its the act of the collapse that (likely) causes these bursts. once it is collapsed, the only evidence we have of black holes is their gravitational effects on visable objects, and the x-ray radiation that results from them siphoning gases and other matter from neighboring stars at such speeds that the friction creates massive amounts of radiation around the hole. imagine if your toilet was so powerful that it made the swirling water emit high-energy radition simply from rubbing that fast.
i forgot, in OUR night sky, within the visable light spectrum, the moon is surely the brightest object, followed by venus, some other planets, and then i believe sirius. I supposed a realtively close and bright supernova could outshine all the other stars, and maybe even all the planets, but it would have a tough time competing with luna.
supernovae and gamma-ray bursts are not the same thing. Gamma rays are of a much higher energy than visable light, so we can detect them from verylarge distances. gamma-ray bursts are theorized to be created when supermassive stars collapse on themselves, forming a black hole and somehow releasing a very large amount of energy. There are anywhere from 1 to 5, on average, gamma ray bursts detected by orbiting satellites every day, with the older ones being associated with a larger doppler shift (red shift) of their absorbtion spectrum.
supernovae are visable as very bright stars in the sky when they occur (rather when the light from their explosion reaches us, a long long time after they actually occur). The root nova means 'new' in latin, as these would appear in places in the sky where no (visable to us) star had been previously, before dying away.
alpha and beta radiation is not part of the same electromagnetic spectrum that gramma and other types of radiation, never mind that a simple peice of paper will stop alpha particles. alpha particles are composed of something akin to a helium nucleus, with two protons and two neutrons. beta particles are either electrons or positrons depending on the type of beta decay.
concerning heat, it seems like this would create a chip that has more transistors per surface area of the chip. regardless of wire lengths, wouldnt this result in a much larger amount of heat per square cm of chip surface? granted we are talking about traditional cooling methods with one side of the chip exposed and meant for heat dissipation, but i dont see how this answers the problem of thin wires leaking electrons or other quantum issues.
mitochondria are tiny sub-cellular organelles that reside in every living cell in the human body. They are the location of the 'electron transport chain', where various chemicals are converted to ATP, the most basic of all chemical energy carriers in the human (and other animal/plant organisms) body.
Midichlorians are exclusively in the Star Wars universe, and a 'count' of them determined one's affinity for feeling, interacting with, and manipulating omnipresent Force. In the original triology, there is no bureaucratic order of Jedi, so midichlorian counts were not performed. In the Star Wars universe, every living thing has SOME midichlorians, but only those with a high enough number had the abilities necessary to complete the training to become a Jedi Knight. This is similar to certain people not having the innate ability to compete in the Olympics. Everyone alive can interact with the Force to an extent, but only those born with enough midichlorians and trained properly could ever be Jedi Knights. There is no discontinuity between the two trilogies because the Jedi order didn't exist as an entity that actively sought and trained younglings with the proper credentials.
Saying the Jedi order in the I-III is 'snobby group' is like saying the U.S. Olympic Team is elitist.
you specifically mentioned several worms, none of which are POC in origin, they were written with the intention of damaging. Yes, a POC worm is a hypothetical possiblity, but if you think for a second that they make up any appreciable fraction of firm POC code, you are in a different world. The fact that any worm, by definition, needs a 'given vector' consisting of an entry point into a system makes the problem the entry point. The vast majority of POC code is the entry, the privelige escalation, etc. Find me some security firm worm code, and ill give you a dollar. And overall the concept you're proving to me is back-off when talking to people with blank sigs...
there is very little POC worm code; rather POC code tends to be remote privilege escalation code that is run on an individual basis from the command line. If you could find me some real POC (from a firm perhaps?) that spread on its own, I would be very surprised. The worms that cause damage just because of the network traffic they generate are not POC, they are scriptkiddy-esque alterations of POC code without a payload. Security firms do not make POC worms.
Proof of concept virii do not inflict damage. Bad virii occasionally use proof of concept code to 'piggyback' payloads into systems, but blackhat writers typically write their own code, as POC code tends to be a little bulky and inefficient.
POC virii + a dangerous payload are bad, POC code alone doesnt do any harm and is a fundamental pillar of computer science research.
Regardless of this apparent fluke, many Northern European countries have much more progressive laws concerning IP and copyrights (and most other things for that matter). This tax is being proposed by the record industry, so the motivations are questionable. Do you think they are trying to preserve the artistic soul of their product by trying to stem illegal downloading, or just trying to turn a buck?
Not true. The Register gave an vague example of a certain type of levy, but in this case the government would get the kickback. That is what makes it a tax.
While this seems extravagent (it is), places like The Netherlands and Sweden, etc. have excellent copyright and IP laws. Its widely known that taxes in those countries are very high, but unlike some nations (cough), you see that cash put to work. It would be interesting to see how they handle iPods bought in Germany or France, and brought over.
