see above: One interior region of the Antarctic is known as The Dry Valleys. These valleys have not seen rainfall in over two million years. With the exception of one valley, whose lakes are briefly filled with water by inland flowing rivers during the summer, the Dry Valleys contain no moisture (water, ice, or snow). And even if there was snow and ice you can take ice cores and use radiation dating techniques similiar to Radio-Carbon dating to date the snowfall/ice etc. This technique is used extensively for exbiditions in Greenland.
Evidence for those who disbelieve: One interior region of the Antarctic is known as The Dry Valleys. These valleys have not seen rainfall in over two million years. With the exception of one valley, whose lakes are briefly filled with water by inland flowing rivers during the summer, the Dry Valleys contain no moisture (water, ice, or snow). Please see the following as well: http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~owen/MD2001/ANTAR CTIC/UM Handout.Info.html
The statement i made was regarding percipitation, regardless of what is on the ground, central Antartica has been without rainfall longer than the Atacama Desert, hence it is the driest place on earth by my statement.
It is a widely held misconception that the Atacam desert in Chile is the driest place on Earth, in fact the driest place on Earth is in the center of Antartica where there has been no percipitation in over 10,000 years.
It seems to me that this could be great; I just finished my second year of school and there is nothing worse than listening to truly bad questions being asked in the midst of a lecture or missing something small and not being able recover in the midst of the lecture and thereby losing the value of the remainder of the lecture.
If one could set up a system whereby an ongoing dialouge relating to the lecture is occuring so as to ask those stupid questions that are of limited value and to increase the overall understanding of the material at hand while being inconspicuous enough so as not to distract from the lecturer then the way large classes are conducted could, potentially, be revolutionized.
well, i like your explanation; quite well written. and here's the but (there is always a but) the esitmation of dark matter is incorrect. the total amount of baryonic matter in the universe (according to WMAP) is about 4% everything else is 'strange'; now dark matter is the matter that is intended to account for the observed disparity between the luminosity of face on galaxies and their total gravity ie mass. this percentage is actually closer to 97% (in recent measurements) per galaxy, however there is matter between the galaxies and in the universe freely (forgive the misrepresentation) and some have proposed that the dark matter is baryonic, like Neutral Hydrogen, HI, this would make 97% of the 4% of the universe dark matter. now, most folks don't believe the dark matter is baryonic and so it can be accounted for in the 96% of the universe that isn't baryonic, however approximately 60% (these off the top of my head, may be incorrect) is dark energy which is seperate and distinct from dark matter, leaving the other 36% (based on my memory) to account for dark matter and every or anything else. my numbers may be incorrect, but you get the general idea. look up WMAP if you are truly interested.
so that estimation is highly suspect. let us begin with the most trivial and work out; first of all the scientists who conducted this survey summed the number of stars they saw in a strip and then added the number of stars that were in each of the 10,000 galaxies they saw. however, you can not see all the stars in each in galaxy, nor can you even see all the light emitted from each galaxy due to inclination and extinction. thus they must have estimated the number of stars based on the mass of the galaxy, aside from the fact that massing a galaxy returns a questionable answering, they must have assumed that the stars were of some certain mass probably around a solar mass, which is an inaccurate assumption, to say the least. Next, these so called scientists took the total number of stars (guessed at) in the strip of sky they surveyed and multiplied it by the total number of strips needed to fill the sky, this is essentially the technique one uses to estimate total number of people in a crowd, however the greates flaw in this method is one assumes that the universe is uniformly distributed! and this is a gross misrepresentation. Finally, the survey made use of two ground based telescopes and the fact is that they only counted the total number of 'visible' stars and they're visible stars are stars visible on the ground which means that they have counted nearby and fairly bright objects.
so, i don't know how many stars are out there, the errors that are easily identifiable may have cancelled each other out, but more than likely these folks are way off with either way more or way less stars than the 70 sextillion CNN touts. However, this is all useless, why would you want to know the total number of stars in the universe, what possible value can it have? seems to be just a boondoggle to me...
actually, the results from the wmap show that the universe is at least 13 billion years old, but may be older. incidently, if the universe is only 13 billion years old then this planet could not exist based on our present understanding of BBNS (Big Bang Nucleo-Synthesis), according to this theory it would have taken about 300,000 years for the Universe to have cooled enough for molecular hydrogen to form, let alone other things needed, and if this is the case then there would not be enough matter (and enough variety of matter) for a solar system to have formed according to the acreation disk model.
