Actually, I think that space is much more forgiving that deep pressures. In a submarine, your vehicle is under huge pressures and a small leak could turn catastrophic due to high pressure water streams coming through into the ship. A space vehicle however never really has to deal with more than 1 atmosphere pressure, and usually a lot less as the atmosphere in a spacecraft is made thinner with higher oxygen content to maintain proper partial pressure. Due to the low pressure differential, and because the air is going out, a leak will take a good amount of time to actually do much damage and can probably be found and at least temporarily fixed by putting anything over the hole that would form a gas seal capable of handling one atmosphere.
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Good Lord! That's over 5000 atmospheres of pressure!
Fry: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?
Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Well, it was built for space travel, so anywhere between zero and one.
So you think the antenna is a piece of crap, yet you didn't return the phone and you describe yourself in another comment as "a happy iPhone 4 owner" ? I don't get that, is it some weird love/hate thing ?
Well, if you haven't noticed, the actual phone part is getting used less and less these days as people resort to their "phones" as cameras, game platforms, ebook readers, PDAs, etc. I can see how having a working but somewhat lacking phone is more than made up by the other more used features for many people.
We're a corporation and we need to maintain stability and compatibility over fancy and chic. You get a laptop. With Windows. And a BlackBerry... if you're lucky.
Just do what we do, give them their iPads, iPhones, or whatever they want and make them do everything through RDC (or Citrix). All you really have to worry about are the servers and all their toys are usually under warrantee with the manufacturer except for one or two program that is usually fairly robust.
They jumped it some time ago. Itunes making you have to go through Apple to do *anything* is not just a walled garden, it's a prison. Yes, consumers might put up with that shit, but businesses won't.
Ha ha, ya right. Businesses might not like it but they put up with it well enough. Any major software solution you buy pretty much means that you are sticking with that vendor from then on unless you want to jump ship to an untested vendor in the massive project your entire company depends on that might fail. It can be done but is certainly not without intertia to stick with what you've got and upgrade it. To make things worse, customers want stability and robustness in their software, vendors want more customers, and new customers want new features other products don't have. Any special features have to be done by the vendor (with large price tags), which businesses don't mind because most aren't software developers and do't want to be. So businesses are on a rusty treadmill of going from buggy product to buggy product. Anytime the bugs get just about worked out, a new version comes out, the old one will be dropped from support, and they are effectively forced to upgrade to new bugs. We've been doing that treadmill with Windows and Office ever since they came out.
In one of the physics books I've been reading, it was seriously talking about tachyons and that they could exist in our universe. They even said they probably did exist in the early universe, and it was the instabilities caused by them that helped the universe form. Existence of tachyons would be a sign of a false vacuum. They tachyons form an instability and cause a change to a more stable energy state. This energy state expands at the speed of light till the entire universe (or at least everything inside the Hubble Limit) which would mean new physical constants and different laws of physics. That we are observing two different sets of physics might be a sign of such a energy state change, and luckily, that we are seeing two means that we are already at the newer state. However, if neutrinos actually are acting as tachyons, it might mean we are not done yet (although in a fairly stable spot).
I recently bought an ipad2, and I was shocked at the fact that there doesn't really exist a free app for most of the common things one expects to do with a computer or computer-like device.
Read email, look at photos, browse the web, read PDFs and eBooks? Seems default apps come installed to do all that on my iPad2. Maybe you're just not holding it right.
IIRC*, the card holder is still responsible for the first $50 of any fraudulent charge. As the charge was $50, even if the credit card company accepted it as fraudulent, they are only responsible for the amount past $50. Then there are other issues as we are lacking details. If it was done by a family member or other person that was given the card in good faith, or might have given the card in good faith, then the card holder is still responsible for those charges.
*My father worked in the credit card department of a large company his entire life. I got to hear lots of stories about this sort of thing (and still do on the holidays).
People buy iPhones because they don't want to wait for OS updates?
How about people like dealing with a company that supports its products and has a history of doing so. After four years of my original iPhone, I considered Android phones and generally found what I see on that chart, lots of phones that never get an upgrade/upgrade and probably never will. I could probably find one by doing research that has been kept up to date, but still, no company has a history of doing so. Thus, I went with Apple again because it is a brand I can trust. In another three and half years when I'm in the market for a new phone, I'll look around to see if any Android brands are trustworthy, but right now, they are not.
There is an up. There is what we call the north pole of the Milky Way galaxy. Basically, what they are asking is if other galaxies are generally spinning in the same direction as the MWG. They look up (toward where the galactic "north pole" is pointing) and see which ones are spinning the same way and then look down toward where the south galactic pole is pointing for the same. What they found is that in general, the ones above us tend to rotate counterclockwise and the ones below us tend to rotate clockwise. Indicating that more are spinning in one direction than the other.
