Funny you mention "love" because there's no women on the moon, or on that ridge in Antarctica, which is a major drawback of accepting either of those jobs. Oh wait. It's just like my current job.
Don't worry - either place will be so cold that you'll need your ID to tell which sex you are.
The absence of women will just mean not to have to contend with PMS on a regular basis.
There is nothing in orbital dynamics that says any one planet has to rotate or in which direction or at what speed.
There's absolutely nothing whatsoever to "explain" about Venus.
There may or may not be some kind of story why its angular momentum is as low as it is, and that story may or may not be interesting. But "It happened to be formed from material with a total spin angular momentum close to zero" is neither implausible, nor unlikely, nor in conflict with our understanding of the solar system or planets or physics in general.
You got any different numbers? Ones you can actually back up in some fashion?
Back in the days of Napster (the original) I found a lot of cool music that I ended up buying simply by looking what other people had shelved next to the things I knew and liked. I haven't bought a whole lot of music in the last couple years because there's just simply no way for me to discover things that I might like anymore.
And no, I certainly didn't end up buying every last thing I downloaded -- 90% of what I found online was crap. 90% of everything is crap. But the things I downloaded (and didn't buy) I wouldn't have spent money on either way, so the music industry didn't lose any money from my download.
Because there are no "innocent" bystanders. Those "innocent" bystanders allowed a Government to come to power that provided support to the terrorist group that attacked the United States. I always find it amusing how the anti-war crowd clams that all Americans have blood on our hands because we allowed GWB to come to power but don't apply the same argument to the civilians placed in harms way by the actions of other governments......
Wait... so you're saying that all Americans have blood on their hands? Is that what you're saying?
You appear to be saying that this is the case when people "allow a government to come into power... etc", which is certainly much more true for the US (with supposedly free elections) than it has ever been for Afghanistan in human memory.
Which means that there are no innocents in the US? Which means that it is OK for a terrorist to wipe out any large number of them? Is that what you're saying?
Or are you trying to be sarcastic and pointing out that there can be innocent people no matter how atrocious the actions of their government? In which case I fail to understand your claim that there are no innocent bystanders.
There have been proposals... one of the more interesting ones involves a surface lander that also has a detachable probe along with a small thermonuclear generator. The nuke probe heats the ice and begins to melt its way downward, trailing a communication cable behind to connect with the surface probe. The ice refreezes above the probe as it descends.
...thereby freezing the communications cable in place, thereby preventing the probe from getting any further down. Pity.
Giving odds for finding a theoretical particle is like giving odds on finding life in the solar system.
Good thing then that nobody did such a thing.
They were giving the odds for finding the Higgs first. Nobody made any claims how likely it is that the thing exists in the first place, merely what the odds are that Tevatron will pick up it's signature before CERN.
Can a Kindle read a book formatted for the Sony EReader?
Waait - what? Sony packs some DRM into their files to keep you from reading them on a Kindle and... it is the Kindle's fault? Something's amiss here. The GP's claim was:
If you buy a Kindle, you are buying into a scheme where you can buy media from only one vendor,
and that statement is simply not true. The Kindle handles a whole lot of formats from a whole lot of sources. Anything I've ever thrown at it, certainly.
But no, it doesn't handle non-Amazon formats from non-Amazon vendors that were intentionally crippled such as to not work on an Amazon device. Which is hardly Amazon's fault.
...except, of course, that the kindle is happy to display PDFs. And yes, you can convert.doc and.txt files into their format as well. For free. Which is exactly what you asked for, no?
I thought focal length was the biggest factor in resolution?
Diffraction limit is set by lambda/diameter -- the longer the wavelength to larger the mirror required to get the same limit.
But then again all I know about telescopes comes from hobbyist visible light scopes.
On the ground you're almost always resolution limited by the atmospheric seeing, as long as your aperture is over ~10cm or so. Anything larger form there is going to help with collecting more light (i.e. detecting fainter objects with shorter exposures) but not with resolution any more.
What I don't understand is why these people don't have some sort of 3-6 month emergency fund on hand in cash that they can use for a while after they retire. If you have 6 months in cash you can often ride out some or all of the worst downturns without touching the equities, and you can replenish that later as they rise. If you were to have a years worth of expenses on hand (say 30 thousand assuming you live really frugally in that first year of retirement) you would be in an especially good position. But the bulk of the nest egg really should remain in equities to outpace inflation.
