As interesting as that linked story was, I didn't see your capsule summary in it. The story talks about many factors, about two products that bees find in nature that turn on their natural defenses (but are not found in nectar). Quoting from the story: "People would love to have the one solution, but the problems is it really does seem like itâ(TM)s a combination of factors". I'd encourage people to read the story themselves.
I'll go a step further and out Sony in particular. Their DVDs are beyond disgusting. Let's see, disclaimers in 3 languages, telling us that some content might not be available in some areas, and then several unskippable and equally insulting messages *after* I have selected PLAY from the menu, etc. etc.
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I've counted a dozen redirections before I got a chance to play my movie. Imagine the hill you have to overcome to want to go through that *again* to watch it a second time.
But wait, maybe that is the point of it -- to depreciate the value of a movie so that you will want to move on and consume the next one. This would certainly explain the prevalence of spoilers...err, sorry, "trailers".
It would also explain why good movies get low ratings/promotion -- otherwise we would only watch good movies. So we get the inverted pyramid of ratings that we have today. Check it out for yourself. If you have cable, hit your guide button and scan through the ratings they have assigned to movies. Unbelievably horrid POS will have ratings of 2 and 3 stars, routinely. Classics that are played weekly and sometimes all day will be lucky to have a 3 star rating. Inverting the ratings would be an improvement in accuracy.
The only nice thing I have to say about DVDs is that sometimes a "Special Edition" DVD will have something truly special -- it will go directly to the menu so that you can actually play what you bought without having to use a vomit bag or aim your shotgun at your television.
The new estimate is "plus or minus 500C". Sounds like they had a coarse number (guessing plus or minus one or two thousand) and now they have a slightly more accurate number. Certainly no need for sensationalistic headlines.
Enjoying walks and simplifying one's life have nothing to do with becoming a social pariah. Next you will be ordering everyone around, telling them to socialize, drink beer or whatever it is you think is "healthy".
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By the way, P-man is not myself. I enjoy driving and have done so for over 40 years. In my household I am the one who shops, does laundry and cleans. My similarity to P-man is that I enjoy the company of my own thoughts -- and luckily this is not yet a crime, geek.
As to the "isolated brilliant guy" not being "a real person"? Well, it sounds like you are the one living away from humanity. Brilliance can't help living the way it does. There are plenty of them around and I think they are much happier than you.
Bill Burr, on one of his MMPC, talked about trying to learn Spanish. At first he was cursing that it was his third try and what was wrong with him. Then later he said that it just came down to the fact that he didn't really need to learn it. Europeans need to know multiple languages. Americans don't. Doesn't mean we are stupid, incompetent, etc. Affects whether we learn language number two, though.
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We live in a society defined by division of labor. The physicist figured that out, as have many video game addicts.
When P-man walks he gets to think about his theories more, he gets necessary exercise, and he gets his chore done in about the same amount of time. And he simply isn't interested in most of the stuff that we rush around doing. He doesn't particularly want or need a cell phone, and for sure not a tablet. TV is low bandwidth, high noise -- easily filtered out with the convenient OFF button. Shopping is a once-a-week thing that someone else does...no need to duplicate effort. Same with laundry, with those two large machines doing most of the work.
It is called the simple life. And it kind of rocks.
The Network Effect was heralded. Everyone on/. benefited from it for years, even decades. Little did we know there would come a time when a virus would ruin everything. The Facebook virus.
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[In the middle of writing this post, my SO wanted me to "unfriend" some supreme PoS. No visible way to do this. Search Google. Go to this Facebook help page, appropriately called "How do I unfriend or remove a friend?". In attempting to follow the 3 simple steps, I go to that person's Facebook page and attempt to hover over their FRIENDS button. Of course they are not showing one. Back to Google. Follow this new link...interesting how Facebook says it is a 3 step process (that doesn't work, and requires *#&%^ Javascript) and the wikihow page says it is an 8-step process that involves finding the person on _your_ FRIENDS list. Not easy to find the FRIENDS list, even on your own page. Turns out it is under "Edit your profile". Bring up my SO's list of friends. Un-frigging-sorted! Can you believe that?! Captain A-hole is not there. Walk away furious...]
Last word from me on the subject, for today: Facebook needs to shrivel up and die.
Print publications are literally put into my hand, giving me more incentive to read them upon receipt. Web sites require an active effort on my part to go read them .
Then you must love telemarketers.
But seriously, print magazines are the worst way to receive information, hence their current dilemma. The only thing keeping tech publications alive is we can be handed them to read on a flight, or grab one to read while we are in the can. They are months behind, have limited material in each issue (compared to the net) and cost money. What chance do they have?
RSS auto-pulling is the way to go. The only thing is how it is implemented. Taking library systems, for example, I find our 3 different county library systems doing RSS 3 different ways: (a) RSS for new DVDs & CDs only, (b) separate RSS feeds for DVDs, and CDs, (c) no RSS feeds at all in the third county.