Here is an answer I found on another article on the same topic:
Hi Dave, this was one of the things we explained a lot to people on Galaxy Zoo when we did this. Basically, you're right - clockwise or counterclockwise is not an intrinsic property of the galaxy itself. But even so, if there seems to be a preferred direction (whichever it is) from one point of view, then something weird is going on. If we looked and found more counterclockwise in the northern sky, and more clockwise in the southern sky, then we'd be seeing a general bias across the universe. If we looked out in every direction and saw an excess, that would be about as worrying as looking around in the street and seeing that all people were facing left from your point of view - you would wonder what on earth was going on! Hope that makes some sense.
All that's really necessary to prevent the machines from getting out of control, however, is to design them with some chemical dependencies.
It's going to be so hard to build machines without some chemical dependencies, that having them get out of control really won't be a problem. Nature has been trying to do that for millions of years and molds and bacteria do quite well but all exist pretty much only in a specific environment for whatever type they are. I doubt if we will ever be able to build a robust self replicating machine that will do any better, and I'd bet that when we do build one, it will look a lot like what nature has developed already.
Steve Jobs is gone. I suspect that most of this is what we will see out of Tim Cook. Even when Jobs was here and all this started, I bet Tim was actually calling the shots and defacto CEO just to make sure that the change of leadership which everybody knew was coming would work. At least that was my theory way before Steve actually stepped down and not just some bit of Jobs worship. When hearing about the iPhone and iPad, it was always Tim Cook talking about getting the deals in Asia and cornering all the production on the needed parts so competition couldn't build an identical one even if they wanted to.
It's as anonymous as Facebook currently. Both prohibit the use of anything but real names but people use pseudonyms anyway. Their accounts get deleted and they create a new one or just give in and use their real names.
This is what I and my friends have found (most techies). We'd love to move to Google+ but Events it the one feature we really need to use. Google really needs to integrate an events portion into Google+ and connect it with Google Calendar. They're so close already as circles can already integrate people without Google+ accounts by email. They could do the same thing so that an events feature wouldn't even need an account, just email.
I will agree: loyalty to a company may be misplaced, but loyalty to a person is often repaid.
Yep. I had a job hopping manager once and he pulled me with him to every new job with a substantial pay and skill set increase each time. Eventually, he left, but I didn't (not out of loyalty to the company as much as it was my dream job). Company folded and I wish I had taken that passed up offer to follow him again.
- Why is patch frequency not decreasing over time (these are *very* mature applications) ?
Not really. They are new versions of old software filled with new features that require new patches. If it was the same code, then we could expect for these products to be mature, but the code base is constantly increasing. New features are constantly being added, sometimes in the same updates that fix other bugs. I fight with this sort of thing all the time with enterprise programs. Our business installs a program. We find bugs and demand they are fixed and they are with the next update that adds more features, new code, and more bugs. Sure, we want just a stable product, but other people want new features and the vendor needs them to stay ahead of the competition and sell to new customers. Any bug fixes are applied to new versions rather than the current one because they can't or won't expend the money to fix older versions as well as the newer ones with new features.
Actually, as the earth heats, the vast majority of it is water which will evaporate from the oceans. That moisture is going to result in not only more rain over land, but also more snow, causing more reflection and colder winters on land. That's a very simple model and not every place is going to have the same results from the earth heating up. As has been said, there will be some winner and some losers. If the amount of land that is becoming desert is less than that receiving more rain than usual or is more than the lands in siberia and Canada that will become workable due to hotter summers, is still far from being decided yet.
...might be to put that back up hard drive in your safety deposit box, otherwise known as offsite storage. Having a backup is not good if it dies in a house fire along with the original.
My personal computer back up plan, for documents as well as photos, is to copy them all to a hard drive, put it in the safety deposit box. Repeat once or twice a year. Swap out drives so you have the old back ups at home, the newest safe.
Upon my two minute reading and pondering over that snipet, I'd have to say that "provide" means give or pay for. If those were the only powers of the government, they'd have to collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises and then pay for whatever general Welfare they want to provide. That would be what they do already with Medicare and Medicaid and completely legal.However, that's not what they are doing.
Both "A Brave New World" and "To Kill a Mockingbird" were required reading in my English class (Ontario, Canada)
As they were in my school in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. It's probably one of the reasons these books make the top ten list is because they are at least recommended for required reading in almost all schools. Thus objected to the most.
This would the same UN that had bloody Libya, Iran and Syria, among other bastions of freedom, on their Commission on Human Rights (now the Human Rights Council). You really think turning over the keys to the kingdom to that bunch of morons is a good idea? Really?
