What is the difference between an AMD64 and an AMD Opteron? I see advertisements for both, but can't find anywhere that tells me what the difference is. Thanks.
Not quite. Even if you know a few 'successful' people who never received a formal education, that is by far fewer than the percentage I mentioned (which I was trying to make a point, not be completely exact); 2 or 3 you know out of 6.5 billion people, you can do the math.
I was making a point which was missed. You were making a dumbass rebuttal. Which is worse? As a side note, I did mention a few occupations which are more related to 'people skills' to actual education. Unfortunately, you completely missed that.
The US needs to catch up to the rest of the world. The entire world uses Metric people. And it makes an infinite amount more sense to use Metric than the US system. If we don't, trade will continue to suffer as well as accidents such as this one.
Those times are not the late 20th and now 21st century. As hard as you try, without actual formal education, your chances of success are infinitesimally small. But, this has everything to do with the field being applied. A natural military or business leader is not necesarrily something that schooling can be an improvement for. But, formal education does give you the power to get the information and tools you will need to become great.
The fact is, 99.9999999999999% of the people who never get a formal education become absolutely nothing in their lives and are simply a waste of life. And no matter how much they believe that they are just as equal, they are not.
Look, I am 100% scientifically minded, and this is bullshit data with bullshit results. I have seen just as poorly correlated data from people wearing magnetic rings feelings better during testing to people not wearing magnetic rings. Completely unrelated data.
Your post is also incorrect. If the data is completely unrelated to the subject matter, then it is invalid with hocus-pocus results. You can't cause a link between data to happen, it has to already exist.
For a perfect example, when I was studying for my undergraduate degree, we did a study in our statistics class where we counted the number of women who walked on the side of the street with the cemetary on the way to school and the number of women who walked on the side of the street opposite the cemetary. Our test results showed that almost 3 times as many women walk on the side opposite the cemetary as the side with the cemetary. Therefore, a conclusion could be drawn that women are afraid of cemetaries.
WRONG. Incorrect conclusion from incorrect data correlations.
Real answer? The cemetary had NOTHING to do with women's fears of the dead people. The women's dormitory, which was two blocks away, just happened to be on the side of the street opposite the cemetary. So, it was easier for the women to not cross the street and walk on the other side of the road.
Bullshit. This is bullshit, unrelated data. Human beings are as individual as snowflakes with as many variables affecting testing outcome as can be imagined. The study [i]may[/i] possible show which people's brains function in a logical, problem-solving fashion whereas the others may not. It may show how many people have the ability to understand mathematics.
It does [b]not[/b] show how many people were affected by sleep any more than how the number of leaves blown into the parking lot of the building the night before affected their testing results.
What is retarded is your belief that you, as an EE, are of a higher order of magnitude than that of a Ph.D. professor. I will state this now and at the end of my post...You took my comment out of context for your own benefit.
Without Physics and Mathematics, what is EE? Nothing. The same goes for Chemistry. They are both applied Physics fields.
To repeat the original statement, EE is nothing more than an applied field of Physics. That is a simple, factual statement. The parent poster's comment of 'typical of a physics professor' only goes to show his total ignorance.
Engineering is a fantastic applied field, don't get me wrong. The world would be a much different place if applied physics fields did not exist.
And as a side note, your comment is the one which bears the closest resemblance to being 'retarded'.
Have a nice life. And try to learn not to take a person's comments out of context, as you took my comment out of context for your own benefit.
EE is simply a field of applied Physics. An EE is an order of magnitude lower on the food chain than a Physics professor. No Physics=No EE. BUT, this particular Physics lab teacher is most likely a TA who has misinterpreted his calculations and misinterpreted his studied materials. Another 10 years of study or so would have fixed his/her post. A true Physics professor would have never made this mistake.
The minute I read the parent post I realized he was mostly correct in what he was saying, but incorrect in the context of why higher fidelity/higher bitrate audio is needed to produce 'superior' sound. You should have known that and held back your caustic flaming of this person's post. The rest of your post was quite informational. Thank you.
