"What I wonder is how they would get the cable up there."
They'd rather try to get the cable down here, I presume.
That means, they might prefer to manufacture two cables up there in geo-stationary orbit, then lowering one end of cable #1 down to earth's surface (this might still be a challenging task, though), sending one end of cable #2 even farther outwards, for use with the counterweight.
"Airbus' actuaries tell them that the short-run cost of performing immediate repairs is greater than the long-run cost of their insurance rates after a mechanical failure."
Well, that puts things (read: the company`s preferences) into a very interesting perspective, doesn't it?
There's at least 6 billion of "them" and counting...
On a more speculative side, there might be highly developed life forms elsewhere in the universe that we carbon-based blighters wouldn't even recognize as "life" if we stumbled over one of them (and perhaps vice versa).
In my opinion and in contrary to what the original posting suggests, anti-matter should not be viewed as particularly "dark".
E.g., anti-Hydrogen, consisting of an anti-proton and a positron, will readily absorb a quantum of energy (a photon, which happens to be one of the particles that are their own anti-particles) and re-emit a photon again, just like "plain old" hydrogen. Thus, a cloud of anti-hydrogen should be observable as easily (or difficultly) as a cloud of hydrogen, assuming their masses, their viewing distances and all other parameters like temperature, density etc. being equal.
So there should be no difference in observability here, due to the fact that photons are citizens of both realms, of "nornal" matter as well as of anti-matter, and will interact with mass particles of both realms in the same way.
Obviously, "dark matter" looks like a very different beast...
First, you might start to enhance your understanding of advanced calculus.
At some early point along the road, get yourself a copy of The ABC of Relativity, by Bertrand Russell, first ed. in 1925. (Reading this book will just take the better part of a rainy day, breaks included. Enjoy it.)
Later on, read the Master's own writing: Relativity. The Special and General Theory, by Albert Einstein, first ed. in 1920 http://www.bartleby.com/173/
Meanwhile, don't forget to continue your calculus efforts.;-)
Remember, Einstein had a very pragmatic approach towards mathematics, he just used it. To understand GR, you won't necessarily have to become more of a mathematician than Einstein wanted to be.
Unlike U.S. Americans, the Brits have had at least _some_ experience with the metric system now. And this would include a modest capability to convert metric to imperial units and vice versa as well.;-)
Agreed to everything you said regarding Linux Mint.
Just two notes:
Linux Mint Xfce has been Debian based (as opposed to Ubuntu based) now for a while, just like Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) you mentioned. All editions of Linux Mint that come with Gnome (the Ubuntu based "main" edition as well as LMDE) still contain Gnome v2.32, not v3.
Google could have saved some of their money by bidding e billion dollars instead of pi billion, with e - a.k.a. "Euler's number" - given as 2.71828...
But wait, they saved all of their money anyway, by just bidding not enough...
Disregarding the auction's outcome, Google made a very nice and subtle statement against the lowly "just natural or rational numbers considered here" approach as practised by nearly all accountants and corporate finance guys.;-)
"Apple to pay Nokia big settlement plus royalties in patent dispute Tuesday 14 June 2011 18.20 BST
The Finnish phone-maker Nokia could receive a one-off payment of more than €800m (£700m) from Apple and receive further royalties of €8 per iPhone sold in future, after winning a settlement in a long-running patents dispute.
Although terms of the settlement were not disclosed, previous patent licensing deals in the phone industry have been worth up to 5% of the price of the device involved. At €8, or $11.50 (£7), they would represent about 4.5% of the estimated average $264 cost price of an iPhone, which Apple sells to retailers and phone networks for an average of $660. Apple has sold 108m iPhones since their launch."
Regarding the Mac platform, Apple is making huge steps toward a "walled garden" concept.
After 25 years as a user of Macs and Mac OS, I don't care anymore. As soon as one of my existing Macs will become "de-supported" by Apple, it will get a decent Linux distribution installed.
come with Android 1.6 pre-installed, they are not exactly the leaders of the pack currently. Encouraging development and use of alternative OSS/FOSS firmware (Linux distributions) on SE phones would be a very nice move, though.
A serious commitment by SE to this might be, to some degree, a compensation for the dwindling efforts at Nokia (Maemo, MeeGo, and successors to the N900, pity). So I'm looking forward to some very interesting - even impressive - results here, some day.
