Sigh. From the article: three U.S. hydrogen bombs fell by accident 40 years ago may trigger a new joint U.S.-Spanish clean-up operation, officials said on Wednesday.
The hydrogen bombs fell near the fishing village of Palomares in 1966 after a mid-air collision between a bomber and a refuelling craft, in which seven of 11 crewmen died.
Um, what? 802.11n has takes that up to 50 metres, and we all know that a good directional antena can pick up signals from a great distance.
And there is no reason to think that somone attempting to crack a system will use legal wattages to do it!
I hope I am not feeding a troll here....
Probably because noone selected a licence from the drop-down box on the submission form. And _that_ was probably because parts of the code are under at least 2 licences, one of which is non-free.
Just to remind you, 50% means every second letter is wrong. As in, you've got a 6.25% chance that a four-letter word would be correct. (Bit like my typing skills). I think you need something a bit better than that....
Will it work when the net partiality ISPs are charging $0 for their offerings (or even paying you!), and the net neutralities must charge a few hundred to break even?
I find it intersting that many people are complaining about the colour temperature of CFLs. I don't know if it is the case in other countries, but here in Australia, we have the choice of at least three, sold as 'warm white', 'white' and 'daylight'. Personally, I much prefer the slightly blue tone of daylight, find white acceptable, and 'warm white' is more a horrid, dull orange. Can you get a range of colour temperatures in other countries?
True: I didn't think of that at the time.
Yes, they could have done better with the definition: Although maybe it will be further fleshed out, and the definitions of the terms used clarified (what do they mean by 'cleared?, for example.)
Still, no definiton of a planet that maintains sanity will include the first of the kupiter belt objects to be discovered (ie, Pluto)
(OP Here) So, option 4: abandon the word. That was actually my preference, but I think it is less than ideal: somewhat of a easy-way-out. But their decision has had a great effect: It's got peopole talking and thinking about astronomy. Even if they think the IAU is wrong, at least they think: that's got to be a good thing.
Mercury is twice the size and 4 times the mass of Pluto. Mercury has a circular orbit, on the planetery plane, and has cleared its orbit. There is only one body like Mercury, whereas there are many like pluto.
As an interesting extension, it could be argued that Neptune has also 'cleared' its orbit. Pluto is locked into a 3:2 orbit with Neptune, and this is fixed by Neptune's gravity. Neptune has forced Pluto into a stable orbit WRT itself, and so has cleared its orbit. Correct decision, IAU, well done
It's not just Xena, Charon and the asteroid Ceres: there are hudreds of pluto-like objects out there. If we created a definition that included pluto, then we would have to accept those hundreds of others.
I don't know if that is a reasonable option
So, what should they have done?
Left it undefined, and stated that there are nine planets, MVEMJSNP, despite what we know about the solar system. This option is ridiculous, but it seems to be what many are suggesting.
Create a definition which removes pluto, but include it for sentimental reasons. I don't think this idea is any better
Make a definition that includes pluto, and untold hundreds of other objects. That is chaos.
Abandon the word 'planet', and let the media use it to describe anything they wish. Then create their own, new nomenclature system that accurately describes the universe as we know it. This is sane, but maybe not elegant.
Define 'planet' according to our current knowledge, correcting the mistaken labelling of pluto in the process. This really is the only good option, and is the one they have taken.
I think that the word 'planet' has been thoroughly missused, to the point that it no longer has a scientific meaning. Astronomers should recognise this, make their own, new, descriptive system of nomenclature, and leave the word 'planet' to our imaginations, newspapers and their universities media offices.
A nice suggestion was made by another poster: Extending the greek/latin roots of the words asteroid etc.
I recently saw a documentary that was promoting solar power. They stated, proudly, that harnessing 50km square, they could power Australia. They illustrated that by painting a 50km square yellow on a google maps picture of Australia. Looked small. Looked easy.
Until you do the maths and realise that they are talking about 2500 km^2 (50kmx50km). And they did not mention 'efficency' anywhere - can 50% be achieved? Does that make it >5000km^2?. When expressed like that, you realize that solar power will never solve anyone's energy needs, outside of low-quantity, remote power schemes.
A real art major (or knower of basic science, for that matter) would know that magenta is the color you get if you mix red and blue in an additive system, as happens when the green circuits fail on a CRT.
One suggestion: Do this in a poorly lit area, and have lights mounted on your cameras. (Ideally, they would be almost the only light sources.) Use reflective tape for the dots. You will then have very bright spots on an almost black background. That will make recognising the spots easy, even for the most brain-dead of algorythms.