Well, people just have to realize what the UN actually is. It's not a world government. It's a soapbox meant to have all nations be a part of it so that the ones with differences can sort them out without warfare. For things like the Commissions and Councils, everybody gets a turn regardless of internal policy, etc. This is why it should not be thought of as any sort of government, otherwise those governments not in the majority would just leave and then the UN would just be a good ol' boy club preaching to the converted. Better to think of it as a big group therapy meeting and that putting Libya in charge of something like the Human Rights Council is like telling a person at the group therapy meeting to play some empathy game. They probably come under more stress and have greater motivation to change by being in charge (for the few weeks they get like everybody else) than they would if they were denied a seat at all. Still, it's a reason to remember why the UN shouldn't have, or be given, too much power.
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Actually, I think that space is much more forgiving that deep pressures. In a submarine, your vehicle is under huge pressures and a small leak could turn catastrophic due to high pressure water streams coming through into the ship. A space vehicle however never really has to deal with more than 1 atmosphere pressure, and usually a lot less as the atmosphere in a spacecraft is made thinner with higher oxygen content to maintain proper partial pressure. Due to the low pressure differential, and because the air is going out, a leak will take a good amount of time to actually do much damage and can probably be found and at least temporarily fixed by putting anything over the hole that would form a gas seal capable of handling one atmosphere.
Well, if you haven't noticed, the actual phone part is getting used less and less these days as people resort to their "phones" as cameras, game platforms, ebook readers, PDAs, etc. I can see how having a working but somewhat lacking phone is more than made up by the other more used features for many people.
Just do what we do, give them their iPads, iPhones, or whatever they want and make them do everything through RDC (or Citrix). All you really have to worry about are the servers and all their toys are usually under warrantee with the manufacturer except for one or two program that is usually fairly robust.
Ha ha, ya right. Businesses might not like it but they put up with it well enough. Any major software solution you buy pretty much means that you are sticking with that vendor from then on unless you want to jump ship to an untested vendor in the massive project your entire company depends on that might fail. It can be done but is certainly not without intertia to stick with what you've got and upgrade it. To make things worse, customers want stability and robustness in their software, vendors want more customers, and new customers want new features other products don't have. Any special features have to be done by the vendor (with large price tags), which businesses don't mind because most aren't software developers and do't want to be. So businesses are on a rusty treadmill of going from buggy product to buggy product. Anytime the bugs get just about worked out, a new version comes out, the old one will be dropped from support, and they are effectively forced to upgrade to new bugs. We've been doing that treadmill with Windows and Office ever since they came out.
In one of the physics books I've been reading, it was seriously talking about tachyons and that they could exist in our universe. They even said they probably did exist in the early universe, and it was the instabilities caused by them that helped the universe form. Existence of tachyons would be a sign of a false vacuum. They tachyons form an instability and cause a change to a more stable energy state. This energy state expands at the speed of light till the entire universe (or at least everything inside the Hubble Limit) which would mean new physical constants and different laws of physics. That we are observing two different sets of physics might be a sign of such a energy state change, and luckily, that we are seeing two means that we are already at the newer state. However, if neutrinos actually are acting as tachyons, it might mean we are not done yet (although in a fairly stable spot).
Read email, look at photos, browse the web, read PDFs and eBooks? Seems default apps come installed to do all that on my iPad2. Maybe you're just not holding it right.
That makes them the best example actually.
IIRC*, the card holder is still responsible for the first $50 of any fraudulent charge. As the charge was $50, even if the credit card company accepted it as fraudulent, they are only responsible for the amount past $50. Then there are other issues as we are lacking details. If it was done by a family member or other person that was given the card in good faith, or might have given the card in good faith, then the card holder is still responsible for those charges.
*My father worked in the credit card department of a large company his entire life. I got to hear lots of stories about this sort of thing (and still do on the holidays).
How about people like dealing with a company that supports its products and has a history of doing so. After four years of my original iPhone, I considered Android phones and generally found what I see on that chart, lots of phones that never get an upgrade/upgrade and probably never will. I could probably find one by doing research that has been kept up to date, but still, no company has a history of doing so. Thus, I went with Apple again because it is a brand I can trust. In another three and half years when I'm in the market for a new phone, I'll look around to see if any Android brands are trustworthy, but right now, they are not.
That doesn't really matter till we know what the system is like so we can bitch about the rules and write up our own Medieval RPG heart-breakers.
For the same reasons people don't like Trek techno-babble: it just ends up sounding stupider than just saying "it works".
Because the government is the only one willing to give a jobless teenager with just a high school education a loan for enough money to go to college.