Congratulations - you've just discovered the first step to what financial planners have called "income for life" for decades now. No, you don't just want a short-term fund, you want five or six time-weighted buckets from the very-safe, very-short-term to the high-risk, high-reward, long-term fund (and a number of gradations in between).
Google wealth2k or some such thing.
"fucking of a 17yr old girl" ended up in pregnancy and abortion.
No, it did not.
Fucking led to pregnancy and abortion. The age of the female involved had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with it. The same actions performed by the same people at age 16 or 18 would have led to the same result.
Your attempt to distort the reality of the situation at hand marks you as a liar.
Jeeezus, you're not serious about this, are you? The POVray is an absurd clusterfuck of arbitrary (and constantly changing) assumptions without any kind of structure to it. Quick: what is "x": is it a number or a vector? (and is it a three- or five-dimensional one) and why? And in what context. And yes, you can kinda contort it into looping (barely) but, wow, better not get your variable names be such things as "x" or "y" because then they conflict with reserved words. And, oh, no common rule as to when you need {}s and when you can omit them, or what can be an element of what else and... and... and... and not a line of documentation about the parser anywhere.
Sorry for the rant, but POVray can make grown hackers cry; as an introductory language it is completely inappropriate.
Personally, I can't stand it and try not to use it, in favor of the more straightforward and less loaded "high ability."
But that's a completely wrong terminology. "High ability" is something that can be acquired. If someone has killer ability in some field it doesn't mean that they're bright or gifted -- it just means they may have poured a lot of work into it. The whole point of "gifted" kids is that they don't need to pour effort into anything -- they're just better at stuff than those other kids (who may well have equally "high ability" in any one field, but only because they worked hard at it).
Let me pre-empt the retards by stating that there's nothing wrong with hard work, of course. Sometimes the job at hand requires it. But when you are in that situation and the next guy just breezes through the same stuff without even much thinking about it then you'll understand what "gifted" means.
Umm yeah ok. But if you do sum = num1 + num2, sum _does_ equal num1+num2 after the assignment. I am not sure what you're getting at. Perhaps you meant the expression x = x + 1 is counter-intuitive unless you understand the '=' operator means 'assign to x'.
No, after the assignment the symbol "sum" DOES NOT equal num1+num2.
The algebraic equation X=Y+5 is a description of reality. It does not matter what Y is, X is five more. The computer statement "X=Y+5" is an instruction to a machine to perform a certain operation once. It is not a statement of fact and if it were a true description of reality it would lose its validity as soon as the value of "Y" changes.
Algebra:
X = Y+5
Y = 5 What is X?
Y = 6
What is X now?
[pseudo]Computers:
X = Y+5;(possibly an error because Y isn't declared/defined yet. Depends on your language)
Y = 5
print X; Do you really expect 10 here?
Y = 6
print X; Do you really expect X to have a different value now?
The fact that you imagine that the statement "Y=X+5" means the same in programming as in algebra indicates that you have a rather weak grasp of at least one of the two.
On the other hand "take a value; add another value to it" is an operation that is the same in both cases.
[pseudo-code; really PostScript in this case)
5 % here's a number
6 % here's another number
+ % add those two numbers.
At no point is there an expectation that this sum will change if some "variable Y" changes. This is a lot closer to the way kids learn addition: "You have five apples, you receive six more apples, how many do you have total?"
The point is not whether one uses letters to refer to numbers, it is whether one expresses what one expects the computer to do. There's no conceptual difference between
[pseudocode, vaguely scheme this time]:
(sum 5 6 7) or
(sum a b c)
in both cases what is expressed is the sum of a number of values. Which the string "X=Y+5" doesn't necessarily express.
Actually I plan to have two million news sources streaming to my monitor, each of them occupying exactly one pixel of screen real estate. It is my hope that the totality of all this political coverage will merge into a big porn movie.
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We told that graduate student when he hired on that this was going to be a really easy thesis: all he'd have to do is five nights of observing...
Funny you mention "love" because there's no women on the moon, or on that ridge in Antarctica, which is a major drawback of accepting either of those jobs. Oh wait. It's just like my current job.
Don't worry - either place will be so cold that you'll need your ID to tell which sex you are.
The absence of women will just mean not to have to contend with PMS on a regular basis.
There is nothing in orbital dynamics that says any one planet has to rotate or in which direction or at what speed.
There's absolutely nothing whatsoever to "explain" about Venus.