It is beyond me why more sites haven't gone for a whole range of RSS feeds. Maybe they have but do not promote them -- I rarely even see the RSS icon. Strange.
3. Because of points (1) and (2), most everyone in the US has US dollars to pay for things, so a business that doesn't accept US dollars is going to be at a severe competitive disadvantage. .
I'll be sure to tell the drug dealers to not waste their time.
Based on the quality of power in my neighborhood, I'll bet on a transformer blowing up...load switching to other transformers and then another one blowing up. Admittedly shouldn't be enough to kill...
You are mixing up two concepts, trying to use one to prove the other.
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The Good -- "The Event Horizon (of a Black Hole) is the point at which escape velocity = c."
The Bad -- "light can most certainly escape from 1 G". We have no idea what the g forces are at the event horizon of a Black Hole are, until we calculate them. Gravity is proportional to the two masses involved, and inversely proportional to the distance between them. Saying that light can escape from 1 G is ignoring just about everything.
Scenario 1: On Earth, with gravity of 1 G, light can certainly escape.
Scenario 2: At some distance d from a Black Hole of mass M, a photon may or may not be able to escape. Irrespective of whether d is less than, equal to or greater than the event horizon. In short, it depends...
The Ugly -- "Gravity IS the curvature of space." This sentence is featured prominently in Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe", with B.G. using it to proclaim how Einstein explained gravity so well. Unfortunately, the sentence explains absolutely nothing. It describes the *effect* of gravity, and otherwise leaves gravity as a black box...encouraging people to use "bowling ball on grid" explanations for the next 80 years...despite physicists (including B.G. in T.E.U.) admitting how wrong it is.
I think the grandparent's point is that IBM tried to be all slick and new and proprietary with the PS/2 line and only suckers -- big corp, gov., banks -- bought into it.
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I inherited all kinds of PS/2s...excrement. At this time they were being sold with a _12_ inch "billiard ball" monochrome IBM monitor. I eventually upgraded all of them to Zenith totally flat color monitors.
PS/2s were wildly proprietary -- wee, we get to buy all new add-in cards! And performance dogs -- Model 30/286 FTW.
A newb reading the parent's post would think otherwise as you cite wiki and all.
PS/2s and OS/2, released around the same time frame, killed IBM. End of story.
Wiki doesn't exactly agree: A microwave oven, often colloquially shortened to microwave, is a kitchen appliance that heats food by bombarding it with electromagnetic radiation in the microwave spectrum causing polarized molecules in the food to rotate and build up thermal energy in a process known as dielectric heating.
To sum that up in a single word, I'd go for "exciting", as in "I excited my Hot Pocket with the microwave".
Why does tech support play music? I don't want to listen to anything on the phone, I want to talk to someone. So I want silence, until I hear "This is $MadeUpName, how may I help you?" Silence until what I want to hear, not endless tinny crappy noise until someone I can barely understand comes on the line -- there is little to no delta in that.
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Alternatively, give me a button to push to shut the "music" off.
My 3 priorities are:
(1) What I am listening to -- e.g. I prefer Beethoven to Tchaikovsky
(2) What version is this -- e.g. in general I hate live (vs studio), and in classical works the symphony/conductor is very important
(3) Are there kids on my lawn? -- gray ears don't need more than MP3 has to offer
Seems like every week we are celebrating Voyageur's exit from the Solar System.
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What I don't understand is why the linked stories don't mention how big a change in radiation was experienced. Are we talking 10%, or a factor of 10? How about a curve while we are at it -- could be it is gradual, could be sharp, could be a hockey stick -- curve us please.
With Microsoft, everything is about control, not quality or utility.
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If they lost control, someone else would become the leader and their income would be one-tenth as much.
So, to maintain control they increase complexity. The Word.doc file size used to be my metric. Used to be you could create a 1KB "hello world". Then it became 20K -- arounnd that time they were referring to the DOC as a file system in itself. Probably up to 100K now.
Another unstated goal is minimal documentation. Or, equivalently, voluminous documentation. Anything but exactly the right amount of documentation. This way you force people to dedicate their career to your products -- blink and you get behind, grovel at the trough of Microsoft and you keep your teat.
Another goal is to cover functionality in the most minimal way possible. Introduce a few new bugs/limitations if you want a Christmas bonus. Oh, and fix a couple of bugs from before. This could be called the Wonder bread approach. Fortified so that it keeps you alive, just barely. Anything to string people along like beggars getting their hand-outs.
Still, all that said, I prefer Windows to other operating systems. The devil I know best, I suppose. Biggest issue I have with Linux/Unix is gnarly syntax -- I love tiny one-purpose programs, piping, etc. -- but crap syntax produces write-once code, crap productivity, and undocumented systems.