Wow, you're as ignorant as the people you despise. He didn't only serve white folks, he did quite a bit at the state level to serve the general good, while governor he ended the poll tax (a jim crow law that sought to subjugate black folks) he also enlisted prosecution of 28 white men involved in a lynching, this act is widely regarded as the event that ended lynching in south carolina. He also went after the KKK in South Carolina, declaring that they were the most abominable sort of lawlessness. His problem with segregation was twofold, yes it was racist for him to not want an 'intermingling' of the races, and I don't defend that, but mostly he was a fervent believer in State's rights which he thought were being abridged by the Federal Integration Laws. Further, he effectively brought the 'pork' to South Carolina for both whites and blacks, he was no Lester Maddox.
First of all, for all it's failings NT 4.0 was a half decent OS and was the architecture behind the first network I really worked on so Im sad to see it go simply because of nostalgia. Second of all, have some respect for Strom; old strom may have been mixed up in the most racist politics of this century, and he was what we may consider on the wrong side of the issue, but at least he had convictions, held true to them, fought for them and spoke his mind. The ole son of a bitch really fought for States rights and did a hell of a lot for the people of his state, I am sad to see the 100 year old public servant, for that's what he was, go.
Recall though, that the WWW and the Internet are two distinct things. They happen to overlap and to some extent are the same thing now but they weren't originally. I do see your point, though, that minitel is interesting because it was reg'lar folks compared to the academicians and spooks and defense wonks that ran Darpanet; however, it seems apparent that the Internet really sprang and evolved out of Darpanet where as Minitel is still running a somewhat, how shall I put this, archaic system. I find it hard to believe that an entirely isolated and non-evolving system can be considered even a proto internet when obviously its effects on the current Internet were limited if any.
'Calling Minitel a proto-internet may be a bit of a stretch, but it is not far off'
What about Darpanet? Isn't that the true proto-internet given that it predates minitel and was a much larger network and, oh yeah, formed the backbone of the internet?
yeah i had heard that before, about the elephants and horses. that's a great quote, one i had never seen before. i was never a big fan of edison, something about him has always bothered me for some reason... always sensed a bit of hypocricy in what he said (see above quote).
hahaha that's quite funny. It is somewhat bitterly ironic that two men, who loathed eachother somewhat bitterly and whose rivalry drove one of them (Edison) to electricute dogs to show that the others (Tesla's) type of power (AC) was 'unsafe', have their brilliance combined and modified to now allow such wonderful things as ubiquetous wireless access.
That's about the coolest thing since sliced bread, or at least O'Reilly books... The lead in made it sound like something out of Tesla's imagination, wireless power sources and what not, but it's very cool anyway. What sort of range could you get on a device like that, ie how many would it take to fill a conference hall or large resteraunt?
My old highschool, Fayetteville Highschool, fayetteville, Arkansas, has been running this application since 1999. It was mildly useful but horrendously insecure. Happy Grade changing everyone!
