"Venus is the case of a runaway greenhouse effect. The temperature and pressure of the atmosphere decrease with height, so water vapor rises in the atmosphere and encounters conditions that cause it to condense back into liquid water and fall back to the surface - a region called the "cold trap." On Earth, this is at a height of 9-15 km (5-9 miles) above the surface, but on Venus it lies at an altitude around 50 km (31 miles) due to the planet's closer proximity to the sun.
On Earth, the ozone layer is several kilometers above this, and the ozone prevents ultraviolet light from destroying water in our atmosphere. On Venus, there is no ozone layer, and the atmosphere doesn't become opaque to ultraviolet light until a depth is reached below the cold trap. This allows ultraviolet light to destroy water between this height and the cold trap's.
So, as water rises in Venus' atmosphere and reaches this region, UV light dissociates it into two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. The hydrogen is much lighter than the water molecule was, and so it easily escapes Venus' atmosphere. The water will usually quickly recombine with a carbon or carbon monoxide molecule to form carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide. This is probably one reason why there is so much carbon dioxide in Venus' atmosphere today.
Heavy water, however, which is composed of one oxygen, one hydrogen, and one deuterium (a proton and one neutron), cannot reach the requisite height as easily. If it does, it can still be dissociated just like normal water, but this happens at a much slower rate. Thus, a measurement of how much deuterium compared with how much hydrogen today shows that Venus has much more deuterium in its atmosphere for each hydrogen atom than Earth does. This is the strongest evidence that Venus has lost a massive amount of water in its history."
"'While that question will not be easy to answer, it is worth pursing because the practical implications of the findings depend on the causal direction,' he said."
This must be fake! Or at least it is the first time I hear a psychologist speaking of causal directions. Is sound like a good study just because of that caveat.
It appears to be most likely that Venus' uninhabitability is most likely to be caused by our star, Sun. What else?
The reason Earth is habitable to us is because of plants, where the precursors had other shit to deal with. In large, the plants made the atmosphere of Earth we know of today. That is no big news.
Nokia: while we haven't been in the rubberboot business for decades, we felt we needed to, just like Ericsson with phones, make our _former_ presence heard. Q: What have the damages to you been from Xtraufs move to China? Nokia: Why ask us? Ask that question to Sony who have NEVER been selling rubber boots. Q: Huh? Nokia: That's our point.
If the doctor used Google Drive he may have given up those rights you referered to, only so that Google should be able to store that data at various servers around the world at their own accord.
If it is a US citizen it may perhaps be less complex, as they technically all you are belong to us Nigeria; I have eleven e-mails from a billionaire to prove that.
"Israel responded swiftly Friday to U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state, revealing it will build 3,000 more homes for Jews on Israeli-occupied lands that the world body overwhelmingly said belong to the Palestinians. The plans also include future construction in a strategic area of the West Bank where critics have long warned that Jewish settlements would kill hopes for a viable Palestinian state. Israel's moves served as a harsh reminder to Palestinians — euphoric over the U.N. upgrade — that while they now have a state on paper, most of it remains very much under Israeli control. "This is a doomsday scenario," Daniel Seidemann of Ir Amim, a group that promotes coexistence in Jerusalem, said of the building plans. Israel's decision was bound to embarrass the United States, which was among just nine countries in the 193-member General Assembly to vote against accepting Palestine as a nonmember observer state. "
WTF?
"Israel's decision was bound to embarrass the United States"
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned on Friday that without progress toward peace, Israel will be forced to choose between "preserving democracy and the Jewish identity of the state." "
Ok, Israel wants to fuck the US, once more, despite the support? Yet, for how long?
You can't fool a game between humans, forever.
"Why are devs trying this rather risky way of financing, anyway?"
Exactly! Apparently because it pays off! Israel fucks the US, and it pays off.
Hence, screw any fucked up until they bleed or die.
All these particles don't make any real sense, to me at least...
We need a new Mendeleev! We need a new structure to classify all these new subatomic particles.
