So you're positing that putting a higher load on her phone and a lower load on mine would result in her phone outlasting mine? See, I understand the scientific method just fine, but I also have some basic common sense, which seems to be lost on you.

And yet my phone, under higher usage than hers, lasts longer. If it were the other way around I'd see your point.

Not forever, as black holes don't last forever. They evaporate due to Hawking radiation.

Hey it's all some people can get. Not everyone is as employable as you and I.

If you can afford it. Otherwise, everyone who can afford it is subsidizing it for everyone who can't.

Minimum wage, part time 16hr/wk. That's all some people can get (and a second job is out of the question because they want open availability, which the first job prevents them from having). That's $6032/yr gross, $5143/yr net assuming standard deduction. Show me a budget that allows a single person to survive on $429/mo (I rounded it up to make it easier on you). Be sure to include city and state, so I can know *where* a person can survive on that budget.

Sure, they can find a room somewhere for $150/mo, ride the bus to and from work (4x 4 hour shifts is 8 trips per week, 34 or 36 trips per month depending on how the days fall so we'll average that to 35) at $2.50 per trip that's $87.50 per month. They need clothes, one outfit per day for two weeks to minimize laundry costs, plus an outfit to wear for laundry, so 15 outfits, replaced every 6 months as clothes do wear out, so an average of 1.25 outfits per month at a cost of $20 per pair of pants and $15 per shirt if we're going cheap, which comes to $43.75 per month. We're already up to $281.25 and we still have to do laundry and eat. Ever been to a laundromat? 2 weeks worth of clothes costs $10 to wash, 26 loads per year, that's 2.16 load per month, $21.60 per month for laundry brings us up to $302.85, leaving $126.15 for food. That miiiiiiiiiiight be doable in some cities, but not in most. And we never actually got that 16/hr per week job because guess what? We can't afford a phone for them to call us on. And if we did somehow manage to land a job anyway, we've lost it within the first month because we can't afford a phone for them to call us on to tell us they need us to come in. Or we've wasted bus far (2 trips) because they couldn't call us to tell us they actually didn't need us that day; on top of now not getting paid for the day.

Yes, a budget and roommates solve everyone's problems.

My phone: all radios on. Her phone: all radios on. Aside from that, I discuss usage patterns elsewhere in the thread; mine certainly sees more use than hers. Unfortunately, since there is no possible way for me to run an SMTP server or an HTTP server with PHP support on an iPhone, swapping phones with her to test the impact of usage patterns is not a viable option; but the SMTP and HTTP servers I run on my phone for on-the-go development and testing are certainly battery hogs, I can't imagine the iPhone would fare any better running those.

I never said it does, but The Population voted for a President who did and enough of Congress agreed. There's also a greater public good served by controlling the spread of disease and keeping the populace able to work and contribute to society for as long as possible. That feeds into the minimum wage discussion, as well, which I'll get to. Personally, I make well over minimum wage and my insurance cost less (and for better coverage) before Obamacare, but I recognize the value of both.

A livable minimum wage means people can afford to take time off of work when they're sick, which means Joe, the guy making your burger (or serving your lobster, this isn't just limited to fast food) has the option of taking the day off instead of spreading his illness to your food and, thus, to you. A socialized health care system means Joe can also see a doctor when he takes the day off due to that illness, get treated, and get back to work sooner. That makes Joe a more productive member of society while ensuring that Joe isn't spreading his illness and making others less productive. Joe's livable wage and government-backed free health care aren't just a benefit to Joe, they're a benefit to all of the people he would otherwise have made sick, and anyone those people would have, in turn made sick, and so on, and so forth. In other words, to society as a whole, even those of us who don't live on minimum wage and free health care.

Have you never seen anything about the twin paradox? Even at the most superficial level introduction of relativity, you get that time slows down when something is moving relative to the observer.

This is ridiculous. Even "at the most superficial level introduction of relativity "you should know that if a person departs earth moving at "nearly C" and comes back, far less time will have past for them than someone who stayed on Earth the whole time.

From the perspective of the people on the ship, the journey is no longer a distance of 4.3 light years. If the spaceship is going 90% of c relative to Earth, then in the spaceship's frame it will take them 2.08 years to make that trip, and also in their frame they will observe it takes light 1.87 years to go from Earth to Alpha-Centari.

