And when the hell are we going to get coloured images of Mercury? I mean true RGB colours, not remapped colours. I know that Mercury's colours are probably not the most exciting thing ever, but damnit we have yet to see a single damn colour picture of that bloody planet and the Messenger guys are literally sitting on it.
That's my beef with this mission, all they're giving us is the few snapshots they can be bothered to give us, and that's it. And the best they can be bothered to do at updating the maps is this. It makes me mad. If they would just release their raw images like they did Cassini AND Huygens you're have fully updated real colour maps of Mercury all over the place.
Oh my God, are you saying that these filthy pirates will go as far as hooking up a DVD player to their cell phone just to avoid paying for a ringtone??
Blast! They just won't stop until we sue and bankrupt the last of them!
I hate to admit it, but she's right. Everybody knows that such types of fair-use are what make record sales plummet. Why buy John Lennon's record when you've got a 15-second fragment of one of his song in a documentary that you can just reply as many times as you like?
That's right, you don't, which is why so many baby seal-killing pirates are now resorting to listening to documentary soundtracks just to avoid buying discs just so they can avoid giving $2 of royalties to starving artists like John Lennon. God I hate these bastards.
The article says 21 times more massive. Not 21 times more dense.
I don't know how massive you are, but now I know how dense. If the two are the same size hence the same volume and that one is 21 times more massive than the other, then it's 21 times more dense. Density is function of mass and volume, and if volume is constant then it's proportional to mass.
Well to be precise a link from TFA says that the planet's radius is 1.01 (± 0.07) Jupiter radiuses (note how 1.00 is well within that range), and that its mass is 21.66 (± 1) Jovian masses. Which makes it about 21 (± 5.4) times denser. And yeah, that's a pretty big error margin, it could be only 16.4 times denser.
If the letters overlap because the blur blends with its neighbors then it just becomes a computational complexity problem where you have to try words instead of letters.
Yeah, or you could learn a bit about signal processing and simply just cross-correlate each "blurred" letter with the image to decipher. Why would take only as many cross correlations as there are characters in the alphabet, because it would detect all the occurrences of a letter in the entire image in one pass, if it's good enough to detect anything.
And you're right, they should just use the same sort of algorithm as some video rippers use to hide channel logos on TV shows and such. The best way to make sure some information cannot be recovered is to make sure you get rid of it.
That's funny you should say that because my father married my mother at the age of 58 when she was 20. Yeah, so much for "males produce offsprings earlier", considered how historically for centuries until more than a century ago teenage marriage was commonplace and the average fatherhood age was probably around 16. I hope that guy's conference public at least had a good laugh.
Oh shut up you blithering hippie. Nobody cares about your drivel besides other apathetic hippies like you who are only out for the ideological fight, regardless of the effect such ideas would have in the real world if they were realised.
Besides, you're only creating a false dichotomy (third parties vs the two big parties) to fight another dichotomy (republican vs. democrat), but you and your likes are to delusional to realise how pointless it is. The libertarian moderators Slashdot is crowded with can smite me for all I care.
*False* antagonisms?? Are you kidding? You can only honestly claim that if you truly don't think that none of the issues matter or that doing something and doing its opposite regarding those issues is the same thing.
Allow me to bet that you're one of these apathetic Slashdot libertarians who don't care to see a difference between universal health care and taxes for the rich vs. giving rich people, large companies and outsourcing companies tax breaks and taxing your health care. Yeah, really, false antagonisms, if you're logically impaired or don't even have a clue of what you're talking about and are just spewing your "alternative thinking" hippie rhetoric.
Yeah, that's simple, which is why it's the most generic unfalsifiable claim one could do that wouldn't concern deities and such.
But it belongs more to philosophy and the "what is reality" type of questions than science.
And I completely fail to see how the uncertainty principle would have anything to do with "dither noise". Now if you said the Planck length or Planck time, that would have made more sense.
Yeah well it's true that the first choices would concern religion, but besides that, in the "godless scientist-types won't laugh it off right off" category that's what you'd come up with I guess.
This is just in, Microsoft is filling for bankruptcy.
Phew, a chance I just coincidentally bought a shitload of puts on MSFT. Market prediction? Fuck that, it's easier to predict the weather when you know how to make shit start to rain.
