Northern USA? Bah! We got a crimson light show at Palomar Observatory, 33 degrees N latitude. I've read a report of auroral activity visible from El Paso, TX, as well at 31 degrees N.
no disconnected operations on the repository(e.g. checking the file history when you are on a laptop in a plane)
If this is a frequent problem for you, you might want to consider doing what FreeBSD committers generally do: mirroring the repository on your laptop (or development box, whatever). John Polstra wrote CVSup to do this efficiently over the network.
If the government bans the insurance companies from doing this, the insurance companies will pay out more to these
high-risk individuals, and your insurance rates will increase to cover it.
Uh, genetic testing is a new development in the insurance industry. What you really mean is "the insurance companies will continue paying out more to these high-risk individuals, and your insurance rates will remain the same."
OK, if you're talking about stars there are mass-luminosity relationships that are roughly correct for certain ranges of mass. That's sort of a whole different game than talking about blackbodies in general!
The expression you've given for luminosity comes form the Planck blackbody spectrum, which is the same place your formula for peak wavelength came from. You'd arrive at the same answer, having jumped through more hoops. The mass would drop out and the peak wavelength would still depend only on temperature.
I'd like to draw attention to your mention of pulsar planets. It seems trendy to ignore these results and claim that we've only detected big Jupiter-sized planets. In fact, Wolszczan's pulsar planets were the first confirmed extrasolar planets to be found; they're small; the observations are extraordinarily precise, and showed planet-planet interactions; and it was a surprising result to find them around a pulsar.
I thought I had a nice equation that linked mass and wavelength for a nice blackbody radiator, but I
don't (grrr). I have a good one relating Temp and wavelength, but not mass.
The spectrum (including peak wavelength) of a blackbody radiator depends only on temperature. If you have a small anvil at 5000 K, and a large anvil at 5000 K, it shouldn't surprise you that they're the same color. The mass (well, surface area) will affect how much radiation is emitted, but not its spectrum.
Why would it be any different from, say, a doctor's ballpoint pen? Why should the fact that it's electronic make it more prone to transmitting disease? Doctors are already carrying a variety of objects on their person from patient to patient, and I don't see why adding a Palm to the mix should change anything.
I think you should get it through your thick skull that much of the outrage about overly restrictive filters isn't about home use, but use by companies, libraries, schools, and so forth. Do you think the principal, sysadmin, librarian, or whatever has the time to evaluate and unblock sites on a case-by-case basis? What if the institutions are required by law to run blocking software and the staff isn't legally authorized to unblock sites?
Your passphrase is irrelevant. The issue is that you're running your digital signature program on a machine that is susceptible to various forms of attack (Word viruses, the latest hole in whateverd, keystroke sniffers both hardware and software, hostile systems administrators, trojans in your OS, torjans in your digital signature program, etc.) that can be used to sign something without your consent.
And if you obtain books via a public resource such as a school or public library, then you shouldn't expect much privacy, either, right?
Then why was it that when I worked in a public library, there were signs all over the place reminding us that the privacy of circulation records was protected by law?
If there's no way to identify the student who accesed a particular site, then I don't have much objection. But Schneier's "Secrets and Lies," for example, discusses tricks people use to extract particular data from statistical queries. Do you know that a particular student usually sits in front of a particular workstation (and hence IP address) 6th period? Should his family know that he's looking at www.am-i-gay.com or www.dad-touches-me-where-he-shouldnt.com?
Film has a power-law response. Black and white negative film is usually developed to a gamma of about 0.5, but the contrast can be adjusted during both development and printing.
I think you have it backwards. The boomerang results indicate a flat geometry. The condition for "stop expanding but no crunch" is Omega_m=1, Omega_Lambda=0. In the presence of a positive cosmological constant, the universe will keep expanding.
It is also observed more locally: You fall toward the earth, which is a local concentration of mass. This observation more easily conducted than gravitational lensing studies.