Addiction in the dictionary and addiction in the medical field have a significant difference from each other. For medical professionals, addictions are defined by how a certain thing (substance usually) affects one's priorities. If you are a habitual cocaine user, but it doesn't affect your ability to work, take care of your family, pay the bills, etc, you aren't technically addicted. You have a habit. If you do drugs in liu of being a responsible employee, parent, student, etc, that is an addiction.
China isn't gunning for our spot as the military superpower, they are gunning for our spot as the economic one. They have 1.3 billion people, with the right organization their GNP will outstrip that of the US in the next 50-75 years, easily.
That's a mighty big leap you are making, from the Peculiar Institution to the attempted obliteration of an ethnic group that shared a religion, to abortion? Well, free speech is free speech, but you aren't helping the debate much.
Regardless of your political opinion of the woman, I think that Hilary Clinton said it best, "Keep abortion safe, legal and rare."
Nobody likes abortion, just like nobody likes other emotionally unsavory medical procedures. Unfortunately, what you deem to be 'proper' or 'religiously correct' should have no impact on the practices of a medical community that largely disagrees with you. I would sooner put my faith in a doctor when it comes to a medical decision (which abortion is) than a religious zealot screaming waving signs and screaming at women who are doing something that must be very emotionally taxing.
But hey, what do I know, I'm a guy.
That is why there is a term called 'viability' that is used in deciding whether to abort or not. 3rd trimester abortions are the only ones where viability is up in the air, and those kinds of abortions are typically only done in cases where the mother's health is at risk, she doesn't really have a choice at that point. Hospitals focus on preserving the life of the mother more than the baby, especially in cases where the baby has a severe defect. The problem is, every pregnancy is different, so it is very hard to legislate 'when' the cutoff is. Lawmakers are scared to put in a "doctors discretion" clause because that leaves too much room. This is indeed a problem of how to legislate 3rd trimester abortions rather than a problem of should we have abortions at all. The problem with using "brain activity" as a cutoff is that what can be called brain activity occurs quite early in the pregnancy, before the fetus is viable in the least, and is most likely a totally involentary process. "Brain waves" are just coordinated electrical pulses, their presence doesn't mean the fetus is thinking, it just means the cells are functioning.
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even after 10 billion years?
wouldnt we be screwed if there was a quasar that close? they have a nasty habit of eating stars.
its the act of the collapse that (likely) causes these bursts. once it is collapsed, the only evidence we have of black holes is their gravitational effects on visable objects, and the x-ray radiation that results from them siphoning gases and other matter from neighboring stars at such speeds that the friction creates massive amounts of radiation around the hole. imagine if your toilet was so powerful that it made the swirling water emit high-energy radition simply from rubbing that fast.
i forgot, in OUR night sky, within the visable light spectrum, the moon is surely the brightest object, followed by venus, some other planets, and then i believe sirius. I supposed a realtively close and bright supernova could outshine all the other stars, and maybe even all the planets, but it would have a tough time competing with luna.
supernovae and gamma-ray bursts are not the same thing. Gamma rays are of a much higher energy than visable light, so we can detect them from verylarge distances. gamma-ray bursts are theorized to be created when supermassive stars collapse on themselves, forming a black hole and somehow releasing a very large amount of energy. There are anywhere from 1 to 5, on average, gamma ray bursts detected by orbiting satellites every day, with the older ones being associated with a larger doppler shift (red shift) of their absorbtion spectrum.
supernovae are visable as very bright stars in the sky when they occur (rather when the light from their explosion reaches us, a long long time after they actually occur). The root nova means 'new' in latin, as these would appear in places in the sky where no (visable to us) star had been previously, before dying away.
alpha and beta radiation is not part of the same electromagnetic spectrum that gramma and other types of radiation, never mind that a simple peice of paper will stop alpha particles. alpha particles are composed of something akin to a helium nucleus, with two protons and two neutrons. beta particles are either electrons or positrons depending on the type of beta decay.
concerning heat, it seems like this would create a chip that has more transistors per surface area of the chip. regardless of wire lengths, wouldnt this result in a much larger amount of heat per square cm of chip surface? granted we are talking about traditional cooling methods with one side of the chip exposed and meant for heat dissipation, but i dont see how this answers the problem of thin wires leaking electrons or other quantum issues.
I want mine with hello kitty all over it
I feel like I should take up the torch of Howard Zinn (not that he isn't still kicking).
thank you
bush isn't a good despot, he's a bad one
having just taken my AP Latin test a few weeks ago, its safe to say that I have forgotten the entire language.
mitochondria are tiny sub-cellular organelles that reside in every living cell in the human body. They are the location of the 'electron transport chain', where various chemicals are converted to ATP, the most basic of all chemical energy carriers in the human (and other animal/plant organisms) body.
