You are correct — you are not up to current pricing. Universities often have campus-wide licenses that bring the per-user cost of a Windows installation on par with what an OEM pays. Based on the numbers in the summary, as long as the cost per Windows license is below $100 they still save money even without the lower cost of a hardware monoculture.
And, speaking on a purely personal level, it's nice to see how much the Windows users here are enjoying a taste of what IT has been doing to Mac users like myself for years. I'm sending Cartman over to lick your tears as you enjoy the Wilkes chili.
Look, I hate DRM as much as the next guy, but avoiding adding complexity to the iTS is a reasonable argument against this. Now, for those independent labels (or artists) REALLY wanted to drop DRM on their tracks I have a simple suggestion: trade purchased DRMed tracks sent in by buyers for identical non-DRMed tracks. The purchasing account is easily verifiable in the tracks themselves, and any additional expense can be justified by not having to set up a separate store (or, hell, charge a penny extra per track). Otherwise, all of their bitching is just complaining about how someone else is doing the job they should be doing.
And honestly, all of the really important work (that is, the nebular astronomy I care about that can't be done with ACS and its crappy filter set) is done on WFPC2. So step aside you galactic-obsessed pinheads, you've monopolized the scope long enough — there's WORK to be done!
You do it because all your friends are doing it. So you go out, get drunk, and find the cheapest, skankiest thing you can get home to plug. And now you're actually touching it! And boy you're on it ALL NIGHT (in five minute incremements between reboots). When you wake up in the morning and take your first sober look at the 'face, knowing you could have done much better, you barely succeed in convincing yourself that it wasn't necessarily the wrong thing to do.
The short answer is no — if your sun were close enough to the black hole to have a significant time dilation, the tidal forces on your sun (and planet) would rip it apart.
But at least we would get to see it in slow motion.
Okay, it's a slow Friday and I'm bored enough to feed the troll...
Run ads making fun of spreadsheeting, budgeting and other IT tasks and promote the ability to do video, photo and music. Then go the IT shops and try to sell a brand identified photo video and music to do spreadsheets and budgeting.
Because we all know the way to get an IT shop to shift platforms is to run ads on broadcast TV. "Hey boss, don't get Macs — their ads mocked my fiefdom of valuable spreadsheeting."
*Cue sad violins*
Wow! Apple's strategy is not comprehendable to mere humans like us.
Yes, all of us "mere humans" in IT and on Slashdot can't comprehend why Apple would target consumer Macs with consumer apps to consumers. Why aren't they advertising their exciting BUDGETING SOFTWARE on their U1 SERVERS!! THEY'RE CRAZY!!
Look at all the DRMs it is pushing in iPod.
All of which were forced on it by content providers. Of course, you can always rip your CDs into one of a few DRM-free formats and add them at will. It's not like iTunes ever, say, defaults to add DRM to CDs you rip, or tacks it onto files you *shudder* "squirt" to your friends. Either that or you misspelled Zune.
Look at how they stymie interoperability. Look how cavalierly they ignore all my settings and repeatedly install iPodhelper and other junk in the start up tray.
Yes, because Apple's strategy is to make using an iPod on a Windows machine difficult and pedantic. Or maybe, just maybe, this is symptomatic of the inherent byzantine shittiness of making things work with Windows. I have no relevant experience, really, as I am not a spreadsheet budgeting monkey and hence not a target of their blatantly IT-offensive advertising.
Look how aggressively they try to associate Apple executables with every damn file type there is. Make no mistake, Apple is just a Microsoft wannabe that failed miserably to be Microsoft.
Yes, if only it were possible to, say, set all files of a given type to open by default with a different app. And if only it were as simple as using a pull-down menu in a Get Info box. And if only I could travel back in time 10+ years or so I could come up with that idea before Apple incorporated it into their OS. THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!
This post seems a bit longer than my inital reaction, which was to suggest that you go FUD yourself. But as I said, slow Friday.
The article doesn't explain, so I can only speak generally (albeit professionally). It is possible that they have two of the three data points you mention; namely, apparent magnitude and a distance estimate for the parent galaxy. (There are a few ways to get good distance estimates without using the supernova as a standard candle; e.g., the galaxy is part of a cluster for which a reasonably good distance estimate exists.) From those they derive the unusual absolute magnitude. Which really shouldn't be a surprise because of the presence of hydrogen lines; without going into too much detail, this means that the idea that every type Ia supernovae follows exactly the same scenario (a single white dwarf exploding because it was edged over the mass limit of white dwarfs) is wrong, in at least a few cases.