Where are the gaps? Mendeleev was initially ridiculed for producing a poor graph and later a table which just rearranged a simple pattern long known. However, we now know the strengths of Mendeleev's rearrangements - the periodic table.
A question - Where is the a new Mendeleev? Do we need a new Mendeleev? Do we aleady have a table which can be used to pinpoint missing particles as simple as when we knew to search for e.g. technetium?
From the link you gave "A number of nations have used one-time pad systems for their sensitive traffic. Leo Marks reports that the British Special Operations Executive used one-time pads in World War II to encode traffic between its offices. One-time pads for use with its overseas agents were introduced late in the war.[11] Other one-time tape cipher machines include the British machines Rockex and Noreen."
Redundant, but one should also stress that it is also known that the British actually did use one-time pads.
"Now that the European Union’s member states are flailing around attempting to implement their miserable cookie directive, the European Commission has decided it’s a good time to retard the Internet some more. Today the European Commission will release an already-leaked new version of the Data Protection Directive which firmly establishes a European right to data erasure, or “right to be forgotten.” Article 17 will give EU residents an unprecedented inalienable right to control and delete facts that were once voluntarily communicated by the subject. Moreover, the right to erasure covers all publications of the personal information."
It's not all bad in the E.U., hence it must be African.
Even if VGChartz (http://www.vgchartz.com) represents the mainstream buying pattern for all platforms, they list a lot of games strict Linux users probably would have bought too had they only known about them. It has weekly stats for all games, platforms, etc. for the last eight years by USA/EU/Japan. Surely it must represent fairly well what keeps the mainstream away from Linux.
Since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia it must handle large datasets in each article. Then the table is one of the most useful tools to give a comprehensive overview of any subject (chemistry, sports, social sciences etc.).
The tables should support copy&paste from other editors, web pages, whether (as Google Docs) only with ctrl-c/ctrl-v. If you can get a table structure in copy&paste working, excellent.
Of course the table should support all kinds of column sorting as is already done today, where _stable_ sorting is the preferred default I guess.
"Fifty children aged four to six years old and the driver of the school bus they were on were killed when their vehicle was hit by a train in central Egypt on Saturday, officials said."
Hmmm... Who ran that train? Hmmm... Maybe an Israeli soldier or an Assad ally? Hmmmm...
No. Don't overdo associations. Shit happens in the Middle East anyhow.
Where are Oracle's testicles? Larry has a pussy? Oracle is sinking lower and lower? Normally someone stands up for the benefits which are given to them. In this case small-ball Larry or any of his sons appears to have abused their undersized gifts; it is known that small men with small penises tend to overdo their fits. The father of the chickens children with small-sized genitals should amend and rather help out - RedHat is no large enemy; it is not the Red Army. Microsoft is. Apple may become, and currently with far larger pockets than RedHat or Microsoft.
"To understand why we've created this project we'll need a little history. In early 2011, Red Hat changed how they released their kernel source, going from a tarball that had individual patch files to shipping the kernel source as one giant tarball with a single patch for all Red Hat-introduced changes. For most people who work in the kernel this is merely an inconvenience; driver developers and other out-of-kernel module developers can see the end result to make sure their module still performs as expected."
Well, so they keep using RedHat's work, as all other do too, btw. But now, they break it out and make it more readily available to others. So, maybe the Larriones do have some pubertal indications after all.
Still, what does Oracle to for Linux, which makes them exempt for common courtesy?
"Don't get me wrong, Oracle does contribute to kernel and other open source development. In fact, Oracle was one of the top 20 employers by kernel contributions from the 2.6.33 kernel (as measured by Greg Kroah-Hartman). Specifically, Oracle was responsible for about 1.3% of the changesets in 2.6.33, just after AMD with 1.6%, and kernel heavyweights Texas Instruments and Fujitsu (1.9% each), and Nokia (3.0%). It's far, far behind Red Hat's 11.6% and even IBM's 4.8%."
So, in summary, RedHat was at that time doing a lot more of changes, but pushed them out as solid patches, with little or effort to ease it for other users; and it appears to have been an effort to stall competitors like Oracle.
