Interesting but not really usable for me. (And thus by extension probably many other people)
It looks like crap if you have a alrge desktop because the textures arn't big enough. (Large as in 3200x1200) It's not smart enough to map things to several adjacent textures.
"and surpisingly fast if you have a decent video card"
Fast, sure, but still to damn slow. My computer is the one thing I expect instant gratification from. Every 100ms of waiting for desktop to switch is 100ms of annoyance.
A more accurate representation is that space is expanding, thus every point it getting further from every other. So wherever you are everything seems to be moving away from you. . .
I'd give more detail, but it's 8pm, on a friday night, and I'm still at work. It's time to be gone.
To hopefully help quell the rush of prople who don't RTFA. Because the post is a bit. ..misleading.
"NGC 4151 is 40 million light years from Earth, far beyond the most distant object previously detected by this type of telescope system, which was about 3,000 light years from Earth."
"this type of telescope system"
They are refering SPECIFICALLY to the technique used to image this. NOT 'most distant object imaged'.
>>>>>>Other side effects of bright light is that you cannot see absolute 'white' or 'black'. Similar with dark rooms, you cannot easily see color, as it takes high energy photons to allow you to see it.
By 'High Energy' I presume you mean a large volume of photons? Or perhaps a 'higher amount of total energy, caused by a greater number of photons'.
Because the only thing adding more energy to a red photon is going to get you is a green photon. ..(depending of course on how much higher then energy of that particular photon is.)
Energy, on a per photon basis, is equivelent to wavelength. Energy on a "total amount of energy incident on a given area" (I paraphrase) is flux.
1) Pre-2001 all of resNet was 10mbit each way, starting 2001, they bumped it to 20mbit. That was cool.
2) is this going to be the solution everytime a worm comes out that exploits some serivce on some port? Not many open ports after a while. But yes, an ok temporary solutiion to curb the initial outbreak.
3) Yeah right. Like that's going to work. Heh, required course for incomming freshman: CMPSC 1: How not to be a dumbass on computers
somehow I don't think the pass rate would be all that high. .
Ahh yes, this really is the danger of GE, that it is quite easy to disrupt the natural biosphere. Though this is not limited to things which were GE created, as can be seen by the 'killer bees' which are displacing the native bees.
Then again, selective breeding IS Genetic Engineering. No one seems to complain about that though. . .
To step away from politics for a second. . . and please excuse my lack of ability to spell, I usually work with equations or computer code, not written english.
You say . . .
Maybe you don't understand the Greenhouse effect, and the global warming issue, but if you're wondering. . . .
To supply the "if you're wondering" part that seems to have gotten lost. Global warming and ozone depletion have nothing to do with each other, all it takes is some homework and/or a basic knowledge of chemestry to know this.
In very simplified brief terms, and devoid of complexities that would require a physics lesson:
Ozone depletion:
Cause: Breakdown of the Ozone (O3) molecule caused, in large part, by man-made chemicals that have made their way to the upper atmosphere.
Effect: Ozone 'blocks' (I'm skipping the physics lesson) Ultra Violet radiation, less Ozone = more UV. High levels of UV radiation are harmful to essentially all life on earth because UV radiation can cause celular damage.
Greenhouse effect:
Cause: Increase in atmospheric gases which act as an insulational layer for the earth. To grossly simplify, (fractional)absorption and re-emission of Infra Red radiation that would normally escape into space, so that it instead is re-emmited back toward earth. Heavy industry has caused larger levels of "greenhouse gases" to be released into the atmosphere then normally occur in nature.
Effect: Global temperature increases by a small amount, amount may be large enough to effect systems in unstable equilibrium, or those which are near boundry conditions.
FACT: If all the polar ice would melt, it would raise the ocean a whole 300 feet. No big loss.
Granted, it would be highly unlikely for conditions to accur that would result in the total melting of the polar ice caps. But that's not what's important.
