The original theory did not need it, but it predicted the universe was expanding, and conventional wisdom at the time said this was not the case... so Einstein add the constant to get a steady state universe...
Then Hubble found the universe was expanding so Einstein took it out again....
Then the inflational big bang model and observations that the current expansion of the universe was accelerating seemed to require it again... so it was put back...
Matter - Antimatter annihilation should result in energy.... but the energy is still conserved, both the matter and the antimatter were created in the first place
Energy -> matter + antimatter -> Energy
Antimatter might not have negative mass just negative interaction with gravity, or negative mass still requires the same amount of energy to make...
The Electromagnetic force is mediated by the photon, the Gravitational force is either the warping of spacetime... or mediated by gravitons... or maybe both, or neither... depending on which theory is right....
General Relativity says warped spacetime Quantum theory says graviton
Almost certainly they are both wrong (to a degree) It could be like the old problem of, is light waves or particles, the answer appears to be yes *and* no. They act like waves and they act like particles but are neither...
You poor fool...... are you also the one who keeps demanding better graphics in video games......but the games people buy are still the ones that play better...
The programs/films people watch are the good ones not the ones in HD, given the choice I would watch it in HD but... I don't care enough to pay for it...
You don't need to be "A Scientist" to do that.. and yes mice can do it (in a very limited way)... and what did people do before the word science was invented?
Average lifespan 30, but mostly this is due to high infant mortality... if you survived to 30 you would probably live 'til you were 70+, the Bible's Three score years and ten is not a fiction it is how long really could be expected to live...
Bacterial infections where they live they are mostly immune to or know how to avoid (except children...) new infections they have no immunity to...
Go fly a helicopter low over any American city and wait for it to be shot at....
They have learnt that anything new is potentially dangerous and the best way of stopping it harming them is to act aggressively to scare it off (paint your self red, shout, wave your arms, and throw spears at it)... and look it worked
Actually they do have "Science".. they try things and if they work they do them again....Science is just a label
And if everything "modern" is novel then they don't think it is all wonderful just novel so a small helicopter and an Apache gunship impress them equally.... Fly over them every day and they will start to dismiss it as "that thing that we see flying over us every day" and ignore it...
It works the other way round as well fly an WWII Airship over anywhere and everyone will stare and point at it because it is novel...
Yes the "noble savage" was not very noble but also not very savage... but they also did not go hungry or thirsty very often, they had enough food and water for their population and the tribe looked after it's own
They had no idea of *individual* land ownership the tribe owned the land.. and so fought for it...
Their children did not die because uncle bob got injured, because the "savage" tribe would look after them and Bob until he could look after them and himself again.... this is just as much a myth as the "there was no simpler time" theories
Sorry... but KDE is a collection of apps and an SDK which allows the applications to share resources and communicate in a consistent way this makes for a much nicer desktop experience but is not unique to KDE or GNOME except for the number of Apps that support the extra features...
Please do not confuse the parts of the system with the whole... you can run all the parts of KDE separately and they will still work (given the right supporting libraries) but together they are designed to work in tandem so as to work in a consistent and integrated way
Threading should never be done in the Desktop environment it is not an operating system!
The apps should communicate and integrate with the desktop apps but should not be confused with the desktop?
net IO - That would be the OS's problem web browser - Not the desktop rss - Web Browser clipboards - I only need one...? drag and drop - Window manager colour management - Windows manager printing - OS contacts - Contact manager emailing - Email Client calendaring - Calendar Client multimedia - Various threading - Kernel event passing - Kernel, X.Org, Windows manager etc..
Almost none of these should be a part of the "Desktop" give me a clean simple desktop with a separate Window manager, separate everything, but let them talk to each other... rather than the "I do everything" bloat both KDE and Gnome are turning into
We don't seem to run away as fast as the Yanks...and most of these appear to be democracies (Except Burma...)?
America : 1607 - 1775 (168 years) Turkey : ??? Not since it has been turkey? Afghanistan : 1839 - 1919 (80) Iraq : 1921 - 1932 (11) Burma : 1824 - 1948 (124) Egypt : 1882 - 1922 (40) Palestine : 1917 - 1948 (31) Bosnia : Not occupied except as part of UN force? Kosovo : Not occupied except as part of UN force? Malaysia : 1786 - 1963 (177) Hong Kong : 1841 - 1997 (156) India : 1856 - 1947 (91) Pakistan : Created after we left... Bangladesh : Created after we left...