There are many such products out there that can build 3d GIS views based on elevation data and textured with satelite or ariel photography. Applications like Community Viz and PCI and even the Arc View 3.2 3d extention can be very useful and equally good at producing 'realistic' views based on elevation data, building foot prints, and any other data.
a small, private plane, filled with tech industry folks is flying to seatle when it is caught in a dense fog. the pilot can't see anything, and by some random chance the ITS is out so he can't land blind. by luck he sees a light on in a building in the distance and flies to the window and shouts: "Where am I?" the man in the office responds: "In a plane" the pilot then flies two miles out and banks to the left and makes a perfect blind landing. on the ground the passengers asked him how he knew where the airport was. he said "i knew the only place where i would get a perfectly accurate and entirely useless answer like that would be at the microsoft campus"
That's remarkable, i had no idea that Pangloss was Voltaire's characterization of Leibnitz. Although looking back through my memories of Candide it becomes obvious, now that it has been pointed out, and quite a good and humorous characterization it was. If you have not read candide (to the general reader) you should, remarkably funny. However, i wonder if leibnitz, too, contracted syphulus and began to wear a silver nose:-)
ahh yes, those captains of industry, those masters of the computing beast, who reside in their ivory tower of pure business practices, nestled in redmond, Microsoft. They are the true inovators of this land, and should be rewarded for their impecable virtues. Thank god for their production of the greastest ideas in the world. who would want to own software when they can rent it bug free and fully monitored from Papa Bill and his many friends at Microsoft....
I read that about 5 years ago when I was in eigth grade, it took me all of about three days and I have never forgotten it. I picked it up on chance from the local library and happend to do so when I was first getting interested in Physics, Programming, hacking, etc... If you get a chance it is an amazing story, and incredibly cool. I believe the characters in it are permanetly banned from Las Vegas because of their ability to win at roullete by using a shoe-computer. Great book!
So what happens if our government refuses to extradite the Movie Execs? I assume we have extradition treaties with Australia, what sort of recourse do they have?
What sort of process do you go about when you come across a patent for a device (especially a technology device) that is in everyday use? Forinstance, the "hyper link", how do you determine if that is even patentable.
George Bush, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Dubya, Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, these are my hereos those Men who truly look out for my best interests Hello, Mr. Lay. What are you doing here?
It was sarcasm, I was being sarcastic, I was expressing my self using hyperbolae and making a somewhat failed attempt at saying absurd things for the sake of humor. I do not believe that those men are heroes, I loathe them and abhor the idea that they ever existed. Sorry for the confusion.
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Isn't this vigilantism? Isn't that a felony?
see above:
One interior region of the Antarctic is known as The Dry Valleys. These valleys have not seen rainfall in over two million years. With the exception of one valley, whose lakes are briefly filled with water by inland flowing rivers during the summer, the Dry Valleys contain no moisture (water, ice, or snow).
And even if there was snow and ice you can take ice cores and use radiation dating techniques similiar to Radio-Carbon dating to date the snowfall/ice etc. This technique is used extensively for exbiditions in Greenland.
Evidence for those who disbelieve:R CTIC/UM Handout.Info.html
One interior region of the Antarctic is known as The Dry Valleys. These valleys have not seen rainfall in over two million years. With the exception of one valley, whose lakes are briefly filled with water by inland flowing rivers during the summer, the Dry Valleys contain no moisture (water, ice, or snow).
Please see the following as well:
http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~owen/MD2001/ANTA
The statement i made was regarding percipitation, regardless of what is on the ground, central Antartica has been without rainfall longer than the Atacama Desert, hence it is the driest place on earth by my statement.
It is a widely held misconception that the Atacam desert in Chile is the driest place on Earth, in fact the driest place on Earth is in the center of Antartica where there has been no percipitation in over 10,000 years.
It seems to me that this could be great; I just finished my second year of school and there is nothing worse than listening to truly bad questions being asked in the midst of a lecture or missing something small and not being able recover in the midst of the lecture and thereby losing the value of the remainder of the lecture.