There may or may not be some kind of story why its angular momentum is as low as it is, and that story may or may not be interesting. But "It happened to be formed from material with a total spin angular momentum close to zero" is neither implausible, nor unlikely, nor in conflict with our understanding of the solar system or planets or physics in general.
If I ever have kids, I will not permit them to go to public school for exactly this reason!
...because ... private schools are somehow different?
100%
You got any different numbers? Ones you can actually back up in some fashion?
Back in the days of Napster (the original) I found a lot of cool music that I ended up buying simply by looking what other people had shelved next to the things I knew and liked. I haven't bought a whole lot of music in the last couple years because there's just simply no way for me to discover things that I might like anymore.
And no, I certainly didn't end up buying every last thing I downloaded -- 90% of what I found online was crap. 90% of everything is crap. But the things I downloaded (and didn't buy) I wouldn't have spent money on either way, so the music industry didn't lose any money from my download.
Because there are no "innocent" bystanders. Those "innocent" bystanders allowed a Government to come to power that provided support to the terrorist group that attacked the United States. I always find it amusing how the anti-war crowd clams that all Americans have blood on our hands because we allowed GWB to come to power but don't apply the same argument to the civilians placed in harms way by the actions of other governments......
Wait ... so you're saying that all Americans have blood on their hands? Is that what you're saying?
You appear to be saying that this is the case when people "allow a government to come into power... etc", which is certainly much more true for the US (with supposedly free elections) than it has ever been for Afghanistan in human memory.
Which means that there are no innocents in the US? Which means that it is OK for a terrorist to wipe out any large number of them? Is that what you're saying?
Or are you trying to be sarcastic and pointing out that there can be innocent people no matter how atrocious the actions of their government? In which case I fail to understand your claim that there are no innocent bystanders.
You see me puzzled.
Sometimes the only solution is violence. Done neatly, and done correctly, it can permanently fix the problem.
...the perpetrators of 9/11 (and every other terrorist act in the history of mankind) agree with you.
just sayin...
... that's what Saddam Hussein wants to know ...
What ever happened to "faster, better, cheaper"??
It omits the fourth free parameter: risk. Systems engineering operates in a four-dimensional envelope: Cost, Scope, Schedule, Risk.
Tinker with any three of these at the cost of the fourth.
There have been proposals ... one of the more interesting ones involves a surface lander that also has a detachable probe along with a small thermonuclear generator. The nuke probe heats the ice and begins to melt its way downward, trailing a communication cable behind to connect with the surface probe. The ice refreezes above the probe as it descends.
...thereby freezing the communications cable in place, thereby preventing the probe from getting any further down. Pity.
Giving odds for finding a theoretical particle is like giving odds on finding life in the solar system.
Good thing then that nobody did such a thing.
They were giving the odds for finding the Higgs first. Nobody made any claims how likely it is that the thing exists in the first place, merely what the odds are that Tevatron will pick up it's signature before CERN.
About $129-169 is more in the range where mass adoption begins for something like this.
So a half-million sold units is not "mass adoption"?
As long as they're selling the things faster than they can make'em -- why would they want to increase demand?
Can a Kindle read a book formatted for the Sony EReader?
Waait - what? Sony packs some DRM into their files to keep you from reading them on a Kindle and ... it is the Kindle's fault? Something's amiss here. The GP's claim was:
If you buy a Kindle, you are buying into a scheme where you can buy media from only one vendor,
and that statement is simply not true. The Kindle handles a whole lot of formats from a whole lot of sources. Anything I've ever thrown at it, certainly.
But no, it doesn't handle non-Amazon formats from non-Amazon vendors that were intentionally crippled such as to not work on an Amazon device. Which is hardly Amazon's fault.
There is Palm eReader, MobiPocket, Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader formats with DRM. Then there is text, PDF and other DRM-free formats.
...and the kindle handles the latter three just fine. You can use/own a kindle and never buy anything DRMed in your life. Entirely your choice.
...except, of course, that the kindle is happy to display PDFs. And yes, you can convert .doc and .txt files into their format as well. For free. Which is exactly what you asked for, no?
I thought focal length was the biggest factor in resolution?
Diffraction limit is set by lambda/diameter -- the longer the wavelength to larger the mirror required to get the same limit.
But then again all I know about telescopes comes from hobbyist visible light scopes.
On the ground you're almost always resolution limited by the atmospheric seeing, as long as your aperture is over ~10cm or so. Anything larger form there is going to help with collecting more light (i.e. detecting fainter objects with shorter exposures) but not with resolution any more.
Not just "praise", reelect.
until he takes the oath, he isn't president.
