Many years ago we had a full eclipse of the Sun in Melbourne. A new restaraunt planned its grand opening for the date and printed on the invites:
"For your amusment and edification, a total Solar Eclipse has been arranged for the afternoon"
So after the promised event, the party goers all applauded and yelled "do it again".
Or so I have been told.
BTW if you ever get chance to be in the path of a total Solar Eclipse, do it - its awesome.
They sent George Bush in on a wicket that looks horribly worn, in India, where every child learns to bowl wrong-uns at his mother's knee (hopefully she's wearing pads)? And then they grumble he didn't do well and show a photo of his leg stump knocked over? Sheesh.
His argument amounts to "why would you want to buy a CD when you can download the music and copy it directly to your eight track?" oops.
But seriously, CD should be dead - music should come on DVDs in at least 24 bit sample depth. 96Khz is not as important but 16 bit depth is not enough. Everything gets compressed to buggery and for many styles of music, any compression at the mastering stage should be avoided. But if you do that you end up having to worry about the noise floor. 24 bits is enough to avoid that problem.
Adding more content is good. Most of it will be shovelware but a few artists will use it artistically. But if you are going to do that you really want the extra capacity of a DVD, so that drives migration as well.
Surely if a supernova was that close it would be the event that started the formation of the sun, rather than happening after its formation.
What's the effect of the outgassing (explosion) on the proper motion of the created stars? What percentage escape the gravitational field of the embedded neutron star?
They probably mean closer to the singularity. That would translate into harder (higher frequency, more energetic) x-rays. So the statement would amount to saying they are observing harder xrays than has been possible in the past.
I used to teach first year programming and a significant part of our intake had Basic programming in High School while the rest had no programming exposure.
The students with no previous exposure consistently (from year to year) did significantly better in Intro to Programming 101 than those with previous Basic experience.
We pushed and eventually succeeded in getting Pascal taught rather than Basic but I was not still teaching to see if this improved things.
But I don't think that's the articles point - its point is you can't just walk up to a computer and start programming anymore. That's how most of us old geezers got started, even if was a card punch machine that we really old geezers first walked up to.
Essentially, simplifying somewhat, everything up to Iron gets created inside stars. The heavier elements (than iron) get created in end of life stellar events.
Simplifications here are that some elements get created inside the star in the last few days to hours of its life rather than over long periods of time and some heavier than iron but unstable elements get created before the final cataclysm.
BTW, how does the postulated existence of dark matter affect stellar evolution? I have not been able to find anything on the web on that. It should mean stars have less hydrogen than classically calculated and therefore die faster - but what else and why is this not a problem with the dark matter hypothesis?
You're eating in the Burger King in Logan and your complaining about the wifi guide!
That would not be the first thing I would think to be complaining about. Mind you when I was last there they still had the airport in pieces on the sidewalk.
Ha! The one time I got to fly Bizness class the lamers didn't even have Wifi in their business lounge in Frankfurt Nor a bathroom where you could take a shower, which after ~16 hours travelling with ~8 to go, is probably a higher priority. Makes you wonder why you paid them all that money.
Direction of Sun. After sunset, if you can see the moon you can still work this out.
Position of Venus. Its often bright so you can often see it even when its too hazy to see stars. Venus is more useful than other planets because its never far from the sun but if you can see several planets that gives you an approximation to the ecliptic even without having to know where in their orbits the planets are.
Direction of wind. In many places, winds from different directions have different characteristics (warm wet, cold dry etc) so you can approximate direction.
These cameras based on fly's eyes lenses work really well for surveillance tasks. They've resulted in some really excellent photos of the insides of Osama Bin Laden's outside dunny.
If, as they claim, it provides a competitive advantage, then failure to make the product available is arguably a boycott causing actual damage, and is therefore, it can be argued, illegal under trade practice law.
If, in fact it provides no such advantage, then such an argument will probably fail in court.
So, yes, I believe it gives a competitive advantage. If it does not, that is something that Microsoft might end up having to prove in a court of law.
The people who failure to release will most damage is EU based software developers. As the existing rulings against MS were by and large to prevent MS damaging EU software developers, I would expect the commission to be looking closely at the above question. MS would have to demonstrate that there was no need to configure or adapt third party software for Vista in order to prove no damage. That would imply no new features because if there are new features but they are impossible to use in third party software, they are most likely caught back re-offending under the original proved complaint.