If one could set up a system whereby an ongoing dialouge relating to the lecture is occuring so as to ask those stupid questions that are of limited value and to increase the overall understanding of the material at hand while being inconspicuous enough so as not to distract from the lecturer then the way large classes are conducted could, potentially, be revolutionized.
well, i like your explanation; quite well written. and here's the but (there is always a but) the esitmation of dark matter is incorrect. the total amount of baryonic matter in the universe (according to WMAP) is about 4% everything else is 'strange'; now dark matter is the matter that is intended to account for the observed disparity between the luminosity of face on galaxies and their total gravity ie mass. this percentage is actually closer to 97% (in recent measurements) per galaxy, however there is matter between the galaxies and in the universe freely (forgive the misrepresentation) and some have proposed that the dark matter is baryonic, like Neutral Hydrogen, HI, this would make 97% of the 4% of the universe dark matter. now, most folks don't believe the dark matter is baryonic and so it can be accounted for in the 96% of the universe that isn't baryonic, however approximately 60% (these off the top of my head, may be incorrect) is dark energy which is seperate and distinct from dark matter, leaving the other 36% (based on my memory) to account for dark matter and every or anything else.
my numbers may be incorrect, but you get the general idea. look up WMAP if you are truly interested.
so that estimation is highly suspect. let us begin with the most trivial and work out; first of all the scientists who conducted this survey summed the number of stars they saw in a strip and then added the number of stars that were in each of the 10,000 galaxies they saw. however, you can not see all the stars in each in galaxy, nor can you even see all the light emitted from each galaxy due to inclination and extinction. thus they must have estimated the number of stars based on the mass of the galaxy, aside from the fact that massing a galaxy returns a questionable answering, they must have assumed that the stars were of some certain mass probably around a solar mass, which is an inaccurate assumption, to say the least. Next, these so called scientists took the total number of stars (guessed at) in the strip of sky they surveyed and multiplied it by the total number of strips needed to fill the sky, this is essentially the technique one uses to estimate total number of people in a crowd, however the greates flaw in this method is one assumes that the universe is uniformly distributed! and this is a gross misrepresentation. Finally, the survey made use of two ground based telescopes and the fact is that they only counted the total number of 'visible' stars and they're visible stars are stars visible on the ground which means that they have counted nearby and fairly bright objects.
so, i don't know how many stars are out there, the errors that are easily identifiable may have cancelled each other out, but more than likely these folks are way off with either way more or way less stars than the 70 sextillion CNN touts. However, this is all useless, why would you want to know the total number of stars in the universe, what possible value can it have? seems to be just a boondoggle to me...
actually, the results from the wmap show that the universe is at least 13 billion years old, but may be older. incidently, if the universe is only 13 billion years old then this planet could not exist based on our present understanding of BBNS (Big Bang Nucleo-Synthesis), according to this theory it would have taken about 300,000 years for the Universe to have cooled enough for molecular hydrogen to form, let alone other things needed, and if this is the case then there would not be enough matter (and enough variety of matter) for a solar system to have formed according to the acreation disk model.
Wow, you're as ignorant as the people you despise. He didn't only serve white folks, he did quite a bit at the state level to serve the general good, while governor he ended the poll tax (a jim crow law that sought to subjugate black folks) he also enlisted prosecution of 28 white men involved in a lynching, this act is widely regarded as the event that ended lynching in south carolina. He also went after the KKK in South Carolina, declaring that they were the most abominable sort of lawlessness. His problem with segregation was twofold, yes it was racist for him to not want an 'intermingling' of the races, and I don't defend that, but mostly he was a fervent believer in State's rights which he thought were being abridged by the Federal Integration Laws. Further, he effectively brought the 'pork' to South Carolina for both whites and blacks, he was no Lester Maddox.
First of all, for all it's failings NT 4.0 was a half decent OS and was the architecture behind the first network I really worked on so Im sad to see it go simply because of nostalgia. Second of all, have some respect for Strom; old strom may have been mixed up in the most racist politics of this century, and he was what we may consider on the wrong side of the issue, but at least he had convictions, held true to them, fought for them and spoke his mind. The ole son of a bitch really fought for States rights and did a hell of a lot for the people of his state, I am sad to see the 100 year old public servant, for that's what he was, go.
Recall though, that the WWW and the Internet are two distinct things. They happen to overlap and to some extent are the same thing now but they weren't originally. I do see your point, though, that minitel is interesting because it was reg'lar folks compared to the academicians and spooks and defense wonks that ran Darpanet; however, it seems apparent that the Internet really sprang and evolved out of Darpanet where as Minitel is still running a somewhat, how shall I put this, archaic system. I find it hard to believe that an entirely isolated and non-evolving system can be considered even a proto internet when obviously its effects on the current Internet were limited if any.