Out on the street with a FREE sign. Instant gratification and problem solved. Helps to have a good location (e.g. corner lot at a corner with a stop sign) but in the end it will all go, lol.
So, to my original question, does the calculated mass of our SMB, plus the relativistic mass (not sure how anyone will calculate this -- what percent of the SMB is rotating at what % of the speed of light) equal enough to explain the motions of the stars?
In other words, if a lot of SMB material is moving at close to the speed of light, then this would cause a significant mass increase due to this relativistic effect and so the overall mass of the SMB would be significantly higher...helping to explain the current rotational speed of the stars around the center.
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Hope that helps,
Floyd Maxwell
As interesting as that linked story was, I didn't see your capsule summary in it. The story talks about many factors, about two products that bees find in nature that turn on their natural defenses (but are not found in nectar). Quoting from the story: "People would love to have the one solution, but the problems is it really does seem like itâ(TM)s a combination of factors". I'd encourage people to read the story themselves.
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I've counted a dozen redirections before I got a chance to play my movie. Imagine the hill you have to overcome to want to go through that *again* to watch it a second time.
But wait, maybe that is the point of it -- to depreciate the value of a movie so that you will want to move on and consume the next one. This would certainly explain the prevalence of spoilers...err, sorry, "trailers".
It would also explain why good movies get low ratings/promotion -- otherwise we would only watch good movies. So we get the inverted pyramid of ratings that we have today. Check it out for yourself. If you have cable, hit your guide button and scan through the ratings they have assigned to movies. Unbelievably horrid POS will have ratings of 2 and 3 stars, routinely. Classics that are played weekly and sometimes all day will be lucky to have a 3 star rating. Inverting the ratings would be an improvement in accuracy.
The only nice thing I have to say about DVDs is that sometimes a "Special Edition" DVD will have something truly special -- it will go directly to the menu so that you can actually play what you bought without having to use a vomit bag or aim your shotgun at your television.
So, a truck in bull low, going 1 mph, gets the most gas mileage? There is indeed a sweet spot for every vehicle.
The new estimate is "plus or minus 500C". Sounds like they had a coarse number (guessing plus or minus one or two thousand) and now they have a slightly more accurate number. Certainly no need for sensationalistic headlines.
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By the way, P-man is not myself. I enjoy driving and have done so for over 40 years. In my household I am the one who shops, does laundry and cleans. My similarity to P-man is that I enjoy the company of my own thoughts -- and luckily this is not yet a crime, geek.
As to the "isolated brilliant guy" not being "a real person"? Well, it sounds like you are the one living away from humanity. Brilliance can't help living the way it does. There are plenty of them around and I think they are much happier than you.
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We live in a society defined by division of labor. The physicist figured that out, as have many video game addicts.
When P-man walks he gets to think about his theories more, he gets necessary exercise, and he gets his chore done in about the same amount of time. And he simply isn't interested in most of the stuff that we rush around doing. He doesn't particularly want or need a cell phone, and for sure not a tablet. TV is low bandwidth, high noise -- easily filtered out with the convenient OFF button. Shopping is a once-a-week thing that someone else does...no need to duplicate effort. Same with laundry, with those two large machines doing most of the work.
It is called the simple life. And it kind of rocks.
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[In the middle of writing this post, my SO wanted me to "unfriend" some supreme PoS. No visible way to do this. Search Google. Go to this Facebook help page, appropriately called "How do I unfriend or remove a friend?". In attempting to follow the 3 simple steps, I go to that person's Facebook page and attempt to hover over their FRIENDS button. Of course they are not showing one. Back to Google. Follow this new link...interesting how Facebook says it is a 3 step process (that doesn't work, and requires *#&%^ Javascript) and the wikihow page says it is an 8-step process that involves finding the person on _your_ FRIENDS list. Not easy to find the FRIENDS list, even on your own page. Turns out it is under "Edit your profile". Bring up my SO's list of friends. Un-frigging-sorted! Can you believe that?! Captain A-hole is not there. Walk away furious...]
Last word from me on the subject, for today: Facebook needs to shrivel up and die.
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Then you must love telemarketers.
But seriously, print magazines are the worst way to receive information, hence their current dilemma. The only thing keeping tech publications alive is we can be handed them to read on a flight, or grab one to read while we are in the can. They are months behind, have limited material in each issue (compared to the net) and cost money. What chance do they have?
RSS auto-pulling is the way to go. The only thing is how it is implemented. Taking library systems, for example, I find our 3 different county library systems doing RSS 3 different ways: (a) RSS for new DVDs & CDs only, (b) separate RSS feeds for DVDs, and CDs, (c) no RSS feeds at all in the third county.