If I build a car I can sell it once... and have no claim over once sold
Why should an author not sell his work once (for a reasonable one time fee)? Why have the ludicrous system of micropayments spread over years we have now...?
"we create all kinds of ideals, concepts, and symbol structures to model our reality (freedom, rights, ownership, nations, laws, etc). But they are once again just implicit contracts between groups of neuronal structures, and they only maintain their integrity when enough power and incentive is in place to assert enforcement in control"
There are two models of shared ideas
Forced : You will obey the law because otherwise I will harm you
Agreed : I will obey the law because I agree it is reasonable to do so
Most forced systems break down quickly, most agreed system are very stable (even when the reasons are baseless) but you always need force to backup the agreement to stop a few people from taking advantage of the agreed laws (Most people don't steal, so if I steal this I can keep it..)
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The original theory did not need it, but it predicted the universe was expanding, and conventional wisdom at the time said this was not the case... so Einstein add the constant to get a steady state universe ...
....
... so it was put back ...
...
Then Hubble found the universe was expanding so Einstein took it out again
Then the inflational big bang model and observations that the current expansion of the universe was accelerating seemed to require it again
This is why experiments need to be done
Because all the other properties of antimatter that have been tested so far are different unlike every type of normal matter ...
...
This is a Black Swan problem
Theory : All Swans are White
Proof : every swan I see is white, every swan
Problem : Australia was then discovered along with the black swan.....
Matter - Antimatter annihilation should result in energy .... but the energy is still conserved, both the matter and the antimatter were created in the first place
...
Energy -> matter + antimatter -> Energy
Antimatter might not have negative mass just negative interaction with gravity, or negative mass still requires the same amount of energy to make
The answer is maybe....
... or mediated by gravitons ... or maybe both, or neither ... depending on which theory is right ....
...
The Electromagnetic force is mediated by the photon, the Gravitational force is either the warping of spacetime
General Relativity says warped spacetime
Quantum theory says graviton
Almost certainly they are both wrong (to a degree)
It could be like the old problem of, is light waves or particles, the answer appears to be yes *and* no. They act like waves and they act like particles but are neither
But how does antimatter react to curved spacetime
(could it 'roll uphill')..
and how does antimatter (with mass) curve spacetime?
(could it 'outdent' rather than 'indent' it)
It's Simple...
... you shrug and get on with your work
If 0.01% of your potential customers cannot use your website
If a fifth of your potential customers cannot use your website... you fix it!
You poor fool ... ... are you also the one who keeps demanding better graphics in video games... ...but the games people buy are still the ones that play better ...
... I don't care enough to pay for it ...
The programs/films people watch are the good ones not the ones in HD, given the choice I would watch it in HD but
The same people who have bought HD-DVD and BluRay
...
Is the film plot any different than on DVD? No
Is the film characters any different than on DVD? No
A bad movie with special effects is a bad movie, a bad movie on BluRay is a bad movie
...and what data did you put on Facebook
... and that's about it ... you might be able to work out more from my friends but ...
... no way of mining data
Mine contains my name and age
No contact details
No address
So
The Chinese have a curse "may you live in interesting times".....
Science : observe, theorise, experiment.. repeat
.. and yes mice can do it (in a very limited way)... and what did people do before the word science was invented?
You don't need to be "A Scientist" to do that
Average lifespan 30, but mostly this is due to high infant mortality ... if you survived to 30 you would probably live 'til you were 70+, the Bible's Three score years and ten is not a fiction it is how long really could be expected to live...
...) new infections they have no immunity to ...
Bacterial infections where they live they are mostly immune to or know how to avoid (except children
Go fly a helicopter low over any American city and wait for it to be shot at ....
... and look it worked
They have learnt that anything new is potentially dangerous and the best way of stopping it harming them is to act aggressively to scare it off (paint your self red, shout, wave your arms, and throw spears at it)
Hello here is some medicine, no I know you never needed it before but you will now we have given you all these new diseases you aren't immune to....
...
.... but then they would have to cope with overpopulation like us ...
Most of our modern medicines were developed to cure diseases these people have never had
The only thing modern medicine could help is infant mortality
Actually they do have "Science" .. they try things and if they work they do them again....Science is just a label
.... Fly over them every day and they will start to dismiss it as "that thing that we see flying over us every day" and ignore it ...