Midichlorians are exclusively in the Star Wars universe, and a 'count' of them determined one's affinity for feeling, interacting with, and manipulating omnipresent Force. In the original triology, there is no bureaucratic order of Jedi, so midichlorian counts were not performed. In the Star Wars universe, every living thing has SOME midichlorians, but only those with a high enough number had the abilities necessary to complete the training to become a Jedi Knight. This is similar to certain people not having the innate ability to compete in the Olympics. Everyone alive can interact with the Force to an extent, but only those born with enough midichlorians and trained properly could ever be Jedi Knights. There is no discontinuity between the two trilogies because the Jedi order didn't exist as an entity that actively sought and trained younglings with the proper credentials.
Saying the Jedi order in the I-III is 'snobby group' is like saying the U.S. Olympic Team is elitist.
by blank of course i meant those mentioning XML, but you knew that.
you specifically mentioned several worms, none of which are POC in origin, they were written with the intention of damaging. Yes, a POC worm is a hypothetical possiblity, but if you think for a second that they make up any appreciable fraction of firm POC code, you are in a different world. The fact that any worm, by definition, needs a 'given vector' consisting of an entry point into a system makes the problem the entry point. The vast majority of POC code is the entry, the privelige escalation, etc. Find me some security firm worm code, and ill give you a dollar. And overall the concept you're proving to me is back-off when talking to people with blank sigs...
there is very little POC worm code; rather POC code tends to be remote privilege escalation code that is run on an individual basis from the command line. If you could find me some real POC (from a firm perhaps?) that spread on its own, I would be very surprised. The worms that cause damage just because of the network traffic they generate are not POC, they are scriptkiddy-esque alterations of POC code without a payload. Security firms do not make POC worms.
Proof of concept virii do not inflict damage. Bad virii occasionally use proof of concept code to 'piggyback' payloads into systems, but blackhat writers typically write their own code, as POC code tends to be a little bulky and inefficient. POC virii + a dangerous payload are bad, POC code alone doesnt do any harm and is a fundamental pillar of computer science research.
Regardless of this apparent fluke, many Northern European countries have much more progressive laws concerning IP and copyrights (and most other things for that matter). This tax is being proposed by the record industry, so the motivations are questionable. Do you think they are trying to preserve the artistic soul of their product by trying to stem illegal downloading, or just trying to turn a buck?
Not true. The Register gave an vague example of a certain type of levy, but in this case the government would get the kickback. That is what makes it a tax.
While this seems extravagent (it is), places like The Netherlands and Sweden, etc. have excellent copyright and IP laws. Its widely known that taxes in those countries are very high, but unlike some nations (cough), you see that cash put to work. It would be interesting to see how they handle iPods bought in Germany or France, and brought over.
DUPE I emailed the on duty editor when i saw the red bar, nothing happened.
Addiction in the dictionary and addiction in the medical field have a significant difference from each other. For medical professionals, addictions are defined by how a certain thing (substance usually) affects one's priorities. If you are a habitual cocaine user, but it doesn't affect your ability to work, take care of your family, pay the bills, etc, you aren't technically addicted. You have a habit. If you do drugs in liu of being a responsible employee, parent, student, etc, that is an addiction.
China isn't gunning for our spot as the military superpower, they are gunning for our spot as the economic one. They have 1.3 billion people, with the right organization their GNP will outstrip that of the US in the next 50-75 years, easily.
The last-ditch efforts of a superpower that will hate being #2 when when China gets its act together in the next generation or two.
That's a mighty big leap you are making, from the Peculiar Institution to the attempted obliteration of an ethnic group that shared a religion, to abortion? Well, free speech is free speech, but you aren't helping the debate much. Regardless of your political opinion of the woman, I think that Hilary Clinton said it best, "Keep abortion safe, legal and rare." Nobody likes abortion, just like nobody likes other emotionally unsavory medical procedures. Unfortunately, what you deem to be 'proper' or 'religiously correct' should have no impact on the practices of a medical community that largely disagrees with you. I would sooner put my faith in a doctor when it comes to a medical decision (which abortion is) than a religious zealot screaming waving signs and screaming at women who are doing something that must be very emotionally taxing. But hey, what do I know, I'm a guy.
That is why there is a term called 'viability' that is used in deciding whether to abort or not. 3rd trimester abortions are the only ones where viability is up in the air, and those kinds of abortions are typically only done in cases where the mother's health is at risk, she doesn't really have a choice at that point. Hospitals focus on preserving the life of the mother more than the baby, especially in cases where the baby has a severe defect. The problem is, every pregnancy is different, so it is very hard to legislate 'when' the cutoff is. Lawmakers are scared to put in a "doctors discretion" clause because that leaves too much room. This is indeed a problem of how to legislate 3rd trimester abortions rather than a problem of should we have abortions at all. The problem with using "brain activity" as a cutoff is that what can be called brain activity occurs quite early in the pregnancy, before the fetus is viable in the least, and is most likely a totally involentary process. "Brain waves" are just coordinated electrical pulses, their presence doesn't mean the fetus is thinking, it just means the cells are functioning.