It is beyond me why more sites haven't gone for a whole range of RSS feeds. Maybe they have but do not promote them -- I rarely even see the RSS icon. Strange.
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I'll be sure to tell the drug dealers to not waste their time.
Nope, November 20. 1985, after having been "conceived" in 1981.
Based on the quality of power in my neighborhood, I'll bet on a transformer blowing up...load switching to other transformers and then another one blowing up. Admittedly shouldn't be enough to kill...
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The Good -- "The Event Horizon (of a Black Hole) is the point at which escape velocity = c."
The Bad -- "light can most certainly escape from 1 G". We have no idea what the g forces are at the event horizon of a Black Hole are, until we calculate them. Gravity is proportional to the two masses involved, and inversely proportional to the distance between them. Saying that light can escape from 1 G is ignoring just about everything.
Scenario 1: On Earth, with gravity of 1 G, light can certainly escape.
Scenario 2: At some distance d from a Black Hole of mass M, a photon may or may not be able to escape. Irrespective of whether d is less than, equal to or greater than the event horizon. In short, it depends...
The Ugly -- "Gravity IS the curvature of space." This sentence is featured prominently in Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe", with B.G. using it to proclaim how Einstein explained gravity so well. Unfortunately, the sentence explains absolutely nothing. It describes the *effect* of gravity, and otherwise leaves gravity as a black box...encouraging people to use "bowling ball on grid" explanations for the next 80 years...despite physicists (including B.G. in T.E.U.) admitting how wrong it is.
Shameless plug -- My own conjecture on gravity.
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I inherited all kinds of PS/2s...excrement. At this time they were being sold with a _12_ inch "billiard ball" monochrome IBM monitor. I eventually upgraded all of them to Zenith totally flat color monitors.
PS/2s were wildly proprietary -- wee, we get to buy all new add-in cards! And performance dogs -- Model 30/286 FTW.
A newb reading the parent's post would think otherwise as you cite wiki and all.
PS/2s and OS/2, released around the same time frame, killed IBM. End of story.
Wiki doesn't exactly agree:
A microwave oven, often colloquially shortened to microwave, is a kitchen appliance that heats food by bombarding it with electromagnetic radiation in the microwave spectrum causing polarized molecules in the food to rotate and build up thermal energy in a process known as dielectric heating.
To sum that up in a single word, I'd go for "exciting", as in "I excited my Hot Pocket with the microwave".
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Alternatively, give me a button to push to shut the "music" off.
My 3 priorities are:
(1) What I am listening to -- e.g. I prefer Beethoven to Tchaikovsky
(2) What version is this -- e.g. in general I hate live (vs studio), and in classical works the symphony/conductor is very important
(3) Are there kids on my lawn? -- gray ears don't need more than MP3 has to offer
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What I don't understand is why the linked stories don't mention how big a change in radiation was experienced. Are we talking 10%, or a factor of 10? How about a curve while we are at it -- could be it is gradual, could be sharp, could be a hockey stick -- curve us please.
By my crude calculation, 120 80 inch TVs would take up an 8 foot high wall a football field long. I think the 80 inch TVs win.
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If they lost control, someone else would become the leader and their income would be one-tenth as much.
So, to maintain control they increase complexity. The Word .doc file size used to be my metric. Used to be you could create a 1KB "hello world". Then it became 20K -- arounnd that time they were referring to the DOC as a file system in itself. Probably up to 100K now.
Another unstated goal is minimal documentation. Or, equivalently, voluminous documentation. Anything but exactly the right amount of documentation. This way you force people to dedicate their career to your products -- blink and you get behind, grovel at the trough of Microsoft and you keep your teat.
Another goal is to cover functionality in the most minimal way possible. Introduce a few new bugs/limitations if you want a Christmas bonus. Oh, and fix a couple of bugs from before. This could be called the Wonder bread approach. Fortified so that it keeps you alive, just barely. Anything to string people along like beggars getting their hand-outs.
Still, all that said, I prefer Windows to other operating systems. The devil I know best, I suppose. Biggest issue I have with Linux/Unix is gnarly syntax -- I love tiny one-purpose programs, piping, etc. -- but crap syntax produces write-once code, crap productivity, and undocumented systems.
I'm betting this is barely significant.
So you're the culprit!
Out on the street with a FREE sign. Instant gratification and problem solved. Helps to have a good location (e.g. corner lot at a corner with a stop sign) but in the end it will all go, lol.
So, to my original question, does the calculated mass of our SMB, plus the relativistic mass (not sure how anyone will calculate this -- what percent of the SMB is rotating at what % of the speed of light) equal enough to explain the motions of the stars?
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In other words, if a lot of SMB material is moving at close to the speed of light, then this would cause a significant mass increase due to this relativistic effect and so the overall mass of the SMB would be significantly higher...helping to explain the current rotational speed of the stars around the center.