Why is the light seen as background radiation not from these OTHER big bangs?
Because the math fits the background temperature. It doesn't fit the other ideas suggested so far such as yours.
I mean so wrong that crap has been built on crap that now has become a religion, a test of faith
Don't let your lack of understanding of either religion or science stop you from making such stupid accusations. Is your God so puny that it can be killed by astronomy?
As I've seen with the relationship between government and telecommunications companies giving the CEO an expensive bribe does not stop them screwing you over either. Paying someone to care just results in them caring about the money supply. Without "skin in the game" there is little reason to care.
Nokia's (and Blackberry's) problem was mostly one with which market leaders have had a long tradition - the unwillingness to compete against or see beyond their own success.
With less infighting and a bit more resources the N900 would have come out before the iPhone (it was nearly ready for sale at that point), and then Nokia may have decided it was worth enough of an advertising budget for people to actually hear about it. Yes, I know about the mythical man month and all that but the N900 team was tiny and there was plenty of stuff that could have been done in parallel with more people on board. The first iPhone is crap in comparison - it can't even multitask and is slow. Compare it with the current iPhone and you'll wonder why anyone thought it was ready for market let alone bought one. However it was "good enough" and had the Apple marketing machine right behind it and serious resources going into the app store.
One person who cared had to speak up and notice. Thus somebody with the goals of the project in mind instead of the goal of the contractor to have maximum profit. Outsourcing fails when you don't have enough people left to keep the contractors honest.
You realise that recycling these beats is a massive massive undertaking, and costs billions of dollars anyway - they are full of nasty stuff which needs specialist handling and removal well before you get to the saleable steel and recyclables.
What gives you that impression?
they are full of nasty stuff which needs specialist handling and removal
Proper asbestos removal is not as hard as you appear to think and the protective gear isn't very expensive. Training isn't hard either - "keep your stuff on or you are fucked" covers 99% of it.
When it's not done properly (there are idiots in the world) asbestos sparkles in a pretty way in the sunlight as it blows in the breeze. Like all dust a lot of water keeps it down for a while.
It's actually a dirt cheap process and a lot of large ships are scrapped in India at very low cost. Making steel requires a huge amount of energy, a range of materials and very large and expensive plant - melting down scrap is light industry.
I hate that sort of attitude. The engineers knew it could be done and they had rigorous enough math to convince very conservative people to give them the money to do it.
Age old story of outsourcing - you still need to retain enough people to watch the contractors so they can't cut corners on the expensive bits. One blatant example I saw was with non destructive testing of welds in high pressure pipework leading to portions of a turbine in a coal fired power station. At those welds it was done by spraying on thing white paint, using a magnet and spraying on a fluid with suspended magnetic "dust" that would collect wherever defects disrupted the magnetic field. Access was a bit tight so the contractors tested the top of the pipes and they ran the magnet around the bottom of the pipe without looking at it so that some scratches would be left to show that the magnet had been used. The lazy pricks were caught doing that so we had to send someone along as an observer and make them do a couple of weeks worth of work over again, because with their scratch trick we had no way of knowing is any inspection had actually been done or not. So MBA types - that person standing off to the side not doing anything during a concrete pour may be there solely to reduce fuckups due to dishonest contractors.
I stand against genetically modified crops because I don't want fucking multinationals to own the intellectual property rights over basic foodstuffs.
Then maybe we should change the GMO laws so that someone other than a multinational can afford to get a GMO plant certified as safe to eat. At the moment not even a university can afford it unless they are likely to see huge financial returns, so they don't even try. Thus monsanto stuff but no vaccines delivered via chunks of banana or even a tomato that can be transported but still tastes like great grandmas tomatoes (there's some very slow research happening along those lines that the researcher said is just the long way of approximating what he could have achieved with GMO ten years ago).
But entirely descriptive of many of the posts about CLF here over the years.
As for the reduced life that's where "just good enough" starts to dominate a market that had been established via reliability. It took me more than ten years of using CFL bulbs to find one that explained the hate that had been expressed on this page, and that's because fashionability had a greater role in it's design than function. If IoT devices can avoid that criteria there may be more hope, but I suspect you are correct that once they become a commodity there may be a race to the bottom.
Reality is very different there to the rest of the country. The price of contracts is a thing that would be laughed at in other places. There are no homeless and few unemployed because who would be in Canberra if you don't have a job?