'Calling Minitel a proto-internet may be a bit of a stretch, but it is not far off'
What about Darpanet? Isn't that the true proto-internet given that it predates minitel and was a much larger network and, oh yeah, formed the backbone of the internet?
yeah i had heard that before, about the elephants and horses. that's a great quote, one i had never seen before. i was never a big fan of edison, something about him has always bothered me for some reason... always sensed a bit of hypocricy in what he said (see above quote).
hahaha that's quite funny. It is somewhat bitterly ironic that two men, who loathed eachother somewhat bitterly and whose rivalry drove one of them (Edison) to electricute dogs to show that the others (Tesla's) type of power (AC) was 'unsafe', have their brilliance combined and modified to now allow such wonderful things as ubiquetous wireless access.
That's about the coolest thing since sliced bread, or at least O'Reilly books... The lead in made it sound like something out of Tesla's imagination, wireless power sources and what not, but it's very cool anyway. What sort of range could you get on a device like that, ie how many would it take to fill a conference hall or large resteraunt?
My old highschool, Fayetteville Highschool, fayetteville, Arkansas, has been running this application since 1999. It was mildly useful but horrendously insecure. Happy Grade changing everyone!
There are many such products out there that can build 3d GIS views based on elevation data and textured with satelite or ariel photography. Applications like Community Viz and PCI and even the Arc View 3.2 3d extention can be very useful and equally good at producing 'realistic' views based on elevation data, building foot prints, and any other data.
a small, private plane, filled with tech industry folks is flying to seatle when it is caught in a dense fog. the pilot can't see anything, and by some random chance the ITS is out so he can't land blind. by luck he sees a light on in a building in the distance and flies to the window and shouts: "Where am I?" the man in the office responds: "In a plane" the pilot then flies two miles out and banks to the left and makes a perfect blind landing. on the ground the passengers asked him how he knew where the airport was. he said "i knew the only place where i would get a perfectly accurate and entirely useless answer like that would be at the microsoft campus"
That's remarkable, i had no idea that Pangloss was Voltaire's characterization of Leibnitz. Although looking back through my memories of Candide it becomes obvious, now that it has been pointed out, and quite a good and humorous characterization it was. If you have not read candide (to the general reader) you should, remarkably funny. However, i wonder if leibnitz, too, contracted syphulus and began to wear a silver nose :-)
ahh yes, those captains of industry, those masters of the computing beast, who reside in their ivory tower of pure business practices, nestled in redmond, Microsoft. They are the true inovators of this land, and should be rewarded for their impecable virtues. Thank god for their production of the greastest ideas in the world. who would want to own software when they can rent it bug free and fully monitored from Papa Bill and his many friends at Microsoft....
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I read that about 5 years ago when I was in eigth grade, it took me all of about three days and I have never forgotten it. I picked it up on chance from the local library and happend to do so when I was first getting interested in Physics, Programming, hacking, etc... If you get a chance it is an amazing story, and incredibly cool. I believe the characters in it are permanetly banned from Las Vegas because of their ability to win at roullete by using a shoe-computer. Great book!
So what happens if our government refuses to extradite the Movie Execs? I assume we have extradition treaties with Australia, what sort of recourse do they have?
What sort of process do you go about when you come across a patent for a device (especially a technology device) that is in everyday use? Forinstance, the "hyper link", how do you determine if that is even patentable.
George Bush, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Dubya, Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, these are my hereos those Men who truly look out for my best interests
Hello, Mr. Lay. What are you doing here?
It was sarcasm, I was being sarcastic, I was expressing my self using hyperbolae and making a somewhat failed attempt at saying absurd things for the sake of humor. I do not believe that those men are heroes, I loathe them and abhor the idea that they ever existed. Sorry for the confusion.