The MCG -6-30-15 paper referred to in the press release. I don't think the MCG -5-23-16 paper has been made public yet.
The most interesting thing about the paper is that Suzaku's Hard X-ray Detector (which operates in a comparatively poorly studied waveband) is consistent (based on the model of an accretion disc around a spinning black hole) with what's happening in the softer X-ray band.
But voting on a definition of an unscientific word? Scientists have their own definitions of words like force, mass, gravity, charge... now add "planet" to the very long list.
I've played tons of online RTS (etc) games with my friends and I was often the one being the server. Yes, I pay for bandwidth, but I'd pay for it anyway (I like to work from home, and remote working likes bandwidth).
They're referring to the Bullet Cluster. It's a merging system where a small cluster is passing through a large cluster leaving a shockwave that looks like a bullet's wake, hence the name. Dark Matter is collionless, i.e. the DM from the smaller system hasn't been slowed down by the collion and just zooms through. The gas is slowed down. So, the DM and gas are no longer in the same place. We can see the gas in an X-ray telescope (Chandra) and detect the mass by the gravitational lensing effect on the background galaxies. This is the first time that this has been shown, and it basically disproves the entire category of theories that DM is an illusional caused by us not understanding the action of gravity at long ranges (MOND).
"send 400 Zerglings hurtling towards the enemy base all at once"
Don't you mean:
Select 12 zerglings, send to enemy
Select 12 zerglings, send to enemy
Select 12 zerglings, send to enemy
Select 12 zerglings, send to enemy...
Starcraft is great in many ways, but awful in several others. Instead of Ghost can't we just have a version with better squad handling, order queues, and not locked to 640x480*? It'd take them a month to make, and me and half a million other fans would buy it. It's like they have so much money they don't care any more.
*I appreciate that a locked resolution creates a level playing ground. So force the same resolution among all players in multiplay, just let it be higher...
Do a google image search for "crash simulator", you'll see a lot of real, physical crash test dummies.
I wasn't talking about vat-growing things, I mean actually measuring all the components and exactly reproducing them, down to an atomic scale where needed. Not physically impossible.
You can simulate a particular chair by measuring the chair, determining what materials it's made of, and creating a duplicate. You don't really need atomic accuracy in this case. You can then simulate the original chair - i.e. sitting on the duplicate will be an exact simulation of sitting on the original one. If the duplicate floats you can be confident the original will. You can find out if the chair burns by setting fire to the duplicate. You're performing experiments without using the real thing, that's what simulation means. It's not a computer simulation, that's a specific type of simulation and not the only one.
If something exists, you can "mechanically" simulate it by building another one - simulation doesn't have to be in software. You obviously can't simulate the entire universe that way, and we don't have the technology to build a brain yet (aside from the old fashioned way). But if something exists it can exist twice. QED (maybe)
UT2004 launched as a budget game (unless you got the special edition), included a partial rebate for UT2003 and got cheaper very quickly.
UT2003 was same-old gameplay with new graphics, so I didn't buy it. UT2004 added gameplay, so I did. In fact, it was probably the best value for money of any game I've bought, and it keeps getting better. They released another map pack only a month ago.
Sending digital data like TV show start/end times along with TV broadcasts has been done for a while. It's pretty neat, the bits are hidden in the unused scanlines on analog TV. The "live" version that can avoid last minute rescheduling is called PDC, and check out Teletext. Isn't the switch to digital TV in the US coming with some form of teletext? Adding PDC would surely be a big selling point.
As far as making the journals available free on the web? Nah, don't bother, since just about everyone who has a need for journal access already has it either through their employment, university, or library.
That's fine for you and me, but what about our colleagues in the developing world? Even if social responsibility doesn't float your boat, by restricting access to the well-off we could be hindering the work of some future Einstein.
And, as a sidenote, I know that my (fairly rich) university is trying to save money on its journal subscriptions. Must be pretty hard for the poorer universities.