I must have got you while half asleep or something. It means the people who clean the buildings, work in the supermarkets etc reside in less fashionable areas nearby which pushes the average of "Canberra residents" up. It's also a very artificial salary environment by being effectively a "one company town", and like some mining companies in such a situation the employer is very generous (due to historical linking of MP and PS salary plus paying people enough to relocate from Sydney, Melbourne and those other parts of the country which most of the government holds in utter contempt). I'm sure you already are very much aware of all this which is why I'm wondering why you are making me spell it out.
The cost of doing business in Australia is negatively impacted because of major time zone differences from other English-speaking nations
Trolltech used that to their advantage so that they could have fully awake people available to deal with things 24/7 from Norway and Australia - as well as having a carrot of Norwegians going directly from a cold winter to summer at the beach with cheap and plentiful beer. Also CHINA, JAPAN, KOREA are close to the time zone.
That's well connected pissing in pockets Canberra rates, but in other places that's near the top of the tree.
$70k is below the average salary for a resident of Canberra
It's far cheaper to live in the rural areas on Canberra's doorstep, or the large town next door, than in that geographically tiny city. I've got relatives that live half an hour out of Canberra in a medium sized "hobby" farm with about 20 head of stock and a few horses, and that cost less than they made from selling a modest three bedroom place in outer suburbia. House/land prices and rent drop off very rapidly with distance and the roads are not congested.
That article is all about the miniaturization process they went through. Wake me up when the hardware specs are available: CPU speed, amount of RAM, wireless connectivity and range, etc.
I will show you DOOM in a handful of dust. Or would you prefer Wolfenstein?
The CFL hate here confused me until I got one that was designed to look like a bulb instead of long weird loops that just did the job. The early stuff was fine, the later stuff where marketers decided it needed to look like an incandesent bulb were the pieces of shit that took ages to warm up.
Hopefully with the IoT we'll get cheap, simple things designed to do one little task well instead of something considered important enough to be designed to look like something else and fail as a result of the compromise. Instead of a computer that looks like a toy rabbit and compromises to get it in that shape let's just have a boring box the right size to hold what it needs.
Just as well there's State and Local government as well then isn't it? Sorry if that sabotages your attempt to dumb things down to the point of uselessness.
Yes, as complete a jackass as people dressing up as indians and throwing tea in the water. It's the situation where a squeaky wheel gets the oil - or the jackass gets attention.
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Because the math fits the background temperature. It doesn't fit the other ideas suggested so far such as yours.
Don't let your lack of understanding of either religion or science stop you from making such stupid accusations. Is your God so puny that it can be killed by astronomy?
As I've seen with the relationship between government and telecommunications companies giving the CEO an expensive bribe does not stop them screwing you over either.
Paying someone to care just results in them caring about the money supply. Without "skin in the game" there is little reason to care.
With less infighting and a bit more resources the N900 would have come out before the iPhone (it was nearly ready for sale at that point), and then Nokia may have decided it was worth enough of an advertising budget for people to actually hear about it.
Yes, I know about the mythical man month and all that but the N900 team was tiny and there was plenty of stuff that could have been done in parallel with more people on board.
The first iPhone is crap in comparison - it can't even multitask and is slow. Compare it with the current iPhone and you'll wonder why anyone thought it was ready for market let alone bought one. However it was "good enough" and had the Apple marketing machine right behind it and serious resources going into the app store.
One person who cared had to speak up and notice. Thus somebody with the goals of the project in mind instead of the goal of the contractor to have maximum profit.
Outsourcing fails when you don't have enough people left to keep the contractors honest.
You realise that recycling these beats is a massive massive undertaking, and costs billions of dollars anyway - they are full of nasty stuff which needs specialist handling and removal well before you get to the saleable steel and recyclables.
What gives you that impression?
Proper asbestos removal is not as hard as you appear to think and the protective gear isn't very expensive. Training isn't hard either - "keep your stuff on or you are fucked" covers 99% of it.
When it's not done properly (there are idiots in the world) asbestos sparkles in a pretty way in the sunlight as it blows in the breeze. Like all dust a lot of water keeps it down for a while.
It's actually a dirt cheap process and a lot of large ships are scrapped in India at very low cost.
Making steel requires a huge amount of energy, a range of materials and very large and expensive plant - melting down scrap is light industry.
We gave some atomic scientists enough time and caffeine and they came up with the Hydrogen bomb which is far more dangerous than Plutonium :)
I hate that sort of attitude. The engineers knew it could be done and they had rigorous enough math to convince very conservative people to give them the money to do it.