Professional 'body mechanics' use reflective spheres.
Many published lyrics and chord sheets (I'm a keyboard noodler, so I don't try the tabs) seem to contain obvious errors. Things that anyone with an ear will know are wrong, not just mishearings. I've usually considered these to be inserted for legal reasons.
No, you cannot whistle your favourite song on the street. That is a public performance, and is a violation of copyright. Remember, stores selling instruments have to pay royalites, in case a customers noodling happens to resemble a copyrighted work. Oh what a borken web we weave.
People become musicians by playing with music. First step is often chord based from sites like OLGA. Then progressing to full tablatures, again from OLGA. Then they are good enought to start making money. Then they start paying royalties on songs they cover when they start selling music, or mildly serious public performance. RIAA starts making money. But it all starts from those guitar tabs! RIAA makes money from talent. Talent starts from OLGA. So RIAA makes their money thanks to OLGA. What a great reasong for RIAA to shut it down. If I thought that they had any logic, I'd be puzzled. But this is just so typical.
A client's laptop started complaining. I checked its key, and it did not match the key on the sticker. So I attempted to change the key. No go with MS's vba script. No go with the activation wizard (which is another suggested way to change it) - it stated that the key was invalid. Further 'hacking' with the activation wizard (No, I don't know what I did, but there was a maximum of three buttons I could have clicked, and one of them was 'cancel!') got me a key I could use on the phone, and, after telling a bored Indian the story ("Have you installed this software on any other machine?" - I swear that quoting a snatch of Alice in Wonderland would have succeded!) he coughed up the activation code. WGA no more, but my it's a drag!
If I charged them full price, It may well have been more than a new licence. Even so, it probably would have taken just as long to get it to accept the freshly bought key.
Actually, it has a large anti-greenhouse effect, well, for something done by one person on one farm, anyway.
Remember that methane is a very effective greenhouse gas. Collecting and burning it exchanges it for much more friendly CO2, as well as replacing coal produced energy.
There is a town in europe (Germany, maybe?) that is running its bus and train fleet on methane.
What is the biggest problem with software? Second-System Effect! 2SE makes life so much harder.
So, opera, continue to work on bug fixes, keep an eye out on useful, underlying technologies (bittorent, css updates (which is getting 2se'd as well!), and leave the bells, whistles and gongs to others!!
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I don't know about your story, but I do know that the focal length of the hubble miror was wrong, and they only detected it when it was actually in space, due to damage (lost chip of paint IIRC) to a mesuremant device.s sions/sts-103/hubble/archive/900914.html : Search for "hubble glasses" reveals others.
http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/space/mi
Well, I don't understand the rules or point of baseball, for that matter.
Sigh. From the article:
three U.S. hydrogen bombs fell by accident 40 years ago may trigger a new joint U.S.-Spanish clean-up operation, officials said on Wednesday.
The hydrogen bombs fell near the fishing village of Palomares in 1966 after a mid-air collision between a bomber and a refuelling craft, in which seven of 11 crewmen died.
Um, what? 802.11n has takes that up to 50 metres, and we all know that a good directional antena can pick up signals from a great distance. And there is no reason to think that somone attempting to crack a system will use legal wattages to do it! I hope I am not feeding a troll here....
Probably because noone selected a licence from the drop-down box on the submission form. And _that_ was probably because parts of the code are under at least 2 licences, one of which is non-free.
Just to remind you, 50% means every second letter is wrong. As in, you've got a 6.25% chance that a four-letter word would be correct. (Bit like my typing skills). I think you need something a bit better than that....
Will it work when the net partiality ISPs are charging $0 for their offerings (or even paying you!), and the net neutralities must charge a few hundred to break even?
I find it intersting that many people are complaining about the colour temperature of CFLs. I don't know if it is the case in other countries, but here in Australia, we have the choice of at least three, sold as 'warm white', 'white' and 'daylight'. Personally, I much prefer the slightly blue tone of daylight, find white acceptable, and 'warm white' is more a horrid, dull orange.
Can you get a range of colour temperatures in other countries?
True: I didn't think of that at the time. Yes, they could have done better with the definition: Although maybe it will be further fleshed out, and the definitions of the terms used clarified (what do they mean by 'cleared?, for example.) Still, no definiton of a planet that maintains sanity will include the first of the kupiter belt objects to be discovered (ie, Pluto)
(OP Here)
So, option 4: abandon the word. That was actually my preference, but I think it is less than ideal: somewhat of a easy-way-out.
