Almost, grasshopper. There would have been an earthshattering kaboom.
Bzzt. Wrong. That's cartoon physics. Hollywood physics assumes the audience is stupid. Cartoon physics assumes that the audience is intelligent enough to recognise and laugh at the absurdity.
...Why this impact apparently emitted so much light?
I get that the asteroid probably had a LOT of kinetic energy, but isn't it only in "Hollywood physics" that when two inert things collide you get a fiery explosion?
You're underestimating what "a lot of kinetic energy" is when you're talking about speeds measured in km per second - and kinetic energy goes with the square of the velocity.
A lot of kinetic energy gets transformed into a lot of heat. Hot things give off light (they don't need to be "on fire") - fire gives off light because it is hot. A light bulb gives off light but it isn't on fire - but it is hot. Lightning isn't on fire. The sun isn't on fire. Probably what you see is most of the asteroid (and a chunk of the moon) getting turned into a plume of superhot gas, if not plasma.
No Hollywood physics involved, or there would have been a loud 'kaboom' at exactly the same time as the flash, a perfectly circular blue shockwave ring shooting out from the moon and Harrison Ford in a fridge.
With Sarai/OSX, it's a whole different matter
For starters, you can find Opera in the official Mac App Store, Chrome & Opera in the official iOS store... Prior to the App Store you could always easily find alternative browsers via the 'Get software...' links that Apple included.
OSX does not have 90% market penetration.
And, since we're talking about 1999, guess what the default browser on Mac OS was back then? Clue: it had a logo like an 'e' with a whoosh around it, and wasn't Safari. Kids today don't remember what a stranglehold MS had on PCs in the late 90s.
If only there were an easily upgradeable open source router operating system to which vendors could add support for their hardware leaving long term maintenance to a larger community.
If only it supported routers with built-in ADSL (which was the dealbreaker last time I looked at DD-WRT - and it took me some digging to discover that was why none of the routers I wanted to use it on).
If that's since been fixed - and supports a router I can actually buy somewhere - then mod me happy.
Personally, I could put together a low-power Linux box, get an ADSL modem, an ethernet switch, wireless access point (sounds like Belinksysco crap would be just as big a liability in WAP-only or modem-only mode) but (a) that's replacing 1 always-on box with 2-3 always-on boxes (b) there's the non-zero chance that I could screw up and (c) it doesn't really help joe public who need a reliable, secure plug-and-go box.
Any trustworthy all-in-one ADSL Modem/Routers/WAPs out there?
The consequences of that could be terrible!
The shark would be safer - at least they can't climb trees.
There was nothing stopping the cops from saying "hey judge, you sure about this warrant for a 9 year old video? We'll try and get to it after we round up our rape, murder and robbery suspects."
RTFA. She was already in the Sheriff's office on another matter when they discovered the outstanding warrant. She was only in jail for one night and then let go, which would be quite consistent with the cops doing exactly as you suggested.
Arresting someone for theft under $10 ("Monster-In-Law" on DVD retails for about $5) seems to be a gross misuse of taxpayer dollars.
You appear to be responding to a story about a woman rotting in jail because she failed to return a $5 video cassette.
TFA is actually about a woman who spends one whole night* in jail after ignoring served warrants and certified letters for years - and then only after she was in the Sheriff's office for some other reason and they discovered the outstanding warrants.
TFA doesn't specify what led to the original arrest, whether it was the store being heavy handed, or a last resort after trying to impose a reasonable penalty.
So, really, "10 years ago, police fail to send SWAT team to drag woman to jail for unreturned video." would be a better, but less click-worthy headline.
(* note the cunning journalistic use of 'Feb 13 arrest report' and released on 'Valentines day' to misdirect anybody capable of subtracting 13 from 14).
Sorry - I don't understand the article. Too much text on the page confuses me.
Please could you re-print it with double-line spacing and a large bit of generic stock photography of a rocket or something so I know what it is about?
Maybe a big chunk of white-space at the top so I'm not confronted with a whole paragraph of text on the first screen.