Why buy a book when the solution to Emacs is right here:
get shovel, look shovel, e, e, dig, look, get cpu, look cpu, se, get food, se, look bear, drop food, look, get key, sw, get bracelet, ne, nw, nw, ne, ne, ne, e, look bins, w, w, put cpu in computer, type, toukmond, robert, ls, uncompress paper.o.Z, exit, look paper, type, ftp gamma, anonymous, toukmond, binary, send lamp.o, send shovel.o, send key.o, send bracelet.o, send paper.o, quit, rlogin gamma, worms, get lamp, get shovel, get key, get bracelet, get paper, e, n, e, drop shovel, drop key, drop bracelet, drop paper, get weight, d, drop weight, nw, u, get statuette, look statuette, get floppy, se, d, nw, ne, drop floppy, w, s, e, turn dial clockwise, turn dial clockwise, turn dial clockwise, turn dial counterclockwise, turn dial counterclockwise, turn dial counterclockwise, w, n, e, get life, get shovel, get key, get bracelet, get paper, get floppy, d, nw, u, se, d, nw, nw, s, s, s, s, put diamond in chute, put bracelet in chute, s, get gold, e, e, s, d, look urinal, put gold in urinal, flush, n, sleep, d, sw, e, u, dig, look, get platinum, d, w, ne, u, s, put platinum in urinal, flush, n, d, sw, w, d, e, get towel, look towel, d, s, s, s, look pc, put floppy in pc, reset, , dir, type foo.txt => xxx (combination), exit, n, n, n, n, n, u, look box, put key in box, u, u, ne, ne, get axe, d, n, w, xxx (combination), cut cable, exit, get key, e, n, get lamp, get license, get silver, w, put silver in mail, n, n, e, e, e, e, e, get coins, get egg (in rooms 60 to 78), w, w, w, w, w, s, s, put egg in mail, put coins in mail, n, n, n, n, e, e, e, e, e, look bus, in, s, s, s, w, w, w, w, w, nw, out, n, get bone, e, e, get nitric, press switch, n, get glycerine, w, look bone, get jar, get ruby, s, w, s, in, se, out, e, e, e, e, n, n, put nitric in jar, put glycerine in jar, drop jar, in, n, n, put ruby in disposal, d, get amethyst, u, put amethyst in disposal, d, ne, sw, u, u, w, w, s, w, s, se, s, e, s, w, type, rlogin endgame, drop license, drop bone, drop key, get diamond, get gold, get platinum, get amethyst, n, n, n, n, get bill, n, get mona, s, drop bill, drop mona, drop diamond, drop gold, drop platinum, drop amethyst, s, s, s, s, get silver, get egg, get coins, get ruby, get bracelet, n, n, n, n, n, drop silver, drop egg, drop coins, drop ruby, drop bracelet, n, quit,
See the Unreal Tournament Community Bonus Pack, and the SuperStorm fan-made patch for Earth 2160. Both hosted on official download sites. The UT2003 community pack was actually included on the UT2004 DVD.
These are just the two examples I've played today...
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I'd just like to point out that there is a simpler way to get sines and cosines: measure them. Graph paper, ruler, pencil, protractor. It's not accurate but, as you neatly pointed out, nothing else is either. And you can teach it to a 6 year old, there's no threat to get group theory involved.
Part of my job as a physicist is to keep the mathematicians grounded:)
"Remember GM corn- how the scientists thought 200 yards was far enough away from natural corn to be safe...."
It's not really your fault, I guess. What we need is a word that distinguishes a real scientist from a corporate pet in a lab coat. Possibly we could use "doctor" and "doctwhore" respectively.
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Well, my Dad owns a dealership.
Did William Holden come to the party?
The MCG -6-30-15 paper referred to in the press release. I don't think the MCG -5-23-16 paper has been made public yet.
The most interesting thing about the paper is that Suzaku's Hard X-ray Detector (which operates in a comparatively poorly studied waveband) is consistent (based on the model of an accretion disc around a spinning black hole) with what's happening in the softer X-ray band.
Having 15 different names for Mars doesn't work very well because you need to refer to the damn thing.
LOL. Most of the astronomical objects I study have about 15 names. See this one, for instance:
MRK 0586 aka KUG 0205+024 aka 2E 0526...
But voting on a definition of an unscientific word?
Scientists have their own definitions of words like force, mass, gravity, charge... now add "planet" to the very long list.