You will have better luck with manufacturer's pre-built AMD systems. That has been my experience to date. Compaq computers with AMD Athlon XP's have been very stable, rock solid machines.
I hope you have better luck with AMD based computers in the future.
That's unfortunate that you feel that way about AMD. I have been using a Compaq Presario laptop with an AMD Athlon XP 2400 at work (for 9 hours per day) and at home (mornings, evenings, and weekends) on a continual basis for over 8 months now with even one single problem. AMD has been more than a phenomenal chip and the entire laptop has proven priceless in reliablity and performance multiple times over.
Because religion isn't reality and it keeps reality from people's decisions and thoughts.
Religion, if you choose to believe in make-believe (since mysticism only exists in the minds of human beings, regardless of how much you want to believe otherwise), is a personal choice. Children (and the public in general) should be allowed to seek and deal with the world around them on their own, without the influence of a particular religion. A child's knowledge and learned decision making skills such as the scientific process invaluably help them make logical, intelligent decisions, including tolerance. When it comes to moral and ethical questions, those are human creations and qualities too, varying by culture and ethnicity.
All of those ignorant assholes that believe that making religion an excepted part of everybody's life will make this a better world are wrong. History proves that to not be the case since the beginning of most popular religions (including yours)...and it won't be the case in the future either. So, by keeping people's personal beliefs completely personal (i.e. not in our schools or politics) the world can strive towards logical understanding, without the veil of religion blocking reality.
If trademarks are enforceable in the manner such as Microsoft Windows and Lindows, why isn't this film also in violation of trademark law? Why is this not 'product dilution' and other such unspeakable crimes?
Why did Ettore Perazzoli Pass Away Exactly? Every place I look, every is sad of his death, but nowhere can I find out how and why he died. Does anyone know?
So, now when copyright/trademark a name for product, you also copyright/trademark every word that 'sounds like' the name or is a 'synonym' of the name? WTF is that?
That is not generally true. Most problems that get solved are by hundreds of hours of hard work and dedication. Age is not a determining factor in a person's ability to dream and have the talent, work ethic, and determination to follow through with those dreams.
Definitely, at times, some problems are solved by accident or as a side result to another, even unrelated, problem. Those are just as meaningful as the ones solved over a lifetime a work.
To be more accurate, according http://www.bp.com/centres/energy/ the ratio of US production to imports at the end of 2002 is:
350.4 million tons produced 894.3 million tons consumed (imported)
Interesting. Take a look at the world consumption numbers per capita. It will be incredibly interesting once China starts bypassing the US economically, technologically, and energy usage per capita. It is going to happen in our lifetime (most likely in the next 10-20 years, easily). 1.3 billion people and climbing is a lot of energy usage if growth is equal to or faster than US growth.
Another point is that electrical heating is always going to be more efficient that gas heating. Simple laws of thermodynamics. Electrical heating is ~100% efficient. Gas can never be. The real determining factor is that electrical rates are, at times, more expensive than gas rates. But, since the electrical utility uses gas to create the electricity, the cost is the same either way, only hidden.
The best solution is to use a residential geothermal heat pump system. Yes, it is completely electrical. But, the difference is that your power consumption from the electrical utility is level all year long. Good for the electrical utility (no need for peak plants that only run during the summer) and good for you (you can get reductions in electrical tariffs for having a constant base load and the electrical utility will have to buy less gas to make the electricity overall).
The real problem was deregulation. Pure capitalism will always ensure that the cheapest route to profit will prevail. Therefore, the US energy problems will continue and will get worse. A more socialist attack at the problem, such as government regulation and controlled distribution, is the reason that so many foreign countries have such fantastic energy infrastructures.
Actually, mathematics is based on fundamental 'truths', none of which are philosophical. For example, the existence of nothingness, or the empty set, the existence of zero, the existence of a group and a ring (mathematical ring), the basic constructions of addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, and inverses.
