It is possible for the Sun to be flung out of the galaxy by passing too close to a much larger star. Stars are flung out of galaxies quite frequently in much the same way that asteroids and comets are frequently flung out of the solar system. The Earth would be unlikely to survive such an event. But if it did, no, there is nothing out there between galaxies that is more harmful than whirling through this relatively dense dust and grit.
In the paper this is diiscussed as one possible explanation.
Such encounters would not pose a di-
rect hazard to life on Earth by changing the orbit
of the Earth around the Sun, but could pose a haz-
ard by disturbing the Oort Cloud
I'm a sales guy, and I would thank you for disassociating sales guys from this prick. Sales guys live and die buy giving people what they want, and this guy subsists on denying people sustenance, He is the exact opposite of us.
While it is sad for the employees, investors and local economies, it is maybe for the best. Innovations take resources, and Blackberry was taking the resources and not giving the innovations for a long time. Same with Windows Phone.
I'm guessing you haven't dealt much with folks suffering from severe mental illness. I have. Yeah, they ought not have guns. But frankly whether they have guns or not is irrelevant to the fact that if you let your guard down they are going to kill you because you are an imagined threat/their ghost told them to/they don't know why/they enjoy killing and are fine with it. They could kill you with their bare hands, or a spoon. Frankly you should need a special OSHA permit to deal with crazy people. Given my experience with the clinically insane, they lack the discipline to learn how to properly aim a pistol generally, though there are exceptions.
This has nothing to do with the general population though. We don't organize the rights and benefits of our society around the needs of the clinically insane.
I do believe that one guy with a box knife did kill several thousand people on 9/11/2001. It's all about leverage. He took control of a plane with his box knife, crashed the plane into a building causing it to collapse, and thousands of people died.
The bad guys don't need cannon, RPGs, fully automatic weapons to hash us up. They can continue to work on our psyche until we are as deranged as them. When we are as free of civil liberty as they want society to be the transition will be simpler for people to adjust to.
When my daughter's psychotic abusive ex-boyfriend tried to push his way past me into my house to confront her I was within my right and able to end his life right then. But I didn't. I chose to not. Time will tell if I erred there, and the trend is "yes, that was a mistake".
The argument about gun rights is about to dissolve into an argument about restricting chemistry, and we know how that ends. If people can print a gun then all bets are off.
Guns owned by Americans still outnumber Americans, as they have since WWII. Americans are still more likely to be killed by an agent of the government, or themselves, than another armed citizen. Ownership of guns is not the problem. Lack of mental health care is the problem.
The oceans weigh 280 times as much as the atmosphere, so it's nice to see it start to be included in the climate models. Maybe next year they will start to consider geothermal inputs as well. Maybe do some energy flow models rather than trying to recreate the world with statistics.
IDC thinks that in 2014 desktops and laptops will still edge out tablets on an annual basis (and therefore in some quarters at least), and 2015 will be the first full year of tablets being dominant by shipping units. It is not unusual for me to disagree with IDC. I do not believe that desktops and laptops will recover the lead ever in any quarter going forward for as long as we maintain the artificial distinctions between these variations on the personal computer spectrum. We shall see.
The annual figure you're talking about is $120 Billion. It is roughly the GDP of Iraq. Enough money to feed the entire world for a day. And you're talking about dozens of the most powerful companies in the world - the technology elite, manned by the greatest minds resources like this can assemble, choosing to make no money, unable to think of something profitable to do with their money.
Sorry, no sale. I don't care what the reports say. It is just not credible.
Samsung only sells half the Android devices. So what you are saying is that a consortium of non-Samsung mutually opposed companies are colluding to build 400 million devices this year, selling them for perhaps $120 billion, and losing money on every one. Because they love Google, I suppose, and want them to do well despite their duty to their own shareholders. C'mon Hairy. Did you bring enough of whatever that was you took to share with everybody?
BTW. If I confused anybody there...since the 1980s you could get coprocessor boards in Apple PCs to run things like DOS and Windows on its native hardware rather than through virtualization or processor emulation - in a window. I was talking about adding such an Ax SOC system to a Mac in that way, not replacing the Intel processor with it. Replacing the processor would not give you the OSX compatibility obviously. Attempting to emulate a modern Intel processor on ARM is, of course, idiocy. Sorry about the ambiguity.
Without Nokia Windows Phone's global market share drops to 0.6 from 3.0. So... about $3B per point of market share. Otherwise they disappear in the noise of "other". There wasn't anywhere else they could get those points so cheap. They will probably scoop up Blackberry's customers too. They really have no choice. Smartphones and tablets will be more that 80% of clients sold next quarter, trending up. Next quarter will be the last quarter that traditional PCs outsell tablets, and people get tablets that are like their smartphone and work well with it, not one that works well with and like their PC. If people keep getting invested in phone and tablet apps on platforms that are not theirs, they are done for. Frankly I think it is too late, but to them they have no choice but to try.
Slashdot Mirror
About 100MY for a big one.
It is possible for the Sun to be flung out of the galaxy by passing too close to a much larger star. Stars are flung out of galaxies quite frequently in much the same way that asteroids and comets are frequently flung out of the solar system. The Earth would be unlikely to survive such an event. But if it did, no, there is nothing out there between galaxies that is more harmful than whirling through this relatively dense dust and grit.