I've played tons of online RTS (etc) games with my friends and I was often the one being the server. Yes, I pay for bandwidth, but I'd pay for it anyway (I like to work from home, and remote working likes bandwidth).
My spelling sucks. I mean "collisionless", i.e. able to pass through other stuff without interacting. A bit like a neutrino.
-drxray
They're referring to the Bullet Cluster. It's a merging system where a small cluster is passing through a large cluster leaving a shockwave that looks like a bullet's wake, hence the name.
Dark Matter is collionless, i.e. the DM from the smaller system hasn't been slowed down by the collion and just zooms through. The gas is slowed down. So, the DM and gas are no longer in the same place. We can see the gas in an X-ray telescope (Chandra) and detect the mass by the gravitational lensing effect on the background galaxies.
This is the first time that this has been shown, and it basically disproves the entire category of theories that DM is an illusional caused by us not understanding the action of gravity at long ranges (MOND).
Abstract from a conference talk about this. (PDF)
"send 400 Zerglings hurtling towards the enemy base all at once" Don't you mean: Select 12 zerglings, send to enemy Select 12 zerglings, send to enemy Select 12 zerglings, send to enemy Select 12 zerglings, send to enemy... Starcraft is great in many ways, but awful in several others. Instead of Ghost can't we just have a version with better squad handling, order queues, and not locked to 640x480*? It'd take them a month to make, and me and half a million other fans would buy it. It's like they have so much money they don't care any more. *I appreciate that a locked resolution creates a level playing ground. So force the same resolution among all players in multiplay, just let it be higher...
I don't think you need any extra mental skills to navigate in a first person shooter. Reality is first person too!
(I suppose you do learn to move without stereoscopic vision or feedback from your muscles and inner ear.)
"Yeah, because if there's anything that will draw teenagers to science, it's emphasizing all the HARD WORK. Brilliant."
If there's anything that'll cause huge drop out rates on science degrees, it's lying to prospective students about how difficult they are.
Science is hard. Most other jobs are hard too. Might as well do one you enjoy. And you don't have to wear a tie!
Do a google image search for "crash simulator", you'll see a lot of real, physical crash test dummies.
I wasn't talking about vat-growing things, I mean actually measuring all the components and exactly reproducing them, down to an atomic scale where needed. Not physically impossible.
You can simulate a particular chair by measuring the chair, determining what materials it's made of, and creating a duplicate. You don't really need atomic accuracy in this case. You can then simulate the original chair - i.e. sitting on the duplicate will be an exact simulation of sitting on the original one. If the duplicate floats you can be confident the original will. You can find out if the chair burns by setting fire to the duplicate. You're performing experiments without using the real thing, that's what simulation means. It's not a computer simulation, that's a specific type of simulation and not the only one.
If something exists, you can "mechanically" simulate it by building another one - simulation doesn't have to be in software.
You obviously can't simulate the entire universe that way, and we don't have the technology to build a brain yet (aside from the old fashioned way). But if something exists it can exist twice.
QED (maybe)
When you become vital to co-ordinating a nuclear retaliatory strike, the DoD will pay for your new cable/DSL modem (whichever you don't have).
A guy I know used to resell blank DVDRWs (making money via the bulk discount), and AFAIK he'd sometimes put warez on them for free.
And no, file trading between friends does not lead to prison.
UT2004 launched as a budget game (unless you got the special edition), included a partial rebate for UT2003 and got cheaper very quickly.
UT2003 was same-old gameplay with new graphics, so I didn't buy it. UT2004 added gameplay, so I did. In fact, it was probably the best value for money of any game I've bought, and it keeps getting better. They released another map pack only a month ago.
The medics in Battlefield 2 kept bringing it back :)
It might seem sarcastic, but I choose not to interpret it that way.
Sending digital data like TV show start/end times along with TV broadcasts has been done for a while. It's pretty neat, the bits are hidden in the unused scanlines on analog TV. The "live" version that can avoid last minute rescheduling is called PDC, and check out Teletext.
Isn't the switch to digital TV in the US coming with some form of teletext? Adding PDC would surely be a big selling point.
...saw this advert for the xbox 360.