"My invisible friend is good. If yours is different he/she has to be evil."... with the optional addition of: [murmuring] "Just where did I put these matches?"
The headline should read "... in US installed base" - i.e., in the total number of smartphones currently in use. The shifting percentages for Android vs. iPhone vs. RIM smartphones in that installed base is what the techspot.com article is talking about.
In terms of market share (i.e., the respective percentages for Android vs. iPhone vs. RIM in the total number of sold units per period, like month etc.), Android already passed iPhone in the U.S. several months ago.
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"What I wonder is how they would get the cable up there."
They'd rather try to get the cable down here, I presume.
That means, they might prefer to manufacture two cables up there in geo-stationary orbit, then lowering one end of cable #1 down to earth's surface (this might still be a challenging task, though), sending one end of cable #2 even farther outwards, for use with the counterweight.
People on submarines are subject to military rule, with perpetrators being shot, their bodies thrown out of the back door immediately.
Oh, wait... ;-)
"2026" and nevertheless "could be"?
So Her Majesty's government is certainly not preparing anything similar to what J.F. Cooper called a "hasty pudding"...
Thus, High Speed Rail may or may not reach the Scottish border before the end of the current century, anybody willing to place a bet against that?
"Airbus' actuaries tell them that the short-run cost of performing immediate repairs is greater than the long-run cost of their insurance rates after a mechanical failure."
Well, that puts things (read: the company`s preferences) into a very interesting perspective, doesn't it?
How long before Apple reproduces the iPhone market model on the Mac ?
This might happen rather sooner than later.
My bet's on Mac OS X 10.8 "Common House Cat"
(or whatever the Code Name will be, the "Big Cat" series finally being done...)
There's at least 6 billion of "them" and counting...
On a more speculative side, there might be highly developed life forms elsewhere in the universe that we carbon-based blighters wouldn't even recognize as "life" if we stumbled over one of them (and perhaps vice versa).
In my opinion and in contrary to what the original posting suggests, anti-matter should not be viewed as particularly "dark".
E.g., anti-Hydrogen, consisting of an anti-proton and a positron, will readily absorb a quantum of energy (a photon, which happens to be one of the particles that are their own anti-particles) and re-emit a photon again, just like "plain old" hydrogen. Thus, a cloud of anti-hydrogen should be observable as easily (or difficultly) as a cloud of hydrogen, assuming their masses, their viewing distances and all other parameters like temperature, density etc. being equal.
So there should be no difference in observability here, due to the fact that photons are citizens of both realms, of "nornal" matter as well as of anti-matter, and will interact with mass particles of both realms in the same way.
Obviously, "dark matter" looks like a very different beast...
But then, a can of the _original_ Budweiser (i.e., the one from the Czech Republic) would certainly achieve the coolness goal as well.
Including the taste goal. Many of the beers from Belgium or Ireland would do.
Just make sure to avoid those U.S. beverages that pretend to be "beer". Don't drink them, don't use their cans for your projects. ;-)
First, you might start to enhance your understanding of advanced calculus.
At some early point along the road, get yourself a copy of
The ABC of Relativity, by Bertrand Russell, first ed. in 1925.
(Reading this book will just take the better part of a rainy day, breaks included. Enjoy it.)
Later on, read the Master's own writing:
Relativity. The Special and General Theory, by Albert Einstein, first ed. in 1920
http://www.bartleby.com/173/
Meanwhile, don't forget to continue your calculus efforts. ;-)
Remember, Einstein had a very pragmatic approach towards mathematics, he just used it.
To understand GR, you won't necessarily have to become more of a mathematician than Einstein wanted to be.
taking place a long time before humans living at high latitude finally learned how to produce - and consume - distilled liquor.
The latter of which being a completely different way to adapt to long, dark winter nights...
One tends to believe the BBC here.
Unlike U.S. Americans, the Brits have had at least _some_ experience with the metric system now. ;-)
And this would include a modest capability to convert metric to imperial units and vice versa as well.
Agreed to everything you said regarding Linux Mint.
Just two notes:
Linux Mint Xfce has been Debian based (as opposed to Ubuntu based) now for a while, just like Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) you mentioned.