Yes, he is.
You have no idea what you're gibbering about.
What I don't understand is why these people don't have some sort of 3-6 month emergency fund on hand in cash that they can use for a while after they retire. If you have 6 months in cash you can often ride out some or all of the worst downturns without touching the equities, and you can replenish that later as they rise. If you were to have a years worth of expenses on hand (say 30 thousand assuming you live really frugally in that first year of retirement) you would be in an especially good position. But the bulk of the nest egg really should remain in equities to outpace inflation.
Congratulations - you've just discovered the first step to what financial planners have called "income for life" for decades now. No, you don't just want a short-term fund, you want five or six time-weighted buckets from the very-safe, very-short-term to the high-risk, high-reward, long-term fund (and a number of gradations in between). Google wealth2k or some such thing.
As a side note, how do these storms disrupt power grids?
"Power grid" := "very large (continent sized) antenna"
"fucking of a 17yr old girl" ended up in pregnancy and abortion.
No, it did not.
Fucking led to pregnancy and abortion. The age of the female involved had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with it. The same actions performed by the same people at age 16 or 18 would have led to the same result.
Your attempt to distort the reality of the situation at hand marks you as a liar.
Jeeezus, you're not serious about this, are you? The POVray is an absurd clusterfuck of arbitrary (and constantly changing) assumptions without any kind of structure to it. Quick: what is "x": is it a number or a vector? (and is it a three- or five-dimensional one) and why? And in what context. And yes, you can kinda contort it into looping (barely) but, wow, better not get your variable names be such things as "x" or "y" because then they conflict with reserved words. And, oh, no common rule as to when you need {}s and when you can omit them, or what can be an element of what else and ... and ... and ... and not a line of documentation about the parser anywhere.
Sorry for the rant, but POVray can make grown hackers cry; as an introductory language it is completely inappropriate.
Personally, I can't stand it and try not to use it, in favor of the more straightforward and less loaded "high ability."
But that's a completely wrong terminology. "High ability" is something that can be acquired. If someone has killer ability in some field it doesn't mean that they're bright or gifted -- it just means they may have poured a lot of work into it. The whole point of "gifted" kids is that they don't need to pour effort into anything -- they're just better at stuff than those other kids (who may well have equally "high ability" in any one field, but only because they worked hard at it).
Let me pre-empt the retards by stating that there's nothing wrong with hard work, of course. Sometimes the job at hand requires it. But when you are in that situation and the next guy just breezes through the same stuff without even much thinking about it then you'll understand what "gifted" means.
Umm yeah ok. But if you do sum = num1 + num2, sum _does_ equal num1+num2 after the assignment. I am not sure what you're getting at. Perhaps you meant the expression x = x + 1 is counter-intuitive unless you understand the '=' operator means 'assign to x'.
No, after the assignment the symbol "sum" DOES NOT equal num1+num2.
The algebraic equation X=Y+5 is a description of reality. It does not matter what Y is, X is five more. The computer statement "X=Y+5" is an instruction to a machine to perform a certain operation once. It is not a statement of fact and if it were a true description of reality it would lose its validity as soon as the value of "Y" changes.
Algebra:
X = Y+5
Y = 5
What is X?
Y = 6
What is X now?
[pseudo]Computers: ;(possibly an error because Y isn't declared/defined yet. Depends on your language)
; Do you really expect 10 here?
; Do you really expect X to have a different value now?
X = Y+5
Y = 5
print X
Y = 6
print X
The fact that you imagine that the statement "Y=X+5" means the same in programming as in algebra indicates that you have a rather weak grasp of at least one of the two.
On the other hand "take a value; add another value to it" is an operation that is the same in both cases.
[pseudo-code; really PostScript in this case)
5 % here's a number
6 % here's another number
+ % add those two numbers.
At no point is there an expectation that this sum will change if some "variable Y" changes. This is a lot closer to the way kids learn addition: "You have five apples, you receive six more apples, how many do you have total?"
The point is not whether one uses letters to refer to numbers, it is whether one expresses what one expects the computer to do. There's no conceptual difference between
[pseudocode, vaguely scheme this time]:
(sum 5 6 7)
or
(sum a b c)
in both cases what is expressed is the sum of a number of values. Which the string "X=Y+5" doesn't necessarily express.
Actually I plan to have two million news sources streaming to my monitor, each of them occupying exactly one pixel of screen real estate. It is my hope that the totality of all this political coverage will merge into a big porn movie.