Well here's one thing I noted about all you're pointing out. It seems that people don't care. People, for the moment, seem to value their privacy and more importantly the privacy of their inter-personal communications less than ever. People have entire conversations that can be seen by anyone they're friends with, and conversely anyone can become "friends" with them hence see it all. And people don't mind. Whether it's a bad thing or not, or whether it's a temporary trend or a transition I cannot tell, but one thing's for sure, people these days couldn't care less to have conversations with friends that can be eavesdropped by anyone else.
We are ALL hard for Obama, all around the world. It's like a worldwide Mexican wave of boners. We have a clue, that's why we hated Bush, were against the war in Iraq and started worrying about climate change a few years before you guys all jumped on the bandwagon. Heed our opinion for once.
At last! Hallelujah! I'm European so this isn't my money that's involved, therefore a bailout is better for me and the world's economy than no bailout, and it doesn't cost me a thing anyways. Sorry you guys have to pay the cost, but look at the good side of things. Thanks to this whole thing happening at the right time it only makes you more likely to get a decent administration this time.
Seriously, I look at this chart as if it was the temperature curve of this election, and if you rely on it then this whole crisis made Obama's estimated odds of being elected skyrocket. All the Diebolds in the world couldn't save the day for John "I was a P.O.W. for 5.5 years" McCain and Sarah "I'll make you keep your foetus even if the father is your uncle" Palin.
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Well of course the colours are muted, the picture you just showed is in black and white!
And when the hell are we going to get coloured images of Mercury? I mean true RGB colours, not remapped colours. I know that Mercury's colours are probably not the most exciting thing ever, but damnit we have yet to see a single damn colour picture of that bloody planet and the Messenger guys are literally sitting on it.
That's my beef with this mission, all they're giving us is the few snapshots they can be bothered to give us, and that's it. And the best they can be bothered to do at updating the maps is this. It makes me mad. If they would just release their raw images like they did Cassini AND Huygens you're have fully updated real colour maps of Mercury all over the place.
He's not "offtopic", he's riffing on "unbelievable". Try to get a clue, huh?
You're right, he surely is, Mr. Anonymous Person Who's Not In Any Way Affiliated With The GP And Just Happens To Want To Defend *Him*.
Oh my God, are you saying that these filthy pirates will go as far as hooking up a DVD player to their cell phone just to avoid paying for a ringtone??
Blast! They just won't stop until we sue and bankrupt the last of them!
I hate to admit it, but she's right. Everybody knows that such types of fair-use are what make record sales plummet. Why buy John Lennon's record when you've got a 15-second fragment of one of his song in a documentary that you can just reply as many times as you like?
That's right, you don't, which is why so many baby seal-killing pirates are now resorting to listening to documentary soundtracks just to avoid buying discs just so they can avoid giving $2 of royalties to starving artists like John Lennon. God I hate these bastards.
Why do you think he has the title of Bad Astronomer? Only a Good Astronomer would have admitted to weighting 4,200 kilogram-force on that planet.
Yeah, someone had to say it. And they beat you to it (see the first post).
And how could a Dyson sphere which is hollow by definition could be anywhere near that massive/dense?
The article says 21 times more massive. Not 21 times more dense.
I don't know how massive you are, but now I know how dense. If the two are the same size hence the same volume and that one is 21 times more massive than the other, then it's 21 times more dense. Density is function of mass and volume, and if volume is constant then it's proportional to mass.
Well to be precise a link from TFA says that the planet's radius is 1.01 (± 0.07) Jupiter radiuses (note how 1.00 is well within that range), and that its mass is 21.66 (± 1) Jovian masses. Which makes it about 21 (± 5.4) times denser. And yeah, that's a pretty big error margin, it could be only 16.4 times denser.
If the letters overlap because the blur blends with its neighbors then it just becomes a computational complexity problem where you have to try words instead of letters.
Yeah, or you could learn a bit about signal processing and simply just cross-correlate each "blurred" letter with the image to decipher. Why would take only as many cross correlations as there are characters in the alphabet, because it would detect all the occurrences of a letter in the entire image in one pass, if it's good enough to detect anything.
