Then you'll have nearly TWO Mt St Helens!
Love the little pop up text box on all the vocabulary words, but they pop under the picture menu, hiding 3/4 of the text.
We should seed the planet with microbes, come back in a million years and see what evolves there. Would that prove evolution or the god theory?
Well, we'd at least get the answer sooner than when the SPORE game gets finally released.
The premise of the show was brilliant, the first season was great, and then I surmised that ALL of the characters might as well be Cylons. They weren't, but what if all the characters I enjoyed watching were? The show took on a new and less dramatic meaning, and I quit watching the show.
The "Who's a Cylon?" question just ran out of steam for me.
The Caprica series will most likely have guest appearances or more by the actors who played the Cylons, only this time you might assume they're the humans the Cylon models were based upon. I get that as part of the appeal. I wish 'em the best, as good SciFi that's _not_ been turned into a soap opera is hard to come by, as noticed here:
http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/special-reports/other-reports/e3id1035c8742af5f4e733f9d304726b671
If all you need is a fully sized keyboard that you use for writing only, then the original Alphasmart is for you.
One of the versions (the "Dana") is what my wife has written the larger part of her last three or four manuscripts on. Runs on 3 rechargeable AAA batteries, and it's instant on, instant save, instant off. The originals were used in schools, but the company was bought by Palm, and the new versions became too expensive for kids.
The problem is, how do you find and train an individual that will die on schedule? All it takes is a fuel tank sensor glitch to send you back six months and one trained astronaut who would then die on the way to Mars. Unless you have a whole crew of them, with death dates planned out years in advance... Now THERE'S a SciFi story for ya.
I think this goes without saying. The Chinese government just HAS to be freaked out over how many "country bumpkins" now have access to the greater parts of China. The original "War Of The Worlds" radio broadcast was one of the first mass media trolls in America, and an American late night TV host once caused an actual shortage of toilet paper simply because he said there was one. I'm sure this shows some prejudice on the part of Chinese officials, but it's not really all that surprising.
Great, but... If I were to tell this to someone, is there a real world money example(s) to illustrate this procedure?
Say, the item I use is 1/12th the amount of major imagery in a product.
Where's the breakover for fees if:
1)A not intended for profit item that somehow accidentally earns a few hundred bucks
2)Part of a presentation in a business that I would normally pay between $5 and $200 (at iStockPhoto for example) but otherwise never sees the light of day
3)Part of a menu at a restaurant
4)Part of a large ad campaign.
Feel free to give a wide range of examples, or link to ones similar to these suggested ones.
If I'm to convince others to want to use images with this new label, I'd like to know how to explain this to potential clients.
No need for a seed vault there. I've left several old couches scattered around the country with enough Marijuana seeds to take care of the reseeding problem...
It's a great theory that fell out of favor back when Walter Alvarez http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Alvarez found the smoking crater we now call Chicxulub and got all the applause. Back then, there were only a few contrary types that dare maintain that the Deccan Traps made a stronger argument. The Deccan Traps, it was argued, occurred over quite a long span of time; lots of average degassing numbers were thrown out and everyone liked the catastrophic version of the impact crater. That, and the kickass artwork with the dinosaurs looking over their shoulder at their impending doom...
Here's the upshot: The theory of the traps can be extended to include other extinctions. The Siberian Traps occurred around the same time as the mass extinction that brought ABOUT the dinosaurs. And while folks are looking for that cometary impact, it's _possible _ that the same "hotspot" that created the Siberian Traps stayed in generally the same place, and later awoke to spew out the Deccan Traps. If that's the case, the hotspot in question is off the southwest coast of India, where there are volcanic sea mounts today.
Too much plate tectonics between then and now, but there are theories that try to figure out where a strike might have hit to do this.
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1298665268 &size=l
Shows Opportunity's current view. At the edge of Victoria, ready to dive in to her goodness.
Note the darkening from dust on the right side of each image making up the composite panorama.
http://www.planetary.org/news/2007/0720_The_2007_M artian_Dust_Storm_Crisis_for.html mentions that the storm has cleared the solar arrays of dust, so they're perfectly capable of collecting whatever light passes through the current dust. Good summary and up to date.
With all that algae blooming off the Mississippi Delta, pulling CO2 out of the air and then dying, sinking to the bottom...
Who gets the carbon credits for this? It better not be Al Gore!
Dust storms on Mars are a known risk. If the dust storms were this bad on the planet when the rovers first landed, the rovers may not have been able to last past the original 90 day mission. Everyone at NASA/JPL will tell you that luck has played a significant role in the current longevity of the rovers due to the lack of dust storms to date and the various cleaning events.
The current rover design can't be used when investigating Mars outside equatorial regions, either.
It's been a great run for both rovers, and it's great to see them provide atmospheric data on opacity of the atmosphere (tau) -- measuring that which may ultimately kill them.
Cassini doesn't have to lug around the weight of an RTG on the surface of a planet.
It's a tradeoff. More power, built in heat source (death by cold had been and remains a real fear on the current rover electronics) vs. weight, a known power lifespan, and the complaints about using nuclear fuel in a launch vehicle.
The "cleaning events" (particularly Oppy's) were the saving grace for the rovers. You can't plan on a Martian mission that relies on solar power to last more than three or four months due to the dust -- Plus, it's a waste of man power to have your human analysts sit around for months waiting to do their science until after a random wind gust gives you 50 more watt-hours of power. Bigger rovers require a stronger power source, or else our exploration is going to be fairly limited to flat areas in equatorial regions. Not to mention dealing with the small sand dunes that nearly crippled Oppy.
We need rovers working off of RTGs! No more of this pansy solar panels that dictate that Spirit had to spend months in one spot facing toward the Sun just so it could generate enough power and internal heat just to stay alive! Even then they can only spend part of the time working and data broadcasts are limited when the power is low.
The RTG powered Cassini probe is doing a bang up job orbiting Saturn, and future Martian robots should, too. Enough mamby-pamby exploration with under powered exploration units. With nuclear power sources in these rovers, we could have gotten ten times the science in during the same amount of time.
Four pictures, two with people in them, and two photos without faces.
Sounds to me like at least two people chickened out from putting their own faces on there and substituted a vacation photo and a photo of an old painting instead. I'm guessing originally there were to have been more photos on the Vista Business DVD, but they feared the notoriety.
Notice how the names haven't come out yet? If this was planned as an anti-piracy thing, there would be no need for such random images. Does this Easter Egg even remotely smell official? Not to me.
TRICIA HELFER is on in a TV pilot that FOX picked up for the Fall called THEM.
An interview with the founder of Pandora.com indicated that
So I'm guessing the copyright owner or even a consortium of owners can cut individual deals with individual internet stations thus cockblocking SoundExchange, but on internet stations they don't cut deals with, SoundExchange will be there.