What's important is that with the following words "a whole 300 feet. No big loss." You completely destroy any creditability you ever had.
Stop and think for a minute how many major world cities are at LESS then 300 feet of elevation?
I suppose "No big loss" is a subjective value call, but I think the majority of people would consider the loss of the majority of major cities in the world, as a big loss.
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True it took me a few hours to get my traffic control exactly how I wanted it as opposed to, what, 20 seconds? But I do a lot more with it then just keep uploads from killing my downloads.
Wonderful thing about the world is that there are different solutions for different needs.
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The thing about Bose is that they are great speakers. For 1/4th of their price.
They sound better then most of what people listen to which really is crap. By this I mean, background music in places like malls, $100 boom-boxes, $10 headphones, that sort of stuff. So when people get a chance to hear an OK system, it sounds pretty damn good, if only in comparison.
Bose are small, they are incomspicuous, they are easy to have in a space without them dominating that space. For most people, I guess this is more important.
For example, I have three relatives with Bose sytems, I'll take my father as an example. He has a lifestyle 25. It cost him about $2500. This is what it does for him. . .
Small
Inconspicuous
Easy! There is one small silver box that sits on top of his TV
Sounds better then the TV speakers or a cheep stereo
Gives him surround sound
I on the other hand have a system I put togethor for myself. Speakers from Paradigm, a reciever from Onkyo, and a Sony sub (gonna be the first thing to go when I can afford it). My system cost about $1200 total (all components and cables, etc.). It was build to give me the best sound quality I could find within the limits of my budget and the time I had to devote to it.
It sounds better then the Bose system, a lot better. It can play louder, quieter, go deeper, higher, everything I've ever played on both systems sounds better on mine.
But for my dad the Bose was a better choice for him. My speakers are small, 33 x 19.7 x 27.3cm (13 x 7-3/4 x 10-3/4in), and weigh 5kg each, but you could still fit all of the bose cubes into one of my speakers. You could NOT put my reciever on top of the TV. And one look at all the inputs and outputs on the back of it sent my dad packing.
But then again I can turn the music up without their enclosures vibrating, I can low frequencies (most people don't know what those even are, here's a clue, that bom-car that just drove by? That's not low).
Bose are OK, but they can't violate the laws of physics. And really, do you want to buy a product from a company whose focus seems to be on marketing as opposed to research?
First off "petawatt" says NOTHING about the power output of the laser, only the intensity. Well. . ..to a degree, there IS a minimum time interval that the laser could function, and thus a minimum required total power output, but it's the weekend, I'm ignoring that.
What do you mean "warm those without a roof over their head" ? Isn't that what global warming's all about?;-p
Heck yeah room temperature superconductors would be nice, if they were not uber-expensive I'd go so far as to say "nice" = "revolutionary". But you can't just pull the "superconductor research" slider all the way to the left and hit next turn a few times. . . . Though I do think, that as a whole, more resources need to be devoted to research, of every sort.
SUrface of the sun? Bah, you mis-understand, they after the ocnditions of the core. It's about 3 orders of magnitude warmer there. How the hell would they harness that? That's their job, not yours. People once wondered the same about any number of things, ya know, like. . ..fire. Or say, nuclear fission. People are smart, they'll figure it out, have some faith in science.
Local Network congestion: It just takes a bit of knowlege to solve this. Anyone who is not lazy shouldn't have a problem.
Bandwidth Caps, now there is a problem with no free solution. Only choice is to cough up the $$$ for an unlimited connection. I pay $79 a month for 1.5/256 with no restrictions of any type and a static IP. Use it to serve a webpage, SSH/VNC from afar, blocked ports and bandwidth caps suck.
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Interesting but not really usable for me. (And thus by extension probably many other people)
It looks like crap if you have a alrge desktop because the textures arn't big enough. (Large as in 3200x1200) It's not smart enough to map things to several adjacent textures.