I wonder if this really does not damage the fossil. Seems like they are pumping quite a lot of energy in there. Aren't there potential issues from heating? Can someone with expertise give us the details?
Even if it does do damage, its no doubt less than caused by dissolving off the rock, and then looking at the fossil. I am just curious as to whether it is really totally non-invasive.
It sends the stolen information to a computer in China?
Does this mean if you make sure your slides all have the magic word in white on white in them somewhere, they'll get gobbled by the People's Great Firewall and the perps won't get your data?
Can someone knowledgable tell us about the legal ramifications of this cas?.
Seems like there are all sorts of interesting questions in International Law to be answered. Not least whether the US can impose taxes on a foreign corporation not operating in the US. (and even what constitutes "operating in the US" is presumably at question - are there any precedents on that from mail order?).
Also whether a US citizen who is CEO of a foreign entity is guilty of an offense under US law as a result of the activities of that entity, over which the US lacks jurisdiction. Is there a specific clause in US gambling law to cover that, or is there an established legal theory?
Time-varying constants of nature violate Einstein's equivalence principle, which says that any experiment testing nuclear or electromagnetic forces should give the same result no matter where or when it is performed.
No it doesn't
The principle of equivalence, more properly called the principle of covariance, says that the laws of physics can be expressed covariantly. This means that your co-ordinate system does not matter. Actually you have to make sure you take derivatives in a physically meaningful way rather than just relative to your arbitary co-ordinates.
But this is entirely a local principle. It does not mean that an experiment performed in one place will give the same results as the same experiment performed elsewhere.
For example, observe cepheid variables from down a gravity well!
The principle of equivalence in its limited form (that leads on to the principle of covariance) says you can't tell the difference between acceleration and gravity. Once again this is a local phenomenum because in an elevator (or other closed box) of non-trivial size, you can distinguish them by observing the curvature associated with gravity.
More importantly, by jerking the citizenry around, we will find out which ones have a predeliction to become terrorists. If they complain, they are suspect.
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Many years ago we had a full eclipse of the Sun in Melbourne. A new restaraunt planned its grand opening for the date and printed on the invites: "For your amusment and edification, a total Solar Eclipse has been arranged for the afternoon" So after the promised event, the party goers all applauded and yelled "do it again". Or so I have been told. BTW if you ever get chance to be in the path of a total Solar Eclipse, do it - its awesome.
They sent George Bush in on a wicket that looks horribly worn, in India, where every child learns to bowl wrong-uns at his mother's knee (hopefully she's wearing pads)? And then they grumble he didn't do well and show a photo of his leg stump knocked over? Sheesh.
But seriously, CD should be dead - music should come on DVDs in at least 24 bit sample depth. 96Khz is not as important but 16 bit depth is not enough. Everything gets compressed to buggery and for many styles of music, any compression at the mastering stage should be avoided. But if you do that you end up having to worry about the noise floor. 24 bits is enough to avoid that problem.
Adding more content is good. Most of it will be shovelware but a few artists will use it artistically. But if you are going to do that you really want the extra capacity of a DVD, so that drives migration as well.
A couple of more serious questions:
Surely if a supernova was that close it would be the event that started the formation of the sun, rather than happening after its formation.
What's the effect of the outgassing (explosion) on the proper motion of the created stars? What percentage escape the gravitational field of the embedded neutron star?
I would have expected them to use it to power their office building. How many servers could it power?
Going back to the topic, so if I separate out the supply of light from the service component, presumably I only have to pay VAT on the light part.
They probably mean closer to the singularity. That would translate into harder (higher frequency, more energetic) x-rays. So the statement would amount to saying they are observing harder xrays than has been possible in the past.
"flummox", of course, is the word the original poster should have used.
The students with no previous exposure consistently (from year to year) did significantly better in Intro to Programming 101 than those with previous Basic experience.
We pushed and eventually succeeded in getting Pascal taught rather than Basic but I was not still teaching to see if this improved things.
But I don't think that's the articles point - its point is you can't just walk up to a computer and start programming anymore. That's how most of us old geezers got started, even if was a card punch machine that we really old geezers first walked up to.
Essentially, simplifying somewhat, everything up to Iron gets created inside stars. The heavier elements (than iron) get created in end of life stellar events.
