Marcello's position means that the 2.4.x will become much more solid than any Linux kernel has ever been. As new hardware is introduced, there will be pressure to accept drivers to support popular hardware. I expect that Marcello will accept drivers as necessary for 2.4.x to run on popular hardware -- after all, such new drivers impose minimal risk on users without such hardware. I welcome this development, but will keep on open mind as time prove its merit or lack thereof.
This is sad. Less competition means lesser features and higher prices. Sony is good competition, but more competition is always better for the consumers and -- in the long run -- for everyone.
I hope Sony introduces something to compete with the Tungsten/Treo lines.
The Planck mass is the threshold mass of a point particle (assuming String Theory is wrong and there are point particles) above which it would be a Black Hole. In theory, defining the kilogram as a multiple of the Planck mass is a great idea. In practice, we cannot measure the Planck mass (and probably never will be able to) and the only theory we have (Loop Quantum Gravity) which might perhaps be able to calculate the Planck mass to sufficient accuracy is controversial. There are several ways of calculating the Planck mass to three or four significant figures using theories that we know are wrong, but they agree with each other only to one significant figure.
Sadly, even as a thought experiment, I don't think anyone has any idea how to measure the Planck mass. We can only calculate what it should be in theory and that we can't do with better than order-of-magnitude accuracy until we have a theory of quantum gravity. It may be possible to calculate the Planck mass with useful accuracy using Loop Quantum Gravity, but this is not yet an accepted theory.
The assumption that space even exists except as a relationship amongst matter seems to contradict General Relativity.
Further, the multiverse theory may be popular, but it is not the simplest interpretation. For the simplest interpretation see: The End of Time, by Julian Barbour or http://www.platonia.org/
You could try American Scientist. It is even more serious than the old Scientific American. American Scientist is written for professional scientists interested in keeping up with fields of science other than their own.
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Are you going to make your own screws too? How about the cpu? Do you make your own clothes? Do you buy toothbrushes or do you make those yourself too?
You can get a good ready-made rack for $100 to $200. Why on earth would you want to spend more than $1000 of your time reinventing the wheel?
Marcello's position means that the 2.4.x will become much more solid than any Linux kernel has ever been. As new hardware is introduced, there will be pressure to accept drivers to support popular hardware. I expect that Marcello will accept drivers as necessary for 2.4.x to run on popular hardware -- after all, such new drivers impose minimal risk on users without such hardware. I welcome this development, but will keep on open mind as time prove its merit or lack thereof.
This is sad. Less competition means lesser features and higher prices. Sony is good competition, but more competition is always better for the consumers and -- in the long run -- for everyone.
I hope Sony introduces something to compete with the Tungsten/Treo lines.
The Planck mass is the threshold mass of a point particle (assuming String Theory is wrong and there are point particles) above which it would be a Black Hole. In theory, defining the kilogram as a multiple of the Planck mass is a great idea. In practice, we cannot measure the Planck mass (and probably never will be able to) and the only theory we have (Loop Quantum Gravity) which might perhaps be able to calculate the Planck mass to sufficient accuracy is controversial. There are several ways of calculating the Planck mass to three or four significant figures using theories that we know are wrong, but they agree with each other only to one significant figure.
Sadly, even as a thought experiment, I don't think anyone has any idea how to measure the Planck mass. We can only calculate what it should be in theory and that we can't do with better than order-of-magnitude accuracy until we have a theory of quantum gravity. It may be possible to calculate the Planck mass with useful accuracy using Loop Quantum Gravity, but this is not yet an accepted theory.
The assumption that space even exists except as a relationship amongst matter seems to contradict General Relativity.
Further, the multiverse theory may be popular, but it is not the simplest interpretation. For the simplest interpretation see: The End of Time, by Julian Barbour or http://www.platonia.org/
You could try American Scientist. It is even more serious than the old Scientific American. American Scientist is written for professional scientists interested in keeping up with fields of science other than their own.