The relationship between the Maya and Western Calendars called "The Correlation Problem" has been the subject of scholarly dispute for many years. The two best theories are 2 days apart and yield Gregorian dates for the end of the current cycle of 2012-12-21 and 2012-12-23, respectively.
It took me an excessively long time to figure this out, but I found this:
BOTEC is a simple astrophysical and orbital mechanics calculator, including a database of all named Solar System objects. BOTEC is intended as a simple but useful calculator to assist with making astrophysical, orbital mechanics, and space navigation calculations. As the origin of the acronym applies, BOTEC is more of a "back-of-the-envelope calculator" rather than an industrial-strength calculator, although this may change in the future.
BOTEC is primarily intended for people familiar with physics and Python, and as such is unlikely to be useful to the average enduser. BOTEC really consists of two parts: The BOTEC software, which knows what to do with the data, and the Solar System data itself, which is represented in a large data file (a Python pickle, actually). This is deliberately modularized so that the Solar System data BOTEC uses can be updated independently of software, and also that alternative data files (e.g., hypothetical stellar systems for fictional purposes) can be supported. All values are strictly in SI units.
Partly because there is also this site which is styled Alcyone Software the site above is Alcyone Systems (thus the origins of my confusion) and which has astronomical software. I know one of the authors of one of the programs on alcoyne.de, he is a brilliant guy and the software is quite good. It provides lots of information about planetary orbits, but I do not think that it makes the orbital mechanics calculations.
I was not impressed by the table shown in the Slate article, but IANAC.
Surfing around to look at other versions, I saw one (this link for the jpg, which is also shown on this web page as the work of one Christian Drury), which I thought both beautiful and practical.
The elements seem to be laid out in the same way that they are in the traditional table, but instead of the boxes with text, the elements are portrayed by orbital diagrams. The jpg is low resolution and cut off at the edges. I could not find any additional information about the table on google.
This fellow claims that bio-diesel made from soy or rape seed produce more energy than the amount required to produce the fuel.
"Overall Energy Balance (each unit of energy put in yields....) 3.2 units (soy) 4.3 units (rapeseed)"
This makes sense to me, as both crops are much less resource intensive than maize (corn for you americans, which requires nitrogenous fertilizers while soy fixes nitrogen), can be grown in skankier climates (rapeseed is grown in places like North Dakota and Manitoba) and require much less processing to produce fuel.
Maybe the story is wrong way round. Perhaps it is comming from Intel which is blowing smoke up Apple's skirt, hopping to generate some favorable buzz about their products.
We will never have a scientificaly useful space program as long as we continue to throw money down technologically obselete ratholes like ISS and the Space Shuttle. No sensible buisness person, or at least one who has to borrow money from a bank, would formulate a business plan that says: "I know that the project is a loser, I know that no matter how much I spend on it it will never fufil my goals for it, but I want to spend 5 years and billions of dollars on it because it isn't finished yet."
Its time to cut our losses. Shut down the Shuttle before it kills more astronauts and de-orbit the ISS before we waste more money on what has become a space going tenement. Then we should sit down with the Russians, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Europeans and see if we can come up with an international program that is based on good science and sound engineering.
Word Perfect's file format intersperses text with formating codes in the same way that html does. However it does not implement styles or stylesheets.
Styles are used in CSS, and in Word, as well as, in Open Document to separate sementic content from formating information which allows for greater compactness and isolation of device dependencies.
Furthermore, Word Perfect is no longer standard in the legal world. IAAL, and many law firms have gone over to the dark side.
You can open a.DOC file with a text editor (preferably something like EMACS) and look at it. The Ascii text portion of the file is there in plain text. Some formating, like tabs is also in plain text with ^'s preceding it, just as it would appear in a search box (e.g. tabs are ^t). The remainder of the formating information is encoded and cannot be hacked by naked eye, but I would guess that it is tokenized Word Basic.
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Mod Parent Up
Sho Yano, born in Portland, Oregon, is the son of a Japanese father and a Korean mother. At the age of 8, he scored 1,500 on the SAT I, and started college at Loyola University in Chicago when he was 9. He graduated magna cum laude in 2003 at 12, and was admitted to the University of Chicago Medical School. He is in an M.D./Ph.D. program from which he will graduate at 19 or 20.
