"Besides, by the same reasoning you should make illegal to have your car serviced anywhere but the manufacturers licensed service providers - after all, otherwise the car manufacturer doesn't get as much money as he could had. Yes, the current situation is certainly communistic, isn't it ?"
The manufactuer made the car, and should therefore get the money for making the car. The local garage performs the service of fixing the car, so they should get the money for fixing it. I never said anything about people getting as much money as they can - I said they should get paid for what they produce.
And I'm going to ignore your comments about communism because you're clearly American and only know that communism is evil and don't actually know what it is.
I don't know about american law, but in the UK copyright generally expires 70 years after the person who made it dies - you can't own copyright to things made by long dead people except under very unusual circumstances.
Copyright is intended to allow people to gain from what they produce - that's the bedrock of capitalism. If you don't like capitalism, attack it directly, if you want a capitalist society then you have to accept copyright.
The person who owns the copyright has the RIGHT to do something (exclusive use of the thing in question, give or take fair use and licenses) - it's just everyone else that is restricted. It's still a right, just not one of yours.
Isn't Celeron a completely separate range from Pentium? Just because it's an intel processor doesn't make it a Pentium. If Joe 6-pack is willing to buy a Celeron because it's made by the same people as make the Pentium he's heard so much about, surely he'll buy whatever the new name is too?
Exaggerating means increasing the degree of something (coldness in your example). Mis-using a word like the editor did is not exaggerating, it's just wrong.
"I guess I exist outside the bell curve on this one."
What? The whole point of a bell curve is that extremes are possible. If you're accepting that spam follows a bell curve then your single data point is competely meaningless. A bell curve isn't a trend that you can follow or not follow - it's a distribution.
I live reasonably far from any light polution and have got some pretty good views of the milky way, but I'd still like to see the Clouds, as you say, and also M31 is in the south, isn't it? Definitely worth spending a couple of years in the Australian bush...
Yes, but it's nowhere near as dramatic as in the south (or so I'm told - I've never been south of about 2deg south of the equator and while I was there I didn't do much observing).
The centre of the galaxy is in the southern celestial hemisphere, so the futher south you are the close to the centre you can look. The band of stars is denser when you're looking towards the centre, rather than away from it, and that is why it's more dramatic in the south.
I think elements heavier than iron (the heaviest element that can be produced by fusion while making energy, rather than using it) are formed *during* the supernova, which only lasts a few seconds (or maybe hours/days - ask an expert - it doesn't matter though) and don't have time to fall to the centre because they're already exploding outwards - it's the explosion itself that produces them (pressure wave causes high density, causes fusion).
It's not a made up word... it just doesn't mean what they thought. Yes, they're stupid, but they're not making up words - accuse people of the things they've actually done wrong rather than making up other failings.
I think you can survive 11km for a few hours (people have climbed Mt. Everest without oxygen, afterall), so that probably makes sense. Of course, if it was pressurised with pure oxygen, rather than air, it would be absolutely fine. They would use the lowest presure they could to make it easier - both to make the suit and to move once in it.
I think it means they took it to 25.6km where the pressure is 17 torr and the suit was preasurised to the equivilent of 11.1km. It's badly worded, but that's the only interrpretation I can think of that makes sense.
XP x64 is actually a 64-bit version of 2003, isn't it? It's not suprising they don't count it as XP. They should still support it, of course, but maybe they released the XP one ASAP and well release others as they finish them.
Are the non-google products identical to the versions issued normally, or are they branded? It says firefox comes with the google toolbar (does it add anything to ff? I can already search google easilly and block popups...), is that the only modification?
I'm not sure why google are doing this, unless they're getting paid (in money or some other way) by the producers of the software...
If I stab you once, it will harm you quite a lot. If I've already stabbed you 99 times and then stab you again, it won't make much difference (assuming I don't stab you in a worse place, like the heart - all spam is equal, so the stabs must be equal for it to be a good analogy).
An ion drive can accelerate constantly - even a tiny acceleration over a couple of years builds up big speeds. I believe one year at 1g gets you to relativistic speeds - an ion drive should be able to sustain 1g for the full length of the trip once we get it working right.
As the other replier said - the thing we're missing is a good power source.
You don't need FTLT for unmanned probes - if we get ion drives working well enough you could probably do here to Proxima in 5-10 years (mainly depending on if you want it to stop at the other end - you have to start slowing down half way there if you do, which makes your average speed far slower - 1/4 what it could be, I think). Humans wouldn't surive, and the relativistic effects would make they go insane if somehow they did live to get home (they'd have "lost" 5 years, or so).
(NB: These are very rough numbers, if someone wants to find/calculate some more accurate ones, feel free)
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"Besides, by the same reasoning you should make illegal to have your car serviced anywhere but the manufacturers licensed service providers - after all, otherwise the car manufacturer doesn't get as much money as he could had. Yes, the current situation is certainly communistic, isn't it ?"