First off, apart from trying to add confusion, why did you change the velocity from the one I gave? Secondly, from a trip travel time perspective, it doesn't matter whether you view it as time dilation or length contraction. The trip at 0.999c takes 70 days from the perspective of the crew. That's the beginning and end of it right there. From their perspective, it's as if they got there moving far faster than the speed of light, as if there were no limits on how fast they could keep accelerating. With an infinite supply of energy, they could travel the 4,3 light years in what they perceive to be 7 days, 7 hours, 7 minutes, or 7 seconds (let's ignore G-forces here, or how to have such vast quantities of energy at their disposal). The crew of a spacecraft experiences no "upper limit" to how fast the universe will allow them to traverse a distance.

What are you talking about? I just did "echo 1,2 > test.csv" then opened test.csv in OpenOffice Calc, then saved it as test2.csv from the save dialog. No complaints. Then I clicked to close it. No complaints about unsaved changes. Did you actually try that out before you commented? I don't have any of the other programs you mention on this computer, so I'll pick another - let's try OpenOffice Writer. Made a text file, opened it, saved it as a .txt file, it asked me for the encoding, I confirmed it, I clicked closed, and it closed without trying to force me to save as an .odt.

I'm sorry, but GIMP's change is totally broken behavior. The most common workflow for GIMP (as you can see from all of the rage on the forums when these changes occurred) is not long complex workflows, but simple changes to jpegs or pngs. Open, change it, save it, close it. What sort of moron do you take people for to think that you have to "protect" them from choosing a format of file that doesn't save layers, and instead try to make them always save whatever they do in a format that no other programs support? As if a dialog warning them that it doesn't save layers and asking them if they want to flatten it, like Gimp used to do, isn't enough? What on earth is the point of *banning* people from typing in a file with the suffix that they want to use in the save menu, and instead making them choose an entirely different menu? Actually two different menus, depending on context, only one of which has a keyboard shortcut. It's just ridiculous. We're not preschoolers, we don't need the hand-holding.

Can't plan for everything. Glad you're okay though; otherwise, there would be no counterexample to prove my point.

An interesting side effect of this would be that it would actually be theoretically possible to send a probe into a black hole and get a signal back from it. If you're REALLY, REALLY, REALLY patient, that is ;)

(more realistically, one would likely try to probe the insides by making mciro black holes inside colliders and trying to get them to consume particles before they collapse, then looking for traces of information in the aftermath of the collapse)

And from the traveler's perspective the universe is consistent and there's no information loss either. They still see an apparent horizon, a place where time appears to stop, but they never reach it, it always recedes ahead of them. To them, the area beyond that apparent horizon is also not part of spacetime, but nothing ever manages to enter it so no information appears to be lost.

They of course eventually get ripped apart by tidal forces, but their information doesn't disappear into a "no-hair" singularity, it remains to be released when the black hole evaporates. As a black hole evaporates, time showing the particles falling deeper and deeper into it becomes observable to the outside world (albeit incredibly distorted and with the matter ripped to bits).

Again, that's at least my understanding of Hawking's "black holes don't actually exist" concept, and it makes logical sense to me. From the perspective of a traveler, they're just falling to their deaths in an extreme sort of collapsed star. From the perspective of an outside observer, they've fallen into a spot where a the collapsed star has ripped a hole in spacetime that won't start back up (from our perspective) until the "hole" boils off. Nothing ever lost, nothing ever undefined, always part of our universe, just effectively frozen temporarily in time. From our perspective.

Also, damn, this is why I don't post from my phone (I've turned off autocorrect or it might have been worse).

Not quitel There is a lot more toglobal warming than whether or not it smows in March, but, tyere is nothing more to whether my phone or ky wife's phone lasts longer than whether my phone or mynwife's phone lasts longer. Mine, a Nexus 6, lasts longer than hers, an iPhone 6 Plus. Period. Therefore, it is correct for me to say that, in my experience, the Nexus 6 lasts longer than the iPhone 6 Plus. At no point did I claim that my observations were indicative of all Nexus 6 and iPhone 6 Plus devices; in fact, I was fairly explicit in stating that jy observations were just that: my personal observations of my last 5 Android phones compared to my wife's last 4 iPhones. I know what the specs say should happen, but I've never actually seen it outside of a lab.

Not only do they bundle it with adware, but they've apparently sabotaged GIMP too - for example, they apparently changed the save dialog so that you can only save XCF files and have to click through a "you have unsaved changes" warning when you export to a different format. They added an very difficult to precisely adjust sliders to things like brush size. They took out 16 bit color support. Basically, sourceforge has really totalled GIMP. ;)