Your astroid field would be made of Baryonic matter. The current expectation is dark matter is non-baryonic. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon#Baryonic_matter So dark matter actually does not interact with the photon field.
By that rationale, eveyone [sic] who had ever done voice-over work for documentaries, or was a guest on a radio show would be a millionaire. Wouldn't that actually be true for documentaries and shows making $600 million in the first three weeks of release? I don't have much sympathy for him. I wrote games in the early 80s and my cut was 22% net. Unfortunately, I was selling only 20,000 copies with a best seller. By the 90s it was near impossible to get 1%, probably because the team size had gone from 2 to 30.
The LHC has beams going in opposite directions that collide in a detector. Each beam has a large momentum, which in collision is conserved. The collision products have a range of momentum near zero in the detector frame, because you can not always get the desired perfect head on collision.
Now, the best part and I don't see anyone mentioning it, but a blackhole produced either in a collider or in a cosmic ray collision will be charged. In a magnetic field, it will follow the field lines, and when the lines bend, it will emit photons and slow down. So the argument that blackholes created in the atmosphere zip through the earth because of their high velocity does not consider that they are charges and will loose energy to any magnetic fields. Maybe this will not keep them in the earth, but it could well keep them in the solar system.
Loved Hell Cats. My own IIci apps from Sys 6 in 1990 ran on my G5 until the upgrade to 10.5. Are you sure your running Hell Cats on 10.5? It would make me likely to upgrade my Powerbook.
Having worked on video games both on old MacOS 6,7,8 and in Win32(95), I would hardly compare Win32 API quality to Apple API quality. Apple APIs tend to be much more pleasant than Win32. I seem to recall about 300 Win32 File API calls - many in the Foo(args) and FooEx(args, void * extra) pair style. Apple had maybe 40 methods. Of course original UNIX had 6 I think. Good luck trying to get a Win32 window to do something slightly different. I would say Apple has had far less need for new APIs because the ones they come out with are pretty well thought out.
Interesting idea. But (and I'll leave this as an exercise ) there is a temperature at which H2O will dissociate. I suspect that the surface of a star is hot enough.
Oh yes, recompiling non-trivial packages like Inkscape, with the *whole* of the Gnome libraries, boost and so forth is so like my idea of fun.
I assume you tried the 10.4 and 10.5 dmgs at http://www.inkscape.org/download/. Did they not work for you?
http://daringfireball.net/2008/01/aapl_q1_2008
But hereâ(TM)s the thing: iPod revenue growth continues to grow at about the same pace. Last year, iPod revenue was up 18 percent over the previous year; this year, it was up 17 percent. Think about that: a year ago, iPod unit sales were up 50 percent but revenue was up just 18 percent; this year, unit sales are up just 5 percent but revenue is still up 17 percent. (Compare and contrast to Appleâ(TM)s Mac hardware sales, which are up 44 percent in units and an almost identical 47 percent in revenue.)
I used a software mod that allowed 72 columns using the HIRES (rootbeer) mode - best used on a monochrome display unless you likes purple/green orange/blue highlights to your B/W characters
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But how do you value the first refusal in terms of cash. If he gets a $20 million offer from ebay, and craigslist doesn't have that kind of cash, isn't the outcome the same?
Brain injuries are one of the bigger problems now that survival of concussive blasts is so much better. And if you can put in new brain cells; can you give a person their personality back?
The uncertainty principle means you can not measure the full initial state. Not sure what you mean by "Lack of a complete, accurate unified theory... Given an absolute understanding of all mechanics involved, and the exact starting position, velocity, etc" Bell's Theorem tells us there are no hidden variables - so there is nothing hidden which if we knew we could make the predictions. There will be a unification of GR and QM, but it will not invalidate the QM and GR regimes that we are familiar with, which disallow a return to the Newtonian clockwork.
Independent of the Chaos/Free Will comment - I am compelled to point out that thanks to QM (See Bell's Theorem) that you can not know and predict outcomes - no matter the amount of computing power you have.
I worked at Infocom writing interpreters mostly for the 6502 platforms - Apple II, C-64, Acorn, Atari800. The early games were 128K games. They ran in a virtual machine, with 128K virtual address space; including on the 32K Apple. The disks were 144K per side on an Apple II and I think that was the smallest 5.25 in disk capacity. There were no games above 256K through 1989 at least.
I worked at Infocom. The backup strategy included making backup tapes of the Dec20 and taking them home. It's not like anyone was going to start selling the games on the side.
That has also been the backup strategy at half a dozen small companies where I've worked. You do want an offsite backup.
in 64K The Zork interpreter was a full virtual memory machine running in a 128K address space. Even the 32K Apple was able to run full 128K games swapping in from disk. No data was written back to disk, other than game saves. In 1985 the X-ZIP was written - I implemented the Apple IIc version. It was a full 256K virtual machine which was needed for AMFV. I was even able to keep users from having to flip the disk by writting a custom RT (Read Track) as opposed to the standard RWTS. This let the 5.25 in Apple floppy hold 164K per side.
