It's alright. I only have a passing knowledge of GIS terms, having learned just enough to communicate with the GIS people to get a project at my old company done. I did actually mean to say topography, having never heard of bathymetry, or at least not caring enough to remember.
I can't believe I'm geeking myself out like this, but:
It depends which warp scale you are using. In the newer warp scale, warp 10 is considered infinite velocity. The scale between Warp 9 and Warp 10 is logarithmic. I don't remember all the details, but sadly it is very easy to look up. There are a lot of sites dedicated to all things Trekky,
Ah, didn't realize that Google's scope was limited to the US. I guess I haven't ventured outside the US on Google Maps until I started exploring the satellite stuff. I guess I figured they'd have the white-outs like they do for Mexico, Cuba,etc.
I guess they figured it was pretty easy to include both of Canada's roads;)
Actually, the "satellite" images that Google is using for city-level viewing are aerial [ortho-]photos. And even though they are watermarked with 2005 Google all over, they are actually several years old (at least in Wake Co., NC. - they appear to be 2002). Like someone else posted, they appear to be the same photos that have been available elsewhere, like terraserver. And yes, MapQuest used to have this. It pissed me off when they took it off. But now I have GMaps and they are so much sweeeter anyways.
Oh, and in case it sounds like I could care less about this, thanks Google for adding satellite/aerial photos/topology(like the ocean depths) to your maps.
P.S. - I zoomed in on Bermuda in the satellite but couldn't find it on the worresponding map. Does anyone know why? Is the map incomplete or out of alignment with the satellite/aerials?
He very well might have meant curve, as in the "orbital velocity vs. radius from the center of the galaxy" curve. Check out wiki's explanation of this problem. Then again, maybe he didn't, but it is a very interesting phenomenon.
I like the chemistry/spectroscopy idea. If that is how they decided, I could believe that. They have gotten very good at looking at H/He and metal ratios and figuring stuff out. Thanks for your insight.
Thanks. I don't doubt their trajectory calculation. They can figure that out from velocity pretty well. I don't remember seeing how long ago this would have occurred (relative to its observed location), but it had to have been so long ago that they could never find its partner. It sounds like you are telling me that they are saying binary because it is the best model they have right? That's fine with me, I just didn't like how that was passed along as fact by the article without any explanation. (I had assumed that a very close slingshot might be able to achieve a high exit velocity...)
Personally, I would like to know how they figured out that it is a binary system remnant. Obviously, they couldn't have observed them together so is it based on computer models of what they think must have happened? This all seems just as plausible with a solitary star to me.
You're right. This isn't new. From the top of TFA:
FIELD MANUAL NO 34-40-2 HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY Washington, DC, 13 September 1990
The original for this came from <a href=http://www.atsc-army.org/cgi-win/$atdl.exe/fm/34-40-2/default.htm>here</a> on Tue Dec 17 01:21:11 EST 1996.
This thing is 14 years old and has been public for over 8 years (at least) and somebody thinks that it is worth putting on slashdot. Thanks.
(P.S. - note that the link they used for "here" doesn't even work./.ed maybe?)
I wonder if God (or Nature if you prefer) will send them a cease and desist letter, making them pull it off their website, forcing us to look for a.torrent?
Are there any good games out there where it is better to work in groups and your opponents are another set of users or AI? Like if all the users were assigned to different tribes? Then PvP between tribes isn't so bad, it's natural. Or if every is basically working against a common enemy, etc.?
Personally, I prefer the cooperative modes on Halo, Medal of Honor, etc. and games like Heroes of D&D, where you can work together.
So by the time we start using the moon as a base for traveling to Mars, the patents will have expired and we can use the tech for free. Thanks! (Sometimes researching years ahead of the need doesn't pay off.)
You do realize that this was a statewide election and that the problems happened at a single polling station in a single county (out of 100), right? ~2.5 million North Carolinians voted for President, and I would assume that about that number voted in this race as well. so 2300 votes is a margin of less than 0.1%. That is a pretty close race.
I don't really have a dog in this race, despite being from NC, but it seems to me ($0.02) that they should only repoll the ~4500 people whose votes were lost. Rather than letting the candidates affect the outcome by campaigning to people who didn't bother to vote the first time. If only the lost votes are repolled, the results should be pretty similar to what they would have been if the votes had not been lost.
Oh, and since you were nit-picking, when you only have 1 sig-fig, 8000-3000=5000 doesn't mean that the answer isn't actually closer to 4500.
Yeah, maybe like a $5/yr or %0.1 of earnings from said work, whichever is greater? It's weird for me to come up with such a capitalist-sounding idea when I usually seem to be more of a socialist.
Oh, I agree that no one might know who owns it, and the ownership might legally be a little fuzzy, but someone owns it, it is not part of the public domain.
I also agree with many of the other posters that it seems absurd to have a work copyrighted when the owners don't care. It would be nice if they had to do a quick renewal (i.e. minor paperwork) every X years so that ignored copyrights really would enter public domain. Maybe there should be a maintenance fee on [software] copyrights. If you don't care enough to pay for your copyright (because no one is paying for it?) you shouldn't care if other people want to use it.
Some of the programmers I work with don't understand that water (when used with soap) can help remove that small that follows them around. I wonder if some of these scientists have the same problem.
Um, how did the company collapse? If the doors simply shut, then someone still owns the IP (stockholders possibly). Even if it went bankrupt, someone probably retained rights to the IP, either a previous investor, debtor, or something.
Not at all. She has to be able to read the agreement or it can't be binding. The EULA we are talking about is more like those checks you get in the mail where on the back it says "if you cash this check then we 0wn you." Kind of like that check I got yesterday for $5000.75 that if you cash it turns into a loan with 22% interest! I promptly ripped it up, thereby not accepting their agreement. Besides how would you [legally] even know if she had opened it?
