It's mass is so low that the pressure and temperature at the core can only support a very low rate of fusion. It's radiation pressure from fusion that counterbalances the self-gravity that tries to make stars collapse, so it's no surprise to me that it's pretty tiny.:)
I may be off here, but its density seems insanely high though.
The article is misleading confusing "size" with "mass". This new star has 95 times the mass of Jupiter. However, it's density is so great that its physical size is only slightly larger. Density is the trigger key for fusion.
Been a long time since I was I was into nuclear phys, but how can it maintain that density with such (relatively) small mass? The process of fusion, which tends to expand a star, equally balances gravity which tends to contract a star. Seems to me a normal star would expand due to fusion.
Basically, it doesn't make sense that it can maintain being 1/10 the mass of the sun and 50x as dense. This means its fusion output must be tiny (little to balance gravity), but why? Is it mainly made of non-hydrogen mass? They should be able to tell the elemental composition from the spectrum. And how could it have such little fusion and not be a brown dwarf?
This is why the US software patent system must never be exported: if they want to nothing but sit on their arses and sue each other, let them. The rest of us have real work to do.
But does anyone know how to make it display the temperature in Celsius degrees? Not everyone in the US knows how to interpret this horrible abomination that is the Fahrenheit scale...
Why is it such an abomination? Because you're not used to it? I use metric all the time (scientist) and live in the US. The Fahrenheit scale is the only imperial scale that doesn't annoy me. The only difference between it and centigrade is 1) the zero point, and 2) the increment density. Centigrade is based on water, which is somewhat arbitrary, and Fahrenheit is density.
You sound like most of the dimwitted Americans who can't figure out what a liter is.
Why can't I let a friend listen to a stream of a song that's otherwise idle on my HD, when I can loan them the CD?
If you had a mechanism for ensuring that 1) only one "friend" borrowed your file at a time, and 2) you yourself are locked out from doing listening to it while they do, I'm not so sure you DON'T have the legal right to do that as of now. The lockout mechanisms are key to get around both piracy abd broadcasting restrictions.
and it turns out to be true, it's not speculation? That's going to get a lot of stock investors into insider-trading trouble with the FCC:o)
No. If you *know* something, you aren't *speculating.* To continue your wall street analogy, that's the difference between teh talking heads on CNBC and insider trading. If you have access to the information, it ain't speculation.
I keep wondering what precident Apple can site for having authority over the writing of non-employees. If I write in my blog that there's a new Apple product called the iPod Macro, and it turns out to be true, can they sue me?
Nope, but if you've claimed your source is an apple employee, they can *subpoena* you. Remember, this kid isn't being sued - he's being subpoenaed.
I would. For the continued royalties you could glean off it alone. Secondly, in it's day, it was the best Operating system around for a PC, hands down. DOS brought device handling up front, to the user. It was a major step in the direction that all OS' follow now. Without that history, much of the device layer we are accustomed to today, wouldn't be there. I was a professional in the field then and it's creation opened so many doors. It was a cool time to be paid to work with the stuff.
That's great, time for your medication now gramps. Want me to cut up your food while you tell some old WWII stories now?
Thank you so much for that. I was waiting to see how long it would take for someone to point out something obvious even to a mathematically challenged Arts major like me:
You missed your calling, you're substantially better at math than most of the biologists I know.;)
Does it make sense to make statements like "yup, that's as many customers as they'll ever have" based on a slowing growth rate, after exactly one major release that the public was aware of?
Especially since they're still growing, and incredibly quickly. They picked up about a percentage point a month two months straight. Since it started that at about 4%, they were seeing 25% *monthly* growth. Good god, how long could that have possibly continued?
Oh, and they only grew 14% this month. So I agree, that kills the whole "as many customers as they'll ever have" crap.
I mean, really. This is THE open-source success story of the year. How many companies see 14% monthly growth? Legally operating companies? Not between 1998-2000?
At this point, they'll easily see 7.5% by June. They'll need some continued press, and hopefully a few more killer IE bugs, but 10% by December is a very reachable goal.
I swear, sometimes I think the asshats around here won't be happy unless IE's at 0% by Thursday.
Jef Raskin had practically nothing to do with the Macintosh. He had the initial vision of an easy-to-use computer appliance, but he left the Mac project in 1981, a full three years before the Macintosh shipped. Apart from the core vision, which started with Jef but rapidly diverged from what he had in mind, there's essentially no Raskin in the Mac.
Sure, just like there's no Woz in my powerbook, or no Henry Ford in my car. Still...
I thought the whole point of SSL is that not just anyone could get a cert...
Having an internet presence is critical to running a successful business venture. Also, the creation of a truly international digital economy necessitates the development of a trusted method of identity establishment. Especially in these days of questionable computer security and the impossibility of ascertaining identity from IP. Reliable certification is vital to the development of the internet economy.
However, the centralization of certification among a few organizations and their cost is shutting out smaller enterprises that don't have access to the fees or technology required. In effect, this institutes a kind of "information segregation" or isolationism that has the effect of a barrier to poorer nations - such as Nigeria or Rwanda - to the internet commerce that is so critical to the economy of the future.