"But when dissolved in frothy, carbonated seawater, all this CO2 becomes a corrosive gas"
Not a gas, perhaps a liquid, but not a gas.
One cent, which deposited at 3% annualy compounded interest, will be $9*19^99 in a mere 7,943 years.
The Maya Calendar is discussed at the Calendar FAQ Section 8 and in more detail here.
The relationship between the Maya and Western Calendars called "The Correlation Problem" has been the subject of scholarly dispute for many years. The two best theories are 2 days apart and yield Gregorian dates for the end of the current cycle of 2012-12-21 and 2012-12-23, respectively.
Railgun.
I was not impressed by the table shown in the Slate article, but IANAC.
Surfing around to look at other versions, I saw one (this link for the jpg, which is also shown on this web page as the work of one Christian Drury), which I thought both beautiful and practical.
The elements seem to be laid out in the same way that they are in the traditional table, but instead of the boxes with text, the elements are portrayed by orbital diagrams. The jpg is low resolution and cut off at the edges. I could not find any additional information about the table on google.
This fellow claims that bio-diesel made from soy or rape seed produce more energy than the amount required to produce the fuel.
"Overall Energy Balance (each unit of energy put in yields....)
3.2 units (soy)
4.3 units (rapeseed)"
This makes sense to me, as both crops are much less resource intensive than maize (corn for you americans, which requires nitrogenous fertilizers while soy fixes nitrogen), can be grown in skankier climates (rapeseed is grown in places like North Dakota and Manitoba) and require much less processing to produce fuel.
They are also working on algae based bio diesel.
"Moreover, 95% of all statistics are made up."
Should be: Moreover, 95% of all statistics are made up, including this one.
FP
Thank you for citing this material. However, your link to the Cato Paper is not working. Here is a link that I tested:
Dismal Science Fictions: Network Effects, Microsoft, and Antitrust Speculation by Stan Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis
Its not dead until they pry it out of my cold dead fingers
Or Budweiser.
You need to get out more. There is at least 95% of the population that you would not want to see naked.
Jackson did not have to think it up all by himself. He only had to visualize a world created by a master storyteller.
What is second prize? Two weeks in Philadelphia?
Pick two.
Second thought, only one.Maybe the story is wrong way round. Perhaps it is comming from Intel which is blowing smoke up Apple's skirt, hopping to generate some favorable buzz about their products.
US and Imperial measures do not differ in measuring lengths. See NIST Handbook 44 Apendix B Section 2.3.
The Kyocera was wonderful. They bought Qualcomm's hanset business and used their software. I loved my Qualcomm with the wheel control.
Bitter, Dude.
We will never have a scientificaly useful space program as long as we continue to throw money down technologically obselete ratholes like ISS and the Space Shuttle. No sensible buisness person, or at least one who has to borrow money from a bank, would formulate a business plan that says: "I know that the project is a loser, I know that no matter how much I spend on it it will never fufil my goals for it, but I want to spend 5 years and billions of dollars on it because it isn't finished yet."
Its time to cut our losses. Shut down the Shuttle before it kills more astronauts and de-orbit the ISS before we waste more money on what has become a space going tenement. Then we should sit down with the Russians, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Europeans and see if we can come up with an international program that is based on good science and sound engineering.
Word Perfect's file format intersperses text with formating codes in the same way that html does. However it does not implement styles or stylesheets.
Styles are used in CSS, and in Word, as well as, in Open Document to separate sementic content from formating information which allows for greater compactness and isolation of device dependencies.
Furthermore, Word Perfect is no longer standard in the legal world. IAAL, and many law firms have gone over to the dark side.
You can open a .DOC file with a text editor (preferably something like EMACS) and look at it. The Ascii text portion of the file is there in plain text. Some formating, like tabs is also in plain text with ^'s preceding it, just as it would appear in a search box (e.g. tabs are ^t). The remainder of the formating information is encoded and cannot be hacked by naked eye, but I would guess that it is tokenized Word Basic.