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Northern USA? Bah! We got a crimson light show at Palomar Observatory, 33 degrees N latitude. I've read a report of auroral activity visible from El Paso, TX, as well at 31 degrees N.
"over sixteen."
Uh, were the bride and groom establishing separate households? I think people are misunderstanding the point of wedding gifts and registries.
By "mirror" you mean pirated copy, right?
It looks like you haven't been reading America's Finest News Source.
Here in the US we spell it "gauge," but I'll assume we've screwed that up, too.
Anywhere that light and vacuum come together. Are you perhaps thinking of the kilogram, which is still based on a relic?
Yeah, it would be nice if you could buy FreeBSD at Best Buy...
OK, if you're talking about stars there are mass-luminosity relationships that are roughly correct for certain ranges of mass. That's sort of a whole different game than talking about blackbodies in general!
The expression you've given for luminosity comes form the Planck blackbody spectrum, which is the same place your formula for peak wavelength came from. You'd arrive at the same answer, having jumped through more hoops. The mass would drop out and the peak wavelength would still depend only on temperature.
I'd like to draw attention to your mention of pulsar planets. It seems trendy to ignore these results and claim that we've only detected big Jupiter-sized planets. In fact, Wolszczan's pulsar planets were the first confirmed extrasolar planets to be found; they're small; the observations are extraordinarily precise, and showed planet-planet interactions; and it was a surprising result to find them around a pulsar.
http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/pspm/arecibo/planeThe spectrum (including peak wavelength) of a blackbody radiator depends only on temperature. If you have a small anvil at 5000 K, and a large anvil at 5000 K, it shouldn't surprise you that they're the same color. The mass (well, surface area) will affect how much radiation is emitted, but not its spectrum.
Why would it be any different from, say, a doctor's ballpoint pen? Why should the fact that it's electronic make it more prone to transmitting disease? Doctors are already carrying a variety of objects on their person from patient to patient, and I don't see why adding a Palm to the mix should change anything.
I think you should get it through your thick skull that much of the outrage about overly restrictive filters isn't about home use, but use by companies, libraries, schools, and so forth. Do you think the principal, sysadmin, librarian, or whatever has the time to evaluate and unblock sites on a case-by-case basis? What if the institutions are required by law to run blocking software and the staff isn't legally authorized to unblock sites?
Let's focus on what he's talking about, folks.
Your passphrase is irrelevant. The issue is that you're running your digital signature program on a machine that is susceptible to various forms of attack (Word viruses, the latest hole in whateverd, keystroke sniffers both hardware and software, hostile systems administrators, trojans in your OS, torjans in your digital signature program, etc.) that can be used to sign something without your consent.
And if you obtain books via a public resource such as a school or public library, then you shouldn't expect much privacy, either, right?
Then why was it that when I worked in a public library, there were signs all over the place reminding us that the privacy of circulation records was protected by law?
If there's no way to identify the student who accesed a particular site, then I don't have much objection. But Schneier's "Secrets and Lies," for example, discusses tricks people use to extract particular data from statistical queries. Do you know that a particular student usually sits in front of a particular workstation (and hence IP address) 6th period? Should his family know that he's looking at www.am-i-gay.com or www.dad-touches-me-where-he-shouldnt.com?
Greg Lehey's Daemon News article addresses this question.
Tell that to my PDA and my speed dial.
--Total Drooling Fuckwit...we called 65,536 "64k" rather than "65k."
Film has a power-law response. Black and white negative film is usually developed to a gamma of about 0.5, but the contrast can be adjusted during both development and printing.
And the next time the CHP pulls me over for speeding, I'll insist that Honda be shut down.
Perception is not reality.
I think you have it backwards. The boomerang results indicate a flat geometry. The condition for "stop expanding but no crunch" is Omega_m=1, Omega_Lambda=0. In the presence of a positive cosmological constant, the universe will keep expanding.
It is also observed more locally: You fall toward the earth, which is a local concentration of mass. This observation more easily conducted than gravitational lensing studies.