"and surpisingly fast if you have a decent video card"
Fast, sure, but still to damn slow. My computer is the one thing I expect instant gratification from. Every 100ms of waiting for desktop to switch is 100ms of annoyance.
Many eyes make many mistakes. But luckily they're usually connected to many mouths/fingers which yell at each other until it's more right then not.
Yay peer review.
You sarcasm detector seems to be broken, you might want to look into getting that fixed.
Not quite so simple.
A more accurate representation is that space is expanding, thus every point it getting further from every other. So wherever you are everything seems to be moving away from you. . .
I'd give more detail, but it's 8pm, on a friday night, and I'm still at work. It's time to be gone.
To hopefully help quell the rush of prople who don't RTFA. Because the post is a bit. . .misleading.
"NGC 4151 is 40 million light years from Earth, far beyond the most distant object previously detected by this type of telescope system, which was about 3,000 light years from Earth."
"this type of telescope system"
They are refering SPECIFICALLY to the technique used to image this. NOT 'most distant object imaged'.
>>>>>>Other side effects of bright light is that you cannot see absolute 'white' or 'black'. Similar with dark rooms, you cannot easily see color, as it takes high energy photons to allow you to see it. By 'High Energy' I presume you mean a large volume of photons? Or perhaps a 'higher amount of total energy, caused by a greater number of photons'.
.(depending of course on how much higher then energy of that particular photon is.)
Because the only thing adding more energy to a red photon is going to get you is a green photon. .
Energy, on a per photon basis, is equivelent to wavelength. Energy on a "total amount of energy incident on a given area" (I paraphrase) is flux.
How long have they been doing this?
Replies (specific to UCSB) for a few points. .
1) Pre-2001 all of resNet was 10mbit each way, starting 2001, they bumped it to 20mbit. That was cool.
2) is this going to be the solution everytime a worm comes out that exploits some serivce on some port? Not many open ports after a while. But yes, an ok temporary solutiion to curb the initial outbreak.
3) Yeah right. Like that's going to work. Heh, required course for incomming freshman:
CMPSC 1: How not to be a dumbass on computers
somehow I don't think the pass rate would be all that high. .
Pfft. You obviously don't know what you're talking about. Half-Life would have been soooo lame if not for my blowhole, water cooling, and UV lighting.
.wait. . . .you mean those OTHER sorts of mods. . . .
Mods are so cool they even started bundling half-life with them, any of you guys know what color Cold-Cathodes they were shipping?
Ohh. . .
Ahh yes, this really is the danger of GE, that it is quite easy to disrupt the natural biosphere. Though this is not limited to things which were GE created, as can be seen by the 'killer bees' which are displacing the native bees. Then again, selective breeding IS Genetic Engineering. No one seems to complain about that though. . .
No mere gigawatts can power a delorian to the future!
Atleast they shouldn't be trouble for more then a generation right?
Come on people, time for something very much resembling Whack-a-Rat.
Now it the good stuff!
To supply the "if you're wondering" part that seems to have gotten lost. Global warming and ozone depletion have nothing to do with each other, all it takes is some homework and/or a basic knowledge of chemestry to know this.
In very simplified brief terms, and devoid of complexities that would require a physics lesson:
Ozone depletion:
Cause: Breakdown of the Ozone (O3) molecule caused, in large part, by man-made chemicals that have made their way to the upper atmosphere.
Effect: Ozone 'blocks' (I'm skipping the physics lesson) Ultra Violet radiation, less Ozone = more UV. High levels of UV radiation are harmful to essentially all life on earth because UV radiation can cause celular damage.
Greenhouse effect:
Cause: Increase in atmospheric gases which act as an insulational layer for the earth. To grossly simplify, (fractional)absorption and re-emission of Infra Red radiation that would normally escape into space, so that it instead is re-emmited back toward earth. Heavy industry has caused larger levels of "greenhouse gases" to be released into the atmosphere then normally occur in nature.
Effect: Global temperature increases by a small amount, amount may be large enough to effect systems in unstable equilibrium, or those which are near boundry conditions.