SImple — they don't. Your last sentence is the assumption used; i.e., that it has spent its life in an environment such as ours. This is a very good assumption, since in order to show any relativistic time dilation before it reaches us an object needs to have had traveled at very high speed or spent time in a very strong gravitational field. In the former case the speed involved would have to incredible; for example, if the meteorite had spent its entire life travelling at 10% of the speed of light (30,000 km/sec), that would only slow down the decay rate by 1%, well within any margin of error. In the latter case, the meteorite would have had to spend its time very close to a black hole (a few km away for a black hole the mass of the Sun), in which case it would be unlikely to escape to get to us anyway.
First, just to whip out my creds I have a doctorate in astronomy, although not in this sub-field...
The typical way to set an age of a very old object is, as you note, by looking at its radioactive decay history. A good
chronometer for meteorites is uranium, both U238 and U235. They have different decay rates, so the difference between
the starting and ending abundance ratio of the two gives you the age. As you note, the trick is to determine what the
starting ratio is; this is largely an educated guess, but presumably the population seen in the meteorite was created in the same
supernova explosion, so a little nuclear physics tells you what that should be (Google 'neutron drip line'). A good check on the
result is to also look at the isotope ratio of lead: Pb207 is the daughter of U238 decay, and Pb206 the daughter of U235. There
are several other useful decays to check (Al26 comes to mind), so while it's admittedly a house of cards (but so is everything in astronomy,
really) , it is at least more than one card.
And, not to be critical, but your description of determining the ages of stars is...off. To be fair, it is a difficult method to both explain and perform for individual stars.
That's a level of detail that, by and large, you don't see in Christianity.
False — that's a level of detail you don't see in most WESTERN Christianity TODAY. That ludicrous
amount of Islamo-micromanagement you cite was mirrored exactly in the early Catholic (and, later, early
Protestant) Church. Pick up Bede's "History of the English Church and People" and find the letter written
from the Bishop of England to the Pope asking for guidance on such minutiae. Must women eschew
churchgoing during their period? Can a man enter a church if he hasn't washed since his last intercourse?
Just like you describe, except with a guy nailed to a tree in the front instead of a cresent moon.
Now, if you want to argue that today's Islam is less enlightened than today's Christianity go right ahead.
Me, I think that's like trying to figure out the warmest guy in an igloo.
Slashdot Mirror
*coughcough* cognitive dissonance *coughcough*
I had blocked Colin Baker out until that. Bastard.
I also learned a lot from ZZT-OOP — women have legs and know how to use them, and they're crazy 'bout a sharp-dressed man.
You are correct — you are not up to current pricing. Universities often have campus-wide licenses that bring the per-user cost of a Windows installation on par with what an OEM pays. Based on the numbers in the summary, as long as the cost per Windows license is below $100 they still save money even without the lower cost of a hardware monoculture.
And, speaking on a purely personal level, it's nice to see how much the Windows users here are enjoying a taste of what IT has been doing to Mac users like myself for years. I'm sending Cartman over to lick your tears as you enjoy the Wilkes chili.
Look, I hate DRM as much as the next guy, but avoiding adding complexity to the iTS is a reasonable argument against this. Now, for those independent labels (or artists) REALLY wanted to drop DRM on their tracks I have a simple suggestion: trade purchased DRMed tracks sent in by buyers for identical non-DRMed tracks. The purchasing account is easily verifiable in the tracks themselves, and any additional expense can be justified by not having to set up a separate store (or, hell, charge a penny extra per track). Otherwise, all of their bitching is just complaining about how someone else is doing the job they should be doing.
Parent is correct. And as a man known for his Wikipedia-esque intelligence once said, "You forgot about Poland!"
Which is why Slashdot needs to have DRM.
...and worse yet, they are going to devastate sales of Easy-Bake Ovens.
WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE AUSSIE CHILDREN?!?!?
And honestly, all of the really important work (that is, the nebular astronomy I care about that can't be done with ACS and its crappy filter set) is done on WFPC2. So step aside you galactic-obsessed pinheads, you've monopolized the scope long enough — there's WORK to be done!
You do it because all your friends are doing it. So you go out, get drunk, and find the cheapest, skankiest thing you can get home to plug. And now you're actually touching it! And boy you're on it ALL NIGHT (in five minute incremements between reboots). When you wake up in the morning and take your first sober look at the 'face, knowing you could have done much better, you barely succeed in convincing yourself that it wasn't necessarily the wrong thing to do.
Then you realize you have 17 viruses.
It was Ray Walston, aka My Favorite Martian (and a million other things).
No, I didn't have to IMDb it. Yes, I am ashamed.
The short answer is no — if your sun were close enough to the black hole to have a significant time dilation, the tidal forces on your sun (and planet) would rip it apart.
But at least we would get to see it in slow motion.
Because we all know the way to get an IT shop to shift platforms is to run ads on broadcast TV. "Hey boss, don't get Macs — their ads mocked my fiefdom of valuable spreadsheeting." *Cue sad violins*
Yes, all of us "mere humans" in IT and on Slashdot can't comprehend why Apple would target consumer Macs with consumer apps to consumers. Why aren't they advertising their exciting BUDGETING SOFTWARE on their U1 SERVERS!! THEY'RE CRAZY!!