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...more ads like that in next year's Super Bowl.
It's alright. I only have a passing knowledge of GIS terms, having learned just enough to communicate with the GIS people to get a project at my old company done. I did actually mean to say topography, having never heard of bathymetry, or at least not caring enough to remember.
I can't believe I'm geeking myself out like this, but:
It depends which warp scale you are using. In the newer warp scale, warp 10 is considered infinite velocity. The scale between Warp 9 and Warp 10 is logarithmic. I don't remember all the details, but sadly it is very easy to look up. There are a lot of sites dedicated to all things Trekky,
Ah, didn't realize that Google's scope was limited to the US. I guess I haven't ventured outside the US on Google Maps until I started exploring the satellite stuff. I guess I figured they'd have the white-outs like they do for Mexico, Cuba,etc.
I guess they figured it was pretty easy to include both of Canada's roads;)
Actually, the "satellite" images that Google is using for city-level viewing are aerial [ortho-]photos. And even though they are watermarked with 2005 Google all over, they are actually several years old (at least in Wake Co., NC. - they appear to be 2002). Like someone else posted, they appear to be the same photos that have been available elsewhere, like terraserver. And yes, MapQuest used to have this. It pissed me off when they took it off. But now I have GMaps and they are so much sweeeter anyways.
Oh, and in case it sounds like I could care less about this, thanks Google for adding satellite/aerial photos/topology(like the ocean depths) to your maps.
P.S. - I zoomed in on Bermuda in the satellite but couldn't find it on the worresponding map. Does anyone know why? Is the map incomplete or out of alignment with the satellite/aerials?
He very well might have meant curve, as in the "orbital velocity vs. radius from the center of the galaxy" curve. Check out wiki's explanation of this problem. Then again, maybe he didn't, but it is a very interesting phenomenon.
I like the chemistry/spectroscopy idea. If that is how they decided, I could believe that. They have gotten very good at looking at H/He and metal ratios and figuring stuff out. Thanks for your insight.
Thanks. I don't doubt their trajectory calculation. They can figure that out from velocity pretty well. I don't remember seeing how long ago this would have occurred (relative to its observed location), but it had to have been so long ago that they could never find its partner. It sounds like you are telling me that they are saying binary because it is the best model they have right? That's fine with me, I just didn't like how that was passed along as fact by the article without any explanation. (I had assumed that a very close slingshot might be able to achieve a high exit velocity...)
Personally, I would like to know how they figured out that it is a binary system remnant. Obviously, they couldn't have observed them together so is it based on computer models of what they think must have happened? This all seems just as plausible with a solitary star to me.
(P.S. - note that the link they used for "here" doesn't even work.
I wonder if God (or Nature if you prefer) will send them a cease and desist letter, making them pull it off their website, forcing us to look for a .torrent?
Or you could just ban any Perl program that is longer than 465 bytes. I know a lot of people that would be glad to see that. (not me mind you)
Are there any good games out there where it is better to work in groups and your opponents are another set of users or AI? Like if all the users were assigned to different tribes? Then PvP between tribes isn't so bad, it's natural. Or if every is basically working against a common enemy, etc.?
Personally, I prefer the cooperative modes on Halo, Medal of Honor, etc. and games like Heroes of D&D, where you can work together.
So by the time we start using the moon as a base for traveling to Mars, the patents will have expired and we can use the tech for free. Thanks! (Sometimes researching years ahead of the need doesn't pay off.)
You do realize that this was a statewide election and that the problems happened at a single polling station in a single county (out of 100), right? ~2.5 million North Carolinians voted for President, and I would assume that about that number voted in this race as well. so 2300 votes is a margin of less than 0.1%. That is a pretty close race.
I don't really have a dog in this race, despite being from NC, but it seems to me ($0.02) that they should only repoll the ~4500 people whose votes were lost. Rather than letting the candidates affect the outcome by campaigning to people who didn't bother to vote the first time. If only the lost votes are repolled, the results should be pretty similar to what they would have been if the votes had not been lost.
Oh, and since you were nit-picking, when you only have 1 sig-fig, 8000-3000=5000 doesn't mean that the answer isn't actually closer to 4500.
Yeah, maybe like a $5/yr or %0.1 of earnings from said work, whichever is greater? It's weird for me to come up with such a capitalist-sounding idea when I usually seem to be more of a socialist.
Oh, I agree that no one might know who owns it, and the ownership might legally be a little fuzzy, but someone owns it, it is not part of the public domain.
I also agree with many of the other posters that it seems absurd to have a work copyrighted when the owners don't care. It would be nice if they had to do a quick renewal (i.e. minor paperwork) every X years so that ignored copyrights really would enter public domain. Maybe there should be a maintenance fee on [software] copyrights. If you don't care enough to pay for your copyright (because no one is paying for it?) you shouldn't care if other people want to use it.
Nothing like a typo to bring out the asshats. Thanks for your input.
That would be smell, not small. Oops.
Some of the programmers I work with don't understand that water (when used with soap) can help remove that small that follows them around. I wonder if some of these scientists have the same problem.
Um, how did the company collapse? If the doors simply shut, then someone still owns the IP (stockholders possibly). Even if it went bankrupt, someone probably retained rights to the IP, either a previous investor, debtor, or something.
Not at all. She has to be able to read the agreement or it can't be binding. The EULA we are talking about is more like those checks you get in the mail where on the back it says "if you cash this check then we 0wn you." Kind of like that check I got yesterday for $5000.75 that if you cash it turns into a loan with 22% interest! I promptly ripped it up, thereby not accepting their agreement. Besides how would you [legally] even know if she had opened it?
Oh, and my roommate in high school was Mike Hunt!