As such, I believe the best scenario is free certification provided by ICANN that can certify pages from poorer nations, so they can compete on an even playing field with the wealthier nations. Giving out free certifications - one per IP address at least - is the best way to accomplish this, and will allow for confident and secure transmission of funds and information.
I know everyone hates EULAs, but what's the recourse? Would we rather that companies didn't spell out what rights you have in the EULA?
It's not the company's fault. It's a problem of our litigious legal climate that comapnies have to put in print what should be obvious. In a way, companies are doing us a favor by delineating our rights.
Now if only people would actually empower themselves by reading them. They're usually not that complicated.
iDownload.com, Inc. DBA iSearch Internet provides applications which help to subsidize the free content and product offerings of many publishers.
Gee, and how might they do that? Surely not anything that'll annoy the fuck out of me?
iSearch applications are not spy ware and do not collect any personally identifiable information about users.
No, just everything else. Methinks iDownload doth protest too much - I've never heard a EULA (or whatever) claim NOT to be spyware unless it WAS spyware.
Additionally, iSearch applications do not hijack home pages, promote obscene material, alter/add items to user's favorites, modify security related settings, prevent security related applications from running, or alter cookies or url's to receive credit for affiliate driven sales.
That's a better definition of malware than spyware, though not inclusive regardless.
At the present time, there is no third party software which is capable of removing iSearch applications.
Hm. So, in other words, we've p0wned your box. But we're not spyware, of course not.
If you have purchased an application which claims to remove iSearch, we encourage you to contact your credit card company and request an immediate reversal with the reason of "Product Not As Described" and/or contact the Better Business Bureau.
Uh huh, it's Norton who needs to be reported to the BBB. Not the bunch of assholes who have done everything possible to keep their cancerware on your box.
WARNING: 'ChangeYourToolBar.exe' isn't spyware. It is a program that changes your toolbar with its own custom version, without asking your permission. If you think this is an illegitimate program, please click on the check box to delete.
I think I'm going to become a thief. I'm going to take everyone's crap, and leave a penny and a note that says "your items were not stolen. They were leased for $0.01, and will be returned upon request or after 99 years, whichever is later.
Because, of course, if you claim something, it must be true...
It seems to be the iPod way these days, but part of the price reductions come from fewer pack-in accessories. Apple did the same thing last year with the price cut on the 20 GB 4G.
Worst case scenario, it gives the consumer choice. I'm thinking of getting an ipod. I understand they charge off USB, and since I have a powerbook, the chances of me nuking the battery on the ipod before I can get it back to be charged from my laptop - or some other USB port - is about nil.
So I'll be happy to save the cash and not be forced to pay for something I don't need (the AC adapter).
UN staff don't get diplomatic plates (unless Kofi Annan does). Those are ambassadorial staff, direct employees of foreign nations; the UN has no control over them. Same thing happens in every capital city in the world.
Start keying those fuckers. Maybe then they won't think they can do that shit with impunity.
I hate getting spam/spim as much as the next guy, but at some point, aren't we letting our zealotry against spam erode the First Amendment? I may not like spam, but I realize that the First Amendment was designed to protect speech I don't like.
The best tests of the First Amendment have come from unsavory characters like the pornographer Larry Flynt. If he can show us the speech value of porn, perhaps MySpace.com can make a case for spim.
I'd rather live in a world with spim than a Brave New World where you can't say anything that might annoy someone.
Fun article, but could have been researched a little better. In its bit on the Fisher Space Pen, it repeats the myth that while we blew millions developing a pen that could write upside down, the Soviets just used pencils, which is a common myth. As one cosmonaut said, "pencil lead breaks...and is not good in space capsule; very dangerous to have metal lead particles in zero gravity"
Not that graphite would be much better - quite likely worse - , but please tell me said cosmonaut didn't actually believe pencil lead is really lead.
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I may be off here, but its density seems insanely high though.
Which still doesn't answer the question of why normal stellar fusion doesn't expand this thing pretty substantially.
Been a long time since I was I was into nuclear phys, but how can it maintain that density with such (relatively) small mass? The process of fusion, which tends to expand a star, equally balances gravity which tends to contract a star. Seems to me a normal star would expand due to fusion.
Basically, it doesn't make sense that it can maintain being 1/10 the mass of the sun and 50x as dense. This means its fusion output must be tiny (little to balance gravity), but why? Is it mainly made of non-hydrogen mass? They should be able to tell the elemental composition from the spectrum. And how could it have such little fusion and not be a brown dwarf?
Wish this press release had some science in it.
Who's this "us" and what have you done?
Sort of. I think a liter is (0.1 meter)^3.
Why is it such an abomination? Because you're not used to it? I use metric all the time (scientist) and live in the US. The Fahrenheit scale is the only imperial scale that doesn't annoy me. The only difference between it and centigrade is 1) the zero point, and 2) the increment density. Centigrade is based on water, which is somewhat arbitrary, and Fahrenheit is density.
You sound like most of the dimwitted Americans who can't figure out what a liter is.