All editions of Linux Mint that come with Gnome (the Ubuntu based "main" edition as well as LMDE) still contain Gnome v2.32, not v3.
Google could have saved some of their money by bidding e billion dollars instead of pi billion, with e - a.k.a. "Euler's number" - given as 2.71828...
But wait, they saved all of their money anyway, by just bidding not enough...
Disregarding the auction's outcome, Google made a very nice and subtle statement against the lowly "just natural or rational numbers considered here" approach as practised by nearly all accountants and corporate finance guys. ;-)
Well said. Agreed to and supported here.
See The Guardian (Great Britain):
"Apple to pay Nokia big settlement plus royalties in patent dispute
Tuesday 14 June 2011 18.20 BST
The Finnish phone-maker Nokia could receive a one-off payment of more than €800m (£700m) from Apple and receive further royalties of €8 per iPhone sold in future, after winning a settlement in a long-running patents dispute.
Although terms of the settlement were not disclosed, previous patent licensing deals in the phone industry have been worth up to 5% of the price of the device involved. At €8, or $11.50 (£7), they would represent about 4.5% of the estimated average $264 cost price of an iPhone, which Apple sells to retailers and phone networks for an average of $660. Apple has sold 108m iPhones since their launch."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/14/apple-nokia-patent-case
On Apple's web pages, the 10.7 ("Lion") version seems no longer to be referred to as "Mac OS X".
Instead, it's called just "OS X" or "OS X Lion" in nearly all occurences.
This might be insignificant, but then again... remember when "Apple Computer, Inc." relabeled itself into just "Apple, Inc."?
and won't recommend others to do so.
Regarding the Mac platform, Apple is making huge steps toward a "walled garden" concept.
After 25 years as a user of Macs and Mac OS, I don't care anymore. As soon as one of my existing Macs will become "de-supported" by Apple, it will get a decent Linux distribution installed.
come with Android 1.6 pre-installed, they are not exactly the leaders of the pack currently.
Encouraging development and use of alternative OSS/FOSS firmware (Linux distributions) on SE phones would be a very nice move, though.
A serious commitment by SE to this might be, to some degree, a compensation for the dwindling efforts at Nokia (Maemo, MeeGo, and successors to the N900, pity).
So I'm looking forward to some very interesting - even impressive - results here, some day.
...is good. Yours is evil.
I like that.
Id like it even better if it could changed a bit:
"My invisible friend is good. ... with the optional addition of:
If yours is different he/she has to be evil."
[murmuring] "Just where did I put these matches?"
As to portable media players supporting FLAC:
Sandisk (Sansa Fuze, Fuze+, Clip, Clip+)
iRiver (B30, E100, E150, E200, Lplayer, P7, Spinn, S100)
Archos (Vision 3, 24, 28, 32)
Samsung (Yepp M1, YP-Q1, YP-Q2, YP-Q3, YP-R0, YP-R1)
Philips (GoGear Muse)
Sweex (MP470, MP480)
Transcend (MP860, Tsonic 870)
and last but not least,
Cowon/iAudio (all of them)
Prices:
The most affordable player capable of FLAC (and Ogg Vorbis), the Sweex MP480 Vidi 8GB, from GBP 22 (ca USD 35) in the U.K.
Thanks, Gunjan and all your colleagues on the MeeGo project, for your excellent work.
Good luck, and take care.
Don Corleone (Marlon Brando) said:
"And, Angelo, make sure it's an offer they can't refuse."
That's current "ISO style", regrettably.
ISO has severely compromised itself by following no standards at all, when certifying certain proposals as a "standard".
I understand Google wanted to stay clear of such an extra-corrupt "standards body" that works under close control by one of Google's main competitors.
The headline should read "... in US installed base" - i.e., in the total number of smartphones currently in use. The shifting percentages for Android vs. iPhone vs. RIM smartphones in that installed base is what the techspot.com article is talking about.
In terms of market share (i.e., the respective percentages for Android vs. iPhone vs. RIM in the total number of sold units per period, like month etc.), Android already passed iPhone in the U.S. several months ago.
... they should try really hard to get rid of Hillary Clinton, well ahead of the presidential elections.
This won't be an easy task, though.