Gold is what it is - an item with restricted supply that can be recycled into different forms and is shiny and desirable.
To take your assertion seriously, nothing at all would have any intrinsic value - all value is in the eye of the purchaser.
The whole problem is completely entwined with the idea of value - it was the CDOs that were overvalued because of faulty risk assessments that led to the current crisis, and at a deeper level the process of allowing banks to create imaginary value based on lending a multiple of their holdings is to blame.
While there isn't any inherent value in it, perhaps Twitter gets a kick out of it?
Personally, I find it easy to spot and often mildly entertaining, so I'm not one to get upset and waste mod points modding him down, but the vitriol that he attracts is even more amusing.
He's often quite right about Microsoft, but just as often wide of the mark - hell, let him play his game and stop being so precious.
While you have a point, I believe you are overstating it.
Penrose is about as far from an idiot as you can get - his formulation of the CCH highlights the incompleteness of current theory in an accessible manner, and because he is a great populariser of science, the concept has to be phrased in a manner that is accessible to non-specialists.
So rather than saying 'current theories are incomplete, because they imply something we don't see', it comes out as 'nature abhors naked singularities', because that's more readily understood by non-technical people educated in the Western mode.
LOL - I'm talking NT 3.1, not Windows 3.1 - we were using Windows 3.11 (WFWG) clients, and the NT sucked compared to Netware running on equivalent hardware.
I may be full of shit in many ways, but computers ain't one of them, young kiddie:P
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...Perl... below that you get into the obscure languages.
Pentium? Microsoft advertised that 3.1 would run on a 386 with 16 meg of RAM, so that's what we installed it on to evaluate against our lovely Netware 3.11 fileservers.
Guess what?
It sucked ass - 10 minutes to boot, and funny looks were a definite no-no.
If you're going to try to use skeptical arguments to deny evolution, I reserve the right (since the putative Holocaust happened before I was born) to be equally skeptical about events prior to 1964.
Absolute proof?
Show me some.
Face it, you're just using sophistry to defend a creation myth cobbled together by some Bronze Age priests from other myths during a period of exile where justifying the existence of their religion was vital.
Compare that to the tens or hundreds of thousands of well sourced studies that all add their weight to the theory of evolution, and then tell me why it should be given equal weight.
From what they believe, Israel is a puppet of the U.S. government.
As opposed to the reverse, which is more true over the last 8 years than it has ever been thanks to the neocon Likudniks of PNAC that infiltrated your government.
OK, some servers got hacked, the attackers didn't inject rogue packages into the repository servers so no customers/users were affected. Red Hat/Fedora responded by auditing everything and releasing a statement [redhat.com], along with tools [redhat.com] to detect packages with the attackers' signature. Big deal.
Hmmm...
On the one hand, no customers/users were affected.
On the other, Red Hat released tools to detect the affected packages.
If no customers were affected, why release the tools?
I just tried that, and it's hellishly slow in IE6, but runs like shit off a shovel in Firefox 3.
I haven't tried Chrome yet, but I'm guessing the shovel in that case will be chrome as well.
One thing that did piss me off was the "Download and Present" slide, which reminded me that Powerpoint 2007 format is "an ISO standard". While true, such statements are prone to making me quite irate:P
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I think it's marvelous! HaHaHa!
Because the turtle ate my gerbil, you insensitive clod!
Ah, so you're working in the oral tradition, then?
I think the overegging of the pudding is down to one Kevin Warwick, better known to readers of the Register as 'Captain Cyborg'.
He's a notorious publicity tart, and is also involved in running these tests, as he's a lecturer in cybernetics.
See the Register's take on it here
Can we have our IRA terrorists (and their Noraid funders) back, please?
Gotta love that shit...
Nice one, Mr Dent...
Just as I have the right to tag them as idiots if they believe in Bronze Age myths :P
One word - fungible.
Gold is what it is - an item with restricted supply that can be recycled into different forms and is shiny and desirable.
To take your assertion seriously, nothing at all would have any intrinsic value - all value is in the eye of the purchaser.
The whole problem is completely entwined with the idea of value - it was the CDOs that were overvalued because of faulty risk assessments that led to the current crisis, and at a deeper level the process of allowing banks to create imaginary value based on lending a multiple of their holdings is to blame.
My nipples explode with delight!
Damn you anonymous punster!
You owe me one new keyboard - now if you weren't an AC, I'd mod you up and then invoice you...
While there isn't any inherent value in it, perhaps Twitter gets a kick out of it?
Personally, I find it easy to spot and often mildly entertaining, so I'm not one to get upset and waste mod points modding him down, but the vitriol that he attracts is even more amusing.
He's often quite right about Microsoft, but just as often wide of the mark - hell, let him play his game and stop being so precious.
While you have a point, I believe you are overstating it.
Penrose is about as far from an idiot as you can get - his formulation of the CCH highlights the incompleteness of current theory in an accessible manner, and because he is a great populariser of science, the concept has to be phrased in a manner that is accessible to non-specialists.
So rather than saying 'current theories are incomplete, because they imply something we don't see', it comes out as 'nature abhors naked singularities', because that's more readily understood by non-technical people educated in the Western mode.
I did (been coming here since 2000), but then changed jobs and forgot my password :(
LOL - I'm talking NT 3.1, not Windows 3.1 - we were using Windows 3.11 (WFWG) clients, and the NT sucked compared to Netware running on equivalent hardware.
I may be full of shit in many ways, but computers ain't one of them, young kiddie :P
Show me something more obscure than Perl!
But not well enough!
Eh?
Haha!
Pentium? Microsoft advertised that 3.1 would run on a 386 with 16 meg of RAM, so that's what we installed it on to evaluate against our lovely Netware 3.11 fileservers.
Guess what?
It sucked ass - 10 minutes to boot, and funny looks were a definite no-no.
I have a lawn you could get off, if you like...
But a +5 SadIndictmentOfNeuesArbeit would be more apt, surely?
Does that mean that Palin believes that McCain was carefully buried by God to confuse the evil Darwinists?
If you're going to try to use skeptical arguments to deny evolution, I reserve the right (since the putative Holocaust happened before I was born) to be equally skeptical about events prior to 1964.
Absolute proof?
Show me some.
Face it, you're just using sophistry to defend a creation myth cobbled together by some Bronze Age priests from other myths during a period of exile where justifying the existence of their religion was vital.
Compare that to the tens or hundreds of thousands of well sourced studies that all add their weight to the theory of evolution, and then tell me why it should be given equal weight.
As opposed to the reverse, which is more true over the last 8 years than it has ever been thanks to the neocon Likudniks of PNAC that infiltrated your government.
Hmmm...
On the one hand, no customers/users were affected.
On the other, Red Hat released tools to detect the affected packages.
If no customers were affected, why release the tools?
Something does not add up here.
I just tried that, and it's hellishly slow in IE6, but runs like shit off a shovel in Firefox 3.
I haven't tried Chrome yet, but I'm guessing the shovel in that case will be chrome as well.
One thing that did piss me off was the "Download and Present" slide, which reminded me that Powerpoint 2007 format is "an ISO standard". While true, such statements are prone to making me quite irate :P