And you're right, they should just use the same sort of algorithm as some video rippers use to hide channel logos on TV shows and such. The best way to make sure some information cannot be recovered is to make sure you get rid of it.
That's funny you should say that because my father married my mother at the age of 58 when she was 20. Yeah, so much for "males produce offsprings earlier", considered how historically for centuries until more than a century ago teenage marriage was commonplace and the average fatherhood age was probably around 16. I hope that guy's conference public at least had a good laugh.
Oh shut up you blithering hippie. Nobody cares about your drivel besides other apathetic hippies like you who are only out for the ideological fight, regardless of the effect such ideas would have in the real world if they were realised.
Besides, you're only creating a false dichotomy (third parties vs the two big parties) to fight another dichotomy (republican vs. democrat), but you and your likes are to delusional to realise how pointless it is. The libertarian moderators Slashdot is crowded with can smite me for all I care.
Make no mistake about it, Palin is smart
What's smart about believing that the Earth is 6,000 years old and that man and the dinosaurs walked the Earth together?
She is smart because she can see smart people from where she lives.
causing him to do "stupid things" like agreeing with his opponent on occasion.
Oh have you heard too? "Intellectual honesty" is now called "stupidity".
*False* antagonisms?? Are you kidding? You can only honestly claim that if you truly don't think that none of the issues matter or that doing something and doing its opposite regarding those issues is the same thing.
Allow me to bet that you're one of these apathetic Slashdot libertarians who don't care to see a difference between universal health care and taxes for the rich vs. giving rich people, large companies and outsourcing companies tax breaks and taxing your health care. Yeah, really, false antagonisms, if you're logically impaired or don't even have a clue of what you're talking about and are just spewing your "alternative thinking" hippie rhetoric.
Or paint your walls white. Or cover them with mirrors.
How do you know something is true if it's unfalsifiable?
"If the above were true", yeah, no shit, if it was true it would be true. lol.
Yeah, that's simple, which is why it's the most generic unfalsifiable claim one could do that wouldn't concern deities and such.
But it belongs more to philosophy and the "what is reality" type of questions than science.
And I completely fail to see how the uncertainty principle would have anything to do with "dither noise". Now if you said the Planck length or Planck time, that would have made more sense.
Yeah well it's true that the first choices would concern religion, but besides that, in the "godless scientist-types won't laugh it off right off" category that's what you'd come up with I guess.
Indeed.
-1, Unfalsifiable
Dare I elaborate, if you wanted to make up a generic unfalsifiable claim on purpose that's probably what you would come up with.
This is just in, Microsoft is filling for bankruptcy.
Phew, a chance I just coincidentally bought a shitload of puts on MSFT. Market prediction? Fuck that, it's easier to predict the weather when you know how to make shit start to rain.
Well here's one thing I noted about all you're pointing out. It seems that people don't care. People, for the moment, seem to value their privacy and more importantly the privacy of their inter-personal communications less than ever. People have entire conversations that can be seen by anyone they're friends with, and conversely anyone can become "friends" with them hence see it all. And people don't mind. Whether it's a bad thing or not, or whether it's a temporary trend or a transition I cannot tell, but one thing's for sure, people these days couldn't care less to have conversations with friends that can be eavesdropped by anyone else.
We are ALL hard for Obama, all around the world. It's like a worldwide Mexican wave of boners. We have a clue, that's why we hated Bush, were against the war in Iraq and started worrying about climate change a few years before you guys all jumped on the bandwagon. Heed our opinion for once.
At last! Hallelujah! I'm European so this isn't my money that's involved, therefore a bailout is better for me and the world's economy than no bailout, and it doesn't cost me a thing anyways. Sorry you guys have to pay the cost, but look at the good side of things. Thanks to this whole thing happening at the right time it only makes you more likely to get a decent administration this time.
Seriously, I look at this chart as if it was the temperature curve of this election, and if you rely on it then this whole crisis made Obama's estimated odds of being elected skyrocket. All the Diebolds in the world couldn't save the day for John "I was a P.O.W. for 5.5 years" McCain and Sarah "I'll make you keep your foetus even if the father is your uncle" Palin.