If you had a mechanism for ensuring that 1) only one "friend" borrowed your file at a time, and 2) you yourself are locked out from doing listening to it while they do, I'm not so sure you DON'T have the legal right to do that as of now. The lockout mechanisms are key to get around both piracy abd broadcasting restrictions.
If you can't, I agree, you should be able to.
No. If you *know* something, you aren't *speculating.* To continue your wall street analogy, that's the difference between teh talking heads on CNBC and insider trading. If you have access to the information, it ain't speculation.
I keep wondering what precident Apple can site for having authority over the writing of non-employees. If I write in my blog that there's a new Apple product called the iPod Macro, and it turns out to be true, can they sue me?
Nope, but if you've claimed your source is an apple employee, they can *subpoena* you. Remember, this kid isn't being sued - he's being subpoenaed.
That's great, time for your medication now gramps. Want me to cut up your food while you tell some old WWII stories now?
I work for Yahoo, btw.)
It's OK, AC. I wouldn't admit working for Yahoo! either.
You missed your calling, you're substantially better at math than most of the biologists I know. ;)
Especially since they're still growing, and incredibly quickly. They picked up about a percentage point a month two months straight. Since it started that at about 4%, they were seeing 25% *monthly* growth. Good god, how long could that have possibly continued?
Oh, and they only grew 14% this month. So I agree, that kills the whole "as many customers as they'll ever have" crap.
I mean, really. This is THE open-source success story of the year. How many companies see 14% monthly growth? Legally operating companies? Not between 1998-2000?
At this point, they'll easily see 7.5% by June. They'll need some continued press, and hopefully a few more killer IE bugs, but 10% by December is a very reachable goal.
I swear, sometimes I think the asshats around here won't be happy unless IE's at 0% by Thursday.
Sure, just like there's no Woz in my powerbook, or no Henry Ford in my car. Still...
...but you did get trolled! Nice job to whoever made the "screenshot."
Having an internet presence is critical to running a successful business venture. Also, the creation of a truly international digital economy necessitates the development of a trusted method of identity establishment. Especially in these days of questionable computer security and the impossibility of ascertaining identity from IP. Reliable certification is vital to the development of the internet economy.
However, the centralization of certification among a few organizations and their cost is shutting out smaller enterprises that don't have access to the fees or technology required. In effect, this institutes a kind of "information segregation" or isolationism that has the effect of a barrier to poorer nations - such as Nigeria or Rwanda - to the internet commerce that is so critical to the economy of the future.
As such, I believe the best scenario is free certification provided by ICANN that can certify pages from poorer nations, so they can compete on an even playing field with the wealthier nations. Giving out free certifications - one per IP address at least - is the best way to accomplish this, and will allow for confident and secure transmission of funds and information.
You must live on the nice end of town. "$5 me love you long time" still qualifies as a rip-off in some parts of town.
It's not the company's fault. It's a problem of our litigious legal climate that comapnies have to put in print what should be obvious. In a way, companies are doing us a favor by delineating our rights.
Now if only people would actually empower themselves by reading them. They're usually not that complicated.
Gee, and how might they do that? Surely not anything that'll annoy the fuck out of me?
iSearch applications are not spy ware and do not collect any personally identifiable information about users.
No, just everything else. Methinks iDownload doth protest too much - I've never heard a EULA (or whatever) claim NOT to be spyware unless it WAS spyware.
Additionally, iSearch applications do not hijack home pages, promote obscene material, alter/add items to user's favorites, modify security related settings, prevent security related applications from running, or alter cookies or url's to receive credit for affiliate driven sales.
That's a better definition of malware than spyware, though not inclusive regardless.
At the present time, there is no third party software which is capable of removing iSearch applications.
Hm. So, in other words, we've p0wned your box. But we're not spyware, of course not.
If you have purchased an application which claims to remove iSearch, we encourage you to contact your credit card company and request an immediate reversal with the reason of "Product Not As Described" and/or contact the Better Business Bureau.
Uh huh, it's Norton who needs to be reported to the BBB. Not the bunch of assholes who have done everything possible to keep their cancerware on your box.
I think I'm going to become a thief. I'm going to take everyone's crap, and leave a penny and a note that says "your items were not stolen. They were leased for $0.01, and will be returned upon request or after 99 years, whichever is later.
Because, of course, if you claim something, it must be true...
Worst case scenario, it gives the consumer choice. I'm thinking of getting an ipod. I understand they charge off USB, and since I have a powerbook, the chances of me nuking the battery on the ipod before I can get it back to be charged from my laptop - or some other USB port - is about nil.
So I'll be happy to save the cash and not be forced to pay for something I don't need (the AC adapter).
Start keying those fuckers. Maybe then they won't think they can do that shit with impunity.
The best tests of the First Amendment have come from unsavory characters like the pornographer Larry Flynt. If he can show us the speech value of porn, perhaps MySpace.com can make a case for spim.
I'd rather live in a world with spim than a Brave New World where you can't say anything that might annoy someone.
Not that graphite would be much better - quite likely worse - , but please tell me said cosmonaut didn't actually believe pencil lead is really lead.
Jesus, you need a guide for that?
According to the law, they don't need it - it's automatic.