That's fine for you and me, but what about our colleagues in the developing world? Even if social responsibility doesn't float your boat, by restricting access to the well-off we could be hindering the work of some future Einstein.
And, as a sidenote, I know that my (fairly rich) university is trying to save money on its journal subscriptions. Must be pretty hard for the poorer universities.
Why buy a book when the solution to Emacs is right here:
get shovel, look shovel, e, e, dig, look, get cpu, look cpu, se, get
food, se, look bear, drop food, look, get key, sw, get bracelet, ne, nw,
nw, ne, ne, ne, e, look bins, w, w, put cpu in computer, type, toukmond,
robert, ls, uncompress paper.o.Z, exit, look paper, type, ftp gamma,
anonymous, toukmond, binary, send lamp.o, send shovel.o, send key.o, send
bracelet.o, send paper.o, quit, rlogin gamma, worms, get lamp, get
shovel, get key, get bracelet, get paper, e, n, e, drop shovel, drop key,
drop bracelet, drop paper, get weight, d, drop weight, nw, u, get
statuette, look statuette, get floppy, se, d, nw, ne, drop floppy, w, s,
e, turn dial clockwise, turn dial clockwise, turn dial clockwise, turn
dial counterclockwise, turn dial counterclockwise, turn dial
counterclockwise, w, n, e, get life, get shovel, get key, get bracelet,
get paper, get floppy, d, nw, u, se, d, nw, nw, s, s, s, s, put diamond
in chute, put bracelet in chute, s, get gold, e, e, s, d, look urinal,
put gold in urinal, flush, n, sleep, d, sw, e, u, dig, look, get
platinum, d, w, ne, u, s, put platinum in urinal, flush, n, d, sw, w, d,
e, get towel, look towel, d, s, s, s, look pc, put floppy in pc, reset, ,
dir, type foo.txt => xxx (combination), exit, n, n, n, n, n, u, look box,
put key in box, u, u, ne, ne, get axe, d, n, w, xxx (combination), cut
cable, exit, get key, e, n, get lamp, get license, get silver, w, put
silver in mail, n, n, e, e, e, e, e, get coins, get egg (in rooms 60 to
78), w, w, w, w, w, s, s, put egg in mail, put coins in mail, n, n, n, n,
e, e, e, e, e, look bus, in, s, s, s, w, w, w, w, w, nw, out, n, get
bone, e, e, get nitric, press switch, n, get glycerine, w, look bone, get
jar, get ruby, s, w, s, in, se, out, e, e, e, e, n, n, put nitric in jar,
put glycerine in jar, drop jar, in, n, n, put ruby in disposal, d, get
amethyst, u, put amethyst in disposal, d, ne, sw, u, u, w, w, s, w, s,
se, s, e, s, w, type, rlogin endgame, drop license, drop bone, drop key,
get diamond, get gold, get platinum, get amethyst, n, n, n, n, get bill,
n, get mona, s, drop bill, drop mona, drop diamond, drop gold, drop
platinum, drop amethyst, s, s, s, s, get silver, get egg, get coins, get
ruby, get bracelet, n, n, n, n, n, drop silver, drop egg, drop coins,
drop ruby, drop bracelet, n, quit,
I'm afraid I can't help you with Emacs Tetris.
See the Unreal Tournament Community Bonus Pack, and the SuperStorm fan-made patch for Earth 2160. Both hosted on official download sites. The UT2003 community pack was actually included on the UT2004 DVD.
These are just the two examples I've played today...
Check this out.
Ogg is 12% of all P2Ped music. That's quite a lot.
I'd just like to point out that there is a simpler way to get sines and cosines: measure them. Graph paper, ruler, pencil, protractor. It's not accurate but, as you neatly pointed out, nothing else is either. And you can teach it to a 6 year old, there's no threat to get group theory involved.
:)
Part of my job as a physicist is to keep the mathematicians grounded
"Remember GM corn- how the scientists thought 200 yards was far enough away from natural corn to be safe...."
It's not really your fault, I guess. What we need is a word that distinguishes a real scientist from a corporate pet in a lab coat. Possibly we could use "doctor" and "doctwhore" respectively.