There is an up. There is what we call the north pole of the Milky Way galaxy. Basically, what they are asking is if other galaxies are generally spinning in the same direction as the MWG. They look up (toward where the galactic "north pole" is pointing) and see which ones are spinning the same way and then look down toward where the south galactic pole is pointing for the same. What they found is that in general, the ones above us tend to rotate counterclockwise and the ones below us tend to rotate clockwise. Indicating that more are spinning in one direction than the other.
Here is an answer I found on another article on the same topic:
It's going to be so hard to build machines without some chemical dependencies, that having them get out of control really won't be a problem. Nature has been trying to do that for millions of years and molds and bacteria do quite well but all exist pretty much only in a specific environment for whatever type they are. I doubt if we will ever be able to build a robust self replicating machine that will do any better, and I'd bet that when we do build one, it will look a lot like what nature has developed already.
Steve Jobs is gone. I suspect that most of this is what we will see out of Tim Cook. Even when Jobs was here and all this started, I bet Tim was actually calling the shots and defacto CEO just to make sure that the change of leadership which everybody knew was coming would work. At least that was my theory way before Steve actually stepped down and not just some bit of Jobs worship. When hearing about the iPhone and iPad, it was always Tim Cook talking about getting the deals in Asia and cornering all the production on the needed parts so competition couldn't build an identical one even if they wanted to.
It's as anonymous as Facebook currently. Both prohibit the use of anything but real names but people use pseudonyms anyway. Their accounts get deleted and they create a new one or just give in and use their real names.
This is what I and my friends have found (most techies). We'd love to move to Google+ but Events it the one feature we really need to use. Google really needs to integrate an events portion into Google+ and connect it with Google Calendar. They're so close already as circles can already integrate people without Google+ accounts by email. They could do the same thing so that an events feature wouldn't even need an account, just email.
Yep. I had a job hopping manager once and he pulled me with him to every new job with a substantial pay and skill set increase each time. Eventually, he left, but I didn't (not out of loyalty to the company as much as it was my dream job). Company folded and I wish I had taken that passed up offer to follow him again.
Not really. They are new versions of old software filled with new features that require new patches. If it was the same code, then we could expect for these products to be mature, but the code base is constantly increasing. New features are constantly being added, sometimes in the same updates that fix other bugs. I fight with this sort of thing all the time with enterprise programs. Our business installs a program. We find bugs and demand they are fixed and they are with the next update that adds more features, new code, and more bugs. Sure, we want just a stable product, but other people want new features and the vendor needs them to stay ahead of the competition and sell to new customers. Any bug fixes are applied to new versions rather than the current one because they can't or won't expend the money to fix older versions as well as the newer ones with new features.
Actually, as the earth heats, the vast majority of it is water which will evaporate from the oceans. That moisture is going to result in not only more rain over land, but also more snow, causing more reflection and colder winters on land. That's a very simple model and not every place is going to have the same results from the earth heating up. As has been said, there will be some winner and some losers. If the amount of land that is becoming desert is less than that receiving more rain than usual or is more than the lands in siberia and Canada that will become workable due to hotter summers, is still far from being decided yet.
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a hippy.
...might be to put that back up hard drive in your safety deposit box, otherwise known as offsite storage. Having a backup is not good if it dies in a house fire along with the original.
My personal computer back up plan, for documents as well as photos, is to copy them all to a hard drive, put it in the safety deposit box. Repeat once or twice a year. Swap out drives so you have the old back ups at home, the newest safe.
Upon my two minute reading and pondering over that snipet, I'd have to say that "provide" means give or pay for. If those were the only powers of the government, they'd have to collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises and then pay for whatever general Welfare they want to provide. That would be what they do already with Medicare and Medicaid and completely legal.However, that's not what they are doing.
As they were in my school in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. It's probably one of the reasons these books make the top ten list is because they are at least recommended for required reading in almost all schools. Thus objected to the most.
Well, people just have to realize what the UN actually is. It's not a world government. It's a soapbox meant to have all nations be a part of it so that the ones with differences can sort them out without warfare. For things like the Commissions and Councils, everybody gets a turn regardless of internal policy, etc. This is why it should not be thought of as any sort of government, otherwise those governments not in the majority would just leave and then the UN would just be a good ol' boy club preaching to the converted. Better to think of it as a big group therapy meeting and that putting Libya in charge of something like the Human Rights Council is like telling a person at the group therapy meeting to play some empathy game. They probably come under more stress and have greater motivation to change by being in charge (for the few weeks they get like everybody else) than they would if they were denied a seat at all. Still, it's a reason to remember why the UN shouldn't have, or be given, too much power.