In many ways the Z-Machine was similar to the JVM - cross platform in the day when there were still 30 platforms. The same day the code ran on the Dec20 it compiled for all of the micros.
That is the joy of popular science writing. The author of the article takes what Glenn Piner says, "And the blobs of plasma in these jets are at least as massive as a large planet.", and turns it into "Jupiter-sized blobs". As I'm sure you know, mass and volume are related through density. If you go to what might be the paper Prof.Piner's was referring to when he was talking about these blobs: "http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0801/0801.2749v1.pdf"
you will read that he only ever talks about measurements at the "parsec-scale". One parsec is just over three light years. So he is talking about gas that is as dense as Jupiter would be if Jupiter was spread from here to Alpha Centari. This is not so dense that fusion is likely. Fusion doesn't even happen in Jupiter. More to the point, you have to have relative particle speed (i.e. temperature) that is high enough for fusion - and I don't think that is seen in accreation disks. More about the size; We are almost able to directly image Jupiter sized planets in nearby neighbors. We are no where near being able to do so in another galaxy. So, what you read is that there is a great deal of mass, Jupiter equivalent, spread out over light years, moving at near the speed of light.
Hey TapeCutter - the blobs the size of Jupiter sounds pretty odd to me -- it would have to be an enormous black hole not to tear something that size up. Can you give me a reference?
A lot of the *NIX core is there and rather functional...
FYI - all of UNIX is now there.
Leopard is an Open Brand UNIX 03 Registered Product, conforming to the SUSv3 and POSIX 1003.1 specifications for the C API, Shell Utilities, and Threads. Since Leopard can compile and run all your existing UNIX code, you can deploy it in environments that demand full conformance â" complete with hooks to maintain compatibility with existing software.
Though my favorite quote is
The most widely-sold UNIX operating system, Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard combines a fully-conformant UNIX foundation with the richness and usability of the Macintosh interface, bringing multi-core technology and 64-bit power to the mass market. Sold. Get it? Sold.
Making that effort to keep up, I see that my Ph. 136 professor has not yet conceded the bet. http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/jp_24jul04.html
While I have the utmost respect for Prof. Preskill, and am inclined to prefer myself that information is not destroyed, if Prof. Thorne has not conceded I would suggest that the matter is not entirely resolved.
I'm calling what happens in a typical X-ray tube http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_tube friction. I'm calling what happens in a plasma lamp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_vapor_lamp to keep the lamp lit friction. Everything I've read so far suggests that the relative velocities of particles in an accretion disc, and the mean free path of those particles, is not sufficient for fission or fusion. I've not done the calculation recently, but even for a small solar mass black hole I think the tidal force gradient is not sufficient to tear an atom apart. So I think the accreation disk is a plasma that is heated via collisions among ions and electrons.
As for those sticks, do you think you are only getting phonon excitation, because until you ionize a few wood atoms you are not going to get fire.
The article to which you refer says:
Rapid proton capture on accreting neutron stars: It has been widely accepted that type I X-ray bursts from low
mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) are due to thermonuclear runaways in accreted materials on the surface of neutron stars (e.g. Taam 1985, Lewin et al. 1993, Bildsten 1998).
The key here is that material is accreting on the surface of the neutron star, it collects in a layer that becomes thick/dense enough (1-10meters?) to sustain fusion. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0220stardisk.html This fusion is on the surface of the star, not in the accretion disk. There is no equivalent surface on a black hole.
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Your astroid field would be made of Baryonic matter. The current expectation is dark matter is non-baryonic. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon#Baryonic_matter
So dark matter actually does not interact with the photon field.
The LHC has beams going in opposite directions that collide in a detector. Each beam has a large momentum, which in collision is conserved. The collision products have a range of momentum near zero in the detector frame, because you can not always get the desired perfect head on collision.
Now, the best part and I don't see anyone mentioning it, but a blackhole produced either in a collider or in a cosmic ray collision will be charged. In a magnetic field, it will follow the field lines, and when the lines bend, it will emit photons and slow down. So the argument that blackholes created in the atmosphere zip through the earth because of their high velocity does not consider that they are charges and will loose energy to any magnetic fields. Maybe this will not keep them in the earth, but it could well keep them in the solar system.
Loved Hell Cats. My own IIci apps from Sys 6 in 1990 ran on my G5 until the upgrade to 10.5. Are you sure your running Hell Cats on 10.5? It would make me likely to upgrade my Powerbook.
Having worked on video games both on old MacOS 6,7,8 and in Win32(95), I would hardly compare Win32 API quality to Apple API quality. Apple APIs tend to be much more pleasant than Win32. I seem to recall about 300 Win32 File API calls - many in the Foo(args) and FooEx(args, void * extra) pair style. Apple had maybe 40 methods. Of course original UNIX had 6 I think. Good luck trying to get a Win32 window to do something slightly different. I would say Apple has had far less need for new APIs because the ones they come out with are pretty well thought out.