The manufactuer made the car, and should therefore get the money for making the car. The local garage performs the service of fixing the car, so they should get the money for fixing it. I never said anything about people getting as much money as they can - I said they should get paid for what they produce.
And I'm going to ignore your comments about communism because you're clearly American and only know that communism is evil and don't actually know what it is.
I don't know about american law, but in the UK copyright generally expires 70 years after the person who made it dies - you can't own copyright to things made by long dead people except under very unusual circumstances.
Copyright is intended to allow people to gain from what they produce - that's the bedrock of capitalism. If you don't like capitalism, attack it directly, if you want a capitalist society then you have to accept copyright.
The person who owns the copyright has the RIGHT to do something (exclusive use of the thing in question, give or take fair use and licenses) - it's just everyone else that is restricted. It's still a right, just not one of yours.
Isn't Celeron a completely separate range from Pentium? Just because it's an intel processor doesn't make it a Pentium. If Joe 6-pack is willing to buy a Celeron because it's made by the same people as make the Pentium he's heard so much about, surely he'll buy whatever the new name is too?
Exaggerating means increasing the degree of something (coldness in your example). Mis-using a word like the editor did is not exaggerating, it's just wrong.
"I guess I exist outside the bell curve on this one."
What? The whole point of a bell curve is that extremes are possible. If you're accepting that spam follows a bell curve then your single data point is competely meaningless. A bell curve isn't a trend that you can follow or not follow - it's a distribution.
I lie... M31 is in the north... I should pay more attention...
I live reasonably far from any light polution and have got some pretty good views of the milky way, but I'd still like to see the Clouds, as you say, and also M31 is in the south, isn't it? Definitely worth spending a couple of years in the Australian bush...
Yes, but it's nowhere near as dramatic as in the south (or so I'm told - I've never been south of about 2deg south of the equator and while I was there I didn't do much observing).
it's root(2), not root(0.5), i think, so it's outside the event horizon.
The centre of the galaxy is in the southern celestial hemisphere, so the futher south you are the close to the centre you can look. The band of stars is denser when you're looking towards the centre, rather than away from it, and that is why it's more dramatic in the south.
I haven't looked into it, but could it be that all the stories he submits are on similar topics and it's those topics that ScuttleMonkey works with?
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Hawking radition means small black holes "evaporate" very quickly, so there aren't likely to be many of them.
I think elements heavier than iron (the heaviest element that can be produced by fusion while making energy, rather than using it) are formed *during* the supernova, which only lasts a few seconds (or maybe hours/days - ask an expert - it doesn't matter though) and don't have time to fall to the centre because they're already exploding outwards - it's the explosion itself that produces them (pressure wave causes high density, causes fusion).
It's not a made up word... it just doesn't mean what they thought. Yes, they're stupid, but they're not making up words - accuse people of the things they've actually done wrong rather than making up other failings.
I think you can survive 11km for a few hours (people have climbed Mt. Everest without oxygen, afterall), so that probably makes sense. Of course, if it was pressurised with pure oxygen, rather than air, it would be absolutely fine. They would use the lowest presure they could to make it easier - both to make the suit and to move once in it.
I think it means they took it to 25.6km where the pressure is 17 torr and the suit was preasurised to the equivilent of 11.1km. It's badly worded, but that's the only interrpretation I can think of that makes sense.
If they intend to get favours in return, that's still payment. I'll believe they aren't getting any money, but I doubt they're getting nothing.
XP x64 is actually a 64-bit version of 2003, isn't it? It's not suprising they don't count it as XP. They should still support it, of course, but maybe they released the XP one ASAP and well release others as they finish them.
Are the non-google products identical to the versions issued normally, or are they branded? It says firefox comes with the google toolbar (does it add anything to ff? I can already search google easilly and block popups...), is that the only modification?
I'm not sure why google are doing this, unless they're getting paid (in money or some other way) by the producers of the software...
I agree - AVG would have made more sense.
If I stab you once, it will harm you quite a lot. If I've already stabbed you 99 times and then stab you again, it won't make much difference (assuming I don't stab you in a worse place, like the heart - all spam is equal, so the stabs must be equal for it to be a good analogy).
An ion drive can accelerate constantly - even a tiny acceleration over a couple of years builds up big speeds. I believe one year at 1g gets you to relativistic speeds - an ion drive should be able to sustain 1g for the full length of the trip once we get it working right.
As the other replier said - the thing we're missing is a good power source.
You don't need FTLT for unmanned probes - if we get ion drives working well enough you could probably do here to Proxima in 5-10 years (mainly depending on if you want it to stop at the other end - you have to start slowing down half way there if you do, which makes your average speed far slower - 1/4 what it could be, I think). Humans wouldn't surive, and the relativistic effects would make they go insane if somehow they did live to get home (they'd have "lost" 5 years, or so).
(NB: These are very rough numbers, if someone wants to find/calculate some more accurate ones, feel free)