Mass extinction events are not hostile to life. They may in fact be essential to evolution.
In the paper this is diiscussed as one possible explanation.
Such encounters would not pose a di- rect hazard to life on Earth by changing the orbit of the Earth around the Sun, but could pose a haz- ard by disturbing the Oort Cloud
I'm a sales guy, and I would thank you for disassociating sales guys from this prick. Sales guys live and die buy giving people what they want, and this guy subsists on denying people sustenance, He is the exact opposite of us.
He's really good at being Bill Gates's college roomie.
The peril of human controlled computer operated machines is that they do what you told them to do, whether or not what you said was what you intended.
While it is sad for the employees, investors and local economies, it is maybe for the best. Innovations take resources, and Blackberry was taking the resources and not giving the innovations for a long time. Same with Windows Phone.
I am told the successful management strategy is to recruit sacrificial lambs.
I'm guessing you haven't dealt much with folks suffering from severe mental illness. I have. Yeah, they ought not have guns. But frankly whether they have guns or not is irrelevant to the fact that if you let your guard down they are going to kill you because you are an imagined threat/their ghost told them to/they don't know why/they enjoy killing and are fine with it. They could kill you with their bare hands, or a spoon. Frankly you should need a special OSHA permit to deal with crazy people. Given my experience with the clinically insane, they lack the discipline to learn how to properly aim a pistol generally, though there are exceptions.
This has nothing to do with the general population though. We don't organize the rights and benefits of our society around the needs of the clinically insane.
I do believe that one guy with a box knife did kill several thousand people on 9/11/2001. It's all about leverage. He took control of a plane with his box knife, crashed the plane into a building causing it to collapse, and thousands of people died. The bad guys don't need cannon, RPGs, fully automatic weapons to hash us up. They can continue to work on our psyche until we are as deranged as them. When we are as free of civil liberty as they want society to be the transition will be simpler for people to adjust to.
Lately it seems to me that though inclusion of turn signals on cars is mandatory, both the use and recognition of them is optional.
Look who owns it. That explains everything.
When my daughter's psychotic abusive ex-boyfriend tried to push his way past me into my house to confront her I was within my right and able to end his life right then. But I didn't. I chose to not. Time will tell if I erred there, and the trend is "yes, that was a mistake".
The argument about gun rights is about to dissolve into an argument about restricting chemistry, and we know how that ends. If people can print a gun then all bets are off.
They are still working with statistics, not energy flow models.
Guns owned by Americans still outnumber Americans, as they have since WWII. Americans are still more likely to be killed by an agent of the government, or themselves, than another armed citizen. Ownership of guns is not the problem. Lack of mental health care is the problem.
1) Burning stuff releases pollutants. 2) Putting less pollutants into the air, water, and ground is a good thing.
If burning things has caused us to avoid an end to the present interglacial, then is it still a bad thing?
The oceans weigh 280 times as much as the atmosphere, so it's nice to see it start to be included in the climate models. Maybe next year they will start to consider geothermal inputs as well. Maybe do some energy flow models rather than trying to recreate the world with statistics.
IDC thinks that in 2014 desktops and laptops will still edge out tablets on an annual basis (and therefore in some quarters at least), and 2015 will be the first full year of tablets being dominant by shipping units. It is not unusual for me to disagree with IDC. I do not believe that desktops and laptops will recover the lead ever in any quarter going forward for as long as we maintain the artificial distinctions between these variations on the personal computer spectrum. We shall see.
The annual figure you're talking about is $120 Billion. It is roughly the GDP of Iraq. Enough money to feed the entire world for a day. And you're talking about dozens of the most powerful companies in the world - the technology elite, manned by the greatest minds resources like this can assemble, choosing to make no money, unable to think of something profitable to do with their money.
Sorry, no sale. I don't care what the reports say. It is just not credible.
Not if they gave an unocked lumia to Cyanogen. Those guys are amazing.
Samsung only sells half the Android devices. So what you are saying is that a consortium of non-Samsung mutually opposed companies are colluding to build 400 million devices this year, selling them for perhaps $120 billion, and losing money on every one. Because they love Google, I suppose, and want them to do well despite their duty to their own shareholders. C'mon Hairy. Did you bring enough of whatever that was you took to share with everybody?
BTW. If I confused anybody there...since the 1980s you could get coprocessor boards in Apple PCs to run things like DOS and Windows on its native hardware rather than through virtualization or processor emulation - in a window. I was talking about adding such an Ax SOC system to a Mac in that way, not replacing the Intel processor with it. Replacing the processor would not give you the OSX compatibility obviously. Attempting to emulate a modern Intel processor on ARM is, of course, idiocy. Sorry about the ambiguity.
Without Nokia Windows Phone's global market share drops to 0.6 from 3.0. So... about $3B per point of market share. Otherwise they disappear in the noise of "other". There wasn't anywhere else they could get those points so cheap. They will probably scoop up Blackberry's customers too. They really have no choice. Smartphones and tablets will be more that 80% of clients sold next quarter, trending up. Next quarter will be the last quarter that traditional PCs outsell tablets, and people get tablets that are like their smartphone and work well with it, not one that works well with and like their PC. If people keep getting invested in phone and tablet apps on platforms that are not theirs, they are done for. Frankly I think it is too late, but to them they have no choice but to try.