Interesting idea. But (and I'll leave this as an exercise ) there is a temperature at which H2O will dissociate. I suspect that the surface of a star is hot enough.
I assume you tried the 10.4 and 10.5 dmgs at http://www.inkscape.org/download/. Did they not work for you?
DEI?
I had a nice pair of bunny slippers as an undergrad at Pacifictec
I used a software mod that allowed 72 columns using the HIRES (rootbeer) mode - best used on a monochrome display unless you likes purple/green orange/blue highlights to your B/W characters
But how do you value the first refusal in terms of cash. If he gets a $20 million offer from ebay, and craigslist doesn't have that kind of cash, isn't the outcome the same?
Brain injuries are one of the bigger problems now that survival of concussive blasts is so much better. And if you can put in new brain cells; can you give a person their personality back?
The uncertainty principle means you can not measure the full initial state. Not sure what you mean by "Lack of a complete, accurate unified theory... Given an absolute understanding of all mechanics involved, and the exact starting position, velocity, etc"
Bell's Theorem tells us there are no hidden variables - so there is nothing hidden which if we knew we could make the predictions.
There will be a unification of GR and QM, but it will not invalidate the QM and GR regimes that we are familiar with, which disallow a return to the Newtonian clockwork.
Independent of the Chaos/Free Will comment - I am compelled to point out that thanks to QM (See Bell's Theorem) that you can not know and predict outcomes - no matter the amount of computing power you have.
I worked at Infocom writing interpreters mostly for the 6502 platforms - Apple II, C-64, Acorn, Atari800. The early games were 128K games. They ran in a virtual machine, with 128K virtual address space; including on the 32K Apple. The disks were 144K per side on an Apple II and I think that was the smallest 5.25 in disk capacity. There were no games above 256K through 1989 at least.
I worked at Infocom. The backup strategy included making backup tapes of the Dec20 and taking them home. It's not like anyone was going to start selling the games on the side.
That has also been the backup strategy at half a dozen small companies where I've worked. You do want an offsite backup.
In many ways the Z-Machine was similar to the JVM - cross platform in the day when there were still 30 platforms. The same day the code ran on the Dec20 it compiled for all of the micros.
That is the joy of popular science writing. The author of the article takes what Glenn Piner says, "And the blobs of plasma in these jets are at least as massive as a large planet.", and turns it into "Jupiter-sized blobs". As I'm sure you know, mass and volume are related through density. If you go to what might be the paper Prof.Piner's was referring to when he was talking about these blobs: "http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0801/0801.2749v1.pdf" you will read that he only ever talks about measurements at the "parsec-scale". One parsec is just over three light years. So he is talking about gas that is as dense as Jupiter would be if Jupiter was spread from here to Alpha Centari. This is not so dense that fusion is likely. Fusion doesn't even happen in Jupiter. More to the point, you have to have relative particle speed (i.e. temperature) that is high enough for fusion - and I don't think that is seen in accreation disks. More about the size; We are almost able to directly image Jupiter sized planets in nearby neighbors. We are no where near being able to do so in another galaxy. So, what you read is that there is a great deal of mass, Jupiter equivalent, spread out over light years, moving at near the speed of light.
Hey TapeCutter - the blobs the size of Jupiter sounds pretty odd to me -- it would have to be an enormous black hole not to tear something that size up. Can you give me a reference?
FYI - all of UNIX is now there.
Leopard is an Open Brand UNIX 03 Registered Product, conforming to the SUSv3 and POSIX 1003.1 specifications for the C API, Shell Utilities, and Threads. Since Leopard can compile and run all your existing UNIX code, you can deploy it in environments that demand full conformance â" complete with hooks to maintain compatibility with existing software.
Though my favorite quote is The most widely-sold UNIX operating system, Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard combines a fully-conformant UNIX foundation with the richness and usability of the Macintosh interface, bringing multi-core technology and 64-bit power to the mass market.
Sold. Get it? Sold.
Making that effort to keep up, I see that my Ph. 136 professor has not yet conceded the bet. http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/jp_24jul04.html While I have the utmost respect for Prof. Preskill, and am inclined to prefer myself that information is not destroyed, if Prof. Thorne has not conceded I would suggest that the matter is not entirely resolved.
I'm calling what happens in a typical X-ray tube http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_tube friction. I'm calling what happens in a plasma lamp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_vapor_lamp to keep the lamp lit friction. Everything I've read so far suggests that the relative velocities of particles in an accretion disc, and the mean free path of those particles, is not sufficient for fission or fusion. I've not done the calculation recently, but even for a small solar mass black hole I think the tidal force gradient is not sufficient to tear an atom apart. So I think the accreation disk is a plasma that is heated via collisions among ions and electrons.
As for those sticks, do you think you are only getting phonon excitation, because until you ionize a few wood atoms you are not going to get fire.
The key here is that material is accreting on the surface of the neutron star, it collects in a layer that becomes thick/dense enough (1-10meters?) to sustain fusion. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0220stardisk.html
This fusion is on the surface of the star, not in the accretion disk. There is no equivalent surface on a black hole.