All future mathematics is based on previous mathematics. It is a pure abstraction of what is both observable in the physical world and what is purely conceptual in their relationships. Mathematics is one of the last 'pure science' to remain on this Earth. The exploration, discovery, and extention of mathematics is a science in and of itself. You cannot 'create' mathematics on a whim, as it cannot break the proven logical confines in which everything exists. If it does so, then it is not correct mathematics, it is simply a false construction signifying nothing.
As an interesting point you seem unaware of, many of the mathematical models which have come to describe our understanding of our universe has come from physical experimentation. Now, mathematics in and of itself is purely thought. But, when pure thought correctly describes a physical event and predicts physical events in the future...is that not proof enough that mathematics and it eventual correlation to physical reality are one in the same?
Now, let's look at it this way. The universe follows a set of rules. Outside of the human mind, the universe is not ruled by mysticism or thought. So, a system such as mathematics would have to exist in some form, no matter what. And it has, as a matter of fact, existed since the beginning of man. Our universe is ordered and to be able to understand the universe an ordered system based on universally fundamental ordered rules would have to exist to explain it.
As a pure mathematician, my passion is pure mathematics. The puzzle pieces to the understanding and explanation of everything.
Actually, you are incorrect. Relativistic physics is an extention of Newtonian physics. Physics as an object approaches the speed of light leaves Newtonian physics and enters Einsteinian physics. There is no philosophy involved. Einsteinian physics solved most of the world's physical problems at the time and gave predictions to physical properties that were not yet known. Even almost 100 years later, every single prediction has been proven correct.
The problem is that computer programmers/computer science majors/etc. never had to take courses dealing with higher levels physics. Most people do not. Which leads to the understanding of the subjects with the depth of common person, no more. And that is an unfortunate statement.
Mathematics is not just a construct, but the true language of the reality in which we exist. Mathematics is what explains to us our reality and our current observations. Mathematics is also what predicts and tells us about what we don't yet see or know. There are hundreds upon thousands of times in the past 200 years (for example) that the words "the mathematics told us this would occur, but until today we never had the ability to observe it". And the converse "we have just observed an event occur, but we do not yet have mathematics to explain it to us". Although, to not make confusion in the converse, new mathematics is not created without following the rules of all mathematics before it.
I'm sorry you are just like everyone else intellectually. Yes, 6 figures is nice, but empty for someone who lives for more in life. Cheers.
One thing that even the people at NOVA have misinterpreted, and I wish they hadn't, is that there is a difference between applied science and pure science. They are not the same.
I am a pure mathematician and my passion and work is in pure science. What I do is explore pure mathematics. None of my work will most likely ever be directly appliable to experiment. But, some day the work that I do, along with many other mathematicians will provide the foundation, the pure science, which physics will be able to use for experimental understanding. Without pure scientific understanding, experimentation can never be anything more than observation.
What 'string theory' should be more properly stated as is 'string hypothesis'. It is certainly not yet a true theory and it is certainly not yet a law. Currently, it is purely a hypothetical explanation and possible prediction model. That does not make it any less powerful or less important. Some day it may prove to be the 'bridge' that is needed to complete one more piece or pieces of the grand puzzle. Although, alone it does not need to be experimentally verifiable. And it is certainly not philosophy.
Hey, all high school students and other mindless American consumer minions.
Professional athletes are overpaid.
How about a person who dedicates their lives to savings the lives of others deserve large salaries for their sacrifices. Can Brett Favre perform heart surgery on you when you have a heart attack? Can X sports athlete save your life when you get into a car accident and have the steering wheel broken through your breast plate and you are bleeding into your lungs?
How about the American soldiers who are in front of bullets, dying in a war. Do they deserve large salaries?
How about underpaid/unappreciated jobs? How about stay-at-home Moms? What about community service volunteers? What about volunteer EMT/firefighters?