...
And if everything "modern" is novel then they don't think it is all wonderful just novel so a small helicopter and an Apache gunship impress them equally
It works the other way round as well fly an WWII Airship over anywhere and everyone will stare and point at it because it is novel
Yes the "noble savage" was not very noble but also not very savage... but they also did not go hungry or thirsty very often, they had enough food and water for their population and the tribe looked after it's own
...
.... this is just as much a myth as the "there was no simpler time" theories
They had no idea of *individual* land ownership the tribe owned the land.. and so fought for it
Their children did not die because uncle bob got injured, because the "savage" tribe would look after them and Bob until he could look after them and himself again
Sorry ... but KDE is a collection of apps and an SDK which allows the applications to share resources and communicate in a consistent way this makes for a much nicer desktop experience but is not unique to KDE or GNOME except for the number of Apps that support the extra features ...
Please do not confuse the parts of the system with the whole... you can run all the parts of KDE separately and they will still work (given the right supporting libraries) but together they are designed to work in tandem so as to work in a consistent and integrated way
Threading should never be done in the Desktop environment it is not an operating system!
The apps should communicate and integrate with the desktop apps but should not be confused with the desktop?
Abandoned projects are abandoned for a reason
...
... that the people writing it discovered that they were reinventing the wheel ...
Either the people doing it lose interest (and no-one else can be bothered to take it over)
Or the people doing it cannot get it to work
Both these happen in Commercial software as well it's just that we either don't see the results or we have to live with the results
How many of these are "another text editor" or similar
GNOME says do it the default way (but you can change it if you really want to)
....
....)
KDE says here's the default but do you want to do it one of these other twenty ways instead
Both work but GNOME is less intimidating to novices (and the GNOME philosophy is that people who want to change things will work out how
Icons, on your desktop .... why?
....
...
I don't on Linux : Gnome - Disabled all the desktop Icons
I don't on Windows (XP) - I run Litestep with desktop folder icons
Don't miss them, don't miss the clutter
net IO - That would be the OS's problem ...? ..
web browser - Not the desktop
rss - Web Browser
clipboards - I only need one
drag and drop - Window manager
colour management - Windows manager
printing - OS
contacts - Contact manager
emailing - Email Client
calendaring - Calendar Client
multimedia - Various
threading - Kernel
event passing - Kernel, X.Org, Windows manager etc
Almost none of these should be a part of the "Desktop" give me a clean simple desktop with a separate Window manager, separate everything, but let them talk to each other... rather than the "I do everything" bloat both KDE and Gnome are turning into
We don't seem to run away as fast as the Yanks ...and most of these appear to be democracies (Except Burma...)?
...
America : 1607 - 1775 (168 years)
Turkey : ??? Not since it has been turkey?
Afghanistan : 1839 - 1919 (80)
Iraq : 1921 - 1932 (11)
Burma : 1824 - 1948 (124)
Egypt : 1882 - 1922 (40)
Palestine : 1917 - 1948 (31)
Bosnia : Not occupied except as part of UN force?
Kosovo : Not occupied except as part of UN force?
Malaysia : 1786 - 1963 (177)
Hong Kong : 1841 - 1997 (156)
India : 1856 - 1947 (91)
Pakistan : Created after we left
Bangladesh : Created after we left...
If I build a car I can sell it once ... and have no claim over once sold
...?
Why should an author not sell his work once (for a reasonable one time fee)? Why have the ludicrous system of micropayments spread over years we have now
"we create all kinds of ideals, concepts, and symbol structures to model our reality (freedom, rights, ownership, nations, laws, etc). But they are once again just implicit contracts between groups of neuronal structures, and they only maintain their integrity when enough power and incentive is in place to assert enforcement in control"
There are two models of shared ideas
Forced : You will obey the law because otherwise I will harm you
Agreed : I will obey the law because I agree it is reasonable to do so
Most forced systems break down quickly, most agreed system are very stable (even when the reasons are baseless) but you always need force to backup the agreement to stop a few people from taking advantage of the agreed laws (Most people don't steal, so if I steal this I can keep it..)
Trademarks stops people claiming to be you
...
Copyright stops people copying your product
Patents stop people copying your design
The problem is that patents are nowadays too general and are applied too strictly so that they actually cover ideas and not designs