Granted, it would be highly unlikely for conditions to accur that would result in the total melting of the polar ice caps. But that's not what's important.
What's important is that with the following words "a whole 300 feet. No big loss." You completely destroy any creditability you ever had.
Stop and think for a minute how many major world cities are at LESS then 300 feet of elevation?
I suppose "No big loss" is a subjective value call, but I think the majority of people would consider the loss of the majority of major cities in the world, as a big loss.
True it took me a few hours to get my traffic control exactly how I wanted it as opposed to, what, 20 seconds? But I do a lot more with it then just keep uploads from killing my downloads.
Wonderful thing about the world is that there are different solutions for different needs.
That's why you need to control your connection.
I don't think it matters, because from my experiance the average person doesn't know what it means either and just thinks it means "big" or "fast".
Yes it's annoying that our society caters to the lowest common denominator.
They sound better then most of what people listen to which really is crap. By this I mean, background music in places like malls, $100 boom-boxes, $10 headphones, that sort of stuff. So when people get a chance to hear an OK system, it sounds pretty damn good, if only in comparison.
Bose are small, they are incomspicuous, they are easy to have in a space without them dominating that space. For most people, I guess this is more important.
For example, I have three relatives with Bose sytems, I'll take my father as an example. He has a lifestyle 25. It cost him about $2500. This is what it does for him. . .
Small
Inconspicuous
Easy! There is one small silver box that sits on top of his TV
Sounds better then the TV speakers or a cheep stereo
Gives him surround sound
I on the other hand have a system I put togethor for myself. Speakers from Paradigm, a reciever from Onkyo, and a Sony sub (gonna be the first thing to go when I can afford it). My system cost about $1200 total (all components and cables, etc.). It was build to give me the best sound quality I could find within the limits of my budget and the time I had to devote to it.
It sounds better then the Bose system, a lot better. It can play louder, quieter, go deeper, higher, everything I've ever played on both systems sounds better on mine.
But for my dad the Bose was a better choice for him. My speakers are small, 33 x 19.7 x 27.3cm (13 x 7-3/4 x 10-3/4in), and weigh 5kg each, but you could still fit all of the bose cubes into one of my speakers. You could NOT put my reciever on top of the TV. And one look at all the inputs and outputs on the back of it sent my dad packing.
But then again I can turn the music up without their enclosures vibrating, I can low frequencies (most people don't know what those even are, here's a clue, that bom-car that just drove by? That's not low).
Bose are OK, but they can't violate the laws of physics. And really, do you want to buy a product from a company whose focus seems to be on marketing as opposed to research?
First off "petawatt" says NOTHING about the power output of the laser, only the intensity. Well. . . .to a degree, there IS a minimum time interval that the laser could function, and thus a minimum required total power output, but it's the weekend, I'm ignoring that.
What do you mean "warm those without a roof over their head" ? Isn't that what global warming's all about? ;-p
Heck yeah room temperature superconductors would be nice, if they were not uber-expensive I'd go so far as to say "nice" = "revolutionary". But you can't just pull the "superconductor research" slider all the way to the left and hit next turn a few times. . . . Though I do think, that as a whole, more resources need to be devoted to research, of every sort.
SUrface of the sun? Bah, you mis-understand, they after the ocnditions of the core. It's about 3 orders of magnitude warmer there. How the hell would they harness that? That's their job, not yours. People once wondered the same about any number of things, ya know, like. . . .fire. Or say, nuclear fission. People are smart, they'll figure it out, have some faith in science.
Local Network congestion: It just takes a bit of knowlege to solve this. Anyone who is not lazy shouldn't have a problem. Bandwidth Caps, now there is a problem with no free solution. Only choice is to cough up the $$$ for an unlimited connection. I pay $79 a month for 1.5/256 with no restrictions of any type and a static IP. Use it to serve a webpage, SSH/VNC from afar, blocked ports and bandwidth caps suck.