What about the engineer who dedicated years of his life to ensure that ABS works every single time the brake pedal is pressed in your vehicle? What about the engineer who invented airbags?
The truth is, America, is that the most important jobs in the world, the ones that make real differences in lives every single day, are not the ones you see on ESPN or watch on a football field.
The people who should be honored, especially monetarily, are ER doctors, EMT's, physicists, engineers, Red Cross workers, blood donors, stay-at-home Moms, and many, many others.
Some jackass, most likely black thug who can throw a football doesn't mean shit to the world. The problem with America is that they place more care in the 'dedication and talent' of some idiot on a football field than educating their country, rewarding those who are selfless, appreciating those who work and constantly do great things without anyone noticing, driving science, and making us the greatest people on Earth.
Right now, we care more about football than we do about developing a cure for AIDS or cancer, feeding the hungry, or educating the uneducated. One year of a football players budget could cover what the group cancer researchers/scientists get for a budget for 2-3 years.
Caring more about how far a person can throw a football instead of the real problems and heros or the human race is pathetic. Pretty simple actually.
The most important point to remember, which 99.9% cannot understand, is that there is a difference between 'pure' science and 'applied' or 'experimental' science.
A 'pure' science cannot be wrong, such as mathematics.
An 'experimental' or 'applied' science, such as physics, uses a pure science, such as mathematics, to give understanding, build models, and explain the the reality and universe in which we exist.
The universe exists by a set of definite rules. The more we understand the pure sciences, the more we will understand the applied sciences, and the more we will understand of our universe.
Your analysis about 'theories' is correct. Another way to understand...Our understanding of everything is exactly like a puzzle. One piece at a time. Once a piece fits, the larger understanding and picture is one piece closer to completion.
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What is the difference between an AMD64 and an AMD Opteron? I see advertisements for both, but can't find anywhere that tells me what the difference is. Thanks.
Not quite. Even if you know a few 'successful' people who never received a formal education, that is by far fewer than the percentage I mentioned (which I was trying to make a point, not be completely exact); 2 or 3 you know out of 6.5 billion people, you can do the math.
I was making a point which was missed. You were making a dumbass rebuttal. Which is worse? As a side note, I did mention a few occupations which are more related to 'people skills' to actual education. Unfortunately, you completely missed that.
The US needs to catch up to the rest of the world. The entire world uses Metric people. And it makes an infinite amount more sense to use Metric than the US system. If we don't, trade will continue to suffer as well as accidents such as this one.
Those times are not the late 20th and now 21st century. As hard as you try, without actual formal education, your chances of success are infinitesimally small. But, this has everything to do with the field being applied. A natural military or business leader is not necesarrily something that schooling can be an improvement for. But, formal education does give you the power to get the information and tools you will need to become great.
The fact is, 99.9999999999999% of the people who never get a formal education become absolutely nothing in their lives and are simply a waste of life. And no matter how much they believe that they are just as equal, they are not.
Look, I am 100% scientifically minded, and this is bullshit data with bullshit results. I have seen just as poorly correlated data from people wearing magnetic rings feelings better during testing to people not wearing magnetic rings. Completely unrelated data.
Your post is also incorrect. If the data is completely unrelated to the subject matter, then it is invalid with hocus-pocus results. You can't cause a link between data to happen, it has to already exist.
For a perfect example, when I was studying for my undergraduate degree, we did a study in our statistics class where we counted the number of women who walked on the side of the street with the cemetary on the way to school and the number of women who walked on the side of the street opposite the cemetary. Our test results showed that almost 3 times as many women walk on the side opposite the cemetary as the side with the cemetary. Therefore, a conclusion could be drawn that women are afraid of cemetaries.
WRONG. Incorrect conclusion from incorrect data correlations.
Real answer? The cemetary had NOTHING to do with women's fears of the dead people. The women's dormitory, which was two blocks away, just happened to be on the side of the street opposite the cemetary. So, it was easier for the women to not cross the street and walk on the other side of the road.