Where are Oracle's testicles? Between Larry's and his sons legs. Larry has a pussy? No.
This is business. Show me yours, I'll show you mine. Code, of course.
Slashdot Mirror
I woke up one morning and the attraction I had felt the night before had turned into repulsion.
So what is new? That it is on Slashdot?
"These fibers are thinner than human hair, flexible, and yet they produce electricity, just like a normal solar cell."
Imagine the surface available for photon uptake in fleece form! Fleece, as in Helly Hansen - www.google.com/search?q=helly+hansen+fleece
One square meter of standard, plain photocell surface would possibly be multiplied if made into some brushy/hairy type of material.
True. But compare this with:
"Venus is the case of a runaway greenhouse effect. The temperature and pressure of the atmosphere decrease with height, so water vapor rises in the atmosphere and encounters conditions that cause it to condense back into liquid water and fall back to the surface - a region called the "cold trap." On Earth, this is at a height of 9-15 km (5-9 miles) above the surface, but on Venus it lies at an altitude around 50 km (31 miles) due to the planet's closer proximity to the sun.
On Earth, the ozone layer is several kilometers above this, and the ozone prevents ultraviolet light from destroying water in our atmosphere. On Venus, there is no ozone layer, and the atmosphere doesn't become opaque to ultraviolet light until a depth is reached below the cold trap. This allows ultraviolet light to destroy water between this height and the cold trap's.
So, as water rises in Venus' atmosphere and reaches this region, UV light dissociates it into two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. The hydrogen is much lighter than the water molecule was, and so it easily escapes Venus' atmosphere. The water will usually quickly recombine with a carbon or carbon monoxide molecule to form carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide. This is probably one reason why there is so much carbon dioxide in Venus' atmosphere today.
Heavy water, however, which is composed of one oxygen, one hydrogen, and one deuterium (a proton and one neutron), cannot reach the requisite height as easily. If it does, it can still be dissociated just like normal water, but this happens at a much slower rate. Thus, a measurement of how much deuterium compared with how much hydrogen today shows that Venus has much more deuterium in its atmosphere for each hydrogen atom than Earth does. This is the strongest evidence that Venus has lost a massive amount of water in its history."
From http://burro.astr.cwru.edu/stu/advanced/venus.html
It sounds there are at least two ways to have Venus water disappear.
"'While that question will not be easy to answer, it is worth pursing because the practical implications of the findings depend on the causal direction,' he said."
This must be fake! Or at least it is the first time I hear a psychologist speaking of causal directions. Is sound like a good study just because of that caveat.
There may be progress in this world!
It appears to be most likely that Venus' uninhabitability is most likely to be caused by our star, Sun. What else?
The reason Earth is habitable to us is because of plants, where the precursors had other shit to deal with. In large, the plants made the atmosphere of Earth we know of today. That is no big news.
Life never thrived on Venus. And?
The Sun is the culprit.
Meanwhile, Nokia drops case vs Xtrauf, proud US makers of rubberboots.
Nokia: We found out their boots were actually made in China.
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/alaskans-say-xtratuf-boots-lost-trademark-durability-after-manufacturing-move-china
Nokia: while we haven't been in the rubberboot business for decades, we felt we needed to, just like Ericsson with phones, make our _former_ presence heard.
Q: What have the damages to you been from Xtraufs move to China?
Nokia: Why ask us? Ask that question to Sony who have NEVER been selling rubber boots.
Q: Huh?
Nokia: That's our point.
It could also be Google.
If the doctor used Google Drive he may have given up those rights you referered to, only so that Google should be able to store that data at various servers around the world at their own accord.
If it is a US citizen it may perhaps be less complex, as they technically all you are belong to us Nigeria; I have eleven e-mails from a billionaire to prove that.
Now we have a prophecy realized?
Now we have a property realized.
"Funny thing is, the talks described actually sound fascinating".
How would you know that?
SOME GAMES SUCK.
As an analogy, Israel lost its game against the world vs Palestine.