All of which were forced on it by content providers. Of course, you can always rip your CDs into one of a few DRM-free formats and add them at will. It's not like iTunes ever, say, defaults to add DRM to CDs you rip, or tacks it onto files you *shudder* "squirt" to your friends. Either that or you misspelled Zune.
Yes, because Apple's strategy is to make using an iPod on a Windows machine difficult and pedantic. Or maybe, just maybe, this is symptomatic of the inherent byzantine shittiness of making things work with Windows. I have no relevant experience, really, as I am not a spreadsheet budgeting monkey and hence not a target of their blatantly IT-offensive advertising.
Yes, if only it were possible to, say, set all files of a given type to open by default with a different app. And if only it were as simple as using a pull-down menu in a Get Info box. And if only I could travel back in time 10+ years or so I could come up with that idea before Apple incorporated it into their OS. THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!
This post seems a bit longer than my inital reaction, which was to suggest that you go FUD yourself. But as I said, slow Friday.
The article doesn't explain, so I can only speak generally (albeit professionally). It is possible that they have two of the three data points you mention; namely, apparent magnitude and a distance estimate for the parent galaxy. (There are a few ways to get good distance estimates without using the supernova as a standard candle; e.g., the galaxy is part of a cluster for which a reasonably good distance estimate exists.) From those they derive the unusual absolute magnitude. Which really shouldn't be a surprise because of the presence of hydrogen lines; without going into too much detail, this means that the idea that every type Ia supernovae follows exactly the same scenario (a single white dwarf exploding because it was edged over the mass limit of white dwarfs) is wrong, in at least a few cases.
I heard about that. Even runs well on headless servers.
Oh well *THERE'S* your problem.
You need to upgrade to Henry V. Don't forget to install the SP1, codnenamed Agincourt.
Bemo
Two things:
...and, in any event, that's not how it's spelled.
1) I think in that last word you accidentally typed a 'b' instead of an 'l'...
2)
SImple — they don't. Your last sentence is the assumption used; i.e., that it has spent its life in an environment such as ours. This is a very good assumption, since in order to show any relativistic time dilation before it reaches us an object needs to have had traveled at very high speed or spent time in a very strong gravitational field. In the former case the speed involved would have to incredible; for example, if the meteorite had spent its entire life travelling at 10% of the speed of light (30,000 km/sec), that would only slow down the decay rate by 1%, well within any margin of error. In the latter case, the meteorite would have had to spend its time very close to a black hole (a few km away for a black hole the mass of the Sun), in which case it would be unlikely to escape to get to us anyway.
First, just to whip out my creds I have a doctorate in astronomy, although not in this sub-field...
The typical way to set an age of a very old object is, as you note, by looking at its radioactive decay history. A good chronometer for meteorites is uranium, both U238 and U235. They have different decay rates, so the difference between the starting and ending abundance ratio of the two gives you the age. As you note, the trick is to determine what the starting ratio is; this is largely an educated guess, but presumably the population seen in the meteorite was created in the same supernova explosion, so a little nuclear physics tells you what that should be (Google 'neutron drip line'). A good check on the result is to also look at the isotope ratio of lead: Pb207 is the daughter of U238 decay, and Pb206 the daughter of U235. There are several other useful decays to check (Al26 comes to mind), so while it's admittedly a house of cards (but so is everything in astronomy, really) , it is at least more than one card.
And, not to be critical, but your description of determining the ages of stars is...off. To be fair, it is a difficult method to both explain and perform for individual stars.
I totally agree -- if one more person puts out a study saying how playing HALO is making me violent I WILL FUCKING KILL THAT ASSHOLE!
What, you thought lawyers used OpenOffice?
Bemopolis
False — that's a level of detail you don't see in most WESTERN Christianity TODAY. That ludicrous amount of Islamo-micromanagement you cite was mirrored exactly in the early Catholic (and, later, early Protestant) Church. Pick up Bede's "History of the English Church and People" and find the letter written from the Bishop of England to the Pope asking for guidance on such minutiae. Must women eschew churchgoing during their period? Can a man enter a church if he hasn't washed since his last intercourse? Just like you describe, except with a guy nailed to a tree in the front instead of a cresent moon.
Now, if you want to argue that today's Islam is less enlightened than today's Christianity go right ahead. Me, I think that's like trying to figure out the warmest guy in an igloo.
Bemopolis
I dunno, Ballmer might be right on this one. I know several Linux users who have a BSoD screensaver...
Bemopolis
Huge collection?!?
Torrent???
Bemopolis
Hmm, and all this time I thought that the Internet was a series of canals...
Bemopolis