This study is exactly the same.
Bullshit. This is bullshit, unrelated data. Human beings are as individual as snowflakes with as many variables affecting testing outcome as can be imagined. The study [i]may[/i] possible show which people's brains function in a logical, problem-solving fashion whereas the others may not. It may show how many people have the ability to understand mathematics.
It does [b]not[/b] show how many people were affected by sleep any more than how the number of leaves blown into the parking lot of the building the night before affected their testing results.
Bullshit, unrelated data.
Your comment just proves your ignorance.
Typical, ignorant moron.
What is retarded is your belief that you, as an EE, are of a higher order of magnitude than that of a Ph.D. professor. I will state this now and at the end of my post...You took my comment out of context for your own benefit.
Without Physics and Mathematics, what is EE? Nothing. The same goes for Chemistry. They are both applied Physics fields.
To repeat the original statement, EE is nothing more than an applied field of Physics. That is a simple, factual statement. The parent poster's comment of 'typical of a physics professor' only goes to show his total ignorance.
Engineering is a fantastic applied field, don't get me wrong. The world would be a much different place if applied physics fields did not exist.
And as a side note, your comment is the one which bears the closest resemblance to being 'retarded'.
Have a nice life. And try to learn not to take a person's comments out of context, as you took my comment out of context for your own benefit.
How entertaining this thread is. :)
EE is simply a field of applied Physics. An EE is an order of magnitude lower on the food chain than a Physics professor. No Physics=No EE. BUT, this particular Physics lab teacher is most likely a TA who has misinterpreted his calculations and misinterpreted his studied materials. Another 10 years of study or so would have fixed his/her post. A true Physics professor would have never made this mistake.
The minute I read the parent post I realized he was mostly correct in what he was saying, but incorrect in the context of why higher fidelity/higher bitrate audio is needed to produce 'superior' sound. You should have known that and held back your caustic flaming of this person's post. The rest of your post was quite informational. Thank you.
Cheers.
You will have better luck with manufacturer's pre-built AMD systems. That has been my experience to date. Compaq computers with AMD Athlon XP's have been very stable, rock solid machines.
I hope you have better luck with AMD based computers in the future.
Ooops, wrong button. I meant to write "without even one single problem"...my apologies.
That's unfortunate that you feel that way about AMD. I have been using a Compaq Presario laptop with an AMD Athlon XP 2400 at work (for 9 hours per day) and at home (mornings, evenings, and weekends) on a continual basis for over 8 months now with even one single problem. AMD has been more than a phenomenal chip and the entire laptop has proven priceless in reliablity and performance multiple times over.
I am forever sold on AMD now.
Because religion isn't reality and it keeps reality from people's decisions and thoughts.
Religion, if you choose to believe in make-believe (since mysticism only exists in the minds of human beings, regardless of how much you want to believe otherwise), is a personal choice. Children (and the public in general) should be allowed to seek and deal with the world around them on their own, without the influence of a particular religion. A child's knowledge and learned decision making skills such as the scientific process invaluably help them make logical, intelligent decisions, including tolerance. When it comes to moral and ethical questions, those are human creations and qualities too, varying by culture and ethnicity.
All of those ignorant assholes that believe that making religion an excepted part of everybody's life will make this a better world are wrong. History proves that to not be the case since the beginning of most popular religions (including yours)...and it won't be the case in the future either. So, by keeping people's personal beliefs completely personal (i.e. not in our schools or politics) the world can strive towards logical understanding, without the veil of religion blocking reality.
If trademarks are enforceable in the manner such as Microsoft Windows and Lindows, why isn't this film also in violation of trademark law? Why is this not 'product dilution' and other such unspeakable crimes?
Why did Ettore Perazzoli Pass Away Exactly? Every place I look, every is sad of his death, but nowhere can I find out how and why he died. Does anyone know?