Now, that game continues.
http://www.thepiercecountytribune.com/page/content.detail/id/269807/Israel-moves-to-build-3-000-new-settlement-homes-.html?isap=1&nav=5040
"Israel responded swiftly Friday to U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state, revealing it will build 3,000 more homes for Jews on Israeli-occupied lands that the world body overwhelmingly said belong to the Palestinians. The plans also include future construction in a strategic area of the West Bank where critics have long warned that Jewish settlements would kill hopes for a viable Palestinian state. Israel's moves served as a harsh reminder to Palestinians — euphoric over the U.N. upgrade — that while they now have a state on paper, most of it remains very much under Israeli control. "This is a doomsday scenario," Daniel Seidemann of Ir Amim, a group that promotes coexistence in Jerusalem, said of the building plans. Israel's decision was bound to embarrass the United States, which was among just nine countries in the 193-member General Assembly to vote against accepting Palestine as a nonmember observer state. "
WTF?
"Israel's decision was bound to embarrass the United States"
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/clinton-calls-on-israel-to-embrace-moderate-palestinians-negotiations.premium-1.481733
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned on Friday that without progress toward peace, Israel will be forced to choose between "preserving democracy and the Jewish identity of the state." "
Ok, Israel wants to fuck the US, once more, despite the support? Yet, for how long?
You can't fool a game between humans, forever.
"Why are devs trying this rather risky way of financing, anyway?"
Exactly! Apparently because it pays off! Israel fucks the US, and it pays off.
Hence, screw any fucked up until they bleed or die.
All these particles don't make any real sense, to me at least...
We need a new Mendeleev! We need a new structure to classify all these new subatomic particles.
Where are the gaps? Mendeleev was initially ridiculed for producing a poor graph and later a table which just rearranged a simple pattern long known. However, we now know the strengths of Mendeleev's rearrangements - the periodic table.
A question - Where is the a new Mendeleev? Do we need a new Mendeleev? Do we aleady have a table which can be used to pinpoint missing particles as simple as when we knew to search for e.g. technetium?
We need a new Mendeleev!!!
But if it is free as in free beer I'm in
From the link you gave "A number of nations have used one-time pad systems for their sensitive traffic. Leo Marks reports that the British Special Operations Executive used one-time pads in World War II to encode traffic between its offices. One-time pads for use with its overseas agents were introduced late in the war.[11] Other one-time tape cipher machines include the British machines Rockex and Noreen."
Redundant, but one should also stress that it is also known that the British actually did use one-time pads.
"European crap"?
From https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2012/01/25/more-crap-from-the-e-u/
"Now that the European Union’s member states are flailing around attempting to implement their miserable cookie directive, the European Commission has decided it’s a good time to retard the Internet some more. Today the European Commission will release an already-leaked new version of the Data Protection Directive which firmly establishes a European right to data erasure, or “right to be forgotten.” Article 17 will give EU residents an unprecedented inalienable right to control and delete facts that were once voluntarily communicated by the subject. Moreover, the right to erasure covers all publications of the personal information."
It's not all bad in the E.U., hence it must be African.
Even if VGChartz (http://www.vgchartz.com) represents the mainstream buying pattern for all platforms, they list a lot of games strict Linux users probably would have bought too had they only known about them. It has weekly stats for all games, platforms, etc. for the last eight years by USA/EU/Japan. Surely it must represent fairly well what keeps the mainstream away from Linux.
APNG and MNG are both to animated GIFs what PNG is to standard GIF, yet better...
Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-image_Network_Graphics
Still, Interent Explorer doesn't support them...
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie9-windows_7/apng-images-not-animating/92ba64aa-9d7a-e011-9b4b-68b599b31bf5
Why?!
How old are you? 53? ;)
Guilt by association has never been very clear cut.
Since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia it must handle large datasets in each article. Then the table is one of the most useful tools to give a comprehensive overview of any subject (chemistry, sports, social sciences etc.).
The tables should support copy&paste from other editors, web pages, whether (as Google Docs) only with ctrl-c/ctrl-v. If you can get a table structure in copy&paste working, excellent.