Age old story of outsourcing - you still need to retain enough people to watch the contractors so they can't cut corners on the expensive bits.
One blatant example I saw was with non destructive testing of welds in high pressure pipework leading to portions of a turbine in a coal fired power station. At those welds it was done by spraying on thing white paint, using a magnet and spraying on a fluid with suspended magnetic "dust" that would collect wherever defects disrupted the magnetic field. Access was a bit tight so the contractors tested the top of the pipes and they ran the magnet around the bottom of the pipe without looking at it so that some scratches would be left to show that the magnet had been used. The lazy pricks were caught doing that so we had to send someone along as an observer and make them do a couple of weeks worth of work over again, because with their scratch trick we had no way of knowing is any inspection had actually been done or not.
So MBA types - that person standing off to the side not doing anything during a concrete pour may be there solely to reduce fuckups due to dishonest contractors.
Then maybe we should change the GMO laws so that someone other than a multinational can afford to get a GMO plant certified as safe to eat. At the moment not even a university can afford it unless they are likely to see huge financial returns, so they don't even try. Thus monsanto stuff but no vaccines delivered via chunks of banana or even a tomato that can be transported but still tastes like great grandmas tomatoes (there's some very slow research happening along those lines that the researcher said is just the long way of approximating what he could have achieved with GMO ten years ago).
But entirely descriptive of many of the posts about CLF here over the years.
As for the reduced life that's where "just good enough" starts to dominate a market that had been established via reliability.
It took me more than ten years of using CFL bulbs to find one that explained the hate that had been expressed on this page, and that's because fashionability had a greater role in it's design than function. If IoT devices can avoid that criteria there may be more hope, but I suspect you are correct that once they become a commodity there may be a race to the bottom.
Do I have to spell it out?
It's a toytown.
Reality is very different there to the rest of the country. The price of contracts is a thing that would be laughed at in other places. There are no homeless and few unemployed because who would be in Canberra if you don't have a job?
I must have got you while half asleep or something. It means the people who clean the buildings, work in the supermarkets etc reside in less fashionable areas nearby which pushes the average of "Canberra residents" up. It's also a very artificial salary environment by being effectively a "one company town", and like some mining companies in such a situation the employer is very generous (due to historical linking of MP and PS salary plus paying people enough to relocate from Sydney, Melbourne and those other parts of the country which most of the government holds in utter contempt).
I'm sure you already are very much aware of all this which is why I'm wondering why you are making me spell it out.
If you look at the list of MAME ROMs you'll see you are also describing a big chunk of arcade game history.
Deal with enough stuff and it doesn't matter where you are, somebody you want to communicate with is going to be in a different time zone.
Trolltech used that to their advantage so that they could have fully awake people available to deal with things 24/7 from Norway and Australia - as well as having a carrot of Norwegians going directly from a cold winter to summer at the beach with cheap and plentiful beer.
Also CHINA, JAPAN, KOREA are close to the time zone.
It's far cheaper to live in the rural areas on Canberra's doorstep, or the large town next door, than in that geographically tiny city.
I've got relatives that live half an hour out of Canberra in a medium sized "hobby" farm with about 20 head of stock and a few horses, and that cost less than they made from selling a modest three bedroom place in outer suburbia. House/land prices and rent drop off very rapidly with distance and the roads are not congested.
What if a dingo took your baby?
That's exactly why the above poster wrote "9 week old".
Why was the dingo in the courtroom?
To bring up evidence.
Yes I am. I suggest you read beyond the first sentence to find out why.
I will show you DOOM in a handful of dust.
Or would you prefer Wolfenstein?
Too expensive. Cost you an arm.
The CFL hate here confused me until I got one that was designed to look like a bulb instead of long weird loops that just did the job. The early stuff was fine, the later stuff where marketers decided it needed to look like an incandesent bulb were the pieces of shit that took ages to warm up.
Hopefully with the IoT we'll get cheap, simple things designed to do one little task well instead of something considered important enough to be designed to look like something else and fail as a result of the compromise. Instead of a computer that looks like a toy rabbit and compromises to get it in that shape let's just have a boring box the right size to hold what it needs.
More posts like that and we'll mistake you for ESR again.
Just as well there's State and Local government as well then isn't it?
Sorry if that sabotages your attempt to dumb things down to the point of uselessness.
Yes, as complete a jackass as people dressing up as indians and throwing tea in the water.
It's the situation where a squeaky wheel gets the oil - or the jackass gets attention.