So, now when copyright/trademark a name for product, you also copyright/trademark every word that 'sounds like' the name or is a 'synonym' of the name? WTF is that?
Very Nice. I agree with you 100%.
That is not generally true. Most problems that get solved are by hundreds of hours of hard work and dedication. Age is not a determining factor in a person's ability to dream and have the talent, work ethic, and determination to follow through with those dreams.
Definitely, at times, some problems are solved by accident or as a side result to another, even unrelated, problem. Those are just as meaningful as the ones solved over a lifetime a work.
To be more accurate, according http://www.bp.com/centres/energy/ the ratio of US production to imports at the end of 2002 is:
350.4 million tons produced
894.3 million tons consumed (imported)
Interesting. Take a look at the world consumption numbers per capita. It will be incredibly interesting once China starts bypassing the US economically, technologically, and energy usage per capita. It is going to happen in our lifetime (most likely in the next 10-20 years, easily). 1.3 billion people and climbing is a lot of energy usage if growth is equal to or faster than US growth.
Another point is that electrical heating is always going to be more efficient that gas heating. Simple laws of thermodynamics. Electrical heating is ~100% efficient. Gas can never be. The real determining factor is that electrical rates are, at times, more expensive than gas rates. But, since the electrical utility uses gas to create the electricity, the cost is the same either way, only hidden.
The best solution is to use a residential geothermal heat pump system. Yes, it is completely electrical. But, the difference is that your power consumption from the electrical utility is level all year long. Good for the electrical utility (no need for peak plants that only run during the summer) and good for you (you can get reductions in electrical tariffs for having a constant base load and the electrical utility will have to buy less gas to make the electricity overall).
The real problem was deregulation. Pure capitalism will always ensure that the cheapest route to profit will prevail. Therefore, the US energy problems will continue and will get worse. A more socialist attack at the problem, such as government regulation and controlled distribution, is the reason that so many foreign countries have such fantastic energy infrastructures.
Actually, mathematics is based on fundamental 'truths', none of which are philosophical. For example, the existence of nothingness, or the empty set, the existence of zero, the existence of a group and a ring (mathematical ring), the basic constructions of addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, and inverses.
All future mathematics is based on previous mathematics. It is a pure abstraction of what is both observable in the physical world and what is purely conceptual in their relationships. Mathematics is one of the last 'pure science' to remain on this Earth. The exploration, discovery, and extention of mathematics is a science in and of itself. You cannot 'create' mathematics on a whim, as it cannot break the proven logical confines in which everything exists. If it does so, then it is not correct mathematics, it is simply a false construction signifying nothing.
As an interesting point you seem unaware of, many of the mathematical models which have come to describe our understanding of our universe has come from physical experimentation. Now, mathematics in and of itself is purely thought. But, when pure thought correctly describes a physical event and predicts physical events in the future...is that not proof enough that mathematics and it eventual correlation to physical reality are one in the same?
Now, let's look at it this way. The universe follows a set of rules. Outside of the human mind, the universe is not ruled by mysticism or thought. So, a system such as mathematics would have to exist in some form, no matter what. And it has, as a matter of fact, existed since the beginning of man. Our universe is ordered and to be able to understand the universe an ordered system based on universally fundamental ordered rules would have to exist to explain it.
As a pure mathematician, my passion is pure mathematics. The puzzle pieces to the understanding and explanation of everything.
Cheers.
Actually, you are incorrect. Relativistic physics is an extention of Newtonian physics. Physics as an object approaches the speed of light leaves Newtonian physics and enters Einsteinian physics. There is no philosophy involved. Einsteinian physics solved most of the world's physical problems at the time and gave predictions to physical properties that were not yet known. Even almost 100 years later, every single prediction has been proven correct.
The problem is that computer programmers/computer science majors/etc. never had to take courses dealing with higher levels physics. Most people do not. Which leads to the understanding of the subjects with the depth of common person, no more. And that is an unfortunate statement.