Of course the table should support all kinds of column sorting as is already done today, where _stable_ sorting is the preferred default I guess.
Tables should be a high priority.
Don't overdo associations...
For example, from a few minutes ago: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20375395
"Fifty children aged four to six years old and the driver of the school bus they were on were killed when their vehicle was hit by a train in central Egypt on Saturday, officials said."
Hmmm... Who ran that train? Hmmm... Maybe an Israeli soldier or an Assad ally? Hmmmm...
No. Don't overdo associations. Shit happens in the Middle East anyhow.
That headline is the mean interpretation of all Apple bashers, whereas the Apple fanboys will call it a glitch or a minor mishap.
Somewhere along the infamous, slippery path both may have delivered a relevant piece of an annoying truth.
Where are Oracle's testicles? Larry has a pussy? Oracle is sinking lower and lower? Normally someone stands up for the benefits which are given to them. In this case small-ball Larry or any of his sons appears to have abused their undersized gifts; it is known that small men with small penises tend to overdo their fits. The father of the chickens children with small-sized genitals should amend and rather help out - RedHat is no large enemy; it is not the Red Army. Microsoft is. Apple may become, and currently with far larger pockets than RedHat or Microsoft.
Spending corporate money on this? Oh, so let us read what they have say, shall we? At https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/introducing_redpatch we can read:
"To understand why we've created this project we'll need a little history. In early 2011, Red Hat changed how they released their kernel source, going from a tarball that had individual patch files to shipping the kernel source as one giant tarball with a single patch for all Red Hat-introduced changes. For most people who work in the kernel this is merely an inconvenience; driver developers and other out-of-kernel module developers can see the end result to make sure their module still performs as expected."
Well, so they keep using RedHat's work, as all other do too, btw. But now, they break it out and make it more readily available to others. So, maybe the Larriones do have some pubertal indications after all.
Still, what does Oracle to for Linux, which makes them exempt for common courtesy?
Here is an two month old article http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2012/08/oracle-leading-linux-then-and-now
which argues that Oracle does a lot of things for Linux. Hmmm... Maybe there are more than five inches after all?
Still, at http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/oracles-new-kernel-rhel-clone-real-truth
we can read:
"Don't get me wrong, Oracle does contribute to kernel and other open source development. In fact, Oracle was one of the top 20 employers by kernel contributions from the 2.6.33 kernel (as measured by Greg Kroah-Hartman). Specifically, Oracle was responsible for about 1.3% of the changesets in 2.6.33, just after AMD with 1.6%, and kernel heavyweights Texas Instruments and Fujitsu (1.9% each), and Nokia (3.0%). It's far, far behind Red Hat's 11.6% and even IBM's 4.8%."
Ok, more than five, but not by much... Still, the backing is definitely supported by Larry Ellison - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4-5z5l2HjA
So, in summary, RedHat was at that time doing a lot more of changes, but pushed them out as solid patches, with little or effort to ease it for other users; and it appears to have been an effort to stall competitors like Oracle.
Where are Oracle's testicles? Between Larry's and his sons legs. Larry has a pussy? No.
This is business. Show me yours, I'll show you mine. Code, of course.
Sad - even if I dislike Apple.
Even if Apple doesn't play by the rules, Samsung should.
I hope this is not a 'vendetta' but a sound and fair business decision.
Howeve, I expect Apple to label it 'unfair' whatever Samsung's rationale was.
Apple has lost all credibility a long time ago. Pray Samsung doesn't follow Apple's sullied path.
Just found http://www.datamath.org/
http://www.datamath.org/Sci/Slimline/TI-30LCD.htm
after 30 years! Used, overused and abused. Thrown in the wall, broken, reassembled. Loved.
Unfortunately my even older Texas Instruments was stolen some thirty years ago.
Before those, at school we used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-59_/_TI-58
And before that I got my Citizen. Don't recall what model though.
Those were the days.
BTW, is there no web page with images of all these old models? For nostalgia.