But their decision has had a great effect: It's got peopole talking and thinking about astronomy. Even if they think the IAU is wrong, at least they think: that's got to be a good thing.
Mercury is twice the size and 4 times the mass of Pluto.
Mercury has a circular orbit, on the planetery plane, and has cleared its orbit.
There is only one body like Mercury, whereas there are many like pluto.
As an interesting extension, it could be argued that Neptune has also 'cleared' its orbit. Pluto is locked into a 3:2 orbit with Neptune, and this is fixed by Neptune's gravity. Neptune has forced Pluto into a stable orbit WRT itself, and so has cleared its orbit.
Correct decision, IAU, well done
It's not just Xena, Charon and the asteroid Ceres: there are hudreds of pluto-like objects out there. If we created a definition that included pluto, then we would have to accept those hundreds of others.
I don't know if that is a reasonable option
So, what should they have done?
An old lady on the radio last night reminded us of {on of} the standard memory aids:
She suggested that it should become
I think that the word 'planet' has been thoroughly missused, to the point that it no longer has a scientific meaning. Astronomers should recognise this, make their own, new, descriptive system of nomenclature, and leave the word 'planet' to our imaginations, newspapers and their universities media offices.
A nice suggestion was made by another poster: Extending the greek/latin roots of the words asteroid etc.
I recently saw a documentary that was promoting solar power. They stated, proudly, that harnessing 50km square, they could power Australia. They illustrated that by painting a 50km square yellow on a google maps picture of Australia. Looked small. Looked easy.
Until you do the maths and realise that they are talking about 2500 km^2 (50kmx50km). And they did not mention 'efficency' anywhere - can 50% be achieved? Does that make it >5000km^2?. When expressed like that, you realize that solar power will never solve anyone's energy needs, outside of low-quantity, remote power schemes.
A real art major (or knower of basic science, for that matter) would know that magenta is the color you get if you mix red and blue in an additive system, as happens when the green circuits fail on a CRT.
One suggestion: Do this in a poorly lit area, and have lights mounted on your cameras. (Ideally, they would be almost the only light sources.) Use reflective tape for the dots.
You will then have very bright spots on an almost black background. That will make recognising the spots easy, even for the most brain-dead of algorythms.
Professional 'body mechanics' use reflective spheres.
Many published lyrics and chord sheets (I'm a keyboard noodler, so I don't try the tabs) seem to contain obvious errors. Things that anyone with an ear will know are wrong, not just mishearings. I've usually considered these to be inserted for legal reasons.
No, you cannot whistle your favourite song on the street. That is a public performance, and is a violation of copyright.
Remember, stores selling instruments have to pay royalites, in case a customers noodling happens to resemble a copyrighted work. Oh what a borken web we weave.
People become musicians by playing with music. First step is often chord based from sites like OLGA. Then progressing to full tablatures, again from OLGA. Then they are good enought to start making money.
Then they start paying royalties on songs they cover when they start selling music, or mildly serious public performance. RIAA starts making money. But it all starts from those guitar tabs!
RIAA makes money from talent. Talent starts from OLGA. So RIAA makes their money thanks to OLGA. What a great reasong for RIAA to shut it down.
If I thought that they had any logic, I'd be puzzled. But this is just so typical.
Here is my WGA story.
A client's laptop started complaining. I checked its key, and it did not match the key on the sticker. So I attempted to change the key. No go with MS's vba script. No go with the activation wizard (which is another suggested way to change it) - it stated that the key was invalid. Further 'hacking' with the activation wizard (No, I don't know what I did, but there was a maximum of three buttons I could have clicked, and one of them was 'cancel!') got me a key I could use on the phone, and, after telling a bored Indian the story ("Have you installed this software on any other machine?" - I swear that quoting a snatch of Alice in Wonderland would have succeded!) he coughed up the activation code. WGA no more, but my it's a drag!
If I charged them full price, It may well have been more than a new licence. Even so, it probably would have taken just as long to get it to accept the freshly bought key.
Just a note to try to prevent this comment being lost.
Actually, it has a large anti-greenhouse effect, well, for something done by one person on one farm, anyway.
Remember that methane is a very effective greenhouse gas. Collecting and burning it exchanges it for much more friendly CO2, as well as replacing coal produced energy.
There is a town in europe (Germany, maybe?) that is running its bus and train fleet on methane.
What is the biggest problem with software? Second-System Effect! 2SE makes life so much harder.
So, opera, continue to work on bug fixes, keep an eye out on useful, underlying technologies (bittorent, css updates (which is getting 2se'd as well!), and leave the bells, whistles and gongs to others!!