Mathematics is not just a construct, but the true language of the reality in which we exist. Mathematics is what explains to us our reality and our current observations. Mathematics is also what predicts and tells us about what we don't yet see or know. There are hundreds upon thousands of times in the past 200 years (for example) that the words "the mathematics told us this would occur, but until today we never had the ability to observe it". And the converse "we have just observed an event occur, but we do not yet have mathematics to explain it to us". Although, to not make confusion in the converse, new mathematics is not created without following the rules of all mathematics before it.
I'm sorry you are just like everyone else intellectually. Yes, 6 figures is nice, but empty for someone who lives for more in life. Cheers.
One thing that even the people at NOVA have misinterpreted, and I wish they hadn't, is that there is a difference between applied science and pure science. They are not the same.
I am a pure mathematician and my passion and work is in pure science. What I do is explore pure mathematics. None of my work will most likely ever be directly appliable to experiment. But, some day the work that I do, along with many other mathematicians will provide the foundation, the pure science, which physics will be able to use for experimental understanding. Without pure scientific understanding, experimentation can never be anything more than observation.
What 'string theory' should be more properly stated as is 'string hypothesis'. It is certainly not yet a true theory and it is certainly not yet a law. Currently, it is purely a hypothetical explanation and possible prediction model. That does not make it any less powerful or less important. Some day it may prove to be the 'bridge' that is needed to complete one more piece or pieces of the grand puzzle. Although, alone it does not need to be experimentally verifiable. And it is certainly not philosophy.
Hey, all high school students and other mindless American consumer minions.
Professional athletes are overpaid.
How about a person who dedicates their lives to savings the lives of others deserve large salaries for their sacrifices. Can Brett Favre perform heart surgery on you when you have a heart attack? Can X sports athlete save your life when you get into a car accident and have the steering wheel broken through your breast plate and you are bleeding into your lungs?
How about the American soldiers who are in front of bullets, dying in a war. Do they deserve large salaries?
How about underpaid/unappreciated jobs? How about stay-at-home Moms? What about community service volunteers? What about volunteer EMT/firefighters?
What about the engineer who dedicated years of his life to ensure that ABS works every single time the brake pedal is pressed in your vehicle? What about the engineer who invented airbags?
The truth is, America, is that the most important jobs in the world, the ones that make real differences in lives every single day, are not the ones you see on ESPN or watch on a football field.
The people who should be honored, especially monetarily, are ER doctors, EMT's, physicists, engineers, Red Cross workers, blood donors, stay-at-home Moms, and many, many others.
Some jackass, most likely black thug who can throw a football doesn't mean shit to the world. The problem with America is that they place more care in the 'dedication and talent' of some idiot on a football field than educating their country, rewarding those who are selfless, appreciating those who work and constantly do great things without anyone noticing, driving science, and making us the greatest people on Earth.
Right now, we care more about football than we do about developing a cure for AIDS or cancer, feeding the hungry, or educating the uneducated. One year of a football players budget could cover what the group cancer researchers/scientists get for a budget for 2-3 years.
Caring more about how far a person can throw a football instead of the real problems and heros or the human race is pathetic. Pretty simple actually.
The most important point to remember, which 99.9% cannot understand, is that there is a difference between 'pure' science and 'applied' or 'experimental' science.
A 'pure' science cannot be wrong, such as mathematics.
An 'experimental' or 'applied' science, such as physics, uses a pure science, such as mathematics, to give understanding, build models, and explain the the reality and universe in which we exist.
The universe exists by a set of definite rules. The more we understand the pure sciences, the more we will understand the applied sciences, and the more we will understand of our universe.
Your analysis about 'theories' is correct. Another way to understand...Our understanding of everything is exactly like a puzzle. One piece at a time. Once a piece fits, the larger understanding and picture is one piece closer to completion.
You need to get in touch with reality and the real world pal.
And apparently a lot of other people do too.