Simplifications here are that some elements get created inside the star in the last few days to hours of its life rather than over long periods of time and some heavier than iron but unstable elements get created before the final cataclysm.
BTW, how does the postulated existence of dark matter affect stellar evolution? I have not been able to find anything on the web on that. It should mean stars have less hydrogen than classically calculated and therefore die faster - but what else and why is this not a problem with the dark matter hypothesis?
That would not be the first thing I would think to be complaining about. Mind you when I was last there they still had the airport in pieces on the sidewalk.
Which is why one should always carry a small power strip.
Ha! The one time I got to fly Bizness class the lamers didn't even have Wifi in their business lounge in Frankfurt Nor a bathroom where you could take a shower, which after ~16 hours travelling with ~8 to go, is probably a higher priority. Makes you wonder why you paid them all that money.
So, you have to visit a pox clinic.
Ways to find direction:
Direction of Sun. After sunset, if you can see the moon you can still work this out.
Position of Venus. Its often bright so you can often see it even when its too hazy to see stars. Venus is more useful than other planets because its never far from the sun but if you can see several planets that gives you an approximation to the ecliptic even without having to know where in their orbits the planets are.
Direction of wind. In many places, winds from different directions have different characteristics (warm wet, cold dry etc) so you can approximate direction.
These cameras based on fly's eyes lenses work really well for surveillance tasks. They've resulted in some really excellent photos of the insides of Osama Bin Laden's outside dunny.
If, in fact it provides no such advantage, then such an argument will probably fail in court.
So, yes, I believe it gives a competitive advantage. If it does not, that is something that Microsoft might end up having to prove in a court of law.
The people who failure to release will most damage is EU based software developers. As the existing rulings against MS were by and large to prevent MS damaging EU software developers, I would expect the commission to be looking closely at the above question. MS would have to demonstrate that there was no need to configure or adapt third party software for Vista in order to prove no damage. That would imply no new features because if there are new features but they are impossible to use in third party software, they are most likely caught back re-offending under the original proved complaint.
we have semis going faster than that on the freeway.
I wonder if this really does not damage the fossil. Seems like they are pumping quite a lot of energy in there. Aren't there potential issues from heating? Can someone with expertise give us the details?
Even if it does do damage, its no doubt less than caused by dissolving off the rock, and then looking at the fossil. I am just curious as to whether it is really totally non-invasive.
What about posting on slashdot, but?
(OK, OK, I know - that's not bad grammar, its merely dialect - bad grammar is down the hall)
Well, it would allow you to commit suicide by jumping off quite small bridges.
It sends the stolen information to a computer in China?
Does this mean if you make sure your slides all have the magic word in white on white in them somewhere, they'll get gobbled by the People's Great Firewall and the perps won't get your data?
Can someone knowledgable tell us about the legal ramifications of this cas?. Seems like there are all sorts of interesting questions in International Law to be answered. Not least whether the US can impose taxes on a foreign corporation not operating in the US. (and even what constitutes "operating in the US" is presumably at question - are there any precedents on that from mail order?). Also whether a US citizen who is CEO of a foreign entity is guilty of an offense under US law as a result of the activities of that entity, over which the US lacks jurisdiction. Is there a specific clause in US gambling law to cover that, or is there an established legal theory?
Time-varying constants of nature violate Einstein's equivalence principle, which says that any experiment testing nuclear or electromagnetic forces should give the same result no matter where or when it is performed.
No it doesn't
The principle of equivalence, more properly called the principle of covariance, says that the laws of physics can be expressed covariantly. This means that your co-ordinate system does not matter. Actually you have to make sure you take derivatives in a physically meaningful way rather than just relative to your arbitary co-ordinates.
But this is entirely a local principle. It does not mean that an experiment performed in one place will give the same results as the same experiment performed elsewhere.
For example, observe cepheid variables from down a gravity well!
The principle of equivalence in its limited form (that leads on to the principle of covariance) says you can't tell the difference between acceleration and gravity. Once again this is a local phenomenum because in an elevator (or other closed box) of non-trivial size, you can distinguish them by observing the curvature associated with gravity.
More importantly, by jerking the citizenry around, we will find out which ones have a predeliction to become terrorists. If they complain, they are suspect.
No - the TSA will confiscate them.