Also, the screen appeared too suddenly and made me jump - which is dangerous because today is my first day wearing my big boy pants. Maybe more javascript effects would slow it down?
Yours,
A.N. Audience
That should come as no surprise to you as it should be pretty obvious by now that Resig doesn't even have a superficial understanding of javascript.
Ah, Javascript - so "expressive" that everybody can invent their own programming paradigm and then flame anybody who does it differently... and if that isn't enough just invent a new language that compiles to Javascript.
Finally, we have a single, unified platform for the language wars!
Sorry - must dash - lots of code to convert to use "object.create" because, apparently, every time you use a constructor function, someone shoots a puppy.
Oh come on, kids have been watching TV, listening music and reading books for many generations.
You seem to assume that the problems in education have appeared from nowhere in the last few years.
Also, when I were a lad, at least in the UK, Kids TV had a lot more imaginative adventure serials, magazine shows about hobbies and current affairs and game shows where the contestants actually had to know or do stuff; and a lot less cheap cartoons designed explicitly to promote toys, thinly-disguised adverts for music and fashion accessories, mundane soap operas about dull people living dull lives, no-brain-required 'contests' and talent shows designed explicitly to raise money from premium-rate phone lines... all designed on the principle that anything requiring an attention span of more than 5 seconds will hit ratings. Seriously - modern kids television (insofar as it still exists) positively encourages goldfish-level attention spans. Hell, some programmes are flagged 'ADHD' in the listings!
(Boringly, 'ADHD' in the listings apparently means 'High Def' and 'Audio Description available'.)
As for the 'firing bad teachers' bit - the danger is that will only clear up a tiny percentage of teachers who are dramatically bad, while further re-enforcing the obsession with testing. If your job is on the line based on your test results, you're not going to skimp on the test cramming in order to do something creative or interesting.
You suggest that MITM attacks on SSL are as bad as someone sniffing on unencrypted traffic. It is not! MITM attacks are active attacks and are much more invasive to carry out.
Is "false security" better or worse than "no security"? I don't think there's a simple one-size-fits-all answer to that - it depends on the type of threat and who the target is. If the bad guys want to snoop on an individual over a period of time, then traffic sniffing probably is easier. If its an organised gang going after money then MITMing a major ecommerce or banking site might be far more effective - and only needs to be in place for an hour or two to collect enough paydirt.
Anyway, the headline was "Is Firefox now the most secure mobile browser" not "Is Firefox the most betterer-than-nothing mobile browser". Browsers display nice reassuring padlocks and tell users that "the connection to this website is secure" not "meh, well, its probably safe from casual snooping, but if anybody organised is after you or whoever you're connecting to then you're basically screwed."
I love that ARM didn't initially go head to head with Intel and thus ended up not getting crushed by them (think transmeta/AMD).
Actually, they did start out (as Acorn) by going head-to-head with Intel. Others have mentioned Acorn but not really pointed out that the original 1987 ARM was a credible competitor to the 80286 and 68000. (By "credible competitor" I mean "left the 68k and 286 choking on its dust"). It was only ever really used in that way in the Acorn Archemedes and RiscPC which never made it big outside of the UK - although it outlived most of the other non-Wintel personal computers.
OK - when ARM was spun off they did, as you say, rather sensibly, end up going after the embedded market, but ARM might never have happened if Acorn had gone with the 80286 for their BBC Micro successor.
Another problem identified just five years ago is that the eyeballs of at least some astronauts became somewhat squashed.
I'm not a doctor, but if your eyeballs have always been under your nose then I suspect you have a pre-existing condition. Don't blame space.
To be fair, in zero gravity, it's easy to get confused about 'under' and 'over'.
This sounds a lot like the "Pizza is a vegetable" nonsense I remember reading about a few years ago.
Hold the cheese and pepperoni and, maybe... leaving only the Godwin-esque issue of whether a tomato is a vegetable...
But seriously folks, I don't think anybody is claiming that "computer languages == foreign languages" in any practical sense, just that they're equally valid as an indicator of intelligence and employability.
err: missing escape
WTF? Even good old-fangled C doesn't need an escape there.
The cost of feathers has risen, even down is up!
