{"id":231,"date":"2005-02-10T06:53:03","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T06:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=231"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"how-hot-is-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"How Hot is Cool?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=Tahoma><font size=2>Bill Barnes, who is the UI guru in new ways to &#8220;reify&#8221; identity here in the Identity and Access group at Microsoft, sent me this sobering thought about <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigburton.com\/2005\/02\/01\"><font size=2>Craig<\/font><\/a><font size=2>&#8216;s &#8220;sunspot-hot&#8221; comment:<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=ltr style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><font size=2><font face=Tahoma>I thought sunspots <\/font><font face=Arial><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">were actually cool spots on the sun<\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=ltr><font face=Arial><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\">But of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/cse.ssl.berkeley.edu\/segwayed\/lessons\/sunspots\/research3.html\">everything is relative<\/a>:<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=Arial><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial\"><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=ltr style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<div dir=ltr>Fisher says sunspots are still quite hot: &#8220;Instead of being about 5800 degrees <a name=Kelvin><\/a><a href=\"dhtmled5:glossary.html#Kelvin\">Kelvin<\/a> like the rest of the photosphere, the temperature of a sunspot is more like 4000 degrees Kelvin. But that is still very hot, compared to anything here on earth.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=ltr> <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div dir=ltr>Of course the Fifth Law transcends the earth.<\/div>\n<div dir=ltr> <\/div>\n<div dir=ltr>Anyway, I&#39;ll get to this one day, but Bill is a very funny cartoonist as well, and is creator of a strip called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.overduemedia.com\/archive.aspx?strip=20050117\" class=\"broken_link\">Unshelved<\/a>&#8220;.  He has a great sense of what identity is.  And a certain firmness of approach:<\/div>\n<div dir=ltr> <\/div>\n<div dir=ltr> <\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/font><img src=\"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/images\/2005\/02\/09\/Monkey.gif\" border=0><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Barnes, who is the UI guru in new ways to &#8220;reify&#8221; identity here in the Identity and Access group at Microsoft, sent me this sobering thought about Craig&#8216;s &#8220;sunspot-hot&#8221; comment: I thought sunspots were actually cool spots on the sun But of course, everything is relative: Fisher says sunspots are still quite hot: &#8220;Instead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=231\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Hot is Cool?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}